Corey rants about why Canada is a crappy place to do business in, and why the Trudeau government is creating a $25B Sovereign Wealth Fund to help shore up the economy. Also, the PM announces the creation of a new $25bn fund to invest in Canadian infrastructure.
00:00:58.120great full room of people the movement uh is still going on whatever's happening with the
00:01:03.580referendum it's uh this ball's rolling it's not going to stop it's really been something else to
00:01:08.900observe all right so in a little while i'm gonna have uh he's it's been a few years since he's been
00:01:13.200on but he's been on before you've probably seen him on social media faruka elsa elsa gear maybe
00:01:20.160he'll correct me on the pronunciation but he's the fellow running paul's pizza who's got the
00:01:24.620world of the woke all wound up in the canceled crowd with the pitchforks and torches outside of
00:01:29.380his place it should be a good fun conversation and really guys they actually do have good pizza there
00:01:35.260and of course there'll be some news updates i got the substitute dave in today so it'll be a good
00:01:40.040chat there as well i'll start with what i'm going to rant to about today though and i mean i have to
00:01:45.100hit it get right to the point canada is a crappy place to invest into or do business in i mean the
00:01:51.780regulatory environment coupled with general ineptitude from the government has been strangling
00:01:55.780the Canadian economy for over a decade. We had a recent report from RBC concluding over a trillion
00:02:01.600dollars in capital has fled Canada in the last 10 years. It's not Fraser Institute or one of
00:02:06.580those places you can question, it's RBC. The GDP per capita continues to drop and it looks to be
00:02:12.920an utter freefall when you compare it to the United States. We're getting poorer. Canada's
00:02:17.600productivity is horrific as well. When you look at those numbers, we average 73 U.S. dollars per
00:02:22.840hour per person compared to 97 U.S. dollars per hour per person in the United States. So even
00:02:29.340the Kearney government can no longer ignore this. Instead of addressing, though, the root causes of
00:02:35.360why Canada has become an investment pariah, the Kearney government has instead announced the
00:02:39.760creation of a $25 billion, quote unquote, sovereign wealth fund. If investors won't invest in Canada
00:02:46.380now, they feel that they might get part of their investment covered through a fund created by, you
00:02:52.220know, debt dumped on taxpayers. That'll bring them in, right? Citizens who truly hate their pocketbook
00:02:57.500are also invited to invest into this catastrophe and waiting. The government will set the standards
00:03:03.020of how they'll determine who gets a piece of this fund, and that invariably leads to well-connected
00:03:07.280insiders with questionable investment notions. The grifters can smell opportunities like this a mile
00:03:12.420away and rest assured they're already salivating over this one. The foundation of this fund is like
00:03:17.400the debacle of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. Government policies made expanding
00:03:21.600the pipeline so economically unviable the private proponent of the project pulled the plug. Even the
00:03:27.460Trudeau government realized it pushed things too far but rather than cut away the roadblocks all0.54
00:03:31.660they had to do was get out of the damn way and that's what had driven the investors away. The
00:03:35.320government bought the project. Then through typical mismanagement they built the project at a 600%
00:03:41.100at higher price. And years late, the taxpayer never needed to invest a penny if the government
00:03:47.640would just have stepped aside. The principal reason means the same with these other major
00:03:51.600projects. The government's the problem. Canada's new spaceport, that's another prime example of
00:03:56.940what happens when the government rushes to invest in something. A handful of creative souls who
00:04:00.780leased property from the government for thousands a year managed to lease it back to the government
00:04:05.120for 20 million a year. And some of it's even retroactive. All that land contains is a gravel
00:04:10.440road leading to a small concrete pad. Perhaps maybe there's a little hand-scrawled note there
00:04:15.000saying rocket porch or something as well. Just think of what those economic wizards could do0.87
00:04:19.140with $25 billion or more to play with. Carney's already been misrepresenting this fund by calling
00:04:23.720it a sovereign wealth fund and comparing it to what Norway has. Sovereign wealth funds are created
00:04:28.860through government surpluses, not by putting the bill on the credit card of the taxpayers.
00:04:33.660The funds typically have a mandate of stabilizing the local economy and investing to get a maximum
00:04:38.400rate of return. In Norway, the fund, their fund, purposely invests 100% outside of Norway. So it
00:04:45.100doesn't meddle with the domestic economy. It also is mostly placed in relatively safe equities,
00:04:50.400real estate, and bonds. Carney's debt fund is going to stay 100% within Canada and is going
00:04:55.940to be dedicated to high-risk investments. If the investments weren't high-risk, private investors
00:05:00.920would buy in without tax funding. This is just another corporate welfare fund which will
00:05:05.140predominantly invest in losers, and it's likely going to be targeted to areas where liberals need
00:05:09.240growth and electoral support rather than areas actually needed development. Look, we already have
00:05:13.320the Canada Infrastructure Bank and other government subsidy programs in place. We don't need another
00:05:17.520one. All these funds and initiatives avoid addressing the elephant in the room. Political
00:05:22.280red tape in general has been hampering all developments, and the granddaddy of all those0.98
00:05:26.680roadblocks is the de facto veto authority given to Indigenous bands over all projects. Chiefs,
00:05:31.960Both elected and appointed, along with a plethora of lawyers and bureaucrats, swarm every new
00:05:36.680development with demands and threats despite not having the authority to stop them. Not a single
00:05:41.220major project in Canada has been proposed that doesn't have one Indigenous band or another
00:05:45.200opposing it. The government must stop indulging these claims and lay down the law. Consultation
00:05:51.080with Indigenous groups is a constitutional requirement, but consent is not. If the government0.79
00:05:55.940could find the courage to stand on its real authority and guarantee that projects would be
00:06:00.900completed despite Indigenous opposition. The investment dollars would flood in. Canada's
00:06:05.540loaded with resources the world wants and investors would be eager to dive into them.
00:06:09.720Alas though, courage and liberals aren't terms we often see hand in hand. Slush funds created
00:06:14.560through indebting citizens are easier to create than taking principled stands and governing
00:06:18.640responsibly. This new sovereign wealth fund is just another indication of what an increasing
00:06:24.020number of Western Canadians are realizing. Canada is broken. All right, well that gets off to an
00:06:30.140sort of thing how's it going dave yeah not bad cory it's been a while how's things good good
00:06:36.260now it's about time you came on here just guys a lot of the news you're seeing is coming out of
00:06:40.960him happily typing away back in the newsroom over there just a bit just a bit well i got a few
00:06:46.140things for you cory today i mean um well i guess one of the big ones is alberta's finally raised
00:06:49.960the speed limit to 120 kilometers an hour over a little stretch of highway i think it's highway
00:06:54.120to south of leduc as part of a pilot project so that'll be interesting to see what happens there
00:06:58.360I mean, I know it's been fairly popular with the public so far for the people they've polled, but I mean, well, I hope everything goes well.
00:07:04.260Well, we hope. I mean, we'll see what the opposition comes, right?
00:07:07.020Every time there's a fender bender or a crash, they're going to say, well, that was because of the limit.
00:07:10.140That was because of the limit. You know, it's just maybe it's just because of bad driving.
00:07:14.300Oh, yeah, I would 100 percent agree with that.
00:07:15.900And a nice story as well, too, is I don't know if you probably saw this.
00:07:18.600The Buffalo Sabres fans last night stepped up and sang, oh, Canada, after the mic cut out for the singer in their game against the Bruins.
00:07:24.280which is kind of a nice story because you think in the past few years there's been you know fans
00:07:27.680on both sides booing both national anthem anthems so it's kind of nice to see that even though
00:07:31.300people can say in buffalo there's probably a lot of canadian fans it's right across the border but
00:07:34.740no it was a good gesture and i i think it was a nice change from the torqued environment to
00:07:40.500things going i mean i you know i'm an independent supporter but i'm not there to undercut the anthem
00:07:44.000or things like that just showing i think actually that some of those guys trying to say that the
00:07:49.180americans are nasty and they're gnashing at us and they want to not everybody in that room was
00:07:53.420necessarily Canadian singing that anthem they just kicked in hopefully we get more of that I mean1.00
00:07:57.680it's it's the relationship between our southern partner has been pretty badly beaten on and eroded
00:08:03.260over this last year I blame some of it on the crazy orange man but there's been no shortage of0.65
00:08:07.480vitriol on our side too I would definitely agree with that yeah and we were talking before this
00:08:12.780just actually broke just recently city of Calgary said that their CEO David Duckworth long-time CEO
00:08:17.320is finally stepping down I think it's going to be effective I think May 1st and they said it's on
00:08:21.440the departure is I mutually agreed so I don't know if there's any controversy to that or what
00:08:25.680the deal is exactly because he's been there for a long time through a lot of administrations I
00:08:29.120believe. Yeah and it's funny with the you know a lot of people don't look at city halls enough
00:08:32.320to realize that it's those insiders those these guys make some good bucks too they well I mean
00:08:36.560if they're doing it right it's potentially worth it they're managing billions of dollars worth of
00:08:41.040infrastructure and operations but they always tighten up it seems to me there was a fella in
00:08:45.600transportation named Trevor Morgan I think it was or something some years ago but he left instantly
00:08:50.560and then there were some rumors of some really crazy stuff that had gone on but they closed the
00:08:54.800ranks everything went silent and then he just rode off into the sunset with a you know probably a
00:08:58.560six-figure severance package so oh yeah probably the same stuff with this one being mutually agreed
00:09:02.720i imagine he's giving a soft landing but maybe hopefully at least just some reforms in that
00:09:07.920city hall i guess well you would think so hopefully this is kind of a fun one do you
00:09:10.720remember the briex scandal from the 90s forget i wish i'd have got in in that first part
00:09:15.360well this is kind of similar because apparently the rcmp have charged the guy who is the former
00:09:20.800ceo of rpx gold for fraud and forgery because they're alleging that he's been manipulating
00:09:25.920mining data that was tied to a northern ontario gold project i think it was called wawa gold
00:09:30.960project so it's kind of like the briex thing except not as big at least so far from what we know
00:09:36.320okay well the briex one the thing that still got me with all of that too though was the two
00:09:41.760big principles in that uh walsh who was in the bahamas who suddenly died of a heart attack
00:09:47.760it's one of those things maybe i watch too many tv shows maybe they should just look
00:09:50.480for a syringe mark or something on him and uh de guzman i think it was was the name of the uh
00:09:55.520Filipino gentleman the engineer who engineered the fraud jumped out of a helicopter on the ride0.72
00:10:02.480you know when you rip people off for billions oh yeah your life expectancy just isn't really that0.94
00:10:08.320long you would assume so yeah they never proved anything otherwise yeah well they're a run-of-the-mill
00:10:13.680heart attack and a suicide out of the helicopter but yeah exactly he's supposed to be showing up
00:10:17.040in court by uh i think it's june 5th so i guess we'll see what happens then so yeah well let's
00:10:20.880see history repeating itself i suggest this man not taking a helicopter yeah no and this morning
00:10:27.040actually i'm i think it was a national natural resources minister tim hodgson announced at a
00:10:31.040conference in ottawa that the federal government's going to be um advancing their new uh nuclear
00:10:35.600energy strategy and committing billions to expanding the uh the sector and uh developing
00:10:39.420technologies i was just curious what your whole thoughts are on nuclear power going forward
00:10:43.040i think it's great if the government doesn't irresponsibly screw it up so that's a big caveat
00:10:46.900because the government loves doing that but i don't have a beef with nuclear generation abilities
00:10:50.320we've got saskatchewan with with all of those uranium supplies we've got uh you know it's
00:10:55.140getting aged and out of date i mean the can do initiatives we're we're very successful like if
00:11:00.160they could just get the over the hang-ups with nuclear i think it's all the safety thing that
00:11:04.920They'll think it's like another Chernobyl or meltdown.
00:11:06.880Like, was it Fukushima or whatnot in Japan?
00:11:22.060And also, the last one is, Calgary police apparently have laid firearm charges, trafficking charges against a 44-year-old man as part of an expanded investigation that was into a 2025 shooting death of Madison Cobb.
00:11:33.220I don't know if you remember that one.
00:11:34.320but apparently there's more to this now apparently the probes uncovered several uh weapons and
00:11:38.320prohibited items going forward so this might be bigger than just uh one little uh murder
00:11:42.480yeah something about it was it was what a firearm with us filed off a serial number i believe so
00:11:47.040yeah correct yeah and that's going into trafficking i think so yeah it's going deeper i suppose you
00:11:50.960could say let me just hope more people pay attention you know realize here's where the
00:11:54.160problems are these traffickers these gangsters these these problematic people but the government's
00:11:58.480too busy chasing our country legal gun owners yeah exactly i didn't see grandpa's 12 gauge out
00:12:02.960there used it yeah exactly yeah exactly that's about all i got for you today corey right on it
00:12:08.400was plenty i guess it's kind of a quiet news day so yeah so far yeah yeah i don't know it's usually
00:12:13.280a lull before the storm i'm sure yeah something weird insane yeah exactly tomorrow yeah looking
00:12:18.000forward to seeing what you're right about it and uh well thank you for the update and keeping
00:12:22.320things rolling for us dave sounds like a plan thanks gory appreciate it all right that is our
00:12:27.200mean what's your title description these days though that's a good question you're a senior
00:12:33.920reporter or maybe senior reporter it just says reporter on the yeah the name tag i think so
00:12:38.880but i mean you're i think so now yeah it seems like there's a bunch of young guys yeah the
00:12:44.240poll within the newsroom you're getting near the top in my view i would think so i guess
00:12:48.480all right well thanks for taking the time to settle in in the show with us to thanks
00:12:52.320appreciate it thanks so yes that is dave winnekin you'll see his name at the top of a lot of stories
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00:13:23.380support people like David and John, our producer, and even me in here to do these, these weekly
00:13:28.640rants with you guys in here. Uh, let's see what else we got going on. Uh, commenters Jacqueline
00:13:34.500saying, uh, why would Alberta want to build a pipeline through BC when the so-called indigenous
00:13:39.360would just claim it as theirs? Uh, let's go South. Yeah. Well, you know, then there's challenges1.00
00:13:45.120going south too but you know the the indigenous thing and i know it's not beyond belief i mean
00:13:49.600when there's claims going on on anything and everything uh that's why no private investor
00:13:54.000will touch it with a 10-foot pole we actually in it's a constitutional ignorance if people would0.96
00:14:01.200realize the federal government has the authority to basically put their foot down and say too damn
00:14:07.520bad all right guys we consulted you we did what we could we compensated how you will we hired what
00:14:12.720we would but now it's done it's over the dirt's gonna move if you blockade the pipeline we will0.96
00:14:18.080arrest you but this government has no cojones they they would just rather just keep like i said0.62
00:14:23.840buying slush funds or forming slush funds giving money to their friends do what they can for a few0.97
00:14:29.120years and then riding off into the sunset with your tax dollars so it's going to take a major
00:14:34.880change to get anything through i got a feeling though this is you know my bias and you hear it
00:14:39.920from you a lot if we had an independent alberta boy we'd have a heck of a lot of leverage all
00:14:44.080of a sudden to start talking with the folks in bc because i tell you what one thing that makes
00:14:48.160people really receptive to pipelines is getting hungry and uh if suddenly they're not having a
00:14:54.400good time getting their goods and services across alberta you know coming into bc or going out
00:14:59.280they're going to get hungry really fast and then we can negotiate some things and i suspect that
00:15:03.520thing will go on the ground okay speaking of food speaking of hungry i'll use that as a cheesy
00:15:07.520segue we've got Farouk from Paul's Pizza coming in it's been a while and boy you've been pissing
00:15:14.460everybody off again Farouk I appreciate it how you doing? I'm good yourself? Good good I mean
00:15:20.880still at it here uh you know carrying on I you know looking I was getting the image for your
00:15:27.720appearance on the show and I see that the main thing that pops up was the last time you were on
00:15:31.480here a few years ago. It's not often a pizza restaurant owner becomes so newsworthy, but you
00:15:38.500certainly like to speak your mind, I guess. Yeah, you know, freedom of speech and all that.
00:15:47.380At the end of the day, I use the, you know how I am, I use my social media platform to express my
00:15:53.080opinions. And I just try to get others to get on board. I want other business owners, especially
00:15:59.140in alberta to start speaking up and not be afraid of this cancel culture bullshit well that's it and
00:16:05.120they're really coming out of gin swarms unfortunately maybe just for those who haven't
00:16:08.880heard about it necessarily i mean legacy media certainly doesn't touch these things effectively
00:16:12.820or whatnot uh what did you do that got them all worked up this time uh so you know me being you
00:16:19.880know kind of stupid at times i uh noticed that uh leah gazan i believe is her name i saw it i don't0.94
00:16:26.680I don't watch the news too much. I get my news off Instagram and I kept seeing a post about0.98
00:16:32.000MMIW2GSLGBTQI. I don't know if I got it right, but I'm pretty close. So, you know, I just made1.00
00:16:41.380a stupid joke about it, not knowing what MMIW was at the time. And I kind of just woke up the next0.98
00:16:48.700day and it exploded. And since then, I've just had people coming after me from all parts of
00:16:54.800the country and you know i've had a lot more support which is nice as well yeah no you certainly
00:17:00.440have i think people are really appreciating uh that you're not backing down i you know the the
00:17:06.920first instinct for a lot of people if something happens whether it was inadvertently or just you
00:17:12.260know uh put something out on social media quickly uh is to say oh man i'm sorry and delete it and
00:17:17.760back off and apologize and of course the reality is when the cancel mob gets going even if you to
00:17:22.660back down and apologize. They're still going to come after you. They just smell blood in the water.
00:17:28.080So I appreciate that you're just saying, no, to hell with you guys. I'm not, you know, backing
00:17:32.980off on this. You're not, I mean, you're there to sell pizzas and beer. You're not really, you know,
00:17:37.860your goal isn't to tick people off so much, but you're not going to, you know, cower every time
00:17:43.340somebody gets a little upset with you. No, exactly. So I've been doing this for about seven
00:17:48.480years now i've been banned off facebook many times i think this is my fifth page now so i have plenty
00:17:54.560of experience with dealing with the cancel culture and like you said they when they smell like you
00:17:59.880know weakness they pounce so you know i i'm not one to back down especially from those kind of
00:18:06.100people and i'm always going to speak my mind and i just want others to know you know speak your mind
00:18:12.040as well if they come after you block them if they're going to call you block their number who
00:18:16.500cares say what you want it's your business well absolutely so i mean what have they been doing
00:18:21.540you know just to lay it out i know they've been kind of bombing your reviews they've been trying
00:18:24.940to get you knocked off social media they're calling you every name in the book apparently
00:18:28.400you're a white nationalist i don't i don't i haven't written the rules on what night white
00:18:33.420nationalism lands in but it just seems to me there's a part of it that you don't qualify
00:18:37.820well for in that aspect i mean i am a light-skinned arab i'm not i'm not too dark uh so the white
00:18:44.580nationalist Arab post, because, you know, they actually think I'm some Arab guy that wants to
00:18:49.040be white, which is completely false. So over the years, I've just been getting, you know, tons of
00:18:53.360messages. Hey, you're a KKK member, you're a white supremacist, this and that. And then one day,0.99
00:18:58.660someone messaged me, call me a white Arab nationalist, which I thought was pretty funny.0.99
00:19:02.780So I decided to take a picture of myself, look all goofy, and just post it on my social media,1.00
00:19:07.680and I kind of ran with it. Well, that's part of it. I find a part of what disarms
00:19:12.160people on social media if they're coming in the attack mode is just lean right into it just push
00:19:17.760right they don't expect that and they don't know what to do I've had people on x come after me
00:19:21.300you know saying oh you're this or that usually you know with a homophobic slur or anything and
00:19:25.960then what I'll do is counter back and say well you know if you buy me some flowers I might do
00:19:29.980some of those things you're talking about with yeah I mean you got to start just easing into
00:19:33.620this and it shuts them up every they don't know what to do so just lean in yeah their brands kind
00:19:40.260explode when you fight back they don't know what to do i i mean they're not the brightest people
00:19:44.420so it's honestly not too hard to uh to roast these guys um at the end of the day usually what happens
00:19:50.420is they message me after i roast them or they comment hey can you take that down you know i'm
00:19:55.860so sorry i was wrong blah blah blah which i'm not gonna do because you know if i if i if i do that
00:20:01.140i know they're just gonna go do it again to someone else or myself but yeah always always
00:20:05.380fight back man there's there's nothing wrong with fighting back and you know i get it from the
00:20:09.300from other business perspective and people's perspective because these guys they're they're
00:20:13.540like piranhas man they'll go after your family they'll call like they're calling my charities
00:20:17.700and trying to get my charities to not accept my money they're calling the landlord um they're
00:20:23.140they're sending threats of arson you know you name it they're finding my my employees instagrams and
00:20:28.260messaging my employees so uh just at the end of the day they can't do anything i've told them for
00:20:33.540seven years if you've ever had an issue you know where i am you know where to find me and not one
00:20:37.540one soul has come in and wanted to discuss things with me so they're just a bunch of uh i don't want
00:20:42.100to swear but you know they're a bunch of pansies that hide behind a keyboard and uh there's nothing
00:20:46.500to fear man all it is is words at the end of the day yeah and i don't know if you remember a guy
00:20:51.940named paul stenson he ran the white moose cafe up in dublin ireland years ago it was a cafe and hotel
00:20:58.660beautiful little spot it was the same time as i used to own the pub down in printis area and such
00:21:02.900and i know how easy the money is in the uh pizza and beer business it's uh not exactly uh as as
00:21:09.140thrilling as some people might think though we had a good run but that paul stinson guy did a
00:21:13.060similar thing like he was just unapologetic against the woke he went after cyclists he
00:21:17.620went after vegans he did things like that and it drove them haywire and they would protest
00:21:22.740but in the end it led to his place being packed he he had a facebook page with a 150 000 followers
00:21:30.580I think on it and the irony again is they would go after him call him every name in the book0.94
00:21:35.220and a homophobe was one of their favorites with them he was as gay as gay could be you know but
00:21:41.440they just don't even look that deep they just immediately throw all the labels out just the0.97
00:21:44.980second they they get upset and uh they don't even know what the hell they're talking about
00:21:48.420yeah I think uh I think last time I have a pretty good memory last time we spoke I think you brought
00:21:54.180that up and yeah you know uh I think that's a smart tactic because you know when you're when
00:22:00.200you're pissing people off they're going to start talking about you when they talk about you that's
00:22:03.800publicity and it's free publicity which is even better so all it does is it attracts people into
00:22:08.940your business that didn't know about you before uh the the people who are like-minded are going
00:22:13.360to come and support you more as well and then at the same time it deters all these uh i call them
00:22:18.520weirdos and uh brokies you know it deters all these far left extremists who sit at home and
00:22:24.060have no money to uh to spend anyway so at the end of the day all it is doing is you know growing my
00:22:29.220brand and driving up business well that's it and you're showing most of people if they look at it
00:22:34.220it's just humor and if it's not humor to somebody's taste we'll just go somewhere else uh it's a little
00:22:39.100different when it's a a business i guess but you know that whole mmw amber sand all that other
00:22:44.800stuff that they threw that was mocked all over the world late night talk show hosts were mocking0.86
00:22:49.380that they were going crazy uh laughing their heads off at that thing because it was ridiculous0.76
00:22:55.160but of course the woke nut cases can't target them but they found a local target with you if1.00
00:23:01.940you were truly being hateful if you were really being a jerk saying you know what i'm going to1.00
00:23:05.240refuse to serve gay people or i'm going to assault uh black people coming in or something insane like1.00
00:23:10.780that well i'd be up there saying geez i'm not shopping at a guy's place either he's he's crazy1.00
00:23:14.940but you've not been hateful you've just been having a good lark with some of this stuff
00:23:19.520yeah at the end of the day man you know running a business is a lot of work and uh social media
00:23:25.020just like the gym is kind of my escape so i like to uh i like to entertain people it's all about
00:23:29.520comedy at the end of the day putting a smile on people's faces and like you said like i've never
00:23:33.820denied service to uh anybody to be honest someone comes in with uh a gay shirt or someone comes in0.98
00:23:39.720with a uh you know a turban i don't give a shit you know they're paying customers we treat them0.98
00:23:45.300all equally uh i mean i do kick some people out here and there but that's just because they get0.98
00:23:50.280drunk and obnoxious and try to start fights doesn't matter if they're black or white or
00:23:54.440or red you know we we treat them all equally so at the end of the day we don't we have never0.97
00:23:58.600discriminated against anybody and uh half my staff are are colored i have i have gay people that work
00:24:04.520for me but the difference is they don't go around and flaunt it they don't make it you know you know
00:24:09.160their whole life they don't push it down our throats they don't push it down children's
00:24:13.000throats and that's that's kind of the difference that's kind of you know where i have a issue is
00:24:18.200when people go over that line yeah well and something at least as things are kind of ongoing
00:24:24.340this is what it's been a couple of weeks sort of since it recently hit the fan with you again all
00:24:28.580over again uh you're still sort of you're poking the hornet's nest at least uh not apologizing
00:24:35.020getting on there making some funny posts on x or on instagram and and things like that uh how
00:24:41.060have sales been as have you seen an impact up or down out of this or is it just kind of the same
00:24:45.560has it's been um i'd say like our so our airdrie location uh the ceiling's not as high because
00:24:51.380we're so busy but uh the calgary locations have have gone up a lot more than the airdrie location
00:24:56.680and the airdrie location has also the numbers have also gone up um i've sold a lot of merchandise
00:25:02.080i'm working on an online shop i've had a every day i've had a shit ton of customers come in from
00:25:07.680red deer lethbridge saskatchewan just to meet me and shake my hand i've had guys bring in their
00:25:13.220kids to shake my hand and say you know this is a good guy you know i want you to kind of it's kind
00:25:18.800of weird but i want you to grow up and kind of be like this guy when you grow up you know have the
00:25:22.700same kind of mindset so yeah it's all uh pretty much been positive for the most part i mean there
00:25:27.320are some negatives like we're getting prank calls uh you know uh customers harassing the staff it's
00:25:33.360kind of died down happens here and there at first it was every every minute someone was calling and
00:25:39.260swearing at us or giving us you know a fake order that you know we would catch but yeah it's uh it's
00:25:45.460been good the positives have definitely outweighed the negatives that's good uh what about i know
00:25:49.840erdry seemed to kind of been the main flashpoint though you guys have a number of of locations as
00:25:53.960you pointed out uh there have been efforts by others to try and see if they can't get your
00:25:58.560license pulled or things like that i think some local erdry politicians basically kind of said
00:26:02.720look we can't do anything about this he's not done anything illegal uh is that efforts to try
00:26:09.400and shut you down that way still continuing uh i know they're they they made a a petition on
00:26:15.500change.org i you know i never heard about until they did it i think they have a little over 3 000
00:26:20.220signatures last time i checked and basically it's to get the the mayor and the city council to
00:26:27.020overlook our business license to see if they could remove it. But I know the mayor came out
00:26:33.000and made a, the new mayor came out and made a statement saying that, you know, she can't really
00:26:36.160do anything. We haven't broken any bylaws. If you have an issue, call RCMP, contact BBB or human
00:26:42.540rights. I spoke to RCMP. The guy just laughed, said, yeah, I follow you. You haven't done anything
00:26:47.260wrong. Don't worry about it. BBB is basically just Yelp. So they, they really have no, no impact on
00:26:53.920any any kind of business they're just you know a bullshit entity and i i haven't heard from human0.55
00:26:58.060rights yet so uh at the end of the day there's nothing they could do it's free speech it's the0.84
00:27:02.420internet we're not uh we're not china north korea or uk yet right but yeah everything everything's
00:27:08.900been good so far good and i i know another thing i mean they did that with me i i had google reviews
00:27:13.840that claim that people saw mice running around in my uh dining area and that they'd gotten
00:27:19.200sandwiches that were moldy uh stuff like that used to happen with my restaurant when i would
00:27:23.660tick people off online uh it really i mean you don't want to see that in your reviews because0.99
00:27:28.800people might not know the backstory as to why some idiot is putting that that garbage on your reviews0.96
00:27:33.580but still i mean it the impact of that's i guess more limited anyways i mean the most of the time0.94
00:27:38.680i use a google reviews if i'm traveling somewhere looking for somewhere new but you're mostly have
00:27:43.060already got kind of your steady regular local crowds i guess yeah i would say uh for us i mean
00:27:49.320we have so many google reviews because we've been around forever it doesn't really matter it doesn't
00:27:53.260affect us uh what they don't understand called cancel culture is when you mass review someone
00:27:58.180good or bad google uh picks it up and they just delete it all so if you go and search my google
00:28:05.260reviews the latest review you'll see is from three weeks ago because they just deleted it all
00:28:09.180so it really has no effect on us and like over time you kind of get used to it and you just go
00:28:13.860whatever it's google you know who's not many people are actually going to go and you know
00:28:18.540scroll through google reviews yeah well and part of what's kept you going as you said you you've
00:28:24.340been there plus the prior owners this is a well-established business it's been there a long
00:28:27.480time i have eaten i live down south i go to the shaughnessy one occasionally and uh i i said it
00:28:33.480before the show i'm happy that it really is good food and great pizza you want thick cheesy you
00:28:38.580know artery hardening pizza that's the place to get again an unapologetic good meal because i mean
00:28:43.720if your food was crappy i'd still have you on and talk about it but i would dodge that in the end
00:35:40.000she knew kind of that they were going to come after her all she did was go in and sit down and
00:35:45.780have a coffee in this case and the police came in and literally arrested her took her away in
00:35:50.600handcuffs for the crime of sitting and having a coffee but why speaking of courageous people like
00:35:56.640Farouk or others she won't back down she doubles down she dared to break the orthodoxy she dared
00:36:03.520to question the indigenous state of affairs she dared to point out the reality that in Kamloops
00:36:09.980not a single body has been found because there aren't any bodies because it was a hoax and it's
00:36:14.780a hoax that now we can call a fraud because the band got 12 million dollars to exhume and
00:36:19.340investigate this thing and didn't do anything with it. Frances Whittowson keeps calling it out she's
00:36:25.740a professor who won't back down so now they've literally arrested her when she goes to other0.99
00:36:30.940places protests are organized they get aggressive and dangerous around her if you've ever met1.00
00:36:37.580Frances. She's just a small slip of a woman. It's not hard to physically intimidate somebody like1.00
00:36:43.480that. And that's what they do. She's got bigger cojones than our prime minister does, because
00:36:51.160she just will not stop on this. And I'm so glad she's continuing with that. So she's been charged0.99
00:36:56.160$600 for trespassing. It's a point of principle. It's only 600 bucks, but it's their way of shutting
00:37:04.440down the message. For me, talk about that on here a couple of times. I've been charged with
00:37:10.400trespassing by the Siksika Reserve for publishing a couple of videos of the conditions on that
00:37:15.520reserve, the reserve that got $1.3 billion out of Trudeau a few years ago, and the housing is
00:37:20.280falling apart, the dogs are running around, the garbage is all over the place. They want to shoot
00:37:25.240the messenger. So they lay these charges, they come after you, they use the legal system to shut
00:37:30.420down the messaging. It's another form of cancelling. And Whittleston's getting it. I'm
00:37:34.220getting it. Guys, we got to keep pushing back. We've got to keep fighting. The easy route's just
00:37:42.160to duck your head down, apologize, and leave. And that's not even the easy route. When the cancel
00:37:45.520mob comes after you, push back. That is the way to do it. When they see you retreat, they just
00:37:53.540keep coming. As I said on X, where I fight all the time, and so on, when they throw insults at me,
00:37:58.380I just dive right back into it, you know, and they don't know what to do.
00:38:05.940Ford's Progressive Conservatives, this is something.
00:38:08.060So this is the headline from the Standard.
00:38:10.060Ford's PC slipped a second as the Liberals take a lead amidst the gravy train backlash.
00:38:14.640So those who might not remember, there was a $29 million jet that Doug Ford bought, you know, with tax dollars for himself to get around quite a luxurious little unit in Ontario.
00:38:26.060and when people all got pretty pissed off about it he got quite petulant and stirred up but before
00:38:32.920he managed to get even a ride on it he uh sold it again but it really does show a government that's
00:38:38.440starting to reach its its uh end cycle and uh they're really losing track of what ticks people
00:38:44.240off and what doesn't and you know dave our news editor we talked about that in the pipeline last
00:38:49.100week he says you know it's not unreasonable for a premier in a province as large as ontario to
00:38:55.980have a plane to get around. And that's true, but it's the way they did it. And it's the level of
00:39:03.260the plane that they got. Now, he doesn't need to be flying in a old World War I biplane, you know,
00:39:09.760and put a scarf on and try and hope for the best. But you don't need a luxurious jet either. You
00:39:14.820are just in a province. You can get a pretty good plane that's going to fly a handful of people
00:39:19.520around. Plus you should just approach, make your case first before buying it. What he did was just
00:39:27.100bought it. It was on the books, never made a peep about it. And then so by the way, the taxpayer's
00:39:31.540on a plane that's going to fly me around, a jet. He didn't need something that as excessive.
00:39:36.820In Alberta, Alison Redford, we had government planes here in Alberta. They weren't jets,
00:39:42.880but they were, they were well-equipped planes to fly cabinet ministers and people around and
00:39:46.540everything. She was using it to fly to Palm Springs. She was taking family members on it and
00:39:51.080friends. She was totally abusing it. Now the planes are gone altogether, including Allison1.00
00:39:55.900Redford is gone altogether. But when they start feeling that superior, when they start getting
00:40:02.100that arrogant with your money, that's the beginning of the end. Redford was just brutal.
00:40:09.640She built what was called the Sky Palace, if you guys remember. It was a part on an administration
00:40:14.060building kind of a penthouse unit up top which had been used for a number of things but she was
00:40:18.920having it converted with tax dollars to basically be a little a luxury apartment of her own little0.99
00:40:24.020palace of her own downtown in Edmonton to uh keep her well appointed as the queen of Alberta
00:40:30.260they just infuriated people and it got her knocked out so in Ontario is Doug Ford finally
00:40:37.160finally because it's been amazing how bad he's been as a premier yet still they seem to like him
00:40:41.900is he slipping? The Liberals have slipped past him a little bit, but it's hard to say. One of
00:40:47.820the things, if you look at electoral trends in Canada, Ontario likes to vote the opposite way
00:40:53.420of whoever's in power federally. Most of the time, whenever there's a Liberal government in Ottawa,
00:40:58.680they tend to put a Conservative government in Ontario, in Toronto and Queen's Park.
00:41:05.100I think that's a little bit of why Ford's hanging in there, you know, and then when there's a
00:41:09.340conservative government in, they tend to go NDP or liberal. And this time it might be changing
00:41:16.000the dynamic. They've had enough of Ford. And there's no sign as well that there's going to
00:41:23.340be a conservative government in Ottawa for a long, long time. Well, never probably. If you want one,
00:41:28.600you got to get out of the country. That's the bottom line. Let's see where else we're at,
00:41:34.700you know, with people seeing true stuff. Charles Adler, you might remember as a radio host, a name
00:41:39.740who wasn't that bad, but I don't know, he slipped in the shower, bumped his head five, six years ago
00:41:44.240and went bananas and suddenly woke up as a liberal, a hardcore liberal. And actually, I think most
00:41:50.380people understand why he went that way because lo and behold, eventually bang, here's Charles Adler
00:41:56.120appointed to the Senate. Yeah. So media members realizing that, because yes, media doesn't offer
00:42:03.180a nice big pension or a heck of a lot of money, independent or even legacy, really, unless you're
00:42:08.240in the CBC. He smelled the gravy train. He wanted to retire in comfort. He wanted a low stress,
00:42:14.840high pay job. So he switched himself into being a liberal shill and his effort paid off. After a
00:42:21.820few years, he was put into the Senate where he resides, but still pokes around on social media.
00:42:28.860And he was taking shots on X, basically saying the liberals belong in government forever, they're the best government around, blah, blah, blah. But he seems to forget that the pretense of Justin Trudeau claiming that senators are going to be independent.
00:42:44.640Now they're no longer liberal senators. They're just appointed by the liberal government, but
00:42:48.280they're not liberals anymore. They're independent senators. Chucky, you're supposed to be liberal.
00:42:54.280You're independent, I should say. You let your veneer fall off. Perhaps dial it down. Go have
00:43:00.720a donut or something. Stay off social media. Actually, no, carry on. Keep it up. Keep showing
00:43:05.260people how sick and broken the system is. I mean, it's supposed to be another level of government
00:43:09.740that adds accountability. It's supposed to be a powerful level of government, and the Senate,
00:43:12.700for the most part is a joke. Does a bit of committee work that's okay now and then, but for
00:43:16.560the most part, it's a joke. You look in the United States, senators are among the most powerful people
00:43:21.880in the country because there's only 50 of them or whatnot versus a whole load of people in Congress.
00:43:29.360In Canada, senators are just a joke. They're appointed. They're there for life. They don't
00:43:33.660do anything of significance. Once in a while, they'll raise their backs over something over
00:43:37.480to Parliament that is just too beyond the pale. But either ways, Charles, just shut up. You're not0.99
00:43:44.460doing any favors for things. Alex Zoltan's been covering things in BC very well, speaking of
00:43:51.080governments going down, because Eby is just floundering. He's just in trouble. And Zoltan's
00:43:57.740been covering the leadership race of the Conservatives, which they've really been at each
00:44:02.580other's throats for a bit unfortunately the race did begin with a land acknowledgement like guys0.58
00:44:07.720that cultish crap cut it out that's what ripped the conservatives apart in bc in the first place0.98
00:44:12.520we need politicians with the knackers to say that's it no more of this indigenous pandering0.99
00:44:17.060and crap because that's what's swinging the whole needle in bc right now that's where previously0.97
00:44:22.560even ndp supporters down in the lower mainland are saying my lord i might lose my home i might0.99
00:44:28.860lose my property. I don't know what's going on. They gave title to a whole areas to bans and they
00:44:34.100won't tell us exactly what it's about, but people can't get their mortgages renewed. I want out.
00:44:38.920And this DRIPA thing, this indigenous right thing based on the UN is threatening the well-being of1.00
00:44:46.160the entire province and people are realizing it. And EB doesn't have the courage to get rid of it1.00
00:44:50.500and get out of it. The conservatives can own this in BC. They can really win this, knock EB out of
00:44:57.140power but what people in bc want to see is somebody telling the indigenous lobby enough enough get
00:45:04.180stuffed we consulted we're done with you this endless circle of supposed reconciliation over
00:45:10.920things that happened a hundred and some years ago that's now bankrupting the province they've had
00:45:16.680enough and the majority of bc still votes in elections and they're non-indigenous but if0.99
00:45:22.540The Conservatives are going to be so stupid as to do land acknowledgements.0.99
00:45:28.700Well, I guess maybe the NDP deserves another term.1.00