00:07:29.300Gab, unfortunately, part of the reason it hasn't really done that well is because it's just a bunch of people saying the same old stuff to each other.
00:07:36.080What I'd like to see is a platform that verifies users.
00:10:49.320Arthur Green, whose name you mentioned, has a story out of Edmonton on the killer of a 19-month-old.
00:10:55.520He's been released on day parole after serving only a third of his nine-year sentence.
00:11:00.480Apparently, he had a bit of a tough time in jail and had to be segregated.
00:11:04.840And because of that, they've sprung him two-thirds of the time, still left on his sentence for that horrible crime.
00:11:15.220And speaking of horrible crimes, the truck driver involved in the Humboldt bus crash has been granted day parole.
00:11:22.280You remember he pled guilty after that horrible thing, and he's now out also on day parole.
00:11:28.940Edmonton Oilers owner, Mr. Katz, is in some legal difficulties south of the border.
00:11:35.020A 17-year-old ballerina from the States is alleging he paid to have sex with her.
00:11:40.880So that's a very interesting story that we'll have to keep an eye out on.
00:11:45.420And our Dave Makachuk has a longing look back in the glory days of air travel around the time of, you know,
00:11:52.780ward air where you can actually go on and be welcomed by a smiling flight attendant and
00:11:57.820eat your lunch or dinner off cutlery with actual knives and forks and all that good stuff that
00:12:04.140that used to happen when you fly that of course is no longer available to us you're just lucky
00:12:09.100if your luggage arrives on the same continent as as you do these days uh corey so uh we've got that
00:12:16.060And with that, our Eva Suddick is just wrapping up a good exclusive on three, the 19 Calgary firefighters have launched a lawsuit against the city of Calgary, their actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. And Eva's got exclusive interviews with three of them and they lay out their reasons behind why they're suing. So that'll be coming up shortly. And it's definitely worth a read, Corey.
00:12:40.960great well lots on the go going on out there uh let's see you folks have missed you some of them
00:12:48.000they're welcoming you back and others with offering tips like using a biodegradable uh pellets with an
00:12:53.240airsoft gun for your uh chickadee problems so i mean you know there's a solution to everything
00:12:58.340online if we talk about it long enough there i was thinking of blasting them with opera music
00:13:02.920at 4 a.m but i'm not sure the neighbors would be appreciative yeah you might uh trade one problem
00:13:08.660for another that way. Exactly. All right. Thanks, Dave. I'll let you get back at it. I'll see you
00:13:14.880after the show. Thanks, Corey. All right. So that is our news editor, Dave Naylor, and he is out
00:13:21.120there making sure we have the good stuff, the stories, the exclusives, and are staying on top
00:13:25.940of things, guys. And the reason we can do that, this is that part of the show, yes, where I nag0.80
00:13:30.560you all to subscribe. And I know most of you guys who are reviewing today already have subscriptions,
00:13:35.240but for the couple who may not, this is, you know, the opportunity to do it. Guys, $10 a month,
00:13:41.220$99 for a year. And this is how we can stay independent. This is why we don't ask for tax
00:13:47.420dollars because we rely on you guys as members. And you've been doing great. That's why we've
00:13:52.740been expanding. That's why we've got reporters across the country, new gear, stuff going,
00:13:57.160getting better all the time. Consider taking out a subscription if you haven't already, guys. I
00:14:01.620mean, it's really important. You know, we're not asking for charity. We're talking about you paying
00:14:05.060for a service that we provide. And of course, the more people subscribe, the better the product
00:14:09.380we're going to be able to get out there for you. So again, thank you to all you people who have
00:14:13.860subscribed already. Oh, I said you people, that could be a problem. And if you haven't already
00:14:19.420get on it, come on guys, help me pay those bills. I got to nag Derek for a raise eventually, but we
00:14:23.960got to get more subscriptions before that can happen. All right. So yeah, some of those news
00:14:28.380items. It's been interesting. You know, with the air travel, I haven't read that one yet. Dave
00:14:32.840Makachuk is actually going to be on tomorrow. And we're going to talk about a few of his columns.
00:14:36.180And that's one that we can certainly talk about. I know he'd been flying recently too. Perhaps he
00:14:40.620talks about that a bit in his column. And I mean, it's really changed. It's like Dave mentioned,
00:14:44.280you know, the Ward Air. I remember flying on that once when I was a kid. And yeah, we're talking
00:14:49.720real cutlery, real meals. You know, flying was made to be a comfortable endeavor. And nowadays,
00:14:56.480I mean, you get on a plane, you're squashed on like a sardine, you're herded through like cattle,0.66
00:15:01.000but it's a bit of a mixed thing, right? It's cost-benefit. I mean, back then when you'd fly
00:15:06.760with Ward Air, that was a very big expenditure for a family or an individual. Flying back then
00:15:12.980was something you didn't take casually. Like when you look at the cost to fly, you know, then
00:15:20.960today versus what it was back in those days, it's way, way lower. I mean, people are demanding to be
00:15:27.680able to get across the country or out of the country at a much lower rate than they ever had
00:15:31.940before. So, I mean, that's brought it down to people. You don't have to be rich to be somebody
00:15:35.900who flies anymore, although it helps, but you certainly lose a lot of those comforts. Now it's
00:15:41.820a matter of being squished in there and, you know, have that little bag of peanuts thrown at you and
00:15:48.240have your luggage lost and certainly people at the front gate. So it's a balance, right? I guess
00:15:54.820if you want to spend enough, you can get to first class. But the airports are a catastrophe all over
00:15:58.080the world, particularly in Canada right now. I mean, we're seeing the stories all the time with
00:16:02.300the delays, the crowds, the lost luggage, the nightmares. It's not doing the tourism industry
00:16:08.160a lick of good these days. I'm looking forward to some travel this winter, but I'm going to drive
00:16:13.120south like I did last winter to hell with dealing with all that airline stuff. Of course, the cost
00:16:16.880of gas will make that pretty cheap as well. Let's see, there's Joe's snake there. So let's look at
00:16:23.820the comments, you know, saying won't subscribe because there might be separatists and he hates
00:16:27.720separatists. Okay. Well, a separate Alberta might have a better education system so we could have
00:16:34.180better literacy among commenters and Joe won't be, you know, embarrassing himself with that sort of
00:16:39.860semi-English sort of thing on a comment scroll on a live show. But all the same, if you subscribe
00:16:46.580to the paper, to the publication, it doesn't mean, of course, you share the ideology of every other
00:16:52.320subscriber or any columnist who might write within it. So I'm sorry if the separatists
00:16:58.980among the Western standard might not be the one you want to keep company with, but I guess there
00:17:05.560might be a few in there. What are you going to do? Some people I don't like, you know, and this
00:17:10.200segues in, CBC, you know, Dave mentioned that. So here we are tightening our belts. You know,
00:17:15.900we've got, uh, uh, you know, tough times, inflation's flying up. The interest rates are
00:17:21.720shooting up. And meanwhile, CBC execs, yeah, they're getting bonuses, $30 million, you know,
00:17:29.000uh, the equivalent for these executives of 15,000 each. Nice work. If you can get it,
00:17:34.680nice work, $30 million in bonuses. We're all struggling. This is the CBC that was groveling
00:17:40.120and sniveling and whining and crying during the pandemic that they needed more bailout money.
00:17:45.740I think it was another 21 million they suckled out of the taxpayers' teat during the pandemic
00:17:51.220on top of the $1.5 billion they get a year from the taxpayers.
00:18:02.180See, yeah, over 1,000 of their employees got bonuses, you know, well over $14,520 each.
00:18:11.280And yeah, there's your tax dollars at work, right?
00:18:15.060I mean, the CBC radio was howling, oh, my God, we had to lay off 11 staff in their international division, and they needed another $21 million bailout.
00:18:24.040Like, come on, guys, it just never stops.
00:21:01.640But just read some rudimentary economics and understand what happens when the government keeps printing money, because that's essentially all government borrowing really is. It's just printing more money and flushing it out there. You're not helping anything. But that is the man that partnered with Trudeau, the unholy alliance, to continue to, you know, try and manage this country through a pandemic, inflation, all these crises.
00:21:30.280Oh, it's a sad outcome, guys, a sad thing.
00:21:32.380Let's hope the Conservative Party of Canada can manage to get their stuff together enough to unseat this government.
00:21:38.220I mean, we had Trudeau, he's already, like I said, prancing around the country, looking like he's getting ready for another campaign.
00:21:43.980And I mean, part of what will happen, here's some of the irony if we're talking about political play.
00:21:47.380One of the only reasons that Harper got the majority that he did and, you know, held power for the while he did
00:21:55.600is because Jack Layton had a strong NDP and it split the liberal vote.
00:22:00.420And that was a contributing factor towards it.
00:22:02.720And as long as Jagmeet Singh is as weak as he is, we're not going to,
00:22:10.340the liberals are looking better and better.
00:22:13.380I mean, it's not just the conservative party, you know, losing support or not doing strongly
00:22:17.560that might convince Justin to try and pull the pin and make a desperation run for an election this fall.
00:22:23.840it's if the NDP collapses under the ridiculous leadership of Singh, same thing, that could lead
00:22:30.860to a liberal majority. And he desperately wants that majority. He wants it so bad. I mean, he's,
00:22:35.860like I said the other day, he's only got one kick left at the cat. That's what he really does.
00:22:41.460I mean, if he gets another minority, the party is going to chuck him out, whether he likes it or not.
00:22:46.140So he can sit there and do this slow death for the next three years in a partnership with Singh,
00:22:51.360or he can wait. And it might not happen this fall, but I think they're waiting. They're just
00:22:55.860sitting on the edge to pounce whenever they think they might be able to call the election and get
00:23:00.740a majority. Because that's the only thing that'll save his butt. And he's got no legacy. You know,
00:23:05.140here he is, Pierre Trudeau, loathsome as he is, is an established part of Canadian history. And
00:23:11.180he's had some legacy, which, you know, most of us in the West think is a terrible one, but all the
00:23:15.220same. He has one. But Justin has nothing. What's he got? He's the guy who ran the government and
00:23:22.300declared the War Measures Act against, you know, bouncy castles. That's not a good legacy. He ran
00:23:27.700us into the mess of inflation and overspending we're in. Not a good legacy. I'm sure he would
00:23:32.500like to get a majority so he can come up with some sort of large project and program that's
00:23:37.160going to last and he can shove through and get in there. But he needs a majority to do it. Diana's
00:23:41.920saying he legalized pot. Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's going to make world history, but he did do0.69
00:23:45.720that. And I don't think that was one of his worst moves, actually. That wasn't such a, you know,
00:23:51.640a bad policy out of him. He's had a lot worse than that. But I think he wants something more.
00:23:57.000And he knows he's not a brilliant man, but he knows if he can't win another majority, this is
00:24:02.360it. This is his final term. And he's going to do whatever he can to try and get it. So we're in for
00:24:09.180some ugly and unstable politics for a while. And here we go. Let's see more of their money,
00:24:16.300our money going out there. This is a federal agency mandated to counter slow economic growth
00:24:21.960in Quebec. You know, I love it when federal agencies get tasked for something. They do such
00:24:25.840a good job with it. Canada economic development. It's like Calgary economic development. In other
00:24:30.000words, which again, what these are slush funds, all of bureaucrats taking your money and giving
00:24:35.460it to buddies. That's typically what it tends to be. Doesn't help the taxpayers. Really good if
00:24:40.060you're on the inside track, though. And this is the Canadian Canada Economic Development for Quebec
00:24:45.320Regions. In a series of briefing notes, it says mandate was to create jobs. And they've got these
00:24:51.320guys, though. Yeah, they put Calgary to shame. 2.4 billion in subsidies for 4,900 projects. Billion
00:24:57.080is what this group has put out. But a recent one, they found $10 million in subsidies for a tennis
00:25:03.620tournament in Montreal. Yes. A tennis tournament. And here's something. The idea was to draw media
00:25:09.520attention to the province. I didn't even know what happened. Did anybody else see it? I guess
00:25:15.000the media coverage didn't surface, or at least not a hell of a lot. I guess they're kind of
00:25:17.720getting it now, but not in the way they want to. It's just showing they wasted our money. We have
00:25:21.640a broken, broken system in Canada, guys. We're getting milk dry, and they're running us into
00:25:27.260the ground. So you wonder why there's movements for independence out here? We'll see. That's a
00:25:33.540column I just put up today. I edited the columns and one from Alred, Ken Alred. And he was an MLA
00:25:42.840with, I believe it was in Ralph Klein's time there. And he's come right out and said, you know,
00:25:50.540it's the last gasp. We either got to get a sovereignty act, do something, distance ourselves,
00:25:56.860or it's just time. The West has to get out. The West wants out. And this was a guy who was a
00:26:02.540pretty federalist in the past. He talked about that. And he's just had enough. He's been watching
00:26:06.600politics for a long time. He was one of the original reformers. And yeah, he's said enough
00:26:13.980is enough. And he's on the way out. So we're seeing that more and more. We're seeing more of
00:26:18.680that, you know, people saying it's time to go nuclear with this. It's time to get out. We're
00:26:23.780running out of options. And it's not a minority conversation any longer. It's coming out from
00:26:32.000established politicians, established public figures, they've had enough. And this UCP race,
00:26:38.600it's getting ugly. You know, I'm going to talk a bit more with Green about that. It seems like
00:26:44.960I'm rambling a bit. Looks like I might have another guest standing me up. That'll be two
00:26:48.000for this week. The joys of a live show. But we do what we can. And so I'll just talk to you guys
00:26:56.400some more and we'll carry on until we get to our next one. There's always lots to talk about.
00:27:00.120Let's look at the other federal front. You know, the Conservative Party of Canada has decided to hold a third debate now. And so I guess they asked their members, you know, 24,000 responded to a poll. So they overwhelmingly want a third debate. They want to listen to them one more time. Sometime today, I guess they're going to release the difference. All right. See, now, Joe Sneak, you know, I'm going to sidetrack this. This commenter is over trolling it.
00:27:25.660he's anonymous of course because he's a coward and he's just sitting there trying to disrupt
00:27:32.780things but you see watch this block user there did it now Joe can go talk to himself so yeah
00:27:39.780there are ways you know to control adverse media discussion going on and you know somebody I was
00:27:48.260talking on Twitter a little bit about that I'll get back to the UCP race but as I'm live I just
00:27:52.480kind of go where it's going. I see Diana's asking, hosting it. It'll be the party hosting it. So
00:27:57.480you know, somebody else had said on Twitter, hey, I've got the power to just get out there
00:28:03.060and block people. We don't need media to, social media to give the ability to
00:28:07.940verify accounts and things like that. See, it's not a matter of needing. Yeah, it's not a matter
00:28:14.400of mandating. Everybody's minds always go towards, he's proposing a law or a rule. No, I'm not.
00:28:19.600And like I said, I liked what Parler was trying.
00:40:22.820I wanna see what they're gonna do with it
00:40:24.600because now we're gonna apply creative,
00:40:26.920outside the box thinking from a company that's there to disrupt, not disrupt in a bad way,
00:40:33.040but to shake up the status quo. And I'm just really going to be watching this very closely.
00:40:40.460And they're talking about how they want to reinvent the healthcare experience from everything
00:40:44.120from things like booking an appointment to taking trips to the pharmacy. And I mean,
00:40:47.400some of those things that a private industry could fix a lot faster. And I know doctor's clinics are
00:40:51.760predominantly private anyways in Canada, even if they're publicly funded. But I mean, they can come
00:40:57.880up with all sorts of, Amazon's going to come up with apps, I imagine, ways to safely renew
00:41:02.780prescriptions, things like that. We're creeping along in the socialized system we have towards
00:41:07.760some of those advancements. But I got a feeling Amazon, if they get into the game, are going to
00:41:12.100be a lot faster and more targeted and be able to bring in some of these reforms, you know,
00:41:18.780better than the others. So I'm pretty excited watching this happen. Plus it's a south of the
00:41:23.360border. So, uh, Hey, if it really goes to hell, it won't be our problem anyways. It's the American
00:41:27.080one, but, uh, you know, it's, it's, uh, because the Americans allow these private enterprise to
00:41:32.040come in and do different things and enter the market, we can get more innovative things coming
00:41:36.460along and, uh, changing, uh, changing the game. I mean, we can't learn if it's all under one
00:41:43.880system with a monopoly um you know i see uh arthur uh idling in there in the background maybe i'll
00:41:49.320pop him in and if he's ready to roll there um we'll start talking about some of the stuff arthur's
00:41:54.960been covering and talk about that united conservative party race so let's pull him in
00:41:59.360and have a conversation and see how it's going there hey arthur how's it going uh not too bad
00:42:04.700enjoying the uh the sunny weather here in uh here in bonnieville today oh good good i i see your
00:42:11.460your internet seems to have improved for now. I mean, at the stuff meeting this morning,
00:42:14.300it was horrible. Yeah. The, uh, the person outside in the poll is no longer in the poll. So,
00:42:20.160uh, maybe that had something to do with it, but, uh, on another note, uh, Corey, the, uh, yesterday
00:42:25.300marked the, uh, the last day for people to register with the, uh, with elections candidate
00:42:30.080to run for the, uh, Alberta's United conservative party leadership. And, uh, you know, we had some,
00:42:36.220We have some candidates confirmed, Brian Jean, Danielle Smith, and Travis Taze, of course, were confirmed ahead of Wednesday's deadline.
00:42:46.080John Horseman did tweet that he was on track to meet the deadline with signatures, but quickly withdrew on Wednesday afternoon and said it was a crowded leadership race.
00:43:01.420So that's one of the reasons that he withdrew.
00:43:04.940And, of course, there are results still pending, and we'll bring you up to speed with those as soon as they come in.
00:43:12.700Yeah, so it sounds like seven of them at least have made the bar, or they're saying they are.
00:43:18.020That next bar, I guess, is being fully approved.
00:43:20.420It's got to go before the UCP's leadership committee for them to sign off on it.
00:43:24.920But, I mean, if they've gotten the money and the signatures, I mean, those are some very major bars to accomplish first, right?
00:45:52.040I was talking to, you know, Reid Small out there in BC.
00:45:54.960They've got one going on in BC, and that'll be the same thing.
00:45:59.020Whoever wins that's going to become the premier with the NDP.
00:46:01.960But they've only got one contestant so far, and it sounds like they might only have one.
00:46:05.080I mean, quite different than what's going on out here.
00:46:07.820Yeah, I mean, there's some big talk, you know, with the Smith campaign and the Alberta Saventry Act.
00:46:13.980And, you know, she called out Justin Trudeau yesterday with his admission targets for 2030 saying that, you know, it's going to cut Alberta oil production, not just Alberta oil production, but all oil production in Canada by 2030, upwards of 46%.
00:46:29.740And, you know, the oil industry employs a lot of people across Canada, especially here in Alberta and Calgary.
00:46:37.440So, you know, she really is looking forward to pushing that act if she becomes Premier.
00:46:44.880And then, you know, we have Brian Jean who has been actively voicing actively his opinion on gas prices here in Alberta
00:46:54.560and saying, you know, Albertans are getting ripped off.
00:46:57.720So we'll see what he brings to the table and, you know, what's going to happen in the next few weeks.
00:47:12.320I mean, something must be happening out there.
00:47:14.640I haven't heard much from her campaign at all, actually.
00:47:18.800Like I said, I will be reaching out again today now that the deadline has passed to put a push on, you know, getting the latest information for our readers because, you know, that's why they follow us, Corey, is really, you know, the latest and the most truthful information.
00:47:35.540So, like I said, now that the deadline is passed, I can really put the pedal down, as we say in Newfoundland, and try to get some comments and some different decisions.
00:47:46.720And things are saying, you know, Twitter is always a good place to hang out because you never know what's going to be tweeted during the day by a politician.
00:47:57.180Well, that's it. I mean, you can catch the stuff as it breaks on Twitter. It's just not necessarily the best spot for the exchanges of ideas.
00:48:04.900Well, moving on from that, then we'll look at some of the other stories you've been writing on.
00:48:09.220The recent one, I mean, that's kind of a rough one, but the parole board has released that gentleman who would, you know, with a child who died that he left outside of a church.
00:48:23.520You know, they made a decision on Wednesday to release him from the Edmonton Remand Center, basically.
00:48:31.380He was granted parole, and he only served two-thirds of his sentence.
00:48:36.880The parole board said that he had a difficult upbringing in a First Nations community.
00:48:43.140He is Indigenous, Corey, and that he was getting treated pretty badly in prison.
00:48:50.660And there are reports that inmates took it in their own hands to give him a warm welcome while in prison for committing a crime against a child.
00:49:00.540And, you know, they said that the conditions, you know, that he was experiencing, he spent most of the time in the hole.
00:49:07.220But, you know, they kind of gave him a little bit of leeway and granted his parole.
00:50:41.600And like I said, there's lots of people in Canada who have had tough upbringings and rough childhoods, and, you know, they don't kill people.
00:50:49.900No, and yeah, our justice system is unfortunately anything but. I'm just kind of moving down through your scroll, though. I see Rachel Notley calling for inflation relief. That's interesting. I always like that when I see NDP talking economics. What's she proposing that's going to help us all?
00:51:09.840She never really proposed a whole lot, Corey.
00:51:13.060I think it was more or less just her speaking her mind to get media's attention.
00:51:19.500I noticed that, you know, when a big story comes out, such as the one with inflation and, you know, 8.9 percent, I do believe, or 8.1 percent was the figure, 8.4 here in Alberta.
00:51:32.560And, you know, she's immediately calling for inflation relief, even though, you know, our readers are pretty smart here at the Western Standard and, you know, they don't forget politics and what happened in the past.
00:51:47.020So, you know, there were a lot of comments on the story saying, you know, the NDP were the start or that created, you know, some of these problems when they were in power years ago.
00:51:56.400But, you know, she is calling for inflation relief.
00:51:59.040She thinks that, you know, Albertans are having a tough time putting food on the table.
00:52:03.900And, you know, with the price of everything, from used cars to cars, dealerships, you know, we've seen the real pinch happen in the last couple of months, you know, especially since COVID happened in Canada.
00:52:18.980It'll be interesting to find out, you know, what she says in the future.
00:52:23.840I find that she always speaks her opinion, of course, against being in the opposition against the UCP when something big happens.
00:52:37.440And, you know, we'll see what she proposes to reduce inflation impact in Alberta, Corey.
00:52:46.460Well, that's it. That's the other half.
00:52:47.960I mean, OK, it's fine. You pointed out that Albertans are suffering under the high cost of living.
00:52:51.660I think we all kind of know that, but what are you going to do about it?
00:52:55.120We need to hear that second half of the conversation, Madam Notley.
00:52:58.740Well, maybe we'll see more as time goes.
00:53:00.900I was kind of ranting about that earlier, that her boss, Jagmeet Singh,
00:53:05.500and I know it chafes them when I say that,
00:53:07.960but those parties are literally tied constitutionally, so he is her boss.
00:53:11.740He proposed giving $1,000 to everybody in Canada to battle inflation,
00:53:16.200and he got roundly ripped to shreds on Twitter because of it, of course,
00:53:19.900because it's not really a good economic plan.
00:53:22.840But I guess at least he proposed something.
00:53:25.400Like I said, at least the proof is in the pudding, as we say, in Newfoundland, Corey.
00:53:32.040So, you know, $1,000 seems nice to say that and seems nice on paper.
00:53:37.700But really, when you think about it, how far does $1,000 go?
00:53:42.580If you're driving a Dodge pickup, probably four tanks of gas right now in Canada.
00:54:06.380They're partnered with the Red Deer Police to offer opiate assistance
00:54:11.000to people who are arrested, you know, when they're first incarcerated.
00:54:15.640And, you know, I applaud the USCP government for taking a stand and investing in a program like this, Corey, because, you know, I have many off-the-record conversations as an investigative reporter.
00:54:28.620And, you know, I spoke to the RCMP before different members, not saying they're from Bonneville, but different locations within Alberta.
00:54:35.780And, you know, they see the same people in the system over and over catching release.
00:54:40.700And, you know, addiction is, don't quote me on percentage, but 90% of the time, it's, you know, it's someone who's addicted to drugs and struggling with mental health.
00:54:52.360And, you know, the justice system is a revolving door sometimes for these people.
00:54:58.120And, you know, they're just trying to survive.
00:55:00.360And, you know, you don't judge the person, Corey, who's down and out, because when you're up, you never think you're going to be down again.
00:55:07.400And when you're down, you never think you're going to be up again, of course.
00:55:09.580and you know don't judge the person who's doing drugs on the side of the street because you
00:55:15.500haven't been in their shoes so you don't know what they've been through and i think it's a
00:55:18.860great program that you know uh people who are struggling with with drug addiction and mental
00:55:24.180abuse will now have a chance to go virtual with with an organization here in alberta when
00:55:29.660incarcerated to see you know what is the root of the problem uh you know it's just not petty crime
00:55:35.080and they like to steal there's a there's a reason behind the crime and and that's drugs cory
00:55:41.580yeah no absolutely and we saw that in the south and we saw that with the people who'd been
00:55:46.860repeatedly robbing my uh pub when i owned it and and uh or the fellow that uh eddie maurice shot
00:55:52.860while defending his family in southern alberta years ago that that guy's a chronic uh re-offender
00:55:58.080and he's almost every time he gets picked up he's also in possession of meth so i mean it's
00:56:03.920difficult uh you know because i mean they're criminals or they can act as criminals and they
00:56:08.480put people at risk but at the same time just throwing them in jail isn't solution enough
00:56:12.260either you got to get them off the drugs because they're just going to keep re-offending so i mean
00:56:16.900we got to look at more treatment so it's always good to see more treatment options coming anyways
00:56:20.340because that's the only way that's really going to break that cycle yeah and again the the federal
00:56:25.300government stepped up yesterday and announced that they'll be spending 40 million dollars on
00:56:30.880Canadians who are addicted to substances.
00:56:35.440So before I let you go, I pulled you in a little early, so I'll let you escape a little
00:58:19.500I'm kind of surprised that seven of them made it in.
00:58:21.980And I thought with that high bar, $175,000 to get in there and all of those signatures required, I figured it was going to be more like four or five.
00:58:30.100It looks like seven of them have reached that bar.
00:58:32.040So there's a lot of big money out there to back some candidates.
00:58:34.940Now let's just hope we get a productive one of it.
00:58:37.680Right now, we're really only hearing of two.
00:58:39.680You know, it's mostly Taves and Daniel Smith, Travis Taves and Daniel Smith.
00:58:45.220And the other candidates are there, but they're not leading the conversation.
00:58:50.360And maybe as they, you know, again, this gets going,
00:58:52.780they're going to have to try and find a way to jump into the mix
00:58:55.560and get some attention, which could be good or bad.
00:59:00.520Let's see here what else we got going on.
00:59:04.440All right, I'm just checking the comments.
01:07:26.800They also acknowledge, yeah, the federal regulators raise the prices for milk and butter higher than a rate of general inflation because they actually control.
01:07:35.620So you can't pretend you don't control food prices when you literally, by legislation, do control those food prices, those particular ones, dairy and chicken and turkey.
01:07:53.360Get the hell out of the food business and let it land where it will.0.87
01:07:55.700Get out. Government makes things worse every time. So just stop. Just stop. Let's see.0.52
01:08:07.240There's an MP who pleaded guilty to a breach of the Defense Act and doesn't get automatic
01:08:11.840expulsion. I guess he's got to be stripped by a House vote. Well, I don't know. This is, I guess,
01:08:19.260getting into some federal politics and inside ball, but there's truth to it. You don't want it
01:08:24.520easy to throw a person out of election elected office i mean we want the means to but we don't
01:08:28.840want to make it easy um i'm just seeing oh okay i see my guest in the lobby there actually uh
01:08:36.440dr gunnick so we will bring her in i'm glad we could recover this because i've been wanting to
01:08:40.520speak to her maybe we had some uh confusion on the time zones or something uh so we'll pop her
01:08:46.040in because at least i'm glad we've got her and we'll talk about what we wanted to so uh hello
01:08:50.360Dr. Gunnick, welcome to the show. Hi, thank you so much, Corey. I apologize. I thought you were
01:08:56.760adding me into it. So that's great. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, we'd had it scheduled actually for,
01:09:03.080for a while back, but okay. Well, we've got you. Yeah. This is good. I've been rambling
01:09:08.200incoherently and they're eager for a different voice and changing. So you are a, your specialty
01:09:17.720is in early childhood care and development. And you've been outspoken about, I mean,
01:09:23.880we've got a government daycare plan that's supposed to bring about a $10 a day daycare
01:09:28.280for everybody. But there's not been a real good uptake on it. And it doesn't seem to be working
01:09:33.800out well for a lot of private providers. Exactly. So the entire deal is premised on
01:09:41.560the goal to bring forth a national daycare or child care system across the country,
01:09:49.800decreasing child care costs, increasing accessibility for families, and incentivizing
01:09:56.120quality through grants. That would be the goals provincially. But what's important to remember
01:10:03.640is that it's an example of what we call a redistributive policy. It was efficient. We did
01:10:09.480see a quick turnaround of child care funding in the hands of families. However, some child care
01:10:15.560entrepreneurs who were in the process of building out spaces, signing contracts, getting their fire
01:10:21.880and health collateral, they arrive at the licensing stage only to be told, you can't no longer be in
01:10:27.800this child care deal when others are going to be receiving affordability grants for their families.
01:10:34.920So the lack of sector-wide consultation, the lack of transparency in the process
01:10:42.520has been quite difficult for childcare operators. And as well, we are now subject to a lot of
01:10:52.360strains that we weren't quite aware of. And so I hope that we can unpack that today together.
01:10:59.160Yeah, well, I mean, I'm looking at a story, for example, out of Toronto with only 17% of their licensed daycares have signed up for it so far, but then the people who are regular customers who might be bringing their children back again to these centers or already, they're starting to ask the operators questions.
01:11:16.160Well, why am I not paying $10 a day for my care?
01:11:18.160And you know, 80% of them aren't signed up.
01:11:21.160And so there's a lack of clarity in the ability to qualify, is it?
01:11:25.160qualify, is it? Yes. So I can't speak to the Ontario deal per se. I can speak to what we
01:11:33.200experienced in Alberta. There seemed to be a rush to get us to sign into this deal. But there
01:11:41.140wasn't the transparency of what would this mean down the road for private providers. So here are
01:11:47.900few um issues with with this deal first is that uh we are now subject to a control framework
01:11:56.300that's going to be implemented in 2023 so um uh the government is going to uh be able to tell us
01:12:05.740how we can um spend uh our our the public funding that we are receiving and um in through a bit of a
01:12:15.820cost control framework we're not really privy yet to to what the final um framework will be
01:12:23.100but we are definitely going to be subject to um to some control we also cannot grow um organically
01:12:32.940so so as private operators these spots available for for growth for expansion um is limited it's
01:12:41.980not really clear how how many there will be however um the government is going to be uh
01:12:48.940expanding about 42 000 uh spaces in non-profit over the next few years and for profit is not
01:12:56.300really clear so if we have organic uh growth within our communities uh demand we cannot
01:13:02.460respond to it and we're already seeing in particular communities um families are being
01:13:08.380wait-listed. And as private operators, we cannot respond to this need or this demand.
01:13:16.780Yeah. I mean, to draw a bit of an analogy, I know it's different province by province,
01:13:20.380but it seems similar to like when rent controls are applied. I mean, they come to a conclusion,
01:13:25.260people can't afford rent, thus the government's got to get in there and deal with the larger
01:13:29.900landlords and we're going to control it. And they'll even say, we might subsidize those
01:13:33.420landlords. But what happens is they mess around in the market and you actually end up with less
01:13:37.340rental property available so it doesn't matter how low the rent is if there's none available
01:13:42.540people are in trouble yes and i the the other issue too is there there will be inevitably
01:13:48.060winners and losers as the government is determining which entrepreneurs are going to expand spaces
01:13:54.780and in what community when their plans are in place related to the spaces that are allowed to
01:14:00.540open under the private sector in a given year this is not equitable as you can imagine it will
01:14:06.540likely drive a lobby industry with the most influential and powerful fighting for spaces
01:14:11.900rather than again what i i speak of this organic and free enterprise growth uh pivoting and
01:14:17.660reacting to creating spaces um and programming based on the needs of families in their community
01:14:24.380um you're going to see a generally a decline of of growth of and and private capital investment
01:14:30.060in the sector and this and this is really unfortunate what what i think is is sad is
01:14:35.500is that the rights, interest and vocation of entrepreneurs,
01:14:39.280the years of laboring service and sacrifice,
01:14:42.540the risks that these entrepreneurs took