Juno News - January 11, 2023


The World Economic Forum is calling for ＂cooperation＂ to combat crisis


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In this episode of Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show, host Andrew Lawton talks about his upcoming trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, where he will be joined by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and Trade Minister Mary Ng.

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00:00:00.980 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show. This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
00:00:13.200 Hello and welcome to you all. This is Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.
00:00:18.620 You're tuned in to the Andrew Lawton Show live on January 11th, 2023, just after 4.02pm Eastern Time.
00:00:27.280 So that's 1.02 p.m. if you're in beautiful British Columbia.
00:00:31.200 It is, that means, just after 2 o'clock for those of the Andrew Lawton Show's listening and viewing audience in the lovely province of Alberta.
00:00:40.520 And I always get mixed up on where Saskatchewan is in relation to the times of year.
00:00:45.620 Because I know it's, I think it's like two hours, Saskatchewan, right now.
00:00:48.100 And except for when Daylight Savings is off.
00:00:50.280 Anyway, whatever it is, you know what time it is in Saskatchewan and in Manitoba.
00:00:53.460 we are just after three o'clock in Atlantic Canada where it gets really wacky we've got
00:00:58.360 those of you in the Maritimes at five and a nice 5 33 for our listeners and viewers in Newfoundland
00:01:05.360 and Labrador so wherever you are listening from we welcome you to the show this is actually going
00:01:10.800 to be my last Andrew Lawton show not forever but my last Andrew Lawton show from this studio
00:01:16.220 for a couple of weeks because I'm actually tomorrow on my way to Switzerland.
00:01:22.600 I am not doing the big ski trip.
00:01:25.340 I'm not doing a cheese tour.
00:01:27.000 I am not spinning around in a field and recreating a scene from The Sound of Music.
00:01:31.640 I know that was Austria, but the scenery is very similar, and I did that last time.
00:01:36.400 No, I am there for the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland,
00:01:42.060 which kicks off this basically on Monday.
00:01:45.460 but there's a little bit of preparation they do ahead of time that makes it worth being on the
00:01:50.520 ground and i am going there for you true north is for the second time going to be covering
00:01:56.680 the wef's annual meeting and this one by klaus schwab's determination and description this is
00:02:03.560 the founder and chairman of the world economic forum it's going to have unprecedented participation
00:02:10.300 It's going to have more heads of government, heads of state, finance ministers, foreign ministers than they've ever had before.
00:02:18.440 And as I mentioned on yesterday's show, this includes a couple of Canadian cabinet ministers.
00:02:23.420 We know Chrystia Freeland is going to be there.
00:02:26.200 She is the finance minister and deputy prime minister.
00:02:29.020 We also know that Mary Ng, who is the international trade and economic development and small business, middle class, Prospera. 0.55
00:02:39.520 I don't know. That's another one. She's the trade minister. She's going to be there as well. 1.00
00:02:43.100 And as we learned today, we actually have some new information that we didn't have yesterday.
00:02:48.060 Freeland and Ng will actually be speaking at the WEF.
00:02:53.160 Chrystia Freeland, let me just pull it up here, is on a panel called Restoring Security and Peace.
00:02:59.220 She is going to be speaking alongside Fareed Zakaria from CNN and Jen Stoltenberg from NATO
00:03:05.240 and the president of Poland and Avril Haines, who's the director of national intelligence
00:03:10.820 from the office of the director of national intelligence.
00:03:14.180 I think she could probably use a bit of a spruce above her title there.
00:03:18.100 And then Minister Ng is going to be on a panel, not as distinguished, but still distinguished
00:03:23.640 with the Financial Times editor Martin Wolf with the CEO of Holkim, Jan Janish, I believe
00:03:32.900 is his name, and India's Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics, and Information
00:03:38.580 Technology. Now, there's a portfolio for you. Now, interestingly enough, the topic of Mary
00:03:44.480 Ng's panel here, bricks or clicks, what kind of investment do economies need? So it's basically
00:03:50.880 what should government be throwing away your tax dollars on? Chrystia Freeland, who is the
00:03:56.320 Finance Minister, is speaking about security and peace. Now, obviously, she was Canada's
00:04:02.520 foreign minister. But I find it interesting that she has never wanted to stop being Canada's
00:04:07.280 foreign minister, even when they gave that job to Melanie Jolie. So I think that the rumors that
00:04:13.540 Freeland might be auditioning to become the new Secretary General of NATO are probably, there's
00:04:18.100 probably some truth to that. So we'll see if she aces the audition at the World Economic Forum. 0.90
00:04:23.820 That is on January 18. So exactly one week from today that Freeland's panel is taking hold. And
00:04:30.140 we've got lots of canadians there we've had some time to go through the agenda and we have mark
00:04:35.700 carney who's on three panels i think that might actually be a new record all carney all the time
00:04:40.740 we have the ceo of bmo we have someone from a group called the tamarack institute or the
00:04:48.060 tamarack foundation which i'm not too too familiar with but i'll do a little bit of digging before
00:04:52.960 next week all of this is to set the stage for what last week or last year when i was there
00:04:59.760 someone characterized as billionaire disneyland and it was actually a remarkably apt comparison
00:05:05.480 because you have all of these global elites that fly in on their private jets that take their limos
00:05:10.320 to sessions where they talk about how it is important that we live with less and
00:05:15.100 how it's important that we transition away from fossil fuels and how we do what my personal
00:05:20.820 favorite from last time was install alibaba's carbon footprint tracker take a look
00:05:26.420 ...through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint.
00:05:37.380 What does that mean?
00:05:38.940 That's where are they traveling?
00:05:41.140 How are they traveling?
00:05:42.520 What are they eating?
00:05:44.000 What are they consuming on the platform?
00:05:46.260 So, individual carbon footprint tracker.
00:05:50.100 Stay tuned.
00:05:51.120 We don't have it operational yet, but this is something that we're working on.
00:05:56.420 Oh, stay tuned. Yeah, you got to stay tuned for that. I got to check my phone now. Do I have my
00:06:01.760 personal carbon footprint tracker installed? Nope, not yet. So Alibaba won't know how I got
00:06:07.920 to Switzerland, what I've eaten in Switzerland. It won't be the bug sandwich, I assure you,
00:06:12.720 unless there is, well, nothing else on the menu there. But what's happening that I find
00:06:18.960 fascinating is these discussions are had in a very nonchalant way. And a lot of the time,
00:06:23.580 people don't really pay attention to them and sometimes things will seep out of the hallowed
00:06:29.240 halls of Davos and into the mainstream. For example, that famous essay from a few years ago
00:06:34.780 about owning nothing and being happy. This has now become a bit of a refrain that people are
00:06:41.000 familiar with and one of the more pervasive criticisms of the WEF. But a lot of the time
00:06:46.520 these things are discussed among people that are in very real positions to do something
00:06:52.220 about the ideas they're championing heads of government heads of corporations heads of
00:06:57.320 non-governmental organizations heads of myriad groups as well and well these discussions are
00:07:03.700 not legally binding they tend to lay out a roadmap a roadmap that all of these activist types are all
00:07:10.760 too willing to follow and i told the story previously there was this one weird thing that
00:07:15.960 happened in davos where the un sustainable development goals this is this thing it looks
00:07:20.800 like they've got a logo that looks like a trivial pursuit board with these little different colored
00:07:25.160 pie wedges and you're walking around you see people wearing these sustainable development
00:07:29.720 goal pins and you're like oh wow they must work for the UN oh wow that guy and then at a certain
00:07:34.340 point I'm like wow a lot of UN staff are here and I realized that they were not actually UN
00:07:39.680 employees they were just like one guy the president of Microsoft was wearing a UN sustainable
00:07:44.760 development goals pin just because he wanted to show off how committed Microsoft is to these
00:07:50.020 SDGs. So the challenge that I've always raised with people when they talk about the more
00:07:56.040 conspiratorial thinking of Klaus Schwab pulling the strings of Justin Trudeau, that's not the
00:08:01.340 problem of Davos. That's not the problem of the World Economic Forum. The problem is that these
00:08:07.260 groups are laying out ideological roadmaps that people like Justin Trudeau enthusiastically
00:08:13.000 follow, that people like Chrystia Freeland enthusiastically want to bring back to Canada
00:08:17.780 and know that they have backing and support from the private sector,
00:08:22.360 from other government leaders, from the United Nations, from Klaus Schwab.
00:08:25.900 And that's, I think, more dangerous than there being some puppet master
00:08:30.420 that you could overcome by just voting out the person
00:08:32.860 who is being controlled by the puppet master.
00:08:35.200 That's not what's happening there.
00:08:36.900 What's happening is that there's a platform that's being put forward
00:08:40.060 in which they claim there isn't a particular agenda,
00:08:44.660 that it's all about dialogue and cooperation and these things and everyone comes to the table and
00:08:49.540 they all talk about which ideas they want to champion but the problem is that you can't vote
00:08:54.040 these people out you can't actually vote out the facilitators and conveners at Davos who do have
00:09:00.280 an agenda who do have policy prescriptions and we see that very clearly from some of the things that
00:09:06.100 they decide to entertain and I would want to play a couple of clips for you from the last session
00:09:12.420 just so you understand the value of being there on the ground and following this as closely as we
00:09:18.520 will. But first, I want to share with you a clip from Klaus Schwab himself. Now, this was a press
00:09:23.460 conference that he and World Economic Forum directors held yesterday. And this was, I think,
00:09:30.860 a very fascinating example of how the messaging just doesn't even try to make it so that the
00:09:38.080 Critics have nothing to go on, like Klaus Schwab is single-handedly a content mill.
00:09:43.100 This was how he described the importance of being there in person.
00:09:47.620 It is so exciting that at the beginning of the year, we can meet again in person.
00:09:55.560 Only personal interaction creates a necessary level of trust,
00:10:01.900 which we need so much in our fragmented and fractured world.
00:10:06.400 To bring people together for an informal dialogue in a remote Swiss village such as Stavos can be or should be a good recipe to restore trust.
00:10:23.300 I get that it's important to have everyone under one roof and in-person diplomacy, face-to-face diplomacy.
00:10:30.520 Some things are just not as fun when you do them by Zoom.
00:10:33.560 So I'm all on board with that.
00:10:34.900 it's the idea that, oh, we have to bring everyone to a remote Swiss village.
00:10:41.160 That's the way we understand what's happening in the world.
00:10:44.380 We have to bring everyone.
00:10:45.240 It has to be a remote Swiss village like Davos
00:10:47.580 that's going to give us the preconditions for cooperation, for building trust.
00:10:52.420 That's all what we're supposed to accept and take at face value here.
00:10:56.620 Now, what I find important to note here
00:10:59.460 is that oftentimes Davos is basically a safe space for the elites,
00:11:05.340 where the people that go there are not used to being challenged.
00:11:08.880 They're not used to people asking them questions.
00:11:11.080 I tried to do an interview with Mark Carney,
00:11:13.500 and he actually, to his credit, had a good sense of humor when he was rebuffing me.
00:11:17.940 You can find the clip online.
00:11:19.360 But Mark Carney was basically saying, oh, I don't do spontaneous interviews.
00:11:23.380 And I asked him the next day when I ran into him if we could do the interview then
00:11:26.840 because it would be less spontaneous.
00:11:28.160 And he said, oh, Andrew, but think of how much less spontaneous it'll be tomorrow.
00:11:32.520 Well, tomorrow will be next week.
00:11:34.940 And I'll ask him, you've had a year to cogitate on this now.
00:11:38.500 Perhaps we can have that non-spontaneous interview.
00:11:41.500 But what was fascinating to me is how so many of these elites were not even believing what they were selling.
00:11:49.060 There was one session in particular where India's petroleum minister, Minister Puri, was speaking alongside some other energy and resource ministers.
00:11:57.540 and they're all talking on stage about how we need to accelerate the transition away from oil
00:12:01.860 and gas. We need to get off fossil fuels. Green energy is the future. And I found him on the
00:12:08.400 street. I found him on the street, not like living on the street. I found him walking on the street.
00:12:13.400 I realized that sounded bad. And I just asked him a very fundamental question. Take a look.
00:12:19.320 We're on a panel about oil and gas and energy this morning. Do you think
00:12:22.320 phasing out of fossil fuels is actually a realistic goal?
00:12:25.780 Look, I said what I had to, but, you know, if you were to do that survey in different parts of the world,
00:12:33.320 if you were to do it, for instance, in South Asia or Africa or in Latin America,
00:12:39.060 you'd get results that might be a little different from the kind of results you're getting.
00:12:44.000 So the survey he mentioned was when the moderator of the panel just asked everyone in the room and on stage
00:12:49.520 about the transition and whether they can do it.
00:12:51.860 And they all just put up their hands and say,
00:12:53.180 yeah, we're doing that.
00:12:54.220 And then he admits like an hour later
00:12:56.400 on the streets of Davos,
00:12:58.080 that was on the promenade,
00:12:59.260 which is the main drag there,
00:13:00.940 that, oh yeah, I said what I had to,
00:13:02.560 but if you talk to everyone else outside of the world,
00:13:04.800 they're going to think about it differently.
00:13:06.420 Well, why didn't you say that in the room?
00:13:08.660 Why didn't you say that these prescriptions
00:13:10.520 that are being laid out in Davos
00:13:12.420 do not actually align with what the governed deal with
00:13:16.300 and what the governed think
00:13:17.420 and what the governed have to do in their own lives.
00:13:20.160 So if you want to rebuild trust,
00:13:22.820 don't have it in the remote Swiss village of Davos.
00:13:26.720 Actually have it in Calcutta,
00:13:30.600 have it in downtown Philadelphia,
00:13:33.420 have it in a city that is filled with the very people
00:13:36.920 who are most affected by the things that are discussed
00:13:40.340 in the remote Swiss mountain village.
00:13:43.940 And that's the big frustration that I have with this thing
00:13:47.160 is that they want to have these high-level discussions
00:13:49.700 and they want to have discussions about things
00:13:52.540 that to them are abstract,
00:13:54.100 but to people like you and I are very real.
00:13:57.340 One in particular,
00:13:58.380 just to go through the highlights from May,
00:14:00.380 was Julie Inman Grant,
00:14:02.080 who is the e-safety commissioner of Australia,
00:14:05.220 just nonchalantly talking about how,
00:14:07.400 well, we need to think about things in the modern world
00:14:09.740 and maybe things like free speech
00:14:11.520 don't even need to have the same meaning
00:14:13.860 they always have for us.
00:14:17.160 finding ourselves in a place um where we're we have increasing polarization everywhere and
00:14:23.420 everything feels binary when it doesn't need to be so i think we're going to have to think about
00:14:28.260 a recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online you know from freedom
00:14:33.120 of speech to the freedom to you know to be free from online violence or the right of data protection
00:14:40.340 to the right to child dignity.
00:14:44.780 You know, I'm all for having a recalibration of free speech too,
00:14:48.200 but mine is not the same definition of the World Economic Forum
00:14:51.540 when it comes to recalibrating,
00:14:52.920 because I actually want genuine free speech here,
00:14:56.100 not this thing that we have to muddy around
00:14:58.380 and change the name of and change the meaning of for people.
00:15:03.220 And what I find noteworthy about this
00:15:05.980 is that you may have heard in the last few months,
00:15:07.860 Pierre Polyev has really committed to this idea that things are broken in Canada, that people are
00:15:12.720 broken, that people are hurting, that systems aren't working. And Justin Trudeau was so offended,
00:15:18.620 was just so aggravated and angered by this. How dare you say that things are broken in Canada?
00:15:24.300 Things are great. We're working through it. What I find interesting here is that the WEF
00:15:30.560 narrative right now is ironically very similar to the Polyev narrative, not in the same way,
00:15:36.640 But they're saying that everything's broken.
00:15:39.220 They're saying we have crises, we have inflation, we have cost of living, we have war, we have
00:15:43.260 climate change.
00:15:44.280 I don't agree with what they're saying are all the crises, but they're saying that everything's
00:15:48.200 in crisis and the prescription is more cooperation by the World Economic Forum.
00:15:54.340 Well, the World Economic Forum has been meeting for the last 50 years.
00:15:58.320 So I don't actually think the World Economic Forum has been the salvation of the world's
00:16:03.960 problems.
00:16:04.360 Vladimir Putin, two years ago, was a keynote speaker at Davos and about a year ago invaded
00:16:11.940 Ukraine. You may have seen it on the news, made a big splash. People are still going over there.
00:16:15.980 So if the WEF was this great platform for fostering cooperation, how did having Vladimir Putin at the
00:16:21.880 table a year before the invasion of Ukraine do anything to help the people of Europe?
00:16:27.800 It didn't. It absolutely didn't. Xi Jinping has also spoken there. This time around,
00:16:33.400 we've got the head of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom. So all of these people, you can bring them there,
00:16:41.220 you can load them up into a room, you can have a party bus of world elites. But by your own
00:16:45.740 admission, WEF, the world is not getting better. It's getting worse. So why are we supposed to
00:16:53.380 believe that these people have all the solutions? Instead, they have this, what is effectively a
00:16:59.980 transfer of power and a transfer of resources that they prescribe. We want to transfer away
00:17:05.140 from oil and gas. Great. What it means is more control to governments, more control
00:17:08.660 to the corporations that had the foresight to hang out in Davos with leaders of government.
00:17:15.860 So this is going to be something that we commit to covering next week. As I said, I'm going to
00:17:20.720 be leaving tomorrow night. We'll have a little bit of some scene setting coverage from the ground
00:17:25.700 in switzerland and then all next week we will do everything we can to give you the news that
00:17:30.640 you're not finding anywhere else and if you have any questions by the way do share them in the
00:17:34.520 comments things you're curious about i might do a little bit of an ask me anything type thing
00:17:38.940 probably after but if there's anything you're looking for we can of course find ways to do
00:17:43.940 that and i believe one of our team members here has said that they're going to put a poll out on
00:17:48.200 facebook about how many crickets i should eat at the wef if he does that please please please
00:17:53.640 select zero for my own sake and yours because if i come to this and i have like wings and legs
00:18:00.440 sticking out of my teeth it won't be a pretty sight on there so we'll save the cricket sandwich
00:18:04.220 for afterwards uh want to shift gears speaking of the concentration of government control
00:18:09.840 to something we started off talking a bit about yesterday and i wanted to dig further into today
00:18:15.940 which is the federal government's use of PEI, I'll say abuse of PEI, as a trial run for the
00:18:24.880 national gun confiscation that is coming, the government claims, in spring of 2023. So just
00:18:31.440 to set the stage here, what happened is the government in 2020 prohibited 1,500 types of
00:18:37.600 what they call assault-style firearms. On this list was the AR-15. There was also the Mini-14.
00:18:44.960 There were a number of other guns used for sports shooting, some used for hunting, some
00:18:50.200 that had been used without issue in Canada for years, and the government prohibited them
00:18:54.780 overnight.
00:18:55.800 And if you had one of those, you would be a criminal had the government not put in place
00:19:00.040 an amnesty that lasted two years.
00:19:03.740 And the government said, we're going to buy all these from you.
00:19:06.240 So 2022 comes around.
00:19:08.780 They do not have the buyback program in place.
00:19:11.620 So they kicked the amnesty back to October of 2023.
00:19:15.640 So now the government buys itself a little bit more time.
00:19:18.820 They still, at this point, January 2023, do not have this buyback in place.
00:19:24.560 So what they're talking about is doing one in PEI.
00:19:28.660 And they say it's already underway, commenced in December 2022 and going right to the end of the amnesty period.
00:19:35.280 The RCMP is going to lead this along with the Public Safety Department.
00:19:39.300 That's Marco Mendicino's division.
00:19:41.620 And they're going to use this as a pilot project, collect information, and then in a national rollout in spring of 2023.
00:19:50.180 So coming up, theoretically, as soon as two to three months from now, they'll expand this nationally.
00:19:56.520 So basically, the government is picking on PEI gun owners, making them the first victims of this property confiscation.
00:20:05.500 I want to welcome into the show here a gentleman from PEI who knows the firearms issue very well.
00:20:10.680 He is the president of the PEI Wildlife Federation.
00:20:14.520 His name is Duncan Crawford.
00:20:16.580 Duncan, good to talk to you.
00:20:17.860 Thanks very much for coming on today.
00:20:20.200 Hi, Andrew. Thanks for having me.
00:20:21.900 So first off, what did all of you do?
00:20:23.780 Why are you drawing the short stick here?
00:20:25.380 Why is the government picking on you guys?
00:20:28.180 To be perfectly honest, I'm not 100% sure.
00:20:32.080 It kind of snuck up on us.
00:20:33.580 I never received any official notice,
00:20:36.120 And I deal with our firearms office on a pretty regular basis, being, you know, a small business dealer in firearms and ammunition.
00:20:46.760 So, yeah, it came as a bit of a surprise.
00:20:48.760 And then I've heard through the grapevine that various people have been contacted.
00:20:53.400 Strangely, like folks that are now deceased next to kin have been contacted regarding certain firearms and where they might be.
00:21:00.780 So, yeah, and then, of course, see the article that you would have seen.
00:21:04.820 And as a small shop owner, we've had more questions than answers.
00:21:11.000 Now, just on the note of you being a shop owner, do you have inventory that's been frozen since May 2020?
00:21:18.860 There might be a couple items, not too much.
00:21:21.500 I don't stock a ton of items.
00:21:23.880 I own a taxidermy studio and a number of other things.
00:21:27.420 so I specialize in firearms and ammunition that are strictly used for hunting and more often than
00:21:34.060 not I most of my clientele and customers have very specific wants so they'll tell me what they want
00:21:40.140 I source it I get it in we maintain it quite a small inventory I do know some of the larger shops
00:21:46.680 in the region especially New Brunswick some of them get hung with just you know a pile of inventory
00:21:52.220 um anyway it's it's pretty awful when that happens yeah i mean when i did a documentary
00:21:57.760 about this uh in april of 2021 we went around filming it we had business owners that we spoke
00:22:04.180 to that had like six figures of inventory and i followed up with them a few months ago still
00:22:09.400 sitting there because the buyback hasn't materialized they can't sell it they they can't
00:22:13.660 return it you know government understandably picks pei because it's small and manageable i think the
00:22:19.440 entire island has a population of like 160,000. I don't know how many gun owners there are, but
00:22:25.100 compared to anywhere else, provincially speaking, you'd be looking at a pretty small number, I
00:22:30.780 imagine. Absolutely, yeah. I mean, another shop owner and I were talking yesterday. I mean,
00:22:37.440 you know, I think if we polled the database, there's probably upwards of 1,500 license
00:22:43.020 holders, which is, of course, right around 1%. But in terms of active, we're thinking like around
00:22:52.100 400, maybe. Yeah, so 400 people, the government wants to do this, see how it goes, learn some
00:23:00.340 lessons and export it nationally. And, you know, I think that the PEI case is very important here,
00:23:05.980 because we'll see how many people actually want to do it. I mean, right now, anyone I've spoken to
00:23:12.200 is kind of of the mind that they're holding on to it until the very last day they legally can,
00:23:16.880 because they're hoping that maybe there's some change in course or some change in government
00:23:21.320 that precipitates this. Whereas, you know, if you're in PEI right now, I mean, technically,
00:23:26.420 you can hold that gun legally until October of 2023. I don't know what the motivation is for
00:23:31.660 people to hand it over now. I don't think there is any motivation. I think there's a lot of
00:23:37.440 misinformation and lack of knowledge. A lot of people just haven't taken the time to look at
00:23:42.820 that list. I think a lot of people think that this is targeting specifically, you know, military
00:23:49.040 grade quote unquote firearms, which is a ridiculous misnomer. And quite frankly, when you look at that
00:23:56.200 list, there's, there's antique single shots, there's sporting doubles, there's firearms that
00:24:01.880 are used strictly for hunting uh and don't necessarily have high capacity magazines and
00:24:07.680 all these other buzzwords that they're using um and when you start talking you know some of the
00:24:14.100 older population get get a little bit freaked out so um my concern is you know if somebody's worried
00:24:21.740 and they don't necessarily want to walk into the firearms office what are they going to do right
00:24:25.580 like when the liberal government implemented these new restrictions on handguns last year
00:24:30.600 that was the the single greatest selling of handguns in canadian history any any handgun
00:24:37.420 that was out there basically got purchased um uh out of fear that you weren't going to be able to
00:24:43.140 get them at some point in the future so you know i understand the concept but it's it's misguided
00:24:49.780 and i don't think it's going to achieve what what it is they're trying to do uh and certainly not to
00:24:54.380 the to the effect of of taking you know guns the guns that are creating street violence in canada
00:25:00.140 are coming in illegally. They're being smuggled in. These are not lawful gun owners that are
00:25:07.260 vetted and obviously have background checks and have to submit all their key information. 0.91
00:25:13.100 The whole thing is just, it's ridiculous. How is the political culture in PEI about guns? Because
00:25:20.200 I know it's not an insanely conservative place. You have certainly conservative pockets there,
00:25:26.180 but I know it's elected conservative MPs at some times.
00:25:28.980 It's more liberal now.
00:25:30.700 So do you find that people there who are not gun owners themselves
00:25:34.420 are gun friendly or do you find that's not the case?
00:25:39.380 Yeah, it's interesting.
00:25:40.840 Like, you know, we have a lot of friends
00:25:42.600 that really have no connection to firearms or their use.
00:25:47.300 And generally, I think it's a sentiment of apathy.
00:25:51.140 Like they really, they're indifferent to firearms ownership, right?
00:25:54.880 Like any person, they're against gun violence.
00:25:59.120 Again, on that side of the fence, most of them don't understand the steps that we have to go through to purchase and own a firearm in Canada and the degree to which we're scrutinized and consistently regulated.
00:26:12.680 And when you, you know, if you have an open minded person, you have that discussion, they go, OK, well, that's that's great.
00:26:17.660 I understand. I think like so many things, it's easy to be apathetic when you.
00:26:24.160 you force somebody to have an opinion and they don't have background or they don't have context
00:26:28.320 or family that have used firearms for for whether it be olympic skeet shooting or target rifle
00:26:34.320 shooting um or hunting you know it's pretty hard to get them on side right so uh and i think that's
00:26:42.320 probably true of a lot of canada you know the the people that yeah well and also to go back
00:26:48.400 to your point about the fear-mongering about different types of guns when the government
00:26:52.560 commits to language like assault style, military grade, terms that are political terms that the
00:26:58.700 government has applied because it's convenient, not because they have any universal meaning or
00:27:03.240 even accurate, that does scare someone who has no idea what a gun is. I mean, the number of people
00:27:07.500 that I've heard from in the past that hear semi-automatic and the word that jumps out in
00:27:12.720 that is automatic. So they think they're talking about some Gatlin gun mounted on the back of a
00:27:17.060 truck, like, and because people don't know. And I think the government really uses that to its
00:27:21.040 advantage that there is that lack of knowledge out there of course and like to the math we talked
00:27:26.840 about earlier uh 90 99 of the population that um obviously don't own firearms are going to be
00:27:36.460 afraid of some of that language and i think it's i think it's intentional i think it's targeted
00:27:40.200 um you know and i watched some of uh mr mandicino's um you know question period and stuff i mean
00:27:47.900 when you have somebody that really doesn't understand they're talking about you know what's
00:27:52.320 going to happen when i when i shoot at a deer with a rifle that has you know 10 000 joules of force
00:27:58.560 well hunters don't that that's a ridiculous conversation and it's very evident that you know
00:28:04.080 there's no knowledge uh i i don't think it serves them well that they don't put professionals in
00:28:09.620 that role to assess that i mean there's all kinds of liberal gun owners in canada and i'm sure there
00:28:15.580 must be i mean when i was with the hunter and angler advisory panel we had liberals uh in caucus
00:28:20.760 that i have to think they would be better suited but my guess is they're not being used because
00:28:25.860 they would probably be more aligned with maintaining gun ownership in canada you mentioned
00:28:31.620 the advisory panel and i think this is actually an important thing because the government tried to
00:28:36.100 pretend early on that it was going to listen to gun owners and listen to people with skin in the
00:28:40.880 game but i've talked to other people that have been involved in these consultation processes and
00:28:44.820 everything that was told to them was effectively disregarded when it came time to drafting
00:28:49.600 legislation and orders in council that's correct yeah i mean historically we would we would get
00:28:54.980 emails we would get consultation like the various wildlife federations in canada um indigenous
00:29:01.700 groups like stakeholders that regularly and consistently use firearms hunters fishers
00:29:06.920 outdoors people uh people in the north um ex-military sport shooters i feel like we all at
00:29:14.640 least had some say and there was some opportunity to review like frankly it's been crickets for the
00:29:20.320 last i'm gonna say at least five years around uh legislative change um as it pertains to firearms
00:29:27.360 ownership well keep up the good fight there hopefully we'll get some change there that'll
00:29:32.360 let you guys keep your property and that of everyone else in the country as well. Duncan Crawford
00:29:38.120 joining me from PEI. Thank you very much. Thanks very much, Andrew. Appreciate the time.
00:29:42.680 All right. Absolutely. Just one thing I would point out on this report from Public Safety
00:29:47.660 Canada here. They said that they released a request for information to get feedback from
00:29:54.460 the industry on potential capacity to support delivery of the buyback program. So they actually
00:30:00.580 put out a call for, hey, who can help us run this buyback? And this line is great. The request for
00:30:07.200 information closed on August 31st, 2022, with very limited interest from the industry. So they
00:30:13.440 weren't even getting companies that were jumping up and down saying, yeah, we think we can run
00:30:17.360 this buyback, which should tell you something right there. We've got to end things there. I
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