Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show. Trudeau plans to crush free podcasting.

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00:00:30.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. This is my weekly, that adds up to 45 minutes, but it covers an hour on those cable stations from the Western Standard where I cover the top news items I want to discuss, get some ranting out of the way and interview interesting people.

00:00:48.080 Today's no exception. A little later on, I'm going to have Elise Mills on. She's a strategist and counsel on global public affairs. We're going to talk a bit about the latest efforts to basically censor podcasts, live streaming, basically discourse that the government doesn't like.

00:01:06.180 So yes, those of you watching live, use that comment scroll. Guys, I see Mr. Stonley was there fast saying present and paradoxy. Get in there, send those comments to me, questions, things for the guest.

00:01:16.200 Again, like I say, I don't always read them all out on the show, but I do see them all there and I appreciate it. It helps keep things flowing and that. And I see some interesting concepts going on sometimes.

00:01:26.920 Just make sure to keep it civil. We don't have to be at each other's throats. That's my job.

00:01:32.220 So I'm going to get on the throat of some things and, oh yeah, since that was brought up by Paradox, he's saying a great interview with James Lindsay yesterday. Thank you very much.

00:01:40.160 Yeah, James Lindsay was on, look on the YouTube archives. He was here. We had a good talk for a little while on the Save Our Children thing.

00:01:46.960 He's been touring Alberta and he did a huge event in Calgary last night, actually. So check that out after this show, of course.

00:01:53.740 So I'm going to start, though, on, yeah, the latest thing from the CRTC, the registry. I'm going to talk about what used to be one of my favorite radio hosts, Howard Stern.

00:02:04.260 Howard Stern's show, it was a radio powerhouse in the 1990s. I mean, he gored sacred cows in the United States in his shock jock style of performing.

00:02:13.180 I mean, it changed the way radio morning shows were done all the way around the world.

00:02:17.000 I mean, while opponents were trying their hardest to cancel them in the U.S., it only brought him more attention and made his brand even more powerful.

00:02:22.940 He crushed competing DJs across the USA and his show syndication seemed unstoppable.

00:02:28.860 He would just absorb fines for profanity from the SEC and he'd just keep expanding his reach.

00:02:35.140 Things changed, though, when he brought his show to Canada.

00:02:38.820 Yes, in 1997, some people might not remember it, particularly out west, but two radio stations in Canada, one in Montreal and one in Toronto, picked up his show and started broadcasting it.

00:02:47.360 And Stern's brand of humor, which included everything from, yeah, fart jokes to having women simulate orgasms over the air, was welcomed by many listeners and reviled by many others.

00:02:57.600 But, I mean, it did work the ratings and market share for both of those Canadian stations expanded quickly.

00:03:02.140 People wanted something fresh in radio and he brought it.

00:03:04.760 But then, Stern committed Canadian blasphemy.

00:03:09.500 He made fun of Quebec.

00:03:10.960 That was it.

00:03:11.720 He crossed the line that was too far.

00:03:13.760 It doesn't matter how many dildos or odd things you might want to talk about on his show.

00:03:17.940 You don't criticize Quebec.

00:03:20.240 So the reaction was immediate.

00:03:22.240 Complaints from thin-skinned Quebecers flooded into the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council and, of course, further to the CRTC, the Canadian Radio Television Commission. 0.90

00:03:31.320 Stern was threatened with a cancellation, of course, if he didn't back down.

00:03:35.700 And in typical Stern fashion at the time, he offered a middle finger to the Canadian regulators in response.

00:03:41.300 So despite the high ratings on the radio stations hosting his show, they were forced to drop him under threats of CRTC action.

00:03:47.840 He didn't last very long north of the border.

00:03:50.140 See, in Canada, the concept of letting consumers decide what they want to watch or hear all by themselves isn't considered a right.

00:03:56.080 The Canadian way is to have the state carefully cultivate and control what our eyes and ears are exposed to.

00:04:01.820 And the CRTC is the enforcement arm of that.

00:04:05.380 The CRTC, see, they didn't go after Stern himself.

00:04:07.980 Stern didn't care.

00:04:08.780 He would have told them to get stuffed.

00:04:10.760 They would have targeted the platforms that hosted him.

00:04:13.500 They couldn't make Stern shut up.

00:04:14.720 But they could pull the broadcast licenses for the stations that gave him airtime.

00:04:18.140 Does that sound familiar yet?

00:04:19.980 Yeah.

00:04:20.760 The CRTC, they've long wanted to control the Internet.

00:04:23.720 It's driven them mad for a long time.

00:04:25.340 I mean, the organization is authoritarian by nature.

00:04:28.400 As the digital world of communication has expanded, the CRTC has desperately wanted to find a way to get the Internet under its grasp.

00:04:35.820 Well, Bill C-11 from the Trudeau Liberals has finally given the CRTC that tool they seek.

00:04:40.560 Now, the CRTC is a dinosaur of an institution, but it did learn some things.

00:04:44.380 It learned from past experiences.

00:04:46.100 Canada has tens of thousands of content creators, and many of them are saying things that the government would rather they didn't.

00:04:51.840 Like me.

00:04:52.280 It would be impossible, though, to try and register and chase down every one of those podcasters, streamers, and so on, those creators out there.

00:04:59.660 So what the CRTC is doing is the next best thing.

00:05:01.900 They're going after the service providers.

00:05:05.160 You see, podcast audiences for the individuals can range anywhere from a few dozen listeners and viewers to millions of people.

00:05:10.520 But one commonality among the podcasters is they have their content hosted by large Internet service providers.

00:05:17.420 It's the only way really to attain broad reach, and the content creator doesn't have to do the technical investment of self-hosting and trying to get the algorithms and get out there.

00:05:25.940 So basically, the CRTC is doing the equivalent of what they did with Stern.

00:05:29.540 They're going after the hosts.

00:05:30.800 And if the host gets pulled and a podcaster loses hosting services, the podcast dies on the vine.

00:05:37.440 Liberal apologists are dismissing the latest regulations from the CRTC, you know, to register streaming hosts and saying it's irrelevant because it only applies to hosts with over $10 million in revenue.

00:05:50.340 That's true.

00:05:51.000 The problem is, though, almost every podcaster is dependent on being hosted by providers who have over $10 million in revenue.

00:05:59.420 If the provider is later compelled to regulate the content to the creators, there would be little that either party is going to be able to do to stop it.

00:06:06.520 I mean, if the platform has its license pulled in Canada, it could be blocked from broadcasting in the country.

00:06:10.460 If the creator, of course, loses their platform, they're out of luck, too.

00:06:14.060 So that broadcast is done.

00:06:16.280 My show is already under the CRTC regulations as we're broadcast on a couple of cable channels,

00:06:20.400 but a large portion of our audience finds the show, of course, through streaming services such as Spotify, Rumble, iTunes, etc.

00:06:26.820 If the Western Standard lost the ability to put content on those platforms, this show is finished.

00:06:31.080 I mean, how do I get to you?

00:06:32.420 The new regulations from the CRTC put streaming services under their thumb and puts the job of policing the content into the lap of the platforms.

00:06:40.420 It's an insidious backdoor way to control content.

00:06:44.180 And what problem is being solved with these new regulations anyways?

00:06:46.660 How have unregulated podcasters and streamers disrupted society so much that we needed new legislation for government to control their content?

00:06:56.220 Of course, independent content producers haven't disrupted society.

00:07:00.000 They have been a thorn in the government's side, though, as they'll focus on issues that the subsidized, cowardly legacy media outlets are afraid to touch.

00:07:07.720 The government can't buy the love of independent media as it has with legacy media, so it's resorting to try and control it instead.

00:07:14.100 The government's attempt to shake down Meta and Google with Bill C-18 backfired, and it harmed Canadian media, at least independent media.

00:07:21.100 They're just going to subsidize the rest of them otherwise. 0.98

00:07:23.440 Their attempts to control content through C-11 and the CRTC, though, might succeed, and the loss of freedom is going to be immeasurable.

00:07:29.740 The Trudeau liberals have always had an authoritarian streak, and this move isn't surprising.

00:07:33.680 It's terribly dangerous, though.

00:07:35.500 These kind of controls can be difficult to remove even when governments change.

00:07:38.860 The next one coming in might kind of like having that control over what people can say or can't say when they get in there.

00:07:44.720 We can't let this sort of thing entrench itself.

00:07:46.840 The earlier we fight this, the better.

00:07:48.760 Canadians need to stand up to this creeping control of their ability to communicate while they still can,

00:07:54.040 because, of course, the harder it gets to communicate, the harder it gets to organize against it.

00:07:58.580 And rest assured, the registry, as with firearms, is just the beginning.

00:08:02.800 All right, that's what's got me wound up today, guys.

00:08:06.940 This issue is a lot bigger than a lot of people give it credit to.

00:08:09.260 Of course, the mainstream media has been really quiet on it, right? 1.00

00:08:12.320 Self-serving pussies. 1.00

00:08:14.080 But what do you expect out of them? 1.00

00:08:16.300 They want us to go away.

00:08:17.960 They want the upstarts to leave.

00:08:19.840 They don't want to see independent outlets eating their lunch.

00:08:22.620 Well, too bad.

00:08:23.620 Too bad.

00:08:24.260 You guys lost the battle, and it's just animating a corpse at this point.

00:08:28.960 All right, let's get on to a former legacy media guy,

00:08:31.820 but now he's in on the right side of things,

00:08:33.960 and that's our news editor, Dave Naylor, covering what's important out there.

00:08:37.820 How's it going, Dave?

00:08:39.300 Hey, Corey.

00:08:40.160 It's good to be on the right side for once of history.

00:08:56.480 I think we have a bit of a – just a bit of communication problem with Dave there.

00:08:59.600 We'll see if we reboot and can hear him again there.

00:09:01.820 Let's try that again, Dave.

00:09:03.440 Yeah, you keep freezing on me here, Corey, but we'll plow ahead.

00:09:12.060 I'm reason.

00:09:14.860 Well, looks like due to technical issues,

00:09:17.900 maybe the CRT is sneaking in and meddling with our internet lines over here.

00:09:22.640 I'm afraid we'll have to maybe pass on the news check-in today.

00:09:25.020 There's lots going on out there and lots to cover.

00:09:30.160 Again, see, being the smaller outlets, we have to get by with what we got.

00:09:34.400 Paradox, you have the worst connection in your own offices.

00:09:36.320 Yeah, I'm not sure.

00:09:36.820 We just get the occasional hang-up going on in here.

00:09:39.640 I'll still, as Mr. Stanley says, blame the CRTC because they are a convenient group to blame on things.

00:09:46.820 But there is a lot going on.

00:09:48.200 Maybe I'll have a quick look at the Western Standard site.

00:09:50.560 This is why I like to remind everybody, too.

00:09:52.580 This is how we stay independent.

00:09:54.020 This is why I nag you guys. 0.99

00:09:55.540 We rely on subscribers.

00:09:56.940 This is how we can beat the sensors, how we can keep these things going.

00:10:01.840 And that is through subscribing.

00:10:04.260 It's $9.99 a month, guys.

00:10:05.820 $100 a year.

00:10:06.740 It's like a newspaper subscription.

00:10:07.960 And that's how we can keep having these stories.

00:10:09.580 And if we save enough extra money from those subscriptions, we will upgrade our internet service

00:10:13.120 so those new check-ins will come more smoothly in the future, I assure you.

00:10:16.180 But get on there, though, westernstandard.news slash membership, if you haven't subscribed already.

00:10:21.180 And if you have, thank you very much.

00:10:22.420 And get on there.

00:10:23.100 We've got lots going on, going on there.

00:10:24.840 One of the interesting ones.

00:10:25.980 This is the stuff.

00:10:26.660 This is the battles.

00:10:28.080 CBC president, this is the front story I see on the Western Standard page, says Canada's unsafe for their organization.

00:10:34.140 Yeah, this Tate, you know, their billion-dollar behemoth of a media organization, the CBC, likes to play victim.

00:10:43.060 And people have been mean to them.

00:10:44.360 They get a lot of hate mail.

00:10:45.580 They get a lot of people calling them out, you know, questioning their coverage.

00:10:50.480 I mean, I have seen some stuff happening at protests, things that I've gone to.

00:10:54.400 And I've got to admit, some people have been pretty nasty and abusive to legacy media representatives when they see them there.

00:11:01.300 You know, I started seeing later protests.

00:11:03.700 CBC cameras would be there, and they wouldn't put their branding on their cameras and things like that to avoid the abuse.

00:11:09.260 I do say to people, I understand, rest assured.

00:11:11.460 I mean, look at how often I pound on legacy media.

00:11:15.040 But it doesn't call for being violent, for being threatening.

00:11:19.560 Just ignore them, you know, don't give them time.

00:11:23.900 You know, when they're looking for interviews at those things, just turn away, those sorts of things.

00:11:28.900 But there are some people did get in the face of the reporters, some people getting in the face of the camera people, people who've even, you know, vandalized news trucks I've seen before and things like that.

00:11:39.880 But don't give the state broadcaster and other media outlets room to play victim.

00:11:47.660 You know, they thrive on that.

00:11:49.380 If they can show a picture of a bunch of protesters screaming and getting in the faces of their reporters, it actually inspires more control.

00:11:57.740 That gives the excuse to the local authorities to say, you know what, we need more police to shut down these protesters.

00:12:02.400 These guys are clearly extreme.

00:12:03.600 They hold, as we've heard quite often, unacceptable views.

00:12:08.000 So I don't doubt that there really are some nasty emails.

00:12:12.560 I'm going to read one later in the show that came to me.

00:12:14.700 You know, being in this, you get some really interesting feedback from people.

00:12:19.180 But there is no excuse, no matter what, the institution to get threatening with them, to get violent with them.

00:12:25.660 And some of that does happen.

00:12:28.060 And meanwhile, so Tate's up there saying, you know, it's unsafe for our organization.

00:12:32.200 Of course, they're already getting one and a half billion of your tax dollars to do what they do.

00:12:37.900 Don't let them try to play victim on top of that and get even more money.

00:12:42.480 I'm just, you know, doing a bit of a call out.

00:12:44.360 As I've said, I'm certainly no friend or fan to the legacy media outlets right now.

00:12:50.940 But let's not make it any easier for them to try and say that they're victims in anything.

00:12:56.980 This is one more I'll get into.

00:12:58.420 And I see Elise getting ready in the lobby there.

00:13:00.460 So we'll get to her pretty quickly and talk some more on censorship.

00:13:03.040 This one was kind of interesting, though.

00:13:04.900 Out of, you know, the Chrystia Freeland's office asking over and over, people have been asking,

00:13:11.920 what are the debt interest payments, you know, going on right now in Ottawa?

00:13:18.200 I mean, this is something the Department of Finance should be able to answer pretty easily, right?

00:13:21.440 You figure out how much debt you have.

00:13:23.380 You figure out how much interest you have.

00:13:25.000 And you figure out how much you have to pay every month to service it.

00:13:27.160 But they keep saying that they don't know.

00:13:29.960 Well, what do you mean you don't know?

00:13:31.940 You're running our country.

00:13:33.500 This is a very basic actuarial question.

00:13:37.460 This is a large chunk of our revenues that can be dedicated to programs that we seriously need.

00:13:42.740 This is something to remind people, because this is what brought the crash in the 90s,

00:13:46.320 when realism finally hit with enough voters and taxpayers, and we kind of corrected things.

00:13:50.880 Because interest rates were really high, and people started realizing that government budgets were being overwhelmed with interest payments.

00:13:56.140 I mean, come on.

00:13:56.960 If you're paying tax out of pocket, the last thing you want to do is see it flushed on interest.

00:14:00.680 That's money down the toilet. 0.97

00:14:01.960 It's not buying you any services.

00:14:03.560 It's not making your life any better.

00:14:05.040 And right now, at least back earlier with one of the updates, it was estimated to be around $44 billion a year in debt service charges.

00:14:13.420 And now, of course, interest rates have only climbed up since, so we know the number's bigger.

00:14:17.820 Other people can look from the outside and figure it might be getting closer to that $50 billion number now.

00:14:23.440 But we don't know, because the finance minister won't say.

00:14:27.920 What good are you if you won't even answer that simple sort of question, Madam Freeland?

00:14:32.500 Come on, do a little better than that.

00:14:34.720 You guys are in the toilet in the polls.

00:14:36.400 You're going to have to learn to change something pretty soon.

00:14:38.220 Just hiding isn't working for you.

00:14:40.480 But it does get frustrating.

00:14:41.600 It's our money.

00:14:42.660 Canadians are prone to forgetting that sometimes.

00:14:44.880 It's our money.

00:14:45.680 You have a right to know how they're spending it, what they're doing with it, and not back off when the government refuses to tell you what they're doing with your money.

00:14:55.580 All right.

00:14:56.400 I've been ranting enough.

00:14:57.400 Let's get somebody else on to rant for a little bit.

00:14:59.660 I've been looking forward to this.

00:15:01.000 You've probably seen her on social media a lot.

00:15:04.200 You've seen her on a lot of legacy media in the past as well, but I won't hold that against her.

00:15:08.700 It's Elise Mills, a strategist and counsel for global public affairs, a consultant, and just kind of have your hands in everything.

00:15:16.840 So thanks for joining the show today, Elise.

00:15:18.760 Thanks so much for having me, Corey.

00:15:20.400 It's a real pleasure.

00:15:21.980 I was looking forward to it all weekend.

00:15:25.720 So, I mean, yeah, we've got quite the subject to chew on.

00:15:29.620 You know, when it first dropped last week.

00:15:31.000 It was hard to tell.

00:15:31.960 It sounded almost like they were going to come after every podcaster and get them to register or possibly shut them down.

00:15:37.160 But, no, they're being a little more nuanced.

00:15:39.180 They're going after the hosts.

00:15:42.720 I mean, it'll have the same effect in a way, but it's going to take a little longer.

00:15:45.980 But this is a really, really dangerous turn of events going on with our government right now.

00:15:50.080 I know people on social media thought I was being completely extreme when I was saying this, but it reminds me of the stories that my parents would tell me.

00:16:01.420 I have journalists in my family that work in the UK and the United States and had worked in Canada at one point for what was then Southern Press, which you might remember, Corey.

00:16:12.520 And one thing that was really concerning to me was it has echoes of McCarthyism in it.

00:16:18.640 It's guised as the great savior of, you know, journalism.

00:16:25.780 But what it really is is a cultural redefining or a shift.

00:16:30.540 It's meant to follow in to what they were looking for way back five years ago when they appointed the media czar.

00:16:37.340 I think what we need to remember is that this has been a piecemeal approach.

00:16:41.100 So your viewers and listeners and readers will probably not remember that in 2017, 2018, right around the election of Trump came Canada's response, which was guised as we are very concerned about certain voices.

00:17:00.160 So we're going to start regulating what you can say and what you cannot say on social media.

00:17:05.180 So we're going to appoint a czar. At that point, it's now it was Melanie Jolie, who is now Minister of Foreign Affairs, and she was our czar of social media.

00:17:18.740 Then you started to hear the rumblings of what they were thinking about and how to control the media, which was it's a three pronged approach, Corey.

00:17:26.060 Really, the ultimate goal is to keep the CBC as basically right now what it is, is an outsourced PR firm for the Trudeau government.

00:17:36.420 And I've never seen the CBC quite like this before.

00:17:41.300 As you know, I spent over a decade as a permanent fixture on the CBC as a conservative.

00:17:47.660 So it's about protecting, so some of that legislation was about protecting the CBC, but it was also about quietly, or what I would call the creep of government, melding our minds into what Trudeau saw the country as being.

00:18:04.040 And that's, we really begin with the social media czar, we ramp up to C-11, we ramp up to some other pieces of legislation that people have forgotten about, that really pertain to the CBC, pertain to how, what the CBC is allowed to do and what it's not allowed to do.

00:18:24.120 The CBC has only lost once in the court at the old CRTC, which was really about what they were trying to produce, which was, which was almost like a digital print sheet, right?

00:18:38.580 The Tor Star and National Post and many others won that, you know, thank goodness.

00:18:45.140 But this, what we're seeing now is what I call phase three.

00:18:48.740 And what bothers me most about this is not, is it, well, several things, Corey, and I, and I ranted at you, called you on a Friday night and said, we've got to get on top of this.

00:19:01.200 This is insane.

00:19:02.240 This is insane.

00:19:03.240 Is that now this is guised to something that's supposed to help us to sort of shut out what they don't want us to hear, which are these negative voices that have political overturns or undercurrents or, you know, overtones to it.

00:19:20.140 The reality is I don't, I want to be in a country where I disagree with people.

00:19:24.740 I do not want to be in a country where we're all saying, yes, that, that, that is absolutely fantastic.

00:19:30.200 I absolutely agree with this mushy middle sort of woke Trudeauism that I think is separate to what the traditional liberal party is.

00:19:39.580 The other part about it is it has a registry and it reminds me of the McCarthy inquest, right?

00:19:46.520 Where journalists were brought forward for different reasons, but it's similar.

00:19:51.180 It was about you jump on my bandwagon, you believe in what I believe in, otherwise you're a communist.

00:19:57.720 Well, what Trudeau has said many times, whether it's vaccines or the way he's come about this and it would come towards media and public conversations and public debates and freedom of thought in this country, Corey, is are you a conservative?

00:20:12.040 And if you are, you're a misogynist, you're an anti-vaxxer, you're, you know, so on and so on and so on.

00:20:18.800 And I mean, he's compared people that have questioned his policies to being Nazis, to being homophobic, to being misogynist, to being people that are racist. 0.58

00:20:29.100 This is all part of the plan.

00:20:31.260 That's what I inherently believe, Corey, and no one's going to tell me much different.

00:20:36.240 I am really turned up about this.

00:20:38.700 I think this is a, this is not only overreach, this is an abuse of what's supposed to be an independent institution in this country, which is the CRTC, which is to help us navigate the ever-changing media landscape.

00:20:53.300 And that includes the digital space, and that includes podcasts.

00:20:57.420 And quite frankly, all you're doing is pushing people out.

00:21:00.820 You're not embracing more diverse opinions.

00:21:03.560 So it's government creep.

00:21:05.420 It is a hidden agenda, absolutely.

00:21:08.540 I've heard many conservatives talk about hidden agendas before.

00:21:12.100 This is really one of the first that I'll say, yep, this is it.

00:21:15.460 This is a hidden agenda, absolutely.

00:21:17.600 And he's going to leave a legacy, and he's going to bare knuckle this, white knuckle this, all the way to him getting kicked out of office.

00:21:24.760 And it's going to take the conservatives' years to untie or untangle us from the precedents that this legislation or the legislations that we've seen pass forward and the regulatory changes that have been made.

00:21:39.440 It's going to take us years because, as you know, Corey, once you take that giant leap forward, it's really hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

00:21:46.800 Well, that's it.

00:21:47.460 And Canadians have voted with their eyes and their ears on media.

00:21:51.000 The world is changing.

00:21:51.960 The CBC is a dinosaur sitting there taking over a billion a year, plus dipping into the advertising market.

00:21:57.780 Yet their ratings are terrible.

00:21:59.220 There's not many people actually consuming their content.

00:22:02.980 But rather than change their content, what the government wants to do is take away the alternatives.

00:22:08.280 And that's…

00:22:08.760 The competition.

00:22:09.760 …gets odious, yes.

00:22:11.160 And I get frustrated.

00:22:12.680 I've seen you on X, you know, Twitter talking about it.

00:22:15.580 People say, oh, it's just the ones that make $10 million a year or more.

00:22:17.980 No, no, no, no, no.

00:22:18.660 That's where they start.

00:22:19.980 Those are the hosts.

00:22:22.240 Those are the platforms that host all these different voices.

00:22:26.160 It's not about Joe Rogan, okay?

00:22:29.860 I mean, and for example, that's a great example of what I can and cannot get behind or why I'm doing this.

00:22:36.560 Joe Rogan speaks.

00:22:37.460 And most of the time, I'm sort of cringing because, you know me, Corey, I live at the intersection of the law, legislation, precedent of parliament, all that sort of good stuff.

00:22:48.300 And then, you know, I mix it all in with what I think we need as not only Western Canadians, but what we need as a change for this country.

00:22:55.900 So when I listen to Joe Rogan, especially his advice on what you should be taking during COVID, I just wanted to pull my hair out.

00:23:02.860 But would I ever get behind anything that makes it difficult for him to have his voice heard in this country?

00:23:10.720 No, the same can be said about many of the far left groups that I have to listen to or even the hosts that I listen to on the mainstream media that have significantly changed in the last few weeks, especially out here in Western Canada.

00:23:26.820 I can't even believe what I'm listening to sometimes, but it's important to scream at your radio.

00:23:32.900 It's important to have, you know, to fight, to get up and feel that feeling that you want to hear, have your voice heard.

00:23:40.020 You want to be able to match it.

00:23:41.900 You want to be able to duel with people on it and you want to be able to debate the issues that are at hand.

00:23:47.340 Here's what the Trudeau liberals will tell you.

00:23:49.840 This is a bunch of conservatives that want to prop up the right wing agenda.

00:23:54.760 No, what this is, is this conservative.

00:23:58.700 And I'm sure you as well, Corey, I know you as well.

00:24:01.940 Many of the people we know, many of the people we've worked with, everybody's going to stand arm in arm with NDPers, liberals.

00:24:09.360 It doesn't matter.

00:24:10.720 The point is you will not on my watch have your rights reduced.

00:24:16.260 You will not lose your right to freedom of expression.

00:24:19.460 I will not say freedom of speech because that's not a Canadian term.

00:24:22.920 But freedom of expression is you will not lose constitutional rights.

00:24:27.180 Government creep under Trudeau has become a significant crisis of democracy against a democracy in this country.

00:24:35.120 And I'm not afraid to say it anymore.

00:24:37.200 Yeah, well, and this is a solution looking for a problem.

00:24:40.740 Like, is it people pointing, oh, we've got to stop misinformation or hate?

00:24:43.300 Well, hang on.

00:24:44.040 We've already got legislation.

00:24:46.180 If I was spreading hate or inciting violence or hatred or slandering somebody, there's all sorts of legal recourse that I'll be subjected to that I'm going to pay some consequences for acting like that.

00:24:58.880 Lauren Kinsella, the pundit, is a prime example of the king of the watchdogs on, you know, be careful what you say. 0.69

00:25:07.860 Nobody has lost their ability to sue somebody or to contact the police.

00:25:13.640 You even look at Twitter now.

00:25:14.840 The reality is this is simply Trudeau-isms.

00:25:18.760 This is a Trudeau policy.

00:25:20.840 This is he's trying to change the culture of the country.

00:25:24.560 And I think at a time where Canadians are sort of stopping dead in their tracks, saying, wait a second, there's lots of things going on where this country is trying is being pulled in several directions.

00:25:36.960 Parents have their own concerns.

00:25:39.700 You know, you know, the rights of a few have outnumbered the rights of the whole.

00:25:45.580 And I don't understand what the endgame is into attacking media the way that he has.

00:25:52.040 I mean, the way that things have gone from Bill C-11, they have been absolutely a gigantic, enormous failure.

00:26:01.860 We've had failures on the foreign policy stage.

00:26:04.480 Canada tripped, fell on its face, and the whole country tried not or the whole world tried not to laugh.

00:26:09.180 The other part to this is he talks about freedom of expression and everybody having a right to an opinion, everybody having the right to say what they want to say.

00:26:21.300 But in fact, Trudeau has worked very hard at limiting the avenues for you, for people like yourself, Corey, or anyone else to be able to express that opinion.

00:26:31.780 And, you know, the legislation, C-11 and its sister and companion legislation have but crippled and killed the Canadian media industry.

00:26:42.680 The only group that's surviving is the CBC.

00:26:45.940 I recommend your viewers and those who follow you on Twitter and your readers go and check out the release of the CBC's, O'Budsman's annual report about the CBC and their rebuttal.

00:26:59.140 You'll see the losses in there.

00:27:00.920 You'll see the complaints in there.

00:27:03.600 If that's our, you know, our media of record in this country, we are up the creek without a paddle, Corey.

00:27:11.360 Yeah, and the CBC has just gotten terrible.

00:27:14.300 I mean, they've always had a leftward lean.

00:27:16.180 That's nothing new.

00:27:17.260 That was around since the 80s when I grew up.

00:27:19.520 But it's tilted in this last 10 years to a point that it truly has become a government organ.

00:27:25.560 And I know the reporters chafe every time I call them people working for the state broadcaster.

00:27:29.840 But until they can start demonstrating otherwise, this is no longer even slightly an independent news outlet any longer.

00:27:37.000 And it's costing us a fortune.

00:27:38.120 I think everybody has a dog in this fight.

00:27:40.980 If you're mad at the CBC, this is a great way to jump in and raise your voice again.

00:27:45.880 But what I'm really here to say is that forget about the little schoolyard scraps that you've had maybe with, you know, you don't like Trudeau.

00:27:55.880 The trucker, you know, the trucker's convoy wasn't a schoolyard scrap.

00:27:58.840 It's sort of part hand in glove with some of this stuff.

00:28:02.880 But, you know, this is the real, this is the big kahuna.

00:28:06.880 This is the one piece of regulation which should have come through legislation because there's a piece of the Constitution that requires, if he's going to search for more money through taxation, whatever, that requires him to go through Parliament and then have it passed, obviously, through the Senate.

00:28:24.660 He hasn't done that.

00:28:25.500 What he's done is he's manipulated and interfered with what is supposed to be an independent regulatory body in Canada.

00:28:32.700 I'm not surprised.

00:28:34.040 Nothing stops him.

00:28:34.960 But this is an absolute overreach and creep into your fundamental rights for freedom of expression and your basic civil liberties.

00:28:46.300 You can do, this country, don't look at what the CRTC released.

00:28:52.120 Look at what they've said in the last six months.

00:28:55.520 And there's been many good writers that have come out and written on this today.

00:28:59.940 There's a gentleman by the name of Peter Menzies, who I know you know, Corey.

00:29:03.880 He's a former vice chair at the CRTC.

00:29:06.820 He had a brilliant step-by-step on it today.

00:29:10.620 I call it sort of the cheat sheet of why this is problematic.

00:29:15.640 This is, as it sits today, this isn't going to be the end of it.

00:29:20.800 This is just one piece to it.

00:29:22.780 And the hearings start in November, which is a really short shift for most regulatory hearings.

00:29:27.860 I mean, you know, Corey, it's normally 12 to anywhere to a year, you know, scheduling of that.

00:29:35.160 This time, it's only four weeks before the hearings start.

00:29:38.580 And so it will be interesting to see how that plays out and whether or not that's broadcasted for all of us to see.

00:29:44.680 But to make no mistake, this is just the beginning.

00:29:48.740 And, or maybe it's the middle, Corey.

00:29:51.380 I'm not so sure.

00:29:52.640 But it's definitely not the end.

00:29:54.380 And this is not about a fight with the CBC.

00:29:57.020 You can have that.

00:29:58.320 I'm right there with you.

00:29:59.420 So this is not about disliking Trudeau.

00:30:02.280 This is about your rights being infringed upon.

00:30:06.280 Oh, absolutely.

00:30:07.360 And, you know, it's a good note to leave off on.

00:30:09.100 And I'm sure we'll have to discuss this further.

00:30:10.800 And again, as it develops, as we see the hearings and things like that, it's definitely the beginning of a new phase of control.

00:30:16.480 And it's a very dangerous one.

00:30:18.720 I mean, at this point, we can oppose and speak up and push back however we can.

00:30:22.660 But we kind of got to wait now to see how it's going to unfold.

00:30:25.600 So I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today because I don't think enough people understand just how serious this really is and how bad this could really get.

00:30:36.000 So if I could just make a quick note, Corey, I have joined an organization that we will go public shortly where we will be fighting and exposing the concerns and the issues and the legal issues around this type of regulation.

00:30:53.900 And I'm very proud.

00:30:55.460 I'm jumping the gun a bit here, but I want your viewers to know that this is something that I believe in so wholeheartedly as a Canadian that I'm now going to devote my time to this group.

00:31:10.700 It's at very early stages, but it will be people that you know who are going to join forces no matter who they vote for, what partisan world they live in, what they do for a living.

00:31:22.020 The people that I've spoken to and the people that have joined the group are very concerned about this encroachment of our rights.

00:31:30.320 And this particular piece that has come out with the CRTC was not the beginning.

00:31:35.720 It was the final straw for so many.

00:31:38.320 So hopefully, Corey, we can keep you updated.

00:31:41.340 I know we're here to support you, too.

00:31:44.360 You're one of the hardest-working guys in media, and I just really appreciate you giving me the opportunity today to express how problematic this is and how serious this is.

00:31:55.020 Well, I appreciate that, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys put together because we need that opposition.

00:31:59.460 So quickly, before I let you go, where can people find you on, I guess, X or formerly Twitter and other areas to keep track when things do start unfolding from you?

00:32:08.240 They might remember me as formerly Gracie Style.

00:32:12.780 Unfortunately, as I left Twitter, I lost that.

00:32:15.200 Somebody else has that, so don't follow it.

00:32:17.380 I'm Millsy Elise.

00:32:19.320 Not the greatest name.

00:32:21.220 You can also find me on LinkedIn.

00:32:22.920 All of my socials are open for anyone to follow and to join or to request.

00:32:27.460 And I will be putting forward on Twitter the website of what this group will be.

00:32:37.240 We're still trying to give it a name.

00:32:39.260 It's a little bit of a ragtag group right now, but we're hoping that we'll be able to really get in there and influence public opinion in the sense of why you need to pay attention to this. 0.86

00:32:51.400 So, yeah, come and follow me on Twitter and enjoy the ride.

00:32:55.120 It's getting feisty in there, and as Corey knows, I'm watching Corey's account and always ready to back you and jump in at a moment's notice, but you rarely need it.

00:33:06.780 That's my favorite playground.

00:33:08.460 All right.

00:33:09.100 Well, again, I appreciate the work you're doing and you're coming on today, Elise.

00:33:12.600 I'm sure we'll talk again about this soon, and I look forward to what's coming up.

00:33:15.980 Thank you so much, Corey.

00:33:17.160 You take care.

00:33:18.220 Great.

00:33:18.520 Thank you.

00:33:19.500 So that was Elise Mills. 0.99

00:33:21.020 And, yes, you can look her up on social media.

00:33:22.760 Again, Google's great.

00:33:23.560 We're still allowed to use it in Canada for now anyways, and you can find the Twitter account, the newer one, and other such things as that.

00:33:30.280 As she said, this is just warming up.

00:33:32.200 It really is, and I wanted to talk about it because I don't – I think most of the viewers on here understand.

00:33:38.160 You know, we are plugged in people.

00:33:40.060 You guys are already alternative media watchers, but unfortunately, a whole lot of our Canadians, these – we'll see independent media disappearing, and they won't notice.

00:33:49.180 They won't realize that all the alternatives disappeared somewhere.

00:33:53.600 They went away.

00:33:54.960 Like, Mills mentioned Joe Rogan, for example.

00:33:57.200 Rogan doesn't care what Trudeau thinks.

00:33:58.580 He doesn't care what Canada thinks.

00:34:00.680 He doesn't have to.

00:34:02.120 But if enough complaints – see, that's what they do.

00:34:04.320 Like I was talking about with Howard Stern.

00:34:05.940 If they flood the CRTC with complaints about Rogan, CRTC will contact Spotify, who will have had to register in Canada, and they'll say, look, you've got to block Rogan from Canadian IPs.

00:34:19.460 You are not allowed to stream that here any longer.

00:34:22.100 Or we will block you from Canada altogether.

00:34:24.320 This is the game that's going on.

00:34:25.540 I know it's a game of whack-a-ball.

00:34:26.360 People say, just resist.

00:34:27.200 You know what?

00:34:27.440 Spotify won't resist.

00:34:28.300 They'll say, screw it.

00:34:28.940 We'll either block Rogan.

00:34:29.720 They'll pull out of Canada.

00:34:30.460 We're going to lose either way.

00:34:32.960 They are not going after me directly.

00:34:35.720 They're not going after the heavyweights like Rogan directly.

00:34:37.920 They're going after the hosts.

00:34:39.680 And it could be effective.

00:34:40.780 And it's dangerous.

00:34:42.260 So, yeah, don't let the liberals tell you this is nothing to worry about.

00:34:44.900 It's a lot to worry about.

00:34:46.740 Okay, I was going to do something different.

00:34:48.240 Like I said, I get all sorts of feedback.

00:34:49.980 I get all sorts of emails, you know, messages, tweets, and things at me.

00:34:53.920 This one was a beauty, though.

00:34:54.920 It came in the other day in response to one of my columns.

00:34:56.980 So I'm just going to read it verbatim.

00:34:58.580 Aside from the gentleman's full name or a phone number he even included within it.

00:35:03.160 Because it's a good discussion point.

00:35:06.080 So here we go.

00:35:06.920 Corey, your article drips with disdain. 1.00

00:35:11.020 What a pompous ass you are. 1.00

00:35:13.320 Why not start by reading Gabor Mates' book, Hungry Ghosts? 1.00

00:35:17.480 You might actually learn something.

00:35:19.640 Give me a call at blah, blah, blah.

00:35:22.040 If you're too cheap to buy a copy and too unimaginative or too lazy to know how to get one,

00:35:27.480 I'll buy you one myself.

00:35:29.600 Your hatred is contagious, but you knew that.

00:35:32.340 That's the point of the digital rag that you work for.

00:35:35.720 As a famous Canadian songwriter once sang,

00:35:39.300 You're living for nothing now.

00:35:40.680 Hope you're keeping some kind of record.

00:35:42.400 In other words, if metaphors are too abstract for you, get a life.

00:35:46.800 Mark.

00:35:47.840 It's ironic after that little spew that he could call me pompous. 1.00

00:35:51.320 Ah, kiss my ass, Mark. 1.00

00:35:52.320 But either way, what was he so worked up about? 1.00

00:35:55.280 What was he ticked off with me about?

00:35:56.800 I mean, people get mad at me all the time.

00:35:57.940 That's nothing new.

00:35:59.120 Well, in this case, in the book he's talking about, I'm familiar with it.

00:36:02.820 It's basically one of the Bibles for the addiction enablement cult. 0.67

00:36:06.580 And it's a cult.

00:36:07.440 It really is.

00:36:08.280 It's getting to that point.

00:36:10.360 It's from a doctor talking about if we could just pump enough clean drugs into our junkies,

00:36:14.840 they'll start surviving.

00:36:16.300 They won't.

00:36:17.400 It's failing.

00:36:18.160 And that's why these cultists are getting so vitriolic.

00:36:21.760 That's why they sit down and type up such a beauty like Mark did for me there.

00:36:25.980 Because it's not working.

00:36:27.860 We're seeing on the West Coast, addiction numbers are going through the roof.

00:36:32.560 They get all the free drugs they want.

00:36:34.120 What do they do?

00:36:34.860 They take the drugs from there, and then they sell those on the street and create more addicts

00:36:38.640 because the existing addicts can't get enough of a high from that. 0.71

00:36:41.840 And then they go buy more of the crappy street drugs.

00:36:43.880 It doesn't work.

00:36:45.440 It's ideological pap.

00:36:47.120 But that's still what dominates a lot of policy.

00:36:50.780 Here in Calgary, it seems like an almost daily thing.

00:36:54.060 We here, and I'm sure in most cities, another stabbing on our LRT system, on our train system.

00:36:59.020 Yep.

00:36:59.580 Another stabbing right on the train.

00:37:02.200 I mean, they had flare gun fights in our train stations here in Calgary.

00:37:06.660 And people, oh, they're displaced from high rent.

00:37:08.580 No, they aren't.

00:37:09.400 They're junkies.

00:37:10.520 Let's quit sugarcoating this. 1.00

00:37:12.480 They're addicts.

00:37:13.760 And they need help.

00:37:15.140 They do need empathy.

00:37:16.080 We do want to help them.

00:37:18.500 But they don't belong in our bloody train system.

00:37:20.460 They don't belong in our stations.

00:37:21.560 They don't belong in the buses.

00:37:22.480 They are dangerous.

00:37:23.460 They aren't harmless. 1.00

00:37:24.180 This is some of the crap these guys feed us, too. 0.99

00:37:25.820 They're just harmless. 1.00

00:37:26.500 They're diseased.

00:37:26.920 No, they aren't. 0.69

00:37:28.100 They're stabby.

00:37:29.580 We've got the numbers. 0.97

00:37:30.560 So what do we get from this clown, one of our city councillors, and every city has councillors like this, too, Courtney Walcott? 0.84

00:37:37.340 Because we had another report that came out recently showing with our safe consumption centre in Calgary is anything but. 0.93

00:37:44.120 Maybe it's a little safer for some of the addicts who hang around in there and consume their drugs, but it's made the entire residential district around it unsafe for everybody else.

00:37:51.620 They are dealing with high crime.

00:37:54.500 They can't leave anything out for a second.

00:37:55.780 There was a local citizen talking on the news the other day saying, I'm afraid when I open my door, I'll be greeted with somebody with a knife.

00:38:00.380 And it does happen.

00:38:01.180 It has happened down there.

00:38:03.440 And what does Courtney Walcott say, our councillor in Calgary?

00:38:07.160 How do we deal with that?

00:38:08.160 Well, we need more safe consumption centres.

00:38:09.800 That's literally what he said.

00:38:11.040 You've got the evidence right in front of your privileged face.

00:38:15.120 And yes, you're privileged, Courtney.

00:38:18.380 Showing that these centres aren't helping, that they're causing more damage to the citizens than they are aiding.

00:38:24.940 And your solution is to ignore what these citizens who are enduring this and suffering through this are asking about, what they're complaining about, and say, what we need is more of this.

00:38:34.800 How about this, Courtney?

00:38:36.300 Would you like one next to your house?

00:38:38.800 Come on.

00:38:39.800 Put your money where your mouth is.

00:38:41.240 Invite it. 0.68

00:38:41.700 Have a halfway house on one side of your place, because you probably support the pathetic bail system we have and parole system. 0.84

00:38:47.060 And have a drug consumption centre on the other side.

00:38:50.640 Let's see how it goes for you.

00:38:52.780 You won't do that, will you?

00:38:53.900 Yeah, you don't ride transit, do you?

00:38:55.860 No, no, no.

00:38:57.840 No, you drive to City Hall, to your secured underground parking, warm, heated.

00:39:02.920 You never have to deal with the ruffians out there. 1.00

00:39:05.740 You don't have to ride that train, step over the puke, smell the piss. 0.99

00:39:09.560 That's not your problem.

00:39:11.720 But you will lash out if anybody dares to question the orthodoxy of the enablement cult.

00:39:18.860 Because again, it's a cult.

00:39:19.640 You see, there's ideologies.

00:39:22.140 There's things when you're getting to a point where, okay, you'll finally admit it was wrong, it failed, it isn't working, and you'll back off.

00:39:28.100 But when you completely and consistently ignore the facts right in front of your face that it isn't working, you're in a cult.

00:39:36.760 Nothing is going to change your mind. 0.97

00:39:39.720 The only thing I can see changing Courtney Walcott's mind, or Mark's mind, this ass clown who sent me this little beauty of an email, is actually dealing with it face to face. 0.98

00:39:48.960 But they talk from their comfortable suburban homes. 0.96

00:39:52.220 And, you know, paradox, you're saying, you're so right, I refuse to take transit.

00:39:54.700 And, yeah, those who can afford to refuse to take transit are refusing to take transit.

00:40:00.300 Unfortunately, there's a lot of students who have to get to school.

00:40:02.880 There's a lot of seniors that they can't drive.

00:40:05.200 They have to take transit to get around, doctor's appointments, things like that.

00:40:09.300 There are single mothers going out to get groceries. 0.78

00:40:12.300 They don't have the funds to take Uber everywhere they're going.

00:40:15.160 Or single fathers.

00:40:16.680 There's people who have to take transit.

00:40:18.560 And how fair is it to make them sit in that, deal with that?

00:40:25.080 These people who are working, these people who are paying their taxes, these people that are following the laws. 0.99

00:40:29.640 And we're bending over backwards, enabling and facilitating the scumbags who are breaking the laws, who are stabbing people, who are robbing people. 0.96

00:40:37.280 It's not working, guys. 0.98

00:40:39.260 Look at the states and some of those cities in Philadelphia, some of those mass robberies going on.

00:40:44.720 The enablement is just a catastrophe.

00:40:47.100 Stores are shutting down because the law won't follow through and charge them.

00:40:51.780 In Calgary, we don't even check people for fares when they get on the train.

00:40:56.240 It's an honor system.

00:40:59.000 Councillor Dan McLean, one of the few common sense councillors in City Hall, talked about that.

00:41:03.840 He said, why don't we secure our station so people have to buy a ticket before getting on the train?

00:41:09.180 Seems simple enough.

00:41:10.180 You know what?

00:41:10.880 And I love it because Calgarians, Nenshi used to love saying, we need to be a world-class city.

00:41:14.660 Guess what? World-class cities secure their transit systems.

00:41:18.260 They have turnstiles.

00:41:19.480 They have people there.

00:41:20.460 They make sure that people get on a train paid their fare.

00:41:24.180 And people say, well, what difference would that make?

00:41:25.900 Well, do you think the guy who pissed himself standing in the middle of the train screaming at the ceiling with the shopping cart bought a ticket?

00:41:32.580 Do you think the guy, I bet you the fellow who stabbed somebody the other day or one of the other dozens of people have been stabbing people on trains lately and in bus shelters and spots like that.

00:41:41.680 Do you think any of them bought a ticket?

00:41:44.460 No, of course not.

00:41:46.100 They have an extra four bucks.

00:41:47.220 They're going to try and turn it into 12 bucks by panhandling or stealing or whatever they're going to do and get more drugs to get their next fix. 1.00

00:41:52.240 So if you actually secure the trains, these guys can't get on them and the innocent commuters who are just trying to get to work, who are just trying to live their life, can do so safely and comfortably as should be their right.

00:42:07.460 It's not, it shouldn't be asking too much for that.

00:42:10.300 People saying, well, it's cold out.

00:42:12.140 Well, then get drug shelters for these guys.

00:42:14.700 The trains aren't shelters.

00:42:16.360 You know, you don't care about the addicts.

00:42:19.040 Yes, I do.

00:42:19.880 That's why I've had many guests on talking about treatment and things like that.

00:42:23.540 But there's places where they belong and places where they don't.

00:42:25.260 They don't belong in the bloody train.

00:42:26.580 It's not unreasonable to ask that that practice stops, has to stop.

00:42:31.520 They will still be addicts outside of the transit system.

00:42:34.560 They'll still be criminals probably outside of the transit system.

00:42:37.100 But it'll be one less area where they are traumatizing innocent citizens.

00:42:41.220 What must that have been like?

00:42:42.520 To be on the train yesterday in Calgary, the majority of people who are just trying to get around to watch one addict perforate another with a knife.

00:42:52.200 Emergency stop.

00:42:53.060 They all had to exit in an underground tunnel to get off the train.

00:42:56.640 How fair is that to those who were following the rules, those who were reasonable?

00:43:01.860 So this is how upside down our society has gotten.

00:43:03.940 You're called every name in the book for questioning the enablement cult.

00:43:07.900 And again, it defies common sense so badly, it has to be called a cult.

00:43:13.740 And I'm calling them out.

00:43:15.560 And I'll keep calling them out.

00:43:16.480 People on the streets see it. 0.94

00:43:17.860 Unfortunately, voters don't see it or get off their butts enough to deal with it.

00:43:21.080 People who do live in the suburbs who don't have to ride the train and don't go downtown don't see how bad it's gotten.

00:43:26.100 Hey, good on you.

00:43:26.960 Glad you can avoid it. 0.98

00:43:28.080 But please, for the sake of everybody else, have a look and realize that these morons like the Courtenys, there's two Courtenys who are kind of slow on Calgary's council, and Mayor Gondek, and again, this is happening in cities across North America, are wrong. 0.99

00:43:43.720 It's getting out of control. 0.99

00:43:45.420 And it's intolerable.

00:43:46.560 But now, again, towards the tail end of the show, Terry O'Malley brought up, reopen mental hospitals, that's where they belong, and they won't endanger decent people.

00:43:54.440 You know what?

00:43:56.000 That is absolutely true.

00:43:59.260 The deinstitutionalization movement, I mean, I've talked about that on here before.

00:44:04.180 It's a whole, I really should.

00:44:06.360 I'm going to look out and see if I can find a guest to really talk about that.

00:44:09.000 Because we took this, again, I tweeted that the other day, I don't care about how well-meaning somebody's actions are.

00:44:15.260 The outcomes are all that matter.

00:44:17.480 And closing down all of the mental health long-term facilities throughout North America was well-meaning through the 60s and 70s and 80s, but it was a disaster.

00:44:26.140 It was a disaster.

00:44:26.900 People needed long-term facilities to live within.

00:44:30.420 Some people, you just can't treat them.

00:44:31.840 You can't keep them stabilized.

00:44:33.180 And if you put them out into the community, as they did, they end up in the streets.

00:44:37.140 They end up harming themselves or others.

00:44:39.660 They end up addicted to other things because they aren't being properly cared for or medicated. 0.51

00:44:43.540 And that's how they end up taking other crap like meth or fentanyl.

00:44:46.800 I mean, it doesn't fix things for everybody. 0.56

00:44:48.420 But there's a whole lot of people on the streets right now that should be in a facility with long-term care, even if they're younger, if they have mental health issues.

00:44:58.360 Face that hard reality.

00:44:59.860 It's not being humane to put them out like that.

00:45:02.680 They can't take care of themselves.

00:45:04.460 And we're seeing that.

00:45:06.120 That's inhumane.

00:45:06.920 People say putting them in a facility like that long-term is inhumane.

00:45:09.180 It is not.

00:45:10.120 And it doesn't have to be.

00:45:11.420 Put aside those visions of an old Victorian Dracula-style mental hospital with people locked in cages and experimented upon and things like that.

00:45:22.580 It doesn't have to be that way.

00:45:24.520 And it hasn't been that way in a while.

00:45:26.140 We just don't have enough space any longer.

00:45:27.620 Because we're in that weird world of denial, thinking that somehow we can just let them out and they'll be all right.

00:45:33.880 They aren't.

00:45:34.620 They aren't.

00:45:34.960 And everybody's paying the price.

00:45:35.960 Everybody's suffering.

00:45:37.220 I mean, I'm rough when I talk about the addicts and the people on the streets.

00:45:40.560 But I do feel for them.

00:45:41.400 I mean, those are somebody's children, brothers, cousins, parents.

00:45:44.720 They're people.

00:45:45.660 And they're in dire condition.

00:45:47.400 And they're suffering.

00:45:48.160 They're not happy out there.

00:45:49.140 They're not having a good time.

00:45:50.360 And you see them shuffling around, covered in sores, their teeth falling out, stealing things, living in fear, sleeping in the alleys.

00:45:56.720 No, no, they're not having a good time at all.

00:45:59.980 And, you know, again, that gets back to those enablement people saying, we can sustain the addiction if they just get clean drugs.

00:46:06.820 Go stuff it.

00:46:08.400 No, you can't.

00:46:09.740 No, you can't.

00:46:10.520 You're just dragging out what is a long and ugly death.

00:46:13.720 They need treatment.

00:46:14.420 They need intervention.

00:46:15.700 And they need to be pulled off the streets.

00:46:16.720 But that's a much bigger discussion altogether, too, along with things like the mental health facilities.

00:46:21.360 But thanks for bringing it up.

00:46:23.440 And, yeah, Paradoxia, I'll leave off on that note.

00:46:25.500 A commenter saying, yep, if the institutions were bad, fix the institution.

00:46:29.040 He's absolutely right.

00:46:29.840 You don't have to throw out the institution.

00:46:31.580 Fix it.

00:46:32.260 And we can do that.

00:46:33.340 All right, everybody.

00:46:34.400 Thank you for joining me today.

00:46:36.860 It's been a good show, a good rant.

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00:47:05.460 Cash barley is at $3.40, feed wheat is at $3.55, and corn is unchanged at $3.52 per metric tonne.

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Western Standard - October 04, 2023

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