Action4Canada - Exposing Municipal Corruption Part 2： With Tanya Gaw & Mayor Jeff Colvin, April 17, 2024

00:00:00.000 This idea of somehow being influenced or misdirected in some way is massively concerning because right now, I mean, obviously in history there's been lots of mistrust of government, but right now I've never seen it.

00:00:17.520 I mean, my grandpa moved to Calgary in 1905, and so our family has lived in Calgary forever, and I've never seen the mistrust government that I've experienced now and how most citizens are just not trusting the government regardless of what they say.

00:00:36.280 And, you know, that's scary. At the same time, it's massively unfortunate. And, you know, I agree with what you're saying that this WEF and UN, you know, initiatives and challenges that are coming forward are very odd.

00:00:51.800 And then at the same time when the provincial government says, we want to make sure we're, you know, controlling this to some extent, one of the problems is initially your immediate reaction is not one of relief.

00:01:06.360 It's one of, oh, what are you doing now with that? What are you going to do? What are you going to take? What are you going to make it harder for us to get access to money?

00:01:13.320 And our biggest problem is that the reason the government, federal or provincial, is giving us back money is that's our taxes.

00:01:19.760 So they're giving us back taxes that they shouldn't have taken in the first place. Like our taxes are so high.

00:01:27.260 And what we've identified in Chestermere is that we actually, in our third year, we're going to reduce taxes approximately an additional 20%.

00:01:37.000 And that's unbelievable that we are able to find these kinds of savings in a situation where our city has had massive tax increases.

00:01:48.100 We had a 300% tax increase between 2010 and 2014.

00:01:55.600 We are so pleased that Mayor Jeff Colvin is joining us tonight for part two of our series on exposing municipal corruption.

00:02:04.460 Jeff was the democratically elected mayor of Chestermere, Alberta, where he was doing an excellent job of weeding out government corruption, reducing taxes, serving Chestermere residents, as well as finding millions of wasted dollars and fraudulent and inefficient governmental processes and excesses.

00:02:24.380 As a result of his courageous leadership, Jeff and three of the city's councillors were fired.

00:02:31.340 All four men are facing extreme intimidation, but they're not remaining silent.

00:02:37.600 In fact, they've embarked on a province-wide speaking tour in an effort to reveal the truth about what's going on in Alberta's municipalities.

00:02:46.220 We are so grateful for Jeff and others who are Canadian heroes, as they stand out for truth, even at great personal cost.

00:02:55.820 Joining us now to dive deeply into the rest of the story is Mayor Jeff Colvin.

00:03:01.600 I just want to welcome you on the show.

00:03:04.020 I know that you are rushing.

00:03:05.560 There was like four of you or three of you in a vehicle traveling to get to your destination.

00:03:10.920 And then you've joined us on the show.

00:03:12.960 I can see that there's a little problem with your internet connection.

00:03:17.620 And so we'll work as best as we can if there's a little bit of a pause.

00:03:21.900 I'm going to pause when I speak to give you an opportunity to hear what it is I'm saying and then the same vice versa.

00:03:29.620 If I can just share my screen for a moment, because I think that all of you men are very worthy of being noted of who you are.

00:03:39.520 That's Action for Canada's map.

00:03:40.940 And the reason I had that up is because I want to show that nationwide, we want to be in every town and community where there is a township or a municipality to take back all levels of government and to support incredible mayors and councillors like the guests we have on the show tonight.

00:03:58.040 So there was a CBC article and it said, ousted mayor fights to get his job back in Chestermere, Alberta.

00:04:06.560 And I think they've been illegally, it's just criminal what's happened.

00:04:10.500 And again, then there was this, these images of each one of them.

00:04:15.380 So of course, this is Mayor Colvin.

00:04:17.600 And this is, I understand, Stephen Hanley.

00:04:21.520 And am I right to say Blaine, I think that's Blaine Funk and then Mel Fote.

00:04:28.160 So I hope I have that right.

00:04:29.120 But what I wanted to do, if this was my image, I would have put most wanted.

00:04:34.020 This would have been a most wanted poster.

00:04:36.820 And the reason is, is these are the kind of individuals that we want running our cities.

00:04:43.920 And their story is absolutely phenomenal.

00:04:47.380 So Mayor Colvin, I know that you were removed and I know that people have questions.

00:04:53.840 One of my major questions is I want to hear your story, how it came to that point, why you ran to become the mayor and how that came about.

00:05:03.780 But I'm so confused.

00:05:06.340 We've got so many corrupt mayors and city councillors across this nation and we can't get them removed.

00:05:11.960 It's like impossible to do.

00:05:14.700 So how in the world did the Minister of Municipalities, Mr. MacGyver, manage to make that happen?

00:05:22.420 So I'm just going to hand the floor over to you and we'll start from there.

00:05:26.080 So I was elected and our councillors were elected on October 18th, 2021.

00:05:30.820 And we were removed December 4th, 2023.

00:05:34.340 I had lived in Chestermere for about 25 years.

00:05:38.380 And my background is in the construction industry, as well as, you know, all kinds of subdivisions, commercial construction, office construction, office buildings, residential subdivisions.

00:05:53.640 And also utilities, water and sewer.

00:05:56.920 So it fits kind of the mold of what a lot of what cities do.

00:06:02.880 And so when I was as a resident, I just started noticing that there was a lot of irregularities that the city was experiencing.

00:06:10.740 First, I thought that the city was being taken advantage of by the construction industry.

00:06:14.520 Then after trying to help and offer assistance to the current mayor, which is the past mayor, Marshall Chalmers, I started to realize that there was more to the story.

00:06:28.420 Initially, I thought that the construction industry was causing them the problems.

00:06:34.220 But after talking with them, I realized there was more to the story and that not everything could be explained as simply as the construction industry being a problem.

00:06:45.100 So what ended up happening was after identifying that they had some major construction projects that made no sense and had major cost overruns.

00:07:05.100 We started to see that the it was really time for change.

00:07:10.940 And so in looking at those opportunities, we decided that I decided to run for council.

00:07:16.740 And at the same time, obviously, the three councillors that were successful that are part of were removed, ran for council at the same time.

00:07:25.740 And what was the difference between our council was predominantly business people.

00:07:31.840 And so that added a big difference for our approach to government, I guess, the way in which a city operates.

00:07:43.940 And when I started, what we found out was that a lot of the staff were blocking us when we were in council from getting access to financial information.

00:07:54.000 And what was odd about that is being in the business environment, you're very used to everything's about numbers.

00:08:02.060 Everything has to be because you have to hit your bottom line.

00:08:06.280 You can't have a situation where, you know, I mean, it's it's possible, I guess, in the private sector to lose money.

00:08:13.340 But obviously, the goal is, is that you have to make profit.

00:08:16.600 And if you don't, then you typically go out of business.

00:08:19.260 And so we approach that same perspective and attitude towards government.

00:08:24.000 And said that, you know, we've got to make sure that our shareholders, which are the citizens, our taxpayers, that their money is being spent appropriately.

00:08:33.480 And not being wasted.

00:08:34.960 And how can we stretch that money rather than just take the approach of, you know, let's just keep increasing taxes and let's just waste taxpayers money.

00:08:43.180 And that wasn't a popular approach.

00:08:45.880 The the the staff were not happy with that idea.

00:08:52.960 And we faced a ton of resistance when we started to look into the details around what they were telling us.

00:09:00.140 When we first walked in, they told us that we needed to raise taxes, 25 percent.

00:09:05.320 To our residents.

00:09:06.620 And we said, well, let's take a look at those numbers and let's see why you're saying that is so severe.

00:09:16.240 And so we we had known at the time because it had been kept quite secret.

00:09:23.720 The previous administration had lost a million dollars in 2020.

00:09:28.040 We ran in 2021.

00:09:30.200 And that had been it's it's not accurate to say hidden from the public, but it definitely been not been shown that it was the experience of loss.

00:09:39.580 And what the government did at the time is they told all of the residents that things are going great, that that we're actually going to provide a two percent tax reduction because things are going so well.

00:09:54.020 And later we find out that we're hiding a seven million loss in operations.

00:09:59.120 So that's that's very, very wrong.

00:10:02.880 And transparency is one of the biggest things that that we ran on and cleaning up corruption.

00:10:08.120 And so.

00:10:10.440 When we started to look into the financial statements, that's when we started to see that there was major concerns and our staff were actively trying to stop us from getting access to information.

00:10:22.260 When we started asking questions about some of the financial statements, some of the staff actually quit and walked out the door, which was which was kind of shocking.

00:10:32.320 It was like, geez, we haven't even said anything.

00:10:33.960 But it was they knew that we knew what we were talking about.

00:10:38.980 And and some of our counselors, Stephen Hanley is is really a guru when it comes to the financial accounting side and his ability to understand numbers.

00:10:48.140 And the offsetting impact of what you're looking at was instrumental in us determining that there were some major issues.

00:10:55.980 And so within the first month, we had our CAO come to us and indicate that he wanted to pay out a mea copa.

00:11:07.260 Sorry, sorry.

00:11:07.940 He wanted to ask us for a mea copa, which is the ability to for the mayor to forgive count to forgive staff for wrongdoing.

00:11:15.340 And you're like, well, what do you mean, criminal wrongdoings?

00:11:21.020 And he said, yes, things that are illegal.

00:11:23.200 And I said, no, no, no, no, we can't do that.

00:11:26.620 Not a chance.

00:11:28.440 And so we ended up, you know, telling him no.

00:11:32.700 And then without thinking of what he ended up doing was telling us that he wants to pay out some hush money.

00:11:41.540 And of course, we said no to that.

00:11:43.880 We ran on a on a campaign of of transparency and cleaning up corruption.

00:11:49.060 We weren't willing to swipe or sweep corruption under the rug.

00:11:52.840 That wasn't going to happen.

00:11:54.680 So we ended up letting that CEO go in about two weeks.

00:12:00.260 And then when he had left, we were able to find out what he had done.

00:12:06.020 And we found out that he paid out six hundred thousand dollars to two people.

00:12:10.640 And in the government world, that's massively offside.

00:12:15.100 It's illegal.

00:12:15.860 So we we operate on a budget.

00:12:17.840 And so our budget becomes law because council puts that budget into law as its taxpayers money, obviously.

00:12:25.060 So if you're not if you're spending money outside that budget and it's underneath seventy five thousand dollars, then the CAO must come to council for permission.

00:12:37.580 And this CAO never did.

00:12:39.760 And so.

00:12:41.160 We filed a lawsuit to go after these people that had done this and they were all senior staff.

00:12:47.920 This was our ex CFO.

00:12:49.240 This was our ex director of H.R.

00:12:51.680 They'd been in the city for five years and this this interim CAO, which had been in the business 30 years.

00:12:59.020 And we filed a lawsuit against them to recover these funds.

00:13:03.800 And as soon as we were removed, Rick McIver terminated that lawsuit.

00:13:08.320 And he did not want them telling the actual truth about what was being covered up.

00:13:13.880 And that was, you know, a.k.a. the hush money.

00:13:16.280 So this kind of narrative, what is what we experienced during during our first two years, we had investigations that we'd asked municipal affairs to look into and municipal affairs wouldn't look into one of them.

00:13:31.500 And they actually stopped three investigations into conduct breaches, as well as collusion and corruption, alleged collusion and corruption between the RCMP municipal affairs and three of our counselors that were still in office today that Rick McIver did not fire.

00:13:50.160 And Rick McIver, within 20 hours of us bringing these investigations forward to the public, and they were going to be adjudicated by an independent third party, Reynolds Murph out of Edmonton, which is a law firm.

00:14:05.400 Rick McIver instituted a administrator and his first task was to terminate that investigation.

00:14:11.500 And block it from happening, admitting that he never even read it.

00:14:17.260 So it was it was a very frustrating experience, that's for sure.

00:14:21.660 And there were so many instances around that that that we were covering.

00:14:26.320 And we didn't know at the time when we first started was that Rick McIver was the brother in law of the ex-mayor.

00:14:34.440 And the ex-mayor was one of the people that was being looked into for some of this corruption.

00:14:40.360 We had brought these alleged corruption to Minister McIver that included his brother-in-law, which we didn't know at the time.

00:14:48.420 And after obviously after in retrospect, we realized the response we got because we did that.

00:14:56.520 One thing I would like to do for a moment is because I think it's always very important that our audience put a name to a face.

00:15:06.580 This is Mr. McIver. This is Rick McIver.

00:15:10.380 And as mentioned, he has been in politics for a while, but currently he is the minister.

00:15:17.340 He has been directed as the appointed as the minister of municipalities.

00:15:22.440 And that was done by Daniel Smith.

00:15:25.560 When he was appointed, there is a certain mandate that the premier gives him and that he is to comply with.

00:15:34.280 And within that mandate, it says, it doesn't just say, you know, I'm going to ask you to do this.

00:15:40.180 It says, I expect this of you.

00:15:43.540 And one was good governance to improve the lives of Albertans and help our province realize its potential.

00:15:51.400 It goes, as leadership, as minister of municipal affairs, I expect you to work closely with your cabinet and caucus colleagues and the public service through the committee cabinet and legislative process to deliver the platform and commitment to.

00:16:07.860 Then down below, and it goes, in addition, I expect you to deliver on further initiatives overseen by your ministry,

00:16:14.600 including, I'll go to point two, continuing to monitor the Calgary and Edmonton Metropolitan Region Boards, which is where you, your town fell into,

00:16:24.880 to ensure they are serving the needs of their urban and rural residents effectively and family and fairly without unnecessarily interfering with the autonomy of small and mid-sized municipalities.

00:16:39.260 It goes on to another point, maintaining and building relationships of trust, partnership and open dialogue with municipal leaders across the province

00:16:49.380 and bringing feedback and solutions for these discussions with municipal leaders to caucus.

00:16:54.660 And then finally, in collaboration with the Minister of Justice, reviewing the Local Authorities Election Act and making recommendations for any necessary amendments to strengthen public trust in and integrity of our municipal election laws.

00:17:10.540 And so we're talking about municipal elections, where you have all been unfairly removed from office based on the democratic process of the constituents within your riding definitely wanted you sitting, representing them.

00:17:27.500 And then finally, before I turn it over to you, this is Douglas Lagor.

00:17:32.880 And I just really believe it's important. Like, if you see this gentleman at the grocery store, it would be interesting to walk up to him and say, hey, what's going on? Why are you going along with this?

00:17:44.560 How about step aside and, you know, say this is undue process and that the mayor and three councillors should be returned to office?

00:17:54.560 I just thought it was important. I like to put names to faces. I like people to know who these individuals are.

00:18:00.300 I like them to know that we're making their faces public. And by no means are we inciting any kind of hate or anything other than send them an email, send them a letter and ask them what they're doing.

00:18:16.380 And so anyways, as far as I can see, the mandate of Premier Daniel Smith, he's in violation of that.

00:18:24.900 And really, he should be removed and fired. He himself should be fired. He's in violation.

00:18:31.120 So what do you have to say about that? I do not understand how they could remove you as mayor and council.

00:18:37.480 When we first got in and mentioned, we were asked to raise it 25% and 5 million, which is $5 million.

00:18:44.980 We were able to actually cut that $5 million out. Plus, we actually reduced an additional $4 million and we added another $5 million of council initiatives, new spending to the budget that we were told the city was broke and, you know, had no money.

00:19:04.420 And by the end of the year, we actually were able to save an additional $6 million off of that budget as well.

00:19:12.040 So it was quite shocking, that revelation. And we were able to reduce taxes in the second year by a total of 30%, which is shocking.

00:19:23.280 You know, being on the outside looking in, when you're a public taxpayer, you think that the government must have ways of saving money, but you never really know.

00:19:34.520 And until you get inside and you're able to actually look at how they're spending money or a.k.a. wasting money, that's when you start to see.

00:19:43.460 And trust me, your people's intuition is correct.

00:19:48.640 But the cities are wasting so much money.

00:19:53.080 We had a situation where I asked for a boardroom TV, which was somewhere between a 70 or 80 inch TV.

00:19:59.400 And I told the staff, I said, do not come back with anything expensive.

00:20:03.760 I just need it for presentations. This isn't a movie theater. This isn't anything fancy.

00:20:09.080 Just for presentations hooked up to a computer.

00:20:11.560 And what ended up happening was they came back with a hundred thousand dollar quote.

00:20:21.380 And I I was I was speechless, actually, when I saw it, because I said, I know you were here when I said, don't waste taxpayers money and let's get something that's reasonable.

00:20:32.420 And yet they came back with a quote like that, thinking that it was absolutely OK.

00:20:39.460 And I ended up with the CEO.

00:20:42.420 He ended up going to Best Buy and we bought an 80 inch TV for thirteen hundred dollars.

00:20:50.240 And it accomplished exactly what we were looking for.

00:20:53.160 And it's it worked the entire two years that we were there.

00:20:56.060 And obviously, I think it'll continue to work for for a long time going forward.

00:21:00.220 So we did all these good things.

00:21:03.020 And then you look back and you say.

00:21:05.300 Well, why in the world would Rick McIver remove you?

00:21:10.440 And that's where it comes down to the continuous investigations and irregularities that we found that we kept passing off to Minister McIver.

00:21:21.060 And and and and hoping that he would do the right thing and actually investigate it, you know, was was just not happening.

00:21:30.620 And within the first two months, we were the first city in the history of Alberta to have the fastest inspection call on it.

00:21:39.580 Which is not a good title, but it is it does tell you that how could we be doing anything wrong in the first two months?

00:21:51.620 And remember, when we come into council, we have a CAO who's telling us, you know, the procedures that you need to go through.

00:21:58.780 Got a city lawyer who's confirming the correct steps for us to go through.

00:22:05.120 We've got a legislative manager who identifies the proper rules to follow when you're making motions and and other decisions.

00:22:14.980 And so all of these people are there to make sure you're doing stuff correctly.

00:22:19.100 And then, of course, at the end of the day, you've got council, which is doing a democratic decision and voting one way or the other as to which way they perceive to go directly.

00:22:28.900 Now, remember, at that time, we were actually about a 97 percent, 98 percent unanimous decision with our councillors.

00:22:39.420 So it was very, very often that we all agreed with the direction we were going.

00:22:44.980 Um, but the one thing that was off was was Rick McIver did not want these investigations to see the light of day.

00:22:54.040 And so Minister McIver had this inspection and we we then realized that the inspection was off.

00:23:01.340 Um, after showing them the evidence and whatnot that we were we were finding the breaches of conduct by our by our councillors, which we thought was odd.

00:23:12.320 We then were presented with we were then leaked actually some documentation that showed that our three what we call them rogue councillors, um, had been providing municipal affairs with fraudulent documents.

00:23:26.280 They provided them with complete lies in documents.

00:23:30.680 And we then produced this to Minister McIver and indicated that this documentation is completely, um, incorrect.

00:23:38.780 And here's the evidence to prove it.

00:23:40.740 Like we had one of the situations was, um, one of our councillors, Shannon Dean, indicated that the mayor, um, uh, the mayor sold a piece of land without coming to council.

00:23:52.880 Without bringing any man to council without, uh, without consulting legal counsel.

00:24:00.840 And so our cities, um, don't have a lot of land for sale.

00:24:04.620 Our city doesn't have a lot of land for sale.

00:24:06.620 So, um, there was one piece of land that this, our city had a huge questionable, um, transaction on back in 2014, where it's, it's believed that the city bought this land for development, which I want to be really crystal clear.

00:24:25.280 Cities should not be getting into the development business.

00:24:28.540 They don't have the expertise and they don't have the risk profile of the residents in mind when they're doing something like that.

00:24:37.000 We never hired councillors to become developers.

00:24:40.400 That, that wasn't in cards.

00:24:41.880 And if it was, okay, put it up front and then go after people's resumes that have that experience.

00:24:48.200 But obviously that's not done.

00:24:50.280 Um, so long story short was this property was, it was a dog's breakfast for about 10 years in our city because it made no sense.

00:24:58.460 It was literally swamp land, literally like that.

00:25:01.220 It was kind of the stories you hate ways.

00:25:04.560 Um, this property, we had a developer that finally wanted to look at building, um, on it.

00:25:11.400 And they were actually going to also build a healthcare campus in a urgent care center with their own money.

00:25:16.740 And so this came to council and we were able to get this, um, the information was brought to council.

00:25:23.220 We have motions proving that we also have council, um, a motion unanimously.

00:25:28.460 approving the purchase contract to sell it to the, this third party development company.

00:25:36.440 Um, and then we also provided a minister McIver with the evidence that our legal council had reviewed the purchase contract.

00:25:44.620 So everything that these counselors had written to minister McIver was completely the opposite of what was actually true.

00:25:53.720 And you're, you're kind of incredible, but did any of that information find its way into the inspection document?

00:25:59.800 Not one bit, not one piece.

00:26:01.800 Um, and that's what started to identify that there's, you know, there's something off with this inspection document.

00:26:08.320 So we had, we had lots of situations.

00:26:11.020 Um, as I mentioned before, we started that lawsuit to go after that hush money that was paid out.

00:26:17.480 Um, and, um, the, the inspector, uh, actually, and McIver actually indicated in the inspection report that the mayor signed two checks to pay out this stolen money.

00:26:33.460 And it's like, we gave them the actual documentation from our TD bank account, from our city of Chestermere journal entries that proved that this was an electronic funds transfer that was paid out of the, our manual payroll entry.

00:26:51.620 And so this was not actually checks, but these guys are so bad at their, their information that they actually said the mayor signed the checks.

00:27:02.780 And so we showed them that there is in the TD bank account, it says it's electronic funds transfer.

00:27:07.780 It does not say that it's two checks and there's canceled checks in the back bank statements or something like that.

00:27:14.180 Um, so, you know, this is the kind of stuff that we experienced that Mr. McIver has no problem putting lies into documents.

00:27:21.620 Which is one of the things, reasons we're taking him to court.

00:27:26.440 And to this day, um, the, the government of Alberta or slash municipal affairs is in breach of a court order.

00:27:35.540 Like four months now to provide the record of evidence on how and why they were able to remove us.

00:27:43.040 Uh, well, this is, you know, it's very disturbing.

00:27:47.360 And I would imagine that anybody that's been listening to your story unfold in the last couple of months, uh, as taxpayers, we should all be outraged.

00:27:55.400 We just shouldn't sit back and say, well, this is just more corruption in government.

00:27:59.640 Hmm.

00:27:59.840 Uh, what can we do?

00:28:01.180 I mean, there needs to be justice.

00:28:03.440 Justice needs to be pursued.

00:28:05.500 This is criminal.

00:28:06.580 Um, can I ask, have you gone to Danielle Smith with this information?

00:28:12.740 Have you had any response from her on her appointed, uh, minister of, uh, municipalities and the corruption?

00:28:21.140 I mean, this seems quite blatant.

00:28:22.660 And you have the evidence to prove that they are trying, attempting to cover this up by removing the four of you.

00:28:30.960 What, what has her response been or has there been one?

00:28:33.780 Yeah, so we, we, um, cc'd, uh, Daniel Smith, Rick McIver, Jason Kenney, when he was in office initially, um, as well as, of course, uh, the inspector cuff when we were sending all of this information, because we were providing hundreds of pages of proof.

00:28:50.700 Um, and so we provided these reports and clearly identified everything that was true because we gave the actual evidence.

00:28:57.680 Um, and we gave that to Daniel Smith's office and we requested Daniel Smith, um, to have, to send somebody down.

00:29:04.960 The one person that she, she trusts is what I said, have them come down to our city and, and sit with us for a date and we'll go through every inch of these things.

00:29:16.260 And you can ask us any question you want.

00:29:18.360 Nothing is off the table.

00:29:20.020 Um, and we'll identify everything to them.

00:29:24.820 Guess what?

00:29:25.400 Nothing happened.

00:29:26.120 Um, and we'll identify everything to them.

00:29:27.680 Not an inch happened by Daniel Smith at all.

00:29:31.400 Yeah, this is very problematic.

00:29:33.340 I know that there's a news update.

00:29:36.240 I, I've, I just printed it off, but the head of it is, uh, Alberta to introduce legislation preventing municipal federal deals without provinces.

00:29:45.440 Okay.

00:29:46.500 And, and the reason I feel that this was important when I saw that title, it's like, oh, so you don't want the federal government making deals with municipalities, which is very important right now.

00:29:57.420 I actually support that because, of course, the federal government is dealing with the United Nations and the World Economic Forum to implement this, uh, agenda to create 15 minute cities, take control.

00:30:09.700 And the WEF has clearly said that the cities are closest to the people, and so they're the ones that we can buy off in order to implement these measures.

00:30:18.040 And we see it happening nationwide.

00:30:19.040 And we see it happening nationwide.

00:30:20.160 We're exposing it.

00:30:21.220 Lots of people are dealing with the 15 minute smart cities, C40 cities, et cetera.

00:30:26.120 So I don't want the federal government interfering with the municipalities because that's our community.

00:30:32.140 We say what happens within those communities, and as long as it, uh, uh, you know, is applicable to the constitution and the chart of rights and freedoms, that that's how it should go.

00:30:42.000 Democratically, you were voted in.

00:30:43.940 But I find that, uh, you know, shocking that Daniel Smith wouldn't take a look at what's happening between the provincial government interfering at the federal, sorry, at the municipal level, when her letter clearly states that there are boundaries, and that the provincial government needs to maintain a good working relationship without interfering with the workings of the municipality.

00:31:13.000 And you, you're showing corruption here, and so many times, uh, things are, focus is coming back to Alberta and seeing corruption, and it all leads back to Daniel Smith.

00:31:23.700 I'm sorry, but it does.

00:31:24.820 People think that she's wonderful, and she's going to save the province because she's making all of these great decisions.

00:31:30.660 But Jason Kenney, uh, is very responsible for, uh, locking things down during COVID, locking the pastors up.

00:31:39.780 I mean, cruel and unusual punishment that came from our premiers across the country, and it's almost like in B.C. and Alberta, the former premiers were sort of slipped out of office, and then, uh, not in B.C.

00:31:52.320 We can't say that David Eby is any better. 0.97

00:31:54.280 He's, he's completely a tyrant and corrupted.

00:31:57.400 But Daniel Smith, everybody thought that she was good, that she was going to be a breath of fresh air and turn things around.

00:32:03.480 But I'm now wondering, listening to you, if Jason Kenney was bad cop and this is good cop.

00:32:09.540 And, uh, you know, it's very, very concerning seeing all of the evidence and hearing about this as if the premier's hands are tied and that she can't take steps to undo this.

00:32:20.060 In regards to the, in regards to the federal, uh, funding, you know, it's for a municipality, it's hard to say no to money.

00:32:29.060 Um, but at the end, at the end of the day, though, um, you know, this idea of, of somehow being influenced or, or misdirected in some way is massively concerning.

00:32:43.440 Because right now, I mean, obviously in history, there's been lots of mistrust of government, but right now I've, I've never seen it.

00:32:51.240 I mean, I've been, my, my grandpa moved to Calgary in 1905.

00:32:56.080 And so our family has lived in Calgary forever.

00:32:59.760 Um, and I've never seen the mistrust government I've experienced now, uh, and how most citizens are just not trusting the government, regardless what they say.

00:33:09.940 And, you know, that's, that's scary at the same time is massively unfortunate.

00:33:14.800 And, you know, I, I, I, I agree with what you're saying that this, this WEF and UN, you know, initiatives and challenges that are coming forward are, are very odd.

00:33:25.460 And then the same time when the, when the provincial government says, we want to make sure we're, you know, controlling this to some expect, some extent.

00:33:34.240 One of the problems is initially you, your immediate reaction is not a one of relief.

00:33:40.040 It's one of, Oh, what are you doing now with that?

00:33:42.540 What are you going to do?

00:33:43.220 What are you going to take?

00:33:43.920 What are you going to make it harder for us to get access to money?

00:33:46.760 And our biggest problem is that the reason the government federal or provincial is giving us back money is that's our taxes.

00:33:53.420 So they're giving us back taxes that they shouldn't have taken in the first place.

00:33:58.680 Like our taxes are so high.

00:34:00.860 And what we've identified in Chestermere is that we, we actually, in our, in our, in our third year, we're going to reduce taxes, approximately an additional 20%.

00:34:10.660 And that's unbelievable that we are able to find these kinds of savings, um, in a situation where our city has had massive tax increases.

00:34:21.780 We had a 300% tax increase between 2010 and 2014, 300%.

00:34:27.900 Like it's unbelievable.

00:34:30.560 And some of that was, was education funding, but, um, it just makes no sense that our taxes are as high as they are because we just proved.

00:34:40.660 That they can come down substantially 30, 40%.

00:34:44.320 We just proved that.

00:34:45.720 Oh, it's phenomenal.

00:34:47.780 Yeah.

00:34:48.960 Yeah.

00:34:49.520 Our city could not manage themselves effectively.

00:34:52.760 They lost $7 million the year before.

00:34:57.180 Well, when they're paying out, when they're paying out hush money, I mean, I, I hope, I, I mean, for myself, I get the sick feeling in my stomach because I'm thinking about the people right now who can't put food on the table and have to decide.

00:35:10.660 It's the back to that.

00:35:11.640 Do I pay my rent or my mortgage or do I put food on the table?

00:35:15.120 And then there was a report federally that 2 million people were standing at the food bank in December, 2 million Canadians.

00:35:24.000 This is unheard of in this country.

00:35:26.380 This is an assault against Canadians. 1.00

00:35:28.920 What is going on within the municipalities is a targeted attack.

00:35:34.260 It's initiated by this UN global agenda.

00:35:38.120 The premiers have very much been on, on board with the initiatives as well.

00:35:42.600 And that's why I'm, I'm calling out Daniel Smith today that if you're not part of this, get yourself involved and resolve this matter.

00:35:50.340 Whatever what's going on within Chestermere, immediately investigate and remove Mr. MacIver.

00:35:55.820 It is very evident to all the rest of us who have even somewhat a good IQ.

00:36:00.580 It doesn't take much to show that this is criminal activity and they are covering up for it.

00:36:05.920 And to me, I wasn't shocked about the savings that you had because I've known all along that our tax dollars are not being used wisely.

00:36:14.480 Mayors, councils, all elected officials have a fiduciary duty to spend tax dollars in a manner that is, is the best, like spend it like your own funds.

00:36:25.920 Not like you're some millionaire who, who, you know, has so much money.

00:36:30.740 They don't, you know, care about that extra hundred dollars for a pair of shoes. 0.97

00:36:34.340 I'm talking about spending money like you're the average Canadian that needs to buy groceries and pay mortgages and do something special with their kids.

00:36:45.460 That's how our mayors and councils and our government should be spending money.

00:36:50.020 How do you feel about that?

00:36:53.240 Well, I think, I think apathy is, is probably one of the biggest words that needs to be discussed.

00:36:59.220 Um, I know when I was, uh, uh, I am still a taxpayer, but when I was, before I was elected, uh, I had a lot of apathy towards the government.

00:37:08.540 I really didn't think anything I would do would affect anything, anything I would say would affect anything.

00:37:14.260 And quite frankly, um, I had experience where nobody listens.

00:37:18.260 And so you're like, well, I got to go back to work.

00:37:20.460 I got to go back to my kids.

00:37:21.560 I got to go back to my family, my wife.

00:37:23.580 And that became the only priority.

00:37:26.560 And so what, what I was really surprised to experience when we got in was the apathy that staff had towards taxpayers.

00:37:35.580 That one I didn't expect.

00:37:38.160 So I was really surprised that they don't respect the taxpayers funds and they don't care if they get a better deal.

00:37:46.140 We had a dog park that came in at, uh, $475,000 just for the black chain link fencing.

00:37:52.660 And when we saw that because of our experience, um, in my experience in development and whatnot, I said, well, I've put in a few kilometers of black chain link fence.

00:38:02.940 And, um, how many linear feet are you putting in?

00:38:05.680 Anyways, it came down to, uh, your prices are about four or five times what the industry price is for black chain link fence.

00:38:13.800 What is going wrong with what you're doing?

00:38:16.000 Like what's happening?

00:38:17.080 What is your procurement process?

00:38:18.960 What is your RFP process?

00:38:20.940 And we were able to build that same dog park for $75,000.

00:38:26.300 And remember that that 400 grand that we saved, that's pure taxpayers money.

00:38:31.220 That's a lot of money.

00:38:32.960 It's not millions, but it's a lot of money.

00:38:35.040 When you add everything up, it adds up.

00:38:36.820 Well, when you're talking about $100,000 television that we could spend $1,300 on, um, I know that there was unauthorized payment.

00:38:46.680 I'm just going to read from a list here of $123,000 to a U.S. company for the purchase of trolley buses, $110,000 property tax refund to a single landowner, city crews carrying out work on the, that same property, um, $102 a meal for 84 people, $8,600.

00:39:05.020 I mean, it goes on and on.

00:39:07.520 And then I know that when you said, is it La Forge, is his name came in and was overturning all of the good work you were doing.

00:39:15.400 But there also, I find here in, in, um, I live in Surrey, British Columbia as well.

00:39:21.280 And a former mayor, her husband was in construction and lining their pockets and getting these deals and providing jobs to family members.

00:39:30.940 And if I'm not mistaken, remind me, but wasn't there something that you put a stop to in Chestermere where there was a rec center or something that was going to be, um, uh, built and it was like, wasn't it nearly over a million dollars you saved by stopping that, uh, initiative?

00:39:48.840 It was actually a $40 million indoor soccer field house.

00:39:55.220 So this is, this is just a indoor soccer field.

00:39:59.100 Um, I had been involved in a previous soccer, indoor soccer field that had been built about four years earlier.

00:40:05.040 And the pricing was seven and a half million dollars.

00:40:09.120 And I brought that to council.

00:40:11.380 And this is one of the things that actually made me run is I brought it to council.

00:40:16.320 And I said, guys, respectfully, I think the construction company is taking advantage of you here.

00:40:21.540 I went and got a copy of the construction contract, the design build drawings, as well as the name of the owner and the name of the owner of the construction company.

00:40:32.720 I said, you guys, and I gave it to all of council.

00:40:35.680 And I said, you guys should contact these people because you're getting screwed.

00:40:39.100 And not one of them was interested except for Mel Foe, who ran again, who also is one of the people that got removed.

00:40:46.280 Um, the mayor, the CEO, none of them were interested in, in this conversation at all.

00:40:50.720 And I said to myself, well, that's wrong because you should be furious and you should be going, well, maybe it's a little different from the one that we're building, but what are the differences?

00:41:01.480 So I can help, so I can hopefully make a good decision on spending taxpayers' money.

00:41:06.880 And so that's what was, that's what made me run was that this was a scam.

00:41:11.420 This was a total scam.

00:41:13.180 This, it maybe could have been, you know, if you put some pretty facade on the front of the building at glass, at rock, whatever.

00:41:19.140 Um, and you know, that's another two, three, four, $5 million.

00:41:24.080 That's not another $30 million.

00:41:26.900 And remember that, or sorry, that wasn't a fixed price contract.

00:41:30.920 That was a quote.

00:41:32.380 And they were proceeding with that on a, on a, on a, uh, it's not called the best efforts basis, but they were proceeding on it with that being the targeted price, but not a guaranteed price.

00:41:42.160 So that price would have been 60 million by the time they were done.

00:41:46.120 And so this was, this was really disgusting.

00:41:48.360 So we showed, um, that, and then we also showed that there was another field house that Rockview County was building and it was coming in at around, um, it was coming in at $12 million, but that was for a 30% larger building.

00:42:01.140 Um, so it's just, it's incredible how these people are so bold to take advantage of the system and the residents.

00:42:11.120 Unfortunately, the residents don't, don't really put it all together.

00:42:14.380 Um, and I think there's lots of smart people in there, but they're not spending the time and the government does not provide transparency.

00:42:21.740 So they make it very difficult for the residents to look into stuff.

00:42:25.680 Very difficult.

00:42:26.520 Right. And I know they put notices up or they have to put notices up when they're going to construct something like this and move forward, but the majority of residents are oblivious.

00:42:37.180 And one of the things that, um, Action for Canada has been doing is appealing to our viewers to say, say, you need to show up from here on in.

00:42:45.160 You need to show up at every mayor and city council meeting because you are going to be absolutely blown away by what it is that's transpiring,

00:42:53.720 what it is that they're, uh, pushing at those meetings because they don't have opposition or pushback.

00:42:59.840 So they're getting away with this.

00:43:02.340 I mean, $40 million, uh, you're in a small, uh, community.

00:43:06.740 It's not like you have millions of residents.

00:43:09.840 Uh, it doesn't matter.

00:43:10.960 $40 million is $40 million.

00:43:13.060 And I think that in, in the times that we're living in and the financial stress that so many people are under,

00:43:20.220 that this is not a priority.

00:43:22.500 Another thing that is not a priority is pride sidewalks.

00:43:25.820 Another priority is not all the bike lanes.

00:43:28.620 Well, you can put a bike lane in, but why all the green paint spending thousands of extra dollars on the green paints?

00:43:35.140 And it's, I don't know if that's going on in your community, but that's going on here in Surrey.

00:43:40.340 And it's just all of these extra costs.

00:43:43.000 As you say, it means nothing to them because it's not coming out.

00:43:45.980 Well, they don't, it is coming out of their pocket because they're paying taxes as well.

00:43:50.380 But a lot of city workers are paid so well now that, you know, either they're cowards and they don't want to make waves or they really don't care.

00:44:00.240 They, they really don't care.

00:44:01.840 And how do we make people care?

00:44:03.980 And so for us, you are the ideal, you and the three counselors that got removed, because I'm just going to give people an idea of your resume.

00:44:12.560 It says here and correct me if I'm wrong, but there's 25 years in real estate development, raw land, community development, office buildings, underground and over and above parkade construction, roads, water, sewer, storm, water design and construction, lake building, small dam and we're development and operations, water treatment, plant, sewer, plant utilities and pipeline development and operations, hotel and restaurant design, construction and operations.

00:44:39.160 And I know that Stephen has, has financial knowledge.

00:44:44.360 I mean, you guys are no slouches.

00:44:46.400 You guys are exactly who were wanting to come in and run a council.

00:44:50.860 And it is very evident that you were doing a superior job.

00:44:54.440 And, and so I would really encourage our viewers to write Daniel Smith, tell her that you're not happy about the situation, demand an investigation and immediate removal of Mr. MacGyver, and that these individuals get their seats back.

00:45:12.720 This, this, this, this is a violation against our freedom and democracy and how things work here.

00:45:17.360 And what's good for the gander, if you, if, if they do not bring you all back in and to, to your seats, then this better set a precedence for other mayors and councils who are rotten to the core.

00:45:31.720 And we have evidence that they're rotten to the core.

00:45:34.680 This is, this is just unbelievable, you know, that they're able to do this.

00:45:38.620 And so you, you can comment on that, but please let me know how your time is doing, because I know you have another event, but I want to also ask about the relationship with the RCMP and what steps, if any, that they've taken in response to, because this is criminal, paying out $600,000.

00:45:57.680 This is against the law. You have evidence of it. Where, where are things at?

00:46:04.600 Yes, we, we do have time. I wanted to talk to you on three things, transparency, bike paths, and the RCMP.

00:46:10.960 So one of the biggest things about transparency is, is real transparency.

00:46:15.360 Now, the problem is, is that if you're, if you have apathetic voters or, or residents, and the ones that know they're not getting transparent information,

00:46:25.820 if they're not stepping forward and letting everybody else know, you won't realize the cities are intentionally not giving it to you.

00:46:33.600 And one of the things that we did when we first got in, and this is one thing that residents should push for in every single municipality,

00:46:39.040 is that the city should not be banking developers.

00:46:43.760 And you, you say, well, how are they doing that?

00:46:45.880 Because that's one of the perfect ways to stop corruption.

00:46:50.860 So what happened in Chestermere is that the, the city would, would start a infrastructure project,

00:46:56.520 whether that's underground storm, water and sewer pipelines, roads, and they would not have the developers funded upfront.

00:47:05.500 And you're saying, well, why would the city want to bank developers?

00:47:08.960 Are you making 20%, 30% returns? Nope.

00:47:12.040 Why are you taking risks? Because if the developers ever went out of business, and some smaller ones do,

00:47:18.620 they're not going to pay back that, that money.

00:47:22.020 And the way they pay it back is in what's called an offsite levy.

00:47:25.220 And so what we did is we stopped all construction projects that the city was doing.

00:47:31.000 And you can't do that for every little thing, of course, long term.

00:47:34.520 But the point was, is that if you're going to stop corruption, you have to stop how it happens.

00:47:39.580 And the way it happens, you don't just walk into city hall and take a million dollars.

00:47:44.120 That can't happen.

00:47:46.180 Good thing.

00:47:47.660 But what you do is you start with a major construction project, large pools of money, and then you take your take pieces of it out.

00:47:55.640 And so we stopped those construction projects.

00:47:57.720 And what we did is we went to our developers and we said, you know, we took a look at the offsite levies.

00:48:01.940 And we said, honestly, our calculations say that you guys aren't paying enough.

00:48:05.680 And they weren't happy.

00:48:07.900 We raised our offsite levies by about 35%.

00:48:10.600 And they weren't happy.

00:48:13.200 But I said to them, I said, are our numbers wrong?

00:48:17.920 And they admitted that they weren't.

00:48:20.500 And so now to some of our developers, that was an additional $20 million that they had to pay.

00:48:26.760 So it's not chump change at all.

00:48:28.440 But I said, I'll tell you what we will do is we're going to massively increase the transparency of all of these infrastructure projects that we're charging you these offsite levies on.

00:48:38.700 And they said, okay, what does that look like?

00:48:41.220 And I said, well, we want your engineers and planners and design people involved in the design stage of all infrastructure.

00:48:50.920 We want them involved in the procurement.

00:48:53.100 So that's the request for quotes, request for proposals.

00:48:56.020 And then we also want them involved in the contract language so that they're identifying the scope that is the definition of what's being done properly.

00:49:05.780 So there's not going to be things like change orders where that's how construction companies make their next 30% is on change orders.

00:49:14.580 And so what that did is that massively changed the situation.

00:49:20.920 And we were able to, in our first project, which was a $17 million quoted underground stormwater, okay, which is big, big storm pipes.

00:49:29.260 We saved $5 million on $17 million.

00:49:32.820 That is unheard of, okay?

00:49:35.520 Our developers were extremely happy because they said, hey, we just saved $5 million.

00:49:40.460 We're happy because guess what?

00:49:42.220 We use their engineers and their planners for free.

00:49:46.500 You know, they've got tremendous bench strength.

00:49:49.100 So our guys oversee this stuff to make sure the quality is there and the design solution makes sense.

00:49:54.820 But that enabled us to have huge savings for the taxpayers and for the new home buyers.

00:50:03.040 And so that transparency, though, you want your taxpayers to be able to see everything in that process.

00:50:09.200 They want to be able to see the designs.

00:50:10.800 You wanted to see the quotes, the RFPs, all of those things.

00:50:15.040 Now, not everybody is going to be super excited about reading that stuff, but that's not the point.

00:50:19.500 The point is it has to be transparent.

00:50:21.600 And that enables those that, hey, you're in the – when a taxpayer goes to their neighbor and says, hey, you're in the road building business.

00:50:28.660 Does this make sense?

00:50:29.600 And he can quickly look at portions of it and say, yep, it does or no, it don't.

00:50:35.980 And that clarity and that simplicity is what needs to come back into municipal situations with our taxpayers.

00:50:43.480 Because lots of taxpayers are extremely smart at what they do.

00:50:48.240 And so you want to get them involved because, again, what are you trying to do?

00:50:51.240 You're trying to improve the confidence in government.

00:50:54.840 And the only way you're going to do that is by being honest.

00:50:57.420 If you don't show what's actually going on and show that you're actually making a truthful, common-sense decision, well, how the heck is the taxpayer supposed to ever trust you?

00:51:10.880 So just to jump to bike paths.

00:51:13.520 No, in Chestermere, we don't have on-road bike paths.

00:51:16.200 But what we did do is we went to our developers when we're building this – like I talked about this stormwater plan, which was for underground of our new twin road that we were doing that had been held up for 10 years because of a lawsuit.

00:51:30.820 And so not only did we resolve the lawsuit, it was for $15 million.

00:51:35.100 We negotiated it down to $1 million.

00:51:36.760 And a solution that got the developer back his money through other developers because the city couldn't interpret an endeavor to assist, which is – it's kind of like a latecomers agreement.

00:51:48.340 When a developer goes and pays for something up front, everybody else that benefits has to pay some of that back gradually over time.

00:51:56.120 And so we resolved that.

00:51:57.420 But what we did when we were designing that road is we said, why don't we build a bike lane and a mobility lane off of the road?

00:52:09.360 And so instead of building a sidewalk out of concrete, what we did that's, you know, three feet wide or something like that, what we did is we built a 15-foot-wide asphalt lane off of the road that allowed the mobility of mobility scooters.

00:52:26.280 We were in the process of approving golf carts, actually, too, to be able to be used around our city.

00:52:33.280 And the cost of that was minuscule.

00:52:36.300 It was tremendous, but it made a huge difference to our pedestrians and our taxpayers that were using those roads because a lot of people are getting much more mobile these days, which is a good thing.

00:52:48.820 Now, jumping to our RCMP situation.

00:52:51.840 Yes.

00:52:52.280 That was not a fun experience.

00:52:56.280 So not only did we find collusion with our RCMP and Rick McIver and Deputy Minister Gary Sandberg admitting in writing that when they're investigating me and our council, they don't want anything in writing.

00:53:17.280 They only want it by his personal cell phone.

00:53:20.520 And you're like, well, that's kind of odd.

00:53:23.480 If you want some evidence against me, shouldn't you get it in writing so you can use it in court so that you can do something with it?

00:53:31.740 Instead, you want it all not in writing and only on your personal cell phone, which can't be FOIP.

00:53:37.580 So not only did we find that, we found evidence with the RCMP being tied to the three councillors, which had been successful in actually trying to undermine the city by getting our loans called.

00:53:53.980 So they weren't able to call our loans, but they were able to cut our lines of credit.

00:53:58.320 All of the unused portions of our lines of credit, they were able to cut.

00:54:02.060 They moved our bank loans from the City of Calgary to Toronto Problem Loans Division, which we had never missed a payment in the history of Chesterton.

00:54:12.280 Okay, so how does that happen?

00:54:16.360 And we uncovered evidence of one of our rogue councillors meeting with our bank manager.

00:54:21.920 And our bank manager is not a bank manager that's in the corner bank at Chestermere.

00:54:27.620 He's downtown Calgary because we have a $50 million or $40 million loan where you don't just run into him on the corner street.

00:54:33.900 He didn't even live in Chestermere, for example.

00:54:36.100 So we uncovered all of these things.

00:54:37.640 We brought this to the RCMP, and as soon as we bring that information to them of these corruption and potential crimes, they're supposed to take over immediately.

00:54:46.100 And they did nothing.

00:54:47.380 They wouldn't do anything.

00:54:49.000 And long story short, we actually uncovered a plot where they were going to arrest myself and charge me with fake charges, as well as our CAO with fake charges.

00:55:02.100 And how we uncovered that is the RCMP actually accidentally emailed us a copy of the situation report that they were trying to get approval for from Ottawa and from the K Division commander in Airdrie.

00:55:19.900 And one of the assistants' names was similar to the name of a gal that was an RCMP officer.

00:55:27.780 I mean, everybody does it.

00:55:28.840 You push send and you go, whoops.

00:55:30.260 And so we brought that to a criminal lawyer, and they told us that we had to get our offices swept immediately because they were accusing us of bugging the offices.

00:55:41.360 Now, what they were saying our issue was, was that we were considering replacing the RCMP.

00:55:47.880 And because we were considering it, they were going to file false charges against us.

00:55:51.980 And so we had the building swept, and of course there was nothing found in the building, but it gave us a baseline that stopped them from coming after us.

00:56:01.440 Now, you know, it's kind of scary when the RCMP does something like that, because you've got to remember, they're doing something that's illegal.

00:56:07.420 There is no evidence of it occurring.

00:56:09.000 And yet they're willing to risk their careers to do something like that.

00:56:14.220 Well, what might they do if they pull you over at night in your car and plant something in your car or do something else that's, you know, dangerous to you as a citizen?

00:56:22.120 Well, can I ask you, have you filed an official complaint against these RCMP officers to have it on record?

00:56:31.480 I've always been told over and over again that when you file a complaint about the RCMP, they take it very seriously.

00:56:38.180 But even if the top brass aren't, it's on record.

00:56:42.080 So have you done that?

00:56:43.260 So we actually went to the Justice Minister and the Minister, the Deputy Premier, Mickey Amory and Mike Ellis, and we filed a complaint and an ACERT request for investigation into this wrongful conduct of these RCMP officers.

00:57:03.660 Plus, we had residents that had come forward with a variety of complaints about the RCMP.

00:57:07.340 So we included these complaints in the ACERT request, which an ACERT request is to have, is you're requesting the RCMP to be investigated for wrongful conduct.

00:57:18.680 And they never did anything.

00:57:22.040 Minister, those ministers never did a thing.

00:57:24.560 And actually, ACERT is playing some games.

00:57:27.940 They came out in public and indicated at this point, there is not an investigation being done.

00:57:34.220 Trying to make it sound like that this is something that they're not looking into.

00:57:42.440 Where in fact, unfortunately, ACERT investigations can take some time before they'll actually start it.

00:57:49.000 But the key thing for people to understand is a mayor of a city can request an ACERT investigation.

00:57:58.540 A public person cannot, but a mayor of a city can request that.

00:58:05.280 And so when we were talking with Mickey Amory and Mike Ellis, they actually gave us that advice to go make this complaint through ACERT.

00:58:16.720 So were you still mayor at the time?

00:58:18.600 Were you still mayor at the time this was happening?

00:58:21.520 That is true.

00:58:22.760 Yes.

00:58:23.020 Okay, and so you could officially do that.

00:58:26.300 But again, I'm going back to the mandate that Daniel Smith has written to Minister of Municipalities, Mr. McIver.

00:58:39.960 And one of the points, one of the points where, as I have to emphasize, it says,

00:58:44.260 I expect you, and in one of the final points, it goes, in collaboration with the Minister of Justice,

00:58:51.240 reviewing the Local Authorities Election Act and making recommendations.

00:58:54.540 But throughout here, throughout this document, she's making demands that, you know,

00:59:01.060 they work to strengthen the public's trust.

00:59:04.080 And all I'm seeing and hearing here is corruption upon corruption regarding finances, regarding the hush money that's been moving between hands,

00:59:18.100 the criminal aspect of it, the collusion with RCMP members in your community, with city councillors.

00:59:26.660 And yet the four of you are the ones that got removed, the true mayor and city council.

00:59:31.100 So, like I say, next steps.

00:59:33.880 So, are you, so you're taking actions, you've tried to take the right actions through the provincial avenue.

00:59:42.380 So, what are your next steps as far as criminal actions against these RCMP officers, against Mr. McIver?

00:59:49.780 Like, what are your next steps?

00:59:52.500 So, we understand there's a few steps.

00:59:55.780 So, we have a judicial review that's in the court right now.

00:59:58.260 Now, we've had Rick McIver come out and say that he's cancelled the judicial review.

01:00:03.980 And, unfortunately, residents that, they play on the fact that residents don't fully understand what that means.

01:00:10.660 And so, in a lawsuit, when you have multiple parties as plaintiffs, okay, that's the people that are suing the defendant,

01:00:18.480 which is municipal affairs.

01:00:21.640 So, the city of Chestermere was one of the plaintiffs, and so were the four of us councillors.

01:00:29.200 So, what the city came out and said, what McIver said, was that the city terminated the judicial review.

01:00:35.660 All they did was remove their name from the judicial review.

01:00:40.260 They can't terminate a lawsuit that we are a part of.

01:00:43.880 Like, that's just such nonsense.

01:00:45.480 So, but it doesn't stop them from coming out and saying lies like that.

01:00:50.280 And so, we still have a judicial review that the judge indicated that that judicial review should be heard before any by-election.

01:00:59.480 And so, we're just waiting for a date by the chief justice to set a date for that judicial review.

01:01:07.440 On top of that, we are filing a complaint with the RCMP commissioner.

01:01:12.880 So, our lawyer is in process of that.

01:01:19.500 What else?

01:01:24.000 Oh, one of the other things that we've done is that in our – so, we put forward what's called an affidavit and an AOR, an affidavit record.

01:01:32.800 And so, the affidavit that we put forward was over 350 pages long.

01:01:38.120 And so, we swear to that under oath, okay?

01:01:42.240 Now, what was really odd about that is that the ministry, Municipal Affairs, did not even question me on the affidavit.

01:01:52.240 So, when you're in court, it's extremely important to question anybody who puts forward an affidavit because you're trying to poke holes in their evidence.

01:02:00.540 Otherwise, you're saying you agree with that evidence.

01:02:04.780 And so, not only did we put forward these various claims as well as the evidence for them – because sometimes people say, oh, you made up that email.

01:02:16.140 You can make it up yourself.

01:02:17.840 That's fraud.

01:02:19.780 And so, if you actually did that, that's a criminal offense.

01:02:22.460 So, not only did we put that under oath that this is real, they didn't even question us on that.

01:02:29.900 And so, you know, we're continuing to come forward with this kind of evidence.

01:02:33.820 And, you know, you've got to remember, during the last two years, I was asked three times, and now a fourth, actually, the last two days,

01:02:44.460 what would it take, what would I like, in order to stop investigating the past?

01:02:53.700 And I responded in writing to these people – and these are government people that asked me this –

01:02:59.180 I responded in writing to them that, number one, I don't want anything.

01:03:04.620 Number two, if people have committed these crimes, they need to be investigated.

01:03:12.300 I can't be complicit with anything that's offside, anything.

01:03:18.600 And then I also indicated that Chestermere – it's very easy to see that Chestermere has had dollars diverted away from it.

01:03:24.740 We don't have the recreation that many, many, many other cities have of the same size of us.

01:03:30.100 And so I wanted the government to look at giving us grants to try and catch up with the diversion of dollars that has been taken away from us.

01:03:42.000 So it's, you know, it's really about trying to make sure that the corruption is stopped and that, you know, that our government, you know, is held accountable for their actions.

01:03:53.880 And, you know, we're just not going to stop until that's the case.

01:03:57.340 I mean, right now I was asked, you know, what would it take for us to walk away from this going after McIver?

01:04:07.240 And I said, listen, these investigations that we've brought forward need to happen, okay?

01:04:14.060 We've made them public.

01:04:15.580 We can't simply wave a wand and all of a sudden they're gone, okay?

01:04:19.980 So those things need to be investigated properly.

01:04:23.080 I mean, this stuff has been taken to the public.

01:04:24.680 I mean, they're going to demand that these things be looked into.

01:04:28.260 And again, we're not out on any bench tactic.

01:04:31.820 We never took the office to go against the provincial government.

01:04:36.080 We only took office to try and help Chestermere.

01:04:39.720 That was it.

01:04:41.220 Well, and as that's what you're called to do as mayor and council is serve your own community, not the needs of the provincial or federal government, but your community.

01:04:50.400 This is what local government is about.

01:04:52.360 And so can I be so bold as to ask who it is that's reaching out to you and asking you to set this aside?

01:05:00.420 I don't know if they've offered you bribes or not, but we've heard from Pastor Artur Poloski.

01:05:05.120 They super wanted him not to create a party or run for office.

01:05:09.520 We know the bullying tactics that took place with him.

01:05:13.060 So is there, can you, can you name a few names?

01:05:17.460 Well, I, you know, I've been debating about that.

01:05:24.940 It is, it is right now our lawyers indicated that, you know, we shouldn't be bringing this information out.

01:05:31.300 I'm, I'm kind of crossed on that because I don't mind anybody coming after us because they can't charge us for slander when it's the truth.

01:05:41.560 Well, you've got the evidence of it.

01:05:43.660 And so, you know, we have recorded this.

01:05:47.120 And we've got recorded conversations of this.

01:05:49.840 So, you know, it's, it's just nonsense that, but our lawyer is still saying that allow them the opportunity to, you know, do the right thing.

01:05:59.520 And I just don't have as much faith in that, that concept with these guys, the way that they've acted.

01:06:04.720 And, but the, the, the time is getting short because we're getting a little bit frustrated with the fact that they continue to do things that are really offside.

01:06:13.680 Like, I just heard that, for example, uh, our administrator who is now the council of Chestermere is about to agree to a union deal with the firefighters in Chestermere that is going to make the Chestermere firefighters, the second highest paid firefighters in all of Alberta.

01:06:30.820 Why would that be?

01:06:32.080 What, what, what, what's the point in that?

01:06:35.400 Well, that's, and that's the problem.

01:06:36.900 Like when we, we were just, we were just finishing negotiating a union deal for our staff, um, and there were so many mistakes in the union deal, not, not to the benefit of the city, um, to detriment of the staff as well.

01:06:49.720 And when we got removed, the, this, this Doug LaGore person immediately accepted everything in the union, um, offering.

01:06:58.280 And it was like, you don't know what you're talking about.

01:07:01.080 And it's just a shame to the Chestermere taxpayers that that negotiation didn't continue because that's the job.

01:07:11.020 And this LaGore person is not part of, um, of, uh, of Chestermere.

01:07:15.600 And so these, these, these terrible things were just simply sideswiped by this, by this fellow.

01:07:21.280 And he even agreed that to add, um, we had negotiated with our developers that the next fire hall, um, should be paid for by the developers.

01:07:30.960 Because the developers, um, are building the community that needs the fire hall.

01:07:36.680 So our philosophy is anything they need, touch or effect, they've got to pay for.

01:07:41.860 And so our developers agreed they were going to pay for that fire hall.

01:07:45.220 And that fire hall is coming in somewhere in the neighborhood of under $10 million.

01:07:48.680 Okay.

01:07:50.140 Soon as we were removed, now Doug LaGore has put forth in our budget that the money that we were saving,

01:07:57.680 that was going to go towards a, uh, pool and part funding of a hockey rink, which was $17 million is now going to build a fire hall.

01:08:08.180 And you're like, hold on a second, that's taxpayers' money.

01:08:12.920 Um, it was already agreed to by the developers to fund it.

01:08:18.120 And, you know, it's just, it's just terrible that all that hard work, they're going to blow away and snap of a finger.

01:08:24.020 And you've got to ask yourself, when is the offsite levy going to come?

01:08:28.840 Two years later, three years later, the developers are going to start to pay?

01:08:33.320 So that you're now going to start to see, you know, some kind of, some kind of unscrupulous activity, you know, going in this deal.

01:08:40.140 And it was, it wasn't quite price, but it was close.

01:08:43.820 Well, I mean.

01:08:44.660 And it just makes no sense because the developers would keep the price down and you'd still get an adequate product.

01:08:50.560 Um, but, you know, so these are some of the unfortunate things that are happening.

01:08:54.880 This is outrageous and it does, it needs to be exposed because people will be dealing with this in their own, this is not exclusive to Chestermere.

01:09:03.020 We know that, we know that tax dollars, we know the tax hikes that are going up in communities and within cities across this nation and townships.

01:09:11.640 And it needs to be exposed.

01:09:13.460 And that's why we want to help be on the front line with you exposing this nationwide so that people know what questions to ask and what to look for.

01:09:21.480 Um, but honestly, back to, I, I have to, I just need to go back to this, uh, these individuals that are trying to silence you and brush this under the rug.

01:09:34.280 I'm, I'm personally, I don't understand why your lawyer would want to protect those individuals.

01:09:39.440 I mean, by exposing this, by exposing the corruption, what we're even doing last week with Lisa Robinson from, uh, Ontario and in her community is exposing the mayor and city council showing videos.

01:09:55.700 We have the evidence of the corruption going on within the mayor and city council meetings and how they're trying to even not make those videos.

01:10:02.620 Or, uh, they have control of the videos and wanting to edit them and edit the minutes is so that the public don't actually become aware.

01:10:12.100 And I think this is a shot across the bow.

01:10:14.600 I think mayors and city councils are going to be shaking in their boots, uh, because of your courage and those of your city councilors exposing this.

01:10:24.640 Um, after the show, I do a weekly news update and tonight, David Lindsay is going to be joining me,

01:10:30.520 giving an update of court actions against him.

01:10:33.240 That's with interior health, but he has also got the mayor and council from Kelowna who have admitted that they're taking financing from the government and that they're being forced to implement these global measures.

01:10:47.860 And so therefore someone like David needs to be silenced, but that's the reason why we need to shout out the names in these people and individuals,

01:10:55.240 because at some point, like in other countries, it's following a bar up a part.

01:11:00.660 The, uh, movement is that new governments are getting elected and it's at that time that justice will be served.

01:11:07.380 So we're keeping records of everyone.

01:11:10.720 And, uh, so keep good records.

01:11:12.960 If you're not ready, you know, to name those names today, which, you know, would be incredible.

01:11:18.000 Uh, this would be a time because I'm very frustrated right now, knowing that, you know, not only have you been removed, um, unfairly and unjustly,

01:11:28.040 but you've got the RCMP and you've got other individuals who are probably sitting within government right now,

01:11:34.680 trying to silence you and possibly even trying to bribe you eventually.

01:11:38.780 Well, and we had, um, just so we're clear, we filed an injunction, um, after we were removed, which is to, um, I guess, reverse the decision to remove us.

01:11:50.400 And so we were unsuccessful with that, but a lot of times people aren't understanding what an injunction is.

01:11:56.500 Um, it's not a lawsuit.

01:11:57.700 So what an injunction is, is you have to demonstrate, um, harm.

01:12:01.060 And so what they said is that we didn't demonstrate enough harm to ourselves in the process is what the court said and said,

01:12:09.020 we didn't even try to demonstrate harm to ourselves.

01:12:11.820 We were demonstrating harm to the community, um, as to what was being done to the taxpayers and, and, and what we were trying to stop the corruption and wasteful of taxpayers money.

01:12:23.200 So it's important that people understand that, um, the, the lawsuit, which is the judicial review has not been heard.

01:12:29.980 And that brings in all of the evidence.

01:12:32.260 The injunction is only about what harm are you suffering, um, by the decision being made.

01:12:37.640 And so even though we, we feel like, you know, that the judge erred in that decision, um, the test is very, is very hard for an injunction still be, still occur.

01:12:47.480 Um, but that was the main indicator is that we hadn't proven the harm towards us personally.

01:12:52.840 And it was like, well, that was never the goal.

01:12:55.180 The goal was the protection of taxpayers.

01:12:57.280 That was the goal.

01:12:58.100 Uh, and so, you know, it, it is something that we're going to continue to fight.

01:13:03.020 Um, and, and really, I think the message that taxpayers need to look at is that government needs to do better in saving and not wasting money because taxes shouldn't be the, the, the biggest problem to, to residents and whatnot, uh, that they're experiencing.

01:13:19.800 And, you know, we just have to do a better job and we've uncovered a lot of corruption that the government was not interested in investigating that was covering up.

01:13:28.960 And that in itself is wrong because you have to have confidence in your government that they're going to look into these things.

01:13:35.340 And so we don't, we have no problem getting into court, going under oath.

01:13:40.760 What we're trying to do, which we're about to is commence another, another legal action, which will get Rick McIver and some of these other people under oath directly.

01:13:51.480 Because the whole point is to get these people to actually tell the truth, right?

01:13:57.000 That's the only thing that matters.

01:13:58.400 And we don't, we're not scared of that at all.

01:14:00.820 Um, we're totally okay with everything we've done instead.

01:14:04.940 Um, and it just, it just is really problematic how much, how challenging it is to get these people, um, under oath and, and telling the truth.

01:14:14.380 But, you know, we, we feel confident that we're going to be able to do that, uh, very shortly, actually.

01:14:19.960 Well, I'm praying for an excellent result in that there will be justice in the courts.

01:14:24.340 I had made, mentioned David Lindsay, and I'm going to send you an email from him because he's written one of the only books in Canada of how to lay a private information.

01:14:32.660 And that's criminal charges against another individual going directly, uh, is it to the crown?

01:14:39.120 And so I'd like to help make that connection.

01:14:42.360 He'd actually help you take, go step by step in filing those charges.

01:14:47.720 Um, anyways, we'll, we'll have a private conversation if that's something that you want to pursue.

01:14:53.400 But we, as Canadians, the viewers want to see you, uh, successfully take these individuals to court and that justice would prevail.

01:15:03.600 So I understand that you are now taking this to the road.

01:15:08.380 You have been going from community to community to expose the corruption.

01:15:13.360 I've heard that some of your town halls last as long as three hours, uh, because I'm sure that people have a lot of, uh, questions.

01:15:20.940 I mean, the majority of Canadians know that our governments are corrupt.

01:15:25.100 That means at the provincial level and at the municipal level and obviously at the federal level.

01:15:30.920 And I believe that one of the best ways, because we're such an amazingly large country, it's a little more difficult to turn over everything over by voting in a few new people and the populist movement succeeds and the country starts back on track.

01:15:46.960 We have a very large country and that's why Action for Canada is, uh, vetting, uh, citizens within their own communities, creating these chapters and getting them to work on just that and then raising up good people to run for office so that we could replace them.

01:16:03.980 Um, but it's very frustrating and very concerning to see incredible individual like yourself, a man of high integrity and the rest of the counselors that have been removed with you.

01:16:17.180 Um, this is, this is very concerning for the rest of us who are fighting so hard and we got to hit harder at the provincial level.

01:16:23.960 We've got to press in further with the, uh, premier because you know what, she's not above the law and she may think that the courts are covering her as does Mr. MacGyver.

01:16:33.860 But I think eventually things are going to start to fall apart and they better decide real soon what side of this they're going to be on.

01:16:41.720 Well, and these, um, these investigations that we had started that Rick MacGyver stopped, um, without having them looked into is, is obviously judicial interference.

01:16:50.280 Uh, and what we're doing is we're going to court to get a judge to order those investigations to be completed.

01:16:57.460 Um, because they tie in all of this, they tie in the RCMP, they tire, they tie in corruption, they tie in kickbacks.

01:17:04.060 We had a developer come to us with a $6 million kickback.

01:17:08.100 We didn't uncover it.

01:17:09.440 He did.

01:17:10.060 He was, he was there at the time it happened on the building of a bridge.

01:17:14.300 And so he brought us all this evidence and we brought that to the government, uh, to the RCMP, uh, as well as we gave it to Rick MacGyver and none of them did nothing about it.

01:17:24.040 And so, you know, it's, it's pretty incredible that these things are happening and people were seeing us as the few that were willing to actually look at stuff and, and, um, and actually be able to stand up and provide, um, that these things need to be looked into.

01:17:40.860 We're not supposed to be the investigator or the adjudicator.

01:17:44.160 That's not our job.

01:17:45.280 What our job is though, is to pass that on to the authorities and the authorities need to look into it.

01:17:50.900 Now, if it turns out that they believe that, or they determined that it's not that that's okay.

01:17:55.720 That is totally okay.

01:17:57.020 That is their job though.

01:17:58.880 Um, and to have that cut short, that's interference.

01:18:02.640 Um, and Rick MacGyver has no right to do that.

01:18:05.840 Um, because he doesn't, he's not above the law.

01:18:08.280 And, and that's, you know, one of the things we all have to remember is that we're only here to try and help as a, as a group that's working together as a, you know, it's almost like a co-op for your community.

01:18:18.400 You know, we're hired by our residents and we're hired to do our job and we have to treat them with respect.

01:18:23.540 And we've got to make sure that we're respecting their dollars.

01:18:26.200 And, uh, you know, and that's, I think that's lost on government these days.

01:18:31.380 Um, I'm going to have to, um, leave though and head to our, our venture.

01:18:38.280 Yeah, I was looking at the time.

01:18:39.640 It's been about an hour and a half and, uh, apologies that we, we should have thought to turn your camera off sooner.

01:18:45.620 And Trendsio has come up with a good alternative there.

01:18:47.680 So this has worked out very well.

01:18:49.220 But I, I want to say, you know, that people may feel like, uh, they're losing hope right now because of this incident.

01:18:55.120 But I want you to understand if you look at what's happening throughout governments across Canada right now, even at the federal level, because of all the pushback, we are changing the conversation in government.

01:19:06.980 We are changing the trajectory.

01:19:08.520 Even the Conservative Party, who would not talk on issues that we have been demanding for the last eight or nine years, are finally talking on those issues.

01:19:17.680 And the reason is not because they're filled with integrity and because they believe in these issues, but because they want to get reelected.

01:19:24.300 So don't reelect those individuals that are sitting right now in government, but understand that everybody's voice matters.

01:19:31.420 And in this situation, thank you, Martina.

01:19:33.980 I see already in the chat, she says, Jeff Colvin and the councillors need to be reinstated and Mick, Rick MacGyver removed.

01:19:41.240 She goes, I'll be calling Daniel Smith's office tomorrow.

01:19:43.680 And all you have to do is, uh, Google her, her office.

01:19:47.560 You can get her email in her office, but you know what?

01:19:49.720 This is the time she wants to talk about building trust within communities and building those bridges.

01:19:54.800 Well, she better put her money where her mouth is and step up and take care of this situation in Chestermere and get Mayor, uh, MacGyver reinstated as well as those councillors. 1.00

01:20:06.260 So, uh, so Mayor, uh, sorry, Mayor Colvin and get, yeah, Mayor Colvin and the councillors reinstated.

01:20:13.440 So, Mayor Colvin, thank you so much for taking the time, uh, to be with us tonight and telling the story.

01:20:19.420 Thank you for your courage.

01:20:20.980 And we encourage you to reach out if you got some good news reports or something else that you want to discuss.

01:20:26.640 I would be so very happy to have you back on the show.

01:20:31.700 Thank you very much, Tanya, and I so appreciate the opportunity.

01:20:34.540 And we'd love to come on with the proper Wi-Fi.

01:20:37.160 Yes, that would be great.

01:20:38.080 I'd appreciate it.

01:20:38.880 And I can actually show some of the evidence, uh, and, and you'll be able to see it.

01:20:42.080 Well, and I want to talk, I do want to talk more about whether or not, uh, the globalists have been reaching out to you while you were in office with the ICLEE, Strong Mayors, and the rest of it.

01:20:52.900 If there was any incentives, things like that, I'd like to have you back on the show.

01:20:57.040 Um, but also I want to hear, yeah, some good updates.

01:20:59.900 Can you just tell us how can our viewers follow your work?

01:21:03.480 There's a lot of people that we have, uh, that are members in Alberta that would love to attend an event.

01:21:09.660 Is there a schedule somewhere that they can go to, to find that?

01:21:14.500 Um, I'll just type in our, uh, uh, email address.

01:21:21.340 Okay.

01:21:21.980 And we do have a webpage that, uh, we're just finishing.

01:21:26.200 So, um, that'll have the schedule on it as well.

01:21:29.020 Okay.

01:21:29.600 Do you have a name for the website when it is ready?

01:21:31.680 I'll type that in.

01:21:36.620 Okay.

01:21:37.080 We'll make sure that we add this to the description when we post this on Rumble.

01:21:41.760 So it will be cleanupalberta.ca.

01:21:44.340 It's not quite launched yet.

01:21:46.060 Uh, so for our viewers to know, just keep checking back.

01:21:50.020 Chestermere4 at gmail.com is the email.

01:21:53.140 If you want to find out events that may be, uh, close to you or get a copy of the schedule.

01:21:57.640 So again, thank you so much.

01:21:59.440 Great success to you tonight as you talk to a group of people and just God bless you and all that you're doing.

01:22:04.700 Thank you, Mayor Colvin.

01:22:07.240 Thank you, Tanya.

01:22:08.160 Thank you very much.

01:22:08.900 Have a great night.

01:22:10.080 You too.

01:22:10.400 Wow, that was amazing.

01:22:14.360 All right.

01:22:14.860 I'm a little sad about, uh, the original connection, but I think that, uh, the story is so compelling.

01:22:22.500 I'm going to be very interested to know who's reaching out to Mayor Colvin.

01:22:27.120 And, uh, this is very disturbing information and, uh, we'll be hopefully on the front line of providing you that information as well.

01:22:35.360 All right.

01:22:36.400 Thank you so much for joining us.

01:22:38.440 I'm going to head into the weekly news update for all of you who will want to, uh, stay on.

01:22:45.220 Uh, David Lindsay will be joining me tonight to, uh, talk about his case.

01:22:50.100 He was potentially going to end up in jail, uh, last week.

01:22:53.960 And, uh, so we're going to talk about his case and, uh, what's up and coming.

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01:23:03.740 So, okay, um, next week on the show, we are going to have, uh, Dr. Mackey's come on.

01:23:10.620 Previously, he was on and, uh, telling us about the horrendous situation with Alberta Health, um, and BC Health covering up for, uh, pedophilia.

01:23:22.300 And that ring, that was an amazing show.

01:23:24.780 This time he's coming on, as promised, to talk about the turbo cancers and the treatments.

01:23:29.500 Um, I'm so sad because I've just, uh, had received a text that a loved one, a family member, uh, one of their family members has, uh, had felt a need to take the jab.

01:23:42.780 It's a very young person and that, uh, they were having some problems with their health.

01:23:47.820 And it ends up that, uh, a brain scan has shown a blood clot that could eventually lead to seizures.

01:23:54.200 And you and I all know where this is coming from.

01:23:57.060 And so right away, my heart is, I can't wait to get this show out with Dr. Mackey's.

01:24:02.180 I did a pre-record with him on Monday because of potential traveling I'll be doing next week.

01:24:07.240 But it is amazing.

01:24:08.700 We first cover some of the turbo cancers, uh, what they look like, how they're forming and, uh, what's behind it.

01:24:16.480 Then we talk about, man, the corrupt big pharma and Merck coming together with these new turbo cancers, uh, vaccines in order to what, well, how timely was that?

01:24:28.240 And they're taking, uh, uh, advantage of people when they're so vulnerable.

01:24:33.400 Most people are being diagnosed with stage four cancer.

01:24:36.360 And so they're, say, they're coming up with a solution.

01:24:39.020 I'd like to know if ivermectin or fenbendazole is in, as a part of that little cocktail.

01:24:43.380 It's just disgusting. 0.70

01:24:44.940 So criminal. 0.82

01:24:45.780 Anyways, we talk about that.

01:24:47.120 And then we move into, into very amazing detail that I hadn't heard anywhere else.

01:24:52.780 I'm actually going to take that clip and I'll be putting it on our, um, Action for Canada.

01:24:58.180 Under COVID-19, you'll see treatments, third treatment page down.

01:25:01.520 We have some of, uh, Dr. McCullough's protocols and I'll be, uh, attaching and, uh, providing Dr. Mackey's additional protocols, which includes fasting, some supplements and other information that I, I pray and hope will be very, um, uplifting.

01:25:17.920 And hopefully, uh, you know, I'm, I'm hoping and praying that, you know, people will be able to recover from many of the adverse effects.

01:25:27.980 Um, as Dr. Mackey says, this is not a treatment that will cure the, uh, um, uh, this, the system out, uh, of this, but it will be ongoing most likely for the rest of, uh, your life for people who have been vaccine injured.

01:25:45.400 But please join us next week.

01:25:47.420 And then, like I say, please, please share all of our information.

01:25:50.440 The week after, real quick, Rob Anders is coming on.

01:25:53.660 I, I got this organized today and I was excited about it, uh, because I know a lot of you are really concerned about the digital banking.

01:26:00.700 I've been seeing stuff on Twitter this week about a guy in Canada who went to take $3,000 out and the teller was demanding he provide him the reasons why he was taking that money out and saying she would only give him a money order.

01:26:14.260 You know what?

01:26:14.720 We got to smack down.

01:26:15.640 We got to come against this with our banks.

01:26:17.680 You got to start pulling your cash out again, invest in silver and gold or do something, but just for the point to tell the banksters, you're not in control of our finances.

01:26:27.940 We're not going to support this digital ID system that you are just, they're just biding their time until everything is ready to, uh, get up and going.

01:26:38.440 And then again, in Australia, who has just implemented the CBDCs and another guy went to the bank to get his money out.

01:26:45.460 And, uh, now in Canada though, he, he, sorry, finished that thought that he was going across the same thing.

01:26:52.420 He was like, you know, he couldn't get his cash.

01:26:54.380 And so we know that this is, you know, a threat against Canadians.

01:26:58.220 It's a social credit system.

01:26:59.540 And we want to find out tools in ways that we can fight back.

01:27:03.420 So Rob is going to be coming on and giving a great presentation.

01:27:06.440 That'll be May 1st.

01:27:07.260 So mark it on your calendar.

01:27:09.140 All right.

01:27:10.000 I always love closing off with a couple of Bible verses.

01:27:12.660 And today I love this one from Psalm 28, uh, four.

01:27:18.940 It is that repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil, repay them for what their hands have done, bring back on them what they deserve.

01:27:32.880 I was a little surprised by that verse, right?

01:27:35.200 And, and it's like, we're not, vengeance is the Lord's, we're not to repay people in light, but we are to seek justice and we are to expose the evil.

01:27:47.820 So let's go to the next verse.

01:27:50.240 And this is from Psalm, Psalms 2, 10 to 12.

01:27:55.220 Therefore, you Kings be wise, be warned, you rulers of the earth, serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.

01:28:04.180 Kiss his son or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction for his wrath can flare up in a moment.

01:28:12.480 Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

01:28:14.680 And this is why Action for Canada is just boldly coming out all the time and saying we're a Christian nation and I'm going to bellow it from the mountaintops and it's so important and you can be a non-believer in Canada and you can live in freedom.

01:28:27.220 You can't do that in other nations.

01:28:29.440 And God takes this very seriously, this corruption in government.

01:28:32.900 Justin Trudeau is not going to get away with this.

01:28:35.560 I had mentioned Paul from the Bible.

01:28:37.660 His name was previously Saul and he was, uh, annihilating Christians originally. 0.79

01:28:42.720 He was a very evil man.

01:28:44.760 And he had a, uh, what's called a road to Damascus moment where God got ahold of him.

01:28:50.220 So even evil leaders, that's why we're to pray for these evil leaders that either God would raise them up or take them out, but that they would have a road to Damascus moment and that they would turn from their wicked ways and do what is right and good.

01:29:04.120 And then just in finishing up, I was reading in Habakkuk this morning and I'm not going to read actually any verses right now.

01:29:12.160 Well, it's one in, in, in chapter one, verse four, it says, the law has become paralyzed and there is no justice in the courts.

01:29:20.300 So there's nothing new under the sun, right?

01:29:22.660 What they were, uh, experiencing back in biblical times is exactly like what we feel right now.

01:29:27.780 Isn't that perfect?

01:29:28.720 The law has become paralyzed and there is no justice in the courts, but God has called on us to meet him in the courts and that there will be justice.

01:29:36.460 So I'm going to hold to that promise, but in, in the four, uh, forward here, it said, when violence and corruption abound and evil appears to rule, the faithful may be tempted to wonder whether God really cares or is, is he really in control?

01:29:54.060 Habakkuk's dialogue helps us to understand that God does not despise such questions when they are carried to him in prayer from an honest heart.

01:30:02.140 Believers must be willing to accept God's answers, right?

01:30:06.580 Because throughout history, um, God is in control of history, that his dealings are always just and right, but he does allow evil to prevail for a time when we turn our backs on him.

01:30:17.500 And that's why we've turned our backs on God for a long time in Canada and we've allowed evil individuals.

01:30:22.300 Some of you even aboded evil individuals into office.

01:30:26.120 So you need to repent.

01:30:27.700 That's what God's saying, like, repent and say, I'm so sorry for doing this, Lord.

01:30:31.480 I'm awake and I'm aware now because we want God to heal our land.

01:30:35.360 Our whole purpose is, is that in Chronicles, it says that we are to humble ourselves and pray and to repent and get our lives right with God.

01:30:43.840 How do we participate in this?

01:30:45.980 And that God promises, if we do this, he'll heal, heal our lands.

01:30:50.120 And so believers must be willing to accept God's answer and delight in his will, even if those are completely foreign to their own thinking.

01:30:59.580 So some of this is so foreign to our thinking.

01:31:01.840 We're like, how can this all be happening?

01:31:03.940 But it's because God is teaching us through it.

01:31:06.640 And he's saying we participated in permitting this evil to rise up in our land.

01:31:11.880 And so God is saying that he does, he, he clearly and deeply cares about what happens here on earth.

01:31:18.920 And he's giving us a window of opportunity to make things right.

01:31:22.200 So anyways, I hope that encourages you that I, as a Christian, I don't live by fear.

01:31:28.680 I definitely get concerned.

01:31:30.460 I've got kids and grandkids, but that's what puts the fight in me.

01:31:33.780 That's what gives us the warrior spirit.

01:31:35.620 There's nothing in the word of God that says that we are to be doormats and that we have to be tolerant.

01:31:41.460 In fact, the Bible is clear that there are 10 commandments.

01:31:45.760 One of those major first commandments are, is that you shall have no other gods before me.

01:31:51.380 God is a jealous God.

01:31:52.680 What have we done?

01:31:53.560 We've allowed people to come into our nation to raise up false gods. 1.00

01:31:58.400 And so then our kids are getting lured into false religions that are backed by demonic spirits. 0.97

01:32:04.840 And that's not an unlovely thing to say.

01:32:07.440 There is only one true way to salvation.

01:32:09.780 And it is through Jesus Christ dying and rising again on that cross.

01:32:14.640 And by going to other, any other religion and saying, I respect your religion, 0.79

01:32:18.480 that gives me very deep concern for the individual that doesn't know the way to Jesus Christ.

01:32:25.440 And that is the true salvation.

01:32:27.660 And so we will boldly speak out.

01:32:29.380 We will boldly encourage you.

01:32:30.900 But the thing we won't do is to force you to accept our beliefs.

01:32:34.440 All right.

01:32:34.840 We just want to present them to you.

01:32:36.780 Pray about them.

01:32:37.620 Ask God to speak to you and you will be amazed at what happens.

01:32:41.540 So thanks for joining us this week and for the weekly news update.

01:32:44.900 And for the Empower Hour, God bless you and God bless Canada.

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01:33:25.380 Gla-nya mark.

01:33:35.200 That's what I've got to see.

01:33:36.980 Look at this crowd.

01:33:41.120 I'm going to thank God and God alone for the ground that I'm standing on.

01:33:48.600 I'm going to thank our founding fathers

01:33:55.280 For giving their lives

01:33:57.540 And sacrificing so much

01:34:00.020 For our freedom

01:34:01.080 And I'm calling on you today

01:34:06.740 Don't put them to shame

01:34:08.980 Don't waste what they did

01:34:11.440 We have guaranteed rights

01:34:14.140 In this country

01:34:15.240 We are putting chapters across the nation

01:34:24.920 We are going to be in every town

01:34:27.560 And every city

01:34:28.780 And we are going to build communities

01:34:31.500 Within these communities

01:34:32.660 Of like-minded people

01:34:34.080 Who are actually going to care for one another

01:34:36.500 And love on each other

01:34:37.960 And give each other the help when they're down

01:34:40.360 We are going to use

01:34:42.880 The teams and the people

01:34:44.680 That build within chapters

01:34:46.140 To support our businesses

01:34:47.880 The government's actions

01:34:50.440 Are completely

01:34:51.680 100%

01:34:53.420 Unlawful

01:34:54.560 Judgment

01:34:56.100 Will again be bound on justice

01:34:58.640 And those

01:35:00.160 With virtuous hearts

01:35:01.700 Will pursue it

01:35:02.860 You have a virtuous heart

01:35:05.660 If you are here today

01:35:07.080 Pursuing freedom

01:35:08.820 And righteousness

01:35:09.960 And then verse 23

01:35:13.020 Comes along with a promise

01:35:14.780 God says

01:35:16.740 He will turn the sins

01:35:18.700 Of evil people

01:35:19.820 Back on them 1.00

01:35:20.940 He will destroy them 1.00

01:35:23.780 For their sins 1.00

01:35:25.460 I take great comfort in that

01:35:29.120 Because I serve

01:35:30.880 A mighty living God

01:35:32.900 Who has allowed us

01:35:35.100 To go through this season

01:35:37.460 Of discomfort

01:35:38.460 Because we as a nation

01:35:40.220 Have turned our backs on Him

01:35:42.420 And we need to get right

01:35:44.760 So I am just going to thank you

01:35:47.840 So much

01:35:48.780 I'm going to say

01:35:50.240 God bless you

01:35:51.320 And God bless Canada

01:35:53.140 God bless you

01:36:23.140 God bless you

01:36:53.140 God bless you

01:36:55.140 God bless you

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