Western Standard - It’s time to wind Canada Post down

00:00:00.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show coming live from our festive location in downtown

00:00:12.380 carrie as christmas approaches good to see you guys joining in already uh let's make use of that

00:00:18.480 comment scroll i see there's the second best beekeeper in alberta in there jordan's checking

00:00:23.140 in lots of you in there we got lots to cover lots of questions i'm gonna have jay hill coming in he

00:00:28.280 was the former government whip for quite a while we want to talk all things federal all things

00:00:32.300 parliamentary jay's the man to ask so send those questions that way and uh we'll see if we can get

00:00:37.680 some answers i know it's hard to get clear answers out of anything in parliament but jay's a straight

00:00:40.860 speaker so that'll be something to look forward to and uh yeah converse with each other send questions

00:00:45.620 by way just try to be somewhat civil with each other uh we can fight on twitter that's what it's all

00:00:49.980 about it's always lots of good fight going on there all right well i'm gonna get on with some

00:00:55.500 news things have got me going and yeah we're let's talk canada post i've been having a lot of fun with

00:00:59.800 them online everybody's having a good time good to see you there mary so let's talk about where

00:01:05.040 things are sitting with the postal strike i mean what if you went on strike and nobody cared you

00:01:09.320 know it's kind of like an ex who walks out the door and then you know okay you shrug and a month

00:01:14.340 later she phones you because she's all pissed that you didn't call hey you walked out it's your problem

00:01:18.020 found out that you didn't really want her that much in the first place well postal workers are

00:01:21.800 learning that hard lesson right now that their service yeah it isn't as essential to people as

00:01:25.420 they thought it was nearly a month on the picket lines and all they've managed to accomplish is to

00:01:28.820 lose public support and speed up canada's transition to a paperless society they can't

00:01:33.700 hold canadians hostage during the christmas season any longer like they used to their strikes don't

00:01:38.420 cripple the nation all they do is annoy them demand for letter mail it's not going to come back and 1.00

00:01:42.900 the only people who appear not to know this are the postal workers in the union canada post was given

00:01:46.920 a monopoly on letter delivery but even with that they can't fund themselves through it letter mail

00:01:51.400 has dropped by over a half in volume since 2016 and it's still dropping canada post has lost three

00:01:56.380 billion dollars since 2018 and the losses are mounting faster they might be on track to lose

00:02:00.380 one billion in 2024 alone this hemorrhaging can't continue and unless something dramatic changes

00:02:06.060 canada post is going to go broke now as a crown corporation it's supposed to be self-funding they

00:02:11.260 love constantly saying hey we're not taking tax dollars well yeah actually if they go broke we get to pay for

00:02:16.500 it so uh taxpayers are liable for the debts incurred and canada's already in a rather dire economic

00:02:21.700 situation with massive government debt low productivity and a rising cost of living adding

00:02:26.040 billions more to the debt load if canada post goes under won't be doing us any favors not only should

00:02:31.360 canada post refuse to give in to the union demands for raises it's got to commit to scaling its size

00:02:37.080 and scope dramatically down to face contemporary reality the route to solvency for canada post might

00:02:41.860 be harsh for its employees but it's actually pretty simple with 68 000 employees labor is by far the

00:02:47.420 biggest expense with canada post and that's where the cuts have got to come we've got to stop all

00:02:51.740 direct to doorstep letter delivery it's ridiculously expensive and labor intensive over two-thirds of

00:02:57.460 canadians have already had their mail coming to some form of community mailbox or another already

00:03:01.300 the only reason the transition didn't fully go to community boxes was because justin trudeau cut a

00:03:06.240 deal with the postal union back in 2016 well that deal's got to end and the community boxes have got to go

00:03:10.480 everywhere one worker can cover the ground of dozens of carriers by just traveling from box to box to

00:03:15.800 deliver mail rather than walking house to house and delivery no longer needs to be daily if a person

00:03:20.540 has a pressing immediate need to have a document delivered to their door they can pay express post

00:03:23.980 or a private courier to deal with it postal workers deliver a little more than flyers daily

00:03:28.180 these days anyways there isn't enough demand to justify going out five days a week once a week will

00:03:32.360 suffice twice tops and a post should also just get out of the parcel delivery business i mean they had a

00:03:38.080 near monopoly on it a few years ago and they blew it the private market has filled the parcel void

00:03:42.560 with superior service and now is a majority market share canada post might as well just divest from

00:03:47.080 it at most all canada post should be doing is providing some subsidized service to remote regions

00:03:51.480 but that's about it by ending home delivery ending parcel services and cutting to one day a week

00:03:55.900 canada post should be able to shed tens of thousands of positions i mean they'll still have a

00:04:00.400 legislative monopoly on letter service and even if it manages to lose money in that size at least the

00:04:04.200 losses will be smaller than the current ones yes lots of jobs are going to be lost that's unfortunate

00:04:07.880 but that's life you know there's not many milkmen delivering any longer either is canada post supposed

00:04:12.360 to be providing mail service anyways or is it a social welfare program it's not it's the only points

00:04:17.320 whether you know to provide jobs well then maybe we should just start a crown corporation to hire

00:04:22.100 thousands people to dig holes and fill them back in again it'll serve the same purpose as using

00:04:26.260 canada post as an employment program but it won't contribute to as much traffic on the streets

00:04:29.760 some postal workers would find employment in the private courier sector as that industry expands

00:04:34.300 others are just going to have to retire or find new trades and hey they get a hell of a pension guys

00:04:38.020 the strike has taught canadians that losing canada post as we know it is an inconvenience at worst

00:04:42.660 we don't need a huge national postal service and with the strike driving of millions of people into

00:04:47.920 converting to electronic finances and communications canada post must shrink let's cut it with a plan to

00:04:52.940 trans worker transition workers as painlessly as possible but let's get on with it there's no longer work 0.99

00:04:57.600 for film processors record store employees or barrel stave makers either the world changes and

00:05:03.020 the workforce must adapt to deal with the postal workers had a good gig but the runs over guys

00:05:07.640 either way that's where i wanted to go with things because yeah i guess the postal workers actually came

00:05:11.880 back and uh increased their offer or asked for money they're saying otherwise but it was a just that

00:05:16.500 they spread it out over a different period of years they really think they got some leverage here

00:05:19.620 and start a union around here we see how long uh derek would put up with that but uh let's see let's

00:05:24.900 check with uh shop steward and uh news editor dave naylor uh and see what else is going on in the

00:05:29.700 news of the core i think of the christmas cards how is my mom going to get her christmas card

00:05:34.360 you have to curry her to her well i can't afford that an e-card i i know it's not the same yeah and

00:05:40.820 i already see derek coming out of his office to put an end to the union uh the baseball bat yeah with

00:05:46.320 a baseball bat there's civil war sword that he's got in there anyways core let's talk uh let's talk crime

00:05:52.320 that's leading off the the news this morning stats can report out today showing since uh

00:05:57.460 uh our friend trudeau took office was a nine years ago uh murder rate has jumped 27 percent

00:06:03.440 and of course the uh conservatives have jumped on this and uh and are making hay of it uh there was a

00:06:11.040 uh murder just recently in in toronto a young woman got murdered by her her boyfriend who was out

00:06:17.460 on bail you know convicted violent offender and he's out on bail and and kills her so it's uh it's

00:06:23.660 just uh the streets aren't very safe out there now cory uh in coquitlam a related type story they've

00:06:30.400 arrested a pervert for nine sexual assaults nine and he was in custody probably for about 45 minutes

00:06:37.180 before being released but he's on condition so i'm sure everybody's uh safe there our newest

00:06:44.620 staff member james schnell the guy i didn't realize till i met him yesterday six foot seven

00:06:50.360 oh jeez he's a monster that's the guy you need in the front lines of the union yeah no kidding

00:06:54.380 uh he's taking a fun look at uh cyber trucks and how they're having a bit of trouble adjusting to this

00:07:00.980 uh canadian winter they don't start and they can't get out of snow snow drifts and and stuff like

00:07:06.740 that and when you're when you're paying more than 100 grand for a truck you kind of want them

00:07:10.380 uh to do those things yeah i think he called it only at the article the ugliest vehicle ever made

00:07:14.640 i have to agree with yeah yeah uh but they certainly catch your eye though all right they may be ugly

00:07:20.380 but you have to look at them uh trudeau speaking of trudeau he was at a event last night proclaiming 0.64

00:07:28.040 he's still a proud feminist and sort of uh crapping all over the americans for not electing

00:07:33.140 kamala harris uh said it was a second time they've had a chance to uh elect a female president

00:07:39.460 and didn't do so and it's a backward step so i'm sure that's going to go down well and with his

00:07:44.260 negotiations with uh uh with president uh elect uh trump and you remember the uh speaking of good

00:07:51.480 justice you remember the video i think it was back in january of the the guy in court and he went flying

00:07:56.880 after the judge when the tactic dove over the uh you know the judge's death serum was beating her 1.00

00:08:02.340 26 years he got uh for that so uh i think he's probably regretting his impulse decision probably

00:08:09.980 you know and i agree with that i mean you can't have people threatening judges that's not going to

00:08:13.960 help the system i just uh it's funny the justices learn how to find long sentences when it's them who

00:08:19.120 are being assaulted but not so much when it's the commoner on the street if they could just kind

00:08:22.160 of apply that elsewhere it would be kind of nice wouldn't it be refreshing it would be all right

00:08:26.720 well that's on the go as always yeah i gotta go call a courier now to get a christmas card out to

00:08:32.440 my mom well it's a sad sad thing we got to find our alternatives and uh well i'm not arguing with

00:08:40.040 you about the whole canada post yeah that's that's the truth of it those are the people that kind of 0.96

00:08:45.260 getting harmed the most you know the seniors don't want to change tradition there's no an e-card sucks 0.87

00:08:49.620 let's face it somebody sent an email with a little popping elf and confetti it's not the same as sending

00:08:54.320 a card i mean that's the inconvenience of talking about it it really is hampering people with a

00:08:57.980 strike it's just not crippling us it's pissing us off all right sorry mom you're getting an e-card 0.86

00:09:02.560 oh well there we go all right well i'll let you get on with composing your uh annual e-card for your

00:09:07.580 mother and uh i'll get on with the show talk to you soon all right thanks dave that is our news

00:09:13.240 editor dave naylor and and yes lots on the go busy office new people on and uh it sounds like a giant

00:09:18.800 with mr snell coming in there so uh i'll tread carefully if i'm going to critique his columns

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00:09:59.500 that why not uh let's see uh gifford's honey farm saying uh you know i live in a rural area only get

00:10:06.620 mail three days a week since they opened decades ago and it's a funny thing with my area i i i live

00:10:11.760 rural as well and we have one of those communal post boxes it's it's down the road it's not that far

00:10:16.380 is not that hard and reality uh well you know jane is is very good for keeping up on electronic things 1.00

00:10:21.700 and everything so most of our stuff's been converted we check it once a week maybe and usually it's just

00:10:26.480 full of junk mail and the odd thing we just don't need it that much and then a funny thing though in

00:10:31.800 our area while supposedly mail comes five days a week we've never once in the 10 years out there

00:10:37.960 gotten a letter on a friday nothing it's amazing just astounding coincidence i guess but for some

00:10:43.560 reason nothing ever hits the mailbox on friday odd isn't it would seem almost as if there's some

00:10:49.520 room to improve things but uh yeah that's a wild nature farm also a commenter saying you know

00:10:55.720 canada posted is trying to go more automated and get rid of lots of employees well that is some of

00:10:59.280 the stuff that's happening some of the stuff they're striking against but guys we can't fight

00:11:02.260 progress i mean the same thing you know the milkman were probably quite put out when the combustion

00:11:06.000 engine came along and you weren't going up and down the roads with a horse and wagon any longer but

00:11:09.460 things change how long should we hold back how much more should we spend as i said if we really

00:11:13.860 if that's the point let's get a big field give them all a bunch of shovels dig the hole fill the 1.00

00:11:19.340 hole dig the hole fill the hole and we won't have to deal with the traffic jams of postal workers

00:11:23.320 taking taxis to their routes every morning it's not supposed to be a job program it's supposed to be

00:11:27.320 a postal service all right we will see i don't think they're doing very well in this strike so far

00:11:31.860 people are losing more and more interest in them as every day goes by we'll see how this settles in the end

00:11:35.780 all right i've been looking forward to this it's been a long time since mr hill's been here

00:11:39.060 to talk to us in person we're overdue and uh boy we've got a heck of a year to review so

00:11:44.200 former government whip a long time member of parliament came out of so many years they're

00:11:48.800 still mostly sane and uh thanks cory it's great to be back on the program yeah no it's good to see

00:11:56.220 you and uh boy what a what a time we're in well what a fiasco yes yeah i've never you know as you

00:12:03.840 said uh i was there for 17 years from 93 to 2010 finished up my service as the government house

00:12:10.980 leader uh cabinet position full full cabinet position so i had the uh privilege and opportunity

00:12:17.580 to sit at the big table and of course 17 years both in opposition and government to experience

00:12:23.100 the house of commons on a day-to-day basis and i have to admit cory i have never seen such a mess

00:12:30.320 as we have currently in ottawa and it's it's an absolute joke uh it's no wonder the the uh re-elected

00:12:38.460 uh incoming president of the united states uh you know is teasing our prime minister uh about being

00:12:45.640 uh the governor of the 51st state uh because you know we have zero respect at the international level

00:12:54.360 and not a lot more at the domestic level and that's reflected in the polls these days well and

00:13:00.560 outside of the polls you know so for a lot of people watching politics and that's it i mean in

00:13:03.820 your job as government house leader you were immersed in though the the procedures and and things such

00:13:09.560 as that i mean we've been in the midst of a filibuster for quite some time and outside of you

00:13:13.260 know political weenies like us like just kind of what does that mean and what's the purpose of it

00:13:16.940 like things are being hindered and hindered and bunged up in there i mean things aren't getting done

00:13:20.960 yeah uh which might be a good thing well perhaps yeah a lot of the things they do aren't all that

00:13:25.700 great anyways well certainly not supported in western canada and alberta in particular

00:13:30.020 you know so perhaps that as i say it's a very good thing now for those people that aren't familiar

00:13:36.740 a filibuster is basically where one party uses the tools that they have in parliament to carry a debate

00:13:43.700 and if necessary all by themselves they just put speakers after speaker up and speak to emotion

00:13:49.060 and uh in the question of privilege which we're debating now in the house of commons and have

00:13:55.220 been i'll add uh since september 26th so two and a half months the house of commons has been completely

00:14:03.400 stalled of any business other than debating the conservative question of privilege and uh you know i was

00:14:13.460 involved in filibusters i i you know participated in a few myself um the government house leader uh if

00:14:20.900 uh he has the ability or she has the ability to take the time slot of the leader of the opposition

00:14:27.360 uh as i had on one occasion uh you can speak for as long as you can keep uh keep talking and um but

00:14:36.040 this is unique because a question of privilege takes precedent virtually over everything else and that's why

00:14:43.000 uh the opposition as long as they stay united on this issue i might add because singh doesn't stay

00:14:48.260 united with the opposition on much uh then they can debate it till the cows come home until basically

00:14:54.480 parliament uh is uh is adjourned uh roughly a year from now for an election uh and the conservators of at

00:15:03.380 least have indicated they intend to continue this filibuster until then uh if if necessary

00:15:11.000 or until the government and specifically the prime minister capitulate and hand over these

00:15:17.000 unredacted documents that the house has ordered i've never seen this where a government has just

00:15:23.540 refused for two and a half months to hand over documents to the opposition and by extension to

00:15:30.880 the public yeah and that's what i wanted to get to i mean they aren't just having a temper tantrum or

00:15:34.460 holding up the house of commons for the sake of holding it up there is a at least an ask a demand

00:15:39.100 because we do have something bizarre going on we've they've been ordered to say these documents

00:15:43.660 on these issues uh i think it's the green energy contracts yeah or or as the opposition refers to

00:15:50.380 it the green uh slush fund yes yeah i think i have the right name down here somewhere the sustainable

00:15:56.240 development technology canada fund there we go so but the government obviously obviously something

00:16:02.060 stinks to high heaven that's why they don't want to release it absolutely but i think that there would be

00:16:07.080 some criminal charges from what i've read about this uh it certainly lends itself because that's part of

00:16:13.660 the demand from the house and when i say the house you remember that ironically we are in a minority

00:16:20.560 government situation if the opposition bands together they can demand anything yeah and as long

00:16:26.760 as they have the votes because the liberals don't have enough votes to outvote them like they would in a

00:16:31.160 majority situation so what what we have here is that not only they are are they demanding these

00:16:37.940 unredacted that means you know not having entire sheets uh blacked out but unredacted uh documents

00:16:46.980 but that they'd be turned over to the rcmp to see if there's a possibility that criminal charges should

00:16:52.840 be late well it says something though that our system is somewhat broken then in holding a government

00:16:59.480 to account when the only recourse when when it's been ordered i mean we've done everything else possible

00:17:05.560 hey you're supposed to do this and then they just say no we won't do it a filibuster is the only tool

00:17:10.360 they've got exactly not good no no it's you know a waste of resources as they say uh roughly two and a half months

00:17:18.200 uh they're back on this today after taking a break for a couple of days to do uh bills that allowed

00:17:24.680 for the appropriation of funds because that's why i said earlier there's a conflict there about which

00:17:31.640 takes precedence and they they agreed that uh the supply bills that supplies the government with the

00:17:37.400 funds to carry through to the end of the the fiscal year which is march 31st uh are at least equal in

00:17:45.240 precedent so the speaker ruled that that they had to take a break they had to get the remaining supply

00:17:51.640 days which are opposition days that's why we had yet another uh vote on non-confidence by the

00:17:57.640 conservatives the other day ironically or not uh it was defeated again because sing uh you know and i

00:18:05.160 gotta say that jagmeet singh to me just sitting back and watching the shenanigans uh on uh during the house 0.97

00:18:12.680 the commons he has got to be the greatest hypocrite in the in the history of canada that last you 0.75

00:18:21.000 probably have referred to this i haven't watched your program but uh for the last while uh but um that 0.95

00:18:28.200 last um motion for the opposition motion for non-confidence in the government was actually

00:18:36.520 crafted from the very words of jagmeet singh yeah yeah and he still voted against his own words

00:18:44.120 yeah it was a beautiful political maneuver i mean it was forcing him because he's always talked big but

00:18:48.680 backed off exactly here's your chance all your very own words put it into action and of course he backed

00:18:54.680 off yeah but again it's just i think a lot of canadians are just starting to tune it out though and

00:18:59.080 it's not a good outcome you know i mean they're getting cynical i mean becoming upset becoming

00:19:03.240 frustrated it's natural as normal but cynical is not healthy for a democracy and they watch these

00:19:08.520 games going on and you know left right center doesn't matter you start to think who is leading

00:19:15.240 us yeah well no one unfortunately certainly when it comes to prime minister trudeau um absolutely uh

00:19:22.760 cory uh i'm just appalled at what's happening uh we have disagreements all the time in the house

00:19:29.160 of commas that's partly the purpose right is to have the different adversarial you're across from

00:19:33.560 each other but you hope that at the end i mean if it's the will of the house that the government

00:19:39.400 will accede to that that's traditionally what happens but you know this is not the first time

00:19:44.680 this has happened it happened under um under um the early days of this government back in 2015 2016.

00:19:54.120 it happened under the uh snc lavallon you know where the government ended up losing uh their

00:20:00.920 attorney general uh joe jody recent uh yeah i mean who was forced to quit because her ethics didn't 0.91

00:20:09.560 allow her to do what the prime minister wanted her to do and protect that corporation and and then we had

00:20:17.160 uh the we fiasco you know where they were going to give i think it was over a billion dollars to that

00:20:22.520 corporation and something stunk there to high heaven and we ended up that the prime minister

00:20:29.000 called an election over that you know and then more recently we had the fiasco in winnipeg with the uh

00:20:35.640 the health uh lab you know and those two chinese um scientists and we never did get the information

00:20:42.680 again the house was calling for unredacted documents showing what transpired there and we never got it so

00:20:49.880 this is a prime minister and a government that is constantly consumed by covering up their own

00:20:57.800 scandals and well and even the stuff that's going to come out i mean they're kicking every can down

00:21:02.520 the road the one thing they've been able to get through all this time is money bills and spending

00:21:05.720 spending spending and it shows so the the quarterly fiscal update which is terribly late already they've

00:21:10.840 waited until the very bitter end yeah they're going to drop it on monday at the end of the session

00:21:15.080 and hope everybody forgets at christmas but it's got to be bad yeah well the media is already on to

00:21:20.360 the fact that it looks like rather than a 40 billion dollar deficit it looks like 50 50 greater perhaps as

00:21:29.160 much as 60 billion dollars this fiscal year and uh and and you gotta throw into the mix on that too that

00:21:37.960 uh finance minister freeland has never hit a target yet in her whole time as finance minister and when 0.99

00:21:44.040 she's asked even a remotely tough question about the finances of the nation she can't answer it 0.94

00:21:50.600 she's completely inept and incompetent uh so you throw that in the mix as well as a prime minister 1.00

00:21:55.880 that's a laughing stock around the world and uh and indeed i believe across canada now saw a recent 0.98

00:22:03.400 survey that suggested 80 percent of canadians want an election we can't get it though enemy so now

00:22:10.840 system won't allow it so we're hamstrung right now we're hung up we're in a mess they're still

00:22:15.400 pulling off stunts like orders and council to ban guns and do other stunts right there's ways they can

00:22:20.520 do things without actually running it through the house but we're coming up on a unprecedented

00:22:26.760 year a crisis i mean we have president-elect trump coming in who whatever people think like or dislike

00:22:32.280 the guy he's also one of the most impulsive uh uh you know takes things personally uh unpredictable

00:22:39.640 you know presidents in in known history and the battle is coming with canada a trade war i mean we 0.88

00:22:46.520 need this is when we need our house to have their crap together more than ever going into this year

00:22:51.400 and it's terrifying looking who we've got theoretically representing us going into that

00:22:55.560 uh exactly and as i referred to already in in the program um you know you see it i mean yes uh we

00:23:05.960 can all we all have opinions i think every canadian has an opinion about donald trump uh but setting that

00:23:13.320 aside he is the incoming president he has learned things from his first tenure and he's going to be

00:23:21.000 taking action because of that um and you know when you have a president threatening whether it's comes

00:23:28.840 to fruition or not threatening a 25 tariff across the board on every product that we ship to our

00:23:36.280 greatest trading partner it's absolutely frightening especially for small businesses that access the

00:23:43.000 american market oh yeah and uh you know that you we could see just uh overabundance unfortunately of

00:23:51.320 bankruptcies not that we're not experiencing enough as it is no it would be devastated i mean we're

00:23:56.920 speaking of somebody like you know a president-elect trump i mean he is a man a lot of talk about he

00:24:02.200 responds at least to frank or somebody he can respect and that's the key word those are the things

00:24:08.440 we're seeing right now he has no respect for trudeau he holds him in contempt and that's not going to

00:24:13.560 change this is going to go poorly plus trudeau's not i you know there's my bias coming he's not a

00:24:18.840 strong man he's not going to be able to stand this down no he's a fancy socks and tie and you know

00:24:25.560 uh hairstyles and whatever but i mean when it comes to competence uh sadly lacking and it just amazes

00:24:33.880 me that there are still people i was reading an article uh column in the toronto star this morning

00:24:40.120 my goodness and not surprisingly uh heather malik was saying he's he's one of the great uh the great

00:24:48.280 five that she produced for a short list of important canadians for this year i mean how they there's

00:24:55.080 people like her that will still support justin trudeau after everything he's done to destroy our nation

00:25:01.960 yeah i think she might have sustained a head injury at some point in her life so malik's a

00:25:06.440 special sort of case but it does say a lot there but there's always that core i mean everything

00:25:09.640 hits a bottom yeah the liberals are sitting at about 20 percent there's those there's those people

00:25:13.800 say i will vote liberal till i die that's that 20 it wouldn't matter who or what or however it was

00:25:18.920 done that's going to sit there but i can't see how it's going to climb another thing i'm worried

00:25:23.320 about like i've written a column on it that'll come out a little bit it's a bit speculative but we

00:25:26.760 know how the political game plays and the regional play premier smith's been fantastic in developing

00:25:31.320 relationships with governors she's going to the inauguration alberta has an office in washington

00:25:35.800 we've been doing the job canada should have been doing yep and that might shield oil and gas if

00:25:41.800 tariffs start coming because you know trump's no fool he knows if you throw that tariff on alberta oil

00:25:45.560 and gas the price of the pump of the states is going to rise up and people are going to be upset with

00:25:48.680 him on the states too so if he can find it out maybe he'll carve out oil and gas yeah exactly i would

00:25:54.040 think there would be an exemption coming if it gets that far but then the temptation on trudeau's part

00:25:59.160 would be well i'm not going to let that happen he might do like his father did and throw an

00:26:03.080 outgoing tariff on canadian oil and gas leaving here yeah then we're going to see a unity issue i

00:26:09.000 mean hey i'll sell more books than i ever have in here but but still for the sake of the country in

00:26:13.320 alberta that's not going to be a good developer no and as you said earlier corey especially not at

00:26:18.280 this particular time at this particular time when it comes to negotiating with the americans in

00:26:23.080 particular but the chinese and any other entity around the world we need to be unified uh on the

00:26:29.080 international front we're not going to be unified obviously in the house of commons and on domestic

00:26:33.480 issues like you know the carbon tax for example because pierre has clearly staked his future on

00:26:38.840 that issue and and others you know but on an international front and i have personal experience in

00:26:44.760 this i mean uh when i was in opposition uh i often traveled uh to foreign conferences with

00:26:51.000 the minister that i was critic of you still see that today and you know trying to present a

00:26:57.080 somewhat unified position by all political parts and we're not the only democracy that does that i mean

00:27:02.840 the uk australia they all do that uh when they're negotiating or whether when they're interacting with

00:27:09.480 other foreign countries uh so this as you said is a really crucial time there are so many huge issues

00:27:17.640 uh not the least of war in the middle east war in the ukraine uh where as much as possible we

00:27:23.560 need our parliamentarians to set aside partisan differences and really operate and pierre is called

00:27:30.280 for this by the way pierre poliev he is called on the prime minister as recently as last week to form

00:27:36.680 a unified front on these issues he was specifically speaking to opposition to the uh the the prospect of

00:27:43.880 tariffs uh but it could be on a multiple of issues at the international level well then another

00:27:49.320 challenge we have is our foreign affairs minister uh you know trudeau has appointed his intellectual

00:27:54.760 peers to high cabinet positions and it's showing and melanie especially i would argue the the big two

00:28:01.000 our finance minister and our foreign affairs yes and and and again it gets distressing i mean melanie

00:28:07.240 jolly is not commanding respect around the world she's embarrassing herself and us through extension 1.00

00:28:12.120 with her clear lack of knowledge whenever she's a in a press conference or at a conference of any sort 0.71

00:28:18.040 i just i guess i'll leave you off with a big question though i mean you know as we come into

00:28:21.960 i mean election doesn't look like it's likely until a year from now that you know maybe in spring at best

00:28:28.200 what can we hope for in january let's leave off with a bright note what could parliament maybe do i mean

00:28:33.160 i know it's not looking good but well you know because the conservatives have quite rightly and

00:28:39.000 i don't say that naughty and not as a conservative myself or a conservative yourself uh but because

00:28:46.440 they have really staked their ground on this question of privilege on these documents right

00:28:52.360 and i think justifiably so anybody that looks at that issue is going to say well what is going on here

00:28:58.120 uh if they're resisting the prime minister trudeau and his ministers including ministers that

00:29:05.080 allegedly funneled money according to the auditor general uh funneled money to their own companies

00:29:11.880 through this slush fund if they're resisting to that extent there must be something as you said

00:29:18.040 earlier something really dirty there so the only way i can see this resolved in january february whatever

00:29:24.040 going forward is that there has to be some negotiation on that issue between the parties yeah now whether it

00:29:33.080 will happen that for example if they would provide certain information and still withhold some

00:29:38.520 redacted in the past they've said you know it's the issue of national security that's why the

00:29:44.280 documents are redacted i can't see that applying to a green slush fund but however it is uh i mean it's

00:29:52.040 sort of like the uh postal strike i mean there has at some point you would think there has to be some

00:29:56.760 negotiation and that where they can arrive at a an agreement otherwise as i see it the house is

00:30:03.800 going to be held up like this as i said earlier right through until the election i mean jagmeet singh

00:30:09.400 we used to think okay well after he gets his mp pension uh near the end of february perhaps then on

00:30:16.520 the budget in march or april perhaps the government will fall we'll have a spring election instead of

00:30:21.560 happen to wait until october but uh as of what he said the other day uh when the conservatives uh

00:30:27.960 produced that uh non-confidence motion based on his own words and he did a complete ate himself alive

00:30:34.600 basically yeah uh and he did a complete flip-flop he said no no i intend to honor the agreement that i

00:30:41.560 made such you know uh a um a show of tearing up yeah in october i intend to honor that and it goes until

00:30:50.360 the house rises in june so that kind of takes if that's true and we never know with him what is

00:30:56.360 true but if that's true uh then we're stuck until summer at least boy and it's just not a well it's

00:31:03.240 never a good year to have a hung parliament like that but this is a really bad one we're going to

00:31:07.080 yeah i'm really quite worried to be honest and i don't know you know how you solve it uh i mean

00:31:13.080 many people have said well what is the problem i mean in a democracy especially when you have poll after

00:31:19.320 poll uh never mind whether they're going to vote conservative liberal ndp bloc whatever but poll after

00:31:26.120 poll showing the majority of canadians want to exercise their right as citizens and vote yeah and

00:31:34.680 and the government ignores it well it's an ugly circumstance either way we'll leave on a bright

00:31:41.320 note the weather's been good christmas is coming up new year's coming up i hope you and leah have a

00:31:46.600 fantastic one i really appreciate you coming in to talk to us about this and i hope we can get you

00:31:51.640 back in the new year maybe we'll see if we've had some progress did i say well that would be nice it'd

00:31:55.960 be nice to uh certainly have a more cheery conversation but uh if i could just before i go

00:32:03.160 i attended an event uh with leah my wife a couple nights ago and it was the uh allies for a strong

00:32:11.560 canada it's a new new organization i don't know how many of your viewers are as concerned as i've

00:32:16.840 been over the last year since the the tragedy of uh october 7th uh with what happened in israel

00:32:24.600 with the rise of anti-semitism across our country never mind around the world i mean it's not unique

00:32:29.880 to canada but it's appalling that it is here and that our government is doing nothing and so there's

00:32:36.040 this new organization and i would encourage everybody watching to go to allies for a strong

00:32:41.880 canada it's easy to find google it uh it costs nothing to join uh to show your support for our

00:32:49.240 fellow jewish citizens and communities across canada during this time when they're frightened to send

00:32:55.080 their kids to school they're they're frightened for their own safety uh some of them unfortunately

00:33:01.000 tragically are thinking about moving it's become so unsafe in canada

00:33:06.040 and um i hope you go there and join it it costs nothing but it would mean so much to our fellow

00:33:11.880 citizens great well thanks for that plug it's good to get together i mean yeah if a parliament

00:33:16.680 can't do it citizens groups have to at least get the messaging out there and we're gonna start

00:33:20.600 taking care of things ourselves exactly all right well thanks again jay good thank you i'm sure

00:33:24.840 we'll see you again soon absolutely all right so yes it's always good when jay comes in to break

00:33:29.240 that down and uh yeah i know it was so negative because there's just so much to cover but at least

00:33:33.000 you know if we see the system we see things like that we've got to discuss them

00:33:36.040 eventually we'll find the solutions we'll figure it out it's just a matter of how bad we gotta let

00:33:40.040 things get before we get there that's the hard part and that that's the the difficult one to come

00:33:46.040 and with this year coming it is uh it's distressing yeah the government's it's hung up there's people

00:33:52.920 talking whether or not it would be prorogued uh i'm really worried like i said history just seems to

00:34:00.520 have a heck of a habit of repeating itself you know so here we are again another trudeau you know

00:34:06.760 uh we don't you know it's uh south of the border things are quite different with trump there's never

00:34:10.920 been another quite like him but i do see a potential scenario where trudeau would try to use western

00:34:18.600 canadian oil and gas and agricultural products as a hammer to fight back in a trade war like trudeau has

00:34:23.720 said he would retaliate in a trade war well how can you because that's the problem with the trade war

00:34:28.600 though it does hurt both ways i would like to think that president trump really doesn't want

00:34:34.680 to impose those tariffs i mean it hurts consumers on both sides when you do that sort of thing it

00:34:39.320 puts the cost of goods up uh trump has always been a protectionist democrats always have been in the 1.00

00:34:44.520 states too and uh to be blunt it's stupid policy protectionism is always stupid policy if you want 0.99

00:34:51.160 to talk to any economists worth their salt when they talk about things protectionism sells well at 0.99

00:34:56.760 election time but when it comes to actual benefits for your citizens and companies and economy it

00:35:01.160 tends not to actually pay off but the bottom line is it's there it's something we've got to deal with

00:35:05.960 and it's something again you know as jay was saying talk about politicians staking ground it's certainly

00:35:10.360 where trump has staked a lot of ground on that protectionism so there's going to be some things

00:35:14.040 coming up anyways even if they aren't the 25 percent tariffs he's talking about but one of the ones

00:35:19.400 as i said that would hurt the most if if a 25 tariff was slapped on alberto oil and gas here

00:35:23.560 for exports for the amount of oil and gas canada exports even with the trans mountain now flowing

00:35:30.200 which is about bloody time you know trudeau didn't kill it he just messed it up 97 of our exports go to

00:35:36.520 the states they still go to the states they go to american refineries and uh they're dependent on it

00:35:41.960 whether it's over in chicago or down in texas and and throughout and west coast refineries as well

00:35:46.600 in seattle area so the cost would be felt immediately if you threw that tariff on canadian

00:35:52.920 oil and gas i just don't think trump is eager to do that but like you know the political game so

00:35:58.840 if albertans sitting well say let's say these tariffs come in but they come in on quebec and

00:36:02.760 ontario's auto sector you know and then they crunch on there and on bc's forestry maybe because

00:36:07.560 you know they've got uh forest products and softwood lumber they can they can fill the void with but if

00:36:11.960 daniel smith's been effective and they exempt oil and gas man that's going to put a a big target

00:36:20.920 right on the west for trudeau because he's desperate and he wants i i honestly think he's

00:36:25.240 kind of wants a trade war at this point he what else is going to possibly turn the polls around he has to

00:36:30.040 try and build a villain and build himself as a hero and it's not going to work but he's willing to try

00:36:37.000 and he's willing to sacrifice our economy particularly the western canadian economy to do it

00:36:42.600 and the envy the division in the country i mean though if central canada was hurting if if their

00:36:46.760 battery plants weren't exporting anymore and and things such as that because of tariffs but alberta's

00:36:51.720 actually booming because our oil and gas is still flowing freely across into the states and our

00:36:56.120 agricultural products uh yeah the the envy in this country is going to be bad because look at how

00:37:02.040 trudeau is is is stoking the fires you know you know you've got a problem with president trump so

00:37:08.760 what does trudeau say the other day this is a literal quote from trudeau just a few weeks ago

00:37:12.040 the united states voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president everywhere woman 0.89

00:37:16.840 rights and woman's process progress is under attack overtly and subtly basically trudeau just

00:37:23.560 called americans misogynistic bigots who refuse to elect women good move justin smart really working

00:37:30.760 well you know how many women have led the federal liberal party of canada historically zero not a 0.99

00:37:38.120 one in fact justin trudeau's got quite a strong reputation for kicking strong women out of his

00:37:42.760 cabinet out of his caucus pressuring them there was that one uh black member of parliament who 0.77

00:37:48.120 said she was scared almost for her life when justin had a temper tantrum on her behind closed doors 0.95

00:37:52.200 the hypocrisy of that man is something else but again he's taking his side in an election that's 0.90

00:37:57.160 already passed he's throwing an endorsement to the losing candidate while infuriating the winning 0.96

00:38:03.640 candidate to what end to what purpose you twit you know so again trump takes things personally i i wish

00:38:13.240 i've talked about it uh you know i get in battles with my my commenters at times i'm not a big fan of

00:38:17.640 trump i would rather the republicans brought in a a deeper thinking wars type of a leader but he's who's

00:38:25.400 there he's the who the americans chose and that's who they have and we have to work with him and one 0.99

00:38:31.000 of the things to deal with him is he takes it bloody personally so justin doing that crap and now trump 0.93

00:38:35.800 yes lobbying out more comments and calling trudeau the the governor it's not helping us it's not 0.97

00:38:41.880 helping at all yeah looking in alberta smart leadership things that are happening this has been

00:38:45.720 fun to watch especially as a you know regionalist like myself uh premier smith announced that a potential

00:38:51.560 new data center for alberta or artificial intelligence that's going to be some

00:38:55.400 set up in greenview alberta rural area kind of getting between grand cash and grand prairie for

00:38:59.960 people in alberta it's kind of in the foothills mountains area it's going to be 70 billion dollars

00:39:07.640 70 billion dollars if it goes through but it sounds like oh you know uh o'leary is moving with it the

00:39:13.720 the alberta government's certainly on board and the reason that they're picking that spot so there's a

00:39:17.880 few reasons one of which is massive amounts of natural gas reserves there i was pointing out there's

00:39:22.280 a lot of stranded reserves it's too hard to get pipelines in but the gas is there so they can

00:39:25.880 generate because these are power intensive projects alberta's diversifying alberta's moving ahead

00:39:30.760 alberta's doing high-tech things it's moving forward despite canada not because of it and uh

00:39:36.840 but that helps also bring about envy when the rest of the country is hurting unfortunately rather than

00:39:40.840 fixing themselves sometimes they tend to uh support uh governments they'll try and make a grab for us

00:39:48.680 as i said with history repeating you look back to when uh pierre went and took a shot at our our

00:39:54.280 resources before uh pierre trudeau back in the 80s the national energy program total disaster you know

00:40:00.360 just castrated alberta's economy much of that was just built on political envy because alberta was doing 0.98

00:40:05.960 fine and you know the funny thing is prior to that you know if you look at alberta oil history

00:40:11.080 because a part of their concern was that there was too much american ownership in the alberta oil field

00:40:15.240 but you see alberta hit oil back in the 40s was kind of the big ones there was oil before but the

00:40:19.800 real big ones with turner valley leduc those hit in the early 40s really started to boom but it was

00:40:24.920 still heavier oil expensive oil things in that and uh alberta at that time felt ottawa can you help us do

00:40:31.720 you want to buy alberta oil can you invest in it can you can you go along with this and they said no keep

00:40:35.480 your oil it's too expensive we can get our stuff from out east we can get it from tankers we don't

00:40:39.320 need your oil keep your alberta oil okay albertan leaders went stateside and american companies came

00:40:46.200 up and developed it and produced it and turned it into a good industry and then in the 70s when

00:40:50.600 the price shocks hit with yes another middle eastern war again history repeating suddenly alberta's booming 0.78

00:40:57.320 then they call us the blue-eyed sheiks now we're the bad guys now we're greedy now we're nasty

00:41:01.400 now the oil that was alberta's oil is suddenly canada's oil and pierre made a run for it and 0.85

00:41:07.960 what a disaster that was well justin's dumber than pierre so we we really really gotta watch out 0.55

00:41:17.080 when these trade wars come because we can be the tool that they want to use to try and fight back 0.95

00:41:21.400 with the united states and what have they got to lose we've got saskatchewan has zero liberal seats alberta

00:41:28.040 has two liberal seats one is george the porch pirate chahal who's never going to be re-elected 0.95

00:41:32.040 he was caught stealing mail from somebody's mailbox yeah these liberal members of parliament

00:41:35.480 are real pleasure and of course we got coca hontas up there in edmonton uh you know who is going down

00:41:42.200 in disgrace it's a wonder he hasn't been uh you know forced out of office just as it is so no there's

00:41:48.120 not going to be any liberal seats in alberta saskatchewan so seat wise what does trudeau care

00:41:53.080 if he beats the heck out of alberta and infuriates alberta he's got nothing to lose here

00:41:57.080 and that makes it dangerous it really does and then speaking of other weird policies uh you know

00:42:02.680 syria things have been interesting developing over there i guess i don't know if you could call it 0.99

00:42:06.040 interesting they've traded one bunch of fanatical dangerous tyrannical rapist murderer lunatics you 0.96

00:42:12.440 know assad was one of those and now assad is gone and they've got a different bunch of them in 0.96

00:42:19.080 so what it is much like afghanistan how many different uh you know regimes have gone in and it does show

00:42:26.120 the futility of messing around in foreign affairs i mean the taliban was kind of i know

00:42:30.760 people talk about it as you know dismisses conspiracies no there's truth to it i mean

00:42:35.720 osama bin laden was built up by american funding to fight the war against the afghan government and

00:42:44.360 fight against the russian incursion back then but then they created this monster that turned into the

00:42:48.360 taliban that took afghanistan and then they had to fight back that monster and they knocked the taliban 1.00

00:42:52.600 out for a while but the second the west left afghanistan the scumbags all moved back in took 1.00

00:42:58.120 over the taliban's basically in power again syria same thing assad uh you know terrible dictator 0.99

00:43:05.160 awful slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people it's funny it's a genocide when jews defend themselves 1.00

00:43:10.200 and kill 20 000 hamas scumbags but when assad kills 500 000 people in syria 1.00

00:43:17.160 suddenly the left is silent i don't know why muslim and muslim war isn't worth covering i guess 1.00

00:43:24.440 but the bottom line is we got to talk about some stuff guys those middle eastern countries are 0.95

00:43:29.160 theocratic cesspools run by islamic regimes they're going to be human rights nightmares no matter what 1.00

00:43:34.360 you do there's a common denominator among them guys it's radical islam that's the problem it doesn't 0.98

00:43:39.800 matter whether it's isis or hamas or hezbollah they they split they fight with each other they come up

00:43:45.480 with all these different names the bottom line is they're all islamist extremists that's what the 0.92

00:43:50.280 enemy is for and i'm just talking the enemy of humanity i talk about the enemy of decency the 0.96

00:43:56.760 enemy of human rights of economic development women's rights lgbtq rights it's islam and that's 1.00

00:44:03.080 what we got to be watching what do we got going on though well every other country that took in all

00:44:06.840 those syrian refugees and found out that they took in well not good europe did not enjoy it they had mass 1.00

00:44:12.600 rapes going on in germany uh all sorts of problems when they brought in those syrian refugees when 1.00

00:44:17.640 assad started his crap over 10 years ago europe as soon as assad was out said okay that's it the 0.95

00:44:22.440 refugee program is over we're getting them the heck out of here thanks for visiting guys go away 1.00

00:44:26.680 we took care of our part not canada though we're still bringing them in why why hey if assad's gone

00:44:34.600 the ones who are here should be going home to rebuild their country that was the point wasn't 0.63

00:44:37.720 it weren't we supposed to just house them until they could go home well now you can go home

00:44:40.440 instead we're still taking them in i don't know we got a lot of big problems guys we got a broken

00:44:45.960 parliament we got a lot of other stuff hate to leave on such a negative note i hope for the rest

00:44:49.240 of things positively you're all getting ready for christmas you're having a good time trying to keep

00:44:53.160 the spirits up i mean the world won't end even if it feels like it and especially the way i talk about

00:44:57.880 it but we got to talk about the negative things if we're going to fix them and there's lots to feed on

00:45:03.000 out here either way that's what i've got for today guys tune in next week i'm going to have

00:45:07.000 tony bernardo talk about yes the firearms grab and lots of other things so uh thank you for joining

00:45:12.920 in be sure to tune into the pipeline and share these channels around get a subscription if you

00:45:16.760 you haven't already and i will see you all next week at this time

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Western Standard - December 11, 2024

It’s time to wind Canada Post down

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