Western Standard - December 18, 2024


Incompetent! Arrogant! Out of control! Trudeau must go!


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PM Justin Trudeau fired his Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on the eve of her scheduled budget update. She resigned just hours before she was supposed to deliver it, leaving Trudeau in shock and a full turd of a financial update.

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00:00:00.000 Good day. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. What a week, eh? I mean, if you're a political watcher,
00:00:07.920 a political weenie, a commentator like me, it's been a brilliant week because there's all sorts
00:00:11.980 to watch and speculate on. But then again, at the same time, in the back of your mind,
00:00:16.760 you're reminded that as a citizen, this is terrible. We're run by lunatics. It's falling
00:00:21.220 apart. It's just nuts. I didn't even know where to begin with coming up with the cover with the
00:00:25.840 show today. Some of the stuff scheduled anyways, though, is Tony Bernardo of the Canadian Shooting
00:00:30.180 Sports Association. He's going to come on as a guest in a little while. We're going to talk about the
00:00:33.960 latest gun grab. They just keep coming and coming. They're going to try and nickel and dime and disarm
00:00:38.980 every Canadian over time. It's the way they're doing it now, incrementally rather than in one 0.82
00:00:43.420 fell swoop like the Alan Rock failed to back in the 90s. Showing my age. As well, there's going to be
00:00:49.740 the news and lots of other stuff going on. Use that comment scroll, guys. I see you there,
00:00:54.260 Debbie Paradoxy. Send the questions my way, comments, and discuss things with each other. 1.00
00:00:59.520 We can have some fun here. It's a live show, or at least for those watching live. Make it
00:01:03.580 interactive. It makes it more interesting and keeps things flowing. So yeah, I've got to talk
00:01:09.100 about Trudeau. There's no avoiding that, is there? So as the information trickles out to the public in
00:01:16.640 the latest Trudeau debacle, there's so many, and it's becoming evident how unhinged and desperate
00:01:22.600 the prime minister is becoming. Every move made by Trudeau in the last year, I mean, everything
00:01:27.120 he's tried has just made him sink more deeply in the polls. It just seems impossible for the
00:01:31.460 liberals to maintain even a minority government if they were going to go into an election, much
00:01:35.240 less, you know, regain a majority. And it appears that Trudeau's gotten to the point of fabricating
00:01:39.500 a scenario in his mind where Mark Carney would join his team as finance minister and his presence
00:01:43.940 alone would turn around the fortunes of the party. Unfortunately for Trudeau, Carney hasn't
00:01:48.580 signed on with his fantasy, and when Trudeau fired Chrystia Freeland to make room for Carney,
00:01:53.880 things really blew up. The heartless arrogance and vanity on the part of Trudeau was breathtaking
00:01:58.400 in his treatment of former finance minister Chrystia Freeland. I mean, love or hate Freeland,
00:02:02.800 I'm not a big fan of hers, but still, it's undeniable. She's proven herself a loyal member
00:02:06.620 of Trudeau's team. We assume she earned a modicum of respect from the prime minister. Even when
00:02:13.140 Trudeau proposed the most absurd policies, Freeland would stand behind him with her head bobbling 0.96
00:02:17.940 in a frenetic way of support, wired as usual. She offered modest resistance to some of Trudeau's
00:02:23.740 spending increases, but still, she would back down, and until the federal budget, the deficit
00:02:28.400 had ballooned to a staggering $62 billion. Freeland was still willing to stand in the House of Commons
00:02:34.780 and deliver that terrible budget update. She would take one more for the team, yet again.
00:02:39.160 That is, until Trudeau fired her. Trudeau didn't even have the grace to speak to her face-to-face
00:02:43.960 when he turfed her from her role, although they were in the same city. He did it through a Zoom
00:02:47.540 meeting. Cowardice right to the end. It's surprising he didn't do it through a text message.
00:02:52.000 Trudeau didn't just fire Freeland, though. He expected her to deliver that humiliating budget
00:02:56.640 update as her final act in the role. He threw Freeland under the bus and left her with a weekend 0.94
00:03:02.040 stew over it. That's where Trudeau went beyond being just heartless and into where he went into
00:03:07.060 idiocy. He's so full of himself, it never occurred to him that Freeland had a breaking point.
00:03:13.280 He felt he could treat her with contempt and cast her aside. She would simply take it on the chin.
00:03:17.140 Due to her unquestioning adoration of him. Instead, Trudeau had unwittingly pushed Freeland
00:03:21.800 over the edge. Who knows when Freeland decided to push back? Maybe it was during the Zoom call,
00:03:25.940 or maybe it was over the weekend when she had time to think about it. The open letter she crafted
00:03:29.540 in her resignation, though, was designed in time to inflict maximum damage to Trudeau's leadership,
00:03:34.060 and it worked. Freedom posted the resignation letter just hours before she was supposed to deliver
00:03:39.140 that turd of a financial update, leaving Trudeau in shock and causing a full political storm.
00:03:43.700 She was also scathing of Trudeau on the way out. The shallowness of Trudeau's plan, though,
00:03:48.280 was quickly exposed when it was realized he didn't even have a person to replace Freeland.
00:03:54.060 Freedom's not in his vocabulary. He had to go through multiple MPs before finding a member loyal
00:03:58.180 enough or foolish enough to take on the role. That person's Dominic LeBlanc, who was rushed into
00:04:02.620 office and has awkwardly assumed the role. So what happened to Carney? At first, I kind of thought,
00:04:08.100 well, Carney was probably set to assume the role the following Wednesday, but it backed away when
00:04:12.960 seeing how everything turned into a mess. Now, no, it's being leaked that Carney wasn't even
00:04:16.780 consulted. He didn't commit to taking that role, even though Trudeau told Freeland that he was going
00:04:20.860 to. The scenario was apparently a creation of Trudeau's imagination. Carnegie, he couldn't turn
00:04:26.780 the Liberal Party around, whether he's finance minister or leader anyways. The rot's gotten too deep
00:04:31.180 for that. Whatever Carney might be, he's not a fool. Why on earth would he give up a respected career to
00:04:35.660 jump on with Trudeau's crippled administration? Who would want to be handed the poison chalice of
00:04:40.060 leading the Liberals after Trudeau? The next leader of the Liberals is more likely to see an electoral
00:04:44.600 fate akin to that of Kim Campbell, rather than the still humiliating electoral loss of Michael
00:04:49.300 Ignatieff. The party's going to be in the political wilderness for at least an electoral cycle.
00:04:53.660 With this caucus finally going into rebellion somewhat, and even the Toronto Star calling for
00:04:57.760 Trudeau's resignation, the Prime Minister's office suddenly canceled all its year-end interviews.
00:05:01.880 It was assumed he'd finally read the writing on the wall, or somebody read it for him, perhaps.
00:05:06.180 Alas, though, it isn't to be. Trudeau arrived at the annual Christmas party for the Liberals full of
00:05:10.940 smiles and delivered a speech acting as if nothing had happened. Members in attendance were mortified
00:05:15.200 with Trudeau's clear disconnect with reality. Meanwhile, Chrystia Freeland showed up and garnered
00:05:19.460 a hero's welcome at the event, what might be the unofficial beginning of a leadership bid.
00:05:23.840 The only person who doesn't seem to understand Trudeau's finish is Trudeau. Unfortunately,
00:05:28.100 the mechanisms to remove an unwilling Prime Minister are pretty limited in Canada's system.
00:05:31.820 The Liberal Caucus can force the issue, but they've got to find some balls, guys.
00:05:35.660 And they haven't shown it yet. It's becoming clearer by the day, though, that Trudeau won't
00:05:39.300 leave until a boot is pushed firmly on his butt. His competence has always been questionable,
00:05:44.740 but now it's his sanity. He must be removed for the sake of Canada. It's way overdue.
00:05:51.140 All right, well, that's my start of ranting on Trudeau for today. Let's get on to, I don't know,
00:05:55.640 getting a news rundown on what else is happening on the world. We've got News Editor Dave Naylor.
00:05:59.360 Hey, Dave, how's it going?
00:06:00.840 You know what? It's all Trudeau all the time.
00:06:03.020 It's hard not to.
00:06:04.220 You know, speaking of showing age, I mean, I've been in this business 45 years now,
00:06:08.400 and I've never seen anything like it. I mean, what a circus. And, you know, I think Polly,
00:06:13.720 I've hit the nail on the head when he said Canada's now an international embarrassment.
00:06:19.220 You know, I look at newspapers all over the world this morning, and they're just,
00:06:22.240 they're full of Trudeau coverage.
00:06:23.600 Not in a good way.
00:06:25.740 No, not in a good way at all. So, obviously, that's dominating our website at the moment.
00:06:32.360 We've got the Toronto Police Association, 8,000 officers there. They've come out and
00:06:37.760 called on Trudeau to resign. Pretty rare for a police force to take that kind of a political
00:06:42.900 stance. You've mentioned the year-enders being cancelled. We've got a story on that,
00:06:48.260 and the fact Trudeau was cracking a joke about how families always have fights, and, you know,
00:06:53.840 you get through it. The latest polls are out showing that Trudeau's party is going to be
00:06:59.340 decimated down to 10 seats. Imagine that, 10 seats. Probably all in Quebec. Tories are right now
00:07:08.280 polling at 45 percent. The Liberals at 20, and poor Jagmeet is still laboring around at 18 percent.
00:07:18.260 The ladies of Fox continue to gush over Pierre Polyev. We've got a story up there about how they say
00:07:25.240 how wonderful he is and how terrible Trudeau is. And Trump, again, musing this morning about Canada
00:07:31.260 being the 51st state and how great an idea it is. So, do we start to take him seriously now,
00:07:40.400 Corey, or is it just all more jokes? And Lethbridge West by-election today will have the results
00:07:49.340 tonight on the Western Standard. You know, and yeah, you know, I'm pretty sure Trump isn't looking to
00:07:53.960 bring in Canada as a 51st state. I mean, the thing that's got to be discussed is just
00:07:58.160 how low his respect is for the country. I mean, for a world leader to joke about basically taking
00:08:03.500 over another country. That's not a minor joke to be made, but he holds Trudeau in contempt.
00:08:07.880 He just loves poking Trudeau. That's for sure. God, what a place to be these days.
00:08:12.220 Yeah, and this is our last broadcast before Christmas, so I want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
00:08:16.080 Well, and to you. Thanks. Yeah, it should be a good one, I think. I don't know.
00:08:20.600 Let's hope so.
00:08:21.500 My Christmas wish is to see that dim bulb in Ottawa with a bow strapped to his head and a foot
00:08:25.760 planted on his butt and kicked out of the parliamentary door. We'll see if we can get it.
00:08:28.860 I think everybody hopes you get your present. All right. Thanks, Dave. I'll see you after the
00:08:33.500 show. And it's our news editor, Dave Naylor. And yeah, like he said, it's just that the news is
00:08:38.780 all Trudeau. It just keeps breaking. It's just so bizarre, so nuts. Anybody else, you know,
00:08:45.580 would have stepped down by now, whether you want to or not. That's where, as I said,
00:08:49.020 we got to start wondering whether he's even seen. I mean, we always know he's been a bit of an idiot.
00:08:53.260 Well, I'm being generous there, but the damage is still being done. That's a lot of the problems
00:08:58.260 going on. Okay. So this one I like to remind you before I get onto my guest too, speaking of damage
00:09:01.860 that's been done, because yes, Trudeau is still coming after our property. We are not tax funded.
00:09:08.120 That's why you listen to me rant and rave and cut into Justin Trudeau. The tax funded legacy media
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00:09:53.640 It's important. So get on there, guys. Take out a membership. And if you already have,
00:09:57.180 thank you very much. We greatly appreciate it. So I see Tony in the lobby there. It's a little
00:10:03.160 early, but I'd like to bring him in because I've really been looking forward to talking about this.
00:10:06.140 We've got Tony Bernardo of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association because lo and behold,
00:10:11.560 the Trudeau regime is after our guns even further. How are you doing, Tony?
00:10:15.460 I'm fine, Corey. How are you?
00:10:17.460 Good, good. I mean, you know, again, as I said at the kickoff of the show, I mean, it's mixed.
00:10:21.140 As a media guy, I love this. I mean, I got no shortage of stuff to rant and rave about. But as
00:10:25.380 a citizen, I try not to weep because it just gets worse and worse.
00:10:30.960 Yep. I understand very, very well. And, you know, at times with this whole thing that Trudeau is doing
00:10:38.480 is so preposterous that it's everything you can do to not chortle about it.
00:10:43.680 But, you know, there is possibilities that things could get ugly.
00:10:50.060 I don't think they're very big possibilities.
00:10:52.900 I think right now the feds are going to be concentrating on the dealer guns.
00:10:58.440 That's what the first part of the program is.
00:11:02.340 And I think that they're going to find some cooperation.
00:11:07.000 And the reasons are pretty simple.
00:11:10.520 I mean, the dealers have been sitting there with four years of stock that they can't sell.
00:11:16.000 The insurance rates on prohibited items are astronomically high.
00:11:23.280 And so they've been having to sit there and look at sometimes in the cases of hundreds of thousands
00:11:29.820 or even millions of dollars worth of stock that's just sitting there gathering dust and they can't sell it.
00:11:36.160 Yeah. I mean, it's one thing with, you know, we can only guess we wouldn't counsel Canadians to ever ignore a law.
00:11:43.100 But I suspect a lot of people who might have found property suddenly on that banned list aren't going to rush out to turn it in.
00:11:49.120 They're going to wait out this government and hope that these things become repealed later.
00:11:52.960 But if you're in a business, that's a different sort of position.
00:11:55.680 Everything's been registered.
00:11:56.580 You're not going to lose your business to take one for the team.
00:11:59.340 It's kind of like restaurant lockdowns.
00:12:00.740 People said, you know, you should just open your doors and ignore it.
00:12:02.880 Well, OK, but when the health department closes your doors, you've got to make your mortgage.
00:12:06.160 That's exactly the point.
00:12:08.820 Yeah.
00:12:09.540 Now, I mean, I think that from the CSSA's point of view, we're going to recommend that people do not turn in their firearms until the very, very last moment.
00:12:22.940 And that is a week after the next election at worst.
00:12:27.920 So we we know that the conservatives are going to reverse Trudeau's gun bans.
00:12:37.400 They've said that publicly many, many times.
00:12:40.080 And that's good.
00:12:41.320 That's good because they're not smart laws.
00:12:43.740 They're stupid laws.
00:12:44.840 And there are laws that that only affect the law abiding because, of course, by their nature, criminals don't obey the law.
00:12:53.740 So they're not going to be doing any of their turn ends.
00:12:56.800 Because these laws that they're passing, you know, of course, they're the liberal style reaction to the Nova Scotia shootings.
00:13:07.860 But they completely fail to recognize that every single one of the guns that the bad guy used was illegal and smuggled in from the United States.
00:13:15.300 So they're going to take one on with the firearms community across Canada and try to make this this terrible tragedy our fault.
00:13:28.340 And it's just the gift that keeps on giving for the liberals.
00:13:31.840 And, you know, Trudeau's got a problem with some Montreal writings.
00:13:36.300 And last week was the anniversary of the Montreal massacre.
00:13:40.340 And he wasn't invited to the memorial.
00:13:46.460 That's the second year in a row he wasn't invited because Paulie Céssouviens said that he wasn't welcome because these gun laws didn't go far enough.
00:13:56.620 So just, you know, the day before, whammo, here comes a whole bunch of new gun legislation.
00:14:03.560 And sure enough, the liberals are there.
00:14:06.520 Yeah, well, so, I mean, we've got a lot to unravel.
00:14:09.180 Like, you know, for those of us getting a little longer in the muzzle, we've been dealing with this for a long time.
00:14:13.800 Allen Rock and what was it, C-68 back then, I believe?
00:14:16.880 C-68, yeah, absolutely.
00:14:18.300 Still in force.
00:14:19.460 The registry and it failed, but it still punished a lot of businesses.
00:14:24.980 I remember going into a firearms range in Calgary.
00:14:30.040 And before C-68 was coming in, they had literally a barrel full of old 303s.
00:14:34.980 They were liquidating for $50 each because they just had to get rid of them because otherwise they'd have to pay to register them all.
00:14:40.580 I mean, the damage gets done.
00:14:41.900 That's part of the problem, right?
00:14:43.000 We can reverse it later, but we can't undo, put the toothpaste back in the tube with some of these things.
00:14:47.020 That's right, and you've got now people who were caught in this first wave of the 2020 Ordering Council that banned 1,500 makes and models, which now, by the way, is up close to 2,000 makes and models.
00:15:09.500 And then people took a look at these guns that they could no longer use.
00:15:14.900 They went out and bought similar ones that they could use, and now they've been banned in this recent add-on of another 324 makes and models.
00:15:25.720 And, you know, we shouldn't get caught into those numbers very well because we're actually talking about tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of actual guns.
00:15:34.620 Yeah, and poorly targeted.
00:15:38.380 I mean, again, it's always the assault style, ones that look scary but aren't necessarily as dangerous as some others might be.
00:15:46.420 And the ludicrous suggestion, oh, we're going to send these to Ukraine because they want them over there. 0.99
00:15:51.040 I mean, they've got some, what, 22 rimfire rifles on that list.
00:15:55.320 I don't think soldiers want those.
00:15:58.080 Yeah, 21 of the makes and models on that list are rimfires.
00:16:01.540 This is the most preposterous nonsense I've ever heard.
00:16:08.220 Ukraine is looking for cruise missiles, not Canadian target rifles.
00:16:16.040 And, you know, the liberals…
00:16:17.100 And those aren't being used in crimes.
00:16:18.560 I mean, you don't see a guy robbing a 7-Eleven with a competitor's, you know, target rifle.
00:16:23.480 No, absolutely you don't.
00:16:25.000 And, you know, most people are not thinking of the absurdity of this whole ridiculous notion about sending them to the Ukraine. 0.57
00:16:34.100 We're doing this as a commemoration to the 14 beautiful young ladies that were horribly murdered.
00:16:42.580 And we're going to send them to Ukraine so they can use them to shoot young men. 1.00
00:16:48.540 Yeah, it's…
00:16:49.620 It's absurd.
00:16:50.940 This whole government in general has been bizarre.
00:16:53.620 And, you know, something else that stood out of the politicization of this, the way they're playing it.
00:16:58.460 And not that I want to see it expanded or moved to more bands, but it's funny how they keep overlooking SKSs.
00:17:05.560 But the reality is because Indigenous people use them. 0.93
00:17:08.660 Hundreds of thousands of them are out there, and they use them for hunting, and they don't want to step into the hornet's nest.
00:17:13.240 Now, the SKS is a carbine, a powerful semi-automatic that unfortunately has been used terribly at times by people.
00:17:21.460 If you were to ban, and you shouldn't ban any of them, but that would be, you would think, a little higher on the list.
00:17:26.480 Yet they won't touch that with a 10-foot pole, those cowards.
00:17:29.140 No.
00:17:29.720 Well, they're saying they're going to, actually.
00:17:31.920 They're going to do this in the next round next month or something like that.
00:17:36.280 But the odds of that ban going through are about the same as the odds of the last ban going through.
00:17:43.580 People are going to wait until the last minute.
00:17:46.380 And as soon as there's an election, the conservative government will immediately put a stop payment on that check.
00:17:53.680 And it's all over.
00:17:55.600 But, you know, you're totally right about the SKS.
00:17:58.300 It's like our numbers right now say there's about 550,000 of them in Canada.
00:18:04.700 None of them are registered.
00:18:06.740 No, they're not restricted.
00:18:08.380 And they're not restricted.
00:18:09.520 That's right.
00:18:10.120 So, you know, we always maintained when we were getting rid of the long gun registry that the only reason that any government would ever register anything is to tax it or to take it.
00:18:21.140 And here you go.
00:18:24.280 Here you go.
00:18:25.240 They're taking everything that they know where it is.
00:18:28.300 But how do they do the stuff that's not registered?
00:18:32.240 Even if it was registered at some point in time, the last old registration document is many years old now.
00:18:39.460 And this stuff has simply vanished.
00:18:41.900 This whole thing was an illusion to begin with because they couldn't pull it off.
00:18:48.340 And it turns law-abiding citizens into criminals.
00:18:50.680 It gets tiresome.
00:18:51.940 Could you imagine being a law enforcement officer?
00:18:53.920 Say something came up a couple of years from now and they did ban the SKS.
00:18:56.520 And they found out that a fellow up on the Peace Revenue, the Assumption Reserve, has an SKS.
00:19:02.260 We want you to go bang on his door and take it from him. 1.00
00:19:04.520 So why are we pointlessly putting officers at risk in a situation that was never a problem when they got much better things or I'd like to think better things to be doing with their time?
00:19:15.200 Well, certainly they do.
00:19:16.620 I mean, you know, I'm down here in the GTA and we're getting multiple shootings every day.
00:19:25.380 And funny enough, none of them are sports shooters.
00:19:28.940 No.
00:19:29.440 I know that sounds incredulous, but it's just hard to believe.
00:19:35.220 And there it is.
00:19:37.020 None of them are sports shooters.
00:19:38.580 You know, getting back to what your association does, nobody despises the illegal and dangerous and harmful use of a firearm more than a responsible firearm owner.
00:19:48.460 Like, we would like to see real crackdowns on the real problem.
00:19:52.240 Hopefully, in a side, you know, unexpected way, with increased border controls, it isn't so much we worry about Canadians flooding into the states, but we are getting a lot of illegal firearms coming north from down there.
00:20:03.960 And maybe some of these increased controls might get some of those, at least, because that's where we need to focus.
00:20:08.160 Absolutely.
00:20:09.500 And, you know, the government has been saying for years and years, every budget, they're giving another, what, $300 million to CBSA so they can increase their scrutiny on the border to stop illegal objects and substances from coming across.
00:20:26.720 But nobody ever looks at the other half of the CBSA budget, where they take $300 million out of another program.
00:20:34.580 They haven't put any net money into CBSA in years.
00:20:39.280 And, you know, I've got to give the conservatives credit.
00:20:41.920 They've got some good ideas on this.
00:20:44.160 You know, they're talking about things like scanners at the borders so that containers can be scanned.
00:20:50.440 You know, it's not a bad idea.
00:20:52.300 It only takes a few minutes to go through a scanner, and they can at least see some things.
00:20:58.340 But at least it's something material and concrete that might actually do some good.
00:21:04.440 Yeah.
00:21:04.960 So, getting back to the conservatives, you know, I mean, they're certainly saying the right things.
00:21:08.980 And I like to believe they're going to reverse everything when they get in.
00:21:12.520 But every politician, you've got to stay on their case.
00:21:15.680 I mean, if they get in with a majority, suddenly sometimes things become not as much of a priority any longer.
00:21:21.980 I mean, when the National Energy Program was taken away by Brian Mulroney, he actually milked Alberta for a year and some before he got rid of it.
00:21:29.400 Are you guys as well?
00:21:30.920 I mean, just keeping tabs on these conservative politicians, we've got to remind them the day after.
00:21:35.140 Okay, guys, follow through.
00:21:38.120 Absolutely.
00:21:38.980 And, you know, we have been in constant conversations with them for many years.
00:21:45.800 We are reasonably satisfied that they're going to do what they say right away.
00:21:52.640 You know, Pierre Poliev has, like most politicians, a 100-day, the first 100-day spread.
00:22:00.640 And I'm glad to know that this is included in that first 100 days.
00:22:06.700 Given the urgency and the immediacy of the amnesty expiring just a few days after the election, I know they're on top of us.
00:22:19.860 They've assured me they're on top of it.
00:22:22.280 So, well, do I think they'll do it?
00:22:24.080 Yes, I think Mr. Poliev will do everything he says he will.
00:22:27.340 Yeah, my point is just that we always have to be vigilant.
00:22:31.080 It just, you know, the lobby groups don't go away just because a better government comes in.
00:22:35.720 Because that government won't be in forever either.
00:22:37.700 So that kind of leads to the next question, which is a bit tougher.
00:22:39.960 What can we do to stop this endless cycle back and forth?
00:22:43.120 Like better entrenched property rights and things like that?
00:22:46.480 I don't know.
00:22:48.040 Honestly, I don't know.
00:22:49.580 We live in a democracy.
00:22:51.860 Any law that is made can be changed.
00:22:54.060 You know, the only thing that you really could entertain is putting this into the Constitution.
00:23:01.620 And the Constitution is designed in such a way that it's very difficult to add a charter right.
00:23:07.720 And not only that, they can use the notwithstanding clause to override charter rights.
00:23:13.980 So even that's not foolproof.
00:23:16.000 I think what we have to do, and we've been saying this for a long time, a number of decades at least,
00:23:24.460 you've got to be very careful who you vote for.
00:23:27.860 You know, I know that sounds trite.
00:23:31.880 But you really do have to be careful who you vote for.
00:23:35.940 You know, you look at the policies, for example, say the People's Party.
00:23:39.940 And I know that I'm sure that some of your listeners are members of the People's Party.
00:23:46.300 And some of the gun policy stuff is great, but they're not going to get elected, you know, no matter what.
00:23:53.100 They're not.
00:23:54.160 So you've got to go with the solutions that you have that are viable.
00:23:58.260 And Mr. Poliev has been fantastic on our issues.
00:24:02.840 He's never wavered away from them, not for one day.
00:24:05.740 And I really do have a considerable amount of faith that they will do what they say when they get elected.
00:24:13.080 That's good, you know.
00:24:14.600 Again, it's just, you know, the game never stops.
00:24:17.000 There's election after election.
00:24:18.160 You'll go back and forth.
00:24:18.880 The other part, I think, between elections is staying active in your firearm community.
00:24:23.860 I mean, you need the groups like yours.
00:24:25.240 And there's other groups as well.
00:24:26.380 But just to network, to make sure you're watching for these things.
00:24:30.100 Because unfortunately, there's still a bit of an attitude.
00:24:32.040 It's not unique to Canada.
00:24:33.020 For non-firearm owners, it's like, ah, that's not my problem.
00:24:35.220 What do I care?
00:24:35.900 Well, we've got to make sure to defend ourselves and remind other people it is important for property rights, even if you don't like it.
00:24:42.960 Sure.
00:24:43.260 I mean, people were looking at AR-15s four years ago and saying, oh, I don't own an AR-15.
00:24:49.240 That's not my problem.
00:24:50.800 And then they banned their African hunting rifle.
00:24:53.540 And all of a sudden, they get upset.
00:24:55.080 Or they went out and they got rid of their stuff that they had before, just put it in the closet because they couldn't use it.
00:25:02.220 And they went out and bought something else.
00:25:03.860 Now that's been banned, too.
00:25:06.000 It just, it's a ratchet.
00:25:07.720 And it's never going to end until the anti-gun people have got the very last BB gun.
00:25:14.520 It's never going to end because it's not about reality.
00:25:18.500 It's about philosophy.
00:25:20.980 Yeah.
00:25:21.540 And, you know, ideology is hard to reason with.
00:25:24.000 And, I mean, some of those numbers, a lot of people don't realize.
00:25:26.880 Canada has actually got one of the most highly armed civilian populations on the planet.
00:25:32.720 The Americans have some terrible shootings that happened.
00:25:35.400 But that's a cultural thing that they have to address.
00:25:38.900 If it was proportional, we would have quite a few of those shootings going on up here, too.
00:25:43.000 Because we have actually a lot of firearms up here, even if people don't realize it.
00:25:46.800 And it's not happening.
00:25:48.300 That annoys me, too, is when we see lobbyists up here pointing at American issues and then applying what they feel are solutions to Canadian legislation.
00:25:55.620 Well, hold on.
00:25:56.200 We're different countries.
00:25:57.380 Yeah, absolutely.
00:25:58.040 And, you know, you can include Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, all in that group.
00:26:03.800 They have very, very high gun-owning populations.
00:26:06.600 And they aren't plagued with the nonstop school shootings and terrible things that the American culture seems to suffer from.
00:26:14.900 But our culture doesn't suffer from this stuff very often.
00:26:19.540 Like every country, occasionally you get a lunatic.
00:26:23.460 I don't know how you can legislate against lunatics.
00:26:26.420 Because sometimes they just, like, rent a van and go driving up Yonge Street in Toronto killing people.
00:26:32.860 You know, and how do you legislate against that?
00:26:35.280 Well, it's beyond me.
00:26:36.960 Maybe Jordan Peterson's got an answer, but I don't.
00:26:41.340 However, that isn't something that Corey Morgan did.
00:26:45.000 And that's not something that Tony Bernardo did.
00:26:47.220 And so we're the ones that are getting hit on the chin for the actions of other people.
00:26:53.440 And that is just contrary to what our society is supposed to be about.
00:26:59.640 Yeah, I think it was, I could be misquoting it, Penn Jillette, who said, you know, a great quote at one point, something like, whenever something really bad happens, the government steps in and takes away rights from good people.
00:27:08.160 But, you know, it's a reactive way that they don't address the actual problem and it actually becomes worse for us.
00:27:18.020 Penn Jillette's a very philosophic man.
00:27:22.400 In his ways, for sure.
00:27:24.240 In his ways, yeah.
00:27:25.240 But that is the ultimate point against further gun control.
00:27:32.420 The only people that are affected by it are the law-abiding.
00:27:36.920 In which case, what is the point?
00:27:41.020 I mean, it should just be outcome-based policy and they're not seeing a better outcome from it.
00:27:45.540 So, I mean, a reasonable person would shift.
00:27:47.920 We don't have those in Ottawa right now.
00:27:49.660 Hopefully it changes.
00:27:50.460 So, I think you have to ask more to the point, why would a government like the Trudeau government not go after the criminals?
00:28:01.440 I think that's more to the point.
00:28:03.300 A much bigger discussion, absolutely.
00:28:05.440 And that applies to a lot of things.
00:28:07.620 All right.
00:28:07.940 Well, before I let you go, you know, you've been doing great work on this and I really appreciate it.
00:28:12.360 Where can people find you and your organization so they can keep up with these things and perhaps support you on this?
00:28:16.560 They can just do a Google search for the CSSA, Canadian Shooting Sports Association, and we'll come right up and you can go on to our website.
00:28:25.580 You can make donations off the website.
00:28:27.780 You can join up.
00:28:28.920 You can read our weekly news that goes out every single Thursday.
00:28:34.420 And we'd love to have you.
00:28:36.500 We're, you know, right now 38,000 strong and growing.
00:28:40.720 And so we'd love to get you on the winning team.
00:28:45.080 Great.
00:28:45.580 Okay.
00:28:45.840 Well, thanks again, Tony.
00:28:46.860 It was good to talk to you.
00:28:47.700 It's been a while.
00:28:48.900 I appreciate the work you're doing.
00:28:50.360 Hopefully we'll see some changes soon.
00:28:52.480 And at least for another couple election cycles, we can be confident our property is okay.
00:28:56.920 Well, that's right.
00:28:57.880 And I think sometime about a year from now, maybe you and I'll be sitting down having a beer and toasting it.
00:29:06.540 And doing some target shooting nicely and legally and safely.
00:29:10.360 Sounds good.
00:29:11.300 Thanks, Corey.
00:29:12.280 Thank you.
00:29:12.720 So, yeah, it was Tony Bernardo of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.
00:29:16.160 And, you know, these conversations are important, I think, for non-firearm people to hear.
00:29:20.920 There's a lot of perfectly safe people who enjoy firearms for whatever reason.
00:29:25.740 And they shouldn't have to explain themselves to you.
00:29:27.620 But it could be your neighbors.
00:29:28.940 It could be all sorts.
00:29:30.260 They just, whether they just want to collect them, whether they want to shoot targets, whether they hunt, it doesn't matter.
00:29:35.440 It's not a problem.
00:29:36.960 The government's a solution looking for a problem where the problem they might have, as Tony and I said, is then it becomes ideological.
00:29:44.320 And maybe they really are fearful of an armed populace.
00:29:47.240 Well, that should make you a little concerned, too.
00:29:49.000 Why are they afraid of you and, you know, your being empowered?
00:29:54.180 It kind of reminds me of there used to be, you know, in Alberta, they've really been shutting down the military bases for years.
00:29:58.540 They've been closing the military all over in Canada.
00:30:00.960 But there used to be one in Penhold, a base up there, a large one.
00:30:03.500 It was an Air Force base.
00:30:04.420 And they had a big underground bunker there.
00:30:06.680 And this is back in the 90s, I think, when they closed it, maybe in the early 2000s.
00:30:10.340 But when they closed the base, there was discussions.
00:30:12.420 There was even a guy who wanted to open a mushroom farm under there and everything else.
00:30:15.880 But the government said, no, you know what?
00:30:17.320 We're not going to sell it.
00:30:17.960 We're not going to do anything.
00:30:18.520 They went down and they dynamited it.
00:30:20.320 Why did they do that?
00:30:21.140 Well, because they actually, they were honest about it.
00:30:22.580 They said they were fearful some militia sorts or somebody might become entrenched in there.
00:30:26.420 And, you know, start a revolution or something.
00:30:29.260 Well, if your government's that bad, you should be wondering why somebody would be inspired to do such a thing.
00:30:35.040 Don't dynamite the old bunker, but wonder why you feel there's a risk that citizens are going to stand up to you.
00:30:43.120 That's the bigger issue.
00:30:44.100 No, there's not some big risk that law-abiding fire homeowners are going to suddenly form militias and take over the government.
00:30:50.060 It's not going to happen.
00:30:51.380 But is there a trickle of that fear in the back of the mind of these legislators?
00:30:55.040 Legislators, is that what their problem is?
00:30:57.020 Like a story said, why are they not as concerned about the real crime solutions we have?
00:31:01.980 You can't predict the lunatic who's going to go unhinged and drive a van through a bunch of people or steal a firearm and go out,
00:31:08.080 or even perhaps the very rare one who legally has a firearm and abuses it the wrong way.
00:31:13.060 You can't see that coming.
00:31:14.360 But there are things we can do that, you know, once we've identified the lunatics, we should be keeping them locked up.
00:31:20.440 Look at the crimes we have right now from people who were out on bail, the people who were released after committing violent crimes.
00:31:27.120 We aren't keeping the ones we know are dangerous, you know, withheld.
00:31:32.260 So, of course, we certainly aren't going to get the ones if we want to get proactive, too, on crime.
00:31:38.280 This is something I remember I wrote something on this a long time ago when we were talking about the money spent on the registry.
00:31:44.080 If you really wanted to take those billions and use them to reduce crime, put the money into mental health supports and rehabilitation for criminals who are in prison.
00:31:54.860 That actually is how you can prevent things, you know, try to take the dangerous people and make them better or to better identify people when they have mental health challenges before they become dangerous.
00:32:07.360 That money would be much better served and used there.
00:32:10.560 There's a lot of good uses for it.
00:32:12.280 But no, they're too busy chasing around, going after people who are target shooters, deer hunters or collectors.
00:32:17.020 And it's ridiculous.
00:32:18.640 On some of the guns that were banned recently, I saw one and I think it was our beekeeper up there with Freedom Honey who pointed it out.
00:32:29.720 It was some sort of rare double-barreled oversized shotgun, I think, and it was worth like $110,000 or something.
00:32:36.660 And it's banned because it's an oversized gun or something.
00:32:39.280 Who?
00:32:39.520 Who is going out with a six-figure collectible firearm and robbing a 7-Eleven?
00:32:46.340 Or shooting somebody in the streets or committing a terror act or taking part in gangs.
00:32:50.440 Come on.
00:32:51.300 Get real.
00:32:52.580 And that's when you start thinking it's not about the crime, is it?
00:32:56.160 So that discussion, getting back, let's get back to the federal government.
00:32:58.720 Let's talk about money.
00:32:59.940 Let's talk about some of the stuff that happened.
00:33:02.380 You know, with Freeland going out to put out that massive deficit budget.
00:33:07.320 Massive.
00:33:08.780 They blew past their own goal, which was $40 billion, which was way too bloody high.
00:33:13.420 All the way up to $62 billion.
00:33:16.080 Deficit.
00:33:16.520 And then people get mixed up with that.
00:33:17.560 Well, that's not just debt.
00:33:18.340 That's deficit.
00:33:18.940 That's annual.
00:33:20.320 The debt's over $1.2 trillion.
00:33:24.260 And people dismiss this.
00:33:26.160 You wonder why our dollar is going into the toilet.
00:33:28.720 I know economics is boring.
00:33:30.120 Economics is dry.
00:33:31.040 But it does affect you.
00:33:32.520 And when you see that dollar going down, that's part of it.
00:33:34.160 Because how does the government deal with this debt?
00:33:36.620 Well, they print more money.
00:33:38.720 They do that.
00:33:39.540 Our dollar goes down.
00:33:41.700 So, we get some real problems.
00:33:44.580 When the dollar goes down, the inflation goes up.
00:33:47.520 And it's just bad on every level.
00:33:49.980 But think of debt servicing.
00:33:51.820 I mean, if you're managing your household finances poorly, the worst thing you can do,
00:33:55.920 everybody will tell you.
00:33:56.580 And I'm not a master, but I understand that.
00:33:58.080 I'm lucky.
00:33:58.560 I've got a brilliant wife who takes care of things for me. 0.97
00:34:00.660 I'm spoiled.
00:34:01.720 But still, there's nothing I despise more for money spent than money pissed away on interest
00:34:07.740 for borrowed money, especially unsecured debt.
00:34:11.120 The debt servicing charges in Canada, they're up over, I forget what it is.
00:34:16.680 It's almost $53 billion a year, I believe.
00:34:19.060 But I broke down the numbers and I broke it down per person.
00:34:21.760 So, for every man, woman, and child in Canada, $1,340 a year is spent just to pay interest
00:34:29.600 on the debt.
00:34:30.060 That's it.
00:34:30.760 Nothing else.
00:34:31.460 You are getting no service in return.
00:34:33.520 You aren't getting anything for it.
00:34:34.900 It's not going to health care transfers.
00:34:36.120 It's not going to the military.
00:34:37.180 It's not going to road maintenance.
00:34:38.620 It's not going to welfare.
00:34:40.900 Nothing.
00:34:41.740 It is debt servicing.
00:34:43.660 And that's when you divide it by every person in the country.
00:34:46.600 If you remove the children and the unemployed and some of the other people who aren't, you
00:34:50.340 know, paying taxes in, so it's just the taxpayers, then it becomes $1,790 a year.
00:34:56.660 We talk about affordability things.
00:34:58.460 Prime Minister Dingbat gave us this 5% break on potato chips for two months over the holidays
00:35:03.860 that most retailers aren't bothering to do and says, here, I'm helping you with affordability.
00:35:08.360 You want to help with affordability?
00:35:09.960 We've got nearly $1,800 a year being spent on interest on the debt.
00:35:15.880 That comes out of your taxes.
00:35:18.140 They just keep hiking that and they keep spending more.
00:35:20.420 It's insane.
00:35:21.160 This cycle has got to stop.
00:35:22.540 The reason I wanted to break that down, though, is people don't think about things in billions.
00:35:27.200 That's part of why when we go back to Bev Oda and the $16 orange juice, people overlook
00:35:31.680 things that go into the billions because they're numbers that just don't calculate in our minds,
00:35:36.860 right?
00:35:37.100 They're so huge.
00:35:38.220 We can't relate to them.
00:35:39.660 We can relate to $16 for a glass of orange juice and realize how ludicrous it is.
00:35:43.440 We can relate to $1,790 a year per person being spent out of your budget.
00:35:50.360 What could you do with that $1,700?
00:35:51.940 A little home reno, more gifts for the kids, better diet.
00:35:56.000 I mean, whatever you want to do with it.
00:35:58.140 That's a fair chunk of money every year.
00:36:00.540 And it's being flushed down the toilet on interest.
00:36:03.020 That's where Canadians have got to wake up and pay attention to the budget as dry and boring as it is
00:36:07.480 because it does affect you.
00:36:08.820 It does cost you.
00:36:10.080 It does impact you.
00:36:11.240 You can't just keep living on the credit cards forever, but that's what they're trying to do.
00:36:15.680 And what are they doing it on?
00:36:18.300 The lunch program for kids, daycare programs for kids.
00:36:21.820 There's the politics that have been going on and I got sick and tired of it.
00:36:25.820 You know, when Trudeau would announce, we're going to give free daycare to all the kids in Canada.
00:36:30.380 Who's going to pay for it?
00:36:32.740 Oh, you don't support children being cared for?
00:36:34.840 You don't support single mothers?
00:36:36.080 You want them to suffer?
00:36:37.020 You want them to be in poverty?
00:36:38.040 Oh, kiss my ass. 0.95
00:36:38.920 No, but I understand the bill.
00:36:42.160 I understand the problem.
00:36:43.940 It's not free.
00:36:44.980 It doesn't become a program that works and helps anybody just because you've said it well.
00:36:50.160 What it does do is raise our taxes and devalue our dollar.
00:36:53.820 Plus, they're running out of spaces for children care all over the place because you dingbat started subsidizing and turned it into a catastrophe.
00:37:01.620 Children's lunches, same thing.
00:37:02.860 And I get into that online all the time because I point out, it's not the government's role to feed our kids.
00:37:08.720 It's not the role of Justin Trudeau to make a sandwich for your kid to go to school.
00:37:13.240 But then the discussion goes, you support children starving?
00:37:16.400 No, I don't, you dingbat. 1.00
00:37:19.100 But I understand where the role is supposed to be.
00:37:21.380 Parents are going to do a better job of packing lunches for kids than a bunch of idiot bureaucrats with a union. 1.00
00:37:25.480 And yes, here's another one.
00:37:27.860 The drug program, pharmacare.
00:37:29.100 I see Kenzie Kraken commenting.
00:37:30.620 Free contraceptives.
00:37:31.820 Yes, of course.
00:37:32.880 That's top priority, right?
00:37:34.880 You know, we got to make sure that we don't get.
00:37:37.780 Look, that's a matter of responsibility.
00:37:40.660 A French safe costs, what, 50 cents a dollar?
00:37:42.760 I hadn't had to buy one in a long, long time.
00:37:44.860 It's not that expensive to avoid getting somebody pregnant or avoid getting yourself pregnant.
00:37:50.460 It's a matter of your own choice and responsibility at the time.
00:37:53.200 But if the issue, keeping you from being pregnant, was really that you didn't have 50 cents for a rubber?
00:38:01.000 Again, we got bigger things to deal with.
00:38:02.980 But these are the programs that suddenly coming in now.
00:38:05.300 It's a right to pay for birth control. 1.00
00:38:09.760 We got a guy who died of a heart attack because he couldn't get into the emergency fast enough recently.
00:38:14.560 A young man or no, it was an aneurysm, but he had heart issues going on.
00:38:17.420 Maybe he could have been saved, maybe not.
00:38:19.400 I don't know.
00:38:20.120 I mean, it's hard to tell.
00:38:23.200 But we have an overloaded health care system.
00:38:25.680 That is indebatable.
00:38:27.880 And people are dying waiting to get into it, whether it's getting to specialists, whether it's getting into emergency, whether it's getting ambulances.
00:38:34.560 So what are we doing?
00:38:35.820 Spending our money on rubbers.
00:38:36.920 I think we've got better things to spend health care dollars on.
00:38:41.140 I see these dollars, when they put these stupid programs out, cost you, even if you don't realize it.
00:38:49.360 A dental program, same thing.
00:38:51.940 And then what happened when Trudeau brought in this stupid dental program to kiss Singh's butt, speaking of weakness in federal politics?
00:38:59.920 Well, a lot of companies and places that were providing dental plans were saying, how about this?
00:39:04.120 We'll just back out and let the government take care of it.
00:39:07.020 And it's one less thing we've got to pay for.
00:39:08.360 Well, then nobody got anything more than what they used to, but it's just coming out of a different pot.
00:39:12.400 And then we're all, again, getting poorer service for it.
00:39:16.000 So we need fiscal responsibility.
00:39:19.320 And I tell you, it's coming, whether we like it or not.
00:39:22.400 That's the other thing.
00:39:23.100 When you live on the credit cards too long, it catches up.
00:39:27.100 We saw this, you know, for the older viewers, folks of my age and older, we saw this with the crazy free spending debt bloating of the 70s and 80s.
00:39:36.740 And then the interest rates shot up and suddenly balancing budgets became en vogue, not because they wanted to, not because politicians wanted to deal with layoffs and cuts.
00:39:48.480 They always prefer to spend.
00:39:49.600 That's the easier path.
00:39:50.620 You much prefer a ribbon cutting rather than a closure of an office.
00:39:55.240 But they had to.
00:39:56.600 They had no choice.
00:39:57.780 Even Kretchen, the liberals, balanced the budget.
00:40:01.440 Ralph Klein balanced the budget.
00:40:03.320 Mike Harris, even the NDP, Romano and Saskatchewan balanced the budget because you have to.
00:40:11.260 Eventually you hit the wall.
00:40:12.620 Well, we're heading towards another one of those walls.
00:40:15.300 We've got to quit being wimps.
00:40:16.940 And we've got to look back at people when they're saying, we've got to spend on this, this, this, this, this, and start questioning and saying, how do we pay for it?
00:40:24.480 We can't.
00:40:25.560 Is it a need?
00:40:27.440 No.
00:40:28.080 Then the government should stay the hell out of it.
00:40:30.540 And it's happening everywhere.
00:40:34.180 At every level of government, it's easier to spend than a cut, but you eventually have to cut.
00:40:38.160 I get worried about, I mean, I think Daniel Smith is brilliant.
00:40:40.820 Best thing that's happened to Alberta since Ralph Klein.
00:40:43.260 But she still has her hangups and things.
00:40:45.320 She's got a fetish for trains. 0.99
00:40:47.020 And, you know, it gets tiresome.
00:40:48.860 They put out a survey just recently.
00:40:50.660 And if you want to look, by the way, look, because I think the deadline is only in a few days because they're snapping the survey open and shut on a railroad program for Alberta that the government's going to get involved in.
00:40:59.640 It's even full of DEI stuff.
00:41:00.760 It even asks you questions like, do you support lower fares for indigenous people versus non-indigenous?
00:41:05.300 What?
00:41:07.040 They want a legacy project.
00:41:08.760 She wants to see choo-choo trains around the province that taxpayers pay for. 1.00
00:41:12.160 Or maybe it's a Dagny Taggart thing. 0.50
00:41:14.760 I don't know.
00:41:15.800 Again, I think she's brilliant.
00:41:16.960 I think she's fantastic.
00:41:17.740 But this bloody train obsession could sink us billions into debt.
00:41:21.640 We're watching this going on with the green line in Calgary even.
00:41:24.640 These trains are money pits.
00:41:26.980 Look at Via Rail out in eastern Canada.
00:41:29.980 I mean, this is denser populations.
00:41:31.480 This is established rail lines.
00:41:33.060 And the subsidies are massive, massive.
00:41:36.040 The government pays more for people's train tickets than people pay for their own train tickets because that's the only way it can run.
00:41:42.980 We don't need this out here.
00:41:44.820 But you've got to speak up.
00:41:46.460 Now is the time to take that government survey.
00:41:48.360 Look it up, guys.
00:41:49.500 And take it and say, no.
00:41:51.600 No.
00:41:52.140 We've got a bunch of provincial debt.
00:41:54.100 Pay that down first.
00:41:55.960 You've got a lot to do.
00:41:57.020 You're doing a lot of good things.
00:41:58.100 You broke up the health services things.
00:41:59.600 You did a lot of things.
00:42:00.500 Don't sink us into a bloody train boondoggle.
00:42:03.540 We don't need that.
00:42:05.280 So even conservative governments are guilty of it.
00:42:07.980 But how does it happen?
00:42:09.000 Because we let them.
00:42:10.780 You've got to speak up.
00:42:11.860 You can't let them have those discussions.
00:42:14.140 Say, well, look at the traffic on Highway 2.
00:42:15.920 That's why we need a train.
00:42:16.760 Well, hang on a minute.
00:42:18.040 Yes, traffic on Highway 2 is overcrowded in Alberta.
00:42:20.620 It's our main highway north-south for people outside of the province.
00:42:22.740 It's nuts on there.
00:42:23.400 It sucks going between Edmonton and Calgary.
00:42:24.760 But does it mean you need a train between the two?
00:42:29.380 You've got to think of the costs.
00:42:30.580 300 kilometers of land acquisition you'd have to do.
00:42:34.480 Okay?
00:42:35.080 So there's some billions just buying the land.
00:42:37.200 Then you've got to lay the tracks.
00:42:38.940 Then you've got to get the engines.
00:42:39.820 Then you've got to do the rest.
00:42:40.540 What is it going to cost?
00:42:41.420 You know, $500 a ticket to ride the train to get on the choo-choo from Calgary to Edmonton? 0.96
00:42:46.860 Plus, you know, you've got to park your car somewhere.
00:42:48.460 So it'd be like an airport.
00:42:49.240 You've got to pay for parking.
00:42:50.940 And then you've got to get a taxi, you know, on the other end.
00:42:53.400 It's ridiculous.
00:42:54.420 It's not going to stop it.
00:42:55.360 We need another lane on the highway.
00:42:57.120 Get over the anti-car crap.
00:42:58.580 Trains aren't the solution.
00:42:59.840 Look to California.
00:43:00.920 California, with high density cities going on.
00:43:04.100 Their high-speed rail program has gotten into the hundreds of billions.
00:43:08.340 And they've only laid something like 10 kilometers of track over the last few years.
00:43:11.020 Guys, they don't work.
00:43:13.020 And every government is guilty of these bloody things.
00:43:15.780 Harley says there should have been a train built a long time ago.
00:43:17.720 Maybe.
00:43:18.440 But then we don't need one now.
00:43:20.500 It would cost too much.
00:43:21.780 And it wouldn't solve enough.
00:43:23.120 Really.
00:43:23.660 Sit down and think about it.
00:43:24.500 Would you go with your family, pay a few hundred dollars a ticket, and, you know, get on the train?
00:43:29.600 So what are we talking about?
00:43:30.360 A return trip to Edmonton is going to cost you $1,200 once it's done with your family of four?
00:43:34.480 Or just get in the car.
00:43:36.120 You're going to get in the car.
00:43:37.400 The demand's not there, guys.
00:43:38.760 It's unrealistic.
00:43:40.580 But that's where we go.
00:43:41.480 And I don't want to just crap on Smith.
00:43:42.680 I mean, this is happening with every government.
00:43:44.060 That's my point.
00:43:45.460 BC or no.
00:43:46.720 Yeah, it's BC.
00:43:47.320 They just had a huge deficit that they've got being announced there.
00:43:50.460 Same with Manitoba.
00:43:51.600 Huge deficit being announced there.
00:43:52.900 Why?
00:43:53.440 Well, they both got NDP governments.
00:43:55.200 Conservative governments are better than NDP governments for not wasting money.
00:43:58.600 But they're capable of it.
00:43:59.520 That's just all I'm reminding people of.
00:44:01.320 The left is worse at it.
00:44:03.020 There's no doubt about it.
00:44:03.960 Freedom lovers saying e-vehicles are not an answer either.
00:44:06.640 No, they aren't.
00:44:07.240 There's another one of those obsessions, right?
00:44:08.640 There's where ideology is trumping common sense.
00:44:10.720 And look at that.
00:44:12.600 The e-vehicle companies.
00:44:13.500 They're going down all over the place.
00:44:15.520 They're cutting.
00:44:16.120 They're doing the rest.
00:44:17.060 And what do we got going on?
00:44:17.920 We're putting billions of dollars into battery factories.
00:44:20.380 This is something else that's got to be reversed somehow.
00:44:23.020 Because it's going to be...
00:44:24.140 Nobody wants these things.
00:44:25.080 We're building factories.
00:44:26.180 I mean, one of them was a Quebec company that's gone broke.
00:44:29.500 We put billions into it.
00:44:30.700 They've gone broke.
00:44:31.220 They didn't even start the factory.
00:44:33.380 We've got to stop this.
00:44:34.380 But it's ideology.
00:44:35.660 It's not common sense anymore.
00:44:37.240 People say, don't you want to save the environment?
00:44:38.580 Sure.
00:44:39.100 But I want something that works.
00:44:40.760 And this did nothing for the environment.
00:44:42.880 I love the environment.
00:44:43.960 I love going out there, seeing things.
00:44:46.400 But we need smart environmentalism, not stupid.
00:44:48.980 And unfortunately, we do have the dumbest prime minister in Canadian history.
00:44:53.720 And I don't know how much longer we're going to have it.
00:44:57.660 I mean, it's almost surreal looking at what's going on at Ottawa right now.
00:45:02.120 Even the liberal caucuses finally realize, my God, this man is insane.
00:45:07.420 And he's dumb.
00:45:08.380 We've got to get rid of him, but we don't know how.
00:45:10.920 Speaking of policy improvements, we need to work on our ways to give governments the ability to cut loose leaders when they go out of control.
00:45:18.240 Because we certainly have one right now.
00:45:20.300 And the liberals are staring at their feet, hopefully.
00:45:23.060 I mean, if their caucus gets together and really pushes.
00:45:25.620 I mean, I'll leave a quote of wisdom from Daniel Smith as I finish this show off.
00:45:29.180 I was in the Wildrose Party when she did that disastrous floor crossing.
00:45:32.040 And she said it many, many times since.
00:45:33.360 One of the things that broke her, one of the things she felt was the final straw, was when she lost caucus support.
00:45:39.900 When you lose your people around you, you've lost everything.
00:45:44.760 The same will apply to Trudeau.
00:45:46.640 But the liberal MPs have to find the testicles to get up and take care of it. 0.94
00:45:50.480 And I know it's a lot to ask.
00:45:52.400 Hopefully they do it soon.
00:45:53.720 All right, guys.
00:45:54.560 I hope you all have a Merry Christmas.
00:45:56.120 There's going to be another special show coming in a little later.
00:45:58.360 There will be a break next Wednesday.
00:46:00.160 Of course, I'm not going to be on Christmas Day.
00:46:01.980 I hope you guys all have a good holiday.
00:46:04.060 Be safe out there.
00:46:05.060 Enjoy yourself.
00:46:05.780 Lighten up for one day.
00:46:06.880 We've got all the rest of the days to do politics.
00:46:08.680 Thank you for tuning in.
00:46:10.020 And we will see you all again on January 1st for the show in the new year.
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