Calgary, Alberta is the second jurisdiction in North America to enforce a curfews, and it's shocking to see it. It's like a police state, and we're the only place in the whole of North America that enforces a curfew.
00:10:15.040I'm announcing today that starting tomorrow,
00:10:18.040we'll be putting in new targeted COVID-19 measures in place to help protect the health system and to drive cases down.
00:10:25.040I know that many people don't want to see additional measures.
00:10:29.040And I know that we're all tired of this pandemic and are desperate to just move on.
00:10:34.040Where needed, we will implement a curfew where case rates are significantly high, specifically if cases are a thousand or more per 100,000 population, and in cases where the municipal government requests it.
00:10:50.040These restrictions are so that are in target areas where cases are highest.
00:10:56.040If your community is not seeing high levels of spread, you won't see change.
00:11:01.040And I know that it's been a long road.
00:11:04.040I know many people will not want to take another step in this direction of more stringency.
00:11:10.040AHS and law enforcement will continue taking enforcement and issuing fines for non-compliance.
00:11:16.040And to ensure Albertans take these fines seriously, we are adding additional backstops with stronger fine collection and actions with restrictions at registry services.
00:11:29.040So that means if you are given a fine and you're not taking it seriously, you don't pay it, you will not be able to, for example, renew your driver's license and there will be other implications with respect to registry services.
00:11:42.040These fines won't affect the majority of folks who are following the rules and are doing their part to keep our community safe.
00:11:49.040But rather, this is for the people who are taking the pandemic seriously and continue to put others at risk by not following the public health orders in place.
00:12:37.040But BC's public health officer, Bonnie Henry, she actually took a few hundred hours off from this emergency to write a self-serving book to cash in on her celebrity status.
00:23:35.040It was cynical, shameful, historically illiterate.
00:23:38.040I mean, there have even been bombings of the Capitol in the past.
00:23:42.040We don't even need to go down the rabbit hole of debunking it on a historical basis,
00:23:47.040even though his favorite historian, Michael Beschloss, was out there saying that it was an inspired speech
00:23:53.040and that he's absolutely right about the purported Capitol riots.
00:23:58.040Look, all you need to do to understand that this is about narrative setting and essentially an information operation
00:24:05.040and setting aside the merits of the fact that what occurred at the Capitol was shameless, inexcusable,
00:24:11.040and cast a pall over and really distracted from the critical issue, which was election integrity.
00:24:16.040And I think that's one of the reasons why Democrats have been able to skate and sort of completely shunt that aside
00:24:23.040as they push to federalize the insanity of the election integrity eroding measures that they're trying to put forth in perpetuity.
00:24:31.040If you look at the testimony of Merrick Garland, the attorney general, his deputies, various other senior officials in the Justice Department,
00:24:40.040and even the day after that Biden speech, a DOJ official and an FBI official, I believe, as well,
00:24:47.040who gave delivered testimony to the House Appropriations Committee regarding domestic violent extremism.
00:24:53.040The preamble to pretty much every piece of testimony is that the Capitol riots is sort of the number one area
00:25:00.040that the Justice Department is going to be focused on prosecuting as many people as possible associated with it.
00:25:05.040And then the pursuit of the broader war on domestic violent extremism or domestic terrorism, however the administration defines it,
00:25:15.040and whatever groups of people that encompasses.
00:25:18.040So you know that it's about using this singular event to create a narrative of the fact that the country is suffering from a scourge of,
00:25:26.040of course, as they would term it, right-wing extremism, domestic violent extremism,
00:25:31.040and thus that they will use that to justify potentially turning the very rules that should have been used to go after jihadists around the world back on American citizens.
00:25:40.040And just this week we've seen the ways in which our national security and intelligence apparatus has been abused or has been weaponized
00:25:49.040in pursuit potentially of political adversaries when there was an opinion put down by the FISA court by the judge who presides over it,
00:25:57.040basically saying that FBI officials accessed FISA databases to use that foreign intelligence in pursuit of domestic investigations,
00:26:07.040including on public officials and concerning bribery and related sorts of issues.
00:26:13.040So what does that mean? It means that there could have been far more than just the pursuit of the Trump administration
00:26:19.040in the way of national security and intelligence officials abusing their powers to go after dissenters against their policies.
00:26:26.040Yeah, you know, I don't have a lot of time for Senator Elizabeth Warren, but even she, a leading Democrat,
00:26:33.040says she's uncomfortable with the prosecutorial excesses against basically unarmed crowds who came into the Capitol building once it was breached.
00:26:47.040And again, I don't condone that. If I were there, I would not have entered into the building that was clearly broken into.
00:26:55.040But to hold people without bail for for being part of that crowd with no violent acts committed, no weapons.
00:27:04.040I mean, don't take it from me. I'm not an expert in these matters.
00:27:07.040But when a hardline liberal like Senator Warren says, boy, this is off kilter, maybe maybe it's time to pay notice if she's worried about it.
00:27:17.040Yeah. And look, there have been other leftist civil libertarians also who have said that this clearly looks like a political persecution, not justice.
00:27:27.040And of course, the elephant in the room here is the juxtaposition of how law enforcement was used or not used to pursue cases against people last year participating in the 1619 riots who did far more substantial damage and caused substantially more bloodshed nationwide.
00:27:45.040And the again, the juxtaposition of the extent to which law enforcement has pursued these cases, it's just staggering.
00:27:53.040It's not even close in the comparison. And, you know, FBI Director Wray has been members of the House have tried to pin him down and sort of showing the double standard here.
00:28:03.040And of course, you know, law enforcement won't admit to it. They say that, you know, we set aside First Amendment considerations or rather we set aside, you know, political biases and the like when we try to pursue justice.
00:28:16.040But it's very clear that there are two standards. And really, we've seen double standards in so many instances over the last four years.
00:28:22.040So it just strains credulity to think that it's going to come out any differently, at least my opinion, that it's going to come out any differently when the administration pursues what it's going to term right wing extremists or domestic violent extremists.
00:28:35.040And by the way, of course, the administration has brought in to many of these senior roles, the very people who helped foist Russia, Russia gate and spy gate on us in the first place.
00:28:44.040And shamefully and sadly, many Republicans have voted to confirm these officials.
00:28:49.040Yeah. Well, I mean, after 9-11, there was a Patriot Act that focused on external enemies and abridged civil liberties to do so.
00:28:58.040I think we're seeing the domestic version of the Patriot Act to extirpate the enemy within.
00:29:03.040But the enemy is not necessarily a violent one. It's simply a political one.
00:29:07.040I think that's a very grave problem. And I think it will slosh over into Canada, too.
00:29:12.040But let's put that aside and talk about some other issues, because, of course, 100 days of a presidency are not just his vindictive political, you know, hygiene.
00:29:24.040But, you know, foreign affairs, economic affairs, regulatory affairs, oil and gas, taxes, debt, pandemic lockdowns, the Middle East peace deals, trade relations, China.
00:29:39.040I mean, there's 100 things that Trump had a very strong flavor on.
00:29:46.040Can you give us a summary in your view? I mean, maybe it's too early to tell 100 days in.
00:29:52.040But what are the things that are really worrying you about?
00:29:55.040And is there anything that you would admit that you're surprised by how well it's going?
00:30:00.040Is there anything that Biden has exceeded expectations and what are the things that do cause you worry?
00:30:07.040I'm going to have to think about anything where he's beaten expectations.
00:30:11.040But I'll just say that around 13 months ago, I published a piece at The Federalist where I said, don't be fooled.
00:30:19.040The Democrat Party is Bernie Sanders's party, even if it has super superficially more moderate frontmen like Joe Biden as its leading contender at the time.
00:30:30.040And I also wrote that book, American Ingrid, that you've been so gracious enough to feature here before, where essentially I said, look, the Democratic Party is being overtaken by its progressives.
00:30:40.040And again, it doesn't matter if it's Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer who sit atop the party in terms of power.
00:30:46.040They're all caving to the progressive ideology.
00:30:49.040And I think day one of the Biden presidency really set the tone, which in part abolished the 1776 commission that the Trump administration had put in place, which was a celebration of American history and putting forth the true and accurate representation of America in education and beyond.
00:31:10.040And the Biden administration not only did that, but also essentially imposed wokeism across every element of the executive branch of government through an executive order affirmatively advancing equity as opposed to equality.
00:31:27.040And that executive order adopted the language of the woke so-called anti-racist and basically devoted the administration to pursuing progressive racialist, just essentially cultural Marxism throughout the institutions.
00:31:43.040And that set the tone, I believe, for what the administration is pursuing in a whole variety of areas.
00:31:49.040So leaving aside the pervasiveness of wokeism, which I think you see have policy implications in a number of areas.
00:31:56.040Look, we see an orgy of taxation, spending, no rule of law except pursuing a rule by law essentially against political opponents.
00:32:10.040Weakness, as we've covered at length with respect to the Chinese Communist Party and beyond, which, of course, he called a competitor in that speech, not an adversary or an enemy.
00:32:18.040They were an enemy, which is precisely what they are.
00:32:20.040And if you don't understand, if you can't accurately describe your adversaries, then clearly you're not going to be able to come up with the policies necessary to effectively counter them.
00:32:30.040With the Middle East, it's been a complete reversion to essentially the Obama era policies.
00:32:35.040Maybe you could say that the pullout of Afghanistan or the planned pullout is something where maybe he's exceeding expectations.
00:32:41.040But you see that there's a huge push back against that, just as President Trump faced as well from the establishment wings of both parties as well.
00:32:50.040So we'll see if he ends up holding his ground in terms of the Afghanistan pullout.
00:32:54.040But I think you're seeing across the board, essentially, it's the Obama administration 3.0, except it's far more radical because the Overton window of acceptability of progressive ideas has shifted to such a radical extent that what would have been considered radical five years ago is now or even three or two years ago is now mainstream today.
00:33:14.040So, you know, I think some people would say that they were they'd be surprised at just how left the Biden administration has been.
00:33:22.040But my sort of overarching thesis the entire time has been that he's essentially an empty vessel and he will sort of go on to wherever the power in his party is and the power in his party is with the progressives.
00:33:35.040You know, I want to play a short montage of a coughing fits.
00:33:41.040I mean, Hillary Clinton, as you know, had health issues.
00:36:08.040It provides a you know putative veneer of moderation.
00:36:12.040I mean I mean really I think that Joe Biden is the face of the the swamp in Washington DC having spent nearly 50 years there.
00:36:21.040And the fact that he shifted so radically on so many positions is just the perfect representation of the fact that he's just gone where the political winds are.
00:36:29.040And look he's landed in the White House as a consequence of it.
00:36:32.040But it is kind of ironic in some ways that the Democrat Party which if you go back to the Obama years you know the aesthetics of it and the propaganda from the left is so good.
00:36:43.040And yet here you have this guy who they can't make look good and compelling.
00:36:47.040So instead it's sort of it was the hermetically sealed candidacy and now it's the hermetically sealed presidency and it looks weak and frail.
00:36:55.040And then you have this speech after his first hundred days with you know people separated each by five seats and everyone's wearing masks in this insanity when they're all vaccinated in the first place.
00:37:07.040And they tell everyone that they have to get the vaccine and yet they're afraid to take their masks off when they're all together.
00:37:12.040There's something that is scary about it.
00:37:16.040There's something that in a dark way is sort of laughable about it.
00:37:19.040But I do agree with you that he's a front man.
00:37:22.040He doesn't yeah he said I think something like you know she doesn't have a Democratic bone in his body.
00:37:29.040I think that Joe Biden doesn't really have an ideological bone in his body at this point.
00:37:33.040I think he is just going wherever the power behind him tells him.
00:37:37.040And what we're seeing is not really a Biden agenda.
00:37:42.040It's sort of like a generic woke deep state agenda at this point is the best I could characterize it.