Western Standard - Elizabeth May running again “because Boomers F＊＊@cked the planet”

00:00:00.000 Good day. Today is July 10th, 2024. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:28.920 you're watching the pipeline as always i'm joined by western standard opinion editor

00:00:34.280 nigel hannaford howdy howdy and western standard uh senior alberta callus cory morgan yahoo

00:00:42.040 there we go you're really into it oh yeah i i got uh bugged by these guys for not having my uh

00:00:47.640 kind of lid on for the show but i've been wearing it for days and i got like a rim

00:00:53.240 forming i got like marks forming around my forehead i just that's worse than a stampede rumor

00:00:58.920 Well, I mean, we may as well end the show right there, folks.

00:01:05.480 How are we going to top Corey?

00:01:07.540 We're talking the tops of glasses for margaritas and...

00:01:11.500 Oh, salt.

00:01:12.560 Yeah.

00:01:13.260 Salt.

00:01:13.840 Yeah, I don't know where you were going.

00:01:16.400 All right.

00:01:18.600 All right, well, we've got a good show.

00:01:22.680 You're not going to believe it.

00:01:24.560 We're going to show the video to you as soon as we get into it.

00:01:27.200 You're going to love it. 0.78

00:01:28.000 It is, I think, the dumbest thing I've ever heard Justin Trudeau say, and that is, I mean, there is a video vault the size of the Library of Congress on that to go through, and Justin Trudeau is at the NATO summit right now, and our allies are extremely angry at Canada for being complete deadbeat freeloaders on defense. 0.90

00:01:54.400 A lot of pressure to increase defense spending. 0.96

00:01:57.580 And Justin Trudeau goes to the microphone and gave a written, prepared speech at length going on and on and on about how Canada is defending NATO by putting a carbon tax in place on its people.

00:02:13.120 That we are fighting climate change, and that is the most important defense that we can make.

00:02:19.140 God help us if Russia raises its carbon tax.

00:02:22.080 They'll overrun us in no time.

00:02:24.400 Elizabeth May, a federal Green Party leader, says she is running again as the leader of 1.00

00:02:30.980 that party because baby boomers, quote, effed the planet. 0.97

00:02:38.580 I'm trying to keep it a little more family friendly than... 1.00

00:02:40.360 There's six words you can't say on television, that old routine...

00:02:43.120 That's one of them, yeah, that's one of them. 1.00

00:02:44.840 Yeah, but yeah, she's running again because baby boomers effed the planet. 1.00

00:02:51.160 She said that in front of the National Press Theater. I mean, she's nothing if not colorful, green, green, green, colored green. 1.00

00:03:00.040 So it's an interesting remark we're going to get into there.

00:03:04.760 Saskatchewan, many of you know, we've got a lot of people from Saskatchewan here, is they refuse to collect the federal government's carbon tax ever since they brought in an exemption that most mostly just applied to Atlantic Canada and screwed everybody else.

00:03:21.160 By not collecting the carbon tax, they've brought their natural gas rates for consumers down to the second lowest in Canada and have cut their consumer rate by 25%.

00:03:30.680 So it pays to not pay Ottawa.

00:03:36.160 And as you see, all of us dressed up here for the Calgary Stampede.

00:03:39.820 And Pierre Polyev was in town barnstorming through, gave a beleaguer the metaphor a little bit more, gave her a barn burner of speech at the annual conservative barbecue.

00:03:51.660 You know, he did. And one of the interesting things about Mr. Polyev is that it's absolutely off the cuff.

00:04:00.880 There were no bat wings. There was no piece of paper on a podium. He just stood there and let it out.

00:04:06.360 I mean, I realize that this is a stump speech, and he has given something like it before.

00:04:10.480 Well, we're going to get into it when we talk about that topic.

00:04:13.100 What a performer.

00:04:14.060 Yeah, that was quite something.

00:04:16.260 So we'll get into a speech there.

00:04:18.300 All right, well, let's begin with a speech from his main adversary, Justin Trudeau.

00:04:24.860 As I said at the top, I mean, 0.96

00:04:27.540 And the candidates for the dumbest thing Justin Trudeau has ever said is, I mean, it'll take you longer to go through it than mapping the human genome. 0.98

00:04:42.540 But there is a new serious candidate for the dumbest thing he has ever said. 0.98

00:04:49.980 And unlike many of the dumb things he said, this was not off the cuff. 0.99

00:04:54.640 off the cuff. This was prepared remarks, speech written by people like yourself. You were a 0.98

00:05:03.040 speechwriter for... Not exactly like me. No, but you know, you were chief speechwriter for Stephen

00:05:08.320 Harper. He ostensibly has at least a nominal equivalent in his office, paid a bunch of money

00:05:17.360 to write things that make him sound smart. And this is what they came up with. Let's roll at

00:05:24.380 some of the highlights addressing a global problem like climate change requires a global response

00:05:31.660 a global response which we've been coordinating in close partnership with our 31 fellow member

00:05:37.820 states in nato our government has been a strong advocate for ensuring that climate change is an

00:05:44.460 integral part of nato's agenda and that together we act to make it a reality in 2021 the alliance

00:05:53.900 published the NATO Climate Change and Security Action Plan, a plan which recognized the risks

00:06:00.860 that climate change poses to NATO and pledged to take action to address those challenges.

00:06:07.020 In 2022 and 2023, Canada co-led a climate change working group with Denmark and Norway to identify

00:06:15.020 and establish NATO's climate research priorities. And we spearheaded the NATO Climate Change and

00:06:22.060 Security Centre of Excellence, which we were proud to launch last year. It will be housed in

00:06:27.980 downtown Montreal. This centre serves as a critical research platform to ensure that NATO

00:06:34.700 allies and partners are equipped with the information they need to succeed in a climate

00:06:40.060 changed world, to plan for and adapt to and mitigate the security risks and impacts caused

00:06:48.300 by climate change, and to forge strong partnerships with organizations like the Munich Security

00:06:54.460 Conference and the CDA Institute that are committed to addressing the security challenges posed

00:07:00.380 by the climate crisis. So today I'm excited to celebrate with you all the important milestone

00:07:08.380 for the center. Woo! That! That's a cooker, isn't it just? You know, that almost tops if a man

00:07:17.580 says he's a woman then he's a woman we were talking about different things that mr trudeau has

00:07:24.300 said to excite us all so the question there's a lot of questions about that the first one i would

00:07:29.260 ask is all right we're spending more money what did you get for it like in the he he accused the

00:07:35.660 harper administration of underspending under one percent well that was true of the last year we'd

00:07:41.340 just come off the afghanistan campaign and there were some things that we were not spending that

00:07:46.380 we had been spending in the previous years but all right what did you get for your money did

00:07:52.780 you get a whole bunch of new ships did you get an f-35 fighter plane i don't believe you did

00:07:58.140 we have a single submarine that can submerge well we bought them before uh i mean we need

00:08:03.980 to do but they still well they don't go underwater whatever they do the thing is we do not have a

00:08:10.220 bunch of new military equipment which is really what that two percent is all about and the other

00:08:16.300 thing that we don't have is people recruitment is plummeting because they have made the armed forces

00:08:23.500 into a social justice enterprise the social justice league yeah so there you go it's uh

00:08:31.020 it's it was absolutely pretty shameful i don't don't blame the you know mike johnson the speaker

00:08:35.980 of the house they actually called it shameful now johnson is third in line because president

00:08:41.420 the vice president if they're both killed mike johnson is effectively president so the third

00:08:46.860 highest guy in the united states accused canada of riding on america's coattails and said it was

00:08:52.060 shameful i reckon you'd find a lot of canadians who would say yes to that you know actually uh

00:08:57.020 just uh just the other week i took uh i was a family uh family cottage uh out east and uh

00:09:04.700 saw my cousin i haven't seen my cousin for about 12 years since he last time i saw him was just

00:09:09.500 days before he went to boot camp and went into the artillery as a bombardier and, you know,

00:09:18.480 proudly served in the forces. And I asked him why he left. He said, same reason as everybody else.

00:09:24.440 It's not the army anymore. It's a social justice daycare. This is a guy who was not political

00:09:31.040 before he left. Didn't care about any of this stuff. And, you know, we don't have an army,

00:09:37.040 Air Force and Navy. We've got a weird social justice league that incapable of defending us

00:09:44.860 from Denmark if they stormed Hans Island or something. So let's go to Trudeau's remarks

00:09:52.360 more specifically here, Corey. I mean, politicians are going to put the best spin on things possible

00:10:01.380 And, you know, they they want to answer the question they want to answer, not the one that was asked.

00:10:08.340 And everyone's asking Canada, like, when are you going to put on your big boy pants?

00:10:13.480 And, you know, you're I think someone put it this way.

00:10:15.980 Canada is riding a first class in a first class train with a third class ticket right now.

00:10:23.340 We're the laughingstock of data over just so far below our commitments we've made as a country.

00:10:31.380 spent on defense and his answer just going into um when i first saw this video i thought

00:10:38.100 this was just uh kind of a quick little deflection like well you know uh climate change is important

00:10:43.860 and i was like i rolled my eyes a bit but then the video kept going and he kept on talking and talking

00:10:49.220 and as you see is it is very apparent he might even believe this he might actually believe the

00:10:58.180 the words coming out of his mouth that Canada is defending NATO, keeping the Russians and the

00:11:05.420 Chinese at bay and the ran at bay by taxing people's home heating and gasoline. Do you think

00:11:17.360 he actually believes this or is this just pure deflection? I think he does. I think he's in a

00:11:23.020 cloistered, delusional world of his own making now. I mean, it's a reflection of a lot of what

00:11:27.440 we've been seeing in his politics in general. Even liberals are saying, this guy has got to get out

00:11:32.880 of here. We're done with him. It's not working. We're going to lose our jobs. And instead of

00:11:37.480 listening or examining, he's just gathering more nodding heads around himself who will

00:11:42.840 still continue to act as his political fluffers for him and keep him imagining that he's popular

00:11:50.520 and on the right course. I mean, he's ignoring other things. Senators, what was it? Over 20

00:11:56.000 senators a week ago sent a letter, they don't do this very often, before the NATO summit stating,

00:12:01.860 Canada, you have to start pulling your weight. We've had it with this. Yes, this is the opportunity

00:12:07.500 for you to say you're going to do something. And instead, he drifts off answering a question that

00:12:13.700 nobody asked him into something that's completely irrelevant to the summit. Who is going to

00:12:20.160 appreciate what he just said there, aside from maybe Greta Thunberg? But he believes his own

00:12:25.020 garbage. He's been drinking his own bath water, and it shows it when he's ostensibly represented 1.00

00:12:31.280 Canada at NATO. It's an embarrassment. Nigel, even his kind of natural allies around the NATO

00:12:36.240 table that are still there, you know, you got Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz,

00:12:45.080 you know, all left or center-left major leaders in NATO. They have essentially given a figurative

00:12:54.960 eye roll to this. And they're all global warming crusaders. You know, they take it maybe almost as

00:13:01.320 seriously as he does. But they understand that they're saying, well, that's nice. But how about

00:13:08.960 some guns and some ships and some planes? Because a carbon tax, you know, doesn't scare Russia very

00:13:16.340 much. This isn't even being received at all seriously by his own ideological allies within

00:13:25.380 NATO. They're telling him to pony up guns, not talk of carbon taxes. Well, you wouldn't expect

00:13:30.360 them to, would you? Really? I mean, that is not an argument that any of those people who you have

00:13:35.760 just mentioned would want to advance and take credit for, because it's just plain wrong. And

00:13:41.720 some of it is, apart from the fact that that is philosophically flawed at a foundational level,

00:13:48.440 it's not even honest. I mean, he'll say that we're now spending more money on defense. We're up to

00:13:55.020 one point, whatever, 3% or whatever it was that he said. Well, actually, one thing that they do now

00:14:01.660 is that they count veterans affairs under defense spending. So they added $7 billion and said, oh,

00:14:08.280 spending more money on defense but it didn't buy it look don't get me wrong veterans watching

00:14:13.160 veterans deserve what deserve their uh their pensions matters but it doesn't count as

00:14:17.720 but it is a country today it it is not a defense expenditure in the sense that buying a fighter

00:14:24.520 plane or even a parcel of new rifles is a defense expenditure and yet uh they just puts out this

00:14:31.240 number and expect oh well i'm spending more no they're not it's also worth noting that our real

00:14:36.600 GDP hasn't grown under most of the time Trudeau's been in power so you know spending as a proportion

00:14:42.680 of GDP I mean GDP is not growing very much so actually you know the the denominator is making

00:14:49.960 the number artificially big we're we're behind where we were relative to global GDP 10 years ago

00:14:55.880 oh and this is a should have been a relatively easy spend I mean if you're concerned about

00:15:00.120 Ukraine and things like that still participation in NATO is that deterrent effect it's showing

00:15:05.080 where you're at. Trudeau hasn't hesitated to give direct cash and equipment and things to Ukraine,

00:15:11.400 which people can debate whether or not that's a good idea or not. But Canada could do its part by

00:15:16.040 spending that money here and building its own defense force and taking part in NATO exercises

00:15:21.880 and things over there, which would be ostensibly more effective. And he could fulfill, but he would

00:15:27.000 prefer to cherry pick where he wants to spend these resources rather than put it into our

00:15:32.600 domestic defense it's just disconnected from reality yes yeah i don't know this this is

00:15:38.520 this one is uh like i mean if he was you know older i i could have been convinced this was

00:15:47.240 just a senile biden speech like it was just crazy which is it was off off the map yeah

00:15:55.160 you know one of the arguments that he made was that um climate change is going to cause

00:16:02.400 rising sea level and that's going to flood our military facilities i mean i i don't know who

00:16:10.160 goes over that and i mean there's a fact check well maybe that our submarines will finally get

00:16:15.200 underwater well that's true close the hatch guys there's a you know there is such a thing as a fact

00:16:20.960 check is this literally true and then there's just a reality check and that's the one that doesn't

00:16:25.120 seem to have been done here because long, you know, long before a skymalt is under 20 feet of

00:16:32.800 water, we're going to have sorted things out with a number of foreign powers who are bad for

00:16:38.520 business. It's just, I mean, who looks at this stuff before he gives it? 0.54

00:16:46.580 Yeah, I think he's lost the plot a long time ago and it's just getting increasingly sad and

00:16:51.880 delusional now all right uh speaking of uh sad delusional and past the prime elizabeth may 1.00

00:16:58.840 i mean for a hard lefty i got a weird soft spot for her because it's crazy as she often is 1.00

00:17:07.340 she's a rare genuine politician that speaks her mind and she did that uh she spoke her mind uh 0.97

00:17:16.600 I think it was, uh, I think, was it yesterday?

00:17:19.960 Yes.

00:17:20.300 Earlier today.

00:17:21.280 Yesterday.

00:17:21.980 Uh, well, first let's just show some of the clip of, uh, Elizabeth May.

00:17:26.420 Uh, she's at the, uh, the National Press Gallery.

00:17:28.780 It's, uh, it's a, it's a big room in the lower, uh, level of parliament buildings where, uh,

00:17:34.660 she announces that she is going to be running again and leading the Green Party the next election.

00:17:39.460 Let's hear why. 1.00

00:17:41.780 Baby boomers have f***ed this planet. 1.00

00:17:44.060 I mean, she's talking about her. She has another grandkid coming. I mean, I don't know how she's going to tell the grandkids to watch their mouth when they start using foul language around the house at Christmas. 1.00

00:17:57.260 But, yeah, because boomers, F you see something, something, ED it up. 1.00

00:18:08.940 Oh, F'd up the planet. 1.00

00:18:13.020 Okay, Boomer.

00:18:15.800 Some of you, Corey.

00:18:16.660 I mean, just her being angry that the, I guess, the carbon tax crusade,

00:18:25.860 When she entered politics, no one was talking about carbon taxes.

00:18:28.720 No one wanted it. 0.72

00:18:29.560 Steph and Dion tried it, got slaughtered.

00:18:31.820 Justin Trudeau gets elected without a plan for carbon tax, but then gets one.

00:18:35.180 And then it becomes established, so established, in fact, that Erdo Toole ran as a pro-carbon tax candidate as conservative leader.

00:18:43.140 The last federal election, obviously lost.

00:18:47.300 Many of us couldn't vote for a party, but that's carbon tax.

00:18:50.100 But she has gone from seeing government tax go from non-existent to so-existent that even the Conservative Party campaigned out at the last election to 2024, where its death warrant has all been signed.

00:19:05.320 Do you think she's maybe just very angry that kind of her life's career's work is about to come to a crashing halt in about a year?

00:19:14.280 I don't know. She'll always find something else to, you know, a windmill to tilt at.

00:19:17.560 I mean, she's always been a kooky activist, and she's still a kooky activist.

00:19:21.440 She's got her little base of support there in BC that will re-elect her no matter what the David Suzuki types, the champagne socialists. 0.93

00:19:29.080 And she'll say those just ridiculous sort of statements.

00:19:32.360 That's the leisure somebody has when you're not seriously actually thinking you're going to form government or do something.

00:19:38.800 I mean, it got her a bunch of ink when really, otherwise, who really cares what Elizabeth May says?

00:19:43.160 I mean, if she just kept on putting out rational, basic statements, nobody's really going to pay attention.

00:19:48.460 So if she tosses something like that out, well, we're talking about it.

00:19:51.640 She's not getting anything done. 0.99

00:19:52.880 She's just crazy Liz being crazy Liz. 0.93

00:19:58.620 Dodger, do you think? 0.95

00:20:00.400 Yeah, correct. 0.93

00:20:01.280 This is an important point.

00:20:02.180 We're talking about it.

00:20:03.080 I mean, if you said the same things but didn't say Boomer is effed up the planet, yeah, maybe there'd be no press.

00:20:09.940 i don't know she's she's getting some ache now um did you think it was maybe just very planned or

00:20:16.180 maybe just genuinely kind of despondent that you know she built up the green party got

00:20:23.560 became the first one elected built a small caucus that caucus is a little bit smaller but still

00:20:28.080 there um but as of october 2025 uh pretty much her her big uh achievement playing a big role

00:20:38.240 and the establishment of the federal carbon tax is about to be completely erased.

00:20:43.920 You know, Elizabeth May is a good person, but she is not reliable when it comes to policy.

00:20:55.300 And, you know, there are some great clips of her at public events that would also make a good play on the...

00:21:07.180 oh she's had lots of she's had lots of dingers so i would imagine that this was one of those

00:21:12.220 situations where she had prepared herself gone out there and then just said what she really thought

00:21:20.220 and in her view it like the prime minister she thinks that everything is about climate change

00:21:28.620 nothing else really matters it is the green party when all is said and all is done that's their

00:21:34.860 brand and her mouth ran away with her but uh you know yes we're talking about it but i don't think

00:21:43.660 anybody who is listening to that and talking about it is going to come away with the idea well

00:21:53.020 finally somebody is representing what i really think when she used the f word then i was with

00:22:02.860 her. I don't think that's how people come at that. They, you know, we all have adult

00:22:07.100 conversations. She caught attention by dropping an F-bomb in the press theater. 1.00

00:22:10.540 Yeah, but how much of that attention is going to be positive and how much of it is going to

00:22:13.740 translate into votes? I think so. No attention, media and attention is oxygen politics. You know,

00:22:21.420 they say money is the blood of politics. Well, attention is the oxygen. If you're getting no

00:22:27.340 attention, you don't exist. And I can't remember the last time I actually heard of the Green Party

00:22:31.420 in the press.

00:22:33.640 They've gotten pretty overshadowed.

00:22:35.100 Well, actually, it was just a couple of times.

00:22:36.860 Trudeau has out-lefted the NDP on Global Warming.

00:22:39.780 You know, that's a party, actually, it has made press,

00:22:42.060 but for all the wrong reasons, their internal divisions are significant.

00:22:46.240 They've been losing.

00:22:47.460 Deputy leader just left.

00:22:48.500 Deputy leader just left.

00:22:52.660 This is not going to save them.

00:22:54.920 No.

00:22:55.420 This was bad politics.

00:22:56.840 Well, I guess, before we move on to the next topic,

00:22:58.900 just a little just quickly chat about the green party because we never really think about them.

00:23:03.140 You know they're a caucus of just two but how do they get about 5% of the national vote it's not

00:23:08.420 insignificant. Is there still place for the greens now that because the the liberals have gone all

00:23:23.380 in on global warming hysteria and these kinds of things uh none of the lefty parties tend to talk

00:23:32.180 about basic uh conservation anymore protecting protecting uh yeah reasonable uh reasonable

00:23:39.300 policies for protecting endangered species and um you know uh certain environments uh

00:23:47.060 they they only seem to talk about global warming or climate change whichever they call it

00:23:51.460 But the liberals have gone all in.

00:23:55.740 They're as fanatical as Elizabeth May.

00:23:58.980 Actually, Justin Trudeau's comment saying that our defense policy is a carbon tax, essentially.

00:24:04.920 I mean, that's too crazy, I think, even for Elizabeth May to say at this point.

00:24:10.300 Are the Greens redundant at this point?

00:24:12.760 Yeah, well, they've been redundant for a long time because any party that is kind of a one-issue party,

00:24:18.100 You may elect the odd person just because they're a good candidate

00:24:23.500 or you want somebody to represent that point of view.

00:24:26.300 Actually, she represents the writing where my grandson lives.

00:24:30.700 You know, he's politically aware.

00:24:33.300 And he says, what, grandfather, what is she saying?

00:24:36.500 Like, what is this woman about?

00:24:39.000 And, you know, I have to say there is a place, maybe one

00:24:44.340 or two seats in Parliament for people who've got a particular issue that they really want to bring

00:24:49.220 forward, because maybe it is important. But she has been totally eclipsed. By the way, so has the

00:24:54.740 NDP. By the Liberal Party, it's just like the Borg has absorbed everybody. You know, they cannot

00:25:02.580 resist. So why would you need a Green Party? Why do you even need the NDP? Well, actually,

00:25:07.860 Single-issue candidates, actually, I'd say there's probably at least several dozen of the people who are mostly focused on a single issue.

00:25:17.860 They just tend to run in bigger parties.

00:25:20.460 You know, the conservatives, you'll have, you know, some people who are mostly just concerned with just abortion or something.

00:25:26.620 You'll have, you know, parties will have some global warming stuff.

00:25:30.920 But, you know, you've got, you know, a number of members of parliament who are just concerned about, you know, the cause of Hamas and anti-Israel stuff.

00:25:43.020 So, you know, single issue MPs actually, I think they exist in far greater number, probably a few dozen at least.

00:25:49.420 They just tend to land more successfully in the bigger parties that align maybe with their issues.

00:25:55.000 Well, then they've got to sign on to a number of other things as well and at least have an opinion and be prepared to defend them.

00:26:00.080 But for Elizabeth May, I don't know who takes her seriously anymore, other than the voters of Saanich.

00:26:08.840 I'm actually not convinced that her constituency is safe.

00:26:11.980 That area has voted Reform Party in the 90s.

00:26:15.320 I think that was Gary Lund's seat, right?

00:26:17.140 It was.

00:26:17.560 Yeah, Gary Lund.

00:26:19.740 You know, it was conservative up until, what, roughly 2008, circa, around there.

00:26:25.120 in a big conservative wave, possibly could go conservative.

00:26:32.400 Especially if she issues more statements like that.

00:26:36.620 People say, yeah, I agree, but no.

00:26:39.220 Yeah.

00:26:40.380 All right.

00:26:42.800 Well, let's bring it a little closer to home.

00:26:45.860 On the other side of the carbon tax here.

00:26:47.160 So Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Premier,

00:26:51.560 Scott Bowe, I know you'll recall, how long ago was this, when the Liberals brought in

00:26:57.860 the carbon tax exemption for Atlantic Canada.

00:27:03.160 Oh, good Lord, that's before Christmas.

00:27:05.680 Yeah.

00:27:05.920 That last fall.

00:27:06.820 Yeah.

00:27:07.460 Yeah.

00:27:07.780 So, you know, they bring in, the Liberals brought this in, the Liberal MPs were lobbying,

00:27:13.420 or Atlantic Liberal MPs were lobbying for an exemption for home heating fuel, it was.

00:27:17.320 that's used overwhelmingly just in Atlantic Canada.

00:27:23.280 It's not used at any significant amount, really, outside of Atlantic Canada.

00:27:28.020 And they get this big exemption.

00:27:30.860 And I think it may have been on CTV.

00:27:33.980 You know, they were, a reporter asked, a Liberal cabinet minister from Newfoundland,

00:27:39.060 well, what about the West in Ontario?

00:27:42.880 Should they get an exemption?

00:27:44.000 How come they didn't get one?

00:27:44.780 And the Liberal ministers said something, I think, to the effect of, well, maybe they should elect some more MP, Liberals, and then they can be in the tent and ask for these things.

00:27:55.540 That triggered a pretty immediate backlash from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Bowe, who said, okay, well, we're just going to give ourselves an exemption here on home heating fuel.

00:28:07.920 Mostly natural gas, you know, west here.

00:28:10.820 So we're just not going to collect it. 0.91

00:28:11.840 Saskatchewan was able to do that where Alberta wasn't because Saskatchewan for very silly

00:28:19.440 reasons is still mostly got all these crown corporations running things that most of the

00:28:24.480 world realizes the private sector should probably do. In this one very unique set of circumstances

00:28:31.120 I'm kind of envious that Saskatchewan had a crown corporation because unlike a private corporation

00:28:36.000 the federal government can't really do much about it. It's a government entity so that it's not

00:28:39.840 not collecting the carbon tax. And yeah, the news just came out from SaskEnergy and the

00:28:46.920 government there. They've now brought their natural gas and home heating fuel rates down

00:28:52.400 to the second lowest in Canada, and a 25% commodity rate cut. Corey, and this comes

00:29:03.260 just, I think it was just yesterday, they succeeded in getting a stay from the courts.

00:29:08.800 The federal government is trying to garnish the accounts, the bank accounts of the government of Saskatchewan as if, you know, there's someone, you know, some guy who doesn't pay his credit card bill or something.

00:29:19.180 Papa Trudeau wants you to pay your bill.

00:29:23.700 I don't know.

00:29:25.000 I think we're getting here, Corey, a pretty politically useful data point that Paul Yev will be able to point to in the next federal election,

00:29:33.320 saying, on this one item that Saskatchewan did not follow through with Trudeau's policy on,

00:29:40.680 here's how much money it saved people. Now let's do that everywhere. Yeah, it hurts. I mean,

00:29:46.380 the beginning of the end of the carbon tax really was when Trudeau made that exemption for Atlantic

00:29:52.880 Canada, because that was his admission that, yes, it is actually harming the pocketbooks

00:29:57.340 of average Canadians. I mean, if it wasn't harming them, then the exemption wouldn't do

00:30:01.300 any good. So it showed that he's just basically, they've been lying for a long time, saying that

00:30:06.720 it's revenue neutral, saying that it doesn't harm people paying their bills. And that inspired

00:30:10.980 Scott Moe, who, as you said, is the only one kind of utility empowered to be able to say,

00:30:15.540 well, we're just not sending you that anymore, and we're not going to do it.

00:30:19.380 And the injunction was interesting. This is an interesting standoff, and it's one that

00:30:22.760 Polyev can play with, because he's not directly in the midst of it. But it's showing, you know,

00:30:27.200 again, to more Canadians that this carbon tax is harming them in paying the bills. And people are

00:30:31.660 struggling all over with, you know, utility costs on top of their mortgages and rent and everything

00:30:38.020 else. So it's a battle that Polyev is going to benefit from and utilize. And we'll see where it

00:30:44.580 goes. It's an interesting standoff. I mean, there's other ways the federal government can punish

00:30:47.480 Saskatchewan. They could start cutting transfer payments, but that looks pretty rough. You know,

00:30:51.140 if they cut a hundred million from the health transfer, Moe is going to go off the rails,

00:30:56.240 as well as our Saskatchewan voters.

00:30:58.660 So, yeah, Trudeau painted himself in a corner here.

00:31:01.000 Well, it's interesting.

00:31:01.680 It didn't stop Trudeau putting the rate up on April 1st as planned.

00:31:07.500 You know, right when we were all talking about 10% to 20% inflation

00:31:11.460 over the previous 18 months.

00:31:13.300 Well, here's a little bit more.

00:31:15.260 Yeah, that's totally like the old fanatic who won't change his mind

00:31:21.200 and won't change the subject.

00:31:22.620 Couldn't see his way forward to a different policy.

00:31:26.240 You know, I wonder if anybody has gone through the same exercise as I have, which is, what is this actually costing me?

00:31:34.300 You know, I got the NMAX bills.

00:31:35.960 You know, in Calgary, we have a company called NMAX.

00:31:38.200 For those who are watching from elsewhere, that's the people we get our natural gas from.

00:31:43.800 And to their credit, they're very good at breaking out everything that you're paying for.

00:31:47.940 So all the stupid little extra taxes, levies, charges, whatever it is that you can see how little you pay for energy and how much you pay for just about everything else. 0.62

00:31:58.920 The Hannaford household has this year, the first six months, paid $424.77 in carbon tax. 0.96

00:32:09.720 So I guess for the year...

00:32:10.620 Just for home heating, not for everything else.

00:32:12.580 Yeah, that's just for home heating.

00:32:13.940 This is the NMAX bill.

00:32:16.100 So for the year, it's going to be north of $800 because it's going up, not down as we go ahead.

00:32:21.880 And so to that, you have to add what you're paying in carbon tax on gasoline that you put in the truck.

00:32:30.940 And, of course, you can see it reflected through the price of your groceries because all the truckers and the farmers and everybody who has anything to do with bringing you food is also passing it on through.

00:32:42.260 But just taking that $800 a year, you know, folks, you know what your annual income is.

00:32:48.320 Do the maths.

00:32:50.140 If that's an $80,000, if you have a household income gross of $80,000, that $800 is probably going to be pretty typical of what you are spending on.

00:33:01.440 That's 1%.

00:33:02.380 That is a 1% increase in your expenses.

00:33:06.140 And that is on your before tax income.

00:33:12.260 if you're using my numbers.

00:33:13.960 This is an astonishingly large amount of money.

00:33:16.060 And for people who don't have that high gross income,

00:33:18.700 it's probably just the same

00:33:19.920 because it costs what it costs to heat a house.

00:33:21.980 Yeah.

00:33:25.080 It's the only time I've ever been jealous

00:33:26.460 of anywhere having a Crown Corporation.

00:33:29.020 I actually want to sneak in a little side topic here

00:33:32.600 with the LCBO strike in Ontario,

00:33:35.580 Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

00:33:38.540 I'm sorry, it's just so funny with their liquor store.

00:33:41.540 Whenever I go, like, so I was just back visiting family just the other week, and, you know, I never feel so superior and snobby as when I strut into an LCBO and, you know, look at, you know, here's the government-approved stuff.

00:33:58.300 It's got very limited hours, very limited service.

00:34:03.540 I was a student when I was in university, I went to Carleton University in Ottawa.

00:34:07.400 Remember, we wanted to go get some beers and liquor for New Year's Eve.

00:34:13.420 And the liquor store in downtown Ottawa closed at 11 o'clock on New Year's Eve.

00:34:19.260 And there was a lineup, like, almost around the block.

00:34:22.300 You had to wait for hours. 0.99

00:34:23.700 I mean, that kind of thing would start a damn riot in Alberta. 0.98

00:34:27.680 But Ontarians have got this bizarre... 0.99

00:34:30.580 They just break the windows.

00:34:32.480 Yeah.

00:34:33.220 Yeah.

00:34:33.760 Yeah.

00:34:34.080 I suppose that's...

00:34:36.080 That's our act of action.

00:34:36.980 Yeah.

00:34:37.400 Yeah, that's mostly peaceful.

00:34:41.540 But yeah, and then, you know, Doug Ford, you know,

00:34:44.800 hadn't done a lot of great, I'd say,

00:34:46.180 but he's at least cracking the window open

00:34:48.880 on beer and wine sales and grocery stores and stuff.

00:34:51.820 I mean, he should just go do what Klein did

00:34:53.980 and just say, oh, you're gone.

00:34:56.760 Sell the things, get rid of it overnight. 0.98

00:34:59.840 In Alberta, we, you know, we turned these parasites 0.98

00:35:03.740 of the state working in government stores 0.79

00:35:07.120 into entrepreneurs overnight because tons of these stores were just bought by the people working

00:35:10.560 into them they became they became capitalists overnight and then they became the defenders

00:35:15.520 of the private system um and just i don't know why ford doesn't go that way it's it's actually

00:35:22.400 politically easier than going piecemeal but yeah they're on they're on strike again one of the big

00:35:27.280 demands is that they stop private sales of liquor because only the government uh could do anything

00:35:32.160 right. And it was a Robin Urbach had a great column. Just the other day, just the opposite

00:35:40.720 of the union is making Doug Ford's case for him that no, they shouldn't have a monopoly.

00:35:48.160 And, and I think the headline was there was some activist organization that was saying that

00:35:55.520 alcoholics like street people were going to be dying if they couldn't get their access because

00:36:00.960 they were drinking something else you know i mean how many times have i said i'll try if i don't get

00:36:04.960 a drink but uh the and probably as many times as derek but um you know i i had i had to laugh at

00:36:13.440 that the whole thing is obvious a union shop protecting its turf pushing back at the first

00:36:22.160 sign that there may be a problem down the road like you said you should just do it it works great

00:36:27.680 or bend it off. Ford's got a simple win here. I mean, talk to any Albertan over 50 who got to

00:36:35.620 endure the warm beer from the cranky overpaid bums in the Alberta government stores, which were

00:36:42.020 six to a city the size of Calgary that closed at four on a Friday afternoon. Ask any and say,

00:36:48.380 would you like to go back to that? And you even the hardest of lefties. No, no, those days are

00:36:54.620 gone. This was a positive evolution. It's done. So Ford, you know, I don't think the Ontario

00:37:01.480 government has the marijuana stores, does it? They tried to. So when Kathleen Wynne was in power and

00:37:08.720 cannabis was legalized, she was going to essentially build ill CBO style bricks and 1.00

00:37:13.640 mortar government drugstores. Not a single one got built. There was a period where Bonass, 1.00

00:37:23.580 Little tiny neighborhood in the west end of Calgary had more cannabis shops than all of Ontario, because Alberta didn't do it the way Ontario was.

00:37:36.740 They did it private.

00:37:37.520 And that was under an NDP government here, because in Alberta, even the NDP knows, yeah, the government should probably not be selling the liquor and the drugs.

00:37:46.080 where they did try to have a private

00:37:48.020 government monopoly on

00:37:50.320 cannabis sales in Alberta was online

00:37:52.380 sales, which is the single most difficult

00:37:54.420 place to establish a monopoly.

00:37:56.720 It didn't work. I was in the

00:37:58.460 legislature at the time, and I told the Minister

00:38:00.440 of Finance, Joe Ceci, I said,

00:38:02.400 the NDP are the first people in the

00:38:04.440 world to lose money selling drugs.

00:38:07.960 But yeah,

00:38:08.700 even the NDP in Alberta would never

00:38:10.500 dream of going back to a government

00:38:12.460 monopoly. 0.99

00:38:12.840 it's uh it's nearly as dumb as a trudeau defense speech all right um well let's speak of a 0.99

00:38:20.920 talk about a different speech uh stampede season right now i'm about stampeded out uh i mean it's 0.98

00:38:28.840 it's fun but it's uh it's it's hard on you it's hard when you get older

00:38:34.280 hard enough at my age i can i can just imagine um so uh you and i went to go see the uh

00:38:42.440 polyab speech there's the big annual conservative stampede barbecue down at heritage park uh every

00:38:49.160 year it's one of the big fundraising events for that party every year um and the leader always

00:38:56.360 comes and speaks and uh this is a pretty good one i mean i don't think he said anything particularly

00:39:01.800 uh new i mean we've heard hundreds of polyab speeches they're more or less different but

00:39:08.760 But the tone of this one was particularly aggressive.

00:39:13.400 Took a pretty direct shot at Calgary Mayor Jody Gondek.

00:39:17.560 He's actually kind of, I've never seen a federal leader do this before.

00:39:20.020 He likes to go around to cities that have left-wing mayors and bash their mayor in their city.

00:39:26.000 Well, it's kind of a good reason to do that, because one of the characteristics of left-wing mayors is that they tend to see their city,

00:39:33.460 other cities like them, as kind of the new political center of culture.

00:39:38.460 And this has been talked about at the World Economic Forum and other places where people who mean well for humanity at other people's expense tend to gather and sort out what they're going to do next.

00:39:51.580 But the idea is that the city is really the place where all the big decisions should be made.

00:39:57.600 Well, no, that's not what our Constitution says.

00:39:59.840 and it but it is the basis upon which mr trudeau for example can go to the mayor of calgary and

00:40:05.260 say we'll give you 200 million dollars but you have to change your rezoning laws well i don't

00:40:10.160 know that anybody wants the federal government getting that involved in the rezoning laws in

00:40:16.240 the city where they live but that's how it works so really it is a good thing that somebody is

00:40:21.880 calling the mayors and the federal government on this kind of behavior good here i mean i'm a big

00:40:28.400 supporter anyway, but what he was on the right track there.

00:40:33.120 He was also in the stampede parade, riding a horse, I think

00:40:36.920 alongside his wife. I mean, not surprising that a conservative

00:40:40.620 leader is going to get a pretty warm welcome in Calgary, but it

00:40:43.400 was, it was a particularly warm welcome. Justin Trudeau, as far

00:40:47.580 as I know, has never, even at the height of his popularity when

00:40:50.780 he elected 2015, was smart enough not to go in the parade. I

00:40:56.000 it's Calgary. So normally he'd fly into town generally unannounced publicly and go to a small

00:41:04.880 curated very controlled event. I remember last year there was no notice given to the press

00:41:10.800 he just showed up at Calgary MP George Chahal's he had like a pancake breakfast or something for

00:41:18.400 liberals only and he came in did a little thing and left immediately. Only friendly left-wing

00:41:24.900 press were quietly tipped in advance, and he was gone. And so it's low risk, and he can say,

00:41:30.840 I was in Calgary, I was at the Stampede, sort of, you know, snap a picture. This time, he's not even

00:41:36.980 doing that. The media is actually catching on to the reason, some of the legacy media is catching

00:41:41.280 on to the reason you gave, like a week or two ago for this, which makes sense that he's a rebel.

00:41:47.620 So George Charles is a rebel. The one and only MP from the Liberals here, basically, is kind of

00:41:52.900 encouraging Trudeau to resign. So it doesn't encourage him to come out. Yeah, so he's not

00:41:56.800 coming at all. And I think also part of it, I mean, it's just, it was smart politics, do your

00:42:02.000 quick in and out show that you were there, but he's had a point to this little gain out here now

00:42:05.880 anymore. Well, they're going to lose Chahal's seat very, very likely. I think that's pretty

00:42:10.880 good money at this point. There's nothing electorally for him here. If he shows up to

00:42:15.680 anything, and it's not the most curated, protected event, which he's kind of lost now with Chahal

00:42:19.900 as one of the rebels in caucus.

00:42:24.320 Is he really going to expose himself

00:42:26.100 to the Calgary mob?

00:42:27.620 I mean, he would have been booed

00:42:30.120 and went at the height of his popularity in 2015.

00:42:33.220 Coming here in 2024, I mean,

00:42:35.220 I would not want to be in charge of the security detail.

00:42:39.420 No, it was one of the few smart moves on his part.

00:42:41.500 Anyways, when you got nothing to gain,

00:42:43.020 don't waste your time.

00:42:45.480 All right, well, we're going to wrap it there.

00:42:48.040 Corey, Nigel, thank you very much.

00:42:49.900 It was a pleasure.

00:42:51.240 All of you, I hope you're having a great stampede if you're in southern Alberta.

00:42:54.780 If you're not, you should get down here.

00:42:56.040 There's still some time.

00:42:57.760 The natives like me are tiring out.

00:43:00.420 The crowds are going to thin from the locals.

00:43:04.200 We're about out of energy.

00:43:06.180 My batteries are about done.

00:43:10.260 So if you haven't been to the stampede, you should get down to Calgary.

00:43:12.440 Enjoy yourself.

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Western Standard - July 11, 2024

Elizabeth May running again “because Boomers F＊＊@cked the planet”

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