Jagmeet Singh pulls the plug on the coalition agreement between the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party, which could lead to an early election. Also, two Alberta women have been appointed to the Canadian Senate, which will have national ramifications.
00:01:21.760And B.C. United. Remember the B.C. Liberals became B.C. United?
00:01:26.300Well, B.C. is now united, but under the Conservative Party.
00:01:31.040They ran up the white flag, folded like a cheap tent, but ultimately probably did the right thing for British Columbia and the Conservative movement.
00:01:41.420And very unprecedented, just stood down. Stood down.
00:01:46.620And through their support behind the BC Conservatives, absolute earthquake in BC political news that's going to have national ramifications.
00:01:57.440Speaking of national ramifications, Justin Trudeau has appointed two very un-Albertans to represent Alberta in the Senate.
00:02:08.480Christopher Wells, an activist whose time is mostly spent pushing puberty blockers on children
00:02:14.940and ensuring that men can go into the same washroom as women and play in the same sports league as them.
00:02:19.360He will be representing Alberta in the Senate alongside Daryl Findhandler,
00:02:26.560who is most notable for donating lots of money to the Liberal Party.
00:02:30.560They will take their spots in the Chamber of Silver's Second Thought0.83
00:02:34.900over the two women, the two conservative women who were elected to that position not that long ago.
00:02:41.660And if we have time, we're going to get into a very important thing going on.
00:02:45.080Justin Trudeau's big 100% tariff to protect electronic vehicle manufacturing
00:02:51.960that is already subsidized by the federal government in Ontario
00:02:55.080and a 25% tariff against Chinese steel inevitably has drawn a huge backlash from the Chinese,
00:03:04.520as one would expect but they're not going after evs they're going after western canola farmers
00:03:12.280almost all the canola in canada is produced here in the west and that is where the consequences
00:03:17.240of this policy designed to protect eastern ev manufacturing as follows uh i don't know why
00:03:25.160uh justin just doesn't call him some favors to his friends i mean they're they're happy to help keep
00:03:29.000them in power they're happy to help send guys to help them win re-election i don't know why they
00:03:33.240They just, you know, just don't sort this out, my gentleman.
00:03:59.880He's pulled the plug on what they technically call the confidence and supply agreement, effectively building a coalition government for all intents and purposes, that gave the liberals essentially long hold on power in exchange for certain policy goodies, most of which come with a very high price tag.
00:04:18.280Before we get into where this is going to go, let's not talk about election, you know, the next election yet, if they're going to get to an early election.
00:04:27.460But maybe just your first thoughts on why Jake Bietzing felt the need to pull the plug, at least on the formal coalition agreement between his NDP and the Liberals.
00:04:39.080Well, Derek, he knows there is an election coming later than October next year.
00:04:45.040what he has done since march of 2022 when the confidence and supply arrangement that you speak
00:04:54.240of came into effect is keep afloat a government that nobody likes even he doesn't like it
00:05:01.920and he is well he sold that cheap he should he probably doesn't like it i mean here's a guy who's
00:06:25.780We have had insane levels of unrestricted, unverified mass migration coming into Canada.
00:06:31.980That's something the NDP wanted. It's something they got. They got new social welfare programs. Maybe not as big and far along the implementation as they like, but they got them. And they got new higher taxes, carbon taxes, capital gains taxes. These are all things they wanted. And then more debt to pay for it all.
00:08:01.940He hasn't had to have his arm twisted that hard to bring in a dental plan and daycare and lunch programs for schools and all the other stuff he's constantly announcing.
00:09:36.520all their guys to vest and their pension.
00:09:38.580And Jagmeet Singh, very smart, because if they wait till that fixed election date, they all get their big pension.
00:09:46.020I mean, can you imagine you've served six years in Parliament and you're short one week from that sweet pension?
00:09:52.580I mean, it doesn't matter your politics. You've got to be pissed.
00:09:57.000And it doesn't matter your politics. There are about 80 members of Parliament to whom this applies from all parties.
00:10:03.660Yes. Now, the Conservatives aren't worried about it because every single Conservative is extremely likely to win their seats back.
00:10:11.600The Bloc, not all of them, but most of them.
00:10:15.660But the Liberals and the NDP, a bunch of them are going to lose and their pensions are on the line.
00:10:20.220So it applies across parties, but it really only matters if you're going to lose your seat.
00:10:23.940If you're going to win your seat, you're fine.
00:10:27.000So Paul Yev has been kind of twisted in the knife, calling him sellouts, saying this is about his pension and whatnot.
00:10:31.620So with you, Corey, is that fair? And do you think that it really got under his skin? You think that was, was that a major reason for saying, breaking off the, their formal agreement with the liberals now? Or was it everything else we've already been discussing?
00:10:52.620been discussing. Well, I think it was everything else, but that adds to it. I mean, and I don't
00:10:56.720know if it's necessarily fair, but it's effective and it's getting under his skin. There's no doubt
00:11:02.860about it. Because to be honest, and a lot of people have that discussion, I don't think
00:11:06.100Singh's himself, and he was that motivated by the pension. It's a rich one. He's going to win a seat.
00:11:10.820His own seat, he's going to win a game. Yeah, and he's already rich. He's the Rolex leader of the
00:11:15.280socialist seat. He wears two Rolexes. Yeah, his wife sits on the, what, $20,000 breastfeeding
00:11:20.680chairs or whatever other stuff they've done. The pension, I mean, I'm certain he doesn't want to
00:11:24.560turn away money, but he's not hard pressed no matter how you look at it. So I'm sure that has
00:11:30.040to be actually all the more galling when that's not part of your motivation for this, but you got
00:11:33.820to sit there and keep taking that needle. And what's he going to say to his own voters? I don't
00:11:38.120need it. I'm already rich. Are you really going to say that as the NDP socialist reader? So it's an
00:11:42.760effective way to get under his skin. I mean, how good a politicking in general it is for Polyev,
00:11:47.820I don't know. But that's been kind of his style. It always has been. Even when he wasn't leading the party, he was the badgering, pestering opposition member who would really get on them in committees and things.
00:11:57.680So he's just turned his sights at Singh and Singh's vulnerable.
00:12:03.560OK, so let's turn now towards what's going to come from this.
00:12:07.940My best bet, as I wrote my column this morning, is that on the very first day that Parliament comes back this fall,
00:12:15.460Pierre Polyev is going to stand up, take one look at Trudeau.
00:12:19.660He's going to take another look, look down the aisle a bit at Singh, and he's going to table a motion of non-confidence.
00:12:25.720And he's going to look Singh in the eye the whole time he does it and say, let's, you say you're done your agreement with Trudeau.
00:14:16.860October of next year all the while saying well
00:14:20.240we're with you on this or with you on that if Mr. Trudeau really wants an election
00:14:25.000and he'll have to put out something that Mr. Singh can't support.
00:14:28.860Well, and we know Joseph Trudeau most certainly does not want an election right now.
00:14:33.800He would get utterly nuked by Polioff.
00:14:38.960And I think there's a few other reasons why, if I was Jameet Singh, I would not trigger an election.
00:14:44.480Yeah, it's embarrassing. Yeah, you have to walk around with your tail between your legs.
00:14:49.700But what's the old saying? That discretion is a better part of valor.
00:14:52.560And right now, I think that really applies to J.B. Singh.
00:14:55.540If I was advising J.B. Singh, I'd say, sir, you would be crazy to do it.
00:14:59.980They're probably going to lose some seats.
00:15:02.160The NDP is roughly equal to where they were in the polls in the last election, maybe ever so slightly down, but they're about where they were.
00:15:08.360But the conservatives are so much higher, having sucked up half the liberal vote nearly, that a little less, I'd say 40% of the liberal vote, that they're not just going to take seats from the liberals.
00:15:19.320They're going to take seats from the NDP as well.
00:15:20.840So the NDP is going to lose seats. And very importantly, they're going to lose all their influence.
00:15:25.900So even without their supply and confidence coalition agreement, they're still the unofficial junior partner to the Liberals in Parliament.
00:15:33.940They have influence. Justin Trudeau does not want an election. So he's got to keep the NDP happy.
00:15:39.040Well, if there's an election with a high degree of probability, there's going to be a massive majority conservative government.
00:15:46.680And the ND people have zero influence in that.
00:15:50.160All they'll be able to do is sit in the cheap seats of Parliament and scream, please stop.
00:15:56.400And they're going to watch in the first few months of Apollyo government as he essentially legislates away everything they achieved with Justin Trudeau from their perspective.
00:16:14.420you essentially you load everything into the into the budget you essentially only do budgets
00:16:18.500because the senate can't kill budgets you just put everything into a budget big omnibus bill
00:16:22.980senate can't kill budgets that's that's the one rule that's probably the one real way around the
00:16:27.060senate is put or at least put money bills into every piece of legislation you do so the senate
00:16:32.180can't kill it um that's that's an interesting thought for writing there remind me to bring
00:16:38.660bring that to me after. Let's do some running on that. Corey, is there any good reason for Singh
00:16:50.600to pull the plug? We've talked about all the negatives. Well, from his perspective,
00:16:55.040he probably shouldn't. Well, he probably won't. Is there anything in the plus column?
00:17:00.320There's none. There really is none. He's been riding with Trudeau so long, and Trudeau's
00:17:05.100support has collapsed, and he's collapsed along with it. They haven't been able to capitalize
00:17:09.660from the Liberal, you know, unpopularity. If he'd have been there, some degree of separation from
00:17:15.000the Liberals, perhaps, even if Trudeau is losing popularity, some of that would drift to the NDP,
00:17:20.160but it hasn't. And, you know, the formula for pulling the pin on a parliament means,
00:17:24.920whether we like it or not, not for the good of the country, it's with the good of your party.
00:17:28.160And there's just absolutely nothing on the plus side of the column for Singh to look at and say,
00:17:34.660this would be a good idea i mean there's no chances at least as things look right now that
00:17:39.920you know that they would gain seats unless there was some sort of phenomenal campaign they held
00:17:43.560as much as he is going to be galling to sit for this next year and constantly just talk big and
00:17:49.220and then act weak uh it's still better than than going to the polls at this point and just as you
00:17:55.100said losing seats there's no reason for him to go so he's going to talk a lot but i'll be pretty
00:17:59.660darn shocked if you ever actually now there is this thing to mention that you sit here and we
00:18:05.540work it out and we parse it out and we think well if this then that doesn't make any sense won't
00:18:10.300happen but sometimes accidents do happen we've been wrong before i mean we can't get into his
00:18:15.980mind necessarily it is actually very very close if you look at the seat distribution liberals have
00:18:21.560got 154 the conservatives have got 119 you know the bloc quebecois would be enough to do it
00:18:27.980And you just need one liberal member of parliament taken to hospitals with the symptoms of a heart attack and another one stuck in traffic.
00:18:39.920And then you are down to the situation where when the bells goes, they lose by one vote.
00:18:45.260These things don't happen very often, but they have happened.0.99
00:18:48.960So all of our speculation here, which I think is right.
00:18:52.540I don't think there will be an election. For all the reasons that Korea has advanced and that you have talked about, it could still happen by accident.
00:19:01.720Okay. Well, speaking of by accident, let's try to make some sense of what the hell has been going on in British Columbia.0.77
00:19:10.940For the longest time, B.C. politics has been utterly uninteresting to me, and I think to most people outside of B.C., maybe even most people in B.C.
00:19:19.560You had the left party, and then you had the B.C. Liberals, which on some days were a center-right party, on some days a center-left party.
00:19:29.820You didn't have any real big disagreement between the major parties since at least Gordon Campbell.
00:19:36.460Gordon Campbell's first two terms were, I think, definitively on the center-right, kind of in the Mike Harris, almost Ralph Klein mold that you saw coming through the...
00:19:46.460I guess he was picking up at the very end of it, but coming out of the late 90s, early 2000s, and, you know, Christy Clark had her moments, but no one would call her a conservative standard bearer by any measure.
00:19:59.840You've had John Rostad, did I say it right?
00:20:09.780Yes. John Rostad kicked out by Kevin Falcon for disagreeing with orthodoxy around global warming. And boy, oh boy, did that turn out to be one bad decision.
00:20:25.240I mean, if you could point to one, you know, where did the butterfly flap its wings that created the hurricane?
00:20:34.320It was Kevin Falcon kicking John Rostad out of the BC Liberals slash BC United Caucus.
00:20:41.380And there's many reasons, I mean, confusing brand changes.
00:20:45.940It all goes from disaster to disaster.
00:20:48.260And it culminated last week with the formal, effectively nearly unconditional abdication of the BC United Liberals to the Conservatives.
00:21:00.620So we now have a BC United Party, just not very much in the fashion that Kevin Falcon and the BC United expected.
00:21:08.320So essentially they're not formally abolishing the party, at least not quite yet.
00:21:13.500It's just standing down. They're suspending the campaign. They're not going to run candidates.
00:21:18.260I mean, so I suppose if the Conservatives were to lose the election, BC United could revive itself after the next election, at least on paper, but it would have a hard time at that point with no MLAs.
00:21:33.260Start with you, Nigel, you've written on this.
00:21:37.260Does this mean it's completely in the bag for the Conservatives?
00:21:41.260Or does this just give the Conservatives maybe the edge over the NDP?
00:21:46.260The latter. For all the reasons that I was saying about the other situation, accidents happen. You never know what's going to happen in an election campaign. Somebody could, an uncomfortable truth could be produced about somebody that just changes voter perceptions.
00:22:04.600the so-called bozo eruption you have an inexperienced slate of candidates there
00:22:11.080in the conservatives in summer experience they're already mlas but there's a lot of people who
00:22:17.180haven't really learned how to campaign so i would never say it's in the bag but it definitely
00:22:25.420they definitely have the edge on the ndp at this moment because the ndp has done so many things
00:22:33.060that have made people so angry, let me name just a couple,
00:25:03.740He kicked this guy out for no good reason, and now he is given his abject total political surrender.
00:25:12.440But there's also a part of me that thinks Kevin Falcon did the noble thing here.
00:25:16.480Because, you know, I'm generally like, I like political diversity, where there's actual differences between the parties. But the BC, BC United slash BC Liberals exists or existed for one reason and one reason only. And that is the traditional BC role of the British Columbia's stop the Socialist Party.
00:25:40.480And, you know, we've talked, I think we talked about this last, we've talked about this many times before.
00:25:44.800It's taken the form of the conservatives a long time ago, and then it took the form of social credit, and then it took the form of the liberals.
00:25:50.940And now it's taking the form of the conservatives again.
00:25:53.520The conservatives are just a much more robust version of it than, say, the liberals were.
00:25:57.000This is more in line with maybe the earlier liberals or versions of social credit, Van Der Zand, guys like that.
00:26:03.120The BC United Liberal Party existed only for the sole purpose of keeping the NDP out. Its continued existence was working to achieve the exact opposite of its stated purpose of existence.
00:26:19.120So how do you think Kevin history is going to look at Kevin Falcon here and let's just say for for argument's sake the conservatives do win because I'd say at this point I'd favor them to win up slam dunk but I'm making a bet I'm gonna say it's probably conservatives.
00:26:36.120Is it going to view him as this hapless disaster of a leader who tried to kill their leader and was just you know had to surrender and humiliation on the way out or.
00:26:49.120The man who, yeah, maybe screwed up, but did the right thing to help defeat the socialists.
00:26:54.860How do you think history of BC is going to remember Kevin Falcon?
00:26:57.520I think for the most part, people won't remember him at all.
00:27:00.400Well, it's not saying he hasn't been in that terribly long.
00:28:38.700It doesn't hold up there. There's there's there was no game for him here. He lost his leadership. He lost. He's not even running as an MLA. He can't. I mean, what's he going to do? Sit as a backbencher in Rudstad's caucus after he got kicked after he kicked Rudstad out. He came back and ate him alive.
00:29:36.000Now, they're not taking all of them because some of them are real liberals, real, real liberals that probably don't belong in the BC Conservative Party.
00:29:43.640But, you know, some of them probably do belong in there, and they want to bring them along.
00:29:47.920And that's tough for people who won nominations to be the BC Conservative candidate, and all of a sudden the leader's saying,
00:29:55.080hey, in the name of the greater good, I'm sorry, you got to go. We're making room for the BC United
00:30:02.380Liberal candidate that you were opposed to just 24 hours ago. That's tough. So the BC Conservatives
00:30:08.560are swallowing some here. In order for Kevin Falcon to wear, to be able to say with a straight
00:30:14.900face, they said they're going to improve their vetting process because, you know, they were
00:30:18.180going after some BC Conservative candidates that maybe said some embarrassing things. And, you
00:30:23.780know, Cory and I, we came from wild rose in tough times. It's hard to do a thorough vetting of all
00:30:30.580your candidates. So when you're small and you don't have huge resources to put a private
00:30:34.480investigator to go through the toilet paper of every candidate. I mean, it's, you can end up
00:30:42.080with some, as Nigel said, there's still some room for some eruptions. And you can imagine there's
00:30:47.140probably already knowledge on the part of the BC NDP, but they're keeping their powder dry. You
00:30:51.680don't blow these guys up now. You wait until two weeks before elections. You wait until the advanced
00:30:55.660polls are about to open. They already pitched out the opening shot. They said, Mr. Rustad,
00:31:00.620you should fire everyone who supported the convoy. Yeah. And that's a beginning, but there's
00:31:06.480going to be some gems. There's going to be somebody who tweeted something truly, you know.
00:31:10.860But the conservatives did put some water in their wine here. I mean, a hell of a lot less than the
00:31:15.680see united liberals they i mean uh they drank the poison but the conservatives put some water in
00:31:22.560their wine and and it seems to be a good deal for them i mean they've got them out of the way um
00:31:30.320all right well let's uh speaking of elections let's talk about some of the only politicians
00:31:37.440in the civilized world who were not elected in what are nominally a democracy canadian senators
00:31:45.040So just the other week, Justin Trudeau appointed the very nonpartisan, totally not anti-conservative liberal, Charles Adler, to the Senate to represent Manitoba.
00:31:58.080Well, Manitoba does not hold Senate elections, so whatever, you get to appoint whoever you want.
00:32:05.300But it just sticks, I think, under all of our claws a bit that Justin Trudeau has the gall to call these people independent, that they're not anything but his servants.
00:32:13.700But, boy, he really went out of his way in Alberta. He appointed people who could not get elected dog catcher in Alberta. First was Daryl Finhandler. If you haven't heard of him, that's okay. Nobody else has as well, except for whoever's keeping the roll call list of liberal donors in Alberta.
00:32:39.460This guy is notable only for making some substantial financial contributions to the Liberal Party.
00:32:47.520Now, to be fair, that is the single oldest criteria for getting elected, appointed to the Senate in Canadian history.
00:32:54.920It started with Sir John A. MacDonald.
00:32:57.460Give the Conservatives a little cash for Sir John A.
00:33:00.560Good chance, you've really improved your chances of a Senate seat.
00:33:06.160So that's a long and proud Canadian tradition of corruption, and it goes right back to our beginning.
00:33:14.400But again, obviously not very independent, not very nonpartisan.
00:33:18.560But the real one, I think the one that we all like talking about, is Christopher Wells.
00:33:25.600Christopher Wells has got some BS job at a BS university.
00:33:31.720I'm not sure if it's fair to call them all BS.
00:33:33.320But it's certainly his department. It's a BS department at the university, and he's got a BS role there. He's the head of gender studies and various. Have you got his formal job title there?
00:33:47.720I mean, so Dr. Wells is the associate professor in the Department of Child and Youth Care at McEwen University.
00:34:00.140He holds McEwen's first Canada research chair for the public understanding of sexual and gender minority youth.
00:34:09.240He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry.
00:34:13.420He founded the McEwen Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
00:34:17.940There is more, but I think that gives the flavor.
00:34:23.840So this guy, I mean, unfortunately, like many people in this area, went well beyond the perfectly reasonable demands of the gay rights movement for equality.
00:35:34.360Alberta is going to restrict the use of puberty blockers for young children and that men will not be allowed to play on women's sports teams.
00:35:42.800He came out and I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but I think I'm not going on a limb to say he said this is going to kill people.
00:35:50.680You're going to kill. You're trying to kill LGTBQ plus ABCXY youth.1.00
00:35:58.760This man is an extremist and Justin Drudeau found him perfectly suitable to be appointed to the Senate.1.00
00:36:04.360Yes. He is also the author of a book, How to Form a Gay-Straight Alliance, which has been endorsed and issued by the Alberta Teachers Association, which seems to very much reflect his views in these matters.
00:36:22.840Well, I don't even really care much about gay-straight alliances. They're a kid's club. My only problem there was the obsessive need for secrecy, to hide everything from parents.
00:36:34.360Which, you know, once upon a time, I was sympathetic to the argument that, okay, well, some kids might not be welcome at home if, you know, they come out as gay or something.
00:36:43.640But then the obsession with secrecy around this stuff just started to get a little too fishy for me now.
00:36:48.460And I just don't trust activists like this.
00:36:54.860Nigel, you called this a very deliberate insult to Albertan's disappointment.
00:36:59.420Well, I did. And the reason that I did so was that Premier Smith has taken what I think is a widely supported position with regard to gender transition.
00:37:11.880She has said that children 17 years old and under will not be able to do this.
00:37:19.560They won't take the puberty blockers. They won't get the surgery.
00:37:22.780and that recognizes that when they are adults if that's what they want to do they can do it
00:37:33.980but as she said when she made the original announcement that period of life is one when
00:37:40.360people often are quite confused and mixed up and the job is to get them through it later if they
00:37:47.500are determined, then they can do it. So this, of course, is anathema to people who think in the
00:37:55.280manner of Dr. Wells. They feel and have been actively pursuing, and that's a little bit part
00:38:03.080where these gay-straight alliances led to, the idea that there was a secret life that a child
00:38:09.400could have, and that the parents didn't have a right to know, and that the state could become,
00:38:15.960in place of the parents and permit and allow these surgeries
00:38:22.080and these puberty blockers to be issued.
00:39:39.920Corey, your show earlier today, I didn't catch it yet, I'll watch it a rerun, but you interviewed Senator in waiting Erica Barutz, who was democratically elected by the people of Elbert, I think to be number two on the list of senators in waiting.
00:39:56.440I'm sure she found the choice of this very extreme activist man, man to be curious, to be appointed over her who was elected.
00:40:20.840Perhaps the two that are elected rather than these extreme men who are wildly offside with even the middle of public opinion in Alberta.
00:40:31.560He certainly wasn't looking for gender parity.
00:40:33.160She also pointed out, though, that the prior appointment to the Senate, there was a woman that Trudeau did.
00:40:38.700He made a point of doing it during our Senate election.
00:40:42.500In the middle of the campaign, he picked out liberal Karen Sorensen, slapped a coat of independent paint on her and said, this is your new senator in Alberta.
00:40:52.760You guys are all wasting your time on this election.
00:40:55.580This is just another opportunity for him to do like his father did and give the finger to the West.
00:41:00.320He's using the Senate to basically say, up yours, I don't care what you think.
00:41:03.900And I can show you how I don't care what you think by picking senators who are truly the opposite of what the majority of your province wants to see representing you.
00:41:13.960I mean, Eric, Rudy didn't seem surprised at all by this.
00:41:17.100I mean, they go into it knowing their chances of being appointed by a liberal government are pretty much slim to none.
00:41:24.920The other thing that was noteworthy, though, is that those seats have been vacant for years.
00:41:28.800This isn't something that he needed to do.
00:41:31.340Well, that adds another element to it.
00:41:33.940Maybe he is worried about the security of his government when he's starting to fill these seats, when he's taken years leaving them vacant.
00:41:39.260Well, one of the biggest mistakes of Stephen Harper was leaving so many vacancies at the end of his prime ministership to be filled by Justin Trudeau.
00:41:46.980But the Senate's just such a sick and abused institution from many governments, not just the liberals, actually, that it's just a rotten system.
00:42:47.880The Cass Report in Great Britain poured a lot of cold water on this whole matter of gender transition in teenagers.
00:42:56.100Well, he's now in a position to say, oh, no, no, they got it completely wrong.
00:42:59.780And he has the credibility of the Canadian Senate behind him to do so, which will be enough for some people to say, oh, well, the Canadian senator says.
00:43:10.020The other thing he could do, I mean, it's not out of the question that he could have a private member's bill that would impinge on this matter.
00:43:18.500Don't forget, we think that these certain things are provincial jurisdictions.
00:43:23.200But, you know, the federal government moved in on health.
00:43:27.260And what was once a provincial jurisdiction got mixed up in federal politics.
00:43:31.420They're even trying to make school lunches now.
00:43:35.420Exactly. So somebody with that, driven by those priorities, seated in the Senate, is in a position to make all kinds of messy trouble that we're not going to enjoy.
00:43:50.480Right on. I wish we had time to get to our last piece, which is, you know, Trudeau has been shoveling tens and tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money at subsidizing useless electric vehicle plants in Ontario.
00:44:09.420and apparently not for the environment, just make work projects, really, as we've seen,
00:44:15.600because then he slapped 100% tariff on electronic vehicles coming from China.
00:44:22.140You know, not a lot of big government of China fans around the Western Standard offices here,
00:44:28.220but we do trade with them, and we would expect very much, everyone expected they were going to retaliate.
00:44:35.740And so now they're now investigating what they call illegal dumping of Canadian canola into China.
00:44:44.120Essentially, it's a prelude for them to respond with the tariffs against our canola, which, I mean, of course, to protect an Eastern industry, which is already subsidized by Western tax dollars, the West is going to pay the price.
00:44:56.700Western Canadian canola farmers are going to pay the retaliatory trade price for protecting these
00:45:02.700BS vehicles made in Ontario that nobody wants to drive, paid for by taxpayers. Welcome to Canada,
00:45:08.280history repeats. I mean, farmers used to have to pay to get implements shipped from the east
00:45:12.680because the tariffs stopped buying them from the United States. Then they'd pay their taxes into
00:45:16.740the east. Then they'd pay the shipping for those implements out here and pay the shipping to send
00:45:21.240the crop to the east so they could sell it and make the profit. It's like the old national policy.
00:45:26.340It doesn't change. Unfortunately, we don't have time to jump into it. But I just want to put it on the record that our poor Western canola farmers are going to get it hard, I think. And it's all going to be, thankfully, if you're a Western Canadian canola farmer right now, just know that your sacrifice is worth it so that some liberal voter in Ontario can work at their subsidized electronic vehicle plant to make cars that nobody wants to drive.
00:45:56.340That's it for there. Gentlemen, thank you for joining. And thank all of you for joining us today. If you're not yet a member of the Western Standard, I would say get off your seat. You don't have to get off your seat. You're already on it. Just pick up your phone, pick up your laptop right now. Go to westernstandard.news and become a member. It's only $100 a year or just $10 a month for unlimited access to all Western Standard content.
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00:46:37.380If the name Ted Byfield brings back fond memories, well, we got a party coming up for you guys.
00:46:41.780On September 25th, Toasting Ted is what it's called.
00:46:44.980It's going to honor a great conservative who published Alberta Report News magazine.
00:46:49.400It's going to be bagpipes, singing, live auction stakes, speeches by Premier Smith, Preston Manning, Stephen Harper.