Western Standard - It’s election time! Probably.

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:28.960 Hey, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show, second take.

00:00:31.520 I'm back and live again.

00:00:32.980 I much prefer live over recorded.

00:00:34.900 I can get those comments.

00:00:35.820 We can move with things.

00:00:37.040 I still make screw-ups, but then I just carry on with it recorded.

00:00:39.980 It just feels so constrained and awkward.

00:00:42.600 And we're going to be doing this every Friday for the entire duration of the election and a little bit beyond it.

00:00:48.700 So I appreciate you tuning in.

00:00:50.140 I'm sure some of our regulars are out there,

00:00:52.140 and we'll get other regulars to realize that we're popping on for an extra hour and change every week here at the end of the week

00:00:57.580 to wrap things up, because there's going to be just so much to cover.

00:01:02.060 I mean, this is going to be a huge election for Canada.

00:01:05.020 You know, they always say every election is the most important election ever.

00:01:07.640 Yeah, okay.

00:01:08.100 Well, this one's pretty different, though.

00:01:09.340 I mean, this is after nine years of a special little man running our country,

00:01:15.840 it's finally turning over, perhaps.

00:01:18.800 Well, we'll see.

00:01:20.000 We might be just another liberal with another face.

00:01:22.100 We'll be covering that.

00:01:22.660 We'll be watching it.

00:01:23.200 So I'll have some polls.

00:01:24.400 I'll have news updates.

00:01:25.220 I'm going to talk to our news editor in a little bit here.

00:01:27.580 I've got Jay Goldberg coming on. He's the Canadian Affairs Manager at Consumer Choice Centre.

00:01:31.960 We'll talk about some of the trade issues, tariffs, all that fun stuff that we're getting sick of but can't avoid.

00:01:36.780 Michael Knightfor, he's written for the Financial Post on a couple of things.

00:01:40.120 We're going to talk about electric vehicles, EVs, because the subsidies keep going and the companies keep failing.

00:01:46.280 And we keep paying for it.

00:01:47.560 So, I'm going to start off, though, talking about a little kind of personal stuff.

00:01:51.640 So, I went out last weekend. We mentioned it a little bit on my show the other day.

00:01:55.500 and I went for a drive out to the Siksika Reserve.

00:01:58.260 It's east of Calgary.

00:01:59.420 And I've been on dozens and dozens of reserves

00:02:02.000 over the years as an oil field surveyor.

00:02:05.020 And the conditions tend to be deplorable.

00:02:07.680 And I think most people don't understand or realize

00:02:10.480 just how bad things are on the reserve.

00:02:12.120 So I thought, you know what?

00:02:12.700 I'm going to go out there and take a camera

00:02:15.080 and get some footage of some of the things out there

00:02:17.220 just so people can look on YouTube and see what it looks like.

00:02:20.080 Because most people don't go to a reserve.

00:02:21.060 You don't have a reason to.

00:02:22.320 You don't head there.

00:02:23.200 The Siksika Reserve's big.

00:02:24.180 It's got three, actually, main public highways that go through it, and I was on those, and

00:02:28.780 it's got two towns that bound right next to it, so I went through those, and it's got

00:02:32.780 some public, you know, historic resource sites, like the grave of Chief Crowfoot in the middle

00:02:36.600 of a cemetery.

00:02:37.220 There's signs right off the road saying, go on and visit, so I did, and I posted the

00:02:41.160 video, and it seems to have been very well received.

00:02:43.540 It's under my YouTube channel, my personal one, not the Western Standard, so if you search

00:02:47.880 Cory Morgan, you'll find it.

00:02:49.200 It's about 20 minutes long.

00:02:50.180 It's had about 22,000 views so far.

00:02:52.260 Pretty popular.

00:02:53.840 Now, unfortunately, it just seems to have really wound up some folks on the reserve.

00:02:58.820 The Siksika Band itself actually put up a notice on their website saying I had trespassed

00:03:04.840 and they're going to be following legal action against me under the Indian Act.

00:03:09.000 I'm terrified, as you can see.

00:03:10.800 They're pretty mad.

00:03:12.100 Why?

00:03:12.820 Why?

00:03:13.060 Well, because I exposed things, because I showed it.

00:03:15.500 But, you know, I've been getting, of course, since then, all sorts of threats and people

00:03:20.000 calling me things and messages and things like that.

00:03:21.980 And perhaps, you know, I was insensitive.

00:03:25.280 Maybe I didn't take into account some of those things, you know.

00:03:30.320 So I want to announce, you know, after thinking on it, dwelling on it,

00:03:34.220 I want to express to those people whose feelings are hurt

00:03:37.060 and the ones that are yelling at me,

00:03:38.440 the ones who think I should be charged for trespassing,

00:03:40.040 the ones who think I shouldn't expose this, 1.00

00:03:41.840 let me express my most sincere and heartfelt wishes that you kiss my ass. 1.00

00:03:46.540 Not just the left pimply hairy cheek or the right pimply hairy cheek, 1.00

00:03:50.020 but right smack in the middle.

00:03:51.680 Get in there deep, because I want you to get a whiff of the contempt I hold you in, and I do.

00:03:57.800 Because you're the people who want to hide the devastation and human misery that's going on on these reserves.

00:04:03.460 How can somebody look, and again, I tell you, get out there and watch that video,

00:04:06.440 the dilapidated houses, the wild dogs, the garbage, the excrement.

00:04:11.300 How can you look at that and say it's okay, because that's what you guys are doing.

00:04:15.480 And you know what you want to do? You want to hide it.

00:04:17.500 That's why you're literally shooting the messenger.

00:04:19.440 You're trying to charge me for going into a public area and videoing it.

00:04:22.660 You want to hide it. 1.00

00:04:24.160 Kiss my ass. 1.00

00:04:25.240 Something is wrong with you. 1.00

00:04:26.340 What it tells me is you're probably folks who are in what's been called the Indian industry.

00:04:31.120 There's a lot of lawyers, bureaucrats, some chiefs and councils who make really, really good money out of the misery on those reserves.

00:04:39.120 And that reserve got some pretty good money.

00:04:41.100 Trudeau was out there literally giving them billions a couple years ago.

00:04:43.380 Every single person on the Six Seca Reserve, as a matter of fact, got a check for $20,000.

00:04:47.020 But you wouldn't know it when you go there.

00:04:48.900 So I documented it.

00:04:50.260 I showed it.

00:04:50.940 And I will continue to.

00:04:52.240 I'm not going to stop.

00:04:53.180 I'm not going to back off.

00:04:54.620 I'm going to continue to expose the rot.

00:04:57.120 And I won't apologize.

00:04:58.380 I've had a few demands for that.

00:04:59.480 No, I think it's gotten pretty clear.

00:05:01.800 And some people said, why don't you, why are you so imbalanced?

00:05:04.660 Why don't you show some of the successes on the reserve?

00:05:06.460 Well, you know, there's always a handful of success stories you can point to on reserves.

00:05:09.560 And we have the state broadcaster and the aboriginal channel to show those.

00:05:13.600 Because they like to cherry pick and say everything's dandy and show those little things.

00:05:16.520 You know, if I went to a landfill and found a little patch of flowers growing in the middle of it,

00:05:20.260 if I brought my camera up close enough to that patch of flowers and only talked about that patch of flowers, 0.99

00:05:24.380 nobody would realize that I'm surrounded by junk and shit. 0.97

00:05:28.040 You've got to expose what's around it, too. 0.99

00:05:29.860 So that's what I'm doing.

00:05:30.600 And I took it upon myself.

00:05:32.120 And I'm going to.

00:05:33.960 And it's bad.

00:05:34.780 I mean, if it gets pulled from YouTube, because, of course, they've been reporting and complaining and going on, too,

00:05:39.120 saying it shouldn't be up there, watch it, guys.

00:05:40.660 Watch it.

00:05:41.220 I don't say a single bad thing about the people because I don't have a problem with the people.

00:05:43.900 I have a problem with the system.

00:05:45.040 I have a problem with the people who are using the system to prey on the other people.

00:05:48.980 It's not racist.

00:05:50.560 Any race in that situation is going to be in that mess. 0.99

00:05:53.160 It's Canada's system of apartheid, and it's sick.

00:05:55.580 So I exposed it.

00:05:57.020 Get over it.

00:05:57.980 I'm not going to apologize.

00:05:58.980 I'm not going to back off.

00:06:00.240 And I don't expect the trespassing charges to come. 0.99

00:06:02.320 It's a highway, you jerk-offs. 0.99

00:06:03.980 Take your threats and stick them somewhere deep and dark. 0.97

00:06:07.780 Either way, if it gets pulled from YouTube, I'll post it on Rumble.

00:06:10.880 I'll post it on Twitch.

00:06:11.500 I'll post it on Meta.

00:06:12.560 I'll Vimeo, Pornhub.

00:06:14.620 I don't know, wherever else they'll let me put a video up, I'm putting it up there.

00:06:17.660 It's not going away.

00:06:19.420 And I'll probably go to more reserves and document that too.

00:06:22.400 Because why are you so fixated on hiding this, you guys?

00:06:26.260 Why?

00:06:27.200 You can't counter it, you just try to block it.

00:06:29.080 That speaks volumes.

00:06:31.300 You know, if I really, really did hate First Nations Indigenous people, 0.98

00:06:34.960 if I really wanted to see them suffer and be miserable,

00:06:37.800 the worst thing I could do is turn my back and leave that system where it is

00:06:41.640 and not talk about it and just let that rot continue

00:06:44.240 and let them suffer in those conditions.

00:06:45.980 That's what a hateful person would do. 0.92

00:06:47.980 And it takes a pretty self-serving, hateful person

00:06:49.740 to shut down any conversation

00:06:52.000 and show how bad it is out there.

00:06:55.760 So, bring it on, guys.

00:06:57.760 But in the meantime, don't expect apologies.

00:06:59.340 You'll just get more invitations to kiss certain parts of my body.

00:07:02.760 All right, that's just kind of what's got me started today.

00:07:06.180 Let's get on to other news.

00:07:07.200 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:07:08.260 Wow, you're kind of wound up. 0.95

00:07:10.600 Oh, crappy. I had to get up really early. 0.72

00:07:12.180 I was up at like 3.15 because I had to drive.

00:07:14.120 I stepped on her to the airport, so I'm even grumpier than usual.

00:07:16.580 Yeah, insensitive they called you.

00:07:19.000 Oh, wow.

00:07:19.280 Insensitive me.

00:07:20.380 Wow.

00:07:20.940 They just don't know you.

00:07:22.180 I think I showed a lot of emotion and passion.

00:07:26.560 Yes, well, you're certainly passionate about it.

00:07:29.140 Invitation for us to couple in a certain way.

00:07:30.800 There you go.

00:07:31.480 Yes.

00:07:31.700 There you go.

00:07:32.700 Well, you know who else has had a good week, a busy week, is our new Prime Minister.

00:07:36.980 Oh, yes.

00:07:37.440 While the old one is, you know, trying to buy a potato masher at Canadian Tire, Mark Carney, on Monday, he had a glass of wine with French President Macron, then he jumped in his wide-body jet, crossed the English Channel, had a cup of tea with King Charles, and went to 10 Downing Street to have another cup of tea with Prime Minister Starmer, and then went out to the Arctic.

00:08:01.840 And then, you know, went back to Ottawa, then came out to Alberta where he met with Premier Smith, who gave him a list of, I think it was either six demands maybe, and had a press conference and then flew back to Ottawa where about half an hour ago he killed the capital gains tax increase.

00:08:25.080 So he's had a busy week.

00:08:26.940 He should take a couple days off, eh?

00:08:29.160 Or at least take Saturday off.

00:08:30.720 Yes, it looks like Sunday he might be up to something.

00:08:33.080 Sunday.

00:08:33.600 Sunday he's expected to, you know, wait until the Governor General gets her bathrobe on

00:08:39.220 and knock on her door and ask her to call an election. 1.00

00:08:44.460 So as of Sunday, probably around 8 a.m. Calgary time, we'll be in election mode.

00:08:50.920 Yeah, I just get, I mean, I know it's part of the system,

00:08:53.280 and I know every party takes advantage of it, but I just get tired.

00:08:56.460 A politician's playing coy with the election date.

00:08:58.420 Okay, we already know.

00:08:59.320 Just say it.

00:09:00.720 Don't sit there and smirk.

00:09:01.580 Well, you know, we'll call it when it's appropriate.

00:09:03.760 Yeah, he was asked in Edmonton, are you going to call an election on Sunday?

00:09:06.740 And he said, well, Governor General's got to be the first to be informed of that.

00:09:11.960 So, yeah, I mean, just let us know.

00:09:13.900 So I guess the only question is, is it going to be the date?

00:09:15.920 Do you figure, you know, April 28th or May 5th?

00:09:18.240 Yeah, I'm good with either.

00:09:21.760 You know, I would expect it would be the 28th

00:09:25.260 because I think Carney wants to keep it as short as he possibly can

00:09:28.420 to keep his exposure to the Canadian public as small as possible.

00:09:34.780 You know, he's improved since his London press conference,

00:09:37.120 but you can tell he's just not overly comfortable handling journalist questions.

00:09:42.000 And he's going to have to do a lot of that in the next few weeks.

00:09:48.020 He's also going to have to face Pierre Polyev,

00:09:50.980 who I think is a much better public speaker, in a debate.

00:09:55.640 I think the debates could be the TSN turning point, so to speak, as to where people are going.

00:10:04.800 But as we talked before going on the air, Carney's popularity continues to go up.

00:10:10.660 Yeah, I mean, it's hard to understand the charm.

00:10:12.280 I mean, it's not like, for example, Justin Trudeau was brilliant in debates, 0.99

00:10:15.280 but as long as he didn't say anything particularly stupid, he could just flub through, 0.99

00:10:19.160 and it just seemed to work for him. 0.99

00:10:20.920 Yeah, you know, I think maybe people are just so happy that he's gone,

00:10:25.480 that they, you know, if Trudeau was going to run in the election,

00:10:28.340 they'd have voted for Poliev.

00:10:29.620 Now Trudeau's gone, and they're sort of maybe slowly slipping back to liberal support.

00:10:35.640 But, you know, a month ago I was certain Poliev would become the next prime minister.

00:10:41.060 Now I'm not quite so sure.

00:10:42.660 Oh, well, again, election campaigns, everything changes.

00:10:45.540 I mean, it's one thing to be a banker and take those press conferences.

00:10:48.960 It's quite another if you're running an election campaign with a scrutiny.

00:10:53.100 I wonder how many more times, you know, we should start a pool for how many times our reporters get kicked out of Kearney conferences.

00:10:57.620 Yeah, we'll have to see.

00:10:58.820 He took a bit of a risk yesterday when he went and practiced with the Edmonton Oilers, his favorite hockey team.

00:11:04.200 Because if he'd have slipped going onto the ice, that would have been the campaign moment right there.

00:11:11.160 The Diefenbaker football.

00:11:12.080 Yeah, the football thing.

00:11:13.640 But he stayed on his feet.

00:11:14.740 And he did manage to miss an empty net shot that he took, which one Twitter wag said, oh, there's his net zero.

00:11:24.460 Yes.

00:11:25.040 But he didn't fall down.

00:11:26.820 So, you know, he survived that test and then, you know, had his press conference.

00:11:34.440 And so now there's sort of some debate over Daniel Smith initially said that he seemed he wasn't firm on his control of emissions.

00:11:46.600 He didn't want to have an emissions cap.

00:11:48.600 But then his environment minister came out and said that he will have an emissions cap.

00:11:53.140 So there's some confusion there.

00:11:54.960 So I think that's going to be an important issue to get sorted out right away.

00:11:59.380 Well, we'll be seeing a lot of questions thrown in his way.

00:12:01.520 Hopefully something bursts through the word salad and we get some confirmation.

00:12:04.440 on it, I guess. Yeah. And just so the viewers know, we've got our team ready to jump into

00:12:11.520 action on Sunday. Our reporter, Jen, will be covering the visit to the governor general

00:12:18.200 and the election call. And I imagine we're going to be having Polyev and Jagmeet press

00:12:23.920 conferences afterwards. And each of our reporters in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan

00:12:29.480 will have in-depth looks at what the election landscape looks

00:12:34.120 in their particular territory.

00:12:36.460 And Nigel will be putting in with a whole bunch of columns,

00:12:40.760 probably including one from yours truly or yourself.

00:12:44.820 So, yeah, if you're looking for election coverage,

00:12:46.860 westernstandard.news is the place to be on Sunday morning.

00:12:50.680 Right on.

00:12:51.180 Well, it's good to get that self-serving plug in while we're at it.

00:12:53.160 There you go.

00:12:53.740 It's true.

00:12:54.160 This will be the place.

00:12:55.340 Lock in.

00:12:55.640 I mean, this is our Super Bowl for political-leaning type folks here for this next month.

00:12:59.940 It is, and now we've got you twice a week for your brilliant analytics.

00:13:05.180 Oh, yes.

00:13:05.820 Assuming you're not behind bars somewhere facing charges under the Indian Act.

00:13:09.840 The threats are coming hard and heavy, but I haven't seen any summons yet.

00:13:13.020 I looked at the Indian Act because they did say on that Siksika site

00:13:15.960 that they were going to charge me under the Indian Act.

00:13:18.220 And what's the fine?

00:13:20.240 No more than $50.

00:13:22.420 If I was hawking wares or hunting or fishing or squatting on the First Nations lands under the Indian Act,

00:13:27.920 I could be fined no more than $50.

00:13:30.240 Well, imagine the thousands and thousands of dollars they may spend prosecuting you to get that $50.

00:13:35.740 Well, they do like burning money.

00:13:37.880 I'll bet you would pay it in pennies, wouldn't you?

00:13:40.860 If I got convicted, if I could find them, I don't know.

00:13:44.040 I would certainly not make it any easier for them than I have to.

00:13:48.680 but I'll keep my bail handy on myself in case I should be snatched up

00:13:53.640 and charged for my odious offense of filming from a public highway.

00:13:57.480 There you go. 0.94

00:13:58.200 You're a troublemaker. 0.93

00:14:00.120 Trouble exposure.

00:14:01.680 All right.

00:14:02.100 Well, thanks, Dave.

00:14:02.900 I'll let you back to the newsroom,

00:14:04.340 and you can keep a watch in case the tribal police come bursting through.

00:14:08.360 Yes, I'll let you know.

00:14:10.400 I'll come in while you're on air.

00:14:11.920 Right on.

00:14:12.480 Okay, thanks, Dave.

00:14:13.400 You bet.

00:14:13.880 All right.

00:14:14.640 So that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:14:16.260 And, yes, lots to talk about, lots to chatter.

00:14:18.680 And, you know, yeah, we kind of sound pumped about it because we are.

00:14:20.600 I mean, this is the time.

00:14:21.520 This is election time.

00:14:22.460 This is when we get to the meat and potatoes.

00:14:24.220 By the end of it, we're going to be exhausted.

00:14:25.620 We're going to be sick of it.

00:14:26.660 You know there's going to be a long election night coverage event.

00:14:29.900 We do that with every major election, so we'll all be in here.

00:14:32.560 You know, set your dials to the Western standard for that night.

00:14:36.360 We'll have everybody in here, our reporters, guests, and the rest to watch the results as they come in

00:14:41.140 to find out who on earth is going to become our next prime minister.

00:14:45.420 And as Dave said, too, we've got those reporters all over.

00:14:47.400 the reason we're independent the reason we don't give you the government line is because we rely

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00:15:03.400 our reporters and these shows our producer john doing a fantastic job trying to make me pretty

00:15:08.740 he's got a tough task ahead of him there and all of this stuff going through so yeah let's go through

00:15:14.060 the leaders a bit, you know, as this election gets going. Jagmeet Singh, you know, I'll start

00:15:19.940 reading the very, very bottom. Elizabeth May, she was, you know, talking about trying to cut a deal 1.00

00:15:24.640 to avoid an election, and I'm not sure if somebody else leads the Greens these days, or does she

00:15:28.560 officially, or not. She's very upset, I think, that some of her favorite brands of cocktails and

00:15:36.500 drinks and such are now, you know, not coming across the border for her, but I'm sure she can

00:15:40.640 find domestic sources of gin to keep her happy throughout the campaign. She is always good for 0.99

00:15:45.340 comic relief during the debate, though, if it's going to be her or that other green guy. I don't

00:15:48.740 know. But the greens, really not much of a factor. The next non-factor is Jagmeet Singh. And yeah,

00:15:56.440 he was, so he did come out, he did a big thing, he got an endorsement from a union. You know,

00:16:00.920 there's a shocker. Pretty much kind of expect that from the NDP. But their support is just

00:16:07.260 in the toilet. I mean, that's a lot of the story of what's going on, too. The Conservatives are

00:16:11.880 kind of coming down a little bit, and I'll talk about the polls a little more in detail later,

00:16:14.900 but for the time being, the Conservatives are coming down a bit, but it's more that the NDP

00:16:21.640 is really collapsing, and that's going to the Liberals. So how this is going to level out,

00:16:27.320 I don't know, but that's the factor that's happening right now. If there was a strong

00:16:30.700 NDP, you know, a typical NDP taking 20% of the vote or something, the Conservatives would be

00:16:36.500 sitting very comfortably going into this campaign period. But right now, it all very much appears

00:16:41.620 neck and neck. So Polly, he's gotten out and he said he's going to open, you know, the ring of

00:16:46.180 fire, a lot of what's coming about. And I like hearing it from all of the leaders. Anyways,

00:16:49.300 let's get it going. Let's develop Canada's resource. So we've been screaming that from

00:16:52.680 the hilltops for a decade. But the government just rags the puck and drags their butts and 0.98

00:16:57.100 allows the consultations and the studies and whatnot to just drag on. These things never get

00:17:02.640 done. The Ring of Fire is a zone in Ontario full of precious minerals and such. And I mean,

00:17:09.880 if it could be developed, Canada's prosperity would rise substantially. But the government,

00:17:16.080 again, is just terrified of, well, it gets back to those things. Consultation. We'll have to do

00:17:20.560 another show on that sometime. You've got to remember as well, consultation does not equate

00:17:25.320 consent. We can consult. They say, no, I don't like it. Well, it sucks to be you. We're still

00:17:29.860 going to go on and have that mine. Likewise, it works with oil energy pipelines. We've got to

00:17:34.920 stop expecting to get permission all the way across the country to get our utilities to the

00:17:40.800 coast. You know what? Quebec leaders are always going to say no. Somebody is always going to be

00:17:45.100 upset along the right of way. And if we stop every time somebody's pissed off, it's never going to

00:17:50.380 get done. As simple as that. Now, so it's a good promise on his part. Carney, yeah, he promised to

00:17:56.720 dump the capital gains tax. Another good one, because capital gains tax are terrible taxes.

00:18:02.000 They're economy killers. And I'm certain that it probably helps Mr. Carney quite a bit,

00:18:06.520 because he's got a lot of assets. We don't know where or exactly how many or, you know,

00:18:10.520 how much they are, but he must pay a fair amount in capital gains taxes. But of course,

00:18:14.480 that's yet another plank from the conservative platform he just kind of grabbed and took on for

00:18:18.100 himself. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. That's the way the game works. But

00:18:21.380 are Canadians really just that ready to swap? Hey, you know, we're still the liberals,

00:18:25.460 but we're just going to take everything from that cup party and take it on and make it our own policy

00:18:29.160 and, you know, vote for us.

00:18:32.180 And it seems like some people are saying, yeah, okay, that sounds good to me.

00:18:34.820 Interesting, interesting.

00:18:36.140 We'll see if that can hold for the next, you know, 30, 40 days here.

00:18:39.500 And it was an interesting car.

00:18:40.980 He was playing hockey in Edmonton, as Dave said.

00:18:42.860 He was out on the ice.

00:18:43.900 To be fair, I mean, the guy, he's, what, even a few years older than me,

00:18:47.440 and he did play hockey.

00:18:48.580 He was a goalie, I guess, at Yale or Harvard or wherever the heck he went.

00:18:51.360 So he's got some experience.

00:18:52.920 He was on the ice.

00:18:53.580 Wasn't totally awkward.

00:18:54.320 Skates better than I do.

00:18:55.980 He certainly likes to skate on questions as well.

00:18:58.820 He gives the word salads almost as well as Trudeau.

00:19:02.320 But that's a typical election kickoff.

00:19:04.060 They go to Alberta because there's very little to gain here.

00:19:06.500 So they kind of get the visit out of the way now

00:19:08.280 because they're going to focus on Ontario, Quebec, and BC.

00:19:12.240 Sometimes I say, you know, don't take it personally.

00:19:13.920 It's just math when it comes to winning elections.

00:19:15.760 But at the same time, I do take it personally. 0.99

00:19:17.100 I'm an Albertan, damn it. 0.98

00:19:17.900 I expect you guys to speak to us. 0.98

00:19:19.200 We might not have the biggest population, but we pay a lot of your bills.

00:19:24.040 But we will see.

00:19:25.320 The fun is just getting going.

00:19:27.100 Okay, so let's bring in Jay Goldberg, Canadian Affairs Manager at the Consumer Choice Centre

00:19:31.680 and talk about some of the other economic and pressing issues going on as we get into this election.

00:19:36.140 Hey, Jay, how's it going?

00:19:37.560 Doing well. Great to be with you.

00:19:39.820 Right on.

00:19:41.480 You know, where to start, right?

00:19:42.880 I mean, kind of the big factor that came into this election is the Trump factor.

00:19:47.200 You can't avoid the man's name.

00:19:48.480 and the tariffs, of course, that he's just back and forth and in and out on.

00:19:55.380 Do you think these tariffs are going to dominate the news for the rest of the campaign?

00:19:59.180 I do think they're going to be a huge issue,

00:20:01.100 and I think we're going to have to talk about how we're going to respond.

00:20:03.900 And it's been interesting to see Mark Carney has taken a somewhat different approach

00:20:08.440 than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

00:20:12.700 and even than the Conservative leader.

00:20:14.760 And he's admitted, which I think is just reality, that our economy is one tenth the size of the United States and that we can't necessarily do dollar for dollar tariff retaliation forever.

00:20:25.580 And so I think we're going to have to have a conversation about how else we strengthen this country, how we deal with things like internal trade barriers and getting energy to market and all of those other things, building pipelines.

00:20:36.420 And that really needs to be the conversation.

00:20:39.120 Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's going to be a lot of the liberals saying, well, there's a scary man in the White House.

00:20:43.900 And, you know, there's this possibility he's talking about the 51st state.

00:20:47.800 And, you know, Polly, I was going to kowtow to the Trump administration.

00:20:51.420 All of it, you know, not not true in terms of kowtowing.

00:20:55.980 But I think, unfortunately, the liberals are going to try to keep the focus on Trump, whereas the issue needs to be how do we strengthen the economy and how do we respond to this American administration?

00:21:07.980 that's clearly going to be very nationalist in its economic focus,

00:21:11.860 clearly going to have tariffs as an economic policy for the next four years.

00:21:16.260 They're introducing this global tariff on April the 2nd.

00:21:19.420 So, of course, that's going to be the issue.

00:21:21.160 But what we should be talking about is the lost decade that we've had over the past 10 years

00:21:25.780 under the Liberals because they have failed to deal with internal trade,

00:21:29.060 they've failed to deal with energy development, and we have to deal with these issues.

00:21:34.140 Yeah, and with the tariff thing, I mean, a lot of people have to understand

00:21:37.960 because they started the big Team Canada notion,

00:21:40.320 and everybody got on board.

00:21:41.260 Again, that's where they were unified.

00:21:42.760 And all of them, Polyev, and prior to that, Trudeau,

00:21:45.880 when he was there, were saying,

00:21:47.060 we are going to counter tariff, we're going to push back.

00:21:49.180 But most people, well, not everybody pays close attention to economics.

00:21:53.180 But it's not really a wise policy.

00:21:55.880 I still like bringing up the analogy of,

00:22:00.120 I'm brain farting on that which economist that was,

00:22:02.340 but he was talking about if you're all sitting in a boat

00:22:04.300 and somebody shoots a hole in it,

00:22:05.520 and then you counter by shooting another hole in it

00:22:07.380 to try and, you know, make you suffer equally until one gives up.

00:22:12.180 It's a game of chicken, but there's no winner.

00:22:13.820 You just keep losing.

00:22:15.400 Well, that's right.

00:22:16.360 And, you know, tariffs that are imposed here in Canada on American goods

00:22:19.980 are going to be paid for by Canadian consumers.

00:22:23.100 They're not being paid for by Americans.

00:22:25.500 It is possible that some people will decide not to buy these American products

00:22:29.720 and therefore that will hurt American companies.

00:22:32.400 But what's going to happen in large part is that consumers are just going to pay more in Canada

00:22:36.500 because those are the only options for a heck of a lot of goods and we're just going to have to pay

00:22:41.940 more and all of that money is going to go to the federal government because they're collecting the

00:22:46.080 tariffs and another question is going to be what are they doing with that money you know what are

00:22:51.240 the different parties going to do with this tariff money that they're planning to collect

00:22:54.960 of course the smartest approach would be diversifying our economy trading more with other

00:22:59.720 nations breaking down internal trade barriers you know there's a study the imf is showing that our

00:23:05.320 Internal trade barriers in Canada are, in effect, a 21% domestic tariff.

00:23:10.200 And if we were able to get rid of those, the positive economic impact of making sure we have genuine free trade within Canada would offset the negative economic impact of Trump's 25% tariffs on Canadian goods that he's somewhat implemented already.

00:23:27.440 There's some exemptions.

00:23:28.860 I'm planning to go further on April 2nd.

00:23:30.740 But absolutely, we should be talking about everything else we can do other than self-harm.

00:23:36.220 And as you said, just shooting the boat and just, you know, taking different shots and eventually everyone's going to sink.

00:23:44.660 Well, do you think the courts will realize the futility of maintaining these tariffs?

00:23:48.060 I mean, I remember a case that, you know, within provinces or trade barriers, I should say, between them anyways.

00:23:53.380 The case, the man in New Brunswick, I tried to bring some beer from Quebec and basically he was charged and convicted.

00:23:59.020 And even the judge said, well, yeah, technically by the law, you know, constitutionally we shouldn't do that.

00:24:03.240 But just for the sake of the public good, we're going to punish this man anyways.

00:24:07.020 Like, we've got to get realistic in this country then.

00:24:09.260 Do we have a constitution for, you know, streamlining trade between the provinces or not?

00:24:13.720 Well, we have an internal free trade deal in Canada.

00:24:16.300 The problem is there's about 400 different carve-outs.

00:24:19.320 And so we have legislation that's been tabled in Nova Scotia, which Premier Tim Houston has put forward,

00:24:25.180 which essentially says Nova Scotia is willing to take down all of its internal trade barriers with other provinces

00:24:32.180 if another province follows suit and passes the same legislation.

00:24:36.040 In other words, if Alberta or Ontario decides that they're going to pass that legislation,

00:24:41.080 all of these trade barriers will be taken down between those two provinces.

00:24:45.060 We should be looking at doing that, but we should be doing this at lightning speed.

00:24:48.460 Our politicians have known since December that Trump was looking at tariffs, that we were going to have a devastating impact on our economy, and they should have been preparing.

00:24:57.960 And our politicians have been twiddling thumbs for months, not really doing anything, talking a lot, flying around the country, talking tough.

00:25:06.900 Some premiers, you know, with different talking points than others, but they've just been talking and flying places.

00:25:13.060 And, you know, whether the Trump tariffs, no matter how much they bite, no matter how long they're in place for, there's stuff that we have to be taking care of at home and that we should be taking care of at home and that we haven't been doing and our politicians just aren't getting the job done.

00:25:28.460 Well, I'm going to say the two words that no federal government or federal politician will ever say.

00:25:33.580 Supply management.

00:25:35.240 It's one of the areas where, you know, Trump kind of just shoots at everything and he goes off about, you know, this trade deficit and calls it a subsidy, which is a load of baloney.

00:25:44.080 But he does have a point when it comes to Canada's dairy protectionism.

00:25:48.000 And the supply management harms us actually province to province, too, because the provincial dairy boards don't allow us to ship our own dairy products from province to province.

00:25:57.820 you know, I don't hold up much hope, but isn't this an opportunity at this next 38 days or so

00:26:03.100 when a government, you know, a contender for government could finally say maybe it's time

00:26:06.680 to move past this rotten system? It's absolutely time to move past this rotten system. You can look

00:26:12.780 at so many different statistics and so many different studies that are showing, for example,

00:26:16.820 milk in Canada is 20% more, costs 20% more than milk in the United States does. And there's every

00:26:24.540 reason that the americans are annoyed because they can't access our market we have all kinds

00:26:29.520 of tariffs and quotas that that suggests that the americans can't export things like milk and

00:26:35.820 and eggs and poultry products into canada unless it's within a certain quota and the percentage

00:26:42.140 that they can send it to canada is so small that it's essentially non-existent and you know

00:26:47.760 politicians they're this is a system that's a relic of the 1970s they're all saying they want

00:26:53.640 defend it because there's some special interests in a small part of Quebec that, you know, is

00:26:58.400 crucial for a few seats in certain regions of Quebec that really wants to keep this system in

00:27:02.800 place. But it's consumers that are the ones that are paying the price for not doing this, because

00:27:07.480 we are paying more for dairy, for eggs, for poultry, and we could be paying less. And also,

00:27:13.080 a country like New Zealand had a similar supply management system in place. It's about 30 years

00:27:17.980 ago they got rid of it they transitioned and their exports of of their dairy products their

00:27:23.700 poultry their eggs have increased 10 times what they were we are uncompetitive in the world and

00:27:30.160 there's a reason that we're not exporting our dairy or poultry and our eggs and that's because

00:27:34.640 prices are too high there's too much protectionism we've got to tear down those walls and as free

00:27:39.800 trade has shown we can compete with the best in the world but we just have to get our trade barriers

00:27:44.920 down we have to be competitive and the longer we keep the supply management in place the more the

00:27:50.620 higher the prices are going to be for consumers the more we're not going to be able to export to

00:27:55.080 other countries and the angrier the trump administration is going to be and in this case

00:27:59.320 very rightly so and the americans have been critical of our supply management through multiple

00:28:03.960 administrations all right well i'm going to pivot a bit and get a little more regional i i believe

00:28:09.400 you're in ontario are you not i am yes i just want to double check that before i start asking so i

00:28:14.280 mean, I'm familiar with the broader issues. I'm very familiar with Alberta issues. And we know

00:28:17.980 that Alberta's electoral landscape probably isn't going to change dramatically. In fact,

00:28:22.540 the two Liberal seats we have, very good chance they're just not going to be here. Those members

00:28:26.660 of Parliament didn't have a good term while they were in. So Ontario and Quebec, I mean,

00:28:31.740 particularly Ontario, though, is going to be the battleground. There's no getting around that.

00:28:35.500 What issues do you think are going to be the ones that they're going to try and move the needle with

00:28:39.640 over there it's really going to be a matter of leadership and who's going to lead us through the

00:28:44.760 challenge with the united states uh with the trump administration the tariff threat i think that is

00:28:50.440 going to be the number one issue it's interesting you see polls here in ontario and it's actually

00:28:54.720 showing that young people are still um you know more young people than not are still hanging with

00:29:00.400 the conservatives because there's so many issues that young people are concerned about particular

00:29:04.860 housing and lack of housing affordability. It's the older voters, the 55 plus, 65 plus that seem 0.95

00:29:11.120 to be flocking back to the Liberals. And a lot of that might just have to do with, they think

00:29:15.860 Carney's a steady hand. He's got a, you know, a significant resume, things like that. We'll see

00:29:21.200 what happens during the campaign. Obviously, Carney is untested on the campaign trail. He's

00:29:26.080 never been a politician before. The debates will be fascinating to see. But I think there's a lot

00:29:31.000 of people here in Ontario that were glad to see Trudeau go, glad to see the carbon tax go, glad to

00:29:36.960 see the capital gains hike cancelled. And the Liberals are essentially running against themselves

00:29:41.600 over the past 10 years. I mean, they're abandoning all the things that made them unpopular. This is

00:29:46.620 classic Liberal politics. You know, this is how the Liberal Party has thrived and survived for

00:29:52.320 over 100 years and have done well in Ontario in the past because of this. But I think absolutely

00:29:59.320 We are going to have a very interesting campaign.

00:30:02.020 The campaign is going to matter.

00:30:03.680 And I think that the polls right now are fickle because people look at Carney, think that

00:30:07.820 he's got the experience as the governor of the Bank of Canada, governor of the Bank of

00:30:11.200 England, and they think that maybe he's got the experience to lead us through this.

00:30:14.680 But they don't know Carney all that well.

00:30:17.280 Also, you know, some of the attack has maybe are hitting home against Pierre Paulyev here

00:30:21.680 in Ontario.

00:30:22.560 We shall see.

00:30:23.780 Another interesting factor is going to be where Doug Ford is in all of this.

00:30:26.900 You know, there are reports that did Polyev ask him for help?

00:30:29.920 People are denying that.

00:30:31.040 People are saying he did.

00:30:32.560 But Doug Ford will play a role.

00:30:34.060 He's flirting with both parties right now.

00:30:36.640 Yeah, Doug Ford's never been afraid to sit, you know, hand in hand with Trudeau at an announcement or with Polyev.

00:30:43.720 I guess you could say he's a pragmatist.

00:30:46.360 You know, there's people who love or hate Doug Ford, but he's just won another mandate.

00:30:50.220 So he's a factor in Ontario and he's got influence there.

00:30:53.120 I don't clearly just the way he behaves he won't be endorsing a particular candidate I think it's

00:30:59.060 really unlikely uh that he would overtly do so but he could pressure for things I I you know

00:31:05.280 elections always kind of come down to the same thing people are saying what's in it for me as

00:31:08.240 you said the younger people they're really concerned of cost of living I mean the chances

00:31:11.620 of being able to buy a house are just you know out of bounds uh so you think you know the economic

00:31:17.460 development promises the the work towards things that you know how we're going to make you more

00:31:22.860 money in your pocket? Maybe Polyev has more efficacy in that front? I really do think so,

00:31:30.320 because I think the younger generation, you know, we know 50% of Canadians are $200 away from not

00:31:35.380 being able to pay their bills. If this was just an election about affordability, which it really

00:31:40.240 was before, I think Polyev would be walking away with it. But the question is becoming now,

00:31:45.780 how do we deal with the United States? And I think that people are just saying,

00:31:48.820 does Carney have the resume? I frankly think that just because he was the governor of the

00:31:54.500 Bank of Canada doesn't give him experience to deal with, you know, the American president

00:31:58.780 necessarily. That's my personal opinion. But we shall see. But I think affordability is a big

00:32:04.640 thing. Doug Ford ran on it. He's run on it multiple times. Affordability, making the gas

00:32:09.820 tax cut permanent, which was part of the last election campaign. So I think affordability is

00:32:14.860 going to be key and so we'll see what happens when the parties unveil both of them the liberals and

00:32:20.100 the conservatives have both talked about income tax cuts you know polyevs talk about this bring

00:32:24.520 it home tax cut and we'll see what that's going to look like we've heard them unveil their plan

00:32:29.200 on housing taxes and getting the hst off of certain homes new homes being built under a million

00:32:35.380 dollars but we're i think a lot will matter particularly what kind of taxes they're going

00:32:40.960 to talk about cutting on individuals because people are so squeezed and because they have so

00:32:45.840 little room in their budgets and people are just having such a tough time making ends meet but it

00:32:51.500 really is the younger generations that are having the harder time making ends meet and i think that's

00:32:56.320 why they're still sticking with the conservatives and you see it's these older boomers who own their 1.00

00:33:00.260 homes that are you know flirting with the liberals that are willing to say maybe we should go this

00:33:05.380 way to deal with trump but if you're hard pressed and you need the cash i think the conservatives

00:33:10.100 they're going to be your party yeah well i mean they've got their their work cut out from i mean

00:33:16.240 i'm thinking with the support numbers too i mean they've changed so quickly and so dramatically it

00:33:19.820 also means that they aren't necessarily entrenched though i mean if they were that fluid to go

00:33:23.760 up for one party or down for another they can bounce pretty quickly as well i mean this wasn't

00:33:27.740 something that built slowly over months this is just a matter of more like eight weeks

00:33:31.540 it's been incredibly sudden if you look at a map of projections of ontario uh you know two months

00:33:38.920 ago, it was looking like Pierre Polioff's Conservatives would win more seats than Doug

00:33:43.160 Ford's Progressive Conservatives provincially. And Doug Ford just won a super majority, a very

00:33:48.380 strong majority. So even if the Conservatives could just win the seats that Doug Ford won,

00:33:53.780 they would be well on their way to government. It's a lot of these seats. Ontario has a long

00:33:59.500 and strange tradition, actually, of voting for one party provincially and the other party

00:34:04.380 federally. This has been the case since the 1950s that we've had when the progressive conservatives

00:34:10.180 are in provincially, Ontarians are often voting for the Liberals federally, and the reverse has

00:34:15.140 been true. So it will be interesting to see if that holds again, if they're going to split between

00:34:19.580 Doug Ford and Mark Carney, or if Pierre Pauly can convince them to come back. Because as of two

00:34:25.000 months ago, it really looked like Pierre Pauly was going to do quite well here in Ontario, and now

00:34:31.020 it's looking like things are starting to swing back in the other direction again.

00:34:34.880 So just finally, I guess, something that was unusual.

00:34:38.820 I mean, looking at the international scene,

00:34:40.120 I suspect the candidates are probably going to want to stay out.

00:34:42.280 We've got a couple of hot buttons going on, of course,

00:34:44.160 the situation in Israel.

00:34:45.880 We've got what's going on in Ukraine.

00:34:49.080 And they could just, you know, there's no win, it seems,

00:34:51.020 when the Canadian politicians kind of jump into that.

00:34:53.480 But it was interesting with Carney going to Europe

00:34:55.500 as his first visit upon becoming prime minister,

00:34:57.540 and even some of the hints that maybe Canada could be looking at joining the EU.

00:35:02.160 Do you think that might pop up throughout this?

00:35:04.200 I mean, it shows a pragmatic approach of a new trade deal and getting away from the United States, following that theme of distancing from the Trump administration.

00:35:12.000 I mean, I definitely think, look, we signed a free trade agreement with Europe 10 years ago under the Harper government, and it's still not fully implemented.

00:35:19.720 So the federal government has really dropped the ball on that.

00:35:21.980 We've got to get going because we should be trading more with Europe.

00:35:25.300 So if the leaders want to talk about it and if Mark Carney wants to talk about trading more with Europe and things like that, you know, I think that's a good thing.

00:35:33.200 But I don't envision us joining the European Union going forward.

00:35:37.040 I don't know if they're going to want a North American country trying to join the European Union.

00:35:41.360 I think, you know, Canadians want their independence.

00:35:43.720 They want, you know, Canada to be its own country, not the 51st state, not a member of Europe.

00:35:49.400 That's my sense.

00:35:50.880 But we'll see as the election goes on.

00:35:53.200 Yeah, I don't think it would be politically wise to dive in.

00:35:55.860 I mean, when it's been a few weeks or a couple of months of Team Canada and flag waving and a new sort of patriotism,

00:36:01.160 why suddenly annoy everybody and say, oh, by the way, we don't want to be Canadian, we want to be

00:36:05.720 European. But times have been so strange, nothing will surprise me anymore.

00:36:11.160 I guess, you know, it's just before I let

00:36:13.860 you go then, I appreciate you coming on to talk to us and give that perspective, particularly for Central

00:36:17.620 Canada, because, you know, we're out here west, we watch things, but where can people

00:36:21.800 find more information on, you know, I know you've written some columns, I believe, for The Standard, and

00:36:25.500 you do work with the Consumer Choice Centre. Where can people find your work, Jay?

00:36:30.660 Yeah, definitely.

00:36:32.040 You can find me in the Western Standard, the Toronto Sun,

00:36:35.400 the Winnipeg Sun often, and consumerchoicecentre.org

00:36:39.340 is another place to check out.

00:36:41.460 Great.

00:36:41.960 Well, again, thank you for coming on to talk to us.

00:36:44.760 You know, we'll keep watching as this election unfolds and develops.

00:36:47.980 I hope we get to talk again sometime soon.

00:36:50.240 Thank you.

00:36:50.800 That'd be great.

00:36:51.920 Great.

00:36:52.180 Thanks.

00:36:53.220 So one more time, guys.

00:36:54.240 Yeah, that was Jay Goldberg.

00:36:55.400 You can just Google his name.

00:36:56.240 You'll find it.

00:36:56.700 He's prolific.

00:36:57.380 Lots of stuff.

00:36:57.980 Lots of good common sense, as you can hear from a Canadian affairs manager at the Consumer Choice Centre.

00:37:04.760 And I don't know, it's hard to read too much into this election, I guess, as it's already starting.

00:37:09.520 I mean, we know where it's sitting, but over the course of 40 days, which is an eternity in politics,

00:37:13.620 a lot of things can change pretty dramatically as the campaigns unfold and move along.

00:37:18.700 Let's have a look at a couple of the comments.

00:37:22.540 You know, an interesting one from Jason Schwab, which is true.

00:37:24.920 So, I mean, Carney's been assuming a lot of policies from Polyev.

00:37:29.500 I mean, he's been a chameleon.

00:37:30.520 He's just saying, I'll just take it and make it our own.

00:37:33.420 And it seems some people are buying that.

00:37:34.820 He said Carney only has a hold.

00:37:36.280 And as he said, I think that's why Jason bolded that hold on consumer carbon taxes.

00:37:41.420 Plus, yes, tariffs are going to hit on April 2nd more of them.

00:37:45.300 And he says it's time to drain the liberal swamp.

00:37:46.940 But what he is saying basically is we're going to take it in the wallet soon.

00:37:50.460 And Carney, he's got to be questioned more on this carbon tax thing, because it seems like he defused the carbon tax campaign from Polyev.

00:37:58.520 But if he just transfers that and increases the taxes on companies, guys, you're still going to end up paying it.

00:38:04.580 It's just going to come down through your bills at the gas pump, on your other bills.

00:38:09.040 Anything made energy brings up the cost of everything.

00:38:12.420 It's an essential resource.

00:38:14.600 So maybe Carney will be, you know, pressured more on that and expand on that.

00:38:18.380 As I said, the capital gains tax, people have been pressuring him on what are your financial interests?

00:38:23.860 What are your assets?

00:38:24.660 What are you hiding, Carney?

00:38:26.100 Mistrust can change things pretty darn fast.

00:38:28.700 So far, he seems to be getting away with it, but we'll see how that goes as things move along.

00:38:34.420 Susanna talking about the milk and egg barons.

00:38:38.260 Yeah, and it's Quebec votes.

00:38:39.660 That's part of why supply management terrifies them.

00:38:43.260 It really does.

00:38:44.000 They don't want to touch it.

00:38:44.960 But just think, the best way to point out on how much supply management puts onto the

00:38:51.640 costs of dairy products in Canada, if you Google it and look up a story from a few years

00:38:55.700 ago, it seems like it'd be something that was written from The Onion or something like

00:38:59.940 that.

00:39:00.480 There was actually a cheese smuggling ring in, I believe it was Quebec and Ontario,

00:39:05.980 and it was organized crime.

00:39:08.540 The mafia were running it.

00:39:09.780 They were smuggling large volumes of cheese from the American border to the Canadian side

00:39:14.020 Because Canada's processed and other cheeses are so bloody expensive because of our supply management that it actually spawned a smuggling industry.

00:39:23.640 And I know this from owning a pub and one of our main sellers was pizza.

00:39:27.220 It was a big thing for us.

00:39:28.400 We sold lots and lots of pizza out of our place.

00:39:30.620 My cheese bill every month for mozzarella was getting up into the $15,000 range.

00:39:35.380 And if somebody approached and said, you know, I can sell you the exact same cheese for $12,000,

00:39:40.720 I tell you, you're in a narrow margin business when you're in a restaurant and pub business.

00:39:45.180 And if I could get similar cheese for a few thousand less, I don't know, I might be pretty tempted to go for it.

00:39:50.660 But it shows how anything can become a commodity to be smuggled if the government messes with the markets badly enough.

00:39:58.040 Victoria Harrop saying, what about China's tariffs?

00:39:59.960 Yes, absolutely.

00:40:00.840 And I'm going to talk to our next guest about that when we bring him on, because we're going to talk about electric vehicles.

00:40:05.960 Because that's part of it.

00:40:07.060 Our farmers, our fishers, and other industries now are about to take a beating

00:40:12.500 because of Chinese counter-tariffs.

00:40:15.240 We get on this high horse, oh, Trump threw these tariffs on us for no reason,

00:40:18.920 and that's true, and he made an attack on Canada, and that's true.

00:40:22.340 But people are a little more subdued, realizing, well, we started it

00:40:24.980 when we put the tariff with China anyways, with them, of 100% on Chinese EVs.

00:40:31.380 And I've seen some other people try to defend that and say,

00:40:33.240 well, that was a deal that Canada did both with the United States and Canada

00:40:36.080 to block those chinese evs well okay i gotta didn't the latest news say that the deals between 0.99

00:40:41.560 the united states and canada on trade don't really hold much water anymore do they so i i wouldn't

00:40:46.340 worry about that uh maybe it's something else we can negotiate on but the reality is too is there's

00:40:53.100 no domestic market they put that uh tariff on chinese electric vehicles to protect canadian

00:41:01.120 electric vehicles but we don't make any like we got these battery factories that are going under

00:41:06.040 all over the place we got we got all these subsidies trudeau's throwing all over ford

00:41:09.740 was supposed to be making electric trucks they backed off on that we're protecting a market that

00:41:14.040 doesn't exist but so we've pissed off china over that and there wasn't a bunch of evs coming in 0.99

00:41:20.880 anyways but it's basically on principle it's ticked them off now and uh in the meantime again

00:41:26.180 Now they've thrown a pile of counter tariffs on things like canola, lentils, a bunch of oil seeds and things like that that are very essential.

00:41:35.060 They were one of our biggest purchasers overseas.

00:41:39.520 And now the farmers are going to have a lower market, which just like we need more economic pressure.

00:41:45.960 But again, you know what?

00:41:46.600 It doesn't turn into a federal issue because guess where the people getting harmed with this are?

00:41:51.160 Well, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta.

00:41:54.140 There's one of the things, and I don't want to see it change,

00:41:56.580 but we don't do ourselves favors with in elections federally.

00:41:59.980 The worst thing you can be as a voter is predictable.

00:42:04.780 Because if they know how your area is going to vote,

00:42:09.260 you won't get the proper attention from the politicians when election time comes.

00:42:13.360 In Alberta, you know, Albertan rural seats, they could run a marmot

00:42:17.580 and it's going to get elected under a conservative banner.

00:42:21.880 So the Conservatives actually don't have that much motivation

00:42:25.200 to pay a lot of attention to those Alberta seats

00:42:27.680 because they've got to direct the resources to Vancouver and Quebec and Ontario.

00:42:32.800 The Liberals, there's nothing they could do to win a seat here.

00:42:35.940 So same thing, they don't really care what those Albertans think in those seats either.

00:42:40.100 Now, I'm not saying Albertans should suddenly get up and vote Liberal or change things.

00:42:43.200 It's just the nature of it.

00:42:44.820 But it doesn't help us.

00:42:46.140 When you're predictable, it doesn't help.

00:42:47.400 I tell you what, Vancouver, lower mainland is going to get a lot of attention.

00:42:50.100 I've always admired that with Vancouver.

00:42:52.040 What a crazy city that is.

00:42:53.960 You look at the electoral boundaries in that city and the lines,

00:42:57.240 and they're all close together because they're such a tightly based,

00:42:59.160 large population, and you will have a hardcore conservative sitting in a seat

00:43:03.720 right next to a liberal, right next to an NDP member, and they will flip.

00:43:07.980 It's not just that this seat was always conservative.

00:43:09.860 No, this seat changed from being a liberal the last time around.

00:43:12.280 I tell you what, they exercise their democracy, and it pays off for them.

00:43:17.800 It pays off for them.

00:43:19.380 So let's look at the polls then quickly.

00:43:21.800 Let's go through some of these.

00:43:22.860 And I know one of the comments was saying how many people were polled, 1,000.

00:43:26.540 I know that the numbers aren't high, but they're consistent.

00:43:31.980 It's leveling out.

00:43:33.140 We were first calling them outliers, but we just can't do it anymore.

00:43:36.060 Every pollster is reporting kind of the same thing.

00:43:38.900 There's a little bit of difference between the others.

00:43:40.500 But again, that can change a lot over the next 40 days.

00:43:42.460 So I'll start with the one that used to be the most favorable for conservatives.

00:43:46.700 And I guess it still is, and that's Abacus.

00:43:48.800 and their numbers with committed vote intention have got the Liberals coming up to 34%

00:43:55.120 and the Conservatives down to 38%.

00:43:58.980 And so you can see those lines, those colored lines,

00:44:01.420 you can see the Conservatives did do a good drop there, whether you like that or not.

00:44:04.400 I was saying it's mostly an NDP collapse,

00:44:06.040 but no, the Conservatives are taking a pretty good tumble too.

00:44:08.860 And the NDP kind of, it looks like they've dropped maybe as low as they're gonna,

00:44:12.200 as far as abacus is concerned.

00:44:13.580 We'll see, there's always time to screw up further.

00:44:15.640 and then, you know, the green and the block down below sitting where they will.

00:44:22.060 It's hard to measure the block, of course, being as regional as they are.

00:44:25.180 And I know I haven't mentioned the People's Party of Canada.

00:44:27.720 You know, I don't mind Bernier.

00:44:30.740 You know, he's been on the show before.

00:44:32.460 He's pushed his things.

00:44:33.320 But they're just, as far as I'm concerned at this point, a spent force.

00:44:36.500 They're there for the heavily discontent or people who want to make a stance on things.

00:44:41.880 And, you know, that's okay.

00:44:42.900 Hey, I ran for the Libertarian Party years ago.

00:44:45.140 I knew that unless there was a car crash that killed every other candidate,

00:44:49.500 there was no way I was going to win that race in southern Alberta.

00:44:52.700 I just wanted to get out, and supply management was one of my points,

00:44:55.700 but, you know, it gives you a platform to get out and do some of those things and cover them.

00:45:00.040 So, Poliev, I mean, Poliev, Bernier is there.

00:45:04.020 He's filling a role, and there's some good, genuine people running for them,

00:45:06.700 but I just don't think they're going to have much of an impact in this election.

00:45:11.160 So, further on the polls, we've got the CBC poll tracker.

00:45:15.540 So this is from our state broadcaster, but it's kind of an aggregator.

00:45:20.260 It's pulling all the poles together and kind of coming up with their difference. 1.00

00:45:22.980 There's that other site online that does that as well, but I want to look at the CBC one.

00:45:27.580 So it's got them right neck and neck.

00:45:29.360 You know, Kearney, 37.7, Polyav, 37.4, Jagmeet all the way down to 11.5.

00:45:36.340 And again, the block, and there's the People's Party down at 2.1%.

00:45:39.400 At least they're covered in this.

00:45:40.860 And the Greens at 3.5.

00:45:42.480 We see that difference too.

00:45:43.880 the Greens have got very concentrated support.

00:45:46.240 You know, a couple of spots off the mainland of BC

00:45:49.580 and a couple of spots in Ontario.

00:45:51.940 So even though they're 3.5%, they'll win a seat or two, maybe three,

00:45:55.380 but they can win seats.

00:45:56.880 The People's Party has no seat where they have that sort of concentrated support.

00:46:00.580 There's just nowhere where they're going to be able to leap forward

00:46:02.360 and get that toehold in there.

00:46:03.780 Likewise with the Bloc, they're only 6.5% across Canada,

00:46:06.860 but within Quebec itself, of course, they're very solid,

00:46:09.800 and, you know, they're going to be a factor going into it.

00:46:13.620 They have to be watched.

00:46:14.580 You can't dismiss their impact on these things.

00:46:17.980 Further, let's see, Ipsos getting similar.

00:46:22.460 Now they're talking about a Liberal lead with a 6% lead going on.

00:46:26.900 Again, People's Party 3%, Green 2%, some other party 2%.

00:46:31.500 I'm not sure how many others are out there these days.

00:46:33.460 And 10% for the NDP.

00:46:36.120 Again, that shows more of that NDP dropping to the benefit of the Liberals,

00:46:41.660 which there's not much to be done about that.

00:46:44.160 I mean, is Jagmeet Singh suddenly going to start endearing himself to Canadians?

00:46:47.820 I don't know.

00:46:48.580 I don't see it happening anytime soon.

00:46:50.500 And finally, we've got Nanos.

00:46:51.860 And the reason I'm putting them all, too, is just to, you know, again,

00:46:54.340 we can dismiss ecos, we can dismiss what seem to be outliers,

00:46:58.360 but when you've got four, five, six pollsters all starting to show the same

00:47:03.160 dramatic shift. You just can't ignore it. But as I said, if you know, you can see on this one,

00:47:11.500 look how sharp those lines are. I mean, that's insane. You almost never see a poll like that.

00:47:16.780 But if it can go up that quickly, it can go down. What it also is telling us is that electorate is

00:47:22.300 volatile. I mean, they are crabby. They're ready for change. Potentially, they're just not sure

00:47:27.700 where they're going to settle. So this election campaign is going to be very important to see

00:47:31.720 how and if and when it changes anything that's going on out there uh tyler uh volstead saying

00:47:39.620 pbc would do better if max got out he's the one holding him back i i don't know yeah it's it's

00:47:44.440 mixed you know i i know bernier uh i mean people are critical he spends a lot of time in florida

00:47:50.800 hey if i could afford to i would as well uh but the party doesn't have a really well organized

00:47:56.100 ground game it's kind of chicken and egg right you know it's hard to get that uh mass thing i

00:48:00.420 I mean, people say also, well, you know, Bernier doesn't get coverage where other parties wouldn't.

00:48:04.860 And that's true, too.

00:48:05.600 It's hard.

00:48:06.420 We try to cover as much as we can, even in independent media.

00:48:11.400 But in reality, unless there's a good chance they're going to win at least one seat, we just can only dedicate so much time towards it.

00:48:17.980 And those parties are important.

00:48:19.820 They are the ones that, again, they can change fast, particularly provincially.

00:48:24.200 I mean, the Wild Rose Party I was very involved with, we went from 4% to official opposition, to collapsing, to merging, to forming the UPC.

00:48:32.140 But UCP, those seeds of that little party, though, when it was 4%, I mean, people dismissed them, but it turned into something.

00:48:38.520 Will the PPC, though? I'm not seeing it so far, but we'll see.

00:48:43.260 I mean, Reform Party, for those of us old enough to remember, sprouted out of nowhere, it seemed, in the 80s.

00:48:50.040 And it really made an impact on the scene under Preston Manning.

00:48:54.060 And that, we're going to see some interesting stuff happening.

00:48:58.260 I mean, I'm going to go ahead on things a little bit and talk about what will happen if the Liberals win.

00:49:05.140 And I've been putting that on X, you know, and people have also been pointing that out.

00:49:10.880 The regionalism, the explosion of discontent we're going to get, particularly in the West, is going to be something else.

00:49:19.560 It really has.

00:49:20.420 I mean, Alberta, Saskatchewan, we have been abused by the Trudeau regime for almost 10 years.

00:49:27.680 We finally saw what we thought was going to be some relief, maybe just one or two terms of it,

00:49:33.360 but a conservative government that would come in and not attack us with emissions caps,

00:49:37.100 then not shut down our pipelines and not talk about, you know, universal basic income programs

00:49:42.500 and not stunt our industries.

00:49:45.540 and suddenly it's turning around all the liberals had to do was cut the head off the snake and put

00:49:52.240 a new head on there and suddenly eastern canada say you know what we we might put them back i tell

00:49:57.420 you what you're you're gonna see and i mean this is an area i've got a lot of experience and i can

00:50:02.660 assure you you're gonna see a conflagration of western alienation like one that's never been

00:50:08.240 seen before provincially we're seeing that dave mentioned it with daniel smith she put out she

00:50:13.580 She had a meeting with Carney, which, you know, is a courtesy.

00:50:17.920 You're a prime minister, even for a short time before the election.

00:50:20.280 Meet with the premier, sit down.

00:50:21.940 They walked away from their meetings, and then Smith came out swinging,

00:50:25.120 saying she's offered a big, long list of demands,

00:50:27.660 things she expects of him if he's going to remain prime minister,

00:50:31.120 dropping, you know, the pipeline, killing, what was it, C-69?

00:50:36.220 Oh, there's so many bills.

00:50:37.660 Of course, dropping the emission cap, keeping the carbon taxes lower,

00:50:41.060 getting the bloody pipelines done.

00:50:42.600 but she's also smart she always has but she's positioning herself carefully because if the 1.00

00:50:49.940 liberals win there will be a resurgence of western separatism there's no doubt about it

00:50:55.320 and that's going to go somewhere that's when those parties that sit on the fringe like i

00:51:00.520 talked about if you got wild rose before they used to be four percent people dismiss them well

00:51:03.620 that wild rose grew to be enough that it destroyed the progressive conservatives that had been in

00:51:08.720 power since 1971 it happens fast and it could happen here there's a lot of discontent smith

00:51:15.960 has been having a hard time as a premier uh you know she's trying to do the right things i think

00:51:21.880 but she's struggling she tried health care reform it's blown up she hasn't cut spending so uh fiscal

00:51:26.920 conservatives like myself and others are on her case like come on you know what kind of budget

00:51:30.920 is this you're running deficits and if you get an independence-minded party coming up on your flank

00:51:38.080 and then we go to a provincial election,

00:51:41.040 you could be starting to look at some vote splits

00:51:43.900 and the NDP getting back in.

00:51:45.280 Or you could be looking at getting replaced.

00:51:47.160 Albertans are going to be pissed.

00:51:49.280 In the 80s with the National Energy Program

00:51:51.040 and the other Turdow,

00:51:52.860 and with the fury out here,

00:51:54.420 the Western Canada concept,

00:51:55.880 I'll give a little electoral history going on.

00:51:58.480 Western Canada concept

00:51:59.840 won a seat in Olds Didsbury Three Hills.

00:52:02.940 That was Gord Kessler.

00:52:04.560 He didn't stay there very long.

00:52:05.580 I think he crossed the floor and it kind of fell apart.

00:52:06.980 But, I mean, that was a seat won by an overtly separatist person in Alberta.

00:52:10.600 And that sentiment was seething and boiling in Alberta in the late 80s.

00:52:15.580 And the only thing that took that pressure off of the cooker was Preston Manning with the Reform Party.

00:52:20.280 They had their meeting in Vancouver.

00:52:21.400 They formed that, and everybody put their hopes in saying, okay, this Reform Party can fix things.

00:52:26.420 And then we went through that long cycle with Chrétien and so on, and Reform turned into the Canadian Alliance and folded in, and now we're back to the Conservatives.

00:52:31.820 We just keep going in circles, don't we?

00:52:34.200 But there's a lot of people starting to remember some of those circles.

00:52:36.060 And they're going to go independence-minded, and they're going to stay there.

00:52:40.060 And, you know, how do you approach the East on that, though?

00:52:43.900 I mean, I can understand if I were an Ontario voter and some Albertan saying,

00:52:47.420 you better vote this way or we're out, well, I'd be like, who the hell are you to tell me how to vote?

00:52:51.580 You know, you're going to dig your heels in.

00:52:54.900 So all I can do is hope this campaign goes, you know, as well as it can.

00:53:01.040 But I can assure you there's going to be some unity issues going on in Canada,

00:53:05.060 And as well, we've got the Bloc is strong in Quebec right now.

00:53:10.120 The Parti Quebecois is strong in Quebec right now.

00:53:12.480 There's a very good chance they're going to form the next provincial government.

00:53:15.220 They've vowed to hold another referendum in Quebec.

00:53:17.820 Don't dismiss Quebec separatists.

00:53:20.900 Never dismiss them.

00:53:21.920 Never underestimate them.

00:53:23.320 That happened in the 90s.

00:53:25.260 And people seem to forget.

00:53:26.100 It was only 1%, you guys.

00:53:28.680 1%.

00:53:29.160 And they've been working their butts off since then.

00:53:32.120 They've been working their butts off for close to 30 years.

00:53:35.060 to make what they want to call the winning conditions.

00:53:38.680 That's what it's all been about.

00:53:40.160 That's why Quebec wanted to control its immigration.

00:53:42.460 That's why Quebec harasses everybody who doesn't speak French, 1.00

00:53:45.720 immigrants and born Canadians alike.

00:53:47.640 They're driving them out.

00:53:49.200 They're building their separatist bloc.

00:53:51.640 They're building the environment they felt and feel

00:53:54.640 will be the one to win another referendum.

00:53:57.840 So let's say the bloc is very strong after this election.

00:54:00.860 They're going to be. It looks that way.

00:54:02.740 And let's say the PQ gets in provincially,

00:54:04.460 and they do call a referendum,

00:54:06.300 Canada's really going to be on some shaky, shaky ground.

00:54:11.680 Meanwhile, Alberta's going to be jumping up and down. 1.00

00:54:13.460 We're in a lot of dangerous territory.

00:54:18.600 Commander Mavro saying the collapsing economy

00:54:20.940 is a force that should have forced central Canada

00:54:22.340 towards conservative federally.

00:54:23.540 You would think, right?

00:54:25.020 One of the best graphics out there

00:54:28.420 is shared by Sylvain Charlebois online,

00:54:31.460 the food professor,

00:54:32.720 and he got a lot of people upset.

00:54:34.460 But a big measure of our wealth is the GDP per capita, right?

00:54:38.860 That's our chunk of the money.

00:54:40.300 That's our chunk of the economy.

00:54:42.400 And Canada's is terrible.

00:54:44.640 It's horrific. 0.91

00:54:45.240 Our history is awful.

00:54:47.300 And people should be looking at that.

00:54:49.260 This is, so the USA, this is growth from 2015 to 2024.

00:54:54.680 The USA's GDP per capita growth was 18%.

00:54:57.800 So our neighbor rate to the south.

00:54:59.500 Canada's was 1.4%.

00:55:02.540 Almost 10 years.

00:55:04.460 1.4% growth in the GDP per capita.

00:55:09.100 That should scare people.

00:55:10.340 Unfortunately, it's a little too geeky.

00:55:11.720 It's a little too abstract, I think.

00:55:15.920 Voters don't embrace that.

00:55:16.900 They don't understand it.

00:55:18.420 I think people need to travel a little more to understand it.

00:55:20.560 Cross that border, drive to the states. 0.95

00:55:22.200 And when you realize that our dollar isn't worth crap,

00:55:25.400 but the American products down there are about the same price, 0.87

00:55:29.240 when you look at the dollar amount,

00:55:30.780 you're taking a beating when you buy things down there.

00:55:32.760 yet the Americans are buying consumer products and doing just fine

00:55:35.420 because they've kept their economy strong.

00:55:38.380 Us, on the other hand, we're up the creek.

00:55:40.820 We're in serious, serious trouble with this.

00:55:43.740 And it's getting worse. We should be frightened.

00:55:46.040 But, you know, this was all under the guidance of nine years of liberals.

00:55:50.560 And who was advising Trudeau on his economic policies?

00:55:54.320 Mark Carney. It's the same guy.

00:55:57.520 So, yeah, we are in some serious soup.

00:56:00.740 And then nobody quite anticipated the Trump factor.

00:56:03.880 So he's there, and there's no getting rid of him,

00:56:06.360 and it's going to be a volatile factor throughout.

00:56:10.220 So I'm not sure.

00:56:10.960 My guest seems to be absent.

00:56:12.680 We'll see if he makes it or not.

00:56:13.920 So what I wanted to talk a little bit about, though,

00:56:15.560 was, again, electric vehicles,

00:56:17.420 because it's getting back to that subsidy with China and so on.

00:56:21.960 And another factor that came in with EVs is this Tesla vandalism.

00:56:26.660 That's been making the stories.

00:56:27.680 People are really going nuts.

00:56:29.000 It's just been such a bizarre time.

00:56:31.900 The Teslas, the EVs, they were the leaders, of course, of the electric vehicle market under Musk.

00:56:36.220 They were the ones making, if you go on the streets, most EVs, I believe in Canada, it's about 24% market share.

00:56:41.500 Which, you know, sounds small, it's only a quarter, but yeah, the rest is diluted amongst a bunch of other brands.

00:56:46.840 So you've got one brand eating up 24% of it.

00:56:48.980 And most of them were actually progressives who bought those things.

00:56:51.420 You know, they were the green people, they were the emissions concerned people. 0.77

00:56:55.200 And now, all of a sudden, they're the devil.

00:56:57.240 You're not supposed to have an EV.

00:56:59.000 and they're getting vandalized.

00:57:00.640 People are lighting them on fire.

00:57:02.720 They've been attacking dealerships.

00:57:05.140 Like, what's the matter with you?

00:57:07.400 You know, you can get upset with things.

00:57:09.280 I understand if you're that upset, not buying one, saying,

00:57:12.000 I'm not going to buy an EV, but going out and keying your neighbor's EV

00:57:16.200 or going to a dealership and lighting them on fire?

00:57:19.560 What's the matter with you people?

00:57:20.720 It's insane, and it's happening in the States as well.

00:57:24.340 You know, get over it.

00:57:26.300 I mean, is that the best we've got for patriotism?

00:57:28.460 I mean, we got the big buy Canadian.

00:57:29.960 I think some people should be looking at things

00:57:31.300 and understanding then as they try to buy Canadian.

00:57:34.000 If you look at those labels, it's about time we did

00:57:35.980 because you'll find that a whole lot

00:57:37.800 of your finished products weren't Canadian,

00:57:40.300 but they weren't American either.

00:57:42.020 They're Chinese.

00:57:43.960 And that's fine because that's what keeps

00:57:46.220 your cost of living low.

00:57:47.260 Like trade is a complicated issue.

00:57:49.860 I mean, people say, well, we should just tell China

00:57:51.300 to get stuffed.

00:57:51.920 Okay, how much more are you willing to pay for everything?

00:57:55.100 Everything.

00:57:56.440 Every electronic you got.

00:57:57.780 the cheap toothbrush you got, the air freshener you hang in your house.

00:58:01.960 Practically everything has come from or through China these days.

00:58:06.220 We should be weaning ourself a little from that.

00:58:08.600 I mean, we're showing what's going on with being too dependent,

00:58:11.560 having a customer, you know, that it's all one customer down south of the border.

00:58:15.520 That's hurt us.

00:58:16.580 But us having one supplier for almost all of our consumer goods, that's dangerous too.

00:58:20.780 And China's that supplier.

00:58:22.180 We should be broadening our buying market.

00:58:24.160 But we can't be knee-jerked, too, and just saying, oh, well, we'll just ban Chinese goods or tax them or tariff them. 0.98

00:58:29.820 That's just going to hurt us.

00:58:30.940 That's just going to make everything else cost more money.

00:58:33.900 And these sorts of discussions, unfortunately, won't happen during the election.

00:58:37.440 What we see during the election are gimmicky things.

00:58:39.580 We see Mark Carney moving around on skates, you know, pretending to be a goalie.

00:58:46.480 Hopefully we get some substance.

00:58:49.780 Here's another interesting thing.

00:58:50.980 Speaking of bad management, provincially and federally.

00:58:53.980 Alberta, so Canada's most energy-rich region,

00:58:57.420 and we've got the fastest rise in energy poverty.

00:59:00.760 Figure that out.

00:59:01.400 That's from the Fraser Institute.

00:59:02.840 We pay some of the highest bills for energy in Alberta.

00:59:06.040 We've got massive natural gas, massive coal, massive oil sands.

00:59:12.160 We've got wind projects in the south.

00:59:14.060 We've got solar, yet we are still short of energy up here.

00:59:17.640 What are we doing wrong?

00:59:18.600 And we're doing something wrong.

00:59:20.040 Again, a lot of it comes to regulation.

00:59:22.120 Get out of the way. 0.53

00:59:23.060 Let us do it.

00:59:24.020 I mean, they're talking about building nuclear plants in northern Alberta.

00:59:27.780 Every few years you hear about that.

00:59:29.460 But then the NIMBYs go nuts, they go bananas, and the plant application gets shut down. 1.00

00:59:33.880 We used to have a lot more natural gas development for our generation stations,

00:59:38.460 but now the money's getting pumped into these ridiculous solar projects,

00:59:41.360 which are nice and pretty, but, you know, when the sun doesn't shine, they don't work.

00:59:46.680 When they get covered in snow, they don't work.

00:59:49.160 And even when they are working, they only generate a tiny percentage.

00:59:52.000 So how is it Alberta can't get that straight? 1.00

00:59:55.020 But that's part of when you get into economics, politics, and long-game planning, right?

00:59:59.160 We're kind of still seeing the hangover in Alberta from the NDP government of the past.

01:00:05.520 So we've got bad policies, bad economics going on, and it's stunted our own energy development.

01:00:12.840 So lots of ranting and raving.

01:00:15.260 When we get to the bottom of it all, we've talked with the independence-minded people.

01:00:21.080 I'm one of those.

01:00:21.780 I wrote the Sovereignty's Handbook.

01:00:23.880 One of the chapters, one of the talks about, though,

01:00:25.920 if you really want that movement to go,

01:00:28.700 whether you're one of those America 51sters,

01:00:30.340 you want Alberta independence, you want Western independence,

01:00:32.560 or you just want to see more asserting of it,

01:00:34.500 you've got to fix your own game first.

01:00:36.900 You've got to do better.

01:00:38.900 So your provincial government should be balancing its budget.

01:00:43.580 Your provincial government should be having good energy balance going on in there.

01:00:47.540 Your provincial government should be managed efficiently.

01:00:50.280 Because how are you supposed to sit up there and say,

01:00:51.580 we would be better if we broke away from that

01:00:53.760 when our budgeting isn't a heck of a lot better

01:00:55.480 than what we're complaining about.

01:00:58.340 There's some hypocrisy.

01:01:00.100 Fix one thing at a time.

01:01:01.900 So, yeah, you know, I pretty much kind of wrapped

01:01:05.680 where I'm sitting for today.

01:01:06.920 By the next show on Wednesday,

01:01:08.880 of course, we expect there's going to be an election call.

01:01:10.840 It'll be called this Sunday, most likely,

01:01:12.880 and we'll be off to the races.

01:01:14.060 So we'll be covering a whole lot of stuff on Wednesday

01:01:15.880 and next Friday too, of course,

01:01:17.480 and the pipeline coming up.

01:01:18.920 I think if anything, just to leave on a bit of an up note,

01:01:21.580 They're going to keep picking at Kearney for his assets.

01:01:24.980 What's going on?

01:01:25.840 Why are you hiding it?

01:01:26.820 Why won't you disclose it?

01:01:27.820 If you get 30 days of that, people might start re-evaluating that support.

01:01:31.640 The curve of support, like I was talking about, might start to come down.

01:01:34.500 We'll see.

01:01:35.100 I mean, this race hasn't even, we're just walking up to the starting gate.

01:01:38.200 It hasn't gotten rolling yet.

01:01:40.940 So I'm going to let you guys go on to the Friday.

01:01:43.800 You have a good weekend.

01:01:44.880 Don't forget, this show is coming to you from permanently seeded territory,

01:01:49.000 as per Treaty 7.

01:01:50.760 I thank you for tuning in.

01:01:52.980 I thank you for the feedback.

01:01:54.980 And I will see you all live Wednesday at 12 o'clock.

01:02:20.760 Invest in gold and silver today.

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Western Standard - March 22, 2025

It’s election time! Probably.

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