Calgary voted to repeal its anti-bag bylaw, and now the question is, will the rest of the province get on board with it? And Vancouver has a new bike lane policy. Also, the city of Vancouver has abandoned a policy on paper cups.
00:05:30.660Anyway, sometimes reality and practicality just runs smack into ideology, and as this is an ideology that it's somebody's job, but it's not city council's, then I'm very glad to see this development.
00:05:45.860Well, like Dave and I were talking about earlier on the Corgan Morgan show this afternoon, we were talking about the bike lanes and how the bike lanes are immediately cleared of snow.
00:05:56.620But we have bylaw officers and essentially the sidewalk enforcement for sidewalk shoveling is done by bylaw, but it's done when they are requested to enforce.
00:06:06.700So how would this law have even been enforceable?
00:06:09.340Are we going to put Calgary bylaw officers in McDonald's and make sure they're charging 15 cents for a bag?
00:06:15.860So it's only been in place for, I think, a week, maybe a week and a half. But I will tell you that there has been very few times I've actually been charged for a bag. And I know that because after the order has been completed and I have paid, I have then been offered a bag.
00:06:32.540Now, I'm not going to rat those businesses out. They're awesome people. They're great places. I go there frequently, but I have not had to ask for a napkin, ask for a fork, or pay for a bag outside of the grocery store.
00:06:46.580but you know james i'll tell you how these things get out of hand there will be some person who has
00:06:52.900decided that this is their cause all the things on god's green earth that they're going to care
00:06:58.800about they're going to care about paper bags and plastic forks and they will go to fast food
00:07:04.980restaurants and they will be given one and then they will turn around and rat out the and then
00:07:10.200the bylaw officer will show up and you get two or three prosecutions and then suddenly everybody
00:07:14.620starts to do it. That's how these things get. And that's actually a really vicious
00:07:18.340anti-citizenry, just a real bad form thing to do, but that's what happens.
00:08:52.760So why wouldn't be, they're going to become part of the plastic problem or they're going to be part of the waste problem.
00:08:59.200So why wouldn't we be encouraging compost and building up that compost facility to be able to handle the additional compost if we're moving away from plastic and paper and other type stuff?
00:09:09.380you know, it's definitely been frustrating. It's one of those things where, you know,
00:09:14.840it probably looked great on paper. And when they've seen it in practice, or they got handed
00:09:19.580their McDonald's burger and their fries and whatever just through the window, and all of a
00:09:23.580sudden there's kids with dumping pop all over the vehicle, and there's fries in the cup holder.
00:09:28.920You know, I bet these counselors got a lot of very angry phone calls. But, you know, more to that,
00:09:33.580it's affordability. And right now, no one in Canada is having a great time. Groceries, gas,
00:09:40.320home heating, absolutely every aspect of our life. The costs have gone up. I actually did
00:09:45.300some quick math. So I've been using HelloFresh for a while. That is seven meal kits delivered
00:09:51.380to my house once a week. That would be 15 cents per bag. Essentially, that's going to work out
00:09:56.900to $50 a year. $50 a year in the grand scheme of things isn't a ton of money, but realistically,
00:10:03.580if I have kids, a family, a mortgage, fuel,
00:11:02.160Um, but that actually brings us to, uh, to our next point here. They are going to delay MAID for the mentally ill. Now, I, this, this, this to me has been disgusting. Um, I, I, I support the MAID program. I do.
00:11:20.140I don't think somebody who has ALS, cancer, where their death is imminent and there's no way out of it, they should be able to die with dignity.
00:11:41.780And I think that we got to this point the same way we got to quite a lot of other issues that divide us these days in society.
00:11:50.420There's a certain worldview, a certain mindset that makes human beings expendables.
00:11:58.040And when you remove the certainties, certainties, for instance, that come from religious belief,
00:12:05.680Well, when anything goes, and if you're going to argue that human beings are essentially commodities or they're like animals, just a sort of a more intelligent animal, that in itself is perhaps a debatable point.
00:12:18.640But anyway, you know, you ask how we get here?
00:12:23.060I actually like the way that you put it just then, that people who are in an extremity, I think that is their choice.
00:12:35.680I hope that I would not make it myself because that doesn't square with who I say I am.
00:12:43.320But also, I've never experienced the kind of pain that somebody who is a week away from dying with ALS, for example, will experience or the worst forms of cancer.
00:12:54.760where the problem comes in and you you said this is that when we expand it
00:13:02.780to people who aren't just about to die but who are going to die at some time in the next year
00:13:12.100which is where we have got to at the moment and the plan was to make it possible for people who
00:13:17.720are just not having a good time they're mentally ill0.93
00:13:21.420somebody who is so mentally ill that they can't even drive their car should probably not be1.00
00:13:29.280making a life and death decision about themselves so is the government looking at them as a burden
00:13:35.020on society and let's just get rid of them and i hate to use that language um you know mike
00:13:40.880a lot of people say that and it's like a lot of these things there is some truth to it0.98
00:13:45.900There was a report put out two years ago that made at that particular point
00:13:51.900was saving, I think, the province of Ontario about $90 million a year.
00:13:57.260Well, $90 million is a lot of money to the ordinary citizen,
00:14:03.720but for a health system, for a province, it's peanuts.
00:14:07.420So I don't really think that's what's driving it.
00:14:09.480I honestly think that it's a misguided sense of human rights.
00:16:35.720It could be a new job. You can ask your barber, you can ask your hairdresser. A haircut can cure depression, at least for a few hours. But it's shocking to me that the medical community, and especially this is being driven by people on the left, that, you know, they're the ones that say we need to do a better job of protecting the vulnerable in society.
00:16:56.480We need to have better social supports. We need to have better social security and we need better health care and treatment for these people.
00:17:03.600And then at the same time saying, but if that doesn't work, you know, just die.
00:17:08.260Yeah. And I I I can't I can't square that circle.
00:17:12.540No, and that's because you're a sane individual. There were 13,421 people, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, who received medical assistance in dying during the year 2022.
00:17:29.000That's about a third more than it was in 2021, which is about half as much again as it was in 2020.
00:23:06.200That's why we have so many different independent news agencies popping up.
00:23:09.820Most of them, like, well, The Rebel, for example, part of their mission statement, they say, is to counteract the CBC.
00:23:17.220And, you know, you see the CBC take activist stances on things all the time, particularly around the terrorist attacks in Israel and the ongoing war there now.
00:23:27.800And, like, they're sending everything to the managers to approve before it goes out.
00:23:34.440And, you know, it'll take you three seconds to Google CBC Alberta,
00:23:38.240and you can find Kaylin Ford and the outright lies that they published about her.
00:23:57.800So is that internal policy or is that coming from outside the organization, do you think?
00:24:06.340I think it's coming from inside the organization.
00:24:09.020I think it's coming straight from the top.
00:24:10.740You look at the CEO and the bonuses right now, and she has been on a media tour being absolutely unapologetic about laying people off and taking her $100,000 bonus.1.00
00:24:22.400I could not imagine how they measure success in their business then, because if you look, I actually looked at this. So when I was looking at an article that you guys sent me, the articles that come up referencing CBC, CTF calls for CBC head to cut executive bonuses after layoffs.
00:24:41.700CBC CEO misled with Indigenous language services claim.
00:29:10.140Which reminds me, while we're talking about it, you should become a member of the CSSA.
00:29:15.320They are fighting for your gun rights, they're fighting for your property rights, and they're taking on the Trudeau Liberals on their gun grabs and their gun buyback plans and absolutely everything.
00:29:25.580If you're not a member of the CSSA, you can become a member of the CSSA at cssa-cila.org.
00:29:32.500Now, while we're talking about Trudeau, bad laws, gun grabs, buybacks, let's talk about Trudeau's legal reverses.
00:30:00.700In January, just last week, the federal court ruled that the Trudeau liberals had proceeded in an unreasonable and unjustifiable way when they applied the Emergencies Act to the convoy situation.
00:30:22.500And the truth of the matter is that existing laws could certainly have taken care of the issue.
00:30:29.100Here in Alberta, it did not take the Emergencies Act and the powers thereof to clear up the situation.
00:30:35.600Of course, things could have been done that way in Ottawa.
00:30:39.160The judge, Judge Wagner, sorry, Judge Mosley, said that when he began the case,
00:30:46.120he had some reservations about the movement.
00:30:49.820He says he still has reservations about the movement, but when he heard the quality of the arguments that were presented to defend what they did as opposed to who they were, he had no option but to declare that the government had acted illegally.
00:31:08.420That takes you back then to, well, let's not go into the plastics ban again, but again, the federal court in November of last year struck down the single-use plastics ban.
00:31:19.820In October, the Supreme Court of Canada, on a reference case, said that the federal government had proceeded out of their lane, to use Daniel Smith's expression, but at any rate, that Bill C-69, the No Pipelines Act, the Impact Assessment Act, as it's properly known, was unconstitutional in part because the federal government was moving into the provincial area.
00:31:47.560That's three. In July, it was determined, unfortunately, this is not a binding decision, but there is an organization that reviews military cases, and it decided that Canadian Armed Forces members who had refused the vaccine had actually had their rights violated when they were consequently fired.
00:32:11.780This is about 400 people, nearly 400 people, who were either fired or quit because they wouldn't take the vaccine.
00:32:19.080Never mind the, I mean, don't have the vaccine debate, because otherwise you'll keep me here all afternoon.
00:32:26.000The fact of the matter is they, it is a very personal thing to accept medical treatment or refuse it.
00:32:32.680And therefore, to say, well, you're in uniform, therefore you've got to do whatever they say,
00:32:39.140as opposed to whatever we order you to do in the line of duty, three different things.
00:33:50.460So I wonder, if you're an attorney, and we've seen what happened when an attorney general stood up to Justin Trudeau in the past,
00:34:01.980Jody Wilson-Raybould stood up, said, SNC-Lavalin, this is the Department of Public Prosecutions, there should be no political interference, she wouldn't do what Trudeau said, she was gone.
00:34:12.580Now, Lamedi was overwhelmingly responsible for these laws, obviously, it would have been his advice that they would have wrote these on.
00:34:21.080Do we actually think that it was coming off of David Lamedi's advice, or was this directly coming from Trudeau?
00:34:26.420I would guess Trudeau. I think that he is in a situation where he feels very comfortable with his coalition with the NDP. He basically gives him the majority and dictatorial powers that he is not afraid to use. I think a lot of stuff comes out of the PMO that generates all this stuff.
00:34:53.040Yeah, it would surprise me that, I mean, there's a few attorneys sitting around at the cabinet table, but it would surprise me that the government's lawyers are wrong this much.
00:35:06.320To me, it feels like this is coming from somebody who, A, doesn't care about the law, doesn't care about the letter of the law, doesn't care about the Constitution, and is saying, I don't care what it says, I want it like this.
00:35:17.640And that's what it feels like to me. Like, especially the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
00:35:54.760It's hard to get inside anybody else's head and understand why they do certain things.
00:36:01.800But there is something about the prime minister's repetitive behavior,
00:36:07.680which, when put together with things that he has said, makes me think this is just an opinion.
00:36:15.660Again, this is not a diagnosis, but that he enjoys the feeling of being regarded as a tough, determined prime minister who will make things happen.
00:36:26.860He said something along those lines 10 years ago, talking about how much he admired the Chinese way of government.
00:36:35.040And he also has a father who invoked the War Measures Act, who I think overall was applauded for doing so.0.81
00:36:44.880There was, not without its controversy back in the 1970s, but generally speaking, people felt, all right, well, there's somebody who takes charge when charge needs to be taken.
00:36:55.480Did Mr. Trudeau want that kind of talk about him?
00:37:03.460Certainly, if that was his idea, it has seriously backfired because this string of, you know, I only went back six months.
00:37:12.460But this string of government actions that have been declared illegal by various levels of courts and authorities speaks of a government that just says, you know what, we're going to do whatever we want to do, and people can object, but we'll have our way.
00:37:35.180I've seen it done in management union situations. Get the person out of here. Yeah, they'll grieve it. But, well, 18 months later, meanwhile, we don't have to work with them. It's a tactic. It's very commonly used. So, doesn't look good on them, frankly.
00:37:52.540No, I mean, just the amount of investment that they've chased out of Canada, as it is, is mind boggling, mind boggling.
00:38:00.540You know, like we have a tanker ban off of the West Coast, but we're shipping in dictator oil into Quebec and we can't build pipelines.
00:38:09.540And like they're they're applying like the Tech Frontier mine was a death that was caused by this Bill C-69.
00:38:18.540and 50 billion dollars I believe yeah and could you imagine right now without the oil and gas
00:38:25.480industry Canada would be in a recession for sure and then on top of it we have these shovel ready
00:38:32.220projects but even after uh because of the way Trudeau has written laws applied the laws and
00:38:38.980then the courts have struck them down who's going to invest in that market who who's going to go
00:38:43.580and say you know what let's put tech back on the table but we're got to do it quick before Trudeau
00:38:48.080notices. You bet. But this is, you know, when we have these discussions, I think there is a
00:38:55.760tendency to think, well, he didn't know what they were doing. I mean, look at the investment we've
00:38:59.600lost. They must be so sorry. No, they're not. No, that was the investment they wanted to chase.
00:39:05.500Exactly. They didn't have to win the court case. They've chased away the investment.0.70
00:39:10.460Oh, exactly. Tech's not going to put the money on the table to build that mine,0.87
00:39:14.240And even though they're not required to go through that assessment, the original approval from Alberta would still stand.
00:39:21.700But could you imagine going back to your shareholders and saying, well, we're going to take this extremely risky investment.
00:39:28.140We're going to invest billions and they could change the law, write a new one or whatever before you even get a shovel in the ground and get started.
00:39:35.820You know, it takes decades to build up a reputation as a solid place to do business.
00:39:43.400in months. Oh, absolutely. That is their single biggest achievement. They've killed
00:39:50.520investment. And I find it fascinating that Minister Gilbeau, the environment
00:39:54.560minister, is talking about a federal or a plastics registry, while at the same
00:39:59.280time coming to Edmonton to announce a new plastics facility. Does the cabinet
00:40:05.160table sit, do they meet in the same room? Do they know what they're doing? Because
00:40:09.680here they're investing like hundreds of millions, if not millions of dollars. And on the other side,
00:40:14.780they're trying to make these exact same businesses struggle. You know, it's, I don't
00:40:20.920understand. Do they want a good economy or do they want to do useless things to pretend to save the
00:40:25.640environment? I think the latter. I think there's, you know, to get into conspiracy, the Thomas
00:40:32.460conspiracy they want to keep fossil fuels in the ground so that at some point in time
00:40:41.580they own them all and then they can start bringing them out because they go well you know that
00:40:46.220electric thing didn't work out so well or we don't have enough people but don't worry about it we
00:40:51.100we have real we control the oil and the gas now and we'll look after getting it out to you and
00:40:57.580and the power and the wealth that will generate for them for that and again this is the thomas
00:41:03.180conspiracy uh i think that's their long-term goal um well certainly there are many people
00:41:13.020who would agree with you and they would they would wonder who uh mr trudeau and the gang were taking
00:41:20.780their orders from yes and you may be right but i will tell you you it doesn't have to be that
00:41:26.540in order to explain their behavior now it is possible for these people to be genuinely and
00:41:33.660sincerely mind-blowingly wrong and to have totally bought into a system of belief
00:41:41.820that makes all of these things thoroughly logical and if it hurts people well you know all right
00:41:49.660that's the price we have they have to pay not necessarily us but they will have to pay yeah
00:41:55.020Well, even, you know, one of the talking points Trudeau always uses is that he's trying to support the middle class and those working hard to join it.
00:42:01.860But almost every piece of economic policy that has come out since he's been the prime minister would be contrary to that.
00:42:10.180And a lot of these laws have made it worse.
00:42:13.160You know, if you're trying to get indigenous communities, and I spoke to Robbie Picard, an oil and gas activist from Fort McMurray on the Cory Morgan show this afternoon.
00:42:22.980Well, how many indigenous communities would have been uplifted from the tech frontier mine? How many jobs? What does that mean for reconciliation? So, you know, I'm glad that the courts are finally saying, okay, that's enough. That's unconstitutional. That's illegal. What you're doing is wrong.
00:42:43.120But how do we get that changed? Is there a way to, you know, I don't think the Liberals are ever going to start following the law. They're going to keep inventing it. But, you know, what we've seen, Calgarians picked up the phone, they called their city councillors, the bylaws gone.
00:43:02.500do we think this liberal government would listen to the constituents because we've seen on the east
00:43:09.540coast that when the pressure got applied to those mps they said all right carbon taxes off home
00:43:14.260heating oil what can albertans what can saskatchewan what can bc what can manitoba do
00:43:20.440well vote liberal they would probably tell you maybe that would make a difference i don't know
00:43:25.480I don't think I could live with myself, but it's, what it's going to take, I'm afraid, is a change of government.