Western Standard - Trudeau’s desperation bid for re-election will bankrupt generations

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00:01:30.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show got a good one this week i like to think they're all

00:01:37.680 good some are better than others we got to get realistic with things and yeah today's a good

00:01:42.640 one it's really addressing a pressing issue in a little while i will have premier daniel smith

00:01:47.360 on it was actually a recorded interview we rarely do that here but when you know the premier's

00:01:51.580 schedule is tight and i just couldn't get her on live so when that runs though i mean i still it's

00:01:56.520 going to be running live on here. Use the comment area. Send your comments, ideas, questions on there

00:02:04.020 and I can address them after the interview. Interact with each other. I like you seeing that

00:02:08.380 comment scroll being used. It reminds me that we are live. Just keep things civil. Good to see you

00:02:12.860 there, Rusty and Paradoxy and others. Feel free to check in. And of course, there's going to be the

00:02:19.000 rest of the news and other things going. So I'm going to start things off on a federal note. One

00:02:22.840 of my pet subjects, our imbecile of a prime minister and his behavior of late. Well, as always. 1.00

00:02:29.320 So, I mean, the Trudeau government, though, they've been on the ropes for over a year. Polls have been

00:02:34.160 abysmal and it appears nothing's going to turn them around. So changing the leader of their party,

00:02:38.820 I mean, it could improve their fortunes. It worked for the Democratic Party south of the border.

00:02:43.180 But Trudeau appears to be stubbornly unwilling to step aside, no matter how unpopular he becomes.

00:02:48.540 Now, the clock's ticking for the liberals. They've got to be getting stressed. I mean,

00:02:51.520 unless Trudeau steps down within the next couple of months, the Liberals won't be able to hold a

00:02:56.000 leadership and have a new leader well enough established to head into an election in less

00:02:59.980 than a year. They're basically going to have to accept him and get used to it. Aside from the

00:03:05.760 usual campaign of trying to label all their opponents as being far right, you know, and scary

00:03:09.940 and all that usual garbage, the Liberal tactic of trying to spend their way back into the hearts

00:03:14.360 of Canadians has continued. Hardly a day goes by without a new spending announcement. And with 0.85

00:03:19.860 over a year expected at least to pass before the next general election, the Trudeau government's

00:03:24.000 on track to spend Canadians into poverty for generations. The latest announcement comes from

00:03:28.680 Napanee, Ontario, where a Goodyear plant is going to be getting 44 million tax dollars for an

00:03:33.800 expansion. Goodyear is a large multinational corporation that does not need corporate

00:03:38.620 welfare from Canadians. They're not going to say no when Trudeau comes prancing in with a signed

00:03:43.160 check from taxpayers in his hand, but they don't need it. The ones who are in need are the desperate

00:03:47.840 liberals, and they're praying that somehow through corporate handouts, the potential new jobs they

00:03:52.880 might create may reverse the downward spiral in the polls. Hasn't worked yet, but they're still

00:03:57.920 doggedly trying, and it's pretty easy to do when you're writing checks with somebody else's

00:04:01.040 checkbook. The subsidies are adding up to tens of billions of tax dollars when the mad lust for

00:04:06.620 investing in battery plants to service electric vehicles that nobody wants is added up. While

00:04:12.000 automakers are backing off from EV targets and cutting production, Canadians are having their

00:04:16.300 tax dollars poured into companies with a mandate to supply EV manufacturing. In other words, a

00:04:20.660 really stupid business decision and a recipe for financial disaster. Then there's the public 1.00

00:04:25.640 service. With a decade in power, the Liberal government's managed to bloat the already

00:04:29.960 grossly large civil service by 40%. Services haven't gotten any better, though. We just have

00:04:35.100 more people underserving us than ever before at a higher cost than we ever possibly could have

00:04:39.520 imagined. Many of them went on strike last year and more have since been threatening labor action

00:04:44.240 over having to come to the office more than two days a week.

00:04:47.600 Job growth in the private sector in Canada remains stagnant.

00:04:50.580 So that means we've got a smaller pool of people

00:04:52.260 having to work more to pay a larger number of people to work less.

00:04:56.300 Private sector workers are becoming tired,

00:04:58.200 and as much as Trudeau is trying to change that private-to-public ratio

00:05:01.500 to win an election, there won't be enough civil servants hired

00:05:04.240 to turn around an election, but they sure will break us.

00:05:06.820 Trudeau's partnership with Singh's NDP is costing a fortune too.

00:05:10.140 I mean, come on, nationalized dental services, daycare services,

00:05:12.740 lunchroom services, pharma care services. They're adding up to more billions of dollars that we

00:05:16.900 can ill afford. Clearly, though, the Trudeau government still somehow fears that Singh might

00:05:21.640 pull the pin on their government. You know, if he ever found his knackers and some courage,

00:05:26.940 Singh's as happy as he's ever going to be. And if he tries to, you know, he tries to talk tough now

00:05:31.120 and then, but he's not going to go into an election. He doesn't want to go anywhere than

00:05:34.340 Trudeau does. But the liberals are still tossing billions into NDP initiatives to be on the safe

00:05:38.700 side. Trudeau's government used to at least pretend they had a plan to reach a balanced

00:05:43.300 budget one day, but they've tossed out those pretenses of fiscal responsibility and just now

00:05:47.840 plan to increase the national debt indefinitely. You know, Trudeau has realized that budgets don't

00:05:53.260 balance themselves finally, but the problem is he doesn't care. Government spending just keeps

00:05:57.320 rising with the debt. It's anticipated that the program spending is going to increase by another

00:06:03.020 18% by 28-29 if trends continue as they have. That estimate's going to keep growing as the

00:06:07.700 announcements keep coming. The cost for servicing the debt's nearing $50 billion a year. Think about

00:06:12.420 that. $50 billion a year in interest payments. It's flushing money down the toilet, and it's as

00:06:16.900 much as the federal government spends on health care. Worst of all, it's the future generations

00:06:22.220 who are going to be left with the bill. Trudeau, he's eventually going to be tossed from office.

00:06:26.280 He's never soon enough. He'll retire on some private island, live out his life in luxury.

00:06:31.240 Meanwhile, young Canadians are going to have years of austerity when budgets have to be cut and taxes

00:06:35.840 have to be risen when the nation hits the inevitable fiscal wall. Trudeau is the most

00:06:40.040 irresponsible, selfish prime minister in Canadian history. He has no qualms about 1.00

00:06:43.940 indebting generations in a desperate attempt to remain in power.

00:06:47.960 Some people think that Trudeau should remain in power until the next election because his terrible leadership provides

00:06:51.900 an advantage to the Conservative Party. This might be true, but the price to keep that fool 0.99

00:06:55.900 in power any longer than we have to is much too high. Trudeau is clearly never going to 0.97

00:06:59.920 discover the concepts of personal accountability or empathy for struggling Canadians, 0.94

00:07:03.960 but perhaps some liberal caucus members will they have to pressure that clown to resign

00:07:08.520 as strongly as possible as soon as possible we just can't afford to keep him there any longer 0.55

00:07:13.580 all right well that's kind of got me going it's just i can't you know opening the news and finding

00:07:18.220 more spending more spending we just can't keep doing it guys well we'll see all right let's see

00:07:23.740 what the hell else is going on out there we got our news editor dave naylor in studio with us

00:07:27.800 today hey dave what's what's topping the scroll today hey it's nice to see you in a tie again

00:07:32.680 Yeah.

00:07:32.940 You probably forgot you were wearing that, didn't you?

00:07:34.820 It's just a temporary measure going on right now.

00:07:38.320 There you go.

00:07:38.740 I can't forget these things throttled.

00:07:40.080 Hey, nice get having the Premier on.

00:07:42.840 That's always good, eh?

00:07:43.820 Yeah.

00:07:44.460 Well, you know, Premier Smith's been getting a lot of flack over the immigration issue.

00:07:47.680 She wanted to clarify a bunch of stuff.

00:07:49.540 Yeah, I'm interested in hearing what she has to say.

00:07:52.840 Leading off today, Corey, with a really disturbing story out of Calgary where a dead kitten was found with its head sort of caved in.

00:08:01.520 and zip tied to a fence post in the community of Kingsland.

00:08:06.880 So that's prompted a big Calgary Humane Society investigation.

00:08:10.980 And it turns out that since May, the end of May 30th,

00:08:14.100 they found six kittens in and around that Kingsland sandy beach area

00:08:19.360 that have been abused and had their paws tied together

00:08:23.400 and covered in tar and stuff like that. 0.99

00:08:25.480 So there is one really sicko individual out there. 1.00

00:08:31.520 We've got our columnist, Jaime Rubenstein, expert on Indigenous affairs, 0.99

00:08:37.120 talking about the trend now to fake your Indigenous identity to get funding,

00:08:43.100 federal funding for your business or whatever it may be. 1.00

00:08:46.900 And that's a good read.

00:08:48.660 Big hailstorm is continuing to wreak havoc on WestJet.

00:08:52.680 You should see some of the pictures of the wings of the plane just dented.

00:08:56.900 And they've had to cancel 600 flights since the storm last week.

00:09:01.260 And if you phone the passenger hotline, you're told three days until an agent can get back there.

00:09:06.880 So that's upsetting a lot of people.

00:09:09.540 And interestingly, during their little strike last month in July, they ranked dead last in North American Airlines for arriving on time.

00:09:18.300 So I don't see their August stats picking up any time soon.

00:09:23.100 As you know, Corey, Winnipeg, the Canadian capital of Slurpee consumption.

00:09:28.820 They love their Slurpees in Winnipeg.

00:09:31.260 And they may have to go a bit further to get it.

00:09:33.880 Now the corporation has announced they're closing 10 7-Elevens because of crime.

00:09:39.800 And they're just in crime-ridden neighborhoods, and it's just not worth their while to stay open anymore.

00:09:45.220 You know, it's like shades of San Francisco and stuff like that.

00:09:50.700 Algerian boxer Califf was the boxer in the ladies' competition with male chromosomes.

00:09:59.580 She is suing everybody and their dog for defamation during the Olympics, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Arthur J.K. Rowling.

00:10:10.680 So French officials are investigating and we'll have to see what happens there.

00:10:16.860 And the Liberals have resorted to their old tactic of blame Stephen Harper. 0.68

00:10:21.600 This time it's for letting those two ISIS terrorists into the country 0.98

00:10:26.360 and letting them go live in Toronto where they're planning to kill as many people as they can. 0.99

00:10:32.960 All Stephen Harper's fault. 0.99

00:10:34.680 Shame on Mr. Harper.

00:10:36.800 Coming up this afternoon right now when NASA is holding a press conference

00:10:41.180 on those poor stranded astronauts who went up for a weekend

00:10:45.540 and now may be stuck there until next year.

00:10:47.680 So our own space geek, Sean Polzer, will be filing a story on that.

00:10:53.700 And our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford, is pecking away on a column on what's happening in Great Britain now.

00:11:02.080 Had some bad rioting and now people who are saying things on Facebook are being thrown in jail for more than a year.

00:11:09.220 It's kind of what Trudeau's proposing, you know, on these online harms bills.

00:11:14.100 So he's taking a look at that, and I'm sure it's going to be interesting.

00:11:18.540 Well, lots on the burner.

00:11:20.680 Always lots on the go.

00:11:21.820 All right.

00:11:22.580 Well, I'll let you get back at chasing those reporters around

00:11:25.960 and keeping us all up to date on these fantastic happenings.

00:11:29.420 I'll do my best.

00:11:30.340 Right on.

00:11:30.820 Thanks.

00:11:31.280 Thanks.

00:11:31.920 All right.

00:11:32.380 As you heard, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:34.560 And, yes, lots on the go.

00:11:35.900 Boy, that kitten story, that's the first I'd heard of it, actually.

00:11:39.060 I guess that's just awful.

00:11:40.240 there's something extra horrible about animal abusers you know i i think it's part of why we

00:11:47.000 get more upset when we hear about you know a senior citizen being attacked or a child or an

00:11:53.460 animal is that they're helpless right you know it's one thing if a grown person's assaulting

00:11:57.260 another it's still never good violence is never good but kittens good lord you know and these are

00:12:03.080 the things that we really need to take seriously i mean with some of the the most horrible killers

00:12:08.140 and, you know, sadistic individuals we get out there in the world that we run across,

00:12:14.500 almost always they have a history of violence towards animals.

00:12:18.400 They start there.

00:12:20.380 So let's catch this person in Calgary and any other animal abusers as soon as possible

00:12:24.880 and just get this dealt with.

00:12:26.720 What a horrible, horrible thing to think of.

00:12:29.800 So this is the time I'd like to remind you too, as you know, as you can see here,

00:12:32.320 Dave's busy, Nigel's busy, Sean, Jen, Jonathan, boy, so many names.

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00:13:11.640 get on there, guys. Subscribe. Keep this rolling. Keep independent media functional. You know,

00:13:18.660 there's a dark side to that. It's interesting, you know, the little trivia things you find out.

00:13:22.980 So yeah, Winnipeg is the Slurpee capital of Canada. I didn't know that, you know, 1.00

00:13:28.560 you wouldn't think that. So, okay, it was popular for Slurpees. And now 11, 7-Elevens are being shut

00:13:34.840 down within Winnipeg because of the high crime. Something that's making a lot of news lately

00:13:39.440 has been the list of the highest crime cities in the country. And people sometimes aren't thinking,

00:13:45.820 you know, they're wondering, why isn't it the great big cities? It's smaller cities.

00:13:49.160 And you look at who's topping it, and it's like Kamloops, and it's Chilliwack, and it's

00:13:54.320 Red Deer, Alberta, it's Lethbridge, it's North Battleford, it's the smaller city, Saskatoon,

00:14:00.300 Regina, and Winnipeg. This is, you know, we were talking about immigration, we're talking about

00:14:05.480 challenges and things that happen. This has nothing to do with immigration, actually.

00:14:09.200 It is a social thing, though, and it's a demographic thing. That's one of the things

00:14:13.360 we really do need to discuss. It's a sensitive area, very sensitive, but it shows how we,

00:14:17.940 it's not a coincidence, excuse me, that every one of the cities that top the crime lists of

00:14:26.160 crime crimes are also the cities that top the percentage of having Indigenous populations.

00:14:32.300 And see, this is where it gets delicate, because you don't want to label every Indigenous person

00:14:35.840 as a criminal. Of course not. I mean, the vast majority of them are not. But they're very,

00:14:41.480 very socially troubled, economically troubled. I mean, part of it is they're coming from reserves, 1.00

00:14:46.900 they're settling in cities, and they're having a very difficult time adapting to city life. 0.99

00:14:52.280 But we can't dodge and hide from that pattern. We can't ignore the reality that this is, you know,

00:15:03.380 among the many measures. They've got shorter life expectancies, bigger health problems,

00:15:07.000 lower graduation rates. We have to accept that the system is failing. It's failing everybody,

00:15:12.740 but it's failing the Indigenous people the most.

00:15:14.760 This two parallel systems, this race-based policy we have.

00:15:20.280 The irony is a lot of what messed up the Indigenous population socially

00:15:24.880 over the generations was race-based policy to begin with.

00:15:28.300 They were terribly treated.

00:15:29.520 They weren't allowed to leave reserves without talking to an Indian agent first.

00:15:33.420 They were treated with a lot of terrible racism from people

00:15:36.080 when they would leave the reserves.

00:15:37.680 There was a lot of bad things done.

00:15:39.520 but we're trying to fix it by applying more race-based policy. Guys, what we need to do is

00:15:45.240 get race out of policy. We need to have discussions about what's working and what's not working. And

00:15:50.820 this is not working for our First Nations in Canada right now and for other people who live

00:15:55.780 in areas where the social disorder is spreading. Okay, now another issue. We're going to get into

00:16:00.440 that right away here with my guest. As I said, it's recorded. Keep the comments coming, guys.

00:16:04.600 I'll read them while the interview is going. I had to record it with Premier Smith.

00:16:09.520 but she'd recently, you know, well, not recently, but it recently kind of hit the news about an

00:16:13.540 interview she did where she talked about doubling the population of Alberta. A lot of people are

00:16:17.500 wondering, what the heck is she talking about? What's she going on about? And Premier Smith

00:16:21.240 kindly came on the show and gave us 15 minutes to explain where she's coming from with

00:16:25.460 immigration and what Alberta can do about it. So let's run

00:16:29.600 that and listen to Premier Smith and we can have a discussion on immigration.

00:16:33.160 thank you very much for joining us today premier smith on an issue that's really uh well a sensitive

00:16:43.120 one and a big one with a lot of people and that's immigration every level of government's dealing

00:16:48.120 with it every citizen's dealing with it uh i i guess you kind of unexpectedly brought it into

00:16:53.860 the fore again with an interview you did last january perhaps if we could start there we're

00:16:58.160 just kind of clarifying, you'd spoken of aspiring to have Alberta double its population by 2050,

00:17:05.020 and it got a lot of people pretty worked up. Can you kind of expand on that a little?

00:17:09.720 Well, my thinking about it was that we were already growing at 200,000 a year based on

00:17:16.060 those numbers. So if you just do the math, by 25 years, it would be 5 million population.

00:17:21.820 And I have often thought that we would have more political clout if we had a higher population

00:17:26.740 than Quebec. But what I'm seeing, and I'm doing a lot of roundtables and town halls across the

00:17:32.360 province, people are worried. People are very nervous about our ability to be able to keep up

00:17:37.960 with that pace of growth. And I think we're beginning to see it. So I'm listening to people,

00:17:42.980 I'm having to recalibrate a little bit on what our aspirations should be. I think what we really need

00:17:49.920 is a sensible immigration policy, similar to what we had under Stephen Harper, where we had a point

00:17:55.760 system for bringing people in. We made sure that newcomers matched the economic needs of our

00:18:00.380 economy. We made sure that we had a level of newcomers coming to our country that matched

00:18:05.140 our ability to keep up with housing. And I think what we're seeing is that, especially in Alberta,

00:18:11.400 we're beginning to feel some of the pressure of that growth. And I think that that's what people

00:18:14.900 are responding to. Yeah. And I'd crunch the numbers because I mean, as soon as I first heard

00:18:19.280 it, I thought, boy, that's a pretty fast growth. And then I realized, well, actually, with where

00:18:22.800 things went in 2023. If we sustain the current growth we're at, we will double by 2050, whether

00:18:27.340 we aspire to do so or not. So the discussion has to be, I mean, you can't slow immigration. That's

00:18:33.740 a, would be a federal move anyhow, but we really have to better deal with it. I mean, our healthcare

00:18:39.280 is having a really hard time keeping up with our existing population. Housing is really pressuring

00:18:43.960 people, the education system. So I guess through better targeting, we could better, you know,

00:18:51.920 adjust to that and have them contribute to the growth that we need but is that going to be

00:18:56.480 enough like the numbers just sound so staggeringly large well i think what we i think 2023 may have

00:19:02.640 been an anomaly um i think one of it was that when i got elected we'd started into the alberta is

00:19:08.320 calling campaign and there was a good reason for doing that i mean we'd had 13 quarters of out

00:19:13.120 migration we knew that we were going to turn around with an oil and gas another building boom and we

00:19:17.520 needed to have workers here but i i think that uh it was more successful than than anybody anticipated

00:19:23.680 it being in part because we were one of the first provinces to firmly put covet behind us and the

00:19:30.000 pandemic behind us so that i think a lot of freedom lovers came to our province knowing that we were

00:19:34.400 taking a bit of a different approach i think as well that the housing proposition was such a good

00:19:39.200 one we still have several markets in alberta that are are the cheapest in north america i think

00:19:43.920 think Edmonton and Red Deer in particular. And of course, it coincided with Ukrainian evacuees as

00:19:49.760 well, 70,000 of whom came to Alberta during that period of time. And the remarkable thing is almost

00:19:54.600 all of them got jobs. We just did a recent assessment of how many are on social supports,

00:19:58.660 and it was only about 1,700. So I think those factors were part of what led to the surge and

00:20:06.000 grow. So part of what we've done is we've really scaled back that Alberta's Calling campaign just

00:20:13.320 to target the skilled workers that we need we're trying to get another an additional 2 000 skilled

00:20:18.040 workers to come here to be so that we can keep up with the building growth of homes keep up with the

00:20:22.520 major industrial projects that we have in the industrial heartland and in the agri-food

00:20:26.440 processing area and in the forestry sector so that's that's part of of how we have responded

00:20:31.640 to that but but i do think that the the federal government has um they've clearly led all of the

00:20:37.960 different streams of uh of immigration get beyond the ability of the canadian governments and

00:20:44.760 provincial governments to be able to to to properly support and you're seeing it i mean at the halifax

00:20:51.160 conference every single premier was raising the concern about the increase in housing prices

00:20:56.200 increase in rents the number of people using food bank the number of people who are newcomers who

00:21:00.680 are using shelters the impact on education system the difficulty finding a family doctor

00:21:06.920 I think Albertans want to be able to embrace newcomers who are going to participate in our

00:21:11.960 economy, but we have to do so at a rate that allows us to keep up with home construction,

00:21:16.920 as well as keeping up with being able to provide all of those services.

00:21:20.120 And right now, there is just way too much pressure on each of those.

00:21:23.880 We're feeling it in government. I think regular Albertans are feeling it as well,

00:21:27.640 and that's why we need to return to a more sensible kind of immigration policy like we used to have.

00:21:32.760 so another area it's a more sensitive one but people really need to address it particularly

00:21:37.000 when we see what's going on in the uk is is people culturally integrating i mean some cultures have

00:21:43.320 an easier time adapting i mean ukraine's got a similar climate it's uh there's a lot of ukrainian

00:21:49.560 people who'd settled in alberta previously so they could quickly adapt to being here uh from some of

00:21:55.080 the countries and their countries that need i mean they have refugees that are coming they're

00:21:58.520 fleeing some terrible situations, but they can have a hard time integrating with the existing

00:22:04.800 population. And people fear it might lead to the sorts of clashes and events that we're seeing in

00:22:10.140 Europe right now. What could we do to, I guess, calm people and prevent that sort of cultural

00:22:15.760 clash from happening here over time? Yeah, I think you've identified another reason for unease.

00:22:20.640 People are looking around the world and they're seeing that these disputes are spilling over

00:22:25.900 into a number of different societies.

00:22:27.780 And I don't think Albertans want to see

00:22:29.660 disputes from other countries

00:22:31.140 spill out into the streets here.

00:22:32.660 And I think we've done a really good job

00:22:34.560 of making sure that people are coming here

00:22:37.560 for the values that we have in Alberta.

00:22:39.520 I mean, we value family and faith and community

00:22:42.280 and free enterprise and philanthropy.

00:22:43.780 And there's so many, many cultures around the world

00:22:47.020 who are coming here so that they can live here

00:22:48.980 in peace and harmony and have religious freedom

00:22:51.540 and be able to raise their families

00:22:52.780 and have a good job or start a business.

00:22:54.420 and that's what we want to keep on doing that's why having an economic focus on immigration makes

00:22:59.540 so much sense it assists with integration and it and it assists with making sure that those um those

00:23:05.540 international disputes don't spill over into alberta so we have to be uh very mindful of the

00:23:10.660 the nervousness people have when they look around the world and make sure that we're doing everything

00:23:14.660 we can because if if we don't have the ability to provide the supports the english language learning

00:23:20.500 that first job the ability to have wraparound supports to to get a person into a community

00:23:26.340 to be able to support them long term that's when you end up with people feeling disenfranchised

00:23:30.900 that's when you end up with uh with having some of some of some of that anger uh spill over and

00:23:36.340 we i think we've done a great job of being able to avoid that and so i'm i'm not um as concerned

00:23:41.860 about where we find ourselves now but i i am mindful that um the the this level of of uh

00:23:48.660 continued pressure in Alberta is something that is going to be something we have to address. We

00:23:54.900 don't want for it to spill over into people feeling like there are too many newcomers

00:24:00.820 coming to our province. We want to make sure people will continue as they always have to 1.00

00:24:04.900 embrace newcomers. But I think that the problem that we've seen is that everybody is feeling the

00:24:11.780 increase in the cost of housing, increase in cost of living, and the fact that we have a federal

00:24:17.780 government who's essentially thrown out the immigration rules of the of the past and that

00:24:22.180 is what's creating pressure not only here but through to quebec and every other province as

00:24:26.180 well it was part of the reason it was such a major topic of conversation when the premiers got together

00:24:30.340 at the last round in halifax well and some of the issue is just sheer volume i mean you know

00:24:35.860 some fantastic people coming but you can just you can only accommodate so many at so much of a speed

00:24:42.020 quebec has always been outspoken and at least you know controls as much as they can provincially

00:24:46.420 in immigration even though the at the base of it it is a federal thing are there more policies we

00:24:51.060 can look forward to from alberta to try and take more control at least of our own destiny as to

00:24:56.340 controlling immigration for for ourselves well let me let me tell you the way i'm looking at

00:25:01.140 this so we're about 12 of the population and yet we ended up with 22 of the the newcomers in the

00:25:07.380 22 23 or 23 calendar year that that's gives you an idea of of just how much additional pressure

00:25:14.900 it is that we've been bearing. The other thing I would say is that our home builders have been

00:25:19.340 amazing because they've seen the extra pressure. So they've massively wrapped up their construction.

00:25:24.380 And now we're building 56% more houses this year than we did last year, which would allow for us

00:25:30.880 to build about 40,000 homes this year, which they tell me can accommodate about 100,000 people. So

00:25:35.820 that is going flat out. So I hope that that gives you some idea of what I've seen our housing

00:25:42.460 capability is, as well as what I'm seeing in the social services area. We know that we're seeing

00:25:49.060 an increased pressure in shelter on food banks, and we want to make sure that that doesn't

00:25:54.920 continue. So part of the approach that I've always taken is that I've watched what Quebec has done.

00:26:00.360 Quebec has the ability to choose about 55% of the newcomers that come to Quebec because they're

00:26:05.640 choosing on the basis of language. I just saw recently that Quebec wants to take over their

00:26:11.020 entire immigration choices. And whereas in Alberta, we only get the ability to choose about 9,500 of

00:26:20.740 the newcomers through our provincial nominee program. It seems to me that having more ability

00:26:25.720 for us to use that program so that we can attach workers to the jobs that are available and make

00:26:31.340 sure that we have the supports of the communities around them, that would make a lot of sense. So

00:26:35.500 I have been advocating for that, that we should be able to much more like Quebec have greater

00:26:41.300 ability to have the selection over those who do come to Alberta so that we can make sure

00:26:46.600 that they're going to be a good fit and also be able to seamlessly integrate and be able to have

00:26:52.600 the jobs and the social supports to support them. Then I'll continue advocating for that. But the

00:26:56.740 general issue is that we simply as a country cannot bring in 1.2 million people. That is,

00:27:03.360 I believe, through all the different streams, the family stream, the refugee stream, the student

00:27:09.360 stream, the temporary foreign worker stream, and the regular integration, immigration stream that

00:27:13.760 came in in 2023. And I think we've just seen, whether it's in Alberta or Quebec or elsewhere,

00:27:19.520 that there just isn't the ability for the provinces to keep up and it just isn't the

00:27:23.120 ability for the housing market to keep up. Back in Mulroney's day, I think Mulroney had 250,000

00:27:29.920 newcomers that was his immigration target it advanced more under harper i don't know quite

00:27:34.560 know what the numbers are but but going back to something uh that is based on what is our ability

00:27:40.560 to be able to effectively build houses and support newcomers that's got to be the number it can't

00:27:45.040 just be an open borders policy without limit it's just creating way too much pressure on every

00:27:51.120 province's social programs and it's also putting a lot of pressure on on people being able to

00:27:56.880 aspire to ultimately have a home one day or ultimately be able to have an affordable rental

00:28:01.280 suite those things are all connected and we have to to make sure that we're taking care of albertans

00:28:06.080 yeah and then so before i let you go i mean there's some reactionary people who say we

00:28:10.000 shouldn't have any immigration that's unreasonable immigration is a net benefit to us we do do well

00:28:14.640 with immigration and it's important but as you said that the 1.2 million a year is unsustainable

00:28:20.240 as well do you have a sort of number you think that maybe unified premiers could be asking the

00:28:24.800 federal government to just tap the brakes on and bring us to that's sustainable well you know i i

00:28:29.200 guess is there like a one percent kind of target if you look at we have 40 million people in canada

00:28:33.760 right now if it was one percent that would be about 400 000 when i look at at whether or not

00:28:38.240 um our share would be able to accommodate that i think we probably could if you look at our

00:28:42.480 historical growth before we ended up with a major downturn in our economy that lasted for so many

00:28:47.600 years so maybe that's the right number i mean there's probably there's probably smarter people

00:28:51.200 than me who can figure that out but i can just tell you from what i have now observed about uh

00:28:57.120 trying to provide the services to accommodate uh folks who who came here through 2023 i think we

00:29:03.360 had the ability to do some of that more effectively because we had had so many years of decline and

00:29:08.560 we had some housing uh projects that had um uh had started up and so we were able to to uh to i think

00:29:14.640 do a pretty good job of being able to match that that growth pressure but now i'm looking at the

00:29:20.000 the fact that we've got you know 22 500 additional students that came into school that we weren't

00:29:25.120 anticipating and it takes three or four years to build a school we would probably need to build

00:29:30.480 uh 30 or more schools a year for the next uh number of years in order to be able to keep up

00:29:34.880 with that growth that's the kind of practical reality that i'm talking about is that um if

00:29:39.760 we're if we're going to to be welcoming newcomers we've got to have a place for them to live and a

00:29:44.080 place for their kids to go to school and we've got to make sure everybody has a family doctor

00:29:47.760 so i think that there is a very pragmatic and practical approach that we can take

00:29:52.560 that allows us to continue to to keep up with growth continue to welcome newcomers without

00:29:57.920 creating the kind of tensions that are are beginning to emerge because uh because people

00:30:02.240 are beginning to feel disenfranchised great well i appreciate you coming on to clarify that for us

00:30:07.760 today is there anything else you'd like to add before i let you go no thanks so much for the

00:30:11.840 for the conversation cory i know that you guys said um do a lot of work on covering these and

00:30:16.320 and other issues i mean the other thing i might say is uh one of the things i was just on a northern

00:30:21.120 tour and it's very interesting to see the difference between north and south because

00:30:24.560 north keeps telling me we need more people but one of the things that they're doing up north is

00:30:28.480 they're trying to grow their own uh their own skilled labor they're offering more trades programs

00:30:33.600 to to kids or having larger families and we are also a party that supports families we're doing

00:30:38.800 what we can to to be able to make it easier for families to be able to have kids for moms and dads

00:30:43.600 to both be able to go back to work

00:30:45.440 so that they don't have to choose

00:30:46.440 between having kids and working.

00:30:48.280 That's part of the reason why we have

00:30:49.820 the daycare program that we do.

00:30:51.560 And we're going to do both.

00:30:52.880 I mean, I think that that's one of the things

00:30:55.040 that has made Alberta so strong

00:30:56.520 is that we always have had

00:30:58.320 a much younger population here.

00:31:00.400 And so we've got a higher workforce participation rate.

00:31:02.820 We've got higher wages on average

00:31:04.860 and that allows for all of us to pay lower taxes.

00:31:07.340 So I kind of like that as part of our model as well.

00:31:10.280 Great. Well, thank you very much for coming on today.

00:31:13.320 and I hope we get to talk again sometime soon.

00:31:15.520 You bet. Thanks, Corey.

00:31:21.060 So that was 15 minutes of Premier Smith talking about immigration.

00:31:24.080 It's a huge issue, but we got to clarify a few things.

00:31:27.080 Like for one, it's federal.

00:31:30.140 No matter what the Premier may say or may try or may do,

00:31:34.360 all she can do as far as it comes to the volume

00:31:37.320 is lobby the federal government. 1.00

00:31:39.860 We can't stop interprovincial migration.

00:31:44.720 So the volume coming in, the 1.2 million, which, you know, she did say is not sustainable, that is in Trudeau's lap.

00:31:53.040 That's a federal policy.

00:31:54.820 Then they land in Canada, and Alberta's growth, it's been showing, our growth is mostly interprovincial. 0.89

00:32:02.080 They land in Toronto, they land in Vancouver, but they do come to Alberta eventually, and we have to deal with the immigration. 0.78

00:32:07.440 It's not going to go down no matter what we do provincially. 0.61

00:32:09.860 It has to happen federally.

00:32:11.720 Now, Nadia pointing out in Quebec, it's provincial.

00:32:14.480 Yes and no.

00:32:15.660 So what happens in Quebec is they have a larger say on where the immigrants will first land

00:32:20.720 and choosing which ones will get there.

00:32:22.500 And they base it on language, as was said.

00:32:24.420 But again, it's federal.

00:32:26.400 And there's nothing that Quebec can do, say, for a liberal that moves,

00:32:29.440 or liberal, an immigrant that moves to Toronto and decides to move to Quebec. 0.80

00:32:33.720 There's nothing the province can do to stop that. 0.99

00:32:37.460 So we've got a few things to discuss.

00:32:39.000 some people saying no immigration, no immigration. I'll be blunt. That's stupid. It's stupid. Okay,

00:32:42.840 guys, we need immigration. What we need to do, though, is do it better. We need to figure out

00:32:48.340 how to manage it. You know, I did a lot of touring talking about the Alberta pension plan,

00:32:54.500 a big thing I've been a proponent of for a long time. And one of the reasons Alberta is much more

00:32:59.300 strongly placed with a pension plan of its own rather than being in the federal one is the

00:33:04.500 demographics. Because Alberta has a younger working population. Because Alberta has a higher

00:33:10.960 earning population, we're putting much more into that plan than we're taking out. But the reason

00:33:16.200 we have that balance is a lot because of immigration, because the immigrants are working 0.52

00:33:21.600 and they're feeding that system. That's the way the pension plans work. And if we stopped 0.97

00:33:27.360 immigration, if we could, if we could wave a magic wand and stop immigration, that's fine. But we're 0.92

00:33:32.540 going to have a terrible imbalance with things like our pension plan and developing areas and

00:33:36.960 moving further. We're getting too many. That's a given. You know, Premier Smith said as much as

00:33:41.960 well. We're taking in way more than we can accommodate. But the solutions aren't as simple

00:33:47.000 as some people might think. And we have to think harder on this. We can't, as Albertans do much,

00:33:54.200 well, hey, I wrote a book on what I think Albertans should do about dealing with Ottawa

00:33:58.160 in the long game, you know, with the Sovereignty's Handbook. But in the immediate term, there's only

00:34:03.300 so much a premier can do to adapt to these things. She did say, interestingly, and that was back in

00:34:09.740 January, that she was looking at doubling Alberta's population by 2050. The funny thing is, as I

00:34:14.800 looked into it, she wouldn't have to do anything. She'd just have to leave it alone, because at the

00:34:18.760 rate that it's increasing, that is what would happen by 2050. We do need to scale that back.

00:34:22.840 We need to lessen it. But there's other points, like foreign students. Paradox, he brought that 1.00

00:34:26.720 up said no more foreign students fair enough but again you see people forget how that's integrated

00:34:30.620 foreign students going to post-secondary schools pay a massive premium they pay far far more for

00:34:38.180 tuition and all the rest than Canadian citizens who are attending the post-secondary the colleges

00:34:43.460 and universities do they subsidize the education for the other Canadians because they pay so much 0.99

00:34:49.900 extra so if we did end all of the foreign students I think again I agree we're taking in too many

00:34:55.940 but if we ended it all okay but the tuition costs for the remaining canadians are going to go up 0.96

00:35:02.640 that's just the way it's going to go and uh you know we have to work on screening

00:35:10.640 they say we talked about that uh are we bringing in immigrants who best can integrate with us i

00:35:17.780 think absolutely not we we look at the integration issues going on in the uk and europe we talked

00:35:22.980 about that. No, it is not going well at all. They're insular communities, they're fighting

00:35:28.120 with each other, and it's becoming bad. So we've got to work on tempering and controlling those 1.00

00:35:32.500 numbers. Again, that's completely out of provincial jurisdiction. There's nothing we can do about that

00:35:37.520 as a province, except really push the federal government as much as we can. And Trudeau,

00:35:43.780 Trudeau is trying to pour the immigrants into Canada as hard as he can. There's a reason for 1.00

00:35:49.240 that. Because when you bring the immigrants in, it holds up the one and only data point he has 1.00

00:35:55.800 as a positive economic indicator. You see, immigrants bring in, they add to the GDP as a

00:36:02.540 whole for the country, the gross domestic product. So they come in, they work, some bring funds with

00:36:08.080 them, resources with them, it raises that number. So he can point and say, see, see, Canada's growing,

00:36:12.900 he's doing well, it's doing well. What he overlooks, of course, is the GDP per capita

00:36:18.020 goes down, because we're splitting it among a much larger population of people.

00:36:26.620 See here, you know, I've got a commenter, I'm not going to fully quote him, it's RASO 5000. 0.98

00:36:31.000 And he's a fool, you know, zero immigration. Okay, sure. Why don't we wave a wand and make 0.98

00:36:36.200 everybody rich too? Let's have a realistic conversation on this, because it's a real

00:36:41.300 problem. We've got a real issue with getting a manageable number of immigrants coming in 1.00

00:36:47.240 and accommodating the people who are already here. And of course, accommodating the immigrants when 1.00

00:36:53.240 they get here as well. Hey, it's not all sunshine and happiness for immigrants who get here and 1.00

00:36:59.040 find out how expensive rents are and how difficult it might be to find a decent job in some areas and

00:37:05.020 sectors and things like that. Again, that's a symptom of us taking in more than we can manage.

00:37:11.300 But we can't go to zero. It's not much of an option. Ariel Sky saying, go look at the homeless. What do you see? I see actually a massive addiction issue going on with the homeless. And most of the people I see on the street actually are First Nations or white.

00:37:32.040 I don't see a lot of Middle Eastern or Indian or Asian people actually on the street with the homeless.

00:37:39.940 That's a whole separate discussion as well, actually.

00:37:42.240 I think a lot of immigrant communities are a lot better at supporting family and so on,

00:37:46.720 so they don't end up in that circumstance.

00:37:49.680 But, you know, we get these things going.

00:37:51.060 Helen Moe is saying, is the Western standard sort of biased?

00:37:54.780 No, but I am.

00:37:56.320 I'm an opinion host.

00:37:57.680 Of course I'm biased.

00:37:58.660 I've got my view.

00:37:59.800 That's what I do.

00:38:00.360 I share it on here. But, you know, that's the way it goes. The news, no, the news is unbiased.

00:38:06.840 But the opinion writers and people like me, yeah, I've got my biases. But I just, we have to get our

00:38:14.360 things in order. And we have to have a rational conversation about it. Some people are getting

00:38:19.120 really upset with Smith. Oh, I'm going to go to the AGM. I'm going to vote against her. I'm going

00:38:22.140 about a gay story. Okay, it's fine. Just remember that Ninchy is in the background and waiting for 1.00

00:38:30.880 the UCP to rip itself apart. And if you think things are bad with Smith, just imagine Ninchy

00:38:38.000 as a premier. John Smith, wow, what a boomer windbag. I love some of these commenters here.

00:38:43.460 I'm glad you were honest enough to put a fake name, you know, as John Smith to put it in the

00:38:48.120 beginning with. For now, I'm no spring chicken, but I'm actually Gen X. I'm not a boomer. Well,

00:38:53.780 I am a windbag, and that's what I'm about. I'm not here to tell you what you want to hear. I'm

00:38:57.820 telling you what you need to hear, and that is that we need realistic immigration policies, 1.00

00:39:04.380 but we can't realistically get rid of all immigrants or stop it. L says, Smith is finished.

00:39:12.660 we got options okay name them i mean i i i was i've spent years in in politics in alberta a lot

00:39:21.760 of them very involved in the party executives on uh uh you know a political organization managing

00:39:28.880 campaigns and i tell you what we we love ripping ourselves apart politically don't we infighting

00:39:36.180 going at it ripping out our leaders and how well did that work when we got premier notley for four

00:39:41.520 years. What does somebody see? Yes, I think people should go to the AGM of the party that's

00:39:47.440 in power. I think they should speak their minds. They should communicate it to the party. The UCP

00:39:52.100 isn't perfect by a long shot. But Smith's only been in for, you know, less than a couple of

00:39:59.920 years. Do you really think tearing her out is going to help at this point? And where are the

00:40:03.560 alternatives? What's out there? What do you see? One of the other fringe parties out there, the

00:40:07.760 Alberta Advantage Party, I think they got a couple hundred votes the last time around. One

00:40:11.380 of the four or five independence parties we got running around these days? I don't know.

00:40:15.500 But, you know, again, we need to be realistic about some of these things and talk about it. I

00:40:22.140 mean, hey, we have a premier who came, whether people don't trust her or agree with her, but

00:40:25.380 she came and gave 15 minutes to explain what, you know, what her stance was and where these things

00:40:30.720 are. Yeah, I'm just reading some of these, Paul, you know, comments. Man, some of you guys are

00:40:37.940 crackpots. But that's fine. That's fine. I'm not fully sane myself. You know, Tommy Gunn, 0.97

00:40:44.460 how about closing the door on immigration? Well, how about getting realistic? Let's get on with

00:40:48.480 things, guys. Let's talk seriously about it. Not all this reactionary crap, you're not going to

00:40:52.580 get anywhere. And, you know, we've got work to do. But we need to be smart about it. And, you know, 0.97

00:40:59.540 let's talk about some of the other things. I'll start turning a little, because this is some of

00:41:02.380 the news coming up. This is some of the problems we have due to having way more immigration than 1.00

00:41:09.060 we can manage. It's a federal thing. We can't do much about it provincially, but it is a federal 1.00

00:41:13.060 thing and it is a problem. And here's something that Trudeau talked about using federal property

00:41:18.720 for more housing, you know, and it's military property and things such as that. And it's showing

00:41:27.220 now that a quarter of the national defense buildings he was talking about, they date from

00:41:31.440 the 1970s or even earlier, they're inappropriate. They're full of asbestos. They're out of date.

00:41:37.000 They're small. They're nasty. You know, Trudeau and his foolishness, it just never stops. 0.80

00:41:42.260 The bottom line is we have more demand than we have supply. And again, that comes to having way 0.98

00:41:47.500 too many people coming in and we can't accommodate them fast enough. We can't build the houses fast

00:41:53.620 enough. As Premier Smith said, we would need to build 30 new schools a year in Alberta just to

00:41:58.360 keep up with the schools, for the children, for the ones coming in. We've got to scale things back

00:42:04.020 and get realistic with it. And unfortunately, we're not getting federal help. I mean, this is

00:42:10.660 bad frigging news. This is another one. The Commons Public Safety Committee agreed to summon 0.97

00:42:17.340 cabinet ministers over suspected failures in immigration security checks. You think? I mean,

00:42:22.560 And yes, we brought in this fella who thankfully, and it turns out it was from French intelligence, from France, not Canadian intelligence, realized that this father and son team were going to pull off a terrorist act in Canada.

00:42:36.220 They were going to chop people up.

00:42:37.380 They were going to do some horrible, horrible stuff.

00:42:39.800 And it turns out that the father had been on video with ISIS dissecting a man hanging from ropes before.

00:42:45.820 How is it our immigration can't catch even the most horrific of psychopaths coming from other areas?

00:42:54.020 I mean, we're talking some people who slipped through if they had no record, no history, no things going on.

00:42:58.020 Okay, that happens.

00:42:59.040 But this was brutal.

00:43:01.420 And as Dave said in the story as well, you know, when he was in talking, giving the updates,

00:43:07.740 the liberals are trying to blame Harper somehow.

00:43:11.280 Ten years ago, Harper was in, guys.

00:43:13.220 but they're trying to blame Harper for this guy and this mess. But then we got to look at where

00:43:18.660 we're putting our money with some of this other idiocy. This is another interesting one that 0.99

00:43:22.600 popped up. People familiar with crazy left-wing tax-funded groups, the Anti-Hate Network. You

00:43:28.360 know, these are one of the things that drives me nuts at Quell's discussion, because if they

00:43:31.500 cloak themselves in a name like Anti-Hate Network, well, we must be doing something good, right?

00:43:35.980 Not necessarily. It's just like Antifa says, do, you know, well, we oppose fascism. So if you don't

00:43:41.680 like us. Does that mean you like fascism? No, actually it doesn't. It just means I think you're

00:43:44.740 a nutcase. And I don't like fascism. In fact, I don't have to like either of you. But we've had 0.99

00:43:49.940 the tax dollars go towards this anti-hate network. And this anti-hate network is nuts. These guys are

00:43:56.560 more hateful than most others. And it turns out that the guy heading it is this anarchist. And 0.98

00:44:02.400 he deleted his Twitter account records recently, but it's too late. It's out there. He was putting

00:44:08.700 out insane stuff. And this is the anti-hate network. I mean, he was talking about, you know,

00:44:15.140 he was demonstrating outside cracker barrels and things like that. This is where your tax dollars

00:44:19.160 go. This is the other end of the coin. This is, you know, going from kooks who think that we can

00:44:24.880 stop immigration altogether to kooks like this guy, who with the anti-hate network, that just

00:44:31.260 doesn't quite get it. I think it's getting into human rights. You know, the head of the Human 0.85

00:44:36.200 Rights Commission, that hit recently, Burju Dutani, who was appointed to the head of the

00:44:42.180 hate network, or hate network, human rights, Canadian Human Rights Commission. See, it's hard

00:44:46.280 to keep up with all these things, all your tax dollars and all this stupidity. And yeah, all they 1.00

00:44:50.580 had to do was Google and have a look, and hey, this crackpot basically said terrorism is a valid,

00:44:55.480 good way to make change. This guy was literally pro-terrorist, and he gets appointed as the head

00:45:01.720 of the Human Rights Commission. No wonder we're having problems with, you know, people are having

00:45:10.940 problems with integration and so on. When these are the people fostering division, they're getting

00:45:16.000 us fighting with each other even more. And they're supporting insane, insane things. Well, you know,

00:45:23.960 again, if everybody wants to scream and blame immigrants for everything, but we've got other

00:45:26.620 issues. The RCMP, another big federal organization that's not serving as well, I certainly ripped

00:45:31.460 into them hard enough the other week. Alberta had that recent murder of an innocent young man who

00:45:37.200 was just working for the county so they could steal his vehicle. They did catch one of them.

00:45:41.540 He's in jail. They're seeking out the other one, Elijah Strawberry. They're trying to find him.

00:45:47.640 But the RCMP still isn't sharing much information with us. This is where it gets maddening. This is

00:45:53.380 one of our systems falling apart, where they don't realize they serve us. Not the other way around.

00:45:59.340 they should be giving us pretty much all the information they can because that's their job

00:46:04.740 and it's sharing it with us this is again how we keep ourselves safe how we know what's going on

00:46:09.240 out there and it's like pulling teeth with these guys getting back to things we can do provincially

00:46:15.100 we can do a provincial police force we should we can do a provincial pension plan i talked about

00:46:20.460 that earlier but we need that demographic to make it a good advantage and hey hate to say guys but

00:46:25.220 we needed immigration for that. It's funny. I, you know, I had a bunch of people all worked up

00:46:31.940 because I put a picture out a while back of a woman with like, I don't know what it was, 12

00:46:36.940 kids lined up next to her and everything else. And I said something about her not using her

00:46:40.780 reproductive organs as a PEZ dispenser or something like that. People go, you're anti-white

00:46:44.700 breeding. You want to see the white wipe out, these white families annoy you and they get on, 0.98

00:46:49.700 holy cow, you hypersensitive wimps. You hypersensitive wimps. You know what? I'm not 1.00

00:46:56.320 worried about the white race being wiped out. If you're that worried, get better in bed because 0.96

00:47:01.960 you're not keeping up. You know, stoop better. You're not, the average family is only producing

00:47:08.980 what 1.3 kids or something nowadays. It's not enough. So unless we want the population to go

00:47:13.400 down, we need to bring people in. And if you really think it's up to everybody to reproduce 1.00

00:47:18.740 naturally more that's fine well you get started and you get on it but in the meantime if you look

00:47:24.500 at an economics book we need to bring folks in either way i'm glad we could have a rational

00:47:29.140 calm discussion i i see you know well over a thousand some people uh viewing this live as

00:47:36.420 we're talking and of course uh i see uh the crackpots like at the end saying hey this guy's 0.99

00:47:42.020 another racist who hates the european race no i hate morons like you but i appreciate you tuning 0.99

00:47:46.660 in and be sure to visit our advertisers all right that's all i got today guys it was fun 1.00

00:47:50.740 i'll be back next week with a bunch more be sure to tune into the pipeline tonight

00:47:55.060 and we'll be talking about a bunch more and hey i'm sorry you white guys are scared

00:47:59.460 i'm not and i'm white i got over it talk to you next week guys

00:48:16.660 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - August 14, 2024

Trudeau’s desperation bid for re-election will bankrupt generations

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