Western Standard Opinion Editor Nigel Henniford, Senior Alberta Columnist Corey Morgan and Publisher Derek Fildebrand discuss the latest Governor General scandal, the B.C. port strike, and why Canada's economy is falling fast.
00:00:00.000Good evening, I'm Derek Fildebrand, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching
00:00:16.600The Pipeline. Today is July 19th, 2023. I'm joined, as usual, by Western Standard opinion
00:00:25.200editor Nigel Henniford. You have a good good stampede? Excellent one actually, yes. Back in our
00:00:32.000suits. Back in our suits, yes. Back in a suit. The other stuff is all back to the dry cleaners.
00:00:37.680Yeah, yeah. We'll put it away in the closet for a while. Well, yeah, that's right. Get all the muck
00:00:43.520off the bottoms of the jeans and so on here. Yeah. Out of his cowboy kitsch back into a suit
00:00:50.320is Western Standard Senior Alberta columnist Corey Morgan, who appears to need a haircut
00:00:54.400pretty bad today. Yeah, one thing at a time. I'm due for one. Yeah, procrastination. We could sit
00:00:59.820under a hat there for two weeks, I guess. Yeah, I hid it last week under the cowboy hat, but no
00:01:03.800luck. Were you guys wearing hats on the show last week? I did. Oh, well, good for you guys.
00:01:08.300You don't watch it? I always watch it if I'm not on it. If I'm not on it, it's not even worth
00:01:13.760watching, isn't it? I should have been less restrained if I didn't know he wasn't going to
00:01:17.360What? Joke's on you. Today, we're going to be talking. I don't know what it is about governor generals. You get appointed governor general, and something goes to your brain, and you get the governor general credit card, and you just use it everywhere, and on the most outrageously expensive stuff possible.
00:01:42.680So the latest Governor General Simons is in trouble.
00:01:54.200Her Excellency, the Right Honorable, I think they get that, Her Highnessness.
00:02:01.800Mary Simon spent a hair under $300,000 on an, oh, no, no, it was a trip total, $71,000 on an ice limo in Iceland.0.86
00:02:18.060So just kind of the latest spending scandal from Governor General.
00:02:21.880This is the same governor general that spent $700,000 to receive some kind of award at a book fair, some kind of book fair thingy in Germany just a few years ago, coming on the heels of Julie Payette, who had her own, virtually every governor general ever.
00:02:44.020So we're going to be talking about that and what the hell the problem is with our governor generals, with one possible exception, David Johnson, all falling into the same damn scandal every damn time.0.99
00:02:55.520The B.C. port strike, the longshoremen are back on strike again, hugely economically disruptive.0.97
00:03:03.200It's necessitated a recalling of parliament now.
00:03:07.500It could go a couple of different ways.
00:03:09.060The Federal Liberal Minister, Seamus O'Reagan, has said it's an illegal strike. Tough words coming from a liberal, especially one in an effective coalition with the NDP.
00:03:21.420So this has been just hugely disruptive economically, and the strike is back on again, and arguably an illegal strike because they did not give 72 hours notice as they're normally supposed to.
00:04:48.480We're going to have the bottom of the pack, 36th or 38th, whatever it is, dead last in the next 30 years.
00:04:55.040uh harrowing harrowing economic news uh before we get going though we got to thank my favorite
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00:05:47.520Okay. So why do governor generals spend so royally? Even some governor generals that are remembered somewhat fondly, they've all, with one exception, that's why we have an asterisk on the title of this one, they all fall into this.
00:06:10.040Now, I think sometimes Canadians are going to get a little nitpicky on spending scandals.
00:06:16.260You know, we were chatting about this this morning, the Bev Oda orange juice scandal.
00:06:37.320You're going to tell the minister, you can't have a drink with your breakfast, you're stuck at this hotel.
00:06:41.740Can even get a little nitpicky about this stuff sometimes.
00:06:45.000But sometimes it's rightful, and governor generals seem to do this all the time.
00:06:50.680Again, exception, at least that I can remember in my lifetime, David Johnson didn't seem to have it.
00:06:56.080But all our governor generals seem to fall into this.
00:07:00.720I guess, but maybe let's just start with this particular spending, governor general spending scandal,
00:07:05.040before we get into maybe more historically.
00:07:07.320$71,000 for the ice limo, she could have bought a BMW and just left it in Iceland and it still would have saved the taxpayers money relative to this, or she could have bought, if she was really insistent on a limo, she could have bought a Dodge or Lincoln limo of 2012 and 2013 models.
00:07:28.320Are we just being too nitpicky on this one, Nigel? Is this another Bev Oda orange juice thing that we're blown out of proportion? Or does the governor general really have something serious to answer for here?
00:07:41.620Well, yes, I think she does. And there's two things to it. First of all, is the actual expense on the limousine. She had the thing locked up for three days. So it was available for 72 hours.
00:07:52.400And she was only 700 meters away. The hotel, the conference center, were 700 meters away.
00:07:56.360could walk it. I mean, we don't expect, frankly, we don't expect her to walk it. But at the same
00:08:01.460time, somebody made the decision that that vehicle was to just be there for the whole time. And I can
00:08:07.700see how they would have come to that conclusion. But sometimes they come to the wrong conclusion.
00:08:12.500And you know, she's not going to need it at three o'clock in the morning. So send the guy home.
00:08:17.700I don't know if I'm governor general, and I'm on an all expenses paid trip to Iceland this time of
00:08:22.740I might need the ice limo at 3 o'clock in the morning.
00:08:26.740Well, you might, but I don't think Mary Simon, you know, go out and see a geezer at 3 o'clock in the morning.0.92
00:08:31.740Now, look, the thing with these, there are those specific expenses.
00:08:36.740And I've got to say, on behalf of advanced tour directors for the government,
00:08:43.740that sometimes your choices are very constricted.
00:08:47.740You know you're going to go to a certain place.
00:08:50.820Well, the host government wants you to stay in certain designated hotels.
00:10:46.880Sometimes, I'm not sure if it's uniquely Canadian,
00:10:49.520but you don't see this kind of thing in the States where, you know,
00:10:52.880people get upset when, you know, politicians run up a big bill for something.
00:10:58.420Like, again, I guess I keep coming back to this, the bed of water, orange juice.
00:11:02.640It took down a cabinet minister, a single glass of orange juice
00:11:07.220that was somewhere between eight and 18 bucks I can't recall but Canadians I
00:11:12.620think at least semi uniquely get really upset about this stuff and sometimes
00:11:17.540it's petty and unfounded but this stuff is just off the real $71,000 for a nice
00:11:25.880limo her total trip $298,000 essentially 300 cool if they needed a0.99
00:11:35.120car in standby, they literally could have bought a pretty nice BMW and just left it and donated it
00:11:43.320to charity when they left, and it still would have been cheaper. How the hell does something
00:11:47.420like this happen? I feel like, before you answer, I feel like, you know, it's not likely that the
00:11:54.140governor general, sitting around Rideau Hall, and she says, get me a nice limo for three days,
00:12:01.260Keep it outside running. I don't care how much it cost it. I doubt that's what happened. But it did happen. And it seems to happen with our governor generals all the time. How the hell do you think this happened?
00:12:13.840Well, I think with these governor generals, I mean, they're a position of foe royalty. They're appointed to it, but they're supposed to be representatives of the queen or king now. And the amount, it goes to their head fast. You stay in a separate, you know, Rideau Hall, which is almost a palace.
00:12:31.100in itself. You've got the servants around you. Even having a lieutenant governor come out to an
00:12:36.820event in Prittis that Jane was working on actually years ago. The protocol that you get sent to you
00:12:42.200on how you deal with somebody in that position and even, you know, walking behind, it goes to
00:12:47.600their head quickly. And I think they start to believe they are royalty. So you guys hosted
00:12:52.340Representative of the Queen and Prittis? Well, there was a time capsule opening that had been
00:12:56.740set there by Grant McEwen many years ago, and we actually asked and she came out, which was an
00:13:03.380honor. It was great to see. Did you let her use the washroom at the bar? Oh, come on, she's not that1.00
00:13:08.340royal. So, but I mean, it really was actually quite a list of things that were sent in advance
00:13:15.000about how you deal with the protocols of having somebody, and that's at the provincial level.
00:13:19.340So, I believe they lose sight, though, of, you know what, it's, there's limits. You aren't really
00:13:26.340a queen or king, you are still a government appointed person. And I think some of them like
00:13:32.340that was worse, I think, but haven't helped the staffer if there wasn't a comfortable enough
00:13:37.460level when you did get there, or, you know, the the advanced person or planner, if there wasn't
00:13:42.420a big enough room or a large enough entourage, or as we know, with the flights with this governor
00:13:47.840general, there'd better be at least $100,000 worth of food for my friends. So, you know, we have,
00:13:53.300I think a good reason to be upset. And in times like now, when the cost of living is spiking,
00:13:57.560we get extra upset. If times were good and the economy is booming, people might not pay attention.
00:14:01.260But when you're starting to pinch nickels and clip coupons and you see somebody, you know,
00:14:06.180so wantonly spending your tax dollars like that, who's in a position that really doesn't
00:14:10.700necessarily do a lot, we're going to get mad.
00:14:13.800Do you mean you never charged $600 for a stake down there when you were...
00:14:17.320If I'd have thought somebody would buy it, I would have been more than happy to sell it.
00:14:20.440You should have done it when the Lieutenant Governor came through.
00:14:22.680Yes, again, I don't think we've had that problem so much on the provincial level, though.
00:14:28.040Man, I should be the lieutenant governor. It'll be lit.
00:16:34.520The hollow head of state, you know, Canada, Germany, Israel, countries that, you know, in their cases, it's presidents, but they're not like a president, the American or the French sense they have, they're essentially like a governor general, they're a referee for a constitutional crisis, that's it.
00:16:51.280Countries with these kind of powerless heads of state, they do tend to utilize them for diplomatic functions.
00:17:01.280Germany and Israel will send their president somewhere if they feel, ah, we need to show the flag.0.55
00:17:06.280But, yeah, we're not sending the prime minister or the chancellor.
00:17:09.280We're not sending the foreign affairs minister or secretary.
00:17:12.280This is done. And the queen herself does play a diplomatic role. The queen does travel.
00:17:17.280Certainly she does, but she was the queen, you know, she wasn't the two-dimensional cardboard cutout queen.1.00
00:17:25.060The queen isn't appointed by Parliament, so it's a whole different ballpark.
00:17:29.040No, no, but she is used beyond her strict constitutional role as a referee.1.00
00:17:34.400She does, well, I'm still talking about her like she's alive.
00:17:38.780I actually was thinking about her like she was alive for a moment.
00:17:41.260Hard to get out, I mean, just been around.
00:17:43.460One name linear, yeah, Derek, don't blame yourself.
00:17:46.140But, I mean, King Charles will certainly be sent out playing a diplomatic function. The whole royal family is sent out playing a diplomatic function. I don't know if it's reasonable to say, you know, we shouldn't have the governor general doing that. But it's just got to be within reason. And this stuff just keeps bloody happening.
00:18:05.220isn't within reason that's and I don't know is there any way to stop this short of I don't see
00:18:11.700why a budget can't be set I mean I know the role is constitutionally entrenched but like anything
00:18:16.460else you can set a budget you can set some broad expectations on what the role of this could still
00:18:22.540happen within a budget I mean I can see okay Canada is more or less head of state ish representative
00:18:30.120the head of state goes to Iceland. I can see, okay, fine, $300,000, you know, hotels, food, security,
00:18:36.380all this stuff. That's the budget. That doesn't stop some person in the entourage of the governor
00:18:42.340general saying, let's get the ice limo. Well, I mean, if they realize that if it's let's get the
00:18:48.380ice limo, okay, but now you can't afford the book fair. I'm talking about a hard budget. This is your
00:18:52.240travel budget for the year. Figure out which things you're going to attend this year, because
00:18:55.980Once that's out, you're going to have to apply for anything further or something like that.
00:19:01.020It's not impossible to do to rein them in.
00:19:04.420And it's also possible to remind the people on the ground who make these actual decisions to commit to something like an ice limo, whose money it is they're spending.
00:19:15.560You know, it also might just have something to do with who we're appointing.0.97
00:19:21.920David Johnson was Steve Harper was criticized for the appointment of David Johnson because he was a boring old white man.
00:19:28.920He didn't check any boxes other than accomplishment and credibility.
00:19:34.920Something even the liberals have recently conceded he did have until he was put in a role he shouldn't have had.
00:19:41.920But the liberals have, I think, exclusively, at least under Trudeau, only ever, actually, and going back, Paul Martin and Chrétien, they appoint tokens.
00:19:54.340And I don't mean to take away from these people.
00:19:56.100They've all accomplished something, more than us in many cases.
00:20:01.180But, you know, they're checking diversity boxes, not, for the most part, great accomplishments.0.78
00:20:08.920And I don't know, maybe that has something to do with it, so that when they get there, they're overwhelmed.
00:20:14.360Many of them have just never had real responsibility.
00:20:17.320David Johnson had real responsibility in his career.
00:20:20.920He got to the governor general's office.
00:20:22.720Okay, it's more responsibility, but it doesn't necessarily overwhelm him, because it's another rung up on the ladder.
00:20:27.920where some of these people, like Michel Jean, she was just a CBC Radio Canada reporter,
00:20:38.740and all of a sudden she's the governor general.
00:20:41.000How do you expect her not to go crazy?
00:20:42.940Well, I guess she was recommended by Adrienne Clarkson, who had also been a CBC.
00:20:47.180Look, there's something in that too, by the way, that the corporate culture within the CBC is not parsimonious.
00:20:54.700I mean, they have expense accounts, and they use them.
00:20:57.920So if that's the milieu in which you have worked for decades, and then they make a governor general and say, by the way, is there an expense?
00:21:08.900They just carry on doing what they've always been doing.
00:21:11.520I think that that was probably not Julie Payette's problem.
00:21:15.960I think she'd just like to spend money, but with the, but those two governors general,0.95
00:21:22.200and now Mary Simon, not out of the CBC, not out of a spending culture, but my father had a,
00:21:31.720had a sort of a word of advice for young men contemplating marriage. You'll never satisfy
00:21:38.360a woman who is accustomed to nothing. And I think that you know, with the career path0.97
00:21:45.160that Mary Simon has followed she's never had it so good getting advice from Nigel all right
00:21:53.880we're going to turn it to the west we're going to turn it to the west coast here so the longshoremen0.99
00:22:01.320working the BC ports on strike tremendous economic cost to this they had I guess kind of
00:22:11.480Union solidarity stuff where shipments diverted to the states, the long term in there would not
00:22:15.640unload it. So this was just blocking trade to and from the west coast of Canada. Hugely disruptive.
00:22:22.440They come to a deal. Strike is over and yesterday evening it's back on. Union rejects the deal and
00:22:31.880immediately goes back to strike. Federal Labor Minister Seamus O'Regan says it's an illegal
00:22:36.840strike because they didn't give enough notice. Now they have given notice now, but they've already
00:22:41.560been out there doing it. Parliament's being recalled. I'm supposed to meet with an MP soon.
00:22:47.640Can't really happen now because they're all heading back to Ottawa.
00:22:54.520I guess we'll talk, it's obvious how destructive it is. Maybe we'll talk more about the politics of it.
00:22:59.880But this is going to really put, I think, some strain on the Liberals quasi coalition agreement with the NDP union dock workers in British Columbia.
00:23:13.840I mean, if the NDP can't get those guys on side, they're done.
00:23:19.940You know, that's supposed to be bread and butter.
00:23:21.860Those kind of voters actually kind of go between conservative and NDP, kind of skip the liberal in the middle there.
00:23:25.680But the NDP have been adamantly opposed to any back-to-work legislation.
00:23:33.440This could take a few potential forms.
00:23:37.800That probably means back-to-work legislation.
00:23:40.860And the union gave Ottawa, especially the liberals, which, you know, are keenly aware of the politics around this,
00:23:46.800gave them the excuse by engaging in what they've described, characterized as an illegal strike, wildcat strike.
00:23:55.680If we get back to work legislation, do you think I'll start with you, Corey, are the Liberals going to be able to kind of square it in a way that they can get the NDP support to support them?
00:24:03.940Or is this going to be a one time deal where they actually have to cut a deal with the Conservatives?
00:24:08.800Well, I think in this case, the Conservatives would support back to work legislation so the NDP can vote on principle against it.
00:24:15.980But it still weakens seeing every time he yaps on the sidelines saying, I'm going to hold Trudeau accountable to this and to this and to this.
00:24:24.140when he's been the linchpin of that government for quite some time now.
00:24:28.120He can't keep rolling over for the Liberals.
00:24:31.660I mean, this would be actually a voting against circumstance,
00:24:34.620but it won't be a confidence thing and it'll pass.
00:24:36.400But his own base of support's got to be getting tired of this.
00:24:40.400I mean, at what point are you actually going to be the Democratic Socialists
00:24:43.560who claim you are and say that's enough?
00:24:46.260We have to start voting against this government.
00:24:49.120So it'll put a lot of pressure on you.
00:24:50.420Nigel, if you're Justin Trudeau, how are you trying to sell this to the conservatives? Because they're the official opposition, they're leading in the polls, they're the threat to take your job as prime minister.
00:25:05.300How are you packaging this in a way that can allow the conservative, but both force the conservatives to support it and allow the conservatives to claim a win in their own right?
00:25:18.340Because they're always beaten up on Jake Meatsingh as being Tweedledum to Trudeau's Tweedledee.
00:29:49.980It's better from a greenhouse gas emissions perspective if Canada, Alberta exports LNG to another country that was burning coal.
00:29:58.280We get them, then burn in LNG, which is, you know, much, much less in emissions.
00:30:06.560But to hear them admit it now, this is something that Daniel Smith has been talking about, Scott Moe has been talking about, Pierre Polyev has been talking about.
00:30:15.420And hearing it come from Stephen Gilbeau's office, that surprises the hell out of me.
00:30:21.740Is, what do you think, is this just that they're like, eh, no matter how much we strangle the industry, it's still not going to be enough to meet our targets.
00:30:27.840And I want to be remembered as the environment minister that got us to meet the targets.
00:30:32.020So whatever we have to do to meet the targets, even if it grudgingly helps Alberta and LNG, we're going to do.
00:30:39.340What do you think might account for this change?
00:30:41.940Maybe it gives them room to frame it and still being the environmental crusaders, because the pragmatists in the liberal government, the economists, the business people, when they're there, they do have to realize some of the benefits of liquid natural gas exports.
00:30:55.000I mean, this is a government that's got some serious budgetary shortcomings and some widening deficits, and this provides opportunity to bring that in.
00:31:03.160So if they can frame that in that way, spin it that way, again, maybe not out of an ideologue like Gilboa, but his own office, at least they're realizing, let's make an out here and, you know, try to walk that fine line between saving the world from emissions and still managing to bring in some revenue.
00:31:18.560You'll probably remember, famously recall when, you'll recall when Trudeau famously told the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, that there was no business case for Canada to export LNG to Germany, because Trudeau apparently understands business.
00:31:37.940This happened with another country, too, that came here asking. Japan. Yeah, Japan came asking for LNG. We told them to take a hike as well, and, well, they got it from somewhere from the United States that time.
00:31:49.940they've not understood that LNG is a remarkably clean fossil fuel, but it is a change. Do you think this is just merely, I don't know, because they're talking to the business support or the Western standard, they spruce something up, or do you think there's actually something here?
00:32:11.440Because this would cause a major change in policy.
00:32:14.400I think it's very interesting the way they roll it out. Right now, the minister himself is not committed to anything.
00:32:19.940his office can say that and it is very carefully parsed as well but you know if he decides that
00:32:28.340no not going to do that all he has to say was well there was a briefing paper that was
00:32:34.180inappropriately put out and this doesn't mean a thing and our position remains what it always has
00:32:40.740been it did make me wonder whether there was something in this in terms of the relationship
00:32:47.700between Ottawa and the government of Alberta because this was a big thing Smith was on about
00:32:53.460while uh while he was here yeah exactly so the the hint that they may give a little on that
00:33:01.220strikes me as a possibly a negotiating tactic but one as I say that they can easily walk away from
00:33:06.820oh well I was just a lower level official who said that doesn't commit the government but um
00:33:11.620And, you know, the case for actually allowing this country to claim the credits
00:33:19.060that it gets from exporting natural gas to a country that is presently burning coal
00:33:26.920and thereby saving carbon emissions, I mean, the logic is supreme.
00:33:54.560Do you think this is just a peon in the government, you know, trying to be nice to you, or do
00:34:01.280you think this signals a potential shift in policy?
00:34:04.120Well, I don't think it signals a potential shift in policy in the sense that it's something that they can't really walk away from because a lot of Jabal's work, Minister Jabal, is on the international front.
00:34:19.160So dealing with the COP conferences and dealing with the UN and doing those kinds of, you know,
00:34:28.200he's almost got a diplomatic role. And Article 6 was a major part of, I believe it was COP26 in
00:34:35.080Scotland. It was agreed to by a lot of countries, like 80 or 90 countries. A lot of them were
00:34:43.800countries that would have had no way of reducing emissions to the levels that they would require
00:34:48.840on their own. And this has always been kind of a policy plank of Mr. Jubolles. So even though they
00:34:57.240parsed it pretty carefully, I got the sense that it was something that they just could not say no to.
00:35:05.220But they, you know, they qualified it with a lot of kickers, which is that the country that would0.99
00:35:10.780be receiving the LNG would have to agree to essentially hand over those emissions credits
00:35:16.380that they would generate from burning the lng to canada so that they don't get double car double
00:35:22.860counted and these are going to be issues that are coming up at cop 28 basically on how this
00:35:30.220implementation of uh there's like nine paragraphs in the clause so uh the question of how the
00:35:36.300implementation of these particular clauses would work how they would be accounted for how the
00:35:41.580credits would be transferred to what standard are they you know there has to be like engineering
00:35:47.740standards and and technical kind of standards and all that as well so and he was also careful
00:35:54.780to say that they are not specific to any one technology so you know the government of Canada
00:36:02.460supports it broadly in general but they didn't go so far as to say that they actually support the
00:36:07.740export of LNG specifically. Okay, well, we're gonna have to, well, I guess we're gonna have to wait
00:36:14.780for that. I don't have my hopes up terribly high, but who knows? Governments have changed their
00:36:20.140minds before. Sean, we're gonna keep you around. You have another story. Of course, it's you,
00:36:27.580because you're, you know, as our business reporter here. TD Bank saying that Canada's standard of
00:36:33.420living is falling fast, projected to be dead last in the OECD by 2060. No, I don't think that was
00:36:46.060the lowest standard of living in the OECD if I'm reading it correctly. That was lowest growth in
00:36:51.900GDP per capita relating to standard of living. Am I getting that right?
00:36:59.420Yeah. Yeah, you are. So basically the gist of the report was is that GDP growth is growing
00:37:10.540and Canada has recovered remarkably well since the end of the pandemic. But a lot of that is due to
00:37:19.180high levels of immigration. So what's happening is that even though the economy is growing,
00:37:23.580it's actually kind of growing at a slower pace when you factor in the head count. So they come
00:37:29.420up with this number GDP per capita. And on that basis, Canada is trailing pretty much everybody
00:37:36.700in the G7, the G20, and especially the United States. And yeah, the bottom line conclusion was
00:37:43.980is that GDP per capita is going to be the lowest in the OECD, which I believe is about 37 nations.
00:37:51.740And those, those would basically be the developed economies in the world.
00:37:57.260You know, I think it was, I'm not sure if it was just the Wall Street Journal, if the Wall Street Journal was quoting someone, but they said, you know, Canada's utter lack of commitment to military spending and defense in NATO should get us kicked out of the G7 be replaced by Poland, because Poland plays a bigger role.0.85
00:38:15.980They spend more than twice as much as us on a per capita level on defense.
00:38:19.820And now even with standard of living falling, God, can you imagine a world where Poland is a wealthier, more prosperous place?
00:38:28.240Poland, for God's sakes, they eat beets.1.00
00:38:33.140Where Poland is leading Canada in standard of living.
00:38:39.180It's hard to fathom, but I suppose this is where the numbers are pointing and a lot of things can happen in the meantime.
00:39:31.880They just regard it as a place where they can experiment with social engineering.
00:39:35.400I mean, they're letting people come to work without the regulation haircut.
00:39:40.800and if you want to dress in a strange way, well, that's all right, too.
00:39:45.040This is not, under the liberals, the military is not serious about being soldiers.
00:39:50.420Although we're serious about something else.
00:39:52.380But we're going to focus back on Senator of Living now.
00:39:54.980Well, okay, let's, then, so therefore, a country that has had the difficulties of Poland
00:39:59.880gets very realistic about what matters and what doesn't.
00:40:03.440And this country has had it so easy for so long that apparently we find it easy to major on the
00:40:13.840miners and we don't pay attention to the stuff that really matters. And that's why there's lots
00:40:20.400of countries who like Poland are doing a lot better than Canada because they pay attention
00:40:24.800to the real thing. Corey, there's a lot of hard evidence now pointing towards unsustainable levels
00:40:35.280of immigration contributing towards this. Canadians are broadly pretty pro-immigration,
00:40:40.560but there are stress levels that accompany it. We've seen what happens in Europe where you just
00:40:47.760have trouble assimilating people. If it constitutes too high a percentage of the population coming in,0.85
00:40:53.760you have to have a percentage that can be assimilated in a reasonable amount of time.
00:40:57.680There's also the economic constraints, strains on your welfare, strains on your health care,
00:41:03.120because often it, you know, some immigrants get successful pretty quickly, but often it's the
00:41:06.960second or third generation before they're a net contributor to the tax base. But then there's
00:41:12.880housing, and that is an immediate crisis. We've, you know, the housing crisis in Canada is,
00:41:18.080Well, there's a lot of reasons for it, but one is these massive record levels of immigration now that's creating a housing crisis even in midsize cities in Canada, which is contributing now, I think, towards in a very real way towards the standard of living issues that we're facing.
00:41:38.320do you think there's a political appetite for reducing immigration in Canada because
00:41:45.240Canadians in polls are pretty consistently pro-immigration not everybody obviously but
00:41:48.920majorities clear majorities are and there's multi-party consensus there could be some
00:41:54.540appetite to reduce it a bit because the economic case is looking that way but due to the pyramid
00:41:58.520scheme nature of Canada and our social programs we got to keep hauling them in to pay for our
00:42:03.180older generations that are in. What we're doing, though, is everything wrong. We're so resource
00:42:08.400rich. We are loaded with an abundance of raw resources, and we're shutting them in. We've
00:42:13.120got a government obsessed with shutting down our most productive industries, whether it's forestry,
00:42:18.160oil, gas, mining, agriculture, and dumping money into battery plants that nobody bloody wants.
00:42:23.740This sounds like the media. Yes, exactly. They're going to dump money into the guys0.72
00:42:28.820losing and they're going to do their best to kill the guys winning. So sustainability, you know,0.75
00:42:32.400a term they love using, they won't apply it to economics. And we are going down a terribly bad
00:42:37.300road. As Nigel says, Poland understands what's important. They aren't going to shut down their
00:42:41.660prime industries and go into some woke garbage. And that's what we're doing here. And yeah,
00:42:47.020we've got a time bomb economically right now. And it's showing we're starting to see the warnings
00:42:51.100right now. It's just whether people are going to pay heed to it. Last word to you, Sean.
00:42:54.800Well, the report was pretty clear that economic growth doesn't necessarily translate
00:43:00.800into standard of living. And as far as immigration goes, I think it comes back into that integration
00:43:09.200question, not so much socially but economically. You have a lot of overqualified people working
00:43:15.680in underqualified jobs, and it's just not generating the value that should be there
00:43:23.520you know per head in terms of productivity and and how best to take advantage of this resource
00:43:32.320all right thank you sean well we're gonna wrap it up there uh before we go though i want to make a
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