Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Trudeau has destroyed Canada’s international reputation

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00:00:30.720 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. This is my weekly opportunity to bend your ear, tell you about the issues that are important, the issues that are breaking, or sometimes just the issues that are funny. And of course, lend my opinion and interpretation to all those news issues and items that are coming up. So thank you all for tuning in to join me for all of this this week. For those watching it live, make sure you use that comment scroll, guys, get in there, share your feedback, send questions my way, my guests' way.

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00:01:12.060 I've seen some great discussions in the comment thread and I've also seen some pretty harsh ones. You know, the internet and threads and anonymous discussions are the most special of things. My wife, Jane, she's been suffering from an illness for quite some time. And either way, it's a very serious thing. She's doing okay.

00:01:28.580 But there's an internet, you know, group on Facebook where they've been discussing support for each other. People are suffering from that same condition and, you know, lending help with each other. And apparently that group blew up with a whole bunch of infighting.

00:01:40.720 Even health groups where you're lending each other support, people still manage to get at each other's throats. It's pretty sad. Actually, social media is such a great tool, such a great means of communication.

00:01:50.740 But at the same time, we manage to sometimes turn it really negative. So let's, again, we can rant, we can complain, we can do a lot of things.

00:01:57.180 We just don't have to cross those barriers and rip at each other to the point of splitting apart and getting unforgivable. Though, of course, I am talking about splitting the country up quite often, but that's a separate issue altogether.

00:02:09.420 I'm going to start and get into a little why I get upset with this country. And it is through this eight years now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Yes, he's gone to India again.

00:02:19.500 He went to another summit. So after days of awkward moments, missed events, lost opportunities, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to India for the G20 summit mercifully came to an end.

00:02:32.160 Oh, except it didn't. To add insult to injury, the political gods decided to have Trudeau's plane breaking down to leave him stranded in India for two more days.

00:02:41.100 If years of Trudeau's inept diplomacy weren't enough to convince the world of Canada's irrelevance on the world stage, the nation's inability to get its own Prime Minister back to Canada drove the point home.

00:02:53.360 No, Trudeau isn't personally responsible for the upkeep of the airplanes when it crashed years ago, if that was the case.

00:02:58.460 But the confusion caused when the plane broke down showed how Canada just isn't a nation to be taken seriously anymore.

00:03:05.200 I mean, how many developed nations would find themselves utterly crippled for days, trying to find alternative transportation for their leader in the case of a malfunction on a plane?

00:03:15.900 Now, Justin Trudeau, he's long had a cold relationship with India's Prime Minister Modi.

00:03:21.540 He was snubbed by Modi during his catastrophic 2018 trip to India, where he made international headlines with his ridiculous dress-up games.

00:03:29.640 And he got a frosty reception from Modi during this latest trip.

00:03:32.800 And after much arm-bending, Trudeau did manage to get a 10-minute informal pull-aside meeting with Modi.

00:03:39.180 He then used that time to lecture Modi on foreign interference.

00:03:42.640 In other words, he wasted Modi's time on an issue that really isn't pressing to him right now.

00:03:47.700 For a reason yet to be disclosed, Canada just paused negotiations with India on trade negotiations,

00:03:53.000 giving India a figurative middle finger just days before a world summit they were hosting.

00:03:57.620 It didn't exactly warm the waters before Trudeau's visit.

00:04:00.300 Modi had many extended and private meetings with leaders from other countries during the summit.

00:04:05.060 They discussed important trade and global affairs issues.

00:04:08.180 India is a huge and growing economy.

00:04:10.080 Nations are eager to develop relationships with that country.

00:04:13.320 Aside from Trudeau, that is, who seems to go out of his way to antagonize them.

00:04:17.720 Still, even if Trudeau didn't manage to make any progress with India on the trip,

00:04:22.420 he had some important interactions with the leaders of the other 20 nations at the summit, right?

00:04:26.260 Well, no. Aside from some photo ops with some other leaders, including an awkward one where it appears President Biden is chewing Justin out,

00:04:34.920 Trudeau doesn't appear to have had any formal meetings with other leaders while he was there.

00:04:39.340 The press, even the Canadian press, were curious, and they were pretty blunt when they asked Trudeau,

00:04:42.780 well, what did you accomplish during this summit?

00:04:45.900 Trudeau stammered and offered his usual word salad and said, gender inclusion.

00:04:50.640 Yeah, that's what he said.

00:04:53.120 I mean, while the gender pronoun issue is burning red hot among activists and left-leaning Canadian press outlets,

00:04:58.800 it doesn't even register on the list of items to be considered by serious world leaders.

00:05:04.180 World leaders don't take Justin Trudeau seriously, and by extension, they don't take Canada seriously.

00:05:09.620 Canada used to pride itself as a nation that punches above its weight on the international stage.

00:05:14.920 Past prime ministers performed diplomatic wonders at summits.

00:05:17.880 Our military was respected as a peacekeeper, and our resources, both human and natural, were high in demand.

00:05:24.260 In eight years, Justin Trudeau has wiped out all of that international goodwill on every front.

00:05:30.220 Trudeau can't leave the country without embarrassing himself, and of course us.

00:05:34.540 From being chided by the Australian prime minister when he tried to turn discussions to his socks,

00:05:40.020 to his awkward attempt at a three-way handshake in Washington,

00:05:43.300 to his improv karaoke party during Queen Elizabeth's funeral,

00:05:47.440 to his hot mic moment where he was caught tittering like a schoolboy and gossiping about then-President Trump,

00:05:53.420 Trudeau has consistently proven he doesn't have the depth of intellect or character to be a player on the world stage.

00:06:00.080 Who can forget Xi Jinping chewing out Trudeau on the floor of a conference just last spring?

00:06:04.000 Or other conferences such as a recent G7 one where Trudeau was literally standing on the outside looking in as leaders conferred.

00:06:12.140 Serious leaders won't dedicate time to Trudeau beyond quick poses for pictures,

00:06:15.720 and it shows as he's incapable of even lining up meetings with them now.

00:06:18.880 This is harming Canada, as we need international relationships to continue supplying our resources

00:06:23.940 in what is a competitive global environment.

00:06:26.360 Canada needs a leader with depth and gravitas in a world stage.

00:06:31.200 Whenever Justin Trudeau, whenever Trudeau's term as a prime minister comes to an end,

00:06:36.380 Canada's going to have a mountain of damage to repair.

00:06:38.660 I mean, the domestic economic mess created by Trudeau is going to take decades to undo.

00:06:43.080 But the international damage he's done to Canada's reputation might take generations to get over.

00:06:47.960 I'm sure you all remember, once upon a time,

00:06:49.520 people made a point of proudly displaying a Canadian flag on their backpacks or suitcases when traveling overseas.

00:06:54.540 Now they're more likely to kind of keep subdued about where they come from,

00:06:58.000 unless they find themselves having to answer embarrassing questions about

00:07:00.480 how this nation allowed itself to be governed by a fool for so long.

00:07:05.620 That's what's got me going today, guys.

00:07:07.340 And I'm sure, you know, many people feel the same.

00:07:09.360 Like, it's so important.

00:07:11.980 It's one of the prime roles of being a leader.

00:07:15.880 You might not be a great micromanager in policy.

00:07:18.140 You might have some other shortcomings.

00:07:20.440 You might not be great with managing your caucus,

00:07:21.900 but you've got to represent the country overseas positively.

00:07:26.500 He has never managed to do that.

00:07:28.560 And in fact, he set us back.

00:07:30.320 If he could part with Jolie long enough,

00:07:32.140 maybe he should just keep sending her to go over there and deal with foreign affairs. 0.55

00:07:36.580 I don't know how much longer he's going to hang in there.

00:07:39.320 I really don't.

00:07:40.820 But he doesn't seem to be prime to give up yet.

00:07:45.340 And this is a country that's getting crabby and crabby.

00:07:47.800 I mean, the liberals are swirling the toilet in the polls.

00:07:50.960 They are lowest they have ever been since becoming elected.

00:07:54.720 He needs something big to turn things around.

00:07:56.860 The cabinet shuffle didn't do it.

00:07:59.600 There's no policies looming that look like they're going to change his fortunes right now.

00:08:04.000 He's in London at a caucus retreat where even the state broadcaster has mentioned that caucus members are getting pretty nervous.

00:08:11.200 And they might, there's something, there's a difference between liberals and conservatives.

00:08:14.600 They might start speaking up and asking Justin Trudeau to try and account for himself or even perhaps step aside.

00:08:21.180 Now, conservatives, we never hesitate in asking our leaders to step aside.

00:08:24.960 In fact, we're often too eager to do so.

00:08:26.640 I think maybe finding somewhere in the middle between that blind, lemming-like following that liberals seem to do with their leaders and the prickly, ready-to-throw-our-leaders-under-the-bus attitude of conservatives and get good government.

00:08:41.480 Somewhere in the middle is the better way to go, I guess.

00:08:44.680 I mean, people always say that.

00:08:46.620 But there's some truth to it.

00:08:48.120 Either way, we'll see.

00:08:48.940 We'll see what comes out this weekend.

00:08:50.060 And, you know, he came bearing gifts.

00:08:52.300 He showed up in London, Ontario with an announcement of housing money for them, 60, 70 million, something like that.

00:09:01.240 But the bottom line was this was money that was actually already announced long ago.

00:09:05.720 He's just re-announcing it.

00:09:06.900 So, I mean, he can't even come up with new things to try and turn his fortunes around.

00:09:11.180 He just keeps rehashing old ones.

00:09:13.080 And I tell you, we've got a scary economic outlook ahead of us.

00:09:16.080 Something I tweeted recently, if you want to be in my area, other playgrounds besides doing these shows, is on Twitter, at Corey B. Morgan.

00:09:23.780 It's one of my favorite places.

00:09:24.960 Plus, you're going to find the shows there.

00:09:26.140 We can't get on Facebook, things like that.

00:09:28.340 But, you know, it was something that's looming.

00:09:31.720 And we aren't hearing enough about it.

00:09:32.760 I've heard some business groups and others talking about it.

00:09:34.760 But there's the CERBA loans.

00:09:36.300 Those are the loans given to small businesses.

00:09:38.920 And they were very generous ones during the COVID lockdowns, right?

00:09:41.960 Because, I mean, the businesses were crippled.

00:09:43.460 They were terribly harmed.

00:09:44.500 And these were loans that had no interest for a good period of time.

00:09:49.580 And actually, a large portion of them was forgivable if they were paid within a certain period of time.

00:09:54.620 And hundreds of thousands of businesses took advantage of those.

00:09:57.000 Very generous loans.

00:09:58.820 The problem is, and I know that they've extended the terms on them once.

00:10:03.220 By the end of this year, by the end of December, those loans, you're either going to have to be paid out in full or the forgivable portion is going to be added to it and the interest is going to start to be charged.

00:10:12.960 Now, I honestly don't know.

00:10:15.860 I mean, this is a credit on the government books.

00:10:18.360 It's not so easy just to say, well, let's just forgive the loans or extend the terms or carry on kicking the can down the road.

00:10:22.860 I understand why they aren't eager to do that.

00:10:24.860 But we've got a lot of businesses that are hanging by a thread right now.

00:10:28.700 And if they suddenly have that big debt on their books, they're suddenly paying the interest on it, you can bet a lot of them are going to say, you know what, that's it.

00:10:37.380 We've been treading water for three years, four years with all of the misery of the pandemic and other pressures and challenges.

00:10:43.880 We're going to pull the plug.

00:10:45.460 You know some of them are going to.

00:10:46.780 That's all we need at Christmastime is yet another economic blow in a country that's been blowing pretty hard for quite some time.

00:10:54.080 Those numbers coming out recently, I mean, our GDP per capita, we're embarrassingly lagging.

00:10:59.260 We sit at, I believe, 52,000 and it's dropping, dropping.

00:11:04.640 The United States, their GDP per capita, 71,000.

00:11:07.720 Think about that, just south of the border.

00:11:09.620 Now, I can go to Houston and buy a house for 300,000.

00:11:11.800 It's really nice.

00:11:13.360 Up here, you're lucky to get one for six, 700,000.

00:11:16.600 Yet you are going at it with a dramatically reduced income compared to the States.

00:11:20.220 Guys, we are in serious trouble in this country and I don't think enough people realize it.

00:11:24.340 So what's the government doing though?

00:11:25.540 What is our main leaders talking about?

00:11:29.320 Yeah, Tam, she showed her beatific face again on a news conference the other day, 0.98

00:11:35.560 talking about, oh, the COVID numbers are coming up.

00:11:37.900 They just won't let go on this thing.

00:11:39.660 Oh, dear people, be afraid.

00:11:41.140 Be worried.

00:11:41.860 And sure enough, she was masked right up as were the others sitting up there.

00:11:45.800 They were all spaced out from each other.

00:11:47.400 It looked like a conference from two, three years ago.

00:11:50.080 She was saying, yes, it's time to dust off the masks.

00:11:52.680 She's hinting the mandates are going to come back.

00:11:54.700 She's hinting the lockdowns are going to come back.

00:11:56.940 We can't afford it.

00:11:58.100 We haven't paid for the last mess.

00:12:00.680 We're not even close.

00:12:02.240 A lot of the elements of our economic disaster going on right now

00:12:05.860 is because of the whiplash effect of what we did to the economy in response to the COVID pandemic.

00:12:13.120 Yet here we go.

00:12:13.900 They're trotting out there.

00:12:14.740 Even just these announcements, even if they don't impose more mandates and lockdowns and passports

00:12:19.840 and all that kind of garbage, it chills the economy.

00:12:23.120 It scares people.

00:12:24.680 You're not going to invest.

00:12:25.860 You're going to tighten up.

00:12:27.620 We've got people who can't even get into houses right now.

00:12:30.500 And what's Trudeau doing?

00:12:32.080 You know what I mean?

00:12:32.440 Again, we keep talking about that.

00:12:33.600 He got a memo himself.

00:12:35.460 He knows that immigration is strongly pressuring the housing crisis right now.

00:12:42.160 It's not an anti-immigration thing.

00:12:44.080 It's a pro-math thing when we're saying, hold on, guys.

00:12:48.120 Tap the brakes.

00:12:48.900 Let's reevaluate.

00:12:50.060 People can't get into homes right now.

00:12:52.000 They can't afford to rent.

00:12:53.140 They can't afford to get in.

00:12:54.360 Your own secretary of the cabinet, Justin, told you immigration is exacerbating this

00:13:00.300 and the numbers don't balance.

00:13:01.640 We're building way, way less, fewer units than we will require to keep up with the immigration. 1.00

00:13:08.220 Now, we've got two options.

00:13:09.320 We either have to build hundreds of thousands of more units a year somehow.

00:13:14.560 How on earth do we do that?

00:13:15.960 Where are we going to find the labor, the materials, the time, the capital?

00:13:19.380 We can't do it that fast.

00:13:20.620 We do still need to buy them, but we can't do it that fast.

00:13:23.000 Something we can do fast, though, is reduce the demand.

00:13:25.660 And that means we have to take a serious look at immigration and how we got to cut it, 0.98

00:13:29.260 at least pause and reduce it.

00:13:31.520 Not to zero, no, of course not.

00:13:33.240 That's ridiculous.

00:13:34.580 But we've got to also realize how ridiculous it is to maintain the current levels.

00:13:39.980 So, yeah, we've got a scary outlook coming up ahead of us and a prime minister that just

00:13:46.060 seems outright oblivious.

00:13:48.040 I don't know what it's going to take for that guy to understand.

00:13:51.720 I mean, it was a big discussion I did have on social media because I still think, and

00:13:55.760 I'm throwing that prediction out there, hey, I could be wrong.

00:13:57.880 It wouldn't be the first time.

00:13:59.180 That's for sure.

00:14:00.380 But I think Trudeau's gone by the end of the year.

00:14:03.280 He just can't turn it around.

00:14:04.580 He's floundering.

00:14:05.280 He's stressed.

00:14:05.980 He's got his family issues going on.

00:14:08.120 He doesn't know how to turn this government around.

00:14:10.000 And I'm sure the knives are coming out from underneath him saying, that's it.

00:14:13.680 It's time to go.

00:14:14.600 But it's clear he's not signaling himself, though.

00:14:17.360 So I don't think he realizes it yet.

00:14:20.540 And maybe he'll hang on, kicking and screaming even longer.

00:14:24.260 Some people are saying, that's good.

00:14:25.400 That's good, because that's what's driving the liberal support into the toilet so that

00:14:29.260 they can be replaced.

00:14:29.940 Yeah, I know.

00:14:31.200 But think of the damage he could do if you give that clown two more years, even if he's

00:14:35.080 at 5% support.

00:14:36.060 As long as he's still holding government back by Singh, just think of how much worse it

00:14:39.820 will be with two more years of that dingbat in there. 0.89

00:14:42.080 I understand a new liberal leader might turn things around for that party somewhat, but we've

00:14:46.480 got to look at the sake of the nation, too, rather than just the sake of the CPC.

00:14:50.120 If Polyev's going to win, he'll have to win on his own merit, rather than just relying

00:14:54.680 on Trudeau being a complete incompetent, which is a good thing to rely on to win power.

00:14:59.500 But it's not a positive thing for the country.

00:15:02.620 But we'll watch and see.

00:15:04.560 I got a feeling it's going to be a pretty chilly caucus conference going on out there

00:15:10.480 in London right now.

00:15:11.320 All right, so moving on here, we're going to talk about a part of our economic issues

00:15:17.220 and economic problems, and that's with Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:15:23.120 One of our bigger issues is corporate welfare money being flushed down the toilet.

00:15:26.960 There's one that recently came up that is just kind of gross to even think about, and

00:15:32.480 it's not huge in the numbers, but it's still the principle of it really, really stinks.

00:15:37.340 So maybe I'll get Franco to explain that, and we'll talk a little bit more about corporate

00:15:41.940 welfare further after that.

00:15:43.200 How are you doing, Franco?

00:15:44.320 Hey, Corey.

00:15:45.080 Great to be with you.

00:15:45.840 I'm doing great.

00:15:46.940 Oh, good.

00:15:47.600 Good.

00:15:48.440 So, you know, we'd heard about this before.

00:15:52.120 There seems to be a push to make us eat bugs.

00:15:55.500 We're actually paying for this?

00:15:58.240 Oh, we sure are.

00:15:59.660 Taste the crunch, everyone, because we're all paying for some cricket corporate welfare,

00:16:04.300 courtesy of the federal government.

00:16:05.340 Now, you may have heard not too long ago that there was this big processing plant in London

00:16:10.860 subsidized to the tune of almost $9 million for this, like, cricket processing plant.

00:16:16.900 Well, now, the company says that only 10% of its crickets or its business is to use crickets

00:16:23.460 for human food.

00:16:24.420 However, we went through the government's own open data portal to look at some grants and

00:16:29.340 contributions, and we found that the federal government has spent more than $420,000 subsidizing

00:16:37.320 companies that directly turn crickets into human food.

00:16:41.900 So we are subsidizing corporations, presumably for-profit corporations, to take crickets and

00:16:49.460 to turn it into human food for your dining pleasure.

00:16:54.100 Isn't that something?

00:16:56.020 Well, and I know we're not a fan of corporate welfare in general, and I want to talk a little

00:16:59.560 bit more about some of the bigger issues once we move along.

00:17:01.960 But, you know, in any case, at least if they could point to some demand, if they could point

00:17:06.860 to a reason, like, I don't recall seeing people marching on the streets saying, please expand

00:17:10.940 our cricket production.

00:17:12.320 Please give me a bigger variety of bugs at the local supermarket.

00:17:16.140 What is the motivation for the government to pump our tax monies into this?

00:17:19.720 Yeah, no kidding, right?

00:17:21.700 Okay, so the company that's received the most amount of subsidies since 2018, I believe

00:17:26.460 they're pronounced N-A-A-K.

00:17:28.800 Anyways, they're producing these cricket energy bars for human consumption.

00:17:33.580 They're producing steaks, sausages, falafels.

00:17:36.240 Now, Corey, I thought falafels are made with chickpeas.

00:17:39.820 I guess they're making falafels with crickpeas.

00:17:43.100 Another company, Prairie Cricket Farms, you know, I was just Googling through their About

00:17:47.680 Me page, and let me tell you, you know, I haven't been the best boyfriend over the

00:17:51.260 years, not the best partner, but this guy was talking about starting his company from

00:17:56.120 his own basement, having his cricket farm initially from his own basement, and the first

00:18:00.600 thing that came to mind is, oh boy, I mean, this wife must be a saint. 1.00

00:18:04.220 Could you imagine starting your own cricket farm in your own basement?

00:18:08.880 But look, here's the thing, right?

00:18:10.000 If you want to eat crickets, fill your boots.

00:18:12.200 If you think that there's a market demand for cricket consumption, fill your boots.

00:18:16.580 I don't think we should be subsidizing with taxpayers money in the same way that we shouldn't

00:18:21.800 be subsidizing McDonald's or Harvey's or Arby's or pizza, pizza, or take your pick.

00:18:28.920 Corey, you can tell I'm Laurentian now because I'm saying pizza, pizza.

00:18:32.380 Yeah, I know.

00:18:33.040 It sounded foreign to me.

00:18:35.380 And it's getting to you.

00:18:36.460 I think you're due for a trip out west again.

00:18:39.440 Well, I couldn't agree more.

00:18:41.060 Well, let's get on to some of the bigger issues.

00:18:43.440 I mean, the principles remain the same, even with small subsidies, but all the way up to

00:18:47.420 the big ones.

00:18:47.860 We've got that monster, and I'm certain you saw at the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates

00:18:52.060 on the Volkswagen plants, and the apparent break-even date estimate has extended a little

00:18:59.440 bit from their original one.

00:19:01.320 Four times longer than what the government was leading on.

00:19:03.960 Four times, folks.

00:19:04.700 So, the federal government and the Ontario government, but it's mostly coming from the

00:19:09.220 federal government, is subsidizing two multinational corporations, Volkswagen and Stellantis, to

00:19:16.360 build some electric vehicle battery plants in southwestern Ontario.

00:19:20.240 The total cost of all of the subsidies to these two multinational corporations, $28 billion.

00:19:27.580 Now, when they were cutting the ribbons and holding the press conference to announce their

00:19:31.760 Volkswagen corporate welfare, you had politicians saying, oh, don't worry, folks, it'll all be

00:19:37.260 paid back.

00:19:38.360 Don't worry.

00:19:38.940 Within five years, the government will recoup the money.

00:19:41.940 Not so fast.

00:19:43.640 Surprise, surprise.

00:19:44.720 You've been sold a false bill of goods.

00:19:47.080 The Parliamentary Budget Officer's latest report from yesterday shows that the break-even is

00:19:53.900 20 years from now.

00:19:56.180 20 years from now.

00:19:57.260 And that's if it breaks even.

00:20:00.240 I mean, come on.

00:20:01.260 These things, that's being generous with the estimates and thinking that demand is going

00:20:05.980 to materialize for these batteries and a market and these companies are somehow going to do

00:20:10.000 well out of it.

00:20:10.700 I mean, they can't predict a couple of years ahead.

00:20:12.900 20 years, that's a pretty big stretch.

00:20:15.420 Okay, two things to that, right?

00:20:16.880 Corey, I think you nailed it right there.

00:20:19.300 If, if is the big question here.

00:20:21.300 Look, this federal government has never paid its bills on time.

00:20:24.640 Okay, so the government, even, even the guy, this federal government saying, don't worry,

00:20:28.960 we'll get enough revenue back in 20 years.

00:20:31.420 It's kind of like having that one uncle.

00:20:33.660 We all have that one uncle at Christmas dinner, trying to sell you his newest business plan

00:20:39.220 and saying, hey, don't worry, you'll get your money back in 20 years.

00:20:42.820 How about I just keep my own money?

00:20:44.280 Thank you very much.

00:20:45.440 But the second thing is break even in 20 years, break even in 20 years.

00:20:51.580 So we're going to get back to zero, maybe in 20 years.

00:20:56.240 You know, that doesn't sound like a good investment to me.

00:20:58.540 But, you know, I just thought of a third thing as well.

00:21:00.260 And to the broader point here, right?

00:21:02.080 I mean, 20 years, like, come on, I don't really buy it from this government.

00:21:06.240 I think we're going to break even if we could even say that somewhere between 20 years from now and never.

00:21:12.500 Yeah, I mean, again, it follows the same economic rule that you and I tend to follow.

00:21:18.460 If there's demand for it, somebody's just going to build it on their own and they will profit.

00:21:22.180 And good for them, carry on.

00:21:24.400 If it needs a subsidy this huge, that tells me there really is no demand for this product.

00:21:29.700 So I can't see it turning around.

00:21:31.940 Well, remember, they're using political incentives, the political calculation.

00:21:36.640 They're not using market calculation.

00:21:38.540 It's not their own money.

00:21:39.600 They don't have skin in the game.

00:21:41.260 What these politicians are trying to do is get reelected. 1.00

00:21:44.700 And now let me give you some proof points.

00:21:46.420 Where are these EV battery manufacturing plants going to be?

00:21:51.480 Southwest Ontario.

00:21:54.920 Battleground ridings.

00:21:56.400 Okay, so they're taking political incentives essentially to hand out almost $30 billion in corporate welfare.

00:22:05.480 Now, another proof point here is, well, where are the opposition parties?

00:22:09.240 Why aren't they speaking out?

00:22:10.740 Where are the new Democrats, right?

00:22:12.300 Where are the people saying, let's get the pitchforks and go after those greedy corporations?

00:22:16.980 Well, now it's crickets when it comes to this corporate welfare.

00:22:20.500 But not just the NDP, Corey.

00:22:22.440 Where are the conservatives, right?

00:22:24.280 Where are all the representatives out in Alberta speaking out against this, right?

00:22:28.560 You can barely even twin a pipeline that's already in existence without the company leaving in Canada.

00:22:36.220 But now the government is handing out corporate welfare to the tune of almost $30 billion to these companies.

00:22:41.540 And the conservatives are essentially crickets on the sideline as well, right?

00:22:45.120 Where is the party that is supposed to be looking out for the taxpayer?

00:22:48.700 At least like that's the perception that they like to lead on.

00:22:51.300 So remember, folks, this is not about economic calculation.

00:22:54.480 They're not thinking about the economic incentives.

00:22:56.600 They're just trying to get reelected.

00:22:58.260 And they're trying to buy votes with your money.

00:23:01.300 Well, I'm glad you brought that up.

00:23:02.740 That's what some people actually are debating online, comparing it with, well, look, we bought you a pipeline out west.

00:23:08.180 Look at the favors we did for the west.

00:23:10.460 It's a pipeline nobody asked them to buy.

00:23:12.820 They drove out the private investor that was going to do it in the first place.

00:23:16.020 But it also illustrates with the Trans Mountain expansion, when a government plans on something costing this much, it always ends up costing that much.

00:23:25.480 I mean, where's the Trans Mountain now?

00:23:26.580 It started at $4.5 billion to purchase, and they're getting up $30 billion, I think.

00:23:31.120 Oh, it's astronomical.

00:23:32.820 Okay.

00:23:33.100 And let's just talk about that, the east versus west, because I think this is a very important part of this discussion.

00:23:37.900 What?

00:23:38.240 They're just handing over buckets of cash to multinational corporations to set up shop in southwestern Ontario.

00:23:44.320 You know, you're hearing about all this other type of corporate welfare in Quebec as well.

00:23:47.660 And what do Albertans get?

00:23:49.220 What does the Prairie provinces get?

00:23:51.340 Well, you get a political system that chased away Kinder Morgan when it wanted to invest billions of its own dollars twinning a pipeline that's already in existence.

00:23:59.780 Well, you had the government reject the Northern Gateway pipeline.

00:24:03.300 You had the government move the regulatory goalposts on the Energy East pipeline.

00:24:07.280 Then you got a carbon tax.

00:24:08.540 Then you got a second carbon tax.

00:24:10.020 Then you got a no more pipelines law.

00:24:11.880 Then you got a discriminatory tanker ban.

00:24:14.180 And, oh, by the way, what happens when President Biden pulls the rug out of Keystone XL?

00:24:20.380 Crickets from the federal government.

00:24:24.060 It's bad news all around.

00:24:26.320 It's unfortunate that the regional games happen like they do, and the conservatives tend to be silent about it.

00:24:31.180 Just kind of piggyback, and I know it's coming as something unexpected, but it ties together.

00:24:36.620 One of the things, you know, some people are saying, oh, who cares what India thinks? 0.96

00:24:39.740 It doesn't matter if Trudeau has alienated them.

00:24:41.340 Well, the one province that relies on India as a customer the most in all of Canada is actually Saskatchewan.

00:24:48.280 And when Justin Trudeau is crushing trade deals that could have benefited Saskatchewan, again, we aren't hearing much.

00:24:54.800 Had it been a Quebec or an Ontario deal, I got a feeling we'd been hearing a heck of a lot more about it.

00:24:59.460 Well, look, let me tie in the taxpayer angle here.

00:25:02.720 What value are we getting from all these international trips that these bureaucrats and politicians are taking? 0.89

00:25:08.200 Seriously, right?

00:25:09.260 I mean, in the news, right?

00:25:10.100 You have the governor general spending almost $3 million on travel in one year alone.

00:25:15.920 And what value are we getting, right?

00:25:18.020 Well, what value are we getting for many of this, right?

00:25:19.780 The governor general and their entourage rack up almost $100,000 on fancy airplane food.

00:25:24.720 Well, that's nice for them.

00:25:25.800 We get the bill.

00:25:26.600 Or the governor general spends $71,000 on ice limos during a four-day trip to Iceland when the hotel was, what, an eight-minute walk away from the main conference center?

00:25:36.320 Well, that's nice for them.

00:25:37.760 What value are we getting?

00:25:39.060 We just get the bill.

00:25:39.840 So that's another, I think, concerning point here as well with all these international travel.

00:25:46.300 It's clear that they like staying in the fanciest hotels, taking the sweetest rides, and dining on the most fancy cuisine.

00:25:53.560 But it almost seems these days that all taxpayers are getting out of it.

00:25:56.420 It's just a big, fat bill.

00:25:57.380 Yeah, and it shows that disconnect.

00:26:00.300 It really does.

00:26:01.320 I was recently reading an article raising some alarms showing Toronto restaurants, their sales are really dropping.

00:26:06.200 People aren't going out to eat.

00:26:07.640 I don't think you need to be a star economist to realize.

00:26:10.380 The reason is because people can't afford to.

00:26:11.980 Going out is a luxury.

00:26:13.180 It's expensive.

00:26:14.920 Now you're at that point of going back to kind of how it used to be in the old days.

00:26:17.740 You only go out for special occasions or something, if you can at all.

00:26:21.060 Meanwhile, the governor general, $100,000 in airplane food.

00:26:24.840 I mean, they have no clue what common Canadians are suffering while they live in the lap of luxury.

00:26:30.000 They really don't.

00:26:31.200 No, they really don't, folks.

00:26:32.480 Believe me, when you hear about this bubble that is Ottawa, it really is a bubble.

00:26:36.220 And the reason is because they're living high on the hog, and you just are their favorite ATM.

00:26:41.120 You're their favorite piggy bank.

00:26:42.600 They give themselves pay raises every single year.

00:26:45.120 We've talked about this many times on this show before, Corey, but they've essentially just continued the gravy train,

00:26:50.200 continued the pay raises for themselves, continued the bonuses for the government employees.

00:26:54.240 So they truly are financially divorced from the reality facing most of your audience, Corey.

00:27:01.080 They truly are.

00:27:02.100 And when you get people who are financially divorced from the realities facing their constituents,

00:27:06.400 you get this type of governance that totally doesn't actually take into account the real struggles that people are facing.

00:27:13.080 So let's get back to how they pay for all their overseas junkets or subsidizing some businesses while draining others.

00:27:20.780 The carbon tax, that's still looming out there and still really pressuring Canadians today.

00:27:25.880 Oh, it sure is.

00:27:27.360 I mean, look, the carbon tax is costing the average family, the average family in Alberta, $710 this year, even after the rebates.

00:27:37.560 But it gets worse because on July 1 of this year, the federal government brought in a second carbon tax.

00:27:43.820 OK, now Trudeau is going to keep cranking up these carbon taxes until 2030.

00:27:49.840 By that time, the carbon taxes alone will cost 55 cents a liter of gas, will cost the average family in Alberta more than $3,000 annually, even after rebates by 2030.

00:28:03.500 So, you know, it's almost like there's just no give here.

00:28:07.740 People are struggling.

00:28:09.220 Mortgage payments through the roof.

00:28:10.920 The price of a hamburger meat is like the price of a good steak used to be, it seems like.

00:28:18.300 Right?

00:28:18.580 A jug of milk, a roast chicken.

00:28:20.680 Everything's going through the roof.

00:28:22.240 People are struggling.

00:28:23.020 And meanwhile, the government is doing the one thing or is failing to do the one thing that it could actually control to make life more affordable.

00:28:32.240 And that's end these carbon taxes.

00:28:33.640 Right?

00:28:33.800 Because the carbon tax makes gasoline more expensive.

00:28:36.240 It makes the natural gas more expensive.

00:28:37.920 It makes diesel more expensive.

00:28:39.060 And it makes everything that relies on diesel and natural gas more expensive as well, which is almost everything.

00:28:46.160 So as we kind of wrap up here, we know which taxes we'd like to see less of.

00:28:51.340 Now, there's that love affair with Keynesian economics where they feel, though, it would hurt the nation too much if we stopped spending public dollars and pumping them into the economy.

00:29:00.600 I don't think we fully agree with that.

00:29:02.320 So what areas, though, because the cuts have to come, where can we cut without causing too much damage?

00:29:08.040 Oh, oh, I mean, here's the thing.

00:29:10.400 Okay, a lot of...

00:29:11.500 I know you're going to pay an hour on that.

00:29:12.520 Okay, let me just be very brief.

00:29:14.940 I'll give overall and some brief things.

00:29:17.220 So first of all, it's actually only a modest amount of spending restraint would balance the budget essentially tomorrow.

00:29:24.040 All they would have to do is go back to the all-time high levels of spending before the pandemic in 2018, even adjusted upward for inflation and population growth, a balanced budget.

00:29:34.200 And nobody was claiming that Trudeau was austerity in 2018, right?

00:29:40.240 So it's actually very easy for any government who was even remotely caring about fiscal responsibility to balance the budget.

00:29:47.100 Now, specifics, we talked about some, right?

00:29:49.420 All the stuff at the top.

00:29:51.080 But then you really have to look at the bureaucracy.

00:29:53.360 98,000 extra bureaucrats hired since Trudeau took power.

00:29:56.600 1.3 billion dollars in bonuses since 2015.

00:30:00.580 800,000 pay raises for the government bureaucracy over the last three years.

00:30:05.160 The corporate welfare is obviously a big one, right?

00:30:07.140 28 billion dollars in total from the government of Ontario and the feds to Stellantis and Volkswagen.

00:30:12.780 Look, we don't need to be subsidizing other provinces forever through equalization.

00:30:17.680 Let's look at the official residences, the National Capital Commission.

00:30:21.220 They're incompetent.

00:30:22.060 They got to go.

00:30:23.120 Here's a good one.

00:30:24.180 Why does the official opposition leader get a taxpayer-funded mansion?

00:30:29.080 Why does someone who lose the election get a taxpayer-funded mansion?

00:30:32.720 That needs to be rethought of.

00:30:34.600 The CBC, right?

00:30:36.120 Over a billion dollars every single year.

00:30:38.220 I mean, I could go on and on and on.

00:30:40.280 And folks, if you are curious about this, we have published a 75-page budget submission detailing all the different cuts that this federal government could and should make.

00:30:50.080 Excellent.

00:30:50.520 I'm glad you segwayed that at the end because, yes, you guys do don't just point out the problems.

00:30:54.680 You point out some solutions, and I appreciate that.

00:30:57.120 So before I let you go, where can people find that document and other things that you guys are up to?

00:31:02.000 Well, everything's at taxpayer.com.

00:31:04.320 Check out our newsroom, all the good articles there.

00:31:06.200 Check out the petitions.

00:31:07.660 Yeah.

00:31:08.220 And, Corey, I just want to thank you so much for letting me come on your show today.

00:31:10.920 Oh, always happy to have you, Franco, even if most of the news is off and dire.

00:31:15.320 At least you're exposing those things that are important, and I really appreciate the work you guys do.

00:31:19.240 So I'll let you get back to digging through all those exciting documents, and I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

00:31:26.260 Take care, Corey.

00:31:27.580 All right.

00:31:27.840 Thanks.

00:31:28.640 So it was Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:31:31.520 As you heard, yeah, he always has many answers and many things to point out.

00:31:36.480 Well worth it.

00:31:37.100 Check them out, guys.

00:31:37.900 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:31:39.020 You should search them out.

00:31:40.000 It's a good group.

00:31:41.080 That's why I have them on that often.

00:31:43.160 And, yeah, it gets tough.

00:31:45.040 One of the things I like is, as Franco pointed out, is we can be pretty partisan.

00:31:48.280 And I see a commenter, Shirley Gervais, saying, it seems that the left wing, the right wing, they're all part of the same bird.

00:31:52.980 You know, when you're talking about different parties, that is a frustration.

00:31:55.780 It doesn't matter what side you are on with a party.

00:31:59.880 In fact, it's more important to hold your own party accountable than the other one.

00:32:03.680 You expect the worst of the other guys.

00:32:05.680 So don't let your guy get away with being silent on these things.

00:32:11.720 You've got to call them out.

00:32:12.880 You've got to call out your member of parliament, even if they're a conservative one, or MLA, if they're UCP or Saskatchewan party or whatever it is.

00:32:21.280 You can't let them slide into the lazy world of just spending your way out of your problems.

00:32:27.660 Because they'll all try.

00:32:28.680 They'll all try.

00:32:29.480 And you have to hold them accountable yourself.

00:32:33.420 It's hard.

00:32:35.000 Mike at Freedom Honey.

00:32:36.000 Always love seeing you guys.

00:32:36.940 Yeah, save the bees. 0.97

00:32:37.740 Don't eat the bugs.

00:32:38.360 Yeah, I'm still keeping my bees.

00:32:39.580 They're finishing their mite treatment.

00:32:42.200 And I'm not asking for subsidies for it.

00:32:44.200 I'll raise the bees on my own.

00:32:45.200 Just leave me alone, as will Mike at Freedom Honey.

00:32:47.380 Check those guys out, actually.

00:32:48.500 They do good work for veterans and things like that with beekeeping.

00:32:52.240 But yeah, these subsidy wars, this constant taking of money from one place and sticking it in another.

00:32:58.000 Look, guys, if you leave the market free, I know it sounds like I'm the ideologue, but there's truth to it.

00:33:02.540 It will migrate.

00:33:03.600 The capital will migrate.

00:33:04.800 The labor will migrate.

00:33:05.940 They'll go to where they're needed.

00:33:08.040 We will be more functional and healthy for it.

00:33:10.960 One of the things Franco hit quickly, you know, on was equalization.

00:33:14.920 You see, equalization, again, you know, it's supposed to be this thing of balancing the country so everybody has equal services.

00:33:20.260 I mean, we know it's a load of baloney.

00:33:21.800 It's regionally loaded.

00:33:23.380 It always benefits Quebec, no matter what, because they just keep giving them exemptions from the equalization formula.

00:33:30.200 But the conservatives won't speak up on that very loudly because they want to keep everybody happy across the country.

00:33:36.400 But how well has it been working?

00:33:37.800 I mean, many of the provinces, if it's going to be a hand up, well, they've been collecting for 50 years.

00:33:44.040 They still aren't up yet.

00:33:46.420 How long do you keep tossing money to the kids in the basement before you say that's enough?

00:33:50.920 You've got to get a job.

00:33:52.700 But you see, it creates that imbalance.

00:33:55.980 It actually hindered people from migrating to the money when you take the money and move it to the people, which is an inefficient way to do it.

00:34:03.900 I mean, we saw a lot of that when they were giving in the 90s preferential EI rates, all sorts of things like that to people in the Maritimes, whilst basically just gouging the hell out of Alberta while our economy was going strong.

00:34:15.780 And listen, there were some fantastic Maritimers came out West and people from all over the country came out West and worked in the energy sector.

00:34:22.100 I worked with them all the time out there.

00:34:23.780 But there was a whole hell of a lot more who sat around on their asses with a growing sense of entitlement, saying, well, I don't care if our local economy is crap.

00:34:30.940 The country owes it to me to be able to make my bills and stay here.

00:34:34.300 No, it doesn't, actually.

00:34:35.960 It really doesn't.

00:34:37.420 You know, I get a bit of that when I see people talking about the prices of things up in the Arctic.

00:34:41.640 I did four winters in the Arctic.

00:34:43.600 This is part of why I'd rather be here doing alternative media than being in the oil fielding, where it was terrible.

00:34:48.000 It was cold as hell up there.

00:34:49.400 Very lucrative.

00:34:50.040 But, I mean, in the North Mart and Inuvik or some of those towns, you know, you've got a Tuk-Tuk-Tuk.

00:34:55.000 Yeah, things are really, really expensive up there.

00:34:57.880 What do you expect?

00:34:59.380 You know, the access is limited to get up there.

00:35:02.380 You can bring dry goods by barge in summertime.

00:35:05.120 And the Dempster Highway is very narrow in winter.

00:35:07.340 And then, of course, the ones where you've got to fly in early in winter access or even worse.

00:35:10.140 But you know what?

00:35:10.520 It's a choice to live up there.

00:35:12.480 It's a choice.

00:35:14.100 And you choose to live up there.

00:35:15.460 You're going to choose to pay more for your goods and services.

00:35:17.840 That's the way it goes.

00:35:18.840 As long as we keep pumping welfare in to keep unsustainable populations sitting around up there, who are we doing a favor to?

00:35:25.960 What are we doing?

00:35:27.380 What are we doing?

00:35:28.460 If they can't afford to sustain themselves, there's no industries, there's nothing going on.

00:35:32.500 It's one of those things that gets me with people who support the reserve system.

00:35:35.200 Because when you get the smaller communities in the Arctic, it tends to be Inuit folks and others on isolated reserves up there.

00:35:41.740 Okay, what's the end game?

00:35:43.900 What's the long game for those little communities when they have really no resources assigned from some sustenance, you know, hunting and trapping?

00:35:51.840 Trapping is long gone.

00:35:53.480 They'll hunt some caribou to eat and buy good.

00:35:55.740 Good on them, by all means.

00:35:57.580 But otherwise, we're pumping up the main employer is government.

00:36:00.440 In other words, it's work for welfare.

00:36:01.620 And the rest just get direct welfare.

00:36:03.600 What do you see a generation from now?

00:36:05.200 What do you see 60 years, 100 years from now in those communities?

00:36:08.080 What's the point?

00:36:10.080 Is it a little zoo?

00:36:11.680 I know that sounds harsh, but it's the truth. 0.73

00:36:13.500 Is it where urban people can feel good themselves?

00:36:15.400 Look at these fine Inuit people we've kept up there as a little population that are holding tightly to their cultural norms.

00:36:21.260 And it's important to us as if you're preserving an animal population in an isolated area.

00:36:25.300 It's kind of how it feels, isn't it?

00:36:27.280 It's wrong, guys.

00:36:28.520 I'm not saying kick everybody out of there either, but we've got to start getting realistic about how and why and how long we're sustaining some populations in areas that don't have the ability to sustain them.

00:36:38.780 Not doing them any favors.

00:36:40.480 It's not doing us any favors.

00:36:41.760 And maybe if we're not talking about moving the population out, then let's look at some of the resources we can exploit to make it sustainable for them to be there.

00:36:48.480 Are there oil and gas deposits?

00:36:51.980 Are there mining things that they can do?

00:36:54.500 But instead, we're shutting down economic activity and keeping these populations sitting up there where they can't travel outward. 0.80

00:37:00.600 They still live modern lives, guys.

00:37:02.600 They're not living in the nice romanticized, you know, at one with earth, you know, nature loving up there and building igloos or any of that crap.

00:37:11.800 They live in houses with satellite dishes.

00:37:13.640 Now they've got Starlink internet.

00:37:14.940 They've got cell phones.

00:37:15.660 They're like anybody else, except they don't have a local means of generating income.

00:37:20.760 So you get this hybrid of a culture, actually.

00:37:23.080 It's kind of got one foot in the old ways and one foot in the modern ways and dysfunctional in almost all ways.

00:37:28.080 And I'm not saying it to be insulting.

00:37:30.020 Look up the stats.

00:37:31.720 Health-wise, life expectancy-wise, education-wise, crime-wise, those isolated reserves are living in misery. 0.89

00:37:38.180 And they can't escape them.

00:37:39.120 They're walked into these spots.

00:37:40.260 By the way, kind of a side rant, but I mean, we need a hard, unvarnished look at economic policies when we're going to bring them about.

00:37:49.140 Don't talk about what you wish you want to see.

00:37:50.740 Let's talk about what we can do.

00:37:52.080 What's going to make things better?

00:37:53.080 What's going to pay off?

00:37:54.440 So pumping subsidies into electric batteries when nobody wants the frigging things doesn't change the reality that nobody wants the frigging things.

00:38:01.920 What a boondoggle this is going to be.

00:38:03.940 What a mess.

00:38:05.080 $20 billion for something nobody wants yet.

00:38:08.940 They're not going to want them later.

00:38:10.740 And then private companies, if they are relying on subsidies, on tax dollars, then they aren't going to be efficient.

00:38:18.200 They aren't going to compete.

00:38:19.140 They aren't going to make a better product.

00:38:21.340 If you have a competitive market, maybe some creative company, inventor, some person is going to come up with a fantastic cost-effective battery,

00:38:28.300 and it will ship things to an electric world.

00:38:30.680 But right now, just pumping more money into technology that isn't ready to serve us yet is stupid.

00:38:36.780 But when we look at who we keep re-electing as a prime minister, we shouldn't be so surprised that some things are stupid.

00:38:44.000 Speaking of stupid, people, most of you have probably seen it.

00:38:48.300 The Peel School District Board, those guys are nuts.

00:38:52.180 They truly are.

00:38:52.860 They're absolutely nuts.

00:38:54.300 It's just one thing after another with their critical race theory crap and all of their other junk.

00:38:59.060 It's out in Ontario.

00:39:00.680 But this latest one that's come out, even the CBC, the state broadcaster, reported on it.

00:39:06.720 They're yanking all of the books out of the school libraries that are older than 2008.

00:39:12.060 Yeah.

00:39:12.380 Like, there's huge gaps left in the library shelves.

00:39:16.660 And some of the books they pulled because they said they weren't diverse or inclusive enough.

00:39:22.740 Anne Frank's diary has been pulled.

00:39:26.880 Yeah.

00:39:27.200 Apparently, that's politically incorrect.

00:39:29.400 I don't know how.

00:39:30.000 I don't know where the logic comes from.

00:39:31.080 But like I said, these people are crazy.

00:39:33.060 They are so.

00:39:34.120 I mean, you look at that Neely one.

00:39:35.460 She's from a different school board in Ontario as well.

00:39:37.820 And she's certifiable.

00:39:40.320 I mean, you look at the eyes on that woman and some of the stunts she pulls and the things she says. 0.82

00:39:43.700 Yet she's there and she's controlling what gets to your children. 1.00

00:39:46.400 So, this is getting really scary, though.

00:39:51.220 This is really scary.

00:39:52.480 They don't feel that anything written prior to 2008 is appropriate to put in front of children.

00:39:58.060 Do you know what kind of frightening, chilling, historic revisionism and control of the minds of children we're talking about here?

00:40:06.700 Like, if you can't give some degree of classical history to these children, how are they going to think?

00:40:11.500 But that's the goal.

00:40:12.560 They don't want these kids critically thinking.

00:40:14.780 They don't want common sense.

00:40:16.040 They want to fill their heads with that woke crap that they've been filling them with for years.

00:40:21.040 If they read actual history, if they read critical thought, if they read philosophy, if they read records of things that have happened and succeeded and or failed before them,

00:40:30.360 they probably would drift away from that crazy woke junk.

00:40:33.500 So, the school board is trying to pull the books and access away from these children.

00:40:38.840 Everything beyond 2008.

00:40:40.820 It's insane.

00:40:42.300 It's insane.

00:40:43.060 Even the CBC is calling it out.

00:40:44.580 But will it stop anything?

00:40:46.040 You know, will it change these guys?

00:40:50.400 This is what we've got to get back to.

00:40:51.920 This is the part nobody likes hearing, but this is the truth.

00:40:54.520 It's on you.

00:40:55.700 It's on me.

00:40:56.920 Who here can name their local school board trustee?

00:40:59.920 How many people voted for their trustee in the last election?

00:41:03.260 You know, how many people are paying attention to how these whack jobs are getting in there? 0.98

00:41:08.540 They're elected to these roles.

00:41:10.480 That means you do have the power to fire, but you've got to get off your ass and do it.

00:41:14.240 You've got to find somebody sane who wants the job.

00:41:16.580 That's a big ask because it's a thankless, miserable job.

00:41:19.260 And you have to support them and you've got to get them in.

00:41:22.420 The crazy wackadoodle left has realized that it's these small elected positions where they can really do the maximum, well, I would call it damage.

00:41:32.420 They say the maximum social engineering to make it such a better fluffy world.

00:41:36.140 And they're winning.

00:41:39.320 They're winning.

00:41:40.140 We let them win.

00:41:41.220 I mean, if we don't get out there and fire them, whose fault is it?

00:41:45.420 So pay attention.

00:41:46.880 Learn from these clowns.

00:41:48.160 Not learn to emulate their ideology, but learn how they've come up with the simple solution of taking advantage of the democratic tools that are right in front of them and using them.

00:41:58.180 Have a look at your school board elections, guys.

00:42:01.000 Nag your neighbors. 1.00

00:42:02.000 Nag your kids. 1.00

00:42:02.640 Get out and vote and not get these crazy people out of those roles.

00:42:06.940 And that can move up as well to the next level because it seems the lower the level, well, I shouldn't say that.

00:42:11.080 I was going to say the lower the level of government, the crazier the person.

00:42:13.780 But, of course, our top level with the prime minister, he's not exactly that close to sane.

00:42:17.420 If you see some of those pictures of him riding like a weirdo on a golf cart over in India, man, that's a strange, strange man.

00:42:23.880 But for the most part, we don't give enough scrutiny to our lower levels of government.

00:42:26.680 That's a better way to put it.

00:42:28.140 You know, think of some of the nutty civic politicians we have in office.

00:42:32.020 Every city's got them, guys.

00:42:35.040 You know, we had that guy, I'm forgetting his name.

00:42:38.160 He was a crazy hippie up in Edmonton.

00:42:39.460 He wanted to flood the streets, took our Gomberg, and to make people escape to work, to save the environment.

00:42:46.200 He wasn't kidding.

00:42:47.500 Sadly, he passed.

00:42:48.740 He was actually had some serious mental health issues.

00:42:50.820 He jumped off the confederation bridge.

00:42:53.240 But he was unhinged.

00:42:56.300 Dar Hetherington, if we're looking at Alberta things, if you might remember in Lethbridge,

00:42:59.640 this woman took off and made international headlines with a crazy story she did down in the States, 1.00

00:43:04.960 claiming to be kidnapped and a whole bunch of things.

00:43:07.120 Nutty.

00:43:08.780 But who put her in there?

00:43:10.100 Well, we did.

00:43:11.520 We've got to actually fire these people.

00:43:14.640 And we haven't been doing it.

00:43:16.600 Haven't been doing it.

00:43:18.820 Likewise, you know, yeah, the Trans Mountain, I see I've got that popped up for a bit of a story.

00:43:22.700 It's on the Western Standard.

00:43:23.520 It's that reminder for everybody to get on there, guys.

00:43:26.520 This is how we stay independent.

00:43:27.580 This is why we talk about this stuff.

00:43:29.080 This is why I can rant about these things.

00:43:30.880 It's because you guys have subscribed.

00:43:32.440 Get out there.

00:43:33.140 $10 a month, $100 for a year.

00:43:36.080 And you don't have to listen to the CBC.

00:43:38.180 You can get past the paywall.

00:43:39.380 Dave is out there.

00:43:40.940 Jonathan's out there.

00:43:42.740 All those folks.

00:43:43.680 We got, you know, Nigel, a great pile of folks putting out great stories, columns, all of that.

00:43:48.260 The reason we can do it is because you subscribe.

00:43:50.000 So please get on there.

00:43:51.680 Westernstandard.news slash membership.

00:43:53.520 And if you've already subscribed, thanks.

00:43:55.500 So let's get back to that.

00:43:57.180 Apparently, the latest delay with the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the Trans Mountain Catastrophe.

00:44:01.740 I mean, this wasn't even a new pipeline to go in.

00:44:05.320 This is one just going right next to one that's existed since the 50s.

00:44:10.280 We just had to put one right next to it.

00:44:13.000 Can't do it.

00:44:13.780 It's way, way, years and years behind schedule.

00:44:16.200 You know, meanwhile, we lose a premium on the oil that we sell.

00:44:20.280 And it's just been one thing after another.

00:44:22.180 There was a hummingbird nest.

00:44:23.640 I'm not an endangered one or anything like that, but a hummingbird nest.

00:44:27.060 That was a couple of years ago.

00:44:27.960 And it cost millions and millions of dollars because they delayed everything over these hummingbird nests out there.

00:44:32.740 It's stupid.

00:44:33.700 Again, getting back to the stupid part.

00:44:36.100 Well, the latest now is apparently there's a sacred tree near Kamloops.

00:44:41.180 Sacred tree.

00:44:42.900 And it's going to cost almost $100 million.

00:44:45.500 It's going to just delay construction by another year.

00:44:48.540 We might not actually see oil in that thing until 2025, late 2025.

00:44:53.480 This is crazy.

00:44:55.000 It's a tree.

00:44:56.480 Come on.

00:44:57.080 There's always somebody going to say it's sacred.

00:44:59.080 Always.

00:45:00.240 Cut it down.

00:45:01.080 Give them a new one.

00:45:02.060 Give them 10 new trees.

00:45:04.140 How many trees can you get for $100 million?

00:45:06.600 Just spend a million dollars.

00:45:07.720 Give them a million dollars worth of trees.

00:45:09.380 This is dumb.

00:45:11.080 Sacred tree.

00:45:12.540 We got a degree of respect for the people who live along the right-of-ways of these pipelines.

00:45:17.200 But let's face it.

00:45:18.000 Some of these guys are feeding us a load of crap when they throw every roadblock they can in front of the progress and make their excuses.

00:45:25.520 Sacred tree.

00:45:27.080 It's a tree.

00:45:28.640 That's it.

00:45:29.620 But we're allowing it to cost us $100 million.

00:45:32.260 I don't know how we're ever going to get out of this stuff, guys.

00:45:38.260 Side note.

00:45:38.940 I'll finish on one thing where some people will maybe disagree with me, but that's fine.

00:45:42.360 People do all the time.

00:45:43.260 I see that settlement with Stephen Gilboa and Ezra Levant and Rebel took him to court over him blocking them on Twitter.

00:45:51.080 And they won.

00:45:52.640 He got a $20,000 settlement, and basically Gilboa has to allow Ezra to see him on Twitter.

00:45:57.840 You know what?

00:45:58.080 I don't agree.

00:45:59.260 I don't agree.

00:45:59.800 I don't like Gilboa.

00:46:00.860 I think Ezra and Rebel does some great stuff.

00:46:03.860 I just don't think they should be legally obligated to allow anybody and everybody to look at their Twitter account.

00:46:09.040 You can open a side Twitter account if you've been blocked and just watch and see what they're putting out.

00:46:14.720 They're not hiding anything that much from you.

00:46:16.500 Twitter is not owned by the government, nor should it be.

00:46:19.660 So I don't know.

00:46:21.340 It was just an odd settlement.

00:46:22.500 I mean, I do like seeing Gilboa slapped down.

00:46:24.700 There's certainly no doubt about that.

00:46:26.300 I just don't think this was a move in the right direction.

00:46:29.320 It was just a weird ruling.

00:46:31.240 But whatever.

00:46:32.200 We'll see.

00:46:32.700 It's not the worst thing we've seen coming out of our courts.

00:46:34.460 And, of course, by the way, one last thing.

00:46:36.400 Olivia, of course, the court case is going on for the convoy organizers, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber.

00:46:42.880 So watch for the news coming out on that on the Western Standard, guys.

00:46:47.260 That's all the time I've got for today.

00:46:48.980 Tune into the pipeline.

00:46:49.920 We're going to be recording that a little later, too.

00:46:51.520 It'll be airing tonight.

00:46:52.860 And we'll be covering a bunch more subjects with some other folks on a panel.

00:46:56.740 So thank you all for tuning in today, guys.

00:46:58.880 And I'll see you all again at this time next week.

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00:47:08.860 Cash barley is holding at $3.40.

00:47:10.900 Feed wheat is unchanged at $3.58, while corn slipped $3 to $3.55.

00:47:16.040 In the milling wheat markets, December Minneapolis futures inched up $2.5 at $7.81 per bushel.

00:47:21.520 With local hard red spring bid for September movement at $9.25 per bushel delivered.

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Western Standard - September 13, 2023

Cory Morgan Show. Trudeau has destroyed Canada’s international reputation

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