Western Standard - Triggered： It’s time for Western provinces to go on the offensive

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's Tuesday, August 16th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan.

00:00:39.000 This is the Western Standards daily news ranting interview, just general babbling show,

00:00:45.660 everything from daily observances to interviewing prospective prime ministers, as I will do in a

00:00:51.820 short while here. So I like to remind everybody as I start up who's tuning in, hey, make use of

00:00:57.800 that comment scroll. It's good to see you there. I like seeing you checking in from all over.

00:01:01.900 It lets me know I'm not just talking to myself as I can be prone to do when driving. There's

00:01:05.400 actually people listening to my mental meanderings and wanderings. Use that scroll to keep it

00:01:10.600 interactive. Keep it lively. Chat with each other. Chat with me. Send questions for my guests. Again,

00:01:15.000 I don't necessarily read them all out on the air or to the guests, but I do see them all.

00:01:18.640 And again, of course, I always like to remember, or at least remind you guys to remember,

00:01:23.560 Let's keep it fairly civil.

00:01:24.800 We can take it seriously without getting too crabby with each other.

00:01:28.740 All right, let's start with a couple of the observances

00:01:30.420 while a few more folks come in on the show here.

00:01:33.660 Those daily things, those important things to watch.

00:01:35.960 It's National Bratwurst Day.

00:01:38.300 Hey, for sausage lovers, this is the day.

00:01:40.320 And there's nothing like a good bratwurst, something on the barbecue.

00:01:43.480 Keep the house cool during this heat wave.

00:01:46.200 Get something like that going out there.

00:01:48.180 Nice and greasy, really fills the stomach well.

00:01:50.840 Good summer themes for these observances anyways.

00:01:52.860 if they aren't terribly serious but the next summer theme i think might not be a good addition

00:01:56.540 was national roller coaster day because i mean the risks if you've eaten too many bratwursts

00:02:01.260 and then get onto a roller coaster it can be pretty nasty but still roller coasters are pretty

00:02:05.820 fun they've been a staple at uh amusement parks and fairs for what a hundred and some years there's

00:02:11.820 some real cool old ones down in the states we don't have a heck of a lot of them out here in

00:02:15.020 western canada they just kind of those temporary ones typically but every area has a roller coaster

00:02:19.500 somewhere just again if you've eaten too many bratwurst maybe either ride in the back or just

00:02:23.820 don't ride at all i think i mentioned on the show before i i traumatized a babysitter when i was a

00:02:28.520 kid from eating too much fair food and then barfing all over during one of the rides awful thing even

00:02:32.620 i still remember to this day and it's this one kind of ties in with i didn't know anybody would

00:02:37.820 actually celebrate this but it's national surveillance day yes this is the day that

00:02:43.280 they're watching you you can see i don't know if it's as literal as that picture of the gentleman

00:02:46.860 and looking at the monitors with all the pictures,

00:02:49.840 but it's kind of like that.

00:02:50.960 I mean, all you have to do is say something

00:02:52.000 in front of your phone,

00:02:52.660 and you know you're going to get some ads

00:02:53.760 for whatever you were just talking about.

00:02:56.120 And of course, on a serious note,

00:02:57.760 our government is constantly invading our privacy

00:03:01.400 and sneaking into our business.

00:03:04.440 And the RCMP, now the government's all upset.

00:03:06.460 I've talked about that a couple of times on here

00:03:07.860 because the RCMP have been looking

00:03:09.980 into the cell phones of members of parliament too.

00:03:12.400 Suddenly it's serious when the politicians

00:03:14.540 are suffering from their privacy being invaded

00:03:16.680 when it's not such a big deal to them initially.

00:03:23.000 Okay, so today I do have, as I said,

00:03:25.080 a couple of guests coming on.

00:03:26.300 I've got, I was just paradoxically saying

00:03:28.480 every day is surveillance day here, and that's true.

00:03:30.940 Okay, Conservative Party of Canada,

00:03:32.740 leadership candidate Jean Charest,

00:03:34.280 he's coming on one more time.

00:03:36.020 The race is only a few weeks away from wrapping up,

00:03:40.120 and we'll have one more talk with him on his way out.

00:03:43.240 I've honestly, again, I've found him somewhat impressive.

00:03:45.780 If I remember, I don't know if he'd be the one who'd get my vote.

00:03:49.160 But he's definitely grown on me and endeared himself a bit over the course of this campaign.

00:03:53.880 He says the right things.

00:03:54.780 Maybe it's just because he's a professional politician.

00:03:57.200 Or, you know, maybe there's just more to the guy than meets the eye with some.

00:04:01.080 All the same, we'll have one more talk with Mr. Charest before they get to the voting day on September 10th.

00:04:07.100 And Western Standard columnist Mike Thomas is going to be coming in in studio.

00:04:10.860 And Mike writes about a lot of things, but his specialty is definitely the real estate and economics things.

00:04:15.160 and we're starting to see some of the correction on real estate prices these days going on with

00:04:21.500 the interest rates going up. And we're seeing a little less inflationary pressure, but the best

00:04:27.180 way to put it is though, it's less bad. So we'll talk to Mike and see what's up with that. Okay.

00:04:33.680 I'm going to talk about something that's still swirling all over the news and everybody's

00:04:36.460 jumping on and piling on and it's been interesting. But since Jason Kenney got rolling on going after

00:04:42.660 Danielle Smith's policy plank. I just thought I'd speak more on the race then. So, I mean,

00:04:47.720 let's talk about that. I mean, Danielle Smith's return to politics and rise in popularity

00:04:51.420 caught many people flat-footed, including myself. If somebody had said two years ago Smith was

00:04:57.080 going to make a successful return into the political sphere, I would have laughed in their

00:05:00.640 faces. While she established herself well as a popular talk radio host, there was no way she 0.98

00:05:05.440 could overcome that breach of trust with party members in her infamous floor crossing of 2014. 0.91

00:05:10.240 At least I would have said that, and clearly I would have been wrong.

00:05:13.620 I mean, Smith's floor crossing is her weakest link.

00:05:16.400 It makes people question her judgment and loyalty to party members when push comes to shove.

00:05:20.520 One would expect her leadership opponents to be focused on this one shooting outward,

00:05:24.280 and while they have addressed it a bit, they're still mostly too hung up on attacking Smith's sovereignty act.

00:05:30.040 Now, Smith came out of the gates hard in the leadership race with the proposed act and an aggressive campaign.

00:05:34.860 She took the presumptive lee of the race, while other candidates appeared stunned.

00:05:38.120 and they were left kind of figuring out how to, you know, try and deflate her campaign

00:05:42.900 rather than pumping up their own, and that's where they're making a mistake.

00:05:46.180 Smith has taken the tactic of playing offense, and it's led to her dominating the discussions.

00:05:50.380 Opposing campaigns have found themselves in constant reactionary mode

00:05:53.260 in response to Smith's proposals, and it's made them look weak and defensive.

00:05:57.540 Smith is proposing taking a similar approach with Ottawa if she should become premier,

00:06:02.100 and it clearly appeals to a large number of Albertans.

00:06:04.680 She's signaling that she doesn't plan on waiting for the next federal incursion

00:06:08.040 into provincial rights, and she'll be drawing a line in the sand before it actually happens. 1.00

00:06:12.700 And the campaigns have been flailing and trying to poke holes in Smith's proposed Sovereignty Act

00:06:16.300 and saying it just won't work. Kenny called it nuts as he jumped into the mix. Kenny spent three

00:06:22.280 and a half years in the Premier's office, losing battle after battle with Ottawa. Flaccid court

00:06:26.780 challenges, unkept promises for things like a provincial pension plan. Where is it, Kenny?

00:06:31.300 Provincial police force. Don't see one, Kenny. Property rights legislation? Seemed to have

00:06:36.080 forgotten that one too. And all of it's been ineffectual in hindering federal aggression

00:06:41.900 towards the West. I mean, Trudeau's surely got a corner of his office wallpapered with the angry

00:06:47.860 letters sent from Premier Kenney during his time in office. So Smith's approach to dealing with

00:06:52.660 Ottawa may or may not succeed, but at least it is questionable. We already know for sure and with

00:06:58.440 certainty that Kenney's approach isn't going to work. What's it gotten us? Lost court challenges,

00:07:04.580 new firearm bans, increasing carbon taxes, investment chill,

00:07:08.320 and now a possible fertilizer ban attacking Western farmers.

00:07:11.800 True to it, he knows that Kenny's a toothless tiger

00:07:14.080 and he has nothing to fear in assaulting the West.

00:07:16.460 It's time for not just Alberta, but all the Western provinces

00:07:18.720 to start making autonomous changes and saying to Ottawa,

00:07:21.260 what are you going to do about it?

00:07:23.320 Citizens are tired of talk.

00:07:25.000 They're spoiling for a fight,

00:07:25.980 constantly waiting for Ottawa to throw the first punch

00:07:28.000 and then weakly trying to counter it has failed.

00:07:30.740 Smith's offering a way to bring the battle to Ottawa on Alberta's terms.

00:07:35.000 Make the feds respond to the province's actions rather than the other way around.

00:07:38.620 The approach might fail, but citizens are prepared to go down fighting at this point

00:07:42.120 and are embracing the Sovereignty Act on that basis.

00:07:45.100 Candidates for the UCP leadership would be well served to cut back on attacking Smith

00:07:48.520 and look at their own policies.

00:07:50.380 There's a void being filled with Smith's Sovereignty Act,

00:07:52.760 and it's going to win the leadership race for her 0.88

00:07:54.600 if the opponents can't propose a better way to deal with Ottawa.

00:07:58.140 Every time they attack Smith, they just give her more airtime to promote her plan, 0.99

00:08:01.320 while her opponents just don't have a plan right now.

00:08:04.280 It's not enough to just keep saying over and over her plan won't work.

00:08:06.780 The candidates need to propose a plan then that will.

00:08:09.220 And so far, none of them have.

00:08:10.700 Sitting on her heels and waiting for the next assault from Ottawa

00:08:13.440 isn't an option in the eye of UCP members.

00:08:16.660 They want an action plan.

00:08:18.000 No more playing defense.

00:08:19.240 It's time to play offense.

00:08:21.040 It's competitors in this race.

00:08:22.400 They better figure that out soon.

00:08:24.460 That's what's got me going today, guys.

00:08:27.120 Okay. So let's see what else is happening out there. Always lots on the go with a check into

00:08:32.700 the newsroom with our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what's going on out there.

00:08:38.420 Oh, we'll check in with them soon. Seems to be a bit of a technical hang up out there. We'll

00:08:44.580 get that rolling quickly. I noticed one of the stories, and Dave might mention it coming up,

00:08:49.580 has been there's a lot of people probably seen it, even if you don't watch CTV,

00:08:54.100 longtime anchor, Lisa Laflamme. She's been with CTV for decades and they fired her pretty quickly

00:09:01.600 and unceremoniously. I guess they did give her notice a while back that it was going to happen,

00:09:05.980 but as she said, it caught her completely off guard. And they're replacing her with a younger

00:09:13.320 gentleman and a person of color. It's really sounding more like they're heading for a diversity

00:09:19.060 hire and are cleaning out the, well, what they see as older dead wood. And it seems to be backfiring.

00:09:25.780 You know, legacy media outlets are losing ground all the time. And I'm happy to see it. I mean,

00:09:30.480 we're an alternative outlet. We're looking to eat their lunch anyways and cut in on what those guys

00:09:34.760 are doing. But man, they just keep shooting themselves in the feet. And when you've got

00:09:37.760 personalities who have followers, who respect and trust them, who've been built up over decades of

00:09:42.840 work, you don't torpedo them, not when you're getting, you know, bad ratings and losing your

00:09:49.660 sponsors and in trouble as it is, you hang on to your assets. But again, go broke, carry on CTV.

00:09:57.760 As I've said before, those guys seem to be, you know, almost as bad as CBC, the way they've been

00:10:04.020 going. But of course, they're really gunning and trying their hardest to try and fill that woke

00:10:10.720 void on what's going on out there with the media scene these days. So, I mean, we'll keep watching

00:10:18.820 that and, you know, we'll see if it, well, we'll see how it impacts CTV's ratings. I kind of,

00:10:26.300 I might have Dave in there for the newsroom check-in. So we seem to have had that figured

00:10:30.700 out. That's the great fun of being live. You get to do things on the fly as you go. So there is

00:10:37.140 Dave Naylor, what's happening out there in the news today?

00:10:40.220 Oh, Corey, I was getting a bit of PTSD when you were talking about roller coaster day.

00:10:45.820 Many years ago at the Stampede, I had a couple too many beers in the media lounge and then a bag of Midi donuts. 0.98

00:10:54.540 And then some idiot said we should go on the zipper. 0.96

00:10:57.820 And I don't like rides to begin with. 0.99

00:11:00.020 No, I'm sorry. It wasn't the zipper. It was the Polar Express.

00:11:03.020 this one where everybody do you want to go faster and everybody's screaming yes and i'm screaming

00:11:08.060 oh no for god's sake no and uh yeah when that ride was over the uh the people behind me were

00:11:14.220 less than impressed let's uh let's leave it at that and i uh i scurried off into the midway

00:11:18.960 it's a wonder we pay for those experiences sometimes you know i went for the first time

00:11:24.120 this year with jane in years down there and those rides i mean it's the same old ones from the 80s

00:11:28.820 when we were kids you know the zipper the octopus they haven't changed a bit the only thing is that

00:11:33.860 the carnies look a little more ragged yeah uh you know you look at them putting it all together and

00:11:39.260 it's uh you're kind of amazed there hasn't been any major disasters uh over the years but uh you

00:11:44.540 know i haven't been on a ride since that night so i've learned my lesson yeah my riding days are

00:11:49.480 done too so and uh my mom is happy this morning uh cory she's uh watching the show drinking out

00:11:55.780 her brand new resistance coffee mug ah she's got uh the the liberal tears one uh so uh she's uh

00:12:04.180 says it's a good cup and uh yeah it's only took uh two days to get there so uh good old resistance

00:12:10.340 coffee i was about to say they sure ship fast because you were just talking about sending one

00:12:13.940 to her a couple days ago yeah two days it was great right onto her uh right on her doorstep

00:12:19.620 right on gives us a good self-serving plug too i mean if it'd taken two weeks we'd have to just

00:12:22.900 kind of stay silent about it and keep doing the ads of course of course so uh on the website this

00:12:28.740 morning uh cory it's being dominated by uh uh the freedom convoy and uh the economy uh two stories

00:12:36.180 on the convoy the uh the justice ruslow who is in charge of it it's going to start on september 18th

00:12:43.620 so that's just over a month from now so that's going to be very interesting and he uh he vows

00:12:48.500 to get to the the bottom of things and a freedom convoy protester who was facing jail the charges

00:12:55.460 have been have been stayed in his case you've mentioned mike thomas and the economy the

00:13:00.900 inflation rate dropped today to 7.6 percent uh for july so that's a bit of a bit of good news

00:13:08.020 for a change and uh he's got a story on you know inflation is down and housing starts are up

00:13:14.500 So a bit of good news for homeowners and prospective homebuyers.

00:13:19.460 And on the site, Corey, we've got a story about your replacement, Nigel Hannaford, who is starting next week.

00:13:27.760 And it looks like he's not going to take any guff from anybody.

00:13:30.920 So we'll look forward to welcoming him into the office next week.

00:13:35.540 Yeah, we're maintaining our curmudgeonly sort of theme here, at least in the opinions department.

00:13:41.740 So people won't expect too much radical change happening in there in that aspect.

00:13:46.180 Yeah. And I'm glad that I will no longer be the oldest person in the newsroom. So

00:13:50.380 it's going to be a good day for me.

00:13:52.700 Right on. Okay. Well, thanks, Dave. Always appreciate the updates. Glad your mother's

00:13:58.440 drinking from where we got matching cups going on now with these liberals tears cups. And 0.98

00:14:02.680 I don't think she's going to be able to persuade my dad to drink from them. He's a bit of a die

00:14:10.320 and the whole liberal, and they always joke that they cancel each other's vote out.

00:14:15.200 But my mom will enjoy it, that's for sure.

00:14:18.320 Right on.

00:14:19.260 Okay, thanks, Dave.

00:14:20.480 We'll talk to you a little later.

00:14:22.120 Thanks, Corey.

00:14:23.680 All right, lots on the go, lots of stories.

00:14:25.820 Stuff is breaking, stuff is being written, stuff is being posted,

00:14:28.960 and Dave always diligently makes sure we keep good news copy up there.

00:14:33.200 I mean, as I was able to rant about, you know,

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00:16:43.700 Let's see, I'll just look at a couple of the comments here.

00:16:47.820 Some people saying, cut the cord with Shaw.

00:16:49.540 You don't need CTV anymore.

00:16:50.620 I hear you, I'm with you.

00:16:53.620 Jet Gorgon saying, can we haze the new guy?

00:16:55.480 We'll see, I wish you the best.

00:16:56.920 You know, Mr. Nigel Hannaford, that was announced yesterday.

00:16:59.540 So he's going to be the new opinion editor starting next week.

00:17:03.280 A raft of experience if you've looked at the story online.

00:17:06.240 He was with the Calgary Herald for a number of years and a number of publications.

00:17:10.280 He was a speech writer for Stephen Harper for some years.

00:17:13.900 A great deal of experience he's bringing to the table and connections.

00:17:17.380 And I was talking with him yesterday.

00:17:18.860 I ran across him a few times way back when I was leading the Alberta Independence Party.

00:17:21.760 He was interviewing me then.

00:17:23.400 And he's going to be a great addition to the Standard.

00:17:25.300 He's really going to help add to the opinion section.

00:17:28.800 I'll still be contributing. As I said, you know, I'll be writing my columns, but now I'll submit

00:17:32.260 them to Mr. Hannaford. He'll go through and give me the thumbs up or thumbs down as to whether

00:17:36.000 they'll be published. I should get through on most of them. So Jet Singh, can we haze him? Well,

00:17:39.660 we'll see. We'll see how well he takes it. He's a, as I said, a good, solid, older fella and

00:17:45.820 does a hell of a job. So we'll see how well your hazing goes with it. Tracy Singh, is he taking

00:17:50.960 over Triggered in the same time slot? We're still kind of sorting out what we're going to do with

00:17:54.440 our digital presence and everything. So we'll see what evolves. There's definitely going to be

00:17:58.640 something coming. We're not going to leave a big void there, but for the time being, all we know

00:18:02.420 for sure is we are in my last four episodes of this show with me at the head of it, I guess.

00:18:08.180 Anyways, Shirley's saying, well, I'll be missed. I appreciate that. And again, I'll still be around,

00:18:13.120 just not on this particular show every day. And we'll go from there. Carrie Lynn Oldford saying,

00:18:21.260 I don't think I'll be following the Western Standard much when Corey's gone. He's why I

00:18:23.680 paid attention. I'm flattered. I appreciate that, Carrie. But I mean, awesome. You know, we've got

00:18:28.080 a lot of great personalities and people here with a lot of content too. I mean, Melanie's going to

00:18:32.200 be doing a lot of more of her excellent interviews and shows. I think Mr. Hannaford will, and I'll be

00:18:36.620 appearing on some things, probably at the pipeline and stuff like that and doing things as we go

00:18:40.020 along too. It just won't be this particular show going any longer. That's the way it is.

00:18:46.820 Things change. So yeah, Dave mentioned this in his news update. I like some of the language coming

00:18:52.980 out, at least. I mean, everybody, I'm with you. I'm cynical. I'm not too sure what this government

00:18:58.200 and when they set things up and they set commissions up and things like that. But

00:19:01.120 the judicial inquiry hearings are beginning September 19th

00:19:05.440 into the Freedom Convoy and more particularly into the government's use of the Emergencies Act.

00:19:12.360 And we can't always dismiss these justices just because it was liberal appointed or because it

00:19:18.980 was chosen by that. What I like about this, it was built into the legislation. It

00:19:22.880 shows they do understand just how important and how serious the invocation of the Emergencies Act

00:19:30.280 is, where they actually built into it saying you have to hold a full inquiry after having invoked

00:19:36.160 this act to justify why you did it. It can't be taken lightly. And the language out of Justice

00:19:41.520 Rouleau sounds like he's taking that role very seriously and that he's going to be digging into

00:19:47.880 this, and this government's going to have to come up with their case as to why they invoked, I mean,

00:19:53.840 what was the modern version of the War Measures Act? I mean, it has been changed since it was the

00:19:57.800 War Measures Act, but it's the same thing. It's a form of martial law. It's an act you invoke where

00:20:02.380 you suspend individual rights, if only temporarily, to address an immediate emergency. Nothing to be

00:20:09.220 taken lightly at all. And they better make a good case as to why they did it. And it's going to take

00:20:16.220 a while. That's the unfortunate thing. The gears of government always move terribly slowly,

00:20:19.700 unfortunately. And we won't get the outcome of that inquiry, I think, until I believe getting

00:20:26.360 into January or so. But still, it's going to be a few months. And I believe they're going to be

00:20:30.260 broadcasting the commission meetings and the hearings from Justice Rouleau on that act.

00:20:36.400 So we'll be able to really cover it and see what's going on in there. So I'm looking forward

00:20:40.280 to it. Like I said, I do like the language coming out of Justice Rouleau. I think we could see some

00:20:46.200 some positive developments from those hearings, you know, looking into it, because the more news

00:20:50.900 we get, the more stuff that keeps getting leaked out, the weaker the case sounds for the government

00:20:56.680 having moved so quickly into such a, you know, the nuclear option, I guess, when it comes to

00:21:01.520 enforcement, particularly with a recent revelation, making it sound like negotiations with the city

00:21:06.000 of Ottawa might have been on the brink of bringing it to a close. Like maybe they'd have been able

00:21:10.740 to negotiate it out. I mean, the Emergency Act is supposed to be last, last resort. That means you

00:21:14.460 try everything, and they ignored one of the options and invoked it anyway. So we'll see

00:21:19.640 what happens as that comes. Okay, I see my guest in the lobby, and we'll bring him into the show

00:21:24.040 and have a conversation. We'll talk about some more about federal issues, and it's Mr. Jean Charest.

00:21:29.740 He's running for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership, of course, and well, we're getting

00:21:33.960 near the tail end of the campaign. Welcome back to the show, Mr. Charest. Thank you very much.

00:21:38.900 delighted to join you thank you so uh i really appreciate you coming on one more time i imagine

00:21:46.100 you got to be getting tired it's been a long haul you're you're getting into the final three weeks

00:21:50.020 here we are you know it's been a a long race because we've started early on and the first

00:21:57.140 phase was recruiting new members that finished on the 3rd of june and only those who are members

00:22:02.420 members as of the 3rd of June are eligible to vote. We now know there's 678,000 of them. It's

00:22:10.060 very impressive. All-time record. And now we're in the second phase of persuading people and getting

00:22:15.780 them to vote, Corey. This is a challenge because it's a mail-in ballot. It's a preferential ballot.

00:22:22.820 People have to indicate their first, second, third choice. They don't have to indicate, by the way,

00:22:26.700 a second or third choice. After they have voted for me, Corey, they don't have to fill in the rest

00:22:31.860 the ballot if they don't want to and then and then they have to send in a photocopy of a photo

00:22:39.300 id so you can imagine just the description tells you that it's a lot for the average person who

00:22:46.820 has a busy life they may very easily just set it aside so we're pressing people to vote go out there

00:22:53.780 and vote the other part of it cory that is difficult to read from everyone's point of view

00:22:58.740 including the media, is that it's 100 points per riding, not the number of members.

00:23:04.620 So you could have 7,000 members in a riding, 100 points.

00:23:08.260 700 members in a riding, 100 points.

00:23:11.320 And that's where we have focused our campaign to be as efficient as possible.

00:23:15.220 So it's all about getting out the vote.

00:23:18.520 Yeah, and getting out the vote, whether it's, you know, for folks who haven't dealt with partisan races,

00:23:23.660 You know, it's particularly important in nominations and leadership races because people are selling memberships like all get out.

00:23:30.920 But often people might not be the most motivated voters.

00:23:33.740 You know, the campaign that sells the most memberships doesn't always win.

00:23:38.400 It's a matter of waking them up and saying, OK, come on, now you've got to follow through and get that vote.

00:23:42.360 And as you said, with it being a photocopied piece of identification and mailing it, the turnout's probably as hard as all you guys are working on this.

00:23:50.120 It's probably going to be a bit limited.

00:23:51.120 it will be it will be forced you know it's going to be a challenge so we're working on that right

00:23:56.620 now just add another twist to it the brown campaign patrick brown was disqualified his

00:24:02.580 leadership his organizers have all come over to me almost to a person and we are now working with

00:24:09.700 them so that the people that they had recruited a lot of them in cultural communities are voting

00:24:16.660 and that they'll vote for me and we're very encouraged by that because they are voting

00:24:20.760 They are supportive of certainly my leadership and and and they are not to say it very directly.

00:24:27.560 They're rather rather anti-Polyev.

00:24:30.460 And so they'll be they'll be voting.

00:24:33.060 But we may we need to talk to them, mobilize them and motivate them to vote.

00:24:37.760 So so that's what we're doing right now.

00:24:39.860 And we have, by the way, until the 6th of September at five o'clock to get the ballots in party headquarters.

00:24:47.760 And after that, all other ballots that come in after that moment,

00:24:52.560 five o'clock on the 6th of September, will not be counted.

00:24:55.460 So more of a challenge for us to get out there and motivate people to vote.

00:25:02.400 Yeah, so actually that reminded me of something,

00:25:05.020 because it was so sudden, the departure of Mr. Brown from the race.

00:25:08.820 Was his name still on the ballots then?

00:25:11.660 Well, the party decided to leave his name on the ballot

00:25:15.420 because they are ballots had all been printed up now what's the consequence of that if someone votes

00:25:21.820 for patrick brown as first choice or had done that and indicated jean charret as their second choice

00:25:29.100 well then that second choice will be interpreted as a first choice for me so that's good you know

00:25:34.380 in that in that scenario if they've just voted for patrick brown no one else and left the rest

00:25:39.660 the ballot blank then the ballot will not count i mean there will be no no consequence to that

00:25:46.300 ballot so uh so that's it it just adds just another color or layer to the complications

00:25:52.220 of the race but so be it we're we're working hard to make sure that people understand how to vote

00:25:58.220 and and who to vote for if they want a leader who can actually win the country you know corey

00:26:03.660 all the polling indicates that if i become the leader i will form a national majority

00:26:08.140 conservative government. If it's Pierre Poitier, we stay in opposition. So that's very much the

00:26:14.020 ballot question for a number of conservatives who are just tired of losing. I mean, we've lost three

00:26:19.500 consecutive election campaigns. And it's not the liberals that won them. We lost them. And that's

00:26:25.800 enough, frankly. So now is the time to choose a leader who is going to unite the party, the country,

00:26:31.720 and who will win a national government. Okay. Well, we're looking at, I guess,

00:26:36.520 two scenarios that could be happening the day after September 10th, getting into the 11th and

00:26:40.720 12th. I'd like to kind of examine both of them. We'll start with the positive one from your

00:26:45.600 perspective. You've won the leadership. You've taken September 11th as a break. I mean, to say

00:26:51.880 that you are the one who can win the general election, that still means there's going to be

00:26:57.040 a heck of a lot of work between that day and a general election day, whenever that might be.

00:27:02.280 What are your first moves as the new leader of the party?

00:27:05.440 I will hit the ground running on September 11th, the day after, in fact, the evening,

00:27:11.560 to talk to the other leadership candidates to make sure that they know that they're welcome aboard my team,

00:27:16.460 all of them, including Pierre Pouillet.

00:27:18.300 I will then meet with the caucus members and the leadership of the party in very, very short order,

00:27:25.300 in the hours and the days that will follow to make sure that everyone knows that, as a leader,

00:27:31.300 there are welcome in my team that we are going to be working together to prepare the next election

00:27:36.980 campaign and to win that election campaign and i'm not going to lose a day the moment i become

00:27:41.380 the leader to do uh to do that we need to prepare the platform for the election campaign i can you

00:27:46.660 know tell you in advance corey it's going to be very much focused on the economy and a national

00:27:51.460 government able to deliver big projects and make big things happen that's where i'm at and that's

00:27:56.260 what i've done all my life and and to unify that caucus and that in that party and that's exactly

00:28:02.340 what i'll deliver on to deliver a national government okay and then i i guess a priority

00:28:07.540 as well and it's hard to tell where but you'd want to get a seat in the house of commons as soon as

00:28:11.460 possible you're one of the contenders who doesn't currently have one is there an area you would have

00:28:15.860 in mind already or uh spots that look like they might become vacant uh let me share uh you know

00:28:21.620 a secret with you i'd love to run out west if there were a seat that opened up out west i'd

00:28:26.900 love to run out west and the general election campaign you know my my of course because of

00:28:33.140 where i am from and uh and my attachment to the eastern townships of quebec of where i'm from

00:28:39.940 that's another story but for to get into the house of commons as rapidly as possible which is what i

00:28:44.820 would want to do i i think it would be great to have a seat in western canada so uh if the outcome

00:28:53.220 doesn't come out as you hope and perhaps you're the second place finisher uh you know i i know

00:28:58.260 it's hard to speculate but what sort of approach to maintain unity and positivity for the party

00:29:02.580 you know could you be taking at that point corey i led this party when there were only two members

00:29:08.580 left after the 93 catastrophic election campaign and there was a two and i stuck around i showed

00:29:15.780 up i didn't walk away from it so that you know i anyone who questions my loyalty the party frankly

00:29:22.100 needs uh to remember uh the history and what i've stood for and what i fought for all my life i will

00:29:28.820 remain a conservative because that's who i am and those are the values i believe in those are the

00:29:34.260 values that i i worked with when i governed and formed a government so i'll be there and i'm going

00:29:41.220 to i'm going to remain active and for the rest the only scenario for me i see is being the leader of

00:29:48.020 the party and leading us into a campaign and winning a national government well i appreciate

00:29:53.620 that because again you know these these races can be such good party building exercises but they can

00:29:57.860 also lead to a lot of fracturing and cause more damage than before they even began so i mean

00:30:02.660 maintaining a positive tone i think is really important right now it is it is very but you

00:30:07.060 know let's be honest here if there's someone who's going to have a lot of bridges to fix

00:30:11.140 who's burned a lot of bridges it's mr putty yet i mean he's been calling i you know do we have to

00:30:16.100 go through it calling people liars and calling on their integrity or accusing them and not being

00:30:21.220 conservatives or blah blah blah i mean as though there's purity tests as though someone there's

00:30:25.780 some laboratory in which we get tested i mean what do you say to the electorate when they want to

00:30:30.020 to vote for you no don't vote for me because no no no don't vote you may that you're not a

00:30:34.180 conservative if we're going to form a government we have to we have to have an open mind and be

00:30:39.520 welcoming of all those who believe in the same things we believe in and want to support us

00:30:43.340 and that's that's been my story and and all the polling says that you look at all the polling

00:30:47.780 says i become the leader we form a government and i'm sorry to say mr putt yet becomes a leader we

00:30:53.160 stay in opposition well so uh what have you got uh on your schedule for this final few weeks to

00:31:00.000 to get that vote out and encourage people to to mark that ballot your way i just came off a week

00:31:05.600 on the road i was in prince edward island and nova scotia and the toronto area von hamilton

00:31:12.080 and mississauga toronto i'm heading to quebec city tomorrow and i'm going to be back working

00:31:19.440 out of montreal on friday and saturday and then i'll probably hit the road back in ontario next

00:31:25.520 week. So it's going to be a very, very busy time. Tomorrow will be a very busy day in Quebec City.

00:31:31.880 We're meeting with some of our members, supporters. We have a ballot events. We

00:31:36.320 organize events, Corey, where people bring in their ballots and they can photocopy their ID,

00:31:41.800 and we help them get that organized. And then we have a fundraiser in the evening. So it's a very

00:31:46.680 intense, very busy period. Well, great. Well, I appreciate you coming on to talk to us towards

00:31:52.840 the tail end of the campaign, and I wish you all the best of luck, and we'll be watching with

00:31:58.280 interest on the evening of September 10th, Mr. Charest. Thank you very much, Corey. And Corey,

00:32:03.320 could I ask you a favor? By all means. Could you vote for me? I'm not a member, I'm afraid.

00:32:11.240 Thank you, Corey. All right. Thanks. You would. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, Mr. Charest.

00:32:16.760 All right. So that is, as you saw, Mr. Jean Charest running for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership. And yes, it gives me a good out. I can't commit to any of them as I am not a member of the party, so I can dodge it.

00:32:32.120 And I know I can see in the comment scroll that this isn't the most fertile waters for Mr. Chiray.

00:32:39.240 But, you know, he really has.

00:32:42.340 He's kind of drawn my respect over the course of this campaign.

00:32:47.180 He's come out.

00:32:48.020 He's stepped into the lion's den.

00:32:49.800 We saw with people when he came out to some of the Calgary visits and he spoke.

00:32:52.940 We saw that the Petroleum Club at the Western Standard event.

00:32:55.960 Again, a lot of people sort of saying similar things that I heard.

00:32:58.500 They're saying, you know, he's still not my first vote.

00:33:00.020 But boy, actually, once this guy spoke, he impressed and he built some respect out here and things like that.

00:33:06.060 And that's part of why I wanted to ask.

00:33:07.920 And that's part of why my concern is even if perhaps he doesn't win the leadership, which by the looks of the numbers is pretty unlikely, he still definitely represents a distinct segment and portion of the party.

00:33:22.840 And you don't want them running out the door into the hands of the liberals when it comes to voter intention.

00:33:28.900 Party unity is so integral right now.

00:33:34.600 I mean, the Justin Trudeau liberals are hoping their utmost that this party rips itself up,

00:33:40.100 that it keeps fighting with itself.

00:33:42.600 And just like in Alberta, we're seeing here too, Rachel Notley is really hoping that the

00:33:47.120 provincial race here is as divisive as possible.

00:33:53.080 You know, I can see some people saying, oh, I'm a tailor.

00:33:54.820 Oh, stop promoting the guy.

00:33:55.940 I'm not promoting, I'm speaking my views and thoughts on him.

00:34:00.500 And I bring him on.

00:34:01.520 And listen, I've had Mr. Polyev on here a number of times.

00:34:05.160 And he's more than welcome to come back on.

00:34:08.260 But he's not been terribly receptive to coming on and doing a lot of these interviews.

00:34:14.160 So, I mean, I'm just giving as much time to the other candidates we've also had.

00:34:19.080 You know, Roman Babber and Leslie Lewis and all of them have been on here, except for Brown.

00:34:23.780 and I'm not sad at Brown's loss from this race. 1.00

00:34:27.160 That was a bizarre segment of the leadership.

00:34:31.200 So again, we've had him on.

00:34:34.120 I'm just saying what my interpretations have been

00:34:36.800 over this last few times and seeing him and hearing from him.

00:34:40.420 He's not the number one choice for the commenters here.

00:34:43.460 I didn't expect him to be.

00:34:45.640 And as I said, if I was a memory,

00:34:47.000 probably wouldn't be my number one choice either.

00:34:48.600 But I do actually think more highly of him now

00:34:50.980 than I did three months ago.

00:34:52.720 Maybe I'm being snowed. I don't know. But that's where I'm sitting with it right now. Either way,

00:34:57.280 it's not too long. Only a few weeks now, and we're going to see the outcome of this race.

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00:37:00.820 Just a second. I didn't look at the comments here, but anyways.

00:37:05.680 Ward PR 68 saying as a suggestion, wear my tie around my head for the Friday show. That's what

00:37:11.640 everybody wants to see. Yeah, yeah, you know, the necktie thing has been a point of contention with

00:37:17.520 my time here for quite some time. Derek loves sending me the close-up shots of my badly tied

00:37:22.400 ties or my wayward collar and things like that. I don't think I'll go around with wearing it

00:37:26.140 on my head, but there's probably a high chance, since I don't think I have a guest coming

00:37:30.560 in studio that day, that I may do the show without wearing pants. And that's only going to

00:37:36.220 make life miserable for Nico and others, but you guys won't have to witness that. I'll just be

00:37:40.980 knowing it's in the back of my own mind as I babble at you for my final show.

00:37:45.900 You know, and speaking a little bit, actually, on Friday's show,

00:37:50.360 somebody I've booked has been kind of interesting.

00:37:52.660 I, yesterday, was talking about, you know, how the Liberal Party of Alberta

00:37:55.440 ran their leadership race or tried to, and nobody even applied for the job.

00:38:01.500 And I was scrolling through Twitter.

00:38:04.820 You know, I play around on there quite a bit.

00:38:06.200 Corey B. Morgan, that's my main playground there.

00:38:08.200 and the Alberta Ledge hashtag, which is usually a cesspool.

00:38:11.860 And I saw this fellow, though, he'd posted

00:38:13.520 and he'd tagged the Western Standard and a few things

00:38:16.060 with a TikTok video in response to my show yesterday

00:38:19.060 when I talked about the Liberals of that.

00:38:20.420 And this gentleman is running for a Liberal nomination in Edmonton.

00:38:24.680 And his TikTok video was actually kind of interesting

00:38:27.380 and, you know, good-natured and everything.

00:38:30.820 And boy, talk about running for a tough cause,

00:38:33.120 even when your party hasn't managed to get somebody

00:38:37.740 willing to lead it to still maintain optimism and run for a nomination. I had to talk to this guy.

00:38:42.560 So I got him booked on Friday. We're going to talk with him and I don't have his name handy,

00:38:45.980 but it should be a fun conversation. And, you know, that's what I want to get at with this.

00:38:51.000 I mean, I can have people on and we can have respectful conversations, even if we don't

00:38:55.420 necessarily agree with everything that we're talking about all the time. And that'll be the

00:39:00.660 case this Friday with this fella. And I wish I could find his name here, but either way,

00:39:03.780 I'll be advertising that before we get to it. So, um, here was something out of the, uh, shocking

00:39:09.600 file kind of, I mean, I've gone on about that with healthcare a lot and everything, but the CBC,

00:39:14.120 uh, they've got a weekly political show they call the house. You know, I used to listen to it on

00:39:18.580 CBC radio when I'd, uh, work south of the border because it's the only Canadian content I could

00:39:23.020 get on, on satellite. And yeah, usually it was pretty lefty lean and crap and everything, but 0.92

00:39:27.120 still they had a segment called does Canada need more private healthcare? But the thing that was 0.95

00:39:33.200 strange, was they actually had a doctor on the show, who said yes, who supports it, who says

00:39:39.420 it's better, and it's a way to help fix things. Now, it's not shocking to see a doctor support

00:39:44.360 that. And it's not shocking to see the CBC asking if we need more healthcare. I'm shocked to see

00:39:49.320 the CBC actually ran the guy. And let's see, LinkedIn user, I'll just get sidetracked for a

00:39:54.740 second, said, what functionally is the difference between the Alberta Liberals and the Alberta

00:39:57.080 Party? Well, the Alberta Party has a leader. But aside from that, not a heck of a lot, actually.

00:40:01.720 not a heck of a lot. And that's something that drives the Alberta party nuts, but they've always

00:40:05.900 been, I call them stealth liberals. You know, they keep pretending not to be liberal, but they

00:40:10.540 embrace all the liberal policies. They know the liberal name in Alberta is pretty much toxic. You

00:40:16.140 just can't win under that banner in this province. So they felt if they could just put a little bit

00:40:20.760 of blue paint on that they might get away with it. But election after election, they just get

00:40:23.860 slaughtered because people scratch them a little and see that red underneath and say to hell with 0.99

00:40:27.200 you guys. Either way, getting back to what I was saying with the CBC actually talking, I mean, 0.97

00:40:32.160 it's just baby steps. We're talking. And I know most CBC listeners and liberals won't admit it,

00:40:36.280 but this is indicating the degree of how bad the Canadian system is actually collapsing. I mean,

00:40:43.060 you know, how much it's falling apart when even the state broadcaster is finally admitting,

00:40:46.580 maybe we can start entertaining the conversation of changing the system a little more, of accepting

00:40:51.940 that having some more private provision might help us all. Because that conversation has been

00:40:58.160 considered taboo. I mean, it was a sacred cow that you're not allowed to even speak on. And even the

00:41:04.860 CBC is starting to air people who are saying, hey, we got to look at some different options here and

00:41:10.320 things. So I, you know, I was kind of, I mean, I know the CBC is still irreparable. I want to see

00:41:15.300 it totally deflated. I want to see it gone. But I look at these things as bellwethers, as indicators

00:41:19.300 that, well, in a negative way,

00:41:22.620 I think even the lefties at the CBC realize

00:41:24.860 we're coming up on an economic crash.

00:41:26.720 We've got a healthcare system

00:41:28.000 where people are dying on waiting lists,

00:41:29.360 people are dying waiting for care

00:41:30.500 and throwing more money at it isn't fixing it.

00:41:33.640 We've got to do something different,

00:41:35.880 possibly radically different.

00:41:37.300 Yeah, and I think everybody's going to conclude that

00:41:40.340 except for unions and the NDP in general,

00:41:42.800 who of course would just rather,

00:41:44.240 we all died waiting for care

00:41:45.440 as long as we died equally waiting,

00:41:48.100 which we won't, by the way.

00:41:49.220 anyways, because people of means will cross the border and go somewhere else to get their care

00:41:53.020 anyhow. In fact, they already are. And people without much means will cross the border if they

00:41:57.180 really need to get it. They'll mortgage their house or they'll borrow from family members or

00:42:00.620 do whatever they have to. Because when your choice is live or die on a waiting list, they're going to

00:42:04.320 choose to live and they're going to go get somewhere else. So let's have that somewhere

00:42:08.160 else being here. Maybe keep some of our health professionals here and broaden the system. I mean,

00:42:13.940 just spending more money doesn't work. Um, let's see, uh, the inflation rate. Yeah, this is

00:42:20.420 something I was talking to Dave mentioned before too. And I'll talk a bit about Mike with it to

00:42:24.780 Mike about that when he comes in. Uh, so our inflation rate, you know, and they're listening

00:42:28.040 to the news that just jubilant and celebratory. It fell, it fell. It's down to 7.6% in July.

00:42:36.760 That's just less bad. You guys, it's not good. I mean, I guess it's better than a constant

00:42:43.060 growth in the trajectory of inflation, but it's still a high, high inflation rate. I mean,

00:42:51.960 the 8.1%, so we're talking a half a percent difference, was the highest we had seen since

00:42:58.920 40 years ago. So now that it's dropped to 7.6, okay, it's a good direction, but don't be breaking

00:43:07.760 out the champagne and celebrating yet, guys. Also, part of the reason the inflation starts

00:43:14.200 dropping is because the interest rates have been cranked up by the central bank, and that slows

00:43:20.200 economic activity, and that brings down some prices on some things, which has to be done.

00:43:24.540 But if that tool is overused, if it's used too fast, it's used too hard, we go into recession.

00:43:29.340 So yeah, inflation will be fine. It'll be down again, but nobody will have any money to spend

00:43:33.140 anyways, because we broke. We're in a recession. Things are going to be getting worse around here

00:43:38.480 before they get better. But at least they're talking about some of that. This story was

00:43:44.220 something else. You know, when is this crap going to end? So this was a guy, Derek Garlick and his 1.00

00:43:49.280 wife, Linda, they went on an Alaskan cruise in mid-July. And I guess Dave picked up COVID-19

00:43:55.880 towards the end of the trip. He's vaccinated. Most people who catch COVID are. And he spent the last

00:44:01.620 two days isolated in his cabin. And then the cruise line escorted him to a bus with 14 others

00:44:08.280 who were infected to the Vancouver airport, Sheraton, and they had to spend eight days

00:44:12.920 locked in the hotel, basically imprisoned in quarantine. And it's according to federal rules,

00:44:18.720 Canadians returning from abroad have to isolate if they tested positive. His wife, she tested

00:44:22.640 negative, so she flew home. But he was stuck there for eight days in a Vancouver hotel. The hotel

00:44:27.920 quarantine cost $5,700, which he had to pay up front. And apparently Holland America is going

00:44:33.600 to reimburse him for that or his trip insurance or something. But the bottom line is just the

00:44:37.640 absurdity of this, the ridiculousness of this, these stupid, stupid, costly regulations. It's 1.00

00:44:44.920 costing him eight days of his life. It's costing, even if the cruise line pays it, it's costing them

00:44:50.360 thousands of dollars. It's taking up room in this hotel. It's madness. And they won't drop these

00:44:55.880 dam regulations. They're stupid. And it's causing damage. What is this doing to Canada's tourist 1.00

00:45:02.600 market? I mean, who the hell wants to travel to this backwater country? And that's not going to

00:45:06.740 call it now. It is backwater. It's this garbage, outdated COVID-19 control measures that just

00:45:13.700 hound and harass people and make their experience miserable and expensive. They're coming here. 1.00

00:45:18.580 We're competing with the whole world for tourism dollars. And I tell you what,

00:45:22.000 There's nothing better for a local economy than tourism dollars.

00:45:25.900 Nothing.

00:45:26.660 You don't have to dig a resource out of the earth.

00:45:29.080 You don't have to process oil.

00:45:30.500 You don't have to invent a product.

00:45:32.400 You don't have to manufacture something.

00:45:34.280 All you have to do is be open.

00:45:37.460 And people come here with their money from somewhere else and they give it to you.

00:45:41.220 They give it to you.

00:45:42.220 They spend it on restaurants.

00:45:43.300 They spend it on hotels.

00:45:44.260 They buy gas.

00:45:45.460 They buy souvenirs.

00:45:46.760 They take tours.

00:45:47.640 They employ all sorts of people out here.

00:45:50.140 It's beautiful, just money pouring into your nation

00:45:53.080 from another nation, just clear dollars.

00:45:56.360 And Prime Minister Dingleberry is still fixated

00:45:59.020 on keeping these rotten COVID regulations

00:46:01.480 that nobody else in the world is maintaining any longer.

00:46:04.500 And it's costing these industries dearly.

00:46:06.600 And we're going into a recession

00:46:08.000 and times are only getting worse.

00:46:10.460 Not only that, I mean, that same story,

00:46:12.300 that same article, there's an epidemiologist.

00:46:14.200 There's people like,

00:46:14.660 oh, I don't see your doctorate in epidemiology.

00:46:16.900 Okay, well, this epidemiologist, Colin Furness,

00:46:19.400 is opposed to hotel quarantining, saying they aren't quarantine facilities, the bug's still

00:46:23.960 going to spread, and it's a waste of time, money, and resources, and stressing people.

00:46:27.780 But hey, what does he know, right? Now let's get back further into the very deep file of

00:46:34.500 government incompetency. We might as well. It's always an easy theme to poke into, and they always

00:46:38.300 give me lots of examples. Dave mentioned that. Yeah, Parks Canada, because every government

00:46:43.160 department, I mean, they're bloated with bureaucrats and pointy-headed pencil-pushing 0.98

00:46:47.940 knobs and they're pissing away your money or even siphoning your money at every opportunity they

00:46:54.520 can. That's the problem when you get big government. Parks Canada, you wouldn't think that'd be a hot

00:46:58.520 bed of some stuff going on. Well, secretive contracting and they didn't treat all bidders

00:47:04.220 fairly. So yeah, and here's something, you know, the department's been fined. Well, who cares if

00:47:09.840 a government department's been fined? It's still our money. You're taking my money and giving it

00:47:14.020 to yourself. It's ridiculous, but that's how they're dealing with it. 0.95

00:47:17.940 And yeah, they were showing that the agency, Telephone 9 companies ask if they're interested

00:47:24.120 in a flooring contract.

00:47:27.200 But you dig farther into it and you just obviously see some inside baseball going on and playing

00:47:35.560 with things.

00:47:35.960 This is where you could start getting corruption and issues going on is when there's sole source

00:47:42.420 contracts or meddling with contracts.

00:47:44.160 because of course, somebody's uncle has the contract

00:47:46.840 in order to fix something up

00:47:48.780 because these government ones are lucrative.

00:47:50.420 They aren't like the ones in the private market.

00:47:51.960 They're not like the ones where they'll scrutinize your bid

00:47:53.960 and make sure that it's the most efficient

00:47:57.720 and cost-effective one they can get.

00:47:59.900 And they won't be on your case.

00:48:01.000 And of course, they accept that you're gonna go over budget.

00:48:03.300 If you're a homeowner and somebody comes in on a contract

00:48:05.280 and does something and they blow the budget

00:48:07.400 right out of the water,

00:48:08.380 chances are you're gonna be fighting with them

00:48:10.340 and trying to get your money back

00:48:12.960 or even that contractor is just going to have to eat it and lose money because they bid it the wrong

00:48:16.360 way. When it comes to government contracts, they just keep coming back and coming back

00:48:19.640 and bleeding us dry further and further. It's frustrating. And even Parks Canada, of all

00:48:27.280 places. You know, I grew up in Banff. Parks Canada was kind of the big major administrator out there

00:48:31.820 being in a national park town. But their contracts apparently have got some funny business going on.

00:48:38.020 They got caught, but it doesn't matter. Like I said, they find it. Oh, wow. You find a government

00:48:41.780 organization so what punishing yourself all right I've got my next guest on and

00:48:49.580 that is mr. Mike Thomas in studio how's it going Mike it's sad oh I can't believe

00:48:57.200 you're not gonna be doing this anymore oh yeah your tears look as real as Dave's

00:49:01.340 will be the last visit on this particular this particular formatted

00:49:10.880 show yeah we'll see keeping the door open things are just changing well they need to i mean not

00:49:16.320 though but i don't think there was a need for them but things change they evolve and they move along

00:49:20.800 yeah and uh no it's it's all good and uh i'm glad i could get you in on this this final week there's

00:49:26.720 lots to cover it's always fun when we get you in studio and cover some of this well we'll see what

00:49:30.320 we can talk about for you well yeah we'll start i guess with your specialty and that's the real

00:49:34.880 estate world we're seeing some housing starts picking up uh yeah relative well um

00:49:42.880 that's a bill fish number that cmhc puts out i mean that's what they think is going to be by

00:49:49.040 the end of the year could be more could be less but in reality and i mean it's good that we that

00:49:54.800 it's that number it needs to be way more um even with prices and sales diminishing in the resale

00:50:03.120 market uh there is a a huge need for new housing stock of all kinds but more particularly

00:50:12.480 multi-family and more affordable product for lower income people um the rental market's getting crazy

00:50:20.320 uh i saw i think yesterday was reading that the the rent on a two-bedroom condor apartment in

00:50:26.880 calgary is pushing i think with sixteen hundred dollars that's a lot of money yeah um the prices

00:50:33.600 on on resale homes are very slowly very slowly coming down sales are really really down but

00:50:43.440 getting back to cmc and housing says they couldn't build enough i mean they need i think

00:50:49.360 they need a million houses in over the next two or three years so that's just it can't happen so

00:50:56.480 yeah shane gave you a shout out in that column actually yes that uh that he wrote recently that

00:51:00.800 was on the western standard just that self-serving plug westernstandard.news and you'll find shane's

00:51:05.120 column where he's talking about that as a home builder for people who aren't familiar with shane

00:51:08.320 wenzel and pointing out that we have a supply issue i mean no matter what you do how much you

00:51:13.440 middle in the market how well your interest rates are if you don't have enough supply it's going to

00:51:16.960 get expensive yeah and you know because it's my favorite topic and that is slamming the government 0.78

00:51:21.120 it is the government's fault government restricts new housing supply while at the same time the

00:51:26.720 talking button to retreat increase it it's it's camera jet which camera jam kids or something

00:51:34.400 i can't cats and jammer kids that's good i'm not old enough to remember at all exactly yeah

00:51:40.320 uh but on the retail market things are slowing down um as expected the i'm looking at calgary

00:51:47.360 this morning and back in march which was a record sales month for calgary they sold something up

00:51:53.840 4200 homes which is unbelievable and i think we're on pace in august to do close to 2000

00:52:02.800 so that's quite a dip um and it's got everything to do with with the rising mortgage rates um

00:52:10.400 And there was a phenomenon going on called fear of missing out, where people were getting,

00:52:18.880 qualifying for mortgages, but supply wasn't very good. So they'd rush out and buy whatever they

00:52:24.160 could get. And so that helped bring the sales up. It's a phenomenon that probably wouldn't

00:52:29.200 have happened had the Bank of Canada taken the rate down to 0.25% at the beginning of the pandemic.

00:52:37.040 Like everybody else, nobody knew how to handle that pandemic.

00:52:40.360 You know, if there ever was another one,

00:52:41.740 there might be, hopefully, we handled differently.

00:52:46.120 So now the bank is making up for lost ground.

00:52:48.360 Well, and the bank's probably going to be cranking interest rates further yet.

00:52:51.860 Yeah, September 7th is the next date.

00:52:56.660 Speculation, there are some people who said,

00:52:58.680 oh, inflation's down, inflation's down.

00:53:00.500 What, 7.6%?

00:53:01.880 Yeah, I was saying that earlier in the show.

00:53:03.920 We're all popping champagne courts, you know,

00:53:06.380 because it went down half a percent in rise.

00:53:08.620 I mean, it's just, as I said,

00:53:09.560 the best way you put it is less bad than it was last month,

00:53:12.120 but it's still bad.

00:53:12.900 No, but I saw some chatter today on the internet.

00:53:16.060 Oh, well, the bank maybe will only raise it 2.5% then

00:53:19.160 because things are looking so more positive.

00:53:20.900 No, no.

00:53:22.560 It's going to be a minimum of 0.5.

00:53:24.460 I think 0.75 outside chance of raising it by 1%.

00:53:30.160 I don't think they're going to do it at one.

00:53:32.860 Nobody expected them to do it last time.

00:53:34.800 So I don't know.

00:53:35.680 But by the end of the year, I think we're looking at 3.25%, which is way above the Bank of Canada's normal, comfortable rate.

00:53:46.720 And people have to understand what kind of chill.

00:53:49.060 I mean, outside of the real estate market, I mean, that prime rate impacts capital expenditures a lot.

00:53:54.720 And we're talking about things like the energy sector, mega projects.

00:53:57.980 they're planning out in 10, 20-year segments, and they didn't necessarily take into account

00:54:03.480 that much more expenditure to get that thing rolling. So I mean, often they're going to

00:54:07.420 contract or reduce the amount they were going to build. Right. But the thing that might cushion it,

00:54:12.960 well, it should cushion it, is the lenders, for the most part, have already built in

00:54:18.100 that 3.25% because they're looking ahead for that very reason. So a lot of the money that

00:54:25.420 people are borrowing right now is based on a bank rate at 3.25. So it's not going to go.

00:54:31.760 No, but they're trying to prevent that.

00:54:33.580 It makes them reevaluate some of their budgets. So at that point, it leads to things. Well,

00:54:38.920 we'll see what happens. I mean, you're still in for a rough ride for a while yet.

00:54:42.280 Yeah, it's going to be, I don't know how rough it's going to be. It's not going to be real

00:54:45.540 pleasant, but I think it's going to be more slow than like that. I hope.

00:54:50.640 Well, yeah, we keep hearing that recession word. I listen to one economist saying we

00:54:55.660 need a recession. It's natural. It's the way to correct things. I mean, I don't know if

00:55:00.320 I can see it being natural in the cycle of economics, unfortunately, just with this borrow

00:55:04.360 and contract sort of thing. But saying we need it is if it's a positive development

00:55:08.800 or outcome. I mean, I think a better way to say it is just it's probably inevitable.

00:55:13.300 Well, it is inevitable. And I guess you want to look at it as a need to be. It's

00:55:17.300 kind of like a medicine. You got a fever, now you got to get something to get rid of it.

00:55:22.460 So is it a terrible, terrible thing? No. And are we going to be in a recession? I don't know.

00:55:28.960 Depends on your definition of what a recession is.

00:55:31.440 Well, then they start dancing with what a recession is. We're watching that game going

00:55:36.000 on in the states already.

00:55:36.780 Yeah, well, that's funny down there. It's not a recession. Yeah, it is. There's been no

00:55:42.640 announcement here, though, in terms of officially in a recession. I think we have to look at the

00:55:47.480 GDP numbers, what they were in July, and we'll see that, yeah, we are in a recession.

00:55:53.940 Yeah. Well, let's see what some of the other stuff you've been talking about. You put out

00:55:57.820 some neat things, some of the dream homes, luxury homes. I see you had an Airbnb site

00:56:02.460 that's carved into a California mountain. Yeah. That's in the Joshua Tree National Park about

00:56:09.040 as close as i can figure an hour an hour and a half northeast of palm springs uh where joshua

00:56:16.240 park is uh the joshua tree park but they uh this house took 20 years to build and it's pure there's

00:56:23.200 there's no timber in the thing there's no drywall it's all natural rock it's built right into the

00:56:29.360 rocks um it's it's an amazing uh house and is it expensive the bedroom the bed in the bedroom

00:56:36.480 costs $500,000.

00:56:38.520 Oh, wow.

00:56:39.000 Well, $10,000 a night to stay in it.

00:56:40.720 Yeah, you can't buy the house.

00:56:41.680 You could Airbnb at a three-night minimum.

00:56:44.500 That's a pretty limited audience.

00:56:48.300 Navi's talking about going down next week, actually.

00:56:50.900 So I think he's...

00:56:51.320 Oh, yeah.

00:56:52.060 So, well, he's, you know, the standard's flush with money now that they'll have me reducing

00:56:56.000 on the payroll, right?

00:56:56.920 That's right.

00:56:57.140 Yeah, he's in the flush.

00:56:58.180 That's good, yeah.

00:56:59.600 Oh, wow.

00:57:00.440 Well, yeah, well, it's funny because Jane and I, we have an extra suite attached to our

00:57:04.800 place out in the Prittis area, and it's been going very well. Jane's a fantastic host. It's

00:57:09.180 an independent suite. Airbnb's been fantastic to us out that way. And I can see more of that with

00:57:14.500 homeowners, not so much on the 10,000 a night scale, but that's another income generating thing

00:57:19.220 people can do as the cost of housing goes up, is if you've got that spare space, you're an empty 0.97

00:57:23.160 nester and want to keep those damn kids from moving in too long anyways. Well, sorry, it's 0.97

00:57:27.100 rented out. You get the spare bedroom over there, but you aren't getting the suite.

00:57:30.520 you know it's kind of a growth area I saw a new story where they're fighting

00:57:34.300 about that of course in Toronto it's kind of like the uber versus taxi and of

00:57:37.540 course the hotels really hate Airbnb oh totally and why wouldn't but I don't know

00:57:43.360 it's a good deal so you know if you got 30 grand and can get down there it's

00:57:47.280 probably once in a lifetime opportunity yeah I would think yes I'll keep an eye

00:57:52.960 on the lottery tickets and see if my chance comes about or maybe I'll just

00:57:57.160 find a cliff and start carving my own it'll probably happen faster than

00:58:00.340 and being able to spend $10,000 a night.

00:58:02.380 You just head out to Bragg Creek and do something out there, maybe.

00:58:05.480 Yeah, well, they used to let me work with dynamite in the past.

00:58:07.660 If I could get a hold of somebody.

00:58:08.440 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no more dynamite for you.

00:58:11.060 I'm even sober now.

00:58:12.520 I barely blew anything up last time.

00:58:16.640 Okay.

00:58:17.720 So, well, we're going back a little.

00:58:20.560 I like reviewing the stories.

00:58:21.840 You know, and just to remind everybody, you write about a lot of things,

00:58:24.260 real estate and so on, but you dive into the others with Trump

00:58:27.740 under investigation for a violation of the espionage act i mean this has been making a lot

00:58:31.420 of news this this whole raid on the mar-a-lago uh mansion and people all wonder what the hell's

00:58:37.660 going on well you know i i envision the pinata you know at the kids parties where they got the

00:58:44.140 sticks and they're banging away at the pinata full of candy and they're waiting for so trump is the

00:58:49.500 is the pinata up there it's all the little democrats running around with their sticks 0.67

00:58:54.620 russian collusion this that the other thing and so i think this is just you know another part of

00:59:00.620 that they need to get something on this guy uh trump uh we're only i think 80 days away from the

00:59:08.220 midterms and they're sweating bullets uh it looks like the democrats gonna get wiped out which i

00:59:15.100 think is an overstatement i don't they're not gonna be wiped out but they could lose control

00:59:19.420 of the congress it's not looking good for them in the middle not looking and um it's not that

00:59:24.140 Joe Biden is a very useful president as it is, but should the Republicans take the house down there? 0.90

00:59:30.700 He's lame duck. He's done. Totally done. Well, and you start getting into that stalemate going on.

00:59:35.920 I mean, it's the American politics is such a hornet's nest. And the thing that always strikes

00:59:39.900 me, too, is their elections. As much as they're so polarized and fight so hard, they're still

00:59:44.120 usually it's like 51% to 49%. I mean, it's just such a microscopic line that they're moving on

00:59:50.420 in that country. Well, you know, that's a good point. I was thinking about that the other day.

00:59:53.340 They're talking about the great division in the country, but it's like, like you say, 51% this, 49% the other.

00:59:58.920 It's not really a great divide.

01:00:00.900 You know, it's the extremists on either end.

01:00:03.720 It's the same thing here.

01:00:05.160 It's the extremists on either end of the political spectrum who get all the ink, they get it, make the most noise, they get the most attention.

01:00:11.780 But they're not really the ones that we should be focusing on.

01:00:16.020 Well, it's so heated, though.

01:00:17.480 I mean, Trump, I mean, you know, he was a bombastic.

01:00:21.960 I'm not a big fan of his, to be honest.

01:00:23.900 I mean, I still would vote Republican if I was in the States.

01:00:27.420 I'm a conservative.

01:00:28.280 But, boy, I would have hoped that, oh, couldn't our party come up with somebody better than this guy?

01:00:31.760 Well, you know, he's good and bad.

01:00:33.840 I'm not real fond of his style, the bombastic thing, where the greatest always has been.

01:00:40.780 And I mean, he's sending out on his social media, two sites, things today that are like, okay, Don, just back off a bit.

01:00:50.260 I mean, we're Canadians, we're a little more laid back, so maybe, but you've got to admit, at least this is the way I see it, is that he did some pretty good things for that country.

01:00:59.160 Well, he shook the establishment, and it was an establishment that needed to be shaken up.

01:01:03.000 That's part of what the amount of this loathing is.

01:01:05.100 I mean, they are still ticked off at how he rattled their perch, you know, including some of the Republicans in the establishment, too.

01:01:13.860 But, again, his style, I don't know.

01:01:17.460 That's like having the best hockey player in the world who just likes going around slashing people with a stick.

01:01:21.540 But he scores the most goals.

01:01:23.260 But, I mean, I think maybe it'll come to some ease if people get to the point of accepting, or if he would ever say, but there's nothing much to expect him to say, that he's not running again.

01:01:30.880 You know, you're finished.

01:01:32.440 You're going to retire.

01:01:33.220 You're going to kick back.

01:01:34.340 There's nothing to hold Trump once more than to be the president of the United States again.

01:01:41.820 Whether or not it's going to happen, I don't know.

01:01:43.700 I don't either.

01:01:45.720 Again, I'm sure the Dems have got to be sweating because Biden isn't exactly what you'd call strong.

01:01:53.000 So he's most definitely vulnerable to a strong run.

01:01:56.940 But I mean, another term of Trump, and I can see a civil war breaking out.

01:02:01.240 Well, you might get one anyway.

01:02:02.200 Well, you know, so maybe it's in the cards, isn't it?

01:02:05.100 I don't know.

01:02:08.020 It's just so bizarre, and it just doesn't stop, you know, as I said.

01:02:10.360 It's just the headlines, and did he take things from the office?

01:02:13.760 Does he have cases of sensitive materials?

01:02:15.900 I mean, he invoked the Fifth, and they were quick to point out one of his own speeches

01:02:20.640 when he said, anybody invoking the Fifth is clearly guilty.

01:02:22.960 And then, you know, now he's invoking, well.

01:02:25.760 That's Donald.

01:02:26.620 That's him, I know.

01:02:27.760 He's a showman.

01:02:28.460 He's Barnum and Bailey.

01:02:29.420 You put a reality star in the office and you got what you're going to get.

01:02:36.060 Let's get back to housing for just a second, talking about Canada, the United States.

01:02:40.760 I just want to say to the people out there that you're going to see things continue to go down a bit.

01:02:48.340 Don't panic. Do not panic.

01:02:51.320 Everybody's situation is different in terms of whether or not you get to keep the house or you have to sell it, stuff like that.

01:02:59.420 and i mention this because you might start seeing things get even worse in the united states you

01:03:06.220 have to understand down there the rules are different buy a house you get a 30-year mortgage

01:03:11.900 down there plus if you get into a situation where you can't make the payments you go to the bank and

01:03:18.140 say here's the keys see you walk away and there's nothing they can do in canada that's not going to

01:03:25.340 to happen. It can't happen because we've got CMHC insurance, the qualification stress test and stuff

01:03:32.400 like that. So don't, if you see this happening in the United States, do not for a moment think it's

01:03:38.140 going to happen here. People panicking and putting their houses on the mark for sale when they don't

01:03:44.700 really need to, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy that everything will go down the ditch

01:03:49.380 a lot quicker. Yeah, well, that's advice that financial advisors give on just about everything

01:03:54.700 anyways with any portfolios. Look at the long game. Don't panic respond in reacting. We've

01:03:59.820 had Andrew Rulon from Integrated Wealth Management talking about that. Markets are dipping this.

01:04:04.860 Hang on. Don't rush out there. I mean, when you get a panic sell, as you said, with self-fulfilling,

01:04:09.820 well, then it snowballs and you can get a collapse and then everybody gets kind of scared.

01:04:13.740 Yeah. I think the figure everybody looks at understandably is value,

01:04:17.260 what perceived value of the house. And somebody is going to have bought a house at 350 that

01:04:23.020 probably in in april rocketed up to 425 and now it's moving back down to 350 and they think

01:04:30.700 they're losing money but they're not that's what you bought it for you know it's little things

01:04:35.260 like that you got to keep in mind and and don't take financial advice from uncle ernie unless

01:04:42.220 uncle ernie's a financial guy yeah a lot of people do that well i mean that's part of uh you know i

01:04:48.700 had i can't remember was a guest on a while back just on how things change again it's not so much

01:04:52.140 into housing, but in stocks, I mean, not that long ago, you used to have to go through a stock

01:04:56.740 broker. You'd have to talk to somebody who was licensed and ostensibly, I mean, a lot of corruption

01:05:01.660 among them and incompetency, but for the most part had some degree of knowledge of it. And they would

01:05:06.060 counsel a person, you know, don't jump in and out on this like that. Don't move around. But now a

01:05:11.080 person can just get online, click trade stocks, and it added to the volatility of trade in ways

01:05:16.540 that they never imagined would happen.

01:05:19.740 And it still makes for a difficult to rely on a lot of things in that market.

01:05:23.680 Yeah, completely.

01:05:24.880 So people don't buy and sell houses that quickly.

01:05:27.620 Some people do.

01:05:28.420 Well, some.

01:05:29.100 That's in a world that I don't live in and I don't even want to think about.

01:05:32.500 We're still working on paying the one we got now.

01:05:35.220 No, I know some people who are in that business.

01:05:37.480 They do quite well.

01:05:39.160 They're not shysters or anything like that.

01:05:41.580 They'll buy a house.

01:05:42.800 nine times out of 10, the house needs renovations anyway. So they go in, fix it up,

01:05:48.920 add 10 or $12,000 to the sales price and go. So it's not a bad deal for some people.

01:05:53.800 Well, there's a lot of reality shows about that. I mean, the flippers and things like that. Yeah,

01:05:57.860 why not? I mean, pick it up. You're assuming the risk. I mean, if you fix it up poorly or the

01:06:01.900 market collapses on you, you're stuck in a house that you bought for more than it's worth. That's

01:06:05.340 like anything else. Like walking into a casino with a lot of money, walking out broke.

01:06:10.160 Your choice.

01:06:11.220 Yeah.

01:06:11.520 No, I've managed to do that already.

01:06:15.040 Right on.

01:06:15.860 Okay.

01:06:16.200 Well, before I let you get running here, what else are you working on?

01:06:19.160 What do you got to look forward to?

01:06:21.180 I think maybe a patio in my future.

01:06:24.700 Oh, you mean for the rest of the week?

01:06:26.100 I was thinking on your columns, unless you're going to do a how-to or something on patio construction.

01:06:30.680 I should do something on patios.

01:06:33.040 I got a lot of things in the mix right now.

01:06:36.140 I was talking to Naylor.

01:06:38.180 things are pretty slow right now.

01:06:40.700 So it's, well, dog days is summer, middle of August.

01:06:44.200 Things are going to pick up.

01:06:45.160 I think there's going to be a lot of things happening right after Labor Day

01:06:49.100 that things are going to start moving pretty fast.

01:06:52.600 Yeah.

01:06:53.160 Things are going to pop up.

01:06:54.860 Right on.

01:06:55.460 Well, it was good to have you on one more time, Mike.

01:06:58.440 I appreciate it.

01:06:59.340 I always enjoyed coming on.

01:07:00.720 Yeah.

01:07:01.120 And like I say, we'll see you around.

01:07:03.300 Oh, yeah.

01:07:03.960 I'm not vanishing.

01:07:04.900 Things are just changing.

01:07:05.760 All right.

01:07:06.240 Great.

01:07:06.640 All right.

01:07:07.300 I'll talk to you later.

01:07:08.020 You got it.

01:07:08.860 So that was our Mike Thomas,

01:07:10.780 and you can find him at the Western Standard,

01:07:12.600 of course, online, westernstandard.news.

01:07:15.100 And he puts a lot of columns out.

01:07:16.080 That's why I was turning my head and scrolling.

01:07:17.780 I should have done my research a little more

01:07:18.840 before the show, but I'm always scrambling.

01:07:20.200 So what did Mike write about recently?

01:07:21.200 I know I read them, but I can't remember.

01:07:23.240 So we covered that.

01:07:24.120 A lot of real estate stuff,

01:07:25.400 but as I said, he dips into

01:07:27.340 and speculates on the political issues as well.

01:07:30.680 And you can find his profile on the site, of course,

01:07:33.540 and scroll down and see what he's been running about.

01:07:36.980 Yeah, you know, Ashley pointing out Trump derangement syndrome. 0.54

01:07:39.240 There's a lot of truth to that, too.

01:07:40.480 That's what I'm talking about the whole polarity thing.

01:07:42.020 I don't want to point fingers on who or how or why it ended up that way.

01:07:44.660 But, I mean, there are people that just, I think there was a meme I saw

01:07:48.560 with somebody just saying, hey, watch this.

01:07:50.160 It's a cartoon, you know, and walks up to a liberal and just says Trump.

01:07:53.460 And then the head just pops and explodes.

01:07:55.020 I mean, it's pretty close.

01:07:55.680 That's all it takes.

01:07:57.480 And, wow, they just so wound up with that guy.

01:08:00.520 Like I said, I'm not a fan of his, but I don't lose my mind

01:08:02.940 with everything he's done as well at the same time.

01:08:05.480 But that's that interesting thing.

01:08:07.560 That's what I'm saying is there's not many people sitting in a mushy middle, it seems, down there with these things.

01:08:12.540 They're all either over here or over here.

01:08:14.500 At least whoever's in the middle, they're really quiet.

01:08:17.140 And we're not hearing a lot from them.

01:08:18.880 So we're hearing the very emotional and strong views.

01:08:22.460 But the midterms are coming up.

01:08:24.040 And we are going to see things getting a lot more heated, like Mike was saying.

01:08:28.560 Because we've got desperate Democrats here who don't want to take a blow in the midterms. 0.74

01:08:34.080 you know, because you've got a doddering president there

01:08:38.060 who people are questioning his capability in general.

01:08:40.980 And if he's taken, makes a beating in these midterms

01:08:43.700 and they get set back dearly,

01:08:45.160 particularly if they lose the House,

01:08:46.740 it's going to look really ugly for them,

01:08:48.940 potentially for the 2024 general election.

01:08:51.540 So lots of politics going on down there

01:08:54.220 and crazy times, lots of that.

01:08:58.640 So let's see, let me speak about my sponsor one more time,

01:09:01.080 one more sponsor,

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01:09:05.380 They're speaking of liberals and things coming down.

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01:09:19.660 We don't have property rights here.

01:09:21.360 If you look at it in the chart, it says we have the right to the enjoyment of property.

01:09:24.380 Thanks, Pierre.

01:09:25.480 Either way, the government is constantly changing the rules, recategorizing,

01:09:29.960 and they are going to be coming from you.

01:09:31.560 You've got to stand up for yourself.

01:09:32.620 The way to do that, work together, guys.

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01:09:46.020 or any of those sports, anything like that,

01:09:48.220 or even collecting.

01:09:48.800 It doesn't matter.

01:09:49.500 You shouldn't have to justify

01:09:50.400 why you may want to own any firearms.

01:09:52.440 You're a law-abiding citizen.

01:09:53.760 You have every right to,

01:09:55.060 but you're not going to have that right for long.

01:09:57.140 And if you don't stand up for yourself,

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01:10:17.400 Let's see what else we've got going on. James Kreese saying, more handguns for everyone. Freedom. 0.58

01:10:23.680 There we go. And yeah, everything's been backed up. You know, we've seen those discussions. I mean,

01:10:29.280 Trudeau rushing. Part of what happened, he went and, of course, did an order in council and

01:10:35.140 prematurely rushed out and stopped the importation of legal firearms, which weren't causing any

01:10:41.960 crimes or hurting anybody. The reason for that, though, is because he proposed Bill 21, where he

01:10:47.300 was going to stop all the sales anyways. We knew he was going to come and seize them next. That was

01:10:50.580 his goal. He wants to take them away. What it led to was a rush. Everybody's buying, buying, buying.

01:10:54.740 So now what are we going to do? Oh, man, I'm going to have like five times as many handguns to have

01:10:58.160 to come and steal off people later when we decide to come around and steal them. So let's stop the

01:11:02.340 border from the legal importation of them. Meanwhile, as I read on the news the other day,

01:11:09.080 Akwesasne and other reserves have been smuggling them in and there's big butts because the true 1.00

01:11:13.200 criminal guns are being unhindered. They're just pouring into the country and it doesn't matter.

01:11:19.460 And so Trudeau's, you know, again, he's attacking the problem where there was no problem existing

01:11:25.800 and he's ignoring the real problem.

01:11:27.860 And that's gangsters and drug smugglers

01:11:32.220 and the rest who are bringing in illegal firearms.

01:11:34.400 The people who jump through all the hoops

01:11:36.220 to own a handgun.

01:11:39.480 These aren't people committing crimes, guys.

01:11:41.200 They aren't doing it.

01:11:42.580 So either way, stand up for your rights.

01:11:45.060 You gotta try.

01:11:46.640 Let's see, you know, speaking of, again,

01:11:48.320 the corruption of the government,

01:11:49.380 the incompetence of the government, just everything.

01:11:51.900 So two of the people behind the accusation

01:11:53.540 of political interference into the investigation of the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

01:11:59.160 They're going to be going for a House of Commons committee today.

01:12:01.840 So that's RCMP Chief Superintendent Darren Campbell and Leah Scanlon, the Strategic Communications

01:12:06.980 Director.

01:12:07.920 And they said, Brenda Luckey said she was pressured by the federal government to release

01:12:11.840 information on the gunman's weapons.

01:12:14.400 This was right when the investigation was hot, right when it was going on.

01:12:18.000 We've got the Prime Minister's office apparently pissing around in the investigation.

01:12:22.020 We got the chief of the RCMP, the chief, the head of the super commissioner.

01:12:28.360 It sounds like obliging the prime minister.

01:12:30.960 You know, people keep saying we don't need a provincial police force.

01:12:34.000 This is why we need one, because the federal one is hopelessly corrupted,

01:12:37.140 hopelessly beholden to a prime minister who is an authoritarian nut bar,

01:12:42.260 who is invested, you know, wanted for his own firearm grabs.

01:12:46.260 That's why they wanted to go into this.

01:12:47.380 They wanted the information on what the firearms were used,

01:12:49.180 because they wanted to move as fast as possible,

01:12:51.160 take political advantage.

01:12:52.580 The bodies weren't even cold yet 1.00

01:12:54.400 from the slaughter that that son of a bitch did out there. 1.00

01:12:57.620 And all Justin Trudeau's office is thinking about 1.00

01:12:59.400 is how can we score political points out of this?

01:13:02.740 And this should have been a scandal

01:13:05.240 that should have been rocking the nation.

01:13:06.620 It makes me sad for the state of this nation

01:13:08.900 that it didn't make as much news as it did.

01:13:12.580 But either way, they're going before a commerce committee.

01:13:14.240 Hopefully this news, this story reignites

01:13:16.460 because it's outrageous.

01:13:17.420 uh you know the police investigators are specialists that's what they do they're looking

01:13:22.280 and this is the most serious you know the largest mass shooting in canadian history

01:13:26.740 it's a day uh later and and the government is pissing around with it no um brad's saying

01:13:36.020 cory i hear kenny bragging that they're going to put a nuclear reactor next door to you i hope so

01:13:39.420 i want to see more nuclear reactors uh you know it's a form of power that's it's really getting

01:13:44.200 wrongly smeared and things. And if we really want to do, uh, improve some things, you know,

01:13:47.820 bring it on. I see that's no problem. If it's going to be right next to my house, well, I guess

01:13:52.040 I'll have to sell at a premium price, but, uh, I'll deal with that when the time comes.

01:13:56.720 Uh, here's another medical story, you know, getting back to my ranting about the health

01:14:00.040 system in general. And, uh, this is for the second time in less than a month, a resident

01:14:05.680 of Ashcroft BC died while waiting for healthcare. This is rural BC. You see, these stories are

01:14:10.300 coming up all across the country. And I like bringing them up too, to remind people is every

01:14:13.560 time it happens in Alberta, Rachel Notley gets jumping up and down on her pulpit and saying,

01:14:17.200 look, Jason Kenney killed this guy. Jason Kenney's killed healthcare. Jason Kenney's bad for this.

01:14:20.440 UCP's bad for that. Conservatives bad for that. No, there's nothing to do with the UCP. It's

01:14:24.720 happening in every province in the country. Ashcroft has been under NDP rule in BC for quite

01:14:29.920 some time. And people are dying, waiting for ambulances. And it sounds like this guy was

01:14:34.440 within sight of the local ambulance station, but it took half an hour for paramedics to get to him

01:14:39.840 many died. And this is happening all over the place. It has nothing to do with local governments.

01:14:47.440 It has to do with the system. And I'm going to keep ranting about that even when I'm done with

01:14:51.420 this show. I'll be writing columns about it. I'll be doing show appearances on other people's shows,

01:14:55.520 whatever. But the system is broken, guys. It's broken. Quit trying to tinker with it. It needs

01:15:02.460 to be torn down and rebuilt under one of the dozens and dozens of European models that are 0.53

01:15:07.020 far superior to ours. And Denise pointing out, yes, he was the second one in Ashcroft.

01:15:14.320 Multiple in a small town, people dying, waiting for ambulances. And here's another story that

01:15:18.940 followed right after that. A family doctor wanted, there's a New Brunswick woman going on Twitter, 0.65

01:15:22.980 trying to find a family doctor. The waiting list is at 74,000 to try and get a doctor out there

01:15:31.260 right now. People without a family doctor or a regular doctor. Family doctors are important,

01:15:35.580 especially as you get older and you need, you know, that regularity. They know your history.

01:15:41.340 They know existing conditions, things like that. Being able to regularly go to the same doctor

01:15:45.500 is important. It helps for better care. I mean, one-time visits to some fantastic doctors,

01:15:50.280 walk-in clinics. Great. They're fine for immediate things, but for the longer-term care,

01:15:55.260 it's very important to have a family physician, but you can't get them in New Brunswick. Again,

01:15:59.420 can't blame Jason Kenney for that. Hey, I blame him for all sorts of crap. 1.00

01:16:01.900 It had nothing to do with this. 0.99

01:16:03.800 It's all the way out in New Brunswick.

01:16:05.140 So sorry, Rachel.

01:16:06.120 You're going to blame Kenny for that too?

01:16:07.940 Of course not.

01:16:08.580 It's the system.

01:16:09.700 It's broken.

01:16:11.060 We've been spending.

01:16:11.900 You can't say we haven't been spending enough.

01:16:13.640 Every province in Canada has dramatically increased spending on health care. 0.89

01:16:17.940 Likewise with those goofballs with the teachers union and they're pissing and moaning.

01:16:21.260 They're getting near the end of their summer holidays. 0.97

01:16:22.640 So they're getting crankier than usual.

01:16:24.900 They're two months off that the rest of us don't get to enjoy.

01:16:27.000 uh you know going on saying we've been cutting spending to the bone in education oh they're

01:16:34.500 running out of money in education no they aren't we've been increasing spending in education year

01:16:38.640 after year after year after year god i couldn't imagine the noise you asked clowns would make

01:16:42.540 if we actually cut spending in public education you just act like it no the problem is these

01:16:48.480 union contracts keep going up and up and up and up and up and up it's costing us more so the

01:16:54.040 services decline. The services aren't declining for lack of spending. They're declining because

01:16:57.740 we're overpaying a whole bunch of bloated, useless teachers in there. Not saying they're 0.98

01:17:01.080 all bloated and useless, but there's way too many of them who are. There's a lot of teachers who 0.96

01:17:05.460 could probably effectively teach twice as many students in a classroom. And there's a lot of

01:17:09.340 teachers who really should be still making happy faces and lattes somewhere because they aren't fit

01:17:13.740 to be teaching our children. We need to shake up that system. But when you're heavily, heavily

01:17:17.560 unionized, it's hard to reform and fix and change a system like that. So it's not for lack of money.

01:17:24.040 it's the system and that applies to education and health care. You got to look at the whole

01:17:28.760 damn thing. This is Pamela Jones, Kenny saying, our doctor in Kamloops is trying to bring a 0.99

01:17:34.060 qualified doctor in from England. The College of Physicians and Surgeons is putting roadblocks in

01:17:38.500 the way. Yeah, it's happening everywhere. We're having problems. There was a story I read a little

01:17:45.800 while back with a gentleman who was trying to come in. I think it was from Serbia, but a highly

01:17:50.180 qualified, I think, emergency nurse or something. He wanted to find work here. He kept trying in

01:17:53.820 Ontario, going through the process. He finally threw up his hands and he's gone to Texas.

01:17:57.740 Again, it's the system and it's the unions. It's the associations. It's the things like that.

01:18:03.440 Brad's saying, is that true that teachers booed Smith? Yeah, they did. Yeah, those teachers got

01:18:07.620 pretty damn upset when Daniel Smith dared to question their sacred place within the Canadian

01:18:13.380 system, the Alberta system. We really need a voucher system. We need competition. We need

01:18:18.540 better choice for parents. We need choice for patients as well when it comes to health care.

01:18:23.360 All of these things. Get this bloody socialist crap out of the way where you only have a 0.99

01:18:29.080 monopolistic single provider. When there's a monopoly, the consumer always loses. Always. 0.99

01:18:34.120 Whether it's a private monopoly or a government monopoly. Let those tax dollars follow those kids. 1.00

01:18:39.700 And yes, even if it's a private school, whether your kid gets $5,000 a year in their voucher or

01:18:43.780 $2,000, whatever it might be, and then the parents want to kick in another $5,000 and go to a private

01:18:48.060 school on top of that, good for them. Or if they want to stay in a public system, but the $5,000

01:18:52.180 vulture gets into that school, good for them too. Because you know what? Then suddenly parents are

01:18:55.780 going to be watching for educational outcomes. They're going to be looking for quality and

01:18:59.080 they're going to be following up and they're going to say, damn it, that school's not getting 0.95

01:19:02.080 my kid if you guys don't perform. And that school's going to say, geez, we're not going to get any 0.98

01:19:06.300 money unless these teachers perform. And then the deadweight, useless teachers are going to get 0.99

01:19:11.160 flushed out. And everybody remembers them. We went through them. I remember in high school, 0.99

01:19:15.820 I had a math teacher.

01:19:17.940 Magnificent man.

01:19:18.560 He was fantastic.

01:19:20.480 Drove things home to me in ways that other teachers couldn't succeed.

01:19:23.240 Worth every nickel, probably worth twice as much as what he's made.

01:19:26.480 We had a biology teacher. 0.99

01:19:27.860 I had to drop bio 20 twice because she was so incompetent, inept, and terrible. 1.00

01:19:32.640 And half of the class dropped that class each semester when they tried to get in. 0.97

01:19:37.340 She couldn't pass it because she couldn't teach you, but you couldn't get rid of her.

01:19:40.460 And this, yeah, unfortunately, I date myself, but that's over 30 years ago.

01:19:44.240 it hasn't changed. When you got a unionized monopoly with a scale where these guys are

01:19:49.760 making six figures after 11 years and all those benefits and all of that. And a lot of them got

01:19:54.560 in, not because they love teaching. They got in because they love stability and money and summer's

01:19:58.180 off, Christmas off and professional days and spring break. And then to piss and moan about it all the

01:20:02.500 time too. Uh, yeah, we need some competition out there. And again, teachers are valuable. Teachers

01:20:08.880 have a hell of a tough job. Not everybody can do it, but it doesn't mean they're sacred. But in

01:20:13.740 fact, it means we got to hold them to a higher standard, not

01:20:17.880 constantly ringing that bar down lower. And here's an

01:20:23.760 interesting one, a federal ID department, IT department,

01:20:26.520 shared services, Canada spent $50,000 back to the government

01:20:30.500 incompetency union members, by the way, 50,000 interview 58

01:20:35.220 computer students to ask if they'd like to work in Ottawa.

01:20:38.280 Why are we going broke, eh? You wonder? Well, we got departments, federal departments,

01:20:46.820 those can manage to spend $50,000 to talk to 58 people. And I go through that and talk to people

01:20:53.280 just to get guests on the show over the course of a week. And I assure you, I don't make anywhere

01:20:56.680 close to 50,000 for it. And what did they find out from those students anyways? Well, students found

01:21:01.820 that it looked like it was boring, bureaucratic, and hierarchical. Hierarchical? Wow, that's a

01:21:08.860 tough one. My teachers failed me on my English. I couldn't pronounce it right. Either way, the

01:21:13.860 reasons a lot of graduating students in computer sciences, things like that, don't want to go into

01:21:19.940 government work because it looks boring. You're not going to get the best. You're not going to

01:21:24.160 get ones with ambition. You're going to get the ones who want to just, they want the boring,

01:21:28.780 they want the regular, and they just want to mail it in. That's the ones government gets.

01:21:33.580 That's why the government has the Phoenix payroll system that costs billions of dollars. They can't

01:21:37.320 even pay themselves right. Well, this is what's happening. Either way, pollsters with the Phoenix

01:21:42.840 Strategic Perspectives Incorporated, speaking of some of these people who somehow get those good

01:21:47.320 contracts from civil service things, were paid $49,966 to come up with that report. Now, I wonder

01:21:54.460 which pollster with this group that I've never heard of might have had a tight connection with

01:21:59.700 a person in authority within that particular government department. I don't know. Might be

01:22:04.800 a coincidence. Ah, here's another beauty. Okay. Canadian heritage. Yeah. That's an area that's

01:22:12.140 getting more and more intrusive on us in a number of levels, actually. So they've hired an anti-racism

01:22:16.020 director. Okay, fine. This fellow's name is Laith Maroof. But this is what this guy, this is a quote

01:22:22.980 from him. This is from Twitter a little while back. And this is his own words. And this is a

01:22:27.500 guy they've hired as an anti-racism director. And here's his words, those Jews, he's talking about 0.91

01:22:34.120 Jews. And he says, they're white supremacists, loudmouth bags of human feces. When Palestine 1.00

01:22:38.860 is liberated and Jews have to leave, they'll return to being low voiced bitches of their 1.00

01:22:43.680 Christian secular white supremacist masters. Not misquoting. In fact, I want to read that a second 1.00

01:22:50.360 time. Those Jewish white supremacists loudmouth bags of human feces when Palestine is liberated 1.00

01:22:55.880 and Jews have to leave. He said, he said they will return to being low voiced bitches of their 1.00

01:23:01.040 Christian secular white supremacist masters. This man has been hired as an anti-racism director 1.00

01:23:08.400 with Canadian heritage. This hate filled piece of crap is actually going to tell us how we're 1.00

01:23:15.840 supposed to behave. He's getting probably six figures from the government in your tax dollars 1.00

01:23:21.580 to teach us, apparently, how to go on rampages like that. How on earth, when somebody is hired,

01:23:30.060 I mean, that's the first thing we do in every modern place is you Google a person, you look 0.99

01:23:32.960 this up, and there is this tweet from this lunatic, this hateful racist man. And he gets 0.99

01:23:39.800 to put into a position as an anti-racist director? This is our government at work, guys. This is our

01:23:46.220 government at work. This is how we're going to reduce hate? Are they going to hire somebody from

01:23:51.160 the Ku Klux Klan next and stick them in there? Because he's so familiar with racism, perhaps?

01:23:56.100 Maybe that's what their logic is. You get some intolerant bigot piece of crap. And if we put 1.00

01:24:01.020 them in there, they might figure out because they know personally how it works. So we'll put a Klan 0.96

01:24:05.000 member in there or Aryan Nations or some other nutball. This guy's no better. Those words, 0.99

01:24:10.260 like, holy crap. Yeah, there's your dollars at work. All right, that's enough out of me for 0.98

01:24:16.860 today, guys. Listen, tomorrow, and it's going to be a sensitive subject, and you know, that's fine,

01:24:21.720 we cover those things, but I'm going to have a panel on the final time because I've been covering

01:24:24.960 that a lot, and it's funny, this gets shouted down as racism whenever people talk about it,

01:24:28.460 But I'm going to have Jaime Rubinstein and Brian Gesbrecht and Mr. Clifton coming on.

01:24:35.140 They've all been on before.

01:24:36.340 They're all very familiar with the old Indian residential schools.

01:24:39.400 One of them even worked in them in the past.

01:24:41.380 We're just going to have a three-person panel going on at length to kind of finish things up

01:24:46.780 because I've been really exploring that subject where the mainstream doesn't want to talk about it

01:24:50.140 and really dig into the Indian residential school issue in depth.

01:24:54.060 and, you know, this supposed alleged graves

01:24:59.480 haven't been found in residential school sites.

01:25:01.400 So they're going to be on tomorrow.

01:25:02.700 Plus, of course, lots of ranting,

01:25:04.160 lots of news and other things.

01:25:05.260 So thanks for tuning in today, guys.

01:25:07.880 Always a good time.

01:25:09.320 And I'll see you all tomorrow at 11.30am.

01:25:24.060 Thank you.

01:25:54.060 Thank you.

Western Standard - August 17, 2022

Triggered： It’s time for Western provinces to go on the offensive

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