Western Standard - Triggered： WEF hates private autos because they empower individuals

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 good morning it's august 3rd 2022 welcome to triggered i'm cory morgan i see jets already

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00:01:05.820 but since I saw a jet there, I thought I will correct that as soon as I start here and good

00:01:10.740 to see you all checking in Gary dash Lynn, Brenda, Nikki, all sorts of folks and Alan in the West

00:01:17.180 Indies people all over. I love seeing that. Use the comment scroll guys. We're live. That's part

00:01:22.680 of what's fun about it. You know, get those feedback, those ideas, questions, discussion

00:01:26.940 even going on. I've seen some pretty neat discussions

00:01:28.920 going on in the comment scroll. I keep turning my head to

00:01:30.900 the side. Somebody commented on that yesterday because I'm

00:01:32.840 reading it. I won't necessarily

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00:01:38.960 to guests, but I do see them all

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00:01:42.520 good to see it. It's there. Just to try to keep

00:01:44.900 it civil though, you know. We can get worked up.

00:01:46.960 We can get on each other's case a little, but we

00:01:48.880 don't want to be outright fighting if we can avoid it.

00:01:51.000 Take it to Facebook for that or something. Or Twitter.

00:01:53.160 It's one of the fun places to battle.

00:01:55.000 Alright, so yes, that's that reminder.

00:01:56.740 we are the week or daily western standard live broadcast news opinions ranting guests we got it

00:02:03.100 all i'm gonna start things out as usual with the daily observances so not everybody knows about

00:02:07.980 this but uh august 3rd is airplane crop duster day so this is the day you celebrate that that

00:02:14.820 that height of technology actually if you ever see those guys if you're driving in the country

00:02:18.000 and you see them coming down in those planes spraying those crops uh that's it's almost you

00:02:23.080 could spend an hour watching these pilots. I mean, they come so close to the power line, so close to

00:02:27.060 the ground, and still manage to spray those. And of course, the advantage is you're not going to

00:02:31.140 trample down any crop or anything like that when you're taking care of the pests and bugs to help

00:02:35.280 keep us all fed. Of course, we're trying to ban all of the fertilizers and pesticides and lead to

00:02:40.820 other things. I'm going to talk to one of our guests about that a little later, actually, that

00:02:43.460 sort of thing. Another term for crop dusting also, for those in the service industry or other areas,

00:02:48.080 I owned a bar. As we said, customers would often annoy the hell out of me. And as an owner, you can

00:02:52.260 only say so much, but the term for crop dusting would be to walk by a person or group and sort of

00:02:57.680 just let fly and pass wind on your way by and get sort of a passive aggressive revenge on them for

00:03:03.480 their misbehavior as clientele. Or you could do it in the office as well, but I don't like letting

00:03:08.160 those workplace secrets out when they're wondering when it wafted by them. All right, it's also grab

00:03:12.860 some nuts day. This one you can interpret a lot of ways. We're going to stick to just as you can

00:03:17.120 see with some regular nuts. If you like nuts, peanuts, walnuts, as you can see there, pecans,

00:03:23.160 whatever. Today's the grab them. Make sure this is the day you get out and grab your nuts. Grab

00:03:28.720 your nuts with your family. Grab your nuts with your friends. Grab your nuts on the street. This

00:03:32.820 is the day. It's a national grab your nuts day. Grab some nuts, I should say. Sorry, I misread the

00:03:38.220 title, but you wouldn't want to be the only person around who missed out and didn't grab nuts when

00:03:44.220 you had the chance. All right, guests, let's get on to more serious stuff. I got Kelly Malmberg

00:03:48.620 coming on. He's been on before. He's an agricultural producer south of Calgary here in Alberta.

00:03:54.140 I just want to continue those discussions on what's going on. You know, we got a lot of

00:03:58.480 high cost of living. We got a lot of pressure on our farmers. We got a lot of policies that

00:04:03.120 are really pressuring them. I want to talk and expand a bit more on what's going on,

00:04:07.080 especially when we're talking about reducing fertilizers as the federal government's talking

00:04:11.360 about. This caused a lot of problems around the world, and it's not going to help us these days.

00:04:17.020 So, as I think, Christopher Oldcorn, he's been on a number of times. Of course, he's the Western

00:04:20.500 Standard reporter in Saskatchewan, and he writes some columns. We'll talk about some of the stories

00:04:24.360 that Christopher's written recently, and a column he's going to be doing on universal basic income.

00:04:28.920 We'll have some discussion of that before it comes up. Now, with what's got me going today,

00:04:33.160 and I talked a bit about this the other day when I saw that tweet from the World Economic Forum,

00:04:37.560 but I want to expand on it further. I think it's worthy of a whole rant here. And, you know,

00:04:41.900 with the advent of the personal affordable automobile, it was one of the greatest

00:04:44.860 developments for individual freedoms in modern history. It's little wonder that the World Economic

00:04:50.140 Forum and other authoritarians want to bring personal auto use to an end. Going back, Henry

00:04:55.320 Ford might not have been a friend of labor unions, but when he released the Model T, he empowered

00:04:59.220 individuals and workers more in a year than unions had managed to do in decades. Ford gave citizens

00:05:05.200 the gift of unfettered affordable transportation free of any state controls. It can't be understated

00:05:11.680 how important this development was. Families with personal automobiles now had the mobility range

00:05:16.780 to comparison shop for everything from jobs to consumer products to health care. I mean prior

00:05:22.680 to the ability to own individual cars, citizens were dependent upon public transit such as trains

00:05:26.800 or streetcars if they were locally available or horse and buggy. Only the rich could afford the

00:05:31.280 novelty of a personal vehicle. That all changed. People were essentially captives of their local

00:05:35.940 jurisdictions before the Model T came out. Many company towns had just a single employer owned

00:05:40.580 everything from the local grocery store to housing. Once a family owned a car, they had the ability to

00:05:45.000 travel elsewhere. Local business owners and politicians were forced to recognize the reality

00:05:49.440 that people could vote with their feet, or their wheels in this case, and leave if they weren't

00:05:53.740 being treated right. New and creative enterprises came about. The most early form of Amazon

00:05:58.380 on, as the traveling salesman could travel town to town and sell innovative new consumer products.

00:06:04.380 This spawned more competition and helped the cost of goods come down for people in general.

00:06:08.340 Families, of course, could then take road trips and vacations that the prior generation never

00:06:12.320 could have dreamed of. Motels and tourist attractions developed and spread across North

00:06:16.000 America to serve the demand. Most importantly of all, it was totally uncontrolled. People could

00:06:20.940 get in the car and drive wherever they pleased. They were only limited by their own fuel budget

00:06:24.640 and time. Our modern authoritarians recognize that citizens with free mobility are difficult

00:06:30.940 to control and are using climate change, of course, as their reason to crack down on that

00:06:34.400 free movement. The WF has been putting out articles critical of car ownership for years.

00:06:39.280 Adherence to the WF ideology have been helping their agenda along at every level of government.

00:06:44.200 Municipalities are removing parking and using traffic calming measures in order to make driving

00:06:48.140 less convenient. Zoning is being used to discourage new developments that allow parking.

00:06:52.220 and bike lanes are being created on top of busy roadways, whether there's a realistic demand for

00:06:56.720 bike lanes or not. Federal and provincial governments are taxing fuel and large vehicles

00:07:00.760 to drive the cost up. They're also bullying auto manufacturers into giving up on building

00:07:05.820 combustion vehicles and making them retool for electrical vehicles. Subsidies are a part of this

00:07:10.560 as well, since the electric vehicles aren't commercially viable. Despite all the efforts

00:07:14.760 to push people into electric vehicles for over a decade, people haven't embraced them. They remain

00:07:19.100 an expensive novelty item for urban commuters and virtue signalers.

00:07:23.420 The infrastructure for generating enough power for an all-electric national fleet of vehicles

00:07:27.060 doesn't exist, and new power generation projects aren't even being built to service them.

00:07:31.460 We're not going to transition, guys.

00:07:33.200 What is going to happen is we're going to see a shortage of combustion engine vehicles

00:07:36.600 as manufacturing has been disrupted by government intervention.

00:07:40.040 The cost of gas-powered cars is going to go through the roof,

00:07:43.140 while electric vehicles will still remain impractical and expensive.

00:07:46.780 This is when the government will swoop you into the rescue.

00:07:49.780 Nationalizing transportation, essentially.

00:07:51.600 People will be relying on public transit,

00:07:53.120 whether it's through local or long-distance bus rides and trains,

00:07:56.780 and of course, federally regulated air travel.

00:07:59.980 The freedom and individual ability to travel where everyone wants is going to be gone.

00:08:04.060 Think of how this will work in a cashless society.

00:08:06.160 What if the government wants to quell a future protest?

00:08:09.000 It'd be easy to stop all public transit from reaching the protest sites, won't it?

00:08:13.600 Individuals could have travel rights removed for a myriad of reasons,

00:08:16.720 and they might be limited to staying within certain zones.

00:08:19.100 How easy would it be for the state to control the transfer of goods to certain areas?

00:08:23.040 Would they do so?

00:08:24.120 Does this sound impossible?

00:08:25.460 Well, look at what the state did during the pandemic in this last couple of years.

00:08:28.680 We couldn't even sit down for a meal without being forced to wear a mask on the way to the table

00:08:31.860 and providing proof of being medicated.

00:08:33.800 So for them to tell us where we can go at times, yeah, that's not beyond belief at all.

00:08:37.340 Our individual freedoms are being stripped one by one.

00:08:39.980 Speech, expression, protest, press, and the sanctity of the body

00:08:43.060 have all been eroded this last couple of years.

00:08:46.320 Our right to unfettered mobility is being threatened too.

00:08:48.440 The personal automobile is more than just a convenience.

00:08:51.160 It's an integral part of our democratic society and our rights as individuals.

00:08:54.960 As with so many initiatives by the state,

00:08:56.900 the motivation isn't to protect the climate or public health.

00:08:59.060 It's all about control.

00:09:00.600 We need to stand up for the personal auto now while we still can

00:09:03.320 because it's a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

00:09:06.380 Well, that's what's got me going today, guys.

00:09:09.780 So keep an eye on that.

00:09:11.460 They want your cars, and they're coming for them.

00:09:13.960 All right, let's bring in Dave Naylor, our news editor.

00:09:17.560 See what else is going on out there.

00:09:18.840 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:09:20.020 It's going well, Corey.

00:09:21.580 Even though I must say I was disappointed to hear that your queen bee is buzzed off.

00:09:27.320 Yes, yes, my bloody hive swarmed last week.

00:09:30.080 I did the beekeeper error of not watching closely enough

00:09:34.200 and realizing they were getting ready to up and go,

00:09:36.220 and my queen picked up with half of her bees or half of my bees

00:09:40.200 and left to find greener pastures elsewhere.

00:09:43.760 So now I'm sitting with half a hive hoping they'll regenerate.

00:09:48.000 Can you put a lost and found out on Kijiji? 0.99

00:09:51.840 Looking for a swarm of bees?

00:09:53.840 Well, yeah, I was thinking of putting a thing out on Prittis, actually,

00:09:56.620 with the buy and sell.

00:09:57.540 They got a thing there.

00:09:58.220 I just never got around to it.

00:09:59.180 I was saying, you know, if you see a swarm, let me know

00:10:01.140 because you can capture them and re-hive them.

00:10:03.300 But it was probably too late by the time I even realized they were gone.

00:10:06.220 okay now there's more queen eggs in there is that what i understand that hopefully one of them will

00:10:11.120 grow and stick around there's queen cells and it's quite fascinating so they'll hatch and then one

00:10:16.560 they'll all fight each other one queen will survive she'll go out to uh try and find herself

00:10:21.740 a lover for an afternoon and get uh impregnated and if she survives and gets back to the hive 0.67

00:10:27.660 then in a couple of weeks she'll start laying eggs and we'll kind of be moving back to normal 0.97

00:10:31.020 with half the normal bees if she doesn't survive well i might have to buy new bees next year 1.00

00:10:35.440 Oh, those damn bees. Well, that's a shame. Hopefully they come back or you find them or 1.00

00:10:43.000 one of those queen bees hatch because it looks like they were producing some pretty good stuff

00:10:47.380 there. We'll see. Yeah. Yeah. You see Jane there. Actually, I see a video you got off Facebook.

00:10:52.080 That's good. And one of my frames broke. I couldn't get back into the hive, right? And it

00:10:55.960 was full of honey. So we thought, what the heck with the cap stuff, Jane screened it all through

00:11:00.180 some cheesecloth. And we got a great big jar of honey out of those guys. So if nothing else

00:11:04.080 happens and I lose my bees we'll have at least gotten one good jar of fresh local honey. Yes the

00:11:08.880 most expensive jar going I imagine. Yeah we'll need a few more to make up the costs I think.

00:11:15.040 Yeah well on the website today Corey a few stories of interest. A couple of drivers in Ottawa appear

00:11:22.760 to have lost their minds. One of them crashed into the Parliament Hill gates causing all sorts

00:11:29.880 of a security ruckus. And there was an amphibious bus sort of doing its morning practice that

00:11:36.960 swerved and hit the Prime Minister's residence gate at 24 Sussex. So I guess it was attracted

00:11:43.260 being an amphibious bus, Corey. It must have been attracted to all the leaks coming out of there

00:11:48.500 for CBC coverage. Other stuff we've got, the CTF says things are looking a little bit more

00:11:56.780 Rosie on the economic future

00:11:59.400 that the Liberals could balance the budget

00:12:01.360 by 2041.

00:12:03.640 The last estimate we got

00:12:05.480 from the Parliamentary Budget Office

00:12:07.100 was 2070.

00:12:10.020 So they've knocked

00:12:10.740 about 30 years off the thing

00:12:12.920 and hopefully they can continue

00:12:14.620 to knock it more.

00:12:17.340 As you know, Corey,

00:12:18.600 the federal government has called an inquiry

00:12:21.240 into the Emergencies Act

00:12:22.600 and that's only going to cost $19 million

00:12:24.840 to try and get to the bottom of that, but it'll be money well spent. Florida Governor DeSantis,

00:12:31.920 who appears to be one of the Republican front runners for the presidential race two years time,

00:12:39.640 is slamming doctors who get involved in gender transition and operations for kids. So that's

00:12:47.120 an interesting story. Our friends at CBC, they're celebrating because they got $12 million in raises

00:12:54.700 last year. And that's on top of $15 million in bonuses. So it's certainly nice work if you can

00:13:02.360 get it down at CBC. I don't think you and I need apply. And our frightening story out of Rocky

00:13:08.420 Mountain House. Over the weekend, the long weekend, there was a cougar attack on a little boy.

00:13:15.280 Our Arthur Green is talking to the boy's mother at the moment. The little kid suffered terrible

00:13:22.620 terrible scarring over 200 staples uh were needed to uh to sew up his wounds and it looks like the

00:13:29.900 fish and game people have have euthanized the offending cougar so that story will be uh coming

00:13:35.260 up uh shortly cory great yeah it's it's scary stuff with those those cougars you know they

00:13:40.300 they typically keep to themselves but boy when they decide to to go for for people it can have

00:13:45.020 some awful outcomes good thing that kid got away at least they are i mean you know what you usually

00:13:49.820 you don't even notice them until they're on the, on your back with their teeth plunging into your

00:13:53.880 neck. So, uh, the kid had a lucky escape and, uh, we'll have scars for life to, to prove it.

00:14:00.220 Yeah. Well, it'll be a good conversation. Be a piece when he's picking up the gals and another

00:14:04.560 15 years or so in the bar, I guess. There you go. All right. Thanks, Dave. We will, uh,

00:14:10.900 check in again, or I'll talk to you after the show. Thanks for it. Yeah. That is our news

00:14:16.040 editor Dave Naylor. Lots on the go. Lots breaking as we're seeing. Yeah, Arthur's talking directly

00:14:20.600 to the mother of that poor kid out there. And we have reporters across the country constantly

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00:15:32.880 before i get to my guest in that too i see you know some of the direction there a discussion

00:15:36.220 from the earlier rant I had,

00:15:38.780 somebody saying, Jordan Kron saying,

00:15:41.060 so a 500 beater could become a $5,000 beater?

00:15:43.520 I think it possibly can.

00:15:45.100 Like if you look at the news and what's going on

00:15:46.860 and these motor companies and they're saying,

00:15:49.380 oh, we're gonna retool the plant.

00:15:51.460 Well, part of the reason is

00:15:52.300 because the government's punishing them for not to.

00:15:54.800 And the other part is the government's

00:15:55.880 tossing them billions of tax dollars

00:15:57.420 to retool and move on to electric vehicle production.

00:16:01.260 The problem is, well, two things.

00:16:03.840 I mean, for one, it'd be like the oil companies

00:16:05.400 who have allowed the government to push them around

00:16:07.360 and didn't stand up for themselves.

00:16:08.640 It's never enough.

00:16:09.560 You're dealing with ideological environmental fanatics.

00:16:12.000 So quit pandering to them.

00:16:13.120 Quit bending over for them.

00:16:14.240 It's not going to work.

00:16:15.880 The other thing is with these plants, though,

00:16:17.900 is it's not viable.

00:16:21.100 It's not viable.

00:16:21.900 Even if everybody suddenly started buying them,

00:16:23.960 it's, as I said, we don't have the infrastructure.

00:16:26.140 Where's the new hydroelectric dams?

00:16:27.660 Where's the new nuclear plants?

00:16:28.940 Where's the new even natural gas or coal burning facilities

00:16:33.340 for these electric vehicles?

00:16:35.400 Where are the charging stations?

00:16:37.380 We don't have any of it.

00:16:38.520 We can't sustain it.

00:16:39.560 Even if we switch to electric, we are incapable of managing it.

00:16:42.920 But I think a lot of the government know that.

00:16:44.540 They do know that.

00:16:45.680 They don't care.

00:16:46.360 So that's what will happen is you've got these unrealistic, expensive electric vehicles.

00:16:51.320 Plus, because of the lack of production, combustion engine vehicles are going to be hard to come by.

00:16:58.120 And as supply and demand dictates, suddenly that $500 beater could become a $5,000 beater

00:17:03.060 because nobody else is going to be able to get anything else.

00:17:06.200 And hey, they want you out of your cars.

00:17:08.380 But think about that.

00:17:09.100 If you can only get around by bus and by plane and by train,

00:17:12.260 they own you.

00:17:13.300 They own you.

00:17:14.340 You can't go where you please anymore.

00:17:16.280 You can't make a trip just any spot you want to.

00:17:19.360 That's a wet dream for an authoritarian.

00:17:22.100 So yeah, it's not to be taken lightly.

00:17:26.380 Either way, we can talk more about that a little later.

00:17:28.640 I'll finish up just with that talk on cougars.

00:17:30.320 You know, I live in Prittis.

00:17:31.700 I have a house that backs into the bush. Now and then I post those up on my Facebook and Twitter

00:17:36.840 account. We've got a game camera back there. And that shows how scary cougars are. Because I get

00:17:41.180 the cougars behind my house actually semi-regularly. They walk by on that game trail behind my place,

00:17:45.660 only like 150 feet from my kitchen door in the back. But I've worked 20 years as a surveyor in

00:17:51.240 the field everywhere from the Arctic down to Texas. I grew up in Banff. That's my hometown.

00:17:56.580 I worked in the bush countless hours, live in Prittis, cougars in my backyard all the time.

00:18:02.540 My whole life, I've never seen a live cougar. I've seen tracks. I've seen dead ones. I've seen

00:18:09.100 them on my game camera, but I've never seen one. We can know that a lot of them have seen me.

00:18:14.980 There's no doubt about that. And that's what's really scary about them as predators. And if you

00:18:20.280 look at the statistics for them, they very, very rarely attack people. Their cats, they attack when

00:18:25.960 they're sure they can win. That's why children are extra vulnerable. They instinctively go for

00:18:30.140 the little ones. And so fortunate that poor young kid survived at least, even though he is pretty

00:18:36.300 ripped up. And if you look statistically, women get attacked far more than men by cougars. Again,

00:18:41.380 typically because they're smaller. So they're very rare when they attack, but we do have them

00:18:47.100 in Alberta. Never forget about the possibility. Oh, there's Nico's fast. He found a picture of

00:18:51.820 of them there that's from uh yeah just a few months back behind my house there that's standing

00:18:55.980 there looking down at my house in the night uh that was a a cougar uh in my backyard basically

00:19:02.780 they're back there but i never see them oh yeah and there's pictures of the bears and the bobcats

00:19:06.860 that we get back there too i get a lot of uh critters in my yard but you never actually see

00:19:11.740 them until they want you to see them so if you're out though it is a good warning for people you

00:19:15.820 know it's very rare but if you got young kids if uh you know you're a small woman or whatever

00:19:21.420 move in numbers. Don't turn your back if you're in the mountains or areas known for cougars,

00:19:25.640 because, you know, what a horrifying thought that one could snatch your child up and take

00:19:29.560 off with them like that. It's, you know, rare, but it's certainly something you never, ever want to

00:19:35.060 encounter in that bad way. All right, let's get on to our first guest for the day is Kelly

00:19:41.160 Malmberg. He's been on before, and I appreciate that because, hey, you know, all the crazy

00:19:46.020 experience I've had in the working world and travels and everything, I have never been a

00:19:49.840 farmer. In fact, I'm a terribly inept gardener. And as we saw, even my beekeeping has had its

00:19:54.960 challenges. So when we talk about important things like food production, we got to talk

00:19:58.700 to the specialists. And we got some real threats coming along to our food security these days. So

00:20:03.420 hey, Kelly, thanks for coming in to talk to us today. Hey, Corey. So yeah, I mean, I know you

00:20:09.760 watch things, of course, for a very good reason, very closely in the agricultural sector. And a

00:20:13.980 lot of things that have been making the news lately are proposed at least reductions in certain

00:20:20.560 types of fertilizers and things that agricultural producers can use. And it's really got a lot of

00:20:25.660 people very concerned. Maybe if you could just kind of explain how a 30% reduction would impact

00:20:30.720 farm production right now. Well, yeah, that's quite a crazy proposal. 30% reduction in fertilizer,

00:20:39.820 You know, it's hard to put a number on that because it depends on what you grow.

00:20:44.420 But, 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.

00:20:53.420 We have a lot of crops that we do grow that fix their own nitrogen, like all their pulse crops, lentils, pea crops.

00:21:01.060 But I would say you're going to see a reduction for sure, Corey.

00:21:05.080 Yeah. And with that, that high cost of living, I mean, in general, we're looking, you know,

00:21:08.720 especially for things that are essential for us. I mean, if crops come down, prices are going to go

00:21:13.240 up and these are our food items. So, I mean, it's going to damage every consumer, not just the

00:21:18.660 producers. Yeah. You know, I guess that's one silver lining is, you know, our grain prices

00:21:24.920 are probably going to go up. They're up pretty high right now. But as always, you know, with

00:21:30.540 Canada with this carbon tax, you know, we're just keep getting beaten down. And you look at our

00:21:34.820 neighbors to the south, to business as usual in the States, they're not doing a 30% reduction

00:21:39.760 on their fertilizer. So we're at the disadvantage again on the Americans. Well, and the carbon tax

00:21:45.360 is impacting agricultural producers as well. And that's something that frustrates as well. Of course,

00:21:51.560 I was watching that the other day when the carbon tax rebates were coming to people and a lot of

00:21:55.580 liberal supporters, see, look, it all comes back to you. It all comes back. It doesn't cost anybody

00:21:59.480 anything uh you know they don't realize that this impacts production and consumer products and they

00:22:05.240 are going to pay a higher price for things because of that tax even if it's not direct yeah for sure

00:22:10.440 like um well fertilizers up uh heating like anything heating uh our shops um fuel um you

00:22:17.800 know if we have to dry grain this year which it could happen we have uh you know since i talked

00:22:23.080 to you last we've had some pretty good rains these crops look really good and so we're looking at a

00:22:27.640 late harvest and uh you know there's gonna be a lot of natural gas used to try to get these

00:22:31.800 try to get these crops dried down so that they can be stored properly so yeah operating costs

00:22:37.400 are way up for sure because of the carbon tax yeah and those those grain dryers i mean they're

00:22:42.440 almost well they look almost like a giant version of a clothing dryer if i recall and they're

00:22:45.800 circular but they burn a heck of a lot of natural gas so uh the carbon taxes is going to have a very

00:22:50.440 direct impact on the cost of using those sorts of tools yeah you bet um you know we've been lucky

00:22:56.600 you the last few years we've had some pretty good harvests and uh kind of an open harvest we were

00:23:01.520 done before things got too ugly but uh you know I've got some crops that are at least a month

00:23:06.860 away for my canola is just coming out of flower and so things are looking looks like might be a

00:23:13.260 long harvest this year and we're going to be running those uh grain dryers for sure well

00:23:17.380 hopefully not but it's looking that way yeah so I mean and as you pointed out there's other ways

00:23:22.740 with nitrogen replacement, different type of crops you can rotate, things such as that. And I mean,

00:23:27.100 you know, it reminds me of the energy sector too. Like people don't get credit for the activities

00:23:31.460 they've already been doing to reduce emissions. Even if some of the reasons, you know, you wanted

00:23:35.840 to reduce the nitrogen, well, it's expensive. So if you can run field peas for a year and help

00:23:40.660 replenish the soil, you'll do that. I mean, you've already been reducing some of the uses for these

00:23:45.240 things just in a cost-effective manner, but you don't get any credit for that.

00:23:48.080 no that's right you know we like our farmers we're not farming like the 80s anymore we don't

00:23:53.760 work our land up we're you know it's no till farming we're doing precision farming so uh

00:23:59.420 in variable rate technology so when these you know these are high-tech outfits and our farmers

00:24:03.840 you know these guys are you know got degrees call you know and um you know they've got a lot of

00:24:09.160 schooling behind them and they're putting this fertilizer where it needs to be soil tests are

00:24:14.360 done every spring now you know we're not just dumping fertilizer out there to and hoping that

00:24:18.920 we're going to grow a bigger crop we can't afford it fertilizer this spring was about uh double what

00:24:24.500 it was before so we can go to stuff like variable rate technology we can reduce the amount of

00:24:30.300 fertilizer we're putting where it's not needed like if you look at the netherlands right now

00:24:34.460 you know we're trying to be like the netherlands they farm in a bathtub they're below sea level

00:24:39.980 and they're about 16 times smaller than the province of Alberta.

00:24:43.920 So it's a pretty intensive agricultural area.

00:24:47.320 And, you know, we're being compared to that.

00:24:49.920 And, you know, we're a mile above sea level in Alberta.

00:24:53.800 And especially in areas like Vulcan County and in southern Alberta,

00:24:58.660 you know, that leaching of these nutrients into our watersheds is very low.

00:25:04.500 We, you know, we've got some good farmers out there.

00:25:06.320 So 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.

00:25:15.140 You know, we are evolving, we're trying new technology, but we have 8 billion people to feed, and people want big crops.

00:25:23.540 And 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.

00:25:30.280 And until we can do something different, this is just a really bad timing on this proposal.

00:25:36.320 Well, 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.

00:26:05.220 okay you want to get all the the gas vehicles off the road fair enough but you got to give us

00:26:09.660 something else to get into and it's not there yet and just banning certain types of fertilizer use

00:26:14.600 if you don't have an alternative it could be catastrophic i mean they got to come up with

00:26:18.080 the alternate first yeah you know it was a good i was listening to um there's that egg radio it's

00:26:23.900 on cirrus xm um channel 147 and uh the egg phd guy he's always on about one o'clock in the afternoons

00:26:31.260 and somebody asked him what he thought of Canada he's an American buddy somebody asked him a

00:26:35.800 question what's his thoughts on this reduction and he made a good point he said that uh you know

00:26:41.760 farming I don't think people realize that farming and forestry we're a huge carbon we we sequestered

00:26:48.560 a lot of carbon so a lot of carbon is taken in by the plant so if you reduce the amount of

00:26:54.060 fertilizer you're growing less plant you're actually taking you have less plant to take in

00:26:59.060 that excessive carbon, which, you know, was a really good point. So, you know, we grow more

00:27:03.640 crop, we're taking more carbon in as well. And I don't think people realize that farmers are one

00:27:09.260 of the biggest, the industry really takes in a lot of that excessive carbon. And by cutting back,

00:27:14.760 we're going to have less crop to take that in. I don't know if that's, you know, it was just an

00:27:18.080 interesting point I heard yesterday. So yeah, it is. And I mean, everything's kind of integrated.

00:27:22.460 The other thing is too, if more pressure is put on, I mean, we've got land that hasn't been

00:27:28.160 developed agriculturally and not just in Canada but other parts of the world and if a living can't

00:27:32.980 be made or if the prices are getting too high for those commodities because of some of these

00:27:36.100 limitations the incentive is there now to expand and cultivate more land then to try and keep up

00:27:41.620 and we've got you know natural areas that could be threatened through this too like this can have

00:27:46.040 the opposite effect and actually make things worse for the environment but they just don't

00:27:50.080 seem to understand that. Well that's a good point Corey you know we've got a lot of grassland

00:27:54.640 you know out east in the eastern part of the vulcan county a lot of native grass that was

00:28:00.080 broke back in the 30s um you know a lot of homesteaders came up and we've got places that

00:28:05.420 should never be broken again but um it's like the the organic farming argument you know if

00:28:11.220 get rid of fertilizer herbicides fertilizers um insecticides we we could never at this time unless

00:28:18.560 we develop our technology better we couldn't feed the world if we didn't have these products and we

00:28:23.540 would be ripping up more land than we should all of Eastern Alberta along the Saskatchewan border

00:28:29.120 would you know we'd have to break more land up and it'd be catastrophic you know those guys tried

00:28:33.300 it they lasted about 10 years and uh it went back to grass in a hurry because just not sustainable

00:28:39.440 yeah there's a lot of sensitive uh wildlife populations out there sage grouse burrowing

00:28:44.580 owls uh antelope I mean they only have so much land left really that's unbroken that they rely

00:28:50.200 on out there and and uh i mean if the government bans us from i guess producing on that land well

00:28:54.920 it'll save those critters but then we still end up with a food shortage it just seems to be such

00:28:58.600 an inane policy they're pushing towards right now yeah um you know we're really gonna have i you

00:29:04.200 know fingers crossed i hope the hail cloud stays away but excuse me but uh you know we're gonna

00:29:09.960 make up for last year you know i'm looking at my wheat uh this morning i got a really nice crop

00:29:14.600 coming and those rains um there's a lot of areas that were pretty dry and this really helps so you

00:29:20.520 know we're going to pick up the slack for the world on um on this grain shortage so what a time

00:29:27.080 ace you imagine if we had to cut 30 fertilizer um you know you're gonna see some big crop export

00:29:32.680 this year out of canada thanks to how we farm and um thanks to the weather but uh yeah i think

00:29:39.720 Canada is really going to help out the world this year, especially with what's going on in the

00:29:43.080 Ukraine. So yeah, things look good. I just hope these initiatives like this are really going to

00:29:49.720 work against the farmer and the consumer. Yeah. Well, and right now, I mean, it's still

00:29:54.280 proposed, but I mean, they're pretty solid about what they want to do, but they haven't said how

00:29:58.520 or legislated anything formally yet. So is there any movement on the part of agricultural producers

00:30:04.280 to organize push back lobby against this idea or well they've you know i guess there's still

00:30:10.520 a discussion period and like you mentioned mentioned you know we're we're obviously

00:30:15.160 looking at worst case scenario and you know a lot could change um a lot of the municipalities

00:30:21.480 have started writing letters um at the agricultural service boards to uh the minister of agriculture

00:30:27.320 in ottawa but you know i've been i've been an egg fieldman here for vulcan county for

00:30:32.760 25 years letters don't seem to go very far anymore they just kind of get shuffled in the filing

00:30:38.920 cabinet um you know i think when the date gets closer we know what's going to happen i think

00:30:44.600 you'll see guys wake up a little bit um i think it's in its infancy right now so we're just kind

00:30:49.960 of waiting to see what comes out i don't know how they if they do go forward with this and do have a

00:30:56.280 a concrete number to cut you know egg canada has a skeleton of a staff since the harper days you

00:31:03.140 know they've cut albert egg canada staff by a lot i don't know if they're gonna have a fertilizer

00:31:07.300 police going out if they're gonna audit our annual purchase of a fertilizer but um yeah i think right

00:31:14.540 now i wouldn't get too worked up i think um i think what's going on in the netherlands has maybe

00:31:19.480 woke the world up a little bit um so you know but we're you know people are watching and i guess

00:31:26.140 we'll just see what unfolds in the next couple of years, Corey. Yeah, and I mean, we want to keep

00:31:30.640 it in the scroll, at least, and discuss it. Or, of course, if we don't, then they'll definitely

00:31:33.680 impose something ridiculous, unfortunately. And, you know, we have to, this slides under the radar.

00:31:39.280 Agricultural producers are a minority among Canadians. I mean, there's only so many people

00:31:42.700 now who do it. There's, you know, a small family can manage a much larger area than it used to be,

00:31:48.560 you know, 100 years ago. But it also means it's a limited voice when there's pressures coming on.

00:31:53.140 And something interesting, another fellow who's up in northern Saskatchewan that I know,

00:31:58.560 and he's an agricultural producer, but he's saying, you know, he's tired.

00:32:01.220 He's kind of had enough.

00:32:02.580 He was thinking of some more expansion in capital investment next year,

00:32:05.280 but now he's thinking, maybe I'm just going to pull up and just retire and sell off and get out.

00:32:10.220 And these pressures have an impact even when it's a threatened policy change,

00:32:15.200 you know, before it even comes in.

00:32:17.080 I mean, there just needs to be a little more respect shown to the people feeding us right now.

00:32:21.240 yeah well a good example cory um i i farmed between blackie harrington country and uh

00:32:27.720 what a hundred year generation farm just sold a thousand acres and it got into a bidding war you

00:32:33.320 know we're in pretty good farmland country and it went for average just under seven thousand bucks

00:32:38.680 an acre for a dry land crop and it went to the hutterites so that's where it's going big farms

00:32:45.960 and uh the colonies you just kind of you know and i don't blame these guys same thing as your friend

00:32:51.880 there um that's a lot of money for you know a thousand acres seven million bucks i'm sure

00:32:56.760 trudeau and his capital gains will take half of it but uh you know guys are getting bigger the

00:33:03.000 smaller guys are getting out you know between me and my brother we have a thousand acres and

00:33:07.640 you know by the time i'm done and he's done it'll it'll will probably be done as well so

00:33:12.280 So that's just the way things are going.

00:33:15.420 Well, it's unfortunate, but we'll keep pushing.

00:33:17.680 I mean, you know, it's just so important to all of us.

00:33:20.180 I mean, not just in the sad aspect of a multi-generational kind of, you know, industry and lifestyle kind of falling by the wayside.

00:33:26.920 Some of that's just changing times as well.

00:33:28.820 But all the same, some of it is just bad government policy.

00:33:32.840 That's just not a good enough excuse to make such changes like that.

00:33:35.800 So, well, hey, it's never hopeless.

00:33:38.380 we gotta just keep pushing and defending and uh maybe we'll get a good outcome eventually

00:33:43.260 well you know and that's the big thing is i get like you see me on twitter i get so mad

00:33:49.340 but you know 90 percent like you i guess you said earlier 80 of canada is two generations

00:33:55.500 off the farm nobody and there's people that are savvy and follow what's going on in the world but

00:34:01.660 nobody knows how farms hardly work anymore you know but they're quick to judge i got into it

00:34:07.340 last week and some of the some of i just i don't know why you know you've seen me on there i just

00:34:12.460 i need to get off twitter but uh man people know nothing about some of these people know nothing

00:34:17.340 about agriculture and they're a couple generations off the farm but they are very good armchair

00:34:22.780 quarterback farmers and uh it's tough they need to get out on the farm and come see how things work

00:34:28.460 see what's uh what we're doing most farmers are would love to show the urban world especially the

00:34:35.340 the left urban world, um, how things, how things are done. Grassroots, we're losing grassroots in

00:34:41.460 this country, in the world, but especially Canada right now. Yeah. Well, and unfortunately a lot of

00:34:47.040 those people and those, uh, you know, willfully ignorant ones will suddenly realize that when 0.67

00:34:51.800 their grocery bills go through the roof, but by then the damage is already done and it'd be better 0.89

00:34:56.240 to prevent it. I mean, Hey, Twitter, it's an entertainment area. You know, you just got to

00:35:01.040 learn how to stir them up and then back off. And as per my coffee cup, enjoy the liberal tears. If

00:35:06.820 you can stir them up on there, use it as a vent. But I know it can be hard on us to get on there

00:35:12.320 and get too wound up sometimes. Well, you're a lot smarter at it than me. I go a little too far

00:35:17.680 and then I get up at two in the morning and delete everything I put on there. Well, I have my moments

00:35:24.940 as well. All right. Well, thanks for coming on to talk to me today, Kelly. It's always good to have

00:35:29.160 you on and it's good to hear you know that there's a good season at least building up and let's hope

00:35:32.920 the weather maintains and you know as you said it's good for the whole world right now we're in

00:35:36.860 some pretty crazy times and getting a lot of food out there into the world market's going to be good

00:35:40.940 for a lot of people yeah you bet no i like i i just can't believe how things how much better

00:35:46.700 things got here this summer there was no wind as you probably noticed just a nice summer caught some

00:35:51.940 nice rains and uh it's going to be some pretty big cereal crops wheat crops are going to be big

00:35:56.560 barley is going to be big um lots decent hay i don't think it was bumper crop hay but uh we are

00:36:03.900 really going to pick up our world grain ending stocks out of canada anyways things look pretty

00:36:08.120 good if we have a good harvest right on well we'll uh check in with you again down the road and

00:36:13.280 hopefully at that point you're talking about how great the harvest was okay sounds good cory take

00:36:17.440 care thanks kelly yes that was kelly malenberg he's a producer down in kind of south central

00:36:22.940 Alberta out by Blackie area. And, you know, we just need to have these discussions. And I mean,

00:36:28.040 some people can't be faulted in a sense. Hey, if you were born and raised urban, you never worked

00:36:32.200 out of town, you just don't necessarily know what's going on out there. Fair enough. But there's

00:36:37.320 some pressures going on and, you know, things that, hey, when weather does things, I know some

00:36:42.620 people think, I guess, climate change legislation can change weather, who knows, but, you know,

00:36:46.740 that can be accepted. But when it's bad government policy, putting those pressures on such as carbon

00:36:50.720 tax, such as meddling with fertilizers, we all pay that price. It's just the agriculture producers

00:36:57.080 pay it first. So this is kind of, I see as the canary in the coal mine guys, they're concerned,

00:37:03.000 they're pointing out there's differences. As Kelly was saying, people are trying to compare

00:37:06.760 practices in the Netherlands with practices in Alberta. It's totally different climate,

00:37:11.660 totally different elevation. You can't, it's not as simple as that, especially when we're talking

00:37:16.740 nowadays with high intensity production. As he said, you know, the larger outfits are who we're

00:37:22.500 purchasing now too. And Hutterites Paradox, he asked about that, you know, do the Hutterites

00:37:27.260 Mennonites use the same fertilizers? And if so, can their advocates bring their voices into the

00:37:31.740 convo? Well, a couple of things. Hutterites tend to be pretty stay out of the media and things.

00:37:36.360 They try to keep a low profile, though I've seen some colonies speak up. The reality is that small

00:37:41.800 farms, you know, just can't be profitable these days. You do have to have a large operation in

00:37:45.680 order to be viable and feasible and hutterites are very effective of that you know they of course

00:37:52.200 work as a collective you got a lot of labor they could buy a lot of land I tell you you always know

00:37:56.380 hutterite land when you're working on like as a surveyor you almost know well I knew from the

00:38:00.900 permits but they don't waste an inch I tell you I mean they will drain every slough they will run

00:38:06.620 that crop right up to the edge of the roadside as close as legally possible they they are very

00:38:12.320 efficient producers. And the other thing is utilizing the same fertilizers. They use chemical

00:38:17.600 fertilizers and things like everybody else. They do also, they're very efficient. I know I'm working

00:38:22.660 one time in a field, I think it was up by Forestburg. And they collect, of course, everything

00:38:27.280 from the pig barns and everything from their own waste and you name it in a cesspool. And they 0.87

00:38:32.300 compost it and treat it however they have to so that it can be sprayed on a field. And oh, wow,

00:38:38.460 is it ever gnarly oh you smell that from miles away when they're spraying around when you when

00:38:43.160 you're surveying it it's nasty but it's effective it's good it's it's proper use of the land

00:38:48.000 actually and then they can't be knocked for it but man it's it's it's a pretty brutal funk when

00:38:52.600 they do that all the same that's not you know that's a supplement to chemical fertilizers

00:38:57.360 it's not realistically out there uh for for large you know producers and farmers in general i mean

00:39:03.400 you can do things to reduce but you still if we want the kind of numbers we have if we want to

00:39:07.140 keep people fed, you know, the 8 billion people in the world. We've got to use moderate fertilizers,

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00:41:24.720 Here's something that's of concern. The NDP quarterly numbers provincially raised more than

00:41:31.600 1.4 million from 3,200 unique contributions in the second quarter in Alberta. Now, you know,

00:41:39.060 the UCP leadership race is going on. We're concerned about a lot of things. One of the

00:41:44.420 biggest fears, you can't underestimate the NDP. These guys are strong. They're well organized.

00:41:49.900 they've got a lot of money. I've been very, you know, favorable of Daniel Smith's campaign in

00:41:55.580 the sense that I like where she came in the debate. I like how she's shaking the establishment.

00:42:00.740 But some of the case for people opposing her is a bit valid in that can she beat the NDP though?

00:42:05.540 I mean, if she can win the UCP, that's fine. But the second half of the battle

00:42:08.820 is beating Notley's NDP. I don't know. I like to think she can, but we've got to be really

00:42:15.120 careful with a lot of things. And we can't write off the NDP. You know, people call it the, I've

00:42:20.660 called it that, you know, the accidental government. I think to a degree it was, it was a fluke of a

00:42:25.040 number of circumstances, but a lot of people did vote for them. A lot of people did enjoy them.

00:42:30.120 And a lot of people will vote for them again, because there's a lot of stupid people out there. 1.00

00:42:34.440 That's just the reality. So do not just discount the NDP. They raised one and a half million almost 1.00

00:42:41.980 in a quarter in Alberta,

00:42:43.800 they are going to be fighting

00:42:44.920 next year's election hard.

00:42:46.780 And I mean, they got that union money

00:42:48.060 pouring in there.

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00:42:49.860 from unions anymore.

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00:42:51.280 They have, when you've got

00:42:52.300 that network of people

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00:42:55.700 sucking your tax dollars

00:42:56.900 out into public service unions,

00:42:58.120 they give it back.

00:42:58.820 It gets filtered through

00:42:59.540 and they get their money.

00:43:01.340 Cheryl Dawn saying,

00:43:02.160 everybody should be buying

00:43:02.720 their fuel from UFA in Alberta,

00:43:04.340 15 cents cheaper

00:43:05.140 and it's free to get a card.

00:43:07.800 Yeah, UFA.

00:43:08.700 So I didn't realize it's still lower.

00:43:10.980 So yeah, there's some in the city

00:43:11.960 And, of course, they're in a lot of rural areas.

00:43:14.620 And that's the United Farmers Association.

00:43:16.840 Just a little trivia tidbit for a bunch of people.

00:43:18.820 That is the exact same UFA that was actually the party forming the government of Alberta for some years, about 100 years ago.

00:43:25.420 They were replaced by the Social Credit Party.

00:43:28.900 And it's got to be the only place in the world where a governing political party, once getting knocked out of office,

00:43:33.900 actually decided to create a farmer's co-op

00:43:37.680 and a commercial business

00:43:39.940 because UFA supply stores and everything too

00:43:42.280 for agricultural supply and that are all over

00:43:45.320 and gas stations.

00:43:46.520 It's just kind of a strange development

00:43:48.460 from a political party.

00:43:49.460 You know, you won't see the Liberal Party of Canada

00:43:51.440 gas stations and grocery stores or something

00:43:53.480 if they get kicked out of office down the road.

00:43:55.280 But the UFA is actually,

00:43:56.840 it's not a coincidental name.

00:43:58.500 That's the same company.

00:43:59.820 And I guess you can get much cheaper fuel

00:44:01.980 from them right now. 1.00

00:44:03.900 Um, Sylvia saying $986, 37 cents per hour to run a tractor and air seeder just for fuel.

00:44:12.480 So, uh, and again, for people, those air seeders, I mean, it's amazing how advanced that stuff goes.

00:44:18.280 I'm not an expert.

00:44:18.920 I just seen them at work, you know, and that seeders behind the tractor and you see all of those hoses.

00:44:22.400 And again, this is very high tech, well regulated seeding of a field.

00:44:28.460 You know, they don't waste anything.

00:44:29.800 It's gotten so much better, but again, it's a big unit.

00:44:33.320 And yeah, look at that cost.

00:44:34.840 And when you add carbon tax costs on top of that, 1.00

00:44:38.060 you know, to hell with your stupid little rebate system. 1.00

00:44:40.100 This is pressuring these producers. 1.00

00:44:42.160 And it comes down to us.

00:44:43.480 Of course, the producer has to raise their price.

00:44:45.920 It's simple economics.

00:44:47.020 But unfortunately, the left never could understand

00:44:49.380 simple economics, can they?

00:44:51.120 And we're all paying a price for it.

00:44:54.040 Sylvia is also saying syntax is two cents cheaper

00:44:56.120 than UFA right now.

00:44:57.320 So, I mean, what I'm seeing with a lot of these coming around,

00:44:59.740 which is good though, is

00:45:01.060 that we're seeing some competition in the gas stations. Because I think we were kind of,

00:45:06.680 and I talked to Dan McTeague about that a little while back, they were kind of screwing us a little

00:45:10.280 in Alberta for a bit. They really didn't drop their prices fast enough to reflect the actual

00:45:13.580 prices in the wholesale market. But that seems to have stopped. And the way that breaks,

00:45:18.360 rather than having government jump in and tell them how to sell or what to sell,

00:45:23.020 eventually some stations broke ranks. It began with UFA and now others are saying,

00:45:26.840 no, we're going to cut our prices so that I can get this traffic into my place and Bob down the

00:45:31.400 road with his gas station won't. And eventually it will settle down to the proper level of price for

00:45:37.380 that product. I'd rather not government get in on those sorts of things, even if they do screw us

00:45:42.120 now and then once in a while when they get together. And, you know, the bigger problem we

00:45:48.080 have is carbon taxes with the government that fights our local oil and gas development, things

00:45:52.480 like that, that's what puts upward pressure on those prices. And no matter what a local retailer

00:45:57.380 can do, they can only bring their price so low, they still have to pay the bills. I'm just looking

00:46:01.780 through the comments to see what we got going on. Lots of discussion. Trudeau and the UN have rocks

00:46:07.580 in their head that's scrambling their brains. Yeah, that can be believable. The green new agenda,

00:46:12.280 just so much damage. And I think the ideology is mixed both ways. I think a lot of people do think

00:46:18.300 that these initiatives really will save the world.

00:46:21.460 They think it's a great thing to save the planet

00:46:24.100 with these things, but a lot of the others,

00:46:26.040 and we can see it's always tied in with control.

00:46:29.400 It's about control.

00:46:31.080 As I said in the opening monologue,

00:46:33.060 if they can get us out of our vehicles,

00:46:34.380 they can control our movements.

00:46:38.200 How would the government response be

00:46:39.720 if the agricultural sector collapsed?

00:46:41.620 If they finally pressured and pushed

00:46:43.160 and got it so bad and so far along that it collapsed,

00:46:46.460 they'll nationalize it.

00:46:48.120 They've done this before.

00:46:49.420 When the government screwed the Alberta energy sector so badly

00:46:52.660 that that wasn't properly servicing us, you know what they did?

00:46:55.620 They created PetroCanada.

00:46:57.600 That was government-owned for decades.

00:46:59.660 Say, well, that's okay.

00:47:00.740 We don't need those big bad oil companies.

00:47:02.740 We'll do it.

00:47:03.500 Well, guess what PetroCanada did?

00:47:05.380 They lost money chronically until they finally privatized it.

00:47:10.340 It doesn't work.

00:47:11.080 Now, imagine the government that is spending billions of dollars 0.56

00:47:14.460 trying to fix their own payroll system. 0.83

00:47:16.960 And you want them to be in charge of our food supply?

00:47:20.180 My God, I could lose a few pounds.

00:47:21.780 That's fine.

00:47:22.320 But I mean, I'm not to the point of starving to death

00:47:24.280 because that's what would happen.

00:47:25.940 And, you know, this is scary.

00:47:28.660 And these changes, these things they push are about control.

00:47:32.760 They aren't about the environment.

00:47:33.840 The environment is just an excuse for these guys,

00:47:37.300 an excuse to keep infringing on our rights.

00:47:40.200 They love the word emergency these days. 1.00

00:47:42.140 Look at Jodi Gondek. 0.99

00:47:42.980 She declares an emergency every few hours, it seems,

00:47:45.880 in Calgary, $87 billion for a climate plan for Calgary. It's insane. But the first thing she did

00:47:52.740 when she got in office, it's a climate emergency. We've now had the COVID-19 emergency. Now in the

00:47:59.920 San Francisco and some other areas, we've got the monkeypox emergency. As long as they can say 1.00

00:48:04.280 emergency and get everybody afraid, they can use that as an excuse to step on our rights further.

00:48:10.400 So quit being afraid. Quit listening to these assholes when they say it's an emergency. It's 1.00

00:48:14.480 not. It's not. There's things to be addressed, but it's not always an emergency. Unless the fire is

00:48:19.680 on my doorstep, it's not an emergency. Quit telling me it is, and I don't want to give up my damn 0.98

00:48:24.140 rights. But we fall for that. We fall for that. I mean, you know, the Americans, they're going to 0.97

00:48:32.000 be in for their battles over the firearms. I think they got room to improve it, for sure, with their

00:48:36.300 legislation and how it applies. But I remember when Biden was talking about firearm deaths being

00:48:40.920 a health emergency. I remember him using those terms a couple of years ago. And see, there's

00:48:45.520 the keywords. There's health and emergency. In Canada, Trudeau implemented the War Measures Act

00:48:51.200 against people because they're protesting against their health emergency. What other ways will they

00:48:57.020 infringe on rights if they think it's an emergency? It makes them feel inside that they've got some

00:49:01.500 moral authority to step on individual rights. And it also sells it to the public, the people who

00:49:05.820 believe the crap out of the government. So as they start attacking our farms, our agricultural

00:49:12.280 producers, be afraid, people. Be very afraid. And yeah, I'm going to get on to my guest here

00:49:18.880 with Chris Holcourt, and I see him in the lobby, and we'll talk about some other things now,

00:49:23.140 and I'm certain I'll be having some more ranting about the news after that. So let's bring Chris

00:49:27.600 in and see what's going on out in Saskatchewan there. Hey, how's it going, Chris? It's going

00:49:32.940 well how are you corey ah good you know i'm just venting and ranting as i typically do and getting

00:49:38.540 it out of my system so poor jane doesn't have to listen to it at home yeah actually i just

00:49:42.700 wanted to comment on the whole farming thing you were just talking about uh tomorrow i'm actually

00:49:47.980 interviewing the person who's in charge of importing fertilizer into brazil because they

00:49:52.620 used to get it all from russia now they can't and so it's actually affecting their farm and they're

00:49:58.940 not able to produce as much food as they did before because they have a huge fertilizer

00:50:04.060 shortage so something to look forward to after i have that interview but it's he's basically

00:50:10.700 what i've done over email with so far with the individual it's basically he's saying

00:50:16.140 without the fertilizer our our crops we can't grow enough so now we're going to be in a position

00:50:21.660 where we're going to have to import more food because we can't get enough fertilizer because

00:50:25.820 of the entire situation and if you look at the reductions like i did the story on last week

00:50:30.220 about the fertilizer reductions here in canada uh well it's going to affect the ability of farmers

00:50:36.700 to grow the same amount of food on the same piece of land which once again pushes food prices up and

00:50:42.220 can cause what you were talking about you know an actual real shortage of food well yeah and it's

00:50:48.220 interesting it is going to be interesting seeing what you hear on that and i hadn't heard that part

00:50:51.580 part about Brazil, but it doesn't surprise me. And I was talking to my prior guest, who was an

00:50:55.780 agricultural producer, Kelly, and he was talking, we were talking about, well, if farmers can't

00:51:00.160 produce as much per acre, they often have to move outwards, which could lead into some sensitive

00:51:03.940 grasslands and things. It'll have a counter effect. It'll be worse for the environment,

00:51:07.480 but Brazil, I mean, South America has gotten a lot better over the years because it used to be

00:51:11.940 a real problem. You know, for those of us a little grayer to remember with slash and burn farming,

00:51:15.820 you needed more room, you cut into the rainforest or the jungle more and you seeded it and you just

00:51:20.820 work that land to death. And then you just kept expanding. And it was terrible for the environment.

00:51:25.420 A lot of the reason they've been able to cut back on that is because they've been able to

00:51:28.440 revitalize and fertilize and get high yields from the existing land. And they were able to feed

00:51:33.880 people and you make them desperate. You know, the cutting more acreage of forest when it's

00:51:38.140 dealing with starvation, they're going to cut the forest.

00:51:42.080 Yeah. And they still are having to cut the forest to get more farmland. And they're still doing it

00:51:47.040 right now because they don't have a choice. They want to feed their people. They need more land.

00:51:50.340 instead of maximizing the land they have, just in Canada, I mean, a lot of farmers over the last

00:51:56.760 few years have been able to double their output just simply because of using fertilizers to help

00:52:02.440 grow their product faster and better. So I don't understand this from Trudeau. I mean, I don't

00:52:07.800 understand a lot from him, but I mean, going after food supplies, housing, cars, I mean, every single

00:52:13.660 thing that there are kitchen table issues, you want a roof over your head, you want food, and you

00:52:18.400 want to be able to drive around to get the food and do stuff with your family and the federal

00:52:22.060 government seems to want you to do not none of the three it's amazing yeah and it's the essential

00:52:27.980 items that they put the cost or the roof on us with you know such as food housing uh energy uh

00:52:35.080 meanwhile the only consumer items that are getting cheaper are the ones we really don't seem to need

00:52:38.880 much you know i mean look how cheap it is to get a giant widescreen tv these days or uh i remember

00:52:43.420 actually leasing my very first computer for $3,000 in 1994. And nowadays, I can buy a laptop

00:52:51.020 for 600 bucks. That's, you know, infinitely more powerful, but it doesn't matter if I can't pay for

00:52:57.300 my food and housing. Yeah, my very first computer was an MS-DOS computer, and it was about $3,000.

00:53:04.840 Yeah. And that was in like the mid-1980s, $3,000, not like $3,000 today. I can only

00:53:10.720 imagine what that would actually cost today if computers didn't get cheaper oh yeah it was a

00:53:16.620 quite a luxury so i mean it's just when they're attacking the most important of our consumer goods

00:53:22.580 it's just an ugly future we got going on um so maybe we'll talk about uh you you're going to be

00:53:28.260 you mentioned that at the meeting this morning a piece coming out soon uh we're talking speaking

00:53:31.860 of the biggest and most intrusive possible government programs universal basic income

00:53:36.440 Yes. There has been, obviously, CERB was essentially like a universal basic income, almost like a trial, so to speak.

00:53:47.720 Obviously, we see the results of that. The government can't afford it. That's why they more than doubled the debt.

00:53:54.060 Two thirds of adults in Canada had some sort of income support through the government during COVID.

00:54:01.380 Now, some of that was indirectly with employers being given money to help pay for their employees and things like that.

00:54:07.760 So it wasn't just the CERB program. And I mentioned that in my story, too, as well.

00:54:11.640 But CERB was the main part that was basically like a universal basic income.

00:54:16.980 Now, 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.

00:54:26.220 And surprisingly, there's people on the left and the right that support a universal basic income.

00:54:32.180 They just want it done differently.

00:54:34.060 So the left wants it to be in addition to existing programs, whereas people on the right,

00:54:40.320 they want to eliminate the programs and just use a one system universal basic income,

00:54:46.060 which in my opinion of the two options, that would be the one that would make the most sense.

00:54:50.800 And then they also I talk about the three different ways that both sides talk about doing the universal basic income.

00:54:57.040 One is everybody gets the same amount. So it doesn't matter if you're Jeff Bezos or us.

00:55:02.340 We both get the same amount per year. For example, let's say twenty thousand dollars a year is the universal basic income.

00:55:07.720 You 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.

00:55:16.700 And then as you earn money above that at your job, there'd be like a 50% clawback on it.

00:55:22.520 And then the cheapest version would be 100% clawback.

00:55:25.180 So if you made $40,000, you would not be making anything under the 100% clawback thing.

00:55:31.320 You would just have your $40,000.

00:55:33.820 So there's different ways of doing it.

00:55:36.620 But even I've found people on both the left and right that actually said none of it's

00:55:41.780 actually affordable.

00:55:42.500 um so they even even it uh i talked about a professor from over in uh belgium uh who's one

00:55:50.340 of the big proponents in the scholarly community about universal basic income and even he admits

00:55:55.780 that it's not affordable uh about he's made an entire career writing about it um but he admits

00:56:03.380 i'm not sure if any country could actually afford to do this uh and then there's another professor

00:56:08.820 uh economics guy and uh he said basically um like an adequate level of universal basic income for

00:56:16.740 everyone is unaffordable uh and he even admits it so you have both a sociology professor and

00:56:22.980 an economics professor they're the two leading scholars in the world on ubi in the academic

00:56:27.060 community basically saying it's unaffordable from basically says it's unaffordable but it would make

00:56:32.260 sense. And actually, I included a quote from Heritage Foundation speech that Utah Senator

00:56:39.280 Mike Lee said about universal basic income. And he said he's kind of for it because right now in

00:56:44.840 the US, they have 79 different means tested programs that people apply for. And imagine if

00:56:51.900 you slashed all 79 of those different programs, how much money you'd have left over. And so he's

00:56:57.640 been advocating it for it from a like let's just simplify the government and and shrink it in size 0.61

00:57:02.760 so the left wants to grow government with the ubi but the right wants to shrink government by using

00:57:08.200 a ubi it's it's quite a very interesting um scenario to be in and it's almost like it's

00:57:13.640 sort of a capitalist version of communism uh and you have people like for example self-proclaimed

00:57:20.200 uh democratic socialist bernie sanders campaigned on the universal basic income twice now he lost

00:57:25.560 times. But when he tried to become president, that's something he campaigned very strongly on.

00:57:30.620 And there was a lot of support for it, particularly among young people. But that's mainly because

00:57:34.120 Bernie Sanders, for some reason, was like the guy that was able to get young people excited about

00:57:40.320 politics. So, yeah, well, as I see a commenter kind of hit the nail on the head, you know,

00:57:45.940 Heko Nelsaka, I think it is, said, yes, just like communism, you didn't do it right, but we'll get

00:57:50.320 it right next time. The thing is, whether it's right or left, we get more of the impression

00:57:54.080 that it's a pie-in-the-sky theory

00:57:57.000 that if it worked as it's supposed to,

00:57:59.080 could be magnificent.

00:58:00.380 But my fear when I see conservatives saying,

00:58:03.080 as you said, you can get rid of 79 programs

00:58:05.440 or whatever it was and replace it with this.

00:58:07.920 Fine, absolutely.

00:58:09.260 But in knowing politics, the temptation,

00:58:11.900 even if somehow you did that,

00:58:13.820 the next election, somebody's going to campaign

00:58:16.020 on returning another program.

00:58:17.940 And somebody's going to try and buy support

00:58:19.880 in this particular community over here

00:58:21.540 by bringing this extra support program in.

00:58:24.080 and the next thing you know now you've got a massive universal basic income program

00:58:28.240 plus all of these extra programs that will start coming and adding to it even if the best of

00:58:33.360 intentions started it it won't end well that's my view on it anyways and as you said it's never

00:58:38.480 there's never really been a workable form of it used anywhere in the world yet that i know of

00:58:43.360 well they did do one trial um here in canada and they did one trial at a city in california

00:58:50.400 uh but it wasn't really a universal basic income they actually just took people who were on

00:58:55.520 welfare and increased the amount of money they received um and then tested to see if it improved

00:59:01.120 their lives now um that is basically the only two tests that ever happened and the one that happened

00:59:07.520 in canada happened back in the 70s and was scrapped ironically by trudeau's father um and trudeau has

00:59:14.000 talked about a universal basic income so it's kind of a family conflict there at the christmas dinner

00:59:18.880 table his father was still alive yeah well it's it's a i don't know broad policy and you can you

00:59:25.960 can see the appeal for people if it's on a campaign especially in hard times if they're

00:59:30.600 not looking deeper into the policy itself but uh it just uh i think there was an experiment in

00:59:36.040 finland they tried for a while as well with it and uh at the end of the experiment it didn't work

00:59:41.000 out despite the best wishes they realized that i think the main problem they had was it did act as

00:59:45.860 a disincentive for people to get back to work. Contrary to a lot of people saying, oh, no,

00:59:49.960 even if you have a scaled return to the workforce, people will do so. A lot of people,

00:59:54.600 not all of them, but a lot are just going to say, well, if I can pay my bills on this,

00:59:57.220 I'm not going to bother. Yeah. And even if someone, like even Milton Friedman actually

01:00:01.880 advocated for what he called a negative tax. Yeah. So you would start minus $20,000 a year

01:00:08.060 or whatever. And then as you earned your money through the year, eventually it would be a further

01:00:15.080 distance for you to actually to the point of actually pay tax now why why started at minus

01:00:19.720 20 why not just raise whatever the the level is for the the tax why do you have to start minus 20

01:00:24.440 if you you want to let people earn 40 000 tax-free just start at 40 000 don't put it at 20 000 of

01:00:29.880 everybody start at minus 20. you're still starting at the same starting line it's like it's ridiculous

01:00:34.360 but anyways even friedman actually has advocated for ubi which is he's one of the biggest libertarian

01:00:40.520 conservative uh economic thinkers of the past 100 years yeah i strongly recommend reading because

01:00:46.840 you will learn a lot about economics from him oh absolutely are great yeah two of my favorites

01:00:52.360 yeah hayek absolutely yeah but but yeah but also a lot of that though was an economic theory

01:00:58.760 that their work wasn't necessarily into the implementation and practice so i mean just

01:01:02.280 because you can see a program is great doesn't mean it can work oh we'll go from that i'm looking

01:01:06.840 forward to your column we'll see at length you know what you've come up with uh on that so point

01:01:11.560 people towards it watch for chris's column coming up uh otherwise in the news one that kind of

01:01:16.440 talked your story recently was kind of uh strange and and rough was that abuse of uh saskatchewan

01:01:22.680 students in a christian school there's a class action suit sounds like starting now

01:01:27.400 but what happened there uh basically um starting back

01:01:33.720 it's about 1988 to about 2010, this school had very interesting discipline practices,

01:01:46.440 let's just say it didn't fall in what you would find in a normal school. I'll just give one

01:01:51.960 example. There was one student who was homosexual. He was 16 years old. He told like one of the

01:01:59.000 teachers about it and then he had a meeting with principal and then they suspended him for

01:02:02.520 from the school. Then him and his mom went to houses of the teacher thinking that the meeting

01:02:10.560 was about how they could get him back into the school and end up being an exorcism or attempted

01:02:17.900 anyways. And they tried to pray the demons out of him for over an hour, as they called it, the gay 0.97

01:02:23.220 demons. And then that didn't work. So then they beat him with a paddle and then that didn't work. 1.00

01:02:29.380 Um, now this church had a book of, um, they called it the spiritual discipline book, which

01:02:36.160 was for parents, uh, how to discipline your kids when they have certain issues.

01:02:42.520 And they even used to sell paddles in the church gift shop of different sizes, uh, to

01:02:48.420 use on your children.

01:02:49.580 Now the church rebranded.

01:02:51.480 And so the school, this, this, uh, this Christian school is now called legacy Christian school

01:02:57.040 at the time is called Christian Center Academy. And it's connected to a church called Mile to

01:03:02.900 Church. I will have more on the story coming out this afternoon. The NDP are actually going,

01:03:08.780 actually right now, are at the church in front of it, holding a press conference,

01:03:13.920 asking the government to suspend its funding to the church until the investigation is done.

01:03:20.480 The Crown, starting in April, had some stuff turned over to them from the Saskatoon police,

01:03:26.000 but the the investigation by the police is still ongoing as well so right now there's 18 victims

01:03:32.540 but there is most likely probably more and actually now that the story is out there

01:03:37.920 who knows how many more people will come forward as well because it took a couple brave individuals

01:03:43.180 to come forward first before anybody else would and what goes went on at that school they say it

01:03:51.020 go on there now. The administration that was there at the time, the principal, the school director,

01:03:56.380 have all moved to different Christian schools, ironically all still in Saskatchewan.

01:04:01.820 We don't know where because they don't actually say who the principal or school director was,

01:04:06.060 and there were several over that time period. So we don't actually know the individuals who were

01:04:11.260 in charge at the time of these different, I'll call them, abuses. And there was all kinds of

01:04:19.340 of things like there was solitary confinement they used and you know stuff that like we only

01:04:23.740 use on like the worst criminals in jail not not because you spoke out in class and you shouldn't

01:04:28.700 have uh so it's it's definitely an interesting story to take a look at and i'm sure that

01:04:35.740 there'll be more than just what comes out today about it and i'm sure that there'll be more you

01:04:40.140 know charges publicly or other students speaking out about what happened uh to them during that

01:04:44.140 time period because it's a it's a significant period of time we're not talking like one school

01:04:48.300 here. We're talking, you know, about two decades. And it's tragic on a number of levels. I mean,

01:04:53.740 not just the abuse of those students, you know, but also when I would like to see more of a move,

01:04:59.380 though, towards independent schools and people having more school choice and being able to set

01:05:03.760 up, whether it's faith-based or whether it's secular, you know, or whatever schools they like.

01:05:08.680 And when you see examples like this, where an unfortunate fringe, you know, it seems that I

01:05:12.620 imagine, you know, somebody says, oh, here comes the Christian bashing. Well, no, this is bashing

01:05:16.480 of the fringe of the christians every religion has their fringe and you know most christians 0.97

01:05:21.080 are not going to paddle people and demand them to pray the gay away uh but but when you see

01:05:26.080 examples like this of course it makes it a lot harder as you said the ndp is taking advantage 0.54

01:05:29.220 of this they always want standardized schooling and heavily government controlled schooling and

01:05:33.680 and it really sets things back for everybody on every level it's really uh too bad to see this

01:05:38.320 happen yeah and here in saskatchewan um the student money follows you wherever you're going

01:05:44.760 So 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,

01:05:51.240 that's actually very near the legislature, your funding goes to that school.

01:05:56.420 Now, the school then can charge tuition over and above the funding amount as well.

01:06:00.980 But your funding follows you.

01:06:03.360 There's actually only one private school that doesn't receive funding in the entire province.

01:06:08.560 Most of these other religious based schools receive funding.

01:06:11.920 And 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.

01:06:28.280 But neither did most of the Catholic schools, but they're not calling for the Catholic schools to be defunded.

01:06:32.760 They just want the independent Christian schools defunded because they won't celebrate Pride Month when it goes against the belief of the school.

01:06:39.040 and what we're seeing now I opened it and I actually wasn't even sure the story was true

01:06:45.940 so I did a little checking to make sure because this is like there is a the CBC has been on a

01:06:53.480 tear in the last six weeks going after non-government schools and institutions

01:07:00.080 in particular it's almost every single day they have a story coming out here in Saskatchewan it's

01:07:04.540 like their editor doesn't know that there could be possibly another story out there

01:07:08.260 it's unfortunate because they are attacking people that do good work and teach kids what

01:07:17.460 they need to know math reading writing you know things that they actually need to use in real

01:07:22.560 life as they go on after the public school system and then head into you know college university

01:07:27.720 apprenticeship whatever they do after school and there's been a real push to try and eliminate

01:07:34.080 these independent schools in the province and it would drastically change the education system

01:07:38.160 because there is a lot of independent schools christian and otherwise there's a lot of

01:07:42.080 independent schools i mean we have an independent school here in town called uh luther college high

01:07:46.560 school uh that you can send your kid to as well but uh it's it's an independent school uh right

01:07:52.080 here in town and it's of no religious persuasion it's it just has nicer facilities because you pay

01:07:57.840 extra money um and and so there's a real push to try and defund that um talking with the ndp they

01:08:06.000 obviously would like to see just one universal system of just catholic and public and eliminate

01:08:11.360 all the other schools um but once again parents should have a choice on how they want their kids

01:08:17.120 educated particularly if you follow some story done over the last few months uh including one

01:08:23.200 in my own daughter's school that um you can go back and read on a transgender person that came

01:08:29.360 in and talked to uh 10 to 12 year olds about switching their gender so it yeah as a parent

01:08:37.920 you know we should be asked about these things and so my daughter coming home and asking me

01:08:41.600 questions about what is transgenderism and why do i have to pick a pronoun um

01:08:48.000 yeah and and even when i explain the situation with leah thomas the swimmer she's like well

01:08:52.240 that's not fair it's just a man in a female bathing suit and i said well yeah sort of maybe

01:08:57.840 we're not sure um but that was her first thing when she heard about the leah thomas thing

01:09:03.840 because she asked me about it because she knew that i had done some stuff on that in the past

01:09:08.080 on athletes uh in different uh use it was a child the emperor wore no clothes so uh yes

01:09:16.080 exactly well and interestingly enough uh actually just speaking on the pronouns for a second demi

01:09:21.840 lovato has changed her pronoun nouns back today to she and her from they and them oh which i i she

01:09:29.360 was one of the first ones that came out to like change her pronouns a really famous person and

01:09:32.880 everybody else followed her well she just came out today and she's like no i feel female now so i go

01:09:37.120 by she and her so who knows maybe we're seeing a tide changing here where maybe there is some sanity

01:09:42.800 be coming back. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. She's an adult. She's an adult. She can

01:09:48.680 do whatever she wants. I don't care. It's only when I think parents should be concerned when

01:09:54.340 things are being done to their children without their permission. That's why I take issue. If

01:09:59.040 you're an adult and you want to get surgery to change your gender, go ahead. It's only when 1.00

01:10:03.940 you're going after five-year-olds to change their gender that I start to have an issue with that. 1.00

01:10:08.880 And I think most parents do. And given how many reach out to me, a lot do. 0.99

01:10:13.960 And I also have a follow up story coming out as well about a B.C. guy who's wanted for assault with a weapon.

01:10:25.160 And basically the Saskatchewan RCMP said they would pick him up and send him back to B.C.

01:10:30.000 But B.C. basically doesn't want to pay to send him back. So they're not picking him up.

01:10:33.760 So 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.

01:10:45.020 But, you know, Tamara gets picked up and they have no problem sending her across.

01:10:50.500 If 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.

01:10:58.040 No, yeah, no problem. He'd be gone. He'd be on a private plane.

01:11:02.140 All right.

01:11:03.760 Well, lots to cover and I'm looking forward to seeing more coming out

01:11:06.760 along with your columns and then the news copy.

01:11:08.960 So good to talk to you again today, Chris,

01:11:10.760 and we'll talk to you again, I'm sure, soon.

01:11:13.520 Thanks, Gary. Have a great day.

01:11:14.820 Great, thanks.

01:11:15.860 So that was the Western Standard's Christopher Olcorn.

01:11:18.220 And yes, he covers a broad number of things.

01:11:20.180 He puts his opinion content out there, usually one or two columns a week

01:11:24.400 and lots of news items.

01:11:26.160 He's our man in Saskatchewan watching things,

01:11:28.620 and I'm still allowed to call him the man in Saskatchewan for now. 0.96

01:11:31.040 If he wants to change his gender identity,

01:11:32.580 I will respect that when the time comes because Chris is an adult, but I've seen no indication

01:11:36.440 that he wants to be referred to anything else at this time. So, uh, okay, let's, uh, yeah,

01:11:42.040 there's, you see Nico scrolling all those stories from Chris, all that stuff out there with our

01:11:45.540 Eastern neighbor, Saskatchewan and Alberta have so much in common too. We are close friends and

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01:13:52.500 important to me. All right. Let's speak on some news items before we move along here. So what

01:13:58.120 do we got? This one's kind of interesting on the international front. Excuse me. Nancy Pelosi,

01:14:05.080 you know, the crypt keeper, but she's flown into Taiwan. This is the highest ranking American 0.86

01:14:11.280 official to go to Taiwan in 25 years. And for people watching the international scene, it's

01:14:16.520 a very provocative move against China. I mean, China loses it when it comes to any symbolism,

01:14:25.440 particularly that may recognize Taiwan as a country. China refuses to accept that Taiwan

01:14:30.760 is a country. And, you know, there's been a lot of aggressive, you know, military maneuvers and

01:14:37.020 things moving along. There's been a lot of threat that China is going to invade Taiwan and take it.

01:14:40.300 and basically like Jordan Cron that said there, 0.99

01:14:45.820 I don't like Pelosi, but wow, she has balls. 1.00

01:14:48.360 Yeah, that's one of the areas, the few areas, 0.99

01:14:49.880 well, I'll give her a thumbs up 0.98

01:14:51.060 because if you think Russia is a problem in the world, 0.92

01:14:54.300 China is back there in the background

01:14:57.580 and we are dependent on it.

01:15:00.340 But kind of what I was talking with Chris about,

01:15:01.760 oh, you know, or was it Chris?

01:15:03.280 Yeah, I think it was Chris or maybe it was with Kelly.

01:15:05.320 It's been a long show already.

01:15:06.220 When I'm talking about consumer products

01:15:07.600 and the price is going up,

01:15:08.440 a lot of the prices are going down on a lot of the electronics and the crappy things and stuff

01:15:12.920 like that. Well, if you look at the label on the vast majority of it, everything, probably from my

01:15:18.400 pen to the mouse I use, it all came from China. We are so dependent on those guys. So dependent. 1.00

01:15:26.420 And if it comes to a real conflict with them, we're going to be in a whole lot of trouble.

01:15:30.700 So I'm not saying we should be going out and stirring a conflict necessarily,

01:15:33.980 uh, you know, with, with, uh, anything more than we have to, we should stop in and over for them

01:15:39.920 too. I mean, you know, Trudeau pandered to China for years long enough, didn't it? And Canadian

01:15:45.520 citizens basically held hostage over there for a long time and they don't admit it, but we basically

01:15:50.640 turned out to be a prisoner swap to get them back. They are not a nice nation there, uh, and people 0.94

01:15:56.320 need to be pushing back. So if Pelosi is going to recognize Taiwan and get over there, I say good 0.95

01:16:00.560 honor. You know, there's not many things I say good honor about, but that's one of them

01:16:04.480 that I think is a good development. Now let's look into bad developments. And let's see, that's

01:16:12.700 the Drug-Free Prison Act. This is an interesting one. So this was, Parliament passed this Prisons

01:16:19.080 Act. This is, again, it gets to a government's thinking, if we could just pass a law, we can

01:16:22.260 change things. Well, if that would work, illegalizing murder would have stopped murder,

01:16:27.740 wouldn't it? You know, we do. I'm not saying we should legalize murder, but I'm just saying a law

01:16:32.620 alone doesn't stop something. So they passed the Drug Free Prisons Act, I imagine with the intent

01:16:39.040 of getting drug-free prisons, but it didn't work. It's going up and up and up. But that reflects

01:16:44.580 everywhere else in the country or mostly, you know, the developed world these days, we have an

01:16:50.040 opioid epidemic. People are getting addicted at higher and higher levels. And hey, a lot of that's

01:16:54.820 that fentanyl. That's powerful crap, and it's relatively cheap. And speaking, again, of rogue 0.99

01:16:59.540 nations, a lot of that's coming into North America from China, and it's eating our people alive. It 1.00

01:17:04.920 is very nasty. So I guess a survey of 34,000 men sentenced to federal penitentiaries showed that

01:17:12.160 the number of lifetime addicts had increased in with reporting lifetime drug use. And this is

01:17:17.120 sad and unfortunate, but shows some of the social demographics we got to look at when we address

01:17:22.920 things. 91% of indigenous prisoners reported lifetime drug use, like a whole life of it.

01:17:28.920 79% of the white people and 51% of the black people. Now, we go too far into identity politics 0.83

01:17:37.920 sometimes, but sometimes we should look at the cultural things or what's going on then

01:17:41.620 and see who's not getting sucked up in it and find out why. So, I mean, as far as that goes

01:17:46.420 with prisoners, okay, we got 90% of the First Nations prisoners and 80% of the white ones, 0.91

01:17:51.360 and only 50% of the black ones, we should be looking, 1.00

01:17:54.260 well, why are the black ones being smarter about this 0.99

01:17:56.760 and not getting caught up in it? 1.00

01:17:57.860 Let's learn from this.

01:17:59.340 So, I mean, let's look into some of this stuff and find out.

01:18:01.940 But as it stands, anyways,

01:18:03.460 the numbers are going up and up and up.

01:18:06.020 And, you know, just because the government

01:18:07.920 doesn't want drug use to go up in the prison

01:18:09.400 doesn't mean it will drop.

01:18:12.220 Ineffective legislation, they seem to specialize in it.

01:18:14.580 Let's study things.

01:18:15.700 Let's make nuanced approaches to policy

01:18:18.680 rather than just making more and more laws

01:18:20.820 that don't get us anywhere.

01:18:21.880 But again, like I said,

01:18:22.580 this government can't even get their own payroll right. 0.97

01:18:24.520 So Cheryl Dawn saying,

01:18:25.920 why are the two Michaels never interviewed in the media?

01:18:27.680 I don't know.

01:18:28.340 I honestly don't.

01:18:29.180 They kept a very, very low profile upon getting back.

01:18:31.740 It could be a choice of their own.

01:18:32.960 They might not be interested.

01:18:33.860 I don't know.

01:18:35.340 But, you know, they would certainly be welcome on here

01:18:37.520 if they ever wanted to come on,

01:18:38.660 but they haven't shown themselves to be responsive.

01:18:41.400 Here's a story from the Brian Passifium.

01:18:44.180 And, you know, this was put out the other day,

01:18:46.840 but it's great. 0.85

01:18:47.360 And it shows that hypocrisy of the federal government and Trudeau.

01:18:52.380 And this is where there was only 11 days where Trudeau wasn't traveling on his private jet in July.

01:19:01.120 So two-thirds of the day, he actually flew on his private jet.

01:19:04.620 20 trips, and they were all for photo ops and things like that.

01:19:07.840 Nothing important.

01:19:09.060 It logged 26,000 kilometers of travel.

01:19:11.420 This is the guy telling us to tighten our belts.

01:19:17.360 There 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.

01:19:32.500 Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it? 0.95

01:19:34.840 That hypocritical bad hair hammerhead, 0.98

01:19:37.020 who is our prime minister, unfortunately, still to this day. 0.99

01:19:43.140 He can fly around and burn tens of thousands of liters of fuel

01:19:47.100 for his vanity trips.

01:19:49.200 And meanwhile, the rest of us are supposed to tighten our belt

01:19:52.880 because we're saving the world from climate change.

01:19:55.100 Yeah, right.

01:19:56.160 I see in the comments there, 0.98

01:19:57.540 seeing lots of angry Canuck expats in Costa Rica.

01:20:03.640 Yeah, they got him down there.

01:20:05.400 Wildrow's asking if Notley have responded to an invitation.

01:20:07.600 No, NDP are not terribly responsive to us

01:20:10.200 when we ask them for much of anything.

01:20:11.640 But again, it's a leader of the opposition.

01:20:13.640 She'd always be welcome on here if she wanted to be.

01:20:16.100 I don't think we'd agree on much,

01:20:17.560 but she's welcome on the show.

01:20:20.960 Let's see.

01:20:23.080 Campus, you know, we're seeing this trend going on

01:20:24.720 more and more.

01:20:25.220 Campus VAX mandates are okay.

01:20:27.540 So labor arbitrators, things like that.

01:20:29.560 Keep finding that mandates for vaccination,

01:20:32.860 you know, I got a lot of problems with this.

01:20:36.040 If they want to have that as a policy, fine,

01:20:37.640 but we need to deregulate and open up our post-secondary,

01:20:40.320 then allow a lot more options.

01:20:42.320 Allow it so that there are ones.

01:20:43.420 Fine, when you start losing some of your brighter PhD candidates,

01:20:47.300 things like that to other universities and colleges

01:20:49.100 that aren't imposing vaccine mandates upon the students,

01:20:51.980 maybe that'll help them move along. 0.96

01:20:54.540 But I mean, it's just so absurd and ridiculous. 0.60

01:20:56.540 Look, the vaccines don't stop the spread. 0.84

01:21:00.620 They don't.

01:21:01.320 This isn't theory anymore.

01:21:03.120 I mean, I'm not going to go into whether they provide benefit in general or things like that.

01:21:07.000 But the main part, the main justification, the main reason to have mandates theoretically was that you're protecting people from each other.

01:21:13.460 Well, it makes no damn difference.

01:21:14.740 So drop them.

01:21:15.680 Just drop them.

01:21:16.560 You're screwing with kids' lives.

01:21:17.900 This is education.

01:21:19.280 It's not like, you know, they get extra years later that they can tack on.

01:21:23.400 The sooner we can get them through and graduating, we're all better for it.

01:21:28.400 The Federal Convoy Inquiry is coming up this fall.

01:21:31.360 The budget now has come in, I guess.

01:21:33.460 It's going to cost $19 million.

01:21:36.200 There's 18 lawyers on staff at the Public Order Emergency Commission.

01:21:41.940 So yeah, $19 million to look back and see whether the government was right or wrong

01:21:46.320 in imposing the Emergencies Act.

01:21:50.260 It's going to be interesting, though.

01:21:51.380 I 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.

01:22:17.280 and the justice who's going to be running that inquiry

01:22:20.060 starting this fall, they start on Labor Day,

01:22:22.420 I'd like to think maybe he's going to be a principled one

01:22:25.220 and he's going to follow up.

01:22:26.360 And we are going to see, as I want it fully exposed,

01:22:29.080 that we had a federal government

01:22:30.460 that imposed martial law upon citizens

01:22:32.720 over a bouncy castle protest.

01:22:35.000 Because every other little thing we've seen from cabinet,

01:22:37.000 we've shown that the government has no case.

01:22:39.000 Minister Mendocino, the king of lies,

01:22:41.140 lied constantly saying the police wanted that intervention.

01:22:43.580 They didn't.

01:22:44.320 We saw media lying and misreporting.

01:22:47.020 guys like Justin Ling saying that guns were seized by convoyers and then government officials

01:22:51.200 were using that line. That's not true at all. It was a lie. We saw the Russian funding thing from

01:22:56.440 the state broadcaster, the CBC, and the federal government used that as their excuse. That was

01:23:00.500 bullshit. So if this inquiry actually starts to get to the root of things, I got a feeling we're 0.99

01:23:06.480 going to see some very interesting and good outcomes from it. Maybe, maybe you'll find

01:23:10.680 finally enough people to realize just how far this federal government overstepped and what they did

01:23:15.060 to us. Cheryl Dawn saying, why not vacation in Canada? Our tourism industry is suffering.

01:23:19.840 We're just talking about Trudeau. And yeah, I agree. I mean, something probably for Harrington

01:23:24.860 Estate. That's the lake cottage, they call it. It's a mansion north of Ottawa. It's exclusively

01:23:32.100 for the prime minister and his family. It's a multiple amount of acres. They've put something

01:23:36.460 like, I think it was 8 million or 11 million in renovations into that just since Trudeau became

01:23:40.820 Prime Minister, he can go there anytime he likes with private acres, full security, lakeside,

01:23:47.040 beautiful weather this time of year, and vacation with his family. But he doesn't want to. He'd

01:23:51.700 rather take a private jet and fly to Costa Rica, where we've got to house the pilot and everybody

01:23:55.960 else down there while he's sitting on it, in case they have to fly him back for an emergency.

01:24:02.700 Pamela saying, well, who wants Trudeau in Canada? Yeah, there is that. But the hypocrisy is brutal.

01:24:06.620 It really is, especially, again, when it costs $60,000 just to fly him one way.

01:24:13.240 If only it was only one way.

01:24:16.380 Yeah, you know, again, I don't expect him to be going around staying in campgrounds or, you know, in public areas.

01:24:22.720 He is a head of a country and does need some security, whether we like him or not.

01:24:27.820 But the hypocrisy is just galling, and it's worth reporting on over and over to remind people.

01:24:33.100 As Dave mentioned earlier, here's another beauty.

01:24:35.040 the CBC hiked another pay hikes, another $12 million in raises. We're all suffering. We're

01:24:41.760 tightening our belts. The CBC is begging and groveling and sniveling, giving a blumpkin to

01:24:47.580 the federal government in hopes of getting more funding all the time because they're such an

01:24:50.640 important service and it's such an emergency. And then they just give it out to perks to each other

01:24:55.900 and raises for everyone else. Why on earth do we have a state broadcaster? I mean, that's one of

01:25:01.500 things it's seeing is more and more open calling to fully defund that rotten institution. If nothing

01:25:07.760 else, I want to see with a conservative victory and a follow-up is getting rid of the CBC. It's

01:25:11.700 just a garbage organization that's long, long out-served its need or purpose and liquidate it. 0.99

01:25:19.080 Then we can buy a cheap teleprompter for me from those guys. What's left of it? Let's see. 0.98

01:25:25.300 Nurses Association in Ontario is worried that they've got too heavy workloads.

01:25:29.700 well yeah we're the health care system's collapsing everywhere it's a broken system 0.80

01:25:35.640 but i still am not seeing any many politicians with the balls to say let's change the system

01:25:39.700 let's break it up the canadian health act is broken it's wrong it's unsustainable no the 0.72

01:25:45.080 only politically correct answer is give more money to it give more money we have been giving

01:25:48.400 more money to it not least there it's underfunded not least we've massively increased the amount of

01:25:53.380 funding that's gone to the health system it's still not working it's the system it's packed 0.79

01:25:57.360 with union maggots who are doing bugger all, administration and bureaucrats that are choking 0.99

01:26:01.780 the whole thing up, and a complete lack of competition through a government-enforced 0.82

01:26:06.120 monopoly system and provision. And it's not working. Money won't fix it. You need to change

01:26:11.520 the system. Ah, let's see. Where was I there? Oh yeah, there's a bunch of these clowns out in BC.

01:26:19.240 I'm waiting for the new story that's going to be coming up pretty soon. There was one in Ontario 0.97

01:26:21.940 too. It's starting to spread. They call themselves the tire extinguishers. Oh, these are very tough

01:26:26.900 environmental warriors. These guys, they go out in the night and they deflate the tires on SUVs.

01:26:31.840 I guess they did 34 of them in BC the other day out by Victoria and that. The reason they're

01:26:37.440 going to hit the news soon is because somebody is going to come out one night and find these idiots 1.00

01:26:40.820 hovering around their vehicle and deflating the tires and they are going to take out justice on 1.00

01:26:45.300 them themselves. It's going to happen. It's a matter of if, it's a matter of when. And these

01:26:49.760 idiots, unfortunately, are going to get a terrible reckoning. You won't see them doing it in rural 1.00

01:26:55.000 areas, I'm sure. You know, I wouldn't suggest they come out to the Prentice region and start

01:26:59.460 doing that. It's terribly dangerous to mess with people's property in a rural setting in the middle

01:27:02.800 of the night. Oh, well, they're saving us from ourselves, right? Okay, that's enough out of me

01:27:08.920 for today. Tomorrow, we've got a couple of good guests coming in. Lindsay Wilson of Alberta,

01:27:13.860 proud. I've been on a number of times, and of course, they're proud of being Alberta, and they

01:27:19.740 cover a lot of government issues. And Catherine Christensen, she's a lawyer, and these

01:27:24.860 guys have been working on a class action lawsuit on behalf of Canadian Armed Forces personnel who

01:27:29.700 basically got hooped on the vaccine mandates and they're pushing back and they are seeking

01:27:35.360 compensation. So they're going to be very good conversations as well. Of course, I'll be covering

01:27:38.980 news and I'll have a whole fresh new rant for you. So thanks for tuning in today, guys, and I'll see

01:27:43.720 you tomorrow at 1130 a.m.

01:27:54.860 Thank you.

01:28:24.860 Thank you.

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