Western Standard - August 30, 2023


Cory Morgan Show： Winter is coming.


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

187.66339

Word Count

9,260

Sentence Count

720

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Sean Polzer joins me to talk about the growing problem of homeless people sleeping rough in the winter in the streets, and how the lack of shelter is contributing to the problem, and why we need to do something about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. This is my weekly spot where I can go on about issues that have caught my eye, rant about what's got me worked up, and interview guests who can add some more nuance and wisdom to the whole show on things. Always lots to talk about and a packed show coming up today again indeed.
00:00:50.740 This show being live, or for those of you who are watching it live, I love it when you use that comment scroll, guys. Get in there, put your comments in. I see Leanne put one in in advance talking about legalizing hard drugs because, yeah, I'm going to be talking about addicts again today. Send those comments out there. Send your comments, questions to me, to each other, and to my guests.
00:01:11.400 And perhaps, you know, I read them all. I won't necessarily read them all out, though, but I appreciate them and just keep things civil.
00:01:18.780 So today I do have for a guest our very own Sean Polzer. Actually, he's going to come in and talk because we've got this escalating battle between Premier Daniel Smith and the Federal Environment Minister,
00:01:29.140 everybody's favorite Stephen Gilboa, who's all the way over in China at a climate conference yet still can't resist himself. He's attacking Alberta's oil field from all the way over there. Reach out and touch someone, and it's getting things pretty heated and furious around here.
00:01:42.600 So that's going to be a good conversation because I think it's really setting up what we're going to see for the political climate between Alberta and Ottawa in this next coming months when Premier Smith starts her session and Ottawa starts their session.
00:01:55.020 So quite the interesting times. So I'm going to get on with what's got me going today, as usual. I went out yesterday. I guess, you know, I do some field trips and so on.
00:02:05.200 I went and checked out a homeless encampment in Calgary. The police had begun dismantling and cleaning up.
00:02:11.620 This was like at least the third time in this location that the police have had to go down there and dismantle the encampments that's in the area.
00:02:19.840 It was littered with everything from propane canisters to mattresses and syringes. It was a mess. And it's also been a hub of local crime for months.
00:02:29.680 So the sight of tent encampments, you know, and attics in various states of inebriation and population centers, I mean, it's become ubiquitous.
00:02:37.840 Police policies of enablement have failed catastrophically. Let's just face it.
00:02:41.780 They aren't working. And the number of street attics is expanded exponentially in every city in Canada, throughout North America, as far as that goes.
00:02:49.560 Particularly those cities, though, where they provide a safe supply of drugs.
00:02:54.080 So we've got snow is going to start flying out here in a couple of short months.
00:02:58.360 And every Canadian city is going to see a disaster as these attics are exposed to the elements.
00:03:04.160 I know we prefer not to look at it and we prefer not to talk about it.
00:03:07.680 But unfortunately, burying our heads in the sand, we're just going to let this looming wave of crime and death build up.
00:03:13.720 And it's past time to start ringing the alarm bells on this.
00:03:17.060 See, I go out and about all the time. I'm on the road and I look around.
00:03:21.320 And I mean, these people are in terrible, terrible condition.
00:03:24.100 They're in danger. They're in rough shape.
00:03:26.560 And they're not going to fare well when it gets to minus 30.
00:03:30.360 So what do you think is going to happen?
00:03:31.640 You know, when people on the streets hit minus 30 weather, well, they're going to become desperate.
00:03:36.860 That's where the crime aspect will come along.
00:03:39.100 Transit systems, they'll probably become rolling heated drug consumption centers again.
00:03:44.020 Robberies will rise as addicts can no longer apply their trade of theft and bottle picking due to the deep snow and low temperatures.
00:03:51.420 I mean, the fentanyl addiction, it's a crisis like we haven't seen before.
00:03:55.240 That drug is plentiful, it's powerful, and it's incredibly addictive.
00:03:58.540 So the addicts you see, you might have seen on the streets, you know, they're bent over.
00:04:02.160 They're oddly paralyzed while staring at the ground.
00:04:04.360 Well, they've usually taken fentanyl.
00:04:06.740 And the behavior is called nodding.
00:04:08.580 Now, sometimes they just simply fall and pass out with a pipe in their hands.
00:04:12.320 Other times they stand there strangely like that after smoking their chosen poison.
00:04:16.060 And the drug can be laced with a number of substances.
00:04:18.440 Now, the drug consumption in itself, of course, is dangerous enough.
00:04:21.680 And that's killing thousands of them every year.
00:04:24.120 But it becomes far more dangerous once the Canadian winter sets in.
00:04:27.540 I mean, what do you think is going to happen when they nod off and it's minus 30?
00:04:30.960 They're going to lose digits or they're going to die.
00:04:33.360 Death by exposure.
00:04:35.120 I mean, the issue isn't a lack of shelter in general.
00:04:39.260 It's a lack of shelter for addicts.
00:04:42.180 You know, I've been listening to advocates and the usual anti-poverty folks.
00:04:46.880 You know, they feel that if they oppose poverty hard enough, it'll go away.
00:04:49.520 I see them talking on social media.
00:04:51.960 And they're saying, we need more affordable housing.
00:04:54.120 That's the problem.
00:04:54.720 Come on.
00:04:55.760 Yes, we do.
00:04:56.960 But that has nothing to do with these addicts, okay?
00:04:59.200 They need more than a house.
00:05:00.280 They need treatment.
00:05:00.900 They need to be taken off the streets.
00:05:02.800 You can't put them in a house.
00:05:03.860 How low will the rent have to go?
00:05:06.000 How low?
00:05:06.780 If we put the rent down to $100 a month,
00:05:08.540 you think those homeless addicts from that encampment will say,
00:05:11.240 oh, okay, I'll move into the house and become a responsible citizen
00:05:13.640 and pay my $100 a month in rent.
00:05:15.140 No.
00:05:15.960 If they've got $100 in their pocket,
00:05:17.420 they're going to buy $100 with a fentanyl.
00:05:19.240 That's the way it works.
00:05:20.500 This problem is much deeper than just needing affordable housing.
00:05:23.160 You can't put them in shelters, unfortunately,
00:05:25.080 because shelters won't allow them to keep consuming drugs.
00:05:28.220 So they can't manage those strung out addicts, you know,
00:05:30.520 because it's unfair as well to the other people stuck in these shelters.
00:05:33.320 So, I mean, citizens and governments,
00:05:35.100 we're both going to need to embrace a reality check on this issue really fast.
00:05:38.560 If we continue down the road we are on right now,
00:05:41.180 we're going to be seeing horrific number of deaths
00:05:43.600 and witnessing new levels of misery for addicts and those impacted by them.
00:05:47.220 We need to intervene.
00:05:48.420 There's the big word that people don't like.
00:05:50.460 But every civilized nation has legislation
00:05:53.640 allowing for the removal of a person's liberty
00:05:55.880 if it's evident they're going to harm themselves or others
00:05:58.040 if they're left to their own devices.
00:06:00.120 This can be done in cases where people have serious mental health issues.
00:06:03.420 There's no good reason why such an intervention
00:06:05.520 isn't justified when it comes to street addicts.
00:06:08.160 We have more than enough evidence
00:06:09.400 they're going to harm themselves and others
00:06:10.940 if they're left in the condition they're in right now.
00:06:13.840 Put it bluntly, we wouldn't leave a dog in an alley like that.
00:06:16.560 Yet we're leaving people there.
00:06:18.080 You listen to the advocates.
00:06:19.000 We can't infringe upon their liberty or their dignity.
00:06:24.540 There's no dignity left, guys.
00:06:26.440 They've hit rock bottom.
00:06:28.160 But the next thing that's going to come is they're going to die.
00:06:30.660 And yes, when we intervene,
00:06:32.200 the success of treatment, you know, and things like that,
00:06:34.160 it's low if the addict didn't come in willingly.
00:06:36.500 But the survival rate of the street addicts who are left alone is even lower.
00:06:39.820 So we really don't have much to lose in intervening.
00:06:42.240 The city right now should be seeking out and securing heated spaces
00:06:46.180 somewhere where people can be kept when that need comes
00:06:49.000 because it's going to come.
00:06:50.780 And, you know, it'll be, yes, a space to warehouse addicts,
00:06:54.060 somewhere to safely take them when we do take them off the trains,
00:06:56.660 when we do take them out of the alleys,
00:06:58.020 when we do take them somewhere, put them on a cot,
00:07:01.400 get some heat on them, get some food into them,
00:07:03.500 and hope we can push them into treatment.
00:07:04.800 But if we keep pretending that this is just a lack of affordable housing,
00:07:09.160 we keep turning our heads and saying this addiction is unmanageable,
00:07:11.620 if we could just give them enough safe supply, they'll be okay.
00:07:14.500 Guess what?
00:07:15.440 You take fentanyl, even if it's government supplied,
00:07:18.060 when it's minus 30, you're probably going to frigging die.
00:07:20.760 There's no safe supply of that.
00:07:22.620 Quit listening to these enabling idiots.
00:07:24.820 And let's get prepared because we're going to have a disaster on our hands
00:07:28.000 if we don't do something with the addicts when it comes to these.
00:07:31.140 There's so many more of them out there.
00:07:33.360 And winter's coming, guys.
00:07:35.120 Winter's coming.
00:07:36.380 All right.
00:07:36.820 Well, that's got what's got me wound up today.
00:07:39.200 Let's check in and see what else is happening out in that big,
00:07:41.980 bad world with our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:07:44.660 Hey, Dave, how's it going?
00:07:46.000 Yeah, I think you're right, Corey.
00:07:47.160 I think winter is coming.
00:07:49.040 Driving in today along one of the streets I go,
00:07:51.840 all the trees were, you know, mostly turned yellow.
00:07:56.680 So kind of depressing in a way, isn't it?
00:07:59.100 Yeah, I know.
00:08:00.080 I'm not a fan of winter.
00:08:01.460 I never will be.
00:08:02.840 Hopefully we get an indigenous summer and we'll stay warm for a while.
00:08:08.800 But hey, I hear your visitor is back.
00:08:12.720 Oh, the black hairy fella.
00:08:14.500 Yeah, he was wandering around behind our house last night.
00:08:17.840 Actually, Jane updated that with another video at five in the morning.
00:08:21.460 It looks like another bear walked by that spot.
00:08:23.740 So I'm thinking it might be the pair of cubs that were there earlier,
00:08:26.820 kind of grown up.
00:08:27.980 So I guess my battles to try and save my beehives are going to start again
00:08:32.500 pretty soon.
00:08:33.520 Yeah, you got it all electrified and everything's good this year, you think?
00:08:38.280 I hope so.
00:08:39.240 I've really upped the electric fences.
00:08:40.800 I got some spiked boards that are going to be going up and I'm going to put
00:08:43.580 those Halloween decorations out that are going to dance around and make noise
00:08:46.400 whenever something comes close.
00:08:47.540 So I'm going to defeat those bears this year, darn it.
00:08:49.940 Awesome.
00:08:51.020 Well, I wish you luck on that.
00:08:53.700 Busy news.
00:08:54.620 Busy news.
00:08:59.400 And all charges withdrawn against Pastor James.
00:09:07.020 Edmonton.
00:09:07.540 The court today joined a list of all, you know, many other people who were
00:09:14.980 having their COVID charges thrown out, including Pastor Tim Stephens today
00:09:19.440 on the Fairview Baptist Church.
00:09:22.180 They were thrown out.
00:09:23.740 So, you know, all these people who battled against the COVID restrictions
00:09:32.300 appear to have won their case.
00:09:35.540 Also, big news this morning with the feud between Alberta Premier Daniel Smith
00:09:40.560 and Environmental Minister Stephen Gilboa.
00:09:44.020 He's over in China now talking to them.
00:09:47.680 And, you know, instead of, you know, giving China some advice, he used it to
00:09:53.300 shred Suncor.
00:09:54.880 And they announced a couple of weeks ago that they were sort of giving up on
00:09:58.420 renewals and going hard on just oil production itself.
00:10:02.500 So Gilboa says that means, you know, his efforts to cap emissions are even more
00:10:10.440 needed, to which Premier Smith today unloaded on him quite heavily.
00:10:16.460 So I understand you've got my colleague Sean Holzer coming to talk about that.
00:10:20.800 It's a developing good, good national story.
00:10:25.260 And our NDP friend, Charlie Angus, he took a shot at the Western Standard yesterday,
00:10:32.160 basically saying, you know, we were partly to blame for the death of Annette Lewis.
00:10:37.080 She's the Edmonton woman who died last week because she refused a COVID vaccine and was denied a
00:10:46.300 transplant because of that.
00:10:48.300 And Charlie thought it were to blame.
00:10:51.140 So our opinion editor, Nigel Hanford, takes a run at him.
00:10:55.340 So that's a good call.
00:10:57.460 I'm also doing well this morning, Colin, or this morning, Corey.
00:11:00.700 And I draw your attention.
00:11:02.380 I know you're a bee guy.
00:11:04.840 Earlier this morning, we printed a story on a bee horror in Toronto.
00:11:09.860 Five million bees on the loose after a truck carrying their crates crashed.
00:11:15.860 So holy cow, you can imagine what a swarm of five million of them look like, Corey.
00:11:21.340 Yeah, it'd be quite something around.
00:11:24.540 Hopefully they were well trained.
00:11:26.740 Yeah.
00:11:27.100 And then you told me how many bees you have.
00:11:29.220 That kind of shocked me, to be honest.
00:11:31.640 Yeah.
00:11:32.060 No, it's anywhere from 30,000 to 60,000 in a hive.
00:11:35.440 I figure mine's got about 50,000.
00:11:37.060 At this point of the summer, they really pack up.
00:11:38.780 So as many bees as that was, it was probably only about 100 hives on that truck.
00:11:42.560 But that's still a heck of a lot of bees on the loose to try and recapture.
00:11:47.440 Yeah.
00:11:47.800 And I bet those bears are salivating at the thought of all that honey right now, Corey.
00:11:52.380 Oh, yeah.
00:11:53.060 They're making their plans.
00:11:54.540 They're coming.
00:11:57.040 Absolutely.
00:11:58.860 All right.
00:11:59.500 Well, is that everything we've got going right now, Dave?
00:12:02.940 That's it.
00:12:03.920 Just about to put up a story on why you should all be looking up into the skies tonight.
00:12:07.820 A rare celestial event.
00:12:10.480 It's called a blue moon.
00:12:12.440 And Arthur Green will have that story up for you momentarily.
00:12:16.880 Excellent.
00:12:17.460 Well, it's the same goes.
00:12:18.580 Once in a blue moon, it's not that common.
00:12:20.760 All right.
00:12:21.320 It's pretty rare.
00:12:22.840 Thanks for the update, Steve.
00:12:24.140 And I will catch you in the newsroom after the show.
00:12:26.920 Thanks, Corey.
00:12:28.620 All right.
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00:13:33.280 So, yeah, you know, some of the stuff with the addicts building castles that come in are
00:13:39.780 saying, you know, addicts just do this stuff for themselves.
00:13:42.980 And it is, you know, it's difficult.
00:13:45.880 I mean, in the end, it does come up to the individual.
00:13:48.260 But as I said, we come to a point where an individual can't take care of themselves.
00:13:53.120 You know, when you see that addict shuffling up and down the street corner, they're skinny,
00:13:57.660 they're covered in sores, their teeth have fallen.
00:13:59.780 It's really that bad.
00:14:01.300 Do you really, you know, they're barely surviving right now.
00:14:04.100 Do you think they're going to make it through the winter?
00:14:06.100 Like, we've got to just face the hard reality.
00:14:08.940 We need to intervene.
00:14:09.780 There's no easy answers to this.
00:14:11.460 But I don't want to keep hearing the stories that will be coming this winter of emergency
00:14:17.700 services personnel having to keep extracting, you know, bodies and such of people who have
00:14:22.440 passed on from exposure, you know, due to being basically on the fentanyl and other such
00:14:30.080 drugs while outdoors in this weather.
00:14:34.480 So see what else is going on in the news out there.
00:14:36.980 Yeah, the BC Center for Disease Control.
00:14:39.800 Yes, it's identified BC's first case of a person infected with the BA.282.86 variant
00:14:47.640 in the Fraser Health region.
00:14:50.780 Who cares?
00:14:51.840 God, I'm sick to death of it.
00:14:53.260 So what?
00:14:54.480 You found another one.
00:14:55.600 It's a cold.
00:14:56.580 It really is.
00:14:57.220 I mean, when are we going to get to this point?
00:14:58.480 But the problem is, it does, you know, for most of us, we don't care.
00:15:02.180 We're done with this.
00:15:02.920 We've had it.
00:15:03.660 But the authoritarians out there, those who feel that it's time, I mean, there's people
00:15:09.460 who went crazy over the whole pandemic.
00:15:12.640 There's people who really seem to appear to like being masked.
00:15:16.080 They like being locked down.
00:15:18.420 There was actually a bunch of them protesting in Vancouver.
00:15:20.800 They're standing on the street demanding that the law step in and force us all to put chin
00:15:26.000 diapers on again whilst in public, which, I mean, there was all of six or seven of these
00:15:30.820 nutcases.
00:15:31.820 But one guy counter-protested.
00:15:34.120 And look it up online, you know, that video.
00:15:35.940 It's quite interesting.
00:15:37.560 The one guy counter-protested because he was, you know, I guess not supportive of mandatory
00:15:41.700 masking.
00:15:42.480 And the people with the masks attacked him and tackled him to the ground and smashed him
00:15:47.140 up pretty badly.
00:15:47.880 So basically, they're saying, mask up for your own protection or we will beat the hell out
00:15:51.640 of you.
00:15:52.220 That's a nice freedom-loving type logic.
00:15:55.020 And I'm certain Mr. Palser is going to find his way in here pretty soon.
00:15:58.360 And we'll have a discussion about Danielle Smith and Mr. Gilboa.
00:16:03.300 But in the meantime, we'll talk about a few other news items, I guess.
00:16:08.040 Another one that this story keeps coming up, you know, it never has an end to it, it seems.
00:16:15.140 The English River First Nation claims it found 93 unmarked graves at the old Boval Indian
00:16:21.860 residential school near the Saskatchewan village of Boval.
00:16:25.740 And it's saying the graves contain, this is what they say, they believe the graves contain
00:16:29.440 the bodies of 79 children and 14 infants.
00:16:33.400 Now, when's this going to stop?
00:16:35.900 And I noticed it's not, I mean, it's made the news, but it's certainly not rocking the
00:16:40.300 nation like past revelations and discoveries have.
00:16:42.680 Because zero for three right now, zero for three, when GPR, ground penetrating radar has found
00:16:48.500 things like this, when they finally follow up, and it always has to be, it must be followed
00:16:52.440 up with digging.
00:16:53.960 You've got to shovel, you've got to confirm it.
00:16:55.660 Well, three times they tried confirming it and three times they found no bodies.
00:16:59.680 So I'm not going to believe that these 93 spots are necessarily graves.
00:17:04.400 They might be, don't know.
00:17:06.820 But we've got to stop lighting our hair on fire every time the GPR finds something because
00:17:10.200 it's got a pretty terrible record of accuracy.
00:17:12.400 But here we go again.
00:17:14.500 I mean, at least the news has been a little, the news at least has been calm about it.
00:17:18.000 They're talking about areas of interest that appear to be, they're covering their butts
00:17:21.180 a bit in some of the outlets reporting on this.
00:17:24.120 But, you know, the activists and everything, of course, are immediately calling it graves,
00:17:27.600 immediately calling it genocide and all the good stuff.
00:17:30.200 And it's got to get more realistic on these things.
00:17:35.160 So, I mean, some of these statements like schools should become, or should come with playgrounds,
00:17:40.120 not graveyards.
00:17:40.980 Yeah, I agree.
00:17:41.540 So once you find a school that had a graveyard, we'll talk about that.
00:17:44.560 But in the meantime, calm down the rhetoric, get a shovel and prove it because the body
00:17:48.140 count so far on this whole thing is zero.
00:17:50.800 And I like it that way.
00:17:52.540 You know, I don't like the fact that the world's been turned on end over something we
00:17:55.840 haven't found proof of yet.
00:17:57.660 But I'm glad that there weren't actually mass murders going on and children surreptiously
00:18:01.780 buried in these cemeteries.
00:18:04.160 You know, Kamloops, of course, is another great example.
00:18:05.860 That was the starting one.
00:18:06.700 That was the one that set everything off.
00:18:08.360 And people get mixed up on that a lot.
00:18:09.580 But Kamloops was never known as originally being a cemetery.
00:18:12.260 It was an orchard and a septic field.
00:18:14.000 And there's been, to date, even though they kept saying 215 and then 200, to date, the
00:18:20.660 body count in Kamloops is zero.
00:18:22.820 And until somebody actually identifies a body, that's not going to change.
00:18:26.900 All right.
00:18:27.220 So let's talk.
00:18:28.160 We've got in studio Sean Polzer.
00:18:30.360 He's our energy and business and everything in general reporter.
00:18:34.400 So thanks for coming in, Sean.
00:18:35.840 We've got some interesting times happening here between Ottawa and Alberta.
00:18:39.340 Yeah.
00:18:39.620 Thanks, Corey.
00:18:40.600 Yeah.
00:18:41.000 Well, there's been kind of a war of words in the Twitter sphere.
00:18:46.180 I don't know what you call it these days, the exosphere, between Premier Daniel Smith and
00:18:51.440 Environment Minister Stephen Jebeau.
00:18:54.200 Pretty much started when he came to Calgary in July, followed up with the electricity regulations.
00:19:01.040 And just this week, he traveled all the way to China.
00:19:06.420 And instead of criticizing the Chinese for their emissions, which amount to about a third
00:19:13.660 of all the greenhouse gas emitted in the world, he took a shot at Suncor for selling off its
00:19:20.200 renewables business and said it warrants an emission cap.
00:19:24.140 Yeah.
00:19:24.420 And I mean, the announcement that Suncor, an oil company, was going to remain an oil company,
00:19:28.360 he came out about a week or two weeks ago, perhaps.
00:19:31.500 I mean, when they formally, they've been kind of shedding some of those renewables for a little
00:19:34.220 while, but this isn't really big news.
00:19:37.020 Why did Jebeau choose right now to suddenly go on about a Suncor?
00:19:42.720 That's a really good question.
00:19:43.960 I think it's because he's going to come out with the emissions cap.
00:19:48.580 So this is going to be the next shoe to drop.
00:19:52.140 Apparently, it was supposed to have been released already and it's been delayed.
00:19:56.000 So my thought is probably within the next week or so after he gets back from China and
00:20:02.120 before he goes jetting off to Dubai for the COP, I'm not even sure what it is, COP 28 summit,
00:20:10.400 that these are going to drop and then he's going to hop on an airplane and get out of
00:20:15.560 town as fast as he can.
00:20:17.520 Well, the irony of this, this summit happening in Dubai too, where they don't care, they're
00:20:20.860 pumping the oil out with mad abandon over there.
00:20:23.720 And they're more than happy if the Canadians are stupid enough to shut in their own resources.
00:20:27.520 I tend to agree.
00:20:29.880 I think there's a lot of virtue signaling going on with the sheiks over there because they
00:20:35.720 want to pump more oil and be seen to be good corporate citizens, national citizens or whatever
00:20:42.780 while they're doing it.
00:20:44.800 Yeah.
00:20:45.220 Host that summit.
00:20:46.220 There we go.
00:20:46.700 We're good guys.
00:20:47.820 I mean, never mind all that oil we're putting out, which nobody should mind the oil they're
00:20:51.300 putting out, but I mean, isn't it really demonstrates the futility of Canada always having to play
00:20:55.680 the boy scout?
00:20:57.260 And meanwhile, he's paying lip service to some of the worst offenders on the planet, being
00:21:01.020 China and some of the Middle Eastern producers.
00:21:04.400 Well, Monsieur Gibault in his previous press statements has actually bragged about Canada
00:21:12.400 being the first mover and setting an example for all these other countries in the world
00:21:17.620 to presumably follow us, even though China, under the Paris Accord, has a 2060 deadline
00:21:25.600 to reach net zero and India is 2070.
00:21:29.340 And between the two of them, they are half of all the global emissions in the world.
00:21:34.820 And we're at 1.6% of the global emissions, I believe.
00:21:38.200 Something like that.
00:21:38.880 And we're supposed to hit it by 2035.
00:21:40.900 Right.
00:21:41.540 And Suncor is about 2% of that 1.5%.
00:21:46.560 Yeah.
00:21:47.360 So globally speaking, even though they're the world's largest oil sands producer, we're
00:21:52.680 talking tenths of a percentage point.
00:21:55.460 But the economic impact, I mean, if we, you know, when they keep talking, we want to transition,
00:21:59.940 we want to get out, we want to lose the oil and gas in Canada.
00:22:03.560 I mean, it provides a massive resource for the federal government.
00:22:06.660 I mean, people seem to forget that.
00:22:07.740 Some of the supporters in Toronto or Montreal might not realize, but a lot of these social
00:22:12.520 programs they're enjoying are due to this oil and gas being generated out here.
00:22:17.020 Well, they've got a rude awakening coming because I think that the policy of the federal government
00:22:22.480 is actually to make oil production so expensive that it just becomes an uneconomic proposition
00:22:29.420 and producers will basically be forced to leave it in the ground.
00:22:35.260 But what that's going to do for anybody who has home heating oil down east, anybody who
00:22:40.420 drives a car and people are still going to have to drive a car even after the EVs take
00:22:45.720 over, you're going to be looking at, I saw one forecast today, 300 bucks a barrel for oil.
00:22:52.300 Yeah.
00:22:52.800 And if it costs that much to pull up, the bottom line is the cost of renewables.
00:22:57.100 If we went to that as a sole source of energy, wouldn't be far behind the oil and gas, especially
00:23:01.680 if you got rid of the oil and gas.
00:23:03.100 I mean, we're all going to take a hard, hard hit here.
00:23:05.600 Well, and it's the only way to really encourage it.
00:23:08.140 Like when they talk about the transition, the only way to encourage the transition is not
00:23:12.860 so much to make the renewable energy cheaper, but to make the conventional energy so expensive
00:23:18.580 that the renewable stuff is cheap in comparison.
00:23:22.340 So Premier Smith doesn't sound like she's having any of this, though.
00:23:25.000 I mean, she certainly responded as we would have expected out of Danielle Smith.
00:23:29.380 Yeah, absolutely.
00:23:29.920 I think she's flabbergasted.
00:23:33.200 So she, in discussions, she's referenced her environment with Mr. Rebecca Schultz as the
00:23:40.380 jubot whisperer.
00:23:41.820 And I think they're coming to the end of their rope and really trying to deal with this guy
00:23:46.760 because every time you seem like you take one step forward, it's like four, five, six
00:23:53.360 steps backwards.
00:23:54.760 And I don't know how long they continue like this.
00:23:57.840 Well, you can't reason with Gilboa.
00:24:00.620 I mean, maybe people will start realizing this.
00:24:02.740 You don't look him up.
00:24:03.340 The picture of him manically grinning in an orange prison jumpsuit as he's being taken
00:24:08.540 away in handcuffs.
00:24:09.880 Like this man's an extremist.
00:24:11.360 He always has been.
00:24:12.940 We're not talking about a, you know, a environmental activist who's been rational over this time.
00:24:18.240 This is a guy on the fringe and he's the most powerful environment minister in the country.
00:24:21.820 And what's ironic is that he's threatening to have the RCMP come after politicians like
00:24:27.560 Smith and Moe and have them hauled away in handcuffs and orange jumpsuits, you know,
00:24:32.340 for keeping the lights on in the middle of January.
00:24:34.640 Well, and, you know, speaking as a guy who's written a book on pursuing independence in
00:24:37.860 the West, if they wanted to send the RCMP to start arresting Western politicians, I
00:24:41.020 know it would be great for my book sales, but not very good for the stability of the country
00:24:44.820 as a whole.
00:24:45.380 I mean, this is really is challenging unity and stability within Canada.
00:24:50.440 I mean, yeah, Scott Moe, I mean, this is in Saskatchewan where these battles are happening
00:24:53.880 as well.
00:24:55.800 It's just dangerous politics going on right now.
00:24:58.340 Absolutely.
00:24:58.980 And, you know, there's for all the talk of separation that there's been in this country,
00:25:05.200 Quebec nationalism is more cultural based.
00:25:07.780 Western nationalism is more economic based.
00:25:09.920 It seems to me that these climate policies are becoming the catalyst for the breakup of
00:25:16.700 the country.
00:25:18.300 Trudeau is going to be the one who presides over the end of this federation, this confederation
00:25:24.800 that we know.
00:25:25.420 Well, and some of it's just the politics.
00:25:26.860 I mean, we can see the liberals are in a bad position right now as far as the polls go.
00:25:29.860 I mean, it could be we're looking at potentially two years before the next election.
00:25:32.960 Anyways, a whole lot.
00:25:33.780 We know a whole lot could change between now and then.
00:25:36.100 You know, nobody in the CPC should be popping champagne corks yet.
00:25:39.260 You're in the lead, but that can evaporate quickly.
00:25:42.020 And one of the tactics, the old one used by the liberals with the senior Trudeau and his
00:25:47.560 advisor, that old term, screw the West, we'll take the rest.
00:25:50.820 Playing the politics of regional division has always been an asset for the liberals, you
00:25:56.500 know, because what have they got to lose?
00:25:58.480 They got two seats in Alberta, zero seats in Saskatchewan.
00:26:01.220 If they can make us look like a bunch of jerks, it tends to sell well in Toronto.
00:26:05.740 Well, even Paul Martin, I was really, I thought Paul Martin was a good finance minister, but
00:26:11.600 I was really disappointed when he became prime minister, because when he was down in the
00:26:14.600 pools, that's exactly what he did, was start kicking out the West and managed to somehow
00:26:19.100 salvage the minority government out of it.
00:26:21.220 But I don't know.
00:26:22.640 I'm hoping that the Trudeau liberals are forced so far down that they're not going to be able
00:26:27.140 to come back.
00:26:28.180 But what really concerns me is the damage that they're going to be able to do in two years
00:26:32.520 with this wrecking ball that they have flying around the world, imposing all these policy
00:26:40.080 by fiat.
00:26:40.800 Well, an investment chill.
00:26:42.820 I mean, really, as an international investor, even a domestic one, when you see that sort
00:26:48.420 of hostility towards an industry in the country, it's going to be a heck of a lot harder to
00:26:53.020 convince you to open your wallet and invest in a capital project when it looks like we've
00:26:57.300 got the powers that be want to shut us down.
00:26:59.300 Absolutely.
00:26:59.960 And a lot of people don't realize that about oil and gas is, number one, how much money
00:27:04.620 it takes just to maintain production.
00:27:06.700 Never mind, increase it.
00:27:09.340 And the lead times, the time, the amount of time that it takes, you know, to build these
00:27:14.860 oil sands plants, to get this stuff out of the ground and build these markets and build
00:27:20.140 these pipelines and do all these other things that need to be done before you can sell one
00:27:24.860 barrel of oil.
00:27:25.780 Well, something else, I mean, that really poked the stick in the hornet's nest, and that
00:27:30.060 came from the Alberta side of it.
00:27:31.640 I'm kind of throwing a curveball.
00:27:33.240 We didn't speak on this, but still, it's a part of this issue.
00:27:36.180 What is the moratorium or the freeze on renewable permits for the next six months in Alberta
00:27:42.020 that Premier Smith's government imposed?
00:27:44.640 I mean, that certainly infuriated those who feel we're going to fully transition into
00:27:47.620 renewables soon.
00:27:48.800 No matter, you know, how you look at it, that will slow the development of these renewable
00:27:52.480 projects to a degree.
00:27:56.000 Do you think, you know, that something's going to be resolved, some better regulations and
00:28:00.620 so on, and those projects are going to start getting rolling again?
00:28:02.880 Well, right now it's kind of like a wild west, and Texas had this problem when it froze a
00:28:08.880 couple of years.
00:28:09.600 So here in Canada, when you have the natural gas wells and it goes down to 40 below, you
00:28:13.400 have these things called freeze-offs.
00:28:14.760 So there's a certain amount of production that gets shut in just from the cold.
00:28:18.820 And in Texas, obviously, they're not ready for it.
00:28:21.040 They're not prepared.
00:28:21.620 And when their gas went down and they had to rely on the renewables for their grid, it
00:28:26.960 was just havoc.
00:28:28.340 Like, people were getting power bills over, like, tens of thousands of dollars.
00:28:33.940 You know, and there's a very real possibility that if you don't have that backup for all
00:28:40.020 the renewable generation, that people want to come online, that it is going to destabilize
00:28:46.780 the grid.
00:28:47.120 And so, I mean, it's not the renewables themselves that are problems, they worry about the dependence
00:28:50.920 on the renewables as a source.
00:28:53.280 Right.
00:28:53.700 And especially when they're intermittent, by definition, they're intermittent.
00:28:58.140 And, you know, I compared this with our other colleague, Nigel Hannaford.
00:29:04.640 You know, so OPEC, Saudi Arabia, they drill wells and then shut them in and just leave them
00:29:11.120 there and drill the capacity, right?
00:29:12.460 Well, it's a lot like these windmills that only run 30% of the time.
00:29:18.100 So you're spending all this money to have an asset that really is only 30% efficient.
00:29:24.480 And you can't rely on it when it's not there, when you don't have the other stuff to back
00:29:30.840 it up.
00:29:31.160 And solar is horrific.
00:29:32.120 I mean, we're in the northern hemisphere.
00:29:33.940 The time of year when we would need it the most as a backup is often cloudy.
00:29:37.940 And we only have about eight hours of daylight.
00:29:40.180 So it's a very, very limited generating source for us.
00:29:43.100 Well, I'm kind of surprised that Alberta is actually one of the prime locations in the
00:29:47.880 country for solar.
00:29:49.920 But there again, until you've got some kind of method of actually storing the energy that
00:29:55.680 is produced so that you can turn it on when the sun isn't shining at night, when it's
00:30:01.280 dark for 16 hours a day, then it probably isn't a very practical proposition to relying on
00:30:09.300 it as your main source of electricity.
00:30:12.500 Has Suncor responded to this or are they just kind of keeping their head low and letting
00:30:16.600 the politicians duke it out on this whole thing?
00:30:18.920 I think they're probably letting the politicians duke it out.
00:30:21.380 They have enough problems with their own shareholders and investors, which I think is one of the
00:30:25.920 reasons why they made that statement to begin with.
00:30:28.760 And they've got nothing to be gained.
00:30:32.620 Oil companies tend to kind of try to keep a low profile in these political things.
00:30:37.580 But there again, it goes back to the investment, because if you scare away all this investment,
00:30:43.440 that accomplishes more than what Jibo can ever do on his own.
00:30:48.180 Yeah.
00:30:48.320 And he's more than happy to scare it off.
00:30:49.820 He knows that.
00:30:50.480 I mean, he's not stupid.
00:30:51.320 He's crazy.
00:30:51.780 Crazy, but not stupid.
00:30:55.180 Which is dangerous.
00:30:58.160 We're all going to pay a price.
00:30:59.480 Well, crazy times we're living in.
00:31:01.340 But as I said earlier, I think it's just warming up right now.
00:31:03.780 I mean, Gabo's in China.
00:31:05.260 The Alberta legislature hasn't hit its new session yet with the premier newly elected
00:31:10.480 now.
00:31:10.900 She's going to feel a lot more, I think, confident in taking stances.
00:31:14.380 Now, she's been through an election.
00:31:15.420 Nobody can say she doesn't have a mandate.
00:31:17.900 And of course, the parliament's going to go back into session, too.
00:31:20.320 So I think we're just seeing the first volleys in this fight right now.
00:31:23.900 Yeah, I think so, too.
00:31:24.580 And I've been quite impressed with Premier Smith and how she's handled the file.
00:31:30.000 Apparently, the electricity, when she has taken it, it is her.
00:31:34.980 And I would imagine that emissions cap will be.
00:31:38.780 She's kept her cards fairly close to her chest, you know, at the same time while keeping all
00:31:44.660 those options open, the Sovereignty Act, constitutional challenges, and, you know, but at the same time
00:31:51.980 being very emphatic and very clear that these are unrealistic, they're unachievable, and they
00:31:57.500 will not be implemented by 2035, and certainly not the way that, you know, the Liberal government
00:32:06.320 thinks that they will.
00:32:07.900 Well, it certainly gives you lots to cover, and it gives me lots to rant about.
00:32:12.720 I appreciate you coming in to explain kind of what's been going on with this fight that's unfolding, I mean,
00:32:17.660 from China to Alberta at this point.
00:32:19.660 I mean, we've bypassed Ottawa for the time being.
00:32:21.800 Right.
00:32:21.900 And as I said, it's probably only going to get worse, so we should all be keeping a close
00:32:26.900 eye on this.
00:32:27.880 So thanks for coming in to talk to us today, Sean, and we'll have you in again soon.
00:32:32.880 All right.
00:32:33.280 Thanks a lot, Corey.
00:32:33.880 Bye, Sean.
00:32:34.600 Bye.
00:32:35.320 So there's, again, our energy and business reporter, Sean Polzer, and yeah, he's always
00:32:40.200 got a finger on that and watching it closely.
00:32:42.100 Same sort of thing, westernstandard.news, guys, that's where you're going to find those stories.
00:32:46.620 Sean has a lot of them coming up for those and on issues in business in general.
00:32:50.860 And this is just going to, it's only going to get worse.
00:32:54.380 You know, it's just starting.
00:32:57.740 Let's see.
00:32:58.480 I'm just trying to see a comment that, oh yeah, Wildrose commenting saying, is there any
00:33:02.660 truth to the rumors that cartels are setting up in Edmonton?
00:33:05.220 Yeah, this was interesting.
00:33:06.020 This was something that our Arthur Green in Edmonton broke actually last week in a story.
00:33:11.960 If you look it up on the Western Standard, yeah, Mexican cartels have been having some operations
00:33:17.820 in Edmonton.
00:33:18.520 That's a long haul, guys.
00:33:19.720 But the bottom line is, where there's mass drug consumption, there's money.
00:33:23.620 And where that money is, the drug dealers are going to follow.
00:33:27.000 And that's why we're seeing some of the stuff.
00:33:30.720 Arthur's story was very interesting talking to people and breaking that down.
00:33:34.260 And these syndicates, these cartels, they're organized.
00:33:37.220 And that's why we see the shootings going on.
00:33:39.060 That's why you get the shootings in the malls and the shootings in the streets.
00:33:41.740 I mean, it's happening in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto.
00:33:44.000 Because, I mean, these are nasty people.
00:33:46.820 These are drug dealers.
00:33:47.620 They're rough.
00:33:48.460 And when one steps on the other one's turf, the drug wars begin.
00:33:52.860 So, you know, that's when the innocent folks also get hit.
00:33:55.320 I mean, with the drive-by shootings, things like that, you're in the wrong place at the
00:33:59.340 wrong time.
00:33:59.940 And suddenly, some poor, innocent person gets killed.
00:34:02.700 Now, some of the discussion on that, fair enough, for the drug enablers to say, well,
00:34:08.240 if we just provide enough safe supply, then these cartels won't make any money, right?
00:34:11.660 I mean, it's the same logic that prohibition with liquor, you know, the mafia was never
00:34:16.320 at its strongest than when liquor consumption was illegal in the United States and in Canada.
00:34:21.120 And they could, of course, illicitly supply it to everybody because everybody wanted to
00:34:24.140 keep drinking.
00:34:25.440 There's some truth to that.
00:34:26.540 But the issue is that, again, these addicts aren't on something where they're not like
00:34:31.360 people who like to indulge.
00:34:32.600 There's a lot of casual drinkers.
00:34:34.120 There's a lot of people who enjoyed a few drinks.
00:34:35.840 A lot of people can responsibly enjoy a few drinks.
00:34:38.580 You can't responsibly have a little fentanyl.
00:34:41.320 You can't just socially smoke meth.
00:34:43.620 It doesn't work that way.
00:34:45.300 You become an addict.
00:34:46.260 You become one of those zombies on the streets.
00:34:48.280 And it's not sustainable.
00:34:49.620 Now, again, try to find ways to make it less profitable for the cartels, absolutely.
00:34:55.200 But if we supplied it, if the government supplies it, we're seeing that in Vancouver already.
00:34:59.480 We're getting those reports.
00:35:00.860 The addicts go to the consumption center.
00:35:03.480 They get their safe supply.
00:35:05.800 They go out and they peddle that because they want to buy the harder, nastier stuff that the
00:35:10.320 street dealers can provide them.
00:35:11.680 We've got to remember, you're not dealing with rational people.
00:35:14.480 We're talking about people in the throes of a terrible addiction.
00:35:17.580 And they just want it stronger and stronger.
00:35:21.860 That's why, and I think, you know, some of the well-meaning people have never been addicted
00:35:26.480 to something.
00:35:28.000 And that's why we see some of the strongest advocates, like in Alberta with Marshall Smith.
00:35:32.740 He's been through addiction recovery.
00:35:35.600 He's been at rock bottom.
00:35:38.160 Myself, I've talked about my own, you know, recovery from alcohol and putting a number of
00:35:41.720 things up my nose for a period of time.
00:35:43.860 That took a lot of recovery and a program as well for me.
00:35:49.840 Once you've been there, you find out that you realize because addictions aren't sustainable.
00:35:55.200 They aren't.
00:35:55.820 They escalate.
00:35:56.840 Some slower, some faster than others.
00:35:59.260 But eventually you need more and more and more.
00:36:01.680 And you let other important things lapse while you're pursuing your addiction or wasted from
00:36:07.300 your addiction.
00:36:07.800 So you're not going to do your job as well as you used to.
00:36:10.500 Eventually you're going to lose your job.
00:36:11.960 It's going to pressure your relationships.
00:36:14.540 You know, wives, husbands, they get tired of living with an addict.
00:36:17.700 They get tired of living with somebody who's strung out or drunk or messed up all the time.
00:36:22.120 And eventually the addict hits the streets.
00:36:25.160 That's the longer trail to get to.
00:36:27.400 Most of the overdoses actually happen in households, to be fair.
00:36:30.580 That's something, you know, a stat a lot of people forget.
00:36:32.180 We just see the ones on the streets, but there's a lot of addicted people living within
00:36:35.400 households and they're dying too because you can't sustain the addiction.
00:36:39.480 Eventually it eats you alive.
00:36:41.580 You watch, what is there for a safe supply, maintainable supply of meth?
00:36:47.360 You look at a meth addict.
00:36:48.820 Their teeth get eaten out of their head.
00:36:51.380 They're covered in sores.
00:36:52.360 They get skinny.
00:36:53.300 They get drug-induced psychosis.
00:36:55.460 You can't sustain that.
00:36:57.520 There's an addiction enablement center in Toronto.
00:36:59.680 It's really been in the news a lot lately because it turns out part of their mission statement
00:37:03.300 was saying that we're never going to try and tell people to stop taking it.
00:37:09.120 Well, because they want to know no questions asked.
00:37:10.920 Well, they act and imply as if you can just carry on with that addiction.
00:37:14.280 You can't.
00:37:15.200 It's going to kill you eventually.
00:37:17.320 Or you got to get off of it once you get down that road.
00:37:20.300 And that all just comes back to where I'm at.
00:37:21.680 Now, you remember again, you see the ones who are saying we need intervention, the ones
00:37:25.500 that are saying that we need treatment are those of us who've been through it.
00:37:29.140 The ones who were, again, well-meaning perhaps, thinking enablement and extending this sort
00:37:34.120 of thing and safe consumption will lead to a good end are people who've never actually
00:37:37.260 gotten to enjoy the real feeling of being in withdrawal and having your life start to
00:37:43.180 get out of control because you found yourself dependent on a substance that's not doing you
00:37:46.420 any favors.
00:37:47.400 So we've got to stop listening to those clowns.
00:37:49.200 I don't care how well-meaning they are.
00:37:50.520 I don't care how many textbooks they've read.
00:37:52.440 And start listening to the people who actually managed to get out of that spiral because they're
00:37:56.660 going to offer much better advice and realistic advice, even if it's advice people don't
00:38:01.020 want to hear.
00:38:02.580 All right.
00:38:03.040 Let's talk about information that apparently we're not supposed to hear as well.
00:38:05.540 This is an interesting one that popped up from our federal government and our heritage
00:38:08.760 minister, Pascal Saint-Ange.
00:38:10.700 I'm probably ruining the French pronunciation.
00:38:12.260 I don't care.
00:38:13.460 Tired of them shutting down our oil.
00:38:14.940 Anyway, so I'm going to keep mispronouncing your names until you're
00:38:16.780 nicer to Alberta.
00:38:18.040 Either way, she's our heritage minister.
00:38:19.940 She's taken it to federal court to block the release of some records at the federal
00:38:26.240 information commissioner.
00:38:28.040 So this is the person in charge of giving us our information.
00:38:31.060 And there was a mandate letter she got, and it was promised to ensure the commissioner
00:38:36.300 is empowered to order government information to be released.
00:38:39.080 Well, the commissioner is trying to order information to be released, and the government
00:38:42.260 is taking the commissioner to court saying, no, we don't want to release it.
00:38:46.020 Guess what the information is about?
00:38:48.620 Firearms legislation.
00:38:49.820 Yeah, so I mean, this comes back to an individual, I guess, in Ontario, who's using the Access
00:38:55.480 to Information Act, who wants to see some of the files and documents involving firearms
00:39:00.280 and management.
00:39:01.140 And some of them go back a ways, I guess, the 1970s.
00:39:03.640 They requested two years ago.
00:39:05.160 Why?
00:39:07.300 Why do we have to fight for the information we own?
00:39:10.560 It's ours.
00:39:11.680 It's our government.
00:39:12.660 We're the citizens.
00:39:13.340 See, this is the lopsided world we're starting to get into, and it's dangerous and it's bad.
00:39:18.980 The government's supposed to answer to us, not the other way around.
00:39:22.280 When it comes to us asking for information, the default should be that we get the information
00:39:27.220 until and unless they can really make a solid case as to why we shouldn't be allowed to see
00:39:33.380 it.
00:39:33.480 I mean, there's some areas, certainly national defense, things like that, some contracts
00:39:37.000 with private companies that perhaps it's inappropriate for us to see the information
00:39:41.240 or, of course, personal information about those working at the government.
00:39:44.160 But firearm records?
00:39:45.540 No, you don't like the political information getting out.
00:39:48.840 That's our information.
00:39:51.240 We shouldn't take that laying down.
00:39:53.520 They haven't justified that.
00:39:54.540 It's scary to think.
00:39:55.700 Where are you guys going that you would actually go to court to stop us from getting the information
00:40:03.240 we've asked for?
00:40:04.780 It's distressing.
00:40:06.380 And I hope the judge tells her to stuff it somewhere deep and dark.
00:40:10.000 But the problem is, and that's something that broke recently as well, massive numbers of
00:40:13.980 judges, it turns out that, you know, of course, appointed to their roles by the prime minister
00:40:19.440 also donated to the prime minister and bought some one-on-one time with them at some of those
00:40:25.960 large, you know, high-heeled fundraisers and things such as that.
00:40:29.060 But it's kind of a dicey area to get into now, right?
00:40:32.800 I mean, it's a right to support political parties, political candidates when you're
00:40:37.160 up and coming.
00:40:37.700 That's the way the system works.
00:40:39.100 You as an individual can choose who you prefer and who you don't prefer.
00:40:42.900 Some of these judges may have been, you know, again, just simple lawyers.
00:40:46.080 They weren't trying to buy a seat on the bench when they donated to Trudeau.
00:40:50.420 But, you know, it certainly looks like they were.
00:40:54.320 I don't know exactly how to fix that, though.
00:40:56.180 I mean, we can't rule out every aspiring, I guess, justice, every lawyer who's moving
00:41:02.460 up through that system, if they've ever donated to one party or another and then no longer
00:41:06.720 allow them on the bench.
00:41:07.560 I mean, I believe once they're there, they're supposed to really stay out of the politics.
00:41:10.900 But the other end of it is the reality of our system.
00:41:13.960 Judges are going to get appointed, even if it's not a donation thing, that tend to reflect
00:41:17.480 the liberal view, that tend to reflect the liberal government.
00:41:20.360 They're going to get promoted based on that, too.
00:41:23.180 So the ones with ambition are going to rule often in ways that they figure are going to
00:41:27.440 make the liberals happier.
00:41:28.420 So I won't be too surprised to see the judge on this one say, yeah, sorry, Canadian citizens,
00:41:35.420 you don't deserve access to your own information.
00:41:38.520 You don't deserve access to these government documents that are on issues that are important
00:41:44.300 to you.
00:41:44.820 I mean, there's other ways that governments, even in the city of Calgary level and every
00:41:49.660 other one, fight the Access to Information Act.
00:41:51.820 When you make information requests, one of their favorites, too, is to say, well, it's
00:41:54.860 going to require 30,000 pages of documents.
00:41:57.620 We'll charge you a dollar a page to send it to you.
00:42:00.600 So they try to price you out of it.
00:42:02.020 They do all sorts of contortions.
00:42:04.320 It's funny.
00:42:04.780 They all talk transparency, but they don't actually practice it when it gets there.
00:42:08.840 And that's where we do have to legislate these things.
00:42:11.040 We have to force somehow that we've got to get the government in check.
00:42:15.580 They're supposed to serve us, not be our overlords.
00:42:18.080 But boy, we certainly allowed them to take on that comfortable authoritarianism over the
00:42:22.180 course of the pandemic, didn't we?
00:42:23.640 That's when we just let them suspend our civil rights for periods of time.
00:42:27.240 And now they've tasted that.
00:42:31.400 They don't have a respect for our individual rights.
00:42:34.060 They see themselves as ruling over us.
00:42:37.040 We're seeing interesting court rulings.
00:42:38.740 Something Dave mentioned when I had him, Pastor Coates.
00:42:42.300 Yeah, he got acquitted a number of them now.
00:42:44.940 But these are Alberta judges, you got to remember.
00:42:46.840 But that's fine.
00:42:48.060 Their cases are being tossed out of court.
00:42:51.080 And these are guys that violated the COVID restrictions and health restrictions and things at that time.
00:42:56.780 And they're saying, no, no, those don't apply any longer.
00:43:00.800 The case is being thrown out.
00:43:02.560 Now, these guys have been put through the ringer.
00:43:05.320 They've spent who knows how much on their defense.
00:43:07.400 They've been in an area of legal limbo.
00:43:10.080 I mean, people talk about the process being the punishment.
00:43:12.040 This is an example of it.
00:43:13.020 I mean, you don't know what's going to happen.
00:43:14.220 You might be thrown in jail.
00:43:15.440 You might be bankrupted.
00:43:16.740 It's scary, no matter who you are, even if these guys are willing to stand up to these things.
00:43:20.660 But it's still great to see these being thrown out.
00:43:24.100 Because, as I said, the lunatics who like masking, the authoritarians who like lockdowns,
00:43:28.980 the ones who think we should impose and coerce vaccination upon people.
00:43:34.020 See, I don't have a problem with vaccination.
00:43:35.360 I have a big problem with coercion, though.
00:43:37.860 Ask me to get vaccinated.
00:43:39.220 Don't force me.
00:43:40.500 Don't put me out of work.
00:43:41.420 Stop me from traveling.
00:43:42.400 Stop me from going to school.
00:43:43.340 Ban me from restaurants.
00:43:44.020 If I might choose a different medical path than you.
00:43:48.440 These people stood up to it.
00:43:50.360 And in the end, though, it got thrown out.
00:43:53.000 Now, if and when, and unfortunately, it's probably a matter of when,
00:43:57.400 something else comes along, a new variant, a new virus, or whatever,
00:44:00.240 and they try the lockdowns again,
00:44:02.060 people are going to be a lot more prepared to stand up to it.
00:44:04.500 When they see, hey, in the long run, the courts are going to throw this out.
00:44:08.380 This didn't stand up to the scrutiny of a true unbiased justice.
00:44:12.760 These rights are being violated.
00:44:14.360 It's not correct.
00:44:16.400 And I will be acquitted.
00:44:17.540 So I think there's going to be a heck of a lot more pushback,
00:44:20.100 if the government dares,
00:44:21.640 to try and start bringing in some of these legislations again.
00:44:24.120 Again, particularly in Alberta, we've certainly got an outspoken premier here
00:44:27.440 saying, no, it's not happening again.
00:44:30.000 Let's see.
00:44:30.680 I'll run through a couple other things quickly.
00:44:32.680 Speaking of wackadoodles,
00:44:33.800 there was an environmental protester who threw that pink paint on a painting,
00:44:39.800 a Tom Thompson painting, a very valuable one, a rare one in the Canadian gallery.
00:44:44.580 What is it with these morons?
00:44:45.920 You know, you think you're really bringing us to your cause.
00:44:47.980 I mean, they're just attention whores.
00:44:48.980 We understand that.
00:44:50.020 They're just, hey, look at me.
00:44:51.440 Hey, look at me.
00:44:52.520 Either way, part of the problem is we really need to start punishing these guys severely.
00:44:56.140 Give them 30 days in jail.
00:44:57.580 I mean, he looks like a pencil neck little dork.
00:44:59.140 Let's see how he does in remand for a little while.
00:45:01.140 I suspect he'll never do it again.
00:45:03.820 But as long as we keep slapping their wrists and giving them a $100 fine for Dada to pay off,
00:45:07.220 because he probably came from some nice privileged upper class household in the area,
00:45:10.700 it's not going to stop him from wanting to do it again in the future.
00:45:14.400 The only thing that's fortunate, I guess, is there was a glaze on the painting
00:45:17.160 and this idiot's paint came off of it without doing any major damage to it.
00:45:20.740 But this trend with these environmentalists, it's got to stop.
00:45:24.280 They've got to start actually having some degree of consequences
00:45:28.180 or penalty for some of these stunts they're doing.
00:45:32.000 Final thing, the News Act has been delayed until 2025.
00:45:35.000 This is C18, it's blown up in the Liberals' faces.
00:45:39.140 You know, Meta stopped sharing news links.
00:45:40.920 It didn't affect their traffic.
00:45:42.380 They don't care.
00:45:43.140 They make their money out of cute kitten videos
00:45:44.860 and people putting up their food pictures from when they're out at restaurants.
00:45:47.860 It didn't harm them a bit when they called the Liberals' bluff and stopped the news links.
00:45:51.540 It did harm us a little bit at the Western Standard.
00:45:53.800 So I'm going to leave you guys off, though, with one more little plug.
00:45:56.560 You can't find our news stories on Facebook, Meta, any longer.
00:46:00.500 Maybe that'll change down the road.
00:46:02.160 But until then, make sure to share our link with other people.
00:46:04.880 Share it on Twitter if you're on there.
00:46:06.920 Let people know how they can subscribe directly so we can get that news out to you guys.
00:46:12.080 I mean, we weren't 100% dependent upon Meta to get out there,
00:46:15.880 but it harms us getting to new people not being able to get the links out there.
00:46:19.960 So it's just one more thing that makes it a little more challenging as an independent outlet.
00:46:23.880 So, I mean, C18 is failing, and this thing is going to be repealed eventually.
00:46:27.700 But, you know, who knows if Meta at that point is going to say,
00:46:29.580 yeah, you know what, we'll start allowing links again.
00:46:31.780 I don't know.
00:46:32.080 That could be years.
00:46:33.440 So, you know, I see right now, I mean, all the comments are coming on YouTube
00:46:37.000 because we just can't get out to Facebook any longer.
00:46:39.780 So share that, guys.
00:46:41.300 Keep those memberships coming.
00:46:42.540 We really appreciate it.
00:46:43.740 And to all of you tuning in today, guys, thank you very much for tuning in this week.
00:46:49.240 Watch for the pipeline coming up later on this evening.
00:46:52.500 And we'll be back again this week at this time,
00:46:54.800 and I'll have a whole bunch of new things to complain about.
00:46:59.180 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.
00:47:02.560 Cash barley is steady at $3.50.
00:47:04.680 Feed wheat is unchanged at $3.65.
00:47:07.100 And corn is down $2 at $3.65 for metric tonne.
00:47:11.040 In the milling wheat markets, December Minneapolis futures are lower $0.4.5
00:47:14.160 at $7.81.5 per bushel,
00:47:17.000 with local hard red spring bid for September movement at $9.15 per bushel.
00:47:22.360 Looking at canola, November futures are down $2.30 at $8.09.50,
00:47:27.500 with delivered buys for September movement at $18 per bushel.
00:47:31.280 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are higher a penny at $0.34 per pound,
00:47:36.560 and yellow peas remain at $11 per bushel.
00:47:39.540 And in the cattle markets, October live cattle slip $0.60 at $1.80.88 per hundredweight.
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