00:17:31.700I have a house that backs into the bush. Now and then I post those up on my Facebook and Twitter
00:17:36.840account. We've got a game camera back there. And that shows how scary cougars are. Because I get
00:17:41.180the cougars behind my house actually semi-regularly. They walk by on that game trail behind my place,
00:17:45.660only like 150 feet from my kitchen door in the back. But I've worked 20 years as a surveyor in
00:17:51.240the field everywhere from the Arctic down to Texas. I grew up in Banff. That's my hometown.
00:17:56.580I worked in the bush countless hours, live in Prittis, cougars in my backyard all the time.
00:18:02.540My whole life, I've never seen a live cougar. I've seen tracks. I've seen dead ones. I've seen
00:18:09.100them on my game camera, but I've never seen one. We can know that a lot of them have seen me.
00:18:14.980There's no doubt about that. And that's what's really scary about them as predators. And if you
00:18:20.280look at the statistics for them, they very, very rarely attack people. Their cats, they attack when
00:18:25.960they're sure they can win. That's why children are extra vulnerable. They instinctively go for
00:18:30.140the little ones. And so fortunate that poor young kid survived at least, even though he is pretty
00:18:36.300ripped up. And if you look statistically, women get attacked far more than men by cougars. Again,
00:18:41.380typically because they're smaller. So they're very rare when they attack, but we do have them
00:18:47.100in Alberta. Never forget about the possibility. Oh, there's Nico's fast. He found a picture of
00:18:51.820of them there that's from uh yeah just a few months back behind my house there that's standing
00:18:55.980there looking down at my house in the night uh that was a a cougar uh in my backyard basically
00:19:02.780they're back there but i never see them oh yeah and there's pictures of the bears and the bobcats
00:19:06.860that we get back there too i get a lot of uh critters in my yard but you never actually see
00:19:11.740them until they want you to see them so if you're out though it is a good warning for people you
00:19:15.820know it's very rare but if you got young kids if uh you know you're a small woman or whatever
00:19:21.420move in numbers. Don't turn your back if you're in the mountains or areas known for cougars,
00:19:25.640because, you know, what a horrifying thought that one could snatch your child up and take
00:19:29.560off with them like that. It's, you know, rare, but it's certainly something you never, ever want to
00:19:35.060encounter in that bad way. All right, let's get on to our first guest for the day is Kelly
00:19:41.160Malmberg. He's been on before, and I appreciate that because, hey, you know, all the crazy
00:19:46.020experience I've had in the working world and travels and everything, I have never been a
00:19:49.840farmer. In fact, I'm a terribly inept gardener. And as we saw, even my beekeeping has had its
00:19:54.960challenges. So when we talk about important things like food production, we got to talk
00:19:58.700to the specialists. And we got some real threats coming along to our food security these days. So
00:20:03.420hey, Kelly, thanks for coming in to talk to us today. Hey, Corey. So yeah, I mean, I know you
00:20:09.760watch things, of course, for a very good reason, very closely in the agricultural sector. And a
00:20:13.980lot of things that have been making the news lately are proposed at least reductions in certain
00:20:20.560types of fertilizers and things that agricultural producers can use. And it's really got a lot of
00:20:25.660people very concerned. Maybe if you could just kind of explain how a 30% reduction would impact
00:20:30.720farm production right now. Well, yeah, that's quite a crazy proposal. 30% reduction in fertilizer,
00:20:39.820You know, it's hard to put a number on that because it depends on what you grow.
00:20:44.420But, you know, if they do go with this, you know, you're probably going to see 15% to 20% reduction on your cereal crops, your oil seeds.
00:20:53.420We have a lot of crops that we do grow that fix their own nitrogen, like all their pulse crops, lentils, pea crops.
00:21:01.060But I would say you're going to see a reduction for sure, Corey.
00:21:05.080Yeah. And with that, that high cost of living, I mean, in general, we're looking, you know,
00:21:08.720especially for things that are essential for us. I mean, if crops come down, prices are going to go
00:21:13.240up and these are our food items. So, I mean, it's going to damage every consumer, not just the
00:21:18.660producers. Yeah. You know, I guess that's one silver lining is, you know, our grain prices
00:21:24.920are probably going to go up. They're up pretty high right now. But as always, you know, with
00:21:30.540Canada with this carbon tax, you know, we're just keep getting beaten down. And you look at our
00:21:34.820neighbors to the south, to business as usual in the States, they're not doing a 30% reduction
00:21:39.760on their fertilizer. So we're at the disadvantage again on the Americans. Well, and the carbon tax
00:21:45.360is impacting agricultural producers as well. And that's something that frustrates as well. Of course,
00:21:51.560I was watching that the other day when the carbon tax rebates were coming to people and a lot of
00:21:55.580liberal supporters, see, look, it all comes back to you. It all comes back. It doesn't cost anybody
00:21:59.480anything uh you know they don't realize that this impacts production and consumer products and they
00:22:05.240are going to pay a higher price for things because of that tax even if it's not direct yeah for sure
00:22:10.440like um well fertilizers up uh heating like anything heating uh our shops um fuel um you
00:22:17.800know if we have to dry grain this year which it could happen we have uh you know since i talked
00:22:23.080to you last we've had some pretty good rains these crops look really good and so we're looking at a
00:22:27.640late harvest and uh you know there's gonna be a lot of natural gas used to try to get these
00:22:31.800try to get these crops dried down so that they can be stored properly so yeah operating costs
00:22:37.400are way up for sure because of the carbon tax yeah and those those grain dryers i mean they're
00:22:42.440almost well they look almost like a giant version of a clothing dryer if i recall and they're
00:22:45.800circular but they burn a heck of a lot of natural gas so uh the carbon taxes is going to have a very
00:22:50.440direct impact on the cost of using those sorts of tools yeah you bet um you know we've been lucky
00:22:56.600you the last few years we've had some pretty good harvests and uh kind of an open harvest we were
00:23:01.520done before things got too ugly but uh you know I've got some crops that are at least a month
00:23:06.860away for my canola is just coming out of flower and so things are looking looks like might be a
00:23:13.260long harvest this year and we're going to be running those uh grain dryers for sure well
00:23:17.380hopefully not but it's looking that way yeah so I mean and as you pointed out there's other ways
00:23:22.740with nitrogen replacement, different type of crops you can rotate, things such as that. And I mean,
00:23:27.100you know, it reminds me of the energy sector too. Like people don't get credit for the activities
00:23:31.460they've already been doing to reduce emissions. Even if some of the reasons, you know, you wanted
00:23:35.840to reduce the nitrogen, well, it's expensive. So if you can run field peas for a year and help
00:23:40.660replenish the soil, you'll do that. I mean, you've already been reducing some of the uses for these
00:23:45.240things just in a cost-effective manner, but you don't get any credit for that.
00:23:48.080no that's right you know we like our farmers we're not farming like the 80s anymore we don't
00:23:53.760work our land up we're you know it's no till farming we're doing precision farming so uh
00:23:59.420in variable rate technology so when these you know these are high-tech outfits and our farmers
00:24:03.840you know these guys are you know got degrees call you know and um you know they've got a lot of
00:24:09.160schooling behind them and they're putting this fertilizer where it needs to be soil tests are
00:24:14.360done every spring now you know we're not just dumping fertilizer out there to and hoping that
00:24:18.920we're going to grow a bigger crop we can't afford it fertilizer this spring was about uh double what
00:24:24.500it was before so we can go to stuff like variable rate technology we can reduce the amount of
00:24:30.300fertilizer we're putting where it's not needed like if you look at the netherlands right now
00:24:34.460you know we're trying to be like the netherlands they farm in a bathtub they're below sea level
00:24:39.980and they're about 16 times smaller than the province of Alberta.
00:24:43.920So it's a pretty intensive agricultural area.
00:24:47.320And, you know, we're being compared to that.
00:24:49.920And, you know, we're a mile above sea level in Alberta.
00:24:53.800And especially in areas like Vulcan County and in southern Alberta,
00:24:58.660you know, that leaching of these nutrients into our watersheds is very low.
00:25:04.500We, you know, we've got some good farmers out there.
00:25:06.320So I'm really scratching my head as to why, you know, this is just a feel-good program for Trudeau, and it really makes no sense at this time.
00:25:15.140You know, we are evolving, we're trying new technology, but we have 8 billion people to feed, and people want big crops.
00:25:23.540And to grow big crops, you know, we've got to put the groceries to it, and so we're putting the fertilizer down, and we're putting it where it's needed.
00:25:30.280And until we can do something different, this is just a really bad timing on this proposal.
00:25:36.320Well, that's it. And, you know, I wrote a piece on this a while back. I did some research. And, you know, the human population in the last 100 years has gone up fivefold. But crop yields per acre in modern farms has also gone up fivefold. But I mean, things such as modern effective fertilizer practices, pesticides, and some other things are the reason you can get so much per acre. And as you mentioned, there's not an alternative. It's similar to kind of my earlier rant too about vehicles.
00:26:05.220okay you want to get all the the gas vehicles off the road fair enough but you got to give us
00:26:09.660something else to get into and it's not there yet and just banning certain types of fertilizer use
00:26:14.600if you don't have an alternative it could be catastrophic i mean they got to come up with
00:26:18.080the alternate first yeah you know it was a good i was listening to um there's that egg radio it's
00:26:23.900on cirrus xm um channel 147 and uh the egg phd guy he's always on about one o'clock in the afternoons
00:26:31.260and somebody asked him what he thought of Canada he's an American buddy somebody asked him a
00:26:35.800question what's his thoughts on this reduction and he made a good point he said that uh you know
00:26:41.760farming I don't think people realize that farming and forestry we're a huge carbon we we sequestered
00:26:48.560a lot of carbon so a lot of carbon is taken in by the plant so if you reduce the amount of
00:26:54.060fertilizer you're growing less plant you're actually taking you have less plant to take in
00:26:59.060that excessive carbon, which, you know, was a really good point. So, you know, we grow more
00:27:03.640crop, we're taking more carbon in as well. And I don't think people realize that farmers are one
00:27:09.260of the biggest, the industry really takes in a lot of that excessive carbon. And by cutting back,
00:27:14.760we're going to have less crop to take that in. I don't know if that's, you know, it was just an
00:27:18.080interesting point I heard yesterday. So yeah, it is. And I mean, everything's kind of integrated.
00:27:22.460The other thing is too, if more pressure is put on, I mean, we've got land that hasn't been
00:27:28.160developed agriculturally and not just in Canada but other parts of the world and if a living can't
00:27:32.980be made or if the prices are getting too high for those commodities because of some of these
00:27:36.100limitations the incentive is there now to expand and cultivate more land then to try and keep up
00:27:41.620and we've got you know natural areas that could be threatened through this too like this can have
00:27:46.040the opposite effect and actually make things worse for the environment but they just don't
00:27:50.080seem to understand that. Well that's a good point Corey you know we've got a lot of grassland
00:27:54.640you know out east in the eastern part of the vulcan county a lot of native grass that was
00:28:00.080broke back in the 30s um you know a lot of homesteaders came up and we've got places that
00:28:05.420should never be broken again but um it's like the the organic farming argument you know if
00:28:11.220get rid of fertilizer herbicides fertilizers um insecticides we we could never at this time unless
00:28:18.560we develop our technology better we couldn't feed the world if we didn't have these products and we
00:28:23.540would be ripping up more land than we should all of Eastern Alberta along the Saskatchewan border
00:28:29.120would you know we'd have to break more land up and it'd be catastrophic you know those guys tried
00:28:33.300it they lasted about 10 years and uh it went back to grass in a hurry because just not sustainable
00:28:39.440yeah there's a lot of sensitive uh wildlife populations out there sage grouse burrowing
00:28:44.580owls uh antelope I mean they only have so much land left really that's unbroken that they rely
00:28:50.200on out there and and uh i mean if the government bans us from i guess producing on that land well
00:28:54.920it'll save those critters but then we still end up with a food shortage it just seems to be such
00:28:58.600an inane policy they're pushing towards right now yeah um you know we're really gonna have i you
00:29:04.200know fingers crossed i hope the hail cloud stays away but excuse me but uh you know we're gonna
00:29:09.960make up for last year you know i'm looking at my wheat uh this morning i got a really nice crop
00:29:14.600coming and those rains um there's a lot of areas that were pretty dry and this really helps so you
00:29:20.520know we're going to pick up the slack for the world on um on this grain shortage so what a time
00:29:27.080ace you imagine if we had to cut 30 fertilizer um you know you're gonna see some big crop export
00:29:32.680this year out of canada thanks to how we farm and um thanks to the weather but uh yeah i think
00:29:39.720Canada is really going to help out the world this year, especially with what's going on in the
00:29:43.080Ukraine. So yeah, things look good. I just hope these initiatives like this are really going to
00:29:49.720work against the farmer and the consumer. Yeah. Well, and right now, I mean, it's still
00:29:54.280proposed, but I mean, they're pretty solid about what they want to do, but they haven't said how
00:29:58.520or legislated anything formally yet. So is there any movement on the part of agricultural producers
00:30:04.280to organize push back lobby against this idea or well they've you know i guess there's still
00:30:10.520a discussion period and like you mentioned mentioned you know we're we're obviously
00:30:15.160looking at worst case scenario and you know a lot could change um a lot of the municipalities
00:30:21.480have started writing letters um at the agricultural service boards to uh the minister of agriculture
00:30:27.320in ottawa but you know i've been i've been an egg fieldman here for vulcan county for
00:30:32.76025 years letters don't seem to go very far anymore they just kind of get shuffled in the filing
00:30:38.920cabinet um you know i think when the date gets closer we know what's going to happen i think
00:30:44.600you'll see guys wake up a little bit um i think it's in its infancy right now so we're just kind
00:30:49.960of waiting to see what comes out i don't know how they if they do go forward with this and do have a
00:30:56.280a concrete number to cut you know egg canada has a skeleton of a staff since the harper days you
00:31:03.140know they've cut albert egg canada staff by a lot i don't know if they're gonna have a fertilizer
00:31:07.300police going out if they're gonna audit our annual purchase of a fertilizer but um yeah i think right
00:31:14.540now i wouldn't get too worked up i think um i think what's going on in the netherlands has maybe
00:31:19.480woke the world up a little bit um so you know but we're you know people are watching and i guess
00:31:26.140we'll just see what unfolds in the next couple of years, Corey. Yeah, and I mean, we want to keep
00:31:30.640it in the scroll, at least, and discuss it. Or, of course, if we don't, then they'll definitely
00:31:33.680impose something ridiculous, unfortunately. And, you know, we have to, this slides under the radar.
00:31:39.280Agricultural producers are a minority among Canadians. I mean, there's only so many people
00:31:42.700now who do it. There's, you know, a small family can manage a much larger area than it used to be,
00:31:48.560you know, 100 years ago. But it also means it's a limited voice when there's pressures coming on.
00:31:53.140And something interesting, another fellow who's up in northern Saskatchewan that I know,
00:31:58.560and he's an agricultural producer, but he's saying, you know, he's tired.
00:47:42.980She declares an emergency every few hours, it seems,
00:47:45.880in Calgary, $87 billion for a climate plan for Calgary. It's insane. But the first thing she did
00:47:52.740when she got in office, it's a climate emergency. We've now had the COVID-19 emergency. Now in the
00:47:59.920San Francisco and some other areas, we've got the monkeypox emergency. As long as they can say1.00
00:48:04.280emergency and get everybody afraid, they can use that as an excuse to step on our rights further.
00:48:10.400So quit being afraid. Quit listening to these assholes when they say it's an emergency. It's
00:48:14.480not. It's not. There's things to be addressed, but it's not always an emergency. Unless the fire is
00:48:19.680on my doorstep, it's not an emergency. Quit telling me it is, and I don't want to give up my damn
00:48:24.140rights. But we fall for that. We fall for that. I mean, you know, the Americans, they're going to
00:48:32.000be in for their battles over the firearms. I think they got room to improve it, for sure, with their
00:48:36.300legislation and how it applies. But I remember when Biden was talking about firearm deaths being
00:48:40.920a health emergency. I remember him using those terms a couple of years ago. And see, there's
00:48:45.520the keywords. There's health and emergency. In Canada, Trudeau implemented the War Measures Act
00:48:51.200against people because they're protesting against their health emergency. What other ways will they
00:48:57.020infringe on rights if they think it's an emergency? It makes them feel inside that they've got some
00:49:01.500moral authority to step on individual rights. And it also sells it to the public, the people who
00:49:05.820believe the crap out of the government. So as they start attacking our farms, our agricultural
00:49:12.280producers, be afraid, people. Be very afraid. And yeah, I'm going to get on to my guest here
00:49:18.880with Chris Holcourt, and I see him in the lobby, and we'll talk about some other things now,
00:49:23.140and I'm certain I'll be having some more ranting about the news after that. So let's bring Chris
00:49:27.600in and see what's going on out in Saskatchewan there. Hey, how's it going, Chris? It's going
00:49:32.940well how are you corey ah good you know i'm just venting and ranting as i typically do and getting
00:49:38.540it out of my system so poor jane doesn't have to listen to it at home yeah actually i just
00:49:42.700wanted to comment on the whole farming thing you were just talking about uh tomorrow i'm actually
00:49:47.980interviewing the person who's in charge of importing fertilizer into brazil because they
00:49:52.620used to get it all from russia now they can't and so it's actually affecting their farm and they're
00:49:58.940not able to produce as much food as they did before because they have a huge fertilizer
00:50:04.060shortage so something to look forward to after i have that interview but it's he's basically
00:50:10.700what i've done over email with so far with the individual it's basically he's saying
00:50:16.140without the fertilizer our our crops we can't grow enough so now we're going to be in a position
00:50:21.660where we're going to have to import more food because we can't get enough fertilizer because
00:50:25.820of the entire situation and if you look at the reductions like i did the story on last week
00:50:30.220about the fertilizer reductions here in canada uh well it's going to affect the ability of farmers
00:50:36.700to grow the same amount of food on the same piece of land which once again pushes food prices up and
00:50:42.220can cause what you were talking about you know an actual real shortage of food well yeah and it's
00:50:48.220interesting it is going to be interesting seeing what you hear on that and i hadn't heard that part
00:50:51.580part about Brazil, but it doesn't surprise me. And I was talking to my prior guest, who was an
00:50:55.780agricultural producer, Kelly, and he was talking, we were talking about, well, if farmers can't
00:51:00.160produce as much per acre, they often have to move outwards, which could lead into some sensitive
00:51:03.940grasslands and things. It'll have a counter effect. It'll be worse for the environment,
00:51:07.480but Brazil, I mean, South America has gotten a lot better over the years because it used to be
00:51:11.940a real problem. You know, for those of us a little grayer to remember with slash and burn farming,
00:51:15.820you needed more room, you cut into the rainforest or the jungle more and you seeded it and you just
00:51:20.820work that land to death. And then you just kept expanding. And it was terrible for the environment.
00:51:25.420A lot of the reason they've been able to cut back on that is because they've been able to
00:51:28.440revitalize and fertilize and get high yields from the existing land. And they were able to feed
00:51:33.880people and you make them desperate. You know, the cutting more acreage of forest when it's
00:51:38.140dealing with starvation, they're going to cut the forest.
00:51:42.080Yeah. And they still are having to cut the forest to get more farmland. And they're still doing it
00:51:47.040right now because they don't have a choice. They want to feed their people. They need more land.
00:51:50.340instead of maximizing the land they have, just in Canada, I mean, a lot of farmers over the last
00:51:56.760few years have been able to double their output just simply because of using fertilizers to help
00:52:02.440grow their product faster and better. So I don't understand this from Trudeau. I mean, I don't
00:52:07.800understand a lot from him, but I mean, going after food supplies, housing, cars, I mean, every single
00:52:13.660thing that there are kitchen table issues, you want a roof over your head, you want food, and you
00:52:18.400want to be able to drive around to get the food and do stuff with your family and the federal
00:52:22.060government seems to want you to do not none of the three it's amazing yeah and it's the essential
00:52:27.980items that they put the cost or the roof on us with you know such as food housing uh energy uh
00:52:35.080meanwhile the only consumer items that are getting cheaper are the ones we really don't seem to need
00:52:38.880much you know i mean look how cheap it is to get a giant widescreen tv these days or uh i remember
00:52:43.420actually leasing my very first computer for $3,000 in 1994. And nowadays, I can buy a laptop
00:52:51.020for 600 bucks. That's, you know, infinitely more powerful, but it doesn't matter if I can't pay for
00:52:57.300my food and housing. Yeah, my very first computer was an MS-DOS computer, and it was about $3,000.
00:53:04.840Yeah. And that was in like the mid-1980s, $3,000, not like $3,000 today. I can only
00:53:10.720imagine what that would actually cost today if computers didn't get cheaper oh yeah it was a
00:53:16.620quite a luxury so i mean it's just when they're attacking the most important of our consumer goods
00:53:22.580it's just an ugly future we got going on um so maybe we'll talk about uh you you're going to be
00:53:28.260you mentioned that at the meeting this morning a piece coming out soon uh we're talking speaking
00:53:31.860of the biggest and most intrusive possible government programs universal basic income
00:53:36.440Yes. There has been, obviously, CERB was essentially like a universal basic income, almost like a trial, so to speak.
00:53:47.720Obviously, we see the results of that. The government can't afford it. That's why they more than doubled the debt.
00:53:54.060Two thirds of adults in Canada had some sort of income support through the government during COVID.
00:54:01.380Now, some of that was indirectly with employers being given money to help pay for their employees and things like that.
00:54:07.760So it wasn't just the CERB program. And I mentioned that in my story, too, as well.
00:54:11.640But CERB was the main part that was basically like a universal basic income.
00:54:16.980Now, the interesting thing is, after doing some research, I even found an article by David Frum that he wrote back in 2014 on universal basic income.
00:54:26.220And surprisingly, there's people on the left and the right that support a universal basic income.
00:54:34.060So the left wants it to be in addition to existing programs, whereas people on the right,
00:54:40.320they want to eliminate the programs and just use a one system universal basic income,
00:54:46.060which in my opinion of the two options, that would be the one that would make the most sense.
00:54:50.800And then they also I talk about the three different ways that both sides talk about doing the universal basic income.
00:54:57.040One is everybody gets the same amount. So it doesn't matter if you're Jeff Bezos or us.
00:55:02.340We both get the same amount per year. For example, let's say twenty thousand dollars a year is the universal basic income.
00:55:07.720You and I would get that. And so with the wealthiest people, then there's a sort of a middle of the road approach where you get your twenty thousand.
00:55:16.700And then as you earn money above that at your job, there'd be like a 50% clawback on it.
00:55:22.520And then the cheapest version would be 100% clawback.
00:55:25.180So if you made $40,000, you would not be making anything under the 100% clawback thing.
01:02:51.480And so the school, this, this, uh, this Christian school is now called legacy Christian school
01:02:57.040at the time is called Christian Center Academy. And it's connected to a church called Mile to
01:03:02.900Church. I will have more on the story coming out this afternoon. The NDP are actually going,
01:03:08.780actually right now, are at the church in front of it, holding a press conference,
01:03:13.920asking the government to suspend its funding to the church until the investigation is done.
01:03:20.480The Crown, starting in April, had some stuff turned over to them from the Saskatoon police,
01:03:26.000but the the investigation by the police is still ongoing as well so right now there's 18 victims
01:03:32.540but there is most likely probably more and actually now that the story is out there
01:03:37.920who knows how many more people will come forward as well because it took a couple brave individuals
01:03:43.180to come forward first before anybody else would and what goes went on at that school they say it
01:03:51.020go on there now. The administration that was there at the time, the principal, the school director,
01:03:56.380have all moved to different Christian schools, ironically all still in Saskatchewan.
01:04:01.820We don't know where because they don't actually say who the principal or school director was,
01:04:06.060and there were several over that time period. So we don't actually know the individuals who were
01:04:11.260in charge at the time of these different, I'll call them, abuses. And there was all kinds of
01:04:19.340of things like there was solitary confinement they used and you know stuff that like we only
01:04:23.740use on like the worst criminals in jail not not because you spoke out in class and you shouldn't
01:04:28.700have uh so it's it's definitely an interesting story to take a look at and i'm sure that
01:04:35.740there'll be more than just what comes out today about it and i'm sure that there'll be more you
01:04:40.140know charges publicly or other students speaking out about what happened uh to them during that
01:04:44.140time period because it's a it's a significant period of time we're not talking like one school
01:04:48.300here. We're talking, you know, about two decades. And it's tragic on a number of levels. I mean,
01:04:53.740not just the abuse of those students, you know, but also when I would like to see more of a move,
01:04:59.380though, towards independent schools and people having more school choice and being able to set
01:05:03.760up, whether it's faith-based or whether it's secular, you know, or whatever schools they like.
01:05:08.680And when you see examples like this, where an unfortunate fringe, you know, it seems that I
01:05:12.620imagine, you know, somebody says, oh, here comes the Christian bashing. Well, no, this is bashing
01:05:16.480of the fringe of the christians every religion has their fringe and you know most christians
01:05:21.080are not going to paddle people and demand them to pray the gay away uh but but when you see
01:05:26.080examples like this of course it makes it a lot harder as you said the ndp is taking advantage0.54
01:05:29.220of this they always want standardized schooling and heavily government controlled schooling and
01:05:33.680and it really sets things back for everybody on every level it's really uh too bad to see this
01:05:38.320happen yeah and here in saskatchewan um the student money follows you wherever you're going
01:05:44.760So like if you want to put your kids, for example, like here in Regina, if you want to put your kid into the Regina Christian School here in town,
01:05:51.240that's actually very near the legislature, your funding goes to that school.
01:05:56.420Now, the school then can charge tuition over and above the funding amount as well.
01:06:03.360There's actually only one private school that doesn't receive funding in the entire province.
01:06:08.560Most of these other religious based schools receive funding.
01:06:11.920And it's ironic because you mentioned about Christian bashing. CBC has been on a tear of that lately, almost daily, trying to get Christian schools defunded because they didn't have Pride Month, for example.
01:06:28.280But neither did most of the Catholic schools, but they're not calling for the Catholic schools to be defunded.
01:06:32.760They just want the independent Christian schools defunded because they won't celebrate Pride Month when it goes against the belief of the school.
01:06:39.040and what we're seeing now I opened it and I actually wasn't even sure the story was true
01:06:45.940so I did a little checking to make sure because this is like there is a the CBC has been on a
01:06:53.480tear in the last six weeks going after non-government schools and institutions
01:07:00.080in particular it's almost every single day they have a story coming out here in Saskatchewan it's
01:07:04.540like their editor doesn't know that there could be possibly another story out there
01:07:08.260it's unfortunate because they are attacking people that do good work and teach kids what
01:07:17.460they need to know math reading writing you know things that they actually need to use in real
01:07:22.560life as they go on after the public school system and then head into you know college university
01:07:27.720apprenticeship whatever they do after school and there's been a real push to try and eliminate
01:07:34.080these independent schools in the province and it would drastically change the education system
01:07:38.160because there is a lot of independent schools christian and otherwise there's a lot of
01:07:42.080independent schools i mean we have an independent school here in town called uh luther college high
01:07:46.560school uh that you can send your kid to as well but uh it's it's an independent school uh right
01:07:52.080here in town and it's of no religious persuasion it's it just has nicer facilities because you pay
01:07:57.840extra money um and and so there's a real push to try and defund that um talking with the ndp they
01:08:06.000obviously would like to see just one universal system of just catholic and public and eliminate
01:08:11.360all the other schools um but once again parents should have a choice on how they want their kids
01:08:17.120educated particularly if you follow some story done over the last few months uh including one
01:08:23.200in my own daughter's school that um you can go back and read on a transgender person that came
01:08:29.360in and talked to uh 10 to 12 year olds about switching their gender so it yeah as a parent
01:08:37.920you know we should be asked about these things and so my daughter coming home and asking me
01:08:41.600questions about what is transgenderism and why do i have to pick a pronoun um
01:08:48.000yeah and and even when i explain the situation with leah thomas the swimmer she's like well
01:08:52.240that's not fair it's just a man in a female bathing suit and i said well yeah sort of maybe
01:08:57.840we're not sure um but that was her first thing when she heard about the leah thomas thing
01:09:03.840because she asked me about it because she knew that i had done some stuff on that in the past
01:09:08.080on athletes uh in different uh use it was a child the emperor wore no clothes so uh yes
01:09:16.080exactly well and interestingly enough uh actually just speaking on the pronouns for a second demi
01:09:21.840lovato has changed her pronoun nouns back today to she and her from they and them oh which i i she
01:09:29.360was one of the first ones that came out to like change her pronouns a really famous person and
01:09:32.880everybody else followed her well she just came out today and she's like no i feel female now so i go
01:09:37.120by she and her so who knows maybe we're seeing a tide changing here where maybe there is some sanity
01:09:42.800be coming back. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. She's an adult. She's an adult. She can
01:09:48.680do whatever she wants. I don't care. It's only when I think parents should be concerned when
01:09:54.340things are being done to their children without their permission. That's why I take issue. If
01:09:59.040you're an adult and you want to get surgery to change your gender, go ahead. It's only when1.00
01:10:03.940you're going after five-year-olds to change their gender that I start to have an issue with that.1.00
01:10:08.880And I think most parents do. And given how many reach out to me, a lot do.0.99
01:10:13.960And I also have a follow up story coming out as well about a B.C. guy who's wanted for assault with a weapon.
01:10:25.160And basically the Saskatchewan RCMP said they would pick him up and send him back to B.C.
01:10:30.000But B.C. basically doesn't want to pay to send him back. So they're not picking him up.
01:10:33.760So he's living here in Saskatchewan with freedom because the B.C. government will not pay to transfer someone for assault with a weapon back to B.C. to stand trial.
01:10:45.020But, you know, Tamara gets picked up and they have no problem sending her across.
01:10:50.500If you photoshopped a picture of this guy with a bouncy castle in front of the Saskatchewan legislature, they'd probably hustle him back there in an hour.
01:10:58.040No, yeah, no problem. He'd be gone. He'd be on a private plane.
01:19:09.060It logged 26,000 kilometers of travel.
01:19:11.420This is the guy telling us to tighten our belts.
01:19:17.360There was a good Tristan Hopper piece. I don't have that one on hand, but he wrote a great headline on that, too, basically saying that Trudeau's jet use, I think, in that month alone was more than the entire truckers' freedom convoy burned to get to Ottawa for their protest.
01:19:32.500Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?0.63
01:19:34.840That hypocritical bad hair hammerhead,0.61
01:19:37.020who is our prime minister, unfortunately, still to this day.0.96
01:19:43.140He can fly around and burn tens of thousands of liters of fuel
01:21:03.120I mean, I'm not going to go into whether they provide benefit in general or things like that.
01:21:07.000But the main part, the main justification, the main reason to have mandates theoretically was that you're protecting people from each other.
01:21:51.380I hope. I hope. And we do see that now. And we saw that with the judge who basically spanked that justice of the peace there, Goodman. His name was Goodman. With Tamara Leach, you know, and let her out. And so that's enough. Basically implied she's been a political prisoner. I gave her bail and said, you know, let's get on with trial and proper justice. Not every judge is liberal tainted. Not every one of them.
01:22:17.280and the justice who's going to be running that inquiry
01:22:20.060starting this fall, they start on Labor Day,
01:22:22.420I'd like to think maybe he's going to be a principled one