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00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.160 or bonjour to my lone french listener out there i hope you're not too offended by my monologue when

00:00:34.600 i get to it uh welcome to a chilly episode of the coin mortgage i see commenter jordan already

00:00:40.360 pointing out how nasty and tough winter is right now yeah i i just thought we've had it pretty good

00:00:45.560 oh yes we're getting a pretty good taste of it oh well it'll pass it helps us appreciate natural

00:00:49.960 glass and modern forms and he does it or he's most of us so uh this episode's been really

00:00:54.440 interesting. Brian Levy, he promotes the 51st state concept. So nice non-controversial issue.

00:01:00.600 Discuss a little bit. There's so much going on out there. Of course, we're going to have a news

00:01:05.880 check-in and a lot of other things going on here. So good to see you guys. I still think we're having

00:01:11.480 some sound issues. You might want to check those mics. The commenters are commenting. And we'll

00:01:15.640 get that fixed up right away before I start my monologue here. So yes, with President Trump,

00:01:20.360 we've got a whole lot going on it was difficult to uh yeah i understand there's a bit of a delay

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00:01:40.280 uh give me a thumbs up please because i love it when my monologue is destroyed by this so uh

00:01:45.720 how's the weather out there in Eastern Canada? Is the sound coming in better for anybody yet?

00:01:51.460 All right. It sounds like the sound has been figured out and sorted. So let's talk about

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00:02:35.000 what I'm wound up about today, as usual, these sorts of things. And I just got to get that

00:02:40.720 monologue back to the top. There we go. Oh gosh, I'm having fun today. So talking about a very

00:02:48.780 slow-moving monologue on my telemarketer. Okay. Has Trump given up or has it given Canada a

00:02:55.260 strong enough wake-up call? If people finally come to realize how vulnerable Canada has become due to

00:02:59.620 being nearly completely dependent on the United States for exports. And we've had a decade of

00:03:04.440 ideologically driven actions under the Trudeau government. It's led to 97% of Canada's oil and

00:03:09.780 gas exports going to the United States. There's no situation worse for a vendor of a product than

00:03:14.440 having a single customer. Canada has been selling heavy crude to the USA at a significantly discounted

00:03:19.540 price due to having no access to other markets for years. Billions have been lost due to the

00:03:24.240 discounts. Now, under Trudeau's guidance, over $150 billion in energy projects were either scrapped

00:03:29.500 due to punitive regulatory hurdles or outright cancelled. Many of those projects were designed

00:03:34.780 to bring Canadian oil and gas out to European and Asian markets, and had they been completed,

00:03:39.040 the price differential for Canadian energy products would have been reduced.

00:03:43.000 Having a diverse customer market doesn't reduce the price differential on trades good,

00:03:47.160 doesn't just reduce that though.

00:03:49.300 It also empowers Canadians as an independent energy producer

00:03:52.900 and shields the country from hostile trade wars with its biggest trade partner.

00:03:57.540 When President Trump grabbed Canada and shook it like a dog with a rag doll in his first few weeks in power.

00:04:02.540 While an 11th hour reprieve has been offered on proposed tariffs, it's still considered temporary.

00:04:06.640 Markets have been shaken and confidence is shattered.

00:04:09.440 Trump got his way with Canada on the border issue, but rest assured, he has no plans to stop there.

00:04:13.960 He's going to be pressuring Canada further, and there's little we can do about it.

00:04:17.100 So why is Trump able to push Canada around so easily?

00:04:20.120 Well, again, it's because Canada has no real leverage in a trade war.

00:04:23.680 A trade war hurts both sides, but it hurts Canada a heck of a lot more than it hurts the United States.

00:04:28.100 Oil and gas are the top products that Canada exports to the USA,

00:04:31.160 and that's where Canada can potentially hold the most leverage in trade negotiations.

00:04:35.260 Until there's access to more customers, though, that leverage is only theoretical.

00:04:39.520 If Canada tried to cut off or reduce oil exports to the United States as a trade tactic,

00:04:44.500 what would we do with a surplus 4 million barrels a day right now? Drink it?

00:04:48.020 I mean, whenever the current trade situation is resolved,

00:04:51.000 Canada is still going to remain vulnerable as a nation when it comes to the United States.

00:04:54.800 There's an immediate crisis that needs to be resolved,

00:04:56.780 but even more importantly, we need some long-term thinking to ensure we aren't held hostage like this again.

00:05:01.640 Many voices are calling for market diversification as citizens and politicians alike

00:05:05.120 have suddenly realized what a precarious situation Canada is in.

00:05:08.780 Even Quebec Premier Legault spoke of the importance of market access.

00:05:12.980 He then, though, quickly stated, though there was still no way Quebec would allow a pipeline to be built across it.

00:05:18.680 Apparently, we don't have a social license.

00:05:20.180 Stuff your social license, Legault.

00:05:22.340 This is where the rubber hits the road.

00:05:23.520 Are we a confederation or not?

00:05:25.880 The Constitution makes it clear no province has the right to stop infrastructure from carrying products from other provinces or from being constructed or operating.

00:05:34.740 That includes roads, airspace, railways.

00:05:36.640 and yes, pipelines. Could you imagine what happened if Alberta blocked rail access from

00:05:40.920 BC or Manitoba blocked truckers from Toronto? It's unimaginable. So why the hell are we still

00:05:46.800 putting up with this crap from Quebec? It's time to either lay down the law as a federation or 0.99

00:05:51.380 dissolve the nation. We can't tolerate the spoiled brat of confederation to continue to dictate to

00:05:56.560 the rest of the nation how we may or may not earn money, especially when it's considered the spoiled 0.92

00:06:02.060 brat in question is a chronic interprovincial welfare bum. Quebec's going to be sucking 1.00

00:06:06.380 13.6 billion dollars in equalization payments out of the country in 2026. Well, energy producing

00:06:13.060 provinces in the west receive nothing. The hypocrisy is galling. While Quebec refuses to 0.83

00:06:18.300 develop its own deposits and they're rather large of natural gas and they hinder pipelines, they

00:06:22.280 shamelessly will take the money from energy producing provinces. It has to stop. Equalization

00:06:27.860 is a constitutionally entrenched formula, sure, but the formula is created by the government. It

00:06:32.360 can be cut down to a fraction of what it is and maybe it's time for that to happen. Quebec must 0.97

00:06:36.280 be facing a stark choice. Either accept equalization in a pipeline or be cut off. They'll suddenly

00:06:41.920 discover a love for pipelines, I suspect. They know where their poutine's buttered or they'll

00:06:46.400 separate. Either situation's better for Canada than the status quo. The world's hungry for Canadian 0.96

00:06:51.040 energy. LNG terminals are being created everywhere, aside from Canada. And there's refineries all over

00:06:55.840 the world capable of processing Canada's heavy crude. All that's required is increased coastal

00:07:01.160 access for these products. We can get these things done fast when the will is there. The

00:07:05.820 first Trans Mountain Pipeline took 18 months to construct, and that was in 1953. Post-war energy

00:07:11.220 security was considered in the national interest, and the job got done. Now, energy security remains

00:07:16.420 in the national interest. If the government acts fast, makes it clear they'll clear the regulations

00:07:20.320 and enforce the constitution with pipeline construction, private industry will step up.

00:07:24.940 They need strong assurances, though, and tight timelines, but it can be done. The current

00:07:29.280 government certainly won't do it, but the next one could. So the ball is going to be in Polyev's

00:07:33.780 court, and the time frame's limited. There's never going to be a better time to do this than now.

00:07:39.000 Canada has two choices in front of it. It can act like a proper confederation and get the

00:07:43.160 projects done in the national interest, or it can give up, break up, and let the provinces make

00:07:47.980 their own arrangements as an independent nations. You know what? I'm good with either option. I'm

00:07:52.460 just not going to put up with the status quo any longer. All right, that's what's got me wound up

00:07:56.780 today, guys. Let's see what else is going on out in the news. That'll calm me down. Hey, Dave, how are you doing?

00:08:01.080 I'm doing well.

00:08:02.060 Cold enough for you?

00:08:03.020 Oh, God.

00:08:04.060 You know, and it's so cheap.

00:08:04.900 I park so far from here and walk every time, you know, to save a few bucks.

00:08:07.980 But it really drives home how chilly it is.

00:08:10.340 I really love the one-hour commutes and the people, the drivers of black pickup trucks.

00:08:16.440 And it's always black pickup trucks zooming by, you know, going over the speed limit

00:08:22.660 when you need to be going 20 kilometers an hour under the speed limit.

00:08:26.440 The roads are just terrible.

00:08:28.040 I know a lady with a black pickup truck out in Prittis. 1.00

00:08:30.340 She likes to drive with a heavy foot. 0.96

00:08:32.140 I wonder if she might have been the one whizzed by you today.

00:08:33.940 Could have been.

00:08:34.880 Could have been.

00:08:35.880 You know what?

00:08:36.640 The news just continues, Corey.

00:08:38.640 It was at the last month.

00:08:39.620 It just never, never stops.

00:08:40.780 Never a break.

00:08:42.100 Today, we're leading off the website with a new development in the Goudreau brothers case.

00:08:48.640 Remember, they were killed in August last month, or sorry, last year, by a driver called Sean Higgins in New Jersey.

00:08:55.600 and his blood alcohol level was 0.087, so just a little bit above the legal limit.

00:09:03.300 So his attorneys came out today and said, oh, wait a minute, the Goudreau brothers were way

00:09:07.520 more drunk than my guy was. So Johnny's blood alcohol level was 0.0129, and his brother Matthew

00:09:16.800 was 0.0134. So they're both fairly well over the legal limit, but I don't understand his point.

00:09:24.160 they're cycling on the side of the road. They're not in a fast moving, several hundred thousand

00:09:29.340 or a thousand pound vehicle, right? It's, I'm not sure where they're going with that one.

00:09:33.460 Yeah. I don't know if the judge is going to accept that defense well.

00:09:36.040 No, no. So, uh, I'm hoping they, uh, they give him the 60 years, uh, he so rightly deserves,

00:09:43.320 uh, lots of stuff going on with, uh, Trump again today is, uh, the new, uh, uh, sanctions on

00:09:51.940 And Iranian oil has caused the market to go a bit crazy.

00:09:56.980 And the world is responding to his Gaza Strip, going to make the Gaza Strip, the Riviera 1.00

00:10:01.920 of the Middle East, going to kick out all the Palestinians and probably build hotel 1.00

00:10:09.260 towers, casinos and golf courses as is his way.

00:10:12.400 We've got some nice beaches there, nice weather, might be all right place to holiday.

00:10:18.180 It'd be all right.

00:10:19.240 I mean, just watch it on the eighth hole when those paratroopers kept flying over the wall

00:10:22.500 or river.

00:10:23.300 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:23.960 They've got some work to do in the Middle East.

00:10:25.240 A little bit.

00:10:25.940 But it's one of the better concepts I've seen for Gaza.

00:10:28.200 A good press conference today by Pierre Polyeth out in Vancouver, and he is angrily slamming

00:10:34.380 fentanyl dealers.

00:10:36.480 And he says if he becomes Prime Minister of Canada, they're going to get life sentences.

00:10:41.960 50,000 Canadians have died from drug overdoses in the last few years.

00:10:48.200 And he says, you know, if you're killing that number of people, you should be going to jail and throwing away the key.

00:10:54.980 And that's what that's what he's suggesting.

00:10:58.220 And we got some interesting documents or our friends, Blacklock, Blacklock reporter on the fire budget for Parks Canada.

00:11:06.700 They slashed it before the Jasper wildfires by 23 percent.

00:11:11.460 Uh, so that, uh, sort of makes all their, the arguments of Steven Gilbo and all the

00:11:17.640 nice work that they're doing, uh, a bit hollow and, uh, stay tuned this afternoon.

00:11:24.220 President Trump is signing more executive orders and, uh, we'll be no doubt

00:11:28.540 spouting off on some other bizarre, uh, uh, tirades.

00:11:32.900 So running games continue.

00:11:34.700 Well, I mean, again, love him or hate him.

00:11:36.620 Have you ever seen a president hit the ground running like this?

00:11:39.220 I mean, boy, he's coming out of the gates.

00:11:40.920 He's not messing around.

00:11:42.040 It's unbelievable speed in what he's doing.

00:11:43.720 You know, he's just, you know, a couple of days ago,

00:11:45.440 musing about sending prisoners or illegal immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.

00:11:50.180 And Tuesday, they're already there.

00:11:52.980 And it's incredible the speed that things are moving in the United States.

00:11:56.060 Well, whatever's going on, he's not messing around.

00:11:59.200 Pay attention, folks.

00:12:00.080 And meanwhile, our parliament is prog.

00:12:02.560 Oh, yeah.

00:12:03.260 Well, that's a different issue altogether.

00:12:05.100 All right.

00:12:05.440 Different show altogether.

00:12:06.200 Well, I'll let you back into the newsroom to try and keep up with things.

00:12:09.640 and I appreciate you to check in today, Dave.

00:12:11.760 Thanks, Corey.

00:12:12.300 Stay warm.

00:12:12.800 Right on.

00:12:13.220 Nice.

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00:13:06.400 But enough of the sponsorship things.

00:13:07.980 I see the guests in the lobby, and I've been looking forward to this discussion, again, in this crazy year of things and things that have been happening.

00:13:14.680 A lot of President Trump has certainly been shaking things up in Canada with talking about Canada as the 51st state and, you know, memes with the American flag going over Canada.

00:13:25.760 Being part of the independence movement in Alberta, of course, for a long time, admittedly as gray as I am, the 51st state concept has been one around for a long time, whether for Alberta or for the country as a whole.

00:13:37.760 So my guest, Brian Loving, of course, he's been pushing this concept for quite some time.

00:13:42.940 And it's a ripe time to talk about it a little more at length.

00:13:46.820 So thank you very much for joining me, Brian.

00:13:49.580 Hi, Corey. My pleasure. Nice to see you.

00:13:52.740 Yeah, so, you know, we've seen this discussion really kind of ramp up a little bit on the way in.

00:13:59.160 I kind of wonder, though, we saw more people starting to chew on the concept now that, you know,

00:14:04.540 President Trump threw it out there and made them start to think about it.

00:14:07.160 People say, you know, there's a lot of advantages we can see with it.

00:14:10.280 But part of my view is what happened lately with just kind of the tariffs and other stuff is it might have set it back a little bit.

00:14:15.740 I mean, people might be open to the concept, but people don't like a forced marriage.

00:14:18.620 They kind of want to join in willingly.

00:14:22.620 Where do you think things are sitting right now, now that there's been kind of some tensions opened up?

00:14:26.740 It's hard to say in terms of percentages.

00:14:28.560 I mean, many Canadians, certainly that I've spoken to, are not in favor of it.

00:14:33.060 many Americans that I've spoken to are in favor of it and I'm a dual citizen so I'm kind of between

00:14:37.840 both places and it's kind of interesting to hear all the comments from the people and you know my

00:14:43.120 view is is that there's advantages and there's disadvantages to everything and one big advantage

00:14:49.460 is if Canada belonged to the U.S. immediately you're covered by their constitution and you

00:14:56.820 have freedom of speech you have the right to defend your life and you have all kinds of things

00:15:01.520 that you don't have in Canada.

00:15:03.080 Canada doesn't, you know, it doesn't have a constitution.

00:15:05.800 Many people think that it does.

00:15:07.580 I mean, it doesn't.

00:15:08.420 It has a document that's full of nonwithstanding

00:15:11.280 and you can do this if we agree and all of that.

00:15:13.920 And I mean, so the constitution would be a big win.

00:15:16.460 Is that enough reason to join a country?

00:15:18.420 I don't know.

00:15:19.280 I mean, again, there's so many things on both sides,

00:15:22.620 but Trump certainly has, you know,

00:15:25.220 he's coming at this, you know,

00:15:27.160 stronger than I would have ever guessed.

00:15:29.040 And I don't know where a lot of this stuff has even come from.

00:15:32.340 You know, Canada screws us over at $200 billion a year,

00:15:35.600 and I haven't heard any of the Canadian politicians saying that that's an incorrect number,

00:15:40.380 so maybe it's accurate.

00:15:41.580 I don't know that, but it's a big number.

00:15:44.500 And if it's true, I mean, that's something to take into account from his side for sure.

00:15:49.920 I mean, there's so many different things.

00:15:51.840 I mean, what do your people think, Corey?

00:15:53.500 The people that watch you and write in, and I think you get lots of comments.

00:15:57.300 what's the overall thing? And I think like in Alberta, what does Alberta think?

00:16:03.020 I mean, as I said, I think people initially went prior to the inauguration when President Trump

00:16:08.560 was sort of stirring up a lot of folks, you know, and kind of proposing it a little bit,

00:16:12.880 a lot of Albertans were starting to kind of chew it over and think, well, you know,

00:16:15.340 the second amendment and some property rights wouldn't be so bad, you know, and I'm looking

00:16:19.880 at the tax numbers, the real estate numbers, the trade we already do. But as I said, then when he

00:16:26.000 sort of came on like a freight train with the tariffs. That's what people suddenly kind of,

00:16:29.560 I think, dug their heels in a little bit. Hold your horses now. We were thinking about it,

00:16:33.780 but now you're kind of poking a stick in her eye and, you know, they get a little more tepid on it.

00:16:40.720 So I think it kind of made a step forward and then a step back.

00:16:43.980 I think it needs a little more time. I mean, think of it as you're in a very, very unhappy

00:16:48.620 and abusive relationship, but you're a Christian guy and you don't want to get divorced and you

00:16:54.700 just take it every day and she hits you with a two by six every day on the odd

00:16:58.420 day when she hits you the two by four you say thanks and you think things are

00:17:02.260 getting better and and then all of a sudden one day you're out and a girl

00:17:05.620 just makes this big push on you and come with me and and it throws you it would 0.89

00:17:11.080 throw I'm making this up as I go and and so that would throw you you would stand

00:17:15.040 back and be frightened and go home and try to make up with your wife again and

00:17:19.960 and and I kind of think this is similar to that I mean once you get over the

00:17:23.920 of it you start to think maybe maybe it's time to move out maybe I'm being

00:17:29.260 abused where I live I mean maybe I'm not allowed to go out I'm not allowed she 1.00

00:17:35.080 takes money out of my purse and my wallet rather and maybe it's time to

00:17:39.280 move on and I think when you when you look at all I'm not suggesting Canada

00:17:43.660 should move but either you repair your relationship or you move you have to do

00:17:48.720 something I mean to live like you live it's not nice I mean I'm taxed to death

00:17:53.680 I have no freedom. I have no rights. I mean, you know, there's a lot of things that aren't very nice.

00:17:59.360 And another thing, I'm on this rampage here, Corey. That's okay. But if it really is $200 billion a

00:18:06.320 year, that's like me owing you $10,000. And when we're having a beer, I brag to you how I'm flying

00:18:14.720 first class to Honolulu for the weekend. I mean, that's not nice. You know, I should pay you. And

00:18:20.480 And I'm sure you would bring that up and, you know,

00:18:23.480 so Canada has got to kind of pay attention here.

00:18:26.900 Either we have to get happy at home

00:18:28.900 or we should look for a new spouse. 1.00

00:18:31.420 Well, that 200 billion a year figure,

00:18:33.680 I mean, that's kind of what got under my skin a little bit

00:18:35.800 because it's kind of a mischaracterization

00:18:37.660 of our relationship.

00:18:39.580 That's a trade deficit, not a subsidy.

00:18:41.360 And President Trump keeps calling it a subsidy.

00:18:43.280 I mean, as one of our other reporters we worked with

00:18:48.100 mention on a show I did recently is, you know, if I go to Safeway and I spend more than Safeway

00:18:53.180 buys off me, it doesn't mean I'm subsidizing Safeway. I'm just a bigger customer than they

00:18:58.200 are from me. It's confusing the way it's delivered. And so it's hard to understand. I mean, but

00:19:03.400 another thing from the American perspective, I mean, you have to look at, do you want Canada?

00:19:08.400 I mean, 70% or close to 70% of all Canadians have never voted conservative ever. And so

00:19:15.000 So you really want them to join your country? I mean, if you did an allocation kind of based on the California and other state formulas, you'd have like 50 some odd seats in Canada.

00:19:27.020 And I don't think the Republicans would ever get elected again. So you've got to kind of be careful who you're leaving your wife for.

00:19:33.260 I mean, you might end up with somebody that you don't like. And in this case, what I'm saying is it would be the opposite of that.

00:19:40.580 Well, yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up, because from a Republican point of view, this would not be good for the Electoral College.

00:19:46.640 I mean, and we talk about the 51st state.

00:19:49.480 Realistically, with the size of Canada and even the population, it would be, if in this theoretical world we merged, it would be more like there'd be five or six states, perhaps.

00:19:59.420 And at best, only one of them would be a red one.

00:20:02.780 Absolutely, yeah.

00:20:03.520 And, you know, I'm an Albertan and born and raised and so on.

00:20:08.360 And I mean, I'm a separatist.

00:20:09.500 I've always thought Alberta should be its own country and I think Alberta should be the 51st

00:20:15.180 state or its own country, one or the other. I mean I think you start expanding into all of Canada,

00:20:20.380 I think that's problematic for both countries and certainly for the U.S. I mean the last state to

00:20:25.100 be admitted into the Union was Hawaii. I'm not sure when. I think it was in the late 50s,

00:20:30.700 maybe 1959 or something and even Arizona didn't come in as a state until 1910 or something and

00:20:36.620 And of course, there was Alaska. And I'm so old, Corey, I remember Alaska and I remember Hawaii coming in as states.

00:20:43.940 And, you know, is it time for another one? I mean, there's a lot of moving pieces here.

00:20:48.500 And why Trump is so aggressive on this is interesting. And like he says, you know, he has said several times, I love Canadians, but I don't like their leadership.

00:20:56.400 Well, you know, I got news for you. We don't like it either.

00:20:58.620 well yeah but and again though i think that it almost has had a at least from our perspective

00:21:05.340 a detrimental effect it's more like yeah i can't stand them either but it's not your place to tell 0.99

00:21:09.960 me that you got a problem with it's up to us to get off our butts and kick that that clown out of 0.99

00:21:14.040 i agree with you i agree but a lot of our people aren't getting off their butts to do it and so 0.98

00:21:20.280 that's an issue too yeah and i mean i i love the u.s you know as i said i'm still sporting a little

00:21:25.280 bit of a 10 for my Arizona time. I wish I could have spent a bit more down there. We do some

00:21:29.680 business down there. I worked down there a lot on an L1 visa in years gone by in the oil field.

00:21:34.740 And what I want to see, though, is a tightening of our relationship. I want to see, you know,

00:21:39.540 at least from my perspective, freer trade. Let's let's develop that relationship. Let's get,

00:21:43.680 you know, tighter together. And then actually, I think we would get closer to that potential

00:21:48.000 Alberta 51st state. But unfortunately, what we see right now is some bigger walls going up.

00:21:53.080 There are some walls going up, and people are working hard at adding more bricks to it. I mean, look at the NDP leader. He says, you know, the federal leader, he has made a statement about how dare you, you know, we'd never give up our health care. Well, for heaven's sakes, your health care? You mean that broken thing where you're 80 years old, your best before date is up, you get to be put on a two-year waiting list for a new part? I mean, what health care is that?

00:22:18.300 But that's how he's talking.

00:22:19.580 It's more rhetoric and people buy into it, right, to the narrative.

00:22:22.300 And it kind of gets bigger and bigger.

00:22:24.080 I agree with you.

00:22:24.940 There's a better way to do it, for sure.

00:22:27.500 But how do you do that?

00:22:28.920 I mean, particularly with two countries that are so, they're just not even close to being aligned with regards to their politics.

00:22:35.440 Trudeau is, you know, all the pinkos, like they're pink.

00:22:38.980 And it's hard.

00:22:41.980 It is.

00:22:42.700 And, you know, one of the things I don't like seeing on both sides is people, you know, using national anthems at sporting events to boo each other's anthems.

00:22:51.180 It just brings it to a personal one-on-one level.

00:22:54.480 And people take it personally.

00:22:55.980 Nobody in the USA likes to hear their anthem booed.

00:22:58.460 Nobody in Canada likes to hear that either, even if you're uncomfortable with the leadership and you're ticked off.

00:23:02.340 And it drives that personal wedge between people, which I just hate seeing because again, the Americans are still our closest ally and friends. I mean, culturally, we're still very tight with each other. You don't see a huge difference when you travel south of the border. There's differences, but they're not huge. It's not like when you travel to Europe or Asia or even South America. And to start getting personal with each other, I just don't like seeing our relationship disrupted like that.

00:23:28.840 agree with you 100 it's not very nice and and you know the relationship should be better and

00:23:33.000 stronger but again it's all political a lot of it is political and the people i think are okay

00:23:39.320 they kind of like each other and and the canadians add a lot to the economy of uh

00:23:43.720 there i live in the uh coachella valley in california and i don't know the percentage

00:23:48.120 but i'd venture a 30 percent guess of all the people that are canadians in the you know in the

00:23:54.200 off season in canada and and uh it's nicer there right now than it is in calgary

00:24:01.800 so so i i don't know i i mean um canadians are a little brainwashed because we all watch uh

00:24:08.360 american television and we think we have rights and we think we have freedom and we think if

00:24:12.280 somebody breaks into our house that we can hit them on the head with a bat and and and protect

00:24:16.440 our home and it's not the same so so there's a lot of that that kind of mixes into the argument and

00:24:21.160 And then you get the tariffs that go into it as well, which is a separate issue.

00:24:25.220 But that comes into it. And so everyone now is fighting and not fighting, fighting, but they're arguing.

00:24:32.540 And as you've already pointed out, I mean, there's a nicer way to do this.

00:24:36.400 Yeah, well, President Trump has come in kind of stirring the anthill and then he's going to see what he can put together afterwards.

00:24:41.460 He's doing that all over the world right now. He seems to have turned his eyes away from us for probably a few weeks anyways.

00:24:47.860 and maybe we'll get some stuff in order.

00:24:50.560 Something people asked me when I came back from Arizona,

00:24:53.960 you know, was what were you hearing from Americans

00:24:55.780 you were talking to down there?

00:24:57.500 And to be honest, at that time, anyways,

00:24:59.660 I mean, the news on the potential tariffs

00:25:01.640 was huge in Canada

00:25:02.540 because I was still watching Canadian news.

00:25:04.220 Most Americans, I mean, there was big news with Trump

00:25:06.340 and what he's going to do,

00:25:07.060 but the tariff thing wasn't really on their radar

00:25:09.240 or concerns about Canada.

00:25:11.220 Has that changed now, though,

00:25:12.700 now that it kind of came to a head since the inauguration?

00:25:15.680 I think Canada's in the news more.

00:25:17.860 You know, up until recently on Fox News and Newsmax and even CRNet, there wasn't a lot of Canadian content, and there is now.

00:25:26.660 You go to even BBC and other, you know, networks, mainstream networks, and there's a lot of Canadian content.

00:25:34.280 And so it is talked about, and Americans now are paying more attention.

00:25:38.620 And, you know, Canadians used to go to even me.

00:25:42.680 I remember going to the States asking cab drivers about, you know, different things in Canada.

00:25:47.300 they don't have a clue and and now they do more so canada's more kind of out there and i i think

00:25:52.580 tariffs are part of it the 51st state thing is the biggest thing though in terms of conversation

00:25:58.100 and and trudeau trudeau is a big topic people were asked about him they know my canadian

00:26:03.700 background and i'm asked a lot about about him and his politics and so on so yeah well trudeau

00:26:10.180 is not exactly a point of pride for a lot of canadians but particularly albertans especially

00:26:13.860 when we go down there, you know, I got to kind of mumble, yeah, yeah, that guy, you know, we're

00:26:17.320 working on it, give us some time here, we'll try. Unfortunately, this whole thing seems to have

00:26:22.540 actually garnered him a little bump in support. I mean, he's on the way out the door, but he might

00:26:27.000 be replaced by Carney, and that's even more frightening than Justin, because, I mean, Trudeau 1.00

00:26:30.600 is an ideologue, but he's a moron. Carney's an ideologue, but he's smart, and we could be in a 0.99

00:26:35.740 heck of a lot more trouble, even though Carney might not be in for very long. Oh, well said,

00:26:39.360 And to see Trudeau kind of getting some glory now, and he says, you know, we're going to fight and all this stuff,

00:26:45.400 I mean, that's a girly man talking like a man, and it's coming across.

00:26:49.740 Like, BBC kind of brings him out as the man who's going to lead Canadians out of the wilderness, and he ain't the guy.

00:26:55.760 I mean, the whole Canadian system is so messed up.

00:26:58.120 I mean, you're going to have probably three prime ministers here, hopefully three, not two.

00:27:03.480 You're going to have Trudeau, you're going to have his replacement, and you're going to have the Conservative leader.

00:27:07.600 and all within a short time period.

00:27:10.880 You shouldn't have three people negotiating with one government.

00:27:14.720 No, we've got a president with a brand new four-year mandate in front of him.

00:27:18.460 What we really desperately need is a prime minister with a four-year mandate in front of him.

00:27:22.880 That's the only way you can cut a real deal.

00:27:25.740 100%.

00:27:26.180 There's nobody to negotiate at this point.

00:27:28.200 I mean, I would try and be balanced, say it doesn't matter which party the person is.

00:27:32.240 They'd have to have a mandate, though.

00:27:33.620 But, of course, I would much prefer that person be Pierre Polyev, who has a much better head on his shoulders with this.

00:27:42.440 I mean, I look at the liberal leaders, and the Republican leaders in the U.S. look at them as well.

00:27:47.840 And they look at them with distaste.

00:27:50.640 And, you know, one friend of mine is a Republican senator, and he said that Trudeau, he said if he had a rope in his hand, he wouldn't know if he found a rope or lost a horse.

00:27:59.840 And I laughed.

00:28:01.740 I said, yes, that's bingo.

00:28:04.580 And so it's a problem because he's viewed as a weak person.

00:28:08.880 And Trump, they shouldn't ridicule him as much because they are also ridiculing the position.

00:28:14.460 But it is what it is.

00:28:16.420 Well, we've just got to keep doing what we can.

00:28:18.520 Politics is an ongoing game.

00:28:20.420 There's never a finish line or a win.

00:28:22.780 You just keep playing and hope that you're doing better one year than the last.

00:28:26.600 So before I let you go, where can people find you or what your commentary is on it?

00:28:30.100 I guess it's going to be interesting to watch this as it unfolds over this.

00:28:32.440 We're in for a very interesting year, if nothing else.

00:28:34.860 Well, we are.

00:28:35.700 And Trump keeps it interesting.

00:28:36.920 I mean, every morning you wake up, you have to rush to the Internet to see who he's calling names or what country he wants to take over.

00:28:42.060 He's kind of acting like Napoleon.

00:28:43.840 I mean, I don't know where all this came from.

00:28:45.820 We have Panama and the Gaza Strip and the blah, blah, blah, and Greenland. 0.75

00:28:49.040 There's a lot of countries this guy wants to have.

00:28:51.520 And it's just interesting.

00:28:53.200 I mean, he thinks he's back doing the Louisiana Purchase or something.

00:28:56.440 But, you know, every day it's interesting with him, and we'll see where it goes.

00:29:01.340 He's only got a couple of years, Corey, to do this before the other round of elections.

00:29:05.400 So, you know, he has to go fast.

00:29:07.340 And is he ever going fast?

00:29:08.760 Here's a guy that drinks a dozen bottles of Diet Coke a day.

00:29:13.160 And I don't know now how he has time to do that with all of the new rules that he's putting into place.

00:29:20.240 True enough.

00:29:21.020 Well, thank you very much for joining me.

00:29:23.080 today, Brian. Maybe we'll talk again soon as we see this unwind or talk about the relationship

00:29:27.220 once we get a permanent prime minister and see where we go from there. Well, thank you. And I'm

00:29:31.740 going to have my guy put this show on rightforcanada.ca and rightedition.com, where I

00:29:38.260 yip and yap all the time about politically right is right, left is wrong. Corey, and I thank you

00:29:44.060 so much. It was a pleasure to meet you online. Excellent. Okay. We will talk again soon. Okay.

00:29:49.080 Bye-bye. So, yeah, I mean, what a discussion we've got. What a singular times. If you're a

00:29:54.700 political watcher, I mean, as Dave sort of said, you know, we've got this overload of news. If

00:30:00.600 you're a news person, this is a great time because there's just so much to cover. The

00:30:04.200 hardest parts are when the news is slow. Of course, it doesn't necessarily mean the news is always

00:30:07.980 good. It just means it's interesting. Interesting doesn't necessarily mean good. And we got a whole

00:30:16.280 lot going on and a whole lot to unpack. James, a commenter, saying, yeah, Trump could be a lame 0.95

00:30:20.440 duck in two years. And that is true. See, they're different down there. The midterm election could 0.99

00:30:26.260 change everything. I mean, President Trump is moving hard and fast right now, and it makes sense,

00:30:32.660 at least as far as the tactic goes, because he might have only two years to do it before

00:30:37.640 he might lose the support of Congress or the Senate. He's got everything right now, which,

00:30:41.540 on, you know, people who don't like Trump are pretty terrified about. I've never been a big

00:30:46.780 fan of his, but at the same time, I do want to see a disruption. I want to see a change in the

00:30:51.000 status quo. I don't know if it's going to be better or not. As I said, it's like he's taken

00:30:55.460 the anthill and just stirred the heck out of it all around the world, that some things are going

00:30:59.460 to come out better and some are going to come out worse. I mean, Gaza, for example, you know,

00:31:02.980 Dave was talking about, and he's certainly stirring it up. If you want to get them uptight,

00:31:07.980 We're talking about fully removing the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip. 1.00

00:31:14.960 Okay, but is that going to make it calmer over there?

00:31:17.860 Is that a solution?

00:31:19.340 I don't, I'm just trying to guess.

00:31:21.520 I mean, talk about a weird head to try and get into.

00:31:23.820 President Trump's head is about as weird and unpredictable as any.

00:31:26.980 As with Canada, I think he just like shaking the whole heck out of it, 0.79

00:31:30.620 taking it to the 11th hour, and then he can really set the terms

00:31:34.260 on getting something done once they're worked up. 0.99

00:31:36.860 So now that the people of Gaza are standing in a pile of rubble due to their own bloody idiotic actions, let's not pretend, by the way. 0.99

00:31:46.360 I'm just going to go on a side thing because I'm tired of people saying we should feel sorry for them. 0.98

00:31:50.080 We're seeing it come out.

00:31:51.260 How have they managed to hold those young ladies that they were molesting and raping for over this last year and some without them ever being found?

00:31:59.200 The citizens support Hamas. 0.58

00:32:01.240 Let's not pretend otherwise.

00:32:03.320 The citizens look the other way while the terror tunnels were built.

00:32:05.900 they looked the other way while the terrorists were trained, and they participated in hiding

00:32:10.140 the hostages all over the place down there. It doesn't mean they should all be nuked or

00:32:14.320 obliviated, but let's quit pretending they're innocent. There was one

00:32:18.080 interviewed after the recent hostage release, which, yeah, they're not that smart necessarily

00:32:21.960 either, when she was saying, yes, we housed some of these hostages and moved

00:32:26.100 them from house to house. That's how they did it. But now

00:32:30.060 we're at a point, okay, they've really, I don't know if they've learned, but they've certainly

00:32:34.040 lost this war, haven't they? Smart idea, raiding a music festival and raping and pillaging and 0.97

00:32:40.300 killing like that. It costs you a heck of a lot more than you garner. In fact, you might have 0.99

00:32:44.580 lost Gaza out of it. We joke about Trump putting up the golf courses and the Trump towers along 0.96

00:32:50.220 Gaza and everything. I doubt that's going to happen, but what he's probably doing from his 0.88

00:32:54.660 mind, get them really scared, get them really shaken up. Like you guys might not only have

00:32:59.820 lost this war, but you might actually completely have lost Gaza and you're going to be pushed

00:33:04.000 back into Egypt and Jordan, and now you're even farther back in this whole Palestinian notion than

00:33:10.620 you ever were to begin with, and then maybe at the last second there'd be concessions. I think maybe

00:33:15.700 that's where it's going. The thing is, Gaza needs to be rebuilt, but you know what? They got the 0.64

00:33:20.720 chance, Gaza and the West Bank. They did. Israel pulled out. They listened to the world. They

00:33:25.140 listened to the UN. They did those things, and they said, fine, here's their places. We'll let

00:33:29.120 them have their little cities of their own, their little areas of their own. What did they do?

00:33:34.000 They ripped out water lines and built rocket launchers.

00:33:36.620 They didn't build houses.

00:33:38.460 They built terror tunnels.

00:33:40.220 They built hospitals, but they used them for headquarters for their terrorists.

00:33:44.280 They took UNRWA, which was supposed to be aid for the citizens,

00:33:48.400 and it turned into just a terrorist fundraising group.

00:33:51.940 So if they get to rebuild Gaza, if they get to have Gaza, 0.95

00:33:56.060 and I think that's perhaps where Trump is going, it's going to be on his terms.

00:34:00.480 He's going to say, yeah, you could rebuild, but it's with oversight.

00:34:04.000 When we see those bulldozers over there, they better be leveling ground to build housing or hospitals or schools.

00:34:10.660 And if you start another terror tunnel, you're going to get blown up.

00:34:14.700 We're not pissing around this time.

00:34:16.360 You have an opportunity to build a good little nation for yourselves. 0.99

00:34:20.380 If you could just get over your hatred and obsession with wiping out every Jew in Israel, because it's not going to happen. 0.93

00:34:25.600 So, again, I don't see how any other approach with these Palestinians is going to work. 1.00

00:34:32.800 Everybody else has tried negotiating. They don't seem reasonable. They're all wrapped up in their sick idea of putting a caliphate together, and it's not going to happen. So maybe President Trump's going to get that done. But he's also doing a pretty ham-handed approach with it as well. He's not messing around. But can you? Can you beat around the bush with him anymore?

00:34:55.800 So let's get back to what Trump, you know,

00:34:59.480 supposedly that was the main issue,

00:35:01.200 was the fentanyl crossing from Canada into the United States

00:35:04.500 was the reason for the tariffs.

00:35:05.840 I don't believe that.

00:35:06.780 I believe that was the pretense.

00:35:07.780 It's an issue, certainly an issue.

00:35:09.840 We have labs that were busted in Canada

00:35:11.900 producing massive amounts of fentanyl.

00:35:13.760 And a little bit of that stuff goes a long, long ways

00:35:16.260 and it kills a lot of people, Canadians and Americans alike.

00:35:19.500 And certainly some of it was definitely getting across

00:35:22.200 from Canada into the United States.

00:35:23.780 But everybody knows the larger source has been Mexico.

00:35:27.680 Mexico's got a heck of a lot larger drug cartel problem than Canada.

00:35:32.600 But Canada also has a big money laundering problem.

00:35:35.140 Toronto Dominion Bank got fined a massive amount because it was money laundering in the United States.

00:35:40.660 Sam Cooper wrote that excellent book, Willful Blindness.

00:35:43.360 He's been a guest on this show.

00:35:44.860 And he talked about how British Columbia casinos are used by Chinese and cartel interests for money laundering.

00:35:50.980 We do have to clean those things up.

00:35:52.480 And again, Trump took the hammer to get us on with it, and maybe we're going to get some realistic solutions.

00:35:58.440 But let's talk about the fentanyl problem, because it runs a lot deeper than just trying interdiction and the war on drugs.

00:36:06.800 You know, you get to almost two points of view, the hard, hard libertarian or socialist view.

00:36:12.320 All we need to do is just legalize it hard enough and provide enough free drugs, and somehow it'll go away.

00:36:16.460 Well, we saw that in Vancouver, Portland, everywhere else.

00:36:18.200 No, what you do then is cause slaughter.

00:36:20.340 What he caused is massive overdoses and deaths. It's terrible. Didn't work. Failed catastrophically. Even Canada backed off. Even Trudeau, meathead, was smart enough to realize this legalization idea with hard drugs and fentanyl was not a good idea.

00:36:36.660 and it's funny watching the discussions because it in alberta looked like a 55 drop in overdoses

00:36:44.780 in 2024 versus 2023 that's pretty significant that's pretty good bc in the meanwhile it's

00:36:51.020 still going up why because bc went with the legalization handing out drugs alberta since

00:36:55.460 and credit give it to him jason kenny started that ball rolling years ago saying we got to

00:37:00.280 focus on treatment treatment centers treatment beds mental health supports is that's where we've

00:37:05.020 got to get the demand side. We've got to help the people who are consuming it. We've, you know,

00:37:08.920 if people aren't consuming it, it doesn't matter who wants to smuggle it. I mean, this battle needs

00:37:13.100 to be taken out on all fronts, not just the people supplying it, but you've got to get to

00:37:18.740 the demand side. And that means treatment. That means mental health options. And it's working in

00:37:23.500 Alberta. I mean, that 55% drop. And the funny thing is, what do I read when I look that up

00:37:27.680 today on it? CBC saying, well, yeah, it's down 55% in Alberta, but Smith shouldn't call it a victory

00:37:33.720 yet. Why the hell not? What's the matter with you guys, you state broadcaster chodes? You guys need 1.00

00:37:39.340 to be defunded so bad. If nothing else, out of Polyev, my God, got that rotten dinosaur of an 0.96

00:37:46.420 organization. When you can't look at 55% reduction in overdoses as a victory because you just don't

00:37:52.220 want to admit for a second that Daniel Smith might have been right about something. All I want to see

00:37:57.320 is a win. All I want to see is fewer people dead. You know what? If, if in BC it had been working

00:38:03.540 with legalizing and handing drugs to these addicts, if it actually was working and reducing the

00:38:08.140 overdoses and then eventually leading them to treatment and fixing them up, I would support it

00:38:12.060 because I just want to see a positive outcome. I don't care how they do it, but it didn't work.

00:38:16.440 But the bloody knobs at CBC just won't want to admit that. So they would rather see people die

00:38:21.840 than concede a political point. 0.91

00:38:24.920 That's sick. 0.85

00:38:26.140 That's really sick.

00:38:27.680 But that happens on both sides.

00:38:29.120 And one of the things President Trump is overlooking too, though,

00:38:30.940 with this war on drugs, these deaths,

00:38:33.260 he's got to look within his own nation too.

00:38:35.260 If you really want to reduce the deaths,

00:38:36.740 you really want to reduce the overdoses,

00:38:39.220 you've got to look at the problems.

00:38:40.800 As I mentioned to my last guest,

00:38:42.340 I worked a lot in the States on an L-1 visa.

00:38:44.920 I worked in Pennsylvania.

00:38:45.840 I put this out on a tweet recently

00:38:48.180 because when I was working in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,

00:38:50.760 we had really shortages as well in Steubenville, Ohio. I had a heck of a time trying to get

00:38:55.320 employees. Massively terrible time. So what ended up happening? I was managing crews

00:39:00.960 predominantly balanced with Mexicans, mostly legal. I had green cards to cover for the paperwork if I

00:39:06.760 had to, and I was legal. But that's how we did it out there. Why? Because up in upstate New York

00:39:12.920 and Pennsylvania and Ohio, they were so drug addled on oxy and meth, I couldn't find workers

00:39:19.120 fit to work, and this was prior to the fentanyl coming in. These are depressed areas. If anybody's

00:39:24.880 ever traveled through the Rust Belt, have a look around. Travel some of those smaller cities

00:39:28.900 and see what's going on. So, I mean, these guys were already terribly screwed up, and then, of

00:39:33.600 course, fentanyl came in and just hit them like a freight train. It's so powerful, so cheap, so easy 0.88

00:39:37.660 to spread and distribute. So if you want to reduce the overdose problem, you've got to get to the core

00:39:44.400 of it. Where are the addicts and how do you get to them to improve things for them? Because it

00:39:50.660 won't get fixed. The drugs will always find a way through. I mean, as they point out, 40, 50 pounds

00:39:55.960 of fentanyl, that's enough to cause thousands, tens of thousands, possibly what millions of

00:40:00.780 overdoses. Like it's that potent. You'll never stop it enough. You've got to get down to where

00:40:07.180 the demand is. And there's some serious social issues going on within inner United States. And

00:40:13.820 actually, it's all over the place. I saw it in Oklahoma. I saw it in Texas. I remember some

00:40:17.120 people getting really upset because I wrote a column on that years ago. They said, I was having

00:40:20.940 so much trouble in Steubenville, Ohio, getting employees. I put out the ad. I went through an

00:40:26.240 employment center in Steubenville. I mean, that city is, I put a YouTube video out on it. It's

00:40:30.840 down in the dumps. It's like half the size it used to be. And I thought it'd be easy to find

00:40:35.840 general labor. All I wanted to determine the state's called stick pickers. All I needed was

00:40:39.620 them to walk along and throw wood off of a cut line. I couldn't get them. They would all phone

00:40:45.220 in and set an appointment with me for an interview, and then they would never show up. I'd set two

00:40:50.320 whole days aside to just sit down and interview guys to get them out to work. The reason I wanted

00:40:55.620 to, and this is the reason why people got upset, all I wanted to see was that I wanted to see their

00:40:59.160 arms, I wanted to see their teeth. If I see injection tracks or I see meth mouth, I'm not

00:41:03.540 hiring you. They didn't show up. So the other issue was if they want to collect welfare and

00:41:09.580 social services, they have to pretend they're applying for jobs, but they don't actually want

00:41:13.540 to get the job because then they have to show up for work. And so they wouldn't show up for the

00:41:18.040 interview. They want to make sure they didn't get hired. That was the worst case scenario.

00:41:20.760 That's a socially disrupted society. Even if they aren't addicts, you've got social issues going on.

00:41:25.980 So again, if you really want to win that drug war, that's where you got to start. You've got

00:41:31.060 to get down into these regions and see what it's going to take. Economic stimulus training. The

00:41:37.540 hardest part, the hardest part of all is a change in the social attitude. And anybody who's worked

00:41:43.680 in the Eastern States, there was a lot of us down there in the Marcellus play. There was, again,

00:41:47.420 a lot of Canadian ex-blacks, pets running jobs. I'm sure a couple are watching the show nodding 0.99

00:41:50.820 their heads because it was an ongoing battle when you would hire. And hey, there were some great

00:41:56.860 workers down there. Don't get me wrong. There were some fantastic American workers worked their butts 1.00

00:42:00.640 off, but a whole lot of them. It was an endless battle for me to try and just get them to work.

00:42:05.860 The second you get them on the job, they're looking for excuses to go home. Oh, I got a court date,

00:42:10.720 or I got a this, I got that, I got this. I couldn't get them to show up in the bloody mornings. It was

00:42:16.560 just an ongoing game. I went on a firing binge in Clearwater, Pennsylvania. No, Clearfield.

00:42:23.340 I fired, I can't remember what it was, eight guys in four days because they couldn't make it to the

00:42:27.100 morning safety meeting at a time, I thought maybe if it shows that these guys are actually going to

00:42:31.600 get fired, they'll start showing up. They didn't. They didn't. I was going to run out of guys if I

00:42:36.160 didn't just start putting up with these idiots showing up late all the time. Brutal. Brutal. 1.00

00:42:41.400 So yes, there's big, big issues. But if we want to deal with that, that's a bigger picture issue,

00:42:46.980 isn't it? It's having to get realistic with things. So yes, President Trump is right. You know,

00:42:53.940 hundreds of thousands of people dying from overdoses but if you really want to take it on

00:42:57.220 it's much more complicated than just throwing tariffs at the nation's bordering on you

00:43:01.720 and blaming the source of the drugs coming in you got to wonder why the people are taking the drugs

00:43:06.400 and that's a lot tougher that takes mental health supports that as i said that takes treatment for

00:43:10.860 the ones who are already addicted and don't write off those who are already addicted treatment's

00:43:15.360 hard it's got a very limited success rate particularly with opioids and fentanyl but

00:43:20.800 the term I heard recently was as long as they're drawing breath, there's still hope.

00:43:25.620 There's still some addicts who have made it from right on the precipice of death come out of it

00:43:29.800 and become productive. We should never give up on each other with that. That's a true thing as

00:43:33.480 humans. I'm a libertarian. I'm conservative. I want to see a minimal amount of government

00:43:37.460 intervention. But I do think we have an obligation as humans to try and help each other. And this is

00:43:42.240 what we need to be doing for each other when it comes to this. It will pay off for us, even if

00:43:45.800 it's expensive to try and get those treatment centers going. So we're seeing that success

00:43:49.160 happening in a micro model. We've got a good example. We've got Alberta and BC right next to

00:43:53.000 each other. Both have the same addiction problems, but both took different routes on how to deal with

00:43:58.220 it. Alberta's seeing success, despite what the morons at the state broadcaster are saying, 0.99

00:44:02.780 BC is seeing growing overdoses. The catastrophe is getting worse. We've seen the difference in 0.99

00:44:08.920 approaches and know which one works better than the other. There's still hundreds of overdoses

00:44:12.620 in Alberta every year, still lots of young lives being lost, but we're reducing it. So let's

00:44:18.320 follow through on what's happening there. Here, Polyev did a press conference today.

00:44:22.360 Let's see, you know, talking on the enforcement front. There's some truth to that too.

00:44:25.640 Make real consequences for these dealers. They're dealing death. They bloody well know it. I don't

00:44:29.360 know how somebody can sleep at night knowing you're selling a drug that's causing so many

00:44:33.180 people to die. Often it's addicts dealing to other addicts, but at the higher levels of these dealers,

00:44:37.280 no, they're just heartless, sociopathic monsters. And we had Polyev saying, let's take those dealers 0.86

00:44:43.160 and put them in jail for life. Let's get some real justice in Canada. Let's really actually

00:44:47.700 lock these guys up, give a disincentive. It won't fix everything. As I said, you got to get on the

00:44:52.080 demand side too, but it doesn't mean you just give up and let them come in with it. And Carol

00:44:56.700 pointing out, Chinese control BC and China's attacking from the inside with drugs. Yes, 0.99

00:45:00.540 China's another big issue. All sorts of levels with this, guys. We've got lots of it, but if we 1.00

00:45:05.340 want to take it seriously, we've got to get results based. And treatment and mental health

00:45:10.020 supports have the best results, even if they're tough, expensive, and limited. It's better than

00:45:14.340 doing nothing. And it's going to be more effective than trying to stop all of the flow of the drugs

00:45:19.220 into you. They'll always find a way. They'll always find a way. By the way, that's what's got me going

00:45:25.240 today, guys. Hey, make sure to tune in. The Pipeline's going to be on tonight. That'll be

00:45:28.840 myself and Dave and Sean Polzer on a panel discussing a bunch more issues. And of course,

00:45:34.360 Jen's going to be on a little later, I believe, filling in for Nigel on his show. So there's going

00:45:38.120 to be another one of those comments. So keep watching those channels. Keep sharing our stuff

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00:45:46.720 B. Morgan on X. That's how, if you want to interact and send your questions my way, that's a great way

00:45:51.120 to do it. And yeah, we will see you back here again next week at this time. So thanks for tuning in

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00:46:11.360 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - February 06, 2025

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