Western Standard - Prime Minister in Hiding

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.700 Hey, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show during the pre-election season, whenever that might

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00:00:57.660 We've got a good one today. Good to see you there, E-Sharp.

00:01:00.960 Dan McTeague, he's a former Liberal member of Parliament,

00:01:04.120 but he's from back when there were actually still some common-sense Liberals.

00:01:07.100 You know, back in the Chrétien days, again, we still preferred Conservatives,

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00:01:13.060 Now he's the head of Canadians for Affordable Energy.

00:01:15.180 He's been on the show before, and he talks a lot of good common sense,

00:01:17.980 so he's going to talk some federal issues with us.

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00:01:55.320 All right, let's talk about our new Prime Minister.

00:01:58.540 What an honour we've had a Prime Minister.

00:01:59.800 I know that most of you haven't had a chance to vote for or against this Prime Minister,

00:02:03.360 but this person is our Prime Minister.

00:02:05.640 I don't fully hold it against them.

00:02:07.000 It's the system, that's the way it works.

00:02:08.680 Like it, don't like it.

00:02:10.440 It does mean we need a bloody election soon, though.

00:02:13.180 And it says so much that after coronating a new leader,

00:02:16.560 the Liberal Party feels the best strategy right now is to continue to hide him from public scrutiny as much as possible.

00:02:21.540 Mark Carney's first act as Prime Minister was to fly to Europe,

00:02:24.080 rather than speak to Canadians who were caught under his leadership.

00:02:27.320 While citizens are trying to understand and get to know who's running their country,

00:02:30.180 the person in question is rubbing shoulders with the French President and King Charles.

00:02:34.280 And the objects of the move are terrible.

00:02:36.480 But the Liberal strategist must feel that having a newly crowned PM hiding in Europe

00:02:40.920 is still preferable to having him face Canadians and answer questions.

00:02:44.540 So just what terrifies them so much about having it in public?

00:02:47.720 Actually, if you listen to a few conferences, you're getting a pretty good idea.

00:02:51.060 Either way, upon returning from Europe, Iqaluit was Kearney's next destination.

00:02:54.920 And while the good people of Iqaluit deserve visits, and Arctic issues are certainly pressing,

00:02:59.020 it's an odd destination for a politician ostensibly heading into a federal election.

00:03:04.580 Unless, of course, the intent is also to avoid people and critical press.

00:03:08.160 Not many outlets are going to spend the money to send somebody all the way up to the Arctic to follow Kearney around,

00:03:12.560 aside from the state broadcaster.

00:03:14.640 And Kearney did do a short press conference, but it went poorly, to say the least.

00:03:18.620 when they already carefully curated reporters,

00:03:22.440 because, of course, they don't let people like us in there,

00:03:24.220 dared to ask him about his business dealings and potential conflicts of interest.

00:03:27.680 Carney had a tantrum and went after CBC's Rosemary Barton. 1.00

00:03:31.400 Yeah, he was clearly shocked that a member of the state broadcaster

00:03:34.940 would dare to ask a critical question.

00:03:36.700 He even said, what is it, look within yourself, Rosemary,

00:03:39.860 or something like that, terribly condescending.

00:03:42.040 But his party expects media subservience,

00:03:44.140 and he won't be holding another availability soon, I suspect.

00:03:48.100 When in populated centres in Canada,

00:03:50.060 Team Carney worked hard to ensure independent media

00:03:52.760 was banned from his events during the leadership campaign.

00:03:56.100 As weak and unprincipled as that tactic is,

00:03:58.340 it can be somewhat understood within an internal partisan race.

00:04:01.420 But is he going to try and ban media from events

00:04:03.080 during the general election

00:04:03.940 when all the Canadians are going to have questions for him?

00:04:06.380 The Liberals are currently enjoying a bump in public support right now.

00:04:08.960 Canadians are eager to support anybody who isn't Trudeau.

00:04:11.660 And Carney appears to fit that bill.

00:04:13.820 Where Trudeau was all hair,

00:04:14.860 breathily delivered sound bites and fake tears, Carney gives the impression of substance and

00:04:19.260 depth. As long as that illusion persists, the Liberals don't want to shake it. Carney may not

00:04:23.680 be Justin Trudeau, but he is pretty deeply involved in the Trudeau government, and he was for quite a

00:04:27.800 while. It's going to be challenging for him to convince voters he's going to be a face of reform

00:04:31.660 and change within the party. At least it will be if he has to face any critical questions from the

00:04:35.700 media. The Liberals under Carney have taken a solid policy stance in claiming they've repealed

00:04:39.860 the consumer carbon tax, but they can't quite repeal it until the House of Commons gets in,

00:04:44.080 but they could do an order in council.

00:04:45.700 Either way, it leads to a lot of questions.

00:04:48.260 Carney's been well-established as a strong proponent of the carbon tax.

00:04:52.320 They told us the world was going to end.

00:04:53.720 We were all going to burn.

00:04:54.500 There was global boiling.

00:04:56.520 How can he reconcile that?

00:04:58.000 Well, we don't know.

00:04:58.700 We can't ask any questions of him.

00:05:00.280 He's still hiding from the press.

00:05:02.020 He's also promising to increase the carbon tax on industries,

00:05:04.560 which will lead to higher prices for consumer goods.

00:05:06.740 How he plans to square that with Canadians is unknown

00:05:08.660 because he won't talk to them.

00:05:10.600 There's questions of Carney's business interests, of course,

00:05:13.000 whether or not he has put them all in blind trust to avoid conflicts.

00:05:17.120 Hey, he's a very affluent man.

00:05:18.540 It's not a crime, but it leads to challenges when avoiding these potential conflicts.

00:05:22.720 He won't disclose any of that yet.

00:05:24.440 The best way to get to know a man would be through holding a general election,

00:05:27.560 but when asked about the date for that, Carney gave a non-answer.

00:05:30.260 The biggest question right now, though, is on his financial holdings.

00:05:33.640 So if he won't disclose them, he's going to be forced to in 100 days.

00:05:37.400 Why would you not just disclose them now?

00:05:39.440 Unless there's a big whopping conflict of interest in there, of course.

00:05:43.000 He's determined to hide his financial dealings until after an election's been held.

00:05:46.480 So just how many large corporate government contracts does his company hold anyways?

00:05:50.580 Dozens? None? I don't know.

00:05:52.900 Carney's already making major decisions as a prime minister, despite having no electoral mandate.

00:05:57.320 Canadians deserve to know more about this man.

00:05:59.440 If the leader of a party is an asset, the party would be exposing him to the public as much as possible.

00:06:05.460 The party would want to bring their leader out to the world and endear the citizens to them.

00:06:09.040 If a party thinks the best tactic for a leader is to hide them from the public as much as possible, though,

00:06:13.000 I suspect they're hiding a very serious problem.

00:06:15.840 Hopefully we'll figure out what that is before the end of the election

00:06:18.060 if people wake up, because those polls are scary.

00:06:20.340 All right, let's get on to other news with our news editor here in the newsroom.

00:06:23.640 Dave, how are you doing?

00:06:24.320 I'm doing well, Corey.

00:06:25.220 Yourself?

00:06:25.640 I'm all right.

00:06:26.380 Yeah, those press conferences of carnies were train wrecks.

00:06:29.440 And he just doesn't seem to be able to speak properly.

00:06:32.780 It's um, um, apparently he said um 21 times in one answer.

00:06:37.040 To ask somebody to count them, did you?

00:06:38.660 Well, no, you know, that's what Twitter does for you.

00:06:41.400 there's always somebody out there counting well you know i noticed he does the same thing that

00:06:45.560 old justin used to as well though when the question comes he'll pause slowly drink some

00:06:50.840 water for a little while and put it down and then he'll spit out a piece of word salad sounds just

00:06:55.960 like justin used to it's almost like the same person is writing his lines it is you know it

00:06:59.880 could be it very well could be we just don't know do we hey i see on your youtube channel you took

00:07:05.480 a drive in the country lately oh yes yes i take jane out on the nicest dates we went for a day

00:07:10.840 trip out to the Siksika Reserve east of Calgary there to get some video and just to show people

00:07:16.180 what a reserve looks like. Most people haven't been on a reserve before. I mean, it's a big

00:07:19.520 issue. It's a lot of things. I think maybe some people should get a good idea of what it looks

00:07:22.880 like out there. Yeah, it's about a 20-minute documentary, I think, and we're going to get it

00:07:27.540 out on our Western Channel, Western Standard channels, as soon as John gets it already.

00:07:32.320 Right on. Yeah, we're sharing it wider. I mean, it was just something hacked together by me on a

00:07:35.300 whim, and now we've got John making it into something a little more presentable. But it's

00:07:38.640 It's been well received, thousands of views on it, and people are pretty interested actually.

00:07:42.020 Yeah, it was quite good, and until you've been on a reserve, you really just don't know

00:07:45.020 what the conditions are like.

00:07:46.020 No, and as I hate to say it, it's one of the better reserves.

00:07:48.880 I've been on a lot of them over the years, and actually the Siksika is not in as poor

00:07:52.540 a shape as some of them, but as people will see in the video, it's pretty rough out there.

00:07:57.000 Sean Polzer took a drive in the country last night up to Caroline.

00:08:00.680 There was a big town meeting focusing on a huge new solar panel project that's going

00:08:07.760 to be built up there and basically the town is trying to get it stopped so it's sort of uh you

00:08:13.120 know david versus goliath type battle to stop this solar farm monstrosity from coming in uh you've 0.99

00:08:19.980 noticed these idiots in the states setting teslas on fire which is a dumb thing to do because the 0.99

00:08:24.420 car's got like 19 cameras in it and everybody can see your face uh so uh because i guess they 1.00

00:08:30.320 were afraid of that sort of violence uh the vancouver international car show has kicked tesla

00:08:35.200 out strange decision i think a total of 14 oil and gas and pipeline ceos sent a letter out to

00:08:44.720 the various political parties today saying we need some common sense in the canadian energy

00:08:50.960 industry once again and they're sort of outlining their plans as to what they're looking for

00:08:56.800 some grim news really out of china today where it's been reported that china has executed several

00:09:03.280 Canadians recently. So Global Affairs says, yeah, they were aware of the reports. They're not going

00:09:09.700 to publicly name the deceased. And their best advice is, you know, don't smuggle drugs into

00:09:18.080 China, which seems to be fairly sensible advice, I would think. Yeah, people should have watched 1.00

00:09:23.600 Midnight Express to see, you know, at least the Turkish version of what happens to playing those

00:09:27.940 games. Drug smuggling has got a terrible outcome in some of the countries that are a little less

00:09:31.440 respectful of human rights. Yeah, no kidding. Trump last night endorsed Carney, says he much

00:09:38.520 rather prefers dealing with liberals than the, I think he didn't name Polyev by name, but he

00:09:45.340 says the conservative leader has said nasty things about him. So that's probably the best

00:09:50.520 news Polyev's had all week. I'd like to hear Trump try to pronounce Polyev. Yeah, that would be good 0.55

00:09:56.140 fun. He got a sneaking suspicion he'd have a little issue with that one. Well, we have people

00:10:00.620 in here who can't even pronounce yes we won't mention any names Derek Fildebrandt and Trudeau

00:10:08.000 CTF points out today that Trudeau is in line for eight point four million dollars in pensions he

00:10:16.040 not only gets his hundred and forty four thousand dollar a year pension as an MP but he gets a second

00:10:22.340 pension because he was a prime minister and if he lives to 90 it all adds up to eight point four

00:10:27.500 million not that we're gonna have to hold a garage sale for him anyways he's a

00:10:30.800 millionaire many times over as soon as he was born actually so that's the most

00:10:37.640 read story on the site right now correct yeah the Western Standard pension plan

00:10:42.440 leaves a little to be desired in comparison to that yes a little bit like

00:10:46.340 about eight point four million dollars in difference I think we save some

00:10:49.200 bottles and things for potential early retirements there you go there you go

00:10:52.820 I'm on the freedom 85 plan I don't know about you yeah I'm pretty similar yes

00:10:56.260 but you know independent media we aren't in it for the money no exactly all right well thanks

00:11:00.660 dave i'll let you get back into there earning your uh trip to 85th year retirement there you

00:11:07.140 go another day another 60 cents right on thanks dave later that is our news editor i see lots of

00:11:13.380 stories constantly breaking i mean keep watching the western standard site it is updated all the

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00:11:55.640 so let's see i'll just kind of cover a thing or two here uh before we uh yeah you know there was

00:12:00.600 the quote from uh mr carney when he responded to rosemary barton the question at that conference

00:12:05.160 said look inside yourself rosemary talk about condescending disrespectful this is a prime

00:12:12.200 minister you know at a press conference i hate politicians can get crabby you know if the media

00:12:17.400 is on your case you're having a bad day whatever but still you have a degree of respect but what

00:12:22.300 I found telling as I said why I think he was most upset wasn't even just that he was getting hard

00:12:28.020 questions though he's certainly not accustomed to that but it was a hard question and a repeated

00:12:32.180 question from a CBC personality they don't think they didn't expect anybody at the CBC was ever

00:12:39.200 going to toss them a tough question and he was quite enraged by it I mean she didn't call him

00:12:45.300 mark when she was asking the questions there's little bits for uh you know uh little things

00:12:52.460 when you're showing respect for other individuals when i interview a cabinet minister in alberta

00:12:57.540 for example a lot of them i i know because i've worked my way up through the wild rose party days

00:13:03.020 and so on it's the same people have ended up in cabinet today hey if we're out for a coffee or

00:13:06.920 something we speak to each other by first name basis when they're on the show i refer to them

00:13:11.820 his minister this or Mr. Such and Such or Ms. Such. You don't go by first names for these things. And I

00:13:16.980 doubt Rosemary and Mr. Carney are very close. But this is a very prickly man. He's not new to

00:13:26.280 public life. He's not new to exposure. But he's new to that kind of scrutiny. He's new to this

00:13:30.960 kind of game. And it's interesting because they don't have a lot of time to play with. They've

00:13:34.760 got a federal election looming on them. And he's going to see scrutiny and questioning and pressure

00:13:39.280 like he hasn't dealt with before.

00:13:41.200 So it's going to be interesting, if nothing else, when push comes to shove.

00:13:44.840 Because as I said in my opening monologue, you can't hide him from the press forever,

00:13:48.520 particularly when an election comes.

00:13:50.100 They're riding a wave of support right now.

00:13:51.720 But if they try to ride for another 38 days or so by hiding him, by shielding him,

00:13:57.360 the public is not going to pass the smell test.

00:13:59.900 That's going to foster distrust.

00:14:01.800 So I imagine he's not sleeping much as they're trying to train him in communications.

00:14:05.180 And as Dave said, too, 21 ums and ahs in one answer or something.

00:14:09.660 Well, fair enough, though.

00:14:10.360 Justin Trudeau used to be pretty horrible in his first couple of years for ums and ahs,

00:14:13.900 and he got a little better towards the end.

00:14:15.220 I found his voice no less grating by the end of his time in there,

00:14:19.340 but at least he didn't have quite as many hesitations going on throughout.

00:14:23.300 It's going to be a short and a long campaign at the same time, I think.

00:14:28.380 But we're kind of looking forward to it and kind of dreading it.

00:14:31.120 All right, let's get on to my guest.

00:14:32.140 He's no quite familiar with campaigns, been through his share of them,

00:14:36.600 watches politics closely and is very outspoken on x and on his website and in media in general and

00:14:41.820 that's dan mcteague of the canadians for a formal for canadians for affordable energy that tongue

00:14:47.900 twister going on there also a former liberal member of parliament from back in the days when

00:14:53.480 the liberals were much more respectable than they are today so thanks for coming by again dan it's

00:14:57.600 been a while always a pleasure yeah it's good to be here and uh yeah some days i think i wonder

00:15:01.660 where this party's going but it's definitely not the party i remember so uh let's have at it

00:15:05.680 Yeah, well, I mean, something interesting that's kind of developed is we've evolved into a two-party system, in a way, for the first time in a long, long time.

00:15:14.540 That's part of what's kind of boded poorly for the Conservatives, because the NDP are barely a factor anymore.

00:15:20.520 Yeah, and it's almost trading positions compared to where they were, say, 10, 15 years ago, and it was the Liberal Party that morphed into the NDP.

00:15:27.760 I lost that election after six successful runs, and now it's the other way around.

00:15:33.820 So it looks like the voters in the center left can't control themselves.

00:15:39.020 You're either a socialist or you're a grifter or you happen to be, you know, someone who follows a certain particular, you know, warped ideology.

00:15:47.580 Whether it's a new Democrat or liberal, it looks like I can't tell the difference.

00:15:51.180 Can you tell the difference?

00:15:52.360 Well, no, they're pretty indistinguishable, particularly under Justin Trudeau.

00:15:55.540 I mean, he definitely pulled the party to the left, into the realm of the woke.

00:15:59.460 Part of what's happening, though, is we're seeing an attempted and maybe even a little bit successful.

00:16:03.280 so far rebranding from mark carney i mean he's he's taken the bullet out of uh polyev's gun on

00:16:09.280 a carbon tax election by saying he's going to end the consumer carbon tax and he's managing to stay

00:16:14.560 mum on the fact that he's going to dump all of that onto the emitters and the consumers will

00:16:18.400 still pay for it um maybe you could explain some of that you know what's going on with the carbon

00:16:23.200 tax games now this is more into your specialty and energy you know kirk uh correct we've talked

00:16:27.360 about this for seven or eight years canada's didn't believe us that said there would come a

00:16:30.480 a day when you wouldn't just have unaffordable energy you'd wind up paying a lot for everything

00:16:34.400 else and sooner or later the country would collapse of course we had you know mass amounts

00:16:39.480 of money public money being spent to make public service people happy hiring more of them we saw

00:16:45.780 you know massive expenditures and during the covid period and we use all these funds to you know give

00:16:51.900 people the impression that hey there's no problem with this these carbon taxes they won't have an

00:16:55.340 In fact, that was 2015, 2018, 2019.

00:16:58.640 It's now 2025 to do a spin on Trudeau's old comments, and people are really ticked.

00:17:03.840 And, you know, the extent to which Mr. Carney is going to try to distinguish himself from his signature policy, which is carbon taxes under net zero, really bears a lot of scrutiny.

00:17:13.420 Up until he became leader, we were surprised at the number of things that he took credit for, including, of course, but not limited to the 1998 balancing of the budget, where I was a member of Parliament.

00:17:24.460 that's news to me, saved the country from the global economic meltdown in 2008.

00:17:30.940 You know, of course, this is a fellow who did wonderful things in Britain, left nice and early.

00:17:35.020 However, despite all that he has said and has been challenged by a very, you know, weak leadership campaign,

00:17:41.280 probably the weakest I've seen in my lifetime, and a media that really hasn't held his feet to the fire,

00:17:47.200 we now see him trying to attempt to basically pull the wool over everyone's eyes.

00:17:52.420 Now, you want to be really, really clear about this.

00:17:54.560 I know carbon taxes.

00:17:55.600 I know their effect on consumers to the 10th of a cent.

00:17:58.580 And I can tell you with full regard to my 18 years as a Liberal member of Parliament, this is a shell game.

00:18:04.160 But, pardon the pun, they are basically going to take this off for the period of campaign and restore it.

00:18:08.940 So every consumer is going to pay for it out there.

00:18:10.560 Why?

00:18:11.580 Because the framework legislation has not been changed, nor have the Liberals indicated they have any intention of changing it.

00:18:16.440 If they win the government, you and I and everybody in this country are going to pay a hell of a lot more than what we're paying today.

00:18:20.920 And if you don't like what you've seen over the past four or five years, while he was our prime economic advisor, I've got news for you.

00:18:27.200 You're going to hate what you see in the next four or five years if you give these people a fourth mandate to further ruin the country.

00:18:32.780 It's been getting very troubling to think that might be what's actually happening.

00:18:36.120 I mean, you know, people, I'm hoping, will just kind of pay a little more attention.

00:18:39.840 I mean, it's been such an insane, tumultuous time.

00:18:41.800 You turn on the news and your head just spins.

00:18:43.620 Even as a news junkie and wonk like me, I get tired of it eventually.

00:18:46.880 Like, holy cow, the craziness coming out of the White House, the craziness coming from our domestic leaders.

00:18:52.660 You tune out a little bit.

00:18:54.080 And I think that gives people like Carney room to sort of pull the wool over their eyes, as you said, because people's eyes are all over the place.

00:19:01.140 They don't even know where to focus anymore.

00:19:02.380 They just want to see stability, even if it's fake.

00:19:05.480 Well, they can't reward people who've been giving us bad service for the past several years.

00:19:09.580 I take notice of the fact that Donald Trump seems to be endorsing Mark Carney over Pierre Paulingham.

00:19:13.840 I think that's a great thing, and it'll go hand in hand with all the Canadians who've suddenly rediscovered their nation.

00:19:19.240 You know, elbows up nonsense and, you know, the Canadian flag and buying Canadian.

00:19:24.360 Where the hell were you for the past 10 years when you've denigrated the nation, when you tore down statues, when you poured paint on top of them, when you were ashamed of your past, when you bent a knee? 0.59

00:19:33.040 I mean, look, Canadians have really got to think about the scoring.

00:19:36.600 It's not just about the politicians, it's about Canadians who really need to smarten it up and bring their game up a little higher.

00:19:41.780 because at this point it seems to me as someone who's experienced in the trenches knocking on tens

00:19:45.940 of thousands of doors here in eastern canada there's been a degradation not in the quality

00:19:49.940 of our politicians we can always argue with that the quality of the of the of the constituent are

00:19:54.740 they really that gullible that they can be fleeced into buying another four years of something they

00:20:00.100 can't afford it seems that way but i think it's going to change i think once uh there's fair uh

00:20:05.220 and you know balance between the two operating parties the liberals in the end and the conservatives

00:20:10.100 in the next election, I think it's going to, Canadians are going to finally get what they've

00:20:14.160 been paying for for several years. And that's a real honest answer on these things, especially

00:20:17.620 on the carbon tax, where it needs to be scrapped, along with the net zero fantasies that are very

00:20:22.100 pernicious to Canada, while the Liberals can spend the next four or five terms rebuilding

00:20:26.040 themselves and getting back to the centre where they were when I was an MP. Yeah, well, and back

00:20:30.500 to energy and back to kind of this new discovery, it seems a lot of progressive Canadians and net

00:20:34.960 zero people and all the rest have suddenly realised that maybe getting more pipelines to the

00:20:39.780 coasts might be a good idea something albert has been screaming from the rafters for over a decade

00:20:44.480 now but i to be honest i don't believe them when they say they're going to expand them i really do

00:20:49.340 not it doesn't gel with their net zero ideology i mean they'll claim it right now but i don't see

00:20:54.240 them doing it if they manage to get in for another term they'll just regulate it to death again 0.96

00:20:57.540 yeah well you know what's the good of building a pipeline if you're not prepared to put anything

00:21:01.460 within it i mean if you cut you cap your natural gas you cap your oil and you put emissions on it

00:21:06.080 so that i mean the pbo the parliamentary budget officer came out and said this is going to have

00:21:09.340 a catastrophic effect not just on alberta and producers provinces but to the entire country as

00:21:14.100 a whole look canadians really have to get up their game i mean i heard this nonsense from the left and

00:21:19.200 from the greenies saying for the years oh we should refine our own all of our own oil and then i said

00:21:23.640 well how the hell are you going to get it to market if you still have a problem you can't pipeline it

00:21:26.460 anywhere what are you supposed to do drive it by truck maybe in the back of an oxen cart because

00:21:30.420 that's what we're going to and i i'm being pedantical about those things but i also want to

00:21:34.400 make it very clear my engagement with the public isn't really about worrying about the politicians

00:21:38.820 the media my engagement is with direct with canadians do not be sold a bill of goods as you

00:21:44.180 have been for the past several years wake the hell up do some research understand why your standard

00:21:49.460 living has collapsed and it has collapsed there isn't a single canadian who can argue right now 1.00

00:21:53.940 that they don't think things are worse now than what they were 10 years ago and that's because

00:21:57.300 we have a reckless and irresponsible government that has found uh this country ability to spend

00:22:02.420 that we didn't need to spend on and for which we have destroyed our ability the golden goose of

00:22:06.900 fuel oil and gas but manufacturing as well and we've invested money in things like electric

00:22:11.100 vehicles for god's sakes we put up tariffs against the chinese who've had a 10 year 15 years 1.00

00:22:15.200 advantage and what's that doing in return it's killing our pork producers it's hurting our

00:22:19.880 canola producers it's hurting our agri-food agriculture sector there isn't nothing this

00:22:24.620 government's touch that hasn't hurt the canadian public and if you want more of that if you think

00:22:28.520 you can afford more of that talk to your kids talk to your grandchildren and talk to your

00:22:31.940 neighbor for goodness sakes because everybody's in very very dire straits right now oh yeah it's

00:22:36.200 absurd and nobody's even talking about lifting that ridiculous tariff on Chinese EVs which

00:22:41.520 weren't cutting into a market that Canada even has. Sylvain Charlebois put it excellently online

00:22:46.000 saying you know we're killing our local farmers to protect an imaginary industry. It's nuts and

00:22:52.840 again if Carney was this financial genius you'd think one of the first things he'd be saying is

00:22:57.260 we're going to put a call out to China and resolve this trade war right away because their demand is

00:23:01.280 simple. Trump you don't know what the heck that guy wants hour by hour but China is pretty

00:23:04.900 straightforward it just dropped the bloody tariff on our evs and we'll back off on the canola and

00:23:09.780 seed oils and other such things but they aren't talking that way you know uh cory on the weekend

00:23:15.020 i decided to take a trip down here so i'll drive my daughter back to a university i came across the

00:23:20.000 kami plant which builds something called the uh bright drop it's a van a delivery van basically

00:23:25.840 it was supposed to sell and they're all electric vehicles gm put in a 1.8 billion bucks you and i's

00:23:30.920 taxpayers, another couple billion bucks, federal and provincial. And they were supposed to sell

00:23:35.160 100,000 units. They sold 2,100 units. And of course, the plant is likely to go belly up anytime

00:23:42.200 soon, along with the North Volts, along with the Lion Battery, the Lion Buses, all of these other 0.60

00:23:47.060 things. I'm here not far from Oakville. I can see the smokestacks from here for the old Oakville

00:23:52.640 plant. They're supposed to be an EV plant, now turned into an F-250, F-350 plant. But you're

00:23:57.440 We're looking at a situation where we backed the wrong horse and we continue to make these bad decisions on the assumption that even though the United States has ended its EV mandates, even though Canadians are no longer getting subsidized for buying these things, we can still build them because we're trying to pretend that there's a market that exists.

00:24:14.540 it doesn't. I'm not offended by people who drive EVs. That's up to you. If you want to drive one,

00:24:18.560 that's great. Not so great, by the way, when it's minus 20 here in Ontario or minus 40 where you

00:24:23.140 guys are. But at any rate, if you think you have the electrical infrastructure and the bottomless

00:24:28.920 pit when it comes to subsidies and government debt to pay for these things, I think people

00:24:32.620 really need to elude or get rid of their delving into illusions because this is the worst public

00:24:39.120 policy decision I think we've made. It's on top of the carbon tax policy. And it really speaks to

00:24:43.760 the fact that if we put emission caps at all of these other wonderful things coming down the pipe

00:24:47.300 from net zero, unless some people get serious about nixing net zero, this country might as well

00:24:52.320 think about nixing its economic future very quickly. Yeah, well, in part, of course, that's

00:24:56.420 just your whole, you let us know all the time. I mean, that's your basis of being energy,

00:25:00.660 affordable energy. It impacts everything, everything, every consumer product you get,

00:25:05.380 your paycheck every day, the taxes that the government takes, it's all based on energy.

00:25:09.360 There's no one commodity that impacts everything across the blanket as much as energy.

00:25:14.620 Canada should be an energy superpower.

00:25:16.480 I mean, we've got so much for resources, whether it's hydroelectric, whether it's uranium, whether it's natural gas, whether it's you name it.

00:25:23.800 We've got it.

00:25:25.020 Yet we just seem to be intent on hamstringing ourselves.

00:25:30.340 Do you think, though, we could change this into an election about energy?

00:25:33.580 Because right now they're all campaigning against Trump.

00:25:35.760 And while that might be effective in the short term on polls, it's not going to help us with our economy.

00:25:42.680 No, but the ironic that it's taken Donald Trump to make us appreciate our country and finally want to build pipelines.

00:25:47.840 But look, I worked with Sylvain Charlotte a while on a project not too long ago in which he said, look, the carbon taxes aren't just hitting energy prices.

00:25:54.640 As I had suggested several years ago, it's going to affect everything else, including the cost of food.

00:25:58.460 And guess what? Pushing back against our traditional economists, the usual suspects that we have out there,

00:26:04.960 had paid lots of money for the federal government to basically polish the apple of all this carbon

00:26:09.920 nonsense and net zero nonsense. He came out and said, I got two peer-reviewed studies that point

00:26:14.860 out that the effect of carbon taxes and government policy to try to green everything and fault Canada

00:26:19.960 for creating all the CO2 in the world that, by the way, is a giver of life and is plant food for

00:26:25.340 all intents and purposes, regardless of that, came with two peer-reviewed studies to basically show

00:26:29.560 it to these wonderful economists, a lot of them from Alberta, I think Trom and I guess the other

00:26:33.720 leach and others that keep coming out and saying oh there's no effect baloney anybody who's shopping

00:26:38.920 in this country today where they're trying to make ends meet knows full well what's happened

00:26:41.960 and you don't have to just argue or have a discussion with the people who do the food

00:26:45.560 purchasing the house i do some of it here go to the food banks and understand just how bad the

00:26:49.560 situation has become this should not have happened in our canada anybody who tolerates that might i

00:26:54.360 suggest that you get yourself a brown paper bag put it over your head because you've got to be 0.98

00:26:57.720 ashamed of yourself for being so ridiculous yeah it was interesting watching mr charlebois uh dr 0.98

00:27:02.600 I should be correct with it and having kind of the geek fight online with other economists because he did call them out. 0.98

00:27:08.380 And the thing that he did point out was all of the ones he's fighting with got government funding one way or another.

00:27:13.640 Exactly. Boy, they sure got furious when he pointed that out.

00:27:16.540 Yeah, no. And you know what? I'm sick of it because it seems the only people backing this kind of stuff is paid media, paid academics, paid influencers.

00:27:25.520 And where's it coming from? It's coming from the bottom line of people who are now getting ready to have to pay next month their income taxes, assuming, of course, they can make ends meet.

00:27:32.600 this is disgusting this is wrong they are robbing peter to pay paul and at the end of the day

00:27:37.640 i've got a very simple solution stop paying them you want to you listen you got a great idea it's

00:27:41.960 like jean cretin said about cutting back on programs in the 1990s i think it was naxa national

00:27:46.200 action committee on status of women he cut their budget he said we don't have money for this stuff

00:27:49.800 he said if it's an important issue go out and fund yourself and that's what these people should do

00:27:53.400 rather than coming out pretending that they can use their academic credentials to bamboozle us

00:27:58.280 into believing that we're somehow getting a deal and in fact we're being pleased yeah well it's

00:28:02.120 It's going to be on people like yourself and even us over here,

00:28:04.540 I think over the course of the next 40 days or so,

00:28:06.480 just to try our hardest to keep things on the right discussion

00:28:09.920 and let people realize,

00:28:10.920 because it's not that complicated when you really drill down.

00:28:12.860 It isn't.

00:28:13.540 You've just got to move the fog out of the way for people

00:28:15.980 when they see how directly these things impact them

00:28:18.240 and they can make their choice on their own. 0.97

00:28:19.760 Canadians aren't stupid. 0.99

00:28:20.620 They just can be a little politically lazy sometimes, I think. 1.00

00:28:24.040 I'm here in Eastern Canada.

00:28:25.180 I have two interviews in Quebec in the next hour or so,

00:28:27.560 so I'll continue to deliver the message.

00:28:29.280 And as an Easterner, I get it.

00:28:30.740 and it's high time the rest of the country recognize the more you do to undermine the

00:28:35.060 very things that make us a great nation the more uh distant it is we're going to keep this country

00:28:39.300 united and economically uh sustainable excellent well i know you've got to run so before i let you

00:28:44.420 go uh where can people find uh you know what you're up to and keep track of things and uh

00:28:48.580 learn from you there curry when we're not exchanging information uh affordableenergy.ca

00:28:53.540 a lot of the work that i've done there on twitter of course gas price wizard is the best way to

00:28:57.780 engage. And I give as good as I get. So be prepared. If it's good stuff, we'll work along

00:29:03.580 with it. But if it's going to be nasty and you're going to be a troll, you're going to get it back

00:29:06.520 with full boots. All right. Well, much appreciated. I like the back and forth myself anyway. So 0.92

00:29:12.020 thank you again for coming on. I hope we get to talk again soon. And I really appreciate your

00:29:15.600 work, Dan. Thanks for having me, Corey. Cheers. Great. Thanks. So again, folks, that was Dan

00:29:19.960 McTeague of Canadians for Affordable Energy. And yeah, as you say, he's got lots to say and lots

00:29:25.080 of common sense that's we've just got a I think people are getting a bit of an overload they're

00:29:29.720 getting a barrage and cutting through one of the things to watch for how do I trust who do I know

00:29:34.560 who to trust or whatnot look I have a slant I have a bias but I don't hide it whatsoever

00:29:39.680 this is an opinion show Dave who was on earlier he's got his own biases but he keeps it out of

00:29:44.280 the news copy that's different news copy is a different thing than opinion uh people on shows

00:29:49.760 or writing opinion columns but the other thing to watch is who's paying the bills as we were talking

00:29:54.240 with Dr. Charlebaugh and other economists, some economists get some good funding from the

00:30:00.080 government. Thus, they tend to put out papers that are favorable to government policy. Look

00:30:06.960 who's paying the bills. And when that comes to media as well, of course, CBC, which again was

00:30:12.640 so surprising. They get paid through tax dollars, of course, and as through stealing advertising

00:30:18.920 dollars from the private market. And they were so shocked when Rosie Barton actually questioned

00:30:23.800 something which i was kind of surprised as well whatever i think part of it is i mean she always

00:30:27.800 you know she used to literally you could see it her eyes would glaze a little when she would 1.00

00:30:32.040 mention justin trudeau's name i mean she really really had a thing for for uh justin trudeau

00:30:37.560 and then now trudeau's gone carney's there and she's not so much married to the liberals she's

00:30:41.960 married to the concept of justin trudeau so she's a little better and she's gonna hold the the the

00:30:46.920 you know liberals accountable but oh they ever upset as you know people are petitioning to

00:30:52.120 to have her fired because she dared to question Kearney in a conference.

00:30:56.380 What sort of democratic atmosphere have we got? 0.95

00:30:59.080 We're the cancel culture kooks, the cat ladies, the ones who smell of old cat piss, 1.00

00:31:03.460 and that's who they are. 0.66

00:31:04.540 Look online, it's amazing.

00:31:05.720 It's a demographic that's quite something.

00:31:07.960 They're all quite the same.

00:31:09.500 Central Canadian, upper middle age, single crabby women. 1.00

00:31:13.620 I guess they wrapped their fantasy worlds around Justin Trudeau,

00:31:18.860 and they're still quite upset now at his loss too,

00:31:21.340 But very, again, connected to his replacement. 0.99

00:31:24.880 Now, speaking of middle-aged female fools, and yes, I understand that there are only two genders. 1.00

00:31:30.360 And Mayor Gondek in Calgary is female. 0.99

00:31:34.900 And this was an interesting one that came up.

00:31:37.120 Calgary Transit's looking for merchandise ideas.

00:31:39.880 See, the city of Calgary, and this is happening in cities all over,

00:31:42.980 and this is going to tie into some of the stuff Dan was talking about.

00:31:45.780 They're always pleading poverty.

00:31:47.080 They're always raising taxes.

00:31:48.180 They never can apparently find ways to cut spending. Apparently they spend so

00:31:52.680 efficiency there just isn't a nickel to be saved anywhere. All they can do is

00:31:57.240 raise taxes. Now they want merchandise ideas from Calgary Transit. What sort of

00:32:02.940 genius came up to this? What are you supposed to have? You're gonna wear a

00:32:06.120 Calgary Transit t-shirt showing pictures of the fentanyl addicts under the stairs.

00:32:10.420 Maybe the syringes over in the corner. Or maybe they're talking about branded

00:32:13.980 items you know stab proof vests you commuters can wear on the way to work or you know helmets

00:32:20.100 I don't know that this is what you guys are down to but what they won't say is how about collecting

00:32:26.180 the freaking fares how about that anybody familiar with Calgary transit Edmonton's the same way and

00:32:31.400 they're pretty much the only ones in the developed world that are like this they have the honor

00:32:35.380 system for riding the trains there's ticket machines selling tickets and you can buy tickets

00:32:41.100 through an app but there's no turnstile there's nothing else and you get on those trains with all

00:32:48.600 the the the stench of human uh release and around some of the very troubled people and walk your way

00:32:55.720 around the shopping carts and try not to sit on a syringe and you know that a number of the

00:33:01.080 troubled people riding that train didn't buy a freaking ticket so you got that bunch now they're 0.99

00:33:08.980 never going to buy tickets, but you start enforcing and get them off the damn train. Get them off 0.99

00:33:13.200 there immediately. I know there's no sense chasing them for fines. They don't have any money, but kick

00:33:17.620 them off the bloody train. And you know what? When that element is off the train and out of the 1.00

00:33:22.740 stations, more people will choose to ride the train. Right now they're scared to. It's frightening

00:33:29.140 on parts of that train at times. The other part is there's a number of people, and I hate to say it,

00:33:34.300 but they're just not paying because you know your odds of getting checked for a ticket are next to none.

00:33:40.340 I've ridden that train now and then.

00:33:41.800 You almost never get checked.

00:33:43.420 Start checking.

00:33:44.660 Bring in revenue.

00:33:45.600 Don't worry about trying to sell branded Calgary Transit t-shirts. 1.00

00:33:49.480 Just charge people for the damn tickets. 0.99

00:33:51.380 But it's the social equity crowd. 1.00

00:33:53.080 You see, that's what it is.

00:33:53.960 That's what's underlying.

00:33:54.840 When these discussions come up, the reality is there's an extreme left wing in city council and city halls,

00:34:00.800 and they're in city halls across the country.

00:34:02.220 and they believe that free transit should be a right. They believe that it's unfairly cracking

00:34:10.740 down on people if they're riding that train without paying their fare. They think it's a

00:34:14.440 right for them to sit on that train and lose bowel control. They, you know, because of course

00:34:19.000 they used that a lot when cold weather came and the trains were being used as rolling

00:34:23.780 homeless shelters because unfortunately a lot of the addicts are in such bad shape they can't

00:34:29.620 uh go into the the regular homeless places you know shelters and such so they started using

00:34:35.700 trains for it but that's not the place for it but then people were saying it was cruel and heartless

00:34:39.380 if we take them off the train well isn't it a little cruel and heartless to the senior citizen 1.00

00:34:42.260 trying to get to work the student trying to get to work or even the grown man i get nervous around

00:34:46.500 some of these people when they're they're they're especially the meth addicts because they go pretty

00:34:49.940 wild jordan put out a comment or put out said uh how about a t-shirt saying i survived the c train

00:34:54.980 Yeah, I know. It's frightening.

00:34:58.000 So either way, the city of Calgary, we were talking about electric vehicles and so on.

00:35:00.940 And the list, the list.

00:35:02.460 There are EV companies across Canada just going broke left, right, and center.

00:35:06.220 They're falling like dominoes.

00:35:07.220 You hear about the big ones, but there's little ones too, relative.

00:35:10.520 There's one that was called Vicinity.

00:35:12.240 It was out in Vancouver.

00:35:13.800 And guess what?

00:35:14.420 The city of Calgary bought a bunch of electric buses from them.

00:35:18.500 Yeah, I don't know what it was, $10 or $12 million or something.

00:35:22.000 Because this was supposed to be a trial project.

00:35:23.100 Just a small amount of buses, seven or eight buses they were going to use.

00:35:26.460 And before the buses even got here, because it was supposed to be a pilot program,

00:35:30.280 they said, Gondek and her gang said,

00:35:32.840 you know what, the electric buses are working so well up in Edmonton,

00:35:35.740 we don't need a pilot, we're going to dive all in

00:35:38.260 and spend hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars

00:35:40.960 and buy a hundred and some buses, these electric buses.

00:35:45.380 Well, after that, Edmonton, their bus program fell apart, literally. 0.99

00:35:50.940 Their buses were garbage.

00:35:52.120 they had to get a bunch of custom work done to them they didn't work in cold 0.98

00:35:54.820 weather then they started breaking down then they couldn't get parts to fix them

00:35:57.880 because guess what the company that made the buses went bankrupt now Calgary

00:36:01.880 waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting on their trial project buses

00:36:06.340 from vicinity out in Vancouver a company that makes these things and they never

00:36:11.500 quite disclosed how much money they gave them when they they also spent their

00:36:16.000 money retooling the bus barns for chargers for these buses and so on

00:36:19.120 Finally, it turned out that Sandy went broke.

00:36:21.080 Calgary never even got a single bus.

00:36:23.260 But what did they do? 0.74

00:36:25.100 They're sourcing buses from yet another bloody manufacturer.

00:36:29.800 Look, all over North America, just Google electric bus failure,

00:36:35.400 and you'll see it.

00:36:36.700 These things are not a success anywhere. 0.99

00:36:39.300 They're junk. 1.00

00:36:40.260 They're subsidized crap, and they're ripping people off. 1.00

00:36:43.780 And still, it's going. 1.00

00:36:46.600 But whose fault is it?

00:36:48.080 I don't know.

00:36:48.880 ours? Because we've got to start changing. I mean, that's what I talked a bit about with Dan,

00:36:53.700 you know, the electoral laziness, the indifference. I know people are tired out, but guess what?

00:36:58.440 People like Jodi Gondek, she might get reelected because people don't pay attention. Turnouts in

00:37:03.420 civic elections are 20, 30, 40 percent. It's sad. It's pathetic. And then those who do come out to

00:37:07.520 vote are left-wing moonbats with crazed causes on their shoulders. We've got to get off our own

00:37:13.220 bloody butt and deal with it likewise in the federal election so the polls i'm getting bloody 0.98

00:37:19.380 concerned i sure am because i mean at first it looked like they were just outliers it looked 0.92

00:37:23.660 like it was just crazy frank graves with ecos you know putting wishful thinking out there in the

00:37:28.080 polls saying the liberals were gonna you know come back and and win i mean frank graves polls

00:37:33.960 are still grossly exaggerated i mean he also showed that there was support for the bloc quebecois in

00:37:37.980 Alberta and that the Liberals would win here. But every pollster is showing it now. Even the

00:37:42.820 most favorable pollster to the Conservatives with abacus, you know, I mean, I wouldn't say they are

00:37:47.560 favorable to the Conservatives, but their polls were. They're showing it now neck and neck. There's

00:37:51.540 no doubt there is a trend. People are going to the Liberals for whatever bloody reason.

00:37:57.200 And really, you know, you can tell that Dan was flabbergasted with it too. We're exhausted.

00:38:03.900 One of the best images that's been going around, Sylvain Charlebaix has been putting that one out

00:38:07.180 too. And it's the GDP per capita in Canada growth in the last 10 years versus every other country

00:38:14.700 in the world. And Canada is like 3% over the last 10 years. And the United States at the top is

00:38:19.900 their GDP per capita grew by like 20, 30% or something, 21% I think, massively. That's the

00:38:25.960 measure of wealth. That's the measure of how well we're doing. We're not doing well at all, guys.

00:38:32.340 We have less in our pockets all the time.

00:38:35.620 And if we put the same dingbats back into power who made that trend in the first place, 1.00

00:38:40.460 how on earth could we possibly expect it to change?

00:38:43.920 Yet here we are.

00:38:45.380 Here we are.

00:38:46.340 I see some of the commenters saying, you know, they believe it'll change once the election campaign gets going.

00:38:50.640 I believe so, too.

00:38:52.760 I think so.

00:38:53.900 I mean, Carney, right now it's a bump.

00:38:55.600 It's still a bounce.

00:38:56.520 And we've still got crazy times going on right now.

00:39:00.400 Unprecedented.

00:39:01.140 People are nervous.

00:39:01.760 People are upset.

00:39:04.740 You know, I've been frustrated.

00:39:06.280 There's nothing I hate more than seeing a tariff war.

00:39:08.720 Because you know what? 1.00

00:39:09.340 It's stupid. 1.00

00:39:10.840 It's stupid. 1.00

00:39:11.940 Tariffs are stupid economic policy. 1.00

00:39:15.000 And I know some of the Trump supporters get upset with me, but too damn bad. 1.00

00:39:17.540 Trump's policies on tariffs are stupid. 1.00

00:39:20.560 He's doing some right things in some areas, but the tariff stuff is wrong and it's dumb. 1.00

00:39:25.400 And I mean, it's hurting the Americans as much, maybe even more than us. 0.94

00:39:27.760 But the bottom line is we're all bloody hurting.

00:39:30.000 And people would like to come in and try and say, well, let's resolve this, let's make a deal.

00:39:33.600 But you never know what that guy's saying day from day.

00:39:35.640 You can't even start the negotiation process.

00:39:38.120 Meanwhile, you watch your savings start to evaporate.

00:39:40.120 Meanwhile, you worry about the industries you work in.

00:39:44.260 So, yeah, people are exhausted, they're beat up, they're tired, and it leaves them vulnerable.

00:39:50.980 And, you know, they're vulnerable and they're getting the wool pulled over their eyes.

00:39:53.700 The liberals, you look at the ads they're putting on.

00:39:55.480 And right now, and again, I know I got some people who follow the show who like Trump.

00:39:59.360 Good for you.

00:39:59.800 That's fine.

00:40:00.920 But most of Canadians are really, really pissed off with him right now.

00:40:05.040 And the Liberals know that.

00:40:06.180 And they've been showing commercials with Polyev right next to Trump and taking quotes

00:40:11.980 that sound similar and trying to paint them as each other.

00:40:14.660 And you know what?

00:40:15.120 Unfortunately, it's working.

00:40:17.000 As Dave said, Trump came out and said, look, I'd prefer to deal with the Liberals than

00:40:20.400 with the Conservatives.

00:40:21.880 I don't know what he's trying to reserve reverse for the trend or anything.

00:40:24.960 I don't think Trump cares either way. It does help Pauliev, I guess. The last thing he needs

00:40:30.140 is Trump coming up and saying, you know, I really like this guy. And it's just going to make things

00:40:36.680 worse. And when is this bloody election coming? You know, it's one of the biggest flaws in the

00:40:41.800 Canadian system. I just despise that, where the person in power can play coy, can mess around

00:40:46.460 with the date, and just I'll call it when it's convenient for me. And then those numbers, right?

00:40:51.820 And it's not a shocker.

00:40:52.860 Those numbers were always there.

00:40:53.980 It's just we see them coming in total.

00:40:55.960 This shows how badly we're taking it from behind as well.

00:40:58.840 We got Justin Trudeau, an $8.4 million pension.

00:41:05.660 Pension.

00:41:07.080 What do you get maximum in Canada with the Canadian pension plan?

00:41:10.080 $800 a month or something like that?

00:41:11.740 You pay your whole bloody life.

00:41:14.320 Trudeau was in there, you know, for, what, 15 years from being an MP to latest resignation. 0.90

00:41:19.840 8.4 million dollar pension coming for you and you got to remember the whole time he was prime

00:41:26.400 minister he didn't have to spend a nickel of his own money on anything he gets a free house he had

00:41:33.220 free wardrobes he had free travel he had free food he had chefs he had drivers so every penny

00:41:38.880 of everything he got in salary for 10 years straight into the bank or wherever he puts it

00:41:43.620 Maybe a big Justin piggy bank in his bedroom.

00:41:46.900 I don't know.

00:41:48.900 I don't think a prime minister should be paid poorly.

00:41:52.500 But boy, it sure lets us know who really is running the show

00:41:56.880 when you see something like that.

00:41:58.460 $8.4 million for 10 and some years of work.

00:42:00.400 Not bad, eh?

00:42:01.720 That's nuts.

00:42:02.980 And a member of parliament, pensions, and conservatives tend to be as bad

00:42:07.900 as the liberals when it comes to it as well in getting rid of these things.

00:42:10.800 They talk big, but they don't do it.

00:42:12.400 But even the Reform Party, we'd go all the way back and take myself into the 90s, you know, Deb Gray and a bunch of them at first refused to take the pension plan.

00:42:22.260 But once they were in office for a couple of terms, they all just kind of slowly slid in and took the pension.

00:42:27.820 I don't know if anybody's ever going to have the courage to cut into that because once they're in, of course, it cuts into their own wallet.

00:42:32.620 Self-serving politicians, you know, again, they should be paid well.

00:42:38.260 But, I mean, you know, keep it simple then.

00:42:40.120 Just when you're paid that much, at best, they should just have an RRSP matching program or something for the time that they're in.

00:42:46.640 There, you know, every year you can put this much of your salary in and the government match.

00:42:49.880 There's your retirement.

00:42:51.040 Fine.

00:42:51.880 But $8.4 million for that dingbat Trudeau. 0.99

00:42:55.840 Crazy. 0.99

00:42:57.200 Crazy. 0.94

00:42:57.980 Crazy. 0.95

00:43:00.160 And, yeah, yeah, getting back to, I'm just trying to look here.

00:43:06.000 Pierre Polyev trying, you know, I mean, this is where we get through the media.

00:43:08.600 I see he's been trying.

00:43:09.500 He's trying to get things out there, and he's playing catch-up.

00:43:12.280 So he's been out, and he talked about committing a billion dollars to build a new road

00:43:17.100 to connect First Nation communities and mineral deposits, you know, the ring of fire.

00:43:21.160 This is good stuff, economic development.

00:43:24.580 And you watch, though, just like everything else that seems to be happening,

00:43:29.420 Carney will do the same announcement a week later,

00:43:31.900 and the clapping seals with the Canadian legacy media will give him credit for it.

00:43:37.100 The difference is, again, I think Pollyev might actually follow through with it.

00:43:39.880 I don't believe Carney for a second on these things.

00:43:43.300 Pollyev was in Iqaluit not too long ago himself, you know, making announcements and doing those things.

00:43:48.500 Didn't get much attention.

00:43:49.560 Once Carney's there, though, oh boy.

00:43:51.260 And what did he announce?

00:43:52.660 I mean, the radar station, you know, we don't have time in the whole show to go through it.

00:43:55.620 Northern Defense, fine, these are issues people are concerned about.

00:43:58.240 But also yet another reconciliation handout that worked out to the people of Nunavut.

00:44:04.440 $70,000 a person on top of everything else and every other program and I tell you what the main

00:44:11.960 source of income for people in Nunavut is government money your money your taxes and it

00:44:18.040 doesn't help conditions are terrible in a lot of places up there because it's isolated areas

00:44:22.420 whole separate story on we know the whole reserve system and things like that but now he's going to

00:44:26.340 toss them all another $70,000 ahead these things come out during elections where is this money

00:44:33.760 going to come from well we know in the end it's going to come from us but our economy is beaten

00:44:38.340 and beaten on this i i just get so tired of it elections we fall for it every time now ralph

00:44:47.140 klein did it we're not much better in alberta i won't get on the high horse totally it worked in

00:44:51.540 alberta he put out the ralph bucks four hundred dollars a person he put out a check just before 0.98

00:44:55.340 election time totally crass election buy people forgetting that it's their own damn money he's 0.87

00:45:00.880 giving them back he's reaching in the wallet he's taking a thousand out and he's giving you four 0.97

00:45:04.560 hundred dollars and you're thanking him well that's what they're doing through this whole

00:45:08.640 election both of them they'll both be you watch poliev is going to propose to spend a lot of money

00:45:13.040 too because that's just the way the bloody game goes he's just better than the liberals i'm more

00:45:18.300 believable and i think has a better understanding of the economic needs we're going to have to pay

00:45:22.540 for these things but uh he's not getting the coverage we're in for a very big turning point

00:45:30.760 in Canada right now with this election.

00:45:32.880 We've got to wake up our citizens.

00:45:34.900 I know the Conservatives aren't perfect,

00:45:36.120 but if you think that putting the Liberals in 1.00

00:45:38.980 is good for Canada, you're stupid. 1.00

00:45:41.560 You really are. 1.00

00:45:42.420 You're outright stupid. 1.00

00:45:44.080 Look at the numbers. 1.00

00:45:45.280 Look at the figures.

00:45:46.200 Look at their track record.

00:45:47.800 You think Carney is changing a thing?

00:45:49.700 As I said with Dave,

00:45:50.760 the same comms person there is behind him

00:45:53.260 because you can tell when he does his slow glass

00:45:55.040 drink of water and he's got something

00:45:56.660 sticking in his ear just like I do,

00:45:58.560 somebody's telling him what to say.

00:46:00.760 And it's the same person, the same wizard behind the curtain is sitting there.

00:46:05.640 It's just a different face.

00:46:08.220 Well, either way, frustrating.

00:46:10.240 We'll keep covering things.

00:46:11.300 Look, guys, that's what I've got for today.

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Western Standard - March 20, 2025

Prime Minister in Hiding

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