00:02:16.360In most of the text within a treaty, it's spent defining the terms and defining the boundaries of new indigenous reserves.
00:02:22.880A large part of treaties go into detail on how indigenous signatories are also ceding all further claims to lands and rights outside of what the treaty has determined.
00:02:31.800That section of the treaty is the most abused one in the modern times, actually.
00:02:35.240Now, aside from that, treaties tend to call for things such as a small annual stipend for chiefs and headmen, along with the provision of some agricultural implements.
00:02:44.020In Treaty 6, for example, the Crown's obligated to provide ammunition and guarantee hunting rights for Indigenous citizens on their reserves.
00:02:50.920This is where some legislation is indeed threatening treaty rights, as Prime Minister Trudeau's Bill C-21 could lead to the seizure of firearms that Indigenous citizens use for hunting.
00:03:01.820Treaty 1 and Treaty 2, they call for the provision of schools for the children on reserves.
00:03:06.620So yeah, well, people don't like to talk about it. Access to schools was enshrined as a right
00:03:11.120in some treaties and probably inspired some of the residential school systems. And treaty signatories
00:03:16.380signed on wanting that education for their kids. So give those treaties a read. They're interesting.
00:03:20.640Now, most of the things people reference as being treaty rights in Canada, they're actually rights
00:03:25.960and benefits conferred by the Indian Act. And there's many things wrong with that act, but it
00:03:30.520isn't entrenched within the treaties. And it's an act. It can be amended or even scrapped.
00:03:35.100Treaty rights have been violated before.
00:03:37.740It's usually a matter of land being taken or obligations for land not filled.
00:03:41.340Our courts have been settling many of those disputes already.
00:03:43.860When it comes to the legislation being entrenched within Alberta and Saskatchewan,
00:03:47.480where we're asserting provincial rights, there's no conflict with any treaties.
00:03:51.800Before indulging somebody's point when they claim a treaty rights being violated somehow,
00:03:56.220just ask them which right and which treaty.
00:03:58.380It's easy enough to check online right on the spot with your phone.
00:04:01.740They're all out there and they're small.
00:04:04.040Chances are no right's probably actually being violated.
00:04:06.820With the ability to instantly fact-check claims of treaty rights,
00:04:09.700we should be calling out those claims as soon as we hear them.
00:04:12.540They've been hampering rational policy discussions for too long already,
00:04:15.660and we don't need to let that happen anymore.
00:04:18.220Right now we've got the chiefs lined up.
00:04:21.600It seems Rachel Notley has managed to get them together
00:04:24.060and claim they weren't consulted now in the Sovereignty Act.
00:04:27.160Guys, we don't have an obligation to consult them, to bring in legislations.
00:04:31.260I mean, we still want to consult people as much as possible, as we do with the rest of the electorate.
00:08:08.000You know, people are more self-conscious about coughing in public than they are about farting in public.
00:08:12.720Now, I mean, you can drop a bomb somewhere.
00:08:14.700People don't smile on it and everything else.
00:08:16.580But I tell you, all you have to do is cough or sneeze once or twice, and they run off in every direction and glare at you over something, again, that really didn't really harm people as much as people like to make it out to me.
00:08:28.500I don't want to go into the whole COVID discussion, but, you know, I'm always more than happy to discuss flatulence when I can manage to sidetrack into that favorite subject of mine.
00:08:37.400But, yes, it's the flu season, and, you know, people, you know, as Ashley's saying, stay home when you're sick.
00:08:43.560yeah, he's not really sick or anything. There's just a bit of a cough going, but you still got
00:08:47.060to watch for those things. You don't want to wipe out a workplace with a bunch of people feeling
00:08:50.120ill and having something go around. It's all common sense. No, he's quite fine. So this is
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00:09:00.580we're talking about Elon Musk and others exposing the censorship and the problems going on out
00:09:05.300there. And C18, I'll talk about that in a minute. That's the liberal bill that's really screwing
00:09:10.440with things and then giving the mainstream media an advantage. Well, the reason, the way we can
00:09:14.640bypass them guys is through subscribers. Get on there. We got thousands of subscribers. That's
00:09:19.460most of how we're paying our bills. And we really do appreciate it. 999 a month, a hundred bucks a
00:09:25.040year. And you get a full access to all of our articles, columns, all of that good stuff as it
00:09:30.700comes out. And it's really appreciated on our part. And then, then you don't get that government
00:09:35.640censorship. Good Lord. It's going around, I swear. I don't have a cough.
00:09:42.240Put a scratch in the throat. I'm sure it's all in my head. So yeah, let's talk about C18 for a
00:09:49.160second. It looks like that one is going to be going through. I believe it's going through the
00:09:54.220House of Commons today. It'll be passed on to the Senate. Now that one's a really odious one and
00:09:58.940it's confusing to a lot of people, but basically what it does is it puts the screws to the social
00:10:03.940media giants and forces them to pay media outlets for content. It's really screwy. So basically,
00:10:13.940if the Globe and Mail, you know, or any of those other government funded bailed out news
00:10:18.440publications put an article on Facebook, and I believe they're trying to hit Google and some
00:10:22.520others with it, then Facebook somehow has to track and pay back a portion of revenue to those
00:10:28.180news content providers, I mean, it's going to lead to battles between the social media giants
00:10:35.880and our conventional media and our government. Well, those battles are already going on.
00:10:39.320The bottom line is, and this has been lobbied for all the way through, legacy media is dying. But
00:10:44.500rather than fix themselves, rather than realize why nobody wants to listen to their shit anymore,
00:10:49.680they want to get the government to intervene and save their butts. You know, you've got to change
00:10:54.400with the times. You can't force people to consume your pap, and it is pap. Part of the problem we
00:11:00.840already had, and that's what, you know, this brings the problem about onto themselves to a
00:11:05.420degree. They got, what, the $600 million bailout package, plus there's all sorts of programs and
00:11:10.980subsidies disguised and cloaked as all sorts of things getting into the newsrooms and media
00:11:15.460outlets all across the country. Well, the bottom line is what happens then? They become beholden
00:11:20.280to the government, their coverage goes to crap, it becomes slanted, it becomes, you know, unpalatable
00:11:26.220to people. So that just actually compounded the problem. More people left mainstream media,
00:11:32.220legacy media, and moved to outlets like ours. So then they're screaming and yelling, the government's
00:11:36.000got to do something to save us. Well, no, put out better stuff, draw in viewers, listeners, readers,
00:11:41.540but they don't want to do that. They want to be bailed out again. So this C-18, this intrusive bill
00:11:46.560would give a massive edge to the heavyweights, to the CBCs, to the Globals. Because, you know,
00:11:55.260what's her name there? Rachel Gilmore. You know, she's not bringing in viewers and listeners
00:11:59.800with Global, with her might. I mean, she might as well be a comms person for the Liberals.
00:12:04.820It's just so blatant. They want to force you to pay for them one way or another, rather than
00:12:10.640actually just let the free market deal with it. C-18 is going to cause a terrible, terrible
00:12:16.320mess. And I suggest that people go to Michael Geist because it's still, it's a nuanced, odd
00:12:20.460thing that the hearings, they've rushed it through, they've bashed it through. Media experts,
00:12:24.180anyways, have always said it's a bad bill, but it doesn't matter. It's all about controlling
00:12:28.480information and it's about bailing out that media. I mean, the biggest boost in subscribers
00:12:34.220we ever had in one period was during the trucker's convoy. And it wasn't because we had the most
00:12:40.260incredible coverage out there, though I like to say it was very good. I'm certainly biased. But
00:12:44.840what it was also was going on was the legacy media embarrassed itself. They were so grossly
00:12:51.400biased. Even people watching the coverage of CBC, CTV Global, which all looked exactly the same,
00:12:56.300they just looked like they were written by liberal templates, realized even if you didn't like the
00:13:01.020convoy, like this isn't coverage. This is propaganda. We can't stomach this. We can't
00:13:05.900take this. And they sought out other outlets and they subscribed. These guys are killing themselves.
00:20:13.220Great. So there we go. Hello, Mr. Constantine. Thank you very much for joining us today. As I
00:20:19.460said, I've been looking forward to this conversation. It's really going to be coming
00:20:23.580up in the news pretty soon. Good day to you, Corey, and to your listeners as well.
00:20:29.120So maybe just to give a bit of background, I spoke a little at the introduction of the show,
00:20:33.560but for some folks who perhaps aren't quite as old as ourselves, it was a huge issue,
00:20:38.980of course, throughout the 1990s between you with yourself and Sue Rodriguez and Sven Robinson did
00:20:44.360some fantastic work on it. I don't often applaud NDP members of parliament, I have to admit, but in
00:20:49.200this case, it was, it was, I think he did a fantastic job. But things have changed. But the
00:20:55.200Sue Rodriguez case, if you could kind of put in a nutshell, what would happen there?
00:20:59.540Certainly. Sue Rodriguez lived in Victoria. She had ALS, which paralyzes you essentially. It stops
00:21:07.640various organs functioning you end up in a wheelchair unable to speak feed for yourself
00:21:12.280etc the length of time for which this disease lasts is typically two to three years before
00:21:18.760death although there are some exceptions such as stephen honking sue came to me uh having
00:21:26.680worked with other broadcasters across the country explaining her plight she knew that she was facing
00:21:33.800ultimately the wheelchair she knew that she'd find it very difficult to feed herself have a
00:21:38.280dignity of quality of life and wanted to have physician assistants to die in a manner which
00:21:45.400was not just letting her die from the disease itself but gave her some control as to when she
00:21:49.960could die and her timing and saying goodbye to her family and her friends we went to ultimately the
00:21:55.800supreme court of canada where we lost on a 5-4 split on the basis that the supreme court of
00:22:01.800of Canada felt that the government of Canada should address the issue to allow medical assistance in
00:22:06.840dying as an option for those who are terminally ill with a physical illness, such as cancer.
00:22:15.240Yes, and then I guess eventually Ms. Rodriguez managed to find a doctor who anonymously helped
00:22:22.920her end her life eventually and things moved on, but it took until 2016 before it was really
00:22:29.200actually legalized, right? Yes, that's right. So many broadcasters, I'm sure including yourself,
00:22:35.760across the country would periodically revisit the issue. The population account on various polls
00:22:42.460were approximately 78 to 80 odd percent in favor of having this as an alternative means for people
00:22:48.620who are at the end stage of life rather than enduring the ongoing dignities. So Sue, in a way,
00:22:55.780she lost the war in the sense of going to the Supreme Court of Canada but she had opened the
00:23:02.740door never been opened before in this country and was really the first legal test case in the world
00:23:08.660on the whole issue and she as you say did have the success with a physician coming forward
00:23:15.060at that time it was illegal to help her with her death and she was very pleased by that opportunity
00:23:22.340Since that time, as you know, for those with physical disease, which meets the definition of the revised terms, I've heard from many people who have said from their families or from themselves when they're about to have the assistance of MAID that they welcome this as an alternative.
00:23:41.800And it should only be regarded, of course, as an alternative. It should only be regarded as an opportunity for people to have an option. So options include refusing to have ongoing medical treatment. Options include refusing to be hooked up to machines or asking to be disconnected from machines.
00:23:59.660and the options are to let the disease take its course and then in this particular case is actual
00:24:07.200made with the proper protocols in place to protect the patients. Yeah and I mean it's a sensitive
00:24:13.420difficult issue a lot of us don't even you know just like necessarily talk about it but it's
00:24:17.140something we will all face end of life at one point or another and then we have loved ones and
00:24:20.660there's no I think you know sanctity more important than that of our own bodies particularly
00:24:25.800when choosing the end. But now, as you'd said, I mean, as well, in the case of Ms. Rodriguez and
00:24:32.720a lot of others, I mean, it was sort of established, okay, somebody with a terminal illness that
00:24:36.220their standard of living was going to be greatly, greatly deprived. And the one part as well,
00:24:42.400those typically they were of sound mind. But now what I'm wondering is, where do we go when we're
00:24:48.060talking about adding it for mental illnesses? I mean, those are some very vulnerable people that
00:24:53.560you're sort of offering an option to, it kind of opens a whole new bag of worms.
00:24:57.800Yeah, so you certainly asked some very interesting questions. So remember that this was for a person
00:25:04.180who was terminally ill. There was no real prospects of a recovery for them. It was they were going to
00:25:10.600die, and the question was the option in terms of approach to death. There are, however, two issues
00:25:16.900on the cognitive side or mental side which have arisen recently first is that as you correctly
00:25:24.500say corey to have made you have to be in your cognitive state of mind you have to be able to
00:25:31.540consciously say i understand the situation and i wish to have made and tell that to the physician
00:25:37.140administering the maid for a big issue which has arisen over the last few years has been that what
00:25:42.740happens when people express that but they also become demented or develop alzheimer's and are
00:25:52.180no longer able to express that wish at the end can they give advanced directives so that's one issue
00:25:59.140and we're still grappling with that as society the other big issue which has arisen and is coming up
00:26:04.180as of march 17th 2023 in terms of implementation is made for those with mental illness they're not
00:26:12.740necessarily physically ill they're not terminally ill from a physical perspective
00:26:18.500but they're finding that life is intolerable due to a mental illness in parliament this government
00:26:25.540of canada has said that it is prepared as of march 17 2023 to permit persons with mental illness
00:26:33.620providing they meet certain criteria to have and seek and have made but there are a lot of
00:26:40.900potential problems with that, in my view. Well, yes, absolutely. I was looking at one
00:26:46.660recent story on this lady named Judy LeBlanc. She has a mental disorder as her primary condition.
00:26:55.460She has an 11-year-old son, I believe, but she's kind of gone back and forth. At times,
00:27:00.900she feels it's the appropriate path for her, and at times, she doesn't. Well, and again,
00:27:05.680well, she's suffering from mental illness, which can be debilitating, and certainly people with
00:27:09.140that are suffering, but are they in a position then
00:30:52.220Yeah, so that's kind of what I wanted to get to asking.
00:30:54.280You know, back in the 90s when you were fighting this cause, was what we're looking at today what you were envisioning this evolving to eventually?
00:31:03.020The Chief Justice Lemaire, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada at the time that I was appearing before him and the court on Rodriguez, had raised that very question.
00:31:11.200He said, what about those with mental health?
00:31:13.280And my response to him in court was that we were not yet ready as a Canadian society to go there.
00:31:20.240We should take MAID with great care as we explore it.
00:31:25.700And therefore, I advocated for those with grievous physical illness leading to death,
00:31:30.640that they were terminally ill, should be able to have MAID.
00:31:33.380And he agreed with that, by the way, as did the subsequent Chief Justice, Bev McLaughlin.
00:31:39.500and ultimately as you know everybody agreed with it in the carter case as a result of the experiences
00:31:47.020in the united states uh certain states the united states and in europe so i think that was fine but
00:31:53.900to go with the mental health at this stage where we don't have the right resources can open some
00:32:00.620real concerns the other concerns we see is that if we open it up too much then we can see a repeat
00:32:07.900of what happened at Veterans Affairs, and you'll remember several weeks ago, there were some of our
00:32:12.760fine veterans who do suffer from depression, because I've worked with some of them. I know
00:32:17.640the terrible circumstances they have to confront sometimes, and to be told, well, you can just go
00:32:24.320get made, even though they're not terminally ill from a physical perspective, is unfortunate. It's
00:32:30.100a cop-out. We need to really think about this very, very carefully and provide the resources,
00:32:34.800just as those 80 psychiatrists have advocated.
00:32:38.300Yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up with the veterans
00:32:40.540because that sounded almost like a case,
00:32:42.360even if perhaps well-meaning, but of coercion.
00:32:44.600And that's a whole other issue as well.
00:32:47.400I mean, the person's choice should be on their own.
00:32:49.180They should know the alternatives they have,
00:32:50.780but I don't think any medical professionals
00:32:52.480should be necessarily encouraging people
00:32:54.720to move in that direction in any circumstance.
00:32:56.740They should just let them know what the alternatives are.
00:32:59.420Yeah, and I don't think that was a medical professional.
00:33:01.100I think it was sort of a case officer in Veterans Affairs, from what I can gather.
00:33:06.520But it becomes such an easy cop-up to say, well, if you're depressed, just take MAID.
00:33:11.240That's not acceptable, not acceptable in our Canadian society.
00:38:10.800It's the most irreversible choice you could possibly ever make.
00:38:16.220And then the other things we're seeing, as was mentioned, basically being offered to veterans, basically because they didn't have the resources.
00:39:51.460This person was fixated on abortion as the option to take.
00:39:55.500Well, we went there to hear options, not single-minded obsessiveness.
00:40:00.240In the end, by the way, she chose, and it is the woman's right to choose,
00:40:04.940she chose to keep it, and Lane, our son, he's fantastic, and he's alive today.
00:40:08.920I'm not going to go into whether or not abortion is right or wrong.
00:40:10.940this is a separate discussion, but I don't like when advocates start pushing it as if it's the
00:40:15.060only option. And we're seeing that now with this medical assistance and dying, perhaps where some
00:40:19.680of these, these people are turning into advocates within the medical profession and pushing that as
00:40:25.900the only option as with this, this, this sick individual out, I believe it was Ontario. I wish
00:40:30.840I had researched more. I would have gotten his name. You guys probably remember those videos.
00:40:33.820It made a lot of news because again, he had to actually record the audio to prove how they're
00:40:39.360pushing this on him for lack of resources. And that goes into a bigger issue. And I've written
00:40:45.460on this a couple of times, and it's something we've got to dig much more into. And that's people
00:40:49.660with, yeah, mental health issues. And that ties into high crime. It ties into the addiction
00:40:54.080epidemic. It ties into our healthcare being overwhelmed. A lot of it is due to, and I noticed
00:41:01.040Mr. Constantine talked about it, though I didn't say it directly, deinstitutionalization. We don't
00:41:06.440have enough long-term mental health facilities anymore. We went on this track back in the 70s
00:41:13.460and 80s, pushing people out, saying they're better off within the community and pushing them out of
00:41:18.640mental health facilities, closing down mental health facilities. Understandably, they were
00:41:23.960not always the nicest facilities in the past. And nobody likes to think of a person being
00:41:28.660secured within a facility, you know, when they wouldn't want to be. But sometimes they can't
00:41:35.300take care of themselves. And what happens when you push them out in the street? Well, they often end
00:41:38.240up in prison, or they end up in the hospital, or they end up committing suicide, or they end up
00:41:42.620self-medicating. And that's how we get a lot of the people addicted to meth, fentanyl, and so many
00:41:47.300other things, because they don't know where to go. And if we had the mental health facilities that
00:41:53.260could properly treat the specialized facilities for people who are in serious mental distress,
00:41:59.200again, they could be treated, stabilized, and living as good a life as possible. But still,
00:42:03.200yes, sometimes for life in a secure environment. Right now, yeah, we have our mental health
00:42:08.440hospitals, but they are of a very, very last resort, and typically only for people who would
00:42:13.220be very dangerous to themselves or others if they were released. Otherwise, they typically use
00:42:17.600wards within existing hospitals for mental health treatment and things like that, which isn't
00:42:24.660appropriate. It doesn't give a good standard of living. You're stuck on a wing or a floor on a
00:42:28.880hospital. I mean, you can build campuses, you can make decent lives for people. We've got to turn
00:42:33.280that deinstitutionalization trend around. And you know what, as part of what Mr. Constantine was
00:42:40.220pointing out, if you have all of those that you can offer somebody with mental health challenges,
00:42:46.040when you can say, look, this is where we can treat you, this is where we can help you,
00:42:50.340and if all of that fails, sort of like with the physiological, when there's no other options,
00:42:55.100that's when you can start looking at MADE. But right now, we've got a whole bunch of options,
00:42:58.320we just aren't providing them right now. We talk about our healthcare system and how it's failing
00:43:03.480and it is failing at a lot of levels. These people who think Canada system's universal, it's great,
00:43:07.020it's fantastic. As he pointed out, no, it's not. Mental health is very much a health issue and you
00:43:11.960got to pay out of top pocket for a psychiatrist. You got to pay out of pocket for the medications
00:43:16.720that might help you, for the psychologist or counselors that could help a person with mental
00:43:21.700health challenges. That's not covered in the universal thing, but they're very real health
00:43:26.300issues. So they recognize that mental health is such a serious health issue that it could lead
00:43:31.100to offering medically assisted dying, but it's not a serious enough health issue that we'll cover it
00:43:35.840under our supposed universal health care system. Seems to be a bit of a conflict going on there.
00:43:42.520Again, we need to re-examine our entire system. The problem is too, is our system is stretched
00:43:46.240more thin than it can handle. We can't, we don't, can't afford to get any bigger,
00:43:51.780but we're into those battles. We're watching that in Alberta. We're watching that everywhere.
00:43:54.920Hospitals are being overwhelmed across the entire country, yet nobody wants to admit you could do
00:43:59.380anything else with them aside from pour more money into them. You listen to Rachel Notley,
00:44:03.080money, money, money, money, money. Well, that's because her priority is union jobs,
00:44:05.880not the health of people. There are a lot of universal health systems all over the world
00:44:10.960that are outperforming us, many of them in Europe. They're still universal. They still cover everybody,
00:44:15.640but they're different systems. They allow more private provision. They allow more flexibility.
00:44:20.280And guess what? You know, when you go to those areas, quite often what they also cover, which
00:44:23.400we don't have covered here, optical, auditory, and mental health prescriptions, things like that.
00:44:30.040Sometimes you might pay a little more for it, but boy, you get a heck of a lot more coverage for it.
00:44:33.720But we got to examine the whole system. And what's this Saxon of Riverstone saying? They closed the
00:44:40.720Queen Street mental health care in Toronto in 1985, just pushed them in the streets. It was a horrible
00:44:44.880way to treat people. Yeah, it's absolutely true. And they just pushed them out. They think they're
00:44:49.860doing better. I think most people are well-meaning, but not necessarily. I wrote a piece in my blog
00:44:55.060years ago, but I remember because it struck me. I was out on the road and I was driving and I saw,
00:44:59.340you know, a dumpster diver. This is fellas in these getting stuff out of a, you know, garbage
00:45:03.220and he's getting bottles and food. And I realized that the filthy jacket he's wearing is this team
00:45:09.160type jacket was actually a special Olympics jacket. Now this guy, and he was relatively young.
00:45:16.760I don't know what his story was. Maybe he didn't even originally have the jacket, but I suspect he
00:45:22.240might have. Now, this isn't a case of somebody with, you know, mental health, depression like
00:45:26.660that, but this is also somebody that perhaps needs more help in the community than others,
00:45:31.700and somehow, no, no, we've closed those facilities. You can live on the, you know,
00:45:36.580community living and so on. Well, they can't, and they end up on the streets.
00:45:40.580Michener Center, if people know it, in Alberta, they've shut down most of that. That was a center
00:45:45.540and red deer that took care of a lot of people with serious developmental disorders and things
00:45:50.700such as that. And yes, it was a large institutional style campus. And hey, they did some bad things
00:45:56.460there. And you know, back in the 60s, 50s, they did eugenics, they were sterilizing. Ashley just
00:46:03.040brought it up there. Yeah, recalling as a kid mentally ill being sterilized. There was a big
00:46:06.000case in Alberta, Lilani Muir, Muir was her name. And she sued. This was back when Ralph Klein was
00:46:13.860premier. That led to almost the invocation of the notwithstanding clause. I believe Klein blinked
00:46:19.520and compensated all those people who had been sterilized. But you see, just because the area
00:46:23.000had some negative history doesn't mean you throw out the whole institution. There were some
00:46:28.100interesting discussions at that time. I remember when they were closing and I went to a meeting
00:46:31.880where people were talking about what was going to happen to the residents. There's people living in
00:46:35.680those institutions. They've been there all their lives. They're comfortable there. The stable
00:46:39.720environment helps them there. And there's things that can be offered nowhere else. One of the
00:46:44.160things a mother brought up was that's the only place where her son can get his teeth taken care
00:46:48.620of. Once a month, a specialized dentist who deals with people with developmental disabilities,
00:46:52.960the serious ones can get in and get in their mouths because these aren't, you can get your
00:46:56.640finger bitten off. I mean, I'm being serious about this. This is a specialty. You've got to work very
00:47:01.220carefully with people in there. You can't just take somebody in that circumstance to a special
00:47:05.540lie to just any dentist. I mean, this is just one area specialty I'm talking about. When you have
00:47:09.920it together in one larger space, you can afford and you can bring in those specialties to help
00:47:15.240the people that are living there. It doesn't have to be bad. Don't let the negative experiences and
00:47:20.920mistakes we made in the past stop us from keeping the entire thing going.
00:47:27.260Either way, big discussions and challenging ones, but well, we got to keep having them.
00:47:32.580It says I've talked about on here before too. We talk about things like medical assistance and
00:47:36.480dying and things like that. It has to be discussed because that legislation is coming, but I don't
00:47:39.800like discussing it. I've said it on here before. I'm terrified of death. It freaks me right the
00:47:43.460hell out. I want to put it off as long as I possibly can. But whether I am terrified of it
00:47:48.840or not, chances are it's going to get to me at some point or another. And we need to discuss
00:47:53.640these things. So whether I like the issue or not, we're going to talk about it. Let's see. I just
00:47:59.240want to touch on this before we get in with Jim and talk about some of the agricultural things.
00:48:03.600This was something I saw on Twitter yesterday. The campaign is on. The campaign is on in Alberta
00:48:09.980in full bore. Our radio ads are overwhelmed with the Alberta Federation of Labor, which is acting
00:48:14.320as a branch of the NDP. NDP ads all over the place. UCP ads all over the place. The TV ads
00:48:19.880are starting. Oh my God, we got five more months of this. And they're just warming up. But Notley's
00:48:25.320Twitter account has just been unhinged. I mean, it's just firing these tweets out all over the
00:48:29.860place, promising anything and everything. She's going to promise people more, you know, better
00:48:34.640suntanning methods in summer or something pretty soon, anything to get herself back in. Well, she
00:48:39.440made this big promising, we're going to bring rural high-speed internet to every household in
00:48:44.280Alberta when we come back into power. Well, wait a minute. Jane looked that up. Notley promised that
00:48:50.000way back when she first got into power. She didn't do it then. Why the hell would she do it now?
00:48:55.320Not to mention, as many, many commenters pointed out, Starlink's here. Elon Musk already did what
00:49:02.880you guys have been twiddling your thumbs about. And I get it. Kenny didn't bring his high-speed
00:49:06.060internet in the rural areas either. Nobody's done it. Everybody promises it. Nobody does it.
00:49:10.720Now I've got Starlink up on top of my house. Out there, we'd been using the TELUS hub. It sucked.
00:49:15.400It was getting overwhelmed. Starlink was a game changer in the rural areas. But this is how
00:49:21.540behind the times. Notley is, we're going to promise high speed internet. No, the private
00:49:25.720market took care of that, Madam Notley. Try to move on to some more valid promises and see if we
00:49:31.040can get something more productive out of this. All right. I've ranted, pitched and pissed and
00:49:35.940moaned long enough. Let's talk about some agricultural commodities with Jim Bousicombe
00:49:41.320from Marketplace Commodities. Hey, how's it going? Hey, good, good, Corey. How are you doing?
00:49:45.760Not too bad, actually. It's been a really interesting show and yeah, it's good to cool
00:49:50.620it down a little and check things out in the real world there. I didn't know Notley was offering
00:49:55.760any tanning products, but anyway, if you say so, I'll go with that. I got to say, she hasn't put
00:50:04.440it up yet, but I mean, just, they seem to have anything. What can we possibly promise to coax
00:50:08.660people into coming in? And they're promising things we've already got. So we'll see what's
00:50:12.480next. All right. So you'd sent me some notes on, uh, uh, some of the stock estimates, uh, for the
00:50:20.980year worldwide. Uh, I don't have those images, uh, rates prompted here, but, uh, we, we've got some
00:50:26.560commodity numbers. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So we're, yes, we'll go over, uh, so last week's Friday,
00:50:33.460yeah, no, that's okay. I'll, I'll go over some of the quick numbers here. So previous week we
00:50:39.160talked about stats can so that would be canadian production numbers across all of canada last week
00:50:44.200friday usda came out with their united states uh crop production estimates and also world stock
00:50:51.700estimates and i'm not going to quote all the numbers because i don't think anyone's going to
00:50:55.680remember it but really like the short of it is we've seen roughly normal production in the united
00:51:02.700states stocks are roughly where we'd want to see them at this time of the year and even across the
00:51:08.760world, we have good stocks. Corn stocks are slightly lower than the previous year at this
00:51:15.520time. Soybean stocks are growing. Wheat stocks are roughly the same. So what I was going to say
00:51:22.900about the reports is that in many ways, they're actually a bit of a boring report. And maybe
00:51:28.460it doesn't give us much to talk about from the excitement of numbers, but that's a good thing.
00:51:35.140That means we're producing enough commodities across the producing nations in the world to feed the people and to provide feed for animals.
00:51:46.140And that's more or less the short of it.
00:51:48.080There are enough decent crops across Canada, United States, even other places, Ukraine, Russia, Australia, et cetera.
00:51:56.520There's always problem spots, but generally speaking, world stocks look pretty good.
00:52:02.360Yeah, well, I noticed on that report also, it talked about 2022, 2023, China imports.
00:52:08.660I was talking a bit about China and just how, you know, whether we like it or not, our economies are very integrated.
00:52:12.960I mean, we take in a lot of manufactured products from them and they take a lot of our raw resources, whether it's, you know, agricultural commodities or petrochemical products even.
00:52:23.180But these are things I imagine you've got to watch.
00:52:24.980Like this is the consumer downstream and trying to watch the trends of where they're going to be going with what they're consuming.
00:52:29.760yeah so china continues to buy a lot of soybeans from the united states they of course buy a lot
00:52:36.400of soybeans and i should also say a lot of other commodities from around the world but
00:52:42.480the u.s exports more soybeans to china than any other single country and that carries on we've
00:52:49.760seen numerous geopolitical issues over the last year especially in the last weeks months whether
00:52:56.560it's russia ukraine argentina china taiwan etc etc but the trade still carries on those are things
00:53:02.960that people should be concerned about there is enough product across this world in some ways
00:53:09.600but the geopolitical issues is what affects deliveries it affects logistics steamship lines
00:53:18.480you know they you know going to and from certain parts like port congestion in various places and so
00:53:24.160on so that's really i keep a good eye on what's happening as far as logistics not really any
00:53:33.760shortages of supply but whether countries continue to trade with each other or whether there's trade
00:53:40.000issues or other geopolitical conflicts that affect trade yeah well and i i mean in the prairies we
00:53:46.160don't typically see soybean grown but i mean with those commodities will still impact i guess other
00:53:50.480crops or considerations you're taking out here because it impacts what's going to be grown in
00:53:56.400in eastern states or eastern canada then right yeah to some extent it would be that but what
00:54:01.120i would look at in comparison to soybeans in canada we'd look at canola so they both are
00:54:05.840used to produce vegetable oil soybeans are crushed and soybean oil is extracted from that obviously
00:54:13.120and here in canada we would crush canola and would have canola oil canola oil tends to trade at a
00:54:18.800premium to soybean oil but nonetheless those two commodities will trend similar in price they will
00:54:27.360there'll be some variance on how much of a premium canola will trade over top of soybeans
00:54:31.680but they largely will follow the same general trend great well always such a big picture to
00:54:38.560always have to watch must be fun watching your computer screen with all those numbers but that's
00:54:43.440what your specialty is and that's the services you guys provide so marketplace commodities is
00:54:48.160the website i believe yes it is www.marketplacecommodities.com and 403-394-1711 we're
00:54:56.160always happy to talk to any of you so please give us a call shoot us a message and uh let's leave
00:55:02.400her at that excellent well thanks for the update this week jim and we will talk to you again soon
00:55:07.200all right take care corey bye-bye thanks so that is jim who's he come from uh marketplace
00:55:13.680commodities and yes, it comes on every week. And it's just such a big, immersive business and
00:55:20.460industry, you know, and I mean, a lot of us who are, well, I live rurally, but I'm not a farmer
00:55:25.500by any means. But, you know, you get those romanticized notions of a small operation and
00:55:31.160sustenance farming, but those days for the most part are long gone. It's a big business and
00:55:35.580you're dealing with some very large numbers and commodities like anything else. And you really
00:55:39.620have to watch what you're putting in and what you're putting out. And then of course, you know,
00:55:43.240on top of doing everything else you've got to do around the farm and around your production
00:55:47.760facility. And that's where these guys provide those services to look at the whole commodity
00:55:52.540aspect of it. So check them out, marketcommodities.com. All right, let's see what else we got
00:55:58.520going on. Speaking of China, China, you know, it was the only thing I liked about Trump was the way
00:56:02.420he pronounced China just because it would be great on so many people that we're China. Other than
00:56:06.280that, I don't really miss the orange bugger. But, you know, again, they keep coming up and keep
00:56:10.880coming up. And cabinets, this is yesterday, says they don't know the names. So we've probably heard
00:56:16.640this news story and things like that. Don't know the names of the 11 federal candidates allegedly
00:56:21.760targeted by Chinese communist agents in the 2019 elections. The House Affairs Committee hasn't been
00:56:27.620able to uncover any evidence, new evidence, you know, regarding those claims. I got a feeling,
00:56:34.180Let's just go out on a limb. And if and when we ever find out who those 11 candidates were in the federal election who had some help from the Chinese government, the Chinese communist government, they will be liberals.
00:56:47.760I could be wrong, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suspect that's the case.
00:56:51.340And with that being the case, the chances of an internal government investigation ever exposing that is extremely slim.
00:56:58.700so I won't hold my breath on finding out exactly which candidates those were, but who knows?
00:57:04.660Things leak, things move along, and maybe things will change. You know, here's something of the
00:57:11.580cabinet bill. Yes, Bill 21, we've talked about that. The firearms, they kept expanding it. They're
00:57:16.020looking to steal your firearms. We know that. They've wanted to for a long time, and it looks
00:57:21.300like now it's been so delayed. Basically, they've screwed it up. They bit off more than they can
00:57:25.140chew. And it's going to go into spring. And they tried to rush it through the public safety
00:57:31.500committee. It looks like, but opposition MP said, no, no, we're not going to let you rush this. So
00:57:35.240they've run out of time. It's going to go to spring. Maybe, maybe some reality will be injected
00:57:40.120into this thing. And that thing is going to be shelved because I mean, there's no fixing that
00:57:44.140damn thing, but they'll push on it. They want it. Justin wants your firearms. He wants your little