Dr. Michael Wagner joins me on the show to talk about his new book, "Time to Leave: A Western Independence-themed look at the long-discredited chemtrail conspiracy theory, and his thoughts on the Alberta premier, Daniel Smith's response to a question about it.
00:05:59.720Just because some historic conspiracy theories have proven to have some merit,
00:06:02.860it doesn't mean the other conspiracy theories are valid.
00:06:05.580Since there's hundreds of theories out there, some are going to manage to have some merit to them now and then.
00:06:09.440Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
00:06:12.040We have some real issues to deal with, and our politicians can only focus on so many of them at a time.
00:06:16.080Indulging conspiracy types doesn't pacify them, and it only distracts from serious business.
00:06:20.600Just ask Conservative Party of BC leader John Rustad how much he enjoyed having to deal with the fake issue of 5G telephone networks spreading COVID-19 when he should have been campaigning.
00:06:30.360woke activists and legacy media, they won't relent and they're going to keep trying to trap
00:06:34.140conservative politicians. But why make it easy for them by dipping into the realm of conspiracy
00:06:38.200theories? Now, I know I've invited a barrage of emails which will link to favorite conspiracy
00:06:42.040theory sites. I'm not going to respond to any of them. I'm just going to forward them to my
00:06:46.340masters among the little lizard people who control the media. That's what's got me going to start
00:06:51.460things out today. Well, getting outside of the conspiracies, let's get a little more closer to
00:06:54.520home. And Dave, are you... Why are you doing this to me? What have I done now? Because now I'm going
00:07:01.340to get emails and email. Look, just to be clear, it's C. Morgan at Western Standard News, right?
00:07:07.240Yes, Dot News. Dot News. I'm sorry. Okay, good. Send your emails there. What's with the dog tag?
00:07:13.640The dog tag. This is for the bring them home for the hostages held by Hamas in Israel.0.74
00:07:19.920Yes, as my Jewish conspiracy masters told me to wear.
00:07:49.120Well, it's not easy being a Seahawks fan either. We somehow lost to the Giants on the weekend, and there's Duke. It's really lovely. The legs all spread like that.
00:07:58.240Yeah, and me laying there with a bowl on my belly. Yeah, Jane was kind enough to take that fine picture.
00:10:36.420look guys, for those who want sane news coverage and real things, check out westernstandard.news
00:10:43.500is $9.99 a month, $100 a year guys. And yes, you know what? We do have columnists who will give a
00:10:49.260little more credence to those things, but I'm not going to be one of them. And this is how we do
00:10:54.380stay independent of control from the federal government or anybody else. We do stay accountable
00:10:59.400to you. So I guess if my chemtrails comments upset enough, people will have lost enough
00:11:04.000subscribers that perhaps we shouldn't talk about it anymore. But I'm not going to stop at this
00:11:08.700point. Check it out, guys. If you've subscribed already, we do appreciate it. Sorry to have lost
00:11:13.620your business, Jim. I hope that we can regain it once the chemtrail issue has been resolved.
00:11:19.300Until then, the rest of you guys, you know, thank you for subscribing. And if you haven't yet,
00:11:23.460get on board, guys. There's lots going on out there. Yeah, the House of Commons these days,
00:11:28.560you know, always a gong show. Listening, I mean, the Liberals are so hard on the rocks right now,
00:11:36.920they are in such dire straits and trouble, that it has become dysfunctional. I mean,
00:11:44.260it's a complete mess. I don't know what the point of keeping this parliament alive anymore,
00:11:50.520any longer is. I mean, people talk about Jagmeet Singh, you know, he's the one holding it up.
00:11:56.100He's a coward. I like saying that on X all the time. I call him Jagmeet the weak. It works them
00:12:00.380up, but it's true because he talks big, but he's a toothless tiger. And when it comes, push comes
00:12:05.880to shove, he won't call an election. We're in a really bad state. We've got a minority government
00:12:10.680that's sitting at like 20% support, but they are entrenched. We can't get them the heck out of
00:12:16.820there because of our rotten system. Canada's system is broken. You know, I've said it many
00:12:23.100times. So we've got a supposed, um, uh, you know, democracy going on, but we can't manage to invoke
00:12:30.920with it when we get such a minority government with so many people against it. Uh, and Jagmeet
00:12:35.340Singh, you know, people say that, Oh, he's just in it for the pension. And that the guy already
00:12:40.860has his Rolexes and his $6,000 suits. I mean, I'm sure he'd like the pension, but that's not at all
00:12:46.040that's holding it. The problem that he's having there actually, for the most part is, uh, uh,
00:12:51.820they got no money. They don't have any money. The NDP has something like $300,000 sitting in the
00:13:00.500bank. I believe the conservatives have 16 million. Elections are expensive. You need a lot. And the
00:13:07.840NDP just, if an election was called, they would be devastated. They wouldn't be able to buy ad
00:13:11.800space. They wouldn't be able to get campaign signs. So we've got the liberals terrified of
00:13:17.360an election. We got the NDP terrified an election. And then we've just got this, they're just not
00:13:21.700even hiding the premise of bias. I mean, Speaker Ferguson, he's just terrible. He's just terrible.
00:13:28.240So yeah, for the spat with Angela, with Melanie Jolie there, she's our foreign affairs minister,
00:13:36.520her terribly embarrassing one. Polyev was shut out of the parliament for it. And she called him
00:13:44.060Nazi. She tried to tie him to Diagalon. Diagalon's a flaky online internet group that, you know,
00:13:55.100they hold some crazy views. Some say they're trolls, some say they're real. I've seen some
00:13:58.720of their stuff. I think they really are. There's some really offensive, weird, nasty people among
00:14:03.180them, but whatever. There's nothing much to them. But either way, that group, I mean, they posted
00:14:09.400about raping Polyev's wife. And Jolly is going to get up there and say that Polyev is actually
00:14:17.440supporting that group? Come on, guys, get real. It's bizarre. And yeah, Paradoxie saying, yeah,
00:14:24.840from the parliament that literally honored a Nazi. I do think I'm still going to lay that down when0.99
00:14:30.360they stood up for that Nazi there to just a case of having a low degree of history knowledge and0.70
00:14:37.700poor organization. I'm certain if in hindsight, if they'd have realized they were bringing in
00:14:43.320somebody from the Waffen-SS, they probably would have said, you know, we're not going to have that
00:14:49.380fella in there. I don't think for the most part they support Nazis, but they are so incompetent
00:14:55.560and stupid that they did manage to bring one in there and get the whole place to stand up and
00:14:59.660applaud him. And yeah, some people said also the conservatives got up and applauded the guy too.
00:15:02.980Yeah, that's what they do. And actually, if you look at some of the footage from that, you can
00:15:07.140see a few turning their eyes to the side saying, you know, their gears were turning. They were
00:15:10.860saying, wait a minute, the date, this guy was fighting against the Russians and he was in
00:15:14.440Ukraine. Oh, no. But, you know, you just kind of politely applaud and sit down and hope that0.98
00:15:20.580nobody would notice. And no, it's the House of Commons. People noticed and it hit the fan.
00:15:24.840Parliament has managed to get worse over the course of a year. The discourse has gone downhill
00:15:29.600and nothing is getting done. They are just beyond handcuffed. And even if and when the time comes
00:15:38.280that we finally get rid of those liberals and we get the conservatives in, that's when people will
00:15:41.660really discover how actually broken our system is, intractable it is, because that's when the
00:15:47.280conservatives, you're going to find that they don't change a thing. And that's where my guest
00:15:50.040can really answer a whole heck of a lot on that. He's been on before. He's Dr. Michael Wagner. He's
00:15:55.320written a number of books, particularly on Western independence and other things. And he's got a
00:15:59.580new book out and an anniversary edition of another book out. So thanks for coming on to
00:16:03.180join me today, Michael. Thanks for having me, Corey. Can you hear me? I do. Yes. You're coming
00:16:07.820in nice and clear. Okay, great. Because I didn't know if I needed a headset. No, no, you're coming
00:16:12.960in good. So yeah, I'll just start with that. You know, I've got your books in here as well.
00:16:17.140This is time to leave. Canada cannot be fixed. And as I was saying, with the gridlock going on
00:16:22.300in parliament right now, kind of shows a little bit of that with a system being broken, you know,
00:16:25.960not just the policies necessarily. And your other book, I mean, this is really nice looking. I got
00:16:31.820to give them back to Nigel now. He lent them to me so I could read them. But Canada Standing on
00:16:35.640Garford V, a really nice looking book. And it's your 18th anniversary of this one. So both
00:16:42.440interesting reads. So with the time to leave, I mean, you've written, I'll let you explain it.
00:16:47.740You've written on independence and sort of implied that it's time to leave for a while anyways.
00:16:51.960What's new in this one to make the case a little better to people?
00:16:57.180Yeah, well, I wrote my book, No Other Option, in 2021 as to present my case for independence.
00:17:02.880I got written a history of the Alberta independence movement in 2009 called Alberta Separatism
00:17:07.360Then and Now, but that wasn't an advocacy book so much, at least not explicitly, more subtly.
00:17:11.680So in 2021, I wrote No Other Option to make the explicit case for Alberta independence.
00:17:16.140And I found a lot of people were sympathetic, but so many people would say to me, you know,
00:17:19.560Alberta should become independent but first we need to try to reform Canada and well after we've
00:17:25.340tried to reform Canada if that doesn't work then we'll try to become independent but but for me
00:17:30.340that was a frustrating argument because so much of our history for the last 40 or 50 years has
00:17:35.740showed how we have tried to reform Canada and it didn't work and we've tried everything reasonable
00:17:41.060so far and so I you know I wasn't expecting to write another book advocating Alberta independence
00:17:45.900but i really had to counter the argument that we still need to try to reform canada because there
00:17:51.180are many things i talk about in time to leave in more detail than in no other option that show we've
00:17:56.220tried to reform canada and like the two biggest uh uh ways in which we tried to do that was you
00:18:02.620know number one the reform party and number two senate reform and we started on senate reform you
00:18:06.940know in the late by late 1970s so there are things we worked on for that many good albertans worked
00:18:11.980on for many many years and and they didn't they were not successful and so i'm saying you know
00:18:16.380we have tried to reform canada and since none of these efforts we've tried over the decades have
00:18:21.660worked we really have to go now for the independence referendum that's the only thing we have left that
00:18:26.300we haven't tried and you know when i talk about senate reform and the reform party these people
00:18:30.500did the best like it's not a matter of we can do these again and do better we can't we had the very
00:18:35.220best people you know in the reform party and advocating senate reform and if our very best
00:18:39.580people cannot achieve it you know doing their very best then you know it's it's those are not viable
00:18:44.780options for us and as you mentioned earlier you know it's a system that that's broken and central
00:18:49.020canada benefits from the system so they do not want it reformed and so our only the only thing
00:18:53.900we have left now is the independence referendum and so so time to leave is different from no
00:18:58.620other option in the sense that it really focuses specifically on you know showing how we've tried
00:19:03.580so many things that haven't worked that's kind of the main theme of the book and so you know
00:19:07.660all these books cover the same time period in a sense because you know you know from the 1970s
00:19:12.860up until now but but they're not covering they're they're using there's different information so
00:19:17.980you're not if you buy one of the two of the books you're not getting the duplicated information
00:19:22.460that way no and i understood that you know in reading it but i figured it best for you to
00:19:26.620explain that so people don't realize you didn't just slap a new cover on an old book and uh and
00:19:30.460sell it again there's something different and a different approach to things in the new ones
00:19:34.300So I appreciate that. And then I saw you recently at the Ted Byfield event in Edmonton. And of course, you know, he was an amazing Albertan and, you know, he came from elsewhere in Alberta, but he established himself here.
00:19:48.740And a little while ago, I read actually Ted Byfield, one of his books, and it reminded me once I read your, you know, standing on guard for V on the unapologetic social conservative and Christian stance, which is fine.
00:40:54.500We wouldn't put up with a bunch of Klan members out there marching on the streets saying it's time to get rid of the black population in Canada, would we?
00:41:17.600When it comes to incitement of violence, when it comes to actually trying to promote hatred, yes, we draw that line, and we do have charges.
00:41:23.920And this, when you're saying death to Canada, yes, you've crossed the line.