Western Standard - Trudeau mega billions super free stuff budget

00:00:00.000 Good day. Today is April 17th, 2024. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western

00:00:29.300 Standard and you're watching The Pipeline. I'm joined by my two good friends here,

00:00:35.540 Western Standard Opinion Editor Nigel Hannaford. Hello again. And Western Standard Senior Alberta

00:00:41.380 Columnist Corey Cranky Morgan. Hey, welcome back to the west. Oh yeah, I've been out yonder and east

00:00:49.860 reporting on the status of the colonies. We're always going to watch make sure you don't get,

00:00:52.820 you know, infected out there or something. No, no, I think I'm okay. All right. Well,

00:00:58.100 Well, we got we got some fun and interesting topics today.

00:01:02.200 So speaking of my trip to the east, I was in a washroom at the Ottawa International Airport returning to Wild Rose Country.

00:01:11.280 And before I got on a plane, I took a little leak.

00:01:13.740 And wow, they're really true.

00:01:15.460 I found free tampons and maxi pads in the men's room at the Calgary International Airport.

00:01:24.660 We've reported on it before, but even I'm like, it's got to be in the Calgary International.

00:01:28.100 Even though they're both federal, we'll talk about maybe why it's not in Calgary that I've seen, at least, and it is in Ottawa.

00:01:34.540 We do things a little differently out west here.

00:01:36.900 Yeah, we understand men don't need tampons. 0.99

00:01:40.900 But yeah, you know, this is not new news that this is a thing.

00:01:43.940 But it was always very theoretical to me until I actually saw the things.

00:01:47.880 The biggest shocker to me is that the left openly defended it.

00:01:52.580 They lost their minds.

00:01:54.360 We'll talk about the video here.

00:01:55.440 But, yeah, we're going to talk about the madness around free tampons in federally regulated men's rooms in Canada.

00:02:03.940 We're going to talk about the big federal budget that just came down.

00:02:06.580 Trudeau's mega billions, super free stuff.

00:02:09.840 Happy budget.

00:02:11.220 And we're going to talk about the Coutts 3.

00:02:13.780 You know, you remember the protest and blockade at the Alberta-Montana border during the kind of the height of the fight against COVID lockdowns and mandates.

00:02:23.620 What was going on there?

00:02:25.440 The so called coots three, we found out just late last night, were found guilty mischief is miscreants. All right. Well, let's get into it. We're going to start with, I think, no pun intended, the heaviest or the lightest of these three topics.

00:02:43.440 um uh free trudeau tampons for men so uh i i was in the i was i was just ready to fly back

00:02:53.040 here to alberta leaving ottawa i've never seen it in the men's room uh at the calgary international

00:02:58.660 airport but i went to take a leak and lo and behold well this is what happened this is derrick

00:03:05.040 Philip Brown of the Western Standard. I'm in the Ottawa International Airport and I came to take

00:03:13.800 a leak before my flight and well I just found some that we've reported on but I just never 0.98

00:03:20.400 really believed it was too stupid to really be real. This is how you're seeing backwards on my 0.91

00:03:27.060 camera here but that is uh napkin serviette i think that's a maxi pad more or less and a tampon

00:03:34.900 i assure you i am not in the ladies room i'm in a federally regulated men's room so uh i don't mean

00:03:42.820 to take federal resources from taxpayers here but i'm gonna get a oh no there's no more taxi pads 0.99

00:03:49.380 for my dick. Let me try tampons. Okay, there's no more out, unfortunately, but I do have a tampon 1.00

00:03:57.460 here. The machine appears to be out of maxi pads and tampons for men, but here we go. This is, uh,

00:04:07.220 this is for me in the men's room at a federally regulated bathroom in the People's Republic of

00:04:14.580 of Canada. God bless you people. So it was funny. I was taking a leak and I looked over.

00:04:28.380 I saw something and I did double take. I'm like, no, no way. Cause you know, even though

00:04:35.400 we've reported, I was like, maybe it's fake news. I've never actually seen these things.

00:04:38.180 We know it's on military bases so that our brave soldiers, you know, our fighting men can deal with their monthly visitor.

00:04:49.680 Then I saw it, and I just burst out laughing.

00:04:51.840 And there was another guy at the other end of the bathroom at the urinal, and he looks over at me, and I'm like, wow, I'm fighting so funny.

00:04:57.260 I couldn't even get a word.

00:04:58.140 I just pointed at it.

00:04:59.040 He saw it, and he burst out laughing.

00:05:01.280 Soon enough, the whole men's room was just kind of laughing because a lot of people just didn't notice it because it's –

00:05:06.180 Yeah, it was kind of like the emperor with no clothes.

00:05:08.240 He just, how do you notice a tampon dispenser in a men's room? 0.74

00:05:11.820 It was funny.

00:05:12.920 I just threw this little video up, and I think it's over 3 million views now.

00:05:18.840 And, man, the lefties went nuts.

00:05:21.140 A lot of it was bots, but a lot of it was real lefties.

00:05:24.820 And normally they seem quiet about this kind of thing.

00:05:26.980 It's like, you know, they support it.

00:05:28.200 But it's so self-evidently, what's the polite and politically correct term I can use? 1.00

00:05:35.320 stupid very so self-evidently ridiculous and they're defending it like of course 0.99

00:05:44.320 it could be used for bandages in first aid we'll put a first aid kit in the bathroom 1.00

00:05:48.760 like they're defunding any excuse for it um sorry with you nigel uh 0.97

00:05:54.860 what do you make of why do you think that it's in the ottawa because they're both federal

00:06:01.980 facilities. The federal regulations pronounced by the cabinet said it should be in all men's rooms 0.97

00:06:06.660 in Canada, free tampons for, what was the term you use? Man ponds. Man ponds. Man ponds and,

00:06:15.120 okay, we have to remember this is on cable, I have to watch what I say. Man ponds and

00:06:18.560 men's maxis. Yeah. Why do you think, I have never seen it, at least in the Calgary airport,

00:06:26.940 just got vandalized the first day they put it up. I don't know. First of all, it's relatively easy

00:06:31.040 for somebody in Ottawa to say to somebody else in Ottawa, go down and make sure they've got them in

00:06:35.620 the Ottawa airport. That's easy to order, easy to do, easy to check up on, and probably would have

00:06:43.460 more sympathy among the general public back there than it does here. Your own reaction to it is

00:06:49.920 probably speaks for many in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario outside of

00:06:58.380 out of south toronto the other thing that i thought about this was in their attempts to be

00:07:04.420 inclusive and to recognize diversity they have an actual fact become discriminatory because

00:07:11.740 we have a young lady on our staff here who is very enterprising and last night went out to 1.00

00:07:18.800 the Calgary International Airport to check, and on her assurance, there is no such machine in the

00:07:28.860 men's room, but there is in the ladies' room, but it's not free. You have to put a dollar in if you

00:07:35.140 are a woman and you need a tampon at the Calgary International, but if you are a man in the Ottawa

00:07:40.900 International, it's free, sir. No, no, but now it just clicked on me. It makes sense. This is

00:07:46.400 another equalization program. Alberta women pay for tampons so Ontario men have them for free.

00:07:53.200 Oh, there we go. Yeah.

00:07:54.240 Now it makes sense.

00:07:55.040 Well, of course it makes sense. There is no debts to which the sinister

00:07:58.640 still government will not do, will not stoop to.

00:08:01.760 Keep reading the West. 0.99

00:08:03.680 That's the dumbest thing I've read this year. 0.99

00:08:07.600 The Lord knows we see plenty. 0.99

00:08:09.120 Yeah, there's a lot out there.

00:08:10.880 Corey, I mean, the whole thing is hard to keep a straight face with, but maybe speak to the reaction of, like, you know, the Twitterati, you know, the lefty Twitterati, trying to defend it.

00:08:23.400 Like, I don't believe they actually, I try to be charitable with people's intentions.

00:08:29.280 And even if people have bad ideas or stupid ideas, I try to take them at face value that they're sincerely held bad beliefs.

00:08:35.080 But I have a hard time believing that most of them actually believe anything they're saying. 0.98

00:08:39.160 It's virtue signaling, and that's why they don't like it being mocked, because there's nothing to it.

00:08:43.940 If they could point to demand and say, we've had a scourge of woman to men's trans people who found themselves on flights without feminine hygiene products and had to finish their flight with only one sock on, then they would be able to point out the need to provide these products in these spots.

00:09:02.000 But we don't have the demand sitting there.

00:09:04.000 That one down for the starfish.

00:09:05.980 but either way i mean that's presumably what it's about is if it's a a woman but in that case and

00:09:12.600 i'm certain they're out there they typically will pack the products so they don't have to

00:09:16.360 suffer the indignity of having their gender transition exposed and and and dealing with

00:09:21.960 that but it's just not there i mean they're not going to be taking this up for maybe some guys

00:09:26.420 are going to say oh some freebies for the wife when i get home hey you know hey honey i finished

00:09:29.820 my trip i brought you some maxi pads you're probably still better with perfume but just

00:09:33.720 Just put them in the ladies room. 1.00

00:09:35.220 You better do better than that.

00:09:36.640 We're not going to be married long.

00:09:38.220 One of the defenses from the lefties here was that, well, what if men just take them and give them to women at the airport?

00:09:47.940 Well, then just put them in the ladies room. 1.00

00:09:50.760 It's a matter of being, and that's part of the whole trans thing, though, is it always has to be in our face. 1.00

00:09:57.420 always has to let us know that it's there, and we're expected to embrace it, that we're expected

00:10:03.220 to endorse it, and including in our men's rooms. I mean, from the, I don't know a lot of trans

00:10:09.540 people, but from the few I have encountered, they just typically want to live their life as trans 0.99

00:10:14.620 people. They don't want to be in the face. In fact, they typically don't want to bring attention to

00:10:18.560 it because they are of the gender they've transitioned to, and they just want to carry 1.00

00:10:21.940 on from there. They're trying to blend in and just be a normal person living the life as they

00:10:25.980 He fits the activists who are making the racket. I don't think a trans man would be all that eager to walk into a crowded men's room and partake in grabbing one of those before going to a stall. They're trying to remain discreet. That's why they're using the men's room and in the first place. But it's just there's no end to it. There's no stop. I did. It's a solution looking for a problem. 0.85

00:10:48.280 Are you going to let Michelle expense the dollar? 0.97

00:10:54.820 I think that's a fair expense.

00:10:56.540 Yes.

00:10:57.060 I don't know if you actually bought one.

00:10:57.880 So salutations to Michelle Cundey for enterprising reporting.

00:11:01.480 That was really good.

00:11:04.520 That's the kind of gumshoe reporters we've got here. 0.97

00:11:08.740 It's just you need real demand.

00:11:10.520 I remember Electric Avenue.

00:11:11.700 You go to the men's room, you'd have $1 Drakkar Noir and condoms available for guys who thought they might not smell good

00:11:18.120 have some optimistic hopes for the evening but you know they probably sold some of those things

00:11:22.120 nobody's gonna need these tampons and you paid a buck for them yeah and the men's room they're free

00:11:27.720 ladies are in the calgary international airport but now we know that that's actually kind of uh 1.00

00:11:31.000 that's a weird uh transfer payment uh that's an equalization payment we have from alberta women 1.00

00:11:36.120 to ontario men's so um one of the other things the lefties are going on about was that um

00:11:43.320 And it was like perverted to film yourself in a bathroom and the tampon machine.

00:11:51.080 I saw some of that going on.

00:11:53.380 If you were holding your phone under the cubicles, I'd have some issue as well.

00:11:56.960 So me taking a video of myself and a male tampon machine. 0.96

00:12:01.820 That's gross. 0.91

00:12:03.180 But a hairy guy going to take a leak in the ladies room beside a six-year-old girl, nothing creepy about that. 0.97

00:12:12.260 No, no, that's fine.

00:12:13.020 No, that's all. Nigel, do these people, do you think they actually believe what they're saying

00:12:20.300 in this case? Because I think most of the time lefties generally believe, they're like,

00:12:24.300 eat the rich, take their money. They mean it. They don't understand economics, but they mean it.

00:12:30.380 Do you think they actually believe this stuff? That is actually a very good question,

00:12:36.860 and some I'm sure do, because there is a particular kind of asphyxiation of the mind

00:12:46.620 that takes over and you can talk yourself into anything. However, it's also a time-honored

00:12:53.900 technique of activism to overstate your case and then kind of fall back to something that

00:13:00.220 people can say well fine all right go ahead so you know your point about the hairy guy in the

00:13:08.460 in the women's washroom i actually don't think that's going to last no and i think they're 0.96

00:13:14.700 over sensitive about it right now cory because they know what's going to end the pendulum is

00:13:19.420 swinging hard against them right now trudeau is going to very very likely be out of power

00:13:24.700 in a year year and a half and i could just i could just imagine the press conference where

00:13:29.900 where they're like, we're bashing these things out of the bathroom.

00:13:33.560 The trans fad has overplayed its hand, and we are seeing it. 0.99

00:13:36.800 We're seeing it in the bastions of progressivism.

00:13:39.180 Sweden, Norway, the UK, they're all backing off on all that, too.

00:13:43.000 They've realized the pendulum's gone way too far.

00:13:45.900 We're going to get back to some semblance of sanity here.

00:13:48.620 Acceptance, not insanity.

00:13:50.260 We're trailing because we have a virtue signaling dingbat of a prime minister,

00:13:53.800 but he won't be there forever.

00:13:54.800 See, you know, you're probably thinking of that poll that was done in the UK about six weeks ago,

00:14:00.300 and it turned out that two-thirds of people actually aren't woke, don't like woke, reject woke.

00:14:06.600 The one-third who like it are in government, and so they get to set the rules.

00:14:12.960 They're overrepresented.

00:14:14.900 And I think, you know, nobody's done a survey here, but I suspect that it's around the same kind of reaction.

00:14:22.720 In the end, common sense rules out. 0.98

00:14:25.340 Look at some of the stupid things that have been done in different countries at different times. 0.99

00:14:29.640 Eventually, everybody got over it. 0.99

00:14:31.320 They went back to something that was a little bit more normal.

00:14:34.160 I think, Nico, let's put up a short little clip, short enough that we don't get copyright trouble.

00:14:39.200 Let's put up that short little clip from Monty Python in The Life of Brian, where they're discussing.

00:14:44.780 The Coliseum, yeah.

00:14:45.540 Yeah, let's show that little clip. 1.00

00:14:48.080 I do feel, Reg, that any anti-imperialist group like ours

00:14:52.480 must reflect such a divergence of interest within its power base.

00:14:56.720 Agreed.

00:14:57.180 Rogers?

00:14:58.060 Yeah.

00:14:58.520 I think Judy's point of view is very valid, Reg.

00:15:00.580 Provided the movement never forgets

00:15:02.180 that it is the unalienable right of every man

00:15:04.560 or woman

00:15:05.160 or woman

00:15:05.600 to rid himself

00:15:06.840 or herself

00:15:07.520 or herself.

00:15:08.180 Agreed.

00:15:08.820 Thank you, Baba.

00:15:09.420 Or sister.

00:15:09.940 Or sister.

00:15:12.220 Where was I?

00:15:14.560 I think you're finished.

00:15:16.260 Oh, right. 0.99

00:15:17.140 furthermore it is the birthright of every man or woman why don't you shut up about women stan 1.00

00:15:22.900 you're putting us off women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement reg 1.00

00:15:26.340 why are you always on about women stan i want to be one

00:15:30.540 what i want to be a woman from now on i want you all to call me loretta

00:15:39.620 what it's my right as a man well why do you want to be loretta stan

00:15:46.820 i want to have babies you want to have babies it's every man's right to have babies if he wants them 0.96

00:15:55.620 but you can't have babies don't you oppress me i'm not oppressing you stan you haven't got a womb 0.98

00:16:01.660 where's the fetus gonna gestate you're gonna keep it in a box

00:16:05.860 here i've got an idea suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies

00:16:14.540 not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans, 0.95

00:16:18.100 but that he can have the right to have babies.

00:16:21.180 Good idea, Judith.

00:16:22.720 We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother.

00:16:26.080 Sister, sorry.

00:16:27.160 What's the point?

00:16:28.960 What?

00:16:29.740 What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies 0.85

00:16:32.480 when he can't have babies?

00:16:35.700 It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.

00:16:41.380 Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

00:16:44.540 But The Life of Brian is, I mean, amongst the more offensive things that's ever been put on television.

00:16:51.180 But, you know, when they make a point, they hit it hard.

00:16:54.300 And, you know, they're dealing with it there, I think, in the 1980s or so.

00:16:56.940 And they weren't terribly insensitive about it either.

00:16:58.780 I'll show Nigel and others who want to look it up.

00:17:00.820 Those guys were considered progressive, tolerant, liberal people who made Monty Python.

00:17:06.120 Now they're considered, like, alt-right.

00:17:07.440 Yeah. Okay. But yeah, I just, I think a lot of the oversensitivity is that, you know, it's so-called social progress. I hate the term because that implies there is a good end destination that is preordained. It's almost whiggish in its predisposition.

00:17:26.860 But generally, when things go for so-called progress, they don't really fall back within the Western world.

00:17:33.740 They go forward and they might slow down a bit, but they always keep on going.

00:17:37.420 I think this is the first time they've so severely overplayed their hand that it's now going to swing back.

00:17:44.220 And it's going to swing back hard to a place, I think, of tolerance, acceptance and understanding,

00:17:48.920 but not suspension of simple common sense, not believing what's in front of our own eyes,

00:17:54.940 and not believing simple biology and fact that we've known since before we were cavemen.

00:18:00.260 I think the people, you're right, the people who actually bought into it and said,

00:18:03.760 well, a man could be a woman and a man can have a baby, 1.00

00:18:06.820 I think of our prime minister, for example, who is quite committed to the point of view

00:18:11.140 that a man is a woman if he says he's a woman. 0.80

00:18:14.080 So people are going to regret they ever said those things a few years yet.

00:18:18.920 It's coming.

00:18:20.760 Yeah.

00:18:21.160 Okay.

00:18:21.600 Well, let's move it along.

00:18:24.920 Just, I think, yesterday or the day before, we had Trudeau's mega billion super free stuff budget.

00:18:32.960 It is the biggest budget in Canadian history.

00:18:36.740 Our debt load is now significantly more than it was even by the end of either world war.

00:18:43.040 We have spent more money trying to keep Trudeau in office than we spent getting Hitler out. 0.66

00:18:48.920 New taxes. Sean Spear at the hub had a good point. There was a kind of theory developed in the 90s called Starve the Beast. It was a conservative economic political theory that if we cut taxes enough, there won't be enough revenue, and then we'll then have the political cover to be able to cut spending, cut the size of government itself.

00:19:12.900 And he said this is the flip of that strategy called gorge the beast.

00:19:18.640 Make the government so big, so massively bloated, that then now you've got the excuses to perpetually raise taxes.

00:19:27.100 And so now we see capital gains significantly increased by about a third, a massive increase in it.

00:19:33.060 And a lot of people don't understand capital gains, and I'm not going to explain it here because it's terribly boring to explain.

00:19:37.460 But it is possibly the most evil tax ever devised, and it is the most economically destructive tax ever devised.

00:19:46.600 Canada's productivity is now below Italy.

00:19:48.760 And I'm sorry to anyone of Italian descent watching, but it's always been my rule of thumb that if you're richer than Italy, you're a first world country.

00:19:57.980 And if you're $1 poorer than Italy, you're a second world country.

00:20:01.160 Italy was the cutoff.

00:20:02.740 Italy is now richer than Canada.

00:20:05.500 So by my own definition, Canada is now an upper tier second world country alongside Russia. 0.83

00:20:11.820 You have the colored money, you know, we could be third world quite quickly. 1.00

00:20:15.920 Yeah, that'll be as soon as Trudeau's pictures on it.

00:20:18.580 Corey, your thoughts on the budget?

00:20:21.400 It's a brute.

00:20:23.260 One of the best analogies, you know, is the amount of interest payments.

00:20:28.120 I mean, people don't think about that either.

00:20:29.320 I mean, it's stuff that makes eyes glaze over.

00:20:30.920 But servicing the debt is now going to cost more than we take in every year with the entire GST.

00:20:37.140 $51 billion.

00:20:38.800 Yeah, just more than health care, more than the GST.

00:20:41.040 And that is money flushed. 1.00

00:20:42.300 And that's one of the areas of the left of their idiocy and hypocrisy that gets to me. 1.00

00:20:46.700 Oh, we hate big business. 1.00

00:20:48.060 We can't stand corporations.

00:20:49.480 We can't stand all those.

00:20:51.220 Well, do you think it's the mom and pop store down the road that's financing, you know, 51?

00:20:55.720 And that's billions of dollars that could go to program spending, that could go to numerous, numerous things that would far more benefit to us as going to bonds, lending institutions, things such as that.

00:21:07.140 It is brutal.

00:21:09.220 It's a bad budget.

00:21:11.020 It's attacking the economy, as you said, with the capital gains tax hikes.

00:21:14.300 And also what gets me with it is it follows that pattern of they're always kicking the can down the road with long-term plans that never come to fruition.

00:21:22.140 They budgeted a few years ago and said that the deficit was going to be down to $15 billion.

00:21:25.720 by now. People have already forgotten about that, except for dorks like me. And now it's at 41

00:21:29.780 billion. And it'll probably be supposed to have balance budget from when Trudeau ran in 2015.

00:21:34.380 Oh, yeah. Little, little, little short term deficit, just a little deficit.

00:21:39.680 And a lot of the items in this budget are all on long timelines there. Oh, we're spending 8

00:21:44.820 billion on this over six years, we're spending 10 billion on that over four years. It's it's an

00:21:50.620 ugly, misdirecting, bloated 400 page document of just, yeah, as has been said by some, David

00:21:57.340 Dodge, the worst budget we've seen since 1982. Well, you know, they're going out and planning

00:22:02.760 to spend money at a time when they can't borrow it as cheaply as they could when they came

00:22:07.040 to office. And a lot of the bonds are maturing right now from earlier Trudeau debt and some

00:22:11.980 of the later Harper debt. These bonds are maturing and it's costing a lot more to refinance

00:22:17.140 the debt um Nigel the it's pretty apparent to everyone i think even liberals would sheepishly

00:22:25.380 agree this is a panic budget they're 20 points back in the polls right now that is a they're

00:22:31.380 headed for a historic annihilation election here they they'll probably still be the third uh the

00:22:38.900 official opposition because the ndp hasn't picked up any votes uh poly has picked up all of the votes

00:22:44.660 have been shaken loose. But the liberals are panicking, maybe even save the furniture at this

00:22:50.160 point. Do you see anything in here? Like raising taxes on people that are not yourselves is

00:22:58.160 generally a political popular thing to do might be economically illiterate and destructive to raise

00:23:03.060 capital gains taxes. But most people at least aren't aware that they're paying. Most people

00:23:08.640 are paying capital gains, you know, in your pension, your investment portfolio, etc. But most

00:23:13.620 people don't know it. Do you think it's smart, maybe class warfare politics for the liberals

00:23:19.000 here to try and turn the ship around in terms of polling? I don't know about class warfare

00:23:24.900 exactly. What has happened is that because of liberal policies, we have inflation. Because

00:23:31.980 we have inflation, we have higher home prices. Add in an increase in immigration, and you have

00:23:39.920 got a situation where a whole generation that's now trying to enter the property market can't.

00:23:46.580 They're living in their parents' basements. And so that generation has turned to the conservatives

00:23:55.020 and that is the basis of Pierre Polliver's huge lead over the liberals. So this budget

00:24:05.160 is an attempt to grab some money off the shelf,

00:24:09.760 say they're going to fix the problem that they have caused,

00:24:14.620 and then go and market themselves to the younger generation.

00:24:20.500 It's a racket.

00:24:23.000 It's positively evil if you're one of these people

00:24:25.880 who've worked hard for all your life

00:24:27.120 and hope to reap the rewards of it,

00:24:32.480 or if you're a young person just starting out

00:24:34.340 you have you're trying to build the Canadian dream and they've taken it away from you and now they're

00:24:40.260 going to load you up with debt as you go from your 20s to your 30s to your 40s ask you to pay

00:24:46.420 the interest that on the loans that they've taken out to say that they will solve the problem that

00:24:53.620 they've created for you politically do you think this might succeed at all no uh you know i do

00:25:02.340 think at this point, people have tuned through. I think the bottom is falling out. I think generally

00:25:08.020 tax other people to give you free stuff. I mean, that's a pretty tried and true popular political

00:25:13.780 politics of envy. But there's got to be a degree of trust and faith that is going to achieve

00:25:18.580 something. And this is a tired out old government. I mean, Trudeau is the same age as me. He's

00:25:23.940 aged better. I'll give him that credit. But nobody ever said you have nice hair. No, no,

00:25:29.860 No, I don't have to worry about those compliments.

00:25:31.620 Court for Prime Minister.

00:25:32.400 Yeah.

00:25:33.220 But, I mean, he's not the fresh young face to the youth anymore either.

00:25:37.280 He's lost that youth vote.

00:25:38.640 I mean, he's a middle-aged man now and a tired one.

00:25:42.120 I mean, he won that youth vote based on some spark and vigor and showmanship.

00:25:48.180 He doesn't have that anymore, and he can't win them on policy.

00:25:51.720 So sometimes it can be smart policy, certainly playing that politics of envy, tax the rich, that sort of thing.

00:25:57.440 But from a government where people have just lost faith in everything they do, it's just not going to turn that boat around.

00:26:03.000 Yeah, because you think you think back to his big promises in 2015, he's going to stop global warming.

00:26:08.280 He didn't. He didn't stop global warming by making. I paid my carbon tax. Global warming is still happening.

00:26:14.240 It was pretty cold yesterday.

00:26:15.640 Yeah. Ending first past the post voting. Well, he made that promise when he was third party.

00:26:22.240 Once he won a majority by himself with first past the post, he came to the conclusion.

00:26:25.980 Oh, first-past-post must be pretty good.

00:26:27.840 You've elected me, after all.

00:26:29.840 And actually keeps him in power despite losing the popular vote consistently now.

00:26:34.820 But, you know, to your point, Nigel, about, you know, young people unable to afford a place, 1.00

00:26:40.180 he did have one measure there.

00:26:44.220 He can't help you buy your own house, but the government is going to give you a low-interest loan

00:26:49.000 so that your in-laws can move in with you.

00:26:51.660 They're going to give low-interest loans so that you can renovate your place

00:26:55.260 and put an en suite for your parents or your in-laws.

00:26:59.040 Now, do whatever you want.

00:27:01.060 I mean, it's just these little micro policies.

00:27:04.380 It's not exactly a solution, is it?

00:27:05.800 I would rather have my own place

00:27:07.260 and have my parents move back in with me.

00:27:09.540 They're playing with,

00:27:10.740 they won't address the real problem,

00:27:12.300 which is a lack of supply and an excess of demand.

00:27:14.540 It's as simple as that.

00:27:15.860 And they keep throwing money at it,

00:27:17.500 which only increases the prices of things.

00:27:19.860 I mean, some of their solutions,

00:27:20.860 like saying, oh, we're going to extend the terms

00:27:22.660 for mortgages or we're going to give more ways

00:27:24.340 for people to increase their credit rating.

00:27:26.780 Look, if you're making $70,000 a year

00:27:28.800 and the houses in your neighborhood

00:27:30.180 are $1.1 million,

00:27:32.100 it doesn't matter how good your credit is,

00:27:34.180 you're not buying one.

00:27:36.300 He finally at least acknowledged

00:27:38.920 that they're bringing too many bloody people

00:27:40.540 into the country right now.

00:27:41.960 But he didn't say he's going to do anything about it.

00:27:44.640 I mean, so baby steps here.

00:27:46.000 But until he reduces that demand somehow,

00:27:49.420 we're hooked.

00:27:50.180 They can claim they're going to increase supply,

00:27:51.920 but they can't do that.

00:27:53.060 The idea of putting more money in suggests that perhaps there are a lot of people who would be building houses if there was only money.

00:28:00.960 But that's not the case.

00:28:01.980 Anybody who knows how to do this is already doing it and making a fortune.

00:28:05.860 And they'll charge even more now that money's being pumped into a cramped market.

00:28:09.060 That's another inflationary action right there.

00:28:12.880 I mean, this is the underlying problem with the liberals since day one,

00:28:16.340 is that they do not understand basic economics, and they don't listen to people who do.

00:28:21.640 perhaps there'd be more uh you know more money to go around for some of these projects if we

00:28:27.820 didn't spend a few million a year on tampons for men um it's it's incredible uh and then just coming

00:28:36.240 back to the incredible borrowing there is not even a you know i remember when i when i was a finance

00:28:41.680 critic for the wild rose in the alberta legislature the ndp would table a budget every year by the way

00:28:46.200 Allison Redford and Stelmack did before then predicting in year three or five a balanced budget.

00:28:52.220 They never got there. They always just, oh, something happened this year that we could have never foreseen,

00:28:57.860 but we're going to do it one year again. So it was always in year five.

00:29:00.760 And they had a theoretical balanced budget, just at least paying lip service to it.

00:29:06.460 Deliberals don't even have a theoretical best case scenario.

00:29:09.820 If all the planets line up, everything goes our way, and we become the richest country in the world overnight, we'll balance the budget theoretically in five or seven years.

00:29:20.180 They don't even have that.

00:29:23.760 We'll start with you, Nigel.

00:29:26.400 How difficult?

00:29:28.740 Is PolyEV going to be able to survive four years with the cuts that are going to be required to get the budget under control?

00:29:34.480 I mean, balancing it. I mean, if you put a maniac like me in charge, I could balance it, but it's good. I mean, the federal government would be left a heap of rubble, which I think would be a good thing. But it probably is going to be able to survive four years with the huge cuts that are going to be required to get the budget under control when we're spending, I think, $54 billion a year on interest, which is the entire GSD or the entire health budget.

00:30:01.620 Any government has got three options.

00:30:05.180 You either cut expenditures or you raise taxes, and then the third option is you allow inflation

00:30:12.560 to take place.

00:30:13.560 Or deficit.

00:30:14.560 Are you already seeing?

00:30:15.560 Well, that's the bar, that's the, so we're already seeing the inflation.

00:30:23.640 question about will polyerth be able to do that and and get elected four years later i actually

00:30:33.560 think that this is part of what the liberals are doing now is a scorched earth policy making it

00:30:39.960 virtually impossible for anybody to do anything so they'll just be filthy unpopular in 2029 and

00:30:45.480 back on the liberals who promise all things to all men uh literally cynical stuff but that's

00:30:52.840 the game that's being played. What would Polyev do? Well, I think he certainly would cut. That's

00:31:01.840 the accusation that Mr. Singh makes against him, that he's going to scrap a bunch of programs. Well,

00:31:07.240 I hope he scraps them all and more yet. I mean, some things you just can't afford. And then as

00:31:13.960 for taxes, my expectation, my hope, that as a principled conservative, Mr. Polyev would take

00:31:20.760 the view that you generate activity by lightning tax loads and it could be a bit of a squeeze at

00:31:28.420 first but if you actually get this country working like our real GDP has been below you know it's a

00:31:36.020 minus number. Our GDP per capita has now been going down for well over a year. The only thing

00:31:42.520 that has made our GDP look positive is escalating house prices which is one of the reasons why I

00:31:48.120 think the liberals have allowed it to happen. But if you take care of the essentials, I think it is

00:31:56.820 possible to hold this thing back from the brink. That is what Polyev is likely to try to do. He

00:32:02.940 can't, but he will certainly cut. I don't know whether it'll be up to him whether there's

00:32:07.940 inflation or not. It happens going. Corey, poly of is not, you know, a mealy mouth, wishy-washy

00:32:18.160 Tory the way Aaron O'Toole was. Poly of the real deal. You know, we know this guy. He is,

00:32:26.840 he means what he says, says what he means. He is a rock rib conservative and understands the

00:32:31.980 fiscal files extremely well. He was their finance critic for a long time. He gets this stuff. I

00:32:36.760 I think he knows what he needs to do with the budget once he likely comes to power.

00:32:43.320 But it's going to, I mean, the lefties, the unions are going to be screaming bloody murder in the streets for the kind of spending reductions that are going to be absolutely necessary to avoid a Greek style physical collapse in this country.

00:33:00.120 I have a lot of confidence he knows what he needs to do, but the politics is going to be so brutal around it.

00:33:06.760 Do you think he's going to do it?

00:33:09.100 I think he can do it.

00:33:11.580 He can pull it off.

00:33:13.060 You don't underestimate, actually, Canadians' ability to understand just how bad it is once it gets bad enough.

00:33:18.500 You're young enough, it wasn't such an issue, but living through the 90s.

00:33:21.820 The early 90s was a big one.

00:33:23.600 And the wall was hit, and Canadians realized it. 0.99

00:33:27.240 So even though the unions, the pundits, the same old ones were saying, we can't cut, you can't afford it, we're going to scream.

00:33:32.420 And in Alberta, they were literally kicking the doors of the legislature while Klein was doing his cuts.

00:33:36.760 And what happened? Klein got a bigger majority. He cut some more, and he got a bigger majority.

00:33:41.800 Mike Harris got a majority. Roy Romano got a majority NDP by cutting.

00:33:47.020 Chrétien got a majority by cutting. So Canadians will accept cuts when they know it has to happen.

00:33:53.520 They might not like them, but they will accept them, and they will reward a strong politician

00:33:56.660 for doing it. But you've got to be the right politician to do it. Polly Evans certainly 0.99

00:34:02.520 He doesn't pull any punches, but he also can grate on a lot of people.

00:34:06.080 Unfortunately, personality is part of the whole deal.

00:34:08.020 People loved Ralph.

00:34:08.800 He could get away with darn near anything.

00:34:10.780 I don't know if Mr. Polyev pulls that kind of weight, but I think he can.

00:34:15.160 He can.

00:34:16.100 Yeah, so we'll see.

00:34:18.000 All right, we're going to bring it back closer to home here.

00:34:20.800 The Coutts three.

00:34:23.860 I know one of them, Markov and Huguenbos.

00:34:27.060 I don't know if you have a huge voice.

00:34:29.180 I'm not sure if you've got the names.

00:34:30.380 Here's the others.

00:34:31.100 We've got, yeah, Alex Van Herc and Gerhard Janzen. Lots of Dutch in there. It's around there, everyone's Dutch or German, Southern Alberta.

00:34:44.000 So, you know, we remember the episode of Coots. It was kind of a protest blockade of the border against mandates and lockdowns. A lot of these guys were truckers who Trudeau essentially had their jobs outlawed for crossing the border.

00:34:59.180 couldn't cross the border because of laws Trudeau passed. So I think I generally am not favorable

00:35:03.500 to blocking the border. But when your own government says you can't cross your border,

00:35:06.780 you've now got some reasonable grounds to block said border that your own government says you

00:35:10.780 can't cross. You know, it was kind of a kind of a light Berlin Wall kind of thing Trudeau had built

00:35:15.900 here. They've, after a, you know, fairly long drawn out process, last night, the three were

00:35:24.060 found guilty of mischief above $5,000 it's odd we have rapists who get released even after being

00:35:34.780 convicted but you know the process gets drawn out too long and a rapist that gets let out

00:35:43.820 guy who vandalized my motorcycle and as a result I almost got killed in an accident

00:35:49.740 And charged, didn't show up for court. Police did absolutely nothing. These three guys are in the protest, but they're now, I'm not sure, they haven't been sentenced yet, so I'm not sure what's going to happen.

00:36:03.320 But I'm feeling that the state is going to give them the book. They're going to give them the heaviest time possible, is my guess. I could be wrong.

00:36:12.440 But there is certainly the heavy hand of justice here, but still light on anything else. I'm not aware of anyone. Just yesterday, there was a bunch of Hamas supporters blocking a rail terminal in Ontario.

00:36:26.700 I'm not aware of a single charge there as actual terrorism supporters block critical infrastructure.

00:36:33.700 We'll start with you, Corey.

00:36:38.700 Are they, do you think the law is being applied equally here to how it is with other groups that media courts are find maybe more sympathetic?

00:36:45.700 Definitely isn't. I mean, Idle No More, same thing, they were blocking railroad tracks, nobody would get charged.

00:36:50.700 The pipeline and construction in BC, when they were blockading that and violently being removed, they'd always get the charges dropped.

00:36:58.440 These guys, they followed through all the way to the very end to make sure they pin and convict a charge upon them.

00:37:05.080 I'm not arguing whether or not maybe that's, you know, those charges should be applied to all or they shouldn't have been applied to any.

00:37:12.460 But right now, there is definitely a double standard going on.

00:37:14.920 You've got to go one way or the other.

00:37:15.840 You've got to apply to everyone and apply to no one.

00:37:17.220 They're definitely giving everything they can with it.

00:37:19.140 This is like the Alberta version of Tamara Leach. 0.99

00:37:21.240 As Nigel and I were talking about earlier, it's easy to confuse this with the CUTs IV,

00:37:24.740 which was a separate set of charges and a whole different ball of wax there.

00:37:28.440 These were guys who were just organizers of the protest that had blocked infrastructure

00:37:31.920 that had to be removed and broken down eventually.

00:37:35.360 But it wasn't a violent action or anything like that with these guys.

00:37:39.920 They do want to make sure, though, that at least when it comes to this end of the spectrum,

00:37:44.680 if you're going to protest, they want everybody to know you're going to pay a price for it.

00:37:49.140 We're going to go after you, we're going to convict you, and you're going to be left for the record and possibly some jail time.

00:37:55.140 Which, hey, you know, I don't know.

00:37:57.120 I mean, I'm liberty-minded, but I also believe in a degree of control.

00:38:01.040 But if you're going to...

00:38:01.820 You generally shouldn't block members as a general rule.

00:38:03.880 Same sort of thing when you get the same person who blocks the pipeline five times in a row and you've got to keep arresting them,

00:38:08.660 maybe it's time to lay some charges.

00:38:11.120 But you've got to get an equal application of this law, and they're not doing it.

00:38:13.940 Nigel, the defense's main defense was that there was no clear leadership. These guys were, they went after these guys rather than everyone because they were the leaders. I think, I don't know all of them, but I, you know, I know at least one was prominent among them.

00:38:32.460 But, you know, we had a reporter embedded in the room as these guys made decisions.

00:38:37.700 We had unprecedented access during the Coutts blockade.

00:38:41.240 And it was amply evident that there was no clear leadership and hierarchy of this.

00:38:47.020 It was a couple of guys sitting around the Alamo.

00:38:51.240 Like, you know, they certainly there's going to be some stronger personalities that stand out here.

00:38:56.540 But, I mean, anybody who understood it knew that, you know, there was no, like, union boss who showed up and led the protest here.

00:39:04.920 It was a very decentralized, pretty egalitarian thing here.

00:39:09.860 Any idea why their defense that they were not really leaders because it was just kind of a group effort didn't stand up?

00:39:18.400 Obviously, the jury couldn't think of a reason why they should get off.

00:39:23.180 I have to sort of look at that, look at it from that point of view.

00:39:26.540 Well, you know, you can either have good decision-making or bad decision-making, but somehow or other there was decision-making, and the juries decided they needed to answer for it.

00:39:37.340 But I don't have a lot of respect for these people.

00:39:41.780 Sure, if I'd been trying to get across the border that day, I'd have probably been fed up because my own plans were being interrupted.

00:39:50.460 But, you know, progress depends on the unreasonable person.

00:39:53.940 And if you look just in the history of the last 150 years at the number of people who have defied a legitimate law because they thought it was wrong, who are now on postage stamps, you have to accept that these guys stood up for what they believed in.

00:40:16.060 And they are to be admired for that because they were prepared to take the consequences.

00:40:24.020 They didn't stand up and run away.

00:40:25.960 They said, all right, we will take our stand.

00:40:28.200 We'll see it through.

00:40:29.740 And if the law goes against us, well, what happens, happens.

00:40:32.780 Well, it's about to happen.

00:40:33.980 We'll find out what the penalties will be.

00:40:37.420 But I mean, I'm going to butcher the Dutch here, but Van Huygen Vos, 1.00

00:40:43.000 Honestly, he said, there's no surprise here for me.

00:40:45.760 Based on the charge, based on the interpretation of the law, we're guilty.

00:40:51.740 All right.

00:40:52.440 Fair enough.

00:40:53.460 He said it.

00:40:54.740 And now I go back to thinking about people like Nelson Mandela or Lesh Valesa.

00:41:00.740 Rosa Parks, you know.

00:41:02.660 These are people who did what they did.

00:41:05.900 They broke the law.

00:41:06.640 They broke the law.

00:41:08.200 They knew bad things could happen.

00:41:10.800 Ultimately, they came out on the right side. Now they are celebrated. This may not be the year that these three gentlemen get celebrated, but give them credit.

00:41:22.100 I'd say a good half of Alberta is still cheering them on right now.

00:41:24.800 Absolutely. Rick Strankman built a political career on defying the green exchange.

00:41:30.460 Yeah, I had lunch with Rick Strankman just yesterday.

00:41:32.860 Oh, yeah. Yeah. And that is a great example. And it involves the border.

00:41:36.480 So just a little bit of history for the younger folks, I wasn't paying too much attention to the Wheat Board at this time too, I think I was a teenager, but it used to be illegal for Western, not Eastern, but Western farmers to sell their grain, their barley, etc. to anyone except for the federal government.

00:41:54.060 It was, I think it was a World War I measure?

00:41:58.640 Maybe two.

00:41:59.300 Maybe two?

00:42:00.100 It was like the supply management policy.

00:42:01.340 I think it was World, it could have been World War I.

00:42:03.920 It was brought in, I guess, as a wartime measure.

00:42:06.660 Maybe it was defensible at the time, although not if it only applied to the West.

00:42:09.940 But, yeah, so the federal government would have control of this stuff, and they never let it go.

00:42:14.120 And these guys wanted the right, like people in almost any other industry other than dairy,

00:42:18.420 to be able to sell their products to who they wanted.

00:42:20.860 And it was illegal.

00:42:21.700 And to challenge the law, Rick Strankman and his boys drive down to the border, and Rick on the phone, he says,

00:42:28.220 Hey, just so you know, I'm about to cross the border with some grain. You better come and stop me.

00:42:32.920 And then the next phone call was, CTV, Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, come on down.

00:42:40.440 And these guys got arrested, and they went to jail for selling grain. 0.68

00:42:45.160 And that exposed to Canada how ridiculous the system was.

00:42:48.700 People at least didn't even know about it, because their farmers weren't subject.

00:42:51.700 to this. And you know, so that's, I know this is a bit of a tangent here, but it was at really,

00:42:57.780 it's the same principle. And it was at a Southern Alberta border crossing. I don't think it was,

00:43:01.980 no, I think it was Coutts, because that's the main commercial one down south. It could have been

00:43:05.560 Coutts. It could have been Coutts. So it's, it's, it's, it's pretty relevant. And in this case,

00:43:10.220 like I am generally not down, and we have to try and separate when we like a cause and when we

00:43:15.180 don't. But in general, no, you don't block rail crossings. You don't block roads. You don't

00:43:20.520 block border crossings. But in this case, the federal government banned Canadians from crossing their own border to do their job. They essentially built an invisible Berlin wall for Canadians. And in that case, when the government takes away your right to do something, you have a right to take away the government's right to do that same thing. So, you know, I think they were justified in this case. 0.86

00:43:41.640 Part of their problem, we saw that as we watched and poor James interminably stuck down there in the cold weather and around it.

00:43:50.420 He did a great job, but they're not good at coming up with an exit strategy.

00:43:55.580 Rick knew what he was doing.

00:43:56.920 He went down.

00:43:57.700 We're going to get busted.

00:43:58.500 We're going to move along.

00:43:59.220 We're going to move the process.

00:43:59.980 These guys, after day six, now you're twiddling your thumbs, but you don't want to give up.

00:44:03.440 They had an exit strategy that was good, and then one maniac walked in. 0.70

00:44:07.940 We don't want to go down that rabbit hole.

00:44:09.480 We're not going to go down that rabbit hole.

00:44:10.580 But they do have a problem sometimes making their point and moving on.

00:44:15.300 And that's when you start to get into trouble, too.

00:44:17.940 Yeah.

00:44:18.700 Okay, well, we're going to wrap it up there.

00:44:20.400 I think we had a great conversation today.

00:44:23.140 Certainly, you know, everything from the budget to tampons for men to civil disobedience and rehashing COVID a little bit here.

00:44:33.180 So quite the round robin we did.

00:44:35.700 Well, Corey, Nigel, thank you for joining.

00:44:37.400 Thanks for having us.

00:44:38.120 I thank all of you for joining us.

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