Sheila Gunn Reid and Robbie Picard dismantle the "war on coal," arguing that anti-mining rhetoric mirrors past oil sands smears while ignoring strategic steelmaking needs and national security. Picard condemns the NDP's recent convention as a failure of identity politics that alienates blue-collar workers, blaming the Jagmeet Singh-Justin Trudeau coalition for Canada's economic decline. The segment concludes with Reid's petition against Tim Hortons for lobbying temporary foreign worker expansions, asserting this policy suppresses wages and harms Canadian youth employment. [Automatically generated summary]
Today, we're discussing the war on coal in Alberta.
I'm Sheila Gunn Reid, and you're watching The Gun Show.
If you've been paying even passive attention to the war on coal in Alberta, you'll notice that it feels very familiar.
A lot of the Arguments against new coal mines in Alberta are directly cribbed from the Anti Oil Sands Notebook.
They cite concerns about lack of reclamation of the land after the mining is done, and they cite the dangers to our water here in Alberta.
Now, if you know anything about anything, you know that both of those issues are addressed in Alberta's coal mining regulations.
Just like oil sands mines, a reclamation fund has to be in place before any coal mines are approved.
So we can just forget that there's going to be environmental devastation.
And then the company just lines its pockets and then leaves.
That cannot happen here.
And then, of course, the water issues.
The Alberta Energy Regulator strictly monitors water.
Anywhere there's any sort of resource development.
And so that should not be a concern either, but that hasn't stopped the lies and the activists from spreading these mistruths.
And so today I thought I would bring on somebody onto the show who's got experience in dealing with these sort of flat out falsehoods when it comes to oil and gas development.
And that is my friend Robbie Picard.
From Oil Sands Strong and Oil and Gas World Magazine.
He's seen this all before and he's going to tell us exactly what he thinks in an interview we recorded yesterday morning.
Take a listen.
So, joining me now is a good friend of the show, my real life good friend and good friend of oil and gas families everywhere, Robbie Picard from Oil Sands Strong and Oil and Gas World Magazine.
I wanted to have Robbie on the show because I've been paying very close attention to the Reinvigorated war on coal in Alberta.
And I am seeing a lot of things that I've seen before, a lot of deja vu, in that a lot of the same arguments that were made about oil and gas, and I think successfully because we don't have a pipeline and a lot of projects are stalled right out, are being used on proposed new coal.
I know my friend Robbie has been watching this very carefully.
So, Robbie, I wanted to have you on to just tell us what you think.
Well, you know, first off, thank you for having me on.
We tried last week and I was in the middle of nowhere in Goodfish, broken down a road at one point and trying to get reception.
So, I'm happy to be in my office today.
First off, one of the things I said last week that I want to reiterate is that my biggest regret in my advocacy going back since 2014.
Is the fact that when Rachel Notley shut down the coal mines in those small towns and devastated those communities, I know people personally who were lost their homes basically and had to completely change their lives.
And candidly, particularly in Parkland County, it took years to recover from.
One of my biggest regrets was that we did not advocate for our fellow coal miners and their families in that industry.
That industry is a booming industry.
It's never not going to be a booming industry.
They are selling coal, particularly steel making coal, all over the world.
And British Columbia is one of the largest exporters of coal.
And I don't know why in Alberta we picked one resource over the other and allowed that devastation.
So, part of what I'm working on now is I've met with some families and met with some people who support the Grassy Narrows project.
And I've decided that, you know what?
I'm going to fight for coal families.
I'm going to do what I can so our coal gets to market because we need jobs, we need stability, we need these things.
And I think it's just a shame what has happened to that industry.
Yeah, I mean, our coal industry is something to be ashamed of.
It's actually something to be ashamed of.
Something to be very proud of.
It's considered a strategic resource because if you don't have coal, then you can't build things.
And then you're reliant on supply chains from people that we shouldn't trust, like China.
150%.
And I want us as Albertans to become the energy mega superpower that we should be.
And coal is part of that.
There's so many new technologies that make burning coal more efficient.
It's also affordable, it's cheap, and it's essential.
It's essential for making steel, it's essential for making new technology.
It is one of the most important things.
And I think that those so called celebrities like that bizarre looking folk singer, Core Blunt, or whatever, I mean, I love it how he's off to Texas to tour, but that's no problem shitting on Canadian jobs, particularly in Alberta with coal.
So, I think that the technology is great.
I also have been doing a lot of research on the rich history of coal, and a lot of Edmonton has tons of reclaimed coal mines everywhere that have been repurposed.
There's absolutely you can reclaim the land, you can do a lot with it, and frankly, coal is not this evil thing.
And as long as the world needs energy, it needs to be Alberta energy, and we need to get our coal mines open so we can provide good paying jobs that feed economies.
I believe that coal.
And ranching can coexist perfectly.
I've been doing a lot of research on communities with coal mines and ranching close by, and they can thrive.
They can help each other.
And not everybody that grows up on a ranch or a farm wants to be a farmer.
Well, that provides secondary employment.
Not every farm can survive all the time without secondary income.
That helps the farm.
So, I mean, this notion that the two can't coexist in a symbiotic relationship is completely obtuse, and I think we need to work on that.
Yeah, I mean, I'm a Corbelund music fan.
I want that to be clear.
And I appreciate in the past his advocacy for oil and gas jobs.
I mean, his song, Roughest Neck, is sort of an anthem of the working man of the oil patch.
So it is bizarre to me to see him now attacking coal jobs.
I mean, the jobs really are fossil fuel jobs.
They're one in the same, they're the same kind of People who do those jobs.
And I think we have a unique opportunity here now because the UCP at their recent policy convention passed a policy to bring coal back online, the membership did.
And with the Strait of Hormuz being blocked right now, a lot of countries who went off coal are reconsidering not having that reliable energy source in the mix when there is oil and gas scarcity.
We have a unique opportunity right now.
It's a strategic asset, it is essential, I think, to the safety and stability of the world.
And Alberta can really step up and ramp up our production to be a part of making the world a safer place.
Absolutely.
I, I, a hundred percent.
And like, I just, you know, I don't know what is happening in the world right now with like, I, it's so bizarre to me.
So you have your kind of like your, your blue collar type workers who typically were the NDP.
And then you had the conservatives, which were kind of the business, right?
And now, okay, I'm just going to say it.
I grew up as an NDP person.
Okay.
I grew up as an NDP, right?
My dad was NDP.
The whole Saskatchewan, Thomas Douglas, all of that stuff, the founder of healthcare and all that.
And I never really hated the NDP until Jed Meet.
And it's because they just, like, I don't agree with Tom Allcare on many things, but I enjoyed Tom Allcare in the House of Commons.
I liked Tom Allcare.
I thought, wow, you're a gritty guy.
I don't agree with you when it comes to oil and gas, but I thought he was a very effective opposition leader.
That to me was like, okay, I can get behind.
I can get behind Audrey Moe Glarklin and Alexa.
I can get behind all the previous NDP leaders.
I don't have to agree with them, but I remember all of them.
Like, I remember about growing up and that, like, I believe they had the first woman that was voted to as a party leader, right?
All of these things.
But now, all these people who would benefit the most from blue collar jobs and jobs created from the revenue from coal and mining to, you know, for healthcare and schools and all that.
I watched that convention and I was just like, what the hell?
Like, what has happened?
Like, there is the most bizarre point of privilege.
I've got a gender equity card, but I'm black, and hold up, I don't have gender.
And I'm like, as a pretty open minded gay guy, I have no clue.
Like, I just like, what is happening to us right now?
Like, that was like, I'm not making this up.
When I looked at it, I thought, okay, this is like a skit.
Right.
And then I'm like, wow.
Like, I cannot think of one policy thing except for at the end when he won and he made a comment public ownership for everything.
And we know how well that works.
Public ownership.
Right.
Like, come on.
Like, I have seen so many people in power that are in a smaller scale and it doesn't go equally like the free market system at all.
So, I don't know what's happening.
I just know that Albertaans need to put our energy first our oil and gas, our coal, our farming, our tech, and just, I don't know, just build it.
We have everything going for us.
Let's build it and get it to market because, holy crap.
I mean, if those guys actually get in power, like, the people that I work with, they've got these great grandchildren.
I showed her the videos yesterday on the TV and she's like, oh my God.
She's like, she's 74.
She's looking at her great grandkids.
She's like, I am terrified.
Because I won't be here to shield them from this crazy.
You know, the good news is, though, that the NDP has six seats in the House of Commons.
They're not a real party at this point.
They lost their Northern MP in a floor crossing.
And I think when normal people see that, they just run with horror.
You know, they couldn't even figure out where on the.
Grievance totem pole, they all fit because you had like these people fighting with the black ladies, and then there's a gender diverse lady with a Hitler haircut in charge of everything.
And again, like you, I don't know what sort of policies they were advancing outside of Avi Lewis's communism speech at the very end because I was so taken in by the clown show.
That is now just an international laughing stock.
And I think people like Thomas Small Care or even Jack Layton must be rolling in his grave.
Thomas Small Care must look upon the current state of the NDP with horror because even though I probably disagreed with him on 99% of it, he isn't a crazy person.
And I don't know anybody in the NDP who isn't crazy at this point.
You know, like it's okay.
So for me, like, I've always been fair.
Like, the only thing that I've ever Publicly, even went after Rachel Notley on his call because I think that was a disgusting decision and her hiring support of Bourbon.
But other than that, because I do believe she played a role in Trans Mountain, I kept it clean and I've always been pro energy.
And I'm trying to go back to that.
I'm trying to find that happy spot.
But I think when Jagmeet and Trudeau had their coalition government, I think Jagmeet duped the entire country because everyone was so worried about being racist and calling him out because of his appearance that they.
Forgot that they basically have a TikTok narcissist on there who's like, we all have to use social media.
I understand that.
But I look at his stuff today and it's like, the guy's not a serious leader.
But the problem is that the aftermath of him as a leader, it's left this once decent, you know, work fighting party that was actually had some good qualities to it.
There were some good NDP members to just.
They're infighting over who, you know what it is?
It's just endless victimhood.
They're infighting.
I'm a bigger victim, you're a bigger victim.
And great, you guys can sit there and debate.
Like, I've been to conservative conventions, and I'm not saying that they're all perfect either, but I've never felt that anyone could not speak.
I thought that people were treated fairly.
If there's a conflict, they could resolve it.
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This is what the hell?
Like, it was the most bizarre thing I've ever.
Like, do you need to make a point of order?
Because There's a lineup, and there's not enough pens for your translator.
Like, you know, like you can't just go to the front desk.
I mean, mind you, you know, Sheila, I've been drinking these matcha lattes.
I'm all about these matcha lattes now, okay?
And I have to admit, when I go to Starbucks, and my order is real simple because this is kind of copying you.
I get the protein milk and then seven scoops of matcha, no classic syrup, but I cheat a little bit with a stevia for the sweet taste, right?
Okay, okay, okay, and I get that, but that's it's not really, you know, you probably don't even have a sweetener anymore, do you at all?
Do you okay?
Well, whatever, but anyway, but I have to have these moments if they get my order wrong or they interrupt me when I'm trying to explain my order and they're like, okay, well, hot iced or iced or hot, and I'm like, you gotta be kidding me, it's minus 36.
Why would I get an iced one?
And I get all like diva like.
That's what it reminded me.
It's like a bunch of people ordering Starbucks and are bad about their order, right?
And don't understand how entitled they are, how my life is pretty good.
I'm ordering an $11 coffee and I'm irritated because it takes too long, right?
That to me was sort of what it was like.
All of the people there are in a warm building, their democratic right to speak is there.
In fact, they got extra privilege because they got privilege.
I don't even understand what those cards mean.
I got my gender equity privilege card so I can button line.
Like, what the hell's that?
Like, so you have all this, and then you don't like.
I don't, there was not a policy that I like.
The only one that you know, I felt actually felt bad that one girl that was talking and she was expressing her opinion on the war in Iran.
And you don't have to agree with your opinion or not, but it seemed like a valid point.
And then all of a sudden, it turned into misgendering the host.
And then you can't say anything because you already said something more.
It's like she gives this heartfelt speech about her concern about the war.
And then it's like, whoa, no, no, no.
Call me Cher.
And I'm like, holy crap.
And this is going to be from a person that has, like, you know, I'm sponsor pride.
I help people.
Like, I'm not, I'm very open minded, but that party looked like a mockery.
And I mean, if any of our foes, like Putin or, you know, the Chinese president are watching, they're just like sitting there, I don't know if they eat popcorn in China, but the chopsticks are definitely going in.
It's just like, wow.
Like, wow, like it felt like a Portlandia skit, like it didn't even feel real.
Like, I felt like I was watching TV and not a convention.
Well, then I saw another AI edited one that came out right away, and it took me about 10 minutes to realize it was AI because I couldn't tell the difference.
You know, I don't know, I don't know what's happening, but it's just too much.
And yeah, like, and as a guy who, like, I actually, I I have respect for, like, I actually like Jean Cretien.
I think Jean Cretien was a good leader.
You know, I just think Jagmead and Trudeau, they will go down in history as the.
I really hope I'm wrong, but I think that will be.
Trudeau's legacy with Jagmead is sort of like where Canada hit rock bottom.
I really believe that.
I think that they're the worst of the worst.
And maybe that's just a spin out from.
I mean, Jagmead, in his opinion, I suppose, wanted to keep Polly about.
So instead of toppling the conservatives, he quickly made it so Carney could come in place, right?
So maybe Jagme thinks he's a success.
But what he did in the meantime is he took the party that was pretty strong under Tom Walker and left it to like the party's an identity crisis.
It doesn't know what it is.
Right.
I would say the same about many of those delegates, actually.
Now, before I let you go, I just want to get your opinion on Mark Carney's efforts to, I don't know, advance oil and gas development.
He's been in power for a year and we've seen absolutely nothing.
I want to get your opinion on Mark Carney as far as oil and gas development go, because he's been in power for a year.
He said he was going to do things differently.
There's this weird MOU in place that actually means nothing and does nothing.
And none of the laws blocking oil and gas development.
Have been repealed, so nobody's going to invest here.
But maybe you see something differently, I don't know.
Okay, so what I will say that I like.
Okay, and it's the bar.
Let's just be honest, the bar is very, very low, right?
I mean, the let's just so let's discuss, let's just pretend like let's take our personal political biases out of it and our like our friendships with you know politicians and people that we work with, and let's just be objective, okay?
That NDP show that we just witnessed, and the most bizarre thing, let's be honest, a year ago that was closer to mainstream, at least that has quieted down.
With his 180 from the book Values, which has us terrified, the one thing that I think is good, at least now, I just interviewed Premier Tim Houston from British Columbia, or not British Columbia, sorry.
I just interviewed the Nova Scotia Premier about getting LNP to work in Nova Scotia.
The conversation pro energy that I'm hearing from all parties now is completely changed.
It's done a 180.
Now, as far as tangible shovels in the ground, deals being made, no, I'm not seeing any.
And I'm actually very terrified, and I hope I'm wrong, that we're not in a situation where it's the Springfield monorail one more time from The Simpsons.
Right.
A lot of these smooth talking people, and trust me, I have to deal with it all the time.
They come into our communities and they're going to be like, oh, we're going to do this, and oh, we're going to do that, and we're going to do that.
And then the truth is that they actually don't do anything.
It's about selling.
It's this consistent sale.
And I really hope that Mark Carney is not that guy.
But I mean, Sheila, if we don't build pipelines and we don't get our oil to market, if we don't change the system, we're going to be in a very, very bad space.
I do like the fact that the conversation went from this bizarre 10 years of weird wokeness to like, hey, we need to pay for our bills.
Like, here's my message to all the socialists out there.
If you want social programs and you want government to have bigger influence, right?
Similar to like SASTEL in Saskatchewan or all of these things, you need a strong energy base to pay for it.
You want more hospitals?
Oil and gas.
You want more schools?
Coal.
You want a community that has jobs if you don't want to work in a mine?
Coal.
I really think that this note, like, I think.
If a socialist could just do one thing, understand you want free shit, you don't want to work, you want to have endless excuses for existing and compensation for every single bad thing that's happened in history, get a strong resource sector.
Because I think we can all agree on that.
And that's what I find really funny.
It's like we want to shut down all the oil plants, but we want hospitals and schools.
Like, I agree.
And you know what?
Like, people can say whatever they want about Danielle Smith.
I mean, she's a lot less conservative than I thought she was going to be.
She's not cutting programs there.
They didn't even have a balanced budget.
Now, I'm sure the budget will be balanced now because I mean, God, oil shot up.
But Alberta is a province that is blessed with our natural resource, which creates endless revenue, even when oil is low.
It creates consistent revenue and jobs.
Embrace it.
And if we all can just embrace that, then we're fine.
And so, that's my message.
Like, I really hope that even Mark Carney, who wrote the book Values, who He understands that you need to have revenue.
Now, will that actually happen?
I don't know, Sheila.
What do you think?
How do we get it so we can stop?
Having these conversations and talk more about the crazy New Democratic Party.
How do we actually build pipelines?
Because I'm doing my part for the advocacy.
I think, just as someone who is a reluctant Western separatist, I think there is no way within the confines of this country that we will ever be able to fully achieve our potential as an.
Energy superpower, because we have seen no evidence that there is any movement from the liberals to allow us to do what we do best.
And they don't care about the revenue because they'll just continue to spend on the other side.
They don't care about fiscal restraint.
Mark Carney's outspending Justin Trudeau.
So that's my viewpoint.
The longer it takes for the liberals to actually move the needle, On oil and gas development and repealing C69 would be a great place to start.
They haven't done anything like that.
It just fuels a crisis of confederation.
So, if they want to look to see what's causing Western separation to grow, the liberals just need to look in the mirror.
Right.
No, for sure.
Now, question What do you think about Polly's appearance on Joe Rogan?
And is that helpful?
Is it going to make a difference, move the needle for them?
I think so.
I do.
I do.
And I think it made the conservatives look like the reasonable grownups in the room.
I think it strongly humanized Pierre Polyev.
It was a wonderful change in tone to actually speak directly to the Americans on the shows that they watch in a manner that is not disrespectful and combative, which is how we see Doug Ford talk.
It's how we see Mark Carney talk.
It's how we see Melanie Jolie talk.
He was speaking to them about shared issues and shared values.
And I think it will, it might even benefit the liberals in that it'll reset the tone between Canada and the United States.
But I think it was, it could do nothing but help.
No, for sure.
No, I thought he did very, very well.
It was nice to see.
I wish he would have done it sooner in the last election.
But one thing that I would like to see too is I'd like to see more grownups in politics.
Like just.
Talk it out.
You know what I mean?
Like, even today, despite the fact that, like, you and I are being respectful of the spectacle that we just launched, right?
We're still trying.
It's wonderful.
We hope that you get that.
You know, like, I don't know.
I hope everybody gets captioning on your screen.
Like, are you depriving me because I'm dyslexic?
Holding up my gender equity card.
Stop it.
But that's ridiculous.
I'm all for, hey, sorry, back to that.
But yes, you should get him a translator thing, no problem at all.
But is that really a point of order?
That's talking to the manager behind the scenes.
Right.
I don't know.
That's even the issue here.
Even in our conversation right now, you're gay and Métis.
Yeah.
But you're male.
I'm female.
But just a regular old run of the mill Caucasian.
Which one of us is higher on the grievance totem pole?
I think you are, right?
I think so, yeah.
I hate to say it, yes.
I may as well be an Asian man.
But if you change how you identify, then you can be whatever you want.
So you can pull a card.
Gender equity card.
And that was embarrassing because you know what it says?
I'm all for making the world more fair.
I really am.
I believe in that.
And I believe that I do a lot of stuff.
I help with the SPCA.
I raise a lot of money for charity.
Like, I've raised up, you know, I have a lot of people who donate videos to different causes.
And the amount of money raised because of our videos has raised over almost $2 million in the last four years.
So, and I try to do those things fairly quietly.
And, you know, but I do try to help.
And I'm not opposed.
Like, one of my staff that, you know, pops in and out right now, he's got autism.
And we hire him all the time.
And I make sure he's comfortable.
And I sit him at the table with us.
And I do all those things.
But, I truly believe that you hit a wall where it's not, you're screwing up the natural flow.
If I was an NDP, I'd be sitting there, okay, we've lost official party status.
Mainstream society thinks we're a joke.
And we have six seats and we're constantly trying to get a new leader a seat.
What do we do to make our message better?
You know what I mean?
And that other guy, did you hear him screaming about eating the rich and getting off the menu?
Yeah, he looked like he had already eaten.
He's not.
He looks like he's fine.
Yeah, he's fine.
Robbie, before I let you go, can you let people know how they can both see your activism but support your advocacy for fossil fuel jobs here in Alberta but also across the country?
So go to oilandgasworld.ca and sign up for our newsletter.
And please just follow me on Facebook at Robbie Picard.
We're doing a lot of cool stuff now.
I am traveling, doing a lot of interviews.
We're going to be doing a little bit of a podcast type thing.
And yeah, like please, I'm going to, it's basically like three things.
So the magazine, the activism, but then there's also, I'm going to start doing a little bit of political commentary, just taking my own little, you know, my little take on current events and stuff like that.
Because it's, you know, we, to me, it's very important that I want to have a little more fun and not always be like, you know, you live once and I don't want to constantly spend, My time fighting, right?
So, I want to talk about cool things.
Like, for instance, I'm very into Blue Mountain pottery now, and I took me the entire interview to figure out how the eagle would look on the screen.
I'm not sure if this cat, the cat kind of takes away from the eagle, but the leopard got a real zoo on the desk there.
Yeah, I got my parrots, Kiki and Coco, and my turtles.
Wow.
Awesome.
Okay.
Well, I'm very much, yeah, thank you for having me on your show.
And I'd like to, yeah, I should come on more often.
We haven't checked for a while, so we should do that.
Yes, for sure.
I think we should split the difference on some coal advocacy across this province and giving voice to the people who are being hurt by these bad ideas that other people don't have to live with.
Robbie, thanks so much for the work that you do on behalf of families just like mine.
Thank you for having me.
It's always a pleasure.
Thanks, Robbie.
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And add your name there.
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So it, of course, gives me viewer feedback, which I want and need for this portion of the show, but it also helps get our content higher up in the algorithms because the more our content is interacted with, the more.
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So it helps spread the message and debunk the lies of the mainstream media and the activists.
Now, I don't often take viewer feedback unrelated to the show, on the show, but today I wanted to.
My goodness, what's going on over here?
Today I wanted to do that because I recently did a video calling for a Tim's boycott.
You can learn more at timsboycott.com.
And of course, I'm talking about boycotting Tim Hortons.
Because Tim Hortons has lobbied the government for changes to the temporary foreign worker program in an effort to make the participants in the temporary foreign worker program permanent,
as in making the temporary foreign worker program a pathway to permanent citizenship, but also to increase the number of hires that they can have who are not Canadian and to increase the amount of hours that.
Foreign students can work while they are in Canada.
Now, I think the problems with this are obvious.
Temporary foreign workers are just that temporary.
They're here allegedly, which we know isn't the case, to fill a void in the labor force.
And then when there are Canadians to do those jobs, those people are supposed to go home.
That's the temporary part of the foreign worker.
Program.
But we know that is definitely not the case.
A lot of people are overstaying their temporary foreign work permits.
They're getting married to Canadians while they're here.
And there is the whole big problem with unemploying Canadian youth and Canadians in general.
Youth unemployment in this country, in some parts of the country, is approaching 20%.
Food service jobs are meant for kids, they're entry level jobs meant for Canadian kids.
And really, there's been a death of the summer job.
In this country.
And like one in five high school students just can't find a job.
That's outrageous.
This has problems for the economy going forward because you have a generation of people who don't even know how to work.
What do you think that's going to do to our economy in 15 years?
It's not just a problem now, it's going to be a problem of productivity for at least a generation, maybe two.
And then there, of course, are the problems with.
Housing shortages, wage suppression, because when you have a glut of unskilled workers, it drives the wages down for everybody else.
This has to end.
And Tim Hortons, which is not a Canadian company, but cloaks itself in Canadiana.
Is harming Canadian youth and it has to stop.
So, if you agree with me, you can sign that petition, like I said, at timsboycott.com.
But I wanted to know what you guys thought about my video that I did on the issue of Tim Hortons lobbying for, if you cut out all the jargon, higher youth unemployment rates for Canadian kids.
So, Mr. Mack 3971 says if they all went bankrupt, zero Canadian jobs would be lost.
Because that was one of the things that they said in their lobbying letter if we don't get access to this glut of foreign labor, well, then our stores will close.
Okay.
Okay.
Don't care.
If you have to build a business around slave labor and indentured servitude that causes a cascade effect across the entire economy, and oh, my cat.
And if your business goes under, if you don't have access to it, I don't care.
I honestly don't care.
Then your business model was flawed.
That's it.
Republic of Alberta W5P says it's not cheap.
Canadian taxpayers are forced to subsidize their wages.
In some instances, that is true.
But think about the cost to healthcare, to housing.
It's not cheap.
You're right.
I mean, to the employer, it's cheap and easy, but to the rest of us, the costs are enormous.
Joey M.067 says, It isn't just the youth having a hard time finding a job, but people in their 30s as well.
Yes, also true.
Middle management positions at these companies are also occupied by temporary foreign workers.
If there aren't enough Canadians trained to pour coffee, here's my advice train them, invest in them, try that.
That's what they used to do.
Xtrickster6556 says, effing disgusting what this country's become with this garbage government.
Wow.
Where's the lie?
EvilStans says, funny how they were able to survive for 60 years before being bought by private equity.
That is the truth.
But in the before times, they trained Canadian kids, but also, I found it interesting in the lobbying letter that I showed in that video that they never call for, you know, a drop in taxes, something that would help all businesses across the board, that would make operating costs lower, you know, stop the upstream carbon tax that's hidden on your gas bill, none of that stuff.
They don't call for any of that or a stop to government spending that's driving inflation, that's making them raise their prices.
They don't ask for any of that common sense measures that would help.
Every Canadian and every business owner, they never call for that.
They just call for more indentured servants.
And I remember when the left was against that sort of thing.
Not so much anymore.
Goodbye, kitty.
Eric Pudafat3435 says we need to stop the subsidies.
We just need to stop these people.
When I say these people, I mean Tim Hortons and other businesses that abuse it.
We You see it anywhere.
Anytime you go to use some sort of service industry, oil change, whatever, it's not just Tim Hortons, it's almost across the board with major franchisees in this country.
Every time you go there, you're hard pressed to find a Canadian kid.
And, you know, stop the temporary foreign worker program.
Just stop it.
Stop.
If there ever comes a time where we have negative youth unemployment, then we can revisit this.
But this doesn't help any of us.
JWKM3BY This country is run by treasonous criminals from top to bottom, selling us all out, destroying the country on purpose.
For the WEF agenda, it seems.
Well, the young people will own nothing and be happy at this rate, won't they?
Well, everybody, that's the show for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody in the same time, in the same place next week, hopefully without my cat on the desk for the second week in a row.
And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.