Western Standard - The cost of keeping Trudeau in office is too high

00:00:00.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:26.540 This is the last one of June.

00:00:28.380 Summer's approaching, and down here in southern Alberta, boy, what a summer.

00:00:32.500 It's been actually quite cold and wet all spring.

00:00:35.820 The experts, you know, it's always the experts.

00:00:38.300 They tell us to listen to the experts, and they said we're going to be in for a hot, dry spring.

00:00:43.740 The drought's going to continue.

00:00:44.980 The world's going to end.

00:00:45.980 Misery, flames, anarchy in general.

00:00:49.720 Well, at my place south of Calgary, I got a jungle going on back there

00:00:52.340 because I can't keep trimming the bush back fast enough with all this rain-sun combination going on.

00:00:57.760 Hey, let's have some good news for a change.

00:00:59.800 Good news, the weather is good right now.

00:01:01.260 Where is it going to be next week?

00:01:02.320 I don't know, but you know what?

00:01:03.540 Where is it going to be in a month?

00:01:04.840 The experts don't know either. 1.00

00:01:07.580 Kind of shows some of the stupidity of weather policies. 0.99

00:01:10.140 The show's going to be a little bit different today. 0.99

00:01:11.760 I don't have a formal guest on, but you're going to get a whole lot more of me

00:01:16.160 with a lot more of my ranting and raving.

00:01:18.160 We'll check in with Dave at least, and he'll give us some news updates

00:01:21.100 and things that are going on out there, and there is a lot going on and a lot to cover.

00:01:26.560 So I'll start on, you know, what's been really, though, dominating the news across Canada.

00:01:30.760 It was such a nice surprise.

00:01:33.100 You know, I mean, I'm not a big hockey fan, so I kind of watched the Oilers thing.

00:01:37.400 I was, you know, peripherally hoping, I guess, to see a Canadian team get that cup

00:01:40.800 just to break the drought there of things.

00:01:43.540 It didn't happen.

00:01:45.060 Went to bed, and, you know, it looked like I was also, of course,

00:01:47.500 watching the by-election results going on out in Toronto.

00:01:51.120 And when I went to bed, the Liberals were holding a slight lead,

00:01:54.200 though it looked like they were taking a pretty good beating for a safe seat.

00:01:56.240 But when I woke up in the morning, lo and behold, the Conservatives won it.

00:02:01.880 Now, the Liberal Party of Canada, they are in dire straits.

00:02:06.180 I mean, the loss of Toronto St. Paul's in a by-election,

00:02:09.440 it's more than just a setback for the party.

00:02:11.840 It's a catastrophe.

00:02:12.660 I mean, Toronto St. Paul's isn't a bellwether seat that you could look at

00:02:16.900 that might swing either way in the political winds.

00:02:19.520 It was one of the safest Liberal seats in all of Canada.

00:02:23.420 It's been in their possession for more than 30 years, almost 35.

00:02:28.020 So if Liberal MPs weren't already in a panic before with their dropping support numbers,

00:02:33.340 they certainly are now, or they're completely deaf and blind,

00:02:37.040 which is possible with them.

00:02:38.620 I mean, if Toronto St. Paul's can fall to the Conservative Party of Canada,

00:02:41.300 any seat can.

00:02:43.300 No Liberal seat is safe.

00:02:45.020 Justin Trudeau, he's stubbornly clinging to the party leadership anyways, though,

00:02:49.620 despite party support obviously collapsing across Canada and has been doing so for over a year now

00:02:54.540 and continuing to decline.

00:02:56.540 He's vacuously continuing to pretend that sunny ways are still going on.

00:03:01.760 You know, his party's electoral viability is crumbling all around him.

00:03:06.000 I mean, we've had scandal after scandal just pummeling the Liberals,

00:03:09.300 and Trudeau just shrugs them off.

00:03:11.040 He's convinced himself he can overcome this dearth in electoral support and turn things around.

00:03:16.540 Now, while demands from citizens for Trudeau's resignation have been going for a long time

00:03:20.720 and they're increasing in volume,

00:03:22.120 the culture of submissiveness within the Liberal caucus has kept any internal critique muted,

00:03:26.920 with every Liberal MP now fearing for their political lives.

00:03:31.880 Cracks in the united front of the party support for Trudeau are about to break wide open, I think.

00:03:35.840 Party loyalty, it's going to be tossed to the curb as Liberal MPs try to salvage at least their own jobs.

00:03:41.800 Will that be enough, though?

00:03:43.220 Will Trudeau finally succumb to pressure and resign?

00:03:46.540 I mean, it's hard to say.

00:03:47.920 The pressures of Trudeau's position, I mean, they've been clearly getting to him.

00:03:51.300 I mean, he's always been weird, but he's been increasingly bizarre and acting out at events lately.

00:03:56.280 He doesn't appear mentally stable, and he could be delusional enough that he's convinced himself

00:04:00.360 that he can still pull his party out of this ditch.

00:04:03.240 There's certainly signs he has a messiah complex, and, you know, such a disorder can shield a person from reality.

00:04:08.240 Look, the knives are sure to come out.

00:04:10.300 And if Trudeau keeps fighting against the pressures to resign, the Liberals might tear themselves to shreds.

00:04:15.180 And, you know, that appeal, that scenario holds some appeal for us, but you've got to remember it comes at a cost.

00:04:21.300 I mean, some people are saying it's best that Trudeau remains at the helm,

00:04:24.480 because it'll put the Liberals into the electoral doldrums for years, maybe a couple of electoral cycles even.

00:04:30.680 But the problem is the cost of his continued tenure is too high.

00:04:34.040 He's not harmless while he sits in there.

00:04:36.240 So from a partisan perspective, Trudeau, yes, he's Pierre Pollyov's best friend.

00:04:39.960 From a citizen's perspective, though, Trudeau's continued time as Prime Minister is a disaster.

00:04:45.660 With one or two more years in power, remember, he could stretch it out to 2026, according to the Constitution.

00:04:49.840 Trudeau could really grind our economy fully into the ground.

00:04:54.500 Affordability, productivity, and the GDP per capita are already in the toilet, but they can still get worse.

00:05:00.020 Under Trudeau's continued guidance, it will. It surely will.

00:05:03.520 Canada's international reputation, I mean, again, we're turning into a laughingstock,

00:05:07.100 and it's going to continue to slide under Trudeau's incompetent leadership.

00:05:10.580 He needs to be removed, and as soon as possible, for the sake of the nation.

00:05:15.080 Look, the Liberals are already crushed enough. They won't be able to recover for an electoral cycle or two anyway.

00:05:21.420 The party's going to need to rebuild, and it's going to take them time.

00:05:24.280 I mean, there'll be no shortage of applicants for Trudeau's job whenever the heck he does resign.

00:05:28.640 But the most qualified for that role are probably going to stay on the sidelines, actually, for a while.

00:05:32.860 The next Liberal leader is going to be a placeholder who's never going to see beyond being an opposition leader.

00:05:37.440 I mean, remember last time the Liberals burned through three leaders after Chrétien's departure before they managed to win another election?

00:05:43.760 It was Ignatieff, Dionne, and Martin.

00:05:47.260 So not many serious contenders are going to want to finish their political careers as the Kim Campbell of the Liberal Party.

00:05:53.540 The loss of St. Paul's is cause for celebration among common-sense Canadians. 1.00

00:05:57.660 I mean, they were exhausted by the terrible governance under Trudeau.

00:06:00.740 The chances the Liberals survive in the next general election, no matter who's leading them, are slim to none.

00:06:05.820 If Trudeau steps down, some Liberal seats could be salvaged, though, even if the election's lost.

00:06:11.140 The clock is ticking, though.

00:06:12.740 Even if Trudeau resigns today, it'll likely take it until the new year for a new leader to be selected,

00:06:18.560 and that leaves the Liberals with less than a year to try and turn things around before at least the scheduled election date.

00:06:23.940 Until Trudeau steps out of the role of Prime Minister, though, nobody should be breaking out the champagne flutes.

00:06:29.100 He's an unstable and desperate man who's still capable of wreaking havoc on the nation.

00:06:33.200 Listen, Trudeau has to go, and the sooner the better.

00:06:37.600 That's kind of what's got me going today, guys.

00:06:39.420 Like I said, I've seen a lot of online discussion about it.

00:06:41.380 You know, people have been talking about that, saying that, again, you know, we've got to keep him in there.

00:06:46.500 We want to have the joy of seeing him crushed in an election.

00:06:50.240 We want to see him, you know, turn into another Kim Campbell sort of situation.

00:06:54.060 We want to see the Liberals reduced down to two seats.

00:06:56.560 And, again, I know the partisan in me, the person who can't stand the Trudeau Liberals in me wants to see that, too.

00:07:04.180 But we've got to look at the damage if that dingbat stays at the helm of this country that much longer.

00:07:10.780 As I said, internationally, we are a laughingstock.

00:07:13.420 Our country is not trusted.

00:07:14.820 The Trudeau government is hiding traitors amongst their midst.

00:07:18.340 They're taxing us into oblivion, and they're leading this country into the economic toilet.

00:07:23.860 Is it worth garnering an extra 10, 15, 20 conservative seats when there was going to be a majority anyways?

00:07:32.980 You know, just keeping Trudeau in just to knock it down by that much is not worth it.

00:07:37.800 The cost is too high.

00:07:39.240 The thing is, the only ones who can pull him out, though, the only ones, are his fellow Liberals.

00:07:44.820 So what's it going to take?

00:07:46.080 How bad is it going to have to get?

00:07:48.080 I got to think a lot of them, I mean, I know, believe it or not, I will concede,

00:07:52.840 there are some good people in that caucus.

00:07:54.580 There really are.

00:07:55.440 I mean, people, most of them, Liberal, any of them, go into politics with what they feel are the best interests of the country in mind.

00:08:01.760 I know some people don't believe that, but it's true. 1.00

00:08:03.520 Often they morph into something else later on.

00:08:05.980 But there are some good Liberals.

00:08:07.280 There are some principled Liberals.

00:08:09.360 They've been biting their tongues for a long time. 0.85

00:08:11.960 And if only to save their own butts, they've got to speak up. 0.98

00:08:14.160 They'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. 0.97

00:08:25.660 Are they going to do it? 0.95

00:08:27.200 I can only think so.

00:08:29.280 I mean, if I was, I don't have a political membership anymore.

00:08:32.980 It allows me to be more critical and in all directions with things.

00:08:36.000 And if I was, though, still in a party, I spent a lot of time in parties and everything, and my leader was that off the rails,

00:08:42.200 my leader was sending us that far into the toilet, I would be critical of that leader.

00:08:46.920 I'd be looking to move that leader along.

00:08:49.520 I mean, you have to if you want a future for your movement.

00:08:52.980 But these Liberals just seem to be determined to float on the Titanic until it hits the iceberg.

00:09:00.340 We'll see what happens.

00:09:01.140 We'll see what happens.

00:09:31.140 Well, I'll start because normally everybody's got their head down in the phones and whatnot.

00:09:35.160 True enough.

00:09:35.840 So tell me about your weekend exploring the deep and dark, murky world, professional quilting.

00:09:41.820 Oh, boy.

00:09:42.760 Yeah, that was quite something.

00:09:45.320 Yes.

00:09:45.560 Well, you know, as I mentioned before, Jane's business is in the barn quilt teaching with courses and things such as that. 1.00

00:09:52.040 And I got to learn just how huge that it was the Quilt Canada show in Edmonton.

00:09:56.180 And so as a diligent husband, I came along to offer support because Jane had to teach a course and she had a booth set up there.

00:10:03.200 And thousands, I mean, literally thousands of quilt people all converged on this show for three days in Edmonton.

00:10:13.540 Oh, who knew?

00:10:14.680 Yeah.

00:10:15.260 And boy, they spend.

00:10:16.880 I mean, I don't know much about quilting.

00:10:18.980 I don't barely know a thing about quilting.

00:10:20.320 I mean, these multi-thousand dollar sewing machines, things like that.

00:10:23.940 And yes, it was nice and emasculating standing at that booth as the one man among thousands of quilting ladies.

00:10:30.860 It definitely most is a feminine trade. 1.00

00:10:33.840 Yeah, no kidding.

00:10:35.600 But I understand you may have had a good weekend, but there was one member of your household who wasn't happy.

00:10:40.860 Oh, Duke.

00:10:41.520 Yeah.

00:10:42.060 I mean, what did you do to poor Duke?

00:10:43.840 Well, we had the dog sitter, you know.

00:10:46.560 It was Justin Jane's son came and stayed at the house for a few days and he played with the dogs.

00:10:51.580 They had a good time.

00:10:52.480 But Duke is, as you can see in that picture, he has a very temperamental soul.

00:10:56.220 And 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.

00:11:08.340 Well, if I was Duke, I may have bitten you.

00:11:10.320 He's a sensitive dog. 0.87

00:11:11.500 He is.

00:11:12.480 So you mentioned the big bad world of news.

00:11:15.580 And yeah, I think our top story right now is involving a big bad violent dude.

00:11:20.560 There was this machete attack in Lloydminster and now police are looking, a big manhunt for the machete wielding guy.

00:11:30.980 And he shouldn't be too hard to spot, Corey.

00:11:33.480 He's pretty distinctive.

00:11:35.300 He's got, his entire face is tattooed and earrings and studs coming out anywhere.

00:11:41.800 But, you know, handsome looking dude.

00:11:44.740 Never would have suspected he'd be a troublesome sort.

00:11:46.800 No, I'm sure he's been a contributing member of society for many years.

00:11:51.520 But police warn if you see him, you're not to approach and to call 911 right away.

00:11:58.780 We've got some more fallout from the topic of your rant today, Justin Trudeau and his humiliating defeat in Toronto.

00:12:06.560 This comes from our columnist, Paul Forseth, and he'll tell you his thoughts on it.

00:12:12.480 Big news out of Denmark, Corey.

00:12:13.940 Big farting news.

00:12:14.940 I'm always big on farting news.

00:12:16.880 Big on farting news.

00:12:18.040 Yeah, I figured that.

00:12:19.360 For the first time in history, government has put in a tax on farting and farting for cows.

00:12:26.060 It's going to cost some, I think it's 100 euros a year for each head of cow that goes into some sort of methane reduction fund.

00:12:34.340 I mean, who knows?

00:12:35.480 If 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.

00:12:47.300 So it's not a good day to be a farmer in Denmark.

00:12:53.640 Got good news out of Shell, though.

00:12:55.760 Shell has decided they are going to go ahead with a multi-billion dollar carbon capture and storage project outside Edmonton.

00:13:02.960 So that'll be good for jobs and hopefully cleaning our methane and carbon capture out. 0.98

00:13:09.400 Well, maybe Denmark could come up with some sort of fart capture project and, you know, intubate their cows and pump those toots underground. 0.97

00:13:17.980 A plastic bag around every cow's end?

00:13:20.100 Oh, no, you can't use plastics.

00:13:21.660 You can't use plastics, no.

00:13:22.300 You can't use plastics.

00:13:23.380 I don't think paper would work.

00:13:24.600 Why not?

00:13:25.340 I don't know.

00:13:25.700 I'll try it with a bag later.

00:13:27.460 Canada Day weekend.

00:13:28.640 You got plans this weekend?

00:13:29.980 My mother's coming up to visit, actually.

00:13:31.880 More quilting?

00:13:33.880 No, my mother's not much into the quilting.

00:13:36.120 Yeah, that's Jane's turf. 0.99

00:13:37.420 Yeah, if you've got Canada Day plans involving a WestJet flight, you might want to be careful.

00:13:43.120 The mechanics union has issued another 48-hour strike notice coming right at the heart of Canada Day travel weekend.

00:13:52.080 And, you know, these airline unions, they've got them by the short and curlies, right?

00:13:56.200 Because they can't fly without them.

00:13:58.180 It's not that we can bring in replacement mechanics because, yeah, you kind of specialized a little bit.

00:14:03.220 Yeah, you don't want to take the guy out of Mr. Lube to pop in there and fill the role for a little while.

00:14:07.980 So they did issue a strike notice previously, and then they rescinded it because talks were going well.

00:14:13.360 Now talks aren't going well, and they put it back in.

00:14:15.780 So it could be travel chaos on the weekend.

00:14:19.540 We've got a story on or an update on the Liberal gun grab program.

00:14:23.480 You'll remember it was brought in with much fanfare by Mr. Trudeau.

00:14:28.180 Apparently, 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.

00:14:35.940 Another laughable Trudeau project, the carbon tax.

00:14:39.820 Our 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.

00:14:49.940 $12 billion, Corey.

00:14:51.120 And we've got it broken down into how much each family will pay in each province.

00:14:57.660 But, of course, Trudeau says, hey, don't worry about it.

00:14:59.460 It's all covered by the rebate.

00:15:00.760 But, you know, no, not really.

00:15:03.040 So those are the major stuff today.

00:15:06.740 We've got a few things in the hopper for this afternoon to keep us busy, and, you know, we'll keep the readers updated.

00:15:13.940 Right on.

00:15:14.620 Well, I appreciate the updates and, you know, tracking the agricultural flatness of the world.

00:15:20.480 Somebody has to take that task.

00:15:21.680 Well, you live in a rural farmland, right?

00:15:23.800 A rural farm area.

00:15:25.260 So it's an important issue for you.

00:15:27.100 I know that.

00:15:27.640 Yes.

00:15:28.040 Well, with a house full of dogs, I'm very familiar with that dangerous legend.

00:15:31.360 And you've got a bulldog, too, don't you?

00:15:32.980 Yes.

00:15:33.040 Oh, those are the worst.

00:15:34.420 They are specialists.

00:15:35.860 There's no kidding.

00:15:36.560 Yeah.

00:15:36.960 So, yeah, better you than me, Corey.

00:15:38.580 I love dogs, but better you than me with a bulldog.

00:15:40.800 Right on.

00:15:41.260 Okay, Dave, thanks.

00:15:42.220 I'll let you get back to keeping that newsroom in line, and we'll talk again soon.

00:15:47.140 Yeah, we'll be on the pipeline together again tonight.

00:15:49.080 Same seats, exactly, with just Nigel sitting there.

00:15:51.560 Yes, that's his assigned spot.

00:15:53.340 His throne.

00:15:54.400 He'll cause issues if you try to see him.

00:15:55.400 Yeah, I wouldn't switch with him.

00:15:56.520 No, no, no.

00:15:57.060 He's the boss.

00:15:57.800 Right on.

00:15:58.240 Thanks, Dave.

00:15:58.900 Thanks, Corey.

00:15:59.280 So, again, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

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00:16:53.460 So, typically on the show at this time, you know, I would have a guest coming in, and we did have a few technical issues going on.

00:17:00.640 Who we were going to have, and he's going to be back in a couple of weeks, thankfully.

00:17:03.560 He's very patient with us.

00:17:04.460 This is Adam Zeevo.

00:17:05.260 He was a columnist, or is a columnist, with the National Post.

00:17:08.520 He covers a lot of things, and I was really looking forward to talk to him.

00:17:11.620 And I'm still looking forward to talking to him, of course.

00:17:13.840 And one of the areas he's really been digging into is with the Safer Supply.

00:17:20.140 Again, I call them a cult.

00:17:21.400 I call them, you know, a religion almost, because it defies reason how inflamed and crazy these people get.

00:17:29.260 And he's been critical of it out in Vancouver.

00:17:30.900 You know, we're seeing that, the enablement cult.

00:17:32.680 These people who feel that if we can just give enough clean, pure drugs to addicts, that everything will be okay.

00:17:38.400 But, I mean, it's not.

00:17:40.340 It's not.

00:17:40.860 I mean, if we're going to look at outcome-based policy, the outcomes are terrible.

00:17:44.640 Nobody's found the solution.

00:17:45.720 I'll give credit there.

00:17:46.520 I mean, Premier Smith, I like to think, in Alberta, is on the right track.

00:17:50.440 She's pushing for a treatment-based sort of solution.

00:17:52.940 Jason Kenney started that, to give him credit.

00:17:54.760 It's absolutely true.

00:17:56.000 More treatment beds.

00:17:56.920 I really think that's the way to go.

00:17:58.080 It's slow to create them, though.

00:17:59.620 It's slow to get them in fast enough.

00:18:02.080 But hopefully you've got a better chance.

00:18:03.240 But all the same, Alberta's overdose numbers, and that's the main number to watch for this thing.

00:18:07.840 The overdose numbers.

00:18:08.740 The people dying from these addictions.

00:18:10.940 Alberta's breaking records with them.

00:18:12.860 BC is breaking records, too, though.

00:18:15.420 So, in Alberta, we'll see.

00:18:18.480 I like to think part of the reason, again, is that we can't get those beds up fast enough.

00:18:24.660 It's expensive.

00:18:25.700 You need secure facilities.

00:18:26.760 You need professionals.

00:18:27.860 You need medical professionals.

00:18:30.480 Addiction treatment is not a simple thing.

00:18:33.460 But it's your best hope you've got.

00:18:35.020 Whereas the enablement issue, well, handing out free drugs and giving them places to go with them,

00:18:40.580 that can happen fast.

00:18:41.740 And they've been doing that in Vancouver and in BC for years.

00:18:43.680 And what's happening there?

00:18:44.800 They're having record overdoses as well.

00:18:47.840 But these harm reduction activists, they've turned it into, again, a bizarre and an absurd obsession with them.

00:18:55.960 And they actually oppose anybody even trying to put out something different.

00:18:59.900 Because I think the best thing we can have is a mix.

00:19:02.080 I'm not wholly against safe consumption sites, either.

00:19:04.840 The case being made by people for those is that you can't treat an addict if they're dead and they're right.

00:19:10.320 So 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,

00:19:20.020 ready to find, you know, to heal themselves if they can, it's great.

00:19:24.700 And if they die of an overdose early, well, then you've lost all that chance.

00:19:27.220 So if a safe consumption center can help with that, then great.

00:19:31.140 Then let's look at that.

00:19:32.540 But again, it's no panacea.

00:19:34.180 Treatment isn't a panacea either, especially if you've got to wait too long to get into it.

00:19:38.940 It's a multifaceted thing.

00:19:40.680 But 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,

00:19:44.140 there 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.

00:19:55.100 I 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.

00:20:04.860 Yet they're competing to the point where these activists actually wanted to disrupt.

00:20:09.440 They were talking about putting red dye into a water fountain at the hotel they were in. 0.98

00:20:14.800 But what is with you lunatics? 0.98

00:20:17.460 You know, why do you have to make everything such a hill to die on? 0.97

00:20:19.860 What I want to see is outcome-based policy.

00:20:23.180 That's all I want to see.

00:20:24.140 If I saw any jurisdiction, and they're backing off from it everywhere with the legalization, the handouts, the enablement, the permissiveness with it.

00:20:32.000 If 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.

00:20:43.620 If somehow handing out clean, free drugs to people actually reduced addictions and overdoses, I would 100% support it.

00:20:52.880 But it doesn't friggin' work.

00:20:54.280 The evidence is as clear as day.

00:20:55.880 It's not working at all.

00:20:57.560 There 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.

00:21:10.940 There's some really beautiful pictures of this facility.

00:21:13.320 It was supposed to be basically like a shelter, but where they'll allow drug consumption.

00:21:17.280 Because 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.

00:21:27.900 Or they won't take them, and they won't let them consume drugs within the shelter.

00:21:30.780 There's reasons for that.

00:21:31.660 I mean, come on.

00:21:32.360 You've got some people who truly are down on their luck, but they aren't addicts, so whatever their other issues might be.

00:21:37.980 And is it fair to stick them in a shelter with a guy who's on meth and completely out of control in the bed next to them?

00:21:42.100 Of course not.

00:21:43.060 You can't maintain safe order in a shelter when all the addicts are consuming within it.

00:21:48.860 So they made, though, a shelter where the addicts could consume within it.

00:21:52.960 And Dahlgren went and got footage of it later.

00:21:55.820 And it's something.

00:21:57.060 Look him up.

00:21:57.540 Kevin Dahlgren, D-A-H-L-G-R-E-N.

00:22:01.200 He went in and got video footage of this.

00:22:03.760 It looked like something from a movie.

00:22:06.980 It was dystopian.

00:22:08.140 The place was filthy.

00:22:09.380 There were people passed out in little corners and couples, and they were, you know, again, yes, consuming drugs.

00:22:15.520 It looked like what you would envision from an old Victorian London opium den, you know, just a horrible, horrible place.

00:22:22.560 You are not saving lives this way, guys.

00:22:25.740 But, again, they're fighting against any critique.

00:22:28.360 When you turn it into an ideology, when you turn it into a religion, you've lost reason.

00:22:34.200 All I want to see is better outcomes.

00:22:37.520 And nobody has come up with the best solution yet.

00:22:41.760 People talk about Portugal a lot.

00:22:44.000 Portugal, I think, is a neat one.

00:22:46.080 And there's where, again, I think people, for whatever reason, take sides on this whole thing.

00:22:50.820 They look at one side or the other.

00:22:52.260 And when you look at it, Portugal is a hybrid of the approaches for addiction treatment.

00:22:59.500 Yes, they have decriminalized and definitely aren't out.

00:23:03.100 Because you aren't going to do yourself any favors by throwing addicts in jail.

00:23:07.180 It doesn't do any good.

00:23:08.220 They're not criminals. 1.00

00:23:09.220 They're sick. 1.00

00:23:09.740 They're addicts. 0.99

00:23:10.260 But they're also, the other part that some enabalists forget to mention, very treatment-oriented.

00:23:17.280 So they're not going to throw the addicts in jail, but they're going to get them into a secure treatment center as soon as possible.

00:23:23.220 Treatment is the big focus.

00:23:24.760 I mean, they're not just looking to permanently sustain the addiction.

00:23:29.680 They want to get the person off the drugs that, you know, are harming them.

00:23:35.160 And that's the hybrid that seems to be working.

00:23:37.100 And you've got to look at both ends of that.

00:23:40.440 There was still one special I saw on TV.

00:23:42.920 You know, I still torture myself watching those things at night.

00:23:45.620 And they were talking to this woman, a young lady, and she was in her 20s.

00:23:49.160 And they were talking to her mother.

00:23:50.460 And 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.

00:23:58.540 She goes in and she was on some sort of pills.

00:24:00.500 And she wants to take the pills and then go to work. 0.91

00:24:02.660 And felt the message they were putting across was that she can maintain her addiction to the opiates she was taking orally. 0.96

00:24:11.320 And she could just live a perfectly functional, safe, fine life, working and so on.

00:24:16.900 Just as long as somebody just kept an eye on her when she took her drugs every day so she doesn't overdose.

00:24:21.560 That's really what it was putting across. 0.98

00:24:22.780 That's ridiculous. 0.99

00:24:23.900 That's ridiculous. 0.99

00:24:24.580 And it's dangerous to put that out. 0.97

00:24:26.940 You know, there's a term with functional alcoholics.

00:24:29.680 You know, that's what I was for some years.

00:24:31.320 I'm an alcoholic.

00:24:32.140 I'm a recovering alcoholic.

00:24:33.020 I haven't had a drink in years, but it took a lot of work to get to that point.

00:24:38.420 The 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.

00:24:45.160 It's a decline.

00:24:46.200 You need more and more and more of whatever your abuse or substance of choice is.

00:24:53.300 And the rest of your life is going to break down around you.

00:24:56.160 The worst possible delusion you could put into the mind of an addict is that they can sustain the addiction.

00:25:04.460 I mean, socially, physiologically, mentally.

00:25:07.740 No, the addiction will break you down and crush you when you are addicted.

00:25:11.500 I mean, that's why AA, the first step is actually kind of admitting and realizing that you are addicted.

00:25:16.160 You're out of control.

00:25:17.140 You have an illness that needs treatment that needs to be worked on to break yourself free of it.

00:25:23.980 And that first step is so critical.

00:25:27.160 But addicts love to delude themselves.

00:25:30.140 They love to say, no, I'm okay.

00:25:31.460 I'm functional.

00:25:32.160 I can do this.

00:25:32.820 I can maintain this.

00:25:33.560 I can manage this.

00:25:35.040 But they can't.

00:25:36.580 And once they realize that, that's when they're on the road to recovery. 0.97

00:25:39.400 So 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. 0.99

00:25:48.140 No, she's on the road to dying. 1.00

00:25:50.020 That's an opiate addiction she's got. 1.00

00:25:51.880 She's not going to be able to maintain her job much longer.

00:25:53.960 She probably doesn't have it any longer anyways. 0.98

00:25:56.080 Because, of course, the opiates don't just, you're not just feeding it to sustain the addiction.

00:26:00.240 You get stoned.

00:26:01.380 You're not going to be thinking straight.

00:26:02.800 You're not going to be that functional.

00:26:04.820 And, again, it's going to harm your body.

00:26:08.460 It's going to break things down.

00:26:10.600 You're going to need more and more.

00:26:11.500 You will lose the job.

00:26:13.160 And then you will, you know, get more desperate to find the funds to get the drugs to feed your addiction.

00:26:19.520 And, again, just that cycle, that dead-end cycle continues.

00:26:23.440 So, either way, I just wanted to fill that in because we'll talk much more at length with Adam Zivo when he comes in.

00:26:31.380 And 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.

00:26:43.080 So, we went through a lot of that with the addicts and the homeless when Arthur Green was working for the Western Standard.

00:26:49.040 He 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.

00:26:58.040 And people get upset.

00:26:59.260 You'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.

00:27:06.640 But how else is the general public going to realize how bad the suffering is with these people?

00:27:12.120 How else are they going to know?

00:27:13.560 Because there's a lot of people who don't go downtown in their cities.

00:27:16.780 They don't go into the alleys.

00:27:18.640 They don't go into the transit stations to see firsthand just how bad it's getting.

00:27:24.560 They can live in the suburbs.

00:27:25.720 They can do their work.

00:27:26.980 I'm not blaming people for not having exposed themselves to that.

00:27:29.680 If you don't have to, don't do it.

00:27:31.060 But we need other people out there to show this is what's going on, guys.

00:27:34.160 This is how bad it's getting.

00:27:35.900 And that will get more people on board to saying, well, let's figure out a solution to this.

00:27:40.920 Because 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.

00:27:50.500 Being able to take them in and say, that's it.

00:27:52.880 We've got to take you in and at least try.

00:27:56.120 Now, I know.

00:27:56.980 See, people get upset on a number of levels with that.

00:27:59.220 You say, well, for one, the success rate when you're compelling it is pretty low.

00:28:03.800 That's true.

00:28:04.360 That is true.

00:28:05.140 The 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.

00:28:13.260 But you know what?

00:28:14.400 With some of them, the chances, if you leave them out there, of hitting that point and seeking help are pretty much zero.

00:28:22.540 Sometimes you have to intervene.

00:28:24.060 There's the mental health act.

00:28:24.860 I talked about that with issues with my father and having to get him basically held, you know, because he'd had a mental breakdown.

00:28:32.520 And it's a long process.

00:28:33.740 And there's a reason for it.

00:28:34.820 Absolutely.

00:28:35.400 You do not want to take away somebody's liberty lightly.

00:28:38.000 Never want to take away somebody's liberty lightly.

00:28:40.560 It's a very important thing to keep as many checks and balances and controls in that as you possibly can.

00:28:47.460 But at some point, and every province has that sort of thing, they'll have a mental health act.

00:28:53.260 If the person is going to harm themselves or others, you can intervene and stop it.

00:29:00.540 And 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.

00:29:13.240 We've got a pretty solid case that they're going to harm themselves if we've left them alone.

00:29:17.160 So why can't we intervene?

00:29:19.060 It's going to be interesting to see.

00:29:20.740 And people say, well, it steals their dignity.

00:29:22.480 There's no dignity left.

00:29:23.580 When they're shambling down the street, talking to themselves, perhaps lost bowel control.

00:29:28.040 I'm serious.

00:29:28.560 That's how ugly it is.

00:29:29.300 That's how bad it is.

00:29:30.080 What dignity is left?

00:29:31.780 No, we've got to intervene.

00:29:33.380 That's what, you know, I mean, I'm not a full libertarian.

00:29:37.540 Some people get on with that.

00:29:38.760 I am a classical liberal, but I do believe there's a role for a degree of government.

00:29:42.180 I 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.

00:29:52.120 That's, I think most people follow along that line.

00:29:54.000 That's why universal health care is such a big principle in just about every country.

00:29:57.920 We don't want to see a fellow person going bankrupt because of something that was just beyond their control.

00:30:02.560 You know, if they've gotten into an accident or if they'd had an ailment or cancer or who knows,

00:30:07.400 they don't want to see a person losing their livelihood and everything else because of that.

00:30:10.840 So they feel that we should get together, pay.

00:30:12.760 So that is at least not a factor in their life.

00:30:15.200 Well, likewise, people who are tied up in addiction should take care of them.

00:30:20.540 And sometimes that means stepping in as well with mental health.

00:30:23.740 That'll be another rant for another time.

00:30:25.580 All right, let's move on to some other things.

00:30:26.840 Speaking of addictions, here's an addiction.

00:30:29.200 We've got a lot of corporations addicted to corporate welfare. 0.99

00:30:34.220 And, you know, this is something conservatives are as guilty as liberals are.

00:30:36.940 They love to buy the support of companies for taking tax dollars and giving them to marginal companies, stealing the tax dollars.

00:30:44.460 I am one of those, I guess, libertarian to the point where I kind of keep referring to taxation as theft.

00:30:48.760 But either way, taking the tax dollars from successful people, from successful companies, and pouring them into companies that wouldn't survive otherwise.

00:30:56.740 And it rarely works.

00:30:58.100 Rarely works.

00:30:58.820 If these companies were any good, they wouldn't need the subsidy.

00:31:01.280 This is just basic economics.

00:31:03.180 But basic economics are lost on a lot of people.

00:31:05.740 But 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.

00:31:19.780 That much, above and beyond everything else for their electric vehicles.

00:31:22.720 That's what it's all about, is the electric vehicles isn't enough.

00:31:26.420 If it isn't enough, stop it.

00:31:28.200 Stop it.

00:31:28.880 You know, people talk about sunk costs.

00:31:30.560 So, you're throwing good money after bad.

00:31:33.340 If they can't make it, get out.

00:31:35.280 But this electric vehicle madness, and it's madness.

00:31:39.660 Some 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.

00:31:50.460 We don't have the money for it.

00:31:52.340 Yet we're pushing along with this.

00:31:54.280 And now, this is a neat one.

00:31:56.000 This is a neat one where the Trudeau regime has gotten themselves into a corner on this, because they're so fixated on us.

00:32:01.780 You know, he's been tossing $50 billion here, $50 billion there.

00:32:03.940 Remember, that's $50,000 million at battery manufacturing plants for electric vehicles.

00:32:10.300 And now, they're talking about possibly banning or putting tariffs or taxing Chinese electric vehicles.

00:32:18.360 Because 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.

00:32:25.420 I mean, yes, they have virtual slave labor. 0.88

00:32:27.940 They don't worry about environmental regulations.

00:32:29.980 There's a lot of reasons China can get a lot of things done more inexpensively than we can.

00:32:34.860 And 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.

00:32:42.520 They want to bring the EVs here.

00:32:43.960 In fact, I think Tesla is even getting some of theirs manufactured over there.

00:32:48.340 So what Trudeau's worried about now is if China dumps all of their, and it's dumping.

00:32:53.620 So 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.

00:33:01.020 But if the federal government bans that or puts a huge tariff on it, okay, that'll work, kind of.

00:33:07.580 But the problem is it puts the cost of every electric vehicle up because, you know, you've taken away the competition.

00:33:15.260 And when you take away the competition, the consumer loses.

00:33:19.200 So he's in a rock and a hard place.

00:33:20.380 Is your goal to get everybody in an electric vehicle or not?

00:33:23.460 Because if the goal really is to save the world, if that's the way we're going to stop climate change, apparently,

00:33:28.220 if that's the way we're going to end weather events and, you know, all the good stuff that they keep coming up with,

00:33:34.860 then you should be welcoming these cheap Chinese electric vehicles into Canada as heavily and as quickly as possible if that's all that matters.

00:33:43.840 But instead, you're going to raise the taxes on these so they don't come in.

00:33:48.340 And then you're going to take the tax money out of other people, give them to electric vehicle manufacturers here

00:33:52.780 that are going to be making subsidized electric vehicles that they're going to sell to you at a higher price

00:33:58.360 because the Chinese competitors aren't coming in, which means the development of electric vehicles is going to go even slower.

00:34:04.260 It's insane.

00:34:05.460 But again, it kind of gets back to my opening monologue.

00:34:07.900 You know, this government is not competent.

00:34:10.400 They aren't sane.

00:34:11.280 And this whole electric vehicle thing, I mean, Trudeau's been looking for a legacy.

00:34:15.540 That's a little bit, I think, of why he's still hanging in there.

00:34:18.680 He's still standing there.

00:34:19.420 Because if he resigned tomorrow, most prime ministers want to look back and say,

00:34:23.520 this is what I accomplished while I was in.

00:34:26.780 You know, this is what I got done.

00:34:28.660 Excuse me.

00:34:29.460 Mulroney got free trade, you know, and Trudeau Sr. got the charter.

00:34:36.040 But what did Justin get in?

00:34:37.360 What has he managed to do?

00:34:38.940 He legalized pot.

00:34:39.760 Actually, it was a good move, but I don't know if that's the big, groundbreaking, massive policy initiative that one wants to sit on.

00:34:47.040 So he wanted to save the world.

00:34:48.940 He wanted Canada to be the international boy scout.

00:34:51.680 He wanted us to be the ones that were going to be, you know, ending global warming through leading by example.

00:34:56.780 And, of course, it's just turned into a disaster because his government's incompetent and can't do things through reasonable policies.

00:35:02.420 They just do it through throwing our money at them.

00:35:04.580 But the electric vehicles, they've turned that into their panacea.

00:35:07.420 That's their holy grail.

00:35:08.480 If everybody could just get out of combustion engines, somehow the climate would stabilize and everything would be happy.

00:35:14.920 And the little bunnies and the birds would all be hopping and flying around and everything would be great.

00:35:19.020 But it's just not working. 0.97

00:35:20.120 It's all falling apart like everything else that clown does. 0.93

00:35:23.640 The sooner we get out of it, the better. 0.73

00:35:25.640 But right now, the auto manufacturers, it shows.

00:35:27.840 They get their hands out.

00:35:28.680 Their hands out.

00:35:29.100 Give me more.

00:35:29.540 Give me more.

00:35:29.880 Give me more.

00:35:30.420 We need more.

00:35:31.180 It's not working.

00:35:32.180 We've got $150 billion already.

00:35:34.220 Well, we want more.

00:35:34.980 No.

00:35:35.280 You know what?

00:35:35.820 No.

00:35:36.660 Stop it.

00:35:37.500 Stop it.

00:35:38.740 It's good money after bad.

00:35:40.100 Same sort of thing when we're looking at legacy media.

00:35:42.640 I've been kind of beating on them online a little bit with Chorus.

00:35:46.180 If you look at their stock, they own global.

00:35:49.180 And there's some other stuff happened.

00:35:50.880 They used to own a bunch of profitable, I guess, television stations, cable channels, the Home and Garden Network, and a few others.

00:35:56.780 And I guess those all got pieced out.

00:35:58.540 And all they're kind of left with is global news and some radio stations and some other things that are losing money deep in the red.

00:36:06.100 And they might get bailed out yet again.

00:36:08.440 But you see, the problem is with these companies, when they get bailed out, then they don't adapt.

00:36:13.080 They don't reform themselves.

00:36:15.500 I did an interview on a station out by Toronto and Mississauga the other day, a radio interview.

00:36:21.260 And 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.

00:36:29.000 You know, it doesn't have the ad revenue that it used to.

00:36:31.960 So they have to change to stay there.

00:36:33.360 There's still a lot of people will listen to talk format radio, but there's fewer of them.

00:36:37.440 And you have to bring down your costs in order to service that.

00:36:40.900 These guys have done it great.

00:36:41.800 The 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.

00:36:49.060 And speaking of the traffic reports, like Calgary, one of the chorus radio stations, the talk radio stations, they got a traffic helicopter.

00:36:56.840 Well, think about that.

00:36:57.560 How much is that costing?

00:36:59.720 To put a traffic helicopter into the sky with staff every morning and afternoon?

00:37:04.920 Helicopters are expensive.

00:37:06.260 Very, very expensive.

00:37:07.360 And guess what?

00:37:09.140 With your phone, you can find out where the traffic jams are in short order.

00:37:15.200 And 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.

00:37:20.860 You don't need to be spending what must be hundreds of thousands a year on a traffic helicopter.

00:37:25.400 But you see these big dinosaur legacy media outlets can't flex.

00:37:28.580 They can't change.

00:37:29.220 They don't know how to make themselves better.

00:37:30.720 And when they rely on subsidies, they aren't inspired to make themselves better.

00:37:35.560 So if Global gets bailed out, they won't get any better.

00:37:38.440 You're just, you're keeping a zombie on life support.

00:37:41.800 That's all you're doing. 0.63

00:37:42.540 It's going to die eventually.

00:37:43.940 But you're wasting money and time on it.

00:37:46.420 Likewise with these electric vehicles.

00:37:48.080 Maybe the time will come.

00:37:49.340 Maybe it will.

00:37:49.960 Maybe there'll be enough advancements, breakthroughs.

00:37:51.800 I will buy electric if and when it gets good enough to suit me.

00:37:55.540 I just don't want the government telling me when I got to buy it.

00:37:57.960 I got a lawnmower that's getting on its last legs.

00:38:01.180 I've been looking at the electric versions, the ones where you charge, you know, not the

00:38:05.340 old ones with the cable where you used to run over your extension cord all the time with

00:38:08.060 the lawnmower, but the ones where you charge and the batteries are getting fantastic and

00:38:11.860 they're getting cost effective.

00:38:13.420 I'm probably going to move to that when I get my next mower.

00:38:15.940 I'm hoping I'm a cheap guy.

00:38:16.900 I'm hoping I can squeak another year or two out of this gas one I've had for a long, long

00:38:20.100 time.

00:38:20.400 But when it goes, I'm going to go electric.

00:38:22.340 You see, it's because I chose to because the mowers got good enough to make me want to go that

00:38:26.340 route.

00:38:26.620 If a car gets to a point or a truck where it really will hold a charge that long, where

00:38:33.280 the cost is really that appealing for the vehicle itself, where they'll last long enough, where

00:38:39.440 they'll perform well enough.

00:38:41.280 If they're better than combustion engines on all those fronts, I'll probably move.

00:38:45.800 But not until then.

00:38:47.220 I don't want a government gun to my head telling me I have to move to these cars.

00:38:50.280 That's not the way to do it.

00:38:52.360 So give it time.

00:38:54.620 Leave the private market alone.

00:38:55.800 They will come up with better electric technology to make it better. 0.78

00:38:58.380 Right now, what we're doing is subsidizing junk.

00:39:00.340 And you've got to think, when that money is being poured into these plants in Ontario

00:39:04.000 and Quebec, chances are they're going to build technology that will be, when you're getting

00:39:07.440 into stuff like this, it goes obsolete fast.

00:39:09.960 So they'll probably get their plants up and running.

00:39:12.420 And some private plant somewhere else will have already come up with a better technology.

00:39:16.840 And the stuff that is being manufactured in Canada, so mark my words on this one, will be

00:39:21.380 determined to be obsolete and junk.

00:39:22.880 And we'll just put billions of dollars into nothing.

00:39:26.380 Subsidies don't work, guys.

00:39:28.740 Let's see.

00:39:29.340 NDP MP who builds.

00:39:30.900 This is beautiful.

00:39:31.760 Nikki Ashton.

00:39:32.620 She's an MP for the NDP.

00:39:35.300 She billed us $17,000 to go home for Christmas.

00:39:40.040 Isn't that cool?

00:39:41.200 How?

00:39:41.760 What did you blow it on?

00:39:43.000 She lives in northern Manitoba.

00:39:44.460 These MPs get a generous travel allowance.

00:39:46.460 I don't begrudge them that.

00:39:48.680 The ones who, you know, you live in Calgary, you live in Vancouver, you've got to spend

00:39:51.680 a certain degree of time in Ottawa.

00:39:53.000 You got to come back and forth.

00:39:54.080 Yeah, it's fair for them to be paid for housing while they're in Ottawa and for the travel

00:39:58.960 back and forth and some degree of travel to conferences and things.

00:40:01.380 But it gets ridiculous.

00:40:03.400 You're going home for Christmas?

00:40:06.000 $17,000?

00:40:07.280 Come on.

00:40:08.240 Oh, but she's realized she made a mistake.

00:40:09.660 She's paying $2,900 of it back.

00:40:11.640 No, it's fraud. 0.86

00:40:12.560 She should be paying every bloody penny back.

00:40:14.060 If this was in the private market, you'd be charged, you'd be fired, and you'd probably

00:40:18.120 be charged for fraud.

00:40:19.900 And she said the costs were necessary to meet with stakeholders and deal with an urgent bed

00:40:24.640 bug situation.

00:40:25.580 This is how bizarre some of these entitled politicians get.

00:40:28.460 Deal with a bed bug situation?

00:40:30.340 Now, thankfully, I've never had a bed bug outbreak in my home.

00:40:34.240 But if I did, I'd be calling the Orkin man, not my member of parliament. 0.97

00:40:40.140 What the hell is she? 0.64

00:40:40.800 A bed bug situation is what the MP is supposed to be dealing with? 0.95

00:40:44.620 Where do they get this stuff?

00:40:46.480 I mean, you know, and I know.

00:40:47.920 I know it ties into something more.

00:40:49.320 It's a northern Manitoba rioting.

00:40:50.960 It's an indigenous area.

00:40:52.600 There are some very serious social issues.

00:40:54.820 There are some very serious hygienic issues in these socially challenged areas.

00:40:58.720 And bed bugs are gross and nasty.

00:41:01.000 And I guess there's an outbreak in the reserve.

00:41:03.260 It doesn't mean, though, that you can somehow justify your Christmas tab for going home for a visit

00:41:07.820 because your neighbours had bed bugs.

00:41:11.560 But she thinks it covers that.

00:41:14.080 You know, when the time comes that we fire all the Liberals, let's make sure we fire the NDP as well.

00:41:18.300 Let's see. 0.97

00:41:19.460 Firearms.

00:41:20.000 Here's another beauty. 0.90

00:41:20.880 Yeah, as the Western Standard headline said on it, you know, it's shooting blanks.

00:41:26.080 The government policy.

00:41:27.920 The ones that, you know, it's been years, four years since the government banned a whole whack of different types of firearms in Canada.

00:41:35.160 So far, they've brought in 2,123 of these new blacklisted firearms.

00:41:42.660 723 of those were surrendered by owners.

00:41:46.660 So, you know, a third, basically.

00:41:49.540 But the other two-thirds, they were seized because for other police investigations, things they weren't being used legally.

00:41:56.120 The reality then, you see, again, I mentioned that in a past show.

00:41:59.540 Canada is the seventh most armed civilian population on Earth.

00:42:02.440 We have millions and millions of firearms in Canada.

00:42:05.960 And thankfully, we don't actually, on a relative scale, have a lot of firearm-related crimes.

00:42:10.220 We're doing pretty good.

00:42:11.360 We're doing all right.

00:42:12.800 But this attempt by the government to take them is not working.

00:42:15.940 People don't trust the government.

00:42:17.140 They're not giving them firearms.

00:42:19.300 And we're not becoming any safer.

00:42:20.840 But yet again, we're spending a whole, whole lot of money on things that we don't need to.

00:42:27.620 Let's see.

00:42:28.260 Let's look a little further.

00:42:29.820 Yeah, black market dairy.

00:42:31.040 I saw another, speaking of the libertarian end of things, this isn't an ongoing thing.

00:42:35.380 You 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.

00:42:46.520 And, you know, there's a lot of people really hung up on the raw milk thing.

00:42:49.720 Oh, pasteurized bad, pasteurized bad.

00:42:51.840 Whatever.

00:42:52.320 I believe pasteurization is good.

00:42:54.420 I'd rather have pasteurized products.

00:42:56.340 It makes me feel better.

00:42:57.620 I think it's a good development.

00:43:00.620 But I don't think it should be illegal for people to get non-pasteurized stuff.

00:43:04.860 Who cares?

00:43:05.540 I don't care. 1.00

00:43:06.720 Suck it right out of the cow itself, if that's your thing. 1.00

00:43:11.100 Doesn't matter to me. 1.00

00:43:13.060 Just leave it a choice.

00:43:14.180 Just label it.

00:43:14.920 You know, pasteurized, unpasteurized.

00:43:16.460 But this battle, this battle, back alley milk.

00:43:19.060 Come on, guys.

00:43:19.800 It kind of shows, though, when government regulates things, anything can become a smuggled commodity.

00:43:26.060 And unpasteurized milk is one gray market commodity going on in the world.

00:43:33.580 Let's see.

00:43:34.060 Getting back to bad management.

00:43:35.700 The battles going on between Premier Daniel Smith and Justin Trudeau.

00:43:38.800 So, 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.

00:43:50.220 I mean, we're talking in every province, the number of dentists actually opting into that dental plan is in the hundreds.

00:43:54.740 So, yeah, sure, you get this dental coverage, but you can't find a dentist to actually do the work.

00:43:59.900 And Smith has just basically said outright, we're opting out.

00:44:02.720 Alberta's out.

00:44:03.660 We don't want any part of it.

00:44:05.220 And it's provincial jurisdiction.

00:44:06.820 So, there's another battle that's going to come up.

00:44:09.040 It'll be interesting.

00:44:10.480 And, yeah, we don't need Trudeau taking care of our teeth. 0.99

00:44:15.280 He should be trying to take care of his own ass right now. 0.99

00:44:17.880 And he's not doing a very good job of it. 0.99

00:44:20.460 Locally, Calgary, yes, they're still under water restrictions.

00:44:23.480 You're still supposed to let it mellow if it is yellow and if it's brown, flush it down sort of thing.

00:44:29.500 Car washes are shut down.

00:44:30.640 Businesses are harmed.

00:44:32.060 They really think they're going to have it open by the stampede.

00:44:35.080 We'll see what happens.

00:44:36.100 It has led to, though, Jodi Gondek.

00:44:38.860 In emergencies, usually a leader will kind of surf a bit of a wave of support.

00:44:43.140 You know, people rally around.

00:44:44.580 Not in the case of Gondek.

00:44:45.460 She actually lost four points of support since this thing began.

00:44:49.300 It's just a disaster all around.

00:44:51.300 People are sick of her. 1.00

00:44:52.440 They're sick of this mess.

00:44:53.220 Even if she directly wasn't responsible for it, she's not enduring herself with Calgarians any further with her communications on it.

00:44:59.640 Meanwhile, going further with infrastructure, if we're talking about billions of dollars, the Green Line is a Calgary project.

00:45:05.860 It was a LRT expansion that just keeps getting smaller and smaller while the price just gets bigger and bigger.

00:45:10.980 And they haven't even laid a mile of track yet.

00:45:12.900 There's supposed to be a report in June on the progress of that.

00:45:15.720 And everybody's been kind of anticipating it's going to be a pretty bad disaster.

00:45:19.180 But June's almost over, and I haven't heard that report.

00:45:21.200 I 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.

00:45:30.440 It'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.

00:45:42.500 This city council is just, and I mean, city councils across Canada are a mess.

00:45:47.620 But Calgary's getting to be in a special sort of place.

00:45:50.180 Jodi Gondek in a recent poll found 7% of people strongly support her now.

00:45:54.680 7%!

00:45:55.660 That's how bad it is.

00:45:56.980 She might resign before Trudeau does. 0.95

00:45:58.740 We'll see.

00:45:59.440 She doesn't seem to like the job very much.

00:46:02.680 All right.

00:46:03.240 Well, that's enough rambling out of me for this week, guys.

00:46:06.820 Lots to cover.

00:46:07.780 Lots going on.

00:46:08.600 Enjoy this summer.

00:46:09.500 Get out.

00:46:10.140 It's been beautiful out here in the West.

00:46:11.960 I'm sure it is in other areas.

00:46:14.180 Watch the news, but don't let it dominate your life, guys.

00:46:16.640 There's many things to be positive about, even though I'm constantly cranky and negative when I'm on here.

00:46:20.860 That's what I'm all about.

00:46:22.140 So thank you all for tuning in this week, guys.

00:46:24.880 And I will see you all again next week at this time.

00:46:28.160 I will have a guest, and damn it, we'll have our tech issues sorted out, and we'll have a great conversation.

00:46:32.480 So thanks again, and we'll see you next week.

00:46:34.120 We'll see you next week.

00:46:40.000 Thank you.

Western Standard - June 26, 2024

The cost of keeping Trudeau in office is too high

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