Premier Smith must respond to the teachers strike by expanding school choice
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Summary
In this episode, I talk to Magat Wade of Prosperity Not Poverty about the Alberta Teacher's Union's strike, and what it means for the future of education in Alberta. She also talks about a new documentary that John Robson put together, "In the Dark: Senegal as a Case Study in Energy Poverty."
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Good day and welcome to the Cory Morgan Show as we're halfway through October in this really crazy year.
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Well, maybe every year is kind of crazy, but it just feels like it gets nuttier and nuttier all the time.
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Stuff going on all around the world, stuff going on domestically, and stuff going on here in Alberta.
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So I'll be covering a whole bunch of that stuff today as well as talking to a very interesting guest in about 15 minutes,
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She took part in a documentary that John Robson put together.
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If you're familiar with him, you should look him up.
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He has a lot of great work in Canada on political stuff.
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And the documentary is called In the Dark, Senegal as a Case Study in Energy Poverty.
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It talks about, you know, how the Western world and its idiotic environmentalism is really, really hurting developing countries a lot.
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And getting a first-hand account from that should be quite interesting.
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Normally, I would have Dave give me a news check-in, but he's tied up with a meeting.
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I suspect he'd rather be in here than sitting at that meeting.
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But all the same, it means you just get more of me going through those news things and seeing what's happening this week.
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Use that comment scroll. I see a couple of you there. Free speech, media, Rhonda.
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It is an interactive show to a degree. I see every comment there.
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I don't necessarily call them all out, but we can have those chats and just keep things civil with each other.
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So let's see, and yes, we will talk about, I see people are talking already about education,
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and that's what I want to start with here with this teacher strike in Alberta.
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I mean, eventually that strike's going to be settled and there's going to be concessions made,
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but one concession that must not be on the table is the reduction or elimination of school choice.
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In fact, the UCP government should be working on expanding education options
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to reduce the Alberta Teacher Union's ability to hold students hostages as they are right now.
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Alberta's teachers turned down an offer which would have made them among the highest compensated teachers in Canada,
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along with a commitment to hire 3,000 more teachers and 1,500 educational assistants.
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Since then, though, we see the true target of the teachers' union has emerged, school choice.
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While union representatives have been uttering the stock lines about class sizes and complexity,
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their prime target's been complaining about private and charter schools.
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And this is where the true nature of the strike emerges.
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It's a power grab by a union that wants a monopoly on education provision.
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The union couldn't care less about the needs of the children, and it shows.
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They pretend to care about class sizes, yet forget to acknowledge that alternative education options
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currently take about 75,000 Alberta students out of public school classrooms
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when you take homeschooling into consideration.
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So if those options are taken away, as the union would like,
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how do we accommodate with that sudden influx of students?
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Despite the claims of the teachers union, kids in private schools and who are homeschooled save the taxpayers a load of money.
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Children in private schools only receive 70% of the funding per student that a public school student gets.
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And homeschool children get about 10% of that funding.
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Students in charter schools cost about the same.
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So if these options are taken away from parents and students, the public system will have to make
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up that shortfall, which is going to be a lower per student ratio of funding overall. The union
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constantly brings up the challenges of what they like calling classroom complexity. There's truth
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to this claim, but the proposed solution is wrong. So we've had a decade of mass immigration policies.
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The number of students speaking English as a second language has increased dramatically.
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That's really causing a lot of difficulty in the classrooms for teachers. Fair enough.
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As well, educational trends have increasingly put children with special needs or different
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needs into regular classrooms. It does make for more challenging learning environment for everybody,
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from fellow students to the teachers. But charter and separate schools provide specialized
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environments where students can receive the instruction then tailored to those needs.
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It actually takes the complexity out of the classroom and addresses those. We got charter
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schools for English as a second language. We got charter schools for gifted children
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or children who need extra help in other areas. Yet the union wants to keep the children crammed
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into standardized classrooms. They're talking out of both sides of their mouths. Teachers recognize
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the unique needs of children in learning environments and how not all of them respond
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well to conventional learning methods. That's why the teachers unions always claim they oppose
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standardized testing because the kids learn differently. The reality is they just don't
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want to see which teachers are good and which are bad. They got to keep that merit pay idea
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out of the formula again they don't care about the students it's a union remember that they don't
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even like calling themselves a union they call themselves an association but they're a union
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don't let them talk around it when efforts are made to provide specialized charter or private
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schools the unions fight the efforts tooth and nail the hypocrisy is galling increased school
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choice offers more educational spaces that can accommodate the diverse educational needs and it
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saves the entire system money those spaces don't create union positions however and that's where
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the unions have a problem with it. Not only should the Smith government stand firm against
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the teachers strike on these demands, but it should make it clear it's time to develop even
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more choice in education. We've got underutilized inner city schools that should be identified and
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converted into charter schools. The creation of more private schools should be encouraged
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and parents should be reminded their children won't lose educational time due to strikes in
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those institutions. The government has to hold its ground against organized labor because they're
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trying to take full control of the educational system and it's time to start fighting back.
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The choice for both teachers and students being on the table, everybody wins. Oh, except for the
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self-serving unions. Let's see, you know, some of the comments go in here, guys. Yeah, good afternoon
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to Debbie and here's one. Paul saying public funds should not go into private schools. Ah,
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the politics of envy. Listen, we all pay taxes. Those taxes go per student and it gets spent
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somewhere. Only 70% of it goes to the student who goes to a private school. So what? Get over it.
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Suck up your envy. You're actually saving money by the students going there. Where do we stop it?
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It sounds like the fools who say that we shouldn't allow any private provision of health care too,
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right? Everybody should just have a miserable, low level of care under a socialized system.
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We're great in Cuba, doesn't it? Idiotic union lines. Idiotic union lines. That's all it is.
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Guys, we pay taxes. We have children. We should have the right to choose where our children go
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to school. And yes, some of it's going to go private. And you know what? Because it makes
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it better. Get over it. But yes, let's see the union tips its hand. Let's see. I stand with
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workers who never allow union reps to choose strike action from glenn erickson okay but you
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know the bottom line is in the end the workers are responsible for the actions of their union
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they kind of bat that back and forth well the workers are all right but it's the union it's
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bad well they vote for their union reps they vote for those deals and the teachers have to be held
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accountable i mean some of what shows what's going on here and as we're seeing uh and legacy media
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of course, is giving it a lot of ink. An application has been put forward for a petition now
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to hold a referendum to basically ban all funding of alternative education. And lo and behold,
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the person behind this petition and such is Alicia Taylor, who is a union representative,
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also a teacher. Why? Why does that bother them so much? It's all about monopolies. It's all about
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stuffing everybody together into a room. They're feeling the pressure. They're feeling the threat
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because charter schools are expanding. We're not talking about the private schools, even charter
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schools, non-profit schools, but it's giving options, non-union options. I want to stand up
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for the students. So we've got to have that discussion. And as we're seeing that pressure
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on, because parents are getting pretty upset. They're having difficulties. The students, of
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course, are sweating, particularly ones when you're looking at a grade 12 year, because they want to
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make sure they can graduate, apply for post-secondary, things such as that.
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And here's one from Scott Anderson, a good one to put out.
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If federal issues like immigration, inflation, are hammering Alberta's classrooms,
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why isn't the ATA demanding federal solutions through its counterpart,
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when we see the strike actions and the threats and the usual crap.
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Mass immigration is causing us problems everywhere.
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not immigration in itself. And that's where a line has to be distinguished. I mean,
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immigration is an integral part of our country and it's, it's good for us when done correctly,
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when controlled, but we're paying the price, the consequences of over a decade of mass immigration
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under Trudeau and it's hitting everywhere. That's where healthcare is running into shortages. That's
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where housing was running into shortages. And of course, when you bring in uncontrolled amounts
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of people into the classroom, it causes pressures and shortages. So let's address that. Let's talk
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about it. We can't just keep spending our way out of it. We don't have the money anymore.
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Alberta is going into a deficit again. I think Smith should be cutting some spending in a lot
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of areas, but that also means not increasing in others. It means not giving the teachers
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the last I'd heard on their return offer after they turned down a massive raise offer. They want
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$2 billion on top of that. They almost want double what was offered in the last offer.
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in other words the teachers union is completely beyond reason so something's got to give somewhere
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and i say competition you know let's get it out there let's let parents choose let's let the
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funding follow the student this much per student goes wherever the children get put nice true
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equality let's look at some of this other idiocy yeah cocaine trafficking sentence cut in half for
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Jamaican facing deportation from Canada. Yeah, this is another one. Much like the other gentleman
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you might have heard of a little while ago, who had his sentence reviews, he wanted to molest a
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14 year old girl. And again, the judge in both cases said, well, if we give you the full sentence,
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then we'd have to deport you. We want to keep your citizenship status. So, or your application
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towards it. So we'll reduce the sentence. This is insane. How many times are we going to hear
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this story, right? Again, we're dealing with mass immigration. We're dealing with having too many
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people here. Can we at least not just start with the criminals and get rid of them? Is it really
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that hard? We don't need the drug dealers and the child molesters. Yet here we are. And yeah,
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he says he experienced a systemic and personal discrimination, of course, and that played a role
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in his criminalities with the judge. So I don't care. I could not care less. That's still his
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problem. A lot of people endure those sorts of things. It doesn't mean that they turn to crime
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and we can't keep making excuses for that. Let's study those things. We want to prevent. We want
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to make things better, but once it's done, it's done. Here's a strange case coming out of Alberta
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and these are stories, as I said, normally Dave will come in for the news check-in. I'm available
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today, but this one's an odd one and these are all in the Western Standard online, just so you know.
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Westernstandard.news. So there's a fella up in northern Alberta actually won a lottery and a
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million dollars and a scratch and win ticket. And I haven't seen follow up on this. So about
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four or five days ago, he's 25 years old, Joshua Francis Salto. Maybe check out the
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Westernstandard.news and look at the picture of this guy because he's gone missing. He won a
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million bucks. He bought an RV, parked outside of a relative's home and disappeared. They found
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blood apparently in the RV and no sign of him, just an empty vehicle. It's really, really unusual
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and quite concerning. Of course, I hope he's all right, but you know, somebody suddenly got a
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million dollars in their pocket and they disappear. It might not necessarily be a good thing.
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Another odd story, the Kelowna airport system got hacked to play Hamas messages over the screens
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and chants in Arabic over its audio system, this is an odd one.
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You know, again, I don't even know where to start with the pro-Hamas movement
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and some of their things and what they consider victories or not victories.
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I guess it would be pretty terrifying to be in an airport
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and see that somebody could actually get into that system.
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I imagine it's not a critical system for other more important parts of your flight and travel,
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but yeah, I guess I could certainly unnerve a whole heck of a lot of people.
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Hi there, guys. All of that stuff is in much more detail at westernstandard.news.
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That's what keeps us independent. That's how we keep those reporters out there putting
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those stories up on there. All right, let's get on to my guest. I've been looking forward
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to this. He says, Magat Wade of prosperity, not poverty. And it's a discussion that really needs
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to be had. And it was part of a documentary by John Robson, as I said earlier at the start of
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the show, In the Dark, Senegal as a Case Study in Energy Poverty. We really, there's a real
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Western hypocrisy when it comes to environmental controls and looking actually at the damages it's
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causing in other areas. So I'm looking forward to having the discussion on some of this and what's
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up in that documentary so thank you very much for for joining us today and uh welcome to the
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western standard studio thank you so much corey thanks for having me pleasure being here yeah so
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um maybe you kind of start with that prosperity not poverty uh what's your organization about
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yeah so prosperity not prosperity not poverty is its biggest mission is tackle the energy poverty
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issue and the relationship between energy and prosperity is i don't know if most people have
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seen the graph but there is a very compelling graph that basically shows you that there is no
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such thing as a poor energy as an energy poor nation that happens to be rich there is not so
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energy access to affordable reliable abundant energy is a prerequisite for prosperity building
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absolutely and i mean in areas with climate extremes in a sense i mean in canada we have
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to stay warm. We can't get anything done. I noticed you talking on the documentary about
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in a hot country if you don't have air conditioning and those sorts of things,
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how do you get a good learning environment? How do you get a business environment? How do you do
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all of those things? But cheap affordable energy isn't always necessarily the greenest energy.
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That's where the issue comes. That is exactly where the issue comes. So a few years ago we had some
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people, I call them the anti-fossil fuel zealots, the climate alarmists. So a subgroup of people
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have come up with this concept and idea that Earth was in danger of basically imploding within the
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next few decades. That was back in the times of Al Gore. You know, up till recently, some people
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think we only have 12 years left. I think AOC of the US thinks we have 10 years left. So even without
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going into into is earth gonna implode or not which i don't believe it will but without even
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going into that argument at the end of the day uh those uh individuals have come up with the idea
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to that threat to that perceived threat is to come to a net zero and the best way to do net zero is
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obviously it would mean we would have to cut fossil fuels dry right now um across the board and so
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So it is interesting that these ideas come from the West.
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They came with these ideas, but first of all, they're not applying it to themselves.
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And thank God, because, you know, people are fighting with these ideas here, but they're still using fossil fuels.
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But the only people who have to respect these mandates are not the Chinese, not the Indians,
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because China and India have enough economic independence to say, no, we're not going to go
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for this. You do it if you want, but we're going to continue using fossil fuels to continue fueling
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our growth. The Indians pretty much are saying the same thing. But who is out there and does
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have no choice but to supposedly listen to this? It's the Africans. This is the continent that has
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the youngest population in the world, average age is 19. By 2050, one quarter of the world's
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population will be african by 2100 it's going to be half of the world's population will be african
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and you are asking people right now in africa to basically give up on the use of fossil fuels which
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is the only way for them to build prosperity and so that's the hypocrisy you were talking about
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and because we are poor we depend on the west primarily to finance many um almost pretty much
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anything we need to get built like infrastructure especially and then the west has come to the point
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of saying no we're not going to finance any infrastructure that basically is based on fossil
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fuels and what i find funny there corey is i'll give you an example my country senegal we have
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recently found oil and gas so while germany says you know it's the green party of of germany that
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has made sure that german today you know is suffering energy wise but when the reality hits
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and you have these cold winters and you really need gas and energy then they have no choice but to
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put back to fire back the coal plants you know and the green parties even agreed with that
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and the chancellor of germany back in the day with schultz came down to my country a few years ago
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to basically buy gas the gas that they're telling us not to use but they're commanding us not to
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use so the hypocrisy knows no end and then there's more to the environment of course than just
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emissions so i mean some people if they haven't traveled to developing countries might not realize
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but having a a spotless clean country you know and keeping the rivers clean things like that
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it's a luxury that is great to have but i mean you have to address your more immediate concerns such
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as energy and so on to bring yourself to that prosperous level to take care of the environment
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They're sort of trying to leapfrog and say, oh, well, you can jump ahead to solar panels and wind energy and then not worry about the other development that needs to come along with it.
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So an extension could cause more environmental damage than what it's safe.
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And also, if you want to stay at the environmental level, we say that your stubbornness in terms of not wanting to do fossil fuels, it's just being out of touch with reality.
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In many African nations, most of them energy poor, what it means directly is women having to cook with various forms of biomass.
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So we're talking charcoal, we're talking wood, we're talking cow dung, things like that.
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Terrible, terrible pollutants, right? But that's what they cook with because they don't have access
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to gas, which is much cleaner, you know, and safer for everybody, for themselves, their health, and
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also for the environment, because it's less polluting than those other biomass we talked about.
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But because the West and the anti-fossil fuel zealots are insisting on if it is not, if it
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cannot be fossil fuels, well, it's not because you say cannot be fossil fuels, but these women are
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just gonna wait there and wait for your solar uh stoves that don't work they're still gonna go for
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something so if you keep telling them your choice is between your choice is only solar um stoves
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then your solar stove is gonna end up in their like in the courtyard maybe growing basil or
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green mint while they go to what really works for them which is coal shark coal and things
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charcoal and biomass of sorts. So this is a reality of what's happening. So what you're forcing them,
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what you're forcing onto them is only causing more pollute, you know, pollution to happen
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and nobody wins in this thing. Humans are not winning and the environment is not winning. So
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yeah. So is there, I guess it's difficult for governments. I mean, when they're kind of
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dependent and hoping for aid from other countries, you don't want to sound ungrateful and say, well,
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we don't want this coming in we really need the help but at the same time you know can the leaders
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put in some pragmatic requests are their voices being heard at all um voices are being heard i
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mean right now what is good is we're hearing some african leaders pushing back on this rhetoric and
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saying we're going to use our fossil fuels no matter what up till now it's been an uphill battle
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because they can say whatever they want but at the end of the day if you don't have a means to
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to to finance your own infrastructure needs you're at the mercy of those who provide those resources
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and financing and traditionally it's been the west and the west has decided especially for esg
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that they do not want to finance fossil fuel related infrastructure so what is going on today
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though is some of our luck right now is when you have on the other side of this on the other side
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from the african nations and i speak of africa right now is right now in the us we have somebody
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like Chris Wright, who is our Secretary of Energy in the US, and he's 100% on board with, we should
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not dictate to developing nations, to any nation, what their energy mix should be. And nothing wrong
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with fossil fuels, people should make their decisions, and we need to support them in what
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they decide to do. Otherwise, we're talking about a new form of colonialism, which is climate
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colonialism. That's really what we're going through right now. So things are starting to
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happen and to turn around but then i'm worried about what happens if if and when because at some
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point you know chris is going to have to move on you know nobody is there forever and then if it's
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somebody who doesn't who's not in line with this then we go back to square one in terms of so in
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the meantime that's why these conversations are so important these conversations that's why i do what
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i do here i'm fighting this on both sides of the aisles you know in the western world reminding
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them of what poverty energy is all about and that it is a great moral imperative to work on it and
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make sure that at least in this case Africans have access to fossil fuels at all costs and also when
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going back home making the case to our people there about the need for these things and there
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the issue what we have to fight is all of these NGOs all of this aid money also financing all of
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these climate action organizations. So basically putting a lot of money into the hands of young
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Africans who start a little nonprofit and this little, you know, awareness building, campaign
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building, awareness building, awareness building campaigns. And that's the biggest pushback we
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have on that side. So the climate action money financing organizations along those lines who
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are then in africa saying fossil fuels is bad for us it's bad for our country it's bad for our
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communities we need to um we need to embrace renewables we need to embrace uh wind but not
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really understanding how how detrimental that type of rhetoric is so here we're trying to um
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so we're trying to bring awareness on both sides but um on the ground the biggest problem we have
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is not only you don't have enough voices speaking of the need for fossil fuels, but you also have
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a barrage of various types of organizations, non-profits, well-funded by climate action
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supporters of the West. So you're like squeezed. Unfortunately, climate action is a
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sub-industry unto itself that people are getting very well off. Exactly. You see some who maybe
00:24:33.060
they even believe what they're saying, you know, they like to fly out and hold their banner, look
00:24:36.900
at the solar panels we made but that's right they don't show the camera on the village over
00:24:40.260
there where they have no electricity exactly exactly or people at night uh like the movie
00:24:45.300
shows you know like we were in this one little village where literally as soon as the sun goes
00:24:49.540
down everybody knows that now they have to be inside the inside the rooms and locked there with
00:24:56.020
their doors locked and they even have what we call pot um pot chambers um you know english
00:25:02.980
in my fourth language but can you imagine 2025 you have pacham and why because once it gets dark
00:25:07.940
no one dares to go out because there are scorpions um snakes all types of things roaming in the dark
00:25:14.460
because those things love the dark so just imagine that so and i i would argue that i i really believe
00:25:20.740
that um this is why we did this movie because this other side this other side of of of this issue
00:25:27.480
needs to be shown to people. I think very few people think about it. And even if they were
00:25:32.940
left to their own devices to imagine, they could not even begin to imagine what we're talking about.
00:25:37.340
And we can't blame them because when you're living in Canada, surrounded by what we're
00:25:41.400
surrounded here or the US, even the concept of power outage that lasts more than a few hours,
00:25:48.900
it's foreign to most people, let alone that happening every single day. You know, water
00:25:54.000
that has no pressure that is for those of us who have running water um you know you mean you're in
00:25:59.440
a village where you live with the sun you know at night you have to bunker yourself inside inside
00:26:04.880
a room we can't we cannot possibly begin to imagine all these things let alone think about it
00:26:10.800
so that's why this type of movie is very important because i think it just wakes many more people up
00:26:17.440
to what else is going on out there and as we put this type of information out it also helps with
00:26:23.680
these climate action funded NGOs on the ground who are speaking against what we're speaking about.
00:26:33.600
So at some point, the best disinfectant is sunlight. A movie like that is designed to
00:26:40.480
just put it out there for people to see. It's a great documentary. I mean, if people would
00:26:44.240
realize too, it's progression. It may start with combustion vehicles and a coal generating plant.
00:26:49.840
I mean that's where we started out here too and then as the economy develops you can move along
00:26:55.040
and you can expand into more reduced emissions items but right now I mean the goal is just to
00:27:00.320
make sure you have efficient farming, have heat in the houses, light on the streets.
00:27:05.520
So how has the reception been to the documentary so far?
00:27:08.000
I mean so far I think it's been really great. We've also heard news of young people who
00:27:15.280
in the audience who looked at it and were just like this i think is going to resonate with my
00:27:19.840
generation so that's very um it's very encouraging to hear and at the end of the day the reason why
00:27:24.960
i have hope in this documentary is because we did what i think is best is is the best thing to do
00:27:31.040
when there is a big argument that people are confused at some point let us remove the intellectual
00:27:35.680
arguments and let us go back to human stories and see what we're talking about really means for
00:27:42.000
everyday people um halfway across the world from you uh let us see if we can take you on a journey
00:27:48.240
with us so you can walk a mile in our shoes and in the shoes of people there and show don't tell
00:27:54.000
and then people will walk away making up their own this their own mind so we had people saying
00:27:59.760
they they yeah they did not they did not know and it was very helpful for them to see oh that's just
00:28:06.320
good i mean we we have it easy out here and it's a it's a competitive uh streaming world too to get
00:28:12.160
the eyes and ears of people you know when you've got a million other things coming up do you want
00:28:16.320
to see but i mean as you said this is a a huge part of the earth that really we don't talk about
00:28:21.200
nearly enough a large part of our population no but you know it's um corey that's what i was
00:28:27.520
saying i was doing a podcast this morning with another another another party and i told him i
00:28:33.440
i said the problem with energy is that it is not visible to most of us in this room if i say where's
00:28:41.160
energy here you'll most people will think about you know this heater that we're hearing right now
00:28:46.220
you know um heating us and making sure we're not as cold because it's freezing cold outside right
00:28:50.240
now but when you talk if you ask people here where's energy they will point to you oh that
00:28:56.080
heater that's working that's it nobody's gonna think about this microphone but how how energy
00:29:02.040
was involved in bringing this about. No one is going to think about this tablecloth. No one is
00:29:06.520
going to think about our clothes. No one is going to think about the food that we're eating because
00:29:11.240
fertilizer and all of that stuff. No one is thinking about these cameras, how they came
00:29:17.000
about, the screen of the camera. All of that for any of the things that surround us, including the
00:29:21.720
things we ate and the glasses you have on your nose, energy had to be part of it. Otherwise,
00:29:27.480
none of it we're back in caves that's and i think this is the crux of a problem people just
00:29:32.840
don't see it but it's everywhere and that's the problem and the affordability of it i mean yes
00:29:39.400
create yes certainly you could reduce the energy generation still create something but then the
00:29:44.840
price of everything goes out of reach if it was too expensive we would not have any of this stuff
00:29:49.160
here maybe maybe you you you know that you can have a pair of glasses but maybe not the shoes
00:29:54.440
you have if it's when things are super expensive and not abundant then you know the production
00:29:59.740
follows um not it's not gonna be it's not gonna be abundant and you know not uh affordable for
00:30:05.060
everybody so and that's i think the issue we have with energy and i wish and one day i will do it
00:30:11.880
somebody who is so anti-fossil fuels i'll have standing in front of me and say give me your
00:30:17.660
glasses. Give me your jacket. Give me your shirt. Give me your pants. Give me your underwear. Give
00:30:24.380
me your shoes. Give me your socks. You'll be naked. And then I'll say, oh, and by the way,
00:30:28.600
go stand over there outside. Let's see how long you last. Well, they take a lot for granted.
00:30:34.140
Absolutely. Yeah. So you're, before I let you go, you're touring and promoting this. Have you got
00:30:39.020
more events coming up? Yes. Tonight we're speaking at the University of Calgary and, you know,
00:30:44.940
multiple talks, a few talks I think we're going to do there. And then we're going to be going to
00:30:49.620
some other universities in the U.S. as well as back in Canada at some point, British Columbia,
00:30:56.300
I think we're doing one there. Yeah, so for me, it's about seeing if we can share a different
00:31:02.640
side of the story with people who I know truly care. I know I do know that young people do care.
00:31:08.700
Many people like to be upset with young people because, oh, they're so misguided. At the end of
00:31:14.000
day they care and um that's the energy that we need and then from there let us just share a
00:31:18.640
story with them it shouldn't be about trying to convince them of anything but it should just be
00:31:22.080
about putting a different side of the story in front of them they can compare it with other
00:31:26.720
stories we may have heard and also see how it lands with them and then let them do the work
00:31:31.040
themselves they're grown-ups they don't know what to do so that's that's what we're going to do
00:31:35.520
excellent well i really appreciate it uh before i let you go and where can people find that the
00:31:40.240
documentary and information about your work in general yeah um prosperity not uh not poverty
00:31:45.760
that is it that org or yeah prosperity not poverty.org there people can see basically the
00:31:54.000
the principles behind the work that we're doing i'd like to personally lead with um just sharing
00:32:00.000
with people the human toll of all of us a real life example my own example is an example of what
00:32:06.320
poverty uh poverty energy means and so but behind that we definitely do have all types of data all
00:32:13.600
types of reports all types of uh you know articles writings for the for people who are like wow this
00:32:19.280
is this is this is this is different i want to dig into this uh where is the evidence and all
00:32:23.440
that so we we have that as well in there um so yeah so people can watch it there and just have
00:32:29.200
a download on the information about us uh poverty not prosperity.org great well excellent well thank
00:32:34.880
Thank you for coming in to talk to us today about it
00:32:48.060
I think we have to remember that all of us are busy.
00:33:02.280
have to have compassion and patience for people. Absolutely. Yes. Great. Thank you. You're welcome.
00:33:08.840
All right, everybody. So yes, again, check that out. Prosperity, not poverty. If you Google that
00:33:14.680
up, I'm certain you'll find it. And just such an important discussion on something we all forget
00:33:20.360
about. I mean, you know, you want to know when you remember energy is when you don't have it.
00:33:24.200
That's when you realize how important it is. As Maget pointed out, you know, if the power fails
00:33:29.800
for just an hour or two you suddenly get a heck of a wake-up call going on and it's it's so it
00:33:36.360
does become a bit enraging you know when you look at developing countries where they have a much
00:33:40.760
tougher time they're just trying to get things rolling up to the level of development we got
00:33:45.720
to enjoy decades ago and you get these ngos and and these these green hypocrites coming out saying
00:33:51.080
well you can't damn that river or you can't have that coal-fired plant but here here have some
00:33:56.440
solar panels have a have a windmill you know they've got more immediate needs and we have to
00:34:02.840
understand with more energy you can have so much more other things that help with the environment
00:34:10.920
um one of the issues in developing countries you know people talk about she's talking about
00:34:15.720
how fast the population is growing in africa and in developing nations in general
00:34:20.520
one of the luxuries that wealthy countries can only afford is having small families if they
00:34:25.320
choose to that's a separate discussion but that's the truth of it when you're in a developing
00:34:30.360
country when there's unfortunately a high child mortality when there's no such thing as a pension
00:34:34.760
plan or things to assure yourself of some sort of retirement typically what happens is you have
00:34:38.760
large large families so that you have children to be able to take care of you when you're older and
00:34:42.840
children who survive into adulthood when the countries become developed become wealthy and so
00:34:46.920
on then people can think of things such as family planning and i'm not getting into the discussion
00:34:52.040
about, you know, the morality of birth control and such, but that's the way things work because
00:34:56.900
overpopulation is something in areas that causes environmental pressures. If you can afford
00:35:04.340
through energy, affordable energy to slow the population growth, you do the environment more
00:35:10.000
good as well and people in general. So, I mean, check that out. It was good to get that voice on
00:35:14.740
there to talk about these things and getting, you know, realistically about it. Let's just see some
00:35:21.060
of these uh comments uh those four big banks are funding the century initiative of pro-immigration
00:35:28.380
advocacy group from james okay um immigration will strengthen your country but not their own
00:35:37.500
countries yeah this is a difficult thing to discuss uh peter fontaine saying we got maybe
00:35:43.260
talk about health care access to clean water education irrigation systems all available
00:35:46.400
affordably with fossil fuels, plus economic revenue generation. And yeah, I believe that's
00:35:51.560
sort of what she was getting at, right? All of those things, which are so important. And if you
00:35:55.880
don't have affordable energy, you can't really have any of those things. How can you have good
00:36:01.060
hospitals, healthcare access to them without it? You know, they're still plowing their fields
00:36:07.240
with oxen in those areas. Yet, basically being told you can't have a tractor to do that,
00:36:15.640
because that would spit out emissions, which would be bad. It's a hypocrisy that's just
00:36:24.680
no good. We forget about Africa. We really do. It's a big chunk of the nation. All right,
00:36:29.480
let's see what else is going on in the news out there. Well, economically, Canada is really
00:36:35.800
doing poorly to say the least. Let's see Stellantis. That's an interesting automotive
00:36:43.080
company we're hearing a lot about lately because a lot of our tax dollars keep getting put towards
00:36:46.200
it because they're speaking of hypocrisy, environmentalism, net zero, all those dollars
00:36:50.680
going towards Stellantis and all these different levels and all these plants that never opened
00:36:55.000
and they closed one plant I guess in 2024, early 2024 out east to retool it to make electric
00:37:00.680
vehicles but now that the things have changed they said you know what we're just moving our operation
00:37:05.560
to Illinois. So 3,000 workers in Brampton are going to be put out of work there, and
00:37:12.840
it's going south of the border. You know, we really got to start seeing Mark Carney's
00:37:18.900
economic brilliance come into play at some point, aren't we? Wasn't he supposed to be
00:37:22.540
the genius who was going to get us the trade deals? He's failing. He's failing brutally.
00:37:27.440
He's failing on every front. Trump is pushing Canada around like the 98-pound weakling in
00:37:34.020
the back of the comic books and Carney's just sitting there taking the slaps. We saw that in
00:37:37.880
Egypt when he was kind of sitting in the back row, when they had to scramble over there, they had to
00:37:41.700
charter a jet because Canada is so incompetent. We don't have the ability to fly a prime minister
00:37:46.740
on short notice. So they had to get a private airline to do it for them. So he could go to
00:37:51.820
Egypt and pretend he had even a glimmer of a part to do with the peace talks that are happening in
00:37:57.600
the Middle East right now, and the agreement's being put in. He's, you know, speaking of just
00:38:04.780
failures in so many levels, yet at the same time, see, what's being driven home is Trump doesn't
00:38:09.260
care what he thinks. And some people say, well, Paul Yevon wouldn't do any better. I don't know.
00:38:13.060
We don't know. He didn't get in. Maybe he wouldn't. But if he didn't do better with Trump,
00:38:21.080
because Trump's just going to do whatever he pleases, I can live with that theory on it,
00:38:26.360
then you've got to diversify the economy. You've got to find other customers. I mean,
00:38:31.600
we're getting a beating on softwood lumber now too, right? So what's Carney doing? He's holding
00:38:37.280
up the pipelines. He's still got the carbon cap going on, the emissions cap. He's still got the
00:38:44.120
tanker ban. So we're up the creek. And it seems everybody seems to know it except liberal voters.
00:38:50.800
Here's another news story. A crown corporation's forecast in the Canadian economy is going to
00:38:54.900
officially fall into recession this year. And they're blaming part of it on Trump's tariff
00:39:00.240
policies. Export Development Canada is saying the growth rate for Canada this year is below that of
00:39:05.920
the US by 1.67%. And it's below the average for developed economies in general. Oh, but we're
00:39:15.220
ahead of Germany and France right now. It's not looking good, guys. And we're sitting on all of
00:39:20.000
these resources and we won't develop them. It's, it's absurd. We are shooting ourselves in the
00:39:25.660
feet and it ties back into that environmentalist extremism, that lunacy, that, that, that let's
00:39:33.260
make everybody poor for the sake of this emissions dream. You know, that's what, uh, we got was
00:39:38.260
talking about as a guest. I mean, it's causing much more damage in the Africa and other areas
00:39:45.460
like that. But it's hurting us here too, because these guys are insane. And we're shutting down
00:39:52.040
our own economy on this dream of trying to make the temperatures change. Let's see. A little
00:39:57.820
thing, Alberta, why is a license plate with an attitude? Yes. Alberta's license plate. It's funny
00:40:04.520
where slogans get pushed around for political reasons and things like that. Pardon me. I'm
00:40:11.720
going to survive to the end of the show, I promise. So Alberta's license plates for some of you might
00:40:19.040
remember used to be called Wild Rose Country, used to say that on them because it is our official
00:40:22.900
flower. We're the Wild Rose province. But then the Wild Rose Party under Daniel Smith years ago
00:40:28.380
was really making inroads, really coming up. And the progressive conservatives are getting pretty
00:40:32.860
upset about it. They actually took Wild Rose Country off of our license plates because they
00:40:39.500
didn't want it to look as if anybody was thinking positively about the Wildrose Party. That's how
00:40:44.080
petty politics can get, and how insecure the old progressive conservatives under Alison Redford
00:40:51.080
and the others were back in those days. Either way, it sounds like Premier Smith's bringing it
00:40:55.080
about to the license plates now. They're going to have the words strong and free on them. Yeah,
00:41:02.420
that's Alberta's motto, for us y libre. It only makes sense to have that on there,
00:41:10.920
I mean, you know, Quebec, their license plate slogan and their provincial slogan is, you know, I remember strong and free Alberta works well for me.
00:41:21.900
But we've got to, I think, break a little farther from the Federation to become fully free.
00:41:27.880
It's funny, it's the little symbolic things sometimes that make a difference.
00:41:31.020
And it'll be funny watching the lunatic left coming out in opposition to that.
00:41:37.780
but they will. They'll say it's a separatist slogan. Oh, well, get over it.
00:41:42.520
Speaking of progressive conservatives, let's see in Newfoundland, Labrador, they won a majority
00:41:46.400
government last night for some national news. That's 10 years the Liberals were in there.
00:41:52.660
So we've got a new premier. It's Tony Wakeham. I won't pretend to know a heck of a lot about him,
00:41:57.740
but it is change for Newfoundland. I guess it was a real back and forth race, though, very tight.
00:42:03.160
and uh well let's see if Newfoundland's in for some positive changes out of that I guess time
00:42:08.420
will tell as well let's see Campbell River if you know Vancouver Island nice little town up there
00:42:15.740
fantastic salmon fishing things like that also Nanaimo Campbell River well pretty much everywhere
00:42:20.440
in North America the epidemic is is overwhelming just about everything and uh we're seeing it there
00:42:28.200
now with, uh, yeah, we'll have 30 year old woman got stabbed to death by another woman out on the
00:42:33.740
streets. You know, they normally wouldn't report those sorts of news things, but just the small
00:42:37.700
towns aren't even safe anymore, guys. It's addicts on addicts, but the addicts don't just attack
00:42:43.740
other addicts. They attack other people. I mean, uh, hopefully that, that woman who was, uh, you
00:42:48.200
know, again, I think they, I saw something that they caught her in Vancouver. She was randomly
00:42:51.920
stabbing people, stabbed over seven people. Again, another addict. So let's quit pretending
00:42:56.980
they're harmless they're very dangerous uh let's see peter lafontaine saying let's not forget we
00:43:02.980
needed uh we knew we needed to diversify grew uh grow our fossil fuel agricultural minerals and
00:43:07.720
products for years don't forget canadian center senators approve those bad laws yeah we we really
00:43:14.320
have a lot of resources to work with and we just gotta battle against the ideologues and again
00:43:20.240
the senators others you know who sit in a comfy area and uh don't realize what's really happening
00:43:26.820
out there. Let's see. Next week, I am not going to be in, guys. I'm popping out to Israel for
00:43:33.640
a little while. I'll be back the week after. Watch my channel. So I'm going to be posting
00:43:38.660
stuff up. I'll be writing stories. They'll be coming up on the Western Standard. And as well
00:43:43.660
on my ex, I'll post those live at Corey B. Morgan. And I'm really looking forward to getting a look
00:43:50.740
on the ground. You know, talk about an area where we're getting a lot of mixed news reports,
00:43:57.120
a lot of torqued stuff. It's difficult to tell what's true, what's not true. Well, I'm going to
00:44:01.920
have an opportunity to spend a week out there and look around and tour some very interesting spots
00:44:10.700
and hopefully be able to, well, broaden my own perspective on what's going on out there
00:44:23.120
is going to be here on the Corey Morgan Show next week.
00:44:26.760
I'm sure we'll have somebody fill it in for that.
00:44:35.900
The RCMP, when we're talking about exporting meth to New Zealand.
00:44:45.820
nobody got charged from Canada. And there was a bizarre inter exchange between the chief
00:44:50.860
superintendent and basically saying, well, we don't know who's responsible for that. So we're
00:44:56.160
just not going to lay any charges in it. Yeah, there was meth being smuggled in Canadian beer
00:45:01.540
cans. And some poor young man accidentally drank it and got killed in New Zealand. And apparently
00:45:07.100
Canada is incapable of sorting that problem out. And it turns out there was problems with that
00:45:13.100
meth being exported from Canada earlier in the past as well. All right, guys, I'm going to give
00:45:17.880
my voice a break and let you guys go. Thank you for tuning in today. Watch for the pipeline tonight.
00:45:22.540
We'll break down some more stuff there and keep on the westernstandard.news to keep the,
00:45:28.580
seeing those news updates coming as they break. We will see you all again when I get back up to
00:45:34.800
the North, Great White North here in Alberta. Thanks.