Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Prime Minister in hiding

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00:01:00.520 Dan McTeague, he's a former Liberal member of Parliament, but he's from back when there

00:01:04.840 were actually still some common sense Liberals, you know, back in the Chrétien days.

00:01:08.300 Again, we still preferred Conservatives, but the Liberals weren't all as lonely left as

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00:01:12.620 Now he's the head of Canadians for Affordable Energy.

00:01:14.740 He's been on the show before and he talks a lot of good common sense.

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00:01:55.180 All right, let's talk about our new prime minister.

00:01:58.100 What an honor we've had a prime minister.

00:01:59.340 I know that most of you haven't had a chance to vote for him or he's this prime minister,

00:02:02.900 but this person is our prime minister.

00:02:05.180 I don't fully hold it against him.

00:02:06.540 It's the system.

00:02:07.200 It's the way it works.

00:02:08.280 Like it, don't like it.

00:02:09.980 It does mean we need a bloody election soon though.

00:02:12.700 And it says so much that after coronating a new leader, the Liberal Party feels the best strategy

00:02:17.620 right now is to continue to hide him from public scrutiny as much as possible.

00:02:21.400 Mark Carney's first act as prime minister is to fly to Europe rather than speak to Canadians

00:02:24.820 who are caught under his leadership.

00:02:26.860 While citizens are trying to understand and get to know who's running their country,

00:02:29.740 the person in question is rubbing shoulders with the French president and King Charles.

00:02:33.840 And the objects of the move are terrible.

00:02:36.040 But the Liberal strategist must feel that having a newly crowned PM hiding in Europe

00:02:40.480 is still preferable to having him face Canadians and answer questions.

00:02:44.080 So just what terrifies them so much about having it in public?

00:02:46.860 Look, actually, if you listen to a few conferences, you get a pretty good idea.

00:02:50.620 Either way, upon returning from Europe, Iqaluit was Carney's next destination.

00:02:54.440 And while the good people of Iqaluit deserve visits and Arctic issues are certainly pressing,

00:02:58.580 it's an odd destination for a politician ostensibly heading into a federal election.

00:03:04.120 Unless, of course, the intent is also to avoid people and critical press.

00:03:07.840 Not many outlets are going to spend the money to send somebody all the way up to the Arctic

00:03:11.120 to follow Carney around, aside from the state broadcaster.

00:03:13.480 And Carney did do a short press conference, but it went poorly, to say the least,

00:03:18.560 when the already carefully curated reporters, because, of course, they don't let people like us in there,

00:03:23.760 dared to ask him about his business dealings and potential conflicts of interest.

00:03:27.200 Carney had a tantrum and went after CBC's Rosemary Barton. 1.00

00:03:30.940 Yeah, he was clearly shocked that a member of the state broadcaster would dare to ask a critical question.

00:03:36.340 He even said, what is it, look within yourself, Rosemary, or something like that.

00:03:40.060 Entirely condescending. But his party expects media subservience, and he won't be holding

00:03:44.780 another availability soon, I suspect. When in populated centres in Canada,

00:03:49.600 Team Carney worked hard to ensure independent media was banned from his events during the leadership

00:03:54.260 campaign. As weak and unprincipled as that tactic is, it can be somewhat understood within

00:03:59.320 an internal partisan race. But is he going to try and ban media from events during the general election

00:04:03.500 when all the Canadians are going to have questions for him?

00:04:05.500 The Liberals are currently enjoying a bump in public support right now. Canadians are eager to support

00:04:09.580 anybody who isn't Trudeau, and Carney appears to fit that bill. Where Trudeau is all hair,

00:04:14.980 breathily delivered, sound bites, and fake tears, Carney gives the impression of substance and depth.

00:04:19.380 As long as that illusion persists, the Liberals don't want to shake it. Carney may not be

00:04:23.340 Justin Trudeau, but he is pretty deeply involved in the Trudeau government, and he was for quite a while.

00:04:27.620 It's going to be challenging for him to convince voters he's going to be a face of reform and change

00:04:31.620 within the party. At least it will be if he has to face any critical questions from the media.

00:04:35.860 The Liberals under Carney have taken a solid policy stance in claiming they've repealed the consumer

00:04:39.840 carbon tax, but they can't quite repeal it until the House of Commons gets in, but they can do an

00:04:44.140 order in council. Either way, it leads to a lot of questions. Carney's been well-established as a strong

00:04:50.480 proponent of the carbon tax. They told us the world was going to end. We were all going to burn.

00:04:54.040 There was global boiling. How can he reconcile that? Well, we don't know. We can't ask any questions of him.

00:04:59.640 He's still hiding from the press. He's also promising to increase the carbon tax on industries,

00:05:04.160 which will lead to higher prices for consumer goods. How he plans to square that with Canadians

00:05:07.780 is unknown because he won't talk to them. There's questions of Carney's business interests,

00:05:12.320 of course, whether or not he has put them all in blind trust to avoid conflicts. And hey,

00:05:17.080 he's a very affluent man. It's not a crime, but it leads to challenges when avoiding these

00:05:20.640 potential conflicts. He won't disclose any of that yet. The best way to get to know a man would be

00:05:26.060 through holding a general election, but when asked about the deed for that, Carney gave a non-answer.

00:05:29.640 The biggest question right now, though, is on his financial holdings. So if he won't disclose

00:05:35.060 them, he's going to be forced to in a hundred days. Why would you not just disclose them now?

00:05:39.040 Unless there's a big whopping conflict of interest in there, of course. He's determined to hide his

00:05:43.560 financial dealings until after an election's been held. So just how many large corporate government

00:05:48.040 contracts does his companies hold anyways? Doesn't? None? I don't know. Carney's already making

00:05:53.580 major decisions as a prime minister, despite having no electoral mandate. Canadians deserve to know more

00:05:58.160 about this man. If a leader of a party is an asset, the party would be exposing him to the public as

00:06:03.860 much as possible. The party would want to bring their leader out to the world and endear the

00:06:07.420 citizens to them. If a party thinks the best tactic for a leader is to hide them from the public as

00:06:11.600 much as possible, though, I suspect they're hiding a very serious problem. Hopefully we'll figure out

00:06:16.000 what that is before the end of the election if people wake up, because those polls are scary.

00:06:19.900 All right, let's get on to other news with our news editor here in the newsroom. Dave, how are you doing?

00:06:23.700 I'm doing well, Corey. Yourself? I'm all right. Yeah, those press conferences of Carney's were train

00:06:28.260 wrecks. And he just doesn't seem to be able to speak properly. It's um, um, apparently he said

00:06:33.920 um, 21 times in one answer. Asked somebody to count them, did you? Well, no, you know, that's what

00:06:39.360 the, that's what Twitter does for you. So there's always somebody out there counting them. Well,

00:06:43.140 you know, I noticed he does the same thing that old Justin used to as well, though. When a question

00:06:47.800 comes, he'll pause, slowly drink some water for a little while, then put it down. And then he'll

00:06:53.860 spit out a piece of word salad that sounds just like Justin used to. It's almost like the same

00:06:57.160 person who's writing his lines. It is. You know, it could be. It very well could be. We just don't

00:07:02.040 know, do we? Hey, I see, uh, on your YouTube channel, you took a drive in the country lately.

00:07:06.540 Oh, yes, yes. I take Jane out on the nicest dates. We went for a day trip out to the Siksika Reserve,

00:07:12.520 uh, east of Calgary there to get some video and just to show people what a reserve looks like. Most people

00:07:16.780 haven't been on a reserve before. I mean, we've got, it's a big issue. It's a lot of things.

00:07:20.520 I think maybe some people should get a good idea of what it looks like out there.

00:07:23.020 Yeah, it's about a 20 minute documentary, I think. And, uh, we're going to get it out on our

00:07:27.560 Western channel, uh, Western standard channels as soon as John gets it all ready. Right on. Yeah.

00:07:32.320 We're sharing it wider. I mean, it was just something hacked together by me on a whim. And

00:07:35.360 now we've got John making it into something a little more presentable, but it's, it's been well

00:07:38.540 received. Thousands of views on it. I mean, people are quite interested actually. Yeah, it was quite good.

00:07:42.300 Yeah. And until you've been on a reserve, you really just don't know what the conditions are like. No. And as I hate

00:07:46.700 to say it, and I say, it's one of the better reserves. I've been on a lot of them over the

00:07:49.720 years and actually the Siksika is not in as poor shape as some of them, but as people will see in

00:07:53.900 the video, it's pretty rough out there. Yeah. Or Sean Polzer took a drive in the country last night

00:07:58.680 up to Caroline. Oh yeah. Uh, there was a big meeting, a town meeting focusing on a huge new

00:08:05.040 solar panel project that's, uh, that's going to be built up there. And basically the town is trying

00:08:09.780 to get stopped. So it's sort of, uh, uh, you know, David versus Goliath type battle to stop

00:08:14.980 this, uh, solar farm monstrosity from coming in. Uh, you've noticed these idiots in the States 1.00

00:08:21.000 setting Tesla's on fire, which is a dumb thing to do because the car has got like 19 cameras 1.00

00:08:25.620 in it and everybody can see your face. Uh, so, uh, because I guess they were afraid of that

00:08:30.540 sort of violence, uh, the Vancouver international car show has kicked Tesla out. Uh, strange

00:08:37.300 decision, I think. Uh, total of, uh, 14 oil and gas and pipeline CEOs sent a letter out

00:08:44.200 to the various political parties today, uh, saying we need some common sense in the Canadian

00:08:48.920 energy, uh, uh, industry once again, and they're sort of outlining their plans, uh, as to what

00:08:54.700 they're looking for. Uh, some grim news really out of, uh, China today where it's been reported that

00:09:01.440 China has executed several Canadians, uh, recently. So global affairs says, uh, yeah, they were aware

00:09:07.900 of the reports. They're not going to publicly name, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the deceased and their,

00:09:14.440 their best advice is, uh, you know, don't smuggle drugs into China, which seems to be fairly sensible

00:09:20.580 advice. I would think people should have watched midnight express to see, you know,

00:09:24.480 at least the Turkish version of what happens to, uh, playing those games. It's drug smuggling.

00:09:28.500 It's got a terrible outcome in some of the countries that are a little less respectful

00:09:31.400 of human rights. Yeah. No kidding. Uh, Trump, uh, last night endorsed, uh, Carney says he much

00:09:38.060 rather, uh, uh, prefers dealing with liberals than, uh, the, uh, I think he, the, the, he didn't name

00:09:43.800 Polyev by name, but the, uh, says the conservative leader has said nasty things about him. So that's

00:09:48.940 probably the best news Polyev's, uh, had all week. Probably is. I'd like to hear Trump try to

00:09:54.040 pronounce Polyev. Yeah, that would be fun. He got a sneaking suspicion. He'd have a little

00:09:58.740 issue with that one. Well, we have people in here who can't even pronounce it. So we

00:10:03.040 won't mention any names, Derek Fildebrandt, uh, and, uh, Trudeau, uh, CTF points out today

00:10:10.340 that Trudeau, uh, is in line for $8.4 million in pensions. He not only gets his $144,000 a

00:10:18.040 year, uh, pension as an MP, but he gets a second pension because he was a prime minister.

00:10:23.040 And, uh, if he lives to 90, it all adds up to 8.4 million. Not that we're going to have

00:10:28.040 to hold a garage sale for him anyways. He's a millionaire many times over, uh, as soon as

00:10:32.040 he was born actually. So, uh, uh, that's, uh, the, uh, most read story on the site right

00:10:37.040 now, Corey. Yeah. Well, the Western standard pension plan leaves a little to be desired in

00:10:41.040 comparison to that. Yes. A little bit, uh, like about $8.4 million in difference. I think

00:10:48.040 we save some bottles and things for potential early retirements, but. There you go. There

00:10:52.040 you go. I'm on the Freedom 85 plan. I don't know about you. Yeah. I'm pretty similar. Yes.

00:10:55.040 But, uh, you know, independent media, we aren't in it for the money. No, exactly. All right.

00:10:59.040 Well, thanks Dave. I'll let you get back into there earning your, uh, trip to 85th year

00:11:04.040 retirement. There you go. Another day, another 60 cents. Right on. Thanks Dave. All right.

00:11:09.040 All right. That is our news editor. I see lots of stories constantly breaking. I mean,

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00:11:55.040 So let's see, I'll just kind of cover a thing or two here, uh, before we, uh, you know, there was the

00:12:00.040 quote from, uh, Mr. Carney when he responded to Rosemary Barton, the question at that conference

00:12:05.040 said, look inside yourself, Rosemary, talk about condescending, disrespectful.

00:12:11.040 This is a prime minister, you know, at a press conference, politicians can get crabby.

00:12:15.040 You know, if the media is on your case, you're having a bad day, whatever.

00:12:19.040 But still you have a degree of respect. But what I found telling, as I said, why I think he was most upset

00:12:26.040 wasn't even just that he was getting hard questions, though.

00:12:28.040 He's certainly not accustomed to that, but it was a hard question and a repeated question from a CBC personality.

00:12:35.040 They don't think they didn't expect anybody. The CBC was ever going to toss them a tough question.

00:12:40.040 And he was quite enraged by it. I mean, she didn't call him Mark when she was asking the questions.

00:12:46.040 There's little bits for, uh, you know, uh, little things when you're showing respect for other individuals.

00:12:54.040 When I interview a cabinet minister in Alberta, for example, a lot of them, I know,

00:12:59.040 because I've worked my way up through the Wildrose party days and so on.

00:13:02.040 It's the same people have ended up in cabinet today.

00:13:04.040 Hey, if we're out for a coffee or something, we speak to each other by first name basis.

00:13:09.040 When they're on the show, I refer to them as minister this or Mr. such and such or Ms. such.

00:13:14.040 You don't go by first names for these things.

00:13:16.040 And I doubt Rosemary and, uh, Mr. Carney are very close, but this is a very prickly man.

00:13:23.040 He's, he's, he's not, uh, you know, new to public life.

00:13:26.040 He's not new to exposure, but he's new to that kind of scrutiny.

00:13:29.040 He's new to this kind of game.

00:13:31.040 And it's interesting because they don't have a lot of time to play with.

00:13:34.040 They've got a federal election looming on them and he's going to see scrutiny and questioning and pressure like he hasn't dealt with before.

00:13:40.040 So it's going to be interesting if nothing else, when push comes to shove, because as I said in my opening monologue, you can't hide him from the press forever, particularly when an election comes.

00:13:49.040 They're riding a wave of support right now, but if they've tried to ride for another 38 days or so by hiding him, by shielding him, the public is going to, it's not going to pass the smell test.

00:13:59.040 That's going to foster distrust.

00:14:01.040 So I imagine he's not sleeping much as they're trying to train him in communications.

00:14:04.040 And as Dave said too, what, 21 ums and ahs and one answer or something.

00:14:08.040 Uh, well, fair enough though.

00:14:09.040 Justin Trudeau used to be pretty horrible in his first couple of years for ums and ahs.

00:14:13.040 And he got a little better towards the end.

00:14:14.040 I found his, his, uh, voice no less grating by the end of his time in there, but at least he, he didn't have quite as many hesitations going on throughout.

00:14:22.040 But it's going to be a short and a long campaign at the same time, I think, but we're kind of looking forward to it and kind of dreading it.

00:14:30.040 All right, let's get on to my guest.

00:14:31.040 He's no, uh, you're quite familiar with campaigns, been through his share of them and watches politics closely and is very outspoken on X and on his website and in media in general.

00:14:41.040 And that's Dan McTeague of, uh, the Canadians for a formal, uh, for Canadians for affordable energy, that tongue twister going on there.

00:14:48.040 Also a former liberal member of parliament from back in the days when the liberals were much more respectable than they are today.

00:14:55.040 So thanks for coming by again, Dan.

00:14:56.040 It's been a while.

00:14:57.040 Always a pleasure.

00:14:58.040 Yeah.

00:14:59.040 It's good to be here.

00:15:00.040 And, uh, yeah, some days I think, uh, I wonder where this party is going, but it's definitely not the party I remember.

00:15:03.040 So, uh, let's have at it.

00:15:05.040 Yeah.

00:15:06.040 Well, I mean, something interesting that's kind of developed is we've evolved into a two party system in a way for the first time in a long, long time.

00:15:14.040 And that's part of what's kind of voted poorly for the conservatives because the NDP are barely a factor anymore.

00:15:19.040 Yeah.

00:15:20.040 And it's, uh, almost trading positions compared to where they were say 10, 15 years ago.

00:15:24.040 And it was the liberal party that morphed into the NDP.

00:15:26.040 Uh, I lost that election after six, uh, successful, uh, runs.

00:15:31.040 And, uh, now it's the other way around.

00:15:33.040 So it looks like, uh, the voters in the center left, uh, can't control themselves.

00:15:37.040 Uh, they, uh, you're either socialist or you're a grifter or you happen to be, uh, you know, someone who follows a certain particular, uh, you know, warped ideology, uh, whether it's new Democrat or liberal looks like, uh, I can't tell the difference.

00:15:50.040 Can you tell the difference?

00:15:51.040 Well, no, they're, they're pretty indistinguishable, particularly under Justin Trudeau.

00:15:54.040 I mean, he definitely pulled the party to the left and to the, the realm of the woke, uh, part of what's happening though, is we're seeing an attempted and maybe even a little bit successful.

00:16:03.040 So it's far rebranding from Mark Carney.

00:16:05.040 I mean, he's, he's, he's taken the bullet out of, uh, Polyev's gun on a carbon tax election by saying he's going to end the consumer carbon tax.

00:16:12.040 And he's managing to stay mum on the fact that he's going to dump all of that onto the, uh, emitters and the consumers will still pay for it.

00:16:19.040 Um, maybe you could explain some of that, you know, what's going on with the carbon tax games.

00:16:23.040 Now, this is more into your specialty and energy.

00:16:25.040 You know, uh, Corey, we've talked about this for seven or eight years.

00:16:28.040 Canadians didn't believe us.

00:16:29.040 That said there would come a day when you wouldn't just have unaffordable energy.

00:16:32.040 You'd wind up paying a lot for everything else.

00:16:34.040 And sooner or later that the country would collapse.

00:16:36.040 Of course we had, uh, you know, massive amounts of money, public money being spent to make, uh, public service, uh, people happy, hiring more of them.

00:16:44.040 We saw, you know, massive expenditures and during the COVID period.

00:16:48.040 And we use all these, uh, funds to, uh, you know, give people the impression that, hey, there's no problem with this, these carbon taxes.

00:16:54.040 They won't have an effect.

00:16:55.040 That was 2015, 2018, 2019 is not 2025 to, uh, do a spin on Trudeau's old comments.

00:17:01.040 And people are really ticked.

00:17:02.040 And, you know, the extent to which Mr. Carney is going to try to distinguish himself from his signature policy, which is carbon taxes under net zero, really, uh, bears a lot of scrutiny.

00:17:13.040 Up until he became leader, we, uh, we were surprised at the number of things that he took credit for, uh, including of course, but not limited to, uh, the 1998 balancing the budget where I was a member.

00:17:24.040 That's news to me, uh, save the country from the global economic meltdown in 2008.

00:17:30.040 Uh, you know, of course, this is a fellow who, uh, did wonderful things in Britain, left nice and early.

00:17:34.040 However, despite all that he has said and has been challenged by a very, you know, weak leadership campaign, probably the weakest I've seen in my lifetime.

00:17:42.040 And, uh, uh, a media that that really hasn't held his feet to the fire.

00:17:46.040 We now see him trying to attempt to, uh, basically, uh, pull the wool over everyone's eyes.

00:17:51.040 Now you want to be really, really clear about this.

00:17:53.040 I know carbon taxes.

00:17:54.040 I know their effect on consumers to the 10th of a cent.

00:17:57.040 And I can tell you with full regard to my 18 years as a liberal member parliament, this is a shell game, but on, they are basically going to take this off for the period of campaign and restore it.

00:18:08.040 So every consumer is going to pay for it out there. Why? Because the framework legislation has not been changed, nor have the liberals indicated that they have any intention of changing it.

00:18:16.040 If they win the government, you and I and everybody in this country are going to pay a hell lot more than what we're paying today.

00:18:20.040 And if you don't like what you've seen over the past four or five years, while he was our prime economic advisor, I got news for you.

00:18:26.040 You're going to hate what you see in the next four or five years.

00:18:28.040 If you give these people a fourth mandate to further ruin the country.

00:18:31.040 No, it's been getting very troubling to think that might be what's actually happening.

00:18:35.040 I mean, you know, people I'm hoping will just kind of pay a little more attention.

00:18:39.040 I mean, it's been such an insane, tumultuous time.

00:18:41.040 You turn on the news and your head just spins.

00:18:43.040 Even as a news junkie and wonk like me, I get tired of it eventually.

00:18:46.040 Like, holy cow, the craziness coming out of the White House, the craziness coming from our domestic leaders.

00:18:51.040 You tune out a little bit.

00:18:53.040 And I think that gives people like Carney room to sort of pull the wool over their eyes, as you said, because people's eyes are all over the place.

00:19:00.040 They don't even know where to focus anymore.

00:19:02.040 They just want to see stability, even if it's fake.

00:19:05.040 Well, they can't reward people who've been giving us bad service for the last several years.

00:19:09.040 I think I noticed the fact that Donald Trump seems to be endorsing Mark Carney over Pierre Polly.

00:19:13.040 I think that's a great thing.

00:19:14.040 And it'll go hand in hand with all the Canadians who've suddenly rediscovered their nation.

00:19:18.040 You know, elbows up nonsense and, you know, the Canadian flag and buying Canadian.

00:19:23.040 Where the hell were you for the past 10 years? 0.80

00:19:25.040 When you denigrated the nation, when you tore down statues, when you poured paint on top of them, when you were ashamed of your past, when you bent a knee.

00:19:32.040 I mean, look, Canadians have really got to think about the story.

00:19:35.040 It's not just about the politicians, but Canadians who really need to smarten it up and bring their game up a little higher.

00:19:41.040 Because at this point, it seems to me as someone who's experienced in the trenches, knocking on tens of thousands of doors here in eastern Canada.

00:19:47.040 There's been a degradation, not in the quality of our politicians.

00:19:50.040 We can always argue with that.

00:19:51.040 The quality of the of the of the constituent.

00:19:54.040 Are they really that gullible that they can be fleeced into buying another four years of something they can't afford?

00:20:00.040 It seems that way.

00:20:01.040 But I think it's going to change.

00:20:02.040 I think once there's fair and, you know, balance between the two operating parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives in the next election,

00:20:10.040 I think it's going to Canadians are going to find to get what they've been paying for for several years.

00:20:15.040 And that's a real honest answer on these things, especially on the carbon tax, where it needs to be scrapped, along with the net zero fantasies that are very prodigious to Canada,

00:20:22.040 while the Liberals can spend the next four or five terms rebuilding themselves and getting back to the center where they were when I was an empty.

00:20:28.040 Yeah, well, and back to energy and back to kind of this new discovery.

00:20:32.040 It seems a lot of progressive Canadians and net zero people and all the rest have suddenly realized that maybe getting more pipelines to the coast might be a good idea.

00:20:40.040 Something Alberta has been screaming from the rafters for over a decade now. 1.00

00:20:44.040 But to be honest, I don't believe them when they say they're going to expand them.

00:20:48.040 I really do not.

00:20:49.040 It doesn't gel with their net zero ideology.

00:20:52.040 I mean, they'll claim it right now, but I don't see them doing it if they manage to get in for another term.

00:20:55.040 They'll just regulate it to death again. 0.98

00:20:58.040 Yeah. Well, you know, what's the good of building a pipeline if you're not prepared to put anything within it?

00:21:02.040 I mean, if you cut, you cap your natural gas, you cap your oil and you put emissions on it so that, I mean, the PBO, the parliamentary budget officer came out and said,

00:21:08.040 this is going to have a catastrophic effect, not just on Alberta and producers, provinces, but the entire country as a whole.

00:21:14.040 Look, Canadians really have to get up their game. 1.00

00:21:17.040 I mean, I heard this nonsense from the left and from the greenies saying for the years, oh, we should refine our own, all of our own oil.

00:21:22.040 And then I said, well, how the hell are you going to get it to market if you still have a problem?

00:21:25.040 You can't pipeline it anywhere.

00:21:26.040 What are you supposed to do?

00:21:27.040 Drive it by truck, maybe the back of an oxen cart, because that's what we're going to.

00:21:31.040 And I'm being pedantical about these things, but I also want to make it very clear.

00:21:35.040 My engagement with the public isn't really about worrying about the politicians, the media.

00:21:39.040 My engagement is with direct with Canadians.

00:21:41.040 Do not be sold a bill of goods as you have been for the past several years.

00:21:45.040 Wake the hell up.

00:21:46.040 Do some research.

00:21:47.040 Understand why your standard of living has collapsed.

00:21:50.040 And it has collapsed.

00:21:51.040 There isn't a single Canadian who can argue right now that they don't think things are worse now than what they were 10 years ago.

00:21:56.040 And that's because we have a reckless and irresponsible government that has found this country ability to spend that we didn't need to spend on.

00:22:03.040 And for which we have destroyed our ability, the golden goose of fuel, oil and gas, but manufacturing as well.

00:22:08.040 And we've invested money in things like electric vehicles.

00:22:11.040 For God's sakes, we put up tariffs against the Chinese who've had a 10 year, 15 years advantage. 1.00

00:22:15.040 And what's that doing in return?

00:22:16.040 It's killing our pork producers.

00:22:18.040 It's hurting our canola producers.

00:22:20.040 It's hurting our agri-food, agriculture sector.

00:22:23.040 There isn't nothing this government has touched that hasn't hurt the Canadian public.

00:22:26.040 And if you want more of that, if you think you can afford more of that, talk to your kids, talk to your grandchildren and talk to your neighbor, for goodness sakes.

00:22:32.040 Because everybody's in very, very dire streets right now.

00:22:35.040 Oh, yeah, it's absurd.

00:22:36.040 And nobody's even talking about lifting that ridiculous tariff on Chinese EVs, which weren't cutting into a market that Canada even has.

00:22:43.040 Sylvain Charlebois put it excellently online saying, you know, we are killing our local farmers to protect an imaginary industry.

00:22:50.040 Exactly.

00:22:51.040 It's nuts.

00:22:52.040 And again, if Carney was this financial genius, you'd think one of the first things he'd be saying is,

00:22:57.040 we're going to put a call out to China and resolve this trade war right away because their demand is simple.

00:23:01.040 Trump, you don't know what the heck that guy wants hour by hour, but China is pretty straightforward.

00:23:05.040 It just dropped the bloody tariff on our EVs and we'll back off on the canola and seed oils and other such things.

00:23:10.040 But they aren't talking that way.

00:23:12.040 You know, Corey, on the weekend, I decided to take a trip down here.

00:23:15.040 So it drove my daughter back to a university.

00:23:18.040 I came across the Cammy plant, which built something called the Bright Drop.

00:23:22.040 It's a van, a delivery van.

00:23:25.040 Basically, it was supposed to sell in all electric vehicles.

00:23:28.040 GM put in a 1.8 billion bucks.

00:23:30.040 You and I's taxpayers, another couple billion bucks, federal and provincial.

00:23:33.040 And they were supposed to sell 100,000 units.

00:23:35.040 They sold 2,100 units.

00:23:37.040 And of course, the plant is now is likely to go belly up anytime soon, along with the North Hulse, along with the Lion Battery, the Lion Buses, all of these other things.

00:23:47.040 I'm here not far from Oakville.

00:23:48.040 I can see that the smokestacks from here for the old Oakville plant.

00:23:52.040 They're supposed to be an EV plant, not turn into an F-250, F-350 plant.

00:23:56.040 But, you know, you're looking at a situation where we backed the wrong horse and we continue to make these bad decisions on the assumption that even though the United States has ended its EV mandates,

00:24:05.040 even though Canadians are no longer getting subsidized for buying these things, we can still build them because we're trying to pretend that there's a market that exists that doesn't.

00:24:15.040 I'm not offended by people who drive EVs.

00:24:17.040 If you want to drive one, that's great.

00:24:18.040 Not so great, by the way, when it's minus 20 here in Ontario or minus 40 where you guys are.

00:24:23.040 But at any rate, if you think you have the electrical infrastructure and the bottomless pit when it comes to subsidies and government debt to pay for these things,

00:24:31.040 I think people really need to elude or get rid of their delving into illusions because this is the worst public policy decision I think we've made.

00:24:40.040 It's on top of the carbon tax policy.

00:24:42.040 And it really speaks to the fact that if we put emission caps at all of these other wonderful things coming down the pipe from net zero,

00:24:48.040 unless some people get serious about nixing net zero, this country might as well think about nixing its economic future very quickly.

00:24:54.040 Yeah.

00:24:55.040 Well, in part, of course, that's just your whole, you let us know all the time.

00:24:58.040 I mean, that's your basis of being energy, affordable energy.

00:25:01.040 It impacts everything, everything, every consumer product you get, your paycheck every day, the taxes that the government takes.

00:25:07.040 It's all based on energy.

00:25:09.040 There's no one commodity that impacts everything across the blanket as much as energy.

00:25:14.040 Canada should be an energy superpower.

00:25:16.040 I mean, we've got so much for resources, whether it's hydroelectric, whether it's uranium, whether it's natural gas, whether it's you name it.

00:25:23.040 We've got it, yet we just seem to be intent on hamstringing ourselves.

00:25:29.040 Do you think, though, we could change this into an election about energy?

00:25:33.040 Because right now they're all campaigning against Trump.

00:25:35.040 And while that might be effective in the short term on polls, it's not going to help us with our economy.

00:25:41.040 No, but it's ironic that it's taken Donald Trump to make us appreciate our country and to finally want to build pipelines.

00:25:47.040 But look, I worked with Sylvain Charles a while on a project not too long ago in which he said, look, the carbon taxes aren't just hitting energy prices.

00:25:54.040 As I had suggested several years ago, it's going to affect everything else, including the cost of food.

00:25:58.040 And guess what?

00:25:59.040 Pushing back against our traditional economists, the usual suspects that we have out there, he paid lots of money for the federal government to basically polish the apple of all this carbon nonsense and net zero nonsense.

00:26:12.040 He came on and said, I got two peer reviewed studies that point out that the effect of carbon taxes and government policy to try to green everything and fault Canada for creating all the CO2 in the world, by the way, is a giver of life and is plant food for all intents and purposes.

00:26:26.040 Regardless of that, he came with two peer reviewed studies to basically show it to these wonderful economists, a lot of them from Alberta.

00:26:31.040 I think Trome and I guess the other ones, Leach, and others that keep coming in and saying, oh, there's no effect, baloney.

00:26:37.040 Anybody who's shopping in this country today where they're trying to make ends meet knows full well what's happened.

00:26:41.040 And you don't have to just argue or have a discussion with the people that do the food purchasing the house.

00:26:46.040 I do some of it here.

00:26:47.040 Go to the food banks and understand just how bad the situation has become.

00:26:50.040 This should not have happened in our Canada. 1.00

00:26:52.040 Anybody who tolerates that, might I suggest that you get yourself a brown paper bag, put it over your head, because you've got to be ashamed of yourself for being so ridiculous. 1.00

00:26:59.040 Yeah. 0.98

00:27:00.040 It was interesting watching Mr. Charlebois, Dr. Charlebois, I should be correct with it.

00:27:04.040 And having kind of the geek fight online with other economists, because he did call them out.

00:27:08.040 And the thing that he did point out was all of the ones he's fighting with got government funding one way or another.

00:27:13.040 Exactly.

00:27:14.040 They sure got furious when he pointed that out.

00:27:16.040 Yeah.

00:27:17.040 And you know what?

00:27:18.040 I'm sick of it.

00:27:19.040 Because it seems the only people backing this kind of stuff is paid media, paid academics, paid influencers.

00:27:25.040 And where it's coming from?

00:27:26.040 It's coming from the bottom line of people who are now getting ready to have to pay next month their income taxes, assuming, of course, they can make ends meet.

00:27:32.040 This is disgusting.

00:27:33.040 This is wrong.

00:27:34.040 They are robbing Peter to pay Paul.

00:27:36.040 And at the end of the day, I've got a very simple solution.

00:27:39.040 Stop paying them.

00:27:40.040 Listen, you had a great idea.

00:27:41.040 It's like Jean Chrétien said about cutting back on programs in the 1990s.

00:27:44.040 I think it was NAXA, National Action Committee on Status of Women.

00:27:47.040 He cut their budget.

00:27:48.040 He said, we don't have money for this stuff.

00:27:49.040 He said, if it's an important issue, go out and fund yourself.

00:27:51.040 And that's what these people should do.

00:27:52.040 Rather than coming out pretending that they can use their academic credentials to bamboozle us into believing that we're somehow getting a deal.

00:27:59.040 And in fact, we're being fleeced.

00:28:00.040 Yeah, well, it's going to be on people like yourself and even us over here.

00:28:04.040 I think over the course of the next 40 days or so just to try our hardest to keep things on the right discussion and let people realize because it's not that complicated when you really drill down.

00:28:12.040 It isn't.

00:28:13.040 You just got to move the fog out of the way for people when they see how directly these things impact them and they can make their choice on their own. 0.88

00:28:19.040 Canadians aren't stupid. 0.98

00:28:20.040 They just can be a little politically lazy sometimes, I think. 1.00

00:28:23.040 I'm here in Eastern Canada.

00:28:24.040 Two interviews in Quebec in the next hour or so.

00:28:27.040 So I'll continue to deliver the message and as an Easterner, I get it.

00:28:30.040 And it's high time the rest of the country recognize the more you do to undermine the very things that make us a great nation, the more distant it is that we're going to keep this country united and economically sustainable.

00:28:41.040 Excellent.

00:28:42.040 Well, I know you've got to run.

00:28:43.040 So before I let you go, where can people find, you know, what you're up to and keep track of things and learn from you there?

00:28:49.040 Corey, when we're not exchanging information, affordableenergy.ca, a lot of the work that I've done there.

00:28:54.040 Uh, and Twitter, of course, gas price wizard is the best way to engage.

00:28:57.040 And, uh, I get, uh, you give, I give as good as I get.

00:29:00.040 So, uh, be prepared. 0.94

00:29:01.040 If it's good stuff, I will work along with it, but if you're going to be nasty and you're going to be a troll, you're going to get it back with full boots. 0.95

00:29:07.040 All right. 0.90

00:29:08.040 Well, much appreciated.

00:29:09.040 I like the back and forth myself anyways.

00:29:11.040 So thank you again for coming on.

00:29:12.040 I hope we get to talk again soon.

00:29:14.040 And I really appreciate your work, Dan.

00:29:15.040 Thanks for having me, Corey.

00:29:16.040 Cheers.

00:29:17.040 Great.

00:29:18.040 Thanks.

00:29:19.040 That was Dan McTeague of, uh, Canadians for affordable energy.

00:29:22.040 And yeah, as you say, he's got lots to say and lots of common sense.

00:29:25.040 That's we've just got to, I think people are getting a bit of a, an overload.

00:29:29.040 They're getting a barrage and cutting through one of the things to watch for.

00:29:33.040 How do I trust?

00:29:34.040 Who do I know who to trust or whatnot?

00:29:35.040 Look, I have a slant, I have a bias, but I don't hide it whatsoever.

00:29:39.040 This is an opinion show.

00:29:41.040 Dave, who was on earlier, he's got his own biases, but he keeps it out of the news copy.

00:29:44.040 That's different.

00:29:45.040 News copy is a different thing than opinion, uh, people on shows or writing opinion columns.

00:29:50.040 But the other thing to watch is who's paying the bills.

00:29:53.040 As we were talking about with Dr. Charlebaugh and other economists, some economists get some

00:29:58.040 good funding from the government.

00:30:00.040 Thus, they tend to put out papers that are favorable to government policy.

00:30:06.040 Look who's paying the bills.

00:30:08.040 And when that comes to media as well, of course, CBC, which again, was so surprising.

00:30:13.040 They get paid through tax dollars, of course, and as through stealing advertising dollars

00:30:18.040 from the private market.

00:30:20.040 And they were so shocked when Rosie Barton actually questioned something, which I was

00:30:24.040 kind of surprised as well, but whatever.

00:30:25.040 I think part of it is, I mean, she always, you know, she used to literally, you could see

00:30:29.040 it.

00:30:30.040 Her eyes would glaze a little when she would mention Justin Trudeau's name.

00:30:33.040 I mean, she really, really had a thing for, for, uh, Justin Trudeau.

00:30:36.040 And then now Trudeau's gone.

00:30:38.040 Carney's there.

00:30:39.040 And, uh, she's not so much married to the liberals.

00:30:41.040 She's married to the concept of Justin Trudeau.

00:30:43.040 So she's a little better and she's going to hold the, the, the, you know, liberals accountable. 1.00

00:30:47.040 But, oh, they ever upset.

00:30:49.040 You know, people are petitioning to have her fired because she dared to question Carney

00:30:54.040 in a conference.

00:30:55.040 What sort of democratic atmosphere have we got where the cancel culture kooks, the cat 1.00

00:31:00.040 ladies, the ones who smell of old cat piss. 1.00

00:31:02.040 And that's who they are. 0.99

00:31:03.040 Look online.

00:31:04.040 It's amazing.

00:31:05.040 It's a demographic.

00:31:06.040 That's quite something.

00:31:07.040 They're all quite the same, uh, central Canadian upper middle age, single crabby women that, 1.00

00:31:13.040 uh, I guess they wrapped their fantasy worlds around Justin Trudeau.

00:31:18.040 And they're still, uh, quite upset now at his loss too, but very, again, uh, connected to

00:31:23.040 his replacement. 0.98

00:31:24.040 Now, speaking of middle-aged female fools, and yes, I understand that there are only two 1.00

00:31:29.040 genders and, uh, Mayor Gondek in Calgary is female. 0.99

00:31:33.040 And, uh, this was an interesting one that came up.

00:31:36.040 Calgary transit's looking for merchandise ideas.

00:31:39.040 See the city of Calgary, and this is happening in cities all over, and this is going to tie

00:31:43.040 into some of the stuff Dan was talking about.

00:31:44.040 Uh, they're always pleading poverty.

00:31:46.040 They're always raising taxes.

00:31:48.040 They never can apparently find ways to cut spending.

00:31:51.040 Apparently they spend so efficiency.

00:31:53.040 There just isn't a nickel to be saved anywhere.

00:31:56.040 All they can do is raise taxes.

00:31:58.040 Now they want merchandise ideas from Calgary transit.

00:32:01.040 What sort of genius came up to this?

00:32:03.040 What are you supposed to have?

00:32:05.040 You're going to wear a Calgary transit t-shirt.

00:32:07.040 Sewing pictures of the fentanyl addicts under the stairs.

00:32:10.040 Maybe the syringes over in the corner.

00:32:12.040 Or maybe they're talking about branded items, you know.

00:32:14.040 Stab-proof vests you commuters can wear on the way to work.

00:32:17.040 Or, uh, you know, helmets.

00:32:20.040 I don't know.

00:32:21.040 That this is what you guys are down to.

00:32:23.040 But what they won't see is how about collecting the friggin' fares?

00:32:27.040 How about that?

00:32:28.040 Anybody familiar with Calgary transit?

00:32:30.040 Edmonton's the same way.

00:32:31.040 And they're pretty much the only ones in the developed world that are like this.

00:32:34.040 They have the honor system for riding the trains.

00:32:37.040 They, there's ticket machines selling tickets.

00:32:39.040 And you can buy tickets through an app.

00:32:41.040 But there's no turnstile.

00:32:43.040 There's nothing else.

00:32:45.040 And you get on those trains with all the, the, the, the stench of, of human, uh, release.

00:32:52.040 And around some of the very troubled people.

00:32:55.040 And walk your way around the shopping carts.

00:32:56.040 And try not to sit on a syringe. 0.73

00:32:58.040 And you know that a number of the troubled people riding that train didn't buy a friggin' ticket. 0.85

00:33:06.040 So, you got that bunch.

00:33:08.040 Now, they're never gonna buy tickets. 1.00

00:33:09.040 But you start enforcing and get them off the damn train. 0.99

00:33:12.040 Get them off there. 1.00

00:33:13.040 Immediately.

00:33:14.040 I know there's no sense chasing them for fines.

00:33:16.040 They don't have any money. 1.00

00:33:17.040 But kick them off the bloody train. 1.00

00:33:18.040 And you know what? 0.98

00:33:20.040 When that element is off the train and out of the stations.

00:33:23.040 More people will choose to ride the train.

00:33:26.040 Right now they're scared to.

00:33:28.040 It's, it's frightening on parts of that train at times.

00:33:31.040 The other part is.

00:33:32.040 There's a number of people.

00:33:33.040 And I hate to say it.

00:33:34.040 But just the.

00:33:35.040 They're just not paying.

00:33:36.040 Because you know your odds of getting checked for a ticket are next to none.

00:33:39.040 I've ridden that train now and then.

00:33:41.040 You almost never get checked.

00:33:43.040 Start checking.

00:33:44.040 Bring in revenue.

00:33:45.040 Don't worry about trying to sell branded Calgary Transit t-shirts. 1.00

00:33:49.040 Just charge people for the damn tickets. 0.99

00:33:51.040 But it's the social equity crowd. 1.00

00:33:52.040 You see that's what it is.

00:33:53.040 That's what's underlying.

00:33:54.040 When these discussions come up.

00:33:56.040 The reality is.

00:33:57.040 There's an extreme left wing in city council and city halls.

00:34:00.040 And they're in city halls across the country.

00:34:03.040 And they believe that free transit should be a right.

00:34:08.040 They believe that it's unfairly cracking down on people.

00:34:11.040 If they're riding that train without paying their fare.

00:34:13.040 They think it's a right for them to sit on that train and lose bowel control.

00:34:17.040 You know.

00:34:18.040 Because of course.

00:34:20.040 They used that a lot when cold weather came.

00:34:22.040 The trains were being used as rolling homeless shelters.

00:34:24.040 Because unfortunately a lot of the addicts are in such bad shape.

00:34:28.040 They can't go into the regular homeless places.

00:34:32.040 You know.

00:34:33.040 Shelters and such.

00:34:34.040 So they started using trains for it.

00:34:36.040 But that's not the place for it.

00:34:37.040 But then people were saying it was cruel and heartless if we take them off the train.

00:34:40.040 Well isn't it a little cruel and heartless to the senior citizen trying to get to work?

00:34:42.040 The student trying to get to work?

00:34:43.040 Or even the girl man.

00:34:44.040 I get nervous around some of these people when they're.

00:34:47.040 They're.

00:34:48.040 Especially the meth addicts.

00:34:49.040 Because they go pretty wild.

00:34:50.040 Jordan put out a commenter put out said.

00:34:52.040 How about a teacher saying I survived the sea train?

00:34:54.040 Yeah I know.

00:34:55.040 It's frightening.

00:34:56.040 So either way.

00:34:57.040 The city of Calgary.

00:34:58.040 We're talking about electric vehicles and so on.

00:35:00.040 And the list.

00:35:01.040 The list.

00:35:02.040 There are EV companies across Canada.

00:35:04.040 Just going broke.

00:35:05.040 Left, right and center.

00:35:06.040 They're falling like dominoes.

00:35:07.040 You hear about the big ones.

00:35:08.040 But there's little ones too.

00:35:09.040 Relative.

00:35:10.040 There's one that was called vicinity.

00:35:11.040 It was out in Vancouver.

00:35:13.040 And guess what?

00:35:14.040 The city of Calgary bought a bunch of electric buses from them.

00:35:17.040 Yeah.

00:35:18.040 Ten zivs.

00:35:19.040 I don't know what it was.

00:35:20.040 Ten or twelve million dollars or something.

00:35:21.040 Because this was supposed to be a trial project.

00:35:23.040 Just a small amount of buses.

00:35:24.040 Seven or eight buses they were going to use.

00:35:26.040 And before the buses even got here.

00:35:27.040 Because it was supposed to be a pilot program.

00:35:29.040 They said.

00:35:30.040 Gondek and her gang said.

00:35:32.040 You know what?

00:35:33.040 The electric buses are working so well up in Edmonton.

00:35:35.040 We don't need a pilot.

00:35:36.040 We're going to dive all in.

00:35:38.040 And spend hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:35:41.040 And buy a hundred and some buses.

00:35:43.040 These electric buses.

00:35:45.040 Well.

00:35:46.040 After that Edmonton.

00:35:47.040 Their bus program fell apart.

00:35:49.040 Literally. 1.00

00:35:50.040 Their buses were garbage. 0.97

00:35:51.040 They had to get a bunch of custom work done to them. 0.99

00:35:53.040 They didn't work in cold weather.

00:35:55.040 Then they started breaking down.

00:35:56.040 Then they couldn't get parts to fix them.

00:35:57.040 Because guess what?

00:35:58.040 The company that made the buses.

00:35:59.040 Went bankrupt.

00:36:00.040 Now Calgary.

00:36:01.040 Waiting.

00:36:02.040 And waiting.

00:36:03.040 And waiting.

00:36:04.040 And waiting.

00:36:05.040 On their trial project buses.

00:36:06.040 From Vicinity.

00:36:07.040 Out in Vancouver.

00:36:08.040 A company that makes these things.

00:36:10.040 And they never quite disclosed how much money they gave them.

00:36:13.040 They also spent their money retooling the bus barns for chargers for these buses.

00:36:18.040 And so on.

00:36:19.040 Finally it turned out Vicinity went broke.

00:36:20.040 Calgary never even got a single bus.

00:36:22.040 But what did they do? 0.74

00:36:24.040 They're sourcing buses from yet another bloody manufacturer.

00:36:29.040 They look all over North America.

00:36:31.040 Just Google electric bus failure.

00:36:35.040 And you'll see it.

00:36:36.040 These things are not a success anywhere. 0.99

00:36:38.040 They're junk. 1.00

00:36:39.040 They're subsidized crap. 1.00

00:36:41.040 And they're ripping people off. 1.00

00:36:43.040 And still it's going.

00:36:45.040 But whose fault is it?

00:36:47.040 I don't know.

00:36:48.040 Ours?

00:36:49.040 Because we've got to start changing.

00:36:51.040 We.

00:36:52.040 I mean.

00:36:53.040 That's what I talked a bit about with Dan.

00:36:54.040 You know.

00:36:55.040 The electoral laziness.

00:36:56.040 The indifference.

00:36:57.040 I know people are tired out.

00:36:58.040 But guess what?

00:36:59.040 People like Jodi Gondek.

00:37:00.040 She might get reelected.

00:37:01.040 Because people don't pay attention.

00:37:02.040 Turnouts in civic elections are 20, 30, 40 percent.

00:37:04.040 It's sad. 0.99

00:37:05.040 It's pathetic. 0.99

00:37:06.040 And then those who do come out to vote are left-wing moon bats with crazed causes on their shoulders. 1.00

00:37:12.040 We've got to get off our own bloody butt and deal with it. 0.99

00:37:16.040 Likewise in the federal election. 0.99

00:37:18.040 So the polls.

00:37:19.040 I'm getting bloody concerned.

00:37:20.040 I sure am.

00:37:21.040 Because, I mean, at first it looked like they were just outliers.

00:37:23.040 It looked like it was just crazy Frank Graves with the ecos, you know, putting wishful thinking out there in the polls,

00:37:28.040 seeing the liberals were going to, you know, come back and win.

00:37:31.040 And, I mean, Frank Graves polls are still grossly exaggerated.

00:37:35.040 I mean, he also showed that there was support for the Bloc Quebecois in Alberta and that the liberals would win here.

00:37:39.040 But every pollster is showing it now.

00:37:41.040 Even the most favorable pollster to the conservatives with abacus.

00:37:46.040 I mean, I wouldn't say they are favorable to the conservatives, but their polls were.

00:37:49.040 They're showing it now neck and neck.

00:37:51.040 There's no doubt there is a trend.

00:37:52.040 People are going to the liberals for whatever bloody reason.

00:37:55.040 And really, you know, you can tell that Dan was flabbergasted with it, too.

00:38:01.040 We're exhausted.

00:38:02.040 One of the best images that's been going around, Sylvain Charlebas has been putting that one out, too.

00:38:07.040 And it's the GDP per capita in Canada.

00:38:11.040 Growth in the last 10 years versus every other country in the world.

00:38:14.040 And Canada is like 3% over the last 10 years.

00:38:17.040 And the United States at the top, their GDP per capita grew by like 20, 30% or something.

00:38:22.040 21%, I think.

00:38:24.040 Massively.

00:38:25.040 That's the measure of wealth.

00:38:27.040 That's the measure of how well we're doing.

00:38:29.040 We're not doing well at all, guys.

00:38:32.040 We have less in our pockets all the time.

00:38:35.040 And if we put the same dingbats back into power who made that trend in the first place, how on earth could we possibly expect it to change? 1.00

00:38:43.040 Yet here we are.

00:38:45.040 Here we are.

00:38:46.040 I see some of the commenters saying, you know, they believe it'll change once the election campaign gets going.

00:38:50.040 I believe so, too.

00:38:52.040 I think so.

00:38:53.040 I mean, Carney, right now it's a bump.

00:38:55.040 It's still a bounce.

00:38:56.040 And we still got crazy times going on right now.

00:38:59.040 Unprecedented.

00:39:00.040 People are nervous.

00:39:01.040 People are upset.

00:39:03.040 You know, I've been frustrated.

00:39:05.040 There's nothing I hate more than seeing a tariff war.

00:39:08.040 Because you know what? 1.00

00:39:09.040 It's stupid. 1.00

00:39:10.040 It's stupid. 1.00

00:39:11.040 Tariffs are stupid economic policy. 1.00

00:39:14.040 And I know some of the Trump supporters get upset with me, but too damn bad. 1.00

00:39:17.040 Trump's policies on tariffs are stupid. 1.00

00:39:20.040 He's doing some right things in some areas, but the tariff stuff is wrong and it's dumb. 1.00

00:39:25.040 And I mean, it's hurting the Americans as much, maybe even more than us. 0.94

00:39:27.040 But the bottom line is we're all bloody hurting.

00:39:29.040 And people would like to come in and try and say, well, let's resolve this.

00:39:32.040 Let's make a deal.

00:39:33.040 But you never know what that guy's saying day from day.

00:39:35.040 You can't even start the negotiation process.

00:39:37.040 Meanwhile, you watch your savings start to evaporate.

00:39:39.040 Meanwhile, you worry about the industries you work in.

00:39:42.040 And so, yeah, people are exhausted.

00:39:46.040 They're beat up.

00:39:47.040 They're tired.

00:39:48.040 And it leaves them vulnerable.

00:39:50.040 And, you know, they're vulnerable and they're getting the wool pulled over their eyes.

00:39:53.040 The liberals, you look at the ads they're putting on right now.

00:39:56.040 And again, I know I got some people who follow the show who like Trump.

00:39:59.040 Good for you.

00:40:00.040 That's fine.

00:40:01.040 But most of Canadians are really, really pissed off with him right now.

00:40:04.040 And the liberals know that.

00:40:05.040 And they've been showing commercials with Polyev right next to Trump.

00:40:10.040 And taking quotes that sound similar and trying to paint them as each other.

00:40:14.040 And you know what?

00:40:15.040 Unfortunately, it's working.

00:40:16.040 As Dave said, Trump came out and said, look, I'd prefer to deal with the liberals than with the conservatives.

00:40:21.040 I don't know what he's trying to reserve for the trend or anything.

00:40:24.040 I don't think Trump cares either way.

00:40:26.040 It does help Polyev, I guess.

00:40:28.040 You know, the last thing he needs is Trump coming up and saying, you know, I really like this guy.

00:40:32.040 And, you know, it's just going to make things worse.

00:40:37.040 And when is this bloody election coming?

00:40:39.040 You know, it's one of the biggest flaws in the Canadian system.

00:40:42.040 I just despise that.

00:40:43.040 Where the person in power can play coy, can mess around with the date.

00:40:47.040 And just, I'll call it when it's convenient for me.

00:40:50.040 And then those numbers, right?

00:40:51.040 And it's not a shocker.

00:40:52.040 Those numbers were always there.

00:40:53.040 It's just that we see them coming in total.

00:40:55.040 This shows how badly we're taking it from behind as well.

00:40:58.040 We got Justin Trudeau, an $8.4 million pension.

00:41:05.040 Pension.

00:41:06.040 What do you get maximum in Canada with the Canadian pension plan?

00:41:09.040 $800 a month or something like that.

00:41:11.040 You pay your whole bloody life.

00:41:13.040 Trudeau was in there, you know, for what, 15 years from being an MP to latest resignation. 0.93

00:41:19.040 $8.4 million pension coming for you.

00:41:23.040 And you got to remember the whole time he was prime minister, he didn't have to spend

00:41:28.040 a nickel of his own money on anything.

00:41:31.040 He gets a free house.

00:41:32.040 He had free wardrobes.

00:41:33.040 He had free travel.

00:41:34.040 He had free food.

00:41:35.040 He had chefs.

00:41:36.040 He had drivers.

00:41:37.040 So every penny of everything he got in salary for 10 years, straight into the bank or wherever

00:41:42.040 he puts it.

00:41:43.040 Maybe a big Justin piggy bank in his bedroom.

00:41:46.040 I don't know.

00:41:47.040 I don't think a prime minister should be paid poorly, but boy, it sure lets us know who

00:41:55.040 really is running the show when you see something like that.

00:41:58.040 $8.4 million for 10 and some years work.

00:42:00.040 Not bad, eh?

00:42:01.040 That's nuts.

00:42:02.040 And member of parliament pensions and conservatives tend to be as bad as the liberals when it comes

00:42:08.040 to it as well in getting rid of these things.

00:42:10.040 They talk big, but they don't do it.

00:42:12.040 Even the reform party would go all the way back and date myself into the nineties, you

00:42:17.040 know, uh, uh, Deb Gray, uh, and, and the, uh, bunch of them at first refused to take the

00:42:21.040 pension plan, but once they were in office for a couple of terms, they all just kind

00:42:24.040 of slowly slid in and took the pension.

00:42:27.040 I don't know if anybody's ever going to have the courage to cut into that because once they're

00:42:30.040 in, of course it cuts into their own wallet and self-serving politicians, you know, again,

00:42:34.040 they should be paid well.

00:42:36.040 Uh, but I mean, you know, keep it simple then just when you're paid that much at best,

00:42:42.040 they should just have an RRSP matching program or something for the time that they're in

00:42:46.040 there, you know, every year you can put this much of your salary in and the government to

00:42:49.040 match.

00:42:50.040 There's your retirement.

00:42:51.040 Fine. 1.00

00:42:52.040 But 8.4 million for that dingbat Trudeau, crazy, crazy, crazy. 0.99

00:42:59.040 Yeah. 0.99

00:43:00.040 And yeah.

00:43:01.040 Yeah.

00:43:02.040 Getting back to, uh, I'm just trying to look here.

00:43:05.040 Pure poly of trying, you know what I mean?

00:43:07.040 This is where we get through the media.

00:43:08.040 I see he's been trying, he's trying to get things out there and he's playing catch up.

00:43:11.040 So he he's, he's been out and he talked about, uh, uh, committing a billion dollars to build

00:43:16.040 a new road to connect first nation communities and mineral deposits, you know, the ring of

00:43:20.040 fire.

00:43:21.040 This is good stuff.

00:43:22.040 Economic development.

00:43:24.040 And you watch though, just like everything else that seems to be happening.

00:43:28.040 Carney will do the same announcement a week later.

00:43:31.040 And the clapping seals of the Canadian legacy media will give him credit for it.

00:43:36.040 The difference is I can't think Polly have might actually follow through with it.

00:43:39.040 I don't believe Carney for a second on these things.

00:43:42.040 Uh, Polly have was an, uh, I call it, uh, not too long ago himself, you know, making announcements

00:43:47.040 to doing those things.

00:43:48.040 Didn't get much attention.

00:43:49.040 Once Carney's there though.

00:43:50.040 Oh boy.

00:43:51.040 What did he announce?

00:43:52.040 I mean, the radar station, I mean, we don't have time on the whole show to go through at

00:43:55.040 Northern defense.

00:43:56.040 Fine.

00:43:57.040 These are issues people are concerned about, but also yet another reconciliation handout that

00:44:02.040 worked out to the people of Nunavut, $70,000 a person on top of everything else and every

00:44:09.040 other program.

00:44:10.040 And I tell you what, the main source of income for people in Nunavut is government money, your

00:44:15.040 money, your taxes, and it didn't help.

00:44:19.040 Conditions are terrible in a lot of places up there because it's isolated areas, whole

00:44:22.040 separate story on, well, you know, the whole reserve system and things like that.

00:44:25.040 But now he's going to toss them all another $70,000 a head.

00:44:29.040 These things come out during elections.

00:44:32.040 Where is this money going to come from?

00:44:34.040 Well, we know in the end it's going to come from us, but our economy is being beaten on

00:44:39.040 this.

00:44:40.040 I just get so tired of it.

00:44:43.040 Elections.

00:44:44.040 We fall for it every time.

00:44:46.040 Now, Ralph Klein did it.

00:44:47.040 We're not much better in Alberta.

00:44:48.040 I won't get on the high horse totally.

00:44:50.040 It worked in Alberta.

00:44:51.040 He put out the Ralph bucks, $400 a person.

00:44:53.040 He put out a check just before election time.

00:44:55.040 Totally crass.

00:44:57.040 Election buy. 0.99

00:44:58.040 People forgetting that it's their own damn money he's giving them back. 0.99

00:45:01.040 He's reaching in the wallet. 0.99

00:45:02.040 He's taking a thousand out and he's giving you $400 and you're thanking him.

00:45:06.040 Well, that's what they're doing through this whole election.

00:45:08.040 Both of them.

00:45:09.040 They'll both be, you watch.

00:45:10.040 You watch.

00:45:11.040 Polyev is going to propose to spend a lot of money too because that's just the way the

00:45:13.040 bloody game goes.

00:45:15.040 He's just better than the Liberals.

00:45:17.040 I'm more believable.

00:45:18.040 And I think as a better understanding of the economic needs, we're going to have to

00:45:21.040 pay for these things.

00:45:23.040 But he's not getting the coverage.

00:45:27.040 We're in for a very big turning point in Canada right now with this election.

00:45:32.040 We've got to wake up our citizens.

00:45:34.040 I know the Conservatives aren't perfect, but if you think that putting the Liberals in is 1.00

00:45:38.040 good for Canada, you're stupid. 1.00

00:45:41.040 You really are. 1.00

00:45:42.040 You're outright stupid. 1.00

00:45:43.040 Look at the numbers. 1.00

00:45:44.040 Look at the figures.

00:45:45.040 Look at their track record.

00:45:47.040 You think Carney is changing a thing?

00:45:49.040 As I said with Dave, the same comms person there is behind him because you could tell

00:45:53.040 when he does his slow glass drink of water and he's got something sticking in his ear

00:45:57.040 just like I do.

00:45:58.040 Somebody's telling him what to say.

00:46:00.040 And it's the same person.

00:46:02.040 The same wizard behind the curtain is sitting there.

00:46:05.040 It's just a different face.

00:46:07.040 I don't know.

00:46:08.040 Well, either way, frustrating.

00:46:10.040 We'll keep covering things.

00:46:11.040 Look, guys, that's what I've got for today.

00:46:12.040 Hey, tune in Friday, 11 o'clock live.

00:46:14.040 We're going to be coming live every Friday.

00:46:16.040 No more recorded.

00:46:17.040 Getting on the show.

00:46:18.040 It'll be a longer one.

00:46:19.040 More unrestrained.

00:46:20.040 More election focused.

00:46:21.040 I've got a couple of guests coming on through that.

00:46:23.040 We'll talk about things.

00:46:24.040 The pipeline is going to be on tonight.

00:46:26.040 Nigel's show comes on.

00:46:27.040 Derek's show comes on.

00:46:28.040 We're doing a lot of digital content, guys.

00:46:30.040 Subscribe on those YouTube channels.

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00:46:37.040 And let's make sure Canadians bloody well get it right this time.

00:46:40.040 So tune in on the next one and I'll see you there.

00:46:42.040 And thanks for tuning in today, guys.

00:46:44.040 Thank you.

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Western Standard - March 20, 2025

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Prime Minister in hiding

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