In this episode of the Cory Morgan Show, I rant about Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, and what he's doing to the economy, the environment, and the country's economy in general, and how it's hurting us all.
00:07:34.420She says these projects can be added at any time and they just need to, you know, get rid of some of the regulatory processes that prevent them,
00:07:45.380like the tanker ban and the pipeline ban and all that sort of good stuff.
00:18:53.780I mean, Polyev was characterized and framed as such,
00:18:57.040and it was difficult to break out of that.
00:18:58.440I remember watching it through the campaign. People say, he's got no policy on this. Well,
00:19:01.700no, here's a link. There you go. There's an extended policy on it. He's got no policy on
00:19:05.000that. Well, no, here it is. But we got an issue with legacy media that won't dig a little farther
00:19:10.180on some of these things too. So he has a harder time cutting through. One of the areas that I
00:19:16.480would imagine, I mean, it just smells like we're moving towards a disastrous budget. I mean,
00:19:20.700the absurdity of Kearney saying we've got an austerity budget with investment coming ahead
00:19:26.560of us what on earth does that mean says we're going to save money and spend money at the same
00:19:29.980time we're going to suck and blow uh how bad is this going to be because it's looking pretty bleak
00:19:35.060well he he's i think he's changed his tune a little bit but he said spend less invest more
00:19:39.660he actually put out some pretty um slick videos on that during the election campaign and everybody
00:19:44.420just said spending less investing more means spending more money i i think at this point
00:19:48.940with the way the economy's going right now where we're seeing it already he talked last week about
00:19:55.300spending billions of dollars for more people on EI. We're going to see more people on EI.
00:19:59.640They're going to be on EI longer. And the only way to get out of this is to continue to,
00:20:04.300as George Bernard Shaw said, the politician that robs Peter to pay Paul will always have a friend
00:20:08.980in Paul. So he's going to continue to spend lots of money and spread it around. He gave what,
00:20:13.000$370 million to Canola just last week. And this is what you're going to see. It's going to be
00:20:19.480more deficit spending. I think $92 billion was the suggestion for a deficit this year
00:20:26.540for Canada. It could be well over $100 billion now that things are really going south in the
00:20:32.960country. Well, so I mean, in the part with the austerity, you know, he has put down orders
00:20:38.220saying he's expecting departments to shave and cut. The reality is it's the civil service. It's
00:20:43.320massive. It's bloated. It's our largest expenditure. Do you think the Kearney government's
00:20:48.560going to find the courage to cut that i mean they're running out of options well if he cuts
00:20:54.740at 40 maybe because that's what it grew since 2015 but if he doesn't cut it 40 well here's the
00:21:00.840thing they they grew the government by 40 and and they spent tens of billions of dollars to hire
00:21:07.600other people to do work for the government that the 40 extra 40 couldn't do unless he cuts at 40
00:21:13.440percent we're going nowhere here i mean this is ridiculous and i mean are your services any better
00:21:19.600canadians they're not but government always grows um it grew through the pandemic it grows all the
00:21:25.000time while the rest of us we languish with the cost of living and all the things that pure poly
00:21:30.840is going to bring up in the upcoming government no he's not going to do what he needs to do cory
00:21:36.660he's not going to do what he needs to do no yeah and that's concerning because i mean you know if
00:21:42.700you know, just basic economics, we're going to see a more devaluation of our currency. We're
00:21:46.540going to see more economic slowdown. We're going to feel pressures. Our cost of living is going
00:21:50.660to go up. Unemployment is looking bad. One thing they've always relied on or kind of used as a
00:21:56.800crutch was mass immigration to keep the GDP from dropping into recession levels. That's really the
00:22:01.840only reason that hadn't happened during Trudeau's tenure. But now it's even showing a decline. I
00:22:07.200think it was 1.6% decline in our general GDP. Another big issue that's going to be hitting
00:22:12.020parliament is immigration uh they have capped some things they've reduced some of the student uh
00:22:17.780immigrants but are they going to take on the big uh the big ones you know the the tfw's the
00:22:23.940the permanent residents or the illegals the refugees so much i mean it's another loaded
00:22:28.180issue that they talk a big game but they don't seem to do much on well i think paul i have i
00:22:31.860mentioned that he's going to talk about that and they'll do what they normally do when it comes to
00:22:35.380conservatives talking about immigration they'll use the r word and it ends with ist and that's
00:22:40.020that's what's going to happen here. I think he's talked about, what is it? 5% per capita or
00:22:44.780something like that for immigration. That's a lot of people. It used to be a little over 3% per
00:22:49.340capita, and now it's over five. I think it's seven right now, and he wants to bring it down to five.
00:22:53.420He's not going to really reduce the numbers at all. I like what Paul Yev says. We need some
00:22:56.760negative immigration for a while and basically cut off the temporary foreign workers. Calgary
00:23:01.980Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel-Garner has talked about that, and she's on that like a dog on a
00:23:06.900own, but we need to, we need to put people to work. We've got 14.6% youth unemployment right
00:23:12.860now in this country. That's crazy. That's nuts. Yeah. And I mean, when people can't get jobs,
00:23:18.880when they can't pay the bills, ideology starts to go out the window. And I mean, two things,
00:23:23.920I think that really turn people on a government, two things people always expect of a government,
00:23:27.980no matter whether you're left or right, you want to feel safe and you want to be able to pay the
00:23:31.560bills and, you know, bail reform. Okay. That's one thing, but we need a heck of a lot more than
00:23:36.800that. We've got some crazy stuff going on in crime with repeat criminals being released.
00:23:42.340I got a feeling he's going to need to come up with a crime reform bill more than just trying
00:23:46.400to tweak bail coming into this year, or he's going to face some problems. Well, and the answer
00:23:52.440to the liberals when it comes to crime is to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. That's
00:23:57.140generally what they do. Who's the name? What's the name of the justice minister? I've forgotten
00:24:03.940his name now, but... Frazer. Yeah, Frazer. Yeah, Sean Frazer, who has been an absolute nightmare
00:24:08.400in any of the portfolios he's held, has basically poo-pooed anything Poliev says about this. Poliev
00:24:16.220does have solutions to this problem, but the Liberals won't do what needs to be done as things
00:24:20.640get worse right across the country. Yeah, well, but I mean, that blew up in a PR mess. I mean,
00:24:25.720the timing, you know, Frazer called it Poliev pushing the Wild West and so on. And then that
00:24:31.000weekend, there were several horrific, violent crimes that perhaps could have been stopped had
00:24:36.820there been somebody capable and willing to defend themselves. So I think more citizens are going to
00:24:42.720just take it upon themselves to defend themselves, no matter what the law says, because it doesn't
00:24:46.040matter when your family's at risk. And I was talking about this with my wife the other day,
00:24:49.660and it's a sad thing to say when it comes to basically stand your ground law inside your own
00:24:54.520house. Nobody's going to be checking a box to figure out if they're using the right proportional
00:24:59.420proportional when it comes to somebody in your home. But I guess the only thing you can do at
00:25:04.180this point is somebody's in your home and you don't want to go to jail for defending yourself
00:25:07.880in your home is to kill the guy because dead men tell no tales, folks. I mean, I thought he was
00:25:13.040going to kill me. So that's what I did. But is that where we are in our country right now that
00:25:16.940we can't defend ourselves in our own homes? I mean, I'm beating the person to within an inch
00:25:21.940of their lives if they're threatening my wife in this house. That's what I'm doing. And I think
00:25:25.120that's what most Canadians are going to do. And who cares about what happens after that? But that's
00:25:29.340where we are in our country right now. It's absurd, really is. Yeah. And I mean, I think
00:25:34.740most sane people, I mean, we never want to be in that situation in the first place. And we would,
00:25:39.860as far as we could tell in the heat of a moment, do what minimum required to make your household
00:25:44.260safe. But when you don't know the intent of the intruder, that minimum required could be
00:25:48.680pretty violent, unfortunately. You know, these discussions are going to keep happening every
00:25:54.220time one of these situations come up, though. I got a feeling that liberals can't hide from this
00:25:58.460one forever because it really grabs the public interest when these things happen. And they seem
00:26:02.300to come in trends, you know, or maybe the media is more inclined to watch for them once we see it
00:26:06.260getting hotter and we're going to speak to it. Corey, there's not a lot of things. I mean, I
00:26:10.300believe that the government that governs least is best. I mean, that's basically what Ronald
00:26:15.500Reagan said. But one of the things that government I expect to do is to protect us. Security. And
00:26:21.080we're not doing a very good job at that, are we? I mean, so certainly there has to be some changes
00:26:26.280And we'll see what happens. But again, that'll be something, as I mentioned, crime will be something that Paulia brings up in question period. It'll be interesting to see how Carney hums and haws his way through that when that comes up.
00:26:36.580Yeah, he's that new Mr. Dithers on so many things. Another issue Carney's got to face coming up, and it's definitely brewing is unity. You and I both speak quite a bit on the budding independence movement in Alberta, but something that's really been on a slow boil in Quebec. People have kind of been forgetting about that even since the 90s. But the PQ is leading in Quebec, and they are platforming on open secessionism. They're platforming on holding another referendum. This could be quite something coming up next year.
00:27:24.260I don't know that our independence movement is going to be getting advice from Quebec because
00:27:28.480we don't much like Quebec here in Alberta because so much of our money goes there.
00:27:32.320But yeah, Canada could be coming apart at the seams right now.
00:27:36.360There's all this talk about Team Canada and how we have to stick together.
00:27:40.820But I really believe, Corey, that in order to be a team, you have to have common goals.
00:27:46.900And how much does Alberta have in common with Quebec now?
00:27:50.360how much does Alberta have in common with BC or Manitoba or the East Coast? Not a lot. I think
00:27:55.860we have a lot in common with Saskatchewan. So there's no team Canada right now. And if Alberta
00:28:01.460decides to leave, it won't be long before the country just falls apart at the seams. And
00:28:05.620it's really an interesting time right now. And as I've said a number of times, Canada's demise
00:28:11.100is Alberta's rise. And I believe that. Well, absolutely. I mean, I personally feel,
00:28:16.700Well, and Conrad Black wrote on that recently, kind of, you know, the nation would just fall apart like dominoes if Alberta pulled out.
00:28:22.960I think if any province did, one commonality between Alberta and Quebec, even if we have different interests generally, is a distrust and a dislike of the central government in Ottawa.
00:28:33.320So if we can find that common ground and saying, well, if we can get the government out of our faces on both ends of the country, I think actually there could be some interesting alliances coming together out of that.
00:28:45.380I have to see what happens. Again, I know that some people in the independence movement are talking to Mr. Plamondon, I believe is his name. I think he's here over the next couple of days. So that'll be interesting to find out what happens. Love to be a fly on the wall in that. Like I'd like to be a fly on the wall. I believe Danielle Smith is meeting with Mark Carney later this afternoon. Boy, I'd like to hear what they're talking about today after the way you opened your show today.
00:29:07.240Well, that's it. And Premier Smith has put out her, what, nine demands, I believe it was,
00:29:12.220some months ago and gave kind of a six-month deadline, which we're pretty close to right
00:29:15.740on the six-month mark now. Yeah, yeah. Within a week, I think. Within a week.
00:29:20.040She's going to start looking quite weak if Carney doesn't act on some of those things and she
00:29:25.560doesn't do something further towards it. I mean, I'm just speculating now. I don't believe Premier
00:29:31.080Smith is a separatist, but I think she wants to see a referendum held. That would dominate
00:29:39.140the new scroll for a year. It would bring that issue to a four. And even if she's not an
00:29:45.460independent supporter, I mean, I'm just talking politically and I'm purely speculating. It would
00:29:49.560be gold for her if we came out and had an independence referendum and 40% of Albertans
00:29:53.440say they want to go because boy, the leverage she would have the day after that to say how this,
00:29:57.980We've got to stop it from turning to 50%.
00:33:40.100I don't care if Quebec goes at this point.
00:33:44.320But, but yeah, I think, I don't think that they would, I don't think Quebec would even care what the federal government says. They do what they want. They get what they want because they've had this leverage over the government for so long. And of course, they're vote rich out there. We're not vote rich out here in Alberta.
00:33:59.300yeah so i mean we've got to take on more of their what you're going to do about it attitude
00:34:04.000well the time went quick because there is a lot to cover i mean as the session's coming hopefully
00:34:08.200we can uh touch base again you know maybe as the session gets rolling and then dig into this a
00:34:12.960little more uh before i let you go though as i said your youtube channel is fantastic i love the
00:34:18.700hat there and and of course your your well-known big blue mug oh we got app going on as well we
00:34:24.340We don't have to wonder where you're coming from.
00:34:27.900Where can people keep up with your stuff?
00:34:29.780You got regular content coming out all the time.
00:34:32.200Well, if they go to YouTube and they put at John Bolton AB, they'll find me.
00:41:51.840If I really hated indigenous people and wanted to wish the worst honor, the worst possible fate I could think of, it would be to keep them under the current system.
00:42:00.140That's the worst possible thing I could do to those people there.
00:42:04.500No, I'm railing against the system because I do care, because I'm sick of watching human waste like this. Good people in impossible circumstances, in isolated areas, fed a bunch of crap, and then turning out like this with crime, health issues, low education, you name it.
00:42:25.860by every single measure it's failing yet yet our system can't seem to admit it
00:42:33.140uh so yeah i was talking again a bit before i'll kind of turn the page a bit away from that
00:42:37.300uh we were talking about and speaking of trans i mean another issue a hot button people are
00:42:42.580terrified of and uh that that was the whole thing going on in sylvan lake was a uh a teacher or a
00:42:53.060volunteer football coach, like I said, wrote on his personal thing that he doesn't support some
00:42:58.600of the trans ideology and things. I mean, that's the stuff they're going after Daniel Smith for
00:43:02.600right now too. So he got fired. This principle, the battle's going on. I'm kind of happy for it
00:43:06.660in a sense. I feel for the kids who are caught in the middle who just want to play football,
00:43:09.740but we need to have it out on some of these things. Let's have it out then.
00:43:14.660The thing that the coach really got in trouble for, I guess, was a TikTok video of his own on
00:43:19.140personal thing where he said, boys have penises, girls have vaginas. If you remember from an old
00:43:23.800kindergarten cop, I think it was, there was a kid who said that in a movie with Arnold Schwartz
00:43:27.540in a three years ago. That statement alone is enough to get you fired. That statement of
00:43:32.940biological reality will get you fired. The mass media, you know, the mainstream media, the legacy
00:43:42.540media, the way they're on, again, the Smith government, we're talking education, this whole
00:43:46.300mess. One of the things that she's brought in too is basically saying boys can't play in the
00:43:51.680girls' sports. And unfortunately, due to activists and idiots, we have to now make them a test so we
00:43:57.160can prove that they're not trying to sneak through. Whose fault is that? It's not an
00:44:01.440unreasonable request. I watched a woman get the hell beat out of her by a man, and they called
00:44:05.880it an Olympic sport the other year. It was disgusting. There are physiological differences,
00:44:11.560realities. That's why the sexes have been separated in physical sports since sports began.
00:44:18.880And now we're trying to fight reality where to the point where a person can be fired
00:44:23.860for saying the reality that boys have penises and girls have vaginas.
00:44:29.180What world are we getting into? So yes, we need these fights. We need them to break out.
00:44:32.940We need these unions to be taken on. So it looks like the teachers are going on strike in Alberta.
00:44:36.560Yeah, they're offered a 12% raise, offered to get 3,000 more teachers. Again,
00:44:40.740Yes, as Dave said, they have a hard job, but let's face it, guys, they got a gold-plated pension.
00:44:45.800They get three months off a year when you add it all up together.
00:44:48.360They get more sick days and benefits than anybody can ever dream of.