In this episode of The Cory Morgan Show, host Cory Morgan talks about the latest developments in the election, including the latest poll numbers, and what it means for Trudeau's chances of re-election. He also takes a look at some of the more controversial questions posed to him by the media, including if he regrets calling the election.
00:00:00.000Hey, welcome to The Cory Morgan Show, second one of this ongoing general election, which began
00:00:13.720as election about nothing and now seems to be turning into quite the race. We've got some great
00:00:19.880developments or bad developments, depending on what side of the spectrum you sit on. Things
00:00:23.880have been changing. The locked victory for the Liberals clearly isn't nearly as locked as they'd
00:00:29.900hoped it would be when they dropped the rip there. I'll be speaking to guests a little later on,
00:00:35.540Michelle Sterling from the Friends of Science. We'll talk a little bit about climate change,
00:00:40.360electric vehicles, the great transition, all of those trendy things. It hasn't really been coming
00:00:44.820up a lot in this election yet, though. I mean, those are a lot of Trudeau's core issues and
00:00:49.620principles. So I suspect they're going to be coming up a little later on. So we get some of that
00:00:53.060groundwork done and then talk about what's happening with those sorts of things. Speaking for ourselves
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00:02:17.400right now. And when BS from the mainstream media, unfortunately tends to dominate and we end up
00:02:21.940voting in and reelecting bad politicians. So starting with that, let's talk about bad politicians.
00:02:28.400They always give us lots to work with. So as I said, we've seen a dramatic shift in the polls.
00:02:33.380The liberals looked like they were coming into this with a comfortable lead. Somehow in the first week
00:02:37.900of the campaign, everything's already fallen apart for the liberals. It's gone to hell. You can see the
00:02:42.040tension in them. I mean, Justin there was, was stammering more than usual and getting quite grumpy
00:02:46.840when the lines of questioning were coming at the conferences. You gotta remember, Justin's an actor.
00:02:52.740If he's got a script, he can pull it off. He can talk about things. He has to have though a solid
00:02:58.240script. Somebody brighter than him has to be able to write it for him. If he can't read it, if he can't
00:03:03.060memorize it and spit it back out, he's in trouble. When he has to think on his feet, well, I mean, his
00:03:08.600shoes are usually on the wrong feet. So you understand where that goes. And he's been stuck at these
00:03:12.680conferences. There's been killers going after him. Uh, he's been getting nervous. He's been
00:03:16.840getting agitated. Uh, the media asked him a little while back, you know, if he regretted calling the
00:03:21.200election, uh, just before the, the, the Afghan pullout and disaster that's happening over in
00:03:26.900Afghanistan happened. And he didn't even answer the question. He treated it like question period.
00:03:31.200Again, he seemed kind of grouchy and he just went on rambling about other things and then attacked
00:03:35.820Aaron O'Toole. That's fine, but you better come up with an answer for it. Um, to be honest, I mean,
00:03:41.940I thought that would have been a relatively easy one. That's one of the few things I almost don't
00:03:45.500blame him for, at least with the timing and you don't see those things necessarily coming. You
00:03:48.920know, when you call an election, you can't be held responsible for the issues that broke during it.
00:03:52.240That's just the chances you take when you called it. But again, prime minister Trudeau, he can't
00:03:57.040think up answers on his own. So obviously that wasn't in his morning briefing. They didn't give him
00:04:00.860a canned stock answer to do. So he got flustered and looked all the more foolish. Then you see
00:04:06.500deputy prime minister, Christia Freeland, one of the ones he's usually considered one of the
00:04:10.000brighter ones in Justin's cabinet. I mean, Seamus O'Regan should certainly wasn't or Catherine
00:04:14.120McKenna, but you did have Freeland who seemed to be reasonably competent, puts out a grossly doctored
00:04:20.440video of Aaron O'Toole talking about, uh, possibilities for private public mixed provision of
00:04:26.720healthcare. I mean, it was blatant, blatant to the point that Twitter actually flagged it
00:04:32.000as misleading media. And rather than, you know, back off rather than admit a mistake, rather than
00:04:39.920just delete the thing and let this go, they doubled down. Trudeau retweets it. Trudeau goes
00:04:44.380on about it with this, this BS doctored video saying it's proof that Aaron O'Toole wants to
00:04:50.300privatize healthcare. Trudeau, you've just been caught essentially, or at least that the video
00:04:54.820was a lie the way it's been doctored. And instead of just backing out of the bloody thing, you double
00:04:59.940down on the lie. People could see the proof. Otherwise the whole two minute video was there.
00:05:03.500They could see what you guys did to him. You look like an idiot. Well, that's nothing new,
00:05:08.840but you're looking more like one and certainly easy to prove. So carry on. It was it Napoleon who
00:05:14.220said, you know, I'm not sure now, or maybe it was Machiavelli or something from the art of war,
00:05:18.580but something like when the enemy is busy destroying themselves, don't get in their way.
00:05:21.680Just let the give them rope, carry on. And that would be a wise strategy on the parts of the
00:05:26.160conservatives right now who have to be pretty happy. I mean, they were coming into this
00:05:29.420pretty dejected thinking they might be running into just at best, you know, maintaining a minority
00:05:34.780liberal government. They might actually be looking at forming a government, if only a minority one
00:05:39.900soon, a conservative one. But how are they getting there? And that's where I'm starting to get
00:05:43.980concerned. I mean, what remnants of conservative policy are there left? Some of the stuff coming
00:05:49.200out of O'Toole has been shocking. One that really got me was when he's talking about mandating
00:05:54.880labor presence on the boards of private corporations, mandating employees have to be
00:06:02.260sitting on the board of directors of a private corporation. Who the hell do you think you are?
00:06:07.620That's a private corporation. And I know you were talking about federally regulated ones,
00:06:10.720but it doesn't matter. You know, it's bad enough to try and outspend each other like mad,
00:06:14.700which you guys are doing. But this is a case of you going into the boardrooms of private
00:06:19.700corporations and telling them how to run their business. That is not a conservative policy.
00:06:25.620Even Jagmeet Singh didn't call for that. Of course, he'd want to make them all crown
00:06:29.520corporations. I guess you just want to do it by increments, Mr. O'Toole. This is not cool. This is
00:06:35.020not a good way to go. This is how you shake investment away from our country. That's already,
00:06:39.720when we're looking at Alberta, an investment pariah because we have a hostile federal government.
00:06:43.240And you want to insert the federal government into the boardrooms of private
00:06:47.380corporations through regulation and force them to have a labor component on their board. I mean,
00:06:52.580some people are saying, Oh, it's a great idea. You should have it. You should get that. Well,
00:06:54.940then let them decide it. It's their corporation. Let the shareholders decide it. If labor really wants
00:06:59.820to control corporations, it's pretty easy. Buy shares, form your own. Why have your cooperatives
00:07:06.080not taken everything over? I mean, boy, labor, you guys know how to run everything better than CEOs.
00:07:11.040Why have you never managed to do it though? Either way, that's the roto tools been going down
00:07:15.920and it's disturbing. He's talking about massive money to build housing for people. Is that even
00:07:21.360a federal jurisdiction thing? I mean, we do have some problems with housing. We could do some policy
00:07:25.100tweaks. We can examine foreign ownership, but how many dollars do we want to put in
00:07:29.180to build or buy houses for other people? The rest of us had to work our asses off for a down payment.
00:07:34.540That's the way it works. That's reduces the defaults on loans, but you want to bypass that again.
00:07:40.500You're just throwing out the shallow promises and promises and promises that we can't afford right now.
00:07:44.180Again, I understand you can't come off as a hard, cold conservative in this time of crisis
00:07:50.260on every level, but you've got to at least retain a little bit of difference from the liberals,
00:07:55.020at least stay a little to the right of them. And I'm not seeing a lot of evidence of that.
00:07:59.200Another area was the CBC. You backed off on that fast enough, O'Toole.
00:08:03.640You were in your leadership, if I recall, promising to actually defund the CBC. You backtracked on that.
00:08:11.220No, now you're going to strike a committee on it. That's another double speak way of saying you're
00:08:14.620not going to do a damn thing about it. So you got scared of the state broadcaster.
00:08:17.520And you know what, O'Toole? They're still not going to like you. They're still not going to be
00:08:21.240nice to you. They're the CBC. I mean, you're just trying to appease a bloated government tagger
00:08:29.200that's still going to eat you. So don't. You should have stuck to your original promise.
00:08:34.000You're not going to gain good press out of this. At least, you know, he did speak about getting rid
00:08:38.180of the subsidies that are going to the other press in the private market. That's a good move in the
00:08:42.340right direction. But I mean, again, strategically, okay, so you've appeased the CBC who still hates
00:08:47.020you. And now you're ticking off the rest of the media who never wear all that warranty with you
00:08:51.880to begin with, but are probably going to be worse. Either way, it is only about a quarter of the way
00:08:57.380through the federal election campaign. If we can see it swing this much in the first quarter,
00:09:01.700it could swing dramatically in any number of ways in the next three quarters coming up.
00:09:05.860But I mean, momentum is everything. And Trudeau has already lost a quarter of this thing.
00:09:10.160It's hard to come back. It's interesting to watch this. You know, three weeks ago,
00:09:13.960none of us would have imagined that O'Toole looked like he might be poised to become the
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00:11:43.860the Friends of Science. You've probably seen her on social media. She's been managing that group for quite
00:11:48.540some time. They put out a lot of good papers, studies that are at least contrary to the
00:11:54.200talking points, the general lines on things like climate change and carbon taxes and things such
00:12:01.080as that. We haven't been hearing a lot in the election about the climate change yet, but we
00:12:05.160know we're going to. So I had a really good chat with Michelle about that and tune in and see what
00:12:11.360she has to say. Okay. Well, thanks for joining me today, Michelle. It's good to see you again.
00:12:16.600And it's always easy to find lots to talk about. Of course, while you specialize in a few things with
00:12:23.520Friends of Science and something that leading up to the election has been a really big issue is
00:12:27.920climate change, environment, things like that. I would have thought that the Liberals would have
00:12:32.200come right out of the gates and dove into that issue. We've been hearing a little bit, but it hasn't
00:12:36.680been top of mind yet. Why do you think they're putting it off? Well, it may be because the most
00:12:42.120recent IPCC report that the media reported as code red and catastrophe, which was coming from
00:12:49.560Guterres press release and not from the report itself. But the new report, according to Roger
00:12:55.040PLK Jr. is very optimistic because they've abandoned what's known as RCP 8.5, which was the most catastrophic
00:13:03.840scenario, and said that that's least likely now. So actually, the climate emergency is over,
00:13:10.880and we do have time. So, you know, it's going to be hard for the Liberals to square that with all of
00:13:17.760their climate catastrophe thinking. And also, I should mention just before the election was called,
00:13:25.040we had sent an open letter to a number of people on Jonathan Wilkinson's call for an adult debate on
00:13:31.520environment and climate. And we think that that would be an excellent idea. So we have,
00:13:36.960he inadvertently made that statement, probably inadvertently when he was critiquing the conservative
00:13:44.800party's climate plan. But in fact, let's have that open debate.
00:13:50.960Well, it is refreshing to say that we even admit it's a bit debatable, perhaps. I mean,
00:13:56.560they've always tried to say it's case closed. The science settled. We can't even talk about it.
00:13:59.920We just got to move on with measures. Right. And some of those measures,
00:14:04.400people should know that there's a group called the Climate Emergency Unit, which is part of the
00:14:08.880David Suzuki Foundation or Institute. And they're, my friend calls them the climate Taliban. But they're
00:14:16.400now demanding that, that since there's an alleged climate emergency, that in World War Two, the Canadian
00:14:25.280government created 28 crown corporations. And within two years, Canada increased aircraft manufacturing
00:14:31.60025 fold. So they think the same thing should be applied to the Green New Deal and the supposed just
00:14:40.720transition. Well, in fact, there's just no transition going on. Canada has maybe 3.5% of the energy
00:14:48.400generated from wind and solar. And the rest is from fossil fuels, hydro and nuclear. So, you know,
00:14:55.360we shouldn't take these people's advice, because they haven't done any due diligence, no cost benefit analysis,
00:15:01.200it's purely ideological. And, and in fact, the irony of this is that, indeed, during World War Two, the government did create a number of crown corporations. But immediately after,
00:15:14.000he said, I'm sure CD, how did everything he could to re privatize that and turn it back to free market. So, you know, it's actually for them, it's a bad example to use.
00:15:24.880Yeah. No, we don't need any more bloated crown corporations. They've rarely done us any favors.
00:15:29.600And that seems to be the trend of the day, though. I mean, governments can get away with a whole heck of a lot,
00:15:34.240as long as they can convince everybody it's an emergency, it's pressing, and they can bypass normal democratic means
00:15:40.160of change because it's just so critical that they have to do something right now.
00:15:43.600And we're certainly seeing that with the pandemic as well.
00:15:45.600Right. And you can see also that the climate activists are also the COVID activists. I mean,
00:15:51.200look at Dr. Joe Vipond, who's out there running around with his little climate button on
00:15:55.680and claiming we should all be locked down forever. You know, if you look deeper into this, you'll
00:16:00.720find that the Deutsche Bank out of Germany, if you can believe this, is calling for an eco
00:16:05.440dictatorship to force people to not use energy. And basically, that'll kill a lot of people,
00:16:13.280especially in Canada, you know, they're, they're pushing for no natural gas use in Canada. So,
00:16:20.400and electrifying everything that would cost trillions of dollars that we don't have,
00:16:25.280it would take decades, not 10 or 15 years as they propose. And in the process, many people would die.
00:16:32.720Yeah. Well, let's assume that perhaps that's the way to go. And we will actually get to a point
00:16:39.120where the whole world's on electricity, but realistically we're looking at 40, 50, 60 years
00:16:44.400before we could get to that point. But these crazy transition plans and things are saying,
00:16:48.480we should shut in our conventional energy right now and retrain people to blow in windmills or
00:16:54.320whatever they're supposed to do for their new jobs. They're really putting the cart before the horse.
00:16:58.880I mean, we've seen the consequences of that south of the border where Biden worked so hard and so
00:17:04.160fast to shut down domestic energy supplies. And now he's cap in hand, groveling to OPEC to try and get