Western Standard - A crazy week for Elon Musk

00:00:00.000 well let's start on some of the stuff you've been going on where do you want to go well let's start

00:00:03.120 with elon musk it's a popular subject that's your most recent column i believe uh he's uh you said

00:00:08.480 it's been a crazy week for him well yeah i got i i like elon musk a bunch yes i really do because

00:00:15.760 you never know what's next with him you know and he got the uh i guess the twitter shareholders

00:00:21.760 have to vote on the decision to let him buy the place i don't know when that comes down i think

00:00:28.480 it's the end of this week and maybe early next week i'm not sure but i'm sure they'll do it

00:00:32.640 because they're getting close to i think it's 14 bucks a share more than what they're worth if

00:00:38.800 you take elon's deal um so i'm excited to see that i think twitter is a cesspool i hate it

00:00:47.200 i go there if i'm feeling too happy um so hopefully he gets control and turns it into the kind of

00:00:55.120 media vehicle that really should be which is uh wide open thoughts for all you know i think he

00:01:00.640 does have to regulate some of the the divisive comments and and maybe smarten people up on that

00:01:07.520 but i mean you can't you can't have all one political party marching down one social media

00:01:13.280 highway so that i think will open it up what was the other thing happened to him oh his son became a

00:01:19.520 girl oh yeah changed your name from xavier to vivian apparently they don't get along too well

00:01:26.400 so that was the other thing that happened to him you know what i can't remember the other one what i

00:01:31.440 mean he is a disruptor he shakes the establishment and they gotta love it i mean there's parts of

00:01:35.600 stuff he does i don't like you know he took a lot of subsidies for tesla and things like that and i'm

00:01:39.760 not big on that but uh whatever he's not supposed to say no to it he's he's not a uh but you know but

00:01:45.680 that's the test thing i i agree with you and to a degree i disagree because somebody was going to

00:01:52.240 get that money somebody who built electric vehicles was going to get them it's the system and the

00:01:57.360 the direction that's the problem so is he supposed to murder himself or i think that if anybody's

00:02:04.000 going to get the money i'd rather have it go to somebody like musk uh who's who's more of an

00:02:08.960 entrepreneur i mean he's he's come over to the right side uh voted republican for the first time in his

00:02:14.640 life um and andy's a uh uh disturber oh yeah which i love i love that i think that you have to be

00:02:22.640 in this day and age to to wake up people who are walking around in some kind of haze

00:02:27.680 and then something happens like that and they go oh okay i'll pay attention to this well and he exposed

00:02:32.880 just how biased twitter become like they denied it but just with the reaction of twitter staff

00:02:39.920 and some media members and some partisan members just when all he was saying is i'm going to buy it

00:02:44.720 and i'm going to open it up i'm not going to slide it to the right i'm not going to do it i'm just going

00:02:48.960 to open it up and they went haywire they went crazy how dare you well that shows just how sick the the

00:02:57.280 management had become of this company well not just the management but but the the thinking on that far

00:03:02.640 left platform because they're screaming well we know we're going to lose our free speech and by saying

00:03:09.280 you can't do it they're taking away free speech so i don't know that they understand what they're

00:03:13.520 talking about well the left rarely understands free speech very much it's really like economics with

00:03:17.280 them they tend to have economics yeah so uh that's for other people but but i mean interesting things

00:03:24.160 that he's talked about i mean as you said yeah and there's some commenters saying to twitter's assess

00:03:27.760 bullets it's the cesspool i like swimming and though i have a good old time on twitter myself you

00:03:31.120 know i could go on there i might last two minutes yeah but there's tricks to twitter people have to

00:03:36.320 understand block just block it only takes you a second if they're if you've got some bot after

00:03:41.680 you or some lunatic or some jerk just block them it only takes a second the responsibility is yours

00:03:46.720 if more people would just do that instead of indulging good point uh and and the other part is

00:03:52.400 that one thing i like what must talk about was possibly coming up with a way to verify identities yes

00:03:58.240 because it's the anonymity that the you know people hide behind that's one of the worst uh things that's

00:04:03.200 how the bots exist that's how some people just cross the line i mean not forcing everybody to

00:04:08.000 verify but at least there would be a different category right now there's just blue checks and

00:04:10.880 the rest well there could be a behind the scenes verification it doesn't need to go public well

00:04:14.640 that's it it's just to show we've proven that you're an individual behind there and there's only

00:04:18.000 one account and there's that and then you can have whatever you know big name in front that you like

00:04:23.440 i'd go with cory morgan the second there we go right here but i mean it's not a bad you know proposition

00:04:30.480 and it's amazing how much more polite people get when they're not anonymous well yeah yeah if

00:04:35.040 somebody's hiding behind a cement wall they don't get they'll call you any name in the book but if

00:04:38.560 they stand on top of that wall not so much no no and then i like where he's going with that so i mean

00:04:43.840 let's hope it goes through i mean he's got to go through the shareholders they said that the big one

00:04:46.640 was the board and they grudgingly basically said well we can't stop this so they give him the thumbs up

00:04:52.240 as you said it's a good share price deal if it carries on from there so i remember what the other one was

00:04:57.040 the uh employees who uh are suing him for getting fired oh that's right yes and uh there was another

00:05:03.840 thing just to talk about that free speech and how left doesn't understand it whatever else i saw this

00:05:07.760 this snide comment well on twitter of all places but with a columnist saying uh uh oh look the great

00:05:13.920 champion of free speech has fired people for for speaking up against well sure i mean if i if i went

00:05:20.080 online and started doing nothing but bitch about the western standard and talk about how horrible it is and

00:05:24.720 how bad derek was you know what i'm probably gonna get fired you should do that because i could get

00:05:28.320 your show just kidding you're careful what you're asking for uh but that's not an infringement of my

00:05:35.200 free speech i'd still be able to yell my head off about how bad the western standard is the day after

00:05:39.440 getting fired i just i just don't have their platform anymore to do it well you know they they're the

00:05:44.080 kind of people who they take one step after one step after one step to see how far they can go

00:05:49.920 and eventually they get slapped and it's all oh infringing my rights uh but they will they'll

00:05:56.560 disappear now they will now disappear because they've been stopped well there's a i like your

00:06:00.800 brick wall analogy i remember a meme i've seen going around or a cartoon it shows a i mean usually a

00:06:04.800 woman but she's got a pile of manure and she's throwing it over the wall throwing it over the wall

00:06:08.240 throwing it over the wall and it's one turd comes flying back and hits her i'm being oppressed yeah

00:06:12.240 exactly hang on you guys you know you started it but yeah it's just fun to watch musk he's a

00:06:18.800 fascinating he is fascinating you know and and not to do direct comparison but he reminds me of trump

00:06:25.680 uh in in the way that well let's do this and see what happens you know or i he's the kind of guy who

00:06:31.360 says i'm going to do this and he gets it done yeah and he takes it on his own shoulders he doesn't

00:06:36.320 blame anybody else if it fails i think so the difference i mean they're both irreverent i'll give

00:06:40.080 them that absolutely uh i think trump though was a bit more of just all this love the turd into the

00:06:44.320 punch bowl and sees what happens but i think musk he doesn't care what the world thinks we try but

00:06:48.320 he's got a little more planning and plotting with what he does he has more of a uh a direction with

00:06:52.960 more sophisticated well there's that too so uh but i mean as far as just not being afraid of the

00:06:59.840 establishment and willing to go in there and mix it up and shake them up which they really need

00:07:04.160 uh it's good to watch so yeah just keep watching his development i mean if you're going to be a

00:07:08.240 billionaire at least be an interesting one oh i think i think with uh musk there's much more to

00:07:12.560 come yeah absolutely so getting on to uh other areas then let's get into government i'm scrolling

00:07:17.360 through your stories uh china using digital handcuffs oh frightening that is frightening um you know and

00:07:24.320 what is really frightening i think is it's not new i mean if you look at what was going on in germany

00:07:29.280 in the 30s and the 40s or or or russia in the 20s where you couldn't step outside your door without

00:07:35.360 showing some id and they didn't have green and red codes in germany they had german and yellow codes

00:07:42.240 for the jewish people so they back then they were marking people and the chinese doing this i don't

00:07:48.880 know um that's they i foresee the day and i think i wrote this that you're going to have to take your

00:07:56.160 phone and scan it by the gas pump and may come up and say request denied you're over your quota

00:08:03.600 um because the government could do that that's why i mean if we're going to have digital id i think

00:08:09.440 that's a fait accompli i really do and and if you look at it it's probably a lot more convenient to

00:08:16.160 have your driver's license your passport credit cards all your other id on one little device you

00:08:21.280 push your button and go there it is you're not ruffling into your pockets and stuff like that

00:08:25.120 the issue obviously is is government interference their involvement in the thing i mean when they

00:08:31.840 when the health code qrs came out last year uh i said no i'm not doing that because i don't trust them

00:08:39.120 and if i can't go to a restaurant or or whatever for a couple weeks that's fine

00:08:43.840 but i'm not i do not want them tracking me on my phone even though i know they are yeah that's part of

00:08:48.640 it i mean don't disillusion you know or delude yourself they've got a pretty good idea i'm aware

00:08:53.520 of that i'm sure that they know i'm here right now because i got my phone on yeah um but for

00:08:58.400 for them to be able to manipulate your life based on information in your phone yeah they're manipulating

00:09:04.080 your behavior yes and it's uh social engineering it's a term i'm trying to bring back you know we

00:09:09.600 talked a lot about that term in the 90s and it kind of faded but it's a big one it's where the

00:09:13.280 government feels so high and mighty that is their role for our own good to change our behavior to

00:09:20.400 change what we want to do change what we choose to do and that you know or they're calling a social

00:09:25.440 credit system in china uh where yeah if you you do the wrong things yeah we make sorry you can't pump

00:09:30.000 gas today you uh didn't flush at the toilet what you use down the road yeah and even know all that

00:09:34.080 stuff and that's that's that's what's frightening i mean my understanding of the health cure codes for

00:09:38.160 the covet thing that we had here is that that's all that recorded and none of that information was

00:09:43.120 sent to a government data bank i don't know if i believe that or not but i want to believe it

00:09:48.400 but i don't want to see that china syndrome coming in oh and information is everything and the

00:09:53.200 government's a terrible steward of it i i had a guest on uh recently and they were with a group

00:09:59.840 open media i think but it was um the apps used for kids homeschooling while uh you know remote schooling

00:10:07.440 while everything was in lockdown turns out the company that was doing that was sucking in all the

00:10:12.400 information on those kids and sold the data uh you know for for data miners i mean again it doesn't uh

00:10:19.680 mean that you know they're necessarily doing much besides commercial utilization of all that data and

00:10:24.800 everything but that's a big infringement on uh you know personal privacy and liberty so and and having

00:10:32.400 you having listened to you say that maybe it's too late maybe maybe it's a it's gonna happen but it's

00:10:38.240 something that that everybody should fight in some way form fashion or another because i do know

00:10:44.400 that when you're if you're up against the left in terms of an argument or a physical fight they'll

00:10:49.600 back away they will not fight with you if you all you have to do is overpower them and that goes

00:10:56.080 with the government now i'm not suggesting revolution no no but uh i mean obviously

00:11:01.680 our weapons are in the polling booth and um so it's very important that people really pay attention

00:11:09.200 especially with all the political stuff going on right now that that stuff is possible that it does

00:11:14.160 exist and it could come into your life depending on who has the reins to the wagon and i don't honestly

00:11:20.160 believe the conservatives would would do that oh well i think that well they'd be less bad

00:11:27.120 i just always don't like i mean i don't like government control on any level no i'm with you

00:11:31.040 there never assume they're going to be benign unfortunately uh the conservative i think the

00:11:35.360 conservatives are less inclined that's inclined um if they're in power too long i think that's one of

00:11:39.760 the issues that happens too when they get in too long then they really feel that sense of entitlement

00:11:43.120 on our movements yeah but that's true with any any government i think yeah i mean governments like

00:11:47.600 laundry you got to wash them every four years oh yeah for the same reason when we're talking about diapers

00:11:52.320 are under where yes and it fills with that product that we just don't need exactly and uh but uh it's

00:11:58.960 distressing but i mean the government is scared when they push back i mean look at

00:12:02.800 i mean the the things that happened this year you know the the protests that came in the truckers

00:12:07.520 convoy whether you support them or you don't support them i mean that was unprecedented seeing

00:12:10.320 that many canadians those polite quiet passive canadians showing up by the thousands on parliament hill

00:12:16.080 crossing a country raising you know over 10 million dollars that terrified the government i

00:12:21.760 mean that's why the government overreacted so badly in in response to it i i think that the convoy itself

00:12:29.200 didn't terrify the government because of what they did uh doing the emergencies act and and just

00:12:35.040 ignoring them i think what really scared them was how much they had misjudged canadian people when they

00:12:42.400 started fighting back against the convoy and doing all these illegal things that they were doing

00:12:46.800 people stood up and they got angry and they voiced european and they're going this is not canada

00:12:52.000 what are you doing and i think in the little hobbles and huts in in ottawa they went oh we've gone too

00:12:57.680 far we better pull this back well they embarrassed themselves internationally that was part of it too i

00:13:02.720 mean you know countries all over the world like the hell is going on over there what are you doing i mean not

00:13:07.840 only are your citizens that livid but what do you mean you're imposing this emergencies act upon them

00:13:12.960 this is just a protest like it it's not history is not going to smile on the actions of government

00:13:17.840 this you know and it's one thing for all the because initially at that conference i can't remember where

00:13:22.160 it was in belgium but trudeau took took shots from a whole lot of european leaders yeah but last week

00:13:29.760 he took shots in the house of congress uh uh guy stood up in in the u.s house and said trudeau is a bad

00:13:37.120 person i'm paraphrasing but that's basically what he said and when when somebody that close to home

00:13:42.080 is saying it somebody who's you know open border friendly neighbor stuff like that that's really

00:13:47.760 got to dig deep he's really overstaying his welcome even i'm seeing some liberal columnists

00:13:54.560 are starting to kind of say you know this guy is got to go or a don martin's piece just to you know

00:14:00.480 i wouldn't call him a liberal communist necessarily but he's an establishment one for sure

00:14:04.160 yes and then he just ripped trudeau to shreds in that thing and they're standing up and ripping

00:14:08.480 at him this is not a good indication for trudeau's future but you know i wonder if if you guys like

00:14:12.720 don martin and you see going on in the states right now too the backlash against biden but is that the

00:14:17.840 media flashing a warning to people like trudeau and biden saying clean up your game is that what

00:14:23.280 they're doing or they do they really want to get rid of them well i could see them wanting to get rid of

00:14:27.360 and put another liberal in no no there's no question about that yeah i'm just wondering if

00:14:31.680 they did they like firing a shot across the bow it could be i mean at this point you know this is just

00:14:36.480 uh it's just starting right now so you know shape up or or we're going to really get at you yeah but

00:14:42.560 you know it's going to take a lot more i mean that's what david and i were talking with the news

00:14:45.360 check-in like with this this thing breaking with the apparent police interference into uh the the

00:14:50.480 investigation uh well prime ministerial interference potentially this is huge and why are we hearing more

00:14:56.960 about how did you get away with and he i could i think in any rational country he'd be toast oh yeah

00:15:03.520 but i i think he'll get away with it again saying canada is not rational no i don't think it is i

00:15:10.240 mean what does it take to get rid of this guy i don't know i don't know i've got some ideas but i

00:15:14.960 think we'll just zip that yeah no no we don't need to be i understand some things that'll work but it'll

00:15:19.520 lead to some other difficulties that uh we were uh i mean so i mean one of the other pressures i was

00:15:25.440 ranting a bit about that before you came in and you've talked about that with uh interest rate

00:15:29.360 height rate hikes you write a lot on real estate that's a you know one of your main areas of writing

00:15:33.440 and things like that and we've got some serious financial pressures going on inflation is huge

00:15:39.040 and of course that pushes for more interest rate hikes and you get into an ugly cycle they could lead

00:15:43.520 to a recession if they crank the interest too fast too hard and that's the hazard uh you know the

00:15:49.040 bank of canada originally started talking about well we need to increase the interest rates to cool down

00:15:53.920 the housing market which is fair enough but it missed the inflation thing and now all of a sudden

00:16:00.800 inflation's up here what is it 7.7 i think was the latest may yeah and the the bank is going oh whoa

00:16:08.960 the target is not housing kids it's not it's everything yes you know and the next bank announcement is

00:16:15.200 july 13th and i think they're going to raise a 0.75 which would take the their overnight to 2.25

00:16:24.480 and then they've got another meeting i believe in september and they'll do another 0.75 then they

00:16:29.920 want to get it up above three they want to comfortably i think they want it three three point two five um

00:16:36.240 the the normal range for the bank of canada is between two percent and three percent that's what they

00:16:40.720 call the neutral zone but uh maclin has said to to get back to a neutral we got to go way above it

00:16:47.440 so that's really going to be painful well and some of those stats that have been coming out i mean

00:16:51.520 there's a frightening number of canadians who are they're this close they can't take a sudden hike in

00:16:57.520 their mortgage payment every month like this could push them over the edge that's how you suddenly

00:17:01.360 topple into a recession if you're not careful yeah and i you know there's i've read some stories you

00:17:05.520 know the regular guys are out uh it's the end of the world runaway housing crash and i don't think

00:17:11.040 that's going to happen and i'll tell you why is that i mean if you go back to what happened in 2008

00:17:16.640 especially in the united states when we had that recession it's totally a different thing right now

00:17:22.640 um the united states outlawed the bad mortgages that were being written uh canada introduced the

00:17:30.240 mortgage stress test so you have you have to test higher than your actual rate to get a mortgage so

00:17:37.360 most canadians are already paying or were tested that they could pay an extra two percent on their

00:17:45.360 mortgages per month and still be not comfortable but they could manage it um so i think that that's

00:17:52.560 that's where it's going on and the other thing i think we have to look at is that it it's going to be

00:17:59.120 different in different parts of the country uh british columbia especially vancouver uh toronto and

00:18:05.840 the entire golden horseshoe area are going to get it worse because they're so expensive carrying

00:18:12.400 balances that are just unbelievable well yeah i mean the average average single family house in both

00:18:17.120 those markets is plus two million dollars i mean where do you get a down payment for that i don't i don't

00:18:24.240 know um saskatchewan and alberta i believe we're going to come out of it okay i think we'll get

00:18:30.800 nicked but we're not going to get run over by a the bus i really don't think so toronto and and bc

00:18:37.520 different stories i'm looking at the toronto or the calgary numbers all this week and overall sales

00:18:44.400 are down slightly single family home sales are down uh semi-detached homes are down but the two cheapest

00:18:51.760 stands town houses town houses and apartments are up and that's year over year in terms of sales and

00:18:57.360 pricing the only uh area where the prices have dropped in calgary year over year and i hate using

00:19:03.040 that is in a single family and an overall thing but people should be looking at not what what it was

00:19:08.400 like last year um if you want to do comparisons and follow trends then you have to go compare this

00:19:16.320 month's statistics to last month's statistics because that's immediate that's in the now um and

00:19:22.640 and three months makes a trend uh so uh june is the third month really of any kind of a decline so

00:19:31.360 whatever the numbers are at the end of this month i think will be a hard bringer not necessarily what's

00:19:36.160 going to happen in the summer but certainly in september because the summer's a slow sale season anyway

00:19:43.680 so and with the interest rates going it'll back off even more so it's going to look even worse

00:19:49.520 due to year over year comparison but again that people shouldn't do that um there might not be a

00:19:55.280 calamitous clash crash like as you said there was a different bubble that had been built all together

00:19:59.920 in the states with a what was it pretty mac and whatnot where they were giving mortgages to people

00:20:04.320 that had no business having one in the first place it was just asking for it someone was you're

00:20:08.720 pointing out too like in 83 she was paying 23 percent uh and more paulette you know uh for

00:20:13.520 interest on a mortgage like we aren't there i mean that was insane i mean people trying to maintain

00:20:18.160 that we're creeping up but i mean it still will have an impact i mean if people aren't losing their

00:20:23.520 houses you know they can make it as you said the stress test shows that but they're still going to

00:20:27.440 cut back i mean it's look it's going to cut back yeah there's no question that hurts other sectors of

00:20:31.520 the economy the thing is you're locked into that mortgage so that mortgage is going to take

00:20:35.280 say another 20 25 a month that 20 25 dollars are going to be taken from somewhere else

00:20:40.800 yeah there's no question about that it's another less meal or i mean and that sounds you know 25

00:20:45.280 a month is pretty small it could get larger with a lot of larger depends on your market yeah and that

00:20:49.200 people choose to take one less vacation or not go out for supper or not buy that furniture or hang

00:20:54.240 on to the car for another year i mean lots of things people do yeah which i mean is good

00:20:57.520 responsible budgeting but it has a ripple effect all the way down yeah economy well you know you've

00:21:02.560 mentioned the economy the economy now is a lot different than it was back then it's more

00:21:07.040 diversified the employment levels in all of canada are high they're solid um

00:21:15.040 if if it's a really severe immediate recession then a lot of those jobs are going to be lost but i think

00:21:20.080 it's going to be gradual let's hope so i mean we've just had a miserable enough few years we don't need a

00:21:26.080 bloody crash yeah every every all the bad news every day so what's this uh you wrote uh that was

00:21:32.320 a the other week though yeah the bc ranch with eight houses no only 24 million so there's still

00:21:36.880 some people with some money selling somewhere well you know i was thinking about that see

00:21:41.520 you've got eight homes there okay one 24 mil so you get eight people toss in three mill each

00:21:47.680 and you could rotate the main house you know what i mean yeah so you're living in an eight million

00:21:51.520 dollar place for three mill what's tough about that well the three mill you're doing better than

00:21:58.640 i am i guess i understand the theory no i didn't say i could do it yeah i just showing off my math

00:22:03.280 skills there are some big properties out there just you know just to point out some of the stuff

00:22:08.000 you write on to and some of those columns i mean there's just stuff of interest and uh you know

00:22:12.160 housing sort of issues um just uh one last thing i mentioned that in the email and while i got

00:22:16.960 you and you're a beltline resident in calgary uh you know a big issue whether i've been ramping on

00:22:22.800 a lot about is there's the crime on transit and so on but also the beltline in general like we've got

00:22:27.920 a really big freaking problem going on right now and the city council that almost still wants to

00:22:32.880 deny that it's even yeah they're you know i walked here from my place in the beltline took

00:22:38.880 the eighth street underpass yeah that's where i go every day three guys down there doing cranking up

00:22:44.560 right there on the street in front of everybody and i'm just like whoa because i've never seen

00:22:48.960 that before that open on eighth street that kind of that time of day yeah they use that little stairwell

00:22:54.000 all the time and they can sit there because that's where i walk to where i park and i see it that's

00:22:58.240 part of what gets me worked up because i can see it well you know and the the season this season

00:23:04.240 brings out uh the people because the nights are warmer they're longer and uh there's one poor lady i don't

00:23:12.400 know her name i see her from a distance but every morning she's walking up and down off avenue yelling

00:23:17.760 at the top of her voice she's obviously got some mental issues and i don't know why the authorities

00:23:25.040 whoever they might be don't go and and pick her up and say look here's a bed for you here's some food

00:23:32.320 here's some care just relax walk after you she's there every morning yeah well that's something that

00:23:37.680 uh it's such a huge issue that whole thing like i i've reached out to uh uh i'm still waiting to

00:23:43.840 try and get around as a guest woman who wrote a book about it but i mean deinstitutionalization

00:23:47.200 we've taken a lot of people who we used to keep in facilities and with what thought was a more humane

00:23:52.960 thing to do put them out in the community let them out and this is a lot of the people that have

00:23:56.720 ended up on the streets or they end up in jail or they end up in hospitals uh because as you're saying

00:24:02.160 that this woman yes clearly is distressed but do they have somewhere to put her if they pick her up

00:24:06.160 that's yeah that's another good point i guess but there should be yeah i mean instead of

00:24:11.440 instead of some of the stuff the city spends its money on our money sorry um it's their priorities

00:24:18.960 that were all goofed up and goofed up isn't the phrase i meant but when they start spending things

00:24:25.120 on pretty things you know or or trying to put uh apartments in downtown high-rises um that money

00:24:32.560 could be better spent building a facility a big one because that's a lot of money they're spending

00:24:38.480 on that and and no that's another thing that irks me when when the arena deal was going on everybody's

00:24:44.800 screaming about well you can't spend tax money taxpayers money on that well don't they know that

00:24:50.240 the taxpayers money's building those residentials downtown um yeah so it's uh there's the the calgary

00:24:57.440 housing corporation and things like that that are artificially purchasing that's a whole other

00:25:03.040 it's bureaucracy yeah and and uh we've got a mayor who seems desperate for an emergency she really does

00:25:10.320 she wants something to make her mark it's almost like she's envious which i i doubt he would consider

00:25:14.880 it to be enviable all the same but the thing that really boosted nichi was the floods happened in 2013

00:25:20.560 he provided a very good public face for it he was very communicative it really established him as the

00:25:25.840 mayor and and helped him through what i think was a lot of horrible policies for years but people still

00:25:29.920 were endeared to him part of what i agree i you know and i i go back to that and i think you know

00:25:35.280 he doesn't deserve all that no he's not doing it he's walking around talking but uh if she wants an

00:25:41.120 emergency rather than a climate one look at the emergency on the street get out of your city hall go

00:25:46.720 for a walk through the belt line ride a train we have a real emergency a real one you can make your

00:25:51.440 legacy you can make your mark if you've got 87 billion you can spend on a climate plan i think

00:25:56.720 you could find a billion as you said for a facility for people with mental health issues and addiction

00:26:00.800 issues and get them off the streets and trains and you'd find the staff to look after them yeah 87

00:26:05.680 billion or huh yeah it's insane it is totally but yeah i think you're right she she is looking for

00:26:12.640 for an emergency where she can jump out in front of the parade and be the savior

00:26:15.840 um i laughed about the building the berms on memorial drive yeah before the the water flow even

00:26:22.480 called for it out west and now they're ripping it down so this 300 grand gone yeah um and and in 13

00:26:31.200 uh the areas down around mission and elbow and 25th avenue that that was flooded for blocks no broom

00:26:36.960 down there no just for those nice folks in parkdale where you can see it yeah there's part of it look

00:26:41.600 what we're doing yeah we want you to see what we're doing yeah and there's also been a fixation

00:26:45.440 at city health they just love closing memorial whenever the hell they can i know we got a thing

00:26:49.840 but either way it's just a frustration you're living in the belt line i've noticed even you

00:26:52.720 know the hipster in chief kara has realized there's a crime problem now that bicycles are getting stolen

00:26:57.760 uh you know it didn't matter that everybody else has been getting hit but now that we got bikes well

00:27:02.080 now we've got a crisis you know karai walcott the two of them who shut down the freedom marches here

00:27:08.720 uh by calling them a white supremacist and racist uh they don't do anything until one of their

00:27:15.840 constituents or two of them or maybe four calls up and said had my bike stolen yeah oh i'll get right

00:27:21.920 on that never mind a hundred catalytic converters a day we're getting stolen from people's driveways

00:27:26.480 because these addicts would ride the trains out they go into the area with a portable cutter and hack

00:27:30.560 those things up people have been screaming about that for years it's not a problem i got a bicycle

00:27:34.400 went missing but you know now we got an issue it reminds me of something that hillary clinton said

00:27:38.880 the other day about telling the democrats in the united states get get away from the issues we're

00:27:46.240 being hurt by being vocal about all these issues that are going on just shut up and do whatever you

00:27:53.840 have to do to get us re-elected now there's kara there's walcott don't care about anything except

00:28:00.480 getting re-elected to hell with the problems yeah and again you're living in it down there and you

00:28:06.000 know we even hear from uh he points it out now and then the dinger and some other folks are living in

00:28:09.920 the belt line they've been raising the alarms they're saying hey this is getting bad down here

00:28:14.640 we we've got a you know an area that was 20 years ago was unimaginable you could walk the belt line at

00:28:19.040 night you never thought twice of it you get run across the odd drunk or weirdo that's normal but not

00:28:24.000 like now you know and as you said they're shooting up right under the bridge in the 80s we used to

00:28:28.720 growing up in banff you know go half a mile into the woods to smoke half a joint we're scared we're

00:28:33.760 going to be arrested and thrown in jail and now they're they're pumping heroin in the middle of

00:28:37.760 the streets yeah people walking by and i'm well i'm just and i'm just as guilty yeah just look straight

00:28:41.920 ahead and i will you know because what are you going to do you can't stop and say you shouldn't do that

00:28:45.920 no you don't know what kind of knife or gun they got going on oh yeah or they might be passive but

00:28:50.320 there's still nothing you can do with them i mean those ones don't scare me as much as the meth heads

00:28:53.520 actually the heroin one unfortunately is probably going to kill themselves or or just flaw the meth heads are scary

00:28:57.760 the meth heads they go wild and they're the ones easy running into the streets or as a one of our

00:29:02.800 staff members got delayed for work because one decided to lose bowel control in the middle of a

00:29:07.040 crosswalk for a number of lights but again these were unimaginable things to mention 20 years ago and

00:29:12.880 look at it no oh well we can keep talking about keep trying to expose it maybe city hall will wake up

00:29:17.760 if enough bicycles get stolen or uh you know i don't know well yeah i think it's like i said earlier the

00:29:25.360 ammunition that we've got is at the ballot box and we've got to be much better organized more informed

00:29:32.720 and i think as as conservative minded people we've got to get together in a single group instead of all

00:29:41.200 these different conservative groups um and and and you know one for all for one kind of thing

00:29:48.240 uh because without that uh nothing will change no it's up to us we got the means we just got to get

00:29:55.360 off our asses oh well all right well that was a good long chat i appreciate you coming in right

00:30:00.320 and uh yeah it's always fun to have you and talk these issues and appreciate the columns as they keep

00:30:04.960 coming so well we haven't solved all the world's problems we solved a couple i think well we solved

00:30:09.440 some but you create some more so you can come back and solve them later that's right well thanks for

00:30:13.200 coming in mike good to see you okay great thank you we'll talk all right

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