Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Subsidized media is controlled media

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00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am, as the name would imply, Corey Morgan.

00:00:39.340 And I'm going to bend your ear for the next hour or so on a number of issues. There's lots to cover.

00:00:45.600 Looking on the bright side, you know, I'm always cursing, complaining, going on about things. I'm sort of a grouch. That's okay.

00:00:51.100 But it's raining in Alberta. It's finally raining. I mean, you're hearing from some people saying it's not enough. It's too little, too late.

00:00:58.280 Okay. But it's still better than nothing. So we could use that cool down. Hopefully some stuff greens up.

00:01:04.400 Give our agricultural producers a break and, you know, give our firefighters a break. Just everybody a break.

00:01:10.240 Heck, even your lawns at home. Boy, it's been quite the drought going on here so far.

00:01:14.220 So, yes, this show runs live for those who are catching it on the social media channels.

00:01:19.760 And by all means, use that comment scroll like Scott and Stuart have already. I appreciate it.

00:01:24.900 I don't necessarily read them all out, but I see them all there. Helps keep the conversation going.

00:01:28.940 Let's just keep it civil, of course, and we can all have a good time.

00:01:33.280 Send questions to my guests and such if you like.

00:01:35.840 I've got coming in today Jay Hill. He's been on the show a number of times in the past.

00:01:39.600 He was a member of parliament for a good number of years before finally retiring out of there.

00:01:44.740 I'm looking forward to talking to Jay because there's just, I want to find out about some of the procedure.

00:01:49.500 I want to find out what's going on. How on earth do we deal with this, this CCP corruption issue?

00:01:55.860 How is it that a minority government can get away with putting off an inquiry so effectively?

00:02:00.260 Are there things the opposition can do? Are there not things they could do?

00:02:03.780 I think Jay will be able to answer a lot of those questions. So I'm looking forward to that.

00:02:06.800 Of course, we'll be checking in with Jay, or Jay, checking in with our news editor, Dave, in a little while.

00:02:14.700 But first, I'm going to get on about what's got me going today.

00:02:18.160 And it's talking about a nice self-serving subject for me, the media. Yes, the media.

00:02:24.280 And, you know, lots of folks are probably familiar with that old saying,

00:02:26.840 he who pays the piper calls the tune.

00:02:29.380 Well, in Canada, the government's paying the piper with your tax dollars, the media piper, anyways.

00:02:34.280 And it's calling the tune through regulations.

00:02:37.620 I mean, the CBC, they've pretty much nearly completed their transformation into a true state media outlet.

00:02:43.940 I mean, newscasts, pundits, and stories on CBC, they sound more like communications for the governing Liberal Party

00:02:49.480 than actually reporting news anymore.

00:02:51.520 But legacy media outlets, they aren't that far behind now,

00:02:54.780 as they're getting increasingly dependent on federal subsidies to keep the lights on.

00:02:58.680 Now, face it, subsidies, they stunt innovation.

00:03:02.420 And this is a time when we need it.

00:03:04.500 The older media outlets should have been changing their business models to adapt to a digital world.

00:03:09.060 Instead, they've been honing their lobbying skills and becoming, you know,

00:03:13.320 getting better at accepting handouts and putting that into their budget.

00:03:16.720 Now they're beholden to the government, and it shows.

00:03:20.140 And the controls the government has on them can be subtle, but they're there.

00:03:22.900 I mean, since 2019, the government's been paying out payroll subsidies to those they consider qualified news organizations.

00:03:30.760 So this money comes with strings attached, of course.

00:03:33.340 In order to be qualified, applicants must prove, and this is from their document here,

00:03:38.860 a consistent practice of providing rebuttal opportunity for those being criticized,

00:03:43.240 including the government of Canada.

00:03:44.740 So what that's led to, though, is an obligation now when government agencies,

00:03:49.100 they make demands on the media outlets to counter anything they may report.

00:03:53.620 The Federal Department of Health issued hundreds of what they call corrections to media outlets

00:03:58.440 over the course of the last couple of years, hundreds.

00:04:01.180 Other media, I mean, other departments of the government surely have been doing the same sort of thing.

00:04:05.860 Critical discourse on health issues has been gags since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:04:10.220 Government agencies have their own agenda, particularly the health department,

00:04:13.100 and now they've got the power to muscle in on legacy media outlets.

00:04:17.040 If they don't like the media messaging, they'll put the pressure on.

00:04:21.140 This has trained a lot of those outlets to avoid reporting on any commentary

00:04:24.840 that might run afoul of the health department or the government itself.

00:04:27.820 I mean, if an outlet garners too many of those corrections,

00:04:30.400 they might find themselves not qualified anymore and bumped from the subsidy train.

00:04:34.840 Bill C-18, of course, we've been hearing about that one.

00:04:37.780 That's even more bold and sneaky as a means of controlling the media.

00:04:40.640 With that bill, the government wants to force social media platforms to pay certain media outlets

00:04:46.020 when they provide links to them.

00:04:48.560 The outlets that will qualify for those payments, of course,

00:04:50.720 they'll be determined by a government committee,

00:04:52.980 and that committee will be appointed by the liberals.

00:04:55.900 This way, the government keeps its thumb on the media

00:04:57.860 and forces somebody else to pay the bill for them on top of it.

00:05:01.340 Stalin would have blushed with such a move.

00:05:03.960 Independent media outlets are still springing up and expanding despite the government.

00:05:07.640 These outlets have shunned government subsidies and tapped into the private market to pay their bills,

00:05:13.020 whether through subscriptions or advertising or both like we do here at the Western Standard.

00:05:17.560 This allows the outlets to maintain full independence from the government.

00:05:21.780 Independent outlets are dependent, though, on social media platforms to aid with their distribution.

00:05:27.280 Independent outlets don't have mandatory carriage on cable channels as legacy outlets do,

00:05:32.280 and they don't have the means for broader advertising to draw readers and viewers like some of those legacy media outlets do.

00:05:38.400 We need Twitter, YouTube, Meta, Google, all of those ones to get to people out there.

00:05:43.380 The government's recognized this.

00:05:44.600 Now they've seen a way to shut down independent media outlets with C18.

00:05:48.940 Because, I mean, not only will the media outlets be forced to pay out certain media outlets,

00:05:54.160 I should say the social media outlets will be forced to pay that out to media outlets,

00:05:57.780 they'll be leaving the independent outlets out to dry.

00:06:00.900 They won't be able to compete. They might not even get links through them.

00:06:04.280 Now, right now, Meta and Google are threatening to drop links to all news sites,

00:06:08.280 whether independent or legacy, as a response to the Trudeau government's heavy-handed approach.

00:06:12.180 And can you blame them?

00:06:14.020 I mean, come on, they're putting the screws to them. What else do they get to say?

00:06:15.980 Well, fine, we don't have to give links. We'll just stop.

00:06:19.120 This response, though, is going to harm everybody.

00:06:21.300 It's tougher than ever to access a broad spectrum of news coverage and analysis.

00:06:26.200 But hope is on the horizon in some ways.

00:06:27.880 Elon Musk, I mean, he's proven to be a disruptor indifferent to the establishment, and I love that.

00:06:32.860 He's willing to go against the grain and stir up the social media world.

00:06:36.680 And Musk has the means to take, and that's the reality of it, the financial beating that comes with going into such a battle.

00:06:43.540 Now, whether, for example, one likes Tucker Carlson or not doesn't really matter.

00:06:46.860 The unfolding, though, story from his firing from Fox News and his streaming his show on Twitter now is remarkable.

00:06:54.280 Carlson's first episode of Tucker on Twitter garnered 114.8 million views between June 6th and June 12th.

00:07:02.380 Now, to put that in perspective, the average CNN show draws about 500,000 viewers.

00:07:08.720 Just blew them completely out of the water.

00:07:10.840 A whole new broadcast medium is exploding on the scene, and it's already leaving the conventional media behind.

00:07:17.860 If a show, of course, whether it's Tucker or anything else, can gather millions or tens of millions of viewers, it will draw advertising and revenue.

00:07:25.580 The show won't need tax dollars.

00:07:27.860 If the platform's owned by somebody as intransigent as Elon Musk, you know, it won't capitulate to government control, at least not easily, if ever.

00:07:36.100 The battle for free media versus government control media is just heating up in Canada.

00:07:40.360 It's going to take some time, but the legacy media outlets will collapse eventually for lack of viewership, despite the government subsidies.

00:07:47.440 And we will see independent media outlets.

00:07:49.400 Some will come, some will go, but eventually they will establish the new order of media provision.

00:07:53.920 The only question now, though, is how long will it take and how much damage will the government cause in trying to maintain an obsolete status quo for its own benefit?

00:08:01.500 Well, that's what's got me going today, guys.

00:08:04.980 Yes, the battle for your eyes and ears and the federal government using all its tools it can to try and control that.

00:08:12.060 And it's just it's it's sad and it's repugnant, to be honest.

00:08:15.420 All right, let's talk to our news editor.

00:08:17.980 He's independent.

00:08:18.960 He doesn't get any tax dollars, or if he does, he's hitting it really well.

00:08:22.000 And that's Dave Naylor.

00:08:23.180 And I see what else is going on out there.

00:08:24.840 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:08:26.180 Pretty good, Corey.

00:08:27.140 No, the government takes takes a lot of tax dollars from me.

00:08:30.040 They don't they don't give me anything.

00:08:32.340 Hey, does does your lovely wife, Jane, watch the show? 1.00

00:08:36.300 Usually she's not watching today, I believe, because she had a course to teach. 0.99

00:08:39.680 But, yeah, she watches later in case I say something stupid. 0.97

00:08:42.180 Well, I just wanted to wish her a happy birthday. 0.98

00:08:44.420 What did you get her?

00:08:46.380 Well, I took her out for supper and I actually I made her a card and a breakfast this morning that she politely said was good.

00:08:53.280 Well, there you go.

00:08:54.040 It's more than you normally do, I think.

00:08:55.480 Well, I've got a lot of news to talk about this morning, Corey, and a lot of it is kind of related to to your monologue there.

00:09:04.640 Bell Media took 122 million dollars in subsidies from the federal government.

00:09:11.620 But that didn't stop them from gassing 1,300 workers today.

00:09:16.860 They shut down newsrooms across the country, including two in Vancouver, one in Edmonton, one in Calgary.

00:09:23.980 And they're going to solidify all their news under sort of one CTV umbrella.

00:09:29.760 So we'll see how that goes for them.

00:09:33.040 Top story at the moment is the leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Calgary.

00:09:37.460 Ironically, she's been charged with a hate crime for her actions in front of a Catholic church recently.

00:09:44.280 So you can click on that one.

00:09:46.740 And speaking of Tucker Carlson, we have a story on his third Twitter episode that aired last night talking about the arrest of President Donald Trump and his appearance in the courtroom in Miami yesterday.

00:10:01.760 So you get Tucker's thoughts there.

00:10:05.760 You remember a tweet from the weekend, Corey, on Premier Daniel Smith in her restaurant in High River.

00:10:13.420 She was washing dishes there and that tweet got a lot of attention.

00:10:17.180 So I guess she's gone from washing dishes to washing her hands of the restaurant because it's now up for sale.

00:10:26.260 So if you want to own your own little restaurant on a rail car, give Premier Daniel Smith a call.

00:10:33.220 Well, the other thing worth mentioning this morning, Corey, is you remember that $13 billion taxpayer gift to Volkswagen?

00:10:43.300 Well, apparently, according to the parliamentary budget officer, it's already gone up by more than $2 billion, already $2 billion over budget.

00:10:52.800 And I think they only announced the thing maybe a month ago.

00:10:55.580 So can you say boondoggle, Corey?

00:10:59.360 Oh, I can't imagine what that thing's going to total when they're done with it.

00:11:02.140 Well, and lastly, I'll mention we have the announcement of the Calgary Stampede Parade Marshal this morning.

00:11:09.480 If you remember last year, it was Kevin Costner, and he caused all the women to swoon along the parade route.

00:11:17.620 This year, it's going to be Jeremy Hansen.

00:11:20.000 And if that name's not familiar to you, he's a Canadian astronaut, and he's set to be blasted off to the moon

00:11:27.140 through a moonshot, one of the first moonshots in a generation coming up later.

00:11:34.640 So he'll be leading the parade this year, Corey.

00:11:37.380 Right on.

00:11:37.980 Well, it's, yeah, a lot of busy one in the newsroom today.

00:11:41.060 Dave, I'll let you get back to putting that up there so you can continue to stay free from, you know, government largesse and keep getting those stories up.

00:11:51.760 Absolutely.

00:11:52.380 We wouldn't do it if we were, right?

00:11:54.120 No, I wouldn't.

00:11:55.680 All right.

00:11:56.040 Thanks, Dave.

00:11:56.840 Thanks.

00:11:57.960 So, yes, that was our news editor, Dave Naylor, from the newsroom.

00:12:00.760 As you can hear, yes, lots of stories, guys.

00:12:02.640 We put stuff up there all the time.

00:12:04.560 And we blow the legacy media outlets out of the water.

00:12:07.580 There is constant stories going up.

00:12:09.840 We've got reporters across the country, unique content.

00:12:13.240 The reason we can do it kind of ties into my rant.

00:12:15.340 And I'm segwaying it together is because you guys subscribe.

00:12:18.340 And that makes us accountable to you.

00:12:19.860 I mean, as opposed to what I was talking about with legacy media outlets.

00:12:22.240 When they take the money from the government, they become accountable to them.

00:12:25.900 $9.99 for a month, guys.

00:12:28.040 $100 for a year.

00:12:29.260 And you get full unfettered access to all of our stories, our columns, and all that good stuff.

00:12:34.200 Plus, of course, you support us, support this show, and keep us rolling.

00:12:36.840 So if you're already a subscriber, thank you very much, guys.

00:12:39.600 You can go to westernstandard.news and get straight through to it.

00:12:42.820 And if you're not a subscriber yet, come on, get on in there, guys.

00:12:45.340 Westernstandard.news slash membership.

00:12:47.480 And it helps keep us rolling and keeping these shows going.

00:12:51.300 So, yeah, a lot there, you know.

00:12:53.280 And as Dave mentioned, so Bell Media, and this shows the subsidy route.

00:12:56.140 And this kind of gets to the end of the monologue I gave.

00:12:58.600 But I do believe that these large outlets are still going to crumble.

00:13:01.820 It doesn't matter how many tax dollars get poured into them.

00:13:03.920 So $122 million poured into Bell Media.

00:13:07.360 And what do they do?

00:13:08.260 They laid off 1,300 people and shut down a bunch of radio stations.

00:13:12.440 And they won't adapt.

00:13:13.740 It's similar to what I was talking about before.

00:13:15.540 These are AM radio stations.

00:13:16.960 One of the ones they shut down was 1060 in Calgary, an AM platform.

00:13:22.560 It had been running the last couple of years just playing comedy clips.

00:13:26.460 It was Calgary Funny Radio or something like that that they called it.

00:13:29.340 I couldn't imagine they were drawing much for ad revenue.

00:13:31.940 And finally, they just pulled the plug on it.

00:13:34.700 I'm dating myself.

00:13:36.020 I remember in the 80s when I moved to Calgary, that was AM 106.

00:13:39.760 That was the all-hits 106.

00:13:41.140 It was a huge radio station in the city back then.

00:13:43.500 Very big.

00:13:44.500 But times change.

00:13:46.140 That station probably should have disappeared 10 years ago, to be honest.

00:13:49.120 And I'm not celebrating the losses of jobs or the people that are in them.

00:13:52.440 But they have to adjust to the changing atmosphere.

00:13:56.340 Who listens to AM radio anymore?

00:13:58.520 Well, I do in my car now and then.

00:14:00.140 But I'm one of the last of them going on out there, guys.

00:14:03.180 I mean, it's streaming.

00:14:04.240 It's online.

00:14:04.960 It's, you know, people, you see the earbuds in with the next generation, they're not listening to radio stations.

00:14:10.700 And if these companies weren't being subsidized all this time, then these stations would have adapted, perhaps, or these outlets in general.

00:14:21.540 And some of those jobs, perhaps, could have been saved.

00:14:24.260 But as it is now, we gave them the money.

00:14:27.280 We got little to nothing of benefit out of it.

00:14:29.420 Yeah, now they're going to centralize further, as Dave said, into just CTV.

00:14:33.420 So we're getting fewer and fewer outlets.

00:14:36.120 And none of these outlets are really going to want to ever be too critical of their sugar daddy in Ottawa,

00:14:41.520 where they might find the pin pulled on their subsidies.

00:14:43.760 Not a good situation.

00:14:45.260 But, hey, we're still here.

00:14:46.420 And that's what's positive out of this, as are some of the others, Rebel, True North, Epoch Times.

00:14:52.300 We're going to spring up like weeds.

00:14:54.000 We won't let them get away with stopping the information getting to you.

00:14:56.740 All right.

00:14:57.660 I'm going to get to my guest here.

00:14:59.340 I've been looking forward to this.

00:15:00.060 It's been a while since we've had you in studio there, Jay.

00:15:03.580 It's good to see you.

00:15:04.500 This is Jay Hill, as I mentioned at the top of the show, a former member of parliament, former whip,

00:15:09.640 all-around expert in all that's Ottawa.

00:15:13.640 So thanks for coming in and talking to us today, Jay.

00:15:15.700 My pleasure, Corey.

00:15:16.720 It's always nice to be on your show.

00:15:18.300 Yeah.

00:15:19.540 And what I kind of said in the email, what I want to get to is we've had all of this federal talk.

00:15:23.360 We've had all of this political games going on for months.

00:15:26.740 We have a federal government that's in a minority position, but they still, it appears, to be able to skate on a public inquiry.

00:15:35.120 Like, I'm just wondering, are there parliamentary things that can be done to address this by the opposition parties, or are there hands tied?

00:15:41.520 Well, first of all, absolutely, there are things that can be done.

00:15:46.600 I think you're well aware that I hold the dubious distinction of having been the only member of parliament in the history of our Canadian parliament to hold the position of caucus or party whip four times.

00:16:01.100 My staff did some research and couldn't find any other time that anybody had been in that position twice, let alone four times.

00:16:08.880 And I've also been the house leader, both in opposition for the chief opposition, but also for the government, which is a cabinet position, as you know.

00:16:21.740 So I'm very well versed in, certainly in what can happen and how a government can be held accountable.

00:16:32.220 Certainly, part of the reason why I decided to try something else other than public life in 2010 was at the time I had reached the, basically the apex of my political career.

00:16:44.000 I was in cabinet, I was sort of sitting on the right hand of the prime minister at the time as the government house leader or the leader of the government in the house of commons.

00:16:53.980 And as such, in a minority parliament, it's a very, very difficult position normally, certainly for a conservative it is, because you have to negotiate with the other parties, Corey, bill by bill, motion by motion, daily,

00:17:08.640 sometimes hourly, sometimes hourly, to try and get anything done for the government's agenda to get it through parliament.

00:17:15.100 And, of course, with conservatives, we don't have any natural allies.

00:17:18.800 All the other parties are, shall we say, left of centre.

00:17:22.840 And so it was immensely stressful for the two minority parliaments that we had from 2006 to 2011, until Prime Minister Harper won his one and only majority.

00:17:35.540 So I fully recognise what can be done and what can't be done when it comes to negotiating with the other parties.

00:17:44.700 Sadly, for Canadians, we have an opposition party, the NDP, under the leadership of Jagmeet Singh, that has given our prime minister free reign to do whatever the hell he wants.

00:17:56.680 And that's totally unlike the way we were held accountable, Harper Conservatives, in those two minorities that I was a part of.

00:18:04.920 Yeah, well, and just the talking out of both sides of his mouth, though, whereas Jagmeet Singh has been very critical, rightly so, of this whole scandal.

00:18:14.620 I mean, see, we might as well call it that by now.

00:18:16.460 You know, the scandal of the Chinese Communist Party interference and the Trudeau government working so hard to block an inquiry by all means.

00:18:23.700 But, you know, he's tabling motions, a non-binding motion, a non-binding motion.

00:18:26.860 Well, big deal.

00:18:27.840 It's virtue signalling.

00:18:29.640 But are there things that can be done that can force this then without bringing down the government?

00:18:34.780 He's saying, okay, we'd have to, it's not worth bringing the government down over right now.

00:18:38.660 I mean, not all of us might agree, but fine.

00:18:40.980 But, you know, is Opposition Day, is there something they could put in as a bill or something that can force this without turning it to a confidence matter?

00:18:47.740 Well, absolutely.

00:18:50.120 I mean, the prime minister under our system always holds the Trump card, Corey.

00:18:54.920 I think you're aware of this.

00:18:56.420 Insofar as that he can declare any motion or any act, any piece of legislation, a confidence motion,

00:19:04.780 which means that if that motion is defeated, if it falls, then we're into an election.

00:19:12.540 That's what that means.

00:19:13.340 But what we did, what Stephen Harper did when prime minister and I as both his house leader and earlier as his government whip,

00:19:22.640 we negotiated on a continual basis with the other parties to say, okay, well, how can we work with you to amend this

00:19:31.540 so that it doesn't become a confidence measure?

00:19:34.220 In fact, we never played that so-called trump card of declaring something a confidence unless we felt very clearly that it was so integral to our government agenda

00:19:46.600 for what we were trying to accomplish for Canadians that we had no other choice.

00:19:52.300 So that happened very rarely, that we would sort of have a showdown.

00:19:56.060 And usually it was behind closed doors where you say, you know, face to face, well, this is so much part of our electoral promises or whatever,

00:20:06.220 that if you're insistent, other house leaders, other whips about getting your caucuses to vote against it, and we lose this,

00:20:15.680 then we're going to go into an election.

00:20:17.360 That's very rare under most circumstances.

00:20:19.740 The problem is, is that Jagmeet Singh never plays that card.

00:20:24.800 He never, I'm sure he never says to the prime minister, or maybe behind closed doors,

00:20:29.980 the prime minister indicates all the time to him, well, you know, if you go against this, Jagmeet,

00:20:35.460 we're going to be into an election.

00:20:36.760 In other words, he's playing that fear of a confidence motion constantly.

00:20:41.920 Because stomping short of that, there's lots that can be done.

00:20:45.020 At committees, opposition days, as you say, in the House of Commons, there's a few that are votable,

00:20:51.780 that are actually driven to a vote.

00:20:53.760 You could, you could do a lot of things.

00:20:55.940 This is not the first scandal.

00:20:59.140 There have been many.

00:21:00.780 And the prime minister has done this, prime minister Trudeau has done this repeatedly throughout the last number of years,

00:21:06.600 where every time a scandal comes up, he'll do everything possible to hide it from Canadians,

00:21:11.840 even up to and including calling an election, you know, which he did in 2021.

00:21:18.900 So, it's just really, it comes down to having an extremely weak opposition party,

00:21:27.280 led by someone that doesn't want to see an election, because he fears for himself in his leadership position,

00:21:34.280 and he fears for his party's fortunes.

00:21:37.580 Oh yeah, and I understand that.

00:21:38.720 I mean, Jagmeet Singh is as close to power as he will ever get.

00:21:41.420 He knows that, you know, come the next election, he might not be in such a position again.

00:21:46.160 But, I mean, it just feels to me that it's a bluff that it can be called.

00:21:51.620 I mean, you know, when you declare something of confidence matter,

00:21:55.020 that means that you're building a hill for yourself to die on.

00:21:57.240 You're saying, we're going to stand on this.

00:21:59.240 And really, even Trudeau is as tone deaf as he can seem to be,

00:22:03.000 to go to Canadians and say, we're going to call an early election,

00:22:05.680 because I don't want to go to an inquiry.

00:22:08.520 I can't think of a more politically suicidal platform to go to the voters with.

00:22:13.360 I just don't think he would do that.

00:22:16.780 So to answer your question, yes, on opposition day,

00:22:19.720 certainly we had tremendous challenges at each and every committee.

00:22:24.160 As you know, the Procedure and House Affairs Committee has been studying this issue, if you will.

00:22:30.580 They called the, I forget what he's called now,

00:22:36.000 reporter, Mr. Johnston, before them for a three-hour testimony about a week ago,

00:22:44.380 I think a week ago yesterday,

00:22:45.660 and, you know, put him on the hot seat asking questions about why his report basically said,

00:22:53.400 well, no, he didn't think a public inquiry was necessary starting next month.

00:22:57.600 Had he stayed in his job before he resigned, he was going to start public hearings.

00:23:03.280 Well, public hearings do not have the strength

00:23:05.840 and do not have all the tools that a public inquiry have,

00:23:10.080 as I'm sure you're aware.

00:23:11.880 For example, a public inquiry is very much like the powers of a standing committee,

00:23:17.360 or even a special committee of the House of Commons.

00:23:20.020 They have rights very similar to courts,

00:23:23.060 where they can subpoena you and say,

00:23:25.480 you will show up on this day to give evidence and answer questions.

00:23:30.100 public hearings, which Mr. Johnston allegedly was going to do,

00:23:35.680 you cannot.

00:23:36.680 They can request.

00:23:38.240 They can ask you to come.

00:23:39.680 But if you, you know, basically say, go pound sand,

00:23:43.700 nothing happens.

00:23:45.380 So committees have that power.

00:23:48.220 Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have that power.

00:23:51.600 They could easily, by dint of working with the other opposition parties,

00:23:56.100 they could easily force those issues at a committee

00:24:00.020 and hold basically a full public inquiry

00:24:03.700 or something very similar to that at one of those committees.

00:24:07.560 And you'll recall other instances over the last number of years

00:24:11.660 since Trudeau came to power in 2015,

00:24:14.740 where a committee started to do that,

00:24:16.980 and then eventually the NDP folded

00:24:19.580 and didn't force it to go to its logical conclusion.

00:24:24.500 Okay, so they could start,

00:24:25.840 because, I mean, people want answers.

00:24:27.960 I mean, we're seeing,

00:24:28.760 it's just rare when we see such a dominant thing

00:24:30.580 with polling and Canadians,

00:24:31.980 the lack of faith in everything we've been hearing out of this.

00:24:35.020 You know, you're looking at 20-some percent of the people

00:24:37.620 believing anything more out of the Trudeau government

00:24:39.900 when it comes to this issue.

00:24:42.160 I mean, still, the numbers supporting the government

00:24:44.160 are higher than that.

00:24:44.940 Okay, they don't want to go into election,

00:24:45.860 but they want to get to the bottom of this.

00:24:47.880 They want to find out just what the heck is going on.

00:24:50.560 I mean, we've had some very direct meddling,

00:24:52.840 and it just flabbergasts me.

00:24:55.940 I mean, our system isn't working like it should.

00:24:57.640 If we can't, in a minority situation,

00:24:59.980 get a real deep dig into something this important,

00:25:03.540 it doesn't bode well for us.

00:25:05.520 Well, and I think it really hinges to a large extent,

00:25:08.140 and this is, I say this very sort of sadly,

00:25:11.060 that it hinges on the topic you were discussing

00:25:14.220 just as I came into the studio,

00:25:16.200 which is the basic neutering of our national media. 1.00

00:25:23.800 You know, why aren't they on to Jagmeet? 0.94

00:25:26.620 Why aren't they calling bullshit on Jagmeet Singh 0.97

00:25:30.760 when he stands up and rants and raves about scandal after scandal 0.98

00:25:35.940 and does nothing when he has the power to do that?

00:25:39.360 All he has to do is sit down with the conservatives and block

00:25:41.960 and say, okay, let's devise a common strategy

00:25:45.640 of how to get to the bottom of this at whichever committee,

00:25:49.000 ethics committee, procedure and house affairs,

00:25:51.160 pick a committee, it doesn't matter.

00:25:52.380 They all have the same powers.

00:25:53.800 And say, we're going to work together.

00:25:56.160 We have the majority of votes on that committee

00:25:58.860 because it's a minority government.

00:26:00.760 And we're going to force this starting tomorrow,

00:26:03.800 next time that committee meets.

00:26:05.680 And we have the power to have that committee meet all summer,

00:26:09.720 right through the heat of summer.

00:26:11.620 You know, it doesn't have to rise when the house rises,

00:26:14.480 you know, next week or whenever it is.

00:26:17.600 They have that power.

00:26:19.860 But the media and the public, you know,

00:26:22.920 it's fine for, you know, the latest poll

00:26:25.360 to say that 80% of Canadians, you know,

00:26:29.580 are opposed to this,

00:26:31.080 the way the government is going on this issue, right?

00:26:34.280 That's great.

00:26:35.340 But is it going to accomplish anything?

00:26:38.360 Well, that's it.

00:26:39.160 I mean, if their elected members can't bring about any,

00:26:43.000 you know, change or getting into this,

00:26:46.080 I'll ask you to get, you know, a little speculative.

00:26:48.540 The time goes fast.

00:26:49.760 We've still got a few minutes yet.

00:26:50.940 But do you think we're going to get a public inquiry eventually?

00:26:54.820 I don't know.

00:26:56.020 I mean, judging by the way that this prime minister

00:27:00.320 is skated around other issues,

00:27:02.460 whether it's the SNC-Lavalin thing,

00:27:04.360 that should have brought him down.

00:27:06.020 I mean, my goodness,

00:27:07.540 the Attorney General and Justice Minister of the country,

00:27:10.720 Jody Wilson-Raybould, resigned over it,

00:27:14.200 wrote a book over it.

00:27:15.460 And still Canadians put up with this.

00:27:18.880 I mean, so when we didn't over that,

00:27:21.680 when we didn't over the WE,

00:27:22.960 he skated around that issue of trying to funnel

00:27:25.980 hundreds of millions of dollars to the WE,

00:27:29.420 a company that he was clearly in a conflict with,

00:27:33.020 with his members of his family receiving money

00:27:35.580 for speaking engagements from that company,

00:27:39.040 the WE Foundation.

00:27:41.000 You know, so it's been one,

00:27:42.300 and that's just two that come to mind.

00:27:43.800 I was looking online a few days ago out of curiosity,

00:27:47.560 and I challenge your viewers to do this.

00:27:50.720 Go online and just Google Justin Trudeau scandals.

00:27:54.440 It's page after page after page.

00:27:57.260 It's almost impossible for journalists to keep up with.

00:28:00.380 And the few journalists like yourselves

00:28:02.120 that actually want to dig into it.

00:28:04.740 So are we going to get one?

00:28:07.460 You would think that logically he's going to be forced,

00:28:10.740 but it's only the media that can force him to do that.

00:28:13.600 I don't understand why his own party is letting this go on and on,

00:28:17.460 because eventually, and I think we're reaching that point,

00:28:20.300 that tipping point, if you will,

00:28:22.340 where his star is going to be so much in decline

00:28:27.680 that it's going to be very difficult for the Liberal Party

00:28:30.740 to recover from it.

00:28:32.260 That's where I wanted to go next, actually.

00:28:34.180 I was just wondering if that's one other area.

00:28:35.720 I mean, there's got to,

00:28:36.500 we know there's principled Liberal members of Parliament.

00:28:39.720 And they've got to be, you know,

00:28:41.180 taking the flack from this stuff they had nothing to do with.

00:28:44.380 They're embarrassed.

00:28:44.920 Their constituents are on their case,

00:28:46.300 and they're looking to their own political futures.

00:28:48.880 Yeah.

00:28:49.560 Liberals, I mean, that's just a fact.

00:28:51.240 They tend to be better at keeping them all together

00:28:53.620 than Conservatives.

00:28:54.420 We love speaking out and ripping our own.

00:28:56.320 I mean, that's our nature.

00:28:58.160 But at some point, as you said,

00:29:01.280 that tipping point might be hit,

00:29:02.460 where enough in caucus,

00:29:03.340 he might finally get a caucus revolt,

00:29:04.680 even if behind closed doors.

00:29:06.080 But to say, look, that's enough.

00:29:07.460 We're not going to go down with this ship.

00:29:09.200 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:10.320 And it has happened in the past,

00:29:11.920 I think, with both governing parties,

00:29:13.900 whether it's ours, the Conservative Party.

00:29:16.040 Like you say, I think that the record would show

00:29:19.160 that within the Conservative Party,

00:29:20.980 and it's both good and bad,

00:29:23.080 that the leadership is held more accountable.

00:29:26.320 than what we see in the Liberal Party.

00:29:27.900 I mean, most recently, Mr. O'Toole, right?

00:29:31.460 It wasn't the general public or the media

00:29:35.060 that eventually held him accountable.

00:29:37.440 It was his own caucus.

00:29:39.620 And we don't see that from the Liberals.

00:29:41.780 And as you say, I worked with,

00:29:44.120 well, partly because of the positions I held,

00:29:45.960 I had to work daily, sometimes hourly,

00:29:48.580 as I said, with my counterparts,

00:29:50.940 with the House leaders and the whips

00:29:52.540 of all the other parties.

00:29:54.360 And I found most of them were very respectful

00:29:57.980 and, you know, putting forward an alternate point of view.

00:30:02.400 But you could work with them.

00:30:04.460 And so there are people in those ranks

00:30:06.880 within the Liberal Party, the Liberal caucus,

00:30:10.500 that should be holding him accountable.

00:30:13.620 Because they're not profiting.

00:30:15.160 In fact, arguably, as you say,

00:30:16.680 it's their very futures that are in jeopardy

00:30:19.760 because of the way that he acts

00:30:22.300 every time one of these scandals comes along

00:30:24.580 where he does everything.

00:30:26.380 Well, and including, I think, on the one,

00:30:28.580 I don't remember which it was,

00:30:29.760 where he actually launched a lawsuit

00:30:32.560 against the Parliament of Canada

00:30:34.640 to prevent them digging into something.

00:30:38.100 So...

00:30:38.740 Yeah, it's bizarre times.

00:30:40.280 I mean, you know, another long shot.

00:30:41.920 I'll throw out my speculation.

00:30:42.740 But it's not impossible to think that maybe at a point

00:30:45.660 Justin's going to take his walk in the snow

00:30:47.660 like his father did and come back.

00:30:49.960 I mean, that would be because

00:30:50.620 he was getting the pressure inside

00:30:52.040 to think, you know what,

00:30:52.680 maybe I'll just bail out now,

00:30:54.900 move on, put it to a leadership race.

00:30:56.340 We can still kick the inquiry down the road.

00:30:57.960 Maybe people will have forgotten about it

00:30:59.480 and I can retire.

00:31:01.140 Yeah.

00:31:01.760 No, I think that everybody runs

00:31:03.900 their term of office

00:31:05.820 and has to come to that decision.

00:31:07.720 And some people are forced out.

00:31:10.700 I've often remarked, I guess,

00:31:12.480 that all too many politicians, you know,

00:31:15.680 are like bad milk in the fridge.

00:31:18.160 I mean, they stay around

00:31:19.040 until they start to stink up the place.

00:31:21.080 Well, yeah.

00:31:21.420 And I mean, even with great ones,

00:31:22.560 it's been unfortunate, you know,

00:31:23.460 with Premier Klein's a good example of it.

00:31:25.720 I mean, he's a legend in Alberta.

00:31:27.740 He did a lot of great things.

00:31:28.720 But that last couple of years,

00:31:30.280 it was kind of the hook was starting to come out.

00:31:31.900 Okay, Ralph, maybe it's time to step aside.

00:31:34.460 And he kind of left, you know,

00:31:35.200 with his own party, he's turning on him a little.

00:31:36.940 Same with Kretchen.

00:31:38.500 He's just in for too long.

00:31:41.100 Yeah.

00:31:41.400 But just not seeing it with Trudeau yet.

00:31:44.220 No, we're not.

00:31:45.380 And I think that partly because of a lot of things.

00:31:47.900 We've never been in a situation in our country

00:31:49.900 where the major media has become

00:31:53.040 the propaganda arm of the government

00:31:55.200 through subsidization.

00:31:57.120 That's never happened before until Justin Trudeau.

00:32:00.160 And so that puts a very unique perspective

00:32:03.620 on everything that's happening

00:32:05.300 in and out of Ottawa.

00:32:06.940 And had it not been for that,

00:32:10.000 there may have been enough pressure

00:32:11.900 from multiple sources,

00:32:13.360 not just the sort of the lone,

00:32:15.340 one of the lone voices in the wilderness,

00:32:17.560 the Western Standard out here in Calgary

00:32:20.240 saying these things,

00:32:21.640 digging into these things,

00:32:22.980 our rebel news.

00:32:24.860 You know,

00:32:25.420 they're very few and far between.

00:32:27.940 If you had some of the major networks

00:32:29.700 doing the job they're supposed to do for Canadians,

00:32:32.640 I think there,

00:32:33.760 you know,

00:32:34.240 maybe he would have already taken that walk.

00:32:36.940 Perhaps.

00:32:38.240 Well,

00:32:38.740 we'll see what happens.

00:32:39.940 I said,

00:32:40.200 you know,

00:32:40.360 they're going to recess in a week or so.

00:32:41.940 I suspect they're going to kick this can down the road

00:32:44.060 until fall.

00:32:44.760 And we'll see if public interest is still there

00:32:46.280 when the time comes.

00:32:47.840 I think so.

00:32:48.340 It seems to me the leaks are going to keep coming.

00:32:49.800 Whoever that is,

00:32:50.580 they've got more.

00:32:51.700 They're not going to let this go.

00:32:53.540 Well,

00:32:53.760 sadly,

00:32:54.300 the message I want to leave your viewers with

00:32:56.280 is that

00:32:57.020 don't make any mistake on this.

00:32:59.880 Jagmeet Singh and the NDP,

00:33:01.940 every time you hear him

00:33:03.960 say something critical of the government,

00:33:06.780 call him out for what it is. 1.00

00:33:08.900 He's being a hypocrite. 1.00

00:33:10.160 It's complete hypocrisy. 1.00

00:33:12.120 He has the power 0.66

00:33:13.160 to work with the other opposition parties

00:33:15.680 and drive these types of scandals

00:33:18.660 to some form of public disclosure

00:33:21.560 at minimum.

00:33:23.560 And he chooses,

00:33:25.560 he and his caucus choose not to do that

00:33:27.900 and instead to prop up

00:33:29.320 this scandal-ridden government.

00:33:33.000 Well,

00:33:33.340 time will tell.

00:33:34.280 All right.

00:33:34.540 Well,

00:33:34.680 thanks again for coming in,

00:33:35.580 Jay.

00:33:35.680 I just appreciate some explanation.

00:33:37.160 You know,

00:33:37.280 not everybody are political weenies like us

00:33:39.300 that watch the procedure

00:33:41.180 and what's going to be done

00:33:42.200 and what can't be done,

00:33:42.940 committees,

00:33:43.340 things like that.

00:33:44.240 And just,

00:33:44.640 you know,

00:33:44.740 the general audience,

00:33:45.520 like they're frustrated,

00:33:46.860 readers,

00:33:47.760 what can be done,

00:33:48.960 just the confirmation

00:33:49.580 that something can be done.

00:33:51.240 They're just choosing not to

00:33:52.680 and,

00:33:52.900 well,

00:33:53.980 we'll see what happens.

00:33:55.580 Well,

00:33:56.120 Canadian democracy,

00:33:56.960 especially in this case,

00:33:58.080 Canadian democracy

00:33:58.920 is the poorer for it.

00:34:00.620 I mean,

00:34:00.840 I think that's why

00:34:01.840 it's 80% of Canadians

00:34:03.580 is because there isn't

00:34:04.660 an awakening

00:34:05.220 to the fact

00:34:06.960 that foreign interference 1.00

00:34:08.380 in our elections

00:34:09.240 strikes at the very heart

00:34:10.940 of everything

00:34:12.480 that we stand for.

00:34:14.280 I mean,

00:34:14.740 a democracy

00:34:15.480 has to stand

00:34:16.520 on the legitimacy

00:34:17.320 of its elections.

00:34:19.120 Absolutely.

00:34:20.300 All right.

00:34:20.740 Well,

00:34:20.940 thanks,

00:34:21.280 Jay.

00:34:21.520 It was great seeing you

00:34:22.340 in here again.

00:34:23.800 Thanks for asking me.

00:34:24.720 I hope we can have you back

00:34:25.620 again sometime soon

00:34:26.540 maybe to start talking

00:34:28.380 about the next election.

00:34:31.140 Hopefully,

00:34:31.680 we'll be into it sooner

00:34:32.540 rather than later

00:34:33.360 because the country

00:34:34.460 is going to be destroyed

00:34:35.260 if it keeps going

00:34:35.980 the way it is.

00:34:36.560 It does seem to be.

00:34:37.480 All right.

00:34:37.920 Thank you.

00:34:38.860 So that was Jay Hill

00:34:40.600 as you heard

00:34:41.580 and yes,

00:34:42.220 a regular guest here,

00:34:43.920 a person who's certainly

00:34:44.700 put in a long time

00:34:45.680 of service

00:34:46.280 on Parliament Hill

00:34:47.700 and still managed

00:34:48.460 to maintain his marbles

00:34:49.580 out of all that time

00:34:50.600 in there.

00:34:50.980 It's quite surprising.

00:34:52.660 I think a lot of them

00:34:53.460 will have a few screws

00:34:54.360 loosed on the way in

00:34:55.400 if they don't make it

00:34:56.800 on the way out.

00:34:59.040 But yeah,

00:34:59.680 it just gets so maddening,

00:35:01.160 you know?

00:35:01.300 So I'm going to talk

00:35:02.280 a little bit about

00:35:02.900 some federal things.

00:35:03.760 I mean,

00:35:03.860 the things that are coming up,

00:35:04.700 this complete lack

00:35:06.060 of accountability,

00:35:07.100 this feeling that

00:35:07.800 they just don't care

00:35:09.180 and they get away

00:35:10.480 with whatever they like.

00:35:12.240 You know,

00:35:12.420 so we see these things

00:35:13.540 coming up

00:35:13.900 at the Privy Council,

00:35:14.820 which is sort of a,

00:35:16.320 it's the Prime Minister's

00:35:17.780 wing of government

00:35:18.660 in a sense,

00:35:19.260 is the Privy Council

00:35:20.060 and the Privy Council

00:35:20.800 President Bill Blair.

00:35:22.980 And at first,

00:35:24.640 he was claiming

00:35:25.240 when it comes

00:35:25.840 to the Chinese interference,

00:35:26.900 like these bits

00:35:27.940 of information

00:35:28.480 keep coming out.

00:35:29.120 He was saying

00:35:29.980 they withheld information

00:35:31.660 they didn't even know

00:35:32.500 about it.

00:35:32.820 Well,

00:35:33.040 it's been found,

00:35:33.620 no,

00:35:33.740 that was absolutely false.

00:35:34.920 He was completely lying.

00:35:36.080 Just lying.

00:35:36.740 There's no other way

00:35:37.240 to put it.

00:35:37.700 He's outright lying.

00:35:39.560 They don't care.

00:35:40.460 They lie

00:35:40.880 and they get away with it.

00:35:42.140 And then,

00:35:42.680 of course, 0.72

00:35:43.260 the Minister of Lies,

00:35:44.240 I call him that

00:35:44.760 all the time,

00:35:45.240 Marco Mendicino,

00:35:46.680 because this is

00:35:47.600 a different one,

00:35:48.200 but it's with

00:35:48.500 the Paul Bernardo.

00:35:49.780 It was found out

00:35:50.480 that he was being transferred

00:35:51.720 to a medium security prison. 1.00

00:35:53.240 He's a monster. 1.00

00:35:54.400 He's an odious person 1.00

00:35:55.240 that nobody likes

00:35:56.380 to imagine being moved

00:35:57.340 anywhere less secure

00:35:58.460 than a maximum security prison.

00:36:00.760 And,

00:36:00.980 you know,

00:36:01.320 I understand.

00:36:03.360 We've got some

00:36:03.720 liberal fart catchers

00:36:04.960 on social media

00:36:05.580 saying,

00:36:06.060 oh,

00:36:06.480 well,

00:36:07.020 you know,

00:36:07.380 it's not the part

00:36:08.140 of the minister

00:36:08.680 to determine

00:36:10.140 who moves to which prison

00:36:11.380 and who doesn't.

00:36:11.860 That's true.

00:36:12.400 That's the Department

00:36:13.180 of Corrections.

00:36:14.160 But they did let

00:36:15.480 Mendicino's office

00:36:16.520 know about this

00:36:17.380 because they knew,

00:36:18.060 obviously,

00:36:18.360 it was going to be

00:36:18.920 a big issue.

00:36:19.580 They knew they were

00:36:20.160 dropping a bomb

00:36:21.260 and they let him know

00:36:22.560 months before the transfer.

00:36:24.380 They let his office

00:36:25.120 know months before

00:36:25.860 the transfer.

00:36:27.060 But he claimed,

00:36:28.000 I didn't hear about it.

00:36:29.060 Again,

00:36:29.760 just lies.

00:36:30.980 It's just lies.

00:36:31.940 Lies when asked about it. 0.99

00:36:33.140 And again,

00:36:34.780 lying from politicians,

00:36:36.260 well,

00:36:36.360 that's hardly a new thing.

00:36:38.140 This is not something

00:36:38.840 that's a,

00:36:39.700 you know,

00:36:39.980 unique or singular,

00:36:41.300 but it's the way

00:36:42.040 they get away with it

00:36:43.280 is driving us so mad.

00:36:45.020 I mean,

00:36:45.280 they're getting rewarded

00:36:46.520 for lying about things

00:36:47.760 all the time.

00:36:49.080 And I don't know

00:36:50.340 what it's going to take

00:36:51.320 to stop it.

00:36:53.320 And they need

00:36:54.060 to be held accountable

00:36:54.880 on a lot of levels

00:36:55.900 with a lot of things.

00:36:57.100 You know,

00:36:57.380 this is one that Dave

00:36:58.320 mentioned

00:36:58.720 with a news check-in,

00:37:00.640 the Parliamentary Budget Office.

00:37:01.880 So yeah,

00:37:02.120 the report.

00:37:02.940 So this is,

00:37:03.360 you know,

00:37:03.460 an independent office

00:37:04.180 in Parliament saying,

00:37:04.840 look,

00:37:05.060 these numbers

00:37:05.660 for the massive amount

00:37:07.940 of subsidies

00:37:08.380 going into this

00:37:09.120 battery fabrication facility

00:37:11.640 that Trudeau

00:37:13.000 is basically

00:37:14.200 punishing

00:37:14.740 Western energy producers

00:37:16.760 to funnel money

00:37:17.840 into this Ontario

00:37:19.540 Volkswagen-owned,

00:37:20.960 so foreign-owned plant,

00:37:22.100 to make batteries

00:37:23.220 for electric vehicles.

00:37:24.160 and they haven't

00:37:25.440 even moved

00:37:25.960 a shovel yet.

00:37:27.440 And they've blown

00:37:28.300 their own budget

00:37:29.060 by billions.

00:37:30.340 It's up to

00:37:30.860 $16.3 billion

00:37:32.440 from $13.9 billion.

00:37:33.820 This is only a few months

00:37:34.940 and they haven't

00:37:35.960 done anything yet.

00:37:37.740 What's this going to cost

00:37:39.160 by the time

00:37:39.720 we're done with it?

00:37:40.440 But who's holding

00:37:41.160 them accountable?

00:37:42.700 It's like Jay said,

00:37:44.020 media isn't.

00:37:45.160 They don't want

00:37:45.560 to stir everything up

00:37:46.240 because so many of them

00:37:47.100 are so dependent

00:37:48.000 on the subsidies as well.

00:37:49.560 They don't want

00:37:50.020 to rock the apple cart.

00:37:51.860 That's how they're

00:37:52.200 paying their bills.

00:37:52.920 And they're all

00:37:54.260 running in circles

00:37:54.980 in Parliament

00:37:55.560 between Polly Ev

00:37:56.600 and the Bloc 0.80

00:37:57.340 and Jagmeet Singh

00:37:58.520 trying to get

00:38:00.360 this inquiry going

00:38:01.280 or maybe not

00:38:01.940 trying to get

00:38:02.300 the inquiry going.

00:38:03.320 Meanwhile,

00:38:04.480 this, as Dave said,

00:38:05.620 budding boondoggle

00:38:06.620 is sliding under the radar.

00:38:08.720 This should be

00:38:09.340 making bigger headlines.

00:38:11.000 I want to give a shout-out

00:38:11.920 to Blacklock's reporter

00:38:12.820 because they have the guys

00:38:13.460 who keep digging

00:38:13.920 these things out too.

00:38:14.940 And actually,

00:38:15.200 it was the Taxpayers

00:38:15.760 Federation also got in

00:38:16.980 on that one.

00:38:17.620 There's some people

00:38:18.300 holding government

00:38:18.820 to account,

00:38:19.500 but it's not legacy media

00:38:20.880 and it's not

00:38:21.740 our elected opposition members.

00:38:22.920 So if they aren't,

00:38:23.720 who the hell is?

00:38:25.580 And how bad

00:38:26.680 is it going to get?

00:38:27.460 I mean,

00:38:27.660 this is a government

00:38:28.280 that's on the rocks.

00:38:29.100 This is a government

00:38:29.680 that's a mess.

00:38:32.080 This is, you know,

00:38:32.680 another one here

00:38:33.120 from Bill Blair's staff.

00:38:36.700 Yeah,

00:38:36.940 saying that he wasn't

00:38:37.840 given a memo

00:38:38.840 on Beijing

00:38:39.380 targeting things.

00:38:40.800 Melanie Jolie,

00:38:41.660 you know,

00:38:42.960 yeah,

00:38:44.140 a lot of people

00:38:44.600 speculate as to why

00:38:45.460 she's in such a

00:38:46.680 position of power.

00:38:47.660 She's a federal minister,

00:38:48.980 but apparently

00:38:50.280 she showed up 1.00

00:38:50.820 at a party.

00:38:52.080 It was a scandal

00:38:53.120 because there was

00:38:54.320 a senior official

00:38:55.320 with the Russians

00:38:55.820 who showed up

00:38:56.300 and she didn't.

00:38:57.540 Her staff again said,

00:38:58.760 she said,

00:38:59.240 they didn't tell me,

00:38:59.780 I didn't know.

00:39:01.280 Well,

00:39:01.420 these are cabinet ministers.

00:39:03.080 These are some of the most

00:39:04.040 theoretically powerful

00:39:05.440 people in the country

00:39:06.440 and they never seem

00:39:07.520 to know what's going

00:39:08.040 on under their feet.

00:39:08.760 It's always their staff

00:39:09.440 apparently just running

00:39:10.160 around rampant

00:39:10.800 and no,

00:39:12.360 they're just lying.

00:39:13.600 They're lying.

00:39:14.780 But,

00:39:15.620 you know,

00:39:15.980 if it works,

00:39:17.760 you're going to keep

00:39:18.280 doing it,

00:39:18.880 I guess.

00:39:19.700 This is another one.

00:39:21.140 This is what really

00:39:22.400 gets to the nub

00:39:23.180 of a lot of things.

00:39:24.260 So,

00:39:25.260 all roads keep leading

00:39:26.460 back to the Trudeau Foundation

00:39:27.900 and people keep screaming,

00:39:30.580 you know,

00:39:30.800 again,

00:39:31.000 they get upset with me

00:39:31.720 on social media

00:39:32.240 when I point that out.

00:39:33.000 It's just because

00:39:33.640 it has the name of Trudeau

00:39:34.840 doesn't mean it has

00:39:35.780 anything to do

00:39:36.180 with the family.

00:39:36.700 Oh,

00:39:36.940 spare me.

00:39:38.200 Spare me.

00:39:39.660 Justin's brother

00:39:40.300 was on the board.

00:39:42.400 Justin's half-sister.

00:39:44.340 Yes,

00:39:44.820 Pierre didn't

00:39:46.060 just have times

00:39:46.940 with Margaret.

00:39:48.040 Half-sister

00:39:48.620 was on the board.

00:39:50.680 Justin's brother,

00:39:51.500 though,

00:39:51.680 was part of what got

00:39:53.080 the donation

00:39:54.740 to the foundation

00:39:55.620 from the Chinese

00:39:56.480 Communist Party.

00:39:58.300 And we've got,

00:39:59.380 you know,

00:40:00.120 the CEO,

00:40:02.120 former CEO

00:40:02.880 of the Trudeau Foundation,

00:40:04.280 Morris Rosenberg.

00:40:05.900 He was running it

00:40:07.300 when they took

00:40:08.700 the 200,000.

00:40:09.520 Now,

00:40:09.720 he's also the guy

00:40:10.740 that the Trudeau

00:40:11.380 government appointed

00:40:12.100 to watch

00:40:12.620 and see if there's

00:40:13.300 any interference

00:40:13.940 in the 2019

00:40:15.940 and 2023 elections.

00:40:17.300 Yeah,

00:40:17.680 it's this inbred bunch.

00:40:20.060 These names

00:40:20.540 keep popping up.

00:40:21.460 And lo and behold,

00:40:22.380 Rosenberg didn't find

00:40:23.320 any interference

00:40:24.200 in those elections.

00:40:25.000 CSIS found interference

00:40:26.040 in those elections.

00:40:27.560 Rosenberg didn't,

00:40:28.500 though.

00:40:29.680 Strange,

00:40:30.240 isn't it?

00:40:31.580 Yet,

00:40:32.420 why?

00:40:32.960 Why is the Chinese 1.00

00:40:34.160 Communist Party

00:40:34.820 then obsessed

00:40:35.780 with giving money

00:40:36.820 to this foundation?

00:40:39.080 See,

00:40:39.300 it doesn't buy

00:40:39.740 any influence.

00:40:40.720 That's what Rosenberg

00:40:41.300 was so upset.

00:40:41.740 You can't buy

00:40:42.280 our influence

00:40:42.800 for only 200,000.

00:40:44.380 Well,

00:40:44.680 were you setting

00:40:45.020 the price,

00:40:45.500 Rosenberg?

00:40:46.000 Is that what you

00:40:46.560 were saying

00:40:46.960 with that statement

00:40:47.540 that you put out

00:40:48.000 the other day?

00:40:48.780 No,

00:40:49.120 I don't think

00:40:49.400 that's what you're

00:40:49.760 saying,

00:40:50.080 but maybe,

00:40:50.780 maybe if you have

00:40:51.220 a high enough price,

00:40:51.860 you'll admit,

00:40:52.200 okay,

00:40:52.440 you can buy

00:40:52.820 our love for that.

00:40:54.340 They thought

00:40:54.940 they could buy

00:40:55.420 your love with it

00:40:56.020 and it looks

00:40:58.420 like they almost

00:40:59.180 got away

00:40:59.760 with getting that

00:41:00.420 in without people

00:41:00.980 knowing it happened.

00:41:02.760 So,

00:41:03.220 yes,

00:41:05.220 we've got a lot

00:41:05.860 of questions

00:41:06.340 and then,

00:41:06.760 of course,

00:41:07.100 when we have

00:41:07.500 David Johnston,

00:41:08.740 why was it

00:41:09.520 right from the start

00:41:10.960 when he was appointed

00:41:11.600 at this baloney position

00:41:13.180 of special repertoire,

00:41:14.420 which is just a fabrication

00:41:15.680 on Trudeau's part,

00:41:17.340 why do people question

00:41:18.180 his objectivity?

00:41:19.200 Well,

00:41:19.360 because he was on the board

00:41:20.620 of the Trudeau Foundation

00:41:21.880 and then Johnston says,

00:41:23.740 it's outrageous

00:41:24.280 you're questioning

00:41:24.900 my credibility.

00:41:25.640 Here,

00:41:25.720 here's a couple

00:41:26.200 of big names

00:41:26.720 that'll vouch for me

00:41:27.800 and lo and behold,

00:41:28.500 those names were

00:41:29.040 on the Trudeau Foundation

00:41:29.940 as well.

00:41:31.400 Guys,

00:41:32.460 what do you get paid

00:41:33.500 to be on the board

00:41:34.580 of the foundation?

00:41:35.160 Seriously,

00:41:35.440 I don't know.

00:41:36.680 A lot of boards

00:41:37.680 are volunteer,

00:41:38.600 a lot of boards

00:41:39.040 just give a small honorarium,

00:41:40.360 but I got no idea.

00:41:41.740 We can't audit

00:41:42.360 that foundation.

00:41:43.660 That foundation

00:41:44.140 was given

00:41:44.640 125 million tax dollars

00:41:46.880 when Jean Chrétien

00:41:47.880 set it up.

00:41:48.900 Yeah,

00:41:49.400 it's charity.

00:41:50.740 And people can't find

00:41:52.100 a heck of a lot

00:41:52.560 of evidence

00:41:52.880 of what exactly

00:41:53.420 that charity does.

00:41:54.280 It gives

00:41:54.780 scholarships out

00:41:56.660 to certain kids

00:41:57.260 and a few things,

00:41:57.860 but there are

00:41:59.360 some rules with charities.

00:42:00.260 They have to put out

00:42:00.740 something like

00:42:01.100 four or five percent

00:42:02.020 of their capital

00:42:02.600 every year

00:42:03.300 in the charitable activity

00:42:05.180 they're supposed

00:42:05.640 to be running

00:42:06.140 or they could lose status.

00:42:08.220 And apparently

00:42:08.520 the Trudeau Foundation

00:42:09.280 hasn't met that bar

00:42:10.540 a number of times

00:42:11.280 over the years.

00:42:12.500 So where's all

00:42:12.960 the money going?

00:42:14.060 When you look

00:42:14.500 at that board of directors,

00:42:15.440 not just Trudeau's family

00:42:16.420 and friends

00:42:17.080 and neighbors

00:42:17.720 and former MPs

00:42:19.060 and holy cow, 1.00

00:42:20.080 it's a whole

00:42:20.500 liberal reunion

00:42:21.200 on the board there.

00:42:22.440 How much are those guys

00:42:23.380 drawing to be on the board?

00:42:25.820 Is it a foundation

00:42:26.720 or is it a money laundering scheme?

00:42:29.880 I don't know.

00:42:30.780 We need to investigate

00:42:31.860 these things.

00:42:33.080 It stinks. 0.97

00:42:34.100 It stinks to high heaven. 0.99

00:42:35.800 So don't get on my case 0.94

00:42:36.680 because I call it out.

00:42:38.640 If, you know,

00:42:40.880 to the liberals

00:42:41.700 who get so upset

00:42:42.440 with me online

00:42:43.100 when I point

00:42:43.660 these things out,

00:42:44.480 if it's all clean,

00:42:45.600 if it's all in the up and up,

00:42:46.520 then why are you abjectly terrified

00:42:49.220 wetting your pants 0.78

00:42:50.340 over the possibility

00:42:51.640 there would be

00:42:52.040 a full public inquiry?

00:42:53.420 Whereas Jay Hill,

00:42:54.340 I guess,

00:42:54.840 said with a full public inquiry,

00:42:56.380 then you start getting

00:42:57.320 a lot more power,

00:42:58.140 though.

00:42:58.280 You can start,

00:42:59.160 you know,

00:43:00.240 subpoenaing.

00:43:01.160 You can bring people in

00:43:02.280 and compel testimony.

00:43:03.500 You can compel documents.

00:43:06.020 Maybe that's how

00:43:06.520 we can dig in.

00:43:07.220 And if there's nothing there,

00:43:08.260 then the inquiry would say

00:43:09.060 there's nothing there.

00:43:10.240 Leave the foundation alone.

00:43:11.860 There's obviously

00:43:12.380 not a problem here.

00:43:14.800 But I think it's pretty clear

00:43:15.660 there's a problem there.

00:43:16.980 I mean,

00:43:17.540 as we were saying,

00:43:18.420 it looks like

00:43:18.920 Justin Trudeau's willing

00:43:20.040 to tear his own party

00:43:21.360 to the ground

00:43:22.320 rather than

00:43:24.100 have an inquiry,

00:43:27.500 you know,

00:43:28.020 let people know

00:43:28.720 what the heck

00:43:29.360 is going on out there.

00:43:30.480 We've got a foreign nation, 1.00

00:43:31.980 a state that is

00:43:32.620 not a friend of Canada's,

00:43:34.620 that's poking around

00:43:35.740 with our elections,

00:43:36.540 that's meddling directly

00:43:37.400 with our members of parliament

00:43:38.480 in opposition,

00:43:39.500 that's been shoring up

00:43:40.560 Chinese Communist Party

00:43:42.320 friendly politicians

00:43:43.520 in the Liberal Party.

00:43:45.540 And some others are saying,

00:43:46.520 well, you know,

00:43:47.320 there's probably

00:43:47.620 some conservatives

00:43:48.220 who might have

00:43:48.500 been compromised too.

00:43:49.620 Well, okay,

00:43:50.040 let's have an inquiry

00:43:50.980 and find out.

00:43:52.660 I don't care

00:43:53.540 which party is guilty.

00:43:55.520 I just want to find out

00:43:56.500 who.

00:43:58.360 But we can't seem

00:43:59.060 to find out yet.

00:44:00.980 Yeah, maddening.

00:44:02.820 But yes,

00:44:04.160 we'll carry on pushing

00:44:05.520 and ranting and raving

00:44:06.700 and going over

00:44:07.260 and doing what we can.

00:44:08.360 All right, let's do a check-in.

00:44:09.700 And this is on a big issue

00:44:11.380 right now.

00:44:12.520 And we'll check in

00:44:13.120 with Jim Buzicum

00:44:13.800 and see what's going on

00:44:16.060 out there

00:44:16.480 with marketplace commodities

00:44:17.880 because we've got

00:44:18.640 some real weather-related

00:44:20.620 challenges going on.

00:44:21.680 Hi, Jim.

00:44:22.260 How are you doing?

00:44:23.100 Hey, good, Corey.

00:44:23.960 Thanks.

00:44:24.860 We certainly do have

00:44:25.820 some big weather

00:44:27.660 challenges going on

00:44:28.640 and I think we're all

00:44:31.080 pretty aware of it

00:44:31.840 in Alberta.

00:44:34.180 You know, I'd say

00:44:35.360 roughly,

00:44:36.780 it looks like around

00:44:37.720 80% of the cropland,

00:44:40.140 so the productive land

00:44:42.300 in Alberta

00:44:43.620 would be under

00:44:44.860 moderate to severe drought.

00:44:47.380 And so this first

00:44:49.280 affects in the farming

00:44:52.340 community,

00:44:52.840 it affects those

00:44:53.400 that are

00:44:53.940 in the cow-calf

00:44:55.680 livestock feeding

00:44:57.120 where, you know,

00:44:58.700 where hay crops

00:44:59.700 aren't growing very well.

00:45:02.700 They're not getting

00:45:03.160 the moisture

00:45:03.580 and they're seeing

00:45:05.560 some, you know,

00:45:07.780 seeing some shortages

00:45:08.540 of hay.

00:45:09.560 I mean, maybe not today yet,

00:45:10.840 but that'll come up

00:45:11.560 in the coming weeks

00:45:12.920 and months.

00:45:14.260 And then furthermore,

00:45:15.640 all the areas

00:45:17.060 that are seeded

00:45:18.740 to the various crops

00:45:19.860 that we grow here,

00:45:20.680 they're also,

00:45:21.440 they're still

00:45:22.800 most of them

00:45:23.740 are still okay

00:45:24.320 right now,

00:45:24.980 but as this

00:45:26.000 drought intensifies

00:45:27.380 or if it does,

00:45:28.480 we're going to see

00:45:29.820 some yield reductions,

00:45:30.900 that's for sure.

00:45:32.500 So I guess,

00:45:34.600 you know,

00:45:35.140 part of your role

00:45:35.820 is how is this

00:45:36.540 going to affect markets?

00:45:37.680 Is it still,

00:45:38.540 I mean,

00:45:38.820 it's world commodities

00:45:39.920 though,

00:45:40.480 is it localized

00:45:41.280 enough in Western Canada

00:45:42.420 that it won't have

00:45:43.160 a larger impact

00:45:44.300 all around

00:45:44.760 or is this going

00:45:45.440 to change things

00:45:46.460 more dramatically?

00:45:48.100 Yeah,

00:45:48.260 it's going to affect

00:45:49.020 things on a local basis

00:45:50.300 here in Alberta,

00:45:52.860 mostly.

00:45:54.520 Saskatchewan

00:45:54.960 is actually

00:45:55.780 in quite good shape.

00:45:57.040 They've been getting

00:45:57.920 about normal precipitation.

00:46:00.680 Manitoba's on the dry side

00:46:01.980 and then to the south of us

00:46:03.260 trading in Montana.

00:46:06.100 Montana looks fine too.

00:46:07.280 So yeah,

00:46:08.480 in the scope

00:46:09.420 of world commodity markets,

00:46:11.200 it is still definitely

00:46:12.240 a localized problem.

00:46:13.960 Albeit,

00:46:14.700 if you're

00:46:15.660 right in the thick

00:46:17.060 of it here in Alberta,

00:46:18.240 it does affect you

00:46:19.180 at your farm

00:46:20.960 and it does affect you

00:46:23.280 most Albertans

00:46:24.180 to some extent.

00:46:25.220 I mean,

00:46:25.460 it's not just the farmers.

00:46:26.600 We've seen the fires

00:46:27.400 and all the other things

00:46:28.240 that have happened

00:46:28.900 as a result

00:46:30.260 of the dryness as well.

00:46:32.020 So markets

00:46:34.680 have been

00:46:35.900 steady.

00:46:37.280 I think it stopped

00:46:38.160 the market

00:46:38.560 from going down.

00:46:39.620 We were on a fairly

00:46:40.500 steady downtrend

00:46:42.560 from January

00:46:43.460 until I think

00:46:45.320 the end of May.

00:46:46.400 The last two weeks

00:46:47.600 we've seen

00:46:48.080 the markets

00:46:48.580 actually

00:46:49.240 recover

00:46:51.340 maybe just

00:46:52.880 several percent

00:46:53.900 on roughly

00:46:55.580 about $10,

00:46:56.340 $15 per ton.

00:46:58.260 Now,

00:46:58.700 there's not a lot

00:46:59.740 more upside to it

00:47:01.280 because the world markets

00:47:03.820 are just simply

00:47:05.040 lower than what

00:47:06.740 what our domestic

00:47:08.320 price is.

00:47:09.120 So in some aspects,

00:47:10.560 the drought conditions,

00:47:12.280 you could almost say

00:47:12.980 is priced into the market

00:47:14.000 already.

00:47:15.300 And I guess

00:47:16.340 this brings a risk

00:47:17.220 of just people

00:47:17.820 getting out of the market

00:47:18.840 altogether.

00:47:19.820 You know,

00:47:20.020 cattle producers

00:47:20.660 have been having

00:47:21.080 a rough go

00:47:21.560 for quite some time.

00:47:22.700 Things such as that

00:47:23.640 with feed,

00:47:24.900 which would lead

00:47:25.540 to a longer term

00:47:26.340 just to,

00:47:27.140 it's just bad

00:47:27.760 for consumers

00:47:28.220 and producers

00:47:28.660 altogether.

00:47:29.080 Yeah,

00:47:30.420 these things,

00:47:31.140 the long-term

00:47:31.620 effect on it

00:47:32.320 is if cattle

00:47:32.920 producers

00:47:33.400 are unable

00:47:35.040 to either

00:47:36.260 get feed

00:47:36.840 for their cattle

00:47:37.400 or it's really

00:47:38.020 expensive,

00:47:38.720 they're going

00:47:39.040 to call their

00:47:39.680 herds

00:47:40.060 and reduce

00:47:41.120 their herd

00:47:41.520 sizes

00:47:41.960 and we're going

00:47:42.440 to feed

00:47:42.720 less cattle

00:47:43.300 and ultimately

00:47:44.740 it's going to

00:47:45.400 mean already

00:47:47.000 a very expensive

00:47:47.800 product such as

00:47:48.540 beef getting

00:47:49.120 more expensive

00:47:49.840 and I think

00:47:51.240 we all know

00:47:51.660 how expensive

00:47:52.160 food is already.

00:47:53.020 This is not

00:47:53.560 this is not

00:47:54.600 helpful.

00:47:57.440 It may be

00:47:58.180 a local problem

00:47:58.820 today but it

00:47:59.420 does affect

00:47:59.840 the consumer

00:48:00.300 somewhere down

00:48:00.800 the road.

00:48:02.380 Absolutely.

00:48:03.040 Well,

00:48:03.260 it's a long game

00:48:04.280 and I guess

00:48:04.640 we can hope

00:48:05.220 for the weather

00:48:05.960 to turn

00:48:06.420 and you know

00:48:07.440 other seasons

00:48:08.040 and this season

00:48:09.100 perhaps to improve

00:48:09.880 a little bit yet.

00:48:11.000 Yeah,

00:48:11.500 it's for sure.

00:48:12.060 I mean,

00:48:12.200 we'll see what

00:48:12.820 comes out of it

00:48:13.860 and it's June

00:48:16.360 and things can change

00:48:17.340 yet so we'll

00:48:18.160 still,

00:48:19.620 we still can see

00:48:20.400 room for improvement

00:48:21.180 but right now

00:48:22.060 it's certainly

00:48:22.480 a large concern

00:48:23.360 and we hope

00:48:25.200 that the rains

00:48:25.740 come sooner than

00:48:26.340 later.

00:48:27.680 Great.

00:48:28.040 Well,

00:48:28.560 I thank you

00:48:29.040 for the update

00:48:29.580 even if it's

00:48:30.200 a little bleak

00:48:31.140 looking but I said

00:48:31.920 the world's not

00:48:32.420 ending yet.

00:48:32.920 It's just a little

00:48:33.520 distressing so

00:48:34.580 we'll keep an eye

00:48:36.280 on things and

00:48:36.800 then hope for the

00:48:37.220 best.

00:48:38.020 All right.

00:48:38.400 Take care.

00:48:38.860 Thanks,

00:48:39.080 Corey.

00:48:39.520 Thanks,

00:48:39.820 Jim.

00:48:40.400 Bye.

00:48:41.560 So yeah,

00:48:41.920 that was Jim

00:48:42.660 Buzicom of 0.95

00:48:43.320 Marketplace

00:48:44.100 Commodities.

00:48:44.700 Guys,

00:48:45.020 they're based

00:48:45.400 down in Lethbridge

00:48:46.520 and they have

00:48:47.420 offices throughout

00:48:48.280 the West

00:48:48.760 working in the

00:48:50.620 agricultural commodities

00:48:52.220 and as you see

00:48:52.940 it's like any

00:48:53.960 commodity

00:48:54.320 it's just a

00:48:55.220 difficult thing

00:48:55.780 to judge when

00:48:56.500 things are going

00:48:57.220 to be at their

00:48:58.320 best or at their

00:48:59.780 worst and there's

00:49:00.380 things that are

00:49:00.740 beyond your control

00:49:01.560 such as the

00:49:02.080 weather but we're

00:49:02.900 hoping for the best.

00:49:03.560 Like I said,

00:49:03.800 we've got some

00:49:04.180 rain today.

00:49:04.780 Maybe that's a

00:49:05.640 sign of the

00:49:06.520 breaking of that

00:49:07.900 cycle right now

00:49:08.940 because I mean our

00:49:09.560 producers are

00:49:10.220 suffering.

00:49:11.100 It's just not an

00:49:11.680 easy way to make

00:49:12.840 a living and we

00:49:13.440 don't need more

00:49:13.960 people getting out

00:49:14.700 of that field.

00:49:15.300 And as was

00:49:16.920 pointed out by

00:49:17.460 Jim as well,

00:49:17.940 hey, it will run

00:49:18.660 down to the

00:49:19.100 consumers as well

00:49:20.080 so what affects

00:49:21.380 them today is

00:49:22.440 going to affect

00:49:22.880 your plate at

00:49:23.840 home tomorrow.

00:49:25.160 Karen Mitchell

00:49:25.760 commenter saying

00:49:26.880 how can beef get

00:49:27.400 more expensive?

00:49:28.040 Who can afford

00:49:28.600 it now?

00:49:29.020 It's aging on the

00:49:29.580 shelves.

00:49:29.840 Yeah, it's pretty

00:49:30.740 tight.

00:49:31.400 You know, I think

00:49:32.420 I'd like to bring

00:49:33.480 somebody in down the

00:49:34.140 road to talk a bit

00:49:34.720 about that because

00:49:35.140 we've got some

00:49:35.940 issues I think also

00:49:36.660 with processing and

00:49:37.620 stuff to talk about

00:49:38.380 when it comes to

00:49:38.960 that.

00:49:39.240 There's a number of

00:49:39.940 issues but beef

00:49:41.700 certainly is a luxury

00:49:43.280 these days, you

00:49:44.200 know, to go out

00:49:44.720 and buy a good

00:49:45.580 steak and I've

00:49:47.100 gotten better at

00:49:47.700 the art of

00:49:48.260 tenderizing tougher

00:49:49.300 cuts and things

00:49:50.340 like that at home

00:49:51.040 if I want things

00:49:51.780 or it's just going

00:49:52.440 to be a treat if

00:49:53.060 I'm going to get

00:49:53.440 a nice ribeye.

00:49:54.860 And when we're

00:49:55.140 living in an area

00:49:55.660 with so many cattle

00:49:56.280 producers, it's

00:49:57.040 frustrating.

00:49:58.420 But again, if it's

00:49:59.320 costing more to feed,

00:50:00.380 that's just the way

00:50:01.060 it goes.

00:50:01.660 I mean, it has to

00:50:02.320 come down to the

00:50:02.880 consumer eventually.

00:50:04.700 So, yeah, I just

00:50:06.120 hope for the best.

00:50:08.480 I guess I'll finish

00:50:09.880 up and talk about,

00:50:10.640 yeah, something Dave

00:50:11.300 mentioned that was

00:50:11.900 interesting on the

00:50:13.280 front of masochistic

00:50:14.360 business ownership.

00:50:15.260 I used to own, you

00:50:16.240 know, the pub down

00:50:17.180 there in Prentice and

00:50:18.000 I've talked about that

00:50:18.740 before and I've written

00:50:19.700 about it.

00:50:20.680 I sold it to the new

00:50:22.500 owners are making a go

00:50:23.480 and it's just, boy, it's

00:50:24.960 a tough business.

00:50:25.660 Narrow margin, a lot

00:50:27.620 of work, not a heck of

00:50:28.400 a lot of money.

00:50:29.060 There was a picture

00:50:29.720 Daniel Smith put out,

00:50:30.760 Premier Smith, in that

00:50:32.780 rail car diner down in

00:50:34.400 High River.

00:50:35.180 She was working in the

00:50:36.040 dish pit, putting in

00:50:37.800 some time washing

00:50:38.500 dishes there.

00:50:39.560 Some people thought it

00:50:40.200 was staged.

00:50:41.080 I don't know.

00:50:42.800 You know, everything

00:50:43.280 when you're political is

00:50:44.180 certainly you put the

00:50:45.080 pictures out for the

00:50:46.120 sake of, you know,

00:50:47.000 political self-promotion

00:50:48.180 and things like that,

00:50:49.160 but I don't think it was

00:50:50.680 fully planned.

00:50:51.480 I think it was a matter

00:50:52.220 of you're home for the

00:50:52.860 weekend. 0.90

00:50:53.280 Oh, crap, something went 0.98

00:50:54.000 down. 0.99

00:50:54.260 It's the husband who's

00:50:54.840 running it.

00:50:55.460 Yeah, I'll go in and do

00:50:56.280 some dishes.

00:50:57.000 I mean, when I owned the

00:50:57.700 pub, I was in doing dishes

00:50:59.480 all the time.

00:50:59.980 I kind of liked it,

00:51:00.620 actually.

00:51:00.920 I felt a little relaxing

00:51:01.660 versus running around on

00:51:03.120 the floor and trying to

00:51:04.340 keep everything going.

00:51:05.020 But then the next

00:51:06.000 announcement is that it's

00:51:07.400 up for sale.

00:51:09.280 So, you know, I can see

00:51:12.320 why it's a tiring thing.

00:51:13.920 It's a very unique one

00:51:14.760 anyways.

00:51:15.560 If somebody's looking for

00:51:16.560 a different sort of

00:51:17.400 business, I'm not, by the

00:51:18.480 way, doing ads for

00:51:20.000 Premier Smith or anything

00:51:21.200 like that, but there's a

00:51:22.680 neat rail car diner

00:51:24.360 restaurant business for

00:51:26.740 sale down in High River

00:51:27.720 if you're interested in

00:51:28.500 that sort of course in

00:51:29.360 life.

00:51:29.900 As I've said before, I

00:51:31.140 wouldn't run another pub

00:51:32.180 or restaurant again if it

00:51:33.160 was for free.

00:51:33.900 But there's other people

00:51:35.060 have the dream and, hey,

00:51:35.940 good on you, go for it

00:51:37.300 and wish you the best.

00:51:39.240 Either way, it's a little

00:51:40.140 lighter.

00:51:40.800 It's a little different to

00:51:41.400 see a Premier, you know,

00:51:42.740 up to their elbows doing

00:51:43.900 dishes and things like

00:51:44.960 that.

00:51:46.020 And, you know, Paradox

00:51:47.120 is saying it's good that

00:51:47.840 she posts that.

00:51:48.540 It shows she's a regular

00:51:49.460 person, not a Sky Palace

00:51:51.480 shot.

00:51:51.940 Yeah, you know, it's

00:51:52.780 she's still connected on

00:51:54.900 the ground with people

00:51:55.900 and hopefully maintains

00:51:57.120 that.

00:51:57.300 I think when they're in

00:51:57.800 too long, they all lose

00:51:58.640 touch with that eventually.

00:51:59.600 But for now, she's still

00:52:01.360 still a person who has an

00:52:03.620 idea how work needs to

00:52:04.880 get done.

00:52:05.200 All right, guys, that

00:52:06.680 was a packed show.

00:52:07.680 It was great having

00:52:08.180 Jay in.

00:52:08.640 It was great seeing all

00:52:09.380 you guys tuning in today.

00:52:11.640 I appreciate it.

00:52:13.140 I got to move along here.

00:52:15.340 So thank you all for

00:52:16.500 coming on.

00:52:17.040 I will be back again with

00:52:18.380 a whole bunch more stuff

00:52:19.340 to rant and rave about

00:52:20.400 next week at this time.

00:52:21.540 Here's an update on commodity

00:52:25.200 prices in Lethbridge for

00:52:26.120 today.

00:52:27.220 Cash barley is steady at $4.12,

00:52:29.360 feed wheat is up $3 at $4.13,

00:52:32.140 and corn is unchanged at $4.08

00:52:33.560 per metric tonne.

00:52:34.940 In the milling wheat markets,

00:52:36.240 July Minneapolis futures are

00:52:37.380 higher at $2.5 at $8.12 per

00:52:39.560 bushel, with local hardwood

00:52:41.360 spring bid for June movement

00:52:42.580 at $10.45.

00:52:44.460 Looking at canola, nearby

00:52:46.180 futures slip $2.30 at $6.97 per

00:52:49.620 tonne, with delivered values

00:52:51.040 for June movement at $16.03

00:52:52.780 per bushel.

00:52:53.860 In the pulse markets, nearby

00:52:55.360 red lentil prices are higher

00:52:56.560 at $0.50 at $0.33.5 per

00:52:59.060 pound, and yellow peas remain

00:53:01.000 at $11.25 per bushel.

00:53:03.000 In the cattle markets,

00:53:04.400 August live cattle drop $2.77.5

00:53:06.860 at $1.71.15 per hundred

00:53:09.340 weight.

00:53:10.300 For more information on

00:53:11.260 pricing or picked up options,

00:53:13.040 give me a call at

00:53:13.780 403-394-1711.

00:53:17.220 I'm Matt Musicum at

00:53:18.180 Marketplace Commodities.

00:53:19.740 Accurate, real-time marketing

00:53:21.040 information and pricing

00:53:22.000 options.

00:53:22.600 Canadian Shooting Sports

00:53:24.380 Association.

00:53:25.340 Without the CSSA,

00:53:26.680 our gun rights would have

00:53:27.440 been taken long, long ago.

00:53:29.940 These guys are on the front

00:53:30.880 lines, helping to draft

00:53:32.540 smart and intelligent

00:53:34.040 firearms, regulations and

00:53:36.120 legislation in Canada,

00:53:37.460 and more importantly,

00:53:38.680 educating the public.

00:53:39.600 about how we keep guns out

00:53:41.380 of the hands of the wrong

00:53:42.320 people who become a

00:53:43.460 member.

00:53:43.820 It's absolutely worth

00:53:44.980 every penny.

00:53:45.680 man 설edá polem con

00:53:46.220 and more importantly.

00:53:47.920 Let's go.

00:53:49.520 I'll see you next time.

00:53:50.600 Bye.

00:53:50.800 Bye.

00:53:57.800 Bye.

00:53:58.520 Bye.

00:54:01.280 Bye.

00:54:01.460 Bye.

00:54:01.980 Bye.

00:54:02.580 Bye.

00:54:02.820 Bye.

00:54:13.500 Bye.

00:54:13.560 Bye.

00:54:14.160 Bye.

00:54:14.480 Bye.

00:54:15.100 Bye.

00:54:15.300 Thank you.

Western Standard - June 14, 2023

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