Junkies aren’t harmless
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Summary
The people on the streets need our compassion, and they need our help. We have a social obligation to help the folks suffering out there, and funds directed towards addiction treatment and expanding mental health facilities were better spent on other things.
Transcript
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welcome to the cory morgan show this is the second last day of july but it's only the second day of
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summer for calgary just a reminder if you want to look and see some fun things look the last two
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years in a row the weather network every winter puts out a prediction a dire one calgary and
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southern alberta are in for desert-like conditions drought famine it's going to be awful it's like a
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biblical plague they've been dead wrong two years in a row we got a wet cold spring and then this
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year, wet, cold summer. Either way, just want to take that shot at the climate alarmists that
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they can't even predict five days out. Why do you take any of their crap seriously when they're
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trying to guess three months ahead? Either way, we got a good show coming up ahead of us here.
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Dan McTeague is going to be on. He's the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, and I love
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having him on. It's always a good conversation. He's one of the ones from back in the days when
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liberals were still somewhat sane. I mean, they were liberals, but the Kretchen liberals were a
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world different than the liberals we get to enjoy today. And we'll talk about where the direction
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of the Carney government is going on things. We'll be checking in with Dave on some news updates
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pretty soon. Lots going on out there. And yeah, let's start. Also, we've got an event coming up
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tickets today, save a few bucks. CanadaStrongAndFree.network. Check it out, guys. You can't
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beat that theme, can you? All right, let's get on with what I'm going to get on about today.
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Junkies. Yes, junkie. It's a harsh term, and that's what I'm using. It's purposeful because
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it represents a harsh reality, and I want to tear the sugar coating off of it. People addicted to
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substances who live on the streets of Canada are putting themselves and other citizens in danger
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every day. Activists and bureaucrats and politicians dancing around the problem using euphemisms
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or refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by unchecked addiction are killing people and making
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the catastrophe worse. I mean, unless the person's blind, they've noticed an explosion in the growth
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of street people in the last decade. We never used to see the types of street encampments or
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tent encampments have sprung up all over the place, and we never had to deal with the zombie-like
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groups of strung out souls congregating at transit facilities and parks, alleys, schoolyards,
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every corner of the city centers. The vast majority of these people, and this is what we've got to get
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down to, they're either addicts or suffering from mental health disorders, or both. If we want to
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help these people, we've got to begin by accepting what their conditions are. Civic politicians and
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their associated bureaucrats are the worst. They use every term they can to deny reality. People
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went from being called homeless to unwell to unhoused to my personal favorite, vulnerable
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people. Well, these vulnerable people stabbed people in two separate incidents at the same
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LRT station in Calgary last week. These vulnerable people have set brush fires at their encampments
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and they have propane tanks there. They've also caused spikes in property crimes as they steal
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anything they can to feed their addiction and they create a thriving market for organized crime
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as they consume illicit drugs. Vulnerable people indeed. Look, I don't want to crap on addicts
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here. The people on the streets need our compassion and they need our help. We have a
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social obligation to help the folks suffering out there and funds directed towards addiction
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treatment and expanding long-term mental health facilities or dollars were well spent.
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We won't be able to help them though if we keep pretending that addiction isn't a problem.
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him. It was maddening watching Calgary News this week as legacy outlets reported on a vandalism
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rampage committed by an addict where he did tens of thousands of dollars of damage to cars.
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And I watched him get a quote from an idiot advocate for the homeless talking about how
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this was an issue caused by high rents. I wish I was making this up. Look, the guy's an addict and
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he was nuts. He should be in an institution. He doesn't have a rental problem. The delusional
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dolts from the enablement cult have been blaming the explosion of crime and street person populations
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on everything from capitalism to racism to climate change, all while refusing to admit
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it's the damn addiction. A late-stage addict, whether it's fentanyl, meth, heroin, or crack,
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isn't capable of finding a job or maintaining a home. They do indeed need to be taken from
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the streets if they're to be treated, but they aren't in any condition to live within
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any form of long-term housing unless they've been treated, despite what smooth-brained
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housing-first activists claim. Another term that should be stricken from all public discourse
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is social disorder. The proper term is crime, and it's getting out of control. Hatchet attacks,
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robberies, and fentanyl dealing aren't a disorder issue. They're bloody crimes. Apologists for the
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havoc they have fostered in the streets through addiction enablement policies often try to blame
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citizens by saying it's a perception of unsafety. Really? You know, when people, a senior or a woman
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has to run the gauntlet of addicts in various states of frenzy just to get to work, it's more
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than just a perception of unsafety, and they shouldn't have to deal with it. In Nanaimo,
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the local government went full enablement ideology and managed to create one of the
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most dangerous small cities in Canada. While the city has a beautiful backdrop, it has become a
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dump. Because the fools in city administration felt the risk was only a perception issue,
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they allowed an addiction enablement facility to be set up next to their city hall.
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Now the imbeciles are calling for a fence to be built around city hall because they're surrounded
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by out-of-control addicts, and they feel unsafe. Maybe they just perceive it. Enablement addicts,
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advocates blame the deaths of addicts on what they call a toxic supply. They live in a mythical
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bubble state where they believe that addicts would be just fine if they could just get pure
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drugs. That's not like those nasty additives the drug dealers put into the supply, which kill
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people. Look, there's no such thing as a safe supply of meth, fentanyl, heroin, a crack for an
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addict. Addiction is a progressive condition causing addicts to continue to seek higher doses
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until they finally overdose and die. Speaking of that, the term's overdose, and even the most pure
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of drugs will cause it. The sound of sirens are ubiquitous. I don't know why I put those words in
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my own monologues. They just kill me. In urban areas, as an ambulance constantly respond to
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overdoses. Meanwhile, people suffer and potentially die waiting emergency services and hospital spaces
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because they're tied up with addicts. The addiction epidemic is only going to get worse
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as authorities refuse to acknowledge the realities associated with it. If we do truly care about the
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addicts, we got to start speaking bluntly about it and deal with it directly, even if it means
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forcible confinement. It's a complex problem and won't be solved by simplistic souls who
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haven't the courage to call a junkie a junkie. No serious social problem has ever been solved
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with Pollyanna attitudes and euphemisms. So take that and put it in your crap pipe.
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I write that one often, but boy, I don't say it that often.
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Yeah, I'm not going to write it so much for these monologues.
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But like I said, it just got me going on that newscast. They're talking, oh, well, this is due to lack of rent. The guy's a nut. He's out of control, and you're talking about rent control.
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And it was good video, and one of the people who suffered was Councillor McLean.
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Hey, I was thinking during your earlier statement, I should have been a meteorologist growing up.
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You know, you don't have to be right. You really don't have to do anything.
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you look out the window you know oh it's going to be sunny yeah how do you get a job how do you keep
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a job when you're wrong most of the time well you can see that or become an elected official yeah
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i suppose six one half done as the other so your face isn't covered with the horrible boils so i
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assume the uh the uh honeybee milking went okay on the weekend it did yes uh yeah we got a pretty
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good crop there and i managed to suit up correctly last year yeah i got four stings for my troubles
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in one session but uh no i went sting free and then got a hell of a lot of honey so are we talking
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gallons i mean i i don't know so we got about seven gallons oh that's good yeah and the bees
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don't get angry that you're taking on you oh they get right pissed but i get suited up
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the stings when i can and uh no it went really well uh actually that's one thing with all this
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rain the flowers and everything out there in the foothills where i am or something else so during
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until I come in and try and steal their honey.
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And do they start making it again the next day, or do they
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Well, I did a little one in spring just to get some
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do two, though. I'm going to do one more probably in three weeks.
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you're going to bring in. Yeah, I keep forgetting, too. I've got to bring
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Yeah, another fun day in the news. We survived the tsunami. That was good fun last night.
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Top story at the moment is the electoral officer in Alberta has officially,
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whatever he does, released or declared the first petition, which I think if you remember was filed
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go out and collect signatures. I think they need
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change? Oh yeah, that's right. $295,000 is higher
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Exactly. So, yeah, residents of Edmonton, you might want to secure your doors and make sure it's not him knocking.
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The Liberals are apparently hosting a cabinet meeting today virtually to discuss recognizing Palestine as a state.
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Yeah. You know, you got to reward those Hamas terrorists.
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Sure. And it just tells those countries if you slaughter and rape enough people, Liberal countries will give you your own state.
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Well, you know, France was the first to capitulate, which they usually do.
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And then England, so Great Britain followed yesterday.
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Yeah, there's, you know, again, many things I take issue with Trump on,
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I mean, they've got the veto authority at the U.N., so Canada and France can prance around and do whatever stupid virtues they like.
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They're not going to get declared by the U.N. anyways.
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Some emotional scenes in Birmingham, England today as Ozzy Osbourne did his final tour of the city, casket with his family.
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Sharon and the kids walking behind, crying, tens of thousands of people lining the street there.
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A good story from our friends at Black Locks Reporter.
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They've discovered 22 foreign diplomats, Canadian diplomats, have been fired for criminal activity like, you know, inflating their, you know, taking bribes and stealing stuff and all that sort of stuff.
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But usually, doesn't it work when you commit criminal activity, you get charged with a crime?
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Well, that is normally the case, but none of these cases have been sent to the police.
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Oh, well, I imagine they probably got a severance package.
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They probably did get a severance package, but Global Affairs is working very hard to recover the lost and stolen funds.
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Oh, yeah. I'll certainly hold my breath on not seeing that.
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And Friday's the big day, the big deadline day for tariffs.
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Trump has said, came out today, say no extension, no extension for Canada.
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And I get the sense he's going to hammer us on Friday.
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he put some softwood lumber tariffs on this week, I think 26%.
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So I think the hammer's going to fall on Friday, but we shall see.
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Well, yeah, I mean, you know, trying to predict what Trump might do is a tough game at the best.
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I mean, better make some football predictions if you can figure out what he's going to be up to.
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Well, you missed out on the big celebrity news.
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Yes, yeah, spotted she was having a concert in Montreal.
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and spotted having dinner, and then they went for drinks on a terrorist.
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So, you know, she's newly divorced from Orlando Bloom,
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and he's been separated a while now from Sophie.
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Well, I think probably Katie was driving around Canada
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Well, then if Orlando ever meets Trudeau, he can use that classic old line, how do I taste?
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All right, well, I'll leave it on that vile note and let you get back to the newsroom.
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And, oh, there's Dave behind me with his lunch right on cue.
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All right. What do we got looking in the comments? Just much of the same. Good to see you all
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checking in. This is, you know, for those watching it live, use that chat with things,
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keep things civil. That's all. I am going to have Mr. McTeague on, but it's going to be at
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1230 to do timing with things. So I'll do my rambling on things until then. The schedule's
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a little different today. So in Alberta, the independence movement, the petitioning,
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the stuff going on, there's a lot happening. So yeah, they've given a full approval from
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the election's chief electoral officer in Alberta to Thomas Lukasik's stupid petition put forth.
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And I say stupid in that it's petitioning to hold a referendum about nothing. It's to have a
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referendum just saying, yes, we love Canada. Well, good for you. But nothing will change. Nothing
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will change. Either way, you vote on that referendum. Why use the electoral system to
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have what's essentially a poll, but it doesn't matter. That is what the electoral officer has
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felt is fit to potentially put forth for referendum. I doubt Lukasik is going to really
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get, because it's really about nothing, the, as Dave said, close to 300,000 signatures that are
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going to be required to get that on a ballot for a referendum. And I keep reminding people of that.
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If they think it's that easy to get something into a referendum, this is a real petition,
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a real one, on paper, witnessed, name, phone number, address, signature, and the address has
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to be the home address. You can't use a mailing address. Hundreds of thousands of them, and he
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has 90 days to get them. Very, very unlikely. Now, the one put forth, though, by the Alberta
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Prosperity Project is a whole different ball of wax. That one is saying, do you want Alberta to
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become a complete sovereign state and leave Confederation? I'm paraphrasing, but it's a
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straightforward question. But now the Alberta electoral officer has said, we've got to put
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that question to the King's court as a judge to rule on whether or not it's constitutional. Well,
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hold on a minute. What? Where does that come from? Look, it's a straightforward question asking
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whether we want to stay or not. It's based on the Clarity Act. The Clarity Act went all the way
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through the Supreme Court. This has already been settled. You think that now we have to beg the
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court for permission to ask a question on a referendum, the double standard is starting to
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get a little blatant there. What's interesting is Premier Smith and her justice minister have
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already spoken up to the electoral officers and, hey, cut that out. That's not where this needs
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to go. You're there to administer the votes in the elections, not to determine those sorts of
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things. Or I guess he's saying it's not his role to determine those sorts of things. That's why he
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feels he has to put it to the court. We can't hold referendums, and it's fair enough on things
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according to the legislation, on anything that would violate the Constitution. If we wanted to
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hold, or the Charter for that matter, if we wanted to hold a referendum to, I don't know, make LGBTQ
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marriage illegal again, that would be a clear violation of the Charter and it wouldn't be able
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to go to a question. That's fair enough. But this other one has already been covered. No, they're
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just dragging their heels. So they give the permission to a completely unserious question
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like Thomas Lukasik's question. And now they're going to try and drag it through the courts
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with the legitimate question. And I mean, most Albertans don't want to go at this point.
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I like to think that's going to change, but that's where it's got to be put to the voters.
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That's the only way to go. But to refuse to give or drag your heels or mess with the process,
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do you think, guys, that that's really going to reduce the independence movement, set it back?
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Is it going to cut away at the frustration? You know, if you take away the democratic means and
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ability for people to get things done, that's what ends up leading to non-democratic efforts.
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No, I'm not saying it is a threat before some clown goes on along that. I'm just saying
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you can't cork the bottle and think the issue is going to go away. In fact, the best thing,
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it's funny, I give him credit because wherever he is, he's not stupid. And I had an NSHE. When
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this really first came about, what he did was daring Smith saying, put it to a referendum
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right now. Let's do it right away. Let's get it ready to put it on the question next month.
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Because he knew that it wouldn't win. If you want to shut down the movement,
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hold a referendum and have it lose. And that indeed would put a ice on it for some years.
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But to try and say, oh, we're going to drag it out for what is it going to be now? Months, years,
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weeks, whatever it is to go through the courts for us to get permission to ask the question,
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that is not going to reduce the movement. That's going to build more mistrust in the Federation
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because they all kind of get bundled together quite often.
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This is where I really start to question the judiciary
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It really did. I mean, so the battle's been going on. Look, ridiculous anti-automotive
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ideological nutcases have taken over city halls across the country. And one of their favorite
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ways to screw with cars is sticking a bunch of stupid bike lanes in to choke up the traffic.
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But, you know, the way to deal with them, again, I actually wrote a monologue. I put a column on
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that. I think voters should just wake up and start firing these idiots. You know, Chow in Toronto,
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Gondek in Calgary, Sohee in Edmonton. Instead, we've got battles going on in Alberta with Devin
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Dreeshan, our transportation minister, battling. I think he's meeting with Gondek today on that.
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Well, bike lanes in Calgary because it's interfering with traffic. So is it a provincial
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thing where transportation and traffic is their authority or is it city thing because it's city
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streets? I don't know. They're going to fight it out. I think if we just start firing those
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hammerheads in civic elections, we wouldn't have to deal with it. But either way, in Toronto,
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the bike lanes have gotten so stupid, and they are stupid, and they're underutilized,
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and they're seasonal. We aren't Amsterdam clowns. But Ford has taken that as something to take on,
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and he was talking about forcing the city to remove bike lanes. So it got taken to the courts,
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because there's existing bike lanes he wanted to get rid of. It went to Ontario courts,
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and they ruled that it would violate the constitution to remove them.
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What sort of ridiculous mental twisting did this judge have to take
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to determine a bike lane is a constitutional right?
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yeah, banking needs to be a constitutional right for these days.
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You know, these selective rights that we get given
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where a chip got debanked. Yeah. Royal bank shut down her accounts. She has to move them
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because she played with the wrong crowd because she was a lawyer who represented freedom minded
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people. I mean, you know, banks, unfortunately are something I consider a necessary evil in life.
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You can't get through modern life without a bank. You have to deal with them. Kind of like
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insurance companies. I don't care for dealing with them. I can't stand them. You always feel
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like you're a supplicant, even though you're the customer. But because it's a necessity for you,
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yeah, there should be quite some stringent rules about what it'll take before being debanked. And
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there should, of course, never be an occasion where the government can reach into your accounts
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and steal it. But that very thing happened within Canada. Our courts don't seem to worry about those
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constitutional rights, those abilities, those freedoms. But they have found that bike lanes
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are constitutional right. When I say online, it gets a lot of people all upset and whining. When
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I say Canada is broken. This is why I say it, guys. It's broken. It's stupid. Speaking of my
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personal news, I might as well talk about it. That was covered in the Western Standard News a while
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back. You know, I'm dealing with those charges that came because I shot a video on the Siksika
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Reserve in Alberta. And yeah, I'm fighting it. I'm fighting on my charter rights for free movement
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and free press. My court date's been set for the first court date on that anyways, October 16th.
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maybe that'll probably, you know, you see, I would say normally that would be thrown out of court
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because it's a stupid charge and their own law is stupid. And you don't need to be a lawyer to
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realize that. It's just the local chief and counsel pretty upset that I showed that a First Nations
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ban that got $1.2 billion from Justin Trudeau has everybody living in shacks and garbage for some
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reason. So people are kind of wondering where the money went. So rather than answer the question,
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they've charged me with trespassing for daring to drive on a public highway. And it was a highway,
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guys, and shoot video of the conditions on that reserve. So yeah, now I would have said with
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confidence that a judge will look at this and say, this is ridiculous. You guys can't do this. It's a
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public highway. Get over it. But then this is a world where judges consider my claims to be a
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constitutional right. So I kind of lose a little bit of confidence in where things might go with
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that. It gets a little frightening. Speaking of free speech, free expression, here's the other
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right that uh christian worship band uh fella whatever sean foight uh whatever his name might
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be he's been chased all over the place right uh chased out of a national park in the east coast
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now winnipeg has uh refused to let him have a concert it looks like and montreal a church got
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fined for having him perform inside it could you really imagine say if a performance was banned
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in a mosque. And the mosque got fined. Of course not. They wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole.
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But the church got fined thousands for hosting this guy in Montreal, a private facility.
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Fined for hosting a Christian guy. Look, it's not my sort of thing. I wouldn't go to one of these,
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but that's the thing. I choose not to. It's not that hard. This should fall under free expression.
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This should fall under free speech. This is the sort of thing that are charter and constitutional
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rights. Yet nobody seems to be standing up in our courts for this man's rights or the people who
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want to see him or want to listen to him. This country is getting so ass backwards, guys.
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It's frightening. But I believe he's going to be, this will be where the fun starts to really get
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going. He's going to be performing in Alberta, I think, on provincial property. And of course,
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the NDP is doing cartwheels and jumping up and down very upset with it. Oh, too bad. But we'll
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So we kind of nutcase protesters or whatever else comes about from that.
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We really just, we've got to get what our rights are
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and our responsibilities are and get that sorted out.
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And I don't have faith that our current system can do so
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Being government employees, government appointees,
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they probably, um, probably did get big severance packages. The rest of us in the real world,
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you do something like that, you get criminally charged. In Canada, it gets covered up. Speaking
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of us getting robbed, uh, yeah, just another comment. Just to mention a commenter, Joe Mills
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pointed out, well, you know where some of that 1.2 billion is going? It's going to lawyers.
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Yeah, there is. It's called the Indian industry. There's a lot of people who make a heck of a lot
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of money out of the perpetual court challenges from the reserves one way or another, up and down
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all left, right, and center. And they're just bleeding it. And, you know, my little case is
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another example of it. So let's talk about other big bloated institutions robbing Canadians, the
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CBC. Yeah, you know, the state broadcaster, they get their, what, 1.3, 1.4 billion a year.
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Their market share during the news on evenings is down to like less than 3%. Yeah, 97% of Canadians
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don't watch their crap, but 100% of Canadians get to pay for it. Well, it turns out they have
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almost 1,500 employees making six figures. Yeah, not a typo. 1,500 CBC employees making six figures
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to make broadcasts that nobody watches. There's where your money's going, guys. I'm sure they
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got some great severance packages as well. And of course, the bias at the CBC is just outrageous.
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We've seen that recently with that CBC anchor who quit.
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We've seen a few of them over the years who've left and they've exposed it and said, yes, this is an ideological state broadcaster that is there to create a narrative, not report on things.
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If we must, we don't need one, but if we must have a state broadcaster, if we must have a tax funded broadcaster, it should be the most unbiased one possible.
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CTV is working hard to come in on a close second.
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And yeah, 1,500 of them are making six-figure salaries.
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You know, we didn't get out of that in the election.
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there's a recent story from Jaime Rubenstein on that
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with the First Nations and kind of bouncing back to that one again. It starts out with this column
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saying, if you want to understand who's benefited the most from Canada's residential school reckoning,
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look not to the survivors, but the lawyers, the consultants in the Indian industry. And
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I mean, the numbers, the final bill for just the latest, because it never gets settled, right?
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These guys love keeping on that hamster wheel of settlements. 3.23 billion. And it's still growing.
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It's still going. And guess what? Let's look at that. What was it? 150,000 kids attended the
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residential schools over the course of a hundred and some years. Yet you listen to the interviews
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and everything because everybody can self-identify and guess what? Every First Nations person you
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talk to says they had an uncle who went to a residential school and they deserve compensation
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and they've all gotten it. But it's not enough. They need more and more and more. It's an industry
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unto itself? And is it making anything better? That's a lot of what I did with the video. That's
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what I go on with my rants. If it was working to make things better, I wouldn't be as upset.
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But it isn't working. The housing is still atrocious. Their health is still atrocious.
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The statistic I bring up most often on that is that one that came up in Alberta,
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where First Nations men die on average 19 years younger than your average person.
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That's a quarter of a person's life gone on average.
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And you're trying to pretend and tell me the system is working,
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decades of pouring money in, of platitudes, of self-government, all these programs,
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They're living in squalor. That's why they got so upset when I showed the imagery of those houses
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because that reserve got more than even the other ones got. The crime is through the roof. Their
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education levels are atrociously low. Where's the end? Who can point at this and say it's working
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and that this path is reasonable? It's not. So somebody's got to call it out. And we do.
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But all right, I'm going to get on to somebody else I see here in the lobby there.
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He enjoys calling things out and how they are as well.
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And that's Dan McTeague, the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy.
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Happy midsummer days to you here, Corey, and lots to talk about.
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You guys have got some hot weather going on out there.
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So let's have a tax so I can bring down the temperature a few degrees.
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We lost the carbon tax and now we don't have uniformity and weather anymore.
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So, you know, there's so much to cover, I guess.
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What I kind of want to speak of from our view, though, and this is kind of in your ballpark.
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we're going to get a utility corridor, we're going to diversify our markets. But is any of
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that realistic? Because I'm just seeing that he seems to be throwing it out there, but backing
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it off as soon as any opposition sort of rises up against it. Well, there's conditionality to
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everything he's doing. If you want a pipeline, you have to have consensus, which we're not going to
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get. If you want a pipeline, you have to decarbonize. If you want a pipeline, someone else
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got to try to pay for it um if you want a pipeline uh you listen we built one and it's great it's
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wonderful things it's doing great things except it costs us 50 billion bucks thanks to bc and the
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other uh uh miscreants who spent a lot of time trying to block a pipeline that had the signature
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of the canadian government on it which isn't worth its weight in gold which is discouraging
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investments look i think it's come down to a very simple thing um this september uh to use an old
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shakespearean the place the thing where we'll catch the king he's going to come out and show
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what he is really once and for all because we have the mark carney that is against fossil fuels
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against hydrocarbons against the very thing that maintains our standard living in this country
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like it or not and by the way i'm from toronto i'm not from the west so i know what up i speak
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and so i think we're gonna have to wait to see what mr carney is prepared to do is the old mark
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carney or is that somehow he has he reinvented himself i doubt it yeah well i mean some of it
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i guess kind of showed he's still making the uh the the ban of combustion engine vehicles a hill
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to die on that recently came up within a year that there's going to be what a 20 sales bar that
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they have to hit it's just insane you know telling private businesses this is what you have to sell
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and how much of it or there's going to be consequences you know when trump got elected
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everybody's worried about tariffs i was more worried about the ev mandate out the door which
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meant my province had spent a lot of money along with the federal government and basically uh uh
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you know went wet the pole with respects to uh a lot of money we didn't have to build things that
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no one wants they can't afford in the united states isn't going to buy why do i know that
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uh cory before i was a member of parliament back in 1993 i served uh media relations for a tiny
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little company back then it was number five in canada now it's number one toyota the largest
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exporter of vehicles into the united states they didn't go for the grift they didn't go for the
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you know the the flavor of the day with evs they know that uh yeah people for some people
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over glorified golf carts are a cool thing to have and maybe they're fun and they're you know
00:34:11.520
computers on wheels but for practical reasons and for a cold country like canada uh they don't work
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and now we don't have a market united states in which to sell batteries and uh uh auto parts much
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less manufactured uh auto parts and here in ontario our number one sector is the auto sector and it's
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now imperiled so thanks doug to doug ford and his uh you know kissing up to the federal liberals on
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this stupid ev mandate which is really a recipe for disaster for the country and for the province
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and uh you know it's not lost i think on people at western canada canola farmers and others have
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had to take uh enormous hits in terms of tariffs by china because we're not allowing them to bring
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in their cheaper made and uh they they've got a 15-year advantage of building in building evs
00:34:54.000
they know that they can't beat us in terms of internal combustion engines which is where we
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ought to be going which is where the consumer is going in this country unless they can you know
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have evs shoved down their throats well and that's where we do get a bit worried out here in the west
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I mean, honestly, as much as we're having some regional issues, and I like to take my shots at
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the voting patterns of Central Canada, I don't want their economy to crater because the more
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Central Canada's economy craters, the more carny dips into the West's resources to try and pay
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the bills. I mean, we all do better if our industries are doing well where they are. And
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it just looks like he's taking a stick to the automotive sector out there. I mean,
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it could be catastrophic. It will be catastrophic, and they will leave.
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Toyota, again, being the number one maker of vehicles, isn't really worrying too much about EVs, didn't want to go for the grift.
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And now we have the mayors of various cities across Canada.
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Auto city mayor is now writing a letter to the prime minister and to his minister saying EV mandates are going to kill our cities.
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So if the liberals want to ignore that, that's fine.
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They've done so with the emissions caps and a bunch of other things.
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there's a cost of being foolish and trendy and uh that's going to cost people real jobs and so yeah
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maybe mark carney thinks it's cool to go you know dip into uh and make the country go put the
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country further in debt but i don't think bond rating agencies are going to put up with that
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nonsense much longer i think we're going to see a significant credit downgrade the likes of which
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is going to affect even the tony types in downtown parts of this world when they have to renew their
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mortgages at much higher rates rather than falling down which many had expected and hoped for
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Well, and people should realize as well then, you know, they don't necessarily watch those sorts of things. When we get those credit downgrades, what the impact is, is our national debt suddenly becomes a heck of a lot more expensive. And we are already, I believe the Taxpayers Federation, Franco always likes to put it, you know, we're losing like a hospital a day worth of money right now on interest payments, essentially, or the interest alone on our national debt is more than the transfers for healthcare going to every province.
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And if we get our credit downgraded, that's only going to become worse.
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And if we don't start selling our products to the rest of the world, because we've spent 10 years shutting down the infrastructure that would get our most important and valued 9% to 15% of your GDP, oil and gas.
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Instead, yeah, we can send it to the United States, sell it for $3 a million cubic feet, and then they turn around, LNG it for $15, $16.
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No wonder Trump made a big deal, but he's doing it on the backs of Canadian resources.
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I suspect that Canadians are really starting to smarten up finally they are starting to realize
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that you have to build pipelines in order to sustain your standard of living because you know
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what the Germanys the South Koreas the Japans the Greece take your pick Latvia Lithuania are not
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coming to Canada for our AI or for our vehicles they're coming here for our oil and gas and we're
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not prepared to give to them they will go somewhere else in the meantime you and I and our children
00:37:55.420
are going to have to be faced and possibly grandchildren with debts we will never be able
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to repay and why is that a concern in 1997 a young buck mp dan mctaig decided to write a report on
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gasoline pricing in canada the two people would want to know what the hell was going on john
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cred say and paul martin they both pulled me aside and said please do not make this about the uh the
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upstream about the oil and gas sector which of course wasn't it was to deal with the uh problems
00:38:17.380
at the uh at the retail level at the uh refinery level and i asked him why simply because they were
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we were going to go from 1 million to 2 million barrels uh production and export per day which
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would get us out of the national debt that we had found ourselves back in the 1990s so
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make no mistake we want to get out of this morass we're going to sell more oil more gas
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doesn't matter what mark carney thinks or all the conditions he puts on it he's got a choice either
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fish he gets involved in doing the bit of the fishing or cut bait as my grandfather used to say
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do your stuff or get off the pot yeah well and as you said too i mean i hope so you're saying you
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know canadians seem to be waking up or realizing it or figuring it out seems when people's butts
00:38:53.700
get kicked reality kind of jumps in there and it's going to happen pretty soon but he's going to have
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to take a dramatic course then it doesn't matter if canadians are ready to go we showed most
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canadians already support pipelines it's that ideological leadership that has to turn around
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and say okay we're going to put our foot down exercise our constitutional authority and get
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this done and he's showing no indication yet anyways that he's willing to do that well he
00:39:18.340
sold people the belief he could actually stand up to donald trump in 36 hours we're going to find out
00:39:23.140
just how much how hollow a uh a promise and commitment that was but he doesn't have much
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of a choice look i'm in downtown toronto right now there's something called the cne canadian
00:39:32.100
national exhibition been going on for 160 years or something there were 4 000 jobs for yeah part
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time for two weeks three weeks 55 000 people showed up for 4 000 jobs that's how desperate
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the situation has become in this country anybody who's still trendy and cool wants to deny and
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think it's all about climate and that we can spend uh without consequence and give grift and
00:39:53.540
money to every tom dick and harry foundation organization green group out there and someone
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looking for more money to mooch the game is over the cupboards are bare and we now have to fish
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or cut bait as i said earlier either you sell more oil get to market uh pronto or you falter
00:40:10.760
as a as a nation financially yeah well and beyond that i mean kind of pivoting back to the
00:40:16.140
the domestic markets for our automotive sectors uh speaking you know of giving a chill to
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investment or wanting to expand when we've got essentially a ban on conventional vehicles coming
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10 years away now it's not that long yeah um let's just say for whatever reason all everybody
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in canada said yes you know what i want to go with it i'm gonna buy an electric car the problem is we
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also don't have the national infrastructure to do that we don't have the generating capability we
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don't have the transmission capability we don't have the household capability where is this going
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to come from it's not going to come and it's not going to come in time but i can tell you on january
00:40:50.820
1st car dealers in every community across this country are going to be worried that if uh one
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of every five cars they sell isn't ev they're going to get dinged with a twenty thousand dollar
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per unit uh tax so the liberals are going to tax the daylight set of car dealers so you're a car
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salesman you think this is kind of cool and nice you know full well at the back of your lot are a
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of evs that are not selling because people won't buy them unless they get subsidies they won't
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build infrastructure and thus they get subsidies they won't even build them unless they get
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subsidies this makes no sense whatsoever including economics but from another perspective
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if we think we have the money to go spend on on trinkets that a few handful of people in
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downtown parts of this country think is cool or that uh you know in february and march these
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things work out well i always say take your iphone take your smartphone put it in the middle of winter
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in alberta or northern ontario see how long the battery lasts in those kind of conditions same
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thing for the technology that's there we can wish all the wonderful things we want about electric
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vehicles they're impractical they're unreliable and unfortunately they're too expensive and for
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a lot of car dealers and canadians the harsh reality begins in just a few months and if we
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don't get our act around suspending this ev mandate there's going to be hell to pay and we're going to
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make a bad situation economically in this country a lot worse i'm a car dealer i'd be very worried
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the first thing I'd be, if I could, I'd be on the phone to every liberal MP I could get my hands on
00:42:09.980
and tell them to end the madness now. Well, I can imagine and hope some are quietly calling and
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asking him to end that. But assuming it still goes ahead and comes in, do you think there
00:42:20.660
could be a legal recourse? I mean, this is a government action that's going to drive dealerships
00:42:24.720
out of business. I mean, it's put them into a corner. Yeah. You know, could this go to the
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courts it could it probably will and it's likely to possibly even trigger what could be an election
00:42:37.400
although i don't think the block really cares but if there's no money to pay for these things and
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you're going to penalize dealers for not meeting your tony commitment um you know it goes to 100
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by 2035 that means every year it goes up by 10 how much are you going to beat car dealers who
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are really trying to struggle to make ends meet how are you going to tell an automotive industry
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that could very well pack up its bags and decide to go to the united states under the swan song of
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president trump of giving them incentives to be here and no tariffs wait till we see in one year
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from now uh the renegotiation of the uh usmca i'm not going to call it kuzma because i think that's
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kind of trendy and tony and people like to have that version but wait till this happens if you
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think tariffs are bad you think vehicle ev mandates ending united states are bad wait till we have to
00:43:22.700
to go through renegotiation. If only Canada had not stopped building pipelines and getting our
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oil to other countries around this world, we wouldn't be in this position. Make no mistake,
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Canadians voted to weaken their economy and to make Donald Trump that much more of an opportunist.
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Well, absolutely. I mean, there's no weaker position you could put yourself in
00:43:43.380
as a vendor of anything than to have yourself when you really only have one customer. You are
00:43:47.840
over a barrel and we've been screaming that from the rooftops for 20 years now uh now we're seeing
00:43:53.600
the consequence of it when when you know it's a uh negotiation between the strong and the weak
00:43:59.280
and and we're on the weak side and we can't change that overnight and you know corey i mean i i look
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at this every day i'm gonna gas prices are gonna go up everywhere across the country one retailers
00:44:07.680
are gonna put back their retail margins on this for the long weekend but you know what uh because
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of the weak canadian dollar we're not selling any oil we're not selling gas that we used to
00:44:16.640
and there's no one investing the country to buy housing and create the bubble we have you and i
00:44:21.120
are actually paying an extra 24 cents a liter in every uh 24 cents on every liter price of gasoline
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that is the biggest tax we have and it has a lot to do with the fact that we're not selling to the
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world that which the world wants they're not coming to us to talk about our hydrogen they're
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not coming to us to talk about our ai they're coming here because they need our oil and gas
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because they don't have it and we do it with the best damn specs in the world and for us to say no
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or to naval gaze or to dither like mark harney is doing we're probably mr dither soon um i think
00:44:47.840
it's pretty clear uh where this country is going to wind up and we're going to see this in september
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he either really has to uh uh fisher cut bait as i said earlier he's got to get his act together
00:44:56.320
and he's going to make a decision including a budget which by the way will demonstrate to
00:45:00.720
everybody just how deep and protracted this uh economic malaise is because of how we voted and
00:45:06.320
the people we put in power well that's a pretty bleak picture but i didn't bring you on to give
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us all you know sunshine and lollipops we just need that reality check if we're going to try
00:45:14.720
and head this off a little bit so uh yeah we've run out of time i know there's a lot more things
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we could have gone on about but i i love having you on as i said i it harkens me back to when i
00:45:24.320
still had my beefs with liberals to a degree but there was a lot of common sense still within that
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party but it's long fled and uh you still at least apply that out there so before i let you go where
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could people find your your organization and where you're what you're up to dan thanks carrie
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affordableenergy.ca look at the work that we're doing join us support us and of course uh get on
00:45:44.400
the bandwagon get more pipelines built get rid of these ev mandates and above all nix net zero it's
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time to get rid of that thing that's what's causing all these problems it's very bad for
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canada it's time for it to go absolutely well thank you very much again dan and i hope we get
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to talk again soon take care corey great thanks so yeah that was dan mcteague and as you can hear
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yeah he doesn't beat around the bush and uh he knows of what he speaks all things energy so get
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out there check that out subscribe support do those things we need those voices we're heading
00:46:13.280
down a drain guys and uh you know it's it's it's a tough outlook but uh still the sooner we try to
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work on heading it off the better okay well that's the time i've got for today guys thank you very
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