Western Standard - The Cory Morgan show. Why the sacred cow of Canadian healthcare must be slain

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00:00:29.980 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am Corey Morgan. This is the Western Standards

00:00:34.860 weekly show, or at least my weekly show with the Western Standard, where I will

00:00:39.120 speak to interesting guests, cover interesting issues, rant and rave, get stuff off my chest,

00:00:45.480 and have exchanges with commenters. So thank you very much for joining us today, guys. We've got

00:00:50.780 a packed show, lots to cover and lots to talk about. I've got a guest coming on in a little

00:00:55.040 while. He's Professor Tom Flanagan. He's been strongly involved in conservative politics

00:01:00.000 across Canada, federally and provincially for quite some time. And he's going to weigh in

00:01:04.820 and we'll talk about conservatism and the election in Alberta. I mean, Alberta is the bastion of

00:01:10.580 conservatism in Canada, supposedly. Yet here we are on the brink of possibly another NDP

00:01:15.760 government. What the heck is going on? Is conservatism even saleable anymore? That is

00:01:22.040 starting to get questionable. We'll see. I'm sure it is. But Mr. Flanagan is certainly going to add

00:01:27.420 more to it. So I'm going to start off, though, with what's got me going today. And it's an issue,

00:01:32.440 again, it comes up from the provincial election in Alberta, but it affects everybody across this

00:01:37.480 country. And the story is the same across the entire country. Every province in Canada has greatly

00:01:42.940 increased health spending in the last five years. Yet every province in Canada is facing an

00:01:47.860 overwhelmed short-staffed health care system. People are dying while waiting for specialized

00:01:52.440 treatment or diagnostics. Family doctors are nearly impossible to find. Ambulances and emergency

00:01:57.440 services can't keep up with the demand. And hospital emergency rooms are constantly overwhelmed. It

00:02:02.440 doesn't matter which party is in power. We've got different parties in government all across the

00:02:05.880 country. The issues are the same. So if money isn't the answer, and the party in power isn't the

00:02:10.620 answer, then the problem obviously has to be with the system. Any politician questioning Canada's

00:02:16.300 sacred health care system, though, is committing a form of blasphemy. Unions, pundits, and academics

00:02:21.980 will pour from the woodworks and condemn the offender for daring to question the perfection of

00:02:26.640 the Canadian system if they do. Eager legacy media outlets, of course, will jump into the mix and feed

00:02:31.660 the fires with dire images of people suffering for lack of care in the United States. And they'll

00:02:36.780 interview somebody from south of the border who's going to offer a sob story on how they lost their

00:02:40.660 retirement and their home due to medical bills from an emergency hemorrhoid surgery or something like

00:02:45.920 that. The politicians who set things off will then duck his or her head, you know, and head for

00:02:52.100 cover and won't bring the subject up again. And nothing changes. It has to stop. Canadians have 1.00

00:02:57.660 to stop falling for the fear mongering from the defenders of the status quo. Liberal and NDP

00:03:02.360 politicians have accused conservatives of wanting to dismantle the universal health care system since

00:03:07.360 it was created. Yet not once has a conservative government done anything to threaten the

00:03:11.660 universality of the system. Well, many have had majority mandates where they could have done so

00:03:16.540 at any time. I remember, well, with Ralph Klein, they were always saying he was going to privatize

00:03:20.240 it all. It never happened. So if it's hollow fear mongering from the left, so why do they do it?

00:03:25.620 Well, it's because it works every bloody time. Canadians have been trained for decades to believe

00:03:29.840 we have the best health care system on the planet. And the only alternative system is the American one. 0.95

00:03:35.220 That's an utter bunk. Canada's system is among one of the worst of universal health systems in the world

00:03:41.660 for the buck. I mean, there's great professionals within it, but the system's a mess. And there's

00:03:45.580 dozens of other systems in the world besides the American one. We need to have frank discussions on

00:03:50.360 the system and must look at models that are outperforming ours. There's many of them in Europe

00:03:54.840 and Asia that are providing universal care while spending less than we do and without having to 0.86

00:03:59.560 ration provision nearly as much as we do. So what's the catch, though? Well, they allow more private

00:04:05.040 provision of care. I remember universal coverage. So, I mean, everybody gets covered. Nobody gets turned

00:04:10.720 away. Nobody has to pay out of pocket. But it's not a monopoly any longer. Monopoly systems, they

00:04:16.820 always screw the consumer. And in Canada, we're living under a health care provision monopoly.

00:04:21.140 Lack of competition has stunted innovation, allowed a massive bloated bureaucracy to grow,

00:04:26.220 and has empowered unions to the point where internal reforms are nearly impossible to achieve.

00:04:31.200 The care is too centralized and hospital-centric, and they're bursting at the seams. But if you try to

00:04:35.900 take services out of a hospital setting, you're going to raise the ire of the unions who rely quite well

00:04:41.020 on those big union hospital environments. In Alberta, the NDP are raising the specter of privatized

00:04:45.960 health care in the election. They're running commercials showing a person reaching into their wallet

00:04:49.920 for a credit card while checking in at a clinic. And this tactic is standard from the left, and it's

00:04:54.580 unsurprising. What's infuriating, though, is that it works. Mistrust is being fostered in Premier

00:05:00.220 Smith, and many people are saying things like, well, I don't like the NDP, but I can't let the UCP

00:05:04.260 dismantle the health care system. How long are we going to allow the health care system to

00:05:09.040 deteriorate before realizing and admitting it needs reform? How long will we let ourselves be

00:05:13.540 fooled by the fear-mongering of unions that care nothing for patient outcomes and only about

00:05:17.580 maintaining the status quo? Politicians need to find the courage to take on the system,

00:05:22.420 and voters need to find the courage to allow them to do it. Until that happens, though, the system's

00:05:27.220 going to continue its slide to the bottom no matter how many tax dollars are pumped into it.

00:05:30.860 Well, that's kind of what's got me up and going today, guys. Well, lots of other stuff

00:05:36.900 breaking and bursting in the news. Let's get in and check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:05:41.140 in the newsroom and see what else is happening out there. Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:05:45.380 All right, Corey. You know what? We're three days into it, and I'm already sick of the election.

00:05:49.360 How about you?

00:05:50.700 It's getting tiresome and repetitive already, but we'll push through. I mean, this is like the

00:05:54.880 Super Bowl for us in a lot of ways. It's just that it takes 28 days.

00:06:03.720 Beautiful day and colorful day across.

00:06:11.760 Okay. I think maybe we're having some technical difficulties

00:06:23.020 with Dave there. Perhaps we'll check again with him in a second. Sorry, Dave, we kind of lost you

00:06:28.500 there. You got me now?

00:06:30.740 Yeah, no problem, Corey. I think it's my old computer about to give up the ghost.

00:06:35.800 Why don't I just jump right in before it dies again? Well, lots of stuff on the website

00:06:42.180 already this morning. Corey, obviously, a lot of it election-related. We've got a piece by our

00:06:48.640 education specialist, John Hilton O'Brien, on what the fate of private schools will be under

00:06:54.980 an NDP. Basically, it'll be the end of them, because they've already said they will help

00:07:01.560 eliminate private schools in the province. All COVID restrictions have been lifted in the

00:07:09.020 United States. You do not have to have validation of COVID vaccines anymore to get in there.

00:07:14.840 Interesting story coming out of Calgary Police this morning. They've arrested an Edmonton man,

00:07:21.360 69 years old, for a series of three sexual assaults in Calgary in 1984, 39 years ago, in fact. So,

00:07:32.040 an incredible development there. You see, Brangine and Rebecca Schultz had a press conference in

00:07:38.840 Calgary about an hour ago saying the NDP's promise of putting Alberta into a net emission zero

00:07:47.720 plan for 2035 is going to cost $84 billion, according to two studies, and that would make it the most

00:07:55.560 expensive political campaign promise in Alberta history. And our real estate expert, Mike Thomas,

00:08:03.480 has a look at the real estate markets in the two key areas of Vancouver and Toronto,

00:08:11.960 and the real estate there is purring along just fine. Rachel Notley just wrapped up a press conference

00:08:18.000 in Edmonton, so our Arthur Green will be filing a story on that shortly. And lots more good stuff to

00:08:24.300 come this afternoon, Corey. Right on. Well, I can see you're, well, I know you're busy as hell in

00:08:30.360 there with this election going on and everything else, so I'll let you go back to it. Thanks for

00:08:34.040 taking the time to check in with us, Dave. Thanks, Corey. That is the Western Standard News editor,

00:08:39.540 Dave Naylor. And as you can see, they're working so hard, it's wearing down our internet access in

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00:09:13.140 Ten bucks a month, well worth it. All right. So let's see, getting on to the federal scene. Let's get

00:09:19.400 back, because I like to keep reminding people of this, because this keeps bubbling and going and

00:09:22.700 bubbling and going, yet we don't seem to be getting any resolution. And that's the Chinese 1.00

00:09:27.980 interference in Canadian politics, the latest revelation. You know, I mean, we keep seeing

00:09:33.140 people on social media saying drip, drip, drip, because you see that steady dripping of somebody

00:09:37.760 is leaking from CSIS, these reports, all of this stuff where they've been raising alarm flags for years

00:09:43.520 and years about how the Chinese Communist Party has been influencing Canadian politics. This latest one

00:09:49.760 is quite a bombshell. Yet, of course, Trudeau dismissed it. That's not to be surprising. So

00:09:54.480 Conservative Member of Parliament, Michael Chong, apparently CSIS had been tracking that the

00:10:00.660 Chinese government had been making potential threats to his family who reside back in Hong Kong

00:10:06.680 still, because Chong had been very critical of the Chinese government over here. Like, think of how

00:10:13.960 huge, how scary, how brutal this is. A foreign nation intimidating our elected officials because 0.90

00:10:21.320 they don't like the policy statements they took here. And it's not impossible, again, to think of

00:10:25.640 China wanting to do that. Of course, that's the sort of thing China does. They aren't a nice country,

00:10:30.720 or, well, they're a nice country that the government is terrible. They're communists. 0.88

00:10:33.340 So, yeah, the Trudeau government was warned of this years ago. And what did they do about it?

00:10:38.980 Nothing. Nothing. They didn't think it was important enough, I guess, to deal with.

00:10:45.520 And that's essentially what Trudeau said. He said that he felt that CSIS just didn't feel this was

00:10:49.640 a big enough issue to have to deal with. Meanwhile, Chong didn't even know about this going on. Now,

00:10:55.180 there was a diplomat, Mr. Wei Zhao, who was involved in this. He was part of the one with the

00:11:01.040 communications. He's the one that the CSIS had been tracking and watching, this diplomat from the

00:11:06.060 Chinese Communist Party in Canada. Well, guess what? He's still approved by the Canadian government

00:11:11.140 to work in Canada. He's still an active diplomat here. He's been working on interfering with our

00:11:17.660 elected officials, threatening their families back in China. That's how that government works. It's not

00:11:22.740 just that they can't control the people here. They control them through threatening their families.

00:11:31.000 Many of them, if there's new Canadians or Canadians with Chinese family, they can threaten them from 1.00

00:11:35.260 where they're back home. You know, threatening phone calls, things like that. That's been documented as

00:11:38.740 well. Yet nothing's getting done about it. Trudeau keeps kicking the can down the road, appointing his

00:11:43.960 friendly uncle-like figures to be special rapporteurs. The Trudeau Foundation, more stuff is leaking

00:11:49.160 about how they were taking Chinese money in. This corruption mess is getting worse and worse and

00:11:55.640 worse, and nothing's getting done. Jagmeet Singh, of course, he holds the power to change it.

00:12:00.000 Won't do a thing. One of the most cowardly leaders in Canadian history, that man. 0.98

00:12:03.880 And I just, you gotta wonder, what the heck is it gonna take? Meanwhile, so, I mean, it got heated 0.99

00:12:09.940 in the House of Commons. Pierre Polyev brought it up, wanted to speak about it, wanted an emergency

00:12:14.380 debate. And he got threatened from the House Speaker, threatened to eject him from the House

00:12:22.420 for persisting on it, because he shut down the debate. The Speaker, the Speaker who's supposed

00:12:27.360 to be impartial, but I mean, the Speaker is a Liberal member of Parliament. Thus, they won't

00:12:33.260 discuss it any further. I just gotta wonder, how many more leaks is it gonna take? How bad is it gonna

00:12:39.100 have to get? It sounds like they've interfered with multiple elections of ours now. And then,

00:12:44.240 they've got that other story, you know, down in the States, there's Chinese police stations that

00:12:48.740 were set up. We had them in Canada, too. And Canada's Prime Minister of Lies, and you know,

00:12:53.440 every show I talk about Marco Mendicino and his lies, because he lies about everything. The guy,

00:12:58.080 I swear, he's pathological. He lied and said there were none of those police stations operating in

00:13:03.460 Canada. Well, it turns out, yes, they are. Yes, they are. And, you know, these were, they call them

00:13:09.920 police stations, basically, they're little toeholds of the Chinese Communist Party within our country

00:13:14.800 that are here expressly for the purpose of influencing Canadian policy. Should we not be

00:13:20.180 concerned about this? I mean, yes, but this issue just seems to be dragging out to this strategy on

00:13:27.140 the part of the Prime Minister to just keep kicking down the can down the road is working. And I don't

00:13:32.580 know what it's going to take to hold them to account. I really don't. You can see why people

00:13:36.040 give up on politics sometimes. I mean, it just feels futile sometimes. I don't know. We'll see

00:13:42.080 what the release for next week is going to be when that one comes up. I mean, speaking of just some

00:13:48.500 other fun idiocy in the world of the woke and many other things, Bud Light, yes, they still make 0.88

00:13:54.880 the news now and then, their sales dropped 21% in the past few weeks. 21% after their collaboration 0.91

00:14:03.060 with a transgender activist, Dylan Mulvaney. And again, I don't care. The company wants to, you know, 0.91

00:14:10.160 go with social media influencers and different types. Good for them. That's your business. It's

00:14:14.100 your company. But I'm just astounded when it comes to this because, like, no, your market, guys.

00:14:18.820 These are guys at rodeos. These are guys, you know, in country bars. That's your main market.

00:14:25.460 If you wanted to change your market and ease into it, fine, do so. But do it carefully. Don't jump

00:14:31.300 right in with this. Boy, are you ever taking a spank over this pointlessly and without need.

00:14:37.400 I don't know. But it all comes down to that ESG trend and almost fanaticism on the part of

00:14:42.820 corporations. I guess recently Coca-Cola had their own shareholders stand up and tell them to cut it out

00:14:47.500 because they were getting pushed to take a stance and boycotting states that aren't providing ready

00:14:52.060 enough services for abortion. Let the corporations be corporations. It doesn't matter what side of 1.00

00:14:57.300 the issue you're on. Quit this ESG garbage. Their role is to make money for their shareholders. They 0.99

00:15:02.040 shouldn't apologize for that. And they got to quit dipping their toes into the water of social justice

00:15:06.600 activism because as the saying goes, go woke, go broke. So yes, a 21% sales drop in one of the largest

00:15:12.820 beer brands on the planet. That's nothing to sneeze at. And it's going to take them a lot of work to 0.82

00:15:18.460 get that market back. All right. Let's get into some more domestic politics and talk to our guest

00:15:23.120 Professor Tom Flanagan and talk conservatism, politics, elections, and all that good stuff.

00:15:31.040 We'll bring him in and see how it's going. Hello. How are you doing?

00:15:34.500 Hi, Corey.

00:15:35.760 I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today. You know, we got this election going. It's going to be

00:15:41.020 clearly already a heated and ugly one in a lot of ways. But what I kind of want to start with is,

00:15:49.180 you know, it's so close. It's neck and neck. Well, there's no conservative split for the parties

00:15:54.980 right now. It's not even a liberal party on the other side that you could say is ostensibly

00:16:01.260 centrist. It's NDP. Alberta is supposed to be the bastion of conservatism. What happened?

00:16:06.900 Well, the main thing that's happened over the long term is the collapse of the liberals and the

00:16:13.540 migration of their support to the NDP. The perception of Alberta as an overwhelmingly

00:16:21.460 conservative province was always a bit misleading. It was based on the vote splitting on the left.

00:16:29.860 If you went back and looked at the voting results for all the years that the conservatives were in

00:16:34.740 power, it was only a couple of times that they got more than 50% of the vote. Usually their vote was

00:16:42.000 strong, but not actually a majority. There was always a lot of voters that were looking for an

00:16:48.100 alternative to the conservatives. Well, now they have one. And so our politics now looks pretty much

00:16:53.120 like that of the other Western provinces in which you have on one side a conservative party with,

00:16:59.480 you know, in each province, it's a different name and a different, different history. And then on the

00:17:04.720 left, you have the NDP. And so we're very, our politics now is very much like that of British

00:17:11.420 Columbia or Saskatchewan or Manitoba. And so, as I say, the perception that Alberta was different

00:17:19.140 was a bit misleading. It was based on the, on the split between the liberals and the NDP,

00:17:24.700 which has disappeared. Okay. So what can be done about it? I mean, we see the UCP, for example,

00:17:32.360 though, is definitely trying to recapture, I guess, some of that center right or softer conservative

00:17:38.160 vote. I mean, it's a very high spending campaign they're going on so far. And they're certainly

00:17:43.120 backing away quite often or trying to avoid what would be considered old meat and potatoes,

00:17:47.700 conservative issues. Do you think they're going to be able to pull that vote back to them by the time

00:17:52.660 the election day comes? Well, they have to try. I mean, here's a situation for the UCP.

00:17:59.800 Four years ago, under Jason Kenney, they did win an overwhelming victory, and they did get more than

00:18:04.420 a majority of popular votes. But then they had the internal splits within the party, Jason resigned,

00:18:11.700 and new leader, Danielle Smith, who's got into power, mainly on the strength of the, you might call

00:18:20.560 the further right elements of the party, sort of a populist rural version of conservatism. These were

00:18:27.240 her main supporters. So now to hope to win the election, they have to soften that image and perceive

00:18:36.220 more to, well, what in political science we call the median voter people who are kind of in the center

00:18:43.380 of the distribution. There simply is not enough support for the populist right, even in Alberta,

00:18:51.920 to win the election. They could win control of the UCP, but to win a general election,

00:19:00.940 they're going to have to appeal more to the median voters. So that's what Danielle has been 0.99

00:19:04.700 attempting to do. She has downplayed some of the edgier positions that she took, 0.98

00:19:11.200 like her Sovereignty Act, was watered down. And she's opening up the purse strings, 1.00

00:19:17.640 funding a new arena in Calgary, promises for improvement of the healthcare system. All the

00:19:25.040 stuff costs money. And it's designed to appeal to the median voter who could be swayed to vote in

00:19:32.440 either direction. They're not firm supporters of the UCP, so they have to have inducements. So anyway,

00:19:38.500 that's the strategy behind what she's doing. And it's a tried and true strategy of campaigning in 1.00

00:19:44.940 Canada as in other countries. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But what she's

00:19:51.480 doing is pretty standard. Yeah. So I mean, I guess some of the element of fear of the unknown with the

00:19:59.340 NDP is gone as well. I mean, Alberta had never had an NDP government. It was always assumed it would

00:20:03.480 be far, far left if they ever got their hands on things. And I believe, you know, they certainly

00:20:07.760 were a left-wing party when they were governing for four years, but they weren't as extreme as

00:20:13.020 some might have feared they'd be. So it's not, people won't feel it's the end of the world if

00:20:17.400 they got in again. So that's where they become, I guess, more into consideration for a common voter

00:20:21.380 than they used to be 10 years ago when they were kind of a mystery.

00:20:24.040 Yeah. Well, you know, elections are largely determined by fear and loathing, as great journalists

00:20:33.520 put it. I think the UCP should actually be doing more to stoke that. I think their best line of

00:20:42.940 attack against Rachel Notley would be, and they are doing this to some extent, and I think they

00:20:47.840 probably need to do more of it, to highlight her association with Justin Trudeau. And you could

00:20:55.900 even throw in the leader of the federal NDP for, you know, for keeps, for a bonus, you know, put the

00:21:03.820 picture of the three of them together, maybe have to manufacture the picture, and say, are these the

00:21:09.340 people you want running Alberta? Because Trudeau is very unpopular here, and the federal Tories have

00:21:16.180 no trouble sweeping the province. So, you know, you want, I would say you want to associate

00:21:22.540 Rachel Notley in the popular mind with Justin Trudeau, and point to episodes in the past where

00:21:29.320 the two of them were on the same page. For the, for their part, what the NDP is doing, I think this

00:21:36.980 is a very effective attack ad. I've seen it now on big posters, and it's actually quite unusual in

00:21:42.500 Alberta to have a big street poster with an attack ad on it. It's a picture of Danielle, and it just 0.98

00:21:48.720 says, what will she do next? And that plays to her history of, a very colorful political history of

00:21:55.680 having been in different situations at different times, Calgary School Board, Wild Rose Party,

00:22:02.540 attempt to merge. And then as a media commentator, yeah, what will she do next? As a media commentator, 0.99

00:22:09.500 of course, she said all kinds of controversial things. You'd understand that, Corey. You're a media

00:22:14.800 commentator. You're trying to provoke debate, but you're not running for office. Well, it's hard to

00:22:20.760 move from what she has done as a media commentator to running for office, because now you have all

00:22:24.800 this stuff that you said, and it's all online. So anyway, the NDP is, is their fear and loathing is

00:22:33.360 with this line of attack. So that's part of the election. Negative advertising is an essential part

00:22:41.140 of campaigns. Some people say they don't like it, but it's an essential way of bringing out facts.

00:22:49.160 Well, yeah, I mean, people complain about it, but there's, I mean, if any area of marketing has

00:22:53.880 been more studied and checked and tested before its political campaigns, the reason it's done is

00:22:58.840 because it works and, and whether you like it or not, you can't pretend to play a high road and stay

00:23:03.820 out of it, or you'll get the floor mopped with you from the other team. It's, it's an unfortunate

00:23:07.420 trend, but it's a reality in politics today. Yeah. I, you know, I've managed campaigns for different

00:23:13.860 leaders and, uh, different leaders when they were new in the job and without exception, leaders when

00:23:20.380 they're new say, well, no, I'm going to take the high road, no negative advertising. Uh, well,

00:23:25.560 they paid a price for it. Um, particularly I remember in 2004, the conservatives got creamed

00:23:31.920 by the liberals with a barrage of negative ads. Well, in 2006, we were ready for them and we had

00:23:37.400 our own barrage of negative ads. You have to balance the, balance the ledger. So I think Danielle has 0.99

00:23:43.680 learned that less, should have learned that lesson from the past. Um, so we'll see if she's, 0.96

00:23:50.000 if she's ready to respond in kind to what the NDP are, are attempting to do to her. Uh, so that's a

00:23:57.460 big feat. It's an interesting campaign, both, both women, uh, which is, nobody even comments on that 0.99

00:24:03.420 anymore. It's become so accepted that women have leading roles in politics. Um, but I think they're 1.00

00:24:11.420 going to have to use these and they are already starting to use these older techniques of campaigning.

00:24:17.340 Well, and you know, you mentioned that it's both women and one of the things that sort of went 1.00

00:24:21.560 really poorly for, for, uh, uh, premier Prentice during the, his election, when he lost to the NDP

00:24:26.540 was during the debates. And it, it really was an impression of bullying. You know, it was the

00:24:31.220 taller man standing up, talking down to, to, uh, a more, you know, a shorter woman. And that imagery

00:24:37.720 really soured a lot of people. Uh, premier Smith, isn't going to be accused of misogyny or bullying

00:24:44.420 if she jumps into the mix on the, the more negative front, uh, like a male leader would 0.98

00:24:49.720 in a sense. Yeah, that's a good point, Corey. Yeah. She, she doesn't have to worry about that.

00:24:54.620 Uh, so I say, let, you know, let them go at it. I think it's important. Uh, it is very close. Uh,

00:25:02.100 the biggest advantage that the UCP has is the fact that, um, they get more bang for the buck for their

00:25:08.880 votes, uh, in that, uh, the rural ridings in Alberta have smaller populations. So they, or in

00:25:15.540 other words, they elect a few more members than they would if, if the constituency boundaries were

00:25:21.960 strictly proportional. So that's the advantage that the UCP has, whether it's enough to carry

00:25:27.200 them over the finish line. I don't know. They will probably lose. They'll be lucky to elect, uh,

00:25:33.660 two or three or four members in Edmonton. Um, they'll sweep the countryside except for

00:25:39.320 urban pockets like Lethbridge. Um, Calgary is, uh, you know, contested and both parties will win

00:25:47.900 seats in Calgary, I think, but, uh, just a case of, do you get quite enough to get you over that

00:25:53.780 50% plus one number of seats? Uh, every seat counts, you know, I mean, so this battle has to

00:26:00.640 be waged everywhere. Even if the UCP isn't strong in Edmonton, the two or three seats they, they could

00:26:06.700 win there might be the margin of victory. Uh, so both parties have to contest everywhere.

00:26:12.320 Well, absolutely. And I mean, you get the donut around Edmonton, which are, are, there's actually

00:26:16.500 some strong UCP support there, but it's swing. And if you neglect Edmonton too much, I imagine that

00:26:21.600 could hang over and you could lose some of those marginal seats on the edge. Absolutely. Yeah.

00:26:24.940 Even if interior Edmonton looks like a lost cause. So, I mean, a lot of it's laying on trust and

00:26:31.200 they're really bringing that to a head with premier Smith, the NDP against her and saying,

00:26:36.120 you can't trust her. You don't know what she's going to do. I mean, Daniel Smith has always been

00:26:39.860 prone to impulsiveness. She is a more of an idea idealist than a, you know, uh, uh, a pragmatist.

00:26:46.340 I think when it comes to a lot of things, I think she's learning about that quickly now,

00:26:49.380 but as you said on my show, if I were to run and Oh, I know better. That's not going to happen.

00:26:54.880 Uh, of course the opponents are going to dig out all sorts of quotes and things, and they'll pull

00:26:58.760 them out and let them out slowly all the way through the campaign. We know that's going to

00:27:01.980 happen. It continued to happen with premier Smith. Is there any way though she can head that off or

00:27:06.460 is she going to keep suffering this death of a thousand cuts every day? Uh, the best defense is a 1.00

00:27:11.740 strong offense. Uh, if you're playing defense, you've already lost. So that's why I say that the,

00:27:18.300 the UCP has to, should have its own strong negative campaign against Rachel Notley. Uh,

00:27:24.280 don't bother trying to explain away things that Danielle may have said in the past. I mean,

00:27:29.900 she's already dealt with that, for example, on, uh, healthcare. She said there won't be any fee

00:27:35.880 for service healthcare. Um, there's other ways you can point things that she has done. That's enough.

00:27:43.920 Now you go on the attack and, uh, you know, make it all about Rachel Notley's ties to the federal

00:27:50.740 politicians who want to destroy Alberta's economy. Um, that's the best defense. 0.91

00:27:56.320 So, uh, one other thing before I finish up with you is something's kind of different around this

00:28:00.740 time. I mean, there's always been some hotspots, but the rift between a kind of both parties and

00:28:05.140 the media in this election and trying to control their messaging going out in the case of Rachel

00:28:09.880 Notley, there's just certain outlets, including ours, that she just won't even talk to 1.00

00:28:12.840 whatsoever when they won't even send us press releases. Uh, and, uh, premier Smith is won't

00:28:17.820 take follow-up questions at conferences and is trying at least to reduce the amount of messaging

00:28:23.820 going out when she goes into those. Uh, I mean, normally politicians are beating your door down 1.00

00:28:27.980 at election time to try and talk to the media as much as possible right now. They seem to be kind

00:28:31.980 of almost trying to avoid it. Yeah, this is again, unfortunate, but I guess an inevitable trend of

00:28:37.380 the polarization of media, uh, you know, at one time there were fewer media outlets and they

00:28:43.240 had some pretense of objectivity and neutrality in politics today. That pretense is largely gone and,

00:28:51.800 uh, all the media are identified with one side or another and politicians inevitably then, uh,

00:28:58.360 take side. This is not a new development. Uh, for example, when I was working for Stephen Harper,

00:29:03.500 uh, he made strong attempts to, to speak to, uh, local community newspapers, uh, in preference for

00:29:12.260 wasting his time with the Toronto star, for example, uh, Joe Biden, you know, uh, he's very selective and

00:29:20.260 in the questions that he will take. Um, it's, it's just a fact of life. So, uh, we have to get used to that.

00:29:29.400 And, uh, you know, I know it'd be frustrating for an outlet like Western standard if the NDP won't talk

00:29:35.840 to you. Um, so go and talk to the other side and let them speak. Well, and that's what happens. And

00:29:43.020 I mean, certainly we were, we're in an unapologetically conservative editorial slant here, but

00:29:47.480 you know, you're, you're only making us crabbier and we're not going to get any nicer for, for your

00:29:51.480 having shut us out, but, uh, that's no, it is unfortunate. I, you know, it's, it's, it's kind of

00:29:56.600 unhealthy, but that seems to be the way it is. And it's not just here in Alberta, it's the way it is

00:30:01.700 everywhere. So, uh, I guess we just have to live with it. So, you know, you, we used to think there'd

00:30:06.820 be a neutral media that would let both sides speak. Well, both sides are still speaking, but now they're

00:30:11.640 speaking through their own outlets. Um, NDP has press progress and other house organs that they can

00:30:19.220 speak through Western standard as a conservative voice. Um, you know, I guess there's, it's not

00:30:26.640 the ideal, but that's the way it is. Yeah. Well, I guess I hope that some outlets on each side managed

00:30:31.420 to hit the middle of somewhere and inform the voters. That's all we can hope for. All right.

00:30:36.080 Well, that went fast, but there was just a lot to cover. I really appreciate you coming on to talk

00:30:40.300 to us today, Professor Flanagan. Uh, it's going to be an interesting few weeks to see how this develops.

00:30:44.460 I mean, we, we, it's close races in Alberta are actually something that only come about in the

00:30:49.200 last 10 years or so. And, uh, well, because of the, I have to go back to the, the big structural

00:30:54.860 factor that is determining everything else is the collapse of the provincial liberals, migration of

00:31:00.760 their support to the NDP, the emergence of a two-party system in Alberta, a true two-party system in

00:31:06.940 which you have two large parties contesting for, for government. These are all relatively new

00:31:12.400 developments in our history. We never had them from 1905 up until, as you say, the last 10 years.

00:31:18.980 So a lot of our sort of conventional wisdom about politics is outdated. It goes back to an

00:31:24.260 earlier era. Um, but now we have a, a different, uh, uh, configuration, which seems likely to last

00:31:33.420 into the future. I don't see any sign of small parties, uh, reviving liberal, provincial liberals

00:31:39.400 are dead. The Alberta party seems to be dead. The greens never got anywhere in Alberta. The further

00:31:45.380 right parties have been wiped out by the, uh, the further right takeover of the UCP. Then that took

00:31:52.180 the wind out of the sails of the provincial wild rose party. So all these small parties are, are,

00:31:57.440 are non-entities now. So it's just the big two going at it. And it's, it's different for people

00:32:03.080 with memories. That's quite different, uh, than Alberta politics used to be, but I think it's going

00:32:07.400 to be the, the way it will be for the future. Yeah. Well, we'll watch them punch it out for the next

00:32:12.640 few weeks and see what happens. Uh, so thank you again. I hope we can check in with, uh, you again,

00:32:17.820 perhaps before the end of the election or right after it. Okay. Vote early, vote often. Bye-bye.

00:32:22.600 Thank you. Bye. Again, that was, yes, Professor Tom Flanagan, who has, has been very involved in

00:32:28.340 politics in Canada for quite some time. And as is, uh, pointing out some, some very good points.

00:32:33.500 Um, and that, that, that change, you know, that, that true evolution into a two-party system,

00:32:39.000 uh, I, I think it's a bit, it goes in cycles to a degree though, right? Like when we look at

00:32:44.360 Saskatchewan, uh, a new story that came up recently, the Sask United party, uh, I mean, Saskatchewan

00:32:51.180 kind of went to a point where they had a few things going on. They used to have progressive

00:32:54.240 conservatives and Grant Devine sort of blew that up. Uh, if you remember that old term

00:32:59.080 for it, what to, to err is human, but to truly F up is divine. And he really did do it. He

00:33:04.020 basically annihilated the progressive conservatives in Saskatchewan. It led to a long period of time

00:33:08.820 with the NDP in power of Romano. And, uh, they sort of, they, they had a liberal party on

00:33:15.520 the scene as well and things. And the liberal party in Saskatchewan sort of seems to have gone

00:33:19.800 to the wayside and it turned into a bit of a two-party system, but now you've got this

00:33:24.100 Sask United party coming from the right. And is this going to be a repeat of Alberta though?

00:33:28.300 Is, is there going to be a risk of Saskatchewan putting a, uh, NDP government back in power

00:33:34.060 because the right splitting. And I, you know, when you think of it in Alberta, yeah, we had the,

00:33:37.920 the NDP and the liberal splitting things on the left. Now look at the federal scene. That gets a

00:33:43.280 little more concerning altogether because we still do have a number of parties up there.

00:33:46.640 But as far as the house goes, they're only splitting things on the left. You've got the

00:33:51.020 NDP and the liberals. And yes, they've, they've formed an agreement, you know, not a formal

00:33:54.480 coalition, but something of a coalition and they're maintaining power based on that.

00:33:59.340 But, uh, how do you break that? I mean, that means if the NDP and the liberals are one of the

00:34:04.360 two collapses, or if the two ever formally merged, they would become even more powerful and intractable.

00:34:09.820 Like in a two-party system, if it really was just conservative, just liberal in Ottawa,

00:34:16.000 I think we'd have liberal governments forever. Perish the thought. As part of why I do think,

00:34:22.160 you know, I, I look along the lines of, uh, uh, sovereignty and independence and provincial

00:34:27.220 autonomy. So we can, uh, adapt to those regional differences because changing things within the

00:34:32.100 current system is, is going to be exceedingly difficult, but we'll see what happens. And this is,

00:34:37.740 uh, some of the things, I mean, with, with Canada's regional imbalance, let's talk politics,

00:34:42.780 let's stick with it. So there's a language bill the government just changed. This is concerning.

00:34:46.620 These are the other things we're not hearing about. Nothing's changing. This is one of the areas

00:34:50.300 where Pierre Polyev tends to be silent, uh, again, because you have to cater to the central Canadian

00:34:56.820 voter. So this bill is going to give equality of status and use of English and French in Canadian

00:35:03.180 society on a laudable goal, of course. But, uh, this, what this will do is expand bilingual

00:35:10.140 requirements into the private sector. Now this is federally regulated industries in the private

00:35:16.700 sector, but that's a lot of them into provincial trucking. Uh, a lot of it's in transport, you know,

00:35:22.300 airlines, uh, things such as that. These are private companies, but because they come under strong

00:35:29.100 federal regulations, suddenly they're going to say, you need to have a degree of bilingual, uh,

00:35:35.100 ability and provision, even if you have no need for it. See, that's the thing. There's no need.

00:35:40.540 Let's quit pretending Canada is bilingual. We are not, we've never been. Quebec is pretty bilingual.

00:35:48.300 Parts of New Brunswick are pretty bilingual when we're talking French English. Aside from that,

00:35:52.780 the country's English guys. We've got a lot of areas with a lot of people speaking English as a

00:35:57.340 second language, but usually the first language isn't French. And I mean, Alberta, I don't know

00:36:01.900 where French lands, uh, as far as first languages go. And I mean, in Northern Alberta, there's some

00:36:07.980 areas, you know, with, with a strong French population and every province has some of that

00:36:11.260 going on, but Hindi is more spoken than French. Uh, Cantonese is more spoken than French. Yet here we

00:36:18.380 have this government that's going to force a degree of, uh, bilingual requirements into the private

00:36:26.060 sector. Think of the advantage economically that gives to Quebec that as if they haven't already

00:36:31.900 had enough legislated advantage in Canada, as if they hadn't already dominated the senior positions

00:36:39.100 in the public sector. Now we're going to be forced to have a degree of them in the private sector.

00:36:46.060 And people say, well, English people could just learn French. Yeah, they could, but you know,

00:36:49.340 realistically, again, getting around to who's really bilingual or not go to Quebec. Most of the

00:36:54.060 population of Quebec can speak a degree of English, even though they'll often pretend not to

00:36:59.420 go anywhere outside of there in parts of New Brunswick and people don't speak French. So yes,

00:37:04.300 there's a distinct advantage being given over to them. Yet again, our system is so imbalanced

00:37:09.980 and in nuanced ways. See, these are ways that people don't think about with that, but it gives them

00:37:14.940 a heck of an advantage. Uh, getting back to, this is something else too, uh, the CRTC. Yeah,

00:37:22.380 they said they're going to define newsroom ethics. This is concerning under a cabinet bill

00:37:27.500 on internet revenue sharing. This is a executive director of broadcast policies. So he's met with

00:37:34.060 newspapers and, uh, puts the onus on them to, uh, define newsroom ethics. I don't trust this

00:37:41.340 government to define newsroom ethics. Governments need to stay the heck out of newsrooms period, 0.98

00:37:46.300 particularly the bloody CBC. Speaking of the CBC, the state broadcaster, they hate it when I use that

00:37:54.140 term for it, but I mean, as they become so increasingly a true liberal trumpet, you can't

00:37:59.980 deny they're a state broadcaster. They do what they're told. Come on. I mean, again, Rosie Barton,

00:38:05.980 I mean, you can almost see her quiver a little when she mentions Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's name.

00:38:12.300 And that's the head of the political news desk up there in Toronto for the CBC. And speaking of that,

00:38:19.260 getting back to our, our minister of lies, Mendicino, he talked about that. And he said,

00:38:23.500 the CBC is a pillar of democracy. That's interesting. Mendicino, again, the minister who specializes in

00:38:31.020 baloney, the minister who is the king of BS and lies has said the CBC is a pillar of democracy.

00:38:38.620 How is it a pillar of democracy? When every Canadian is forced to kick money into it, forced,

00:38:42.940 you have no choice. See, I don't care. I don't care if there's a million outlets in Canada,

00:38:48.060 individual ones, and I don't care how far one way left or right they might have a leaning.

00:38:53.580 Doesn't matter to me. Just don't make me pay for it. I'll choose whether or not I want to view it.

00:38:57.900 But with the CBC, I've got no choice. I have to pay for that. Every Canadian has to pay for it,

00:39:02.620 whether you'll watch it or you don't watch it. And come on, they have, they barely made anything

00:39:05.820 decent since the kids in the hall and the beachcombers. But he says they're a pillar of

00:39:10.380 democracy. How is it democracy when you don't have a choice? That's liberal logic. And that's the sort

00:39:15.020 of thing again with Mendicino, who again is incapable of telling the truth with anything. So let's talk

00:39:19.900 about newsroom ethics. Because the CBC, this pillar of democracy, in the last year had to publish 36

00:39:30.460 corrections. 36 corrections. 36 times they put out articles that were wrong or untrue and they had

00:39:39.500 to go back and correct their own record. 1.4 billion tax dollars a year plus hundreds of millions of

00:39:48.300 dollars stolen from the private market with advertising revenue. And they still can't check

00:39:54.460 their own news items well enough to avoid having 36 corrections a year on it. Comrade Jake, one of

00:40:01.100 our commenters saying, make CBC user pay. Yeah, I'm all with it. I have a national one. Let them raise

00:40:06.300 their money through subscriptions or let them raise it through fundraising. Hold telethons. I don't care.

00:40:11.420 Just don't make me pay for it. We don't need it. We don't need it. What is the need anymore for a

00:40:17.500 state broadcaster? I mean, they were formed in the days when you had to get to some isolated parts of

00:40:22.380 the country for communications with radio stations or television. Now, thanks to Elon Musk, you can get

00:40:29.020 internet access anywhere on the planet with Starlink and just with other satellite dishes. If you're

00:40:36.060 just looking for television, you can get that anywhere in a relatively affordable way. When I was working

00:40:40.460 up in Anuvik and Tuktuk 15 years ago, every house up there already had satellite dishes on their roof. They

00:40:46.540 had full access to broadcast and television and they had cell coverage. They didn't need the

00:40:52.220 CBC. But we still have it. So why is the government so dedicated to hanging on to this dinosaur, this

00:40:59.100 expensive piece of media, this obsolete piece of media that we don't need any longer? Well, it's because

00:41:04.620 that's the piece of media that never questions them. Remember, again, I'm talking about we've got a massive,

00:41:09.980 massive Chinese election interference scandal. We've got Chinese Communist Party operatives threatening our

00:41:16.860 members of parliament. And you know what you hear out of the CBC? Crickets. Dead silence. It's an

00:41:22.300 embarrassment. And it's an expensive embarrassment. But I mean, hey, if the Liberal government doesn't

00:41:27.740 have the CBC running cover for them, then maybe private markets will get in there and start asking

00:41:31.820 questions they don't want to answer. Thus, you can see why their love affair for the CBC continues.

00:41:40.060 And it's maddening. Yeah, I'm going to talk about another one now, you know, an issue. I just got

00:41:44.220 to get into this one. I know this, this gets the commenters going with me and they don't always agree,

00:41:47.660 but I still see this is where you get polarized politics. And I don't like how it gets played

00:41:52.620 sometimes. So Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and I like DeSantis, don't get me wrong here. But he signed

00:41:57.900 a bill into law on Tuesday that would allow the death penalty. And I like the terminology in this one

00:42:02.300 for cases of child rape. I'm tired of people, you know, talking about sexual interference and

00:42:07.900 talking in circles or things like that. Or even the most vulgar and disgusting of people you see 0.86

00:42:12.300 out there were some activists calling them minor attracted people. No, they're child rapists, 0.99

00:42:17.340 they're pederasts, they're pedophiles. Don't sugarcoat who those people are. I have no use for them. 1.00

00:42:24.780 But I also have no use for capital punishment. That's where we depart. That's where we have a

00:42:31.420 problem. And that's where I don't like it when people start playing the black and white in politics. 0.58

00:42:35.340 Will you oppose capital punishment for child rapists? Does that mean you support child

00:42:38.940 rapists? No, not for a second, not even slightly. I just don't trust the government to have the power

00:42:45.820 to kill citizens. That's the problem. This is a government that's completely incompetent. This

00:42:50.940 is a government that is corrupted. This is a government that locked us down for a virus. They

00:42:56.940 seized our bank accounts. They raided churches. They shut down restaurants. Do you really want them

00:43:03.340 to have the ability to kill citizens? And people say, Oh, we'll only use it in cases where it's 100%

00:43:09.900 known for sure. We never know 100% guys, anything can be faked. There was a piece I saw a while back

00:43:16.540 on a laboratory, I believe it was up in the New England area, but it turned out it was underfunded.

00:43:21.180 And terribly it was a forensic laboratory. And it turns out the person running it was it was just a

00:43:26.620 basket case. And they had all sorts of screw ups with genetic samplings and DNA things that people 0.61

00:43:33.820 went to jail based on the wrong outcomes of that lab because people are saying with DNA, we know for

00:43:38.860 sure that this person killed that person or this person raped that person. No, we don't actually.

00:43:43.100 No, we don't. I believe in life sentences. I'd like to see child rapists put on a bus, put to a prison

00:43:50.140 somewhere deep in the territories up there where the door will be welded shut, and they will die up 0.98

00:43:55.500 there of a ripe old age. I'm perfectly fine with that. But I do not want to see the government having

00:44:01.900 the ability to irreversibly do something such as execute somebody. It's just too, too much to entrust

00:44:10.700 a government that can't even get its own payroll system right. And again, in Florida, they're talking

00:44:15.740 about, you know, the death penalty for people who do this on children under 12. Remember, there have

00:44:19.980 been people falsely convicted of those sorts of things. There have been cases where people falsely

00:44:24.700 accuse people of those awful, awful crimes, and it's not found out until later. And at least it's still

00:44:30.860 better that you can somewhat rectify it later than if what are you going to do? Chisel something new on

00:44:37.180 the gravestone? Oh, sorry about that. We got new evidence. I guess you weren't guilty about that.

00:44:41.740 We've given your descendants some money and a lawsuit on it. We'll try and do better next time.

00:44:48.700 Either way, sometimes, you know, there's complicated problems. Capital punishment is kind of a simple

00:44:54.220 solution to it. And the point of justice systems should be prevention, sometimes reform. You can't

00:44:59.580 reform those child molesters. I agree with that. Keep them in for good. But we should never set it up for

00:45:03.900 vengeance, no matter how hard we feel it may be appropriate or how little we think of those people

00:45:09.420 being convicted under it, who often, again, I'm not talking about nice people, but don't jump out

00:45:14.700 and say, oh, he must feel soft on child molesters. Of course not. It's just that sometimes the cure is

00:45:21.980 worse than the disease. All right, let's check in. We haven't talked to him in a while with Jim

00:45:27.260 Bousicum from Marketplace Commodities. We're going to pivot a little something a little less intense

00:45:32.460 than the justice issue south of the border, but very important in that that's our agriculture

00:45:37.180 commodities. Hey, Jim, how are you doing? Hey, great, Corey. How are you today?

00:45:40.700 Very good. Very good. It's been crazy times with the election, but overall pretty good.

00:45:45.740 Good, good, good. All right. So yeah, we've got a lot to cover. It's been a while and it sounds

00:45:49.900 like there's some big international issues kind of affecting markets right now.

00:45:53.820 Yeah, we'll start there. The biggest issue is geopolitics. Russia and Ukraine continues to,

00:46:00.860 wouldn't hardly call it trudging along, but it's a serious issue. So to your listeners, I thought I'd just

00:46:06.460 run through that real quick. Six percent of the world exports of wheat come from Ukraine. 25 percent

00:46:13.500 come from Russia. So the UN is brokering a grain corridor out of Ukraine, which is important.

00:46:21.820 But more importantly, if the war moves from Ukraine soil to perhaps Russian soil, as we've seen last

00:46:29.260 night, there was a drone attack on Russian soil, it would have a larger impact on the grain markets.

00:46:36.460 Right now, Russia continues to ship. They ship to really most countries around the world, whether we

00:46:42.460 like it or not. There are big sellers into Southeast Asia, into China, and Canadian grain has to compete

00:46:50.700 with that. So we'll have to see how some of those things develop, but I'd say it's important that we

00:47:00.380 keep our eye on that for sure. And then outside markets, you'd said some other stuff on that.

00:47:06.700 I mean, these things impact, of course, the domestic things as well, and they need to be

00:47:09.820 watched as such as the crude oil markets these days.

00:47:12.220 Yeah, you know, it's always important as a producer, as a farmer, to pay attention to more than just what

00:47:23.260 your local commodities are selling at. Because you look at crude oil, it's been in a free fall for

00:47:29.420 a few days. It's actually dropped below $70 a barrel this morning. And actually, another one that I find

00:47:35.500 of interest is sugar. And I'll explain the reason why. Sugar has actually been on the upswing.

00:47:41.900 It's corrected over the last few days, but it's actually quite strong. So we would look at energy

00:47:46.780 markets as sort of your industrial energy and sugar as sort of your food energy. So between the two of

00:47:54.300 them, they will have impact on the crops that you're growing. We tend to think of the food or the crops

00:48:03.020 that we grow on the prairies as typically just food or maybe feedstock that we grow. Well, they're actually

00:48:08.780 energy stock as well. If you look at the ethanol industry, the biofuels industry,

00:48:13.740 a lot of the commodities that you're growing do end up as an energy product somewhere along the line.

00:48:18.940 So keep an eye on those outside markets as well.

00:48:22.780 Well, there's a lot to track and that's where you guys specialize. So where can people find more

00:48:27.740 information about your organization?

00:48:29.340 You've got it listed right there. We're always available. Marketplace commodities,

00:48:34.700 give us a call at the office. We have a team of dedicated traders that are looking to help you

00:48:40.460 market your grain. We are buying and selling grain across Western Canada, across Alberta and Saskatchewan

00:48:46.860 specifically. It's where most of the volume comes and we'd be happy to hear from you.

00:48:51.260 Great. Well, good to check in with you again, Jim, and we'll talk to you again soon.

00:48:55.900 All right. Thanks, Corey. Take care.

00:48:57.660 Great. Thank you.

00:49:00.540 Okay, guys, that kind of runs up our time today. There's so many issues and not enough time.

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Western Standard - May 03, 2023

The Cory Morgan show. Why the sacred cow of Canadian healthcare must be slain

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