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00:00:00.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show this thought last one of june summer's approaching

00:00:29.200 and uh down here in southern alberta boy what a summer it's uh been actually quite cold and wet

00:00:34.860 all spring the experts you know it's always the experts they tell us to listen to the experts

00:00:39.780 and they said we're going to be in for a hot dry spring the drought's going to continue the world's

00:00:45.400 going to end misery flames anarchy in general well at my place south of calgary i got a jungle going

00:00:51.880 on back there because i can't keep trimming the bush back fast enough with all this rain sun

00:00:56.800 combination going on hey let's have some good news for change good news the weather is good right now

00:01:01.080 where is it going to be next week i don't know but you know what where is it going to be in a month

00:01:04.420 the experts don't know either kind of shows some of the stupidity of weather policies the show is

00:01:10.340 going to be a little bit different today i don't have a formal guest on but you're going to get a

00:01:15.020 whole lot more of me with a lot more of my ranting and raving we'll check in with dave at least and

00:01:19.560 he'll give us some some news updates and things that are going on out there and there is a lot

00:01:24.540 going on and a lot to cover so i'll start on you know what's been really though dominating the news

00:01:29.840 across canada it was such a nice surprise you know i mean i i'm not a big hockey fan so i kind

00:01:35.960 of watched the oilers thing i was you know peripherally hoping i guess to see a canadian

00:01:40.000 team get that cup just to break the the drought there of things it didn't happen went to bed and

00:01:45.860 you know it looked like i was also of course watching the by-election results going on out in

00:01:50.240 toronto and when i went to bed the liberals were holding a slight lead though it looked like they

00:01:54.680 were taking a pretty good beating for a safe seat but uh when i woke up in the morning lo and behold

00:01:59.280 the conservatives won it now the liberal party of canada they are in dire straits i mean the loss

00:02:06.880 of toronto saint paul's in a by-election it's more than just a setback for the party it's a

00:02:12.140 catastrophe i mean toronto saint paul's isn't a bellwether seat that you could look at that might swing

00:02:17.620 either way in the political winds it was one of the safest liberal seats in all of canada it's been

00:02:23.840 in their possession for more than 30 years almost 35 so if liberal mps weren't already in a panic

00:02:30.820 before with their dropping support numbers they certainly are now or they're they're completely

00:02:36.540 deaf and blind which is possible with them i mean if toronto saint paul's can fall to the

00:02:40.400 conservative party canada any seat can no liberal seat is safe justin trudeau he's stubbornly clinging

00:02:48.000 to the party leadership anyways though despite party support obviously collapsing across canada

00:02:52.460 and has been doing so for over a year now and continuing to decline he's vacuously continuing

00:02:58.420 to pretend that sunny ways are still going on and his part we know his party's electoral viability

00:03:04.420 is crumbling all around him i mean we've had scandal after scandal just pummeling the liberals

00:03:09.060 and trudeau just shrugs them off he's convinced himself he can overcome this dearth and electoral

00:03:14.540 support and turn things around now while demands from citizens for trudeau's resignation have been

00:03:19.780 going for a long time and they're increasing in volume the culture of submissiveness within the

00:03:24.200 liberal caucus has kept any internal critique muted with every liberal mp now fearing for their

00:03:30.180 political lives cracks in the united front of the party support for trudeau are about to break wide open

00:03:35.120 i think party loyalty it's going to be tossed to the curb as liberal mps try to salvage at least

00:03:40.300 their own jobs will that be enough though will trudeau finally succumb to pressure and resign

00:03:45.880 i mean it's hard to say the pressure pressures of trudeau's position i mean they've been clearly

00:03:50.660 getting to him he's always been weird but he's been increasingly bizarre and acting out at events

00:03:55.720 lately he doesn't appear mentally stable and he could be delusional enough that he's convinced himself

00:04:00.360 that he could still pull his party out of this ditch there's certainly signs he has a messiah

00:04:04.560 complex and you know such a disorder can shield a person from reality look the knives are sure to

00:04:09.500 come out and if trudeau keeps fighting against the pressures to resign the liberals might tear

00:04:14.180 themselves to shreds and you know that appeal that scenario holds some appeal for us but you got

00:04:19.460 to remember it comes at a cost i mean some people are saying it's best that trudeau remains at the

00:04:23.740 helm because the it'll put the liberals into the electoral doldrums for years maybe a couple of

00:04:28.920 electoral cycles even but the problem is the cost of his continued tenure is too high he's not

00:04:34.440 harmless while he sits in there so from a partisan perspective trudeau yes he's pierre paulio's best

00:04:39.620 friend from a citizen's perspective though trudeau's continued time as prime minister is a disaster

00:04:45.020 with one or two more years in power remember he could stretch it up to 2026 according to the

00:04:49.400 constitution trudeau could really grind our economy fully into the ground affordability productivity and

00:04:55.740 the gdp per capita are already in the toilet but they can still get worse under trudeau's continued

00:05:00.860 guidance it will it surely will canada's international reputation i mean again it's we're

00:05:05.740 turning into a laughing stock and it's going to continue to slide under trudeau's incompetent

00:05:09.480 leadership he needs to be removed and as soon as possible for the sake of the nation look the

00:05:16.120 liberals are already crushed enough they won't be able to recover for an electoral cycle or two

00:05:20.380 anyway the party's going to need to rebuild and it's going to take them time i mean there'll be

00:05:24.620 no shortage of applicants for trudeau's job whenever the heck he does resign but the most qualified for

00:05:29.880 that role are probably going to stay on the sidelines actually for a while the next liberal leader is

00:05:34.100 going to be a placeholder who's never going to see beyond being an opposition leader i mean remember

00:05:38.520 last time the liberals burned through three leaders after chretien's departure before they managed to win

00:05:43.000 another election it was ignatiev dion and martin so not many serious contenders are going to want to

00:05:49.920 finish their political careers as the kim campbell of the liberal party the loss of saint paul's is

00:05:55.220 cause for celebration among common sense canadians i mean they were exhausted by the terrible governance

00:05:59.600 under trudeau the chances the liberals surviving the next general general election no matter who's

00:06:04.340 leading him are slim to none if trudeau steps down some liberal seats could be salvaged though even if

00:06:10.320 the election's lost the clock is ticking though even if liberal if trudeau resigns today it'll likely

00:06:16.040 take it till the new year for a new leader to be selected and that leaves the liberals with less

00:06:19.900 than a year to try and turn things around before at least the scheduled election date

00:06:23.180 until trudeau steps out of the role of prime minister though nobody should be breaking out

00:06:27.780 the champagne flutes he's an unstable and desperate man who's still capable of wreaking havoc on the

00:06:32.920 nation trudeau has to go and the sooner the better that's it's kind of what's got me going today

00:06:39.180 guys like i said i've seen a lot of online discussion about it you know people have been talking about

00:06:42.440 that saying that uh again you know we got to keep him in there we want to have the the joy of seeing

00:06:48.800 him crushed in an election we we want to see him you know it turn into another kim campbell sort of

00:06:53.520 situation we want to see the liberals reduced down to two seats and again i i know the partisan in me

00:06:59.220 the person who can't stand the trudeau liberals in me wants to see that too but we've got to look at the

00:07:05.360 damage if that dingbat stays at the helm of this country that much longer as i said internationally we

00:07:12.340 are a laughing stock our country is not trusted the trudeau government is hiding traitors amongst their

00:07:17.760 midst they're taxing us into oblivion and they're leading this country into the economic toilet

00:07:23.900 is it worth garnering an extra 10 15 20 conservative seats when there was going to be a majority anyways

00:07:32.160 you know just keeping trudeau in just to knock it down by that much it's not worth it the cost is too

00:07:38.660 high the thing is the only ones who can pull him out though the only ones are his fellow liberals so

00:07:44.940 what's it going to take how bad is it going to have to get i i got to think a lot of them i mean

00:07:49.940 i know there's believe it or not i will concede there are some good people in that caucus there

00:07:54.640 really are i mean people most of them liberal any of them go into politics with what they feel are the

00:08:00.240 best interests of the country in mind i know some people don't believe that but it's true i often

00:08:03.820 they morph into something else later on but there are some good liberals there are some principled

00:08:08.100 liberals they've been biting their tongues for a long time and if only to save their own butts

00:08:13.240 they've got to speak up they've got to take that clown out of the leadership of their party

00:08:19.640 for their own sake for their party's sake and most of all for canada's sake are they going to do it

00:08:26.660 i i can only think so i mean if i was i don't have a political membership anymore it allows me to be

00:08:33.940 more critical and in all directions with things and and if i was though still in a party i spent a lot

00:08:39.620 of time in parties and everything and my leader was that off the rails my leader was sending us

00:08:43.500 that far into the toilet i would be critical of that leader i'd be looking to move that leader

00:08:48.960 along i mean you have to if you want a future for your your movement but these liberals just seem to

00:08:54.480 be determined to float on the titanic until it hits the iceberg we'll see what happens

00:09:01.180 okay well let's check in and see what's happening out there in the big bad world with the news and

00:09:08.820 what stories are making the top headlines and drawing the most traffic on the western standard heads

00:09:13.480 website and uh speak with our news editor dave nailer he's in studio today a treat where i can

00:09:20.940 a treat technical issues uh yeah we got a few times uh checking checking can you hear me can you hear you

00:09:26.240 this way this you know sometimes the old tech of just facing each other and talking actually works

00:09:30.820 it's a lost art because normally everybody's got their head down with their in the phones and whatnot

00:09:34.920 so tell me about your weekend exploring the deep and dark murky world professional quilting oh boy yeah

00:09:42.980 that was uh quite something yes well you know as i mentioned before jane's business is in the the barn

00:09:48.840 quilt teaching uh with courses and things such as that and i got to learn just how huge that it was the

00:09:54.760 quilt canada show in edmonton so as a diligent husband i came along to offer support because

00:10:00.200 jane had to teach a course and she had a booth set up there and uh uh thousands i mean literally

00:10:07.020 thousands of of quilt people all converged on this this this show for three days in edmonton

00:10:13.540 oh who knew yeah and uh boy they spend i i mean so i don't know much about quilting i don't barely

00:10:19.500 know a thing about quilting but i mean these multi-thousand dollar sewing machines things like that

00:10:23.560 and uh yes it was nice and emasculating standing at that booth as as the the one man among thousands

00:10:29.280 of of uh quilting ladies it definitely most is a feminine uh trade yeah no kidding but i understand

00:10:36.060 you may have had a good weekend but there was one member of your household who wasn't happy

00:10:40.180 oh duke yeah i mean what did you do to poor duke you we we had the dog sitter you know it was a

00:10:47.220 justin jane's son came and stayed at the house for a few days and he played with the dogs they had a good

00:10:52.040 time but duke is a as you can see that picture yes a very temperamental soul and uh for the first two

00:10:57.600 hours when we were home he got excited when we first got there but then he went into a pout and

00:11:00.600 he wouldn't make eye contact because he's quite ticked off that we dared to uh leave him behind

00:11:06.240 for for three days away from home well if i was duke i may have bitten you he's a sensitive dog

00:11:11.420 so you mentioned the big bad world of news and uh yeah i think our our top story right now is involving

00:11:18.580 a big bad violent dude there was this uh machete attack uh in lloydminster and now police are looking

00:11:26.360 a big manhunt for the the machete wielding guy and he shouldn't be too hard to spot cory

00:11:32.740 uh he's he's pretty distinctive he's got uh uh his entire face is tattooed and earrings and studs

00:11:40.700 coming out anywhere but uh you know handsome looking dude uh never would have suspected no no no no i'm

00:11:47.520 sure he's been a contributing member of society for for for many years but uh police warn if you see him

00:11:53.360 you're not to approach and and to call 9-1-1 uh right away uh we've got some more fallout from your

00:12:00.560 the topic of your rant today justin trudeau and his uh humiliating defeat in in toronto uh this

00:12:06.980 comes from our columnist paul forseth and he'll uh he'll tell you his thoughts on it big news out of

00:12:13.260 denmark cory big farting news uh denmark big on farting news yeah i figured that uh for the first

00:12:20.480 time in history uh government has put in a tax on farting and farting for cows it's going to cost

00:12:26.720 some i think it's a hundred euros a year for each head of cow uh that goes into some sort of methane

00:12:33.300 reduction fund i mean who knows but if you remember farmers all across europe were uh were riding and

00:12:39.760 taking to the streets only uh you know a short time ago because of you know the big plans to remove

00:12:45.260 their farmland and and stuff like that so it's so not a good day to be a farmer in uh in denmark

00:12:53.500 got good news out of shell though uh shell has decided they are going to go ahead with a multi-billion

00:12:58.860 dollar carbon capture and storage project uh outside edmonton so that'll be good for uh for jobs and

00:13:05.580 and hopefully uh cleaning our methane and uh carbon capture out well it's maybe denmark could come up with

00:13:11.180 some sort of fart capture project and you know uh intubate their cows and pump the the those uh

00:13:17.180 toots underground a plastic bag around every cow's end well no you can't use plastics no

00:13:23.340 only paper would work i'll try it with a bag later hey canada day weekend you got plans this weekend

00:13:29.820 uh my mother's coming up to visit actually more quilting the joe my mother's not much into the

00:13:35.260 quilting uh yeah that's jane's turf oh yeah if you've got if you've got uh canada day plans

00:13:40.300 involving a west jet flight you might want to be careful the mechanics union has issued another

00:13:45.420 48 hour strike notice uh coming right at the heart of uh uh canada day travel weekend and you know

00:13:52.380 these these airline unions they've got them by the short and curlies right because they can't fly

00:13:57.260 without them it's not that we can bring in replacement mechanics because yeah you kind of specialized

00:14:02.700 a little bit yeah you don't want to take the the guy out of mr lube to pop in there and fill the role

00:14:06.940 for no so they did issue a strike notice previously and then they rescinded it because talks were going

00:14:12.700 well now talks aren't going well and they put it back in so could be travel chaos uh on the weekend

00:14:19.020 uh we've got a story on or an update on the liberal gun grab program you'll remember uh it was brought in

00:14:25.900 with much fanfare by mr trudeau apparently is not doing too well and we've got all the charts and all

00:14:31.500 the guns collected and it's uh it's uh quite laughable at the moment another laughable trudeau

00:14:37.420 project uh the carbon tax our friend uh franco at the canadian taxpayers federation put out some

00:14:44.300 figures today that it's going to take 12 billion dollars out of the economy just just this year

00:14:49.820 12 billion dollars corey and uh we've got it broken down into how much each family will pay uh

00:14:56.060 in each province but of course trudeau says hey don't worry about it it's all covered by the rebate but

00:15:01.020 you know no not not really so so those are the those are the major stuff uh today we got uh a few

00:15:07.820 things in the hopper for this afternoon to keep us busy and uh and uh you know we'll uh we'll keep the

00:15:12.780 readers updated right on well i appreciate the updates and uh you know tracking the agricultural

00:15:19.340 flatness of the world somebody has to take that task well you live in a rural farmland right

00:15:24.060 little farm area so it's a big it's important issue for you i know that yes well with a house full of

00:15:28.700 dogs i i'm very familiar with that and you've got a bulldog too don't you oh those are the worst

00:15:34.460 they are specialists yeah so yeah better you than me i love dogs but better you than me right on okay

00:15:41.500 dave thanks i'll let you get back to uh keeping that newsroom in line and uh we'll talk again soon

00:15:47.020 yeah we'll be on the pipeline together again tonight same seats exactly with just nigel sitting

00:15:51.420 yes that's his assigned spot is his throne because she's the future yeah i wouldn't switch with him

00:15:56.380 no no he's the boss right on thanks dave thanks cory so again that is our news editor dave naylor this

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00:16:51.660 those stories out there so typically on the show at this time you know i would have a guest coming in

00:16:57.020 and we did have a few technical issues going on uh who we were going to have he's going to be back

00:17:02.220 in a couple of weeks thankfully he's very patient with us is adam zevo he was a columnist or is a

00:17:06.780 columnist with the national post he covers a lot of things and i was really looking forward to talk to

00:17:11.260 him and i'm still looking forward to talking to him of course and one of the areas he's really been

00:17:15.980 digging into is with the safer supply i again i call them a cult i call them uh uh you know a religion

00:17:24.460 almost because it defies reason how inflamed and crazy these people get and he's been critical of it

00:17:30.140 out in vancouver you know we're seeing that the enablement cult these people who feel that if we can

00:17:33.980 just give enough clean pure drugs to addicts that everything will be okay but i mean it's not it's not

00:17:40.700 i mean if we're going to look at outcome-based policy the outcomes are terrible nobody's found

00:17:45.020 the solution i'll give credit there i mean premier smith i like to think in alberta is on the right

00:17:49.820 track she's pushing for a treatment-based sort of solution jason kenney started that to give him

00:17:54.300 credit it's absolutely true more treatment beds i really think that's the way to go it's slow to

00:17:58.540 create them though it's slow to get them in fast enough but hopefully you got a better chance but

00:18:03.260 all the same alberta's overdose numbers and that's the main number to watch for this thing

00:18:07.740 the overdose numbers the people dying from these addictions alberta is breaking records with them

00:18:12.700 bc is breaking records too though so in alberta uh we'll see i i like i mean i like to think

00:18:20.940 part of the reason again is just that we can't get those beds up fast enough it's expensive

00:18:25.500 it's secure facilities you need professionals you need medical professionals uh addiction treatment is

00:18:31.580 not a simple thing but it's your best hope you got whereas the enablement issue well you're handing

00:18:37.660 out free drugs and and giving them places to go with them that can happen fast they've been doing

00:18:42.060 that in vancouver and in bc for years and what's happening there they're having record overdoses as

00:18:46.780 well but these harm reduction activists they they've turned it into a again a bizarre and an absurd

00:18:53.820 uh obsession with them and they actually oppose anybody even trying to put out something

00:18:59.580 different because i think the best thing we can have is a mix i'm not wholly against safe

00:19:03.420 consumption sites either the the case being made by people for those is that you can't treat an

00:19:08.700 addict if they're dead and they're right so if you can theoretically mitigate harm long enough

00:19:15.900 with an addict that hopefully you get they reach the point where they're ready for treatment ready to

00:19:20.700 to find that you know to heal themselves if they can it's great and if they die of an overdose early

00:19:25.820 well then you've lost all that chance so if a safe consumption center can can help with that then

00:19:30.700 great then let's look at that but again it's no panacea treatment isn't a panacea either especially

00:19:36.140 if you've got to wait too long to get into it it's a multi-faceted thing but these activists and that's

00:19:41.580 one of the things i want to talk to adam about i'm going to talk to about a couple weeks there were

00:19:44.220 secret audio recordings obtained by the national post of these harm reduction activists organizing a

00:19:49.500 campaign to disrupt uh people they oppose at a conference i mean they're all supposedly in the

00:19:57.100 business of trying to help addicts of trying to help people get better get you know survive become

00:20:03.420 functional again yet they're competing to the point where these activists actually wanted to disrupt they

00:20:09.420 were talking about putting red dye into a water fountain at the hotel they were in but what what is with

00:20:15.980 you lunatics you know why do you have to make everything such a hill to die on what i want to

00:20:20.300 see is outcome based policy that's all i want to see if i saw any jurisdiction and they're backing off

00:20:26.620 from it everywhere with the legalization the handouts the the enablement the the permissiveness with it

00:20:32.220 if it was successful if we saw overdoses plummeting if we saw addiction levels plummeting if we saw

00:20:37.900 a reduced number of people suffering out in the streets walking around like zombies i would be all for it

00:20:43.500 if somehow handing out clean free drugs to people actually reduced addictions and overdoses i would

00:20:50.700 100 support it but it doesn't friggin work the evidence is as clear as day it's not working at all

00:20:58.060 at all there was a kevin dahlgren he's an american activist and and uh he got some footage from within

00:21:05.100 uh the the phs is called uh community services society in vancouver it's it's it was a there's some really

00:21:11.740 beautiful pictures of this facility it was supposed to be basically like a shelter but where they'll

00:21:16.140 allow drug consumption because part of the issue with addicts why they don't go into the shelters

00:21:20.700 why you see them in the streets on the trains and the behind the dumpsters is because shelters can't

00:21:26.540 take them when they're wasted or they won't take them and they won't let them consume drugs within

00:21:30.220 the shelter there's reasons for that i mean come on you've got some people who truly are down on their

00:21:34.380 luck but they aren't addicts so they got you know whatever their other issues might be and is it fair to

00:21:38.540 stick them in a shelter with a guy who's on meth and completely out of control in the bed next to

00:21:41.900 them of course not you can't maintain safe order in a shelter when all the addicts are consuming within

00:21:48.460 it so they made though a shelter where the addicts could consume within it and dahlgren went and got

00:21:53.980 footage of it later and it it's something look him up kevin dahlgren d-a-h-l-g-r-e-n uh he went in and

00:22:02.220 got video footage of this it looked like something from a movie it was dystopian the the place was

00:22:08.940 filthy there were people passed out in little corners and and and couples and they were you know

00:22:14.300 again yes consuming drugs it looked like what you would envision from an old victorian london opium den

00:22:19.660 you know just just a horrible horrible place you are not saving lives this way these guys but again

00:22:26.060 they're fighting against any critique there when you turn it into an ideology when you turn it into a

00:22:31.420 religion you've lost reason all i want to see is better outcomes and and nobody has come up with

00:22:39.100 the best solution yet people talk about portugal a lot portugal i think is a neat one because and

00:22:46.300 and there's where i i again i think people for whatever reason take sides on this whole thing

00:22:50.940 they look at one side of the other and when you look at it portugal is a hybrid

00:22:54.860 of the approaches for addiction treatment yes they have decriminalized and definitely aren't out because

00:23:03.260 you aren't going to do yourself any favors by throwing addicts in jail it doesn't do any good

00:23:07.980 they're not criminals they're sick they're addicts but they're also the other part that some

00:23:13.020 enableists forget to mention very treatment oriented so they're not going to throw the addicts in jail but

00:23:19.580 they're going to get them into a secure treatment center as soon as possible treatment is the big

00:23:24.140 focus i mean they're not just looking to permanently sustain the addiction they want to get the person

00:23:31.260 off the drugs that you know are harming them and that's the hybrid that seems to be working and you

00:23:37.900 got to look at both ends of that i there was still one one special i saw on tv you know i i still torture

00:23:43.980 myself watching those things at night and they were talking to this woman a young lady and she was in

00:23:48.540 her 20s and they were talking to her mother and they were speaking on how she uh in calgary it's

00:23:54.380 important for her to be able to go to a safe consumption place so she can get on through her

00:23:57.980 day she goes in and she was on some sort of pills and she wants to take the pills and then go to work

00:24:03.740 and felt the the message they were putting across was that she can maintain her addiction to the opiates

00:24:09.980 she was taking orally and she could just live a perfectly functional safe fine life working and so on

00:24:16.940 just as long as somebody just kept an eye on her when she took her drugs every day so she doesn't

00:24:20.620 overdose that's really what it was putting across that's ridiculous that's ridiculous and then it's

00:24:25.180 dangerous to put that out you know there's a term with functional alcoholics you know that's what i

00:24:30.300 was for some years i'm an alcoholic i'm a recovering alcoholic i haven't had a drink in years but it took a

00:24:35.100 lot a lot of work to get to to that point the thing is when a person's an addict whether it's alcohol

00:24:41.180 or drugs or gambling or anything you can function for a while but it's a decline it's a decline you

00:24:46.380 need more and more and more of whatever your abuse or substance of choice is and the rest of your life

00:24:54.540 is going to break down around you the worst possible delusion you could put into the mind of an addict

00:25:01.820 is that they can sustain the addiction i mean socially physiologically mentally no the addiction

00:25:08.700 will break you down and crush you when you are addicted i mean that's why a the first step is

00:25:13.740 actually kind of admitting and realizing that you are addicted you're out of control you have an illness

00:25:18.380 that needs treatment that needs to be worked on to to break yourself free of it and that first step

00:25:25.180 is so critical yeah but addicts love to delude themselves they love to say no i'm okay i'm functional

00:25:32.060 i can do this i can maintain this i can manage this but they can't and once they realize that that's

00:25:37.900 when they're on the road to recovery so when i see irresponsible crap like that one showing this

00:25:42.460 this this young lady going saying oh i just need to be able to safely consume my drugs and i'll be

00:25:46.700 able to go on my life perfectly fine no she's on the road to dying that's an opiate addiction she's got

00:25:51.740 she's not going to be able to maintain her job much longer she probably doesn't have it any longer

00:25:55.500 anyways because of course the opiates don't just uh you're not just feeding it to sustain the

00:25:59.740 addiction you get stoned you're not going to be thinking straight you're not going to be that

00:26:04.220 functional and again it's going to harm your body it's going to break things down you're going

00:26:10.700 to need more and more you will lose the job and then you will uh you know get more desperate to

00:26:16.140 find the funds to get the drugs to feed your addiction and and again just that cycle a dead-end

00:26:22.140 cycle continues so either way i just wanted to fill that in because i will talk more much more at length

00:26:28.300 with with uh adam zevo when he comes in and and what i i like is columnists some of them and

00:26:35.100 journalists that are breaking out speaking against the mobs you know having the courage to expose the

00:26:42.620 problem we went through a lot of that with the addicts and the homeless when when arthur green was

00:26:47.660 working for the western standard he was fantastic in the sense that he would go around in edmonton

00:26:52.780 and take pictures to show just how bad it's getting out there and people get upset you're you're you're

00:27:00.380 putting out you know almost pornography of these poor people suffering these people who have hit

00:27:04.380 rock bottom these people having a terrible time in their lives but how else is the general public

00:27:08.860 going to realize how bad the suffering is with these people how else are they going to know because

00:27:13.580 there's a lot of people who don't go downtown in their cities they they don't go into the alleys they

00:27:18.620 don't go into the the transit stations to see firsthand just how bad it's getting they can live

00:27:25.020 in the suburbs they can do their work i'm not blaming people for not having exposed themselves

00:27:29.260 to that if you don't have to don't do it but we need other people out there to show this is what's

00:27:33.020 going on guys this is how bad it's getting and that'll get more people on board to sing well let's

00:27:38.460 figure out a solution to this because one of the things that we'll see without a premier smith she was

00:27:44.700 talking about before was uh basically compelled treatment you know for for addicts being able to

00:27:51.100 take them in and say that's it we've got to take you in and at least try now i know see people get

00:27:57.500 upset in a number of levels with that you say well for one the success rate when you're compelling is

00:28:02.620 pretty low that's true that is true the best scenario is for an addict to want to finally have

00:28:08.540 reached a point where they want to get better when they fully really want to get there and move forward

00:28:13.100 but you know what with some of them the chances if you leave them out there of hitting that point

00:28:20.460 and seeking help are pretty much zero sometimes you have to intervene there's the mental health act

00:28:24.780 i talked about that with issues with my father and and having to get him uh basically held you know

00:28:30.460 because he he'd had a mental breakdown and it's a long process and there's a reason for it absolutely

00:28:35.260 you do not want to take away somebody's liberty lightly i never want to take away somebody's liberty lightly

00:28:40.460 it's uh a very important thing to keep as many checks and balances and controls in that as you

00:28:46.060 as you possibly can but at some point and every province has that sort of thing they'll have a

00:28:52.380 mental health act if the person is going to harm themselves or others you can intervene and stop it

00:29:00.300 and uh when an addict is hit that point when they're shambling along the streets when they're walking up

00:29:06.140 and down the curbs with that sign when they are that sick when they're that in and out of hospitals

00:29:10.780 when they've had naloxone that many times come on we've got a pretty solid case that they're going

00:29:15.180 to harm themselves if we've left them alone so why can't we intervene it's going to be interesting to

00:29:20.060 see and people say well it steals their dignity there's no dignity left when they're shambling

00:29:24.380 down the street talking to themselves uh perhaps lost bowel control i'm serious that's how ugly it is

00:29:29.180 that's how bad it is what dignity is left no we've got to intervene that's what you know i mean i i'm

00:29:35.340 not a full uh libertarian so people get on with that i i am a classical liberal but i do believe

00:29:40.860 there's a role for a degree of government i do believe it is our social obligation as humans in

00:29:47.340 a civilized world to take care of those who can't take care of themselves that's i think most people

00:29:53.100 fall along that line that's why uh universal health care is such a big principle in just about

00:29:57.340 every country we don't want to see a fellow person going bankrupt because of something that was just

00:30:01.420 beyond their control you know if they've gotten into an accident or if they had an ailment or cancer

00:30:06.620 or who knows they don't want to see a person living losing their livelihood and everything else because

00:30:10.460 of that so they feel that we should get together pay so that is at least not a factor in their life

00:30:15.020 well likewise people who were tied up in addiction should take care of them and sometimes that means

00:30:22.060 stepping in as well with mental health that'll be another rant for another time all right let's move

00:30:25.980 on to some other things speaking of addictions here's an addiction we've got a lot of corporations

00:30:32.780 addicted to corporate welfare you know this is something conservatives are as guilty as liberals

00:30:36.700 are they they love to buy the support of companies for taking tax dollars and giving them to marginal

00:30:42.860 companies stealing the tax dollars i i'm one of those i guess libertarian to the point where i kind

00:30:46.620 of keep referring to taxation as theft but either way taking the tax dollars from successful people

00:30:52.140 from successful companies and pouring them into companies that wouldn't survive otherwise and it

00:30:57.020 rarely works rarely works if these companies were any good they wouldn't need the subsidy this this is

00:31:01.900 just basic economics but basic economics are lost on a lot of people but auto executives so this is a

00:31:06.780 story that's came up where they're saying that 150 billion dollars 150 billion dollars in the nation of

00:31:13.660 canada this is this small in subsidies uh they aren't enough that much above and beyond everything

00:31:21.420 else for their electric vehicles that's what it's all about is the electric vehicles isn't enough

00:31:26.540 if it isn't enough stop it stop it is you know people talk about sunk costs so you're throwing good

00:31:32.220 money after bad if they can't make it get out but this this electrical electric vehicle madness and it's

00:31:38.140 madness some of the regulations where they're talking about when we're going to have to force

00:31:43.500 you know dealers to sell electric vehicles force manufacturers to only make electric vehicles yet we

00:31:49.020 don't have the infrastructure for it we don't have the money for it yet we're pushing along with this

00:31:54.140 and now this is a neat one this is a neat one where the trudeau regime has gotten themselves into a

00:31:59.340 corner on this because they're so fixated on us you know he's been tossing 50 billion here 50 billion

00:32:03.660 there remember that's 50 000 million dollars at battery manufacturing plants for electric vehicles

00:32:10.300 vehicles and now they're talking about possibly banning or putting tariffs or taxing chinese

00:32:17.500 electric vehicles because the chinese are manufacturing them and they're manufacturing

00:32:21.100 them more inexpensively than we do over here in north america for a number of reasons i mean yes they

00:32:26.140 have virtual slave labor uh they don't worry about environmental regulations there's a lot of reasons

00:32:30.940 china can get a lot of things done uh more inexpensively than we can and the quality could be lower

00:32:36.060 but they want to export you know kind of if you go to a dollar store everything in there is typically

00:32:41.820 from china they want to bring the evs here in fact i think tesla is even getting some of theirs

00:32:46.460 manufactured over there so what trudeau's worried about now is if china dumps all of their and it's

00:32:53.100 dumping so if they're selling them here just to pierce into the market at less than the cost of making

00:32:57.260 them or near the cost it's really going to disrupt the market but it will allow them to corner it

00:33:01.180 but if the federal government bans that or puts a huge tariff on it okay that'll work kind of but

00:33:07.660 the problem is it puts the cost of every electric vehicle up because you know you've taken away the

00:33:13.820 competition and when you take away the competition the consumer loses so he's in a rock in a hard place

00:33:20.300 is your goal to get everybody in electric vehicle or not because if the goal really is to save the world

00:33:25.420 if that's the way we're going to stop climate change apparently if that's the way we're going to end

00:33:30.140 weather events and uh you know all the good stuff that they keep coming up with then you should be

00:33:35.500 welcoming these cheap chinese electric vehicles into canada as heavily and as quickly as possible

00:33:41.660 if that's all that matters but instead you're going to raise the taxes on these so they don't come in

00:33:48.220 then you're going to take the tax money out of other people give them to electric vehicle manufacturers

00:33:52.380 here that are going to be making subsidized electric vehicles that they're going to sell to you

00:33:57.420 at a higher price because the chinese competitors aren't coming in which means the development of

00:34:01.500 electric vehicles is going to go even slower it's insane but again it kind of gets back to

00:34:06.780 my opening monologue you know this government is is not competent they aren't sane and this whole

00:34:12.540 electric vehicle thing i mean trudeau's been looking for a legacy that's a little bit i think of why

00:34:17.420 he's still hanging in there he's still standing there because if he resigned tomorrow most prime

00:34:21.580 ministers want to look back and say this is what i accomplished while i was in you know this is what

00:34:27.340 i got done excuse me mo rooney got free trade you know and trudeau senior got the the the charter

00:34:35.820 but what did justin get in but what does he manage to do he legalized pot actually it was a good move but

00:34:41.260 i don't know if that's the the big groundbreaking massive policy initiative that one wants to sit on so

00:34:47.260 he wanted to save the world he wanted canada to be the international boy scout he wanted us to be the

00:34:52.460 ones that were going to be you know ending global warming through leading by example and of course

00:34:57.100 it's just turned into a disaster because his government's incompetent and and can't do things

00:35:00.940 through reasonable policies they just do it through throwing our money at them but the electric vehicles

00:35:05.500 they've turned that into their panacea that's their holy grail if everybody could just get out of

00:35:10.380 combustion engines somehow that the climate would stabilize and everything be happy in the little bunnies

00:35:15.500 and the birds it'll all be hopping and flying around and everything be great but it's just not

00:35:19.660 working it's all falling apart like everything else that clown does uh the sooner we get out of it the

00:35:25.100 better but right now the auto manufacturers it shows they get their hands out their hands out give

00:35:29.100 me more give me more give me more we need more it's not working we got 150 billion already well we want

00:35:34.620 more no you know what no stop it stop it it's good money after bad same sort of thing when we're looking

00:35:41.100 at legacy media i've been kind of beating on them online a little bit with uh chorus if you look at

00:35:46.860 their stock they own global and there's some other stuff happened they used to own a bunch of uh

00:35:52.060 profitable i guess television stations cable channels the home and garden network and a few others and i

00:35:56.780 guess those all got pieced out and all they're kind of left with is global news and and some radio

00:36:01.340 stations some other things that are losing money deep in the red and they might get bailed out yet again

00:36:08.220 you see the problem is with these these companies when they get bailed out then they don't adapt they

00:36:13.420 don't reform themselves i i did an interview on a station out by toronto and mississauga the other

00:36:18.780 day uh a radio interview and these guys are neat because they've slimmed down their station you know

00:36:24.060 because radios it doesn't draw the viewers anymore like it used to or listeners i should say you know it

00:36:29.420 it doesn't have the ad revenue that it used to so they have to change to stay there's still a lot of

00:36:33.980 people will listen to talk format radio but there's fewer of them and you have to bring down

00:36:38.780 your costs in order to service that these guys have done it great the the the producer who books

00:36:43.580 me for the show i can hear his voice you know when i'm on break and uh he's doing the traffic report

00:36:48.700 later and speaking of the traffic reports like calgary one of the chorus radio stations the talk radio

00:36:53.900 stations they got a traffic helicopter well think about that how much is that costing to put a traffic

00:37:00.460 helicopter into the sky with staff every morning and afternoon helicopters are expensive very very

00:37:06.940 expensive and guess what with your phone you can find out where the traffic jams are in short order

00:37:15.020 and if you're listening to the radio the radio station could have somebody look on their phone

00:37:18.060 with google maps and tell you where the traffic jams are you don't need to be spending what must be

00:37:23.020 hundreds of thousands a year on a traffic helicopter but you see these big dinosaur legacy media outlets

00:37:27.900 can't flex they can't change they don't know how to make themselves better and when they rely on

00:37:32.220 subsidies they aren't inspired to make themselves better so if global gets bailed out they won't get

00:37:37.660 any better you you're just you're keeping a zombie on life support that's all you're doing it's gonna die

00:37:43.100 eventually but you're wasting money and time on it likewise with these electric vehicles maybe the time

00:37:48.700 will come maybe it will maybe there'll be enough advancements breakthroughs i will buy electric

00:37:53.340 if and when it gets good enough to suit me i just don't want the government

00:37:56.700 telling me when i gotta buy it i've got a lawnmower that's getting on its last legs

00:38:01.100 i've been looking at the electric versions the ones where you charge uh you know not the old ones with

00:38:05.660 the cable where you used to run over your extension cord all the time with the lawnmower but the ones

00:38:09.100 where you charge and the batteries are getting fantastic and they're getting cost effective

00:38:13.420 i'm probably going to move to that when i get my next mower i'm hoping i'm a cheap guy i'm hoping i can

00:38:17.260 squeak another year or two out of this gas one i've had for a long long time but when it goes i'm going to go

00:38:21.740 electric you see it's because i chose to because the mowers got good enough to make me want to go that route

00:38:27.340 if a car gets to a point or a truck where it really will hold a charge that long where the cost is

00:38:33.980 really that uh appealing for the vehicle itself where they'll last long enough where they'll perform

00:38:39.980 well enough if they're better than combustion engines on all those fronts i'll probably move

00:38:45.900 but not until then i don't want a government gun to my head telling me i have to move to these cars

00:38:50.220 that's not the way to do it so give it time leave the private market alone they will come up with

00:38:56.380 better electric technology to make it better right now what we're doing is subsidizing junk and you

00:39:00.300 got to think when that money is being poured into these plants in ontario and quebec chances are

00:39:05.020 they're going to build technology that'll be when you're getting into stuff like this it goes obsolete

00:39:09.180 fast so they'll probably get their plants up and running and some private plants somewhere else will have

00:39:14.620 already come up with a better technology and the stuff that this being manufactured in canada so

00:39:19.500 mark my words on this one will be determined to be obsolete and junk and we'll just put billions of

00:39:23.900 dollars into nothing subsidies don't work guys uh let's see ndp mp who builds this is beautiful nikki

00:39:31.980 ashton she's an mp for the you know ndp she billed us seventeen thousand dollars to go home for christmas

00:39:39.900 isn't that cool how what did you blow it on she lives in northern manitoba these mps get a generous

00:39:45.660 travel allowance i don't begrudge them that the ones who you know you live in calgary you live in

00:39:50.460 vancouver you've got to spend a certain degree of time in ottawa you got to come back and forth yeah it's

00:39:54.380 fair for them to be paid for housing while they're in ottawa and for the travel back and forth and some

00:39:59.820 degree of travel to conferences and things but it gets ridiculous you're going home for christmas

00:40:05.740 seventeen thousand dollars come on oh but she's realized she made a mistake she's paying

00:40:10.380 2900 of it back no it's fraud she should be paying every bloody penny back if this was in the private

00:40:15.020 market you'd be charged you'd be fired and you'd probably be charged for fraud and she said the costs

00:40:20.860 were necessary to meet with stakeholders and deal with an urgent bed bug situation this is how bizarre

00:40:26.460 some of these entitled politicians get deal with a bed bug situation now thankfully i've never had

00:40:31.660 a bed bug outbreak in my home but uh if i did i'd be calling the orkin man not my member of parliament

00:40:39.900 what the hell is she a bed bug situation is what the mp is supposed to be dealing with

00:40:44.460 where do they get this stuff i mean i you know and i know i know it ties into something more she's it's

00:40:49.580 in northern manitoba riding it's a indigenous area there are some very serious social issues

00:40:54.700 there are some very serious hygienic issues in these socially challenged areas

00:40:58.700 and bed bugs are gross and nasty and i guess there's an outbreak in the reserve it doesn't

00:41:03.580 mean though that you can somehow justify your christmas tab for going home for a visit

00:41:09.020 because your neighbors had bed bugs but she thinks it covers that you know when the time comes that we

00:41:14.860 fire all the liberals let's make sure we fire the ndp as well uh let's see firearms here's another beauty

00:41:21.100 um yeah as the western standard headline said on it you know it's shooting blanks the government

00:41:26.540 policy uh the the ones that you know it's been years four years since the the government banned a

00:41:31.980 whole whack of of different types of firearms in canada uh so far they've brought in 2123 of these

00:41:39.820 new blacklisted firearms uh 723 of those were surrendered by owners so uh you know a third basically

00:41:49.500 but the other two-thirds they were seized because uh for for other police investigations things they

00:41:54.300 weren't being used legally the reality then you see again i mentioned that in a past show canada is

00:41:59.980 the seventh most armed civilian population on earth we have millions and millions of firearms in canada

00:42:05.820 and thankfully we don't actually on a relative scale have a lot of firearm related crimes we're

00:42:10.220 doing pretty good we're doing all right uh but this this this attempt by the government to take

00:42:15.020 them is not working people don't trust the government they're not giving them their firearms

00:42:19.180 and we're not becoming any safer but yet again we're spending a whole whole lot of money on things

00:42:25.100 that we don't need to um let's see let's look a little further uh yeah black market dairy i i i

00:42:31.580 saw another uh speaking of the libertarian into things this isn't an ongoing thing you know there's

00:42:35.420 some people uh i guess the cbc did a big expose or uh you know investigative report on a guy who's

00:42:42.780 selling black market raw milk in calgary somewhere and you know there's a lot of people really hung

00:42:47.980 up on the raw milk thing oh pasteurized bad pasteurized whatever i believe pasteurization is

00:42:53.740 good i'd rather have pasteurized products it makes me feel better i think it's a good development but

00:43:01.020 i don't think it should be illegal for people to get non-pasteurized stuff who cares i don't care

00:43:06.540 suck it right out of the cow itself here if that's your thing doesn't matter to me uh just

00:43:13.420 leave it a choice just label it you know pasteurized unpasteurized but this battle this battle back alley

00:43:18.540 milk come on guys it kind of shows though when government regulates things anything can become

00:43:24.300 a smuggled commodity and unpasteurized milk is one okay gray market commodity going on uh in in the world

00:43:33.340 let's see uh getting back to uh bad management the battles going on between premier daniel smith and

00:43:38.140 justin trudeau excuse me one of the deals justin cut of course with jagmeet singh to try and

00:43:44.780 maintain the government and stay in power and so on was the dental plan which has turned into yet

00:43:49.260 another joke i mean we're talking in every province the number of dentists actually opting

00:43:53.100 into that dental plan is in the hundreds so yeah sure you get this dental coverage but you can't

00:43:57.180 find a dentist to actually do the work and smith has just basically said outright we're opting out

00:44:02.460 alberta's out we don't want any part of it and uh it's provincial jurisdiction so there's another

00:44:07.580 battle that's going to come up it'll be interesting and uh yeah we don't need trudeau taking care of our

00:44:14.620 teeth he he should be trying to take care of his own house right now and he's not doing a very good job

00:44:19.420 of it uh locally calgary yes they're still under water restrictions you're still supposed to

00:44:24.220 let it mellow if it is yellow and if it's brown flush it down sort of thing car washes are shut

00:44:30.300 down businesses are harmed they really think they're going to have it open by the stampede

00:44:34.940 we'll see what happens uh it has led to though jody gondek in emergencies usually a leader will uh

00:44:41.420 kind of surf a bit of a wave of support you know people rally around not in the case of gondek she

00:44:45.500 actually lost four points of support since this thing began it's just a disaster all around people are

00:44:51.580 sick of her they're sick of this mess even if she directly wasn't responsible for it uh she's

00:44:55.980 not enduring herself with calgarians any further with her communications on it meanwhile going

00:45:01.580 further with infrastructure if we're talking about billions of dollars the green line is a calgary

00:45:05.420 project it was a lrt expansion that just keeps getting smaller and smaller while the price just

00:45:09.980 gets bigger and bigger and they haven't even laid a mile of track yet there's supposed to be a report

00:45:13.820 in june on the progress of that and everybody's been kind of anticipating it's going to be a pretty bad

00:45:17.900 disaster but june's almost over and i haven't heard that report i think city administration is

00:45:23.180 kind of hiding that disaster right now because they're already up the creek with you know sort

00:45:27.420 of screwing up on that vital services delivering water to calgarians it's going to be hard to sell

00:45:32.060 calgarians on spending an extra five billion on top of the other five billion to try and get this

00:45:35.980 train line to nowhere done when they can't even get clean drinking water or flush the pee down their

00:45:41.020 toilets uh this city council is just and i mean city councils across canada are a mess but calgary's

00:45:48.300 getting to be in a special sort of place jody gondek and recent poll found seven percent of people

00:45:53.340 strongly support her now seven percent that's how bad it is she might resign before trudeau does we'll

00:45:59.100 see she doesn't seem to like the job very much all right well that's enough rambling out of me for this

00:46:05.180 week guys uh lots to cover lots going on enjoy this summer get out it's been beautiful out here in

00:46:11.420 the west i'm sure it is in other areas watch the news but don't let it dominate your life guys there's

00:46:16.780 many things to be positive about even though i'm constantly cranky and negative when i'm on here

00:46:20.860 that's what i'm all about so thank you all for tuning in this week guys and i will see you all again

00:46:27.020 next week at this time i will have a guest and damn it we'll have our tech issues sorted out

00:46:30.940 and we'll have a great conversation so thanks again and we'll see you next week

Western Standard - August 31, 2024

New Canadian Crackdown on Nicotine Pouches Aims to Shield Youth

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