Western Standard - The Pipeline： Inflation still going up, up, up!

00:00:00.000 Good evening, it's April 20th, 2022. Welcome to the pipeline. It is 420. So in honor of that,

00:00:26.560 It's just going to be referred to as the pipe for the rest of the day.

00:00:30.740 And for anybody who hasn't indulged already, this is an evening show.

00:00:34.780 So, hey, get out there, have a hoot, celebrate the legal indulgence of weed, hash, oil,

00:00:41.200 all those great things that we used to enjoy in our youth and perhaps still occasionally partake in.

00:00:46.920 Derek Fildebrand, our publisher, usually hosts this weekly show.

00:00:49.620 It's the News Roundup discussion of top issues.

00:00:51.700 but he has recently reproduced and has chosen to spend some time at home with his wife and new

00:00:56.180 youngster so i'm joined today by actually i'll start by going to the far end then uh this is

00:01:01.140 our operations director and occasional field reporter james figbeiner hey cory how are you

00:01:07.220 today very good thanks unfortunately i'm not stoned but i should be i know i uh you know we're we're

00:01:13.460 not allowed to do that at work or we're not supposed to so all of mine's at home too yeah

00:01:17.140 well i did eat some of those gummy bears from up in the front but i think they were just normal

00:01:20.100 the ones we'll know in about an hour the diabetes dishes that's right and of course we are as always

00:01:27.060 joined by our news editor Dave Naylor Corey that's a different shirt than what you were wearing or

00:01:32.700 coat than what you were wearing this morning so this is how big a wardrobe do you have I've got

00:01:37.800 I take up like a quarter of that cupboard up in the front I'm looking good here's like later hosing

00:01:42.600 and stuff taking up the first half so let's get on to the issues of the day then I mean it was

00:01:49.860 We may as well start.

00:01:50.460 It's been still a top issue.

00:01:51.820 It's going on here.

00:01:53.100 Polyev, the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, held a rally.

00:01:57.640 I mean, people have been wondering if it was an anomaly with how much steam he's been gathering out west.

00:02:01.600 So last night was his first big Toronto one recently.

00:02:04.320 Maybe, Dave, how that all went down?

00:02:06.740 Yeah, ironically, it was at a brewery called Steam Whistle.

00:02:11.860 Excuse me.

00:02:12.480 Yeah, so Polyev drew thousands and thousands out west here, Corey, in Calgary and up in Edmonton on Friday.

00:02:18.080 He drew about 5,000.

00:02:20.260 But the question has always been, can he draw in 905?

00:02:24.200 Can he get some, because the Liberals control all 25 seats in Toronto.

00:02:28.520 Can he get a crowd there?

00:02:29.780 And the answer is yes.

00:02:31.380 And it was an overflowing crowd.

00:02:33.240 They had to open up the overflow area, and more than 1,000 people showed up on what I understand was a miserable night in Toronto.

00:02:40.900 Some coming from a long way in the suburbs, obviously.

00:02:43.980 But it showed he's got drawing power.

00:02:46.320 You know, it was the usual stump speech, bringing back, you know, Canada and making it the freest country in the world again.

00:02:54.600 This time it's in Ontario and it appears to be being accepted by Ontarians.

00:02:59.660 It is always a miserable night in Toronto, but all the same.

00:03:02.220 Yeah, especially when the Leafs are playing.

00:03:03.720 Yes.

00:03:04.840 So, I mean, yes, let's bring another loss to Toronto perhaps in the near future.

00:03:08.860 But James, I mean, so he packed a room, but still, I mean, that's a thousand people with, you know, millions of people within driving distance to come in.

00:03:15.920 And so, I mean, it might be more of a sign of good organization rather than a groundswell of support.

00:03:20.380 Do you think, though, this is a good sign for him?

00:03:22.520 I do think it's a good sign because this is a leadership race.

00:03:28.100 This size of rallies for a leadership race is almost unheard of in Canadian politics.

00:03:33.100 Aaron O'Toole, during the last leadership race, he held Pints in Politics, I believe it was called, in Airdrie.

00:03:41.240 It was in a pub.

00:03:42.620 Peter McKay's, same thing.

00:03:44.080 It was in a pub here in the city.

00:03:45.920 So the fact that Pierre is filling these massive, massive halls and like the River Creek Casino in Edmonton and even a thousand people out east, that's big for a leadership race.

00:03:58.780 People are interested.

00:04:00.040 People are engaged in this.

00:04:01.820 And you've got to know because the mainstream media is attacking him.

00:04:05.220 Oh, it's racist.

00:04:06.160 Oh, they ever.

00:04:06.720 You know, I mean, they're becoming vicious.

00:04:09.280 So they're obviously worried about something and they realize that he's got some traction.

00:04:13.620 Well, there was another bizarre development. That was at the Steam Whistle pub out in Toronto. And they put out a letter that they released that was basically saying, we don't support this guy whatsoever. Please back off. He's just here. Like, really distancing themselves from him. And I mean, they booked the space for him. So they must not have thought it was that big a problem. I can only guess they suddenly were getting a lot of bad pushback and everything else and suddenly are distancing themselves.

00:04:41.300 So, I mean, maybe the cancel culture is going to come out and try and stop. 0.99

00:04:44.220 Well, they can try.

00:04:45.540 As I suggested on Twitter last night, if the pub was so angry or so upset about it,

00:04:52.540 then donate the proceeds from last night to a charity.

00:04:55.980 A thousand people at your pub and you're bitching about it?

00:05:00.300 I mean, come on.

00:05:01.120 And, yeah, I mean, obviously this venue had been booked for a while.

00:05:05.000 They must have known it was coming.

00:05:06.100 Surely somebody with brains at Steam Whistle could see the crowds in Edmonton and Calgary and think, okay, well, this may happen here.

00:05:15.600 But apparently they don't.

00:05:16.940 They were all surprised when they probably never even heard of Polyef.

00:05:20.500 Two years of COVID restrictions and they're upset about somebody bringing 1,000 people to their establishment?

00:05:26.120 Like, come on.

00:05:27.540 Exposure to their brand.

00:05:28.780 I mean, I used to carry their stuff when I owned that pub.

00:05:31.680 and it's an unusual pilsner actually because it uh that the flavor wasn't bad but when you crack

00:05:37.300 that bottle cap it stinks my god it's got the worst skunkiest smell to it but yeah well if they

00:05:41.680 if they cancel culture try to get them they're we're getting a backlash yeah because everybody

00:05:45.960 who's doesn't like steam whistle is now on social media saying their beers like this so

00:05:51.140 it may may have backfired on them a little bit yeah i mean i've never been to a trump rally but

00:05:55.980 But I mean, we're seeing a lot of the legacy media comparing it to a Trump rally.

00:06:00.760 And I know one of the comments that I read was, it seems very white.

00:06:05.920 But we were at the rally in Calgary, and I've seen something completely different.

00:06:11.140 There was plenty of different races, people from all over.

00:06:15.900 I didn't walk around and check to see if there was any LGBTQ members, but I imagine that there was plenty of people there in the crowd.

00:06:23.940 So to say that he's drawing a very white, very specific type of Trumpian crowd,

00:06:29.740 I mean, that's just disingenuous.

00:06:31.120 Yeah, and you look at the photo from last night in Toronto, 1.00

00:06:34.380 and there's visible minorities in all the front rows. 0.93

00:06:37.480 If they were smart, they were put there deliberately to show everybody.

00:06:42.380 There's definitely visible minorities at these rallies. 0.99

00:06:45.960 So again, it's just another scare tactic. 0.99

00:06:47.680 And I think they might be overplaying.

00:06:49.600 I mean, they've used this to good effect against a lot of movements and groups.

00:06:55.080 I mean, you went to Maxine Bernier's rallies, and they called that the same thing.

00:06:59.660 And a lot of it was people, I mean, I could say it could arguably be just, you know, a lot were paranoid or anti-vaccination or things like that that pulled them together.

00:07:06.680 Fine.

00:07:07.140 But those people came from all races and so on.

00:07:09.400 But when they were labeled as white supremacists, it stuck.

00:07:11.720 It works.

00:07:12.320 You know, they keep throwing that crap, and it works.

00:07:14.740 But I don't know if it will with Polyev this time.

00:07:16.700 I mean, he's been in office 18 years.

00:07:18.140 People know who he is.

00:07:19.600 If he was going to be disguising, you know, thinly veiled racism, he's been doing a very good job of it because there's nothing they can point to really. 0.61

00:07:27.940 Warren Kinsella, a well-known Canadian political gadfly, tweeted out the horror of that Polyev was eligible for a pension at 31.

00:07:40.220 Right. And then, OK, well, he's been there for how many elections? 0.96

00:07:43.600 He's now eligible for a pension that every MP gets.

00:07:47.540 Nothing special.

00:07:48.240 is now eligible for the same pension that Trudeau is eligible for.

00:07:53.020 But again, they're trying to paint him as some sort of extremist.

00:07:57.220 And, you know, we're a long way till September,

00:07:59.380 but I'm not sure if it's going to stick or not.

00:08:02.300 Making a lot of people scared.

00:08:03.740 We are a long way from September.

00:08:04.900 I mean, further in the race, have we heard much from the other candidates?

00:08:08.140 There are a whole bunch of them out there.

00:08:09.600 I think there's eight of them now past the bar to get entered.

00:08:13.380 Well, we heard for the first time today

00:08:15.180 something on supply management that you'll agree with.

00:08:17.940 and I know it's a pet cause of yours and Derek's,

00:08:21.600 Scott Atchison came out and said within a year of being elected,

00:08:25.060 he would start to end supply management, which is the first.

00:08:28.700 You had many of the contestants on your show,

00:08:32.760 and not one of them has said they want anything to do with changing supply management.

00:08:37.000 Oh, they're scared of those dairy cartels.

00:08:38.920 He was the first.

00:08:40.420 Well, what do you think, James?

00:08:41.320 I mean, you know, when inflation is the top issue right now,

00:08:44.620 I'm surprised that only one candidate has the courage to take on a policy that directly impacts

00:08:50.120 food prices. Oh, exactly. Like, uh, it, it, this, this is a policy that would instantly change

00:08:56.080 things in the grocery store. I pulled some numbers just, just out of curiosity. Uh, Albertsons in

00:09:01.420 Billings, Montana, uh, $3.69 for 18 eggs. Uh, the same thing at Save on Foods here in Calgary,

00:09:08.740 that's $5.99 Canadian. I didn't check the exchange rate. Uh, so obviously that's going to bring,

00:09:14.000 up the American price a little bit. So it's going to be a little bit more comparable. But I mean,

00:09:18.180 over the course of a year, according to Atchison's video, it's $500 or $600.

00:09:23.840 Butter, for example, $349 in the States, $599 in Canada. And that difference is only because

00:09:33.760 of supply management. And I mean, we're talking about green environmental policies, and we know

00:09:39.260 factory farms are part of the problem with climate change, but nobody wants to actually address

00:09:45.480 climate or these factory farms. According to Atchison's video, there was 11, 110,000 dairy

00:09:53.160 farms or dairy producers across Canada, I believe in the 70s. And now there's about 11,000. So if

00:09:59.300 there's only 11,000 dairy farms in Canada right now, then they have to be fairly large to operate.

00:10:05.080 And, you know, all of those cows, the waste and everything that comes with it, the waste they don't take into account is the overproduction of the quota and the fact that when a supplier overproduces, they dump it.

00:10:17.400 They waste all of that milk.

00:10:19.220 And then we have to spend double the price on some items in Canada for it.

00:10:25.320 And it's just, it's a waste.

00:10:27.760 It's a waste of resources.

00:10:29.000 It's a waste of the animals.

00:10:30.180 It's a waste of the farmer's time.

00:10:32.000 And it's a waste of Canadians' money.

00:10:33.620 and the only people that are paying for it is the Canadian consumer.

00:10:37.940 It's a terrible policy.

00:10:39.120 I mean, I think politically it might be smart on Atchison's part.

00:10:41.880 As I said, when you've got seven other contenders

00:10:43.460 and you're all trying to draw some oxygen,

00:10:45.560 he's found one at least that's, you know,

00:10:46.900 maybe it doesn't engage Canadians across the country.

00:10:49.060 They don't see it as a big issue, but it distinguishes him

00:10:52.260 because it's going to be tough in that field right now.

00:10:54.300 Yeah, and anything, you know, we'll talk about inflation later on in the show,

00:10:57.580 but, you know, James points out there's the hard facts, right?

00:11:01.300 that you can lower the price of the stuff almost instantly

00:11:04.820 if you get rid of supply management.

00:11:06.940 All right.

00:11:07.780 Well, we will move on to the next subject shortly,

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00:12:07.180 So getting back to, not money so much.

00:12:10.500 The next one we got on the list is the COVID mandates

00:12:13.480 are still flying in Canada.

00:12:15.440 The world's been dropping their mandates.

00:12:16.620 I noticed even New Zealand recently dropped

00:12:19.160 some of the masking requirements and things like that.

00:12:22.280 And meanwhile, in Canada, we're kind of behind the curve, Dave.

00:12:25.080 Yeah, a judge in Florida this week, a judge appointed by Donald Trump, ruled that the CDC extended mask mandates on travel and planes, trains and automobiles, basically, was struck down.

00:12:42.380 So the news was announced and passengers were taking them off mid-flight and you could see video of them all singing and joining a mask-free environment.

00:12:54.800 The next day, the transport minister was in Calgary.

00:12:58.600 He was asked, well, when are they going to be dropped here?

00:13:01.100 Coming and hawing, you know, we'll look at it.

00:13:03.060 We're looking at the science.

00:13:04.660 And Justin Trudeau says, you know, they're going to be staying for a while.

00:13:09.320 You know, we keep looking at it.

00:13:11.360 We keep looking at it.

00:13:12.140 But, you know, while the rest of the world is removing barriers, Canada continues to have them.

00:13:19.120 Well, I mean, it's just it's more than an inconvenience, right?

00:13:22.680 Like these things impact tourism.

00:13:23.940 they're impacting sales i mean we aren't looking like a good place to go no and i mean the summer

00:13:29.140 tourism season's just about to start um you you think that we're going to get a ton of incoming

00:13:35.060 traffic when you have to be vaccinated you have to have a negative test and you have to uh wear

00:13:39.780 a mask still to get into canada but if you're leaving on a canadian plane you still just need

00:13:44.340 to be vaccinated and i believe you still have to have a negative test and so if everybody's tested

00:13:50.740 and they're all negative before they get on the plane.

00:13:52.640 Why are we still wearing a mask?

00:13:54.580 I mean, the mask is still optional.

00:13:56.380 You can still wear the mask if you want to.

00:13:58.720 But I just, I don't understand what we're doing here.

00:14:02.400 They keep saying, follow the science.

00:14:04.340 But as we've seen, the science is evolving all over the world.

00:14:07.080 And then they're making changes.

00:14:08.740 They're dropping these mandates.

00:14:11.580 I saw it described today as Canada is the largest prison in the world.

00:14:15.660 Because if you're not vaccinated, you're stuck.

00:14:17.980 You can't get on a plane.

00:14:18.940 And this was yet another holiday that an unvaccinated person in Toronto could not fly out to Calgary to share Easter with their family. 0.92

00:14:27.000 So they're virtual prisoners in their own land.

00:14:31.140 It's incredible, really.

00:14:32.200 And I mean, why aren't these people eating some of their terms where they constantly said, follow the science, follow the science, follow the science.

00:14:36.200 We got the science.

00:14:37.000 We got two years.

00:14:38.020 I saw a great chart that went and showed because the Americans had such disparity state by state in their legislation showing, you know, mask areas, non-mask areas.

00:14:47.160 And you know what?

00:14:47.960 infection curves and the mask and unmasked areas are almost exactly the same. Like the impact masks

00:14:53.720 have are negligible or the other part is vaccination. And I know I get my viewers all

00:14:58.420 upset whenever I point out, hey, I'm pro-vax. I got vaccinated and I'll continue to. But people

00:15:03.580 have to have that choice. And it's shown though that it didn't stop the spread. I mean, the basis

00:15:06.960 of those vaccine mandates was always, we have to protect everybody from spreading. Well, it doesn't.

00:15:11.180 So at that point, why the hell are we hanging on to these things? Yep. The vaccinated can spread it

00:15:14.800 just as easily as the unvaccinated.

00:15:16.900 That's what the science shows, you know.

00:15:18.480 A lot of vaccinated people in the hospital right now.

00:15:22.340 We'll see what happens.

00:15:23.520 You know, we've got a lot of things to be proud of as Canadians,

00:15:25.280 but it seems almost like it's a point of principle with our Prime Minister.

00:15:29.420 He just is stubborn and does not want to back off on anything to our detriment.

00:15:34.360 Oh, like the whole trucker protest,

00:15:36.980 the whole reasoning behind the protest was the federal mandates

00:15:40.160 and the removal of vaccine choice in our country for the first time ever.

00:15:45.400 And it seems like he still just doesn't want to back down from that position.

00:15:49.660 He doesn't want to make it look like the truckers or the protests influenced any of his decision making in any way, shape or form.

00:15:56.200 But now this has almost become the Canadian flag thing where flags were at half mask for however long, 18 months, two years, just an indefinite amount of time.

00:16:06.040 it seems like the uh interprovincial vaccine mandates for flying for truckers for cross-border

00:16:12.340 truckers it seems like he's not going to back off of these positions for the same reason why he

00:16:16.680 wouldn't bring the flags back up because the other side's asking him to and he doesn't want to listen

00:16:20.780 to the other side it's too bad we don't have more politicians like ralph klein you know and i include

00:16:26.680 jason kenny in this with with with trudeau if you make a mistake apologize and say look okay i made

00:16:32.900 a mistake we're going to change but no politicians today are able to do that you know at least with

00:16:38.920 uh with ralph you oh yeah you screwed up you know okay we'll get back to it uh but uh you know

00:16:44.980 sometimes you have to lead the parade sometimes you have to follow where it goes and uh and our

00:16:49.460 our prime minister is just hopelessly lost in on some issues we're just being left behind even

00:16:55.540 uber actually his company policies are dropping and uber finally dropped their masking thing just

00:16:59.320 this week so drivers and passengers won't have to wear it anymore so when i do my odd do you know

00:17:03.700 uber shifts i like going out and driving and seeing people they're going to be able to see

00:17:06.660 my scowling face no longer hidden behind the mask on the road so just say ask you to mask up will

00:17:11.940 you i would it's a customer thing if they feel more comfortable with me putting one on i'm

00:17:15.880 reasonable with that no problem and uh for the most part i got a feeling most customers would

00:17:19.980 probably not i mean it's a judgment thing that's how i'll choose it too if i pull up to a pickup

00:17:23.860 and i see them with masks on why not i'll put one on you know it's a courtesy i think a lot

00:17:29.180 of people uh can can learn to follow that but uh you know people who feel that the authorities have

00:17:34.520 to tell you everything to do feel otherwise yeah i forgot my mask the other day and uh the uber

00:17:39.640 driver was just like no don't worry about it get in and as soon as i got in without a mask on he

00:17:43.780 popped his off too yeah i've heard that's happened with some but i i'm not supposed to i i know but 0.56

00:17:49.080 i you're gonna spend hours driving around in a vehicle you're sucking on your own breath with

00:17:54.940 the mask on and got a pop mints. And I, I, one of the things I I'm surprised Uber kept the mask

00:18:01.100 requirement for as long as they have. Um, you know, when you're coming home at the end of the

00:18:05.120 night and you've had a few drinks and you've got that mask across your face, I mean, how much has

00:18:10.240 that actually increased people throwing up in vehicles or having to pull over and hope they

00:18:15.860 make it out? Well, and that's every, I'll tell you as a driver, you know, and I, and when I do it,

00:18:19.600 it's usually the night shift once in a while. That's our biggest fear is the pukers. That's, 1.00

00:18:22.560 that's the worst you can be yelling you can be abusive I've had people practically copulate in

00:18:26.380 the back seat which is disturbing but just don't puke please my night's done you ruin the car you

00:18:31.480 ruin the upholstery but I don't know with a mask I mean maybe it would blast it back and keep it

00:18:35.040 easier to clean so yeah I guess it probably he's just gonna wear it before I 86 him out onto the

00:18:39.820 curb yeah exactly I thought you just took scooters home uh well not in winter it's a little cold and

00:18:46.080 icy in the snow that we just got there's not much scooting around right now well actually no the

00:18:50.720 bike lanes are always clear. The sidewalks and the actual roads are terrible, but the bike lanes

00:18:57.480 are good. Driving in today at five kilometers an hour, slushy roads, look over, purely clean

00:19:02.600 bike lanes. Oh, perfect. Just so lovely. Priority one. Okay. All six residents of the city who use

00:19:09.020 them year round. Well, moving along, we'll get on our next sponsor too, before I get to our final

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00:20:22.200 All right.

00:20:23.080 So our final subject is a big bloated one.

00:20:26.740 And no, we're not going to talk about individuals.

00:20:28.460 I'm talking about inflation.

00:20:31.760 And it just keeps growing and rising and growing.

00:20:35.440 And that's the subject for today.

00:20:36.520 We set a new record, or at least for a while, have we, Dave?

00:20:39.160 We did, 6.7%, a jump of more than a percent from last month.

00:20:45.180 Hasn't been this high since 1991, the month they brought in the beloved GSD.

00:20:50.940 So that was the reason for it back then.

00:20:53.440 The reason for it now is spiking gasoline prices, spiking food prices, spiking dairy prices.

00:21:01.580 You go to the grocery store, everything's up, everything's out of control.

00:21:05.860 Gasoline was the big driver.

00:21:07.640 Of course, the invasion of the Ukraine by Russia has driven world oil prices up into the stratosphere.

00:21:16.860 There's now talk of Europe banning the importation of Russian oil completely.

00:21:22.620 That'll drive it up even higher.

00:21:25.160 So if you're planning on spending a weekend motorhome touring around the country,

00:21:29.260 you might want to reconsider your plans because the cost of it is just getting out of control.

00:21:35.680 And interestingly, 16 Republican governors from the states this week,

00:21:40.560 on Monday they sent a letter to President Biden telling him,

00:21:44.820 come on, you can do something about rising gas prices in the states.

00:21:48.540 You can reopen the Keystone Pipeline.

00:21:51.640 And, you know, Jason Kenney promised if they did,

00:21:55.000 it would be operational by late next year.

00:21:57.460 But Biden, foolishly, is still against that,

00:22:02.400 even though gas prices are continuing to go up every day and just you know every single day

00:22:08.700 something else has gone up and it's just uh had a story this week too about the majority of

00:22:15.400 canadian families only 200 bucks away from complete insolvency uh so and this if this

00:22:21.940 continues this could create a whole new level of you know middle class and those still struggling

00:22:28.820 to stay in it. So huge problem. Younger people up and coming. I mean, the pressures right now,

00:22:34.560 well, everybody's getting hit or older people on fixed incomes. This is a real big problem and

00:22:38.580 our government doesn't seem ready to address it. Oh, it's nuts. Wage growth in the country hasn't

00:22:44.580 kept up with inflation. People are making less. The wages are not going up at all. You know,

00:22:51.740 the Alberta government, by taking away the provincial fuel tax, well, that's just taking

00:22:56.540 away Alberta's tax room now because the carbon tax the federal carbon tax is doing what it was

00:23:00.820 designed to do and it's causing the inflation to go up and we're already in a world economic

00:23:06.180 environment where world energy prices are going through the roof and you know we have pipe in

00:23:11.640 the ground with Keystone XL it's already in the ground and that pipeline is a hundred percent

00:23:17.220 renewable powered so it's not even going to be a massive carbon boost to our carbon cap that we

00:23:25.280 have uh you know it it would by by reversing the carbon tax and getting these pipelines in the

00:23:32.560 ground we would instantly see relief we would see relief at the pump we would see money in the uh

00:23:38.160 provincial and the federal coffers and it would also uh you know start the reduction of western

00:23:44.400 alienation uh you know nobody's happier than quebec when alberta's making a ton of money because the

00:23:49.120 money's getting pumped over and alberta doesn't complain about it we pay the bill and and like

00:23:54.640 look at alberta's budget the budget is balanced right now and it's balanced on the back energy

00:23:59.840 prices and could you imagine if they reverse the no more uh tankers and no more pipelines laws

00:24:05.520 how many more people would be back to work tech frontier comes back online we expand production

00:24:11.200 and we provide the world the cleanest most ethically produced uh oil and gas in the world

00:24:17.200 and and other countries can start to reduce their reliance on dictators like uh uh saudi arabia um

00:24:23.600 iran and and russia and and canadians would be better off you you wouldn't even have to um

00:24:31.280 put more tax structures in place we could stop with all of these government programs

00:24:35.680 um that go to subsidize the the middle income people middle income people need subsidies right

00:24:41.120 now because their wages haven't gone up and inflation's completely out of control and the

00:24:45.840 interest rates are going up anybody on a variable um mortgage right now is just screaming um you

00:24:52.000 You know, their paycheck's gone because of inflation.

00:24:55.720 They can't afford groceries.

00:24:57.300 And now their interest rates have gone up.

00:24:59.660 Sounds like James should be running for office.

00:25:01.760 We'll work on that.

00:25:02.740 You know, the frustrating thing, Corey, and you touched on it this morning, we all saw it coming.

00:25:09.160 Right?

00:25:09.320 If you were halfway intelligent, you could see it coming two years ago.

00:25:12.900 And the Feds, Trudeau, did absolutely nothing to stop it.

00:25:17.900 And they're, you know, they're reaping what they sowed.

00:25:20.400 We're reaping what they sow.

00:25:21.880 that's the problem. I mean, you know, trust fund baby Trudeau doesn't care because he jetsets

00:25:27.020 around the world on other people's bills. But for those of us who are working with bills and

00:25:31.480 dealing with that, it's a big problem. And it's ideology. I mean, he's got to have some advisors.

00:25:36.700 He's got to have some people with some economics knowledge. We know that we're not going to get

00:25:41.320 nuanced economic policy from Justin anytime soon, but he should be surrounded by some people saying,

00:25:46.160 dude, we got to do something about this. Because the means to fix it, like James was saying,

00:25:50.080 you were saying we're right there some of these things to mitigate it get the keystone going get

00:25:54.620 on biden's case if if justin is virtue signaling from canada to get it rolling it puts that much

00:26:00.340 more pressure on biden down south i mean trudeau's silence on this helps biden who again is another

00:26:06.120 ideologically blinded man i mean he was in the senate before i was born he's never had to pay

00:26:10.140 real bills and and people don't understand this like you know if we can trudeau's had three raises

00:26:16.920 this year alone uh private jet out to whistler uh for a week-long ski getaway uh with his family i

00:26:24.600 assume no doubt staying at some millionaire's place on ski lifts that have been donated by

00:26:30.280 whistler i'm sure you know and this is this is dream stuff for the vast majority of canadians

00:26:35.400 i can't do it they can't even afford the lift tickets for the gas to get out to sunshine and

00:26:40.600 go skiing for the day here because gas prices have gone up so much you're right he just lives

00:26:45.560 in a bubble trust fund bubble and he just doesn't get it just doesn't see it but perhaps this is

00:26:51.400 part of the way that goes to explain the poly of the poly of popularity i think people are fed up

00:26:57.480 a lot of it i mean trudeau won't even talk about the economy i can see why the advisors say he

00:27:01.080 shouldn't because again if you let him talk on his own it never ends well and this is getting

00:27:04.840 way out of his very shallow depth to begin with uh but maybe we have to hit rock bottom to get

00:27:09.800 out but boy a lot of people are going to suffer you know i mean there's no magic bullet nothing's

00:27:13.240 going to turn it around on a dime, but we're not even making moves to slow it. And Paliyev is

00:27:18.180 talking about that. He's talking about ways we can do it, increasing local production of goods

00:27:23.240 and services, exporting. He's talking about digital currency. So yeah, he's speaking some

00:27:27.520 language that maybe, you know, the politicians and the pundits are saying, oh, Canadians don't

00:27:32.320 want to hear about it. Canadians don't. But if we look at these rallies, actually a lot of Canadians

00:27:35.940 do. Well, exactly. Like Pierre has been talking about this for two, well, two, three, his whole

00:27:42.740 career he's been uh well lately he's been the shadow minister of finance and he keeps saying

00:27:48.340 it just inflation the inflation is coming the inflation is coming and he's standing there and

00:27:52.980 i mean i'm sure maybe it feels a little good to say i told you so but he's not he's not on the i

00:27:58.340 told you so tour he's out there giving options right now on how to reverse the situation that

00:28:03.300 we're in and we all know what trudeau has to say about economic policy i believe he said you'll

00:28:08.100 have to forgive me if i don't think about economic policy well you know if you talk to anybody at any

00:28:14.340 average everyday canadian right now that's all they're talking about uh just the the sandwich

00:28:19.620 shop and the plus 15 right right behind us here great food love going there if you go in there

00:28:25.220 and notice right now their sandwich board their menu prices are all on a whiteboard they've changed

00:28:30.420 their prices twice now in the last couple of months and they're not the kind of business that

00:28:34.980 wants to have a big fancy menu prices and menu items they make soup they make sandwiches

00:28:41.860 and they're raising their prices and and it's all because of supply chain issues and when they blame

00:28:47.460 supply chain issues they're blaming a trucker shortage but it's a trucker shortage they created

00:28:51.860 through the vaccine mandate you want to get more truckers on the road drop the vaccine mandates

00:28:56.420 get the truckers on the road we have american governors democratic governors coming to alberta

00:29:02.980 to talk to jason kenney about getting the keystone xl started again you know i don't understand why

00:29:08.580 biden and trudeau can't listen to their fellow politicians or even their fellow party members

00:29:14.420 about getting the situation under control what what do they need to see do they need to see mass

00:29:19.300 bankruptcies mass layoffs like the wages just can't come up i don't think they will see it you

00:29:25.860 know they're blind to their own woke world and they've got a complicit legacy media that loves

00:29:30.900 feeding that as well. But you know what, no matter how concerned, even individuals who call

00:29:34.360 themselves progressive and were fixing it on the woke things, all those stupid little woke

00:29:38.500 initiatives are only good when you're rich, when things are going well, when you can't make the

00:29:43.660 rent, when you don't have a job, when you can't pay to fill the fridge, those priorities go way

00:29:49.380 by the wayside. Campaign time, you know, the person who's talking to them saying, I'll help

00:29:52.580 you pay your bills versus the other guy saying, we're going to have quotas for some strange,

00:29:57.380 obscure minority gender that nobody's ever heard of in a you know private sector you know where 1.00

00:30:04.040 the vote's going to go so this could change we're just going to have to suffer a lot more before it 1.00

00:30:07.360 gets here yeah it's sort of off topic but look look at what's happening in bc they're desperately

00:30:13.360 short of nurses they have a health care crisis so what are they going to do they're going to go out

00:30:17.620 and try and hire 1200 foreign trained workers they fired 1200 workers because they didn't have

00:30:25.100 the vaccine, fired them. Now they're 1200 short and they're panicking. Well, yeah, there's

00:30:29.580 consequences to actions, right? And there just, there doesn't seem to be any reality coming out

00:30:35.900 of Ottawa these days. It comes eventually, but usually in a hard form. I think we've covered

00:30:40.300 enough for this week. So thank you very much, Dave, and for your maiden appearance there,

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Western Standard - April 21, 2022

The Pipeline： Inflation still going up, up, up!

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