Western Standard - Carney’s new slush fund is another indication that Canada is broken

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome to the

00:00:29.980 Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show, the place where you got to get your news, your updates.

00:00:34.460 I mean, come on, there's none of that BS, legacy media stuff here, or at least you get

00:00:39.840 my opinion on all of that stuff.

00:00:41.480 I mean, it's debatable on how accurate it may or may not be, but you're going to get

00:00:44.780 it if you're tuning in anyway.

00:00:46.100 I want to kind of start by, again, thanking some of the people that have been on the speaking

00:00:49.540 circuit lately, hitting all these towns in Alberta.

00:00:51.400 They've just been packing the houses on these independence talks with this Let's Talk Alberta

00:00:55.840 thing.

00:00:56.540 I was in Tilly, Alberta last night.

00:00:58.120 great full room of people the movement uh is still going on whatever's happening with the

00:01:03.580 referendum it's uh this ball's rolling it's not going to stop it's really been something else to

00:01:08.900 observe all right so in a little while i'm gonna have uh he's it's been a few years since he's been

00:01:13.200 on but he's been on before you've probably seen him on social media faruka elsa elsa gear maybe

00:01:20.160 he'll correct me on the pronunciation but he's the fellow running paul's pizza who's got the

00:01:24.620 world of the woke all wound up in the canceled crowd with the pitchforks and torches outside of

00:01:29.380 his place it should be a good fun conversation and really guys they actually do have good pizza there

00:01:35.260 and of course there'll be some news updates i got the substitute dave in today so it'll be a good

00:01:40.040 chat there as well i'll start with what i'm going to rant to about today though and i mean i have to

00:01:45.100 hit it get right to the point canada is a crappy place to invest into or do business in i mean the

00:01:51.780 regulatory environment coupled with general ineptitude from the government has been strangling

00:01:55.780 the Canadian economy for over a decade. We had a recent report from RBC concluding over a trillion

00:02:01.600 dollars in capital has fled Canada in the last 10 years. It's not Fraser Institute or one of

00:02:06.580 those places you can question, it's RBC. The GDP per capita continues to drop and it looks to be

00:02:12.920 an utter freefall when you compare it to the United States. We're getting poorer. Canada's

00:02:17.600 productivity is horrific as well. When you look at those numbers, we average 73 U.S. dollars per

00:02:22.840 hour per person compared to 97 U.S. dollars per hour per person in the United States. So even

00:02:29.340 the Kearney government can no longer ignore this. Instead of addressing, though, the root causes of

00:02:35.360 why Canada has become an investment pariah, the Kearney government has instead announced the

00:02:39.760 creation of a $25 billion, quote unquote, sovereign wealth fund. If investors won't invest in Canada

00:02:46.380 now, they feel that they might get part of their investment covered through a fund created by, you

00:02:52.220 know, debt dumped on taxpayers. That'll bring them in, right? Citizens who truly hate their pocketbook

00:02:57.500 are also invited to invest into this catastrophe and waiting. The government will set the standards

00:03:03.020 of how they'll determine who gets a piece of this fund, and that invariably leads to well-connected

00:03:07.280 insiders with questionable investment notions. The grifters can smell opportunities like this a mile

00:03:12.420 away and rest assured they're already salivating over this one. The foundation of this fund is like

00:03:17.400 the debacle of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. Government policies made expanding

00:03:21.600 the pipeline so economically unviable the private proponent of the project pulled the plug. Even the

00:03:27.460 Trudeau government realized it pushed things too far but rather than cut away the roadblocks all 0.54

00:03:31.660 they had to do was get out of the damn way and that's what had driven the investors away. The

00:03:35.320 government bought the project. Then through typical mismanagement they built the project at a 600%

00:03:41.100 at higher price. And years late, the taxpayer never needed to invest a penny if the government

00:03:47.640 would just have stepped aside. The principal reason means the same with these other major

00:03:51.600 projects. The government's the problem. Canada's new spaceport, that's another prime example of

00:03:56.940 what happens when the government rushes to invest in something. A handful of creative souls who

00:04:00.780 leased property from the government for thousands a year managed to lease it back to the government

00:04:05.120 for 20 million a year. And some of it's even retroactive. All that land contains is a gravel

00:04:10.440 road leading to a small concrete pad. Perhaps maybe there's a little hand-scrawled note there

00:04:15.000 saying rocket porch or something as well. Just think of what those economic wizards could do 0.87

00:04:19.140 with $25 billion or more to play with. Carney's already been misrepresenting this fund by calling

00:04:23.720 it a sovereign wealth fund and comparing it to what Norway has. Sovereign wealth funds are created

00:04:28.860 through government surpluses, not by putting the bill on the credit card of the taxpayers.

00:04:33.660 The funds typically have a mandate of stabilizing the local economy and investing to get a maximum

00:04:38.400 rate of return. In Norway, the fund, their fund, purposely invests 100% outside of Norway. So it

00:04:45.100 doesn't meddle with the domestic economy. It also is mostly placed in relatively safe equities,

00:04:50.400 real estate, and bonds. Carney's debt fund is going to stay 100% within Canada and is going

00:04:55.940 to be dedicated to high-risk investments. If the investments weren't high-risk, private investors

00:05:00.920 would buy in without tax funding. This is just another corporate welfare fund which will

00:05:05.140 predominantly invest in losers, and it's likely going to be targeted to areas where liberals need

00:05:09.240 growth and electoral support rather than areas actually needed development. Look, we already have

00:05:13.320 the Canada Infrastructure Bank and other government subsidy programs in place. We don't need another

00:05:17.520 one. All these funds and initiatives avoid addressing the elephant in the room. Political

00:05:22.280 red tape in general has been hampering all developments, and the granddaddy of all those 0.98

00:05:26.680 roadblocks is the de facto veto authority given to Indigenous bands over all projects. Chiefs,

00:05:31.960 Both elected and appointed, along with a plethora of lawyers and bureaucrats, swarm every new

00:05:36.680 development with demands and threats despite not having the authority to stop them. Not a single

00:05:41.220 major project in Canada has been proposed that doesn't have one Indigenous band or another

00:05:45.200 opposing it. The government must stop indulging these claims and lay down the law. Consultation

00:05:51.080 with Indigenous groups is a constitutional requirement, but consent is not. If the government 0.79

00:05:55.940 could find the courage to stand on its real authority and guarantee that projects would be

00:06:00.900 completed despite Indigenous opposition. The investment dollars would flood in. Canada's

00:06:05.540 loaded with resources the world wants and investors would be eager to dive into them.

00:06:09.720 Alas though, courage and liberals aren't terms we often see hand in hand. Slush funds created

00:06:14.560 through indebting citizens are easier to create than taking principled stands and governing

00:06:18.640 responsibly. This new sovereign wealth fund is just another indication of what an increasing

00:06:24.020 number of Western Canadians are realizing. Canada is broken. All right, well that gets off to an

00:06:30.140 sort of thing how's it going dave yeah not bad cory it's been a while how's things good good

00:06:36.260 now it's about time you came on here just guys a lot of the news you're seeing is coming out of

00:06:40.960 him happily typing away back in the newsroom over there just a bit just a bit well i got a few

00:06:46.140 things for you cory today i mean um well i guess one of the big ones is alberta's finally raised

00:06:49.960 the speed limit to 120 kilometers an hour over a little stretch of highway i think it's highway

00:06:54.120 to south of leduc as part of a pilot project so that'll be interesting to see what happens there

00:06:58.360 I 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.

00:07:04.260 Well, we hope. I mean, we'll see what the opposition comes, right?

00:07:07.020 Every time there's a fender bender or a crash, they're going to say, well, that was because of the limit.

00:07:10.140 That was because of the limit. You know, it's just maybe it's just because of bad driving.

00:07:14.300 Oh, yeah, I would 100 percent agree with that.

00:07:15.900 And a nice story as well, too, is I don't know if you probably saw this.

00:07:18.600 The 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.

00:07:24.280 which is kind of a nice story because you think in the past few years there's been you know fans

00:07:27.680 on both sides booing both national anthem anthems so it's kind of nice to see that even though

00:07:31.300 people can say in buffalo there's probably a lot of canadian fans it's right across the border but

00:07:34.740 no it was a good gesture and i i think it was a nice change from the torqued environment to

00:07:40.500 things going i mean i you know i'm an independent supporter but i'm not there to undercut the anthem

00:07:44.000 or things like that just showing i think actually that some of those guys trying to say that the

00:07:49.180 americans are nasty and they're gnashing at us and they want to not everybody in that room was

00:07:53.420 necessarily Canadian singing that anthem they just kicked in hopefully we get more of that I mean 1.00

00:07:57.680 it's it's the relationship between our southern partner has been pretty badly beaten on and eroded

00:08:03.260 over this last year I blame some of it on the crazy orange man but there's been no shortage of 0.65

00:08:07.480 vitriol on our side too I would definitely agree with that yeah and we were talking before this

00:08:12.780 just actually broke just recently city of Calgary said that their CEO David Duckworth long-time CEO

00:08:17.320 is finally stepping down I think it's going to be effective I think May 1st and they said it's on

00:08:21.440 the departure is I mutually agreed so I don't know if there's any controversy to that or what

00:08:25.680 the deal is exactly because he's been there for a long time through a lot of administrations I

00:08:29.120 believe. Yeah and it's funny with the you know a lot of people don't look at city halls enough

00:08:32.320 to realize that it's those insiders those these guys make some good bucks too they well I mean

00:08:36.560 if they're doing it right it's potentially worth it they're managing billions of dollars worth of

00:08:41.040 infrastructure and operations but they always tighten up it seems to me there was a fella in

00:08:45.600 transportation named Trevor Morgan I think it was or something some years ago but he left instantly

00:08:50.560 and then there were some rumors of some really crazy stuff that had gone on but they closed the

00:08:54.800 ranks everything went silent and then he just rode off into the sunset with a you know probably a

00:08:58.560 six-figure severance package so oh yeah probably the same stuff with this one being mutually agreed

00:09:02.720 i imagine he's giving a soft landing but maybe hopefully at least just some reforms in that

00:09:07.920 city hall i guess well you would think so hopefully this is kind of a fun one do you

00:09:10.720 remember the briex scandal from the 90s forget i wish i'd have got in in that first part

00:09:15.360 well this is kind of similar because apparently the rcmp have charged the guy who is the former

00:09:20.800 ceo of rpx gold for fraud and forgery because they're alleging that he's been manipulating

00:09:25.920 mining data that was tied to a northern ontario gold project i think it was called wawa gold

00:09:30.960 project so it's kind of like the briex thing except not as big at least so far from what we know

00:09:36.320 okay well the briex one the thing that still got me with all of that too though was the two

00:09:41.760 big principles in that uh walsh who was in the bahamas who suddenly died of a heart attack

00:09:47.760 it's one of those things maybe i watch too many tv shows maybe they should just look

00:09:50.480 for a syringe mark or something on him and uh de guzman i think it was was the name of the uh

00:09:55.520 Filipino gentleman the engineer who engineered the fraud jumped out of a helicopter on the ride 0.72

00:10:02.480 you know when you rip people off for billions oh yeah your life expectancy just isn't really that 0.94

00:10:08.320 long you would assume so yeah they never proved anything otherwise yeah well they're a run-of-the-mill

00:10:13.680 heart attack and a suicide out of the helicopter but yeah exactly he's supposed to be showing up

00:10:17.040 in court by uh i think it's june 5th so i guess we'll see what happens then so yeah well let's

00:10:20.880 see history repeating itself i suggest this man not taking a helicopter yeah no and this morning

00:10:27.040 actually i'm i think it was a national natural resources minister tim hodgson announced at a

00:10:31.040 conference in ottawa that the federal government's going to be um advancing their new uh nuclear

00:10:35.600 energy strategy and committing billions to expanding the uh the sector and uh developing

00:10:39.420 technologies i was just curious what your whole thoughts are on nuclear power going forward

00:10:43.040 i think it's great if the government doesn't irresponsibly screw it up so that's a big caveat

00:10:46.900 because the government loves doing that but i don't have a beef with nuclear generation abilities

00:10:50.320 we've got saskatchewan with with all of those uranium supplies we've got uh you know it's

00:10:55.140 getting aged and out of date i mean the can do initiatives we're we're very successful like if

00:11:00.160 they could just get the over the hang-ups with nuclear i think it's all the safety thing that

00:11:04.920 They'll think it's like another Chernobyl or meltdown.

00:11:06.880 Like, was it Fukushima or whatnot in Japan?

00:11:08.780 But I'm like, that's just...

00:11:09.720 Yeah, that was a tsunami. 0.91

00:11:11.340 And Chernobyl was, you know, run by a Soviet system that couldn't manage to invent a functional alarm clock. 0.98

00:11:16.940 It's not much wonder that they had a meltdown. 0.99

00:11:19.340 But we'll see.

00:11:20.780 There you go.

00:11:21.280 Exactly.

00:11:22.060 And 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.

00:11:33.220 I don't know if you remember that one.

00:11:34.320 but apparently there's more to this now apparently the probes uncovered several uh weapons and

00:11:38.320 prohibited items going forward so this might be bigger than just uh one little uh murder

00:11:42.480 yeah something about it was it was what a firearm with us filed off a serial number i believe so

00:11:47.040 yeah correct yeah and that's going into trafficking i think so yeah it's going deeper i suppose you

00:11:50.960 could say let me just hope more people pay attention you know realize here's where the

00:11:54.160 problems are these traffickers these gangsters these these problematic people but the government's

00:11:58.480 too busy chasing our country legal gun owners yeah exactly i didn't see grandpa's 12 gauge out

00:12:02.960 there used it yeah exactly yeah exactly that's about all i got for you today corey right on it

00:12:08.400 was plenty i guess it's kind of a quiet news day so yeah so far yeah yeah i don't know it's usually

00:12:13.280 a lull before the storm i'm sure yeah something weird insane yeah exactly tomorrow yeah looking

00:12:18.000 forward to seeing what you're right about it and uh well thank you for the update and keeping

00:12:22.320 things rolling for us dave sounds like a plan thanks gory appreciate it all right that is our

00:12:27.200 mean what's your title description these days though that's a good question you're a senior

00:12:33.920 reporter or maybe senior reporter it just says reporter on the yeah the name tag i think so

00:12:38.880 but i mean you're i think so now yeah it seems like there's a bunch of young guys yeah the

00:12:44.240 poll within the newsroom you're getting near the top in my view i would think so i guess

00:12:48.480 all right well thanks for taking the time to settle in in the show with us to thanks

00:12:52.320 appreciate it thanks so yes that is dave winnekin you'll see his name at the top of a lot of stories

00:12:57.360 along with a whole lot of other people contributing opinion pieces news pieces you name it this is

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00:13:23.380 support people like David and John, our producer, and even me in here to do these, these weekly

00:13:28.640 rants with you guys in here. Uh, let's see what else we got going on. Uh, commenters Jacqueline

00:13:34.500 saying, uh, why would Alberta want to build a pipeline through BC when the so-called indigenous

00:13:39.360 would just claim it as theirs? Uh, let's go South. Yeah. Well, you know, then there's challenges 1.00

00:13:45.120 going south too but you know the the indigenous thing and i know it's not beyond belief i mean

00:13:49.600 when there's claims going on on anything and everything uh that's why no private investor

00:13:54.000 will touch it with a 10-foot pole we actually in it's a constitutional ignorance if people would 0.96

00:14:01.200 realize the federal government has the authority to basically put their foot down and say too damn

00:14:07.520 bad all right guys we consulted you we did what we could we compensated how you will we hired what

00:14:12.720 we would but now it's done it's over the dirt's gonna move if you blockade the pipeline we will 0.96

00:14:18.080 arrest you but this government has no cojones they they would just rather just keep like i said 0.62

00:14:23.840 buying slush funds or forming slush funds giving money to their friends do what they can for a few 0.97

00:14:29.120 years and then riding off into the sunset with your tax dollars so it's going to take a major

00:14:34.880 change to get anything through i got a feeling though this is you know my bias and you hear it

00:14:39.920 from you a lot if we had an independent alberta boy we'd have a heck of a lot of leverage all

00:14:44.080 of a sudden to start talking with the folks in bc because i tell you what one thing that makes

00:14:48.160 people really receptive to pipelines is getting hungry and uh if suddenly they're not having a

00:14:54.400 good time getting their goods and services across alberta you know coming into bc or going out

00:14:59.280 they're going to get hungry really fast and then we can negotiate some things and i suspect that

00:15:03.520 thing will go on the ground okay speaking of food speaking of hungry i'll use that as a cheesy

00:15:07.520 segue we've got Farouk from Paul's Pizza coming in it's been a while and boy you've been pissing

00:15:14.460 everybody off again Farouk I appreciate it how you doing? I'm good yourself? Good good I mean

00:15:20.880 still at it here uh you know carrying on I you know looking I was getting the image for your

00:15:27.720 appearance on the show and I see that the main thing that pops up was the last time you were on

00:15:31.480 here a few years ago. It's not often a pizza restaurant owner becomes so newsworthy, but you

00:15:38.500 certainly like to speak your mind, I guess. Yeah, you know, freedom of speech and all that.

00:15:47.380 At the end of the day, I use the, you know how I am, I use my social media platform to express my

00:15:53.080 opinions. And I just try to get others to get on board. I want other business owners, especially

00:15:59.140 in alberta to start speaking up and not be afraid of this cancel culture bullshit well that's it and

00:16:05.120 they're really coming out of gin swarms unfortunately maybe just for those who haven't

00:16:08.880 heard about it necessarily i mean legacy media certainly doesn't touch these things effectively

00:16:12.820 or whatnot uh what did you do that got them all worked up this time uh so you know me being you

00:16:19.880 know kind of stupid at times i uh noticed that uh leah gazan i believe is her name i saw it i don't 0.94

00:16:26.680 I don't watch the news too much. I get my news off Instagram and I kept seeing a post about 0.98

00:16:32.000 MMIW2GSLGBTQI. I don't know if I got it right, but I'm pretty close. So, you know, I just made 1.00

00:16:41.380 a stupid joke about it, not knowing what MMIW was at the time. And I kind of just woke up the next 0.98

00:16:48.700 day and it exploded. And since then, I've just had people coming after me from all parts of

00:16:54.800 the country and you know i've had a lot more support which is nice as well yeah no you certainly

00:17:00.440 have i think people are really appreciating uh that you're not backing down i you know the the

00:17:06.920 first instinct for a lot of people if something happens whether it was inadvertently or just you

00:17:12.260 know uh put something out on social media quickly uh is to say oh man i'm sorry and delete it and

00:17:17.760 back off and apologize and of course the reality is when the cancel mob gets going even if you to

00:17:22.660 back down and apologize. They're still going to come after you. They just smell blood in the water.

00:17:28.080 So I appreciate that you're just saying, no, to hell with you guys. I'm not, you know, backing

00:17:32.980 off on this. You're not, I mean, you're there to sell pizzas and beer. You're not really, you know,

00:17:37.860 your goal isn't to tick people off so much, but you're not going to, you know, cower every time

00:17:43.340 somebody gets a little upset with you. No, exactly. So I've been doing this for about seven

00:17:48.480 years now i've been banned off facebook many times i think this is my fifth page now so i have plenty

00:17:54.560 of experience with dealing with the cancel culture and like you said they when they smell like you

00:17:59.880 know weakness they pounce so you know i i'm not one to back down especially from those kind of

00:18:06.100 people and i'm always going to speak my mind and i just want others to know you know speak your mind

00:18:12.040 as well if they come after you block them if they're going to call you block their number who

00:18:16.500 cares say what you want it's your business well absolutely so i mean what have they been doing

00:18:21.540 you know just to lay it out i know they've been kind of bombing your reviews they've been trying

00:18:24.940 to get you knocked off social media they're calling you every name in the book apparently

00:18:28.400 you're a white nationalist i don't i don't i haven't written the rules on what night white

00:18:33.420 nationalism lands in but it just seems to me there's a part of it that you don't qualify

00:18:37.820 well for in that aspect i mean i am a light-skinned arab i'm not i'm not too dark uh so the white

00:18:44.580 nationalist Arab post, because, you know, they actually think I'm some Arab guy that wants to

00:18:49.040 be white, which is completely false. So over the years, I've just been getting, you know, tons of

00:18:53.360 messages. Hey, you're a KKK member, you're a white supremacist, this and that. And then one day, 0.99

00:18:58.660 someone messaged me, call me a white Arab nationalist, which I thought was pretty funny. 0.99

00:19:02.780 So I decided to take a picture of myself, look all goofy, and just post it on my social media, 1.00

00:19:07.680 and I kind of ran with it. Well, that's part of it. I find a part of what disarms

00:19:12.160 people on social media if they're coming in the attack mode is just lean right into it just push

00:19:17.760 right they don't expect that and they don't know what to do I've had people on x come after me

00:19:21.300 you know saying oh you're this or that usually you know with a homophobic slur or anything and

00:19:25.960 then what I'll do is counter back and say well you know if you buy me some flowers I might do

00:19:29.980 some of those things you're talking about with yeah I mean you got to start just easing into

00:19:33.620 this and it shuts them up every they don't know what to do so just lean in yeah their brands kind

00:19:40.260 explode when you fight back they don't know what to do i i mean they're not the brightest people

00:19:44.420 so it's honestly not too hard to uh to roast these guys um at the end of the day usually what happens

00:19:50.420 is they message me after i roast them or they comment hey can you take that down you know i'm

00:19:55.860 so sorry i was wrong blah blah blah which i'm not gonna do because you know if i if i if i do that

00:20:01.140 i know they're just gonna go do it again to someone else or myself but yeah always always

00:20:05.380 fight back man there's there's nothing wrong with fighting back and you know i get it from the

00:20:09.300 from other business perspective and people's perspective because these guys they're they're

00:20:13.540 like piranhas man they'll go after your family they'll call like they're calling my charities

00:20:17.700 and trying to get my charities to not accept my money they're calling the landlord um they're

00:20:23.140 they're sending threats of arson you know you name it they're finding my my employees instagrams and

00:20:28.260 messaging my employees so uh just at the end of the day they can't do anything i've told them for

00:20:33.540 seven years if you've ever had an issue you know where i am you know where to find me and not one

00:20:37.540 one soul has come in and wanted to discuss things with me so they're just a bunch of uh i don't want

00:20:42.100 to swear but you know they're a bunch of pansies that hide behind a keyboard and uh there's nothing

00:20:46.500 to fear man all it is is words at the end of the day yeah and i don't know if you remember a guy

00:20:51.940 named paul stenson he ran the white moose cafe up in dublin ireland years ago it was a cafe and hotel

00:20:58.660 beautiful little spot it was the same time as i used to own the pub down in printis area and such

00:21:02.900 and i know how easy the money is in the uh pizza and beer business it's uh not exactly uh as as

00:21:09.140 thrilling as some people might think though we had a good run but that paul stinson guy did a

00:21:13.060 similar thing like he was just unapologetic against the woke he went after cyclists he

00:21:17.620 went after vegans he did things like that and it drove them haywire and they would protest

00:21:22.740 but in the end it led to his place being packed he he had a facebook page with a 150 000 followers

00:21:30.580 I think on it and the irony again is they would go after him call him every name in the book 0.94

00:21:35.220 and a homophobe was one of their favorites with them he was as gay as gay could be you know but

00:21:41.440 they just don't even look that deep they just immediately throw all the labels out just the 0.97

00:21:44.980 second they they get upset and uh they don't even know what the hell they're talking about

00:21:48.420 yeah I think uh I think last time I have a pretty good memory last time we spoke I think you brought

00:21:54.180 that up and yeah you know uh I think that's a smart tactic because you know when you're when

00:22:00.200 you're pissing people off they're going to start talking about you when they talk about you that's

00:22:03.800 publicity and it's free publicity which is even better so all it does is it attracts people into

00:22:08.940 your business that didn't know about you before uh the the people who are like-minded are going

00:22:13.360 to come and support you more as well and then at the same time it deters all these uh i call them

00:22:18.520 weirdos and uh brokies you know it deters all these far left extremists who sit at home and

00:22:24.060 have no money to uh to spend anyway so at the end of the day all it is doing is you know growing my

00:22:29.220 brand and driving up business well that's it and you're showing most of people if they look at it

00:22:34.220 it's just humor and if it's not humor to somebody's taste we'll just go somewhere else uh it's a little

00:22:39.100 different when it's a a business i guess but you know that whole mmw amber sand all that other

00:22:44.800 stuff that they threw that was mocked all over the world late night talk show hosts were mocking 0.86

00:22:49.380 that they were going crazy uh laughing their heads off at that thing because it was ridiculous 0.76

00:22:55.160 but of course the woke nut cases can't target them but they found a local target with you if 1.00

00:23:01.940 you were truly being hateful if you were really being a jerk saying you know what i'm going to 1.00

00:23:05.240 refuse to serve gay people or i'm going to assault uh black people coming in or something insane like 1.00

00:23:10.780 that well i'd be up there saying geez i'm not shopping at a guy's place either he's he's crazy 1.00

00:23:14.940 but you've not been hateful you've just been having a good lark with some of this stuff

00:23:19.520 yeah at the end of the day man you know running a business is a lot of work and uh social media

00:23:25.020 just like the gym is kind of my escape so i like to uh i like to entertain people it's all about

00:23:29.520 comedy at the end of the day putting a smile on people's faces and like you said like i've never

00:23:33.820 denied service to uh anybody to be honest someone comes in with uh a gay shirt or someone comes in 0.98

00:23:39.720 with a uh you know a turban i don't give a shit you know they're paying customers we treat them 0.98

00:23:45.300 all equally uh i mean i do kick some people out here and there but that's just because they get 0.98

00:23:50.280 drunk and obnoxious and try to start fights doesn't matter if they're black or white or

00:23:54.440 or red you know we we treat them all equally so at the end of the day we don't we have never 0.97

00:23:58.600 discriminated against anybody and uh half my staff are are colored i have i have gay people that work

00:24:04.520 for me but the difference is they don't go around and flaunt it they don't make it you know you know

00:24:09.160 their whole life they don't push it down our throats they don't push it down children's

00:24:13.000 throats and that's that's kind of the difference that's kind of you know where i have a issue is

00:24:18.200 when people go over that line yeah well and something at least as things are kind of ongoing

00:24:24.340 this is what it's been a couple of weeks sort of since it recently hit the fan with you again all

00:24:28.580 over again uh you're still sort of you're poking the hornet's nest at least uh not apologizing

00:24:35.020 getting on there making some funny posts on x or on instagram and and things like that uh how

00:24:41.060 have sales been as have you seen an impact up or down out of this or is it just kind of the same

00:24:45.560 has it's been um i'd say like our so our airdrie location uh the ceiling's not as high because

00:24:51.380 we're so busy but uh the calgary locations have have gone up a lot more than the airdrie location

00:24:56.680 and the airdrie location has also the numbers have also gone up um i've sold a lot of merchandise

00:25:02.080 i'm working on an online shop i've had a every day i've had a shit ton of customers come in from

00:25:07.680 red deer lethbridge saskatchewan just to meet me and shake my hand i've had guys bring in their

00:25:13.220 kids to shake my hand and say you know this is a good guy you know i want you to kind of it's kind

00:25:18.800 of weird but i want you to grow up and kind of be like this guy when you grow up you know have the

00:25:22.700 same kind of mindset so yeah it's all uh pretty much been positive for the most part i mean there

00:25:27.320 are some negatives like we're getting prank calls uh you know uh customers harassing the staff it's

00:25:33.360 kind of died down happens here and there at first it was every every minute someone was calling and

00:25:39.260 swearing at us or giving us you know a fake order that you know we would catch but yeah it's uh it's

00:25:45.460 been good the positives have definitely outweighed the negatives that's good uh what about i know

00:25:49.840 erdry seemed to kind of been the main flashpoint though you guys have a number of of locations as

00:25:53.960 you pointed out uh there have been efforts by others to try and see if they can't get your

00:25:58.560 license pulled or things like that i think some local erdry politicians basically kind of said

00:26:02.720 look we can't do anything about this he's not done anything illegal uh is that efforts to try

00:26:09.400 and shut you down that way still continuing uh i know they're they they made a a petition on

00:26:15.500 change.org i you know i never heard about until they did it i think they have a little over 3 000

00:26:20.220 signatures last time i checked and basically it's to get the the mayor and the city council to

00:26:27.020 overlook our business license to see if they could remove it. But I know the mayor came out

00:26:33.000 and made a, the new mayor came out and made a statement saying that, you know, she can't really

00:26:36.160 do anything. We haven't broken any bylaws. If you have an issue, call RCMP, contact BBB or human

00:26:42.540 rights. I spoke to RCMP. The guy just laughed, said, yeah, I follow you. You haven't done anything

00:26:47.260 wrong. Don't worry about it. BBB is basically just Yelp. So they, they really have no, no impact on

00:26:53.920 any any kind of business they're just you know a bullshit entity and i i haven't heard from human 0.55

00:26:58.060 rights yet so uh at the end of the day there's nothing they could do it's free speech it's the 0.84

00:27:02.420 internet we're not uh we're not china north korea or uk yet right but yeah everything everything's

00:27:08.900 been good so far good and i i know another thing i mean they did that with me i i had google reviews

00:27:13.840 that claim that people saw mice running around in my uh dining area and that they'd gotten

00:27:19.200 sandwiches that were moldy uh stuff like that used to happen with my restaurant when i would

00:27:23.660 tick people off online uh it really i mean you don't want to see that in your reviews because 0.99

00:27:28.800 people might not know the backstory as to why some idiot is putting that that garbage on your reviews 0.96

00:27:33.580 but still i mean it the impact of that's i guess more limited anyways i mean the most of the time 0.94

00:27:38.680 i use a google reviews if i'm traveling somewhere looking for somewhere new but you're mostly have

00:27:43.060 already got kind of your steady regular local crowds i guess yeah i would say uh for us i mean

00:27:49.320 we have so many google reviews because we've been around forever it doesn't really matter it doesn't

00:27:53.260 affect us uh what they don't understand called cancel culture is when you mass review someone

00:27:58.180 good or bad google uh picks it up and they just delete it all so if you go and search my google

00:28:05.260 reviews the latest review you'll see is from three weeks ago because they just deleted it all

00:28:09.180 so it really has no effect on us and like over time you kind of get used to it and you just go

00:28:13.860 whatever it's google you know who's not many people are actually going to go and you know

00:28:18.540 scroll through google reviews yeah well and part of what's kept you going as you said you you've

00:28:24.340 been there plus the prior owners this is a well-established business it's been there a long

00:28:27.480 time i have eaten i live down south i go to the shaughnessy one occasionally and uh i i said it

00:28:33.480 before the show i'm happy that it really is good food and great pizza you want thick cheesy you

00:28:38.580 know artery hardening pizza that's the place to get again an unapologetic good meal because i mean

00:28:43.720 if your food was crappy i'd still have you on and talk about it but i would dodge that in the end

00:28:47.080 just to not cover it.

00:28:48.960 But it really is some good stuff.

00:28:50.940 So before I let you go, you know,

00:28:52.220 maybe I'll let you get a bit of a plug in.

00:28:53.700 Where can folks get in and get a good meal

00:28:55.580 and just show that they're not going to let others

00:28:58.220 push around a guy who's outspoken with his business?

00:29:01.260 Yeah, so we don't have just pizza,

00:29:03.900 just for anybody watching.

00:29:05.000 We have a huge menu.

00:29:06.180 We do steaks, fish and chips, wings, you name it.

00:29:09.700 So it's not just pizza.

00:29:10.620 So if you don't like our style, you can get something else.

00:29:12.980 We have two locations in Calgary,

00:29:14.900 one in Shaughnessy, like you mentioned,

00:29:16.120 one off 32nd and 28th Street in the northeast and then the original here in Airdrie which we moved

00:29:22.280 about a year and a half ago to the other side of the highway we're in a big brand new building we

00:29:26.660 put about a million bucks into it and our sales are up 40 percent since we moved if you want to

00:29:32.700 follow me you can follow me on Facebook at the Paul's Pizza Airdrie Instagram is just Paul's

00:29:38.920 Pizza X I believe is just Paul's Pizza other than that you know I appreciate the support and

00:29:43.640 never back down. Right on. Well, that's great advice. And I appreciate what you've been doing,

00:29:49.500 serving good food and serving outrage to the woke. It's a service that we all really do appreciate.

00:29:56.140 People have had enough of it. So thanks for taking some time to talk to us. Maybe I'll have you on in

00:30:00.180 a couple of years when you piss them all off over something new. All right. Thank you, Corey. You

00:30:04.180 have a good one. Take it easy. Have a good one, man. So yes, guys, that's Farouk with Paul's Pizza.

00:30:10.060 and yes he's mentioned all those spots where you can see them online and more importantly you know

00:30:15.360 hey give a thumbs up online support people when they're speaking out just taking advantage of

00:30:19.620 free speech but get out there try their product look you can come on and roast me in the comments

00:30:23.660 if i was steering you wrong if you think it was a bad meal it really is good eats there so let's go

00:30:28.580 to those places that just they're just small business people and that's part of social media

00:30:32.700 now anyways that's what you got to do as i said i was in the bar and restaurant industry for some

00:30:38.080 years with the pub I owned. You've got to build a presence, an identity. That's what really builds

00:30:42.640 a solid business, you know, an atmosphere there and a customer base. And social media has become

00:30:47.660 a tool of that. I got to admit, I wasn't as courageous as Farouk with, you know, kind of

00:30:54.020 getting into it using the business pages to get into politics. But because I was in politics

00:30:58.120 outside of the restaurant, I would still get blasted. But with our page, you'd be a bit cheeky

00:31:03.600 on it. You'd be a bit fun. You want people to follow your social media just to see what's

00:31:07.940 happening and to see it being lively and interesting. And it draws them out, makes it

00:31:11.620 get into their mind when they're deciding where they may or may not eat at some point. 1.00

00:31:17.480 But we just can't let these mobs win, you know, these cowardly seller dwelling wimps. And that's 0.97

00:31:22.920 what they are. They're blue haired losers. They're people who haven't worked for a living. They don't 1.00

00:31:28.760 understand the pressures and pains of running a small business. They don't respect that ability.

00:31:33.600 you know, if there was a business owner, as I said, if Farouk was really actually being nasty

00:31:37.720 and awful and bad to people, well, then I just wouldn't go. It's as simple as that. I'm not

00:31:41.860 going to bother protesting and review bombing and all that stuff and say, I'm going to take my

00:31:46.500 dollars and I'll shop somewhere else. But the woke can't stop there. They want it shut down.

00:31:53.900 They want it canceled. They want him driven out of business. They want the employees he has

00:31:59.640 driven out of business and we can't let these traveling mobs do that it's a sick weird human

00:32:07.960 nature thing and there's there's much to it i mean this it really does go back to that psychology of

00:32:14.020 the witch hunts from you know hundreds of years ago in massachusetts when when the local crowd

00:32:18.960 gets all worked up it's a pack mentality they swarm and they like doing it to businesses they

00:32:24.620 get a sick sense of satisfaction and pulling something else down don't like it leave it

00:32:29.260 alone uh let's see what else we got here uh bernie moore saying a sickle liberal government is

00:32:36.200 bringing back the online harms act uh pure bs liberal overreach yeah there's something to be

00:32:40.360 afraid of the canceled culture and mobs and crowds coming after your ability to speak

00:32:44.700 are one thing uh having the government come after you that's even scarier that's when we got some of

00:32:51.720 these very low bars set for what you might be charged with a hate crime for this government

00:32:56.920 is getting more and more authoritarian and it's, it's getting really problematic. We got to watch

00:33:03.400 out for those. This is one that the government's pushed through now, I guess the liberals, these

00:33:07.780 are the weirdest things, not a high priority you'd think, but they're pushing a bill to allow the

00:33:11.340 search and seizure of your mail through Canada post without a warrant. That's packed into an

00:33:16.380 omnibus bill that's going through right now, I guess. Why? What, what high issue is there where

00:33:22.580 they feel they should have the right to go in and rip into your mail and look at it? Now, thankfully

00:33:26.260 your physical mail I mean most people don't use it for much of bloody anything anyways anymore

00:33:32.240 it's mostly just junk mail coming in and a few bills that you might not have switched to electronic

00:33:35.840 billing yet but why do they want to dig into that you know this is I mean I understand if

00:33:42.300 there's a warrant and if there's a need and they've already got that ability if it if you've

00:33:45.940 got criminal activity going on they're strong enough and suspecting it's going on they can

00:33:50.020 get a warrant and they can start monitoring those things why do they need a bill to get in that

00:33:54.300 easily uh to your personal mail and you know they're not going to stop there because that's

00:34:00.740 the problem so if they're not getting the information control and power over you through

00:34:06.220 your mail that they want because it's obsolete how long before they're going into your email

00:34:13.200 your personal communications we saw that over the course of the covid thing when they were getting

00:34:18.320 into people's cellular accounts and things and such that this is really really terrifying it

00:34:25.860 really is because we are a digital world and we have a lot of personal things online and we can

00:34:34.540 really be messed with pretty quickly by a government that is uh adversely attacking it

00:34:38.800 Canada is in a really really bad way and now these liberals have this majority I mean look how bad

00:34:44.320 they were when they had a minority, when they had a little bit of control over them. Now they have a

00:34:48.980 full majority. They're taking over the committees. People who don't watch politics too, too closely

00:34:55.880 got to understand a lot of the power actually hides in the committees. That's where the stuff

00:35:00.160 goes on that you don't see. And that's where they're held in check quite a bit. We always

00:35:04.240 watch question period and everything, but it's the committees where the real meat and potatoes are.

00:35:09.040 And when you have a balanced committee with opposition members on it, they're sort of forced

00:35:12.520 to at least respect a bit of democracy in different views and try to make a case.

00:35:17.400 But once they stack those committees with nothing but liberal members, 0.98

00:35:20.160 they're just going to, like, crap through a goose.

00:35:22.140 That legislation stuff they're going to want to do is going to go through there 0.87

00:35:25.120 without hesitation, and we should be scared, guys, really scared.

00:35:30.980 Speaking of authoritarians, you've probably seen that story.

00:35:33.500 It's in the Western Standard, Frances Whittowson.

00:35:36.520 So you probably saw that video go out.

00:35:38.320 She went to Lethbridge University.

00:35:40.000 she knew kind of that they were going to come after her all she did was go in and sit down and

00:35:45.780 have a coffee in this case and the police came in and literally arrested her took her away in

00:35:50.600 handcuffs for the crime of sitting and having a coffee but why speaking of courageous people like

00:35:56.640 Farouk or others she won't back down she doubles down she dared to break the orthodoxy she dared

00:36:03.520 to question the indigenous state of affairs she dared to point out the reality that in Kamloops

00:36:09.980 not a single body has been found because there aren't any bodies because it was a hoax and it's

00:36:14.780 a hoax that now we can call a fraud because the band got 12 million dollars to exhume and

00:36:19.340 investigate this thing and didn't do anything with it. Frances Whittowson keeps calling it out she's

00:36:25.740 a professor who won't back down so now they've literally arrested her when she goes to other 0.99

00:36:30.940 places protests are organized they get aggressive and dangerous around her if you've ever met 1.00

00:36:37.580 Frances. She's just a small slip of a woman. It's not hard to physically intimidate somebody like 1.00

00:36:43.480 that. And that's what they do. She's got bigger cojones than our prime minister does, because

00:36:51.160 she just will not stop on this. And I'm so glad she's continuing with that. So she's been charged 0.99

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

00:37:04.440 down the message. For me, talk about that on here a couple of times. I've been charged with

00:37:10.400 trespassing by the Siksika Reserve for publishing a couple of videos of the conditions on that

00:37:15.520 reserve, the reserve that got $1.3 billion out of Trudeau a few years ago, and the housing is

00:37:20.280 falling apart, the dogs are running around, the garbage is all over the place. They want to shoot

00:37:25.240 the messenger. So they lay these charges, they come after you, they use the legal system to shut

00:37:30.420 down the messaging. It's another form of cancelling. And Whittleston's getting it. I'm

00:37:34.220 getting it. Guys, we got to keep pushing back. We've got to keep fighting. The easy route's just

00:37:42.160 to duck your head down, apologize, and leave. And that's not even the easy route. When the cancel

00:37:45.520 mob comes after you, push back. That is the way to do it. When they see you retreat, they just

00:37:53.540 keep coming. As I said on X, where I fight all the time, and so on, when they throw insults at me,

00:37:58.380 I just dive right back into it, you know, and they don't know what to do.

00:38:05.940 Ford's Progressive Conservatives, this is something.

00:38:08.060 So this is the headline from the Standard.

00:38:10.060 Ford's PC slipped a second as the Liberals take a lead amidst the gravy train backlash.

00:38:14.640 So 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.

00:38:26.060 and when people all got pretty pissed off about it he got quite petulant and stirred up but before

00:38:32.920 he managed to get even a ride on it he uh sold it again but it really does show a government that's

00:38:38.440 starting to reach its its uh end cycle and uh they're really losing track of what ticks people

00:38:44.240 off and what doesn't and you know dave our news editor we talked about that in the pipeline last

00:38:49.100 week he says you know it's not unreasonable for a premier in a province as large as ontario to

00:38:55.980 have a plane to get around. And that's true, but it's the way they did it. And it's the level of

00:39:03.260 the plane that they got. Now, he doesn't need to be flying in a old World War I biplane, you know,

00:39:09.760 and put a scarf on and try and hope for the best. But you don't need a luxurious jet either. You

00:39:14.820 are just in a province. You can get a pretty good plane that's going to fly a handful of people

00:39:19.520 around. Plus you should just approach, make your case first before buying it. What he did was just

00:39:27.100 bought it. It was on the books, never made a peep about it. And then so by the way, the taxpayer's

00:39:31.540 on a plane that's going to fly me around, a jet. He didn't need something that as excessive.

00:39:36.820 In Alberta, Alison Redford, we had government planes here in Alberta. They weren't jets,

00:39:42.880 but they were, they were well-equipped planes to fly cabinet ministers and people around and

00:39:46.540 everything. She was using it to fly to Palm Springs. She was taking family members on it and

00:39:51.080 friends. She was totally abusing it. Now the planes are gone altogether, including Allison 1.00

00:39:55.900 Redford is gone altogether. But when they start feeling that superior, when they start getting

00:40:02.100 that arrogant with your money, that's the beginning of the end. Redford was just brutal.

00:40:09.640 She built what was called the Sky Palace, if you guys remember. It was a part on an administration

00:40:14.060 building kind of a penthouse unit up top which had been used for a number of things but she was

00:40:18.920 having it converted with tax dollars to basically be a little a luxury apartment of her own little 0.99

00:40:24.020 palace of her own downtown in Edmonton to uh keep her well appointed as the queen of Alberta

00:40:30.260 they just infuriated people and it got her knocked out so in Ontario is Doug Ford finally

00:40:37.160 finally because it's been amazing how bad he's been as a premier yet still they seem to like him

00:40:41.900 is he slipping? The Liberals have slipped past him a little bit, but it's hard to say. One of

00:40:47.820 the things, if you look at electoral trends in Canada, Ontario likes to vote the opposite way

00:40:53.420 of whoever's in power federally. Most of the time, whenever there's a Liberal government in Ottawa,

00:40:58.680 they tend to put a Conservative government in Ontario, in Toronto and Queen's Park.

00:41:05.100 I think that's a little bit of why Ford's hanging in there, you know, and then when there's a

00:41:09.340 conservative government in, they tend to go NDP or liberal. And this time it might be changing

00:41:16.000 the dynamic. They've had enough of Ford. And there's no sign as well that there's going to

00:41:23.340 be a conservative government in Ottawa for a long, long time. Well, never probably. If you want one,

00:41:28.600 you got to get out of the country. That's the bottom line. Let's see where else we're at,

00:41:34.700 you know, with people seeing true stuff. Charles Adler, you might remember as a radio host, a name

00:41:39.740 who wasn't that bad, but I don't know, he slipped in the shower, bumped his head five, six years ago

00:41:44.240 and went bananas and suddenly woke up as a liberal, a hardcore liberal. And actually, I think most

00:41:50.380 people understand why he went that way because lo and behold, eventually bang, here's Charles Adler

00:41:56.120 appointed to the Senate. Yeah. So media members realizing that, because yes, media doesn't offer

00:42:03.180 a nice big pension or a heck of a lot of money, independent or even legacy, really, unless you're

00:42:08.240 in the CBC. He smelled the gravy train. He wanted to retire in comfort. He wanted a low stress,

00:42:14.840 high pay job. So he switched himself into being a liberal shill and his effort paid off. After a

00:42:21.820 few years, he was put into the Senate where he resides, but still pokes around on social media.

00:42:28.860 And 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.

00:42:44.640 Now they're no longer liberal senators. They're just appointed by the liberal government, but

00:42:48.280 they're not liberals anymore. They're independent senators. Chucky, you're supposed to be liberal.

00:42:54.280 You're independent, I should say. You let your veneer fall off. Perhaps dial it down. Go have

00:43:00.720 a donut or something. Stay off social media. Actually, no, carry on. Keep it up. Keep showing

00:43:05.260 people how sick and broken the system is. I mean, it's supposed to be another level of government

00:43:09.740 that adds accountability. It's supposed to be a powerful level of government, and the Senate,

00:43:12.700 for the most part is a joke. Does a bit of committee work that's okay now and then, but for

00:43:16.560 the most part, it's a joke. You look in the United States, senators are among the most powerful people

00:43:21.880 in the country because there's only 50 of them or whatnot versus a whole load of people in Congress.

00:43:29.360 In Canada, senators are just a joke. They're appointed. They're there for life. They don't

00:43:33.660 do anything of significance. Once in a while, they'll raise their backs over something over

00:43:37.480 to Parliament that is just too beyond the pale. But either ways, Charles, just shut up. You're not 0.99

00:43:44.460 doing any favors for things. Alex Zoltan's been covering things in BC very well, speaking of

00:43:51.080 governments going down, because Eby is just floundering. He's just in trouble. And Zoltan's

00:43:57.740 been covering the leadership race of the Conservatives, which they've really been at each

00:44:02.580 other's throats for a bit unfortunately the race did begin with a land acknowledgement like guys 0.58

00:44:07.720 that cultish crap cut it out that's what ripped the conservatives apart in bc in the first place 0.98

00:44:12.520 we need politicians with the knackers to say that's it no more of this indigenous pandering 0.99

00:44:17.060 and crap because that's what's swinging the whole needle in bc right now that's where previously 0.97

00:44:22.560 even ndp supporters down in the lower mainland are saying my lord i might lose my home i might 0.99

00:44:28.860 lose my property. I don't know what's going on. They gave title to a whole areas to bans and they

00:44:34.100 won't tell us exactly what it's about, but people can't get their mortgages renewed. I want out.

00:44:38.920 And this DRIPA thing, this indigenous right thing based on the UN is threatening the well-being of 1.00

00:44:46.160 the entire province and people are realizing it. And EB doesn't have the courage to get rid of it 1.00

00:44:50.500 and get out of it. The conservatives can own this in BC. They can really win this, knock EB out of

00:44:57.140 power but what people in bc want to see is somebody telling the indigenous lobby enough enough get

00:45:04.180 stuffed we consulted we're done with you this endless circle of supposed reconciliation over

00:45:10.920 things that happened a hundred and some years ago that's now bankrupting the province they've had

00:45:16.680 enough and the majority of bc still votes in elections and they're non-indigenous but if 0.99

00:45:22.540 The Conservatives are going to be so stupid as to do land acknowledgements. 0.99

00:45:28.700 Well, I guess maybe the NDP deserves another term. 1.00

00:45:31.660 Think harder, you pinheads.

00:45:33.460 All right, I'll leave it at that, guys.

00:45:35.000 Tune in to the pipeline tonight.

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00:45:52.880 So thanks again. See you then.

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Western Standard - April 29, 2026

Carney’s new slush fund is another indication that Canada is broken

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