Western Standard - Triggered： All talk, no action plan won’t cut it with Albertans

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's July 22, 2022. All those number twos again. I'm not much into numerology

00:00:41.620 and all that sort of stuff, but if there's got to be somewhere, somehow somebody says

00:00:45.380 that that's supposed to be lucky or unlucky or good or bad or something, it just looks

00:00:49.580 neat on the scroll on my thing there. It makes it easier to remember what the date is right

00:00:54.520 now anyways. I'm Corey Morgan. This is the Western Standards Daily Live Show. We run

00:00:59.420 11.30 until about 1 o'clock for those who are on for the first time. I usually have a couple of

00:01:04.440 good guests on, do some political ranting, and have some discourse with you guys in the comment

00:01:09.280 scroll. So good to see you guys in there. Just that reminder to everybody, you know, use the

00:01:15.180 comments. I love it. I like to see some interaction. I like to see where you're coming in from.

00:01:19.820 I appreciate comments and questions. It helps me get rolling those times when guests stand me up

00:01:23.740 now and then when we're being live. And it just keeps things unpredictable and interesting.

00:01:29.420 But again, try to keep it civil.

00:01:31.020 You know, we don't always have to be nothing but sweethearts.

00:01:32.940 This show would be pretty boring if I was nothing but sunshine and lollipops.

00:01:36.000 But we can still stay somewhat respectful and civil.

00:01:40.760 All right.

00:01:41.320 As the folks are logging on, and I see you all coming in there,

00:01:44.260 Mavis and Randy, Cindy, Deb, Dana, piling into the viewer scrolls.

00:01:48.860 Great to see.

00:01:50.040 Let's take some time to look at the daily observations.

00:01:53.280 Today's a nice lazy one coming into the weekend.

00:01:55.840 It's summer.

00:01:56.580 It's hot for most areas.

00:01:57.680 it's national hammock day so uh this is the day to get out set it up tie it to a pair of trees or

00:02:04.840 fence posts or whatever you have in your area and get out there and lay back with a drink and be

00:02:10.340 lazy for a bit swinging in the wind to be honest i've never been big on hammocks i had trouble

00:02:14.160 getting in and out of those things i i many years ago back when i used to still drink i remember

00:02:19.220 at a place where i was renting and the roommate had a hammock and i got you know too many beers

00:02:24.900 and it's too hard to get in and out of when you got to go to the bathroom and get more beer all

00:02:28.300 the time. Either way, for those who love them, today's the day for it. It's also Rat Catcher's

00:02:33.380 Day. This one's kind of important, you know, and as you can see from that picture that Nico's

00:02:37.460 pulled up there, it's been a long celebrated day. Of course, it was an important role in society.

00:02:42.480 I mean, the rats did spread the bubonic plague. They are nasty, disgusting creatures. And being 0.99

00:02:48.040 in Alberta, we are some of the, I think just about some of the only people on the whole planet that

00:02:52.860 have such a large region, we're actually rat free. We get the odd outbreaks, but we actually

00:02:58.140 maintain and manage our rats. We have what's called a rat patrol. They go out. If there's

00:03:02.020 reports of rats, they rush out and exterminate those things fast. Those are the modern day rat

00:03:06.040 catchers. And hey, rats do a lot of damage. We're just going to get rid of the liberal ones and 0.82

00:03:11.700 we're good all around. But it is the day to celebrate those rat catchers. So go out and get 0.69

00:03:16.120 your happy rat catchers day card or make your happy rat catchers day cake and eat it while

00:03:20.980 swinging in that hammock. Let's see. Okay. Okay. I got Franco Tarizano coming on from the Canadian

00:03:27.240 Taxpayers Federation. He comes on a lot. That's because he's a good guest. He talks about a lot

00:03:31.040 of good things. And of course, there's always lots of taxation things to talk about. Rarely good,

00:03:35.680 unfortunately. But we'll have a discussion with him today to cap off the week. And then Western

00:03:39.760 Standard columnist Dave Makachuk. Last time I talked to him, he was smoking a cigar and having

00:03:44.840 a drink at a table in Paris while he was out at an arms show. He's back in Canada now, but he's

00:03:50.960 He's been writing and talking on a lot of issues.

00:03:52.800 And we're going to discuss some of his columns and things he's been speaking of.

00:03:56.360 I should have a live check-in as well from a guy named Phil Dave.

00:03:59.160 He's with Talk TV in the UK.

00:04:01.500 And we're going to get a bit of an update on what's going on with their heat wave

00:04:06.980 and some of the damage and things that have been happening out that way.

00:04:09.700 So, yes, we will have a packed show.

00:04:14.120 Okay, so I'll start with the thing that's got me going today, though, of course.

00:04:17.160 And, you know, I'm watching politics.

00:04:18.260 That's what I do.

00:04:19.020 and uh staying the course you know so i'm going to talk about the ucp race staying the course just

00:04:24.820 won't cut it six out of seven of the candidates you know now that are registered vying for the

00:04:29.320 leadership of the ucp are currently sitting mlas and it shows i mean aside from danielle smith the

00:04:35.220 rest just seem to keep uttering the same old talking points when it comes to dealing with

00:04:38.500 ottawa the federal government's been attacking alberta for years and the provincial government

00:04:42.520 hasn't reacted with much more than threats and musings court challenges are nice but they

00:04:46.860 invariably fail once they reach the federally appointed level of the court. Referendums express

00:04:53.360 our feelings, but they need to follow through with something with teeth. The silence from Kenny after

00:04:57.740 the last fall's equalization referendum was deafening. The Fair Deal panel traveled Alberta

00:05:02.340 ostensibly to get feedback from citizens and proposed ways to head off federal incursions

00:05:06.700 into provincial jurisdiction. The panel issued a number of solid conclusions. Citizens said what

00:05:11.720 they wanted. The government spent, though, years talking about the conclusions and not really

00:05:15.920 beginning the process of implementing any of them. Where's the provincial police force? Oh,

00:05:20.320 we're talking about it. What about the provincial pension plan? We're talking about it. How about

00:05:24.580 an Alberta parole board? We aren't even talking about that one. Okay, how about the demands to

00:05:28.800 reform unemployment insurance? You see, the list gets longer and longer. It was bait and switch.

00:05:32.840 Aside from appointing a chief firearms officer, and hey, good on him, that was a good call,

00:05:36.400 the government really hasn't done anything more with the fair deal panel recommendations than to

00:05:40.180 talk about it. Talk is cheap, and Albertans are sick of it. Trudeau is making plans for emission

00:05:45.960 controls targeting Western energy producers that are going to castrate the industry if they're

00:05:49.700 imposed. Fertilizer is also the next target the ideological liberals have in their sights.

00:05:55.240 Their proposed attack on that will crush agricultural producers and consumers alike.

00:05:59.700 It's hardly coincidence that Western industries are the focus of federal government attacks.

00:06:04.100 It allows them to virtue signal to the world about what they're doing, and they know the

00:06:07.340 provincial government will do nothing more than stomp their feet in a rage and talk and talk and

00:06:11.840 talk and talk. Daniel Smith came out of the race into the out of the gates into the race hard and

00:06:17.500 fast. Her proposed Sovereignty Act takes the battle to Ottawa. She wants to play an offensive

00:06:21.760 game with the federal government rather than the defensive one we've been doing. Her tactic appears

00:06:26.260 to be working as she's already sprung from being what was once considered not too long ago a spent

00:06:30.440 force in politics to the presumed front runner in a race to become the next premier. Smith's

00:06:35.460 identified where the UCP lost the faith of their membership, and she's making proposals to fill

00:06:40.700 that hole. The establishment candidates first appeared to be in shock. At first, they let

00:06:45.460 Smith lead every headline and own the discourse, while they continued to issue

00:06:50.120 mushy middle talking points on issues. I've interviewed nearly every candidate for the

00:06:55.020 leadership now, and aside from Smith, they sound nearly indistinguishable from each other.

00:06:59.440 Now, the establishment candidates are finally starting to realize they may have let the race

00:07:03.600 get away from themselves. Instead of looking at their own shortcomings in platforms, they're

00:07:07.740 shooting outward at Smith. They're trying to tear down the front runner rather than raise up their

00:07:12.920 own support. And this tactic is bad for the party, it's bad for the province, and it's not good for

00:07:17.620 their campaigns. The establishments saying the Sovereignty Act is not realistic and couldn't

00:07:22.560 work. Okay, fair enough. What will work though? We know from experience that just talking about 0.57

00:07:28.060 the issues doesn't solve them. That's why Kenny is heading for retirement rather than preparing

00:07:32.360 for the next election. The candidates need to come up with some concrete policies and actions

00:07:37.120 to counter Ottawa, and they need to be convincing in their will to do it. The UCP members already

00:07:42.820 heard it all before from Kenny, and it's made them cynical when they hear establishment candidates

00:07:47.700 making the same promises. Sorry, guys, you had three years to work on this. The campaign's

00:07:51.880 trailing Smith and the UCP leadership need to look within. Start creating some unique ideas

00:07:56.160 and approaches. Deliver pitches for those ideas. Tired old talking points are just going to fall

00:08:00.620 on deaf ears now. A person tweeted me this morning, I would rather take the wrong action than none.

00:08:06.300 That may not be the most advisable path, but it illustrates how a lot of members are feeling on

00:08:10.520 this issue right now. They don't want to see the provincial government sitting on their hands with

00:08:14.120 Ottawa anymore. They will support whoever presents them with a concrete plan, whether it's viable or

00:08:19.520 not. Doing nothing isn't an acceptable course anymore. Will the contenders for the UCP throw

00:08:25.780 and figure this out before smith runs away with it i guess time will tell but right now they've

00:08:31.540 got to figure out what they're doing okay that's what's got me wound up this morning as i watched 0.98

00:08:36.920 the politics unfolding like i said it's not an endorsement for smith it's a kick in the butt for 0.98

00:08:41.340 the ones running against her guys you got to do better just just shooting at her isn't enough or 0.94

00:08:46.300 she's gonna win this hands down so think a little harder guys all right let's bring in our news

00:08:50.440 editor dave naylor and see what else is happening out there hey dave how's it going oh thank god

00:08:55.180 it's friday cory thank god it's been a hell of a week you you and jane got any uh plans for the

00:09:00.840 weekend uh what was it uh jane's teaching another one of her uh courses on sunday and uh tomorrow i

00:09:08.280 don't see anything in the schedule so i'm sure jane's got a bunch of stuff she wants me to do

00:09:11.020 yeah i'm sure it'll all be waiting for you when you get back oh uh we've got a crazy busy uh news

00:09:16.940 morning uh going cory uh uh just published a story working its way through the uh the internet now on

00:09:23.040 another Hockey Canada scandal involving a junior team. As you know, there's a sex attack being

00:09:30.900 investigated at the moment from the 2018 team. Apparently somebody's come forward to

00:09:36.860 claim they were assaulted by a group of players in the 2013 tournament that was held in Halifax.

00:09:45.060 So that file is now being handed to the Halifax Police Department and they're launching an

00:09:50.700 investigation. So it could be another black eye for Hockey Canada. There's a massive manhunt

00:09:56.520 under the way in Chilliwack, B.C. at the moment. Two women shot and killed yesterday morning,

00:10:03.840 allegedly by a man who was supposed to be in court at that very moment facing domestic dispute

00:10:11.280 charges. So it looks like a very nasty sort of domestic that's gone bad there. So apparently

00:10:18.600 the shooting happened in front of children too. So that's not good. And this gentleman, we'll call

00:10:24.280 him, is on the loose. More fallout on the Conservatives' decision to hold a third official

00:10:31.000 debate. As you know, yesterday, Pierre Polyev has announced that he's not going to attend.

00:10:37.300 And Leslyn Lewis is today musing about the fact that she really is too busy and she's not sure

00:10:43.580 what this new debate will really accomplish.

00:10:47.180 So she may look at pulling out.

00:10:49.560 And our David Creighton's got a take on it

00:10:51.820 as to why Polyev is doing this.

00:10:55.800 He's certainly the best orator amongst everybody there.

00:11:00.980 And normally if you see him in the House of Commons,

00:11:03.700 he's tearing the Liberals to shreds.

00:11:06.060 But as a front runner, you don't want to make a mistake.

00:11:10.560 uh disney announced uh has announced that they're going to remove all references to fairy godmothers

00:11:17.420 another uh you know another awoke choice uh coming at us in this new world and uh cbc uh story of the

00:11:27.040 day it turns out uh 143 uh cbc uh executives made 15 million dollars in uh in bonuses so i think uh

00:11:37.820 after the show, Corey, if you could write me a letter of reference, I think it might be time

00:11:41.580 to apply over there. You know, get into the trough of taxpayer dough. I can see the temptation. I'm

00:11:47.580 not sure if my letter of reference would actually aid you into getting into the CBC though, but

00:11:52.700 good point. Good point. I can understand why you'd want to get in. It's funny with that Disney thing

00:11:58.340 though. So I wonder, you know, that there's three words there that I can see the woke getting upset

00:12:01.980 with depending on the context. I mean, there's fairy, there's God, and there's mother, all three

00:12:06.420 which the hyper-woke can have challenges with. I wonder if it's one or all of those things that

00:12:12.580 they've got the problem with. Oh, I'm sure it's all three of them, Corey. You know, it doesn't

00:12:16.520 take much for them to be set off. And also breaking at the moment, Corey, is our male

00:12:23.640 residents working on a story on a court ruling involving Calgary pastor Arthur Pulaski. And it

00:12:30.500 looks like a senior justice in the Alberta Court of Appeal has thrown out all the charges and fines

00:12:37.000 related to his COVID protests. So keep an eye out for that on the site as soon as Mel can put it

00:12:43.900 together. Great. Well, I imagine we'll be seeing Pastor Art out and doing what he does best very

00:12:48.920 soon now that he's cleared of everything. Indeed. Right. Okay. Well, thanks for the update. I guess

00:12:55.260 I'll let you get back to getting that content together. I should pass along on here. You gave

00:13:00.080 me a bunch of treats for Duke the Wonder Dog and Volstag the Bratz and Livvy the Bulldog and they

00:13:06.240 all send their drooliest appreciation for your having done so. That's courtesy of my mother

00:13:13.820 visiting from British Columbia. She loves Duke the Wonder Dog and thought she'd bring him some

00:13:19.740 special treats so I'm sure she'll be glad that they enjoy it. She's making friends out in the

00:13:24.160 All right. Thanks, Dave. I'll talk to you after the show.

00:13:26.800 See you, Corey.

00:13:28.540 So that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:13:30.640 And yes, not some news breaking.

00:13:32.300 As Jim Marie is saying, yeah, the news, you know,

00:13:34.520 Melanie's just working on writing that right now with Ardur Pawlowski.

00:13:39.600 Other things all over.

00:13:40.960 I mean, some of the news is a bit crazy.

00:13:42.680 As we say, you know, with Disney done,

00:13:44.320 there's some more contemporary on the Federal Conservative break.

00:13:50.220 So we've got writing all across the country on these things.

00:13:54.160 and this is like the reason we have this reason we can do this is because you guys have taken

00:14:01.060 old matches with us and you really appreciate it thousands of people have signed up subscriptions

00:14:06.560 we are not paying tax dollars at that point of profit it's so nice to get in here i mean hey

00:14:11.980 we're not getting rich by any means but we're doing well because you guys have stepped up

00:14:17.500 i like to think we're obviously providing some content that you want to see as through the

00:14:22.040 subscriptions so thank you all very much for your subscriptions and if you haven't already guys

00:14:26.960 that looks like you're having some really bad internet problems right now hopefully uh that

00:14:32.140 back clears up very soon uh it's not just you guys it's not just you bridget it's everybody

00:14:38.080 uh yeah i know i heard from all you sponsors and i'm hoping right away from the time i'll just

00:14:44.400 kind of talk and hope that the dog suddenly gets this internet again it's very problematic it's

00:14:51.680 uh yeah i'm not sure what i was supposed to do at this point i know none of you can see me in a

00:14:57.000 normal break i'm sorry for that uh our internet is on the crap all of us i know it pictured so

00:15:05.520 i'll just kind of keep randomly talking to the air and hoping we may recover some internet at

00:15:10.360 some point. Usually it only happens for seconds, but right now it seems to be a little extended.

00:15:17.420 I don't know what we can do about this. I can't reboot or we will lose our broadcast. I know the

00:15:23.680 audio is terrible, everybody. And hopefully this kicks up really, really soon. My producer,

00:15:29.920 of course, is working remotely today. So, oh, I see another bar. I think we're getting a little

00:15:33.900 better. There we are. For you guys who've been hanging in there, thank you very much

00:15:38.960 for whatever reason the internet gods had told us that i'm not to broadcast for a minute or so there

00:15:45.340 and it seems to have recovered let's hope it doesn't do it again uh man that's frustrating

00:15:50.900 i tell you i know it's painful for you guys to sit there and listen to me all broken up and

00:15:54.420 everything but it's frustrating for me to stare at this camera and just kind of babble incoherently

00:15:58.820 for a few minutes praying that the internet's gonna improve i guess my prayers were answered

00:16:02.960 and that's not bad for a non-religious guy like myself so thanks for hanging in there guys sorry

00:16:08.580 about that it's beyond our control we do we pay for good service but you don't always get it

00:16:13.620 all right speaking now let's look at a few more of these news things here

00:16:18.260 this one got me going and we've seen a lot of that in on twitter ctv news put out this tweet

00:16:24.020 and it was like in hushed tones you know and they're saying temperatures are expected to

00:16:28.580 reach or surpass 30 degrees celsius in parts of canada in coming days this was a news story this

00:16:34.820 This was a headline. This was the top. This is what they stick out on Twitter.

00:16:38.660 So what? It's July. It gets above 30 for a few days every July.

00:16:43.720 It's done that for the last few hundred years.

00:16:47.520 The fear-mongering from the legacy media just gets so sickening and tiresome.

00:16:51.700 They keep acting like every heat wave is the first heat wave we've ever endured.

00:16:55.840 Look at the weather patterns from the dirty 30s.

00:16:58.280 Look at the drought. Look at the heat.

00:17:01.120 They just feed this climate change narrative. But why?

00:17:03.740 Because they're suckling on the taxpayer's teat. Trudeau wants a climate change narrative, thus his pet media members will make sure to push it.

00:17:12.420 They also push every bit of fear-mongering they can for the COVID, for monkeypox now.

00:17:19.060 How many monkeypox stories are we going to see from CTV, CBC, Global, and all the rest of those used-up legacy media outlets?

00:17:26.380 Monkeypox. Guess what the death count is? Freaking zero. Zero.

00:17:31.160 How many news stories have there been? Hundreds? Like, really? What's going on? Well, that's our

00:17:37.460 legacy media for us, guys. So, monkeypox is going to make the mainstream media, even though more

00:17:42.660 people are literally dying of lightning strikes, you know, than monkeypox, but we don't report on

00:17:47.780 that every day, or dying, falling into swimming pools, or all sorts of ways we pass along. Monkeypox

00:17:52.500 is nothing. It's a weird disease that's going around through a select group of people, and it's

00:17:55.800 unfortunate. And let's hope that it goes to the wayside. But in the meantime, it's not the plague.

00:18:01.740 So I don't care if the World Health Organization wants to call it an emergency. I don't care if

00:18:06.280 CTV wants to call it one. Let's get real, guys. But this crap, acting as if 30 degree weather is

00:18:12.980 something crazy in Canada. It's not. It's 86 degrees Fahrenheit for the older among us where 1.00

00:18:17.740 it makes more sense. Warm, but not beyond the pale and not unusual. And of course, everybody talks 0.73

00:18:23.840 about every forest fire as if it's the first one that ever happened. Sorry, guys, they've been

00:18:27.780 happening since the beginning of forests. And they're going to continue to as long as we don't

00:18:32.000 properly manage our forests and areas and allow Deadwood to pile up and we don't do controlled

00:18:37.000 burns and proper management of our timberland. So, you know, it just doesn't stop. But I never

00:18:44.180 like, you know, passing up on the opportunity to slap at our legacy media members. And before I

00:18:51.020 get to my next guest. Let's see. I'll talk about one other thing that kind of caught my eye.

00:18:55.540 Jonathan Kaye was pointing out, I believe, and this is from the Government of Canada's glossary

00:19:01.100 in the Immigration Department. You know, it shows a bunch of terms and how to define them and

00:19:05.120 everything. And it gets down to what white people are. This is the identity politics that's dividing 0.65

00:19:11.920 us and the insanity and the ridiculousness. This is what's given to new immigrants, or at least 1.00

00:19:15.500 this is what they're told to read when they're coming into Canada. White people are defined as

00:19:19.320 belonging to any of the various peoples with light-colored skin, usually of European origin. 0.58

00:19:25.060 Very good. Okay, so you know it's getting beyond the simple definition in the front of the crayon

00:19:29.440 box. The term has become an indicator less of skin color, though, and more of unquestioning

00:19:35.100 acceptance of the legacies and ongoing practices of white supremacy and colonialism.

00:19:41.860 Oh my god. So this is a government site basically saying you're automatically,

00:19:45.180 you know, being white means an unquestioning acceptance of legacies of white supremacy and

00:19:51.320 colonialism. This is our government. We're spending our dollars to have this hate. And that's hate. 0.59

00:19:56.400 I'm not going to use that word right now. That's hate from our frigging federal government. Not 0.99

00:20:01.760 only that, they say not even an indicator of skin color. So that way they can apply it. Well, 0.58

00:20:05.640 that guy's not white, but we can call him white because he's apparently accepting legacies of 0.68

00:20:10.280 white supremacy and colonialism. And this is the stuff they're giving new immigrants. This is what 0.78

00:20:14.420 They come into this country and they read, this is the government's, and here's your handout. 0.99

00:20:17.400 Watch out for those white folks. 0.92

00:20:19.960 You wonder why we have racial division? 0.96

00:20:22.200 You wonder why we got these problems? 0.99

00:20:23.800 This frigging government's feeding it. 0.99

00:20:26.980 They're pouring bacteria into a festering sore. 0.99

00:20:31.200 God, and I get to spend my money to feed that. 0.66

00:20:34.660 All right.

00:20:35.640 So speaking of feeding the government and giving them tax dollars,

00:20:38.700 let's bring Franco Teresano in for a voice of reason on things and see what's happening out there.

00:20:44.120 Hey, Franco. Good to see you. Hey, man. Thanks so much for having me on. Oh, always good to get

00:20:49.300 you. Kind of what first caught my eye this week, though, you've always got lots to cover and lots

00:20:53.180 to say. Unfortunately, in some ways, you know, you're like a firefighter. You kind of wish you

00:20:57.420 didn't have to do your job, but it needs to be done there. And the government makes sure that

00:21:02.040 you've got employment security because they're always wasting our tax dollars. But the big

00:21:06.620 carbon tax rebate, you know, they almost made celebratory. Look, everybody happy. Look at all

00:21:10.840 the money coming back to you. Not quite the windfall for people in reality that they like

00:21:16.960 to make it out to be. Yeah, that's right. I mean, it turns out that the Trudeau government isn't

00:21:22.160 exactly being honest with Canadians. Corey, I know you're shocked, but the Trudeau government

00:21:27.320 is claiming that families are going to be made better off with its carbon tax and rebate scheme.

00:21:33.220 But hold on a second, because the government's own independent watchdog, the parliamentary budget

00:21:38.180 officer is showing that the federal government is using magic math. So the carbon tax this year

00:21:43.700 will cost the average household anywhere from about $300 all the way to $670, even after

00:21:51.120 accounting for the rebates. Again, that's according to the parliamentary budget officer. So the Trudeau

00:21:55.940 government is telling us one thing and the government's own independent watchdog is saying,

00:22:00.080 no, no, no, that's not true. The carbon tax will cost the average family hundreds of dollars,

00:22:05.320 even with the rebate. And best of all, of course, that we always talk about how well has it worked

00:22:12.420 on reducing emissions so far? Yeah, not well at all. Not well at all. The carbon tax is not this

00:22:18.240 low cost environmental plan. The carbon tax is a high cost tax tax plan. I mean, the Western

00:22:25.780 standard, let's talk about the most Western province in Canada, British Columbia. It has

00:22:30.900 had the highest carbon tax in the nation for years and emissions continue to go up data on

00:22:38.780 Trudeau's first year of the national carbon tax shows that emissions went up there okay so there's

00:22:44.920 two claims that the federal government is really misleading Canadians on number one is they're

00:22:50.260 trying to sell Canadians that this is an environmental plan well if you look at the data

00:22:54.240 it's pretty clear that it's not an environmental plan it's a tax plan the second misleading claim

00:22:59.240 is that they're trying to make Canadians think

00:23:01.120 that you're going to be better off with these rebates

00:23:03.240 than you are paying the carbon tax.

00:23:05.040 And of course, that's not the truth.

00:23:06.900 The carbon tax, even with rebates,

00:23:08.720 is costing those average households

00:23:10.300 hundreds of dollars every year.

00:23:13.820 And this is a time when we can ill afford to be doing that.

00:23:17.100 And of course, we got the other hidden

00:23:18.560 and second carbon taxes

00:23:19.780 that are going to keep slapping on and piling on with this.

00:23:22.180 I mean, this isn't just a static thing.

00:23:23.900 This is the sort of thing

00:23:24.600 that keeps going up every year, right?

00:23:26.840 Well, okay.

00:23:27.720 So there's a lot to break down there. So number one, you're right. The carbon tax is only going

00:23:32.580 to get worse and worse because prime minister, Justin Trudeau says he'll keep cranking up his

00:23:37.920 carbon tax to nearly 40 cents per liter by 2030. So this is what that means. It means that from

00:23:44.700 now through 2030, the carbon tax and rebate will still cost an average household anywhere between

00:23:51.780 $6,400 if you're living in Manitoba, all the way up to $13,000 if you're living in Alberta.

00:23:59.260 And again, that's after accounting for the rebate, and that's the government's own

00:24:02.780 independent watchdog's numbers. But Corey, you know what else? This isn't considering

00:24:07.940 the second carbon tax. We just saw the regulations that the federal government released of its second

00:24:14.480 carbon tax through fuel regulations that will be coming into effect next year. Now, here's

00:24:21.080 what happens with the second carbon tax. If companies can't reduce the carbon content of

00:24:27.140 their fuel, if they can't meet Trudeau's requirements, they have to pay a second carbon

00:24:31.440 tax. But the government's own research shows that it's going to be consumers who get hammered from

00:24:38.460 the second carbon tax. It could add up to 13 cents per liter extra by 2030. There's no rebates with

00:24:45.580 second carbon tax and cory i know i'm going on but one more point the government knows exactly

00:24:52.140 who the second carbon tax is really going to impact if you read their own impact analysis

00:24:57.020 it shows that it's lower and middle income canadians who are going to get the brunt of this

00:25:01.740 it's the single moms it's the people who are already struggling with energy poverty it's

00:25:06.780 those seniors who are living on fixed incomes who the second carbon tax is really going to punish

00:25:12.060 well that's it i mean you know inflation alone is already beating on people in that situation and 1.00

00:25:19.100 they just get their unreasonable requests you know well the single parent should just

00:25:22.860 ride the bus oh that's great to take the kids to school to soccer practice pick up your groceries 0.99

00:25:27.500 go across town go to work come back pick up it's not realistic but you know it's funny our

00:25:32.940 woke government likes to throw out the word privilege all the time but a lot of those ones

00:25:37.820 bringing that down on everybody. It's because they're in such a place of privilege. I don't

00:25:42.300 think they understand the hardships they cause on working Canadians when they do this sort of thing.

00:25:47.300 Corey, I have to pick up right there. There's two things. Number one, I think we have to stop

00:25:52.620 pretending like these high gas prices are an accident. They're not an accident. Every time

00:25:58.020 the Trudeau liberals are passing by a gas station, they must be patting themselves on the back

00:26:02.000 because these high gas prices are exactly what the Trudeau government has been pushing for with

00:26:07.560 its carbon tax hikes, with its second carbon tax hikes, with its attacks on the energy industry

00:26:12.860 that reduces supply, no more pipelines law, discriminatory tanker ban. Corey, you know I can

00:26:17.480 go on and on and on. But one thing we have to talk about here is what you just said. It's the people

00:26:24.240 who are inflicting this pain that seem to be shielded from the pain. And Corey, here's the

00:26:28.980 perfect example. The Bank of Canada has one job, keep inflation around 2%. And what did we just

00:26:35.500 find out. We just found out that the Bank of Canada has been busy handing out $45 million

00:26:41.020 in bonuses and pay raises during the pandemic when it obviously failed to keep inflation low.

00:26:49.000 Yeah. And I mean, you know, it's been said by a lot, like we saw this coming. We were talking

00:26:53.680 about this long ago. I mean, if the Bank of Canada was going to be responsible, they should

00:26:58.000 have been starting to creep up then the prime interest rate six, eight months ago, rather than

00:27:03.560 suddenly coming in with a hammer at this point. And as you said, they're kind of patting themselves

00:27:07.320 on the back now with bonuses for having dropped the ball. Well, look, at best, at best, the Bank

00:27:14.640 of Canada failed to keep a lid on these rising prices. But at worse, it is actually driving the

00:27:20.660 inflation by printing hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air. I mean, the Bank of

00:27:25.100 Canada had its money printer on overdrive during the pandemic. It's printed $300 billion out of

00:27:32.480 thin air. And Corey, I mean, like, come on, every layman even understands this is that if you

00:27:38.440 increase the supply of money, the value of each unit goes down, right? So come on, like the Bank

00:27:45.440 of Canada needs to do a better job. In fact, the deputy governor of the Bank of Canada admitted

00:27:50.800 that they failed to hit their inflation target. So if you have one of the leaders in the Bank of

00:27:56.120 Canada who's admitting that they failed to hit their inflation target, well, then why are they

00:28:01.320 handing out pay raises and bonuses. I mean, it really doesn't make sense from the perspective

00:28:06.000 of the Canadians whose money relies on the central bank to actually do their job right.

00:28:11.820 Yeah, but that goes to show kind of government versus private sector, right? Like if I underperformed

00:28:17.220 and I was sourcing columns that were poorly read and my show ratings were crap and our advertisers

00:28:24.140 are fleeing, I know that Derek, if he doesn't fire me, he's at least, he's not going to give me any

00:28:29.100 raises or bonuses. I mean, it just doesn't work that way. But in government, I also we have the

00:28:34.300 Canadian, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the ones who want to come after

00:28:38.320 our home equity, they all got bonuses and CBC executives who came begging for bailout during

00:28:44.300 the pandemic, they're all getting bonuses. So I mean, there's definitely two classes in this

00:28:48.600 country and it's between the private and public sectors. Yeah, that's exactly right, Corey. I mean,

00:28:53.360 it's really unfortunate to say this, but we have seen the tale of two pandemics.

00:28:57.780 One pandemic was full of absolute pain by the private sector.

00:29:02.600 So many people.

00:29:03.460 I mean, I was in Calgary.

00:29:05.820 You're in Calgary.

00:29:06.540 How many friends and family members and neighbors do we have who took a pay cut, who may have

00:29:10.780 lost their job, who may have lost their small business and the life savings with it?

00:29:15.300 But then in government, there were no pay cuts.

00:29:17.820 Where were the pay cuts in government?

00:29:18.920 There weren't.

00:29:19.480 There was pay raises.

00:29:20.500 There was bonuses.

00:29:21.880 There was overtime pay.

00:29:24.140 There was all of this, right?

00:29:25.160 And you're touching on an important point here. And that's that taxpayers are being forced to pay for poor performance. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, they have one objective, housing affordability. Okay, well, home prices went up by 13% in 2020. Home prices went up by another 21% in 2021. So then why did they hand out $60 million in bonuses and pay raises during those years?

00:29:51.700 Let's look at the federal government.

00:29:52.900 They handed out, what, $171 million in bonuses during the pandemic, but the departments failed to meet half of their own performance objectives.

00:30:03.160 Corey, on top of that, the feds also handed out $1.6 billion in overtime pay since 2019.

00:30:11.560 So we're spending buckets of cash hiring new bureaucrats, buckets of cash paying for overtime bonuses, pay raises,

00:30:17.980 and we can't even get the government to meet its own performance objectives.

00:30:22.380 Well, yeah, I mean, some of those material things we can see with government services,

00:30:25.600 we're hearing about all the crisis that's going on.

00:30:28.000 People can't get their passports renewed.

00:30:29.640 As simple as renewing a government document that they've been doing since Confederation,

00:30:34.100 we've had passports, and they still apparently can't figure out how to renew them.

00:30:38.120 And we've got millions of people in immigration now on a backlog.

00:30:42.660 The government's spending more and more, and we're getting less and less.

00:30:46.240 Yeah, you know, I can't believe we have to say this, Corey, but bonuses and pay raises are for when you do a good job.

00:30:52.560 But like these departments, the Bank of Canada, the CMHC, they're not doing a good job.

00:30:58.040 Why are they getting pay raises and bonuses?

00:31:00.080 And if you just give bonuses away like you're giving away participation ribbons, is it really a bonus or is it just a slush fund?

00:31:06.980 Right.

00:31:07.160 Right. But but here's the thing. I mean, in the private sector, if you were to fumble the ball like the government is in many of these departments and crown corporations, you'd probably get shown the door.

00:31:18.560 To your point, not be showing a huge bonus check. So, I mean, it's so frustrating from taxpayers perspective.

00:31:26.660 But, Corey, you know who we should really be looking at here is our politicians in Ottawa.

00:31:32.000 What are they doing?

00:31:33.240 We pay them six figures to actually protect the public purse, if I could say that.

00:31:39.200 But what are they doing?

00:31:40.140 I haven't heard any members of parliament really make a stink about all these pay raises,

00:31:44.500 all these bonuses.

00:31:45.680 I mean, I've seen a few, but not many.

00:31:48.520 Well, that's it.

00:31:49.420 I mean, we're seeing excuses coming hard and heavy for inflation.

00:31:52.040 They like to keep pretending it's a global thing.

00:31:53.940 We can't do anything about it.

00:31:55.340 I mean, there's a little bit of degree.

00:31:56.880 Okay, there's some things that are going to be beyond their control.

00:31:59.760 But still, there are things they can do to mitigate it.

00:32:02.400 And as you said, the Bank of Canada pouring more and more money into the mix is doing

00:32:07.540 that.

00:32:07.900 But I mean, we aren't even hearing a whisper from the federal government of getting spending

00:32:11.400 under control.

00:32:12.080 So I can't see how this is going to change.

00:32:15.380 Well, Corey, I'm so glad you brought that up.

00:32:16.920 I mean, yeah, you're right.

00:32:17.860 Other countries are going to see massive inflation when other countries do crazy things like run

00:32:22.420 unbelievable amount of deficits or have their money printing on overdrive as well.

00:32:27.500 When other countries do that, surprise, surprise, they're going to get the same bad results.

00:32:32.560 And look, yes, global prices or prices are going up around the globe, but Canada isn't

00:32:39.680 exactly doing well.

00:32:41.380 OK, if you look at the International Monetary Fund, they track consumer price increases

00:32:46.180 around the world.

00:32:47.300 In 2021, only three of 35 industrialized countries had higher inflation than Canada.

00:32:55.700 So Canada had, what, higher inflation than 31 other industrialized countries, according

00:33:02.140 to data from the International Monetary Fund.

00:33:04.420 So it's not like the Bank of Canada governor, Tiff Macklem, can just shrug off this inflation

00:33:08.560 and say, oh, it's just a global phenomenon, because clearly Canada is not doing good.

00:33:12.940 It's not like we're Hong Kong, which is 1.8% inflation.

00:33:17.180 It's not like we're Japan, which is close to about 2.5% inflation.

00:33:21.160 It's not even like we're Switzerland, which is close to what, 3.4% inflation.

00:33:26.120 Canada just announced 8.1% inflation, which is the highest annual increase since 1983, Corey.

00:33:35.980 Yeah, I mean, if our currency starts losing value, and that's the reality of what inflation is, that's completely within the control of the government.

00:33:43.000 I mean, if there's a loss of purchasing power because of internationally traded commodities like oil and gas, then yeah, there's only limited things they can do.

00:33:50.440 but there are things within their control. And as you said, when you can point out exceptions

00:33:53.760 with other countries that aren't suffering by this, their excuse starts to fall pretty hollow. 0.92

00:33:58.020 I mean, just because a hundred countries are doing a stupid thing doesn't mean it's 0.99

00:34:01.080 not still a stupid thing. $300 billion. What do you think happens when you print up $300 billion 1.00

00:34:07.940 out of thin air, right? That's the problem is that you have the government that can print $300

00:34:13.600 billion out of thin air, but you can't just go around printing new farmland or printing new

00:34:18.240 homes out of thin air. So you end up with the perfect storm for inflation, which is too many

00:34:23.140 dollars chasing too few goods, right? We know that that's what happens when you print up a whole

00:34:29.020 bunch of money and you just throw it into the economy. Now that's exacerbated by the fact that

00:34:34.500 we just went through two years of revolving government lockdowns, which mean that we just

00:34:39.880 can't continue to create as many goods that money could buy during that time, right? So the perfect

00:34:46.280 storm for inflation was created by Canadian governments. Are there many other factors that

00:34:51.820 influence prices? Sure. But we can't let our government off the hook for this mess that they

00:34:59.020 have, at least in part, created. Well, I know you guys won't let them off the hook. And of course,

00:35:04.040 I love hanging them on the hook whenever possible. But all the same, let's hope we see some 0.99

00:35:08.640 positive change. I guess the starts to at least just keep pointing it out and driving it home to

00:35:13.340 people that they got to tell their elected members to change their bloody behavior.

00:35:17.580 So where can people find more information on what you guys are up to, what you're doing, Franco?

00:35:22.460 Well, you know what?

00:35:23.100 I would recommend that all your listeners pick up the phone or send an email to your

00:35:26.300 member of parliament and ask them what they've done during COVID-19 with their pay raises.

00:35:31.080 Because all members of parliament have been busy giving themselves three pay raises during

00:35:35.380 the pandemic.

00:35:36.120 So I would love to encourage your audience maybe to give them an earful.

00:35:39.560 But please, please, please, please check us out at taxpayer.com.

00:35:42.520 We've got petitions you can sign and you can follow all of our work in the newsroom tab.

00:35:47.440 Right on. Well, thanks for the latest update. And well, I'm sure you'll have nothing but a

00:35:52.480 bunch of positive news the next time we get you on. Yeah, don't hold me to that, Corey.

00:35:56.900 All right. Well, I'll let you go and get back to work there. Thanks, Franco. And I'll talk to you

00:36:01.060 soon. See you later. That is Franco Terrizano, the National Director of the Canadian Taxpayers

00:36:06.860 Federation. As I said, he's a regular guest on here because he's got a lot of common sense and

00:36:10.760 good stuff to say. So it never gets tiring hearing it. It gets tiring that we do have to keep saying

00:36:15.500 the same thing over and over again. But again, if we give up, hey, we're not going to win. We've got

00:36:20.040 to keep pushing. So it's good to see others tuning in from all over too. People are getting on the

00:36:23.700 show. Any DeJong, is that out in Red Deer County by Penhold and Brad getting on there and Christy

00:36:31.620 and some others. So I just like seeing that audience. Keep using that comment, scroll guys,

00:36:35.360 keep things active and let's keep discussing these things and try and fix these problems in this

00:36:40.580 world. I know easier said than done, but we got to start somewhere. And this is a story that kind

00:36:46.680 of ties into, you know, what Franco was talking about myself. So this is the CBC. I think Dave

00:36:51.560 mentioned this in the update. They have 143 executive directors, eight directors of finance,

00:36:58.740 nine directors of legal services, 26 directors of technology and infrastructure. This is from

00:37:04.000 access to information requests, you know, and then individual paying benefits weren't disclosed for

00:37:10.420 these, but one former executive said his annual bonus was $80,000. You know, I won't disclose

00:37:18.800 exactly what I make, but I assure you this guy makes more, considerably more in his bonus than

00:37:22.960 I just make in my salary. That's just a bonus. What are we getting for it? What sort of fine

00:37:27.940 irreplaceable services are we getting from the state broadcaster? You know, what lifestyle

00:37:35.160 hindrances would we have? You know, how bad would things get if we didn't have the CBC anymore?

00:37:42.560 None. This is not, you know, the less government, the better, without doubt. But we also just,

00:37:49.640 we got to get rid of the stuff we just don't need whatsoever. There's no place for the

00:37:53.620 government to broadcast. None. It's long gone. Hey there, Christine in Saskatchewan. Good to see

00:37:58.880 you spreading out there, spread the word. I'll do that. I'll sidetrack for a moment and nag

00:38:02.640 everybody this is how we can beat the state broadcaster and the legacy media and the others 0.98

00:38:06.900 this is how we have programs and broadcasts like this and it's good to see people coming in from

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00:38:21.140 the shows and broadcasts are going to come on i'm not the only one that does them melanie does some

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00:38:30.860 can get past the CBC and CTV and all of these terrible remnants of legacy media that we just

00:38:39.820 don't need anymore. And this is how we can beat them through subscribers. And also it's kind of

00:38:44.080 a citizen's activity. Make sure to share it. Let's bring these numbers up. Hey, the more viewer

00:38:47.660 numbers we can get, the more sponsors we can get. And then again, we can keep expanding our content

00:38:52.660 and our reach and talking about the news stories that the mainstream media doesn't want to talk

00:38:57.500 about. You know, that's the main thing that we got to get onto. And I'm going to speak to one of

00:39:01.480 our sponsors actually while I'm at it, because it's not just you guys who subscribe, who pay our

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00:39:51.600 firearms. It's wrong. This is an ideologically driven government. And of course, they just do

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00:40:23.240 Blaine Cisna, is it? Saying, who watches anything on the CBC these days? Nobody that I know. Yeah,

00:40:28.500 I know. I mean, very few people do watch that crap that's on there. The problem is we still 1.00

00:40:32.180 have to pay for it. You know, if it's private, I mean, my problem with the CBC isn't even so much

00:40:37.940 their hard, woke, crazed, leftward slant. That's fine. They can have that because you can always

00:40:44.160 changed the channel. The problem I have is that we have to pay for it. If it's purely private

00:40:49.980 market, I don't care if somebody wants to put out an outright actual communist channel. As long as

00:40:55.740 I'm not paying for it, they can have whatever the hell they want. They can say whatever they want.

00:41:00.200 But as soon as you have tax funding on it, I've got a problem. And that's happening with a number

00:41:04.580 of legacy media outlets. But of course, the CBC is just the biggest and most bloated of them. I

00:41:14.140 It's not, not good. So either way, they've got all of these directors. Yeah. 143 directors though.

00:41:21.640 You know what I mean? It's a top heavy, again, speaking of, like I was talking with Franco,

00:41:25.480 private market versus government, you know, government can't do anything efficiently.

00:41:29.340 They never can. No government can. And that includes broadcast. These guys for value for

00:41:34.780 dollar, we're getting out of that trash network. I mean, they had their place. They did, you know, 0.63

00:41:39.600 way back when, when you needed transmitters built across the country, and I'm talking like a century

00:41:44.120 ago, when you're getting radio to reach people and communicate, it was hard for that infrastructure

00:41:48.820 for a private market to effectively fill it or have the resources to share news, overseas news,

00:41:54.280 things like that. And all the way up into the, I'd say even the 90s. I mean, the CBC was putting

00:41:59.280 out some fantastic content when it came to exposés, documentaries. There was even good news content

00:42:06.680 when I used to work surveying in isolated areas. And CBC radio would be the only thing you could

00:42:10.680 pick up. Those days are gone though on two fronts. I mean, for one, we just don't need it. Every house

00:42:16.600 I worked at, even as far as literally tuk-tuk-tuk, has a satellite dish on top of it. They're not

00:42:21.640 watching CBC guys. That's the other part. And the content from the CBC is pure crap now. I mean,

00:42:27.620 it's really rare to find decent content from the state broadcaster any longer. They used to have

00:42:32.900 some of the best journalists on earth and some fantastic work that they would do, even if it was

00:42:38.220 left, you know, leftward leaning, but, uh, the, now what have they got? It's just woke junk and 0.95

00:42:46.920 we still have to pay for it. Uh, okay. So, uh, somebody, Daniel Dardine saying, what the, 0.96

00:42:53.440 what the F is the Western standard doing? Thousands have already voted in the conservative

00:42:56.840 leadership. Uh, why would you pull this nonsense of having another debate and doing so throwing

00:43:01.500 Pauly Arab under the bus and promoting Sheree as some kind of savior? Really effing stupid. 1.00

00:43:05.900 Well, Daniel, I don't know what the hell you're talking about. 1.00

00:43:10.120 We aren't holding another debate.

00:43:12.860 That's the party that does that, not us.

00:43:16.680 So, I mean, if you've got an issue with that, call the party.

00:43:21.120 Take it up with them.

00:43:22.380 I know that one of our columnists, David Creighton, was critical of Polyev's response to it.

00:43:29.260 But that's a columnist puts out their point of view and puts it doesn't necessarily represent the Western standard itself.

00:43:35.300 and that's how Mr. Creighton feels about it.

00:43:37.720 And he's not throwing anybody under a bus, I believe.

00:43:40.340 Either way, I'm sorry, but if you're confusing things,

00:43:42.060 we don't have anything to do with that debate.

00:43:45.000 That's the Conservative Party of Canada holding that debate.

00:43:50.400 So, I mean, we just report on it at this point.

00:43:53.340 So there's a bit of confusion on what's happening.

00:43:56.200 Just so you know that we are going to be holding

00:43:57.440 a UCP leadership debate fairly soon.

00:43:59.240 So if you feel we're doing that wrong, 0.99

00:44:00.960 by all means, give us crap. 0.99

00:44:02.760 That'll be our responsibility. 0.99

00:44:03.900 and if we do it poorly, I'm certain a lot of you guys will hold us to account pretty quickly on it.

00:44:09.220 You don't hesitate to do so, but that's fine. It's fair enough. That's why I like the comment

00:44:12.860 scroll. Hey, if I screw up or if you think I screwed up, hey, you guys won't hesitate to let

00:44:16.620 me know. Oh, you should see some of the emails I get sometimes. You know, that's my job is getting

00:44:21.480 out there and getting on people's case when they screw up too. So let's just keep the conversation

00:44:26.420 going. Let's see. We're talking about electric cars before. Yeah, we can still get a little bit

00:44:31.520 and we'll get to our guests pretty soon.

00:44:33.300 This is a story,

00:44:34.520 buyers in three cities account

00:44:35.800 for most of the new electric car sales nationwide.

00:44:38.960 This isn't all that shocking, right?

00:44:40.260 This is a Stats Canada figures.

00:44:42.440 So the electric cars is sparse

00:44:43.940 outside of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal.

00:44:46.700 Well, again, of course it is

00:44:48.640 because they're not practical for people.

00:44:51.880 They're a novelty.

00:44:53.460 I mean, they are for people

00:44:55.680 who want a virtue signal and commute

00:44:57.480 when you live in a house

00:44:58.460 where you can afford to upgrade

00:44:59.780 to put a charging station into it.

00:45:01.520 and you'll drive to an indoor parking space somewhere downtown daily and drive home. If

00:45:06.620 you're looking to go cross country, if you're somebody of modest income who can't spend $70,000

00:45:11.180 to $100,000 for a car, you aren't doing it. And I mean, yeah, so a load of these, and look at this,

00:45:20.140 in all of British Columbia, though, electric vehicles, new electric vehicles registered,

00:45:23.880 All of that province, the most woke province in Canada, we've got 6,688 new ones registered.

00:45:32.940 And that's the head of the country.

00:45:34.120 And of course, of them, pretty much all of them were in Vancouver. 0.97

00:45:39.020 I mean, they're useless in rural areas. 0.97

00:45:42.140 They're not good for anything.

00:45:43.460 And again, if you let the consumers choose, fine.

00:45:46.940 The problem is they don't want to let us choose.

00:45:48.860 They're constantly pushing it on us.

00:45:52.500 there. It's funny watching the auto manufacturers bending to the woke. You know, they could look at

00:45:57.440 the oil and gas companies and see how good it is to pander to these activists and constantly

00:46:04.400 change your business plans for their models. I mean, Alberta's energy sector has bent over

00:46:08.760 backwards. And I mean, bent over in a number of ways. Oh, we're doing this to reduce emissions.

00:46:14.020 And we're doing that. And we're doing this. And we're doing that. And you know what credit they

00:46:16.840 got for it? None. The government's still kicking them in the balls. Guys, you can't appease

00:46:22.120 the ideologues with the government. And these auto manufacturers who are turning over saying,

00:46:26.460 yeah, we're going to switch to all electric soon. You better talk to the consumers rather than the

00:46:30.320 government because you're screwing yourself. You really are. Look at these numbers. We've had 10 0.98

00:46:34.500 years. We've had billions of dollars subsidizing electric vehicles, and they still remain a tiny,

00:46:40.340 tiny little fraction of the vehicles on the road. It's not picking up. Let's see. You know how many

00:46:46.060 new ones that went to Prince Edward Island? 44. Yeah, yeah, I'm not missing a zero. 44. That's

00:46:53.740 how many electric cars we got in Prince Edward Island. Saskatchewan, 130. Out of what? A million

00:47:01.080 vehicles? Guys, this is not taking off. It's not getting there. 156 in New Brunswick, 201 in

00:47:09.180 Manitoba. It's a luxury item, as I said, in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. And hey, maybe the time

00:47:15.520 will come by all means. And if it does, I mean, if somebody, if the time came and they said here,

00:47:21.440 here's an electric vehicle that comes in under $40,000 that I won't have to spend $10,000 to

00:47:27.700 upgrade my home to charge that has regular charging stations that I can stop at that will

00:47:32.500 charge it quickly. That doesn't lose most of its power in cold weather that maintains its value

00:47:38.300 that batteries won't wear out on or catch on fire. I'll consider buying one. But you guys have got a

00:47:45.020 number of things to fix first, don't you? Think about doing a cross Canada road trip with your

00:47:50.700 kids, eh? How great would that be with an electric vehicle? You know, you're good for four or five

00:47:56.360 hours, and you got to pull over and either pay a big premium for speed charging if it's possible.

00:48:00.380 You still, that's what, 20 minutes, half an hour, more. The long charges take hours.

00:48:06.940 You know, like, this is not feasible. Your kids, meanwhile, are screaming, jumping up and down.

00:48:10.260 Now think of these filling stations that we don't even have yet. What is going to happen to them? Because again, it's not like going to a gas station where you can turn over a large number of vehicles. You know, you go to a truck stop, you go to a large gas station, you see the cars come and go. They can fill up in five minutes, move, go on to the next vehicle, and you turn them over.

00:48:27.580 Even fast charging at 20 minutes of vehicle.

00:48:30.120 Can you imagine the backup?

00:48:31.740 A gas station is going to have to have a couple hundred plug-ins in order to maintain the charges needed on the highway servicing ones.

00:48:39.500 Keep up.

00:48:39.900 It's not reasonable.

00:48:40.880 It's not there.

00:48:41.900 The numbers aren't there. 0.75

00:48:43.180 But it isn't stopping the lunatics in our federal government.

00:48:46.260 It's not stopping them from pressuring and trying to stop all conventional car sales.

00:48:51.360 And this is going to backfire on us, guys.

00:48:52.900 This is going to backfire hard.

00:48:55.340 I would say, again, get your combustion engine

00:48:59.620 as fast as you can and take good care of it

00:49:01.740 because if one thing's going to increase in value, 0.98

00:49:04.060 it's going to be those when these quizlings

00:49:06.980 within the auto industry start shutting down

00:49:09.560 their conventional vehicle production

00:49:11.120 or electric vehicles that nobody can afford

00:49:13.160 and nobody wants.

00:49:14.920 And suddenly these gas vehicles,

00:49:16.920 the few that you can get,

00:49:18.000 are going to be worth a very, very pretty premium.

00:49:20.820 him. But all right, that's enough on that crap. Let's get on to Mr. Makachuk. I'm sure he'll 0.99

00:49:28.300 have some light stuff to cover and talk about. There's our Western Standard columnist. Like I

00:49:33.520 said, last time I spoke to him, he was sucking on a cigar and a drink out in Paris, and now he's

00:49:38.620 back in Cowtown. How's it going, Dave? Very good, Corey. Very good. Thanks for having me on. Thank

00:49:44.380 you. And I've got my, uh, uh, a red way shirt on, uh, because, uh, basically, uh, we were,

00:49:52.520 even though the odds aren't great, we're holding hope that, uh, Stevie Iserman might just look at,

00:49:58.460 uh, uh, Mr. Kuchuk is up for a possible trade. Well, that would be an interesting trade. Uh,

00:50:05.920 yeah. Yeah. Calgary's team is going to be looking pretty different this, uh, this season.

00:50:10.240 And here you are out inflaming them and rubbing the salt into the wound.

00:50:15.780 So I'm certain our viewers and listeners will appreciate that, Dave.

00:50:20.000 Well, hey, I feel bad for the Flame fans.

00:50:23.160 I really do.

00:50:23.900 I mean, to lose two good players like that is terrible.

00:50:27.400 It's just awful.

00:50:28.640 I wouldn't wish that on the Flames for sure.

00:50:31.740 But, you know, if the Wings can snag this guy, I wouldn't mind that at all.

00:50:38.520 but I, it looks like he may, he probably will go to someone else. So anyway,

00:50:43.380 that's the nature of the sport. Right. Right. It's all about money. Right. So yeah. The players,

00:50:50.660 you know, don't like that term for it, but in reality they're commodities and those get traded

00:50:54.100 and you end up where you will. Exactly. Exactly. So let's talk a little bit about travel though.

00:51:01.380 I mean, you've done some recently, your most recent column was talking about how we've gone

00:51:05.340 from the golden era of air travel to today's hell on earth on the airlines.

00:51:11.000 Oh, God. Yes. I mean, I remember I never got to fly on Wardair, but everybody I talked to

00:51:18.540 who flew Wardair said it was the best airline in the world. It was just one big party. The food

00:51:25.240 was great. The people were great. It was all about having fun and enjoying your trip to Europe.

00:51:31.300 I remember my brother and his young bride went to Europe, and they said it was just the best airline ever.

00:51:39.560 I have a friend who told me he flew the Canadian Pacific.

00:51:43.780 Actually, he flew a Canadian Pacific and a DC-6 in the late 1950s, and he said it was amazing.

00:51:52.640 But Wardair was absolutely one of the best.

00:51:55.100 And if you fast forward to today, my God, the terrible things that Canadian passengers have had to deal with because of the airlines not really being ready for the post-COVID travel rush and not having enough security personnel to look, you know, check and make sure everything's safe.

00:52:18.660 and then plus you have this arrive can thing which i i i had to fill that thing out it took

00:52:26.060 me about 25 minutes in my hotel to figure this arrive canada and fill it all out i guess once

00:52:31.820 you filled it all out it's a lot easier if you fly again but uh and then plus all the restrictions

00:52:37.760 with the masks and and everything and also the airlines are are are packing these planes with

00:52:45.140 with seat patterns, which are just, you know, we're talking like something out of Con Air with

00:52:54.640 Nicolas Cage, for God's sake. Yeah, you've got no, you've got literally no, none, no legroom,

00:53:02.840 none, zero. And this was on the Dreamliner, supposed to be a Dreamliner. And it was just

00:53:08.900 absolutely horrible. And in my column, I say, if not for this wonderful flight attendant who

00:53:14.160 saw me suffering and said, look, when you book back to Calgary, book between seats,

00:53:22.020 rows 10 through 14, and there's about that much more legroom. And it was

00:53:26.640 much more survivable and a much better trip on the way back. But it's just really sad how bad

00:53:34.100 the situation, how stupid it's gotten with so many things. And now they want to 0.99

00:53:41.660 bring back the random testing which is completely unnecessary uh so it's it's it's awful it's just

00:53:49.500 we've come from you know we've come so far but we've actually come come so little uh you know

00:53:58.480 it's it's just about packing those planes with people and and and no wonder people are losing

00:54:04.980 their tempers no wonder they are you know well maybe it's one of the areas where the soviets

00:54:10.340 were actually ahead of their time a flight I remember going way back into the late 80s and

00:54:14.600 I came off of Finnair in Helsinki you know flying to there which was fantastic overseas flight great

00:54:20.500 service of course some very statuesque Finnish flight attendants doesn't hurt doesn't hurt

00:54:27.620 got on to Aeroflot to fly to Moscow from Helsinki and boy that was no frills that was the first time

00:54:34.260 I kind of experienced that in my life I mean they just packed you onto that plane the carpet was

00:54:38.600 kind of loose even walking up the aisle because they did actually tell you as part of their trivia

00:54:42.480 yes we could take all the seats out of this and turn it into a troop carrier in five minutes

00:54:46.420 and your seat was wiggling and they took off like a rocket straight into the air and then

00:54:51.620 dropped straight down into Moscow in a way like again I think these were military pilots rather

00:54:55.940 than you know our domestic ones right right but that was quite a contrast you know from the luxury

00:55:02.980 but nowadays aside from perhaps those steep takeoffs our conventional airlines aren't much

00:55:07.240 different anymore. Well, and as I mentioned in the column, a good friend of mine who travels a

00:55:12.500 lot. I mean, he travels more than any person I know. And he was on an Air Canada business flight

00:55:18.660 and a flight attendant was trying to fit another bag into the overhead. And this is in business

00:55:26.880 class, which is an expensive ticket. Like we're talking big bucks. I've never flown that. It's

00:55:34.180 it's expensive. And, and she took out his laptop and was pounding it to get it back. And he freaked 0.80

00:55:41.840 out because all his business, all his work, which by the way is classified, was being pounded into

00:55:49.380 the, into the overhead. And he just said, well, I can't, I can't allow this to happen. So he took

00:55:55.260 it out of her hands and she freaked out. And, and, you know, you're threatening me, you're

00:56:02.500 threatening me. And I'm going to the captain, I'm going to get you tossed from the flight.

00:56:07.100 And so the captain comes out. And my buddy's like, you know, talking very polite, and, you know,

00:56:13.480 and said, Look, this is what happened. And, and, and, you know, you know, I'm sorry, it happened.

00:56:18.960 But really, I was just afraid she was going to bust my laptop. And the captain just shook his

00:56:23.420 head. And, you know, okay, fine. Walked away. And the flight attendant was absolutely steaming mad.

00:56:29.240 But, you know, I mean, it just takes maybe it takes a little bit of common sense these days to calm down a little bit and and and treat passengers like passengers, not like prisoners.

00:56:43.220 And, you know, they're just packing us in like sardines and they don't give a damn anymore.

00:56:50.820 They don't care. They don't care. It's all about the bottom line. 0.63

00:56:54.540 To be a little fair, I think some of this was consumer driven, too, though.

00:56:58.440 I mean, the days of Wardair and that, you paid a lot of money to fly.

00:57:02.720 I mean, flying was an experience.

00:57:04.220 You dressed up for it.

00:57:05.180 You didn't go out in a T-shirt and sweatpants to get on the plane.

00:57:08.080 And people didn't casually take an air trip unless they were a specialized business or something.

00:57:13.200 You know, this was something you did once every few years, perhaps.

00:57:16.280 And now people kind of take it for granted and say, well, I want to be able to book it for only a few hundred bucks, get across the country.

00:57:22.180 Well, they're going to cut some services if you want to get that.

00:57:24.900 Like, I think that the airlines kind of filled a bit of a need or a demand for the consumers as well.

00:57:29.980 It's just that it led to such a rough experience.

00:57:32.660 Well, that's the thing.

00:57:33.660 And, you know, back then it was a special thing.

00:57:36.320 You put on a suit, you'd keep your ticket as a souvenir.

00:57:40.340 Everything was special.

00:57:41.380 You retreated, especially all the way along.

00:57:43.580 And I remember as a kid back in Windsor, my dad and I would, 0.99

00:57:49.440 he we would drive to the airport to watch a cpr dc8 come in and land at our airport because it was

00:57:56.240 coming in from uh scotland and it would be going to an exotic location like lima peru or somewhere

00:58:04.080 like that and it was really it was a big it was a big thing just to see it a big cpr empress dc8

00:58:11.680 i mean i'm a big aviation fan and uh but it was it you're right it was a big deal now it's

00:58:17.840 it's changed um and there are so many costs associated for these airlines and i mean i i

00:58:24.800 don't mean to pick on the airlines i i i i just think that maybe and maybe they should get more

00:58:31.040 help from the government too i mean my god um it's just that it's a disaster and the government could

00:58:37.600 be and the the thing that i hate is that they're telling us what a great job they're doing and

00:58:43.600 they're not doing a great job they're making things harder for canadians to travel and and

00:58:48.800 and and some of that's landing on the airlines which is not their fault it's not their fault

00:58:54.000 you know because covid hit and they had to let people go and now they're trying to bring them

00:58:59.360 back and and maybe the federal government should have foreseen this a little bit you know better

00:59:05.360 the transport minister and and and the government and you know they could have done more to to make

00:59:12.400 things a little better for canadians instead of telling us what a great job they're doing which is

00:59:17.360 total nonsense well that's it and the government helping them out i mean it doesn't have to mean

00:59:21.360 giving money the airports or anything like that a lot of it like so many other things just means

00:59:24.640 getting out of the way we've got a lot of ridiculous restrictions testing they arrive

00:59:29.280 can all these things i mean these border or these airport staff are already overloaded you've got to

00:59:34.560 check for this you got to check for this and now you've got this other stuff thrown on your plate

00:59:38.240 on top of it they can only keep up with so much and the thankless job you know and one thing i

00:59:44.080 wanted to mention was charles de gaulle airport was really organized like i thought oh my god

00:59:49.280 what am i you know what am i going to experience and i i there were no people sleeping on the floor

00:59:57.440 there was a couple long lines but but everybody everything was organized and not only that they

01:00:04.400 were friendly and they would help you through and say well you know what you know where are you

01:00:09.120 going oh okay fine have a nice trip you know i was shocked i i you know i'm not used to that

01:00:17.280 and and these are the friends for god's sake and and um i i got to the to the west jet line and

01:00:24.400 there was nobody there me and they said yeah go ahead go go get your uh you know go to the

01:00:29.440 the front get your ticket and there was a a couple after me who had no idea what arrive can was and

01:00:36.040 the lady was trying to explain to them well you've got to do this arrive can thing you have to do

01:00:41.640 that and they had no idea what that was so that i can see where that would be a problem but the only

01:00:47.660 the only problem i had was through security and charles de gall we got you know when your your

01:00:55.080 bags go through the scanner they have two ways to go the easy way or the way which have to be

01:01:02.160 checked separately and one of my bags went separate so I had to wait a long time about a

01:01:09.580 half an hour before they got to my bag and the reason why is because the fellow ahead of me

01:01:15.460 had four bottles of scotch and each bag was wrapped in plastic from a duty-free shop.

01:01:24.000 Totally legal. Everything fine. They unwrapped every bottle of scotch, took it out, put it in

01:01:32.840 a machine to scan it. Every single one, one by one by one. And there's people behind me waiting

01:01:39.300 and waiting and waiting. I would say half an hour to 45 minutes. All because, you know,

01:01:45.200 they're checking things i don't really think they need to but who knows and and then they had to

01:01:51.040 rewrap the scotch and put it back in sealed bags i'm thinking well i mean if we're if we're afraid

01:02:00.400 of of bottles of scotch i don't know i mean how far must we go but uh you know unless they know

01:02:08.240 something we don't unless they know something we don't about this uh then okay fine but uh

01:02:14.960 and i i think things like that are going to happen you know wherever you go wherever you travel

01:02:21.120 it's going to be it's going to be an ordeal you're going to be waiting in lines all kinds of lines

01:02:28.080 and travel is just not as fun as it used to be where you just got on the plane and went yeah

01:02:35.760 going through a gauntlet, a veritable gauntlet wherever you go. This is, this is our world today.

01:02:46.340 And one of our commenters, Tyler Volstad saying, yeah, flying's gotten worse since 9-11. I mean,

01:02:50.560 the problem is too, there's just so many people trying to blow us up. Unfortunately,

01:02:53.600 they got to try and think of every eventuality to block it. And there's just no fast way to do that.

01:03:00.500 So what kind of pivot though? Nabi was telling me you got another story in the cooker for the

01:03:04.440 weekend uh what are you working on now or what's what's about to come out yes i do i do well i did

01:03:09.140 a couple pieces there i just want to mention uh i did a piece on gerald bull who was an artillery

01:03:15.100 uh genius and uh the u.s army is actually um uh utilizing his base bleed artillery technology

01:03:25.960 base bleed is is is a gas that comes out of the back of the shell which lowers the turbulence

01:03:32.220 and makes it go longer and farther.

01:03:34.500 But the Gerald Bull story is absolutely fascinating.

01:03:38.180 He came up with an artillery gun.

01:03:42.340 It's called the, what is it, the GC-45, a GC gun Canada, 45 millimeter.

01:03:52.820 And that gun to this day is still probably one of the most powerful guns

01:03:59.000 launching a shell for great distances.

01:04:03.560 He came up with all this, and then he was assassinated 0.96

01:04:06.280 after working with the Iraqis on the supergun,

01:04:13.140 and the Mossad is suspected of killing him,

01:04:15.720 but we don't really know for sure.

01:04:18.020 But anyway, that's a really fascinating story.

01:04:20.740 Also, I did a piece on the Valkyrie aircraft,

01:04:26.820 which is a drone that is going to be for the Air Force, which could very well be the loyal wingman

01:04:37.300 following aircraft in the U.S. Air Force, and that is an amazing technology. That is really,

01:04:44.060 really amazing, and it's much, much lower cost than putting a pilot in an aircraft. These things

01:04:52.160 cost about two million a piece as opposed to 80 or 90 million for an f-35 and millions more to

01:04:59.240 train a pilot and five years to train a pilot this thing eventually will probably get more art

01:05:05.700 it has a brain and it has an art and artificial intelligence keeps expanding so so that's an

01:05:14.100 interesting article too if you want to have a look and as for the weekend there is a story

01:05:20.600 which i thought was very interesting about a marine corps sniper and this is a very unusual

01:05:26.600 story he's the greatest sniper in the marines that ever existed in vietnam and his story is

01:05:32.680 just absolutely amazing um it just takes i guess it takes a different kind of dude to to be that

01:05:39.080 kind of uh person but it's just a fascinating story uh it's not a new story but it's it's it's

01:05:45.960 kicked around for a bit, but I just thought that the Western Standard readers might be interested

01:05:52.800 in it. And also, just FYI, Canada holds the record for the longest sniper killing in Iraq. I believe

01:06:03.140 it was in Iraq. So we actually hold the record for that, and it's an incredible distance. I can't

01:06:08.900 remember how many yards but anyway this is just part of war and and it's it's an

01:06:20.000 interesting story and I hope readers like it no I appreciate that it was the

01:06:25.940 great for whatever is our connections acting up over here again so I'm going

01:06:29.840 a little rough uh but uh for those who can hear me as a good one yeah it's uh you throw those uh

01:06:37.280 technology military items and then it's uh interesting yes incredible the drone technology

01:06:46.320 is taking off it's uh the the drones are uh uh it's now it's evolving well basically uh cory uh

01:06:56.400 Ukraine. Everybody in the world is watching what's going on in Ukraine. The Russians are watching and

01:07:04.080 learning, the Ukrainians are watching and learning, the Americans are watching and learning,

01:07:09.280 and the Chinese are watching and learning, and the rest of the world is watching and learning.

01:07:14.480 And the power of these drones to kill, the Americans have given hundreds of drones to Ukraine,

01:07:21.120 hundreds including some top secret ones there's one called the phoenix ghost which has never even

01:07:27.040 been used in battle until ukraine and uh what they're seeing is these things are very powerful

01:07:34.160 and drones are the future and artificial intelligence and drones as well and and

01:07:40.240 these things are just so dangerous and imagine if you're a country any country anywhere in the world

01:07:45.760 in south america and anywhere and you're watching what's going on in ukraine

01:07:51.280 you are now a customer and those companies that are going to be selling drones especially advanced

01:07:57.520 drones are going to make a lot of money because that's where it's going that's where it's going

01:08:03.360 it's evolving and it's changing and and now you can put any type of uh uh uh warhead on a drone

01:08:14.400 and and and uh these uh companies are making it easier and easier for uh customers to customize

01:08:21.920 their drive it's like a it's like a denny's menu i'll have one of these one of these and one of

01:08:27.520 these that's that's how simplifying that they're making it and that's where it's going anyway i

01:08:34.000 just wanted to mention that uh with the drone uh situation it's it's it's it's just going crazy

01:08:40.240 It's the technology is rapidly expanding and it's changed everything.

01:08:44.560 It has changed everything.

01:08:47.140 Yeah.

01:08:47.720 That's fascinating stuff.

01:08:49.040 You know, even though it's military, I mean, the stuff, some of those developments at least eventually will evolve into things that are, you know, not necessarily developed to kill each other, which is a, you know, a better development in the long run.

01:09:00.720 So, okay, well, I'm going to let you go and get ready for the weekend.

01:09:03.540 So thanks for joining us today, Dave, and all the stuff you keep writing.

01:09:09.360 and yeah, we're looking forward to that story

01:09:11.240 about that sniper.

01:09:12.000 It sounds fascinating

01:09:13.040 and I'll talk to you again soon.

01:09:15.180 Okay, Corey, thanks a lot for having me.

01:09:16.940 Thanks and go Wings, go Wings.

01:09:19.000 Yeah, you bet.

01:09:19.880 All right, thanks, Dave.

01:09:21.660 That was Western Standard columnist Dave Makachuk

01:09:24.180 and thank you for enduring.

01:09:25.800 I'm glad Dave filled the void there

01:09:27.420 because my own connection,

01:09:28.420 I don't know what's going on in our office

01:09:30.360 at the studio today,

01:09:31.180 but it is just coming and going

01:09:32.400 and it's maddening.

01:09:33.860 So it seems to be good now

01:09:35.080 and I want to check in.

01:09:36.020 We're going across the pond

01:09:37.320 to phil dave with talk tv and he's in the uk because as we've been seeing in a lot of the

01:09:43.400 news lately that they're suffering under an exceptional heat wave out there i think it's

01:09:48.820 calmed down a little bit but there's been a lot of uh fire and damage and just an emergency that

01:09:54.000 that they weren't ready for so i appreciate getting a view from there hello mr dave thanks

01:09:58.480 for joining us today oh cory please call me phil sir but thank you very much yes very good afternoon

01:10:03.760 to you and good evening from the uk yes as those time changes i'm glad you could make it in i know

01:10:08.880 it's uh mel's been working hard to coordinate to get you to come in and i guess you know we we we

01:10:13.440 all are tightly connected to uh our our country across the sea we're all commonwealth we have a

01:10:20.080 lot of family and friends over there and we're just not used to seeing this sort of thing is uh

01:10:25.360 are things starting to stabilize and recover over there now oh thank heavens i mean it's the usual

01:10:30.240 mugginess that one would expect to experience in a british summertime that's about what we've got

01:10:35.640 at the moment i think the last time i checked the temperatures today it was in the early 20s so

01:10:39.620 that's much more bearable to give you some sense of context what the london fire brigade have

01:10:45.220 experienced over the last couple of days when we were experiencing temperatures in the late 30s and

01:10:49.660 even the early 40s in the uk which is just unprecedented never heard of that before the

01:10:55.520 fire brigade said that they had their busiest day get this since world war ii so that is how

01:11:02.740 bad the situation actually became because obviously the heat meant there were so many

01:11:08.840 fires all over the place the emergency services just couldn't cope well yeah and people have to

01:11:14.760 bear in mind i mean you know temperatures that might be okay in one area can be a crisis somewhere

01:11:20.220 else i mean you're used to moderate temperatures it's just like in texas their their world comes

01:11:25.080 to a halt if they get an inch of snow but uh but 40 degree weather and they don't bat an eye and

01:11:30.940 likewise in cooler or more moderate climates when you get a heat wave like that we're just not ready

01:11:35.880 to cope with it but i think that's the thing exactly the same way that over in canada i know

01:11:41.160 that you guys are fantastic when it comes to dealing with say a lot of snow whereas over here

01:11:47.600 okay we can deal with a bit of it but not too much but it seems to be extremes of any weather

01:11:51.900 we can't cope with here. And the main reason for that is because extremes on all fronts,

01:11:57.600 whether it's extreme heat, extreme snow, extreme rain, whatever it is, is such a rarity that we

01:12:03.200 don't have the equipment standing by to deal with this kind of extreme weather. So take, for example,

01:12:09.700 the extreme heat recently. I know a lot of buildings across the pond and in certain parts

01:12:15.020 of the Middle East would, as standard, have air conditioning fitted within that building to deal

01:12:20.420 with this kind of weather whereas here air conditioning is just something for people of

01:12:25.220 a luxury you know that it's not really standard in most buildings here certainly houses don't

01:12:30.740 really have air conditioning okay most modern office buildings do but certainly not old ones

01:12:36.340 and it's because we just don't need it normally yeah and it's it's similar here you know a lot

01:12:41.460 of us can just get by we'll get a few hot days a year where you'll open the windows and turn

01:12:44.900 on the fans but we can get by without air conditioning but you get those protracted

01:12:48.580 heat waves and for, I guess, vulnerable people like seniors and people with respiratory issues,

01:12:53.960 it can be very dangerous to be exposed to heat for such long periods. Has there been somewhere

01:12:59.600 where people could retreat to at least when it was that hot or somewhere to get out of the house,

01:13:03.660 things like that? Not really. This is the problem. And especially so that that was actually one of

01:13:07.940 the warnings that came with this extreme weather is that we were being told by professionals and

01:13:13.340 by our leaders and things like that that they wanted to make sure that those who are older those

01:13:19.260 who maybe do have respiratory issues making sure they were protecting themselves and made sure

01:13:24.460 that they took the proper precautions so making sure they had plenty of air circulating if they

01:13:28.300 had any fans they could access then that'd be great also make sure that they maybe drank plenty

01:13:32.700 of water all the time all of the standard advice that you would expect to receive in extreme

01:13:38.300 conditions i think though cory my favorite bit of advice though that we received over the past few

01:13:43.500 days from the officials and i don't think i would have thought of this without the guidance of the

01:13:48.140 powers that be is they said under no circumstances should anyone be tempted to wear quote unquote a

01:13:54.300 woolly hat thanks i don't think i would have thought of that myself i'm glad they offered

01:13:58.860 that advice to everybody yeah we have those over here too honestly with the fires i mean one of

01:14:06.620 our commenters bridget frost had saying like what did spark the fires though i mean the heat can

01:14:11.340 exacerbate exacerbate it but why were so many fires lit like what had happened to cause them

01:14:16.380 in the first place it's a great question i don't think we know all the answers to be honest i think

01:14:21.020 some of the worst damage we saw was actually in the east end of london where there was a cluster

01:14:27.020 of houses we very much the buildings over here typical houses are terraced houses so all in a

01:14:33.020 row all joined to each other and there was i think a chain of about five houses in the east end of

01:14:39.820 london that caught a blaze and although it's not completely clear what it is it could have been a

01:14:44.620 patch of dry grass that may be spread to the building it could have even been a cigarette

01:14:49.340 box from someone sort of just not extinguishing it properly and of course in the heat it caught

01:14:54.380 fire but i've heard horror stories of people leaving items on windowsills that they don't

01:15:00.940 think will actually magnify or intensify the heat silly things like for example you know those snow

01:15:06.460 globe things so i've heard like sort of stories of some people leaving a snow globe on the windowsill

01:15:11.340 not actually appreciating how the sun can magnify through a glass sphere like that and that catching

01:15:19.100 a light so it's all stuff like that it's just that we've never experienced before so causes

01:15:24.060 are still i think being decided in a lot of the cases where sadly people's homes did catch fire

01:15:30.380 but as a result of it now you know i think the most important thing to remember or to note

01:15:35.180 as this stage is we haven't heard of any loss of life thank goodness and that's the most important

01:15:40.220 thing now that may be just because those statistics haven't come out yet but most

01:15:43.900 importantly is that it would appear as though that that we haven't experienced that so far

01:15:49.580 so how about with your your power grid and your load because i i do know that like you know it

01:15:53.900 takes a heck of a lot more energy actually to cool down an environment than to heat it

01:15:57.980 And in areas with heat waves, quite often you can suddenly get blackouts and brownouts.

01:16:01.880 That kind of happens in Canada occasionally, too.

01:16:04.020 With the people who do have air conditioning, they blast it up full blast, and it overwhelms the grid sometimes.

01:16:09.480 Did it hold out out there?

01:16:11.260 As far as I know, yes, it did, which is terrific.

01:16:13.680 I don't actually think that that was too much of a problem, because to tell you the truth, with the rising cost of energy over here, I don't know what it's like over in Canada, but with the rising cost of energy over here, I strongly suspect that people were too afraid.

01:16:25.120 to and i'm genuinely serious when i say too afraid to use their electricity because the problem is

01:16:30.960 that energy bills are so just they're just flat out extortion now so horrendously expensive over

01:16:38.920 here that a lot of people are actually choosing not to even bother really using that much

01:16:43.260 electricity so i wouldn't be surprised if that swayed an awful lot of people's decision on how

01:16:48.580 they were going to keep cool in the heat and i strongly suspect that they probably just didn't

01:16:53.240 even bother half people turning on the fans and stuff like that yeah our power is not a heck of a

01:16:58.360 lot cheaper over here if at all as well so uh it makes people reconsider some of their decisions

01:17:04.320 but sometimes as i said if you're vulnerable or vulnerable you're a senior something like that

01:17:07.860 you might not have a choice yeah oh sure no no i very much hope that people made the sensible

01:17:13.460 decision and thought to themselves well look even if you do spend a bit more money on one or two

01:17:19.060 days of extreme heat make up for it elsewhere and hopefully that's exactly what they did and i hope

01:17:24.500 very much that people who were in that position did stay safe but as i say i mean it's all about

01:17:29.460 sort of waiting for these statistics to come out over the coming days as it stands you know we're

01:17:34.100 talking about the start of this week monday and tuesday of this very week that we're talking about

01:17:39.380 and so so at the end of the week it's still a bit early days to know for sure all of the statistics

01:17:44.500 involved with the heat but what we do know is that the uk actually broke its own record and

01:17:50.820 tops the 40 degrees celsius mark which we haven't done before yeah so well before i let you go then

01:17:58.420 how's your forecast looking it's cooled down a bit for the moment is it looking like it should

01:18:02.100 stay stable for the next while thank evans it looks like we're going back to good old blighty

01:18:07.220 again and we can expect some rain in the coming days so we'll be much happier i'm sure okay well

01:18:13.380 Well, I appreciate you coming in to check in with us,

01:18:15.420 you know, and just get a direct account

01:18:17.180 to how it's going over there.

01:18:18.820 And like I said, we're in some of a moderate climate here too.

01:18:23.100 So we can relate when heat knocks us down

01:18:25.820 more than it does with others.

01:18:27.600 And then it can become a pretty dangerous situation.

01:18:30.180 So I'm glad it sounds like there's been no casualties so far

01:18:32.780 and hopefully more policies and infrastructure

01:18:35.640 come into place so you're not so vulnerable

01:18:37.360 for future heat waves.

01:18:39.540 Absolutely.

01:18:40.140 Well, here is hoping.

01:18:40.860 And I think that sort of one thing that we are all aware of is that these freak occurrences may happen a little more often as to what the cause of that is.

01:18:51.460 That's a great subject of discussion over here. A lot of people obviously attributing it towards climate change.

01:18:56.080 A lot of people just saying, hey, it's just the summertime. Chill out. What's the problem?

01:19:00.040 So that in itself is causing great debate. But let's just say that I think that whatever the reason behind it is,

01:19:06.620 i think we can all agree that we need to be better prepared for certainly extreme heat but as i said

01:19:13.660 unfortunately preparations for extreme weather of any sorts in the uk has never necessarily been

01:19:19.420 our strong point oh and uh and as you said yeah the discussion is to the causes is a heated one

01:19:25.040 and it is over here for those things too and i can see it in my comment scroll but that that's

01:19:29.160 a whole other show that we could fill a heck of a lot more time on so anytime great i appreciate

01:19:35.240 the update. And yeah, perhaps we can check in with you again down the road on UK issues,

01:19:41.000 you know, because it's always good to get direct information from somebody out there on the ground.

01:19:45.300 It would be a great pleasure, sir.

01:19:47.120 All right. Well, thank you very much. And I will talk to you again sometime.

01:19:50.620 Thank you, Corey.

01:19:51.740 Great. So that was Phil Dave from Talk TV over in the UK. And as I said, I'd like to get a

01:19:56.740 direct voice on, you know, just what's happened. And we do get some, you know,

01:20:00.620 news out here where they like to play up on the hysterics or exaggerate things. But at the same

01:20:06.380 time, it is a real concern. It's as I've said that those differences, it depends on what you're used

01:20:11.520 to. And here in Canada, you know, we don't take the heat waves as well as they would in Texas or

01:20:16.520 New Mexico. And likewise, Texas is grinds to a halt when they get a bit of snow or sub-zero

01:20:22.000 temperatures. As others are pointing out, yes, it's just a few days of sun. I'm not going into

01:20:27.860 saying it's a big climate change thing, or even if it is, you see, the thing is, we've got to adapt,

01:20:32.720 adapt, learn from it, set up your systems to better deal with it, and move on. I mean, we can't change

01:20:39.360 the weather. You know, and it's funny, I put a tweet out, and I got a bunch of people, because, oh, what

01:20:43.380 about clouds heating this and that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, there's little things we could do to

01:20:47.060 modify immediate weather terms, but there's nothing we can do to stop a heat wave or cause a heat wave,

01:20:52.480 I mean, aside from a nuke, maybe. And with these things, they happen, as others were pointing out

01:20:58.320 and given some numbers. There's been similar heat waves in years gone by, and they can cause a lot

01:21:04.440 of problems, though. And it's worth watching. I'm not going to, we shouldn't be pushing the panic

01:21:09.620 button. We should just be adapting. We should look for it and realize there's going to be some heat

01:21:14.060 waves, and we're going to deal with hot times at times. But it really did put them under a lot of

01:21:19.140 pressure. There was a lot of fires. And again, when you don't have air conditioning and you've

01:21:23.700 got some people who have, you know, illnesses, things like that, it can be pretty dangerous

01:21:27.860 overheating and getting that hot. So I appreciated Mr. Dave coming on and Melanie for hooking me up

01:21:33.320 with him there to talk about that and see what's happening. And hopefully it remains with no

01:21:37.540 casualties and they can learn from it. I see a commenter, Al McHill, I guess that's what Dave

01:21:41.360 Makachuk was talking about with that sniper shot. And he says, yeah, the Canadian sniper longest

01:21:45.200 shot was in 2017 with a 3540 meter shot during the iraqi civil war i imagine that must have been

01:21:53.120 like one of those 50 cal sniper rifles uh just to have even a range like that and what an unimaginable

01:21:59.140 hit i mean that's over two miles away uh to put that into uh you know non-metric perspective i

01:22:06.100 mean that's an incredible shot uh and uh well something else so and again with makachuk covering

01:22:13.660 those things. As I said, it was hard to talk with him because my, I appreciate him talking on and

01:22:16.960 on. Some people were saying, okay, well, Dave's gone. Yeah, but Dave's fell in the void because

01:22:19.700 my internet connection went to crap there for a while. So, uh, oh no, Sylvia's saying,

01:22:24.280 you ever seen the trails in the sky, Corey? Oh, look, I'm not going to start on the contrail

01:22:28.340 thing, guys. Uh, the, you know, uh, there's other sites where they'll entertain that one a little

01:22:33.120 more than I will. And you're welcome to believe that the government's got secret, uh, chemicals

01:22:37.700 going from commercial jet liners and changing our weather, but I, I'm not among that camp.

01:22:42.040 So, you know, I'll have to see a little better evidence.

01:22:44.840 But either way, we got the weather that we are dealing with it.

01:22:48.720 Let's see.

01:22:49.220 Look at a couple more news items as we wrap up the week here.

01:22:52.520 The government's pondering ocean mining.

01:22:54.540 This one's interesting.

01:22:55.380 And I think it's got a whole bunch of potential, but I bet you the government will not act on it.

01:23:02.300 They will.

01:23:05.320 I'm sorry.

01:23:05.880 I just can't help myself with the comment scroll.

01:23:07.640 Yes, Lori.

01:23:08.180 No, it's not a secret.

01:23:09.000 I know the contrails are round.

01:23:10.140 and they're controlling our mines and it's all out there in the open. The baggage handlers are in on

01:23:13.940 it and the pilots are in on it and the airlines are in on it and the government's in on it and

01:23:17.340 the doctors are in on it. My dog Rex is in on it. It's all in the open. They're controlling us with

01:23:22.300 contrails from the plains. Okay, that's done. So ocean mining though, this is something that

01:23:26.200 really might happen. And seabed, I mean, there's a lot of resources. There's a lot of metals, a lot

01:23:31.920 of chemicals, things we could get. But unfortunately, it's purely theoretical and the department

01:23:37.360 saying, well, nobody's really actually applying.

01:23:39.280 So, I mean, I guess it's a theoretical discussion.

01:23:41.180 But it is an area where with technology,

01:23:42.680 we could do a lot more.

01:23:43.660 I just don't have faith

01:23:44.620 with our bureaucratic, ideological, lunatic government 0.62

01:23:47.680 that they would ever approve anything like that 0.98

01:23:49.440 because, oh my God, you're going to squash a minnow. 0.94

01:23:52.120 We can't approve the project it's done.

01:23:53.680 But thanks for spending $20 million to study it

01:23:56.740 and try and tell us what we can do with the ocean there.

01:24:01.820 But they are looking into it.

01:24:03.260 It's interesting.

01:24:04.500 You know, I'll back up a little bit too.

01:24:06.240 I'm going to talk a bit about Pierre Polyeva.

01:24:08.180 You know, that came up.

01:24:09.140 Somebody with the commenters was talking about that as well.

01:24:11.720 So, yeah, as Dave mentioned at the start of the show,

01:24:14.940 the party has scheduled another debate.

01:24:17.340 And when the party schedules a debate,

01:24:18.660 they make it mandatory for the candidates.

01:24:20.300 They say, you have to attend it or we'll fine you.

01:24:24.100 And there's some party internal goings-on,

01:24:27.760 obviously, happening here right now.

01:24:30.200 And it's, you know, Polyeva is obviously not happy with the party.

01:24:35.440 the releases from him and some of his radio show interviews and some of the people working on his

01:24:40.420 campaign are furious with this and basically telling the party to get stuffed. Polyev was

01:24:45.260 kind of accusing them almost of just trying to get a platform for Sheree because he isn't getting

01:24:54.300 one elsewhere. I don't know. It's mixed. I can understand and I don't like. It's a mixed thing.

01:25:00.120 I can understand why front runners don't like attending debates and forums and town hall meetings, or at least perceived front runners.

01:25:10.420 It's assumed he's in the front.

01:25:11.520 Most people, I think, acknowledge that.

01:25:13.560 Because you go to these events, you almost never meet any undecideds, especially this late in the campaign.

01:25:18.780 Not going to find them.

01:25:19.600 Most people have already made up their mind. 0.89

01:25:21.820 And one thing that can happen, though, is you're going to sit there as the perceived front runner and you're going to get the crap beat on you, you know, out of you from every other candidate.

01:25:29.620 it because you will be the focus of all of their attacks. And you won't gain any ground, but there's

01:25:35.060 always a potential. You could lose your temper or the opponent could just say something brilliant

01:25:39.100 or whatever, and you can lose ground. You can definitely, there's always room to lose

01:25:43.300 and there's not much room to win. And that's why they don't do it very often. You see that in

01:25:47.980 localized races too, whether it's on a provincial level or a federal level, it's sometimes really

01:25:52.640 hard to get the incumbent out to show up at some of those town hall meetings and forums

01:25:56.400 and debates that go on during elections

01:26:00.440 because they just don't want to rock it.

01:26:02.480 And I don't like it.

01:26:03.620 I don't.

01:26:04.040 I don't like it at all.

01:26:05.080 That's the opportunity when voters

01:26:06.200 should be able to listen to you

01:26:08.040 as many opportunities as humanly possible.

01:26:11.920 I just understand the strategy

01:26:13.780 behind why they don't do it.

01:26:15.740 When I ran for the Libertarian Party federally,

01:26:17.600 I ran once for that.

01:26:19.040 I was under no illusion

01:26:19.900 I'm going to win a seat in Alberta

01:26:22.180 with a Libertarian Party.

01:26:23.680 But I wanted to get a few points out there

01:26:26.020 and I wanted to help ask the conservative incumbent questions on issues that he wouldn't otherwise

01:26:32.780 have had to answer. So the opportunity I had for that was at two of the debate forums that were

01:26:38.580 held, and I wanted to ask about supply management, and I did, and I forced him to make answers on

01:26:42.940 that. So it was on the record. I mean, did it change the world? Not necessarily, but those

01:26:47.080 forums give that opportunity for people to hear things that they wouldn't otherwise. And debates,

01:26:52.040 same thing. And again, Polly have it saying, uh, you know, that, uh, the debates already were a

01:26:57.560 joke. I mean, that the shots are really getting hard and heavy, you know, saying, pointing out

01:27:00.420 the goofy, sad trombone crap and everything that went on with the party debate that was held in 0.97

01:27:04.480 Edmonton. Uh, so again, you can see why he doesn't want to go, but I'm not sure if I like that 0.97

01:27:10.400 happening. That's all. It's a mixed thing. Either way, we'll see how that all irons out. Uh, let's

01:27:15.820 see independent MLA, Thomas Dang. He's the one who tried hacking things. Uh, I love how the media

01:27:20.280 reports on it. It says, uh, beleaguered, uh, MLA is an NDP MLA in Alberta. He got busted for,

01:27:25.620 uh, hacking. He's been charged. And, uh, but the media reports it saying he admitted to testing

01:27:31.560 the security of Alberta's vaccine information portal, testing the security. Really? This is

01:27:39.160 our media at work again. I can't even remember where I pulled this. I just give myself prompts

01:27:42.540 for the show, testing the security. That's like me going up and I got caught with a crowbar trying

01:27:47.320 to break into a place. Oh, he was just testing the security. No, I was trying to break in and

01:27:53.500 Dang was trying to hack or at least allegedly. So let me say allegedly, but he wasn't testing

01:27:59.200 the security. What a joke. You don't get arrested and have your house searched like that in charge

01:28:06.160 for testing the security. But I guess we want to make it nice. So he's not going to run for the

01:28:10.940 NDP in the next election. The scandal is just a bit too much for them. All right, I'm going to wrap

01:28:16.540 it up and let you guys all get on with your weekend uh coming on monday again of course

01:28:20.660 we'll be doing it again and my guest that day will be dan mcteague people might remember him

01:28:25.160 you know he's from uh he speaks on the uh gas prices and energy issues all the time he's a

01:28:30.960 former liberal member of parliament and back when the liberals were actually good and he's very

01:28:35.600 critical of the trudeau government he's certainly not like the liberals of today he's been on the

01:28:39.840 show before always a good conversation and we'll see if we can't round up another guest to go with

01:28:43.880 them by then. So thanks for tuning in this week, guys. Lots of news, lots of stuff going on, and

01:28:48.460 there will be plenty more. Oh, one more question. Tracy asking, when's the UCP vote? I believe it's

01:28:54.500 in early October. When should I get my application as a member? That I don't know.

01:28:58.000 I nailed the party. All right. Thanks, guys. I'll see you all Monday morning, 1130 sharp.

01:29:13.880 Thank you.

Western Standard - July 23, 2022

Triggered： All talk, no action plan won’t cut it with Albertans

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