Western Standard - October 20, 2020


The Rant with Cory Morgan. October 19, 2020


Episode Stats

Length

18 minutes

Words per Minute

215.42409

Word Count

3,974

Sentence Count

2

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

In this week's rant, Cory rants about the ongoing conflict between Nova Scotia's lobster fishermen and the local Indigenous lobster fishers, and how to deal with it. Also, Cory talks about some of the problems facing the sockeye salmon run, and what to do about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 hey welcome to this week's episode of the rant I'm Cory Morgan this is my
00:00:12.120 weekly therapeutic thing to get over the latest news good news bad news stupid
00:00:17.760 news whatever I get it off my chest I tell you what's been happening I tell
00:00:22.440 you what to think about it you can tell me what you think I used to be doing it
00:00:26.160 live one of the things I have to rant about is my rural internet coverage I
00:00:29.760 love living just on the edge of the city but unfortunately fiber optics and
00:00:33.520 other such things aren't options for me out here and the telus hub really sucks
00:00:37.800 so I'm gonna record it put it out can't get your live comments as they go but as
00:00:41.820 things improve we'll get there so I'll get on to a nice simple story this is the
00:00:47.640 one that's been dominating the news all week Nova Scotia there seems to be the
00:00:51.760 war is breaking out again basically between lobster fishermen and the local
00:00:57.000 indigenous now lobster or fishers fair enough every gender can fish but it's
00:01:04.640 getting really bad out there again I mean those guys were shooting at each other
00:01:07.520 and chasing each other around in boats some years ago this is what happens when
00:01:10.320 you have race-based policy like let's quit pissing around when you have a policy for
00:01:14.540 one race and not another race there's gonna be tensions always and it's never
00:01:18.580 gonna stop so that Marshall decision bullshit I mean I can understand at least
00:01:23.520 with some some treaty decisions so let's talk about that there was a decision
00:01:26.620 called the Marshall decision that said they had the right to sustenance and
00:01:30.660 making a living type of lobster fishing but it's led to and expanded into huge
00:01:36.380 commercial operations that are decimating the local lobster stocks and are
00:01:39.960 leading to well what's going to be a lot of unemployed lobster fishery people very
00:01:46.040 soon they're pulling out now in the offseason 50,000 pounds of lobster a day this
00:01:52.440 can't be sustained and there's a reason that fisheries have seasons because you
00:01:55.260 can't pull them out while they're spawning or you don't get new lobster down
00:01:59.940 the road but we've got a large number of people who are just living for the
00:02:03.000 moment make the money now while they can and it's just going to decimate because
00:02:07.660 they don't look beyond the end of their nose or beyond a few months we're
00:02:10.560 seeing the same problem with the sockeye run nobody likes to talk about it but
00:02:13.500 part of the problem on the west coast is some people are putting gill nets
00:02:17.040 across that river and keeping those things from spawning we blame global warming and
00:02:20.440 everything else for those things collapsing but uncontrolled fishing by
00:02:24.220 people are supposed to be just pulling out enough to eat yet somehow are selling it
00:02:26.980 on every roadside stand are causing the problems there we saw that similarly too
00:02:33.160 again with the Stony Reserve in Alberta I remember the 90s they did a bunch of
00:02:37.660 logging you can still see it if you drive highway 1 if you live out in Alberta
00:02:41.560 west of Calgary and you see all that logging by the Kananaskis turn it's being
00:02:45.380 reclaimed the the trees are growing back well they logged all that out back in the 90s no
00:02:49.880 buffer zones no riparian buffers everything else they made an ecological
00:02:53.360 disaster and what they ended up basically doing was suing the government for not
00:02:56.560 stopping them because it was on native land but they did it made such a mess
00:03:01.120 that they sued us for not stopping them and then we had to pay to reclaim the
00:03:04.880 mess that they've made now I want to see these reserves develop local resources and
00:03:10.340 get their own economy going it's great it's good for all of us but they got to
00:03:13.680 follow the same rules and regulations as the rest of us there I admit we got way too
00:03:17.540 any rules and regulations but some of them do have a reason they do serve a
00:03:20.540 purpose and again you've got to have the same ones for everybody if you're going
00:03:24.420 to have them at all and so things have gotten really tense though so some of
00:03:29.520 the Nova Scotia fishers out of desperation actually burned down it's
00:03:34.080 called a lobster pound it's the area where you're gonna sell your lobster to is
00:03:37.660 after you've caught them and that's where they'll get frozen or processed and
00:03:41.300 shipped to wherever there might be a buyer because that's the thing too so this was
00:03:45.700 terribly dangerous a person got burned with life-threatening industry injury
00:03:48.880 somebody could have died you see this is not the way we want to see this dispute
00:03:53.380 coming to an end but these people are at the end of the rope they're losing their
00:03:56.880 living the government of course doesn't want to touch this with a ten-foot pole
00:03:59.900 they're terrified of native issues so they're just kind of hoping that somehow
00:04:03.280 it'll solve itself and it won't and an example this is kind of what brought it to
00:04:07.180 light recently so a large lobster pound that was out there was run by this guy as you
00:04:13.180 could see here and he was found guilty of illegally selling lobster and he was
00:04:16.840 shipping it to China frozen he was buying it thousands of pounds of it this
00:04:22.960 stinger operation actually tagged lobster put them back in the ocean and then they
00:04:28.900 could see who caught them and where they were sold they were all caught by
00:04:32.440 indigenous lobster fishermen and sold to this guy because they I mean they got
00:04:37.300 to sell somewhere they can't just you know it's not household consumption and
00:04:40.360 it's not small sales so pounds like this fellow who were illegally shipping it
00:04:43.960 along are sending it out so now that the the local natives lost one of their
00:04:49.340 bigger pipelines to be able to send out this lobster it's it's just caused them
00:04:52.560 to ramp things up further and we've really got an explosive situation going on
00:04:56.560 out there and it's something I find ironic from the the left-wingers and some
00:04:59.680 of the natives they're screaming we gotta get the RCMP injury they gotta protect us
00:05:02.460 they gotta do this they gotta do that it wasn't that long ago guys and
00:05:05.480 listening to your allies there Black Lives Matter who say we want to abolish the
00:05:08.560 police we don't want any police well maybe these lobster fishers getting up
00:05:12.520 burning down pounds the threat thing you guys is the community based policing
00:05:16.360 you're talking about I mean it's grassroots it's bottom-up isn't it
00:05:18.880 they're locals you guys can settle it on your own no you want please like I can't
00:05:23.780 tell I don't know week by week what you assholes want and you know we would we
00:05:27.800 gotta get out of Mohawk's land we're gonna block the roads because RCMP have no
00:05:31.540 jurisdiction with us so apparently the RCMP don't have jurisdiction with it with
00:05:35.220 natives here or Wet'suwet'en oh they're invading their territory well maybe the
00:05:39.480 RCMP should just stay out of this you know you guys can all kind of sort this
00:05:42.840 out on your own might not be a pretty way to go about it we better figure out a
00:05:47.400 balance here guys and let this just you know be something for people to think of
00:05:51.960 or to respond to other people when they talk about something as fucking stupid as
00:05:55.500 abolishing police because it's not reasonable we can reform police but we
00:05:58.980 can't get rid of them plus we can't have a world where police only have
00:06:01.980 authority on this race's property but not that race's property we're gonna have
00:06:06.660 a little civil war out there pretty soon if the police are not allowed to
00:06:09.300 intervene somehow and get some order in there and again though this is gonna keep
00:06:13.320 being going on as long as we have race-based policy now what are we doing
00:06:17.760 in light of all this though oh look at that Queens is dropping Sir John A.
00:06:21.960 McDonald's name from their law school building because again we feel if we
00:06:25.680 pander enough if we erase history enough these racial tensions are gonna end no
00:06:32.180 they aren't you idiots as long as we've got racial policies like the Indian Act
00:06:36.240 there's gonna be racial tensions because you were getting one class of people and
00:06:40.380 another class of people and it's based on bloodline race nothing else this it's
00:06:44.440 unbelievable that the politically correct stance is to support what is
00:06:48.860 literally institutionalized racism and that's the Indian Act we've got to stop it
00:06:53.660 but instead now we're running around trying to erase our country's founders
00:06:58.160 name from places here is Sir Johnny the only you know one purpose I see he stands I
00:07:02.840 prefer seeing his old face on our currency because we'd see that moron
00:07:06.680 Trudeau on there or something like that if we didn't have Sir Johnny on there this
00:07:13.820 guy yeah he was a product of his times he believed in the residential schools they
00:07:17.780 thought they were doing the right thing hey things change it was 150 years ago don't
00:07:22.040 be stupid it doesn't make it disappear we're not still doing it he was a
00:07:25.460 historic figure he did do some great things he did some bad things he was a
00:07:28.580 drunkard there were corruption scandals but he was an integral part of the
00:07:32.360 national history and it's bloody stupid with these efforts to try and erase him
00:07:36.620 from our history now speaking of cowards on the federal front we've got the NDP
00:07:40.940 Trudeau and Singh they're both kind of our co-prime ministers now you can see how
00:07:45.500 they bonded actually they have a lot in common in some ways either way you know now
00:07:50.600 that that NDP tail is wagging the liberal dog it goes back and forth and it's
00:07:54.500 reciprocal so the Conservatives have been pushing really hard the weave scandal
00:07:58.160 because it looks like there's a lot more evidence that there was some more
00:08:01.100 money being funneled and pipeline and essentially laundered into Trudeau's
00:08:04.820 family to his mommy and his brother to give them extra things to do and make
00:08:08.420 some bucks you know because the trust fund wasn't just quite enough and a lot of
00:08:11.900 the documents that came in were redacted so the Liberals have been
00:08:15.720 filibustering the committee and stopping it from happening you know from from these
00:08:19.880 documents getting out of the what was it Wayne Easter just shut down a committee
00:08:23.240 out of the blue at a zoom meeting while Pierre Poliev was getting too close to
00:08:27.080 the truth it's absurd but the NDP said ah you know we'll back down and we won't
00:08:32.400 ask for those documents about your mommy and your brother anymore because the
00:08:35.420 NDP and the Liberals are in something of a partnership and screwing Canada
00:08:38.660 right now and they're doing a fantastic job of it one of the deals cut of
00:08:41.920 course is expanding our perpetual welfare program of CERB and such we're just
00:08:46.260 renaming it and changing it but it's going to go on into next spring and
00:08:49.620 ignoring the the fact that it's basically making us go broke and now we're
00:08:54.180 starting to see some of the consequences of having money handed out to people
00:08:58.020 just no questions asked and given out to them to dispose of how they will it's
00:09:03.200 it's developed over this last five months a beautiful and blossoming drug
00:09:07.140 market we're seeing with overdoses have surpassed COVID deaths pretty much
00:09:11.280 everywhere in Canada I mean the overdoses are exploding because
00:09:13.660 unfortunately vulnerable people don't put CERB money into their RSPs they get
00:09:18.540 drugs and they take them and they die now the gangsters are using CERB to buy
00:09:23.320 guns and protect their turf because you know there's big business now going on so
00:09:27.380 these different gangs of course are wanting to get into it so that then the
00:09:30.040 whole funding is actually out of the CERB so isn't that comforting those few of
00:09:33.080 us who are working for a living still and paying taxes this is where it's
00:09:36.400 going is to fund these now the Liberals and the NDP like universal basic
00:09:40.900 income ideas that basically means CERB forever no questions asked money being
00:09:44.400 given out so we can see the gang aspect what's going to go but you know it's not
00:09:47.380 just the street level gangs it's not just the addicts there's also lazy sons of
00:09:50.980 bitches like this guy he wrote this piece in the Globe and Mail a year ago he
00:09:56.660 said he doesn't want to do his PhD anymore he's a career student he's been
00:09:59.700 languishing through our system for some time probably has a big debt you know just
00:10:03.120 just wants to cruise around party he wants a UBI and he writes and expands on
00:10:07.540 that in his story though he's a poet yes he's a poet nobody wants to buy his
00:10:10.820 fucking poetry so in order to be a poet make a living he feels the world owes him
00:10:15.120 a living through universal basic income the only thing I can give this guy
00:10:18.180 credit for he's honest about it he says I want to sit on my ass and write poetry
00:10:22.240 and I want the world to pay me to do it I'll give him that but either way quit
00:10:27.360 denying reality there are lazy bums out there there are junkies out there there
00:10:32.460 are a great number of people out there who are not going to do better if we keep
00:10:35.440 handing them money with no strings attached we have people who need help
00:10:39.640 and we got to work on things but let's not pretend that it's just as simple as
00:10:43.460 writing checks because actually the checks can cause more damage than what
00:10:47.160 they're trying to solve much like our lockdowns aren't solving
00:10:49.660 the pandemic now getting to those who might want to work it must get a little
00:10:55.240 more provincial the UCP had their policy convention on the weekend and one of the
00:10:59.500 things that's got the unions all stirred up and it doesn't take a lot of
00:11:01.820 imagination to stir up unions they're pretty vulnerable feeling people for
00:11:07.000 some reason his right to work legislation you know this is the thing I always get
00:11:11.060 a kick out of the union people the thing they hate the most is giving their own
00:11:15.540 members a choice why if you guys are so damn good why would you ever fear your
00:11:20.580 members having the choice of whether or not they want to be with you if you're so
00:11:23.940 damn good nobody's gonna leave they'll stick with you guys come on and why do
00:11:27.860 unions always hate secret ballots there's only one reason anybody would ever hate a
00:11:31.400 secret ballot unions are always fighting secret ballots on certification
00:11:34.060 because they want to intimidate people because they're friggin thugs that's why
00:11:38.820 there's only one kind of person who wants to see how everyone else is voting
00:11:42.260 it's the person who wants to intimidate those people to vote the way they want
00:11:45.740 unions should have nothing to fear with right-to-work legislation now the
00:11:49.200 disappointing part is this was a policy convention I know these are party
00:11:53.960 policy resolutions I wish I could say there were things that were moving ahead but
00:11:57.980 I'll tell you I can he's gonna have enough fighting with the unions coming up in the
00:12:00.340 next little while I doubt he's gonna move on right-to-work legislation the at
00:12:04.120 best policy resolutions at party conventions are broad suggestions to the
00:12:10.300 caucus it's kind of good and bad I mean you can't have party members pick every
00:12:13.620 policy if you've got a fluid and changing world where they you know caucus and
00:12:17.440 members have to respond to individual issues as they erupt as well a policy
00:12:23.140 might not cover a rural MLA might have not the same needs as as an urban one and
00:12:27.760 with free voting you know it should be something of a more of a mismatch either
00:12:31.240 way I don't think we're gonna see Kenny putting right-to-work legislation on the
00:12:37.420 table legislatively anytime soon I'd love it if he did but I think he's gonna move
00:12:43.120 on with other things they they did also have a resolution talking about possibly
00:12:47.740 having two-tier health care well guess what assholes we've already got it it's
00:12:51.160 been happening for a long time you don't see anybody on the flames there if they get an
00:12:55.040 injury waiting for 18 months to get an MRI they get it quickly and people of
00:13:00.080 heavy means will go at least when it's not locked down across the border and
00:13:04.940 they'll get treatment as well so that this is nothing new don't light your hair
00:13:09.860 on fire it's not a big deal I'm hoping to see some health reforms I want to see
00:13:13.400 quadruple tiers going on but for the time being there's not a big pile of
00:13:17.120 problems now let's talk about our shitty press yes here we go big headline Ottawa
00:13:23.660 surpasses 6,000 COVID-19 cases oh my god and two deaths now that's 6,000 total
00:13:32.840 that's 6,000 since COVID began actively they just have 700 some so why are we
00:13:37.420 even talking about the 6,000 you know I tweeted that or it's like reporting on
00:13:41.480 the bubonic plague to talk about there's a 16 million people with the bubonic plague
00:13:44.780 well yeah that was all a few hundred years ago but but they had it okay but how
00:13:51.080 many have it today because that's all it really friggin matters how many have it
00:13:54.020 today today in Ottawa it's almost you know a little more 10% of what they're
00:13:58.500 reporting and it's just cases not deaths look at that two deaths in a large
00:14:02.340 populated area turn out they're both people in their 80s tragic for those
00:14:06.860 people in their 80s but again this plague is nothing like the media likes to
00:14:11.600 make it out to be look at that crap why would you make a headline like that why
00:14:14.440 why don't you say 700 and some COVID cases that if you even if you're
00:14:18.840 reporting on cases which really aren't that important you know of course they
00:14:21.540 keep forgetting to mention that we're testing more than ever as well
00:14:24.080 thus we get more cases and they sure don't like talking about the fact that
00:14:27.120 people aren't dying because that doesn't sell papers I guess I'm really looking
00:14:31.440 forward to the mainstream media truly falling apart and they're coming close
00:14:34.320 so let's go over and talk about all those evil bastards that nasty nation those
00:14:39.740 ones that are pissing off the world yes those dirty nasty Swedes because they
00:14:44.900 keep proving the fear mongers wrong they still aren't locking down they never did
00:14:50.560 lockdown they never had mask legislation they didn't shut down their schools they
00:14:55.500 didn't shut down their restaurants and bars and guess what they didn't friggin die
00:14:59.820 oh yeah my pictures are sexist too many women well let's be fair then here's a
00:15:03.400 couple of Swedish men I'm sure a few my viewers will appreciate that view as well
00:15:07.200 one thing to be said for these Swedes they are healthy looking or at least the
00:15:10.340 ones I pick in pictures and that's fine but they are healthy in reality because
00:15:14.500 let's have a look look at that it's not just me talking out of my ass guys they
00:15:18.300 stopped dying over there it stopped happening I mean at the early part of the
00:15:22.100 pandemic you can see like many nations they went and put infected people in
00:15:26.860 with their vulnerable ones they put people in nursing homes I mean the worst
00:15:29.860 possible place to put COVID infected people and their death rate was terrible
00:15:33.340 as it was though it was less than Quebec and less than many other places it was
00:15:36.360 still bad once they figured that out and isolated people look at that curve
00:15:40.140 right down to the flat line no deaths on the 15th of October which is the last
00:15:44.180 report and as you can see by that line there's been virtually no deaths for
00:15:47.240 weeks they have one every few days yet they didn't do all those measures that
00:15:51.640 we're busy castrating our economies for right now go figure I'm gonna check in
00:15:56.260 on them in a week or two and guess what they still won't be friggin dying and
00:15:59.140 we'll probably still be locking ourselves down because we're friggin stupid now
00:16:02.820 speaking of stupid though I'll get on to the chode of the week because this one's a
00:16:06.140 beauty so this is yeah he writes for the New Yorker he's also a person who writes
00:16:10.740 for CNN he wrote a book going after President Trump always a good old lefty
00:16:15.280 he's woke he's on top of things he's uh he's a chronic masturbator he was
00:16:21.140 whacking off during a zoom meeting with a radio station I mean this is the best
00:16:26.100 thing for late night shows and comedians or even ranchers like me since the
00:16:30.980 Anthony Weiner incident I mean you can't beat this really dude really you know at
00:16:36.100 first they reported this it just said uh yeah he was suspended over a zoom
00:16:39.120 incident that broke today finally somebody leaked it out
00:16:41.360 no he was actually whacking off during a zoom meeting
00:16:45.520 uh man I I just don't know where to begin hey
00:16:49.460 you want to whack off good for you you know it's your business
00:16:51.520 my hand my soap I'll wash my pecker as long and hard as I want to whatever it's
00:16:55.060 my business but don't do it when you're sharing yourself
00:16:57.640 with a good number of people they don't want to look at it and of course the
00:17:01.280 picture leaked from the zoom meeting finally to have a look and you know that
00:17:05.380 that grotesque picture I mean I thank them for putting the little party hat or
00:17:08.860 whatever that is over his his parts this guy didn't just pull it out and you
00:17:13.660 know have his way with himself you know a quick little disobey into the Pope no he
00:17:16.780 went full Monty for it stark naked the response is let's see an empty chair
00:17:22.560 somebody got up and got the hell out of there uh the fellow up in the middle there
00:17:25.980 just is again wondering what the hell is going on
00:17:28.980 a couple are laughing their heads off one guy standing against the wall in terror
00:17:32.680 yeah nobody is quite paid enough to endure such a thing either way an
00:17:38.960 embarrassing incident for this man what the hell were you thinking I mean
00:17:43.060 aside from the not thinking that the camera might be on while you're doing it
00:17:46.900 was the meeting really that boring you couldn't make it you couldn't get through
00:17:50.360 20 minutes an hour whatever the hell that meeting was going to take
00:17:52.880 and then turn off your camera go off rub one out no you just had to do it right
00:17:56.660 friggin now man I don't know I didn't want to waste that blue pill or something
00:18:00.480 either way that's all I've got to rant about this week thanks for joining me
00:18:04.200 letting me symbolically cry on your shoulder uh
00:18:08.220 Wednesday we'll I'll be on the panel I'll be much more controlled we'll be
00:18:11.700 talking about the news of the week with probably Dave Naylor and Derek
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00:18:23.080 keep reporting good news and ranting about the the bad and the stupid news
00:18:26.380 good night