Worked in public health and the spending is disgusting. I watched a director take 6 months to hire an ENTIRE PERSON to manage a single weekly meeting to manage ongoing tasks for the team. Yes. Ongoing tasks for the team.
Incompetence is not left or right, doing your job has nothing to do with your beliefs it's about doing your job to contribute to the whole, your community and being proud of the person you are growing into. Apparently just doing your job within the government has become an offense. Soft times create soft people I guess.
Though the guys did look totally incompetent at the start of the show. The boxer they kept calling a man is a woman with high levels of testosterone. She was born with a vagina. And has never “transitioned” - born a woman, still is a woman. 😂 Like, you could not have a worse take on the issue if you tried.
For those that want more info on Parks Canada failures, there is a great interview with former senior planner at Parks Canada Peter Scholz on True North with Harrison Faulkner from July 30th. I first heard about this issue from someone I know 15-20 years ago. Parks Canada needs to do better!
I appreciate Rich jumping in to say its not a fair comparison between taxation against usa which doesn't include healthcare. We are getting hosed , but have you still have to be unbiased and make sure comparisons are equivalent
I dunno why Steve thinks there's going to be pushback on this interview! One of the best guests yet. He makes a lot of sense and there's a ton of Canadians that are on the same page with David! Steve, you need to get outta Kits more!!!
Wow! That guest was so refreshing to listen. And I'm far from a climate skeptic. I'm a meteorologist... But the way to fight climate change won't come through the destruction of our standard of life. We need to export our natural gas and reduce coal usage around the world, and we need to invest in carbon capture technologies. Some technologies are very promising and allow to convert CO2 into fuels or objects. Now on the fires, your guest is 100% right that we have a forest management problem out west. However, it doesn't mean climate change doesn't have an impact. It makes heat waves and droughts worse, so climate change makes forest management even more important nowadays.
My father was a forester in BC and Alberta from the early 80's and all of the points that the guest made have been voiced by him. The Federal forest service has been 20-30 years conservative in practice since its inception.
They are not conservative, they are lazy and incompetent. This is exactly the same thing that happened in Bloedel Conservatory in QE park. I was with my girlfriend there during Christmas, I asked the director why there are rats running around in the conservatory, she said it is part of the natural habitat.
The Algerian boxer is not biologically male. She was born female, and is still currently female. She has a birth defect that reduces her chromosome from XX to XY, making her produce testosterone higher than other females. I also don't think that men should switch gender to excel in female sports, but spreading misinformation is going to hurt this stance more than it helps it. If you are really against it, you should just say that females with birth defects that help them in sports shouldn't be allowed.
I found this episode so embarrassing from the start. Basically going on about a situation that the 2 of them obviously know nothing about. I love the show but today really makes me question anything these 2 guys say. Stick to economics and stay out of politics.
@@dsm1984 Agreed, they tend to try to remain factual but jump on a bandwagon for some of the nonsense that goes viral on Twitter these days. The Musk-type crowd is so jumpy and lack so much nuance on topics and I see these guys jumping on to those talking points so quickly. They say they aren't politically, but they clearly have their tendencies.
One of the best podcasts yet! I was in Jasper 2 weeks before the fires and saw the pine beetle destruction and was worried about a fire, thinking it was a tinder box... Parks Canada needs to step up their game. Why are Canadians paying SOOO much for 'cleaning up Canada' when China and India are doing 10x our effort to make the world worse? Canadians have so many trees available and have a net negative carbon footprint so cardboard straws etc will change nothing in the world when China, India and other countries do nothing.
Canada is literally in the top 10 worst countries for carbon emissions per capita: 2.5 times worse than China, and 10 times worse than India. All these initiatives with straws are pure populism.
@@artemisgalaxy Then why do we keep bringing people here? It seems like having less people in a high carbon producing country would reduce overall emissions
@@artemisgalaxyCanada also has 300 billion trees and 30% of the world's forests.... Net negative! We're subsidizing the world on CO2 conversion to oxygen.
Excellent coverage on some of the most important topics pertaining to Canada's future. I am an oilsands employee. The majority of my co-workers care about the environment, we care about our county, and we care about every person regardless of politics/economic viewpoint. I like healthy criticism, some government intervention, and my fellow Canadians who help make the companies accountable, and hold them up to continually improving the footprint they leave. Unfortunately it feels that our current leadership, (I hope through ignorance) is disassembing Canada, dividing, and hurting my fellow Canadians in what feels like a aim to pander to a small group of organized, outspoken group to gain another term. I applaud, and heavy recommend your channel to everyone. Thank you for speaking up for those of us who don't have a platform, those who want Canada to be its best collectively!
Great show! Thank you. On a side note..a discussion on the value and detriment of being a vassal of the British monarchy. Why is it ok for King Chuck to own approx 94% of Canada? If we are to be a true powerhouse country, isn't it time to end colonialism?
NO he ain't ! You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED Forestry workers and had to give up back in 2016?
CON idealogue who is mis-informed ! You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED many many Forestry workers until they had to give up back in 2016? Just WHO would have Paid for the massive costs to cut down, then haul away literally tens of thousands of acres of the Pine Bettle kill non-harvestable nor millable financially non-viable forrests around Jasper ?
Incredible episode! Your program improves by the week. Just as much as the current government is burning down our country. My 2 cents, vote!!! Not only for a particular policy but mostly to keep our politicians in the same light as managers of our country. This is how we’ll know if our problems are so systemic that even a change in government doesn’t produce change. But let’s start with a change in government first. Have a great weekend everyone!!
One thing to keep your eye out for is the Productivity Summit that is happening in Calgary in October. They are inviting all the finance ministers from across the country out to figure out how to fix the productivity crisis across the country. As far as David goes the key take away should be that we need competent people that are being held accountable to do their job well.
Dear lord. This man makes so much sense it’s scary. What an interesting guest and persuasive communicator. Maybe, just maybe, some accountability will return to our government departments.
David Knight is telling us what we need to hear and most awake people see and know. No one wants to be troubled about thinking critically anymore. Everything is a crisis. It’s like teenagers at a party…
David made some good points although any pretence of being anything but being a strong right wing thinker was laughable. Perhaps it’s time for the Loonie Hour to broaden the perspective of the discussion in the near future.
We hand out more than we take in so far in subsidies and credits. We can all have our opinions in private but Canada is not America. We need to at the very least pretend because we survive off of fossil fuel exports, some very carbon intensive. A fake carbon tax is the best scam available. It's like the scrapie in Alberta cattle, shoot, shovel and shut up. China plays the game well. They installed more solar just last year than all other countries combined. They also installed more electric car charging stations then exist in the entire rest of the world. It's a game. Learn to play.
Great common sense discussion. None of this information put on legacy media of course. Would have been nice to hear more how our GDP numbers are manipulated. Would love for you guys to touch on that next episode.
I’m so incredibly disappointed by painting such a staunch view of the Algerian women (yes, women, assigned female at birth). I’m a longtime fan but also a 29 year old female athlete who doesn’t need your half baked opinion on who should and should not have the right to compete. Stick to policy, that was disgusting
Hey, great show and I agree with most of it. But as a mountain climber and climbing enthusiast I agree with the parks canada idea of little to no gondolas. In a world full of packed and accessible cities it’s nice to be able to get to the top of a mountain and only be there with other people that fought to get to the top of it, don’t monetize summits, monetize the mountain towns below them.
I consider myself fairly left-leaning, but our government's energy policy makes no sense at all. Oil and natural gas pipelines make transporting those products safer and more efficient than transport by train. Stopping those project just ensures a less competitive industry with more possibilities for transport failure. Additionally, efficiently extracting energy here in Canada reduces the need for coal, heavy fuel oil and other much more greenhouse-effect causing alternatives and it's bad for Canada's political enemies, many of whom are energy-producers. We need to make sure Canada is moving forward with nuclear, gas and oil as well as solar and wind. Renewables get cheaper year by year but we're not there yet and the alternatives are things like coal, which is both worse for the environment and inefficient cost-wise. I don't think any of our politicians is even remotely competent when it comes to the topic of energy policy. Wow, big comment. I must be really annoyed by this.
We operate a manufacturing business in Delta BC and export around the world. Our taxes to the city of Delta increased 40% in two years. Go figure. Accountability? Our only option is to move. Sad. As David confirmed, they are destroying the future for our children.
Having Chuck Marohn on as a guest from @strongtowns would be a sobering voice to discuss the fiscal insolvency our towns and cities have been putting themselves in with our development pattern. Chuck is great at diving through the left vs. right smoke clouds
I love watching you guys. Been a supporter since youve started the show ( I dont think youre 3 babling turds). I appreciated this guests views but at the end his comments about the assassination was completely inappropriate. Unless hes happy to talk about the whole story of whats happening in the Middle East, hes better off not expressing his 2 cents about a complicated matter that he clearly knows very little about. This show is about economics, not politics.
Here on the West Coast, it is moisture, rot and heavy winds which helps clear out forest slash. Still, the natives did controlled burns in the dry areas like the Gulf Islands and South Island.
CON idealogue who is mis-informed ! You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED many many Forestry workers until they had to give up back in 2016? Just WHO would have Paid for the massive costs to cut down, then haul away literally tens of thousands of acres of the Pine Bettle kill non-harvestable nor millable financially non-viable forrests around Jasper ?
I would love for you guys to explain again in more detail in layman terms the reason why Freelands boast of Canada being the top.......is a crock. It is good to spread that truth as lot of people just believe it if they don't know the truth.
I would like to hear from a non partisan forestry expert. I do know that being an advisor to Jason Kenney is not much to be proud of. He’s the one who exploded the Temporary Foreign worker program and was a disaster in Alberta
A lot of the stuff David is saying about emissions is disingenuous at best. The emissions have increased under the Liberal government, but that increase is concentrated . Every other province has dropped their emissions per capita, and often by huge amounts. Both Alberta and Sask which have been fighting the feds on any climate measures. How can you advise a failed premier who was in the pocket of the oil industry, and gripe that their opponents in the Federal gov't didn't do enough to stop Kenney's agenda? Hypocrite much? Basically all of Canada's emissions growth going back decades is oil sands emissions. Everything else is falling and has fallen considerably. Alberta and Saskatchewan's energy exports dwarf basically every province's CO2 emissions are immense. His anti-renewable arguements are also crap. The amount of area needed solar panels in most countries are genererally less than the existing built roof areas, not even counting open, desert lands. In almost every country other than Canada (or Northern Europe) this is a winning strategy. If we captures a fraction of a percent of the solar energy hitting the planet with solar panels, we'd have an abundance of electricity considerably beyond what we need. If we replaced all electricity production with solar, we'd need to cover something like 0.01% of the earths surface with panels. Offshore wind also has a ridiculously huge energy potential. Nuclear also has immense potential. There are so many options that are long term solutions, not just short term stopgaps like LNG and oil exports.
Business Continuity planning BCP. Is integral to all business. Especially Canada's. Climate change acknowlegement or not, we need a plan for mitigation and response. Problem? Costs money and effort. Canada sucks at committing to either.
Beyond spreading misinformation regarding the olympics, Steve and Rich come across as totally misogynistic. Steve: “This poor lady” - dude, she’s a boxer - she could kick the shit out of you. She has since admitted her sadness about wanting to win. I would think a boxer knows they might get KOd; it’s their job. Rich: “Women have a hard enough time in sports” - yes, because of men like you guys who expect them to look a certain way and belittle their strength. Shame on you guys. I'd bet you've lost listeners because of this ignorance.
id buy that item you mentioned at the ad break but i have no idea what you said it sounded like you were under water. oh well, gurble guble guble burble durble
David Legg seems to be going for political points on the Jasper wildfire. Although I’m not sure what steps were taken in Jasper, in and around Banff parks has taken active steps to mitigate forest fire risk. There is a large firebreak/ clear-cut west of Lake Louise, another (seasonal controlled burns and clear cutting) west of Banff townsite, and another east of Banff townsite just outside of the National Park. Cuts are reenforced with controlled burns east of Town. Although I don’t know what was done in the Jasper area his opinions on Banff mitigation (likely still inadequate) appears poorly informed.
Not loving the way this guest frames his arguments. He uses his presupposition that ‘capitalism good, socialism bad’ as a way to characterize everything he disagrees with. It’s easy to win arguments when you use this lens. I was hoping for more substance beyond calling everyone he disagrees with a bell bottom wearing hippy.
Rich and Steve I'm sure you know by now the boxer was indeed a woman (not born a man), but had high testosterone. Perhaps semantics but still an important fact.
Every country will now be on the hunt for a citizen with high testosterone to compete in women’s events. The IOC only looks at what gender is referenced on the competitors passport. Where is the line drawn.
@@saretsky Will you set the record straight in the next podcast and add the further nuance? Seems like its a lesson for not jumping on the twitter bandwagon which has a huge misinformation tendency these days.
Guys. Love your podcast, but this guy David Legg... he is speaking WAY out of his knowledge base with wildfire management. I have 9 years experience as a wildfire fighter and now work as an RPF (professional forester). As a forest and wildfire professional, suggesting that they should have simply removed the "deadwood" in the perimeter of Jasper as a wildfire management strategy and that would have made any signficant difference.. that is comical. Sorry but this guy destroyed his credibility. Can't trust anything else he said after his wildfire management piece
@@saretsky it's a nuanced answer, a holistic fire response and risk reduction plan. In super brief terms you want to Firesmart all your structures and properties, have a pre-established tactical response plan in place with maintained fuel break and potential burnoff points, in combination with strategic wildfire risk reduction forest management activities in surrounding areas. So removing "deadwood" would be part of the approach, depending on current forest conditions... but the point here is it's something much more complicated than your guest implies. He oversimplifies everything. In my particular area of expertise it's just easy to tell he is talking out of his ass. Final note once a fire gets going (e.g. rank 4, rank 5) there isn't anything you can do to stop it. David seems to make it seem like you could have prevented a fire from impacting jasper with a few simple interventions
And we thought modern farming could only sustain 2 billion people before the Haber Bosch process. Oil lobbyists are only second to the pharmaceutical lobbyists. If you haven't noticed, they have been running the show, not our government. Cash rules everything around me. Peak oil = less profit = less influence = innovation. (IMO)
Question: If climate change is so important, would not a HIGH interest rate be helpful ? Interest rate low ==> people spend and borrow money to buy buy buy (==> high inflation) Bad for the environment Interest rate high ==> people save money and not spend it on THINGS/STUFF helps the ENVIRONMENT( ==> low inflation) So, if they "really cared" about climate change, increase the interest rate, so people would save unless they really want something. Low rate just encourages spending, and some are very wasteful. Another Point: The Malls are FULL OF JUNK, the merchandise is so bad. Housing inventory is also bad... Let's get back to quality instead of quantity. That is better for the environment.
With America’s need for natural gas increasing exponentially due to data centers and AI, I really pray that America buys out Alberta. Since Canadian govt anyway does not care about Canada’s O&G industry, it will be in interest of both Canada and the US that Alberta joins America as 51st state.
My other favorite. "We arent left vs right" followed by "Bell bottomed commies". I genuinely believe most, if not all Canadians adore our country, and language like this is pathetic
CON idealogue who is mis-informed ! You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED many many Forestry workers until they had to give up back in 2016? Just WHO would have Paid for the massive costs to cut down, then haul away literally tens of thousands of acres of the Pine Bettle kill non-harvestable nor millable financially non-viable forrests around Jasper ?
I lost over $70k when everything started to tank. Not because I was in an exchange that went belly up. I was just stupid to hold and because that's what everyone said. I'm still responsible. It just taught me to be a better investor now that I understand more of what could go wrong. It took me over two years of being in the market, I'm really grateful I found one source to recover my money, at least $10k profits weekly. Thanks Natalie Strayer.
I'm surprised that you just mentioned Natalie Strayer here also Didn’t know she has been good to so many people too this is wonderful, i'm in my fifth trade with her and it has been super.
Natalie Strayer has really set the standard for others to follow, we love her here in Canada 🇨🇦 as she has been really helpful and changed lots of life's
There's a clear lack of understanding of the science. "Our energy resource can be used to remove far more than our total carbon footprint". That is not true. You're not storing 450kg of co2 per barrel of oil produced. Even the scenario of displacing coal with natural gas would only have a meager effect since natural gas is still producing almost as much co2 as coal. You'd also need to account for the energy wasted in getting the methane to oversea market. Those liquifying plants take a ton of energy to run. This is being pushed by oil producers because methane is otherwise a wasted product for them and they would love to get an additional revenue stream, world be damned.
Olivia Chow has been in office 1 year? He blames her for floods? Then blames the feds for Alberta fires? No mention on the provincial government. If parks Canada played such a big roll in the reason for the fires and the provincial government knew. Why didn't they spend half the time and money that was put towards the anti carbon tax message. I'm not debating the carbon tax.... I'm just bringing up how biased he is in this interview. Sounds like he's ready to run for office.
Do even listen? He said Chow blamed climate change, which is a fact. Also, there is nothing AB govt can do inside national parks without federal approval.
@@tombrodzinski157he said Olivia Chow didn't do her job and blamed it on climate change. I live in Ontario so I'm only going on what info makes it over here. The Albert government seemingly goes to war with the feds on everything. They try to have as little fed say and decision making in their province as possible. ( For better or worse, that's for the people of Albert to decide.) With the reputation that Alberta has in all this fighting with the fed, it's hard to believe that they would have stopped with a strongly worded letter to Parks Canada If the Kenny and Smith governments knew and believed that the danger level was this high. Why did they not make this a bigger issue? They go to the courts for carbon tax, health care spending, and probably more. Then they send a letter about Forrest management and that's it?
Confident speaker but just trashes “left” and clearly supports “right”. Can you please, please, pleeeeaase get an ecologist on the show - you guys like maths and ecologists math about the environment. Tbh you guys are great with finance but don’t know shit about what’s really happening environmental Managment wise . Comparing Canadian forest management practices with Switzerland is goofy - the geography of those two spaces are so dramatically different. You guys do really care about the environmental political rhetoric and policies that can change and control macro level economies - but give the real scientists a chance to explain them selves - not some proud politico. Love the content today anyways - really good information to sit on.
Mr. David Knight Legg should go tell Greece how to deal with fires. As of August 2024, clearly, they too, have not figured out a solution to this complex and unpredictable Mother Nature. Not as simple as ring fencing everything…Mr. Knight Legg, while bringing interesting ideas and diversity, lacked nuance I my humble opinion.
It's nice to know that there are at least some people that think in this country
Worked in public health and the spending is disgusting. I watched a director take 6 months to hire an ENTIRE PERSON to manage a single weekly meeting to manage ongoing tasks for the team. Yes. Ongoing tasks for the team.
that's communism for you
Incompetence is not left or right, doing your job has nothing to do with your beliefs it's about doing your job to contribute to the whole, your community and being proud of the person you are growing into.
Apparently just doing your job within the government has become an offense. Soft times create soft people I guess.
Though the guys did look totally incompetent at the start of the show.
The boxer they kept calling a man is a woman with high levels of testosterone. She was born with a vagina. And has never “transitioned” - born a woman, still is a woman. 😂
Like, you could not have a worse take on the issue if you tried.
Oh they can be competent. They were highly competent when they locked us down. They're only playing incompetent on TV
For those that want more info on Parks Canada failures, there is a great interview with former senior planner at Parks Canada Peter Scholz on True North with Harrison Faulkner from July 30th. I first heard about this issue from someone I know 15-20 years ago. Parks Canada needs to do better!
Excellent coverage on such an important topic, thank you for opening up these conversations!
I appreciate Rich jumping in to say its not a fair comparison between taxation against usa which doesn't include healthcare. We are getting hosed , but have you still have to be unbiased and make sure comparisons are equivalent
My Friday ritual.
I dunno why Steve thinks there's going to be pushback on this interview! One of the best guests yet. He makes a lot of sense and there's a ton of Canadians that are on the same page with David!
Steve, you need to get outta Kits more!!!
Because the video talks about climate change. There’s a forced disclaimer on the video to make sure we all know there may be false information 😂
Wow! That guest was so refreshing to listen. And I'm far from a climate skeptic. I'm a meteorologist... But the way to fight climate change won't come through the destruction of our standard of life. We need to export our natural gas and reduce coal usage around the world, and we need to invest in carbon capture technologies. Some technologies are very promising and allow to convert CO2 into fuels or objects. Now on the fires, your guest is 100% right that we have a forest management problem out west. However, it doesn't mean climate change doesn't have an impact. It makes heat waves and droughts worse, so climate change makes forest management even more important nowadays.
My father was a forester in BC and Alberta from the early 80's and all of the points that the guest made have been voiced by him. The Federal forest service has been 20-30 years conservative in practice since its inception.
They are not conservative, they are lazy and incompetent. This is exactly the same thing that happened in Bloedel Conservatory in QE park. I was with my girlfriend there during Christmas, I asked the director why there are rats running around in the conservatory, she said it is part of the natural habitat.
The Algerian boxer is not biologically male.
She was born female, and is still currently female.
She has a birth defect that reduces her chromosome from XX to XY, making her produce testosterone higher than other females.
I also don't think that men should switch gender to excel in female sports, but spreading misinformation is going to hurt this stance more than it helps it.
If you are really against it, you should just say that females with birth defects that help them in sports shouldn't be allowed.
Starting an episode with a completely misinformed rant is so disappointing, poor boxer
I found this episode so embarrassing from the start. Basically going on about a situation that the 2 of them obviously know nothing about. I love the show but today really makes me question anything these 2 guys say. Stick to economics and stay out of politics.
She’s XY so should not be in a sport beating on XX women!
@@dsm1984 Agreed, they tend to try to remain factual but jump on a bandwagon for some of the nonsense that goes viral on Twitter these days. The Musk-type crowd is so jumpy and lack so much nuance on topics and I see these guys jumping on to those talking points so quickly. They say they aren't politically, but they clearly have their tendencies.
@@globalfoodaction6748 well in all honesty it brings their credibility into question.
One of the best podcasts yet!
I was in Jasper 2 weeks before the fires and saw the pine beetle destruction and was worried about a fire, thinking it was a tinder box... Parks Canada needs to step up their game.
Why are Canadians paying SOOO much for 'cleaning up Canada' when China and India are doing 10x our effort to make the world worse?
Canadians have so many trees available and have a net negative carbon footprint so cardboard straws etc will change nothing in the world when China, India and other countries do nothing.
You might be surprised, however, per capita, Canada's carbon emissions are 2.5 times greater than China's and 10 times greater than India's
Canada is literally in the top 10 worst countries for carbon emissions per capita: 2.5 times worse than China, and 10 times worse than India. All these initiatives with straws are pure populism.
@@artemisgalaxy Then why do we keep bringing people here? It seems like having less people in a high carbon producing country would reduce overall emissions
@@artemisgalaxyCanada also has 300 billion trees and 30% of the world's forests.... Net negative!
We're subsidizing the world on CO2 conversion to oxygen.
Excellent coverage on some of the most important topics pertaining to Canada's future.
I am an oilsands employee. The majority of my co-workers care about the environment, we care about our county, and we care about every person regardless of politics/economic viewpoint.
I like healthy criticism, some government intervention, and my fellow Canadians who help make the companies accountable, and hold them up to continually improving the footprint they leave.
Unfortunately it feels that our current leadership, (I hope through ignorance) is disassembing Canada, dividing, and hurting my fellow Canadians in what feels like a aim to pander to a small group of organized, outspoken group to gain another term.
I applaud, and heavy recommend your channel to everyone. Thank you for speaking up for those of us who don't have a platform, those who want Canada to be its best collectively!
Thank you
Great show! Thank you. On a side note..a discussion on the value and detriment of being a vassal of the British monarchy. Why is it ok for King Chuck to own approx 94% of Canada? If we are to be a true powerhouse country, isn't it time to end colonialism?
100%
David is super informative. I appreciate his insights.
NO he ain't !
You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED Forestry workers and had to give up back in 2016?
CON idealogue who is mis-informed !
You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED many many Forestry workers until they had to give up back in 2016?
Just WHO would have Paid for the massive costs to cut down, then haul away literally tens of thousands of acres of the Pine Bettle kill non-harvestable nor millable financially non-viable forrests around Jasper ?
Incredible episode! Your program improves by the week. Just as much as the current government is burning down our country.
My 2 cents, vote!!! Not only for a particular policy but mostly to keep our politicians in the same light as managers of our country. This is how we’ll know if our problems are so systemic that even a change in government doesn’t produce change. But let’s start with a change in government first.
Have a great weekend everyone!!
I’m lol❤vaa da
One thing to keep your eye out for is the Productivity Summit that is happening in Calgary in October. They are inviting all the finance ministers from across the country out to figure out how to fix the productivity crisis across the country. As far as David goes the key take away should be that we need competent people that are being held accountable to do their job well.
I think we need more dei initiatives personally.
Rich, i think you gave good pushback and asked good questions, this was a good one for you imo
Rich cooked
Rich is a man of integrity
Absolutely excellent guest ! Love the idea of locating federal departments to the areas they are responsible for !!! Great show 🎉
Dear lord. This man makes so much sense it’s scary. What an interesting guest and persuasive communicator.
Maybe, just maybe, some accountability will return to our government departments.
An excellent Interview. Loved 🥰 it. 🐳🐬🦋
David Knight is telling us what we need to hear and most awake people see and know. No one wants to be troubled about thinking critically anymore. Everything is a crisis. It’s like teenagers at a party…
David made some good points although any pretence of being anything but being a strong right wing thinker was laughable. Perhaps it’s time for the Loonie Hour to broaden the perspective of the discussion in the near future.
You mean they should have someone from parks Canada defend their lack of forest management policies?
This was great.
Hell yea, great interview!
One of us! one of us!
this show is an act of god
Wow David’s opening remarks blew me away. Re: jasper. More than sad 😢. Brilliant guest. We are so screwed up.
We are putting Canadians in the poor house with these carbon taxes while China builds a coal powered electric plant every week
We hand out more than we take in so far in subsidies and credits. We can all have our opinions in private but Canada is not America. We need to at the very least pretend because we survive off of fossil fuel exports, some very carbon intensive. A fake carbon tax is the best scam available. It's like the scrapie in Alberta cattle, shoot, shovel and shut up.
China plays the game well. They installed more solar just last year than all other countries combined. They also installed more electric car charging stations then exist in the entire rest of the world. It's a game. Learn to play.
Great common sense discussion. None of this information put on legacy media of course.
Would have been nice to hear more how our GDP numbers are manipulated. Would love for you guys to touch on that next episode.
Q2 GDP will be positive,the actually Stat comes August 30
More debt = better gdp....its a completely moronic metric to judge the health of a country.
Great interview with David Knight!
Your best guest. Everyone should see this interview. Please have him back.
I’m so incredibly disappointed by painting such a staunch view of the Algerian women (yes, women, assigned female at birth). I’m a longtime fan but also a 29 year old female athlete who doesn’t need your half baked opinion on who should and should not have the right to compete. Stick to policy, that was disgusting
Sorry, but you're brainwashed. XY is male.
Glad to hear a female athlete speak up about this, I'm sure it made many people uncomfortable.
Love this guy, he doesn't seem like a Canadian. He's got get up and go!
That's rude.
Hey, great show and I agree with most of it. But as a mountain climber and climbing enthusiast I agree with the parks canada idea of little to no gondolas. In a world full of packed and accessible cities it’s nice to be able to get to the top of a mountain and only be there with other people that fought to get to the top of it, don’t monetize summits, monetize the mountain towns below them.
GREAT GUEST. wish you let him talk more!
Everything makes sense when you realize the gov is not here for your benefit.
Best Loonie Hour guest to date!
I consider myself fairly left-leaning, but our government's energy policy makes no sense at all. Oil and natural gas pipelines make transporting those products safer and more efficient than transport by train. Stopping those project just ensures a less competitive industry with more possibilities for transport failure. Additionally, efficiently extracting energy here in Canada reduces the need for coal, heavy fuel oil and other much more greenhouse-effect causing alternatives and it's bad for Canada's political enemies, many of whom are energy-producers.
We need to make sure Canada is moving forward with nuclear, gas and oil as well as solar and wind. Renewables get cheaper year by year but we're not there yet and the alternatives are things like coal, which is both worse for the environment and inefficient cost-wise. I don't think any of our politicians is even remotely competent when it comes to the topic of energy policy.
Wow, big comment. I must be really annoyed by this.
We operate a manufacturing business in Delta BC and export around the world. Our taxes to the city of Delta increased 40% in two years. Go figure. Accountability? Our only option is to move. Sad. As David confirmed, they are destroying the future for our children.
Hands down the best episode yet!
Man made forest need Management. Natural forest burn just fine. Algonquin Park has a really good tree management program.
Excellent episode!
Having Chuck Marohn on as a guest from @strongtowns would be a sobering voice to discuss the fiscal insolvency our towns and cities have been putting themselves in with our development pattern. Chuck is great at diving through the left vs. right smoke clouds
Best Sermon yet!
This was a great interview. Great insight. Ran longer...Steve might want to consider Toonie Hour
I hope PP’s team hires this guy!
I love watching you guys. Been a supporter since youve started the show ( I dont think youre 3 babling turds). I appreciated this guests views but at the end his comments about the assassination was completely inappropriate. Unless hes happy to talk about the whole story of whats happening in the Middle East, hes better off not expressing his 2 cents about a complicated matter that he clearly knows very little about. This show is about economics, not politics.
Totally agree.
Here on the West Coast, it is moisture, rot and heavy winds which helps clear out forest slash. Still, the natives did controlled burns in the dry areas like the Gulf Islands and South Island.
Preach it brother! Love this guy 🎉
CON idealogue who is mis-informed !
You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED many many Forestry workers until they had to give up back in 2016?
Just WHO would have Paid for the massive costs to cut down, then haul away literally tens of thousands of acres of the Pine Bettle kill non-harvestable nor millable financially non-viable forrests around Jasper ?
The guest went full partisan at the bouncy castle comments. Love it 😂
way to start off the pod with some ill-informed misinformation. kudos.
You're misinformed. Do your own research and not just parrot the media. XY is male.
Yeah. So uncomfortable to listen to and lose so much respect for people you consider enlightening. They should stay in the economic lane.
Loving the guest. Nice pick.
Great episode!
Fantastic episode all! Great guest keep up the good work.
Great points by David to ponder and take actions. Good discussion. Federal Govt. is too big... too bureaucratic. Kick Trudeau and his team out.
Unions protecting incompetent people in government is the root of so many issues affecting Canada.
Great Job!!! Thank You... :-)
what different perspectives?
Why don't you put the name of your guest in the video summary notes? It would be easier to find him on Twitter, etc?
They didn't want to do the Legg work
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Happy friday ❤
I would love for you guys to explain again in more detail in layman terms the reason why Freelands boast of Canada being the top.......is a crock.
It is good to spread that truth as lot of people just believe it if they don't know the truth.
Id like to see the ratio of wild fires in Parks vs other un regulated forests in Canada.
Great episode! Great guest!
This is all deliberate, not incompetence
You've obviously never worked for the federal government. You give them too much credit.
Morning from Pitt Meadows BC happy Friday Canadian investors!
GM. Happy Friday!
I would like to hear from a non partisan forestry expert. I do know that being an advisor to Jason Kenney is not much to be proud of. He’s the one who exploded the Temporary Foreign worker program and was a disaster in Alberta
A lot of the stuff David is saying about emissions is disingenuous at best.
The emissions have increased under the Liberal government, but that increase is concentrated . Every other province has dropped their emissions per capita, and often by huge amounts. Both Alberta and Sask which have been fighting the feds on any climate measures.
How can you advise a failed premier who was in the pocket of the oil industry, and gripe that their opponents in the Federal gov't didn't do enough to stop Kenney's agenda? Hypocrite much?
Basically all of Canada's emissions growth going back decades is oil sands emissions. Everything else is falling and has fallen considerably. Alberta and Saskatchewan's energy exports dwarf basically every province's CO2 emissions are immense.
His anti-renewable arguements are also crap. The amount of area needed solar panels in most countries are genererally less than the existing built roof areas, not even counting open, desert lands. In almost every country other than Canada (or Northern Europe) this is a winning strategy. If we captures a fraction of a percent of the solar energy hitting the planet with solar panels, we'd have an abundance of electricity considerably beyond what we need. If we replaced all electricity production with solar, we'd need to cover something like 0.01% of the earths surface with panels.
Offshore wind also has a ridiculously huge energy potential. Nuclear also has immense potential. There are so many options that are long term solutions, not just short term stopgaps like LNG and oil exports.
He's partisan. It's gonna happen
Business Continuity planning BCP. Is integral to all business. Especially Canada's. Climate change acknowlegement or not, we need a plan for mitigation and response. Problem? Costs money and effort. Canada sucks at committing to either.
Beyond spreading misinformation regarding the olympics, Steve and Rich come across as totally misogynistic. Steve: “This poor lady” - dude, she’s a boxer - she could kick the shit out of you. She has since admitted her sadness about wanting to win. I would think a boxer knows they might get KOd; it’s their job. Rich: “Women have a hard enough time in sports” - yes, because of men like you guys who expect them to look a certain way and belittle their strength. Shame on you guys. I'd bet you've lost listeners because of this ignorance.
id buy that item you mentioned at the ad break but i have no idea what you said it sounded like you were under water. oh well, gurble guble guble burble durble
We are going to the recession anytime now and the show was about the jungle. Maybe I turned to the wrong channel, let me check again
David Legg seems to be going for political points on the Jasper wildfire. Although I’m not sure what steps were taken in Jasper, in and around Banff parks has taken active steps to mitigate forest fire risk. There is a large firebreak/ clear-cut west of Lake Louise, another (seasonal controlled burns and clear cutting) west of Banff townsite, and another east of Banff townsite just outside of the National Park. Cuts are reenforced with controlled burns east of Town. Although I don’t know what was done in the Jasper area his opinions on Banff mitigation (likely still inadequate) appears poorly informed.
At least you admit you're ill informed. He was spot on.
Not loving the way this guest frames his arguments. He uses his presupposition that ‘capitalism good, socialism bad’ as a way to characterize everything he disagrees with. It’s easy to win arguments when you use this lens.
I was hoping for more substance beyond calling everyone he disagrees with a bell bottom wearing hippy.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
He came out from the start and was clearly partisan. Lame guest from that perspective.
Talk to a Venezuelan about Socialism. See what they say.
Rich and Steve I'm sure you know by now the boxer was indeed a woman (not born a man), but had high testosterone. Perhaps semantics but still an important fact.
My mistake
Then why were they banned from international competition in the past?
@@RodneyNeufeld-my9pm high test
Every country will now be on the hunt for a citizen with high testosterone to compete in women’s events. The IOC only looks at what gender is referenced on the competitors passport. Where is the line drawn.
@@saretsky Will you set the record straight in the next podcast and add the further nuance? Seems like its a lesson for not jumping on the twitter bandwagon which has a huge misinformation tendency these days.
Guys. Love your podcast, but this guy David Legg... he is speaking WAY out of his knowledge base with wildfire management. I have 9 years experience as a wildfire fighter and now work as an RPF (professional forester). As a forest and wildfire professional, suggesting that they should have simply removed the "deadwood" in the perimeter of Jasper as a wildfire management strategy and that would have made any signficant difference.. that is comical. Sorry but this guy destroyed his credibility. Can't trust anything else he said after his wildfire management piece
What should we have done in Jasper?
@@saretsky it's a nuanced answer, a holistic fire response and risk reduction plan. In super brief terms you want to Firesmart all your structures and properties, have a pre-established tactical response plan in place with maintained fuel break and potential burnoff points, in combination with strategic wildfire risk reduction forest management activities in surrounding areas. So removing "deadwood" would be part of the approach, depending on current forest conditions... but the point here is it's something much more complicated than your guest implies. He oversimplifies everything. In my particular area of expertise it's just easy to tell he is talking out of his ass. Final note once a fire gets going (e.g. rank 4, rank 5) there isn't anything you can do to stop it. David seems to make it seem like you could have prevented a fire from impacting jasper with a few simple interventions
And we thought modern farming could only sustain 2 billion people before the Haber Bosch process. Oil lobbyists are only second to the pharmaceutical lobbyists. If you haven't noticed, they have been running the show, not our government. Cash rules everything around me.
Peak oil = less profit = less influence = innovation. (IMO)
Cream, get the money, dollar, dollar bill yall
As a Geologist living in Canmore, I can't talk like this. The tribe will come after you. I just shut up and ride my mountain bike, like a good commie.
Lol
Question: If climate change is so important, would not a HIGH interest rate be helpful ?
Interest rate low ==> people spend and borrow money to buy buy buy (==> high inflation) Bad for the environment
Interest rate high ==> people save money and not spend it on THINGS/STUFF helps the ENVIRONMENT( ==> low inflation)
So, if they "really cared" about climate change, increase the interest rate, so people would save unless they really want something.
Low rate just encourages spending, and some are very wasteful.
Another Point: The Malls are FULL OF JUNK, the merchandise is so bad. Housing inventory is also bad... Let's get back to quality instead of quantity. That is better for the environment.
With America’s need for natural gas increasing exponentially due to data centers and AI, I really pray that America buys out Alberta. Since Canadian govt anyway does not care about Canada’s O&G industry, it will be in interest of both Canada and the US that Alberta joins America as 51st state.
My other favorite. "We arent left vs right" followed by "Bell bottomed commies". I genuinely believe most, if not all Canadians adore our country, and language like this is pathetic
Keep crying, I love it.
@@mgdubya27 He's not a "poor lady that's been KOd" so I guess he isn't crying.
I don't have enough outrage for the Olympics AND Parks Canada bureaucrats. Is this the Canadian way?
Also, if you hear "bell-bottoms", drink.
RUclips just has to put their climate tag on discussions like this. Gotta keep the propaganda going 🤡
Lol
Taxes here are absurd and that's precisely why I'm leaving.
I do not see that changing.
Great interview! No need to apologize.
THIS GUY IS ON POINT!!!!!!!!! BTW RUclips.... DONT NEED YOU TO EXPLAIN YOUR FAKE CLIMATE CHANGE NARRATIVE ON THIS EXCELLENT PODCAST!!!!!!
My thoughts exactly when I opened the show.
CON idealogue who is mis-informed !
You CAN NOT "harvest" nor do "LOGGING" on Pine Beetle killed forests.... all it does is BLOW UP Sawmills and KILL people with the sawdust.... BC Tried and KILLED many many Forestry workers until they had to give up back in 2016?
Just WHO would have Paid for the massive costs to cut down, then haul away literally tens of thousands of acres of the Pine Bettle kill non-harvestable nor millable financially non-viable forrests around Jasper ?
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Glory to God shalom.
That was perfect 👌🏻
There's a clear lack of understanding of the science. "Our energy resource can be used to remove far more than our total carbon footprint". That is not true. You're not storing 450kg of co2 per barrel of oil produced. Even the scenario of displacing coal with natural gas would only have a meager effect since natural gas is still producing almost as much co2 as coal. You'd also need to account for the energy wasted in getting the methane to oversea market. Those liquifying plants take a ton of energy to run. This is being pushed by oil producers because methane is otherwise a wasted product for them and they would love to get an additional revenue stream, world be damned.
There’s gonna be another BoC Interest rate cut in the Fall, No Frills has Twinkies🍰
Olivia Chow has been in office 1 year? He blames her for floods?
Then blames the feds for Alberta fires? No mention on the provincial government.
If parks Canada played such a big roll in the reason for the fires and the provincial government knew. Why didn't they spend half the time and money that was put towards the anti carbon tax message.
I'm not debating the carbon tax.... I'm just bringing up how biased he is in this interview. Sounds like he's ready to run for office.
Do even listen? He said Chow blamed climate change, which is a fact. Also, there is nothing AB govt can do inside national parks without federal approval.
@@tombrodzinski157he said Olivia Chow didn't do her job and blamed it on climate change.
I live in Ontario so I'm only going on what info makes it over here.
The Albert government seemingly goes to war with the feds on everything. They try to have as little fed say and decision making in their province as possible. ( For better or worse, that's for the people of Albert to decide.)
With the reputation that Alberta has in all this fighting with the fed, it's hard to believe that they would have stopped with a strongly worded letter to Parks Canada
If the Kenny and Smith governments knew and believed that the danger level was this high. Why did they not make this a bigger issue?
They go to the courts for carbon tax, health care spending, and probably more. Then they send a letter about Forrest management and that's it?
Everything David said made perfect sense all the way up until he started talking about Ukraine.
Agreed somewhat. Guy has his agendas but nice to hear those perspectives.
He was spot on about Ukraine.
Banks dont pay taxes.... Prove me wrong
Couldn’t finish this episode. The guest talks like a politician and avoids directly answering question. There are no insights to anything he says.
tesla is cool
Confident speaker but just trashes “left” and clearly supports “right”. Can you please, please, pleeeeaase get an ecologist on the show - you guys like maths and ecologists math about the environment.
Tbh you guys are great with finance but don’t know shit about what’s really happening environmental Managment wise . Comparing Canadian forest management practices with Switzerland is goofy - the geography of those two spaces are so dramatically different. You guys do really care about the environmental political rhetoric and policies that can change and control macro level economies - but give the real scientists a chance to explain them selves - not some proud politico.
Love the content today anyways - really good information to sit on.
Mr. David Knight Legg should go tell Greece how to deal with fires.
As of August 2024, clearly, they too, have not figured out a solution to this complex and unpredictable Mother Nature.
Not as simple as ring fencing everything…Mr. Knight Legg, while bringing interesting ideas and diversity, lacked nuance I my humble opinion.
Fed will cut in September just look at the 2 vs 10 year yield curve
This guy cooked
You got your FIAT currency in this or any ETF, say goodbye to it...
The one guy pronounced PLANdemic wrong. Weird