Western Standard - Canada’s fake economic recovery can’t last

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day. It's September 14th, 2022. Welcome to the show formerly known as Triggered. Now is

00:00:37.320 Cory Morgan Untied or even just the Cory Morgan Show. So yes, an hour solid of me ranting, raving

00:00:43.560 and interviewing guests and covering some stories and events and issues that are, I like to think

00:00:49.380 important to a lot of folks. So thanks for joining today, guys. This show being live, as I said, we

00:00:53.860 still get our hiccups now and then, but the great part is we can interact. So I see Ashley, Denise,

00:00:58.100 others joining in there in the comments. Scroll, make use of it, you know, chat with each other,

00:01:02.460 send questions my way. Let's make it interactive and make use of this live aspect of this.

00:01:07.760 As always, I like to ask, keep it somewhat civil. You know, we can get a little worked up. We take

00:01:11.520 our politics seriously, but there's no sense getting personal with each other. I got a good

00:01:15.260 show coming up today. I'm going to have a talk with, he's a lawyer and former MLA, Rob Anderson.

00:01:23.720 And yeah, it looks like we're a little blurry guys. Hopefully our internet picks up here. We

00:01:27.620 just seem to be having a little issue there because the live bugs just like to get us this

00:01:32.320 way, I guess now and then. Either way, hopefully you can hear me all right. That's the more

00:01:35.540 important part. I look better when I'm a little blurred anyways. So yes, Rob Anderson's going to

00:01:40.100 be coming on. He's with that group, the Free Alberta Strategy, where they put together a

00:01:43.640 number of things, items that they feel can help Alberta distance itself or get clear of Ottawa's

00:01:50.740 reach. And there's so much discussion, of course, with Danielle's Sovereignty Act,

00:01:56.200 Daniel Smith's Sovereignty Act and the campaign. What does it mean? What is sovereignty? Is it

00:02:00.280 secessionism? Is it just more tinkering and tweaking? Is it possible? Will it be rejected?

00:02:05.160 I don't know. So let's have a little more of an extended discussion on it with somebody who's,

00:02:09.360 you know, not running for the leadership and see what it means, at least from their perspective.

00:02:13.700 But all right, I'm going to start with what's got me going and my ranting today. So

00:02:17.440 I guess we should be happy that Justin Trudeau has begun to start talking about the economy,

00:02:22.260 even if it's clear he still has no understanding whatsoever of how it works.

00:02:26.480 I mean, it wasn't that long ago when he unabashedly stated

00:02:28.840 he doesn't even think about monetary policy at all.

00:02:32.020 There's little doubt that Trudeau would rather remain in blissful ignorance of the economy

00:02:36.500 and stick to his usual shtick of virtue signaling on climate change

00:02:40.100 and COVID-19 and social justice issues.

00:02:42.760 But the growing popularity of Pierre Polyev obviously just won't allow it.

00:02:47.280 Now, unfortunately, while Trudeau is speaking about inflation

00:02:50.340 and the growing cost of living for Canadians,

00:02:51.960 still seems to be under the impression that he can borrow and spend our way out of it.

00:02:56.420 His shallow plan to offer $500, which adds up to $42 a month to help people struggling

00:03:01.780 undergoing rents, isn't addressing the lack of housing supply and is typical of his approach

00:03:06.780 to things. He's going to spend $4 billion more to fight inflation. It is like pouring gasoline

00:03:12.360 on a fire to try and put it out. He just doesn't get it. Now, if the government keeps printing

00:03:16.800 money while increasing spending, inflation is going to continue to grow. I mean, this isn't

00:03:20.700 theory. This is economic fact. The Bank of Canada will continue to raise interest rates to combat

00:03:26.280 that inflation, and we're going to be driven into a recession. And while the Trudeau government's

00:03:30.180 been celebrating the nation's economic recovery from the pandemic, the recovery isn't real.

00:03:34.660 We've been living on the credit cards of future generations, and now the bill's becoming due,

00:03:38.560 and it's doing it in the form of unchecked inflation. Our national debt is a staggering

00:03:42.980 $1.2 trillion, and it's growing by $145 million a day. As the interest rates rise, the cost of

00:03:49.840 servicing that debt is going to eat deeply into government budgets. We've been here before.

00:03:53.980 It gets worse, though. While the government was celebrating job growth, and most of the legacy

00:03:58.900 media outlets amplified that message for them, the job growth was fake. Over 86% of all the new jobs

00:04:05.760 created since 2020 have been in the public sector, which grew by 9.4% in the last couple years. The

00:04:11.420 private sector only grew by 0.4% in the same period. The government simply opened the hiring

00:04:17.560 floodgates to create the impression of job growth. In reality, this policy is a little more than a

00:04:22.660 work for welfare program. The government would be better served just to send checks out and drop the 1.00

00:04:26.560 pretense of hiring people. And how well has that worked out anyway, since hiring all these thousands

00:04:30.720 of civil servants? Well, passport renewals are blocked by months, immigration approvals are

00:04:35.060 backed up by years, and the government can't even get their own payroll right. Whatever those tens

00:04:39.420 of thousands of people the government hired were supposed to be doing, they aren't doing it very

00:04:42.660 well. What the bloating of the civil service is doing is contributing further to inflation on

00:04:46.840 multiple fronts. First, it leads to, of course, increased government spending and borrowing.

00:04:51.720 Secondly, it disrupts the labor market and forces competing private sector employers to raise wages

00:04:56.740 in hopes of drawing employees. That means they need to give raises to their existing employees.

00:05:01.540 Thus, they have to raise their prices for goods and services. And guess what? That adds to the

00:05:05.660 cost of living. It's an ugly cycle. And it's tough for a private sector employer to compete with

00:05:09.980 government jobs that offer high wages, huge pensions, and next to no work required.

00:05:14.920 Now, you know why we're in tough economic times,

00:05:18.240 yet we're in a labor crisis at the same time.

00:05:20.760 Canada's economy is not in good shape, and it's not recovering.

00:05:24.220 It's balanced on a pinhead shored up with debt and government spending,

00:05:27.440 and it will crash soon.

00:05:29.200 I mean, while Polyev's valiantly trying to bring this issue to a head,

00:05:31.960 the mainstream media is focused on attacking him.

00:05:33.720 I mean, David Aiken went on a bizarre, shouting, heckling rampage

00:05:36.840 at a Polyev press conference.

00:05:38.640 Legacy media outlets will continue to carry Trudeau's water for him

00:05:42.280 until the bitter end.

00:05:43.100 In the meantime, Canadians aren't aware of the economic freight train that's about to hit them.

00:05:48.540 Budgets don't ballot themselves, despite what Trudeau claimed.

00:05:51.960 But economies will correct themselves, and when they do, it can and will be ugly.

00:05:56.400 So hold on to your hats, folks.

00:05:58.540 So sorry, yes, I had to kick things off with a bit of a negative note,

00:06:01.200 but that's just the reality that's facing us today.

00:06:03.360 So let's hope that we have realistic economic discussion coming

00:06:07.060 rather than, you know, this pap coming out of our prime minister.

00:06:11.140 All right, we didn't do it last week, and I have missed it.

00:06:14.100 Let's check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor, though,

00:06:16.220 and see what's breaking out there in the news.

00:06:18.180 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:06:19.400 Where the hell's your tie, Corey?

00:06:21.380 Hey, I am untied right now.

00:06:24.480 This is just a little short distance from Unhinged.

00:06:27.480 Unbelievable.

00:06:28.740 You know what?

00:06:29.620 One of the things I've missed about having you in the newsroom

00:06:33.180 is the updates on Duke the Wonder Dog.

00:06:36.280 What's he been up to lately?

00:06:38.100 Anything exciting?

00:06:38.760 Yes. Well, Duke and Volstegg and Livy, all three of our goofy hounds in the house, decided to chase a bear away from my beehives the other night at home. It was quite something. They actually made themselves useful for a change.

00:06:52.560 And you ran back in and got your shotgun and you didn't kill it though, did you?

00:06:59.560 No, of course not.

00:07:00.640 That's an absolute last resort.

00:07:02.440 The nice thing with a shotgun is it makes a very loud boom.

00:07:05.020 So if I were to scare a bear away further, it would do that.

00:07:08.820 But while the bear hung around for a little bit, he took off on his own, even without a shot in the air.

00:07:13.720 And thankfully, we do have a fence that my dogs can't get past because as much as they like to talk tough with their barks,

00:07:19.160 I think if they'd actually met the bear, they might have been in for a pretty rough reality check.

00:07:24.360 Yeah, and there he is.

00:07:26.140 Yes.

00:07:26.640 He's a good sign.

00:07:27.480 hours later behind my house that's up from my kitchen there that's a good size yeah i love

00:07:33.720 living out there but uh yeah we got some critters coming by now and then awesome love to see those

00:07:39.000 two glowing eyes in the dark don't you yeah that scared the crap out of me i gotta admit like i 0.99

00:07:43.320 said i was telling earlier yeah i went out with a flashlight at first you know where those idiot 0.99

00:07:46.600 dogs barking at you know a squirrel or something like that and i'm shining the light in the trees 0.98

00:07:50.520 past my fence and suddenly i see these two eyes you know they just glow staring at me and they're

00:07:54.680 They're way too far apart to be a squirrel.

00:07:56.400 So that's where I had the reality check.

00:07:58.940 Thank God for Duke.

00:08:01.380 Lots of good stuff on the website already this morning, Corey, and more to come.

00:08:06.680 The United Nations is out with a report today on global climate change.

00:08:11.860 And basically it warns we're all going to die unless a gazillion dollars are spent to try and stop it.

00:08:21.460 Denmark, if you remember last month, stopped vaccinating young children against COVID.

00:08:28.480 Well, now they've issued medical directives not to vaccinate anybody under 50 unless they're in a high-risk territory.

00:08:37.060 So I believe Denmark's the first country to announce that sort of sweeping change in vaccinations.

00:08:44.320 The University of Alberta, closer to home, is working on an interesting study on distracted drivers.

00:08:51.320 They figure they can create a machine that will focus on distracted driving and be able to zoom in and find out what's going on.

00:09:00.320 Sounds like a future law enforcement technique to me.

00:09:06.280 Our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford, has written about Pierre Trudeau,

00:09:12.380 or sorry, not Pierre Trudeau, Pierre Polyev,

00:09:16.120 and the hypocrisies behind the Justin Trudeau attacks on him.

00:09:20.580 So that's a good read.

00:09:22.440 And we're still waiting for Alberta to figure out what they're doing

00:09:26.700 in terms of Monday, the Queen's funeral.

00:09:29.600 Pierre, stuck in my mind today, Corey.

00:09:32.480 Justin Trudeau has announced a national holiday,

00:09:37.080 but you have to be a federal worker to get that off.

00:09:40.820 Provinces have said no.

00:09:43.300 Ontario, Saskatchewan, and B.C. all came out yesterday

00:09:47.500 and said no, they weren't going to honour it.

00:09:49.760 And we're still waiting for Alberta to figure it out.

00:09:53.140 Kind of weird, as Jason Kenney is probably the biggest monarchist

00:09:57.520 among all Canadian premiers.

00:10:00.100 And we've got a good column up there from David Creighton on Global TV's David Aiken's strange meltdown yesterday at a Pierre Polyev press conference where he heckled him, interrupted him, and then at the end of it told Pierre to go F himself.

00:10:19.840 So we've got a good column on the fact that Polyev is already causing the media to go crazy.

00:10:27.120 This afternoon, we've got some good stuff coming up,

00:10:30.760 just about to hit publish on a Center of Disease Control story out of the States.

00:10:37.480 Their director has admitted they put out a lot of false information last year.

00:10:43.220 Surprise, surprise.

00:10:44.940 And our old friend, Kareem Jivraj.

00:10:48.380 You remember him?

00:10:49.120 I did an investigative series on him a while ago

00:10:53.220 on how he ruined the campaign for UCP of Kalen Ford,

00:10:58.940 who was a rising star within the UCP,

00:11:02.080 basically sabotaged by Jiv Raj,

00:11:05.940 by planting fake stories and just all sorts of nasty stuff.

00:11:11.420 Well, a judge has struck down his defense today,

00:11:15.260 so we've got an update on that.

00:11:17.560 And I think at the end of the day,

00:11:19.520 Kalen Ford is going to get a lot of money

00:11:21.060 from people like Jiv Raj and the press progress and people like that.

00:11:28.980 So lots of good stuff, Corey, and a pleasure talking to you again.

00:11:32.600 Yes, good to see you.

00:11:33.540 Well, I'll check in again next week.

00:11:35.120 I'm afraid I'll still be untied, but we'll have other things to chat about.

00:11:40.740 It was good to have you back, Dave.

00:11:42.860 Thanks, and I'll break in if there's any breaking news in the next hour.

00:11:47.560 Right on.

00:11:48.060 Thanks, Dave.

00:11:48.400 so yes that is our news editor dave naylor as always lots of stuff breaking lots of stuff

00:11:54.200 covered all sorts of news items out there and uh that's just that reminder we're covering these

00:11:59.540 things we're on them they break uh the stories come out so fast i mean i skim through them before

00:12:03.480 i start the show to see what's popping up there and uh lots on the go and the reason we can do

00:12:07.920 that guys is because you've been subscribing so again thank you all for subscribing we really do

00:12:14.080 appreciate it. If you haven't yet, get on there. It's 10 bucks a month, $99 for a year. I mean,

00:12:19.720 we're hearing some of that craziness going on with David Aiken. I mean, the mainstream media

00:12:24.000 is losing its mind, their collective minds. They're just, you know, there's not even a

00:12:29.760 pretense of any balance any longer. And it really did surprise me. Again, I mean, David Aiken,

00:12:34.080 we're not talking about a junior reporter here. Yeah, I know I'm blurry, folks. I'm not sure why.

00:12:39.440 Hopefully the internet picks up out here and it'll clean up for you soon.

00:12:44.540 But yeah, well, if you guys can still hear me there, we're going to get that fixed up right away.

00:13:09.440 Okay, that looks a little better.

00:13:36.160 It should be a little prettier for you there.

00:13:37.440 Thanks for your patience, guys.

00:13:38.600 We just had a bit of a technical hiccup and now I'm back and it looked to be nice and clear.

00:13:43.380 Again, as I said, we get these challenges when we do live.

00:13:45.720 But I mean, you know, you can't beat live for all the rest of the interactive.

00:13:48.800 I'm seeing you guys commenting and going there.

00:13:51.860 And, you know, Dash Riprock saying these folks are about to lose their jobs under Polyev.

00:13:56.660 And I don't, you know, guys like Aiken again, that surprised me.

00:14:00.040 This wasn't, you know, he's a veteran journalist.

00:14:04.460 He's composed.

00:14:05.480 He's been around the world.

00:14:06.780 He's somebody I respect, even if, you know, I don't agree with his, you know, stances all the time as a journalist.

00:14:12.320 But that was just bizarre. I mean, to go so unhinged and yelling.

00:14:16.180 And Polyev, yeah, he frustrated people.

00:14:18.740 It's frustrating when you go to a conference and they'll only take one or two questions or no questions.

00:14:24.160 But I mean, you know, when Trudeau pulled that stunt in B.C. and he wasn't taking any questions there,

00:14:28.860 there weren't press members screaming and yelling and heckling and interrupting him when he tried to make his statement.

00:14:33.860 You can complain about it later.

00:14:35.880 But it was just a very, again, you know, I would expect that out of a junior reporter

00:14:43.600 out of the Toronto Star or something like that.

00:14:45.460 But on David Aitken, it was really quite surprising.

00:14:47.780 And he has apologized.

00:14:48.580 I think he is genuinely embarrassed.

00:14:51.920 I do have big issues with the press and that.

00:14:53.860 And, you know, I do want to see a lot of changes.

00:14:56.280 But that outburst was just beyond the pale.

00:14:59.420 So we're in some politically heated times, though, you know,

00:15:01.880 and we're seeing some crazy stuff going on and things like that.

00:15:05.460 So let's get on to some more closer to home crazy politics.

00:15:10.880 And that's when shortly I'm going to have my guest on, Rob Anderson.

00:15:14.500 And as I said, he's with the Free Alberta Strategy.

00:15:18.940 And again, we can talk about, I mean, just what's going on.

00:15:22.700 What is sovereignty?

00:15:23.500 What are we doing?

00:15:24.180 What are we trying?

00:15:24.840 Because there's a lot of, I think, misinformation.

00:15:26.720 A lot of people are getting heated up

00:15:27.980 and a lot of interpretations of what it might mean.

00:15:31.420 So maybe we can get some clarity. So let's bring Rob in and have a conversation about that.

00:15:36.360 Hey there, Rob. Good to see you.

00:15:37.780 How are you doing, Corey? Good to see you.

00:15:39.640 Yeah, really good. Really good. So we got one conservative leadership race out of the way,

00:15:44.940 but we're in the midst of another one. And boy, I mean, I've never seen anything like a bunch of

00:15:50.360 candidates all allying themselves to all jump on the policy of one of their competing candidates

00:15:57.400 like that. And, you know, the main sticking point, I guess, is the Sovereignty Act.

00:16:03.340 Yeah. Yeah, it's a little bit, it's interesting, to say the least. You know, I think it's important

00:16:12.760 to note that, you know, the vast majority of Conservative supporters and Conservative members

00:16:19.220 support the Sovereignty Act, which is no small thing. I mean, this was a relatively unknown policy

00:16:23.900 proposal just you know frankly it was completely unknown a year and a half ago and even you know

00:16:32.060 three months ago where you know I'd say you know a couple percent might have heard about it so

00:16:35.720 to get that level of buy-in from Albertans not just the members of the party but also

00:16:41.200 conservative supporters and to see so many other Albertans saying look I'd like to see what this is

00:16:46.920 and learn a little bit more and see how it's used in the legislature and so forth it's actually quite

00:16:53.120 remarkable uh it surprised it surprised even me probably the only one it didn't surprise was

00:16:58.280 Danielle uh but uh it's it's been amazing and the and and the problem the other campaigns have or

00:17:04.860 the challenge um is that uh they're essentially campaigning against a policy that their own

00:17:12.000 supporters and members really like and that puts them in a pretty awkward spot to say the least so

00:17:18.520 anyway we'll see how it goes and ultimately members will decide and and um they'll make

00:17:22.740 the decision of whether we move forward with this. Yeah. So, I mean, and you're not speaking

00:17:26.480 for Daniel Smith, you're, you're with the free Alberta strategy, but I wanted to, I wanted to

00:17:29.980 just note on that. I am actually taking a leave of absence. I took a leave of absence at the

00:17:34.660 beginning of the campaign from the free Alberta strategy group to serve as Daniel's campaign

00:17:39.460 chair. Okay. Well, that's fine too. Cause I still want to just, I mean, it's the same subject matter

00:17:43.840 anyway. So I just want to always be clear on who's speaking in which ways anyways. So that

00:17:49.320 sovereignty act i mean one of the the main uh arguments we hear against it from the usual

00:17:54.320 poli sci professors from other politicians is that it's it's constitutionally impossible that

00:17:59.480 it's just throwing something out that won't work or can't work uh why do they feel that way

00:18:05.040 you know what i think sometimes um first of all some of them are just against the concept of

00:18:12.020 alberta asserting its uh jurisdictional rights they're just they're just essentially they're

00:18:16.500 anti-albert and a lot of them i would say out east but that's not the case in alberta there's

00:18:21.060 a lot of pro-alberta people that um uh obviously there are some that that aren't in favor of it but

00:18:26.500 i think what it really is is that um there is sometimes a knee-jerk uh reaction to something

00:18:33.660 uh when you first hear it in the media and it's spun in a certain way and i think that as people

00:18:39.700 take a look at the sovereignty act i think we've seen this through the campaign and i think you'll

00:18:42.980 see it further down the line with the general population as well, is that there's nothing

00:18:47.660 all that controversial about the Sovereignty Act.

00:18:50.640 It basically is just going to say, look, when Ottawa clearly violates our constitutional

00:18:57.260 jurisdictions as a province or is clearly violating the rights of Albertans, their

00:19:02.320 Charter Rights and Freedoms, that the legislature is going to be able to gather.

00:19:06.200 And if they so choose, under authority of the Sovereignty Act, they're going to say,

00:19:09.080 look, we're not going to allow that particular policy to be enforced here in Alberta because

00:19:15.540 we believe it's unconstitutional what they're doing, what the feds are doing.

00:19:21.580 And then, of course, if the feds disagree with that, well, then they can challenge us

00:19:25.900 in court and they can take us to court and we can wrangle there.

00:19:31.260 But right now it's reversed.

00:19:32.860 The feds are constantly doing unconstitutional things and forcing us to do things in the

00:19:38.580 province that we don't want to do, but instead of we say, okay, well, we're going to write letters

00:19:44.780 and we're going to, the response to that is letters and it's court challenges that take years.

00:19:49.720 And sometimes by the time the court rules on it, it's already, you know, it's already down the

00:19:54.720 creek and there's nothing we can do about it. Why don't we flip that around a little bit and say,

00:19:58.340 look, it's clearly unconstitutional. For example, you know, well, there's a whole bunch of examples,

00:20:04.180 but freezing bank accounts and the Emergencies Act, for example, of peaceful protesters.

00:20:11.680 Why would we enforce that among our own people?

00:20:13.680 Why would we do that?

00:20:14.820 It makes no sense to me.

00:20:16.080 Why would we allow illegal gun seizures in our province?

00:20:23.060 Property rights are the purview of the province.

00:20:25.360 They're not the purview of the federal government.

00:20:27.360 And you can go down the line.

00:20:28.600 C-69, the Court of Appeal of Alberta has already said that that's unconstitutional.

00:20:33.120 That's that new environmental assessment agency, essentially, that gives the yes and no to all different projects across the country.

00:20:44.520 Well, if we want to build highways here that are more than 75 kilometers long, or we want to build a gravel pit here, or somebody wants to build a different oil and gas development, we don't need the feds to okay that.

00:20:59.780 that is the development of natural resources. That is provincial jurisdiction. The feds can

00:21:04.080 butt out. And if they have a problem with that, they can sue us in court. But we don't need to,

00:21:08.120 especially when it's wholly within Alberta and not crossing provincial lines. We need to defend

00:21:13.620 our jurisdiction and our sovereignty. And that's what the Sovereignty Act is meant to do.

00:21:17.580 Yeah, well, that's a lot of what I found and what I like about the, I guess, the approach is it's

00:21:22.120 taking the fight to them. We've always been playing defensive. We wait until they do something

00:21:26.300 to us and then we complain by then it's already done and and we're we're looking in hindsight

00:21:30.600 and i got a feeling that i guess some of the establishment people within the party and even

00:21:34.780 premier kenny himself still doesn't seem to understand that it was all of the the big talk

00:21:39.880 and small action when it came to ottawa over the last few years that are a lot of what led to his

00:21:44.360 losing his leadership in the first place like the members want to see something substantial and

00:21:49.440 they're not going to put up with more letters to ottawa no the time for that has passed i mean

00:21:54.340 we've been doing that same thing for decades, actually, not just years, but decades under an

00:22:00.140 NDP government, under PC governments, UCP. It's all the same. It's all the same. It results. The

00:22:07.040 result is the same. And that is that the feds don't take us seriously. They think that we're

00:22:11.940 just going to, that we're, that we're pushovers and Albertans are reasonable people. And we want

00:22:16.760 to be contributing members of, of this country in confederation. We want to be positive in that.

00:22:23.300 And I understand that. I understand that. I really do. And I think that we can be a positive influence and unity in this country. But I don't think you can really have a functional relationship, whether that's a personal relationship, whether that's a relationship in business, or whether it's a political relationship, where there's not healthy respect.

00:22:43.560 and we have been completely disrespected by Ottawa for decades because we won't stand up for

00:22:49.880 ourselves. Quebec gets respect because they stand up for themselves. We don't. And if we start doing 0.96

00:22:56.180 that, we're going to get results. It's not going to happen all at once. I'm not going to use the

00:22:59.880 Sovereignty Act on every single federal piece of legislation you don't like. But if we draw a line

00:23:04.660 in the sand on some of these very egregious examples of federal intrusion into provincial

00:23:08.360 jurisdiction. Over the next year or two, it'll just become evident to Ottawa that they better

00:23:14.860 stay in their own lane because if they don't, they're going to have a big fight on their hands.

00:23:18.980 Yeah, well, and some people have described it as something that would bring about

00:23:21.860 secessionism or break things up. And I mean, speaking for myself, as a guy who's been

00:23:26.040 pretty involved in pushing for full independence for a long time, things like this, if the Sovereignty

00:23:31.820 Act works, it would actually reduce secessionism. It would say, look, we can fix things without

00:23:37.220 having to separate from the country, we can stand up for ourselves and address these issues. I mean,

00:23:42.760 it's sort of disingenuous to claim that this is a secessionist sort of move.

00:23:47.420 No, it's absurd. It's just the opposite of that. We do have to use the language sovereignty

00:23:54.020 because that's what really we're talking about here. We're talking about the provinces have

00:23:57.820 sovereign authority over certain areas in the constitution and those sovereign areas of

00:24:03.800 jurisdiction need to be respected for this country to work and i actually think and i know you know

00:24:09.660 you know i think daniel's spoken extensively about this that that the actual the way to unify this

00:24:15.540 country is for not just alberta to be asserting their sovereign their sovereign authorities not

00:24:22.000 just quebec to assert their sovereign authorities which is what they do and we're just essentially

00:24:25.820 following their lead on it it's for every province in this country to say look the federal government

00:24:31.460 needs to get out of these areas. They're not doing a good job. They're violating our

00:24:35.840 constitutional jurisdictions, and they're trying to impose one-size-fits-all approaches on every

00:24:41.180 province across the country. And it's been an abject failure from healthcare to daycare to

00:24:46.020 everything that they get their tentacles into, frankly, that's provincial in nature. That's a

00:24:50.360 provincial jurisdiction under the constitution. So this idea that Pierre Polyev has been talking

00:24:55.460 about, and I would say Maxine Bernier has been talking about, this idea of decentralization

00:25:02.300 of government, of having the federal role decreased, having the tax pool of the federal

00:25:09.800 government decreased, and then a corresponding increase by the provinces to make sure that

00:25:14.640 they're handling their own money and their own systems in the way they see fit.

00:25:18.520 That is, in my view, and I know in Daniel's view, is the way to actually unify this country,

00:25:23.880 because the way we're doing it right now, you know, we're on a path to, we're on a path to

00:25:30.280 breakup, I think, in this country if we don't start respecting the rights of our provinces

00:25:36.120 under the constitution. Yeah, so going further, and as it kind of shows on the website kind of

00:25:41.520 in the past too, I mean, it's one thing to say that you have an act saying you won't enforce

00:25:44.920 constitutional things, but some things have to be changed in order to refuse that enforcement,

00:25:50.020 such as an Alberta Provincial Police Force, which wouldn't take part in, say, gun seizures,

00:25:54.660 or I see, you know, the Independent Banking Act, which could save people's accounts from being

00:25:58.820 seized by a government, as we've seen, and the judicial independence. But those are all separate

00:26:02.980 acts that would be almost kind of little separate battles on their own as well.

00:26:06.160 That's right. And to be clear, like some of the things proposed by the Free Alberta Strategy,

00:26:11.820 certainly some of those ideas have been adopted by several candidates on the campaign,

00:26:16.800 uh leadership candidates particularly danielle obviously uh which is why i chose to to support

00:26:22.560 her uh but several things have not and and that's the thing i mean the free alberta initiative is a

00:26:27.860 think tank and we came up with some ideas that we think that would work but to your point cory yes

00:26:33.520 there are other pieces and and some of the pieces that danielle's talked about are and and other

00:26:38.880 candidates as well are the the need for a provincial police force uh particular for rural

00:26:44.340 enforcement. They wouldn't affect the Calgary City Police or the Edmonton City Police or any

00:26:48.260 of the city police. Those are provincially overseen anyway. But the RCMP is not. And we

00:26:54.440 have our own priorities here in Alberta, in rural Alberta in particular. We need our own

00:26:58.480 provincial police force. She's talked about the need to collect our own taxes provincially. We've

00:27:03.460 got to put that infrastructure in place. That's important to asserting our sovereignty. And then,

00:27:09.060 of course, a pension plan. I mean, that just makes good financial sense. We're sending

00:27:12.800 billions and billions of dollars more into that plan that we're getting back for our seniors so

00:27:17.560 not only is that asserting sovereignty that just makes a ton of sense on a dollar and cents basis

00:27:21.680 so those three things in particular have been um kind of adopted by by several of the leadership

00:27:27.200 candidates particularly uh danielle and uh and then that combined with the sovereignty act in my

00:27:34.360 view is why so many albertans are looking at that and saying you know what that's a strategy that

00:27:38.900 could work. And I think that's why she's having success. Well, yeah. And I mean, if this could

00:27:43.580 inspire other provinces as well, I mean, this people don't seem to realize that, you know,

00:27:49.300 decentralizing power in an ironic way can bring us closer together because then we aren't at each

00:27:54.200 other's throats with other things. I love you using Switzerland as an example. You got four

00:27:58.900 official languages, you got 26 cantons, you know, very decentralized government, a great deal of

00:28:04.880 change you can travel 50 kilometers and you're into a totally different governing zone and you

00:28:09.640 don't hear about independence movements in Switzerland they're all happy in one large

00:28:14.160 diverse group and the way to do that is to get the central federal government out of the hair 0.89

00:28:18.540 the smaller groups isn't it isn't it ironic too that uh you're absolutely right and it's ironic

00:28:24.300 because um liberals and the woke woke I would say the woke left establishment they all talk

00:28:31.180 about diversity that's their favorite word diversity diversity diversity and that's all

00:28:34.980 fine and good they're talking you know we we're a diverse country multicultural that's great and

00:28:39.980 then they kind of hypocritically turn around and say but when it comes to control of the country

00:28:43.880 we can't have diversity we can't possibly let quebec alberta bc and saskatchewan run their 0.50

00:28:49.880 child care systems differently or their health care systems differently we need a canada health

00:28:54.360 act or we need a you know a new federal daycare program that that that puts conditions on how we 1.00

00:29:00.840 we run our uh our system here it's just one thing after the other education grants social grants

00:29:06.520 everything they have to get their tentacles into everything so they're actually very much

00:29:10.680 against diversity uh when it comes to how people run their lives and that's when you're talking

00:29:16.840 about diversity that's just as important i mean we we need to respect alberta is not prince edward

00:29:22.360 island quebec is not bc like we're very different peoples different cultures and that what that's

00:29:27.960 that's what makes us a great nation. And I think if you really look at, you know, the one, you know,

00:29:33.080 the 25 to 30, 35% of people that in Alberta and also in other provinces that want to have their

00:29:41.140 own independent nation, so to speak, I would say that they're the thing that drives them to that

00:29:47.740 the most is how fed up they are with how Ottawa deals with their particular province. Isn't that

00:29:54.660 interesting because it's not that they have anything against their fellow Canadians. It's

00:29:58.840 not that they don't think BC is not beautiful, the maritime is not beautiful, and the people there

00:30:03.040 are great when you sit down and have a beer with them. It's none of that. It's always Ottawa.

00:30:07.280 Ottawa is the number one driver of political instability between the provinces and the most,

00:30:15.320 I would say, the biggest driver of disunity in our country. And so I think that Alberta can lead

00:30:21.100 the way with Quebec, frankly, in making sure that we understand that we are different.

00:30:26.000 Let's embrace those differences and let's let the provinces govern themselves as much as possible.

00:30:30.660 Yeah. Well, and most of what's being asked are things that other provinces are already doing.

00:30:34.460 I mean, it just frustrates me when Alberta tries to assert these sorts of things, we get called

00:30:39.760 extreme. When Quebec does it, then they get indulged. I mean, come on guys, let's move on

00:30:45.220 from this double standard. Yeah, that's what it is. It's a double standard and it's hypocritical

00:30:50.020 in the extreme. And I am always amazed, especially by the individuals that choose to fearmonger on

00:30:57.920 this and choose to say, oh, this is a pathway to separation. No, I'm sorry. Asserting your

00:31:03.680 constitutional rights as a province, that's just called leadership and standing up for your people.

00:31:12.180 It's putting Albertans first, as Daniel is always saying. To try to equate that with trying to break

00:31:18.240 up the country and that we're you know that these proposals are are looney tunes it just what it

00:31:23.200 shows is is that there's a lot of people in the media and on the left that make knee-jerk decisions

00:31:27.220 to things um probably because when they were sipping their latte with their buddy down at

00:31:31.600 the coffee shop they uh you know they were looking at their twitter feed they decided that uh that

00:31:37.100 this was a bad idea without even taking a substantial look at it and i think that albertans

00:31:41.720 generally entrepreneurial people business friendly people they're taking a look at this and they've

00:31:46.520 taken a look at it over the last three months and more are going to take a look over the next three

00:31:50.420 months. And I think they're going to quite soon come to the realization that this is actually a

00:31:54.960 really good step in redefining our relationship into a healthy one with Ottawa. Great. And now

00:32:01.680 since you are formally now with Daniel Smith's campaign, I want to turn a little bit before I

00:32:07.080 let you go. One of the commenters question, because this is where the campaigns kind of

00:32:10.180 change. And I'm really interested in that actually is Kara Byrne-Clark said, you know,

00:32:13.560 what about dismantling AHS? And I'm not sure if that's what the campaign point was, but was

00:32:17.460 Daniel's taking on at least AHS, which is a huge area. And again, you know, it's really going to

00:32:23.000 stir the hornet's nest, but it really needs to be done. Where's the campaign coming from on that?

00:32:28.960 Well, AHS, I think your viewers likely talking about the release that was sent out yesterday

00:32:35.540 on AHS reform and what Daniel's policy on that is just, well, let's back up. AHS completely failed

00:32:43.160 us during the COVID situation and management that occurred. We needed more ICU capacity.

00:32:52.360 They gave us less. They gave us a bunch of, you know, while they were bonusing their executives,

00:32:58.620 we were having trouble recruiting people to help on the frontline and actually losing people

00:33:02.700 because of their insane policy of firing healthcare workers that didn't agree with

00:33:08.360 them on getting a vaccine and then taking those individuals and firing them during a health care

00:33:14.460 during a pandemic and during a situation where we needed to make sure that we had additional health

00:33:22.340 support and health workers there it was an absolute it was just it was crazy that's the

00:33:28.040 way to say it their management was completely dysfunctional so the first thing that needs to

00:33:32.700 happen is um that daniel has proposed is look we need a new hsco the other one's been let go

00:33:38.240 Let's make sure we bring someone in with executive experience who's a health care reformer, who is going to get to the bottom of some of the problems in EMS response times and obviously on the acute care shortage and these types of issues that we've been having.

00:33:55.380 The board needs to be replaced with an interim commissioner that works with the CEO.

00:34:01.140 That interim commissioner would report directly to the Minister of Health and the Premier.

00:34:05.340 And we want a 30 day action plan to give us immediate steps that we can take to to staff up and beef up our ICU and hospital bed capacity.

00:34:17.000 So we don't have people on the ground sleeping and being treated on hospital floors as we flow into acute respiratory season here in the fall.

00:34:25.860 And then a 90 day plan on how we're going to permanently decentralize health care to the local level, get local professionals and local decision makers involved in the process at the local level, get rid of this ridiculous level of middle management that is just afraid to make good decisions and is butt covering and communications and PR consultants. 0.97

00:34:47.080 And like, that's just garbage. Let's return health care to the local level. Let's do it in a, you know, in a thoughtful, business-like fashion. So, you know, just rip apart something overnight. But we do need, it does need substantial reform. And there are some things that do make sense for the province to handle as a province. But most health care delivery, that should be at the very local level and not by some big bureaucracy, because it has failed. It has utterly failed. It needs to be changed. 0.67

00:35:17.080 and reformed. Well, I'm glad to see the discussion opened up. And well, the campaign is getting into

00:35:22.020 its final legs, probably what about half of the members have cast their ballot by now who are

00:35:25.760 eligible, not to do too many undecideds left out there. But still, I mean, you work right to the

00:35:31.080 very end. So thank you very much for coming on to talk and break that down a little more for us

00:35:36.580 today. Because, you know, there's just so much different discussion and interpretation on a

00:35:39.800 policy that hasn't even actually been drafted into legislation yet. So yeah, it'll be interesting to

00:35:46.260 see how that develops. Yes. Thank you, Corey. And I've noted that we've heard of all kinds of

00:35:53.060 great ideas. A campaign should be about ideas. I've never heard of anyone ever requesting that

00:35:59.120 Justin Trudeau or Pierre Polyev or any of the other candidates running in this race draft

00:36:05.440 their legislation in advance. Of course, that's silly. We'll make sure Daniel's said time and 0.91

00:36:11.600 again, it'll be constitutional, it'll be thoughtful, and it'll be used as a tool

00:36:16.300 strategically to take on Ottawa when they, when they egregiously violate our constitutional

00:36:20.520 position or constitutional rights. And I'm looking forward to it. Looking forward to seeing how that

00:36:25.040 rolls out. Right on. Okay. Well, we'll talk again soon. I'm sure I'll let you get back to work.

00:36:30.580 You guys got a lot to do before the end of this. Thanks, Corey. Take care. Okay. Thank you.

00:36:36.360 That was Rob Anderson. And yes, with the free Alberta strategy. And as he said on here as well,

00:36:40.960 he's the co-chair on the Daniel Smith campaign. And again, just whether people agree with or

00:36:46.240 disagree with Daniel or with the policies or whatnot, we need some clarity. We need that

00:36:50.440 coming from there because people are reading in a whole heck of a lot of what it might mean

00:36:54.880 and what it might be. Cheryl Donsing, Pastor Art Pawlowski won the Independence Party of Alberta

00:37:02.640 Leadership Race. Is that the party that Corey started? That's sort of the incarnation. The

00:37:08.000 The party vanished for a while and was brought back by Dave as the Alberta Independence Party,

00:37:15.760 and then they changed it to the Independence Party of Alberta.

00:37:17.680 But I am very, very far removed from it now.

00:37:20.020 I was 29 back when I started that party back in 1999.

00:37:26.200 No, 2000, right on 2000.

00:37:28.080 But we'll see where Pawlowski goes with that.

00:37:30.520 I watched the, you know, they have every freedom and right and ability to go with what they

00:37:35.360 like with that.

00:37:35.920 I watched a video of it from their thing.

00:37:38.680 It's to each their own, and it's very religiously based.

00:37:42.220 I mean, before they announced their leadership, though, the whole room, you know, bowed their head in prayer and everything, which, again, they have every right to, and that's fine.

00:37:49.120 But if you're looking at a theocratic basis, I personally, for myself, I have no interest in it.

00:37:54.600 But we'll see where Mr. Pawlowski goes with that.

00:37:57.220 He's certainly an outspoken person and a colorful personality.

00:38:01.600 uh so it'll keep things uh lively uh on the provincial front anyways uh so i can speak to

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00:39:14.800 All right.

00:39:15.820 So, you know, something else I've been doing, and as I see Wildrose noted,

00:39:18.940 I'm back.

00:39:19.260 Yes, I'm back once a week.

00:39:20.860 And, you know, I'm doing other things.

00:39:22.480 I'm still writing columns.

00:39:23.320 I'm still active. I'm just part-time here with the standard now, that's all. And it was just

00:39:28.560 quite a workout doing those five days a week. But what I do, and I've never, you know, hidden that

00:39:33.040 is I like driving Uber. I actually like doing it. It's flexible. I get out, I make a few bucks

00:39:36.600 and I get to look around and I get some time to think. So I went through Forest Lawn a bit

00:39:40.820 recently in Calgary. And for people not familiar with Calgary, that's on the east end of town.

00:39:44.540 And it's basically Calgary's roughest residential district. And hey, there's some great people in

00:39:49.600 Forest Lawn. A lot of people are just young families. They're working people. They, you know,

00:39:54.320 they just, they can't afford to rent or buy a place in the higher end ends of town. So they're

00:39:59.740 living in Forest Lawn, but it's a high crime area. It's got a lot of problems. And what they've got

00:40:04.260 going on out there right now as I'm driving around, they're ripping up perfectly good sidewalks all

00:40:08.420 over the place and putting in frigging bike lanes. Yes, frigging bike lanes. That's what Forest Lawn 0.93

00:40:14.280 needs or salon that's been gang warfare central for the last few months. The city of Calgary is

00:40:20.300 addressing it by putting in a bunch of bike lanes. Nobody's out there riding bikes. This is bizarre

00:40:26.200 obsession with ruining good infrastructure that taxpayers in every city is doing it. This isn't

00:40:32.100 just Calgary, but this is the only going to go on Calgary's example. Because of these, these

00:40:36.460 climate change fanatics, these zealots, it's an anti car movement. It's not pro bike. And I mean,

00:40:42.980 I can imagine, you know, Jody Gondek, Calgary's extremist mayor, and she is an extremist. She 0.64

00:40:48.200 wants an $87 billion climate change plan in Calgary. Just think of her door knocking in 0.94

00:40:53.800 forest lawn to a concerned citizen as they're ripping up their streets and putting in these

00:40:57.460 bike lanes. You know, the person say, hi, I'm Jody Gondek. How have you liked our governance

00:41:01.840 so far? Well, I've been waking up every night with drive-by shootings. Oh, dear. Well, you know,

00:41:08.040 those bike lines lanes will traffic calming and the drive-by shootings will be slower.

00:41:14.340 What, anything else? Yeah, yeah, there's a meth lab next door. Oh no, we like to call that

00:41:19.340 alternative pharmacy, please. Let's be sensitive here. What, you know, oh, and we made you a new

00:41:26.640 community garden down the road. Yeah, I know there's a tent city in it. You know, where does 1.00

00:41:32.160 it stop? What are your concerns? Oh, I, oh, by the way, the kiddie park down the road is loaded

00:41:37.540 with syringes. I see kind of, oh, those diabetics. Gee, you know, I wish they'd put those syringes

00:41:43.300 away. Maybe if they rode bikes more, we'd have fewer type two diabetics. I mean, that's how 1.00

00:41:47.900 disconnected and ridiculous these people are. You know, I can see the mayor on the doorstep. Oh, 0.99

00:41:51.700 look, there's a person on a bike there. Yeah, he's got a string of catalytic converters around

00:41:55.480 his neck and he's got another bike next to him. He's a junkie and he's been robbing us. Forest

00:42:00.840 Lawn doesn't need bike lanes. They need policing. They need addictions treatment. They need a lot

00:42:07.000 of things, but what's the city of Calgary doing? It's ripping roads to shreds and putting in bike

00:42:11.400 lanes that nobody's going to frigging use. They did that in the west side of the city too. Either

00:42:16.140 way, I just had to rant, like the disconnect, the lack of reality in the minds of these people,

00:42:21.520 because it is, it's just, they won't face it. And like I said, it's like our federal government,

00:42:29.680 you know, I'll pivot there. I mean, I'm looking at some of these news stories that the Canadian

00:42:33.520 Tourism Commission paid themselves five-figure quarantine bonuses. This is in the Western

00:42:37.340 Standard out there. And over the two and a half years that there was no tourists, we were locked

00:42:44.380 down. This is the, again, I'm talking about the government saying we fixed the economy because

00:42:48.820 we hire tens of thousands of civil servants. Yeah, and you're giving them these bonuses and they

00:42:51.880 aren't doing a damn thing. But they're in denial. And they're in denial of the crash they're working

00:42:56.980 us towards. The problems we're going to be getting out of these things. It's brutal. It's brutal.

00:43:03.520 And Jet Gorgon saying, yeah, just like the idiots pushing universal basic income. 1.00

00:43:07.100 Yeah, that's a failure, guys. 1.00

00:43:08.660 It doesn't work.

00:43:10.320 And, you know, the universal basic income, that's the real push they like for trying to.

00:43:13.960 The bottom line is it's backdoor socialism, which socialism is just slowed down communism, guys.

00:43:19.280 That's all it is.

00:43:20.740 Universal basic income.

00:43:22.380 Why is the world doing it? 0.54

00:43:23.540 Because it doesn't frigging work.

00:43:25.020 Some countries have tried it.

00:43:26.160 Finland tried it.

00:43:27.000 They tried experiments in Winnipeg.

00:43:27.960 It doesn't work. 0.99

00:43:28.920 Paying people to sit on their asses just makes more people sit on their asses. 1.00

00:43:32.440 You can't keep sucking from the productive and giving to the lazy. 1.00

00:43:35.200 And that's what universal basic income does.

00:43:37.280 And some of it don't talk about how some conservative economists have said it's a good idea.

00:43:42.340 It would streamline things.

00:43:44.320 Yeah, it could.

00:43:46.140 But you see, there's a bunch of theoreticals behind it.

00:43:48.580 They say, you know, with all of these programs, you got this welfare program,

00:43:51.160 and you got AISH, and you got, you know, all of these different things that we spend

00:43:54.620 with 10 different, you know, 100 different government departments.

00:43:56.800 If we just packed it all into one universal basic income, it would save a bunch of money.

00:44:01.460 Yes, if the government had the courage to do that.

00:44:03.400 But we know they don't have the courage to do that.

00:44:05.300 So all they would do is bring in universal basic income

00:44:07.220 on top of all the rest of the programs 0.89

00:44:09.380 because they wouldn't have the balls to come out and say, 0.97

00:44:11.120 we're going to pull that program out of your hands. 0.99

00:44:12.720 Of course not.

00:44:13.120 They buy votes with that.

00:44:15.700 UBI.

00:44:16.520 It's delusional.

00:44:19.060 And LinkedIn user.

00:44:20.220 Yeah, so we don't get the names with those.

00:44:21.680 So I see some of the commenters,

00:44:22.600 you know, saying dealers and hard drugs

00:44:23.560 need to be put away for a long time. 0.99

00:44:26.420 So they need to be hanged, 0.97

00:44:27.500 but I don't think there'll be many takers for that. 0.99

00:44:28.820 This is the commenter saying that.

00:44:29.720 I mean, there's where I've differed from a lot of our viewers before in that I don't believe in giving the state capital punishment or the ability for it.

00:44:38.440 And the reason for it is just like with that stabby monster out in Saskatchewan who was guilty of 69 crimes and they let him out again and he killed 10 or 11 more people before they caught him.

00:44:50.520 I didn't shed a tear when I heard he was dead.

00:44:54.060 Good. The world is a better place for it.

00:44:55.760 There's no doubt about that.

00:44:57.040 My problem, though, is I don't want to give the government the power to kill people.

00:45:00.940 I don't.

00:45:01.760 Look, look how well the government's already served us, guys.

00:45:04.920 Look what they did with, I mean, did you think they would come out and seize our bank accounts?

00:45:08.480 Did you think they would lock us in our houses?

00:45:10.280 Did you think they would shut down our businesses?

00:45:13.560 Well, I don't want to give that group of people more power.

00:45:16.500 And you can't give them a power more powerful than the ability to execute citizens.

00:45:23.560 So I don't ever want the government to have that power again.

00:45:25.420 Hey, life sentences, absolutely. I want to see some of those sick buggers locked up, weld the door shut, and die of old age in prison. I just don't want to see the government having the ability to kill people. And that paradox is saying, yeah, this guy's parole release was managed by government. Yeah, I know. They screwed that up. The parole still has to be fixed. 1.00

00:45:47.080 but the thing is we also have

00:45:49.660 David Milgaard who was in jail for decades

00:45:51.540 and wrongly so and everybody at the time of his conviction

00:45:53.960 would have said oh

00:45:55.320 he was definitely guilty 100% guilty

00:45:58.200 because people say we just do it when it's 100% guilt

00:45:59.860 no guys the government can't say

00:46:01.900 with 100% certainty on anything

00:46:03.820 they're incompetent

00:46:04.900 lock them up for real fix those parole boards

00:46:08.200 do something with it

00:46:09.180 I mean the other aspect of course

00:46:11.340 is that

00:46:13.040 allow people to defend themselves

00:46:17.340 You know, I mean, we need those firearms.

00:46:20.260 I live in a rural area.

00:46:21.360 I got 40% response times to my house

00:46:23.380 if I have police calls that come in.

00:46:25.520 And Trudeau is saying we don't have the right

00:46:27.160 to defend ourselves with firearms.

00:46:28.240 Yeah, well, I hope I never have to put that to the test.

00:46:30.680 But yes, we do, actually.

00:46:32.920 And as the saying goes,

00:46:34.240 I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six. 0.52

00:46:36.800 And a lot of rural homeowners,

00:46:38.040 and I think some urban ones feel the same way.

00:46:40.140 It takes some of that pressure out as well.

00:46:41.900 But right now, they crack down on people

00:46:44.000 who defend themselves while they are letting these chronic offenders off the hook all the

00:46:50.340 time. And I did a little video rant on my own channel about that because there was four women 1.00

00:46:53.840 in Alberta killed in the last year by repeat violent offenders that we have let out. And

00:46:59.680 it's unacceptable. Shane Woolsey saying, I'm a former heroin addict who runs my own company.

00:47:06.160 You know, I like seeing those comments. There's another thing with the addicts and I'm on their

00:47:11.160 case because we have an addiction epidemic. It's huge. It's problematic. It's a big, big problem

00:47:16.720 and we need to treat them. They need help. You can't just go cold turkey. It doesn't work that

00:47:23.720 way. Not with meth, not with heroin, not with people when they've sunk to that level. And it's

00:47:28.560 very difficult. The success rate, even with treatment, isn't all that great. The success

00:47:32.280 rate for those addicts, those poor zombies you see wandering on the street. So they're freaking 0.90

00:47:36.920 out or going up and down the medians. It's zero, basically, if we don't intervene and try to help

00:47:44.620 somehow. Now, we've got this fanaticism coming with safe consumption sites. Oh, that's what'll

00:47:50.980 fix everything. Safe consumption. No, you're dragging out the inevitable. There's no safe

00:47:54.480 way to take meth. There's no safe way to take non-prescription fentanyl. You're just slowing

00:48:02.140 the poison. Unless you couple it with treatment, you're just dragging out a death at best. And

00:48:07.760 there's some logic to it. Look, we can't treat a guy if he's dead or woman. So if we can mitigate 0.63

00:48:13.220 and keep them, but we've got these ideology. And I love the hypocrisy of the hipsters, 0.93

00:48:18.360 the urbanists, the downtown people anyways. Calgary's East Village, you know, which is 0.79

00:48:23.280 supposed to be the big hip new neighborhood. They've been pumping tens of millions of tax

00:48:27.740 dollars into to try and develop into this nice area. And they were going to move one of the safe

00:48:33.760 supervised consumption sites over into their area. And the citizens of residence, all those

00:48:37.300 hipsters and lefties said, not my backyard. No, I don't want them around here. Yeah, go figure,

00:48:43.060 you hypocritical chodes. Look, we got to get realistic with it. And there is problems when 1.00

00:48:50.120 you come to safe consumption sites. They draw the addicts in. We got to sugarcoat this. And

00:48:56.320 who follows the addicts? The dealers. And the addicts are desperate. And they will rob anybody

00:49:01.500 who's near them. They're desperate. They're sick. They're in trouble. They'll steal the teeth out

00:49:06.140 of your head if it will get them another fix. Let's be realistic about that. I mean, people

00:49:12.180 keep talking about too. And, you know, in California, they call them the unhoused now.

00:49:17.500 We're not supposed to say homeless. We're unhoused. Or in Calgary, we say they're vulnerable

00:49:20.540 people. Yes, they're vulnerable. But they're frigging addicts. They're also that. Dave made

00:49:26.080 a comment on Twitter the other day and I saw some clown came in because Dave was complaining about,

00:49:30.060 yes, you know, these curb crawlers and how dangerous it is because they walk up and down 0.99

00:49:33.280 begging off of cars and drivers in the city all over the place. Somebody says, oh, clearly you

00:49:37.880 hate the poor. No, no, that had nothing to do with the poor. We have all kinds of programs for the

00:49:43.820 poor. If a person is truly poor, if they're on the rocks, they're in trouble. There are agencies

00:49:48.540 that will feed them, charitable ones and government ones. There are places that will put a roof over

00:49:53.580 their head. Those are there. If you're a junkie in the throes of the last stages of addiction,

00:50:01.060 however, you can't go into those places. You aren't in condition for those places. They don't

00:50:05.520 just simply need a job. They are poor for that. They're addicts. They don't simply need a roof

00:50:10.540 over their house. They will tear the walls down to get the copper pipes and sell them. 0.88

00:50:15.340 They need treatment. And like I said, from the commenter, I appreciate that because you can,

00:50:19.200 they're not a lost cause. We can save some of these people. We got to get them in though. They

00:50:24.280 need help. I mean, I wonder about some of these areas anyways, where we can house them. I'm really

00:50:27.960 worried for the winter. It's going to get frigging cold. And as I said, I drive Uber. I see them all

00:50:31.880 over the city. These guys are going to suffer badly. And we can't put them in our regular

00:50:38.480 shelters. It's not fair. It's not, you know, fair to the people who are in there for other reasons.

00:50:45.400 I kind of wonder in Calgary's sake,

00:50:46.840 you know, we got the Greyhound bus steep

00:50:48.560 over in the west end of downtown.

00:50:49.820 Nobody lives around there.

00:50:50.800 The building's sitting there empty.

00:50:51.720 It's giant.

00:50:52.400 Could we turn that into just a basic housing place?

00:50:54.980 You know, concrete walls, simple stuff.

00:50:56.660 They can vomit, they can sleep,

00:50:58.220 but they won't freeze to death and they won't die.

00:51:00.040 And maybe, you know, again,

00:51:01.360 keep as much counseling and ability

00:51:03.020 and options to say, hey, are you ready?

00:51:05.460 Can we get you in to get some help

00:51:06.920 and get you treated and get you back into society?

00:51:10.080 But this world of delusion saying

00:51:12.280 they're just somebody who fell between the tracks,

00:51:13.940 perhaps they did.

00:51:14.760 but they fell between the cracks into meth, heroin, and fentanyl, and they aren't in their

00:51:19.040 right minds, and they are not harmless. They are dangerous to themselves and others, and we need to

00:51:24.800 start taking some hard reality checks when it comes to people like that. And as I said, I'm

00:51:29.560 sympathetic. I mean, I'm open about things. I always talk about my personal things. I'm not

00:51:33.020 above those things. I'm an alcoholic. It took many, many, many meetings in church basements

00:51:37.880 before I finally stopped drinking, you know, and I haven't had a drink in years now.

00:51:41.280 But I needed help. I didn't do it alone. I did it with the support of a lot of other alcoholics. And I still, thankfully, didn't fall as far or as low as a lot of people did when they're addicted to something. But our cities, they live in this state of denial. Let's keep sugarcoating it. Let's keep calling them vulnerable people and unhoused people. Guys, they're addicts. And until you admit what they are, we're not going to get to the solution of it.

00:52:08.460 Speaking of denial, you know, so we got the second annual Aboriginal Truth and Reconciliation Day coming at the end of the month.

00:52:18.720 When are they going to dig at Kamloops?

00:52:21.260 You know, I listened to somebody on a radio interview the other day, still going on,

00:52:25.280 215 children are buried, they were murdered in Kamloops. 1.00

00:52:27.740 Oh, bullshit. 1.00

00:52:29.060 All right? 1.00

00:52:30.420 Dig some holes.

00:52:32.600 Dig some holes.

00:52:33.320 It's been, what, 16 months now?

00:52:35.900 Zero bodies recovered, guys.

00:52:37.500 if there really were murders, maybe there were. I can't say 100% there weren't. And this is absurd

00:52:43.560 because anywhere else, if there was a murder, the police are going to get in there. You don't say

00:52:47.680 yes or no to an investigation. You don't have a choice anymore. We're going to investigate. We're

00:52:50.980 going to find the bodies. We're going to do an autopsy. We're going to find and charge the

00:52:54.320 perpetrators. But with the residential schools, and yes, Jaime Rubenstein wrote on it. He said,

00:52:58.780 what missing children? Because they aren't. I mean, that's the other thing. Where are the families of

00:53:03.700 all these murdered children? Shouldn't there be parents or

00:53:05.980 brothers and sisters or cousins saying, Hey, this person

00:53:10.240 disappeared when we went to that school? Well, they aren't there.

00:53:15.460 We've got to get in there and exhume and settle this, because

00:53:18.640 it's insane. We've got churches that are still burning. There

00:53:21.280 was another one lit up north of Fort Mac that only harmed the

00:53:25.160 First Nations community because they had a large number of

00:53:28.060 people that went to that church. So let's get to the facts then. If there really are a bunch of

00:53:36.220 buried bodies, I want to see some people charged. I want to see an investigation. And if there aren't,

00:53:41.960 then let's start getting that reality check on what really happened with residential schools.

00:53:45.600 I'm not saying they were a walk in the park, but we're living on a bunch of mythology and

00:53:49.220 ghost stories that were told by children 60 years ago and calling it fact. You know what oral

00:53:54.120 history, another term for oral history is fiction. Even the most well-meaning of people,

00:54:01.000 I mean, you see, we've tried to accommodate because First Nations never got to a point 1.00

00:54:05.620 of a written language. It's just the way it is. I mean, hey, every society came from somewhere

00:54:11.540 and they evolved to a point to get written languages and the First Nations hadn't gotten

00:54:14.560 there yet. They were Neolithic, actually, in terms of development on the plains. They were nomadic.

00:54:19.700 It's not faulting them for that.

00:54:21.040 That's just the way it is.

00:54:22.580 But that also means you don't have an accurate recent history.

00:54:26.580 And because of that, and because of problems with literacy later on in that,

00:54:30.300 we've had judges ruling, and I think it was the Marshall decision,

00:54:33.340 basically saying we have to take their oral histories as fact,

00:54:37.080 and we can utilize them legally.

00:54:38.640 No, we can't.

00:54:39.920 I'm sorry, but we can't.

00:54:41.420 I mean, remember the telephone game?

00:54:44.300 You know, you get a circle of people and just whisper something

00:54:46.220 into one person's ear and go around.

00:54:47.940 And by the time you've got around eight people, the message is so garbled, it's nothing at all like it was the first time around.

00:54:53.160 And that's just in a minute or two.

00:54:55.720 We're trying to give credence to oral histories from people from 80 years ago.

00:55:01.800 We need physical fact.

00:55:03.820 We need to get, you know, to the bottom of what really has happened.

00:55:10.640 And here's, you know, getting on to that.

00:55:12.480 Speaking of politicization, because that's what I'm wondering.

00:55:14.560 Shouldn't this be beyond the others?

00:55:16.500 This was a story only a third of Canadians surveyed

00:55:18.380 said they trust the RCMP's national leadership.

00:55:21.300 Hey, they don't trust Brenda Luckey.

00:55:23.100 This is our top cop in Canada.

00:55:25.320 Well, yeah, when you get stuff like this, again,

00:55:27.100 how is it that we have apparently 215 murdered children

00:55:31.900 buried somewhere and we haven't started

00:55:33.060 a real forensic investigation of it yet?

00:55:35.340 Shouldn't she be standing up there saying, 1.00

00:55:37.040 we will send those Mounties down there and start digging? 0.97

00:55:41.520 See what the hell happened?

00:55:43.300 She hasn't.

00:55:44.540 She's too busy interfering with investigations 1.00

00:55:46.580 on some of the largest shootings we've ever had.

00:55:49.840 Here's the beauty.

00:55:51.380 You know, Polyev is getting into a lot of trouble too

00:55:53.860 for talking about the Bank of Canada

00:55:55.820 and going after the governor of it and things like that.

00:55:57.940 But listen to statements from them.

00:55:59.400 This is, you know, a press release saying

00:56:00.720 there could be some bumps along the way to beating inflation

00:56:03.960 as they're getting ready to raise interest rates yet again.

00:56:07.740 Bumps along the way.

00:56:09.740 You know, when a person's losing their home or business,

00:56:11.440 that's more than a bump along the way.

00:56:13.280 It's bankruptcy.

00:56:13.920 uh don't sugarcoat this and uh these guys you know they don't understand and they're

00:56:22.760 politicized as well they're not speaking with economic reality um so all right so lisa webster

00:56:31.700 saying see it was the rcmp that abducted kids from home to be taken to residential schools do

00:56:34.840 you really think a legit investigation would take pace place uh the elders speaking out are

00:56:39.380 ignored and brushed under the carpet. Come on. Look, look into the history of it. 150,000 children

00:56:44.820 attended residential schools. Of them, the bulk were voluntary. They weren't taken from their

00:56:50.020 homes. This is well documented. And then the most of the children after that came to schools that

00:56:56.500 weren't residential. They were not snatched from their homes. That's a myth, okay? I mean, some of

00:57:02.160 that happened a little bit. I think it was in the 20s when they brought about because truancy laws,

00:57:06.280 every child had to attend school in Canada.

00:57:08.520 Every one of them. That's equal rights, guys.

00:57:11.160 And if they lived in a rural

00:57:12.520 area without a school nearby

00:57:14.420 it, they had to be picked up and taken to them.

00:57:17.400 But

00:57:17.720 this mythology that's going on around here,

00:57:20.440 we've got the records, we've got

00:57:22.040 the stuff. Do I trust the RCMP?

00:57:24.440 That's the second part of that, and that's fair enough out of Linda

00:57:26.340 as well, or Lisa, I should say. Sorry, Lisa.

00:57:29.600 You know,

00:57:30.200 no, I don't trust the RCMP a heck of a lot.

00:57:33.120 But we have other police forces,

00:57:34.500 we have other investigators, we can strike

00:57:36.220 commissions, we can have oversight. Supposedly, there are 215 murdered children, and we don't have

00:57:43.320 an investigation. And that is wrong. And you know what, so that leaves it free for me to read into

00:57:48.640 it as much as I can. Then I can claim that there were zero children murdered, or I can claim there

00:57:52.600 were 215. We don't know. There's no evidence. All there was, was some anomalies, which just sounds

00:57:58.640 like there's been some good work showing that it might be of an old septic system. There was a

00:58:02.580 tooth found? They said, look, look at the tooth of a child. They studied it. No, that was an animal.

00:58:07.580 There was a child's rib found, they said. Oh, but we lost that

00:58:10.700 rib. Oral history.

00:58:14.140 We got to get in there. Got to see what's happening with it.

00:58:18.360 Okay, so, you know, I'll finish with one other thing, too, with

00:58:21.240 yeah, the province is still talking, and I understand, you know, Queen Elizabeth has passed

00:58:26.620 away. I am not a big monarchist myself,

00:58:30.680 but I still did respect Queen Elizabeth.

00:58:32.380 She did hold the office with dignity 0.98

00:58:34.220 and ran it as well as she could.

00:58:39.520 I don't have a beef with the royal family.

00:58:41.980 I don't want to spend more tax dollars on them.

00:58:43.460 I certainly never want them to have any real authority

00:58:45.660 over our lives beyond anything symbolic.

00:58:48.880 But she passed on and I can respect that

00:58:50.940 and people mourning it and she was a part of history.

00:58:53.700 Now, whether or not the province

00:58:54.600 should make it a holiday on Monday, no, I don't think so.

00:58:57.740 You know, have a day of observance, absolutely.

00:59:00.060 and do formal things.

00:59:01.760 But come on, it really costs,

00:59:03.640 and that's reality, a whole lot.

00:59:04.880 We don't need to shut the province down

00:59:06.680 to pay our respects to the queen,

00:59:08.860 even though we still can without doing so.

00:59:11.800 But either way, we'll see what happens.

00:59:12.920 A lot of people are questioning,

00:59:13.600 what's your decision?

00:59:14.120 What's your decision?

00:59:14.600 That's the thing that gets me annoyed with the province.

00:59:16.440 I mean, if you're not going to have a day,

00:59:17.920 which is fine by me, say it, Kenny.

00:59:19.680 How hard is this? 0.99

00:59:21.340 Why are you always going to drag your butt on everything? 0.99

00:59:23.040 Everything's like pulling teeth with that guy. 0.99

00:59:25.240 Man.

00:59:26.740 Oh, I just see Dave popping in for a second.

00:59:30.060 we might have something breaking or something. Whenever I see Dave coming to the show,

00:59:33.280 I know we're just about wrapped up. Often it means there's something going on. Oh,

00:59:37.220 there is no holiday for Alberta. Okay. So I've been on here for a minute.

00:59:43.960 So, okay. Thanks for that update. So there won't be one. And as I said, it doesn't mean in my view

00:59:49.360 anyways, that it's disrespecting the queen or the Royal family. It just means that perhaps

00:59:53.180 it just wouldn't be a productive way to do things. And people can still show respect and observe the

00:59:58.660 passing of a woman who really, it's going to be strange to imagine life without her there. I mean, 0.98

01:00:03.900 I'm 51 years old. And of course, you know, she was on the throne for decades before I was even

01:00:08.660 born. It's a turning point. It's a historic one. And well, we'll watch for it. Okay. So I'm going

01:00:15.220 to be back next week at noon. Plus let's watch. We got other productions going on. Sean Newman has

01:00:18.920 got his podcast that comes on. The Pipeline is going to be on tonight. I'll be going on that

01:00:22.980 with Derek and, uh, Nigel tonight. And, uh, also, uh, Melanie Risden has got her regular show where

01:00:31.360 she digs deeply into a lot of things and does great with some of those investigative issues

01:00:35.460 and things like that. So thanks for joining the, uh, Smee for this second episode of the reboot

01:00:41.940 of things. I really did miss you guys. It's good to be back and live. As I said, we got some

01:00:46.020 blurriness, we get some hiccups, but it's okay. Uh, make sure to take out a membership. That's

01:00:50.380 how we pay those bills around here, guys.

01:00:52.620 And if you're looking to sponsor things,

01:00:53.720 hey, send me a note, you know,

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Western Standard - September 15, 2022

Canada’s fake economic recovery can’t last

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