Western Standard - January 11, 2024


‘Ruthless, Reckless, Damaging ' Guilbeault named MLI’s policymaker of the year

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Gilbo Policymaker Corey Dave
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The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a think tank, has named Brian Mulroney "Policeman of the year" for his efforts to destroy Canada's economy. We talk about the award, and what it means for the future of the country.

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00:00:00.000 This is a well-deserved award, Corey, from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a think tank.
00:00:06.520 They have named Gilbo Policymaker of the Year for basically doing everything that he can
00:00:12.820 to destroy the economy, from straws to plastics registries to electricity regulations to clean
00:00:19.980 fuel environments. He has done more to screw up the Canadian economy than anybody else,
00:00:25.380 and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute gave him this award, and I'm sure he proudly accepted it.
00:00:32.780 He's got quite a generous amount of contenders for economic dingbats over the years.
00:00:38.060 Yeah, they said nobody came close to him in this current batch of Liberal cabinet ministers.
00:00:43.920 They put it beautifully, Dave. They said, this is intended as criticism, but I expect Gilbo 0.70
00:00:49.620 would be pleased with the acknowledgement.
00:00:53.320 Yes.
00:00:53.640 Batch of honor.
00:00:54.160 I'm sure he would.
00:00:55.380 Maybe he'll accept it wearing his orange jumpsuit from his old days.
00:01:02.320 I mean, the thing with, there's actually an excellent analysis.
00:01:09.120 This isn't just like an organization putting up its New Year's credits or anything like that.
00:01:15.460 It's not like the Taxpayers Federation and their teddies.
00:01:17.300 Even the Macdonald-Laurier Institute actually does a lot of nuanced policy discussion.
00:01:21.180 And I think the CTF would say that it did too.
00:01:23.500 But, you know, I'm not knocking them.
00:01:26.380 I love them as well.
00:01:28.040 Yeah.
00:01:28.540 But look, there's a three-page article in their January report, and they actually lay out four
00:01:36.880 things that they put to Mr. Gilbo's account, which any one of us who live here, work here,
00:01:44.420 try to make a living here, say, yeah, that's exactly what's going wrong.
00:01:49.460 So, you know, the first one, of course, is the carbon pricing scheme.
00:01:54.960 The second one is the clean fuel regulations.
00:01:57.280 And clean fuel regulations does not mean clean in the sense that you normally use the word clean.
00:02:03.080 It means fuel which has not burned other fuel to produce.
00:02:09.700 So if you're pumping heat into a SAG-D set up in Fort McMurray, well, that's burning fuel.
00:02:16.880 The less fuel you burn, the cleaner the fuel that you ultimately produce.
00:02:21.780 I mean, it's economically efficient to a degree.
00:02:24.560 But when the requirement takes you past the point of an economic return, then it's serious and damaging.
00:02:31.860 So carbon pricing, clean fuel regs, and it's interesting that, you know, just as they make this point in this document,
00:02:43.560 that even as they are asking producers to produce cleaner fuel,
00:02:48.200 they are, by other regulations, destroying the market for that fuel by announcing that in, by 2035,
00:02:57.760 you won't be able to buy a gasoline-powered car to put your clean fuel into.
00:03:03.680 So they're like they're hitting both sides.
00:03:06.380 And, you know, you go through the whole thing here, and it is so obvious that the minister has been given a blank check.
00:03:22.540 Go do it.
00:03:23.780 Do whatever you can.
00:03:25.600 We're going to save the earth?
00:03:27.280 No.
00:03:27.980 But we're certainly going to screw the West.
00:03:30.080 Well, that's a good thing, because there's just that kind of disaffection for anything to do with Alberta, 0.99
00:03:37.360 anything to do with Western Canada, which we have, we don't have to assume it.
00:03:44.260 We don't have to conjecture that it must be so because of the actions, which is one way of looking at it.
00:03:50.080 We can just go back over the prime minister's past comments, both when he was in office
00:03:55.780 and when he was just another backbench MP, you know, he seems like the problem with Canada
00:04:01.640 is too many Albertans running it. 0.95
00:04:03.660 You know, that was during the Harper years, obviously.
00:04:05.760 But, I mean, there's a long list of these comments that he's made.
00:04:08.840 He clearly doesn't like this part of the country and the values that it has.
00:04:13.400 So good.
00:04:17.720 Thank you.