A former NDP candidate, a self-proclaimed communist, and another person who rushed the podium and disrupted a Danielle Smith press conference. The Western Standard's Jonathan Bradley has found evidence of a second NDP candidate in this election with Communist Party ties. And we talk about Rachel Notley's promise made yesterday evening of $1.2B in election goodies for Calgary.
00:00:42.540We're also going to be joined in a little bit by another one of our Calgary reporters, Jonathan Bradley.
00:00:48.600We're going to talk about, I don't mean to sound like we're red baiting or red under every bed here,
00:00:54.400But lots of communists, it seems, who are running under the NDP banner or involved in the NDP right now with communist ties.
00:01:03.860We're going to talk about a former NDP candidate along with a self-proclaimed communist and another person who rushed the podium and disrupted a Danielle Smith-Prestor yesterday where she had to be whisked away by security.
00:01:18.180The Western Standard's Jonathan Bradley has found evidence of a second NDP candidate in this election with Communist Party ties.
00:01:32.400And we're going to talk about Rachel Notley's promise made yesterday evening of $1.2 billion in election goodies for Calgary.
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00:03:13.680Can you imagine like if it had been a more serious incident?
00:03:18.000But it probably just dawned on at this point, like, the security doesn't give a shit about us.
00:03:25.200Like, no one even paid attention to them.
00:03:28.560You know, and then they kind of did their thing. And then everybody said, like, okay,
00:03:31.600you can leave now. You know, you've made your point. Please go. And they did.
00:03:37.200So tell us, you, as soon as this happened, I know the team here, you were working with Arthur Green in Edmonton, doing your best to identify them.
00:03:45.720And you have, I think, a solid ID on at least two of the three people who rushed the stage.
00:03:52.200Yeah. So one of them was an NDP candidate in the 2021 election, Patrick King.
00:04:42.960Yeah, so tell us about this. He was sharing some kind of communist content, or is an openly declared, I think he called himself an anarcho-syndicalist.
00:06:56.800Yeah, and, you know, Banff Mineral Springs is a private hospital.
00:07:00.940So it was a big nothing burger, really, in terms of the election stuff.
00:07:05.500But, you know, like Notley's charge that Albertans are going to pay to see a doctor,
00:07:11.340this people are start people some people do believe it and these protesters obviously believed
00:07:16.480it and stormed into this press conference and we're holding up the signs and it's ludicrous
00:07:22.120because it's they're protesting something that is not going to happen and i think already we've seen
00:07:27.460some a slight change today in the ucp plans as soon as we're done here uh sean's off to a press
00:07:33.180conference in okotoks but they're not saying we're in okotoks for the general public you have to be
00:07:38.560accredited member of the media to get the location. So they're already taking steps to try and stop
00:07:44.560these bozos from wrecking more press conferences. And I got GPS coordinates.
00:07:50.880Hope it's not in the middle of a lake somewhere. I hate Okotoks addresses because so much of it is,
00:07:57.440this actually goes all the way to High River down there, they'll have like 934th Avenue or something
00:08:03.200because they just continue from downtown Calgary. Even there are completely different municipalities
00:08:07.760They decided like, ah, we don't need to, maybe they were 100 years ago, they were like, ah, someday we're going to get annexed by Calgary, and this way we won't have to adjust any street signs.
00:09:02.340um but you know these people have very clear connections to the NDP very clear connections
00:09:08.020but let's be fair there are crazy people in every political party UCP has got its nutters as well
00:09:14.900and people who I mean I wouldn't be entirely shocked if you saw something similar from guys
00:09:19.780who have some kind of connection to the UCP at some point do it uh now if some of them had
00:09:25.780connections to the National Socialist Party of Canada and they were the Nazis I mean I think0.76
00:09:30.180think that'd be newsworthy. But I don't know. What's been the NDP and Rachel Notley's reaction
00:09:38.260to what happened yesterday? Because it's, you know, a necessity to security whisking your way.
00:09:42.460These guys weren't armed or anything, but we did just have an armed gunman at the legislature
00:09:46.200days ago. Well, you know, and that was kind of my thought as well as like, you know, this has
00:09:53.100the potential to get really nasty. Like if you've got guys at the ledge with guns and you don't
00:09:58.040know and you're in a public place you know and they just rush the stage and and danielle has1.00
00:10:04.820all kinds of security like they're it's almost like the secret service in in the u.s you know
00:10:09.400she comes out of the elevator she's got like five guys around her you know and it it seemed to me
00:10:14.320that it had the potential to get ugly and there's just kind of a nasty undercurrent in the in the
00:10:21.020whole campaign and you know the ndp aren't talking to us and it's you know it's so partisan but uh
00:10:27.520Yeah. Surely an election would not be partisan. No, absolutely not, I guess. No, Rachel just kind of shrugged it off and, you know, took the high road, said that she would never do that. Like, and it's kind of like you said, I don't know that they actually sent these guys out there.
00:10:44.520I almost certainly not. It's not a good look for the NDP, even if the NDP didn't have anything to do with it.
00:10:49.860I really I really wouldn't imagine. Someone could make the argument they sort of incited it because they're spreading disinformation.
00:10:58.020But I mean, all campaigns and all elections are going to bend the truth as far as they can for their own ends.
00:11:02.920That's not a new thing. And, you know, alerting their supporters to the time and location where Smith is going to be.
00:11:10.120That was a little weirder, but I mean, it's not untoward. It's just a little off.
00:11:16.220You know, when I was in politics, I got a I used to get a fair number of death threats, some of them semi-credible.
00:11:21.540And but I never wanted a security detail that cost taxpayers a bunch of money, hurts privacy.
00:11:26.280So I put in an application just to be able to be my own security detail and carry a handgun.
00:11:32.160RCP did not go for it. I just wanted to be I want to be my own secret service, save the taxpayers some money.
00:11:38.420Walk around with a headpiece in all the time.
00:11:40.960Yeah, no one will think of necessity to me.
00:12:04.260Jonathan, I know just a few days ago, you released a story with photos obtained of NDP two-term MLA and present candidate for the NDP, Rod Loyola.
00:12:19.540It was known from before that he had had some weird sort of secular seance, church-style memorial for Hugo Chavez.
00:12:29.620But you had just obtained photos of Rod Loyola marching in a communist party parade.
00:12:37.500So not really dismissible as, I like a guy who is a communist, but I'm not a communist myself.
00:12:44.720He was leading the parade, never mind marching on it.
00:12:47.000Yeah, he was leading this communist delegation, I guess, in the parade for workers, World Revolution or whatnot.
00:12:53.820But you released another story yesterday, a second NDP candidate.
00:13:00.940Not necessarily proof that they were ever members of a communist party, but certainly very strong endorsements of communism and communist links.
00:13:09.900Yes. So Alberta NDP candidate Diana Baden, she's running Calgary Acadia.
00:13:14.760she retweeted a post commemorating American hacker Aaron Schwartz from an account which
00:13:19.860praised communism. And the reason why I say that it was an account praising communism is because
00:13:25.080the title of the account was Vote Communist May 4th. And next to the name on Twitter,
00:13:32.200it had the hammer and sickle next to it. And yeah. So, you know, in an election, if a right
00:13:42.840candidate, like a UCP candidate, had, I don't know, retweeted something from Vote Nazi May 4th
00:13:50.920and had a swastika emoji. This would be, needless to say, a very big deal.
00:13:59.120Has the NDP responded, issued any kind of apology or clarification, if you will,
00:14:06.120about one of their candidates sharing communist material?
00:14:08.720I haven't seen anything. No one's commented on neither. Same was similar with Rod Loyola's
00:14:15.300ordeal. He or the NDP haven't commented on that incident. It's a repeated pattern of communism
00:14:21.560within the NDP. Where is this candidate running? This candidate is running in Calgary, Acadia. So
00:14:28.140Tyler Chandro is riding. Yeah. And we were just talking yesterday. That is a extremely tight race.
00:14:34.820We've got Tyler Shandro there. He's a controversial figure. He was health minister under JC Kenney, who oversaw lockdowns and mandates. So he's got at least, you know, used to have at least a lot of people to his on his right side, very upset with him. Some are probably coming back. A lot of them probably come back to the UCP fold now, but it would not, it would take only possibly even a few dozen of them to stay at home to cost him and the UCP that seat.
00:15:01.320And has there been any reaction from the UCP so far on the, I guess, I suppose, the second NDP candidate with communist links exposed?
00:15:12.820nothing that i've seen so far but uh from what i've heard there are some uh people within the
00:15:18.340ucp who are upset about this and who are who i've who have communicated with me telling me that if
00:15:25.620this was a conservative that was you know like vote nazi may 4th it would be like it would be a
00:15:32.500political career ender we kind of talked about this yesterday but we've still got to talk about it
00:15:38.900Why the hell is the legacy and government funded media utterly uninterested that a party which stands a, you know, let's say 45% chance of forming government on May 29th.
00:15:53.900Why are they so uninterested that a party, you know, a serious party with a chance of winning an election has now at least two candidates running under its banner, including one two term MLA, have clear links to an ideology and political party that killed more people in the 20th century than all other causes combined?
00:16:19.360I know when I was sitting on the assignment desk at the Calgary Sun and I saw a story like this, I would think, holy cow, we've got to try and match this.
00:16:27.980We've got to do something on it and jump on it.
00:16:29.720But Jonathan's had two excellent exclusives in the last two days, exposing serious communist ties to two NDP candidates and not a single word, crickets from the legacy media.
00:16:44.480You worked at the Herald. I imagine definitely the old son, but probably even the old Herald, you know, before it's in its current iteration.
00:16:55.480I imagine they would find it worth at least a sentence or two during an election that the official opposition party and a party that stands a reasonable shot of forming government as candidate supporting a totalitarian ideology running for it.
00:17:13.480Is it just that if communism's okay, Nazism's not?0.75
00:17:19.760Yeah, you know, and I kind of thought that too
00:17:23.320because I asked Danielle at the press conference yesterday
00:17:27.900what her reaction was, you know, being compared to Hitler
00:17:30.740when, you know, these people are actual avowed communists,
00:19:28.000She had, I think, a fairly decent-sized crowd out there making promises for Calgary.
00:19:34.440Yes, $1.2 billion. Big, huge, long list. Green LRT, 40 new schools, teachers, health care center. I can't even begin. There was about a half dozen items that were on there. Yeah, for sure. 1.2 billion.
00:21:46.340It's 50-50. And I think those same 50-50, the same people that are opposed to the Arena deal may be kind of opposed to Smith's deal as in terms, you know, where is this money coming from?