Western Standard - Organized labour is crushing Canada

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00:02:00.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show coming live from calgary the land of the unwashed due

00:02:09.620 to lack of water at least those who have chosen to follow the mandates and just shorten their

00:02:14.340 showers and only flush on the occasional pinch well calgary just isn't smelling very good right

00:02:19.980 now but hey only maybe four weeks to go and they'll get that water line fixed there's nobody

00:02:25.360 can move faster than government and fixing something up, eh? But lots of other stuff to

00:02:29.480 cover today anyways, besides the situation in Calgary. Boy, I really appreciate my water well

00:02:34.900 down in Prentice these days, though. I've got guest Mark Mielke of the Aristotle Foundation

00:02:39.300 coming on in a little bit. We're going to talk about a column they put out recently. And yes,

00:02:44.260 lots of news and rants and things going on. Make sure you use that comment screen, guys,

00:02:48.040 for the folks who are here for the live broadcast. I appreciate it. Seeing the discourse,

00:02:52.140 first chat with each other, send things my way. Just keep it civil. I see somebody came in early,

00:02:57.000 must have seen the title of the show and through a comment in, which I appreciate, Sonny Brakes

00:03:00.960 said, what are you talking about? Labor unions fight for fair wages. What I've noticed as a

00:03:05.140 union employee is that an employer is within their rights to pay higher wages, but they never do.

00:03:10.320 Think about it. I did think about it. I had a little time since it was an early comment coming

00:03:14.420 in. Actually, employers always pay higher wages when the employee is worth more. Now, somebody in

00:03:20.880 the union environment might never understand that because all they have to do is put in days

00:03:24.320 and they're on a scale and they climb the scrotum pole based on seniority rather than actual

00:03:28.720 performance or worth. I've predominantly been in the private market, oil field, running my own

00:03:33.960 business, things like that. When an employee is worth more, you pay them more. And it's a

00:03:39.260 competitive market for good workers. Unions skew that market. But either way, Sonny, if you haven't

00:03:45.720 been able to find an employer to pay you more money, maybe you should look to yourself rather

00:03:49.760 than the employer. The union shouldn't be what makes you earn more money. But let's talk more

00:03:54.080 about that. And that's getting to what I want to talk about today. Organized labor in general.

00:03:58.540 And organized labor is crushing Canada. And sadly, citizens can't expect help from the

00:04:03.020 Conservative Party of Canada on this. We had a recent federal bill C-58, it whizzed through

00:04:07.920 Parliament with unanimous consent, and it will be law soon. That bill makes it illegal for private

00:04:13.600 companies and federally regulated sectors to hire replacement workers if there's a strike.

00:04:18.020 One can expect such a terrible piece of legislation to be supported by the NDP and the Liberals.

00:04:23.580 They're socialists. We expect that.

00:04:25.080 One would have hoped, though, the CPC would have allowed a free vote on the bill.

00:04:29.200 Sadly, we're disappointed.

00:04:30.460 Instead, the vote was whipped and every member of Parliament was forced to support it, whether they like it or not.

00:04:35.720 Or we're supposed to believe that 100% of the Conservative MPs really think that handcuffing private companies like this is a good idea.

00:04:42.780 The only thing that terrifies federal politicians more than Indigenous issues is organized labor. 0.97

00:04:48.020 Not a single federal party is willing to stand up for Canadians against this union tail wagging

00:04:53.080 the national dog, and we're all going to pay dearly for that. Canadian productivity and GDP

00:04:57.620 per capita when measured against other developed countries has been in free fall for years.

00:05:02.280 Inefficient unionized workplaces and a continually bloating civil service has contributed heavily

00:05:07.040 towards this. Despite the growth of the federal civil service numbers by 40% in the last decade,

00:05:12.720 services have become more terrible than ever. Not only that, but the government workers have

00:05:17.020 become more belligerent and entitled than ever to. I mean, last year they held Canadians hostage

00:05:22.400 with a strike, and this year they're threatening what they call a summer of discontent. You want

00:05:26.860 to know why? Because they might have to show up for work more than two days a week. Oh, those poor 0.99

00:05:32.540 dears. Public service unions have been much too powerful for far too long. Governments capitulate

00:05:38.340 to union demands with a little hesitation, and as if that wasn't bad enough, C-58 will now empower

00:05:43.680 those unions to hold private companies in fields like trucking, media, telecommunications, hostages

00:05:48.640 as well. Even pipeline construction is going to be subject to a ban on replacement workers

00:05:53.920 if the pipeline crosses a provincial border. I mean, look how expensive the Trans Mountain

00:05:58.340 pipeline expansion was and think of how bad it's going to be now that unions are truly going to

00:06:02.660 run the show. Organized labor doesn't just harm us through the skyrocketing compensation demands 0.97

00:06:07.600 and the chronic labor actions and the protection of lazy workers. It actively fights against the

00:06:12.940 pursuit of efficiency and changes. Canada Post is a perfect example. The days of house-to-house

00:06:18.240 mail delivery should have been gone long ago. We don't need it anymore, and it costs a fortune.

00:06:22.320 They're just overpaid flyer delivery boys. The Crown Corporation began moving towards

00:06:27.000 centralized mailbox systems until the postal union managed to convince Trudeau to end this

00:06:31.920 important evolution in delivery. Liberals had an election approaching, and they were afraid of the

00:06:36.840 postal union, so they bought their support with a promise to maintain obsolete home delivery. Now

00:06:41.500 catapost is burdening taxpayers as a chronic money loser. Last year, they lost $740 million

00:06:48.460 just in one year, and it's not going to get any better. Now, while the union control of the postal

00:06:52.780 system is an expensive annoyance, it becomes even more dangerous as unions fight reforms and

00:06:57.940 efficiency in fields such as health care. The Canadian health care system is collapsing in

00:07:01.800 every province, every province, under every government of every political stripe. The rigid

00:07:06.480 monopoly system has created a monster that costs more every year while the waiting lists for

00:07:10.480 procedures get longer and longer. The system itself needs reform, but unions act to fight

00:07:15.680 every effort to change the status quo and they fight it tooth and nail. Even the outsourcing

00:07:19.940 of something as simple as laundry services suddenly becomes a hill for unions to die upon

00:07:23.700 and governments back away in fear from pursuing even those minor reforms. Meanwhile, people are

00:07:28.400 literally dying while waiting for treatment. Unions are there for the unions, not the patients,

00:07:33.120 despite what they claim. Teachers unions, they regularly demonstrate where union priorities

00:07:38.080 really are as well despite their claims to be in there for the students. They like to cloak

00:07:41.120 themselves as professional associations and purport to be acting in the interest of students.

00:07:46.000 Somehow the interest of the students always translates into more compensation for teachers

00:07:49.360 though with fewer days worked. The teachers unions dig deeply into social activism as well

00:07:54.240 and bring their woke ideals into the classroom while fighting against any form of standardized

00:07:58.000 testing to assess whether they're actually effectively teaching children. They say every

00:08:03.120 child learns differently yet they vigorously oppose diversity learning through opposing charter

00:08:08.000 or alternative schools. The social activism within unions has really come to a head

00:08:12.600 during the Israel-Hamas conflict. QP Ontario leader Fred Hahn's vile demonstrations of

00:08:18.320 anti-Semitism, oh he hates Jews, have horrified Canadians as the conflict began, as he coaxes 0.94

00:08:23.820 his union members to actively take part in anti-Israel protests. No matter where one lands

00:08:28.580 on that issue, it should be asked why is one of the largest unions in Canada taking any role in

00:08:32.620 that conflict on any side? What has it got to do with Canadian worker rights? Nobody will ask those

00:08:37.620 questions, however. Even Polyev's conservatives have tightly gagged themselves when it comes to

00:08:42.400 dealing with unions. Organized labor is spreading like an infection, while callow politicians

00:08:47.340 purposely look the other way. Canada should be looking at right-to-work legislation rather than

00:08:52.300 banning replacement workers in private industries. Instead, we see unanimous consent on legislation

00:08:57.160 that's handcuffing industries. Sorry, kids, the economy's going down and things are going to get

00:09:01.500 much worse before they get better. Either way, yes, I will call out the conservatives when they

00:09:06.840 do things wrong just as quickly as i'll call it the liberals and guys they should have at least

00:09:10.360 spoken up on that bill before it went through all right let's see what else is going on out there

00:09:14.280 and check in with our news editor dave dealer hey dave how's it going well cory i've got to be a bit

00:09:19.420 serious for a moment um well you and i have known each other now for what four or five years yeah

00:09:24.360 something like that i think it's fair to say that you know we consider ourselves friends i think so

00:09:30.440 Can I ask a favour then?

00:09:32.620 Ride to the airport?

00:09:34.360 No. Can I come over for a bath?

00:09:36.460 Oh, yes. I was thinking of renting out the water facilities in Prittis.

00:09:40.920 I can certainly offer a friends discount.

00:09:43.940 Well, actually, I've seen some Facebook ads.

00:09:46.240 People who own their own indoor pools in Calgary are now starting to charge people to come and use them

00:09:51.880 because all the city pools are closed.

00:09:54.140 So I guess one way to earn a little bit of extra money.

00:09:56.920 Black market swimming. 0.83

00:09:57.900 Exactly. Okay. How does seven o'clock tonight sound? I'll be there with my little rubber ducky

00:10:03.960 and you can draw me a bath. Yeah, just send me a preferred temperature. We'll see what we can

00:10:09.220 arrange. All right. Sounds good. Anyways, what do we got on the website this morning? We've got a

00:10:16.380 Regina doctor who is now being suspended for a month because he gave one of his patients

00:10:21.800 uh ivermectin to treat him when he was suffering from covet 19 and as we know the medical societies

00:10:28.600 have said that is a no-no we've got a whole bunch of toronto schools introducing a new

00:10:34.840 policy for 10-year-olds uh when they're talking about reproductive health uh they've removed the 0.98

00:10:40.920 the phrases men's and women's and it's it's just you know people with the people with a penis and 0.77

00:10:47.480 people with a uterus there's no reference to men women uh whatsoever involved in it uh if you've

00:10:53.720 got a flight booked on west jet in the next little while you might want to double check that it's

00:10:58.120 going ahead uh today west jet canceled a whole bunch of flights because of a uh a looming strike

00:11:04.520 by mechanics and other maintenance workers and i think cory if there's one industry that you really

00:11:09.160 don't want replacement workers in it's probably aircraft mechanics uh you know you're replaced

00:11:15.640 than others, yeah. Yeah, you kind of need the top people. The anti-oil wackos sort of crossed the

00:11:22.780 border or crossed the line of decency again today when they attacked Stonehenge on the eve of summer

00:11:29.340 solstice when druids are about to go. They attacked it and spray-painted it, but covered it

00:11:36.920 with some sort of red fire extinguisher discharge 1.00

00:11:41.280 and just people are idiots, Corey. 1.00

00:11:45.360 And we had a nice exclusive this morning 1.00

00:11:48.240 from our Sean Polser.

00:11:49.720 Calgary's first municipal election slate

00:11:53.740 is going to kick off with an event tonight.

00:11:57.040 If you remember the UCP Alberta government

00:12:01.640 changed the rules to allow party slates

00:12:04.920 to run in municipal elections and local conservatives

00:12:08.740 have got together and are taking a run

00:12:11.020 at the sort of the union backed city council

00:12:14.420 that Calgary is suffering through right now.

00:12:18.740 Yeah, so those are the highlights.

00:12:20.340 We got the latest on the Oilers win last night.

00:12:23.340 Man, those Edmonton Oilers fans

00:12:24.820 are sort of getting annoying, Corey,

00:12:27.320 but they're still delusional.

00:12:28.940 They still think they're gonna win it all.

00:12:30.680 Well, it'll be over soon one way or another.

00:12:35.420 Well, right on, I'll let you get back

00:12:37.060 to getting that news together

00:12:38.120 and I'll make sure to send Jane a heads up

00:12:39.720 that you'll be showing up with a towel

00:12:40.840 a little later this evening.

00:12:42.660 I'll be there.

00:12:43.200 Thanks, Corey.

00:12:43.920 Right on.

00:12:44.420 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:45.180 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

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00:13:32.760 I see back in the comments, girl, it's funny when organized labor comes up, the union guys come

00:13:36.900 crawling out of the woodworks, don't they? Well, they've got nothing else to do. It's not like

00:13:39.780 they're working. They're at home flicking beans and doing whatever else they do because they only

00:13:43.820 have to come in two days a week. But Gary Baggie has come in and says, so Pierre Poliev wants to

00:13:47.860 ban unions. He won't get my vote. Gary, where in this whole first, what, 10 minutes of this show

00:13:54.720 did anybody say Polyev wants to ban unions. In fact, what I was saying was Polyev is afraid to

00:14:00.960 do anything about unions. He's just as status quo about unions as Justin Trudeau or Jagmeet Singh.

00:14:06.900 If you'd get the union wax out of your ears, maybe you would have caught that.

00:14:10.660 I, however, am calling for right-to-work legislation, which again isn't banning unions.

00:14:14.620 I would just like to see people have a choice. People could choose whether to be part of the

00:14:18.520 union or shouldn't. If the unions are so good, they have nothing to fear, right? People will

00:14:22.680 choose to join the union. Yet they are terrified of choice. Terrified. Abjectly terrified. Maybe

00:14:30.060 it's because the unions really aren't all they're cut out to be, are they? Well, speaking of mental

00:14:34.620 health issues, Elizabeth May, you know, we talked about her last week because she had gotten the 1.00

00:14:40.300 security clearance to read that report on foreign interference and she dove into it and, you know,

00:14:47.060 somehow managed to, despite seeing double, read and interpret and come out. She said, no, there's

00:14:52.660 no MPs named in it, and there's nothing to worry about, and there's no spying going on. It's all

00:14:59.460 quite fine. Strange. And a lot of, of course, legacy media jumped on. You see, Liz said it's

00:15:04.540 fine. There is no, there's no traitors in Parliament. Liz said so. Jagmeet Singh, to the

00:15:11.280 left of Liz, or, you know, somewhat, he had a read of it as well, and he got quite a different

00:15:16.880 interpretation. He said, no, no, it's very concerning. There are traitors within Parliament,

00:15:21.860 and we've got to work on this.

00:15:23.580 And suddenly Elizabeth May has come out yet again

00:15:26.020 and she gave a press conference that was almost an hour.

00:15:28.600 That was one of the times I really did actually feel

00:15:30.320 pretty sorry for legacy media reporters

00:15:32.400 because they had to sit through listening

00:15:33.720 to that woman ramble on for that long 1.00

00:15:35.480 to basically backtrack on everything

00:15:37.760 she'd said the week before.

00:15:39.220 Why they give her any time.

00:15:40.860 Well, I guess I'm giving her some time right now as well.

00:15:43.000 She is an elected member of parliament

00:15:44.620 and boy, she got a heck of a lot of ink

00:15:46.800 over her first and then second interpretation.

00:15:50.560 the bottom line is with this whole thing. We don't know. We've got to open it up, guys. We've

00:15:56.620 got to add transparency to this. This is insane. This is insane. We're an international laughing

00:16:02.420 stock. We've literally got traitors in our parliament, and we can't seem to find ourselves

00:16:07.880 to do anything about it. This is problematic, to say the very least. All right. Enough about that.

00:16:14.100 I see my guest is in the lobby, and I've been looking forward to talking to him. It's been a

00:16:16.720 while since he's been on. We've got Mark Mielke of the Aristotle Foundation to come on to talk

00:16:22.060 about a recent column that came across my email. Hi, Mark. Welcome back to the show.

00:16:28.320 Corey, it's great to be on. Thanks for having me back.

00:16:31.060 Yeah, thanks. So, you know, where to start? I mean, it's the evolution of activism, I think,

00:16:36.720 to a degree. Things have kind of come full circle. The big battles have been won,

00:16:41.220 But now it's getting almost, it's come full circle now.

00:16:47.520 Colorblindness is now the new racism.

00:16:51.100 Right.

00:16:51.860 New evils, or old evils rather, and old ills always show up in new ways and possibly often in ways you wouldn't expect, right?

00:16:59.120 So Chong Nguyen and I wrote a column recently on this notion of reverse racism and how this came about,

00:17:07.440 where when you say you're colorblind, now you're considered to be part of the problem.

00:17:10.740 you're considered to be racist. And the most famous proponent of this view is Ibrahim X.

00:17:15.640 Kennedy out of the United States, a quasi scholar who has promoted this line of thinking.

00:17:21.020 So how did we get to this place where you say, look, I want to be Martin Luther King.

00:17:26.820 You know, his famous speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.,

00:17:32.780 where he says, judge people. I want my kids to be judged on the color of their skin.

00:17:36.660 Sorry, the character, content of their character, not the color of their skin.

00:17:40.000 How do we get to a place now in Canada, the United States and in Western countries anyway, where to say that, to say I'd like to be colorblind, to be treated colorblind, I am colorblind, is now suspiciously looked at?

00:17:54.460 Well, really, you're part of the problem.

00:17:56.960 And how this came about in part is because of the redefinition of what it means to be racist these days.

00:18:01.840 Corey?

00:18:02.700 Yeah, well, it just seems that they're trying to keep the divisions going when we'd actually been making them fade.

00:18:09.200 I mean, you know, race is going to be there. Cultural differences are going to be there. They don't have to be erased or disappear. But what we wanted to work towards was stopping allowing those differences to control our actions with and to each other.

00:18:22.780 But now it's come full circle into trying to embrace and segregate the different cultures and races from each other, which is only going to lead to more friction yet all over again.

00:18:32.140 I just get so frustrated watching it.

00:18:34.160 I mean, the celebration of a Black-only graduation recently and other events where we should be working together, you know, while still celebrating cultural and history and things like that.

00:18:45.240 But we're going the other way.

00:18:47.240 Well, we are.

00:18:48.120 And again, I think it's due to a number of factors.

00:18:50.520 One is that people look at differences in outcomes between cohorts, right? Statistical cohorts. So, you know, you can be, you know, one ethnicity versus another or majority of population white in Canada versus, you know, the black population or something.

00:19:06.720 So you can carve up statistics in this way.

00:19:09.640 And, you know, there's some use in doing that to figure out what's going on.

00:19:13.480 Is some community, some particular community is defined by however you want to carve up, you know, cohort and statistics doing well or better on some indicators.

00:19:21.580 So, for example, we know that Indigenous Canadians are not doing well on average compared to, say, other Canadians or compared to Taiwanese Canadians.

00:19:30.540 Now, the assumption, though, that a lot of people have is they see a difference in outcomes and they say, OK, that must be due to racism.

00:19:36.720 Now, why people pick one factor, you know, is there's a whole bunch of reasons, I guess, but it's it's monocausal.

00:19:43.860 It's wrong. So why is there a difference between, say, Indigenous Canadians on average incomes and, say, Taiwanese Canadians on average incomes? 0.85

00:19:51.180 Well, one factor, education levels.

00:19:54.000 Taiwanese Canadians are among the most educated as a group in Canada on average compared to, say, Indigenous Canadians, you know, and guys like you and me with our skin color in the middle of somewhere.

00:20:03.360 So is that due to racism? No, it's due to education levels.

00:20:06.720 Or another factor that can affect incomes is, again, using Indigenous Canadians or First Nations Canadians as a specific example, is a greater proportion of First Nations Canadians live in the middle of nowhere, often not always, but often on a reserve, a greater proportion live in rural areas because you live on a reserve in the middle of nowhere.

00:20:25.540 Well, we know whether you're white, Indigenous, Asian, Canadian, if you live in a rural area, you will earn less.

00:20:31.160 So you add education, you add geography, and all of a sudden, this notion that everything

00:20:36.620 can be due to, you know, is assumed to be due to racism today or past racism becomes 0.89

00:20:42.660 ridiculous.

00:20:43.400 There's lots of other factors that go into why people succeed or not, even why certain 0.97

00:20:48.140 cohorts succeed.

00:20:49.680 So that's part of the problem is people are thinking simplistically when they see differences

00:20:53.500 in outcomes.

00:20:54.260 A famous example I like to give is from Thomas Sowell in one of his books.

00:20:57.380 He talks about the differences between Italians, you know, and the Swiss, and apparently historically in fishing fleets around the world, the Italians dominate the fishing fleets.

00:21:09.000 Now, not the Swiss. Is that because the Swiss are discriminated against, you know, by those in the fishing fleets, you know, when they try and enter?

00:21:17.060 No, historically or geographically, the reason is quite simple.

00:21:20.500 Italians grow up around coastlines. The Swiss have none. 1.00

00:21:23.220 And so it stands to reason, you know, if you're from Switzerland, you're less likely to have ever gotten on a boat and certainly entered the commercial fishing industry.

00:21:32.860 There's all sorts of reasons why groups differ in outcomes.

00:21:35.760 But we've arrived at a stage where everything is blamed on racism or most things.

00:21:40.060 That's nonsensical.

00:21:41.260 It's monocausal.

00:21:42.220 It's simplistic.

00:21:43.240 But that's what's driving federal policy, for example, out of provincial policy, university admissions policy, university hiring policy.

00:21:49.860 I could go on.

00:21:50.800 Corporate DEI.

00:21:51.640 so we live in this weird age as well where people think pure culture is going to save them from you

00:21:58.120 know um whatever um you know and that you know the the black only graduation ceremonies you

00:22:04.940 mentioned a moment ago that's a good example of that and i can expand on that but that's actually

00:22:08.920 really dangerous to think your culture is going to save you um but i'll stop there and let you

00:22:13.300 interject cory well yeah i mean you know the one of the things you'll get from activists and the

00:22:18.540 pushback, he always says, so you're saying racism doesn't exist or something like that. And that's

00:22:22.280 not the case at all. There's still some terribly bigoted individuals out there. There's going to

00:22:26.560 be some companies that decline to hire other people based on race or landlords who aren't

00:22:31.780 renting to certain individuals based on race. These things are there, but we're beyond the big

00:22:36.180 institutional racism. I mean, the American Jim Crow laws are long gone. The ability to openly

00:22:43.840 discriminate based on races has been wiped out legislatively anyways.

00:22:49.180 Well, and that's the key difference, isn't it, Corey, that people need to remember that

00:22:53.420 when you hear accusations of systemic racism or institutional racism today, people are

00:22:59.740 often sloppy.

00:23:00.660 They're not defining what they mean.

00:23:02.040 So they conflate the notion that, yes, of course, you can meet a bigot on the street 0.98

00:23:06.300 or online these days that says something that's racist or whatever, ridiculous. 0.86

00:23:10.780 that hasn't gone away, unfortunately. Although I think even societal attitudes have changed 0.65

00:23:17.500 dramatically in the last 70 years in the post-war world, and the polls seem to indicate that.

00:23:21.880 But that, meeting an individual bigot or racist out there, is not the same thing as systemic

00:23:26.460 institutional racism. And when you make systemic racism just kind of this ether in the air that

00:23:32.100 we all breathe in, well, it's unprovable, it's unfalsifiable, right? And so frankly,

00:23:37.800 it's unscientific and anti-scientific, that claim. Institutional or systemic racism is when a white

00:23:43.900 hospital in San Francisco a century ago says to Chinese Americans, you can't come here. Or an

00:23:49.680 Ivy League university says to Jewish Canadians or Americans, you know, in the 1930s, you can't

00:23:54.740 enter in, you know, into this university in, you know, above a certain proportion of the student

00:23:59.380 population. That is institutional and systemic racism. But a lot of this was carved away

00:24:05.820 legislatively starting in the 1910s in some cases. In PEI, for example, there was a law that

00:24:11.720 started to work against discrimination that way. Most perhaps famously in the largest province in

00:24:17.420 the country in the 1950s, Ontario passed laws in the 1950s against discrimination on religious

00:24:24.040 grounds or racial grounds and accommodation, housing, hiring in the early 1950s. And yet we

00:24:29.740 have people 70 years later that think we live in a systemic institutionally racist country. No,

00:24:34.880 we don't we did or those before us did at one point and it was pretty common around the world

00:24:40.240 unfortunately but that legislatively as you mentioned was done away with 70 years ago in many

00:24:46.360 cases yeah well and so i wonder to some degree if we've got a case of activists who just don't know

00:24:52.480 what else to do with themselves like somebody else sent me an article on on it was on lgbtq issues

00:24:57.380 but it was called a march of dimes syndrome and it is quite interesting actually it was talking

00:25:01.480 about how the March of Dimes, which was an activist group to bring about the end of polio

00:25:05.660 and inoculation came along and it kind of did that. But now these activists didn't know what

00:25:10.560 to do with themselves anymore. And they marched right into different causes because they just,

00:25:16.500 their activism becomes their sense of fear. They can't see the finish line anymore.

00:25:22.560 I mean, look, I get it. I once worked for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. It's how I got

00:25:26.320 my start in advocacy and public policy starting in 1997. It goes back a ways. But I remember

00:25:32.260 thinking at one point, what if we actually get a lot of these, what if we get government

00:25:35.840 spending under control and get them to stop spending money on dumb things as opposed to

00:25:40.920 the smart things government should spend our tax dollars on? What if we get tax rates down

00:25:45.440 to a certain extent where I'm saying, well, maybe we need a few more tax dollars. That

00:25:49.880 theory has never been tested. But at some point, you keep going as an activist, and unfortunately

00:25:56.220 we've gone in the wrong direction on those issues. But I get the temptation to keep going to find a

00:26:00.360 new cause. And I suppose there will always be causes to attach oneself to. But then what you

00:26:05.820 want to do is make sure that it's the right cause and you're actually diagnosing the problem

00:26:09.580 correctly. Because if you're not, let's go back to the Indigenous Canadians example. You know why 0.77

00:26:13.920 we shouldn't focus on racism or historic racism as a reason why Indigenous Canadians are in the

00:26:18.800 plight that some of them are today, not all, but on average, again, compared to other cohorts.

00:26:23.620 One of the reasons we shouldn't blame everything on racism in most things is because it has to do with geography.

00:26:28.820 It has to do with education.

00:26:30.240 We know from StatsCan data that if you're a First Nations Canadian, Indigenous Canadian of any stripe, you will do better in cities than you will in rural locations because the educational and career opportunities are there.

00:26:43.160 We also know that if you get your education up and if you do an apple to apple comparison among Indigenous Canadians to other Canadians, and I've done these and they're in my past books, you will see that there's no difference between incomes for, you know, the average Canadian, the non-Indigenous Canadian out there rather, and an Indigenous person in this country, if they have the same education levels and work full year full time.

00:27:05.820 What does that tell you? What it tells you is that some of these problems are solvable through

00:27:09.580 moving off the reserve to a city or nearby a city and getting an education. That's actually

00:27:15.220 tremendously positive. But if you blame everything on systemic racism and you concentrate on this

00:27:20.220 mysterious ether in the air, you're never going to solve anything. And so it's actually very

00:27:24.740 damaging to focus on the wrong cause, wrong assumed cause for an effect that you see out there.

00:27:32.680 when people get it wrong and activists get it wrong, they do damage to the very people they

00:27:36.520 think they're trying to help. Yeah. So not seeing race makes you a racist now. It's hard to keep up

00:27:42.680 with where to be right and wrong. I like to think common sense can dominate. But I mean, here comes

00:27:46.760 the hard part. As a society, we're trying to move forward. We're trying to get better. There were

00:27:51.640 wrongs. There's still some issues to deal with. What should we be doing aside from what has been

00:27:57.600 being done? What's the solution, I guess? Well, focus on people as individuals, right? And focus

00:28:02.940 on things like poverty, as opposed to, and other ways to get people up out of poverty, as opposed

00:28:08.580 to what you look like, your skin color, where you're from, right? That makes more sense. One

00:28:14.580 of the things we just did at the Aracela Foundation is publish a paper by Matthew Lau and David Hunt.

00:28:19.900 They looked at poverty in Canada. And lo and behold, because, you know, guys, you know, guys

00:28:24.620 and gals with our skin color or the majority of population, you would find that the majority of

00:28:28.880 people in poverty in terms of the numbers happen to be white. I don't like using language like

00:28:33.520 white and black. Again, I think it divides people unnecessarily, but that's the statistics Canada

00:28:37.460 language or non, you know, non-minority, non-Indigenous by which stats can means white.

00:28:43.060 The fact is, you know, some cohorts like black Canadians or Indigenous Canadians show a greater

00:28:47.740 proportion of their cohort in poverty, but in absolute numbers, the two and a half million

00:28:54.200 canadians who happen to be caucasian and happen to be in poverty and rather than focus on skin

00:29:00.120 color ethnicity it's better to focus on things things like two-parent on are there actual

00:29:08.600 barriers to people getting into the work workforce then that way you're being colorblind and gender

00:29:15.080 blind and ethnicity blind and identity blind which is what we should be doing because after all i 1.00

00:29:20.600 I mean, I used to use this example before Bill Cosby became toxic.

00:29:23.260 But why would you have an affirmative action program, a quota program, which helps the great grandson, the grandson of, say, Bill Cosby, based on skin color, as opposed to, you know, some poor kid whose, you know, parents survived the Great Depression or something or grandparents did, or maybe a Jewish Canadian whose grandparents survived the Holocaust.

00:29:44.120 Why would you help people based on skin color as opposed to poverty?

00:29:46.980 You end up helping the wrong people.

00:29:48.160 And in fact, David and Matthew found just this in their Aristotle Foundation study.

00:29:52.540 The benefits go to the connected, the politically connected in any group, as opposed to, again, thinking about let's concentrate on getting on lifting all boats and getting people out of poverty, regardless of their skin killer.

00:30:06.300 Anything else is really you don't treat people as individuals and you begin picking on people, again, based on their what they look like.

00:30:13.200 And that's regressive.

00:30:14.260 I mean, Pierre Trudeau would have never agreed with most of this, right?

00:30:17.280 unlike his son. He was very much a classic liberal that said, look at the individual,

00:30:21.760 you know, emphasize individual rights over collectivists, at least, you know, non-economically.

00:30:26.360 He was a collectivist on the economic stuff, but not the rest of it. So I think you have to look

00:30:31.080 at the individual, Corey. That's where you want to start. And all of the rest of this is heading

00:30:36.260 down the wrong road that, you know, is much of human history dividing based on characteristics

00:30:41.280 that don't matter and shouldn't matter. Well, it's a place to start, too, is having those

00:30:46.740 sensitive conversations, I guess, and have the courage to dip into those waters when there's

00:30:50.740 so many people willing to shout you down. And the Aristotle Foundation's been happy to

00:30:54.680 go into the facts of matters and report on as you interpret. Where can people

00:30:58.800 find your work and support you guys if they'd like to?

00:31:03.600 aristotelfoundation.org. And you can also find our first

00:31:06.760 book, The 1867 Project, on Amazon and in local bookstores.

00:31:11.540 Right on. Well, I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today, Mark,

00:31:14.640 and the work you guys do.

00:31:16.060 And hopefully we can talk about this again sometime soon.

00:31:18.820 Anytime. Thank you, Corey.

00:31:20.500 Great. Thank you.

00:31:22.040 So yes, that was Mark Mielke of, as you said,

00:31:23.920 the Aristotle Foundation.

00:31:24.960 And yes, the 1867 Project, great book.

00:31:27.980 A lot of good work they do.

00:31:29.580 And I mean, there's part of it.

00:31:31.180 Again, it's nobody's saying,

00:31:32.420 and I don't like the shouting down

00:31:33.880 when this conversation comes up.

00:31:35.360 That's the problem.

00:31:37.400 When somebody points to other socioeconomic factors

00:31:41.720 that might lead to an identifiable group,

00:31:43.440 that's lagging in other outcomes. Perhaps race is one of the contributing factors, but if you

00:31:51.540 feel that is it, it doesn't mean it's the only contributing factor. You can't let that override

00:31:56.860 every other measure, you know, on what's going on, what's happening there. Why is one community

00:32:03.600 having a better time with things than others? And there's certainly measurable differences we can

00:32:08.960 see, as he said, with Indigenous Canadians, with some Black Canadians, they're having a harder

00:32:13.300 time. Some Asian Canadians are having a, they're very successful and they dealt with men. Canada

00:32:18.480 treated the Asian Canadians terribly at the turn of the century last, you know, a hundred years ago,

00:32:23.760 but they, they moved beyond it. So what is happening? What's the difference? Let's look

00:32:29.160 at what's making the successes rather than worrying about the divisions. Again, it doesn't

00:32:33.740 mean you're saying it doesn't exist. It doesn't mean the saying the racism isn't there, but maybe

00:32:38.360 it's not the overwhelming and immediate factor. And plus, when we keep the divisions up, then

00:32:43.500 maybe we can actually, even if well-intentioned, make things worse as we're always working at

00:32:48.160 cross purposes or seeing somebody as a competitor or an adversary rather than just a fellow citizen.

00:32:53.780 But either way, there are conversations that we have to have and we'll carry on having as we go

00:32:59.060 ahead. So let's talk about another guy in the conversation. This is interesting. I saw this

00:33:03.400 pop up and this is on the Western Standard too, I believe. Andrew Leach. Not everybody may be a

00:33:08.020 familiar with him. He's an economist at the University of Alberta. Poor devil's a ginger. 1.00

00:33:13.260 He's had a lot of rough goes in his life as it is. But on top of all of that, he's always been 0.92

00:33:18.900 just pushing the line before for Rachel Notley's government with the NDP. And he's just been a

00:33:24.700 harsh, harsh critic of Premier Smith and Polyev, you know, with hard left criticism, which is fine.

00:33:32.240 Everybody has their point of view. But the difference is because he was a darling guest

00:33:35.600 of legacy media. He'd always be on to talk about policy and economic issues, particularly with the

00:33:39.760 energy sector and oil-filled carbon taxes. Well, lo and behold, and he trolls. He trolls on social

00:33:45.360 media. He calls people things. That's fine. I do that too. The difference, he got $68,000 from the

00:33:52.300 federal government to be out there trolling social media. I don't get any of that, which is fine. I

00:33:57.740 don't want federal dollars. I'm not asking for federal dollars. I am worried, though, when these

00:34:03.560 experts. Remember, everybody keeps saying, you got to listen to the experts. You're not an expert.

00:34:07.140 You're not an expert. This is the expert you got to talk to. No, no, listen to that expert. This

00:34:10.280 expert over here is the one who's got it all figured out. Well, Andrew Leach was supposedly

00:34:13.240 an expert. No, he's a lackey. He's a lackey. He just goes where his bread's buttered. And that

00:34:18.920 bread butter was coming from the Liberal Party of Canada. $68,000 in consultancy fees. Yeah,

00:34:26.480 they received from the headline in the Western Standard, he called conservative sociopaths.

00:34:31.260 So isn't this a neat cycle of your dollars?

00:34:33.200 You work your butt off, union or non-union.

00:34:35.700 You pay your taxes.

00:34:37.180 They go to that big pot out there with Justin drooling over it and, you know, other levels of government.

00:34:41.440 And they give a chunk of it back to guys like this so he can go on to legacy media outlets and spread BS and take partisan stances and slash and cut at them.

00:34:53.780 So I think, you know, it was Blacklock's reporter that dug that out.

00:34:58.320 Thank you for digging it out.

00:34:59.700 So let's just remember that every time Mr. Leach wants to come up and take his swipes, who's paying your bills this week, Mr. Leach?

00:35:07.480 Me, probably in the long run.

00:35:09.700 But, you know, with the sole source contracts for consulting you've gotten, chances are it's the Trudeau government.

00:35:18.220 And it just never stops.

00:35:20.080 Either way, expose them when they get it.

00:35:22.140 Hopefully we can turn things over and fix things a little.

00:35:24.440 I mean, there's no quick fixes, no immediate fixes for anything in Ottawa.

00:35:27.860 It never works that way, unfortunately.

00:35:29.220 But when we see it happening, point it out, say, hey, that guy is just another paid lackey of the federal liberals.

00:35:37.940 Speaking of which, you know, legacy media, interesting to watch.

00:35:41.040 You know, they're going down.

00:35:42.540 They're going down hard and fast.

00:35:43.760 Unfortunately, it's going to probably lead to more bailouts.

00:35:46.000 But I've been watching, you know, Chorus Entertainment, and they got a large media empire, or they used to.

00:35:53.200 Their stock is down in the last five years over 97%.

00:35:56.660 they were around 14 cents a share this morning. It's just completely collapsing. Now, that group

00:36:02.840 runs Global News and a whole pile of radio stations, you know, in Alberta 630, CHED, and QR77.

00:36:12.140 Now, some people have been talking about that, saying, oh, go broke. It's the terrible content

00:36:16.360 on those talk radio channels that's led to this. Yeah, it doesn't help. I mean, it really has gone

00:36:21.100 downhill. It's almost unlistenable the way they've gotten these days. But the bigger problem is they've

00:36:25.880 got hopelessly outdated media models. That's the reality, even if their content was better.

00:36:32.040 The main one that gets me is, you know, I spend a lot of time driving and I still listen because

00:36:36.260 it's the only radio stations you can get for now. Hopefully that'll change. They got a traffic

00:36:41.620 helicopter. How much does it cost to get a traffic helicopter up and flying around the city of

00:36:47.420 Calgary every day to report on something that people now can figure out on their phone through

00:36:52.940 Google Maps in seconds. Why? Why are you wasting that money? Why are you pouring that money down

00:36:59.080 the drain when your industry is going down the drain? But that's what I mean. These industries,

00:37:03.820 they've been around too long in the incarnation that they have. They don't know how to change.

00:37:09.580 They don't know how to flex, which all that tells us don't bail them out, let them die. They've got 0.98

00:37:14.340 to go. Likewise, when you watch the evening news and you see the meteorologist give the weather

00:37:19.300 report. That was fantastic 30 years ago. Now I can find out on my phone within seconds what the

00:37:24.720 forecast looks like for the next few days. Why are you keeping that person on staff? Nothing against

00:37:29.140 the meteorologist. We just don't need it anymore. But they won't change their models to change with

00:37:35.060 the time. So if they won't change their model, time to go, guys. It's over. And it looks like that's

00:37:40.480 happening with Chorus. We'll see. CTV, likewise, big layoffs. The government keeps bailing them

00:37:47.440 out, bailing them out, and they just keep laying people off because you can't bail out a broken 1.00

00:37:51.620 model fast enough. And of course, then you got the CBC in the midst of things there, that giant

00:37:57.900 ugly monster, that tax-funded thing that nobody watches anyways. They get a guaranteed $1.4

00:38:03.140 billion a year. And the irony of that whole thing is, of course, that's part of what's crushing the

00:38:08.040 other private, well, private but bailed out media outlets that are existing out there because CBC

00:38:13.980 competing for those same advertising dollars and the eyes of viewers while they're out there. It's

00:38:17.800 a sick, ugly model we have in Canada right now. And, uh, it's time to let them go. Just let them 0.98

00:38:24.180 go. No more bailouts, fix yourselves or go away. And yes, it's sure I got self-interest. I'm with

00:38:30.180 an independent media outlet here. That's fine. But Hey, I'm afraid of competing. Come on, get it

00:38:35.600 together. Compete with us. Just quit asking taxpayers to bail you out. Um, you know, Wilder

00:38:42.420 was saying, I don't know, it'd be kind of nice to hear news, weather and sports at 7pm. Well,

00:38:45.700 fine. And if a station can provide that without tax dollars, let them go, go to town. But if they

00:38:51.600 can't, well, you know, c'est la vie. I used to like browsing to get videos at the Blockbuster

00:38:56.960 store, but those days are gone as well. Speaking of bailouts, let's look at that. A report from the

00:39:02.620 parliamentary budget officer. Boy, Trudeau's really learning to hate that, but he can't even pronounce

00:39:07.020 it probably. Either way, he can't read those reports unless they come in, you know, like a

00:39:10.020 pop-up book form for him or something, but it's found that government subsidies for electric

00:39:14.700 vehicle factories, you know, Justin's been running around cutting ribbons all over the place for

00:39:18.840 these EV factories, even though private factories, Ford and others are all actually scaling back

00:39:24.220 their EV production because nobody wants to buy the frigging things. They're too expensive. 0.56

00:39:28.580 They wear out too fast. They don't have a good enough range. They're damn near useless in winter.

00:39:32.980 So we just keep bailing him out, bailing him out. Well, the subsidies going in are $52 billion in

00:39:38.860 Canada. Subsidies, your dollars, 52 billion. You know how much the private industry is put into

00:39:43.900 them in Canada? 46 billion. The government is more invested in the EV market than the companies.

00:39:53.060 Pardon me. It's insane. It's insane. It shows how unviable that industry is. Again, we shouldn't be

00:40:02.860 dipping into it. We should be getting the heck away from it as fast as humanly possible.

00:40:08.400 He keeps diving in deeper and deeper and deeper.

00:40:11.080 I brought it up at a speaking event I was at last week.

00:40:14.780 Anybody familiar with southern Alberta?

00:40:16.460 You drive south of Calgary by High River.

00:40:20.540 If you look to the west, a lot of people, you'll see a big brick building there, just sitting there.

00:40:25.080 It's been there forever.

00:40:26.280 It's been there actually since the late 80s, early 90s.

00:40:28.740 It's part of the Don Getty government diversifying Alberta's economy.

00:40:33.560 They took tax dollars, half a billion of them, which is a lot today.

00:40:37.200 That's a massive amount back in the late 80s, early 90s.

00:40:40.400 And they said, we're going to diversify Alberta's industries by investing in a magnesium plant.

00:40:45.560 That's what that big red abomination is off the highway over there. 0.99

00:40:48.380 It's a magnesium plant.

00:40:50.620 It was only open for a couple of months.

00:40:52.020 It went broke.

00:40:52.800 And then it has sat there, unoccupied, for getting, what, well over 30 years now.

00:41:00.160 That's what happens when government gets into business.

00:41:02.200 we're going to see that with these electric vehicle factories. It's funny, I was always

00:41:05.480 thinking, and the problem with that magnesium factory as well, is that it was so specialized,

00:41:11.440 the way it was built and everything else, you just can't use it for anything else. So it just sits

00:41:15.980 there and you see a security guard there and you see a light on there. So I guess they maintain it

00:41:19.260 and keep it up, but it doesn't do anything. But I think it should stay there. I think they should

00:41:23.800 let it rot though, turn off the power, take away the security, let the graffiti get up there, let

00:41:27.560 the bricks fall down. Let this thing stand as a testament to what happens when governments get

00:41:33.160 into business. It fails every time. So yeah, we're going to look at a bunch of electric vehicle

00:41:38.960 factories in Eastern Canada. Notice these subsidies, of course, from Trudor are pouring in,

00:41:44.120 there's no mistaking it, into the areas he wants to win votes. Eastern Canada, they aren't coming

00:41:48.000 out here. I don't want the subsidies out here. I just don't want them given out at all. But again,

00:41:51.720 $52.5 billion tax dollars into this industry when private industry only put in $46.

00:41:58.660 Man, this is not good, guys. This is not good at all. Speaking of Trudeau, he brought up the

00:42:05.140 unmarked graves canard the other day too. He just throws everything out there as he gets near a

00:42:08.960 microphone. He's almost as bad as his little gal there, Lizzie May. He was going on about the

00:42:13.920 unmarked graves at residential schools. I've gotten to the point now on saying it, at least

00:42:19.000 with the Kamloops case? It's a hoax. I'm going to say it outright. It's a hoax. It's been over

00:42:23.700 three years. They've gotten $8 million to find even one body, much less 200 or 215. They haven't

00:42:33.860 found a single one because they aren't looking because there aren't any bodies there. It was a

00:42:38.560 hoax. One of the biggest hoaxes, I think, in world history. The whole nation was in mourning. There's

00:42:43.540 still a bunch of shoes and a bunch of teddy bears and garbage on Calgary City Hall steps

00:42:47.660 representing the 215 bodies that were in campus, but there's no bodies. It was a hoax.

00:42:53.200 And Trudeau is still playing up that hoax. And if you want to prove if you're upset when I call it

00:42:59.220 a hoax, because people get upset on social media when I do that, fine, fine. Tell them to get a

00:43:03.480 shovel, put in a few hours work and find a body. Shouldn't be that hard. Shouldn't take three years.

00:43:08.780 It shouldn't take $8 million. It's a hoax. It's a bunch of baloney. And it's really divided this

00:43:13.480 nation badly. It's really harmed a lot of people. And that idiot Prime Minister we have is

00:43:19.700 perpetuating it. He's still putting it out there, still to this day, you'd think. As I've noticed, 1.00

00:43:25.840 a lot of activists have kind of gotten quiet on that thing lately. Even the band itself is now

00:43:30.140 calling them anomalies, the Indigenous band, rather than grave sites like they used to.

00:43:35.180 Not Justin. Not Justin. No, he's still going to play this right to the bitter end. Meanwhile,

00:43:40.100 while dividing Canadians and making them think there was mass murder committed at the Kamloops

00:43:45.000 residential school. And again, this gets back to the race discussion and everything too.

00:43:50.380 Just because I'm questioning the hoax of the bodies at Kamloops school doesn't mean I'm saying

00:43:54.980 there was no abuses at residential schools. See that if then statement is constantly the way it

00:43:59.680 works when you get with these activists who thrive on all this. And no, I'm not saying the residential 0.51

00:44:05.900 schools were not nice places. I'm not saying there was never abuses that happened within them.

00:44:11.000 I'm saying, though, that there aren't 200 bodies buried in Kamloops. And you know what? The burden

00:44:15.240 of proof is on you guys now. Show me the body. Yeah, I won't hold my breath. Getting into where

00:44:22.080 the stupidity of things is. Dave mentioned that. It's in the Western Standard on the news, too. 1.00

00:44:26.000 The Toronto District School Board, and boy, those guys are crazy. They had actually

00:44:29.640 over a thousand Jewish protesters, I think, over last weekend outside of their offices or in the 0.99

00:44:35.800 other day because of course they have chosen in their woke insanity anti-semitic crap which is 0.97

00:44:41.480 you know anti-semitism the left has really embraced it these days hasn't it uh just want to 1.00

00:44:45.240 stop teaching about the holocaust you know because get sympathy for those darn jews uh they're nuts 1.00

00:44:52.320 the toronto district school board is so woke and far left it's insane but now yes so 10 year old 1.00

00:44:57.420 boys and girls oh not allowed to say boys and girls yeah that's the school thing they're not

00:45:01.460 boys and girls. They're not women and men. They are. Woman, how do you like this? You're a person

00:45:07.880 with a uterus. This is what the children are being taught in school today. This isn't a wacko 0.99

00:45:13.180 screaming on a street corner. This isn't a pamphlet given out somewhere. This isn't some weird

00:45:16.940 website. This is being taught to fifth graders. There aren't any women anymore, just people 1.00

00:45:21.820 with uteruses and people with penises and people who have more testosterone and people who have 0.98

00:45:29.360 more estrogen. This is insane. This is ludicrous. They're men and women. Get over it. The activists 1.00

00:45:35.980 have gone bananas. But that's fine. There's always nutcases. There's always extremists. There's

00:45:39.940 always activists. Quit indulging them, though. That's the problem. We're giving people with

00:45:45.460 authority the ability to act on what these nut bars are asking for. And look at the crap that's 0.99

00:45:50.780 coming out. It's nuts. All right, another thing going on. Yes, tonight for folks in Calgary, 1.00

00:45:56.080 the first political party is taking off there's going to be a rally at used to be called the

00:46:00.900 Blackfoot Inn I think it's one of the holiday inns now if you look it up it's on Blackfoot Trail

00:46:05.460 down 58th Avenue Calgary they're going to have their kickoff tonight so the first political

00:46:09.880 party getting in there and you know we talk about some terrible bad wacko civic politicians getting 1.00

00:46:15.160 in this is the way to vet them this is the way to fix that up if you're interested in that sort

00:46:20.180 of thing get on down there and check it out because the more the merrier the problem is

00:46:22.760 there's always wackos looking to take over these new parties too there's wackos on the right

00:46:26.060 rest assured there's wackos on the right and if you want to keep the wackos on the right from 1.00

00:46:30.640 taking over this party in the early stages get down there now because there's safety in numbers

00:46:35.420 and make sure that common sense dominates this thing before the fruit loops take hold of it

00:46:42.020 and destroy it and then you see Yodi Gondek in for yet another term because that is what'll happen

00:46:47.260 and yes Stonehenge was vandalized with spray paint another news item you know again have they

00:46:52.980 considered charging and convicting some of these activists? I know it's a crazy thought, but I'm

00:46:57.160 pretty sure there's laws against this. Again, indulging the insane. Stop it. Stop it. You know

00:47:01.860 what? These are white bread wimps. These are nerds and dorks. Stick them in jail for even a week 1.00

00:47:07.060 with general population. I'm not saying to have them abused or assaulted, but certainly scared.

00:47:13.300 And I got a feeling you're going to see a whole heck of a lot fewer artworks being destroyed,

00:47:17.880 fewer historical things like that being destroyed by these nut bars. But as long as you give a kid 0.73

00:47:22.560 gloves with these idiots. That's what's going to happen. Okay, my time's run out. This weekend, 1.00

00:47:26.440 I'm going to be at the Quilt Canada show in Edmonton at a booth. Long story as to why that's

00:47:32.300 happening, but I'm going to be there if you happen to be in the area. Drop by, say hi. I'm not into

00:47:36.800 quilting, but I'm filling in for somebody who needs the help. Yes, my wife, she puts up with a 1.00

00:47:41.540 lot. So yeah, that'd be crazy not to help her at this point. Aside from that, I will see you all

00:47:47.040 here again at this time next week. Be sure to tune into the pipeline tonight. And yeah, we'll

00:47:52.040 dissect a whole bunch more issues with the panel.

00:47:53.980 So thanks for tuning in. See you next time.

00:48:22.040 Thank you.

Western Standard - June 20, 2024

Organized labour is crushing Canada

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