Western Standard - Canada is still broken

00:00:00.000 Good day

00:00:29.980 Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show second take. This is my Friday show where I kind of go on a little more on things, including shutting off my phone. I'm that guy.

00:00:43.000 And wrapping up the week on the news items, things that have been going on. This is the second last one, actually. This was kind of a special broadcast that we had during the election period, and it's going to wrap up at the end of this month.

00:00:54.480 Unless some generous sponsor pops up to want to cover more of those episodes.

00:00:58.240 Other than that, otherwise you'll still get me on Wednesdays, of course, and other special times.

00:01:02.980 So I got a good lineup today.

00:01:05.440 Dave Bradley is going to come on.

00:01:07.100 He knows all things Bitcoin, Bitcoin in and out.

00:01:09.740 I think his account online is Bitcoin Brains.

00:01:12.280 And he's going to talk about independence and Bitcoin.

00:01:14.340 It'll be a good discussion.

00:01:16.520 I mean, you know, when we talk about currencies, ideas, things like that.

00:01:20.220 And digital currencies might offer a way to look at increasing independence.

00:01:24.080 After that, I'm going to talk to Dr. Michael Bonner of the Aristotle Foundation.

00:01:27.300 They put out a great piece just on immigration, the system in Canada, and something, you know, not just pointing out the problems with it, but pointing out some solutions, which is always refreshing, and it's a really good paper.

00:01:38.460 So that'll be a good discussion.

00:01:40.080 I mean, whether or not our government ever actually gets around to fixing anything, I don't know, but we've got to point out the possible solutions.

00:01:46.700 So this show is live.

00:01:47.840 Use that comment scroll.

00:01:48.760 I like seeing those discussions there.

00:01:49.740 I see Russell Matthews checking in from the Saskatchewan, the 52nd state, apparently.

00:01:54.080 Okay. And J.R. Michael. And yes, Saskatchewan, you know, doesn't get mentioned enough, particularly with the independence movement. It's quite strong out there, too. I'm going to be going out there on June 2nd in Regina to a function. And speaking at that one, I'm looking forward to meeting the folks out there and bending their ear on the independence movement.

00:02:13.880 not an e-sharp checking in good to see you all right so yes i'm just you know a bit of the title

00:02:20.020 i don't do a normal monologue on fridays like i do on wednesdays but still it's it's as i entitled

00:02:24.760 this one canada is still broken it's funny that the liberals got so up in arms they successfully

00:02:31.100 campaigned and i'm pushing on us and you know getting upset with polyev saying canada's broken

00:02:35.040 for a year and a half which was effective for a long time unfortunately due to the trump factor

00:02:40.240 down south and a sudden surge of domestic patriotism. They turned that around. I mean,

00:02:46.660 it's an interesting political lesson, a lesson in communications and branding. Something that's

00:02:50.660 successful at one time isn't at a different time, depending on the external events going on. And

00:02:56.760 basically, Paulie, I've got his nose rubbed in it. Oh, how dare you say Canada's broken? We all

00:03:02.140 love Canada. Canada's fine. Canada's beautiful. Canada needs to be strong and unbroken in order

00:03:05.920 to counter the dastardly Trump. We have to have our elbows up. But the elbows dropped down pretty

00:03:11.960 fast once Carney was elected, and now we're left with Canada still being broken. That's the thing.

00:03:21.160 What's changed? What's changed under Carney besides the person at the head of the Liberals?

00:03:24.860 It's mostly the same people in cabinet. They're saying the same things. We've got the same energy

00:03:28.700 policies, same tanker bans, same pipeline bans. That's not going to change. Housing is still

00:03:33.880 unaffordable. People are having trouble paying for the housing they've already got. The spending is

00:03:37.780 still going through the roof. Our GDP per capita hasn't changed any. We need radical policy changes

00:03:44.120 if we're going to unbreak Canada. None of them are coming. Justice? Well, we just saw a guy who

00:03:51.560 molested 33 kids get sentenced to a record-breaking 17 years. You got to keep in mind Canada with 0.97

00:03:59.100 two-thirds mandatory release and some of those other beautiful things that the Liberals won't

00:04:03.200 fix, that child rapist will probably be out and tend to do it again. I mean, I'm not a forensic

00:04:10.460 psychiatrist, but I bet you when a person's inclined to abuse that many children, they're

00:04:14.540 not going to come out any better than they went in. But welcome to Canada, Canada, the broken 0.89

00:04:18.520 foreign affairs. Oh yes, Hamas put out a statement thanking Canada again. Yes, the terrorist 0.99

00:04:24.000 organization, the raping, murdering scumbags of Hamas have thanked Canada and Anita Anand, 0.98

00:04:30.220 our global affairs minister, who doesn't seem to be much brighter than Melanie Jolie, who she 0.96

00:04:36.200 replaced. So, whatever. Canada is still broken. At least it's very cracked up. Let's widen those

00:04:43.140 fissures. We can't save it all, but we can save the West. All right. Well, let's check in with

00:04:48.820 a news update from Jen Hodgson. How's it going? Hey, Corey. Doing good. Thanks. Right on. So,

00:04:55.140 I mean, lots else is going on. I know, aside from my morose Canada's broken rampage, what was going

00:04:59.880 on out there in the Western Standard Newsroom? Well, it's definitely hard to top those two

00:05:03.040 stories that you just mentioned, but I'll do what I can. So the energy minister, his name is Tim

00:05:09.640 Hodgson, no relation as far as I know, though he does look a lot like my Uncle Paul, I will say.

00:05:15.320 Well, you never know. It's time for a little family digging, you know, you get some surprises

00:05:19.980 sometimes in the treehouse. You do. And, you know, in this case, it wouldn't be the worst

00:05:24.120 Liberal Minister to be aligned with. We actually have some positive news from Carney's Energy

00:05:29.880 Minister here in Calgary today. He's advocating for pipelines. Of course, we'll have to wait and

00:05:35.720 see if there's any action to the words that he said, but that includes a promising two years or

00:05:42.920 less in terms of processing time. And he also says that it's not a matter of if the pipelines will be

00:05:49.560 built but a matter of when well that's positive language i mean i'll give credit where it's due

00:05:53.960 i don't believe these guys yeah but i will celebrate when they're saying the right words

00:05:58.520 but we just need to see action i'm not believing anything until i see iron going in the ground

00:06:02.600 yeah absolutely i think we generally feel like that in the newsroom and another piece of news

00:06:08.760 out of carney's cabinet is that they're looking to tariff food so food products coming into canada

00:06:16.600 could face tariffs and as we discussed in our morning meeting today about 80 percent of our

00:06:22.760 food that Canadians consume actually does come from imports so that could be quite a serious cost

00:06:29.880 tagged on to the already high price of groceries rather massive cost I mean there's some realities

00:06:35.160 you know the things that came about whenever everybody was doing the elbows up shop Canadian 1.00

00:06:38.280 okay where am I gonna get my avocados my coffee uh you know I mean we're a winter nation we're

00:06:44.040 lucky we got the plains we produce a large amount of cereal crops and grain and then cattle and

00:06:49.960 supply managed dairy but there's a whole lot of stuff we can't get in winter time right and those

00:06:55.320 items that you mentioned we tack a huge tariff on them for when we're exporting those products

00:07:02.120 like 250 300 percent on the dairy and poultry so you know we we see a lot of back and forth and

00:07:10.120 And now these tariffs look like they're going to be on food that we bring in, too.

00:07:13.740 Oh, well, maybe we can just get used to that Russian diet. 1.00

00:07:17.000 I remember touring the Soviet Union back in the 80s and as a spoiled kid being over there, I lost weight because most of your meal was a heavy black bread, a greasy butter and a few basic vegetables.

00:07:29.360 And again, I was a spoiled North American kid.

00:07:31.320 But, you know, you bulked up on what the local foods were in the Soviet Union back then.

00:07:34.620 Yeah, nobody starved to death, but boy, you didn't really look forward to your meals for the day.

00:07:38.540 But, you know, protectionism really had some good work, guys.

00:07:41.540 Yeah.

00:07:42.040 Well, we sure can take things for granted and we just have everything available to us on the grocery shelves.

00:07:47.740 But now it looks like they might not be as available because they'll be quite a bit out of our regular price range.

00:07:53.840 Can people ever wonder where their Caesar salad comes from in January in Canada?

00:07:57.740 They're growing it in Arizona, guys.

00:07:59.240 But all right.

00:08:00.340 Well, whatever.

00:08:00.940 We'll tax ourselves rich one day.

00:08:02.240 Yeah, I guess that's a good optimistic outlook, Corey.

00:08:06.140 So you mentioned Hamas.

00:08:07.640 So speaking of Hamas supporters and anti-Israel agitators, a whole

00:08:12.600 plane load has flown in from Amsterdam and your viewers might remember last

00:08:17.880 November in Holland, there was a huge clash between Israeli soccer fans and

00:08:24.560 pro-Palestine protestors.

00:08:26.600 And I think it was about five, five Israelis were injured.

00:08:31.800 Hotels.

00:08:32.320 It was a old fashioned lynch mob. 0.71

00:08:34.160 Yeah, it seriously was.

00:08:36.080 So now Toronto on Sunday will be experiencing something along those lines with those same agitators have already arrived.

00:08:44.500 Toronto police have responded saying that we're going to keep it safe and this event will go on.

00:08:48.620 It's a Walk for Israel event, an annual event, and the agitators are calling it a walk against Israel.

00:08:56.840 So the Toronto police will bring them coffee and donuts and they will jail the Israeli people who scheduled and peacefully want to do an event because Mayor Chow hates Jews. 0.56

00:09:05.060 I'm going to go blunt with that because I'm getting sick and tired of it.

00:09:08.320 You know, they've been targeting Jewish businesses.

00:09:10.120 They've been targeting Jewish neighborhoods.

00:09:11.420 And then we're finding out the Toronto police were actually instructed to be soft on those who are defending against the genocide by Israel. 0.67

00:09:18.140 This country is an international embarrassment.

00:09:21.780 It's no wonder that a bunch from Amsterdam feel this is a good place to get out there and chase some Jews around because other countries actually crack down on that a bit. 0.97

00:09:28.700 Well, yes. And as Nigel mentioned to me after the news meeting this morning, that Canada does have a history of preventing people that are coming in for disruptions, for agitation, even if it's something that they've said that they don't like.

00:09:43.360 He gave an example from the 90s, but also Robinson, Sammy Robinson.

00:09:49.460 Sorry, am I getting that right?

00:09:50.820 Tommy Robinson, probably.

00:09:52.020 Excuse me. Tommy Robinson just last year.

00:09:54.380 Yeah, they arrested him in Calgary.

00:09:55.560 Yeah, that's right.

00:09:56.380 so they do have the mechanisms the authorities the border authorities the local police to prevent

00:10:02.480 people from coming in that they deem to be coming in to cause an upset however we don't see any of

00:10:08.380 that in this case just the toronto police saying we're going to be there have a strong police

00:10:12.380 presence and essentially just hope for the best because we have a designated spot for the anti

00:10:18.160 israel demonstrators yes because they they follow the rules and they're well controlled folks

00:10:23.400 typically aren't they yeah oh man what a weird world yeah that's right so uh in other news we

00:10:29.340 have the golden dome that trump has proposed over the u.s similar to what israel has with

00:10:34.400 their iron dome and carney wants in on it so we see the whole election cycle elbows up as you've

00:10:41.620 just mentioned in your opening statements and now carney's starting to think well maybe that's not

00:10:46.180 such a bad idea we could get in on that too yeah well you know part of what i think's going on with

00:10:50.660 that. I mean, one of the things Carney may change, he said part of his excuse for not having a budget

00:10:55.880 this spring was that we want to wait until after the NATO summit. And Canada's already always been

00:11:00.860 embarrassing, you know, at 1.3% of our GDP on the military, which is falling apart and old and 75%

00:11:05.860 of them are overweight. That was the latest stat from them. And this is a quick fix. This is

00:11:10.900 somewhere where he can hit the 2% with doing nothing but signing a check, essentially, right?

00:11:15.020 You don't have to reform the military. You don't have to buy new jets. You just say, yes,

00:11:18.740 president trump we will uh partner up and here's our investment plan and then they can tell nato

00:11:24.800 look at that canada's finally pulling its weight yeah let's just hope that it's not crazy right

00:11:30.220 yeah well very well could be but it like maximum amount of impact but least amount of effort

00:11:36.220 let's hope that it's i mean this is you know you're a little too young to remember but reagan

00:11:44.520 in the Star Wars thing. I mean, this isn't a new concept. There was talks about the satellites

00:11:48.860 having nukes and things like that back in the 80s. And I mean, that was sort of James Bond-ish

00:11:53.760 sort of stuff they were talking about. But I mean, now the technology's at a point where maybe

00:11:58.080 these things are conceivable. Yeah, it seems like it very well could be. Or it could be a scam that's

00:12:02.680 going to cost trillions of dollars for the Americans and the Canadians. Who knows? And

00:12:05.860 interesting how Trump wants to emphasize that it's a golden dome. In Israel, they have an iron

00:12:10.160 dome this one's gold much better well the thing israel's is an incredibly effective defensive

00:12:17.600 mechanism because they are getting constant attacks from all sides but you got to remember

00:12:21.680 that israel is microscopic compared to trying to cover all in north america it's gonna be 0.97

00:12:26.800 interesting to watch but it's interesting watching carney he's sounding enthusiastic about it yeah

00:12:30.560 right and just one last note on israel let's just uh remind your viewers that dave nailer our news

00:12:36.800 editor is in israel this week so he's regularly putting up videos and stories about what he's

00:12:43.520 encountered there so far and i think when he gets back he's planning on doing some more in-depth

00:12:47.840 work too yeah i'm sure dave will have a lot to say but i think i saw the update from facebook

00:12:52.000 he's flying back today uh so it's it's been what seven or eight yeah i think it's been seven days

00:12:56.480 that he's been there so yeah we'll look forward to having him back and hearing the stories yeah

00:13:00.800 he'll have lots to share i'll have to give him an extended portion on the show yeah absolutely

00:13:04.960 extended news update. Right on. Well, thank you very much. I'll let you get back in the newsroom.

00:13:09.440 You still got to keep up till Dave gets back. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I'm elbows deep,

00:13:14.020 so better run back to it. Elbows got to go somewhere up deep, wherever they might go.

00:13:18.660 Thanks for having me on, Corey. Right on, thanks.

00:13:21.820 So that is our reporter, as you see, very prolific, busy, and coming up with those stories.

00:13:25.960 Jen Hodgson, no relation, at least at this point, to that other Hodgson we were talking about, 0.86

00:13:30.400 but that still has to be investigated. I think there might be something to it.

00:13:33.120 you just never know anymore do you so yeah lots going on uh out there and this one i like to

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00:14:26.100 time. All right, let's turn to my first guest. He's been on before. It's been a little while

00:14:32.040 though. And he, again, loves to speak all things Bitcoin. I remember at a conference a little while

00:14:37.680 back, he did that Q&A on how, I think it was something like Bitcoin fixes everything or

00:14:42.240 something like that. And he does have an answer for everything. And most of them are pretty good.

00:14:45.400 Most of them anyways, but he's going to talk about Bitcoin and independence and it should be,

00:14:50.400 and it will be an interesting conversation. It looks like you're out in the woods there, Dave.

00:14:54.540 Yeah, I'm just out in Brag Creek here.

00:14:57.220 Okay.

00:14:58.940 Having a cigar, is it?

00:15:00.940 I am, yeah.

00:15:02.180 Okay.

00:15:03.060 Fair enough.

00:15:03.660 Did you buy that cigar with Bitcoin?

00:15:06.760 I actually bought this cigar in the United States where the taxes on cigars are much lower.

00:15:11.120 Ah, yes.

00:15:12.980 I mean, it's cheaper to get pot nowadays, but easier.

00:15:18.600 So, I mean, it was interesting what you talked about, though.

00:15:21.000 You know, independence is a lot of the talk.

00:15:22.820 we're talking about, changing perhaps the contract, the definition, a lot of discussion

00:15:28.520 on what that might look like and how things could work. And do you feel things like Bitcoin could

00:15:34.460 play a big role in that? Yeah, absolutely. At the end of the day, what we're looking for

00:15:41.280 and the problem that Bitcoin is solving are really the same thing, right? It's the fact that the

00:15:46.720 federal government has grown too large, they take too much of our money, and they misspend that money

00:15:52.000 quite drastically and you know alberta independence is one step towards removing one of the many

00:15:59.600 layers of government that currently do that to us right now and bitcoin at the end of the day is

00:16:03.760 kind of like the antidote to all sort of government overreach at the end of the day so that's in the

00:16:10.240 broad sense where i think bitcoin could fit in but i think it could be useful in a whole bunch

00:16:13.520 of ways to uh an independent alberta yeah well as i was pointed out not too long ago i think it

00:16:19.040 It might have been at that conference I was at.

00:16:20.560 I saw you at that a few weeks ago.

00:16:23.300 Of all the people who had their accounts seized, for example, or frozen and things like that during the trucker's convoy, well, nobody's Bitcoin got touched.

00:16:32.080 It's one thing that I'm sure the government would have loved to reach in and grab it, but they just don't have a way to do it.

00:16:37.360 This is a way to keep some of your assets just out of their reach, no matter what they might think.

00:16:42.900 Yeah, exactly.

00:16:43.460 It's a really direct way for an individual to keep some of their assets out of reach of the government.

00:16:47.740 But the other thing that I don't think has really been considered yet is we don't know where this whole train is going.

00:16:55.620 We don't know whether we get a separation vote, whether we have a negotiation between the federal and provincial governments, and we don't know how that might go.

00:17:04.960 And the idea that the federal government may at some point attempt to seize funds from the provincial government is another one that I think could be in play at some point.

00:17:14.400 and having a reserve of Bitcoin,

00:17:18.360 that's something that a lot of jurisdictions in the world,

00:17:21.340 about half the states in the United States

00:17:22.860 are looking at right now

00:17:23.700 and a whole bunch of countries are looking at.

00:17:25.840 And I think now would be the time for Alberta to get on that

00:17:28.640 because it would give us a form of money

00:17:30.960 that we can save in that the feds can't steal from us.

00:17:35.560 So other countries are looking at it.

00:17:38.440 Have any other countries been doing this?

00:17:40.340 I guess some of this,

00:17:41.000 we can't even tell if they have or not,

00:17:42.500 but uh i mean it's an interesting hedge we've we've kind of moved away from uh you know backing

00:17:48.900 our currencies with precious metals but uh some of some are still doing that but uh is bitcoin

00:17:53.620 sort of the new hedge yeah i mean bitcoin is uh it should in theory be a hedge to sort of global

00:18:00.500 financial instability in the same way that gold has been at certain times in history but

00:18:05.140 lately it's mostly traded with like global liquidity it's gone up when the market has

00:18:09.220 gone up and down when the market has gone down but we are starting to see a transition um towards

00:18:15.660 being sort of like a reserve asset so we're seeing a bunch more companies large publicly traded

00:18:20.080 companies holding massive amounts of bitcoin as a as a savings tool and as a reserve and like i

00:18:26.040 mentioned we're starting to see that a lot of a lot of countries a lot of states so president

00:18:30.840 trump announced the strategic bitcoin reserve a couple months ago that wasn't there wasn't much

00:18:35.540 to that they basically just announced they're going to keep the bitcoin that they already have

00:18:38.640 Whereas previous administrations have sold whatever Bitcoin they ended up seizing or coming into and what other some other way. But a number of states have bills in the works right now to create strategic Bitcoin reserves. And there are some countries that are already holding Bitcoin. We wouldn't necessarily know to your point, you know, some companies and some countries may be holding Bitcoin already and may not have even told us about it. Right. So there's a half dozen countries in the world that are already holding Bitcoin.

00:19:06.860 And I think, you know, we're moving into that, that next stage for Bitcoin, where it's going to be looked at like a reserve asset, like gold. And I think with a lot of the sort of currency upheaval, we're going to see in the world, with all of this sort of economic warfare going on, that more countries are going to start looking to back their currencies with something, something firm and something sound that cannot just be printed out of thin air.

00:19:31.380 And aside from just backing currencies with it, I guess, I mean, that's a bit of a guessing game

00:19:38.260 or can be considered by some, but I mean, as an investment tool for those who put in on Bitcoin

00:19:42.500 in this last few years have been doing quite well for themselves out of it. I mean, there could be

00:19:48.140 a good return coming out of that as well. I mean, rather than just securing and diversifying your

00:19:52.280 asset pool. Yeah. And you know, you can look at it as an investment. I look at it more like a

00:19:57.900 savings tool. And you could say, uh, the Bitcoin that I have now is worth a lot more dollars than

00:20:03.900 it used to be. But, uh, is the Bitcoin getting more valuable or the dollars getting less valuable

00:20:09.140 because the Bitcoin is the same, right? There's the same number of Bitcoins roughly that there

00:20:14.560 were, uh, like five years ago, but the price of Bitcoin measured in dollars is much higher.

00:20:19.520 And part of the reason for that is because there are many, many more dollars than there were five

00:20:24.360 years ago you know most of the dollars in existence were printed since covet and so we're in this

00:20:29.500 interesting spot in alberta where you know we've got the oil and gas industry here we pull literally

00:20:34.880 the most useful thing in the whole world out of the ground at a tremendously low price when you

00:20:41.120 think about it and then we turn around and we sell that for these fake paper pieces of nothing that

00:20:48.920 the government creates out of thin air for free. And so I think dealing with a, an economy like

00:20:55.640 we have here in Alberta, that's, that's grounded in real things is grounded in resources, deserves

00:21:01.080 to be paired with a form of money that is, is just as real as those resources. So a question people

00:21:08.540 often have with digital concern, currencies are pretty much digital anything. I guess it's hard

00:21:12.820 to understand rep our minds around it though, is the security of it, right? Like what is to keep,

00:21:17.900 uh you know i mean if a government has a reserve of gold okay you're going to build a giant vault

00:21:21.660 put up a bunch of security hopefully keep that physical asset safe what keeps a large government

00:21:27.500 you know say multi-billion dollar bitcoin account uh secure from somebody hacking and stealing it

00:21:33.980 um there are best practices just like there are with uh the physical security of gold

00:21:39.100 you know so if you wanted to uh break into fort knox you'd have to drill through a bunch of walls

00:21:43.980 and dig under some fences and all kinds of physical security barriers that you'd have to

00:21:50.220 pass. And there are very similar best practices for Bitcoin. There's the sort of digital equivalent

00:21:55.440 of these kinds of things. And we're actually set up quite well in Alberta, partly because

00:22:00.640 of the way that our trust laws work here. We've actually had multiple companies from around

00:22:05.380 Canada move to Calgary specifically to set up Alberta regulated trust companies for the purposes

00:22:12.800 of custodying Bitcoin. So we're one of the only places in the world, along with New York,

00:22:17.980 that actually has laws that support the creation of trust companies that can hold Bitcoin on behalf

00:22:23.740 of others. And so we actually have three companies here in Alberta that are already set up with all

00:22:28.600 of this security, all the digital security, all the physical security that you need to go with it.

00:22:33.420 And because they're local, they're regulated provincially. So again, they're outside of the

00:22:37.160 reach of the arm of the federal government. If we were to, if we as a province were to purchase a

00:22:43.380 load of Bitcoin, we could start at one or all three of those custodians and be quite, quite

00:22:48.200 confident in the safety, I would say. Okay. So you kind of covered that security and I saw still

00:22:52.880 another, you know, kind of on the micro level question with a person's personal Bitcoin assets

00:22:57.100 from Jim Morgan, no relation. Not only, you know, what keeps us secure from hacker, what prevents

00:23:02.960 the government's from locking your coin wallet down so you can't access it kind of gets back to

00:23:07.600 what i talked about before with the truckers uh convoy and seizing bank accounts uh what keeps

00:23:12.560 your assets away from the government yeah i mean it's uh when it comes right down to it it's the

00:23:18.080 fact that no one's in charge there's no body in charge of bitcoin there's no ceo there's no board

00:23:23.200 of directors there's nobody to go to to say hey you have to shut this account down it's it's a

00:23:27.920 completely decentralized system that we're in no one can ever shut any anyone else's account down

00:23:35.280 now the thing that the government can still do is they can still show up at your house with guns

00:23:40.080 and say give us your bitcoin right so it doesn't avoid that but it's a lot easier to to hide or

00:23:46.480 obviously at the fact that you have bitcoin when dealing with the tyrannical government like that

00:23:50.800 than it would be a huge bar of gold or a pile of cash or other valuable ways that people have used

00:24:00.720 to store money and hide it away from tyrannical governments in the past.

00:24:04.080 Yeah, and they don't necessarily know you have it. There was that presentation we saw as well

00:24:07.920 from a woman who was basically a refugee from a hostile state and she'd lost everything,

00:24:13.680 you know, basically just running, you know, even without identification to get away from it.

00:24:18.640 But she had a Bitcoin account.

00:24:21.020 She had her savings.

00:24:21.820 I mean, all you have to do is memorize.

00:24:23.560 Well, it's not necessarily that easy, but a string of a bunch of words.

00:24:26.500 If you set up that account, nobody interrogating you or holding you up or anything even knows

00:24:32.040 you have an account or how to get to it or what's in it, as long as you don't give them

00:24:35.960 that.

00:24:36.200 And then you can reestablish somewhere else, access some sort of digital communication

00:24:41.480 and get back into your account.

00:24:43.680 I mean, in a sense, the wallet's in your head.

00:24:46.820 Yeah, absolutely.

00:24:47.300 You just remember this 12-word seed phrase, and you can literally walk across any border with the ability to access that money just stored in your head.

00:24:58.360 You don't need any kind of device.

00:24:59.660 You don't need any high-tech security or anything.

00:25:03.120 You just remember those 12 words, and there's nothing that they can really do about that because there's no way for them to really even prove that you have those 12 words, right?

00:25:10.580 And so that example that you were talking about at the Cornerstone Forum that we were both at, there was a really poignant one where I can't remember what country it was, but this refugee was fleeing persecution and was able to escape with all of their wealth because it was in Bitcoin.

00:25:25.740 And this is a story that we've seen time and time again around the world where, you know, displaced peoples have been fleeing an area and a lot of the time they end up fleeing with all their valuables, you know, gold, jewelry, whatever you can carry.

00:25:39.180 and in a lot of cases they become targets for pirates and robbers and people who who know they

00:25:44.540 must be be moving with their wealth and by the time they get to their destination they have none

00:25:49.020 and uh you know these are extreme examples but we in canada and you know in alberta we we've been

00:25:56.880 actually perilously close to that point when you think about um when you pair the the trucker

00:26:02.480 convoy and the fact that they were seizing bank accounts and freezing bank accounts of single

00:26:06.820 moms who donated to the truckers with, um, some of this, I would, I would say grossly illegal,

00:26:12.580 uh, political persecution that we've seen with, uh, the likes of Tamara Lynch and Chris Barber

00:26:17.600 and the, the, the Coots group there. Um, we're not living in a much freer country

00:26:23.440 than these tyrannical dictator, dictatorial regimes that we're talking about people fleeing.

00:26:30.840 Yeah. Well, I mean, one of the aspects I can kind of see good is, you know, for a libertarian

00:26:35.220 who has no interest in giving any money to any government. I go down to the States, I've got an

00:26:39.560 LLC set up down there actually, and I vend some gemstones down in Arizona every winter. Though I

00:26:46.380 have to declare all that, that cash is coming back and forth across the border or the digital

00:26:51.680 payments from Visa, MasterCard, or whatever I'm taking down there. If I were to do transactions

00:26:55.740 on the other side of the border in Bitcoin though, the government wouldn't know about that. And

00:27:00.860 I could do a lot of trade through that. I guess that's kind of got a good and a bad to it.

00:27:06.360 People, I guess, with unsavory enterprises could potentially use digital currencies. I mean,

00:27:10.980 I'm just pointing out some of the questions people have about it. Money laundering is an

00:27:15.960 issue with Bitcoin. You don't even need to launder it. Could this, I guess, empower some of the

00:27:22.580 organized crime groups? Yeah. I mean, every organized crime group uses cars. You know what

00:27:28.160 I mean, it's cars are a tool to move you around.

00:27:30.800 Bitcoin is a tool for money.

00:27:32.520 So tools like that, I think, are agnostic to their use case.

00:27:37.520 Bitcoin doesn't care who you are.

00:27:38.960 There's no value judgment built into Bitcoin.

00:27:41.780 And part of the reason for that is because there is no central body.

00:27:45.940 There's nobody deciding, hey, this is an acceptable use of Bitcoin.

00:27:49.500 This is not an acceptable use of Bitcoin.

00:27:51.780 And I think we should look at it the same way as that we look at guns or any other tool

00:27:56.240 that we have in our lives that has a specific use case there are definitely bad people who use cars

00:28:01.760 for bad things that doesn't mean that we should be looking at the the general morality of the

00:28:07.280 existence of cars right so i think bitcoin is no different and the the reality is that the

00:28:14.960 the choice with bitcoin comes down to the individual and that's kind of the important part

00:28:19.300 absolutely i mean i i think it's pen gillette and i'll slaughter the quote but he said something

00:28:24.160 great along the lines. You know, whenever somebody does something really bad, the government steps

00:28:27.280 in to take rights away from good people. And, you know, blaming the Bitcoin for its maluse with

00:28:33.240 organized crime is still overlooking the problem. You've got organized criminals. You're just

00:28:36.540 looking at one of the tools they're using and taking away that means of digital currency from

00:28:41.020 law-abiding citizens doesn't do the world any favors. But you've got to make sure at least

00:28:46.120 to educate people to avoid having a government step in and try to use that excuse. Or, you know,

00:28:50.720 there's nothing the government hates more than losing control and bitcoin takes that control

00:28:55.000 away from them yeah i don't think uh the governments of the world have really understood

00:29:00.620 and internalized how much control bitcoin will take away from them in the long term

00:29:04.500 because you know what we're talking about is kind of the censorship resistant element of bitcoin the

00:29:09.700 fact that they can't freeze it or censor it we can spend money anywhere in the world without

00:29:13.740 their help or permission which i think is really powerful but the flip side of that is they actually

00:29:18.100 have a huge amount of control over our entire society that they get from their ability to print

00:29:23.260 money and so they're printing money out in ottawa that's being spent not only is it not being spent

00:29:29.380 in in alberta proportionally compared to the rest of the the country but when it is spent here a lot

00:29:35.180 of the time they're actually spending it against us you know what i mean it's not like they're

00:29:38.980 they're spending that money to give us safer streets and better better roads and more health

00:29:44.400 transfer payments and a better health system they're spending that money in a lot of cases

00:29:48.120 to crack down on dissent and uh these things like these political persecutions that i mentioned

00:29:53.780 and in the long term what bitcoin removes is the government's ability to print money to spend money

00:30:00.420 because now we have a competitive form of money that they can't print and what we've seen everywhere

00:30:04.820 in the world is when a better form of money or a harder form of money emerges it pushes out the

00:30:11.260 weaker forms of money. And that's why gold has been, you know, the most successful form of money

00:30:15.560 for most of you in history was because it was very hard to produce compared to most of the

00:30:19.860 things that people had used as money in the past. And the market just sort of decides on the best

00:30:25.680 choice. And I think we're in the midst of the market deciding on the fact that the Bitcoin is

00:30:30.540 the best choice for money. And once it gets there, these, these central bankers, the tyrannical

00:30:36.920 politicians out in ottawa will no longer be able to afford to pay to have uh you know horses

00:30:42.980 trample old ladies because they won't be able to print the money to afford that yeah well i hope 1.00

00:30:48.040 you maybe or some others also you know pitch this to premier smith i think if we ever saw any leader

00:30:51.880 might be inclined to she loves putting shots across the ottawa bow too and i mean just taking

00:30:57.200 a portion of albertan funds maybe a chunk rather than what would go into uh the heritage fund

00:31:02.500 take a portion of that and put it into

00:31:04.900 Bitcoin. It's just also that way to remind Ottawa

00:31:06.880 yeah, this is Alberta's funds and you can't

00:31:08.960 even, you can't reach this

00:31:10.980 no matter what you might want to do.

00:31:13.200 Maybe she's receptive to it.

00:31:15.260 Yeah, and I know there's some

00:31:16.500 movement in that direction and I know she

00:31:18.920 is, she's a Bitcoiner. 1.00

00:31:20.740 I was on her show many

00:31:22.880 years ago when she had the talk radio show 0.84

00:31:25.020 a couple times talking about Bitcoin and

00:31:26.740 she was a Bitcoiner way back

00:31:28.980 then and I know she

00:31:30.860 knows, you know, the fundamentals behind Bitcoin. And like you say, the shot across the bow would

00:31:36.680 be appealing. It's a way that we can assert a level of independence that we're not currently

00:31:40.780 doing right now. And it may actually end up being useful because I don't know enough about the

00:31:44.940 structure of things like the Heritage Fund. You know, I'm guessing that a lot of the assets in

00:31:49.220 the Heritage Fund are controlled by banks and brokerages that ultimately would respond to a

00:31:54.880 seizure order from the government of Canada if they decided they needed to spend our Heritage

00:31:59.060 fund. Whereas, you know, any percentage of a fund like that that we had in Bitcoin for our long-term

00:32:04.480 savings is something that they simply could not take away from us. It's a very, very interesting

00:32:10.460 concept. I like it. We'll have to follow up more on this and push as we've certainly got the

00:32:15.240 atmosphere for, you know, everybody quite, I think, in Alberta supportive of encouraging degrees of

00:32:19.920 independence, whether full or even in part. And that's certainly an element of it. Before I let

00:32:24.760 you go, I mean, just kind of getting back to the individual thing, though, because you've been

00:32:27.240 great on promoting that and i mean it's still foreign to a lot of people uh it's an unusual

00:32:31.460 thing to wrap your head around if somebody's interested in getting involved in bitcoin just

00:32:35.040 on their personal level in a small amount or a large amount i mean where do you start

00:32:38.400 yeah i mean the where i would probably recommend um is anybody who's curious to come out to uh

00:32:44.420 our conference that we're putting on at the end of june here we've got a conference called the

00:32:47.400 bitcoin rodeo that we put on every year uh that's happening on june 28th and 29th in uh downtown

00:32:52.940 Calgary. And, you know, we're going to have a lot of discussion or obviously a lot of discussion on

00:32:58.920 Bitcoin, but we're going to be leaning a lot towards these topics of Alberta independence

00:33:02.760 and where does Bitcoin and different elements of Bitcoin fit in to a potentially independent

00:33:07.260 Alberta? And also how does Bitcoin empower the individual to really take back a measure of

00:33:14.240 their freedom? And that's really what Bitcoin is, is it's freedom money. It's money for those who

00:33:18.320 value individualism and, uh, do not want the government making their decisions for them.

00:33:24.240 Well, great. Thanks again, Dave, for coming on the show. I mean, it's an intriguing concept and

00:33:28.760 I hope there's some, some moving forward on it. Uh, so, uh, appreciate you coming on and maybe

00:33:33.740 we'll have you on again soon. And we'll be talking about how much the government has decided to put

00:33:37.060 into it. Yeah, that'd be great. Thanks for having me. Thanks again. So yes, guys, that is Dave

00:33:42.580 Bradley. You can find him online. He's prolific on X and all over as well. Just look him up, uh,

00:33:47.480 Bitcoin brains, I think he likes to go by as well and things such as that. The rodeo is a good

00:33:53.200 event coming up in Calgary. And there's a lot of resources out there for Bitcoin. I'm not an expert

00:34:01.140 in it. I'm familiar with it. But I mean, some of the concepts you got to think of is just having

00:34:05.120 a finite amount of a resource. That's where gold has kind of worked fairly well over the years.

00:34:10.820 Gold is still being mined, but the bulk of the easy gold is already there. And we're adding a

00:34:16.800 little bit, but you're not adding a lot around the world as it's mined and more gets added to the

00:34:20.480 base. So it can provide a value that can't be flooded, you know, and I guess unless there's

00:34:28.120 an unusual discovery of a whole bunch of gold and resources, which is something interesting too,

00:34:32.020 because Bitcoin now is, Bitcoin gets mined, but it's a limited amount and it's smaller and smaller

00:34:36.560 so that nobody can suddenly open up the floodgates and flood the market with Bitcoin. It's even more

00:34:41.700 secure than gold in that sense. Because I mean, maybe somebody will crack a mountaintop and find

00:34:45.580 a million tons of gold and change the gold market. I doubt it. But Bitcoin, government can't print

00:34:50.460 Bitcoin. That's the thing. I mean, that's part of where you're buying power, you're purchasing power

00:34:54.960 has been going down the tubes for years. People don't understand this. They're not thinking about

00:34:58.600 it. But when the government prints money, when you're talking about true currency devaluation,

00:35:04.560 it's because like anything, it's supply and demand. When you start flooding that market with these

00:35:08.680 things, the value of it goes down. There's nothing worse to go down in value than your currency is

00:35:12.920 there because everything else you get is linked to that. So, I mean, I'm not, you know, chuckling

00:35:20.140 about that the other day on one of the podcasts I was on, you know, so, you know, I'm not a financial

00:35:23.240 advisor. I'm not going to give financial advice, give that disclaimer. And it's true. I'm not great

00:35:26.280 with it. I'm lucky. I got a, a bookkeeper for a wife. She takes care of just about everything for 0.99

00:35:30.480 me, but, and does it well, but we do have a Bitcoin account, a small one, but it's been doing

00:35:34.720 very, very well. I mean, I think most advisors will at least tell you, you know, you want to

00:35:38.860 diversify a bit of your asset pool, whatever it might be. And it just saves you against some of

00:35:46.300 the fluctuations going on in different investments or currencies or things like that.

00:35:51.220 The other thing that question people ask is there are a lot of digital currencies out there. And it

00:35:54.500 seems to be, I think I could be wrong, but you know, all those new ones popping onto the market,

00:35:58.400 they kind of tamped down. Bitcoin was the first out of the gate and it remains the dominant one

00:36:03.420 and the stable one. So, I mean, if you're looking into that field, I suspect Bitcoin's your best

00:36:08.620 bet. This is where you got some credibility and safety. And again, of course, the biggest appeal

00:36:14.760 is just that the damn government can't get at it. It's not enough people really realize 0.99

00:36:23.480 what precedent was set when the government stepped in and seized the bank accounts of

00:36:29.840 Canadian citizens. Like they stole people's property. There's no other way to put that. 1.00

00:36:36.180 And I don't care that you declared a state of emergency. It was protesters. It was protesters

00:36:41.500 in Ottawa. I agreed. I felt that the protesters had overstayed their welcome. I felt it was time

00:36:46.860 to start moving the guys out of there. They'd made their point. But to invoke a state of emergency

00:36:53.060 and actually reach in and steal the assets of people's bank accounts, that's what got most of

00:37:00.120 the condemnation around the world from other countries. Because people, you know, understanding

00:37:04.620 authoritarian regimes, even in other countries, and that would, you know, other political leaders

00:37:08.240 understood, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is a big line you're crossing. They didn't get upset so much

00:37:12.480 with the horse trampling somebody or stepping in with police with batons, pushing protesters away.

00:37:16.960 That happens in countries all the time. But to go in and seize the assets of somebody's bank account, that is a terrifying precedent to set. I mean, everything's an emergency now. I don't like some of that language. And that's what we're seeing with authoritarians. We're seeing with governments. They're declaring everything an emergency. The climate's an emergency. Firearms are an emergency. Fentanyl's an emergency.

00:37:41.620 But you see, as soon as they put that emergency word in there, then they start laying the groundwork to try and justify extraordinary means to tamp down on that emergency, whatever it might be.

00:37:56.240 And that's where we got to get worried.

00:37:59.220 I mean, what better way to control somebody, though, than to control their funds?

00:38:03.000 You economically castrate somebody, you have them under your thumb.

00:38:06.760 It's almost as effective as outright incarcerating them.

00:38:10.120 So what's going to be next?

00:38:12.700 You know, you didn't upgrade your home enough and you're contributing to climate change.

00:38:15.960 And that's an emergency.

00:38:16.880 That's we're going to take your money directly for something like that. 0.97

00:38:20.020 I don't know where it stops.

00:38:24.240 Let's see what this Cyril Arnold saying, you self-custody your Bitcoin on a device.

00:38:28.160 So if the internet goes down, you still have it.

00:38:29.560 Yeah, you can get it on a key and then there's still passwords.

00:38:32.760 There's ways and ways.

00:38:34.520 And the other part is, even if you don't have any other aspect of it, you know, Gail saying,

00:38:39.980 yeah, what happens if the internet's shut down? Well, it might be temporarily at some point,

00:38:46.220 who knows, but it won't be for long. I mean, the world runs on the internet now. If the internet

00:38:50.740 shuts down, you're up the creek anyway, because every business, every bank is reliant now on

00:38:58.460 digital data. So you won't be able to buy anything with your visa or take out cash anymore,

00:39:03.720 either so that's a bigger issue altogether but in the short term as we were talking about with

00:39:07.400 that refugee who came over she knew that that 12 word password to get into her bitcoin account so

00:39:12.920 no matter what no matter where she went as long as she knew those and then you can get online

00:39:16.520 somewhere else later on you can access that account uh we're talking about you know traditions

00:39:23.800 things like that in in different countries if you noticed in india a lot of women you know wear a 1.00

00:39:27.240 lot of gold jewelry and things like that part of it was a long tradition it's a way of kind of

00:39:31.480 of showing off family wealth, but it's also the way that you're acquiring your wealth in a way

00:39:35.440 that can be liquidated if times get tough or hard. You know, you can always got the gold. You can

00:39:39.960 always, if times get tough, use that. But the problem is if you're fleeing or whatever, it's

00:39:44.480 something physical that could be taken off of you and stolen. Nobody knows what your Bitcoin account

00:39:48.960 is. Somebody else mentioned it somewhere farther back in the comments about the electricity use

00:39:55.080 of Bitcoin. Now that has something to do with the Bitcoin mining. And I got to admit, a lot of it's

00:40:00.920 above me. I can't fully understand it. But the way Bitcoin is generated is you've got to have

00:40:07.280 computers that are operating and running really long, complex formulas and calculating those.

00:40:14.800 So it uses a whole pile of computing power. And with a bunch of the computing power invested into

00:40:20.060 that, it'll slowly generate a bit of Bitcoin. It'll mine it. Weird. I don't fully understand,

00:40:25.980 but it limits the amount of Bitcoin that gets put out. Nobody can flood it. Nobody can mine a whole

00:40:29.360 whack of it. But if you've got a large operation that's mining a bunch of Bitcoin, the computer

00:40:35.400 power you're dedicating to it will use a lot of power. So that's where some people are saying

00:40:41.600 digital currencies are causing global warming. Of course, everything is, right? But just once

00:40:47.240 it's generated, once it's saved and everything, then it's just a digital footprint. It's not

00:40:50.680 actually causing the problem or increased energy use. I mean, mining, physical mining takes some

00:40:59.200 energy too uh kenzie kraken and yeah i saw you on the uh comment scroll on a podcast i was on

00:41:04.140 yesterday with the frontier group uh what do i think about eb saying yesterday he won't have the

00:41:08.600 northern gateway and that that gets back to what i was um talking about we're gonna have a showdown

00:41:15.520 going on with this federal government and we're gonna find out if they really mean it or not

00:41:19.740 um as as jen said you know the the minister was saying that there's gonna be a pipeline that's

00:41:25.500 going to happen and it's going to be in two years and it's not if it's it's when great words but

00:41:31.520 we'll see so now we've got EB drying the line in the sand just as we've seen in Quebec they're

00:41:34.980 drying the line in the sand is the government going to assert itself in standing up for the

00:41:40.760 federation and saying this is in the national interest and it's going whether the premier

00:41:43.740 likes it or not or are they going to still continue to say which is contrary to the constitution of

00:41:49.680 the federation that a province has the ability and right to stop a neighboring province from

00:41:55.580 doing commerce and getting its goods to the coast. This is where the rubber is going to meet the road.

00:42:01.900 So Carney, are you going to be a leader? Are you going to tell Quebec and you're going to tell

00:42:05.820 Eby where it goes? Or are you going to allow the province? Because I tell you what, we got a unity

00:42:12.260 crisis building. And yes, as I said, I've been working the knife in the crack and trying to

00:42:16.860 split it open myself. If you continue to refuse to enforce your own constitution for fear of

00:42:25.100 losing votes in Quebec, some in lower mainland BC, then the country is going to be ripped apart.

00:42:29.740 It's just going to be. Because there's no point in being in the Federation. There's no point.

00:42:35.060 A large, large point of the Federation is the unrestricted movement and trade of goods and

00:42:40.860 people across it. And if you allow players within it to hinder that, then you don't actually have

00:42:45.800 a federation. That was the whole point of the rail line being what built Canada, right? This was the

00:42:51.460 thing that united the country. This was a means of moving people and goods all the way across the

00:42:56.860 country and what held it together. And that's why the constitution made it clear. The federal

00:43:01.020 government oversteps so many roles, gets so deeply integrated into our life where it shouldn't,

00:43:06.920 with dental plans and child lunch plans and daycare and all these things that really shouldn't have

00:43:12.360 anything to do with the federal government, pharmaceutical plans, yet at the same time,

00:43:16.960 won't step in on the few things they should. One of the things I talk about often is Switzerland.

00:43:21.400 I love their decentralized government. They're heavily, heavily empowered cantons, which are

00:43:25.560 their provincial equivalents in that country, and a small, small federal government that only deals

00:43:30.720 with larger things. And the federal government's mandate is very limited. It deals with the post,

00:43:35.340 which is a separate issue we've got going on in Canada, which is a bigger deal in the past though.

00:43:39.040 deals with foreign affairs of course and the national currency and the military things that

00:43:46.220 a federal government has to and also it would deal with ensuring that the country still has trade

00:43:51.300 within it instead we've got a government that micromanages and gets into every facet of our 0.59

00:43:57.300 lives yet doesn't have the balls to get in and do the one thing it should be obligated to though

00:44:02.260 And that is the enforcement of free trade within the country. 0.95

00:44:08.500 They're saying the right words lately, but I'll believe it when I see it.

00:44:11.680 So now we've got people like, as was pointed out,

00:44:14.280 EB saying he's not going to allow it.

00:44:17.060 And Quebec saying they're not going to allow things.

00:44:21.420 If the government isn't going to be the oversight on that,

00:44:26.000 then we are just 10 individual provinces.

00:44:28.180 Let's just bite the bullet and go fully independent.

00:44:29.740 and then we can negotiate as independent powers with each other because i know some people are

00:44:34.680 saying we should just block bc stuff and everything well yeah you see that's the irony we wouldn't be

00:44:38.180 allowed to because if we blocked a railway from delivering bc goods across alberta under the

00:44:43.700 federation right now the federal government say that's not allowed under our constitution

00:44:46.400 well no it isn't but it's also not allowed for you guys to stop a pipeline so

00:44:50.560 you should or get off the pot you know do we have it or do we not if we're independent that gets

00:44:56.300 down to that discussion that happens all the time. You'd be landlocked. Oh dear. So what?

00:45:01.200 So what? So Alberta would be landlocked. We'd be next to a country or a nation or a, you know,

00:45:07.260 a province that's still part of Canada. Let's say if Alberta was gone and BC wasn't, well, BC needs

00:45:12.040 to get all those goods East because that's where their main customers are. And there's a lot of

00:45:16.620 Eastern goods have to get to the West coast because that's where that port is. So what are

00:45:22.340 they going to do? You know, catapult it over province of Alberta? No, we negotiate. We make

00:45:27.920 a deal. We say, if we want to have your containers, trains full of them, and trucks and goods come

00:45:34.960 across our province, you are going to allow us to have that pipeline running across your province.

00:45:41.520 And it's not free. It's not like you force that pipeline through. You'd pay a fee to the province

00:45:46.700 for having that pipeline across it, but you make a deal and you get it done. Right now, it's not

00:45:51.660 getting done right now we're allowing uh provincial governments to hinder and stop that uh that trade

00:45:58.560 so yeah it's quite something seeing uh eb uh standing up like that uh it's putting this

00:46:06.580 government in a uh tough position but good hey you wanted the big boy job carney well now you got it

00:46:12.440 figure it out and and premier smith has uh been been certainly standing up making her demands

00:46:19.220 pretty clear demands. And we're seeing posturing and we're seeing support for independence going

00:46:25.140 in a way that we'd never seen before. And as those demands, which were pretty clear

00:46:32.160 that Smith made, what, eight of them or so, as the federal government refuses to follow through

00:46:39.340 and, or, you know, participate in those demands, we're only going to see support for independence

00:46:43.960 grow more because it's showing, look, because these demands were not unreasonable.

00:46:49.220 And they're saying, look, we're trying, we've tried, we've put in decades of this, a lifetime

00:46:53.880 of this. This federal government is not interested in working with the province. It's not interested

00:46:58.540 in helping us along. So what's the point? And more and more people, we're going to have a

00:47:05.860 referendum in Alberta within a year. It's looking pretty clear now. What exactly the question will

00:47:11.880 be? We'll see. What exactly the date will be? We'll see. But I, you know, my guess is going

00:47:17.260 to be a clear cut question in uh probably the spring of 2026 so a little less than a year from

00:47:22.600 now and if we don't see some heavy movement towards things and especially if as i said

00:47:28.960 canada's still broken our economy's still hooped we're in still in trouble we've had a recent

00:47:33.440 report coming out saying as many as 100 000 jobs are going to be lost and canada's on the way to

00:47:37.360 recession because of this bad federal government that will not change things well if people can't

00:47:43.340 pay the mortgage, they're not going to think twice about giving it a crack for independence

00:47:48.040 because they got nothing to lose anymore, do they? Your attachment to the flag reduces when

00:47:53.440 you can't put food on the table. And that's what it's going to start coming to. So no more mealy

00:47:59.720 mouthed, mushy middle talk out of Carney. He either has to change the course of this country

00:48:05.880 or it's going to shatter. Canada's border problem, Greg Burns saying, talking about

00:48:13.040 yeah, we got a few things going on there with the border. You know, let's, let's talk about

00:48:20.100 that for a second. Somebody mentioned on a comment scroll the other day, I think my other show on

00:48:23.980 Wednesday too, you know, 1% of containers are checked. They come into Canada. That's where a

00:48:29.360 whole pile of goods from China and all around the world come into the Vancouver port and they come

00:48:33.000 up to St. Lawrence and 1% of them are checked. You know, I said before, President Trump has been

00:48:40.260 a pretty, uh, hysteric and says a lot of things that are untrue when he's negotiating and

00:48:44.380 everything. He's exaggerated. I think the amount of fentanyl that comes from Canada, but then

00:48:47.960 who knows? Cause if we aren't even checking the containers that are coming into Canada,

00:48:52.680 how do we know? And what an open gateway to get into the United States then, right? You don't get

00:49:01.000 the, you know, that 99% of your goods are going to get through if you're smuggling stuff. And

00:49:05.780 If you're thinking of something as fentanyl, so powerful, so terrible, you only need, you know, 20, 30, 50 kilograms of that stuff.

00:49:12.660 Massive amount that can be spread around and kill a whole bunch of young people all over North America. 0.64

00:49:17.280 Addict them in a sea can.

00:49:20.300 Find it.

00:49:21.200 Try to find it.

00:49:22.580 So it's coming in.

00:49:23.440 But why, why among all other things, this is where, again, this government's going to have to find some balls that I don't think they have.

00:49:30.120 Why won't they crack down on the port?

00:49:32.120 Why won't they do more inspections?

00:49:34.500 I'll tell you why.

00:49:35.780 Because the Teamsters and the Longshoremen's Union have a stranglehold on those ports and 0.75

00:49:42.620 they're corrupt to the core. And it's not an exaggeration. They've long been known for being

00:49:47.560 corrupt. Where do you think Jimmy Hoffa came from? The Teamsters have always been corrupt.

00:49:52.800 And they make a heck of a lot of money making sure those ports allow the free flow of illicit

00:49:57.980 goods in and things like stolen vehicles out. And the federal government's scared of unions. 0.84

00:50:07.800 They won't crack down and have it out with the union. So they'll just allow that to continue

00:50:13.260 to be a smuggling hub out there. I've had Sam Cooper on the show a number of times. Another

00:50:17.460 thing he talks about too, is we are also a hub for money laundering. You see, if you're going to be

00:50:21.400 in large scale foreign, uh, crime and bad acting. You also need to launder that money. And Canada

00:50:28.440 is just a soft touch for it all. So communist party of China, Mexican cartels, this has been

00:50:34.180 going on even prior to Trudeau, using a lot of Vancouver casinos, just laundering money, hand

00:50:40.220 over fist, right in front of everybody. And they're afraid to step in and do anything about it.

00:50:44.960 Why? Cowardly government, uh, insufferable rednecks saying, uh, Vancouver port, uh, is, 1.00

00:50:50.640 controlled by the hell's angels yeah that's a part of it organized crime in general 0.97

00:50:55.360 and uh that organized crime is tied into the other big facet of organized crime which is

00:51:01.680 unions and and organized crime organized labor they have a pretty close relationship with each

00:51:08.080 other so what are they going to do let's let's see some of the areas uh it looks like my guest

00:51:13.200 is running a little behind here we'll hope they make it in uh this came out from black locks 0.98

00:51:18.880 these guys are great too. And seven staffers work on UFOs. This is one of the things cabinet

00:51:25.020 spent our science advisor, we didn't get the documents for it or how much the science advisor,

00:51:29.780 you're gonna get wondering why the country's going broke, wondering why the civil service

00:51:32.320 is so huge, such a bureaucracy, this science advisor, it's a salary of 393,000 a year,

00:51:38.440 plus I'm sure a lot of benefits pension and holidays. And they compiled 10s of 1000s of

00:51:44.020 pages of research and employed seven people to look into UFOs. Really? Is this a problem?

00:51:54.060 Are they crashing out here? I mean, aside from the odd lunatic saying they've been probed when

00:51:58.780 probably they just passed out in front of the wrong bar, we're going to spend God knows how

00:52:04.580 much on this? I know it sounds relatively small when we talk about the billions and billions of

00:52:10.100 that our government wastes. What you see when you see how bad are massive and our bureaucracy is

00:52:14.960 massive, how badly it wastes money, and it's become an interest industry unto itself. And

00:52:22.260 this is what we're getting back to why Canada is broken. We're actually choking our productive

00:52:27.380 industries, we're choking our resource industries, we're choking our value added industries,

00:52:32.220 the ones that take products, refine products, sell products, make things that people consume,

00:52:38.620 We're taxing the crap out of them, and we're shutting them down and shutting them in. 0.99

00:52:43.220 Meanwhile, we're hiring more and more and more pointy-headed bureaucrats to sit in Ottawa and Quebec to suck in the money on things like this, 1.00

00:52:52.660 where you have seven people making six figures each to study UFOs. 0.54

00:52:56.640 How many thousands of departments have we got like this?

00:52:59.420 Do you understand? 0.98

00:53:00.400 We have a parasite sucking us dry, and that parasite's the civil service and is disrupting the entire economy. 0.99

00:53:08.480 It's making us a bad place to live. 0.98

00:53:10.160 It's making our productivity levels.

00:53:11.780 Look at all those things.

00:53:12.580 The beauty of online research.

00:53:13.920 You can see the productivity levels of Canada

00:53:15.860 measured against the rest of the world.

00:53:17.940 Ours stink.

00:53:19.900 When you look at the GDP per capita, 0.68

00:53:21.640 the wealth per individual,

00:53:23.640 we're in the toilet.

00:53:24.640 It's not growing.

00:53:26.720 I keep using the analogy

00:53:28.620 because you can find those things.

00:53:29.640 Canada's economy is equivalent to Mississippi now.

00:53:32.140 Mississippi is the poorest state

00:53:33.520 in the entire United States.

00:53:35.020 But as I also point out,

00:53:37.220 at least in Mississippi,

00:53:37.980 you can buy a house for 50 or a hundred thousand dollars. Here, we got the income of somebody from

00:53:43.100 Mississippi, but a house costs you anywhere from the lowest 300,000 up into the over a million

00:53:50.040 dollars. If you're in BC or Toronto or one of the major cities, Calgary, I think it's around 600

00:53:54.220 and some thousand. Yeah. We're in a lot of trouble and it's integrated and it's sick to the core. 1.00

00:54:02.820 So he was talking about, you know, here's one of the challenges too, with, with, you know,

00:54:07.540 inspecting the sea cans and the containers coming in. We can't hit every one of them. We can't get

00:54:11.560 them all. That's another problem that hits with efficiency, right? When, you know, trade will get

00:54:16.500 hindered, you can't hold them all up or we become even more inefficient. But we got to do more than

00:54:21.040 1%. There's definitely can do a lot better than that. You got to search, you know, it's just like

00:54:27.600 any border when you're driving across the border, they don't search every car unless there's

00:54:30.700 something specific going on. But as long as they're searching enough of them, a lot of people

00:54:35.940 just won't smuggle things across, or at least they're going to find a better way to do it.

00:54:41.640 This number came out, 51% of Canadians, yeah, are struggling with their mortgage. So over half,

00:54:47.500 just barely, 50% plus one more percent, speaking of referendums and things. But when we got half

00:54:53.980 of our country is having trouble, it says they're using their credit cards and other borrowing tools

00:54:58.020 to meet their bills and their mortgage. We're going to see people losing houses soon if this

00:55:04.340 environmental

00:55:06.580 or environmental

00:55:08.580 economic

00:55:09.480 situation in Canada does not dramatically change.

00:55:12.860 It's not going to. We're still broken.

00:55:14.980 We've got a government that's again, talk, talk, talk, talk,

00:55:16.660 talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. 0.89

00:55:18.520 It doesn't do a damn thing. 0.75

00:55:20.780 Carney? Yeah, somebody was saying, oh, you're whining, 0.95

00:55:22.800 you just got in. So what? He made big

00:55:24.640 promises and we're broke right friggin' now.

00:55:26.760 Enough kicking the can down the road,

00:55:28.560 enough pretending, oh, he's new. 1.00

00:55:30.280 He's leading the same assholes who have been in power 1.00

00:55:32.500 for 10 years. 1.00

00:55:34.340 no, you don't have an excuse for a long wait like others. It's not like a brand new government just

00:55:40.680 got in. It's just you assholes with a new head. So do something. I'm doing something. I'm hitting 1.00

00:55:48.860 these meetings. I'm hitting these rallies. And I'm seeing a growing amount of people throwing

00:55:52.060 their hands up and saying, I'm out. I'm done. I'm finished. I got nothing to lose. Independence

00:55:56.380 sounds bloody good to me. And it's growing. And those outside who don't understand why it's

00:56:02.400 growing, fine. But you know, the attitude from the federalists, from the anti-independence people out

00:56:08.400 there that are constantly basically saying, you can't do it. You're not allowed to do it. They

00:56:12.540 don't understand. We're not asking your permission. We don't need your permission. You should be

00:56:18.680 asking why a growing number of people are moving towards independence. If you really want to stop

00:56:24.280 it, look to the root causes as to why they're deciding to go that way. Because when you tell

00:56:29.580 us we can't, it doesn't stop us. In fact, it emboldens us. It strengthens the movement. You

00:56:35.280 guys are taking the wrong approach on how to do this. But I mean, speaking of unions, speaking

00:56:41.160 of stupid, and I know the two words coming together in sentences quite often. Let's look 1.00

00:56:44.080 at that Canada Post. Looks like the union backed down a little bit. They were supposed to go on

00:56:49.700 strike today. They didn't. But they're talking now we're not going to take any overtime. Oh,

00:56:55.000 big deal. Look, go to a pack in Calgary. You can go to the large postal depots and you see these

00:57:00.920 guys coming in and outside of the depot, you'll see it. I put a picture of that up on X. There'd

00:57:06.020 be like a hundred taxis there. Yeah. These postal workers show up at the depot. They get a taxi ride

00:57:10.460 to their walk. They go to the box. They walk around, they deliver mail all day and they take

00:57:13.780 a taxi back. They're usually done an eight hour shift in five hours, but they get paid for eight

00:57:18.360 and quite well for being a monkey. And here we go. Gaming of the bone. Yeah. They work five

00:57:24.860 hours and get paid eight for it. A commenter pointing it out. And so what if they're not

00:57:29.260 going to work overtime? None of them do. Though I wouldn't be surprised if maybe some of them are

00:57:32.100 clocking it somehow. Maybe they're having a few coffees before they come back. I've had it with

00:57:38.200 them. You know, and they had the excuse before. And we had those debates when they went on strike

00:57:42.880 last year saying, oh, hey, it's a crown corporation. They're self-funding. It'll get sorted out. No,

00:57:47.200 it won't. They took over a billion dollars in the bailout and they're still losing billions over the

00:57:51.140 last few years. It's got to stop. It's a dinosaur. It's got to be cut down to the core. It's got to.

00:57:59.140 Does the federal government have the balls to do that, though? I doubt it. Patty Haju is the 1.00

00:58:02.680 labor minister. Is she going to step in and do something about this? Probably not. 0.79

00:58:06.960 Maybe they'll just bail it out again. They're too afraid of labor strife. We got to get with

00:58:11.340 the modern world, guys. How many more billions do we want to put into this? This is, again,

00:58:16.100 showing how inefficient Canada is. But these unions, they don't get it. I mean, if they'd have

00:58:26.280 just been reasonable with what they're asking for, they might have still managed to hang on to this,

00:58:29.900 but they're killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. But welcome to parasites. Does a wood tick 0.99

00:58:33.940 think twice that it might be killing its host? A tapeworm? I'm serious. That's what a lot of these

00:58:39.780 particularly public service union people are. They're parasites. They're sucking off of the 1.00

00:58:44.140 reproductive. And eventually you'll either kill the host or the host is going to pluck you off 1.00

00:58:48.160 and flick you like a booger. And I've had it with the posties. They're among the worst of them. 0.99

00:58:53.400 This is, you guys had a good gig. You blew it. You wanted too much. You got too greedy. I'm not

00:58:59.120 going to feel bad for you when you get laid off and you're going to. Speaking of other parasites, 0.99

00:59:04.120 how about the CBC? Speaking of, you know, another dinosaur, another obsolete institution that's 0.99

00:59:09.400 costing taxpayers billions that very few Canadians are actually using.

00:59:14.700 They just acknowledged a string of errors under the guise of fact-checking.

00:59:20.340 Yeah, they admitted the CBC producer got her facts wrong

00:59:23.780 in purporting to correct others' comments in the election results in Carleton.

00:59:28.140 So the person paid by the CBC through your tax dollars

00:59:32.580 to correct the lies in the news was actually lying.

00:59:36.380 Good use of your dollars, isn't it?

00:59:38.420 Speaking of self-declared fact checkers, for those not familiar with her, and I don't blame you if you aren't, but I got to bring her up anyways. Rachel Gilmore, known twit, runs a little site called Bubble Pop, but she is prolific online. 0.99

00:59:53.180 She's gotten herself in the soup, of course, basically celebrating the killing of Jews and saying that it's unfair that people have been speaking nicely about that young couple who were engaged to be married who went to look at a museum and got gunned down in Washington.

01:00:08.420 She's saying, why are we talking so nice about them

01:00:10.440 and not talking about the plight of the Gazans?

01:00:12.100 Listen, bubble pop twit. 0.97

01:00:14.200 They were murdered young people 1.00

01:00:15.560 who weren't harming a single person out there.

01:00:18.160 But Rachel, what fired from Global,

01:00:21.200 she was fired from CTV as a fact checker. 0.70

01:00:24.020 She bounces around, but unfortunately due to 0.96

01:00:27.240 basically social media and revealing outfits,

01:00:32.960 she still maintains a small amount of an audience out there.

01:00:35.900 I don't think she has much influence on it.

01:00:37.160 Not too many people take her very seriously anymore,

01:00:39.280 but she's still there and still needs to be countered.

01:00:42.360 It comes social media in general, fact-checking.

01:00:45.640 There's a lot of, you know, I say it often,

01:00:47.880 we're exposed to more information

01:00:49.940 than we've ever seen in our whole lives.

01:00:51.220 We're also exposed to more BS

01:00:52.720 than we've ever had in our whole lives too.

01:00:55.100 But we can't rely on these fact-checkers

01:00:57.960 as I see the others laughing about that.

01:00:59.500 Yeah, with Rachel Gilmore calling herself such,

01:01:01.320 and as with the CBC calling itself fact-checkers

01:01:03.260 when it turns out they do anything but.

01:01:04.880 You got to make yourself a fact-checker.

01:01:06.880 You've got to look through, you got to look for second sources on things. You got to check it

01:01:11.240 up. That's just the way it goes. It's personal responsibility. I mean, try to find outlets that

01:01:14.760 lie to you less than others. I like to think that ours doesn't, you know, at all. It doesn't lie

01:01:19.460 less. I'm saying it doesn't lie. But as a viewer, as a listener, as a reader, it's just, it's up to

01:01:25.080 us. Personal responsibility. Don't wait for some government institution. I mean, there's some of

01:01:29.640 the fear too. We got Stephen Gilboa, the crazed extremist. He's in charge now of heritage and

01:01:34.360 And he's talking about imposing the streaming act and things like that, where they're going

01:01:38.140 to control what you get to see and hear.

01:01:39.700 And they're going to claim it's, you know, for the sake of getting facts to us.

01:01:46.920 Scary times.

01:01:48.700 VPNs, I think that's what they're called.

01:01:50.480 You know, maybe that's what you got to go to find your ways to get information without

01:01:53.800 the government finding out about it.

01:01:55.680 Crazy times.

01:01:56.480 Like I said, it all keeps coming down the same thing.

01:01:58.040 I started the show off with and pointing out that Canada is still broken.

01:02:00.920 It was broken before.

01:02:01.980 It's broken today.

01:02:02.960 we can save the west either way thanks for tuning in guys I'm going to be back

01:02:07.980 on Wednesday there's going to be other productions and shows coming out throughout keep your eye on

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Western Standard - May 24, 2025

Canada is still broken

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