Chestermere Mayor Jeff Colvin was the democratically elected mayor of a city 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 government practices. As a result of his courageous leadership, Jeff and three of the city s councillors were fired. All four men are facing intimidation, but they are not remaining silent. 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.
00:00:00.000This 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.
00:00:17.520I 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.
00:00:36.280And, 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.
00:00:51.800And 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.
00:01:06.360It'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?
00:01:13.320And our biggest problem is that the reason the government, federal or provincial, is giving us back money is that's our taxes.
00:01:19.760So they're giving us back taxes that they shouldn't have taken in the first place. Like our taxes are so high.
00:01:27.260And what we've identified in Chestermere is that we actually, in our third year, we're going to reduce taxes approximately an additional 20%.
00:01:37.000And that's unbelievable that we are able to find these kinds of savings in a situation where our city has had massive tax increases.
00:01:48.100We had a 300% tax increase between 2010 and 2014.
00:01:55.600We are so pleased that Mayor Jeff Colvin is joining us tonight for part two of our series on exposing municipal corruption.
00:02:04.460Jeff 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.
00:02:24.380As a result of his courageous leadership, Jeff and three of the city's councillors were fired.
00:02:31.340All four men are facing extreme intimidation, but they're not remaining silent.
00:02:37.600In 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.
00:02:46.220We are so grateful for Jeff and others who are Canadian heroes, as they stand out for truth, even at great personal cost.
00:02:55.820Joining us now to dive deeply into the rest of the story is Mayor Jeff Colvin.
00:03:01.600I just want to welcome you on the show.
00:03:40.940And 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.
00:03:58.040So there was a CBC article and it said, ousted mayor fights to get his job back in Chestermere, Alberta.
00:04:06.560And I think they've been illegally, it's just criminal what's happened.
00:04:10.500And again, then there was this, these images of each one of them.
00:04:29.120But what I wanted to do, if this was my image, I would have put most wanted.
00:04:34.020This would have been a most wanted poster.
00:04:36.820And the reason is, is these are the kind of individuals that we want running our cities.
00:04:43.920And their story is absolutely phenomenal.
00:04:47.380So Mayor Colvin, I know that you were removed and I know that people have questions.
00:04:53.840One 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.
00:05:14.700So how in the world did the Minister of Municipalities, Mr. MacGyver, manage to make that happen?
00:05:22.420So I'm just going to hand the floor over to you and we'll start from there.
00:05:26.080So I was elected and our councillors were elected on October 18th, 2021.
00:05:30.820And we were removed December 4th, 2023.
00:05:34.340I had lived in Chestermere for about 25 years.
00:05:38.380And my background is in the construction industry, as well as, you know, all kinds of subdivisions, commercial construction, office construction, office buildings, residential subdivisions.
00:05:56.920So it fits kind of the mold of what a lot of what cities do.
00:06:02.880And so when I was as a resident, I just started noticing that there was a lot of irregularities that the city was experiencing.
00:06:10.740First, I thought that the city was being taken advantage of by the construction industry.
00:06:14.520Then 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.
00:06:28.420Initially, I thought that the construction industry was causing them the problems.
00:06:34.220But 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.
00:06:45.100So what ended up happening was after identifying that they had some major construction projects that made no sense and had major cost overruns.
00:07:05.100We started to see that the it was really time for change.
00:07:10.940And so in looking at those opportunities, we decided that I decided to run for council.
00:07:16.740And at the same time, obviously, the three councillors that were successful that are part of were removed, ran for council at the same time.
00:07:25.740And what was the difference between our council was predominantly business people.
00:07:31.840And so that added a big difference for our approach to government, I guess, the way in which a city operates.
00:07:43.940And 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.
00:07:54.000And what was odd about that is being in the business environment, you're very used to everything's about numbers.
00:08:02.060Everything has to be because you have to hit your bottom line.
00:08:06.280You can't have a situation where, you know, I mean, it's it's possible, I guess, in the private sector to lose money.
00:08:13.340But obviously, the goal is, is that you have to make profit.
00:08:16.600And if you don't, then you typically go out of business.
00:08:19.260And so we approach that same perspective and attitude towards government.
00:08:24.000And 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.
00:08:34.960And 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.
00:09:30.200And 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.
00:09:39.580And 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.
00:09:54.020And later we find out that we're hiding a seven million loss in operations.
00:10:10.440When 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.
00:10:22.260When 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.
00:10:32.320It was like, geez, we haven't even said anything.
00:10:33.960But it was they knew that we knew what we were talking about.
00:10:38.980And 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.
00:10:48.140And the offsetting impact of what you're looking at was instrumental in us determining that there were some major issues.
00:10:55.980And so within the first month, we had our CAO come to us and indicate that he wanted to pay out a mea copa.
00:12:17.840And so our budget becomes law because council puts that budget into law as its taxpayers money, obviously.
00:12:25.060So 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.
00:12:51.680They'd been in the city for five years and this this interim CAO, which had been in the business 30 years.
00:12:59.020And we filed a lawsuit against them to recover these funds.
00:13:03.800And as soon as we were removed, Rick McIver terminated that lawsuit.
00:13:08.320And he did not want them telling the actual truth about what was being covered up.
00:13:13.880And that was, you know, a.k.a. the hush money.
00:13:16.280So 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.
00:13:31.500And 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.
00:13:50.160And 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.
00:14:05.400Rick McIver instituted a administrator and his first task was to terminate that investigation.
00:14:11.500And block it from happening, admitting that he never even read it.
00:14:17.260So it was it was a very frustrating experience, that's for sure.
00:14:21.660And there were so many instances around that that that we were covering.
00:14:26.320And we didn't know at the time when we first started was that Rick McIver was the brother in law of the ex-mayor.
00:14:34.440And the ex-mayor was one of the people that was being looked into for some of this corruption.
00:14:40.360We had brought these alleged corruption to Minister McIver that included his brother-in-law, which we didn't know at the time.
00:14:48.420And after obviously after in retrospect, we realized the response we got because we did that.
00:14:56.520One 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.
00:15:06.580This is Mr. McIver. This is Rick McIver.
00:15:10.380And as mentioned, he has been in politics for a while, but currently he is the minister.
00:15:17.340He has been directed as the appointed as the minister of municipalities.
00:15:43.540And one was good governance to improve the lives of Albertans and help our province realize its potential.
00:15:51.400It 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.
00:16:07.860Then down below, and it goes, in addition, I expect you to deliver on further initiatives overseen by your ministry,
00:16:14.600including, I'll go to point two, continuing to monitor the Calgary and Edmonton Metropolitan Region Boards, which is where you, your town fell into,
00:16:24.880to 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.
00:16:39.260It goes on to another point, maintaining and building relationships of trust, partnership and open dialogue with municipal leaders across the province
00:16:49.380and bringing feedback and solutions for these discussions with municipal leaders to caucus.
00:16:54.660And 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.
00:17:10.540And 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.
00:17:27.500And then finally, before I turn it over to you, this is Douglas Lagor.
00:17:32.880And 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?
00:17:44.560How about step aside and, you know, say this is undue process and that the mayor and three councillors should be returned to office?
00:17:54.560I just thought it was important. I like to put names to faces. I like people to know who these individuals are.
00:18:00.300I 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.
00:18:16.380And so anyways, as far as I can see, the mandate of Premier Daniel Smith, he's in violation of that.
00:18:24.900And really, he should be removed and fired. He himself should be fired. He's in violation.
00:18:31.120So what do you have to say about that? I do not understand how they could remove you as mayor and council.
00:18:37.480When we first got in and mentioned, we were asked to raise it 25% and 5 million, which is $5 million.
00:18:44.980We 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.
00:19:04.420And by the end of the year, we actually were able to save an additional $6 million off of that budget as well.
00:19:12.040So 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.
00:19:23.280You 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.
00:19:34.520And 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.
00:19:43.460And trust me, your people's intuition is correct.
00:19:48.640But the cities are wasting so much money.
00:19:53.080We had a situation where I asked for a boardroom TV, which was somewhere between a 70 or 80 inch TV.
00:19:59.400And I told the staff, I said, do not come back with anything expensive.
00:20:03.760I just need it for presentations. This isn't a movie theater. This isn't anything fancy.
00:20:09.080Just for presentations hooked up to a computer.
00:20:11.560And what ended up happening was they came back with a hundred thousand dollar quote.
00:20:21.380And 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.
00:20:32.420And yet they came back with a quote like that, thinking that it was absolutely OK.
00:21:05.300Well, why in the world would Rick McIver remove you?
00:21:10.440And that's where it comes down to the continuous investigations and irregularities that we found that we kept passing off to Minister McIver.
00:21:21.060And and and and hoping that he would do the right thing and actually investigate it, you know, was was just not happening.
00:21:30.620And within the first two months, we were the first city in the history of Alberta to have the fastest inspection call on it.
00:21:39.580Which 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?
00:21:51.620And remember, when we come into council, we have a CAO who's telling us, you know, the procedures that you need to go through.
00:21:58.780Got a city lawyer who's confirming the correct steps for us to go through.
00:22:05.120We've got a legislative manager who identifies the proper rules to follow when you're making motions and and other decisions.
00:22:14.980And so all of these people are there to make sure you're doing stuff correctly.
00:22:19.100And 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.
00:22:28.900Now, remember, at that time, we were actually about a 97 percent, 98 percent unanimous decision with our councillors.
00:22:39.420So it was very, very often that we all agreed with the direction we were going.
00:22:44.980Um, but the one thing that was off was was Rick McIver did not want these investigations to see the light of day.
00:22:54.040And so Minister McIver had this inspection and we we then realized that the inspection was off.
00:23:01.340Um, 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.
00:23:12.320We 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.
00:23:26.280They provided them with complete lies in documents.
00:23:30.680And we then produced this to Minister McIver and indicated that this documentation is completely, um, incorrect.
00:23:40.740Like 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.
00:23:52.880Without bringing any man to council without, uh, without consulting legal counsel.
00:24:00.840And so our cities, um, don't have a lot of land for sale.
00:24:04.620Our city doesn't have a lot of land for sale.
00:24:06.620So, 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.
00:24:25.280Cities should not be getting into the development business.
00:24:28.540They 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.
00:24:37.000We never hired councillors to become developers.
00:26:11.020Um, as I mentioned before, we started that lawsuit to go after that hush money that was paid out.
00:26:17.480Um, 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.
00:26:33.460And 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.
00:26:51.620And 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.
00:27:02.780And so we showed them that there is in the TD bank account, it says it's electronic funds transfer.
00:27:07.780It does not say that it's two checks and there's canceled checks in the back bank statements or something like that.
00:27:14.180Um, so, you know, this is the kind of stuff that we experienced that Mr. McIver has no problem putting lies into documents.
00:27:21.620Which is one of the things, reasons we're taking him to court.
00:27:26.440And to this day, um, the, the government of Alberta or slash municipal affairs is in breach of a court order.
00:27:35.540Like four months now to provide the record of evidence on how and why they were able to remove us.
00:27:43.040Uh, well, this is, you know, it's very disturbing.
00:27:47.360And 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.
00:27:55.400We just shouldn't sit back and say, well, this is just more corruption in government.
00:28:22.660And you have the evidence to prove that they are trying, attempting to cover this up by removing the four of you.
00:28:30.960What, what has her response been or has there been one?
00:28:33.780Yeah, 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.
00:28:50.700Um, and so we provided these reports and clearly identified everything that was true because we gave the actual evidence.
00:28:57.680Um, and we gave that to Daniel Smith's office and we requested Daniel Smith, um, to have, to send somebody down.
00:29:04.960The 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.
00:29:16.260And you can ask us any question you want.
00:29:36.240I, I've, I just printed it off, but the head of it is, uh, Alberta to introduce legislation preventing municipal federal deals without provinces.
00:29:46.500And, 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.
00:29:57.420I 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.
00:30:09.700And 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.
00:30:21.220Lots of people are dealing with the 15 minute smart cities, C40 cities, et cetera.
00:30:26.120So I don't want the federal government interfering with the municipalities because that's our community.
00:30:32.140We 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.
00:30:43.940But 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.
00:31:13.000And 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.
00:31:24.820People think that she's wonderful, and she's going to save the province because she's making all of these great decisions.
00:31:30.660But Jason Kenney, uh, is very responsible for, uh, locking things down during COVID, locking the pastors up.
00:31:39.780I 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.
00:31:52.320We can't say that David Eby is any better.
00:31:54.280He's, he's completely a tyrant and corrupted.
00:31:57.400But Daniel Smith, everybody thought that she was good, that she was going to be a breath of fresh air and turn things around.
00:32:03.480But I'm now wondering, listening to you, if Jason Kenney was bad cop and this is good cop.
00:32:09.540And, 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.
00:32:20.060In 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.
00:32:29.060Um, 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.
00:32:43.440Because 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.
00:32:51.240I mean, I've been, my, my grandpa moved to Calgary in 1905.
00:32:56.080And so our family has lived in Calgary forever.
00:32:59.760Um, 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.
00:33:09.940And, you know, that's, that's scary at the same time is massively unfortunate.
00:33:14.800And, 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.
00:33:25.460And 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.
00:33:34.240One of the problems is initially you, your immediate reaction is not a one of relief.
00:33:40.040It's one of, Oh, what are you doing now with that?
00:34:00.860And 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%.
00:34:10.660And 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.
00:34:21.780We had a 300% tax increase between 2010 and 2014, 300%.
00:34:30.560And 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.
00:34:40.660That they can come down substantially 30, 40%.
00:34:57.180Well, 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.
00:35:28.920What is going on within the municipalities is a targeted attack.
00:35:34.260It's initiated by this UN global agenda.
00:35:38.120The premiers have very much been on, on board with the initiatives as well.
00:35:42.600And 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.
00:35:50.340Whatever what's going on within Chestermere, immediately investigate and remove Mr. MacIver.
00:35:55.820It is very evident to all the rest of us who have even somewhat a good IQ.
00:36:00.580It doesn't take much to show that this is criminal activity and they are covering up for it.
00:36:05.920And 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.
00:36:14.480Mayors, 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.
00:36:25.920Not like you're some millionaire who, who, you know, has so much money.
00:36:30.740They don't, you know, care about that extra hundred dollars for a pair of shoes.
00:36:34.340I'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.
00:36:45.460That's how our mayors and councils and our government should be spending money.
00:36:53.240Well, I think, I think apathy is, is probably one of the biggest words that needs to be discussed.
00:36:59.220Um, 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.
00:37:08.540I really didn't think anything I would do would affect anything, anything I would say would affect anything.
00:37:14.260And quite frankly, um, I had experience where nobody listens.
00:37:18.260And so you're like, well, I got to go back to work.
00:37:38.160So I was really surprised that they don't respect the taxpayers funds and they don't care if they get a better deal.
00:37:46.140We had a dog park that came in at, uh, $475,000 just for the black chain link fencing.
00:37:52.660And 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.
00:38:02.940And, um, how many linear feet are you putting in?
00:38:05.680Anyways, it came down to, uh, your prices are about four or five times what the industry price is for black chain link fence.
00:38:13.800What is going wrong with what you're doing?
00:38:32.960It's not millions, but it's a lot of money.
00:38:35.040When you add everything up, it adds up.
00:38:36.820Well, when you're talking about $100,000 television that we could spend $1,300 on, um, I know that there was unauthorized payment.
00:38:46.680I'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.
00:39:07.520And 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.
00:39:15.400But there also, I find here in, in, um, I live in Surrey, British Columbia as well.
00:39:21.280And a former mayor, her husband was in construction and lining their pockets and getting these deals and providing jobs to family members.
00:39:30.940And 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?
00:39:48.840It was actually a $40 million indoor soccer field house.
00:39:55.220So this is, this is just a indoor soccer field.
00:39:59.100Um, I had been involved in a previous soccer, indoor soccer field that had been built about four years earlier.
00:40:05.040And the pricing was seven and a half million dollars.
00:40:11.380And this is one of the things that actually made me run is I brought it to council.
00:40:16.320And I said, guys, respectfully, I think the construction company is taking advantage of you here.
00:40:21.540I 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.
00:40:32.720I said, you guys, and I gave it to all of council.
00:40:35.680And I said, you guys should contact these people because you're getting screwed.
00:40:39.100And not one of them was interested except for Mel Foe, who ran again, who also is one of the people that got removed.
00:40:46.280Um, the mayor, the CEO, none of them were interested in, in this conversation at all.
00:40:50.720And 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?
00:41:01.480So I can help, so I can hopefully make a good decision on spending taxpayers' money.
00:41:06.880And so that's what was, that's what made me run was that this was a scam.
00:41:32.380And 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.
00:41:42.160So that price would have been 60 million by the time they were done.
00:41:46.120And so this was, this was really disgusting.
00:41:48.360So 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.
00:42:01.140Um, so it's just, it's incredible how these people are so bold to take advantage of the system and the residents.
00:42:11.120Unfortunately, the residents don't, don't really put it all together.
00:42:14.380Um, 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.
00:42:21.740So they make it very difficult for the residents to look into stuff.
00:42:26.520Right. 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.
00:42:37.180And 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.
00:42:45.160You 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,
00:42:53.720what it is that they're, uh, pushing at those meetings because they don't have opposition or pushback.
00:43:22.500Another thing that is not a priority is pride sidewalks.
00:43:25.820Another priority is not all the bike lanes.
00:43:28.620Well, you can put a bike lane in, but why all the green paint spending thousands of extra dollars on the green paints?
00:43:35.140And it's, I don't know if that's going on in your community, but that's going on here in Surrey.
00:43:40.340And it's just all of these extra costs.
00:43:43.000As you say, it means nothing to them because it's not coming out.
00:43:45.980Well, they don't, it is coming out of their pocket because they're paying taxes as well.
00:43:50.380But 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.
00:44:03.980And 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.
00:44:12.560It 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.
00:44:39.160And I know that Stephen has, has financial knowledge.
00:44:46.400You guys are exactly who were wanting to come in and run a council.
00:44:50.860And it is very evident that you were doing a superior job.
00:44:54.440And, 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.
00:45:12.720This, this, this, this is a violation against our freedom and democracy and how things work here.
00:45:17.360And 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.
00:45:31.720And we have evidence that they're rotten to the core.
00:45:34.680This is, this is just unbelievable, you know, that they're able to do this.
00:45:38.620And 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.
00:45:57.680This is against the law. You have evidence of it. Where, where are things at?
00:46:04.600Yes, we, we do have time. I wanted to talk to you on three things, transparency, bike paths, and the RCMP.
00:46:10.960So one of the biggest things about transparency is, is real transparency.
00:46:15.360Now, 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,
00:46:25.820if they're not stepping forward and letting everybody else know, you won't realize the cities are intentionally not giving it to you.
00:46:33.600And 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,
00:46:39.040is that the city should not be banking developers.
00:46:43.760And you, you say, well, how are they doing that?
00:46:45.880Because that's one of the perfect ways to stop corruption.
00:46:50.860So what happened in Chestermere is that the, the city would, would start a infrastructure project,
00:46:56.520whether that's underground storm, water and sewer pipelines, roads, and they would not have the developers funded upfront.
00:47:05.500And you're saying, well, why would the city want to bank developers?
00:47:08.960Are you making 20%, 30% returns? Nope.
00:47:12.040Why are you taking risks? Because if the developers ever went out of business, and some smaller ones do,
00:47:18.620they're not going to pay back that, that money.
00:47:22.020And the way they pay it back is in what's called an offsite levy.
00:47:25.220And so what we did is we stopped all construction projects that the city was doing.
00:47:31.000And you can't do that for every little thing, of course, long term.
00:47:34.520But the point was, is that if you're going to stop corruption, you have to stop how it happens.
00:47:39.580And the way it happens, you don't just walk into city hall and take a million dollars.
00:48:28.440But 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.
00:48:38.700And they said, okay, what does that look like?
00:48:41.220And I said, well, we want your engineers and planners and design people involved in the design stage of all infrastructure.
00:48:50.920We want them involved in the procurement.
00:48:53.100So that's the request for quotes, request for proposals.
00:48:56.020And 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.
00:49:05.780So there's not going to be things like change orders where that's how construction companies make their next 30% is on change orders.
00:49:14.580And so what that did is that massively changed the situation.
00:49:20.920And we were able to, in our first project, which was a $17 million quoted underground stormwater, okay, which is big, big storm pipes.
00:49:49.100So our guys oversee this stuff to make sure the quality is there and the design solution makes sense.
00:49:54.820But that enabled us to have huge savings for the taxpayers and for the new home buyers.
00:50:03.040And so that transparency, though, you want your taxpayers to be able to see everything in that process.
00:50:09.200They want to be able to see the designs.
00:50:10.800You wanted to see the quotes, the RFPs, all of those things.
00:50:15.040Now, not everybody is going to be super excited about reading that stuff, but that's not the point.
00:50:19.500The point is it has to be transparent.
00:50:21.600And 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.
00:50:29.600And he can quickly look at portions of it and say, yep, it does or no, it don't.
00:50:35.980And that clarity and that simplicity is what needs to come back into municipal situations with our taxpayers.
00:50:43.480Because lots of taxpayers are extremely smart at what they do.
00:50:48.240And so you want to get them involved because, again, what are you trying to do?
00:50:51.240You're trying to improve the confidence in government.
00:50:54.840And the only way you're going to do that is by being honest.
00:50:57.420If 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?
00:51:13.520No, in Chestermere, we don't have on-road bike paths.
00:51:16.200But 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.
00:51:30.820And so not only did we resolve the lawsuit, it was for $15 million.
00:51:36.760And 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.
00:51:48.340When a developer goes and pays for something up front, everybody else that benefits has to pay some of that back gradually over time.
00:51:57.420But 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?
00:52:09.360And 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.
00:52:26.280We were in the process of approving golf carts, actually, too, to be able to be used around our city.
00:52:36.300It 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.
00:52:56.280So 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.
00:53:17.280They only want it by his personal cell phone.
00:53:20.520And you're like, well, that's kind of odd.
00:53:23.480If 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?
00:53:31.740Instead, you want it all not in writing and only on your personal cell phone, which can't be FOIP.
00:53:37.580So 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.
00:53:53.980So they weren't able to call our loans, but they were able to cut our lines of credit.
00:53:58.320All of the unused portions of our lines of credit, they were able to cut.
00:54:02.060They 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.
00:54:37.640We 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.
00:54:49.000And 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.
00:55:02.100And 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.
00:55:19.900And one of the assistants' names was similar to the name of a gal that was an RCMP officer.
00:55:30.260And 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.
00:55:41.360Now, what they were saying our issue was, was that we were considering replacing the RCMP.
00:55:47.880And because we were considering it, they were going to file false charges against us.
00:55:51.980And 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.
00:56:01.440Now, 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.
00:56:09.000And yet they're willing to risk their careers to do something like that.
00:56:14.220Well, 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?
00:56:22.120Well, can I ask you, have you filed an official complaint against these RCMP officers to have it on record?
00:56:31.480I've always been told over and over again that when you file a complaint about the RCMP, they take it very seriously.
00:56:38.180But even if the top brass aren't, it's on record.
00:56:43.260So 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.
00:57:03.660Plus, we had residents that had come forward with a variety of complaints about the RCMP.
00:57:07.340So 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.
00:58:23.020Okay, and so you could officially do that.
00:58:26.300But again, I'm going back to the mandate that Daniel Smith has written to Minister of Municipalities, Mr. McIver.
00:58:39.960And one of the points, one of the points where, as I have to emphasize, it says,
00:58:44.260I expect you, and in one of the final points, it goes, in collaboration with the Minister of Justice,
00:58:51.240reviewing the Local Authorities Election Act and making recommendations.
00:58:54.540But throughout here, throughout this document, she's making demands that, you know,
00:59:01.060they work to strengthen the public's trust.
00:59:04.080And all I'm seeing and hearing here is corruption upon corruption regarding finances, regarding the hush money that's been moving between hands,
00:59:18.100the criminal aspect of it, the collusion with RCMP members in your community, with city councillors.
00:59:26.660And yet the four of you are the ones that got removed, the true mayor and city council.
01:01:24.000Oh, 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.
01:01:32.800And so, the affidavit that we put forward was over 350 pages long.
01:01:38.120And so, we swear to that under oath, okay?
01:01:42.240Now, what was really odd about that is that the ministry, Municipal Affairs, did not even question me on the affidavit.
01:01:52.240So, 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.
01:02:00.540Otherwise, you're saying you agree with that evidence.
01:02:04.780And 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.
01:02:19.780And so, if you actually did that, that's a criminal offense.
01:02:22.460So, not only did we put that under oath that this is real, they didn't even question us on that.
01:02:29.900And so, you know, we're continuing to come forward with this kind of evidence.
01:02:33.820And, 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,
01:02:44.460what would it take, what would I like, in order to stop investigating the past?
01:02:53.700And I responded in writing to these people – and these are government people that asked me this –
01:02:59.180I responded in writing to them that, number one, I don't want anything.
01:03:04.620Number two, if people have committed these crimes, they need to be investigated.
01:03:12.300I can't be complicit with anything that's offside, anything.
01:03:18.600And then I also indicated that Chestermere – it's very easy to see that Chestermere has had dollars diverted away from it.
01:03:24.740We don't have the recreation that many, many, many other cities have of the same size of us.
01:03:30.100And 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.
01:03:42.000So 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.
01:03:53.880And, you know, we're just not going to stop until that's the case.
01:03:57.340I mean, right now I was asked, you know, what would it take for us to walk away from this going after McIver?
01:04:07.240And I said, listen, these investigations that we've brought forward need to happen, okay?
01:04:41.220Well, 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.
01:04:50.400This is what local government is about.
01:04:52.360And 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?
01:05:00.420I don't know if they've offered you bribes or not, but we've heard from Pastor Artur Poloski.
01:05:05.120They super wanted him not to create a party or run for office.
01:05:09.520We know the bullying tactics that took place with him.
01:05:13.060So is there, can you, can you name a few names?
01:05:17.460Well, I, you know, I've been debating about that.
01:05:24.940It is, it is right now our lawyers indicated that, you know, we shouldn't be bringing this information out.
01:05:31.300I'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.
01:05:43.660And so, you know, we have recorded this.
01:05:47.120And we've got recorded conversations of this.
01:05:49.840So, 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.
01:05:59.520And I just don't have as much faith in that, that concept with these guys, the way that they've acted.
01:06:04.720And, 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.
01:06:13.680Like, 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.
01:06:36.900Like 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.
01:06:49.720And when we got removed, the, this, this Doug LaGore person immediately accepted everything in the union, um, offering.
01:06:58.280And it was like, you don't know what you're talking about.
01:07:01.080And it's just a shame to the Chestermere taxpayers that that negotiation didn't continue because that's the job.
01:07:11.020And this LaGore person is not part of, um, of, uh, of Chestermere.
01:07:15.600And so these, these, these terrible things were just simply sideswiped by this, by this fellow.
01:07:21.280And 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.
01:07:30.960Because the developers, um, are building the community that needs the fire hall.
01:07:36.680So our philosophy is anything they need, touch or effect, they've got to pay for.
01:07:41.860And so our developers agreed they were going to pay for that fire hall.
01:07:45.220And that fire hall is coming in somewhere in the neighborhood of under $10 million.
01:08:44.660And it just makes no sense because the developers would keep the price down and you'd still get an adequate product.
01:08:50.560Um, but, you know, so these are some of the unfortunate things that are happening.
01:08:54.880This 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.
01:09:03.020We 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.
01:09:13.460And 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.
01:09:21.480Um, 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.
01:09:34.280I'm, I'm personally, I don't understand why your lawyer would want to protect those individuals.
01:09:39.440I 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.
01:09:55.700We 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.
01:10:02.620Or, 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.
01:10:12.100And I think this is a shot across the bow.
01:10:14.600I 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.
01:10:24.640Um, after the show, I do a weekly news update and tonight, David Lindsay is going to be joining me,
01:10:30.520giving an update of court actions against him.
01:10:33.240That'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.
01:10:47.860And 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,
01:10:55.240because at some point, like in other countries, it's following a bar up a part.
01:11:00.660The, uh, movement is that new governments are getting elected and it's at that time that justice will be served.
01:11:12.960If you're not ready, you know, to name those names today, which, you know, would be incredible.
01:11:18.000Uh, 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,
01:11:28.040but you've got the RCMP and you've got other individuals who are probably sitting within government right now,
01:11:34.680trying to silence you and possibly even trying to bribe you eventually.
01:11:38.780Well, 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.
01:11:50.400And so we were unsuccessful with that, but a lot of times people aren't understanding what an injunction is.
01:11:57.700So what an injunction is, is you have to demonstrate, um, harm.
01:12:01.060And so what they said is that we didn't demonstrate enough harm to ourselves in the process is what the court said and said,
01:12:09.020we didn't even try to demonstrate harm to ourselves.
01:12:11.820We 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.
01:12:23.200So it's important that people understand that, um, the, the lawsuit, which is the judicial review has not been heard.
01:12:29.980And that brings in all of the evidence.
01:12:32.260The injunction is only about what harm are you suffering, um, by the decision being made.
01:12:37.640And 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.
01:12:47.480Um, but that was the main indicator is that we hadn't proven the harm towards us personally.
01:12:52.840And it was like, well, that was never the goal.
01:12:55.180The goal was the protection of taxpayers.
01:12:58.100Uh, and so, you know, it, it is something that we're going to continue to fight.
01:13:03.020Um, 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.
01:13:19.800And, 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.
01:13:28.960And that in itself is wrong because you have to have confidence in your government that they're going to look into these things.
01:13:35.340And so we don't, we have no problem getting into court, going under oath.
01:13:40.760What 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.
01:13:51.480Because the whole point is to get these people to actually tell the truth, right?
01:13:58.400And we don't, we're not scared of that at all.
01:14:00.820Um, we're totally okay with everything we've done instead.
01:14:04.940Um, 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.
01:14:14.380But, you know, we, we feel confident that we're going to be able to do that, uh, very shortly, actually.
01:14:19.960Well, I'm praying for an excellent result in that there will be justice in the courts.
01:14:24.340I 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.
01:14:32.660And that's criminal charges against another individual going directly, uh, is it to the crown?
01:14:39.120And so I'd like to help make that connection.
01:14:42.360He'd actually help you take, go step by step in filing those charges.
01:14:47.720Um, anyways, we'll, we'll have a private conversation if that's something that you want to pursue.
01:14:53.400But we, as Canadians, the viewers want to see you, uh, successfully take these individuals to court and that justice would prevail.
01:15:03.600So I understand that you are now taking this to the road.
01:15:08.380You have been going from community to community to expose the corruption.
01:15:13.360I'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.
01:15:20.940I mean, the majority of Canadians know that our governments are corrupt.
01:15:25.100That means at the provincial level and at the municipal level and obviously at the federal level.
01:15:30.920And 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.
01:15:46.960We 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.
01:16:03.980Um, 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.
01:16:17.180Um, 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.
01:16:23.960We'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.
01:16:33.860But 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.
01:16:41.720Well, and these, um, these investigations that we had started that Rick MacGyver stopped, um, without having them looked into is, is obviously judicial interference.
01:16:50.280Uh, and what we're doing is we're going to court to get a judge to order those investigations to be completed.
01:16:57.460Um, because they tie in all of this, they tie in the RCMP, they tire, they tie in corruption, they tie in kickbacks.
01:17:04.060We had a developer come to us with a $6 million kickback.
01:17:10.060He was, he was there at the time it happened on the building of a bridge.
01:17:14.300And 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.
01:17:24.040And 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.
01:17:40.860We're not supposed to be the investigator or the adjudicator.
01:17:58.880Um, and to have that cut short, that's interference.
01:18:02.640Um, and Rick MacGyver has no right to do that.
01:18:05.840Um, because he doesn't, he's not above the law.
01:18:08.280And, 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.
01:18:18.400You know, we're hired by our residents and we're hired to do our job and we have to treat them with respect.
01:18:23.540And we've got to make sure that we're respecting their dollars.
01:18:26.200And, uh, you know, and that's, I think that's lost on government these days.
01:18:31.380Um, I'm going to have to, um, leave though and head to our, our venture.
01:18:49.220But I, I want to say, you know, that people may feel like, uh, they're losing hope right now because of this incident.
01:18:55.120But 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.
01:19:08.520Even 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.
01:19:17.680And the reason is not because they're filled with integrity and because they believe in these issues, but because they want to get reelected.
01:19:24.300So don't reelect those individuals that are sitting right now in government, but understand that everybody's voice matters.
01:19:31.420And in this situation, thank you, Martina.
01:19:33.980I see already in the chat, she says, Jeff Colvin and the councillors need to be reinstated and Mick, Rick MacGyver removed.
01:19:41.240She goes, I'll be calling Daniel Smith's office tomorrow.
01:19:43.680And all you have to do is, uh, Google her, her office.
01:19:47.560You can get her email in her office, but you know what?
01:19:49.720This is the time she wants to talk about building trust within communities and building those bridges.
01:19:54.800Well, 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.
01:20:06.260So, uh, so Mayor, uh, sorry, Mayor Colvin and get, yeah, Mayor Colvin and the councillors reinstated.
01:20:13.440So, Mayor Colvin, thank you so much for taking the time, uh, to be with us tonight and telling the story.
01:20:38.880And I can actually show some of the evidence, uh, and, and you'll be able to see it.
01:20:42.080Well, 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.
01:20:52.900If there was any incentives, things like that, I'd like to have you back on the show.
01:20:57.040Um, but also I want to hear, yeah, some good updates.
01:20:59.900Can you just tell us how can our viewers follow your work?
01:21:03.480There's a lot of people that we have, uh, that are members in Alberta that would love to attend an event.
01:21:09.660Is there a schedule somewhere that they can go to, to find that?
01:21:14.500Um, I'll just type in our, uh, uh, email address.
01:22:38.440I'm going to head into the weekly news update for all of you who will want to, uh, stay on.
01:22:45.220Uh, David Lindsay will be joining me tonight to, uh, talk about his case.
01:22:50.100He was potentially going to end up in jail, uh, last week.
01:22:53.960And, uh, so we're going to talk about his case and, uh, what's up and coming.
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01:23:03.740So, okay, um, next week on the show, we are going to have, uh, Dr. Mackey's come on.
01:23:10.620Previously, he was on and, uh, telling us about the horrendous situation with Alberta Health, um, and BC Health covering up for, uh, pedophilia.
01:23:22.300And that ring, that was an amazing show.
01:23:24.780This time he's coming on, as promised, to talk about the turbo cancers and the treatments.
01:23:29.500Um, 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.
01:23:42.780It's a very young person and that, uh, they were having some problems with their health.
01:23:47.820And it ends up that, uh, a brain scan has shown a blood clot that could eventually lead to seizures.
01:23:54.200And you and I all know where this is coming from.
01:23:57.060And so right away, my heart is, I can't wait to get this show out with Dr. Mackey's.
01:24:02.180I did a pre-record with him on Monday because of potential traveling I'll be doing next week.
01:24:08.700We first cover some of the turbo cancers, uh, what they look like, how they're forming and, uh, what's behind it.
01:24:16.480Then 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?
01:24:28.240And they're taking, uh, uh, advantage of people when they're so vulnerable.
01:24:33.400Most people are being diagnosed with stage four cancer.
01:24:36.360And so they're, say, they're coming up with a solution.
01:24:39.020I'd like to know if ivermectin or fenbendazole is in, as a part of that little cocktail.
01:24:47.120And then we move into, into very amazing detail that I hadn't heard anywhere else.
01:24:52.780I'm actually going to take that clip and I'll be putting it on our, um, Action for Canada.
01:24:58.180Under COVID-19, you'll see treatments, third treatment page down.
01:25:01.520We 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.
01:25:17.920And 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.
01:25:27.980Um, 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.
01:25:47.420And then, like I say, please, please share all of our information.
01:25:50.440The week after, real quick, Rob Anders is coming on.
01:25:53.660I, 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.
01:26:00.700I'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.
01:26:15.640We got to come against this with our banks.
01:26:17.680You 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.
01:26:27.940We'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.
01:26:38.440And then again, in Australia, who has just implemented the CBDCs and another guy went to the bank to get his money out.
01:26:45.460And, uh, now in Canada though, he, he, sorry, finished that thought that he was going across the same thing.
01:26:52.420He was like, you know, he couldn't get his cash.
01:26:54.380And so we know that this is, you know, a threat against Canadians.
01:27:10.000I always love closing off with a couple of Bible verses.
01:27:12.660And today I love this one from Psalm 28, uh, four.
01:27:18.940It 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.
01:27:32.880I was a little surprised by that verse, right?
01:27:35.200And, 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.
01:27:50.240And this is from Psalm, Psalms 2, 10 to 12.
01:27:55.220Therefore, you Kings be wise, be warned, you rulers of the earth, serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
01:28:04.180Kiss his son or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
01:28:12.480Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
01:28:14.680And 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.
01:28:44.760And he had a, uh, what's called a road to Damascus moment where God got ahold of him.
01:28:50.220So 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.
01:29:04.120And then just in finishing up, I was reading in Habakkuk this morning and I'm not going to read actually any verses right now.
01:29:12.160Well, 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.
01:29:20.300So there's nothing new under the sun, right?
01:29:22.660What they were, uh, experiencing back in biblical times is exactly like what we feel right now.
01:29:28.720The 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.
01:29:36.460So 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?
01:29:54.060Habakkuk'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.
01:30:02.140Believers must be willing to accept God's answers, right?
01:30:06.580Because 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.
01:30:17.500And that's why we've turned our backs on God for a long time in Canada and we've allowed evil individuals.
01:30:22.300Some of you even aboded evil individuals into office.
01:30:27.700That's what God's saying, like, repent and say, I'm so sorry for doing this, Lord.
01:30:31.480I'm awake and I'm aware now because we want God to heal our land.
01:30:35.360Our 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.
01:30:45.980And that God promises, if we do this, he'll heal, heal our lands.
01:30:50.120And 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.
01:30:59.580So some of this is so foreign to our thinking.
01:31:01.840We're like, how can this all be happening?
01:31:03.940But it's because God is teaching us through it.
01:31:06.640And he's saying we participated in permitting this evil to rise up in our land.
01:31:11.880And so God is saying that he does, he, he clearly and deeply cares about what happens here on earth.
01:31:18.920And he's giving us a window of opportunity to make things right.
01:31:22.200So anyways, I hope that encourages you that I, as a Christian, I don't live by fear.