Western Standard - Hey Trudeau! Leave Trump alone!

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00:01:30.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show as you can see the cowboy cosplay week is all over with

00:01:46.520 no more cowboy hat and western shirts i'm back to my wrinkled shirts with the bad collars and

00:01:51.660 the same old jacket i'll never be a fashion maven and nobody's ever accused me of being one good to

00:01:57.240 see you jumping in there already in the comments. Jordan, BC Prairie Girl, use those comments. You

00:02:01.860 know, it's a live show. I like to see the interaction, chat with each other, send questions

00:02:05.580 my way, my guest's way. Just keep it civil. And yeah, we can have a fun time and cover a few

00:02:10.720 issues. There's a lot to cover. Oh God, what a lunacy, crazy world we got going on. Good to see

00:02:15.360 you there, Todd. And yeah, so a guest I got coming on in a little while, Crystal Wittrongel from the

00:02:20.140 Montreal Economic Institute. She's going to talk about a column she did on the emissions caps and

00:02:23.940 basically how investment is getting driven out of Canada. Alberta, of course, in particular,

00:02:29.000 as usual. And we'll be checking in with Dave and doing a few other things soon as well.

00:02:34.000 But I'll start on what I'm going to be ranting and raving about as per the title. So

00:02:37.000 let's talk about this. So back in May, it was looking likely that Donald Trump was well poised

00:02:43.100 to win the presidential election that's coming up this fall. Now, after the debate came out in June

00:02:47.740 and exposed President Biden as a dotard with an advanced cognitive decline problem. Trump's 0.99

00:02:53.880 electoral victory was pretty much all but assured. I see now they're actually rushing to lock Biden

00:02:59.000 in as their candidate. It's such an exercise in political suicide to watch with the Democrats.

00:03:04.240 It's really something else. Not that I don't know who's going to beat the Trump machine these days

00:03:08.220 anyways. Now with that failed assassination attempt on Trump last weekend, Trump's victory

00:03:12.680 is virtually inevitable, assuming some lunatic doesn't manage to kill him before this fall. 0.92

00:03:17.740 The strength and leadership win elections more than policies do. 0.88

00:03:21.460 So while Biden can barely navigate a set of stairs or string together a coherent thought,

00:03:26.160 Trump appears more vigorous and focused than ever.

00:03:28.460 It's hard to believe they're only three years apart in age.

00:03:31.940 When Trump defiantly rose with blood streaming down his face and pumped his fist while shouting fight,

00:03:36.180 he drew more support than a thousand rallies and a billion dollars in advertising ever could have.

00:03:40.940 I probably would have been cowered in the fetal position and waiting for the Secret Service to drag me off the stage in such a situation.

00:03:47.100 Again, I'm not a huge Trump fan, but man, that was a show of strength and defiance.

00:03:51.360 You know, it's undeniable.

00:03:53.180 And with it looking so likely that Trump's going to be the next president of the United States,

00:03:56.740 the Trudeau liberals have to stop their campaign of villainizing the man.

00:04:01.100 I mean, Trudeau has been trying to present himself as the person who can prevent Canada

00:04:04.300 or protect Canada from the evil machinations of a Trump administration.

00:04:07.840 And liberals just can't stop themselves from pejoratively accusing Canadian conservatives of being Trump-like.

00:04:14.420 Using Trump as a foil to campaign against, you know, others within Canada is irresponsible,

00:04:19.020 and it's going to cost Canadians dearly if and when Trump becomes the next president.

00:04:23.440 I mean, Trump already had little use for Justin Trudeau, as most of us don't.

00:04:27.120 And if the Trudeau government continues to antagonize Trump, we can rest assured Trump's going to retaliate.

00:04:32.400 Canadians, when he takes power, they're going to get it.

00:04:35.440 He has a long memory, thin skin, and he holds grudges.

00:04:38.560 Canada has a resource-based, export-focused economy.

00:04:42.540 Now, thanks to nearly a decade of Trudeau's in-net fiscal management,

00:04:45.600 his support of mass immigration,

00:04:48.080 and his obsession with shutting in Canada's resource sectors,

00:04:50.680 the cost of living in Canada has skyrocketed,

00:04:53.020 while the personal wealth of Canadians has been in steady decline.

00:04:56.340 Now, the United States is by far Canada's largest trading partner

00:04:59.560 as they purchase over 64% of our exports.

00:05:02.700 Canada's economy would be rocked even by small tariffs imposed by the USA,

00:05:07.080 and Trudeau's campaign of insulting Trump is inviting those kinds of policies.

00:05:11.700 I mean, protectionism always sells well during campaigns in the United States.

00:05:16.180 The Democrats and the Republicans both use it as a policy plank in every election.

00:05:20.720 Trudeau's actions are only going to add personal satisfaction to Trump when he vindictively punishes Canadian businesses upon becoming president.

00:05:26.980 And don't think for a second he won't do it.

00:05:28.860 In business, a business owner doesn't have to like every customer.

00:05:32.440 A wise business owner, though, won't express their dislike to their top customer.

00:05:36.480 They shut up. They know when it's best to shut up.

00:05:39.180 When Trudeau and his ministers start taking shots at Trump, it's not just the Republicans they annoy, by the way.

00:05:43.480 People tend to rally the troops when an outsider starts poking their nose into their business.

00:05:47.680 And there's many American governors, business leaders, and other people of influence who aren't very thrilled with Trudeau's words either.

00:05:54.140 We need to be solidifying and expanding our relationship with our biggest neighbor in Al-Wai, no matter who's leading that country.

00:05:59.680 The Trudeau liberals certainly don't need to be kowtowing to Trump or any other politician for that matter.

00:06:04.660 in trade issues, they do need to show some strength, but they also need to exercise a

00:06:09.180 degree of careful diplomacy. During the next four volatile months of campaigning in the USA,

00:06:13.980 the wisest thing the Canadian government can do is just to shut the hell up about it.

00:06:17.880 Trudeau won't have an influence on the outcome of the American election, but he sure as hell will

00:06:21.140 be setting the tone for Canada's relationship with the next administration, and so far that

00:06:25.220 tone isn't good. Nuance, diplomacy, wisdom, and economic sense are all concepts that have

00:06:30.220 eluded Justin Trudeau so far. That's why the Liberals are facing an almost certain electoral

00:06:34.060 obliteration when they finally allow Canadians to vote. It's a lot to ask and expect of the

00:06:38.920 Trudeau Liberals, but if they could just lay off the attacks against Trump, it would do us all a

00:06:42.560 favor on both sides of the border. God knows Trudeau has enough to deal with at home. Maybe

00:06:47.040 he should try doing that for a change. All right, well, that's what's got me going today, and we'll

00:06:52.560 see how that goes. I'm sure he won't shut up, but we can at least ask, right? All right, well, let's

00:06:57.980 see what else is going on out there. We have in studio our news editor, Dave Naylor. How's it

00:07:01.960 going, Dave? Oh, easier than a one-armed paper hanger. It's just crazy, isn't it? This last

00:07:06.940 week. You don't have to search for things to put in there now. You just have to curate and figure

00:07:11.420 out what's the best. But obviously our viewers and listeners are interested in your health after

00:07:19.220 your recent medical procedure. I understand you're having some uncomfortable Uber business.

00:07:26.320 There has been. Yes, as some folks know, I drive Uber in my spare time. I like it. I enjoy it. It

00:07:30.820 gets me out i talk to people and as others might not know yes i had recent surgery on my left butt

00:07:35.020 cheek and it's very very uncomfortable still it's recovering but i have a big pillow on the front

00:07:39.320 seat of my car and when i get in and out to get people luggage and things they see me easing in

00:07:43.180 slowly into my seat and so on looking at that pillow and all i can imagine is they're thinking

00:07:46.300 this driver's got to be loaded with hemorrhoids or something but it stunts the conversation for

00:07:51.440 the ride maybe it'll get me some sympathy tips though there you go that's all you can hope for

00:07:54.760 yeah uh so as mentioned uh very busy uh morning uh today cordy we're leading off to side right

00:07:59.940 Now, with an interesting story, actually, out of Lethbridge, there was a big motorcycle charity run there on Saturday.

00:08:06.360 And there's a group called the Commandos Motorcycle Club.

00:08:10.160 And they're a group of veterans and former soldiers who get together, ride motorcycles and raise money for charity.

00:08:18.120 Now, they are not the Hells Angels or the Banditos of the world.

00:08:23.120 They're not an outlaw motorcycle gang.

00:08:25.420 But Lethbridge does have a bylaw that allows police officers to remove patch-wearing bikers from drinking establishments.

00:08:36.540 So these 35 poor members of the commandos were in a local bar just drinking soft drinks and food, and the cops arrived and said, get out. 0.97

00:08:47.140 So they're defending their action on that.

00:08:50.300 Another fun story out of Vancouver Island where a burgeoning couple decided they would go to the Coldplay concert in Vancouver.

00:09:00.180 And I guess that's where things sort of started to go, fell apart, where the gentleman asked the girl to pay her share.

00:09:08.520 And she thought, oh, no, it's a date, you're paying.

00:09:11.420 Well, he took her to court and actually won.

00:09:13.860 So we've got a complete list of exactly what he spent on the date, including 63 bucks for Smitty's.

00:09:22.780 I don't know what you can spend on Smitty's for 63 bucks.

00:09:26.460 Tons of fallout, obviously, from the Trump assassination attempt.

00:09:30.540 We've got Lee Harding with an interview with a former top Mountie who describes it as, quote, a colossal cock-up, quote, the Secret Service actions.

00:09:40.200 And we got our Mike Thomas putting together all the Secret Service sort of excuses, including the lamest one ever, was that they didn't put a sniper up there because the roof was too slanted.

00:09:53.800 And it's not. It's not.

00:09:55.980 So we got all that stuff to come.

00:10:00.300 Our Linda Slobodian's got a great column. 0.97

00:10:02.620 On Boxing Day, there was a machete attack at the Calgary Zoo with an indigenous guy stoned on fentanyl, going around trying to slash people and kill people at the zoo.

00:10:16.540 Well, he was sentenced this week to basically time served.

00:10:21.340 And Linda's got an exclusive interview with the victim, who was one of the victims who was slashed.

00:10:26.580 And she says, look, this was a hate crime.

00:10:28.920 This is being ignored by the justice system.

00:10:31.160 and, you know, she didn't even get to see the guy in court, really.

00:10:35.840 Yeah, I remember that one when it happened, actually.

00:10:37.700 It was quite terrifying.

00:10:38.960 I haven't got a chance to grab Linda's column yet.

00:10:41.040 I imagine she might have pointed out it was probably a Gladue case.

00:10:45.200 Yes.

00:10:46.280 And even the victim has sympathy for the family,

00:10:50.620 saying, you know, his mother looked bedraggled and, you know, he's...

00:10:55.020 But, yeah, you know, hopefully they can rehabilitate him. 1.00

00:10:59.160 Some idiot last night in Edmonton was waving around a replica handgun. 1.00

00:11:04.240 And you know what happens when cops see that. 1.00

00:11:06.680 They shoot them. 0.97

00:11:07.840 And that's what happened.

00:11:08.860 And he's now in critical condition as ACERT investigates.

00:11:12.860 And DEI in the United States in full retreat.

00:11:18.260 This is a week or so after a major tractor company cancelled all their DEI stuff.

00:11:23.360 We now know that Microsoft has also done the same thing,

00:11:26.840 firing their entire DEI team, and John Deere capitulated after about only a week of internet

00:11:35.440 pressure. They have now said they're going to concentrate on selling tractors and not sponsoring

00:11:40.840 pride parades. So that's some good stuff in the States. I just want to mention one more Linda 0.72

00:11:47.400 column that actually came in yesterday. You remember she broke the story on the 14-year-old 0.72

00:11:52.620 who is dancing in trans bars in Edmonton

00:11:55.920 and the kid is autistic mentally

00:11:58.440 and her mom's just pushing her to do this. 0.86

00:12:01.740 Well, the people who are hosting the Burnaby Pride Day

00:12:04.160 this Saturday have hired her as the main headliner. 1.00

00:12:09.000 So they're going to bring in this poor 14-year-old girl 1.00

00:12:11.300 who's going to be dancing in front of lecherous perverts. 1.00

00:12:15.660 So that's a great column from Linda too.

00:12:17.960 So coming up on the website this afternoon,

00:12:21.100 We'll have the latest on that big storm in Toronto yesterday, including some incredible footage of flooding in Drake's mansion.

00:12:29.740 It looks like they just opened the front door to a river.

00:12:33.460 And I understand our business expert, Sean Polzer, will be joining you again today.

00:12:38.340 I'm sure he can fill you in more on all the DEI stuff.

00:12:41.440 Great. Well, yes, there was quite a list to cover, and I know you've got a whole whack more.

00:12:45.240 So, well, thanks for the update, Dave.

00:12:47.500 I'll let you get back to your desk there to keep sifting through these news stories and getting them out there.

00:12:53.020 Pleasure as always, Corey.

00:12:53.920 Right on.

00:12:54.420 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:55.480 It's always nice to talk to Dave in person in the studio, look him in the eye and see if he's being truthful about those stories or not.

00:13:01.480 Yeah, some of them are just beyond the pale and it finds, you know, almost to be too hard to believe.

00:13:06.340 And as he pointed out, yeah, Linda wrote on that with that 14-year-old who has been out at strip bars.

00:13:12.000 you know, this whole issue just gets so insane. The activists, the lunatics, like I couldn't care 0.87

00:13:19.800 less about drag shows. Calgary's had them for decades. I remember back in the 90s, there was 0.99

00:13:24.880 a bar in Calgary called Boys Town, I believe it was, and they had weekly drag shows. They get out

00:13:29.600 there, do their thing, have a good time. Good for them. Right on. Have fun. I don't care. And most

00:13:33.520 people didn't. But it's just the activists have to keep pushing the envelope, pushing the envelope,

00:13:37.200 pushing the envelope. And the problem, the line, the issue that people have now, this is a fort

00:13:41.900 13-year-old autistic child doing sexualized shows, not just in drag. This has been covered. If you

00:13:47.780 want to research it, the videos that were posted with Linda's stories and so on, she's performing 0.69

00:13:52.720 strip teases at 14. Ironically, you know, if a straight 14-year-old girl was put on a stage in 0.99

00:14:00.140 a strip club, the police would be in there arresting the sick buggers who are sitting around 0.98

00:14:04.260 watching her and whoever put her on the stage in the first place. But they're terrified when it 1.00

00:14:08.760 comes to drag, suddenly, somehow, this becomes above the law. No, it's not. And it's really,

00:14:15.300 really deranged. I don't know what kind of person wants to sit and watch a 14-year-old doing a

00:14:20.280 sexualized dance and striptease like that, but we're putting up with that. And unfortunately,

00:14:25.620 these sorts of things end up inflaming the intolerant, and then you get backlash against

00:14:30.280 the other drag shows that where people were just having fun, where they were grown adults doing

00:14:34.980 their thing in a private venue where they should have every right to do so. We've got to draw a

00:14:40.340 line in the sand with the activists. It's the activists who push the line so far that nobody

00:14:45.120 can handle it anymore. So I noticed Jordan asking, you know, why doesn't Linda come on? By the way,

00:14:50.920 yeah, I've had Linda on in the past a couple of times. She's out in Manitoba. She just much 0.53

00:14:55.840 prefers writing. As you can see, she's very prolific. She covers a lot of things and she's

00:15:00.300 been at it a long time rather than coming on the shows. I've had her on. She likes to chat now and

00:15:04.360 then on the shows, but she's not big on coming onto these live sorts of things. It's not everybody's

00:15:09.340 bag, you know, doesn't love listening to the sound of her own voice as much as I do, where I can look

00:15:14.000 forward to doing this every week and babbling at you. But rest assured, Linda, I'll keep breaking

00:15:18.600 those things and writing on them. This is my last, you know, reminder to remind you the reason Linda

00:15:22.920 can do that, Dave can do that, Jonathan Bradley's putting out those stories, Jen, all of those folks

00:15:27.880 we got all over the place. We're one of the busiest newsrooms in Western Canada, actually a physical

00:15:31.800 newsroom is because you guys have subscribed. So, hey, if you haven't subscribed yet, get out of

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00:15:45.200 all these reporters running so that you can have a news source and doesn't take a penny of your tax

00:15:50.080 dollars. Very important. Point of principle and just a point of being responsible. All right,

00:15:55.220 let's speak to somebody else who's got a responsible viewpoint on things. It's been

00:15:58.400 a while since we've had her on. She's been on before though. Crystal Witt-Wrangl of the Montreal

00:16:02.460 Economic Institute. She recently gave us a column on emissions caps and energy use. Hi, Crystal.

00:16:08.200 How are you doing? Hi, I'm great. How are you today? Oh, good, good. I've got lots of ranting

00:16:12.180 and raving in me, but I'll let things cool down so you can explain more in the, you know, the

00:16:17.220 column and what you, I guess, expressed. I mean, you talked to, it was entitled Friends Shouldn't

00:16:23.320 let friends buy natural gas from bad places. And you spoke though at length on, I guess,

00:16:29.140 the emissions caps and how investment is really getting pressured on Canada's energy sector.

00:16:34.840 Yeah. So last year, the government had proposed, the federal government had proposed a cap on

00:16:40.980 emissions for the oil and gas sector to cap them between 30 to, or sorry, 35 to 38% below 2019

00:16:49.660 levels. So essentially, it's a cap on production is what the column is about. And it really just

00:16:57.180 talks about how we as a global economy are going to see increased demand for oil products, oil and

00:17:06.480 gas products through 2030 and beyond. And if Canada is not willing to allow our product to

00:17:15.040 market, our product being the responsibly produced oil and gas, you know, done with very high

00:17:20.800 environmental regulations, somebody else will. And we've seen that happen in the past couple of years

00:17:26.960 where Japan and Germany and Greece have all come to us as Canadians and said, you know, we want

00:17:33.620 your resources. And when the federal government turned down Germany, they then struck a deal with

00:17:39.080 Qatar. So it's not that oil and gas production is globally just going to cease. It's still 82%

00:17:45.940 of energy use. It's just going to be done elsewhere, much to the hurt of Canadians.

00:17:53.940 And for what gain really, because the emissions are still going to be there and likely going to

00:17:58.820 be increased because they're coming from places with less environmental protections than we have

00:18:04.120 year. Well, and as well, some of those producers are often a little less than friendly with human

00:18:09.380 rights protections and labor restrictions as well. I mean, Canada is one of the most ethical

00:18:14.440 producers in the world, yet we're the ones punishing ourselves the most often for what

00:18:18.220 we're doing. Exactly. And the oil and gas sector employs over 700,000 people in this country,

00:18:25.680 which accounts for 12% of our GDP. So this is a huge sector. In Alberta, of course,

00:18:31.800 we're going to feel it most heavily when the cap on production ultimately comes in the government

00:18:37.880 is saying this isn't a cap on production this is a cap on emissions but we found last year that

00:18:43.800 this is a cap on production and deloitte has now released a report saying it will be a cap

00:18:48.200 on production and in alberta alone we're looking at 54 000 job losses by 2030 linked to this

00:18:54.280 emissions cap so we're going to feel it we're going to feel it hard and for what benefit really

00:18:59.480 I think a more broad discussion needs to happen about global emissions, and not what Canada can

00:19:06.360 do to reduce our local emissions, if we're just contributing to a increase globally.

00:19:12.880 Yeah, well, and it's just the attitude has caused an investment chill. I mean, the stats you put,

00:19:19.620 it's staggering how much investment in the energy sector has plummeted from 2014 until 2023. I mean,

00:19:27.180 this is all started prior to the emissions cap. But I mean, this is the investment community

00:19:32.120 responding to signals from the federal government saying that they're not going to allow future

00:19:36.020 production, essentially. Exactly. And further, if this emissions cap does go in, by 2030,

00:19:42.600 there's going to be a $75 billion less investment than there would have been by 2030. So we're

00:19:49.880 seeing already there's a huge hit in the investment community up to now, it's only going to get worse.

00:19:56.240 and investment certainty is a big part of it when it comes to the regulatory environment.

00:20:01.600 And if there's this pancaking of policies, one on top of the other on top of the other,

00:20:06.560 which we do see when it comes to climate change and emissions regulations is just

00:20:11.520 policy after policy. There's very little certainty around that and it's very complex. So

00:20:18.240 it's become this very murky environment for investors. And quite frankly, I don't blame them.

00:20:23.680 Well, and, you know, some of the, well, the Canadian circumstance, the irony is two things.

00:20:30.100 I mean, for one, oil and gas generate a heck of a lot of revenue for Canadians everywhere, not just in Alberta.

00:20:36.160 It's a massive part of our GDP.

00:20:38.440 And as well, we end up having oil and gas imports coming in on eastern Canada while we're having difficulty getting our product to market in the West.

00:20:48.140 Again, due to a government that just doesn't allow us to build the infrastructure to move it around.

00:20:52.860 exactly yeah and so that's been a huge problem and it will just continue to become a problem

00:20:58.700 especially as global demand continues to increase and when our allies and these other countries are

00:21:03.820 trying to get off of the oil and gas supplies from places like russia or or other nations that have

00:21:11.740 really just atrocious records when it comes to like you mentioned human rights and other things

00:21:17.280 It's really a constant question of what we're doing.

00:21:21.800 We're missing the forest for the trees is really what's happening here.

00:21:26.300 So, I mean, I know it's difficult.

00:21:28.580 You guys, you know, put out your reports.

00:21:30.040 You try to stay nonpolitical, which is fair enough.

00:21:31.900 But there's a good chance we're going to have a change in governments coming in, you know, in a year and change perhaps that would change the investment environment.

00:21:41.560 Do you feel that some of this damage could be undone at least?

00:21:45.480 I think there's going to be a lot of work needing to be done under any government when it comes to

00:21:51.320 this regulatory environment and providing some level of certainty to investors. There's been

00:21:56.760 just change after change constantly, which a lot of these huge, what am I looking for, like CCUS,

00:22:05.880 for example, that are plugged onto existing facilities, they're lacking in the ability

00:22:11.320 to continue on and grow and get get more online because of the investment environment and so any

00:22:19.160 government is really going to have to do quite a heavy job of telling investors and proving to

00:22:25.240 investors what can be done in this country and what won't be undone you know in four to eight

00:22:32.440 to ten years because these things take long long amounts of time so uh if we want to be able to

00:22:38.840 move forward and actually do our job in reducing emissions globally we need some level of certainty

00:22:45.000 here and and whether that's under the current government or a future government it's definitely

00:22:49.560 should be a priority well and something else you mentioned in the column is is ottawa is not really

00:22:54.680 trumpeting the amount of progress the industry has made in reducing emissions i mean presuming

00:22:59.080 emissions are a problem fine the canadian industries have actually been doing very very

00:23:03.320 well in reducing the emissions but they're not getting no credit for it they're still just

00:23:06.520 constantly get accused of being environmental monsters yeah exactly so the efficiencies in

00:23:13.240 this sector have been really really impressive we've reduced the emission intensity per barrel

00:23:20.280 of oil so how many emissions are being released per barrel of oil quite substantially and and

00:23:27.000 overall as well so there is a lot of work that has been done and this has been done because these

00:23:32.280 companies and you know these investors believe in this and they believe that we do have a part to

00:23:37.960 play in you know reducing emissions and so continuing to innovate to be able to do that

00:23:43.960 is very important which is where some of that investment comes in as well i just mentioned

00:23:48.760 um with ccus for example like carbon capture is has a lot of potential but it is not yet at the

00:23:56.600 level that can make these huge great big you know changes that the government is really saying they

00:24:03.320 should be able to do and to be able to get there we need the investment and the companies that

00:24:08.840 invest in this sort of thing are those who are producing and exporting and that so if they're

00:24:14.680 not able to be investing we're not going to get that forward momentum in that area either so future

00:24:21.560 emissions reductions and intensity reductions are going to be quite you know

00:24:28.600 yeah yeah and it's not just uh you know as you kind of point out it's not just a domestic

00:24:34.520 uh market or or the international market to purchase our products it's the investment

00:24:39.160 market that's international that people have to realize people are looking to get a return on

00:24:42.920 their dollars whether they're in the united states or europe or their pension funds and

00:24:46.520 if they can't get a good return here they're going to take it somewhere else and they have been

00:24:52.760 exactly and even the emissions back to the emissions coming from somewhere else like

00:24:57.000 if we look at british columbia so when that province instituted its carbon tax back in 20

00:25:03.160 or 2008 sorry the market share for imported cement which is very emissions intensive

00:25:09.480 went from six percent to forty percent so they didn't reduce their emissions that stem from

00:25:14.840 cement production they just exported the emissions in terms of where the cement was coming from so

00:25:21.240 we lost that market share so that's what's going to happen here with oil and gas is we're going to

00:25:25.640 see a lot of it exported and emissions intensity grow because these other countries don't have the

00:25:31.160 same sort of rules regulations and checkpoints that we already do and pride ourselves on so

00:25:37.640 yeah it's it's quite a conundrum and it's uh quite a headbanger for for most of us here yeah well

00:25:44.200 Well, some of the ethical case that could be made, I mean, as you sort of pointed out,

00:25:48.460 India, China, I mean, these are high emitting countries. They still burn a heck of a lot of

00:25:52.600 coal. If they could get cost effective liquid natural gas, they would be more than happy to

00:25:57.480 use that. And it's of a lower emission intensity than the coal. But we got to make that case to

00:26:02.340 Canadians because we get demonized for the natural gas as if it's a bad thing. I mean, maybe

00:26:06.340 use the word mitigate. I mean, we can mitigate when it comes to addictions and drug use. Well,

00:26:11.140 can't we accept the mitigation of harm when it comes to fuels exactly countries around the world

00:26:17.380 like you mentioned china and india are looking to reduce their emissions footprints as well

00:26:22.420 it's not just canada and one of the easiest ways of doing it is to get off of coal and transition

00:26:27.700 away from coal and onto natural gas so by being the fourth largest producer of natural gas canada

00:26:33.620 is well positioned to help these countries get there and overall reduce the amount of global

00:26:40.100 emissions. So our regulations are more stringent. Our product, product being natural gas, is cleaner

00:26:47.320 and burns less emissions. So it's a win-win across the board and without hurting the Canadian

00:26:52.320 economy to the extent that we're talking about here when we're talking about such a huge hit

00:26:57.280 with this emissions cap. Yeah, well, I mean, if we can get the word out, I think there's a lot

00:27:02.640 of misconceptions with a lot of Canadians, I think, often outside of the West. It's not necessarily

00:27:06.140 their fault, perhaps they're not getting the whole picture. And that's a lot of what you guys have

00:27:09.260 been doing with the Montreal Economic Institute. It really is appreciated. It's a tough slog and

00:27:13.520 you're getting it out there. So before I let you go, where can people find your work and get this

00:27:19.300 stuff out to other folks who need to hear and read it? Yeah. So we are online at www.iedm.org

00:27:28.120 and all of our studies, commentaries, you name it, you can find it there and the wide range of

00:27:34.280 issues, energy and environment being one of them, definitely. Yeah, and despite the name,

00:27:39.080 it's not just Montreal-centered, you're covering national issues.

00:27:43.920 Exactly. I'm here in Calgary, so we are very much a pan-Canadian think tank at this point.

00:27:50.780 Excellent. As we saw with the Western Standard, you get some columns and op-eds out there as well,

00:27:54.920 so I really appreciate you guys fighting the good fight for us out there and for your coming on

00:28:00.640 today to talk to us about it. Yeah. Thank you so much for having me. It's always so much fun

00:28:04.620 chatting with you. Great. Thanks, Crystal. Hope we get to talk again soon. You bet. Thanks.

00:28:09.480 So yeah, guys, look that up. There's a lot of great resources and a lot of articles and things

00:28:13.320 from Crystal and others at the Montreal Economic Institute. Look it up. It's well worth it. So,

00:28:18.880 you know, some of the questions that came in, and it's interesting from Jordan actually

00:28:22.480 talking about with the natural gas, with the export of it, what would it do for our domestic

00:28:28.640 prices? Not much on domestic prices, because it's basically when it comes to domestic prices a lot,

00:28:35.980 it's on the world gas prices. So if anything, it might reduce it a little bit, because when you're

00:28:41.100 adding more to the markets, you might reduce the world price a little bit. And that'll take your

00:28:45.980 gas bill down a bit. The problem we have in Canada, with a lot of our natural gas, our energy, our

00:28:50.560 bills, when you look at your bill, the gas itself is just a small part of it. It's all the add-ons

00:28:56.260 and extra costs and taxes and garbage that makes it so bloody expensive. And as you were saying, 0.90

00:29:04.280 wouldn't it increase our prices if Asian buyers are upping the bids? No, it wouldn't, because 0.99

00:29:09.840 they're already bidding on all the energy they can. So as long as we're adding more product to

00:29:15.060 that market, it should stabilize or even possibly reduce world prices. But like I said, a lot of our

00:29:22.180 issue domestically isn't the world price that really costs us. It's all the rest of the garbage 0.98

00:29:26.980 and add-ons and stuff from the government that makes everything so costly and unaffordable, 0.97

00:29:32.920 which is so ridiculous when we live in an energy capital like Canada. You know, I was talking to

00:29:37.240 somebody the other day. I spent four winters working in the Arctic on oil and gas programs

00:29:43.440 up there in exploration. There are, look it up, in the Northwest Territories and a bit into the

00:29:47.960 Yukon, even by Eagle Plains and areas, there are thousands of capped wells. They've been doing it.

00:29:52.180 since the 60s up there. They've pretty much stopped it all now because the McKinsey pipeline

00:29:57.480 got stunted and held up by the Berger Commission in the 70s. And they've sat on it. And eventually

00:30:03.440 the price of the pipeline got so high. The government approved it a few years ago, say,

00:30:07.820 okay, we're finally going to let you guys do it. And it had gone up, I think, from like 2 billion

00:30:12.080 to 14 billion. And the partners in it said, it's not worth it. And they left it there.

00:30:17.280 We have another Alberta worth of oil and gas sitting up there. It's just sitting up there,

00:30:21.300 guys. They're taking it out of the ground, but we know it's there. We've done the seismic. We've

00:30:25.620 done the exploratory drilling. The work is done. It's there. But we're living under this absurd

00:30:31.700 myth that we can replace oil and gas as fuel sources. Lunatics like Trudeau and Gilbo really 0.98

00:30:41.000 think that we can just somehow snap our fingers, shut off oil and gas, and we will just magically

00:30:46.620 switch to other sources of energy. All it will do is cause a catastrophe economically and humanly.

00:30:53.820 I mean, we can't live without energy in Canada. We will freeze to death, but they don't, these guys

00:31:00.160 aren't bound by logic. They aren't bound by common sense like that. So they are perfectly fine

00:31:06.420 leaving all of that abundant energy up there untapped because they just think we're all going

00:31:11.620 to go solar soon anyways, or have little windmills or other little magical areas, you know, unicorn

00:31:16.460 piss and the laughter of children is somehow going to turn the lights on in your house.

00:31:20.260 It doesn't work that way. And Jordan pointing out again, more nuclear. He said, yes, nuclear is

00:31:25.620 another option. Saskatchewan has a lot of uranium resources. Nuclear is very capital intensive to

00:31:32.600 get up and running, but once it's going, it does generate energy and it doesn't have emissions.

00:31:37.700 Yet the environmentalists hate that too. This is some of the logic we've got to realize,

00:31:41.660 or we got to push back with these environmentalists is that we'll never pacify them. We'll

00:31:46.300 never make them happy. They are like trying to ration with a street preacher who's screaming

00:31:53.560 and raging on a street corner about their whatever faith that may be. You can't reason

00:31:58.000 with them. They're nuts. They're nuts. Anybody who thinks we can just shut down oil and gas, 1.00

00:32:02.580 they're crazy. They are immune to logic and reality. Listen to David Suzuki sometime. Listen 0.85

00:32:08.480 to Justin Trudeau. I don't suggest that. I mean, you don't want to stab yourself in the ear with a

00:32:13.040 pencil if you listen to Justin too long. You know what I mean. But that's what's good coming out of

00:32:17.380 the Economic Institute. We'll try to get to the rational people. Talk about it. Emissions have

00:32:22.020 been reduced with conventional energy. We have excellent controls in place, and we're getting

00:32:26.280 better and better with it. Brenda Cutran? But yeah, either way, Brenda, yeah, I've seen a lot 0.94

00:32:33.920 on X there, says, you know, it takes so much energy to produce batteries, solar, and wind. Yeah, and

00:32:37.300 it's absolutely right. Like they, they act as if these renewables have no footprint. They act as

00:32:43.500 if it doesn't take any resources from somewhere else to build these other energy sources, which

00:32:47.780 by the way, are intermittent. So we need to get that messaging out there. Hopefully the rational

00:32:54.100 people will catch on to it and we can go with that. I mean, if it gets there, if the energy

00:33:00.140 sources get there, people will switch. I will, you know, I've talked about that before. I think

00:33:05.420 I mentioned on the show, I got a beat up old lawnmower I use at home at the acreage. I need

00:33:09.540 my exercise. So I hand mow and push that thing around and everything. And it's getting older

00:33:15.320 and older. It's a gas powered one. One of these days, it's going to blow up on me. I'm using it

00:33:19.340 as long as I can get away with. You know what, when I do switch, I'm going to go with one of

00:33:23.000 the rechargeable electric mowers. Not because I'm trying to save the world, not because of

00:33:28.120 reducing emissions or something like that. It's because it's come to a price point now

00:33:35.160 on those mowers and they hold the charge well enough that it's worth me having it out there

00:33:41.460 and using it on my lawn. That's all. It's worth it. So I'm going to go with it. I don't need to

00:33:46.540 be forced to it though. I don't need a gun to my head to do it. I'll do it when it makes financial

00:33:50.360 sense to me and it becomes practical. And people will do that if and when electric vehicles get

00:33:55.860 that way or solar powering and things like that. They will get there. Just leave them be.

00:34:00.340 if the product becomes good enough, people will switch. Commenter sleeping

00:34:03.960 lion is saying, are you saying street preachers are irrational? No, I'm saying

00:34:08.340 they're batshit crazy. They're beyond irrational. And 1.00

00:34:12.280 if you've gone to a corner and listened to some of them, they're nuts. But hey, they have the right 0.98

00:34:16.400 to be nuts. They have the right to stand on a corner and spew out whatever loony 0.99

00:34:20.240 interpretation of their religious texts they have. I do

00:34:24.400 believe in their right to do that, but I have the right to call them out as the kooks that they are.

00:34:28.980 So yes, I'm not typically big on street preachers. 0.98

00:34:32.160 And you know, you don't want to get me going on Pawlowski.

00:34:34.820 I've gone on about him before. 0.98

00:34:36.640 Again, the guy was ill-treated, but he's still a nut. 0.87

00:34:40.720 And I will say it when that is the case.

00:34:43.620 Yeah, Brenda's saying, switch to a battery mower. 0.70

00:34:45.300 The battery didn't last two years.

00:34:46.580 Okay, well, that's unfortunate.

00:34:49.080 The newer ones, from what I've gathered, tend to go better.

00:34:51.080 I mean, I think of it like 10, 15 years ago.

00:34:53.400 Would you even have considered a battery-powered skill saw?

00:34:56.220 where a battery powered, even the drills and that, I mean, you'd see them as a convenience

00:34:59.600 around the house, but you wouldn't see contractors using them. They were still plugging in,

00:35:02.720 but they've gotten good enough that again, the cost and the practicality and the rest,

00:35:08.200 they've switched. Either way, just let the market decide it. Quit trying to do it through

00:35:13.640 regulation. We'll get there. Now, speaking of markets deciding things, this is a great story

00:35:19.080 to get into as well as we get into business things. I've been watching. So Elon Musk,

00:35:24.900 you know boy he sees it if you talk about that term that was kind of trendy for a little while

00:35:28.400 disruptor was one of them right and musk is a disruptor and he certainly shakes things up i

00:35:34.160 mean it's easy to be a disruptor when you got you know hundreds of billions in the bank to play with 0.62

00:35:38.260 and uh he just likes to get out there and poke the stick in the ant's nest and and with what he's

00:35:43.580 done with x has been fantastic the left all predicted it would fail years ago when he bought

00:35:47.180 it and it seems to be flourishing so far but but now he's doing what so many other people and

00:35:52.700 businesses are doing in the United States, and they do all around the world. When we're talking

00:35:56.000 about, it kind of ties into what I was talking to Crystal about before too, is that capital will

00:36:02.480 move to better locations, you know, if you let the market do it. Musk, he'd already moved Tesla out

00:36:09.200 of California. I guess California has gone nutty. It's gone way off to the far left under Gavin

00:36:16.080 Newsom. They've been punishing their businesses. The city's like, man, it's a tuberculosis ward

00:36:20.780 in here or something going on today. But either way, it must be that global warming causing

00:36:28.060 something. He's now moving SpaceX and X. The headquarters of those are going to Texas. And

00:36:34.580 we're seeing that all around the United States, actually. Migration out of California, out of New

00:36:40.700 York, they're leaving. I mean, new immigrants are coming in and moving into these areas. 0.99

00:36:44.860 but interstate migration from professionals, from companies, they're leaving and in the hundreds of

00:36:51.320 thousands. And it kind of bodes really terribly for California. California is in dire, dire

00:36:57.200 condition. It's making me think of, you know, a North American Venezuela. When you look at it, 0.99

00:37:03.060 California's got everything. I mean, they got beautiful weather. They got some great agricultural

00:37:07.440 businesses. They had the tech sector. They had oil and gas. They have Hollywood. They have

00:37:11.960 all of this stuff down there, and they've blown it. Their policies have been so horrible that

00:37:17.840 people are fleeing. They are leaving. And what the problem is, when the productive leave,

00:37:23.640 what's left behind, tends not to be the cream of the crop. I've talked about that when I worked

00:37:29.640 in Steubenville, Ohio, for example. That was an area that's in the Rust Belt. It was really,

00:37:33.620 really booming back from the 30s all the way up until the 80s, when basically a lot of factors

00:37:41.260 came in and these smaller cities and so on that produced iron and had foundries and everything

00:37:47.920 were all crashing. So Steubenville, I think it peaked at like 120,000 people. It was down to

00:37:53.140 something like 20,000 when I was working there. So you had this weird ghost town. They had like

00:37:58.160 20 story art deco buildings downtown, yet you had this almost bomb blast zone outside in the inner

00:38:04.120 area where all the houses had just been dilapidated and bulldozed down. And then there was a bit of a

00:38:08.080 college a little farther outside of their university that was doing okay. But there was a

00:38:13.820 rough, rough town. The thing is, the people who had ambition, the people who had skills, the people

00:38:19.840 who were marketable, they left. They left 30, 40 years ago. But the people left behind, a lot of

00:38:27.100 them were lazy, unskilled, troubled, and they dominated the area. And there's one thing that

00:38:32.620 even the most unskilled and lazy people can do is breed. So yeah, you know, those households are 0.99

00:38:38.040 full of more and more people and you're getting generations of more socially and economically

00:38:42.660 dysfunctional people layered on more and unfortunately that beautiful little city

00:38:46.280 is really really a rough spot to go we're watching the entire state of california start to do that

00:38:50.920 now and it's going to be interesting to watch where that goes in the next decade because it's

00:38:54.620 a lot easier to drive out resources than to bring them back in and it's really actually quite sad to

00:39:00.040 watch because it is a beautiful state in a lot of ways but they've really just just devastated it 1.00

00:39:04.820 with, well, like Venezuela, socialism and stupidity. All right. Well, let's get on to 1.00

00:39:09.580 somebody who's not so much into socialism and I haven't found it to be too stupid. Sean 0.99

00:39:12.560 Polzer's in here. If we can catch you between sneezes and give us an update on the business

00:39:20.700 world. Excuse me there. A little bit of the allergy. Well, I put on some ragweed today

00:39:27.320 before I came into the studio. That must be the reason. So either way, Sean writes for

00:39:34.680 western standard on our business and energy uh files and among other things uh what's topping

00:39:39.880 the stories sean well uh we've got john deere oh yes so um if you recall a couple weeks ago

00:39:48.520 uh there was uh us uh i guess farm retailers the farm walmart uh tractor supply i don't know that

00:39:57.240 they actually sold tractors but uh for canadians it's like a version of canadian tire you know it's

00:40:03.320 It's not just tires so much.

00:40:04.680 It's kind of a generalized hardware and, yeah, they're really nice storage tractor supply.

00:40:08.960 In the smaller towns in the U.S.

00:40:10.960 And then so they kind of capitulated to an online campaign, activist campaign, to revoke some of their DEI and green energy and woke, you know, inclusion policies.

00:40:29.960 and they said they were going to focus more on veterans and farm groups like 4-H

00:40:34.580 and kind of a little more of their core constituency.

00:40:38.040 So these same folks, they went after John Deere, which actually does make tractors.

00:40:42.500 So John Deere is one of the oldest publicly traded companies in the United States.

00:40:47.660 It goes back to about 1837.

00:40:50.680 You know, it predates Canada.

00:40:52.400 Yeah.

00:40:52.760 Yeah. So anyway, today they issued out a statement that they are going to abandon some of these policies as well to kind of focus on their core constituents.

00:41:05.760 So this idea that somehow the customer is always right.

00:41:09.940 And, you know, it's not just these groups lobbying that you think to a degree, maybe some shareholders are finally speaking up to me.

00:41:17.280 They're saying, hey, I bought stock in your company to make money.

00:41:20.160 I bought stock for you to give me a return on my investment, not to go out funding and taking part in these, you know, DEI hires and programs and things like that.

00:41:30.640 There's got to be internal pressure we probably don't see as well.

00:41:32.940 Well, absolutely.

00:41:33.740 And I think the poster child for the whole thing is Bud Light, you know, Dylan.

00:41:38.380 And knowing your market, right?

00:41:40.020 If you're running a little trendy coffee shop, by all means, dive into that.

00:41:43.740 This is Bud Light.

00:41:44.480 This is the rodeo beer.

00:41:45.880 They don't.

00:41:46.460 The rodeo beer.

00:41:47.780 Exactly.

00:41:48.180 you know, uh, UFC. So, you know, they, they're trying to go back to UFC and, uh,

00:41:53.680 resign some of the NFL and, you know, those kinds of motto sponsorships and

00:42:00.440 kind of undo some of the damage that they've done. So I think there's a, you

00:42:04.340 know, like once bitten, twice shy kind of mentality among the biggest

00:42:08.580 marketing flubs since the new Coke, the new Coke, I'm old enough to remember.

00:42:15.980 um we've got a tale of two pipelines so we've got uh keystone xl and we've got trans mountain

00:42:25.220 so uh trans mountain as everybody knows was uh the government funded boondoggle that was about

00:42:30.840 35 billion dollars or you know 30 billion dollars over budget but now that it's up and running

00:42:36.840 it's uh shipping oil to uh north korea japan china and this thing has taken off like gangbusters and

00:42:44.380 And, you know, the prices that we're getting for oil are like less than five dollars under, you know, brand prices.

00:42:50.500 So that's like 80 bucks. It's like this thing is turning into a gold mine for the Alberta government.

00:42:55.260 Well, it's good. And for people who don't understand, like because of our limited access to outside markets, we used to sell our product at a heavy discount compared to West Texas.

00:43:03.460 Right. Going overland down to Gulf of Mexico.

00:43:06.800 Yeah. So now that's the biggest difference we have is now that we can access competitive markets, we don't have to apply such a discount to get them to purchase.

00:43:14.960 Absolutely. And that's the other half of this story.

00:43:17.040 So Keystone XL was supposed to be that overland pipeline that was going to go down to the Gulf of Mexico and ship something like a million barrels a day, you know, down to these refineries in Houston.

00:43:26.440 and Canada-U.S. trade tribunal basically put the kibosh on a $15 billion damages claim

00:43:35.060 after Joe Biden canceled it on his first day of office.

00:43:38.580 So if you recall, Barack Obama rejected it and Donald Trump came in and encouraged them to reapply.

00:43:47.520 They couldn't get it done in the four years before you can argue whether or not he lost the election.

00:43:52.880 No, I'm not going into that, but either way, they got most of it done though, right?

00:43:56.600 Like there's just a little piece just crossing that border that had to finish it off.

00:44:01.340 Like about 150 yards.

00:44:03.980 We just kind of maybe just launch it over, you know, just spray it over there.

00:44:07.920 They'll have to clean it up.

00:44:08.880 Go by rail.

00:44:09.340 Go by rail.

00:44:09.900 That worked out well in Quebec.

00:44:10.860 You know, we can ship it over by rail and then come back and there's a big loop of rail cars.

00:44:15.480 But anyway, so TransCanada, which actually was forced to change its name to TC Energy.

00:44:22.340 Don't say the P word.

00:44:23.820 Don't say Canada.

00:44:24.760 Yeah, down in the States.

00:44:26.380 Well, Canada or TransCanada.

00:44:28.180 Yeah, so there was this idea that somehow their name was politically prejudicial,

00:44:33.740 so they changed it to TC Energy to try to get it approved.

00:44:38.440 But no, Trade Tribunal has tossed it.

00:44:41.120 But the sad part is that the Alberta government has got about, I don't know, something like $2 billion sunk into it.

00:44:49.040 This was Jason Kenney took an equity stake in the pipeline back in 2020 to try to get it jump started.

00:44:56.120 We've got a separate kind of claim in front of the tribunal.

00:44:59.760 but you know if they're going to turn down 15 billion dollars from uh trans canada trans canada

00:45:08.080 tc energy then chances of alberta getting its money back are probably slim to none

00:45:13.200 got a column that mentions that coming out in the next couple of days because

00:45:16.800 his premier smith is considering getting into business with the heritage fund but that's a

00:45:20.160 separate issue well premier smith has said on multiple occasions that she kind of wants to see

00:45:26.480 uh keystone x i'll come back on the books but i don't think so i think like there's i think this

00:45:31.280 is the final nail in the coffin i think it's done it's dead better than a doornail who who would

00:45:36.640 want to bring it back after all this i mean i mean all you can hope for is that if trump got elected

00:45:40.960 this fall that he would give the thumbs up yet again you connect that final piece but you're

00:45:45.360 gonna get investors to entrust billions to get that running again and if i'm the company and

00:45:50.160 then you know like do i want to go through this how many times you're gonna deal with it's almost

00:45:54.080 like Groundhog Day, right? Let's see. So CNRL was fined about 250 grand for dead birds on its

00:46:04.020 tailings ponds, right? So we don't know how many actual dead birds there were, but chances are,

00:46:10.660 you know, a hundred or a couple hundred. And the irony is that conservative estimates on the

00:46:19.440 windmills which nobody can track or suggesting like maybe 40,000 a year. Well and I mean it's

00:46:25.200 usually ducks on the tailing ponds as well which I don't want to see slaughter but I mean go to

00:46:28.500 any Chinatown and see how many are hanging in the average window and I mean a good restaurant's

00:46:33.120 going to go through 100 ducks a day anyways. Well I don't want them covered in oil. No no I'm a deep

00:46:37.500 fryer but that's about it. Yeah deep fryer exactly. But the fines don't reflect the amount of damage

00:46:42.820 that's all I mean you want to mitigate but come on guys it's 100 ducks. And then in fact

00:46:47.480 um the canadian i think it's the canadian government that does the endangered species

00:46:53.420 anyway so there's three uh species of uh woodland bats in alberta that were put on the endangered

00:46:59.700 list uh specifically because of the windmills because they're killing like uh so like the

00:47:08.120 the numbers of these things have been going down and like i said nobody knows exactly but

00:47:12.800 it's about 10 per windmill and there's uh you know about two or three thousand windmills in

00:47:19.520 Alberta now so you do the math that's like uh yeah well it's back to what I was talking about

00:47:25.100 earlier I mean you know we talk about renewable energy but people forget to mention there is an

00:47:28.000 impact I mean it's there is absolutely an impact for sure beyond the visible sight lines and then

00:47:34.060 finally um last week um during the stampede I was covering um the Canadian blockchain consortium

00:47:41.800 trade mission to Alberta. So this was kind of a gathering of about 70 of the biggest and brightest

00:47:50.000 minds in its blockchain. So blockchain, we tend to think of it as cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin,

00:47:59.520 but it actually kind of goes beyond that because we're talking about authentication protocols.

00:48:06.520 And they've had some meetings with the government, Premier Smith, and at least seven different ministries on how maybe this blockchain technology could be implemented into Alberta.

00:48:19.900 And we're talking about things like land titles, getting rid of notaries, a lot of the expensive lawyers when you're signing these documents, like you get into a car crash, you tap phones, AI generates a police report.

00:48:36.520 Insurance claims are all automatically set on the file.

00:48:40.340 And insurance is a big issue that's coming up here in Alberta.

00:48:44.380 You know, how do we keep the cost down?

00:48:46.140 So because blockchain, even more than, say, cryptocurrency, is about authentication, right?

00:48:53.900 So it's about secure systems.

00:48:57.640 And the Alberta government, apparently this fall, is going to be introducing some privacy legislation to try and get on top of it.

00:49:06.520 before it kind of takes over,

00:49:08.300 because this technology is coming.

00:49:10.400 So what the cabinet ministers are saying is,

00:49:14.500 they won't be able to seize your bank accounts.

00:49:16.900 They won't be able to seize your assets.

00:49:19.000 Like we saw during the trucker convoy,

00:49:22.580 all these different kinds of things.

00:49:25.400 Things are changing so fast,

00:49:27.000 it's got to try and stay on top of it.

00:49:28.640 It's a brave new world.

00:49:29.200 They're not going to be able to steal money

00:49:30.440 right out of your pocket.

00:49:31.620 This is a problem with cash.

00:49:33.100 I know that a lot of what the Western Standard readers

00:49:35.460 like to use cash you know and feel a little more secure but actually cash is not a very secure

00:49:40.740 method that can get stolen too i mean keep it in your pillow if somebody breaks in your house

00:49:47.940 they were talking about cases where people were selling people's homes you know completely out

00:49:54.020 uh from under them without them even knowing it right so this blockchain technology is going to

00:49:58.900 prevent all that cool yeah and it's it's really really interesting all right well thank you for

00:50:04.340 for the extended update. Lots going

00:50:06.400 on in the business world as well, and

00:50:08.000 I'll get you some Claritin before you come

00:50:10.340 in next week, and we'll

00:50:11.460 interrupt.

00:50:14.280 Thanks, Sean, and we'll see you

00:50:16.220 outside in the newsroom shortly.

00:50:18.060 Excellent. All right, that is our

00:50:19.840 business and energy man, Sean

00:50:21.980 Polzer, with the update. So that's all

00:50:24.100 the time we got today, guys. Thanks for

00:50:26.080 tuning in. We covered a lot of ground.

00:50:27.860 There's just so much to cover right now. Holy cow.

00:50:30.120 So much news. It's nuts. Keeps us

00:50:31.940 rolling, though. So thank you all for tuning

00:50:33.940 in this week. Hey, share these links with other people. Get it out there. Spread the word. Beat

00:50:37.600 the government-funded media. They're all going broke. Anyways, check out Coruscant if you want

00:50:41.240 to see a horror story. Either way, thanks for tuning in today, guys. We'll see you all again

00:50:47.240 next week at this time.

00:51:03.940 Thank you.

Western Standard - July 18, 2024

Hey Trudeau! Leave Trump alone!

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