Corey rants about the drought, the by-election results, and the growing number of calls for Justin Trudeau to resign as Prime Minister. Also, a new segment on the show features some of Corey's favourite segments.
00:08:09.360They've been biting their tongues for a long time.
00:08:11.960And if only to save their own butts, they've got to speak up.
00:08:14.160They've got to take that clown out of the leadership of their party for their own sake, for their party's sake, and most of all, for Canada's sake.
00:10:52.480But Duke is, as you can see in that picture, he has a very temperamental soul.
00:10:56.220And for the first two hours when we were home, he got excited when we first got there, but then he went into a pout and he wouldn't make eye contact because he's quite ticked off that we dared to leave him behind for three days away from home.
00:11:08.340Well, if I was Duke, I may have bitten you.
00:12:35.480If you remember, farmers all across Europe were rioting and taking to the streets only a short time ago because of the big plans to remove their farmland and stuff like that.
00:12:47.300So it's not a good day to be a farmer in Denmark.
00:12:55.760Shell has decided they are going to go ahead with a multi-billion dollar carbon capture and storage project outside Edmonton.
00:13:02.960So that'll be good for jobs and hopefully cleaning our methane and carbon capture out.
00:13:09.400Well, maybe Denmark could come up with some sort of fart capture project and, you know, intubate their cows and pump those toots underground.
00:13:58.180It's not that we can bring in replacement mechanics because, yeah, you kind of specialized a little bit.
00:14:03.220Yeah, you don't want to take the guy out of Mr. Lube to pop in there and fill the role for a little while.
00:14:07.980So they did issue a strike notice previously, and then they rescinded it because talks were going well.
00:14:13.360Now talks aren't going well, and they put it back in.
00:14:15.780So it could be travel chaos on the weekend.
00:14:19.540We've got a story on or an update on the Liberal gun grab program.
00:14:23.480You'll remember it was brought in with much fanfare by Mr. Trudeau.
00:14:28.180Apparently, he's not doing too well, and we've got all the charts and all the guns collected, and it's quite laughable at the moment.
00:14:35.940Another laughable Trudeau project, the carbon tax.
00:14:39.820Our friend Franco at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation put out some figures today that it's going to take $12 billion out of the economy just this year.
00:15:59.280So, again, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:16:01.400This is what I like to remind everybody, get on there, westernstandard.news.
00:16:05.780The reason we have all these stories, the reporters covering these things, serious stories, important stories, and fart stories, is because you guys have been subscribing.
00:16:14.920It's at $9.99 a month, $100 for a year, you know, just like an old newspaper subscription.
00:18:44.800They're having record overdoses as well.
00:18:47.840But these harm reduction activists, they've turned it into, again, a bizarre and an absurd obsession with them.
00:18:55.960And they actually oppose anybody even trying to put out something different.
00:18:59.900Because I think the best thing we can have is a mix.
00:19:02.080I'm not wholly against safe consumption sites, either.
00:19:04.840The case being made by people for those is that you can't treat an addict if they're dead and they're right.
00:19:10.320So if you can theoretically mitigate harm long enough with an addict that hopefully you get, they reach the point where they're ready for treatment,
00:19:20.020ready to find, you know, to heal themselves if they can, it's great.
00:19:24.700And if they die of an overdose early, well, then you've lost all that chance.
00:19:27.220So if a safe consumption center can help with that, then great.
00:19:40.680But these activists, and that's one of the things I want to talk to Adam about, and I'm going to talk to him about a couple weeks,
00:19:44.140there were secret audio recordings obtained by the National Post of these harm reduction activists organizing a campaign to disrupt people they oppose at a conference.
00:19:55.100I mean, they're all supposedly in the business of trying to help addicts, of trying to help people get better, you know, survive, become functional again.
00:20:04.860Yet they're competing to the point where these activists actually wanted to disrupt.
00:20:09.440They were talking about putting red dye into a water fountain at the hotel they were in.
00:20:24.140If I saw any jurisdiction, and they're backing off from it everywhere with the legalization, the handouts, the enablement, the permissiveness with it.
00:20:32.000If it was successful, if we saw overdoses plummeting, if we saw addiction levels plummeting, if we saw a reduced number of people suffering out in the streets, walking around like zombies, I would be all for it.
00:20:43.620If somehow handing out clean, free drugs to people actually reduced addictions and overdoses, I would 100% support it.
00:20:57.560There was Kevin Dahlgren, he's an American activist, and he got some footage from within the PHS, it's called Community Services Society in Vancouver.
00:21:10.940There's some really beautiful pictures of this facility.
00:21:13.320It was supposed to be basically like a shelter, but where they'll allow drug consumption.
00:21:17.280Because part of the issue with addicts, why they don't go into the shelters, why you see them in the streets, on the trains, behind the dumpsters, is because shelters can't take them when they're wasted.
00:21:27.900Or they won't take them, and they won't let them consume drugs within the shelter.
00:23:50.460And they were speaking on how she, in Calgary, it's important for her to be able to go to a safe consumption place so she can get on through her day.
00:23:58.540She goes in and she was on some sort of pills.
00:24:00.500And she wants to take the pills and then go to work.
00:24:02.660And felt the message they were putting across was that she can maintain her addiction to the opiates she was taking orally.
00:24:11.320And she could just live a perfectly functional, safe, fine life, working and so on.
00:24:16.900Just as long as somebody just kept an eye on her when she took her drugs every day so she doesn't overdose.
00:24:21.560That's really what it was putting across.
00:24:33.020I haven't had a drink in years, but it took a lot of work to get to that point.
00:24:38.420The thing is, when a person's an addict, whether it's alcohol or drugs or gambling or anything, you can function for a while, but it's a decline.
00:25:36.580And once they realize that, that's when they're on the road to recovery.
00:25:39.400So when I see irresponsible crap, like that one showing this young lady going, saying, oh, I just need to be able to safely consume my drugs and I'll be able to go on my life perfectly fine.
00:26:13.160And then you will, you know, get more desperate to find the funds to get the drugs to feed your addiction.
00:26:19.520And, again, just that cycle, that dead-end cycle continues.
00:26:23.440So, either way, I just wanted to fill that in because we'll talk much more at length with Adam Zivo when he comes in.
00:26:31.380And what I like is columnists, some of them, and journalists that are breaking out, speaking against the mobs, you know, having the courage to expose the problem.
00:26:43.080So, we went through a lot of that with the addicts and the homeless when Arthur Green was working for the Western Standard.
00:26:49.040He was fantastic in the sense that he would go around in Edmonton and take pictures to show just how bad it's getting out there.
00:26:59.260You're putting out, you know, almost pornography of these poor people suffering, these people who have hit rock bottom, these people having a terrible time in their lives.
00:27:06.640But how else is the general public going to realize how bad the suffering is with these people?
00:27:35.900And that will get more people on board to saying, well, let's figure out a solution to this.
00:27:40.920Because one of the things that we'll see out of Premier Smith, she was talking about before, was basically compelled treatment, you know, for addicts.
00:27:50.500Being able to take them in and say, that's it.
00:27:52.880We've got to take you in and at least try.
00:28:05.140The best scenario is for an addict to want to finally have reached a point where they want to get better when they fully, really want to get there and move forward.
00:28:35.400You do not want to take away somebody's liberty lightly.
00:28:38.000Never want to take away somebody's liberty lightly.
00:28:40.560It's a very important thing to keep as many checks and balances and controls in that as you possibly can.
00:28:47.460But at some point, and every province has that sort of thing, they'll have a mental health act.
00:28:53.260If the person is going to harm themselves or others, you can intervene and stop it.
00:29:00.540And when an addict is hit that point, when they're shambling along the streets, when they're walking up and down the curbs with that sign, when they are that sick, when they're that in and out of hospitals, when they've had naloxone that many times, come on.
00:29:13.240We've got a pretty solid case that they're going to harm themselves if we've left them alone.
00:29:38.760I am a classical liberal, but I do believe there's a role for a degree of government.
00:29:42.180I do believe it is our social obligation as humans in a civilized world to take care of those who can't take care of themselves.
00:29:52.120That's, I think most people follow along that line.
00:29:54.000That's why universal health care is such a big principle in just about every country.
00:29:57.920We don't want to see a fellow person going bankrupt because of something that was just beyond their control.
00:30:02.560You know, if they've gotten into an accident or if they'd had an ailment or cancer or who knows,
00:30:07.400they don't want to see a person losing their livelihood and everything else because of that.
00:30:10.840So they feel that we should get together, pay.
00:30:12.760So that is at least not a factor in their life.
00:30:15.200Well, likewise, people who are tied up in addiction should take care of them.
00:30:20.540And sometimes that means stepping in as well with mental health.
00:30:23.740That'll be another rant for another time.
00:30:25.580All right, let's move on to some other things.
00:30:26.840Speaking of addictions, here's an addiction.
00:30:29.200We've got a lot of corporations addicted to corporate welfare.
00:30:34.220And, you know, this is something conservatives are as guilty as liberals are.
00:30:36.940They love to buy the support of companies for taking tax dollars and giving them to marginal companies, stealing the tax dollars.
00:30:44.460I am one of those, I guess, libertarian to the point where I kind of keep referring to taxation as theft.
00:30:48.760But either way, taking the tax dollars from successful people, from successful companies, and pouring them into companies that wouldn't survive otherwise.
00:31:03.180But basic economics are lost on a lot of people.
00:31:05.740But auto executives, so this is a story that's came up, where they're saying that $150 billion, $150 billion in the nation of Canada, this small, in subsidies, aren't enough.
00:31:19.780That much, above and beyond everything else for their electric vehicles.
00:31:22.720That's what it's all about, is the electric vehicles isn't enough.
00:31:35.280But this electric vehicle madness, and it's madness.
00:31:39.660Some of the regulations where they're talking about when we're going to have to force, you know, dealers to sell electric vehicles, force manufacturers to only make electric vehicles, yet we don't have the infrastructure for it.
00:32:03.940Remember, that's $50,000 million at battery manufacturing plants for electric vehicles.
00:32:10.300And now, they're talking about possibly banning or putting tariffs or taxing Chinese electric vehicles.
00:32:18.360Because the Chinese are manufacturing them, and they're manufacturing them more inexpensively than we do over here in North America, for a number of reasons.
00:32:25.420I mean, yes, they have virtual slave labor.
00:32:27.940They don't worry about environmental regulations.
00:32:29.980There's a lot of reasons China can get a lot of things done more inexpensively than we can.
00:32:34.860And the quality could be lower, but they want to export, you know, kind of, if you go to a dollar store, everything in there is typically from China.
00:32:43.960In fact, I think Tesla is even getting some of theirs manufactured over there.
00:32:48.340So what Trudeau's worried about now is if China dumps all of their, and it's dumping.
00:32:53.620So if they're selling them here just to pierce into the market at less than the cost of making them or near the cost, it's really going to disrupt the market, but it will allow them to corner it.
00:33:01.020But if the federal government bans that or puts a huge tariff on it, okay, that'll work, kind of.
00:33:07.580But the problem is it puts the cost of every electric vehicle up because, you know, you've taken away the competition.
00:33:15.260And when you take away the competition, the consumer loses.
00:33:20.380Is your goal to get everybody in an electric vehicle or not?
00:33:23.460Because if the goal really is to save the world, if that's the way we're going to stop climate change, apparently,
00:33:28.220if that's the way we're going to end weather events and, you know, all the good stuff that they keep coming up with,
00:33:34.860then you should be welcoming these cheap Chinese electric vehicles into Canada as heavily and as quickly as possible if that's all that matters.
00:33:43.840But instead, you're going to raise the taxes on these so they don't come in.
00:33:48.340And then you're going to take the tax money out of other people, give them to electric vehicle manufacturers here
00:33:52.780that are going to be making subsidized electric vehicles that they're going to sell to you at a higher price
00:33:58.360because the Chinese competitors aren't coming in, which means the development of electric vehicles is going to go even slower.
00:36:15.500I did an interview on a station out by Toronto and Mississauga the other day, a radio interview.
00:36:21.260And these guys are neat because they've slimmed down their station, you know, because radios, it doesn't draw the viewers anymore like it used to, or listeners, I should say.
00:36:29.000You know, it doesn't have the ad revenue that it used to.
00:36:41.800The producer who books me for the show, I can hear his voice, you know, when I'm on break, and he's doing the traffic report later.
00:36:49.060And speaking of the traffic reports, like Calgary, one of the chorus radio stations, the talk radio stations, they got a traffic helicopter.
00:37:09.140With your phone, you can find out where the traffic jams are in short order.
00:37:15.200And if you're listening to the radio, the radio station could have somebody look on their phone with Google Maps and tell you where the traffic jams are.
00:37:20.860You don't need to be spending what must be hundreds of thousands a year on a traffic helicopter.
00:37:25.400But you see these big dinosaur legacy media outlets can't flex.
00:42:31.040I saw another, speaking of the libertarian end of things, this isn't an ongoing thing.
00:42:35.380You know, there's some people, I guess the CBC did a big expose or, you know, investigative report on a guy who's selling black market raw milk in Calgary somewhere.
00:42:46.520And, you know, there's a lot of people really hung up on the raw milk thing.
00:43:35.700The battles going on between Premier Daniel Smith and Justin Trudeau.
00:43:38.800So, excuse me, one of the deals Justin cut, of course, with Jagmeet Singh to try and maintain the government and stay in power and so on, was the dental plan, which has turned into yet another joke.
00:43:50.220I mean, we're talking in every province, the number of dentists actually opting into that dental plan is in the hundreds.
00:43:54.740So, yeah, sure, you get this dental coverage, but you can't find a dentist to actually do the work.
00:43:59.900And Smith has just basically said outright, we're opting out.
00:44:53.220Even if she directly wasn't responsible for it, she's not enduring herself with Calgarians any further with her communications on it.
00:44:59.640Meanwhile, going further with infrastructure, if we're talking about billions of dollars, the Green Line is a Calgary project.
00:45:05.860It was a LRT expansion that just keeps getting smaller and smaller while the price just gets bigger and bigger.
00:45:10.980And they haven't even laid a mile of track yet.
00:45:12.900There's supposed to be a report in June on the progress of that.
00:45:15.720And everybody's been kind of anticipating it's going to be a pretty bad disaster.
00:45:19.180But June's almost over, and I haven't heard that report.
00:45:21.200I think city administration is kind of hiding that disaster right now because they're already up the creek with, you know, sort of screwing up on that vital services, delivering water to Calgarians.
00:45:30.440It's going to be hard to sell Calgarians on spending an extra $5 billion on top of the other $5 billion to try and get this train line to nowhere done when they can't even get clean drinking water or flush the pee down their toilets.
00:45:42.500This city council is just, and I mean, city councils across Canada are a mess.
00:45:47.620But Calgary's getting to be in a special sort of place.
00:45:50.180Jodi Gondek in a recent poll found 7% of people strongly support her now.