Cory Morgan Show. Where are the bodies？
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In this week's Western Standard, Corey rants about the lack of an investigation into the deaths of hundreds of Indigenous children at a former Indian residential school in Kamloops, B.C. and calls for the government to illegalize the term "Resident Indian School Denialism."
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Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am, of course, Corey Morgan. This is the weekly show on the Western Standard. I'll cover some news issues. I'll do some ranting. I'll talk to some guests. All that good stuff. I see some of the regulars checking in. Gary Paradox, see Mr. Stonely all present. Yes, use that comment scroll, guys. This being live means we can interact. I mean, I won't necessarily read every comment out, but I see them all there and it helps the conversation and keeps things rolling. So by all means, use it.
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Including you there, Scott, even if you are from up in Fort Mac. So just always a reminder on that. Oh, keep things civil. We don't have to get on each other's cases. We can debate without getting too out of hand. You know, if you really want to go nuts, go on Twitter. That's what it's for. Then you can just block each other eventually.
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All right. So I got a good show lined up today. We've got a Colin Craig. He's been on before. He's with secondstreet.org. And they've got some interesting kind of one good news piece on health care that they've put out and one that's pretty concerning on health care.
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We're going to talk about those things, though, because, of course, health care is always top of mind for citizens every election. It just seems it's the biggest issue everybody has when they're pulled until somebody proposes changing anything.
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And then they all curl up and say, no, we got to keep it how it is. All right. Well, we should start things off with my usual rant. I'll tell you what's got me wound up today.
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So, well, where do I start? Well, I know where I have to start. One of two things has happened on the site of the former Indian residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
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So either we have one of the most horrific mass murders of children in history that has occurred there, or it's one of the most socially damaging hoaxes we've ever seen in modern memory or modern history.
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In either case, it's critical that excavations are carried out to confirm just what happened.
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It's been over two years since over 200 sites considered to be possible child's graves were identified with ground penetrating radar, also known as GPR.
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But no further investigation into the matter appears to have been done.
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Could you imagine the outrage if we never excavated and investigated at the Picton Farm site when it was discovered that murders had taken place there?
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The allegations at the Kamloops school site are more horrific and involved several orders, more victims than Picton's acts.
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When the GPR anomalies at the school site were publicly reported in 2021, it rocked the nation and made international headlines.
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We had protests erupting across the country. Over 70 churches have been burned to the ground.
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Canadian flags were kept at half-mast for over six months, and a new national holiday was created to address the tragedy.
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Not to mention, of course, the government floodgates of spending and chronic apologies opened right up.
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Now, of course, people are starting to speak up.
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Questions are being asked, and why shouldn't they be?
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Stories claimed that 200 children were killed and secretly buried in an apple orchard in the 1950s and 60s.
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The perpetrators in that case might still be alive and on the loose.
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Also, shouldn't we be trying to identify these victims so the remains can be repatriated to their families?
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In response to the questions that people are starting to ask now, the government, though, is responding by saying it might illegalize the questions.
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An independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves has asked the Justice Department to illegalize what they're calling residential school denialism.
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And Justice Minister David Labetti has said he's open to the idea.
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The person assigned to dealing with the alleged graves appears to be more concerned with shutting down discourse than actually dealing with what's happened with these graves.
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Now, of course, they're using the term denialism purposely to try and draw a parallel to Holocaust deniers.
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There's several reasons, though, we can't compare the questioning of the lack of investigation into alleged graves with people who question the actual existence of the Holocaust.
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I mean, to begin with, there were records tracking the horrific mass murder carried out during the Holocaust.
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The Nazis were actually horrifically meticulous record keepers when it came to that.
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It was known who entered those camps and who was killed.
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The schools needed to do so if only to ensure they got their government transfers per child.
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Deaths were recorded, but there's no records of over 200 children dying and being buried in Kamloops.
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The Holocaust also had witnesses in the millions, actually, from the Allied forces and Russian liberators who showed up in the camps to local citizens in the areas of the camps to the survivors of the camps to the camp guards.
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The atrocities committed were well witnessed and corroborated.
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Now, all their stories have been made of children being hung from hooks and thrown into the furnace at the Kamloops school and things such as that.
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Claims that children were taken out in the night and forced to dig graves to bury their compatriots.
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But there's no corroborating witnesses to these acts.
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The Holocaust left millions of families seeking lost loved ones for decades.
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But there's no records of any families claiming to have had children disappear at the Kamloops residential school site.
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Most importantly, encountering deniers, the Holocaust had bodies, millions of them,
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from pits filled with charred bones and ash to mass graves to literal piles of bodies found by liberators.
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At the Kamloops site, to date, not a single body has been recovered.
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GPR is an effective tool for finding ground disturbances, but it can't distinguish between what could be a grave or what could be an old outhouse pit.
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And this was stated even as part of the original report on the GPR anomalies found at the Kamloops site.
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At a different site, six months after the Kamloops anomalies were discovered,
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a GPR survey was carried out on the site of a former hospital in Edmonton,
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where it was alleged that indigenous victims of ill treatment were buried.
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The GPR identified 34 anomalies thought to be graves.
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Yes, everybody was rending and losing it there.
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So with the supervision of indigenous elders, the anomalies were all carefully excavated over the course of several days.
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It's not unreasonable or hateful to ask questions about something as important as the possible mass murder of children.
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Demanding an investigation of these alleged crimes actually is the opposite of denialism.
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It's outrageous we've allowed the nation to be turned upside down over the GPR anomalies
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There are some very valid reasons to question what may or may not have happened in the old apple orchard in Kamloops.
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It's only going to convince people something's being covered up.
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If we want to end what's being called denialism, we need to start digging.
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Then we can get on with trying to find the killers and giving closure to the families.
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I mean, they talk out of both sides and sides of their wealth, you know.
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We've had one of these horrific things that happened.
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We've got to find out just what the heck happened there.
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But apparently pretty soon it's going to be illegal to even ask for that.
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Let's get into the newsroom and talk to our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what else is going on out there.
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I'm kind of surprised you showed up for work today.
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Well, Greta Thunberg has predicted today will be doomsday.
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I figured you and Jane would spend the last day, you know, letting your bees free and other stuff out in produce.
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Jeez, if I'd have known, I probably would have scheduled the day that way.
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Five years ago, she predicted the world would end today.
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So it looks, you know, I'm just looking out the window now.
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And, you know, there's a few hours left in the day.
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But I came across something the other day that that shocked me to my very core.
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That is my old, yeah, private school pictures from Sharligan Lake School.
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So my parents outsourced it and sent me to an all boys school to have them, you know, contract discipline.
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Obviously, we're all gripped as the entire world is on the rescue efforts off the coast of Newfoundland
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for the miniature submersible that lost touch on Sunday as it made its way four kilometers to the bottom of the floor.
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There's now five ships in the area and two remote operated vehicles that are searching underwater.
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As well, a Canadian search and rescue aircraft has heard repeated bangings, what sound like bangings coming from the ocean.
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U.S. Coast Guard officials were very, very careful today to say that they really don't know what those bangs could be.
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But, you know, they're running out of hope, Corey.
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And as of this moment, if they're sitting on the bottom of the ocean floor, there's really not a rescue vehicle there that has the capability to retrieve them.
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So, you know, we're keeping an eye on that one for you.
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Other stuff, our columnist Michael Wagner is looking at whether or not Ottawa would even let Alberta leave the country if that's the way things go.
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And this is ironic coming as in the worldwide marketing convention.
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So, wow, you can tank an entire company and still be rewarded for it.
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We've got video up of Lethbridge MP Thomas talking about how Bill C-18 will undermine journalism in the country.
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And Ty Northcott is on trial up in Red Deer today for holding his No More Lockdowns rodeo all those years ago.
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And you remember, Corey, that the health authorities at that time were not pleased and arrested and charged he and his wife after that rodeo.
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So, stuff coming this afternoon, our energy reporter, Sean Polzer, is looking at a troubling report today that says Russian hackers are looking to cripple the Alberta energy industry.
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And, of course, we'll keep up to the minute on the search for this, Corey.
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Yes, if we don't have enough from Ottawa attacking our energy industry, we need Russian hackers coming after it now.
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I mean, it's just the stuff of nightmares, right?
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You know, you don't know if they're still down there hammering on the side of that thing
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in terror or if perhaps they've passed or whatever.
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I just, you know, there's thrill-seeking and there's adventures, but you really want
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to pick some of your adventures a little more carefully.
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It sounds more and more news is coming out about that thing, too, that for all the money
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that went into it, this whole affair of getting down there was kind of half-assed with what
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I mean, clearly at this point, it wasn't 100% reliable.
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Either way, I mean, still, you don't wish passing on anybody.
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We'll hope for the best that maybe this thing will be located and these people can be saved.
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You know, I think that's part of why it's gripping the world, too.
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If you ever want to think about claustrophobia and such, I mean, just imagining being in that
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circumstance is just, I guess, it's chills through the spine.
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I'll get to my guest pretty quickly here, but I'm going to talk first, maybe just something
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to kick a little away from the submarine issue.
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You know, the king of the $6,000 a night hotel room during the Queen's funeral.
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But I guess there was a two-day trip to an anti-poverty summit.
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And on anti-poverty summit in New York City, the prime minister went there.
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It's very important because he really knows about ground-level poverty, I tell you.
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In two days, Justin Trudeau and his little entourage, well, obviously not little, to tell
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everybody about how to battle poverty, managed to run up $61,000, just hotel bills.
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We're not talking about the rest of the bills for his travel and everything else.
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But again, his support numbers seem as high as ever.
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I mean, I don't expect the prime minister to travel somewhere and stay in a super eight.
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But I mean, do they have even a little, I'm certain over the course of two days, they could
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have come in at a little less than $61,000 in hotel bills for really, what was it, him
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just showing up to give a 20-minute speech at one point or something?
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But these stories keep coming up between him and our governor general and the rest of them
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Okay, let's get on and talk to Colin Craig of secondstreet.org.
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And there's some new stuff, a couple of items on the healthcare file we can talk about.
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You know, I rant, I rave, I let the veins get going on my head, but it's actually, I'm
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There's a lot happening in the news, isn't there?
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I mean, I'd almost have to expand the length of the show, but it would, that minute would
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I guess I just wanted to, there's a couple of things you guys put out recently.
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I'll start briefly on one that's a little bit older, because I mean, it's kind of a
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positive and a negative story you guys got going on.
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There was some progress on wait times and waiting lists that actually was getting a little
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And I was just trying to pull up the numbers here so I've got them and can refer to them.
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But everyone knows that since COVID arrived in Canada, waiting lists got worse.
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The backlog of number of people waiting for surgery, diagnostic scans to see a specialist,
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And so last year we launched a website called CanadaWeights.ca, where we've been asking governments
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regularly for data on how many people are waiting for surgery to see a specialist, to
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And we've been tracking that over time, asking governments periodically what their numbers
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I mean, you would think intuitively they would all want to know and have these figures
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at their fingertips, but it's not always the case.
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And what we've actually found is from January of this year to May, there was a positive reduction
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in the number of people waiting for a diagnostic scan.
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When it comes to surgery, there was a slight drop there, about 13,000 cases in the number
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And then to see a specialist, we saw an increase there.
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Part of it was due to getting some information from a province that we didn't have data from
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But on the whole, we're seeing, you know, some positive signs.
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I think that this crisis that we have in healthcare is going to persist for a long time still, though.
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Well, I just want to start with at least a little bit of a positive note, you know, and segue
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into your more recent just released out there, which is where you found that, because I mean,
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one of the things that we're going to deal with waiting lists, we're going to deal with waiting
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times, we know we need more healthcare professionals.
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And you found that almost 10,000 healthcare professionals are licensed to work down in
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Yeah, and a big asterisk beside that figure is that that's only border states.
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So if you think about all the states along the Canada-US border, so Washington State, Montana,
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North Dakota, New York, Pennsylvania, and so forth.
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Michigan rather, those jurisdictions, we contacted them because they will issue licenses for nurses
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And we asked for data, how many of these are Canadian?
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And what they were able to share with us are cases where the mailing address for these
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So it's a lowball figure, because if you, let's say you grew up in Ontario, and you moved,
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you're a nurse, and you've been working in their system for 20 years, and you moved to
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the United States 10 years ago, well, you're still really, you know, a Canadian, you just
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happened to have moved, and now your mailing address is a US address.
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So all those types of cases wouldn't be captured.
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And obviously, we wouldn't have data for cases like California and Texas and Florida and other
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states where they might be seen as a desirable location for Canadians to move to.
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But yeah, 10,000 issued by border states, a huge number coming from Ontario, which isn't
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too surprising, given that you have a large population in Windsor, and then also in the
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sort of St. Catherine's, Niagara Falls area, where they're close to Buffalo, and obviously
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So lots of cases of these workers commuting, so they live in Canada, they work in the US.
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And other, in other cases, these workers indicated to us in a survey that they're not working
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So there's an opportunity here for government run hospitals, they look to fill our labor shortage
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to try and recruit some of these workers who are working in the states, but then also
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The positive thing that we're seeing in Canada more and more is that governments are hiring
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private clinics to provide health care services to the public.
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And so there's an opportunity for these private clinics to offer these workers the types of work
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arrangements, whether it's compensation or working conditions or the scheduling, whatever,
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that they're looking for, that maybe the government has been too slow and inflexible and unwilling
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So there's an opportunity there for these private clinics to maybe recruit some of these workers
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and ultimately lead to an increase in health care staff in Canada.
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Yeah, good, because that's what I wanted to ask further on it.
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I mean, did you find out a bit of what is driving people to decide to cross the border to work,
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whether it's daytime commuters or a full-out planning on emigration, it's still a bit of
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So, I mean, you've really got to either not like what the opportunities are on your side
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of the border, or they've got to be offering something very good on the other side to make
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So in one of the states, we were able to get really good data for contact information for
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these workers, and that was Michigan, we were able to actually get email addresses for the
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And so we emailed them a survey and we said, ask them a number of questions, one of which
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And intuitively, I think a lot of people would think, okay, well, they're going across for
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And that is true in some of the cases, but the number one reason was actually availability
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And a lot of nurses told us that they were offered part-time roles in Canada.
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They didn't want to have a part-time job where they would constantly have to be taking extra
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shifts and not knowing when those shifts are in order to raise their income to a full-time
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So what they did was they just decided, well, I'll go work in Detroit because they're offering
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In one case, someone told us they didn't have to pay for parking.
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You know, so there's things like that, all kinds of reasons why these workers were deciding
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In that survey, they told us the second most common reason was compensation.
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So the majority of these nurses decided to work in the US.
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It was actually because of working conditions and the availability of work.
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So those are things that governments can work to address without having to open up the purse
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So, you know, there's all kinds of, I think, things that governments could learn from this,
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but one of which is it's a big opportunity to try and sit down and recruit some of these
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Well, unfortunately, a lot of political football always gets played about this.
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We saw it in the Alberta election recently with health professionals saying they were going
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to leave the province if the election didn't go this way or that way or unions threatening.
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But they talked mostly of saying they were going to leave on a lateral basis.
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But, you know, the problems seem to be the same in every province when it comes to some
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So I guess, you know, we should be looking at what's drawing people to the south rather
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than to what's on the east and west of our provinces.
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And, you know, in the case of surveying nurses, they told us, some of them said the problem
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They don't want to work in an environment where the union is defending people that are
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Others raised the point that they're working in Detroit.
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They've been working there for years, maybe 10, 20 years, whatever.
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And if they come back to Canada and work in a government-run hospital where it's a unionized
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environment, well, they're suddenly at the bottom of the seniority list.
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I mean, if you've been in your career for 20 years, do you want to, you know, go work
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in an environment where you're kind of thought of as a rookie?
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I don't think a lot of people would want to do that.
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So that is a concern where I think maybe the unions have to be a little bit flexible.
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And, you know, if we're all focused on putting patients first, which is what the healthcare
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system should be all about, then, yeah, maybe the unions need to think about how they
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could be a bit flexible to make sure that there are enough workers.
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In the private sector, typically these clinics, they're not unionized.
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They're a lot flatter in terms of the hierarchy.
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So if you are coming in as a nurse and you want to negotiate maybe something in particular
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to, that works with your schedule, your lifestyle, whatever, it's probably a lot easier to negotiate
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with your supervisor, whoever, and get that approved rather than going through the big
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government bureaucratic structure to get something addressed.
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So that's obviously more common in the U.S. is that they have more of these private clinics
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and private hospitals, and there's more flexibility there.
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So that might be something that we might want to learn from how they do it.
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So you had mentioned, though, that more private clinics have been opening up in Canada and providing
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those options for healthcare workers and patients.
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We hear about that, but I mean, it's often a big battle in the main BC.
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You know, does that clash with the Health Act or not?
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The first issue is governments hiring a private clinic to provide services to patients in the
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So let's say that, heaven forbid, Corey, you require hip surgery, and the Alberta government
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might say, okay, Corey, you know, you're on X month waiting list or whatever, and when it's
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your turn, you can either get your hip done at a government hospital or they send you off
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If you go to the private clinic, you go in, they do the surgery.
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When it comes time to leave, you're not given the bill.
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The government's paying for it just as if you were having that done in a government-run
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The private clinics have to meet the same standard of care and so forth.
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It just means that, you know, someone is employed by someone differently than what happens
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Governments have been embracing that across the country.
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Even in British Columbia, where they take a very abrasive relationship with the private
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sector and healthcare under the current government there, they even were working with private
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Ontario has really aggressively started to go in this direction.
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They've, Premier Ford there has mused about upwards of half of elective surgeries being done
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And multiple studies found that the costs were actually lower too, because the private sector
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is just more efficient or often can be, I should say.
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So that's the one approach when it comes to the government hiring private clinics to provide
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So the other option is, let's say, Corey, you don't want to wait X number of months to
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get your hip or your knee done, and you want to just pay for it somewhere and get it done
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Well, this is the contentious issue where there's all kinds of, it can be a mess in this country
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So what happened recently with the Supreme Court is they refused to hear a case that would have
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potentially brought that right to patients in British Columbia and potentially across
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the nation would be to allow people the right to use the public system or pay for something
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The Supreme Court gave Quebecers that right in 2005 because the waiting lists were so long.
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And so what was happening recently was British Columbia was essentially a private clinic there
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was trying to get that right to patients across the country and obviously in British Columbia.
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And the Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
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So now the Supreme Court has created two-tier health care in Canada where Quebec patients
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have more rights when it comes to health care than everyone else in the rest of the country.
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Well, and here's some of the irony of the whole thing too, that in BC where they've been
00:28:40.340
a little more jealous and trying to stop attempted reforms.
00:28:43.420
We heard the story recently with some BC cancer patients who were actually being sent to the
00:28:47.880
United States to get treatment because they couldn't keep up with things in BC.
00:28:51.880
And ironically, I wouldn't be surprised if they had some Canadian nurses or doctors were
00:28:55.380
the ones actually treating them on that side of the border.
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In Ontario, actually, some patients are going across the border to Quebec because they can pay
00:29:14.040
So you've got cancer patients in Ontario going to a Quebec private health facility and paying
00:29:21.380
And this is where it gets really weird with our rules.
00:29:24.160
Right now, you can go to another province and pay for private surgeries.
00:29:38.260
So it's just, it makes no sense at all, especially when governments are always lecturing us about
00:29:45.700
They won't let us pay for health procedures locally, but we can go to another province
00:29:51.480
So as one example, we actually just did a video on this.
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We've got it on our social media pages if anyone wants to see it.
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Someone in Calgary will often go to, say, Vancouver to pay for hip surgery, while a Vancouver
00:30:06.480
It makes no sense to force people to leave their local community where they can get this
00:30:16.320
Because if you don't have to pay the extra cost for travel and accommodations and whatever,
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You could recover, if you could do it locally, you could recover with your family around you
00:30:27.400
And then there's, you know, just ultimately having more choice and being able to do it
00:30:33.800
So there's lots of benefits of it, but we just, we're stuck in this 1970s kind of socialist
00:30:39.460
mindset where we really restrict the options that Canadians have.
00:30:45.960
It's just all around not a good, not a good approach.
00:30:48.800
Well, it does sound like sort of kicking and screaming.
00:30:57.720
So, I mean, in closing, where can we find more information about this, the full release
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from you guys and some of your other healthcare work?
00:31:04.600
Because you've got some great videos and things up there.
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We're on YouTube, Facebook to search for secondstreet.org on there.
00:31:12.000
You'll find us, our website, obviously is secondstreet.org.
00:31:16.160
We're on Twitter as well and Instagram and the usual social media platforms.
00:31:20.740
And people can, can see what we're up to and read our reports and see all the, the evidence
00:31:25.000
that we gather and, and hopefully it helps inform their, their, what they know about healthcare
00:31:35.100
And yeah, just always offering some good common sense and, you know, stats-based stuff on,
00:31:40.000
Because as I said, it's always a, a top issue with Canadians in every election, yet when
00:31:43.640
it comes time to talk about changing anything, then everybody turtles up.
00:31:46.180
So we really need to have these discussions to make people understand that reform isn't
00:31:54.000
This, the healthcare system is collapsing in this country.
00:31:56.760
It's been in a crisis situation for a long time.
00:31:59.900
And unless we have the courage to start reforming things, it's gonna, it's gonna stay in rough
00:32:04.540
shape and, you know, heaven forbid any of us actually need the system because, uh, might
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And that's, uh, could have the most tragic events.
00:32:16.260
And, uh, I will, I'm sure we'll talk again soon down the road.
00:32:21.260
So yeah, I was calling Craig of secondstreet.org.
00:32:24.060
And yeah, the time goes fast because it's such a big issue and there's so much to cover,
00:32:27.900
but I mean, there's some, uh, you know, things to, to speak of on that, on that.
00:32:32.180
I'm, I'm just, uh, trying to get to the commenter I had seen from Corey Young, for example, a commenter
00:32:37.460
said, public hospitals don't have enough staff, but private clinics do.
00:32:40.480
Now we know why the private steals from the public system.
00:32:43.200
Well, well, no, actually the private competes with the public system and the public system.
00:32:48.820
The public system isn't keeping up the standard to maintain and keep their staff.
00:32:53.480
So what should happen is the public system should figure out what's going wrong and should
00:33:02.060
Well, that's what we try to do in Canada with our health system is so rigid is, is force
00:33:06.380
people to do things and they're going across the border to the States.
00:33:11.000
It's not just patients crossing the border now to get away from Canada's rigid system.
00:33:16.940
And that's just going to compound the problem we have of waiting lists and problems that
00:33:23.400
So, um, we need to examine why, why is it superior then to work in a private environment?
00:33:33.700
Uh, Rob Taylor saying, uh, nobody should be able to jump the line by paying for health
00:33:37.620
care service, uh, provincial systems contracting privately provided services as long as patients
00:33:44.860
I mean, the thing is people will pay anyways, but they'll go to Montana to do it.
00:33:51.140
I'm okay if a guy next to me pays to get to the line first because he's paying out of pocket
00:33:59.980
You know, if he wants to pay out of pocket, so be it.
00:34:05.020
So if it's speeding it up for everybody else while we're at it, it's keeping more health
00:34:11.160
As long as we still have full coverage for everybody else, we've got to set aside the
00:34:16.440
envy because it doesn't matter if we're all equally miserable, we're still miserable.
00:34:20.320
And we, we've got to look at the, you just try to get the best outcomes we can.
00:34:26.000
And some of our stubbornness with this is, is, is, uh, holding it back.
00:34:30.980
And something that we keep saying is, is so, so important.
00:34:34.340
But as I said, we're always fearful when people actually talk about reforming it though.
00:34:40.360
That's a different, that's why I wanted to talk to Colin about it.
00:34:42.660
We've heard about, uh, you know, healthcare tourism and people leaving to get treatment and
00:34:46.280
things, uh, for a long time, but we haven't heard so much about Canadian workers leaving
00:34:53.640
I mean, we can't just spring up more healthcare workers out of the ground like daisies.
00:34:59.420
They're, they're, they're difficult to find and train and get into place.
00:35:02.220
So let's look at why we're losing them and see how we can change our system to make it
00:35:13.480
Uh, you know, getting back to the, the, the residential school and, and the, and the
00:35:17.860
burials, uh, you know, some, some other people saying that there's, there's nothing there.
00:35:22.420
Uh, there's nothing to be found if we excavate and things like that.
00:35:26.340
You know, that's most of what I'm saying when it comes to that is we don't know.
00:35:33.140
I'm not sitting here to say that there's no human remains at the Kamloops site.
00:35:39.100
None have been found yet, but the other thing is nobody's looked.
00:35:43.480
And this is really starting to make some of us scratch our heads.
00:35:47.000
I mean, come on, but why haven't you followed through?
00:35:50.760
We aren't even trying to look a little further yet.
00:36:00.140
Um, Rob Taylor also saying bust the government unions and fix the system.
00:36:04.000
Yeah, I, I, the unions are, um, I mean, you see unions are right, you know, organized labor
00:36:12.680
So we can't get rid of them, but we should have some means to allow staff to avoid the
00:36:19.540
And the way to do that is to have more, yeah, private non-union options to compete for those
00:36:27.580
Those who don't want to deal with the union can choose those.
00:36:30.180
And if there's too many people, as far as the union is concerned, going to the alternative
00:36:34.480
facilities to work, well, the unions are going to have to learn how to keep their own members
00:36:39.520
I think, you know, we, monopolies that, that's, that's what it always comes down to
00:36:52.600
If there's only one provider, um, a couple of things.
00:36:57.340
I want to clarify a little more on the cam loops thing, because I see a couple of commenters
00:37:01.360
So I've seen, I've had a lot of this discussion on social media about that with cam loops
00:37:06.740
And one was saying, you'll always find bone, you'll find bones in a graveyard.
00:37:10.340
And, uh, James saying, uh, we're, we're not allowed to talk about the unmarked graves.
00:37:17.720
And, uh, one of the issues is that people think that this was a known graveyard.
00:37:25.840
A bunch of the, what happened once these GPR anomalies were found in cam loops, they started
00:37:32.160
doing GPR at known cemeteries all over the place, all across Western Canada and found
00:37:40.080
So yes, they went to a graveyard and they identified graves and they were unmarked because
00:37:44.320
yes, if you go to even, if I know, cause I go regularly through it, the Stoney Reserve
00:37:48.640
in, in, uh, towards Banff, for example, their cemetery is all full of nothing but wooden
00:37:54.160
Even right now, they're going to rot away and they're going to disappear.
00:38:04.620
It was an apple orchard, but it wasn't known as a cemetery.
00:38:11.000
This was supposedly a place where the priests, after they would molest and kill children, these
00:38:17.360
And they would get the, then they'd wake other children up in the night and make them
00:38:20.220
go out with shovels and bury them in the apple orchard.
00:38:22.900
And to be honest, the stories sound pretty excessive.
00:38:28.300
The world's been known to be a pretty sick place.
00:38:32.100
I mean, we've seen some horrible, horrible things committed, uh, by humans against humans
00:38:38.360
So I won't say it's impossible, but again, it tells us that we have to get in there and
00:38:43.060
start looking around, find out just what happened.
00:38:48.800
Uh, well, no, lots of us want to talk about it and that's part of the problem.
00:38:53.540
And then other governments talking about making it a crime to talk about it.
00:38:57.000
Well, I guess I'll be charged because you know, I won't shut up about something that,
00:39:07.280
We can talk a little more about a federal government hypocrisy.
00:39:10.160
Speaking again, like I talked about Trudeau and his latest massive hotel bill to, to go
00:39:14.640
and virtue signal down in New York because he has such an understanding of the causes
00:39:19.720
Uh, our governor general, you know, the one who spent, I think what it was, uh, 90,000
00:39:27.540
Uh, she, uh, burned through 25,000 liters of jet fuel to give a climate change speech in
00:39:35.600
So again, just her and her entourage, you know, they can't zoom in.
00:39:41.060
And the rest of us were expected to for years, uh, but, uh, 25,000 liters of fuel, one trip
00:39:46.820
for somebody who, again, she's, she's appointed a governor general.
00:39:49.940
We got to remember governor general's a ribbon cutter guys.
00:39:51.940
They, they, they're trained for anything all that special that they're an aristocrat.
00:39:57.940
So it's really not that essential that we need this person in this position to fly around
00:40:03.500
the world and lecture people on climate change.
00:40:08.120
What the hell does she know about climate change?
00:40:13.580
She loves burning that fuel, which is burning through your tax dollars.
00:40:18.000
And, uh, it's just an insult to those of us as we got a second carbon tax coming up on
00:40:22.760
us pretty soon as the first one just wasn't enough.
00:40:26.760
And, uh, she's just jet setting around the world.
00:40:30.040
I mean, she's apparently, she's not as a vile a personality as Trudeau's first choice of,
00:40:34.360
uh, governor generals were, you know, she went out and disgraced that last one.
00:40:37.500
Uh, this one's just, uh, spinning her way out, but she's not abusing the staff as much.
00:40:41.340
In fact, she's probably treating them to caviar, I guess, uh, while they fly around together.
00:40:46.780
Uh, speaking again of the Senate and speaking of, well, speaking of, uh, unaccountable government.
00:40:53.420
But yeah, you know, and Tim Burns saying that position should be eliminated.
00:40:58.280
We don't need the Queens represent one of the Kings representative, uh, sitting over
00:41:02.800
us any longer, but, uh, that would take constitutional reform, which is virtually impossible in this
00:41:08.200
Um, so one step at a time, um, but we should defund it.
00:41:12.680
You know, we don't have to, uh, uh, uh, um, give her a big budget any longer.
00:41:21.180
I bet you for the paltry wage of a hundred thousand a year in expenses, you know, somebody
00:41:24.960
would take that job and probably do a good job with it, but, uh, you know, okay.
00:41:30.620
Uh, thanks for the reminder there from Chris Gibson saying, uh, what's my opinion on the
00:41:41.660
Uh, they were in Manitoba and I think Ontario, Quebec, maybe.
00:41:44.420
I can't remember exactly where I know there were two in Manitoba.
00:41:47.200
Um, Maxine Bernier was trying to make his mark and, and, uh, show himself as being a viable
00:41:53.580
Unfortunately, he came in at least unfortunately for him, uh, with even, you know, a fewer percentage
00:42:00.620
Uh, in the general election last time around in that riding in Winnipeg.
00:42:04.960
Uh, so, and he was nowhere even close to winning.
00:42:08.080
So it doesn't bode very well for the PPC, I think in, in building an option, but we'll
00:42:13.140
Um, the other distressing part is the needle hasn't moved a bit.
00:42:17.600
I mean, two liberal seats, two conservative seats got returns of two liberal seats, two
00:42:23.080
So all of the scandals, all of the, uh, coverups, all of the crap going on with Trudeau is, is
00:42:29.620
fake, uh, position of special rapporteur and, and then all of the games being played.
00:42:36.260
And it doesn't seem to have made a single bit of difference.
00:42:39.840
People are going to vote one way and they're going to vote the other, which means basically
00:42:42.980
if, um, we, uh, real letter had another election today, we'd probably pretty much have the same
00:42:51.780
So it gets distressing because I don't know what on earth it takes.
00:42:55.460
What does it take to get rid of Justin Trudeau's government?
00:43:00.240
It's not healthy for a country to be stuck, um, that, uh, badly on a government that, well,
00:43:11.580
But those by-elections, well, they, they didn't give us a lot to read into the tea leaves.
00:43:14.460
We have one more now that just opened up in Alberta.
00:43:18.340
Uh, Shuv Majumdar, he's been on the show a couple of times.
00:43:20.600
He's running in it for the Conservatives and, uh, it's a very, very safe seat.
00:43:27.320
So there's not many, not much we can read into the tea leaves with what's going to happen
00:43:33.440
So, uh, yeah, it gets difficult to, to break the status quo around here.
00:43:38.200
First going next with, uh, yeah, Trudeau's former pop top public servant is now a Senator.
00:43:43.920
You know, there's, there's that great plum rule you get is thrown out into the Senate and,
00:43:49.360
uh, where you could sit and collect a giant salary and do very little and, um, uh, collect,
00:43:56.960
And, uh, Ian Sugar, it's the name and he's, uh, warning the way the Senate structured can
00:44:01.580
give senators a feeling they have more power than they have a right to.
00:44:05.240
He's saying that, uh, the Senate shouldn't be opposing the government.
00:44:08.560
And is he, this is cutting through some of the BS of Trudeau when he's changed, one of
00:44:13.700
his reforms he claimed to have been doing when he came in was saying, we're going to end
00:44:17.540
the partisanship in the Senate and they're no longer liberal senators.
00:44:22.580
I'll just appoint them, but they'll be independent.
00:44:29.800
In fact, he's chiding the other senators for their daring to be independent.
00:44:34.100
So no, that's not independent senators whatsoever.
00:44:36.880
Now, end the facade, at least let them wear their partisan colors again, guys.
00:44:42.080
I mean, come on, you know, just feeding us the BS on these things is, it's just something
00:44:48.200
At least I'll give it to him in the sense of him being honest about it a little bit.
00:44:54.080
Uh, they're saying Alberta will have to leave Canada to save Canada.
00:44:56.940
Well, it's something I've said for a while is we need a catalyst.
00:44:59.460
We need something to blow things up, whether it's Alberta, whether it's Quebec, whether it's
00:45:02.840
whatever it is, but our system is broken and our status quo is stuck.
00:45:05.840
Whether it's trying to fix things like the Senate, trying to fix things like the governor
00:45:08.940
general, all of these require constitutional reforms.
00:45:12.440
And as we've seen, Meach Lake, Charlottetown, historically, whenever we try to change the
00:45:20.620
So I think we need, uh, yes, we need a province to get either right on the brink of or to actually
00:45:28.680
And I can't see what else will manage to shift the needle on things.
00:45:37.180
Well, all I can say too, then, as I start to wrap things up, we're still keeping an eye
00:45:43.680
If we find out anything else on the, that horror story of those poor, poor souls stuck
00:45:47.720
on that, uh, uh, submersible somewhere out there.
00:45:51.520
Let's hope that, uh, well, you know, a miracle happens and they're found alive.
00:45:55.480
I know it's hard to find sympathy sometimes for tourists who've spent so much money to go
00:45:59.780
into something so dangerous, but all the same, you don't wish anything as horrific as,
00:46:05.160
Uh, there'll be plenty more to report on next week, guys, and, uh, lots of ranting to come.
00:46:09.780
So thanks for tuning in with us today and we will see you all next week at this time.
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