Western Standard - CMS： The Liberal chain of CCP corruption

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.980 It is March 1st, 2023. Happy Hump Day and welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:36.100 This is my weekly appearance where I'll rant, rave, cover some stories, cover some issues.

00:00:41.520 And when you get sick of listening to me, we'll always get some interesting guests to come on and speak to us about some of the other things as well.

00:00:47.360 In a little while, I'm going to have Professor Frances Whittowson coming on. 0.95

00:00:51.100 She was shouted down, I'm sure as you saw on the news, and University of Lethbridge, and she's also just been chased around as an academic for having, of course, views contrary to what the establishment feels they should have.

00:01:04.020 And it's a very, very troublesome and dangerous trend.

00:01:07.280 If we can't have open critical discourse in our universities, where can we?

00:01:12.180 And this is getting right out of control.

00:01:14.440 So I'm looking forward to that.

00:01:17.220 Of course, we'll be checking in with Dave Naylor and doing a lot of other things.

00:01:20.740 so it's good to see you guys checking in. I, you know, as you're all logging in, I'll give you a

00:01:24.900 moment. Good to see you there, Jackie. A reminder, the show is live. Use that comment, scroll, get in

00:01:30.280 there, get questions to myself, to my guests, chat with each other. Just try to keep it civil. Of

00:01:35.300 course, we don't all have to be fighting with each other on there. Save that for Twitter. That's what

00:01:38.580 that place is for. I quite enjoy fighting there, but we've only got an hour together here, so we

00:01:43.140 can only be at each other's throats so much. So good to see you all checking in. Sean, Pat, Laurie,

00:01:47.000 Patricia Stone Lee. I'm going to start with my usual ranting and of course there was a lot to

00:01:52.960 give it to me with this whole Chinese election interference issue going on. I mean it's just

00:01:58.060 something else. So somewhere in the depths of Canada's top security and intelligence agency

00:02:03.600 there's a hero who's been slowly leaking CISI's documents showing just how tightly tied the

00:02:08.360 Chinese Communist Party has been with the Trudeau Liberal Party and the picture is alarming to say

00:02:13.560 the least. And the most recent revelation exposed how the CCP had begun working to influence Justin

00:02:19.520 Trudeau all the way back in 2013, when he won the liberal leadership. In 2014, CSIS, our intelligence

00:02:26.040 service, captured a conversation between an attaché from a Chinese consulate and Chinese billionaire

00:02:32.480 Zhang Bin. Zhang was instructed to donate $1 million to the Trudeau Foundation and was told

00:02:37.540 the Chinese government would reimburse him for the contribution. In 2016, $1 million was donated

00:02:43.200 to the Trudeau Foundation by another pair of Chinese businessmen. That leaked out some years

00:02:46.580 ago. I mean, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has done some great charitable work with things

00:02:51.040 such as the erection of a $50,000 bronze statue of Pierre Trudeau in Montreal, so you can understand

00:02:56.540 why the cause is important. We can't really be sure exactly what the Trudeau Foundation does,

00:03:00.680 though, because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suspended audits of charities for their political

00:03:04.620 activities back in 2017 for some reason. What we do know, though, is the foundation's fundraising

00:03:10.300 has exploded since Justin Trudeau became the Prime Minister.

00:03:13.440 We also know that from the We Charity scandal

00:03:16.120 that Justin Trudeau has difficulty separating charitable actions

00:03:20.060 with things that benefit his personal family members.

00:03:24.040 So yes, if you wanted to buy Justin Trudeau's love,

00:03:26.360 pumping money into the Trudeau Foundation is a surefire way to do it.

00:03:30.320 And the CCP, I mean, they control the world's most powerful rogue government right now.

00:03:34.600 They've been focused on spying upon and influencing

00:03:37.320 democratic governments around the world for decades.

00:03:39.720 I mean, it's just what they do. So why is the Chinese Communist Party so obsessed with

00:03:43.860 influencing Justin Trudeau? Well, let's face it. I mean, Justin Trudeau is the most pliant and least

00:03:48.600 cerebral prime minister in Canadian history. The Chinese government doesn't want a prime 0.98

00:03:53.080 minister as a deep-thinking self-starter. They wanted a vacuous, self-absorbed man who would

00:03:58.040 ignore items of depth such as national security. So Trudeau is the ideal patsy. He spent nearly

00:04:05.000 a decade now as a prime minister virtue signaling and showing off cute socks while Canada loses

00:04:10.100 influence on the world stage. The Chinese leadership happily dubbed Trudeau the little 0.93

00:04:14.880 potato when they first met him. He's hardly commanded their respect. I mean, Trudeau got

00:04:19.020 spanked publicly by the leader of China recently at a summit. With a witless and distracted prime 0.95

00:04:23.900 minister in power, the CCP could really get to work on controlling Canada's democratic institutions.

00:04:29.380 It looks like they've been doing it through election influence. Handong has been exposed

00:04:33.580 as a witting participant in the rigging of his Liberal Party nomination.

00:04:37.520 We found this out through a CESIS leak.

00:04:39.740 It was a gross and direct influence upon Canada's Canadian elected official.

00:04:44.420 Dong remains an MP today, and Trudeau has pretty much told the media

00:04:47.740 that anybody criticizing Dong, well, he is participating in racism.

00:04:52.340 Now, Dong is just one of 11 Toronto-area MPs who were influenced by the CCP efforts.

00:04:57.800 With Dong, we're only seeing the tip of the Dong, the iceberg.

00:05:00.660 and Trudeau, he was informed of this

00:05:03.420 or at least his top staffers were

00:05:04.760 CSIS has notes of that

00:05:05.960 they let them know back then

00:05:07.300 and the Prime Minister's office

00:05:08.940 chose to do nothing about it

00:05:10.260 Now this Chinese election influence story

00:05:12.460 has been going on for years

00:05:13.500 it's just coming to a head right now

00:05:15.140 In response to the problem?

00:05:17.360 The Trudeau Liberals assigned a man

00:05:18.620 named Morris Rosenberg

00:05:19.780 to investigate it

00:05:21.220 Rosenberg was the

00:05:22.300 by the way, the head of the Trudeau Foundation

00:05:24.700 during the time the Chinese donations

00:05:26.040 were coming in

00:05:26.640 and guess what?

00:05:27.220 When he looked into the 2019 and 2021 elections

00:05:29.840 he found no impropriety. What a shock. The CBC, of course, that's the only story they've reported

00:05:36.280 on on this whole issue, it seems, is how Rosenberg found no interference from the Chinese Communist

00:05:42.680 Party. Yes, the man who headed the Trudeau Foundation found out and has reported that

00:05:47.320 apparently the Trudeaus have done nothing wrong. Trudeau still refuses to allow any kind of

00:05:51.740 independent inquiry into the issue. He's claiming Rosenberg, his report covers the issue well

00:05:56.640 enough, and further investigation can be carried out by a nice liberal dominated committee if we

00:06:01.660 need to. Not only that, but anybody questioning that course of action is surely a racist.

00:06:06.820 Trudeau has also noted he wants to find out who the whistleblower is. Yeah, he really wants to

00:06:10.260 find that out. He doesn't seem terribly concerned that the nation's democratic integrity has been

00:06:14.760 breached, but he sure wants to catch and punish whoever spilled the beans. Whoever the person

00:06:19.020 leaking the CCP influence documents from within the CSIS is, they appear to be trying to actually

00:06:23.580 do it as little as they have to. They released the information on DONG and the still unnamed

00:06:28.100 10 candidates initially and then stopped there. But when Trudeau refused to act, then the information

00:06:33.400 on the attempts to influence the Trudeau Foundation were leaked. With Trudeau still refusing to take

00:06:37.940 action, I got a feeling we're going to see more documents coming out soon. Whoever's been leaking

00:06:42.080 the CCIS information isn't a treasonous villain, even though some liberal fart catchers online are

00:06:47.160 trying to claim it's such. This person is a patriotic hero. They clearly tried to deal with

00:06:51.600 things through the proper channels years ago, but they hit a brick wall with the Trudeau

00:06:55.100 government. Now they're bypassing that wall for the sake of all Canadians. So whenever this story

00:06:59.580 is done and settled, I do hope the identity of the person leaking the documents is eventually

00:07:03.020 exposed. And not so they can be punished, but so they can be given the order of Canada,

00:07:07.200 because whoever it is, is a true Canadian hero. That's what's got me wound up today, guys. I mean,

00:07:13.940 really, it just, you know, I think I can't be surprised anymore. I'm as cynical as they get,

00:07:18.760 but still really to the point of a foreign rogue authoritarian government directly meddling in our

00:07:25.580 election and our prime minister is refusing to act. And you know what? I think he might get away

00:07:29.640 with it. This is Canada. I mean, Trudeau skated on multiple blackface wear. He skated on the

00:07:34.680 WE charity scandal. He skated on the SNC-Lavalin. I don't know what it takes. I don't know what

00:07:41.560 it'll take to break that love affair of central Canada with Trudeau. I mean, if his abiding by

00:07:46.320 Chinese influence on our elections isn't enough to do it, I weep for what's left of this nation. 1.00

00:07:52.580 All right, well, let's check on some other news, see what else is happening. It has been a busy

00:07:55.760 week. Let's bring in our news editor, Dave Naylor, and get the rundown on what else is going on out

00:08:00.200 there in the big bad world. Hey, Dave, how's it going? Not bad, Corey, though I must say I'm very

00:08:04.580 disappointed in you. What did I do this time? Well, it's my special day today. It's St. David's

00:08:12.800 day. I know it's not as widely celebrated as St. Patrick's Day, but St. David's Day is still

00:08:19.800 pretty important and you've just ignored me. Well, maybe in post I'll get Nico to put a

00:08:26.860 beatific halo above you for the recorded version of this and we can recognize your saintlyhood or

00:08:33.140 your patron for future views. That's right. I think I was named after the patron saint of Wales,

00:08:40.820 St. David. And to celebrate, Nigel and I are going out on the town tonight to have some Welsh

00:08:46.320 rarebit, I think. Oh, all right, Don. Don't celebrate too hard. There's still more news to

00:08:50.740 cover tomorrow. I suppose. And yeah, you're right, Corey. What a news week it's been already

00:08:56.040 with the Chinese story dominating the political spectrum. Leading off on our website right now

00:09:06.000 is a column by somebody you'll be familiar with,

00:09:08.700 one Cory Morgan.

00:09:10.060 And it's basically just your written rant

00:09:13.540 for the readers to enjoy it.

00:09:17.280 We've also got an Angus Reid poll up

00:09:19.400 showing the fact that most Canadians,

00:09:21.760 including the majority of Liberal voters,

00:09:23.940 think that China did interfere.

00:09:26.020 And we've also got that story up

00:09:28.080 on the $1 million donation to the Trudeau Fund by China.

00:09:32.700 But as long as they used it to build a statue of Mao at the University of Montreal.

00:09:39.120 So, yeah, lots of stuff, and we'll keep on top of that one.

00:09:43.960 Other stuff, we've got lots of fallout from yesterday's Alberta budget.

00:09:47.980 Our energy expert, Sean Poulser, weighs in with what he thinks of the budgeted price that they're thinking oil is going to be.

00:09:55.360 And he says it's finally realistic.

00:09:58.640 At the budget yesterday, an interested spectator was one, Tamara Litch, of Freedom Convoy fame.

00:10:07.200 She was invited to view the budget by independent L.A. bars, Arthur Greer.

00:10:15.620 And, of course, got the story up there.

00:10:18.000 And an interesting story from the treasurer, Travis Taves, who yesterday said the chances of an Alberta provincial police force are now, quote, off the table, unquote.

00:10:32.300 So we've got some fallout coming on that and whether or not Mr. Taves may have spoken a bit too prematurely ruling out an Alberta police force.

00:10:42.440 So lots up and lots to come.

00:10:44.820 Busy day as usual, Corey.

00:10:47.000 Right on.

00:10:47.800 Well, I'll let you get up there to editing and posting more of those stories

00:10:51.340 so you, Nigel, can prepare for your St. David's bender this evening.

00:10:54.880 Thanks, Dave.

00:10:56.480 Awesome. Thank you.

00:10:58.260 All right.

00:10:59.280 So don't forget to send him your best St. David's Day greeting card

00:11:03.740 or whatever that might be.

00:11:04.640 I haven't seen them at the Hallmark shop, but admittedly, I've never looked for them.

00:11:07.920 So this is the time I'd like to remind everybody to.

00:11:09.940 The reason we're independent, the reason we can report on these things,

00:11:12.220 as I put it out, the state broadcaster, the CBC, is in touch in these stories

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00:11:45.060 who've already subscribed, and I know most of you watching already have, thank you very much. And if

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00:11:53.740 we bypass those attempts to control information, control the media, and, you know, get away from

00:12:00.020 the legacy media that unfortunately has just become hopelessly corrupted in the sense of

00:12:04.340 their dependence on government funding to keep operating. So before I get to my guest, I'll get

00:12:11.560 to look a little more into this. I just, one of the stories that came up, yeah, so that Morris

00:12:15.300 Rosenberg, I mean, I just, it boggles the mind. This was the CEO of the Trudeau Foundation. I mean,

00:12:21.900 you don't have to be a detective to see the conflict of interest here. I mean, the name is

00:12:27.660 right in the foundation. Don't take this person and get them in charge of examining something if

00:12:32.480 you want their report to have any credibility. Perhaps, perhaps what Mr. Rosenberg put out was

00:12:39.200 perfectly accurate. Perhaps he did do an in-depth investigation. We'll never believe it. Come on.

00:12:46.560 I mean, who's he going to get to proof and check this report for Mr. Rosenberg? Margaret Trude?

00:12:51.460 Oh, she hasn't been doing much lately. I mean, she's not making the money from the WE Foundation

00:12:54.740 speaking engagements that she used to. So maybe Margaret can get on the job, 0.87

00:13:00.440 but that'll settle things and we won't have to talk about it. But this is how absurd it's getting.

00:13:05.500 I mean, the other big disappointment, again, I shouldn't allow myself to be disappointed out of this, I guess, but it's Jagmeet Singh.

00:13:12.340 I mean, he is holding this government up.

00:13:15.040 He's the one.

00:13:15.980 Trudeau can't do anything without Singh's compliance, without Singh supporting him on those votes.

00:13:23.100 And Singh talks tough and talks tough, but he's a tied-up little chihuahua of Trudeau's.

00:13:27.760 He talks big, but he won't move.

00:13:29.840 He can take down this government any time he wants.

00:13:33.000 but he's as close to power as he ever will be as an NDP leader. That's why he talks tough but

00:13:38.160 backs down every time. Now we have evidence of direct interference in our electoral process. 0.96

00:13:44.520 People, it can't be overstated how vital this is, how important this is. If we lose faith in our

00:13:53.780 democratic institution, this country is in serious, serious trouble. I mean, the only hope you really

00:13:59.840 have in a democracy that at least you can get out and cast your ballot and theoretically and

00:14:04.240 hopefully in the knowledge that you've made your one person impact on that election and had your

00:14:08.420 say and then you got to sit and take it for anywhere from a year to five years under the

00:14:12.900 Westminster parliamentary system but if even that process is corrupted then you aren't in a democracy

00:14:19.020 anymore it's as simple as that that's the absolute truth and some of these people try to lowball

00:14:23.260 there was one guy actually tweeted at me said just just report accurately Corey you're making

00:14:27.500 a mountain out of a molehill, it was only 11 Toronto MPs that were impacted. Whoa, I don't

00:14:33.860 care if it was only one. Do you not understand the gravity of this issue? The importance of this? I

00:14:40.200 mean, part of what they're also saying and trying to put out there is that, well, we don't see

00:14:43.700 evidence that it really turned the course of the election. You know, sure, it was only a handful

00:14:47.720 of MPs, but there was enough of a win by Trudeau that that didn't make a difference. It's the

00:14:51.160 principle, guys. It doesn't matter whether they did manage to turn the course of the election or

00:14:57.080 not, they tried and they're being allowed to get away with it. And it sounds like the prime

00:15:03.220 minister's office might be complicit. You can't just brush this under the rug or people are trying

00:15:09.220 and they might get away with it. I don't know. I'm losing so much faith myself and not so much

00:15:14.400 in the institution. I'm losing my faith in Canadians. I mean, it's the apathy that allows 0.97

00:15:19.100 this. What does it take to get you guys mad enough to change something? How blatant does the

00:15:24.900 corruption does the the the underhandedness have to get before you decide you know what maybe I

00:15:30.540 might change my vote or maybe I might speak up or even you know as a liberal I mean can you not be

00:15:35.200 horrified when your own party leader has strayed I mean I tell you what and I we said that's what

00:15:41.220 adds to my cynicism I mean yeah there's political parties of all stripes have had corruption issues

00:15:45.960 and and uh improprieties and a lot of things and it infuriates me 10 times as much when it's one

00:15:51.020 of the ones on what I would consider my own team who do it than when it's the other guys,

00:15:55.200 because I expect it of them. So there's got to be some silently furious liberals. We'll stop being

00:16:01.440 silent, guys. I mean, you can still hold on, hope that the liberals remain in power. Just get rid of

00:16:05.920 that hammerhead you've got for a leader. I mean, this is getting beyond the pale. And maybe with 0.95

00:16:11.220 a new, less corrupted liberal leader, you could win an election and still remain in power. It feels

00:16:16.420 and terminable as it is, but to sit back and do nothing, it is our fault as apathetic Canadians.

00:16:22.680 I mean, we allow this. In the end, we do, we push back against the wrong things and we accept the

00:16:30.020 wrong things. Speaking of pushback, you know, so where do we see, where do we see people getting

00:16:34.680 off their butts? I'm going to segue a little bit here before I go to an ad and get to my guest. 0.59

00:16:38.020 We get upset snowflakes who are fearful that somebody might say things they don't want to

00:16:43.200 hear, say things that contradict their vision of things. So then they got off their butts and 0.98

00:16:48.620 we're going to scream and shout that person down. We're going to stop that discourse. We don't want 0.99

00:16:52.520 to hear it. Our tender ears cannot hear it. It's not enough for me just to leave the room then and

00:16:57.160 let it happen. We have to stop it. We have to stop these people from even talking about what I don't

00:17:01.320 like. Yeah, Canadians, at some degree, get off their butts and do something, but it's for all 0.94

00:17:07.020 the wrong reasons. And it's having a very negative impact on a lot of things. So that's what happened 0.71

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00:17:53.820 Okay. Hello, Professor Whittowson. Welcome back to the show. I appreciate you coming on to talk

00:17:58.320 to us today. Thanks for having me on. Great. And I did have you on before, I think it was last year

00:18:03.400 at some point. What we had spoken of, maybe just to give a recap, because not all of our audience

00:18:07.600 members might be familiar with the history of it, but you had been instructing for some time at

00:18:12.760 Mount Royal University and basically they violated the principles of tenure and you got removed from

00:18:20.320 there. Can you kind of give a little background on what happened there? Yes, so I originally up

00:18:25.880 until 2020 was just asking questions about various what is considered to be woke areas, which is

00:18:34.000 identity politics that has become totalitarian in the university. This was disliked by a whole

00:18:40.300 bunch of people. And then with the George Floyd killing, and Wendy Mesley's being kicked out of 1.00

00:18:48.440 the CBC, or she wasn't fired, but she was pretty much removed from things for mentioning the title 0.77

00:18:53.980 of Pierre Valliere's book, White Niggers of America. I defended her and then a mob went after 0.72

00:19:00.220 me uh about 40 professors and because of mount royals changing of its policies around social media

00:19:09.260 uh which you didn't let anyone know about um they basically used that change in policy to

00:19:15.900 have me removed from mount royal university yeah and i mean it's to to not even be able to speak

00:19:23.580 to these things because for example i mean the wendy mesley example you're speaking of is a

00:19:27.660 an interesting one because this is a very progressive person this was a person who's

00:19:30.940 been well established at the cbc for a long time a long career uh very much a progressive

00:19:36.700 certainly no indications of racism but she'd mentioned a book by title which has yeah it's

00:19:41.820 an offensive word i can't stand that word but it was it's context you're mentioning the title

00:19:46.780 of a book in in preparation for a show and that was all it took to completely destroy

00:19:53.100 a career that spanned decades because context doesn't matter anymore yeah and the fact that

00:19:58.060 no one defended her and and the fact that i defended her and then got basically taken out

00:20:03.340 for defending her just shows you the madness that is happening especially at a university where

00:20:11.100 referring to book titles is something that we have to do and i myself have done research on

00:20:17.100 quebec nationalism and have used that book title so what am i supposed to do i'm not supposed to

00:20:22.700 be referring to that book title i i just don't understand where all this is going so that's the

00:20:27.740 kind of self-censorship and fear that is permeating throughout universities that we need to push back

00:20:35.660 on push back hard right now before they start to put people in jail for putting forward ideas that

00:20:43.500 are considered to be quote unquote incorrect well that's it in universities i mean they they

00:20:49.340 traditionally they were formed. I mean, it was supposed to be a place where you're going to have

00:20:53.080 critical discourse. You're going to have discussion. People don't have to agree.

00:20:56.560 A professor might truly be haywire and offensive and off the rails. Oh, well, that's the way it

00:21:01.840 goes. Debate it. Move on. Don't go to that professor's courses. But you've got to protect

00:21:08.580 it. I mean, it was considered extreme for professors to talk about racial integration

00:21:13.260 in schools in the United States back in the 40s and 50s. They were risking their careers by

00:21:18.000 coming out in favor of it. Thankfully, there were protections so they could push for that

00:21:22.280 and we got better. But now we've got a group think mentality and it's chilling any kind of

00:21:28.320 discourse. Yes. And there's just a report that came out of the United States now. And they're

00:21:33.800 finding that professors are censoring more now than they were during the McCarthy era. So things

00:21:40.380 are really going off the rails. And it's not just Mount Royal University, you know, people might

00:21:47.200 to focus on that, but that's really not the situation. We have problems all across the country

00:21:54.480 and it is due to the fact that the academic character of universities and the acceptance

00:22:00.640 of the idea that you should be able to discuss all ideas at a university has now been completely

00:22:10.240 usurped by this idea that if you say something that is hurtful to a member of a particular group

00:22:18.880 that should not be allowed because that's somehow making the university unsafe for those groups and

00:22:26.080 is excluding them from the university when in fact it's actually excluding them from the university

00:22:33.680 to not enable them to become part of the conversation to try to determine many of the

00:22:40.160 serious problems that are facing indigenous people for example or trans activists or whatever the

00:22:47.520 group might happen to be that's being protected well yeah so getting to the more recent incident

00:22:53.280 you were invited by another professor professor philosophy again this is talking you know about a

00:22:57.760 an area of academia where you should be expanding thought and discussing things that you were there

00:23:04.000 invited to speak and uh word got out of it and a haywire mob essentially shut you down

00:23:10.580 yeah that was quite a shocker i'm used to uh these incidents happening and and often they're

00:23:17.900 quite comical and then to have uh to step out of the elevator and to see this large public space

00:23:26.540 just filled to the rafters with hundreds of people brandishing signs, you know, saying,

00:23:34.380 you know, no place for hate or racism, free speech is not hate speech, all these sorts of things,

00:23:41.020 which, you know, okay, students like to blow off steam. We understand that it's often a, you know,

00:23:47.560 a big part of universities, but that's not really the problem. It's not really the students

00:23:51.480 that I think are the problem here. The problem is the administrators and the faculty. There are

00:23:59.300 serious problems now with the faculty not thinking that ideas can be discussed. A number of professors

00:24:06.440 at the University of Lethbridge actively supported the students. The history professor held a talk

00:24:13.900 at the exact same time that my talk was going to be given right from the beginning, and as well

00:24:19.920 the Faculty Association. That is something that people should really take an interest in,

00:24:24.820 because it's the Faculty Associations that defend professors' academic freedom and freedom of

00:24:30.840 expression. This Faculty Association, which is just horrendous, the University of Lethbridge

00:24:36.600 Faculty Association, expressed concern about hurtful speech on my part and the need to protect

00:24:46.100 students and faculty from my speech, we are going to pursue this faculty association and

00:24:54.440 we are going to file a grievance that Paul Viminitz's academic freedom was violated

00:25:01.460 by the University of Lathbridge. That faculty association should be taking forward that

00:25:07.000 grievance and fighting hard against the university, but of course they're very unlikely to do so

00:25:12.800 because they are actually responsible for the terrible situation that exists at the University

00:25:17.960 of Lethbridge. Well, and you know, of all associations, you think an association of

00:25:23.660 academia would understand the dangers of appeasing a mob, you know, throwing one to the mob, and it's

00:25:31.760 like the old statement of appeasement, eventually they're going to come for you, your own freedoms,

00:25:36.060 you're going to say something, you're going to study something that some group or individual or

00:25:40.560 or such is going to say is offensive. I don't want to hear it. And you're going to be thrown

00:25:45.440 under the bus and you set the precedent to allow that to happen. The danger of this is immense.

00:25:53.680 And what is the point of a faculty association if they won't stand up for faculty?

00:25:58.080 Well, they stand up for some faculty, the faculty whose views they agree with,

00:26:03.600 and they don't stand up for faculty whose views they don't agree with. And this totally goes

00:26:09.040 against the duty of fair representation. It's a massive failure of the labor relations framework

00:26:15.040 in Alberta. And this has really got to be one of the major targets right now in trying to get the

00:26:21.520 faculty associations to be, to actually uphold their duty of fair representation and defend all

00:26:29.200 faculty members and accept the idea that it's important to discuss ideas, even if some people

00:26:37.620 get upset by hearing those ideas because it's not just about freedom of expression. Everyone thinks

00:26:43.820 about freedom of expression and your ability to speak your mind. It's also about the ability of

00:26:49.240 people to hear. So people at a university should be able to hear different views, evaluate those

00:26:57.660 views, and determine whether those views have merit or not. They shouldn't have a group of

00:27:04.380 activists making a predetermined decision about what ideas can and cannot be heard. And that is

00:27:11.780 a huge problem now in all universities across the country. Yeah. And the other element you

00:27:17.540 mentioned was the faculty and the cowardice on their part. And we've seen that happen in a lot

00:27:21.860 of universities in Canada, as well as in Europe. We've seen it in the United States. When there's

00:27:27.300 protests, they always use the safety card. Oh, we're not doing it to shut down speech, but it

00:27:30.900 just seems like things might not be safe, even for the speaker. So we'll do it on your behalf.

00:27:34.340 Even if the speaker says, I'm fine. Oh, no, no, no. We better stop. It's just, it's cowardice on

00:27:39.840 their part. Though, I mean, some of those mobs are pretty aggressive, but I mean, that that

00:27:44.860 shouldn't be tolerated. Capitulating to threats of violence isn't the way to deal with it. Then

00:27:49.420 up security, if that's the case, or limited mission for people coming to these events. But

00:27:54.260 faculty just much prefers to shut the event down altogether. Well, that was the funny thing about

00:27:59.360 the University of Lethbridge, because I've been involved at talks at places like Wilfrid Laurier

00:28:04.240 University, where there actually was kind of threats that were being made. And so they blew

00:28:09.740 that up into, oh, well, we've got to have all this huge security fencing and all these sorts of

00:28:14.960 things. But at the case of the University of Lethbridge, it was made very clear by the

00:28:20.400 protesters that they were going to be nonviolent. So that wasn't even part of the calculus that

00:28:26.460 happened with respect to the president canceling the talk, he explicitly stated that the talk was

00:28:34.000 being canceled not because of physical safety concerns, but because of psychological safety

00:28:41.240 concerns. And the fact that certain students felt that they would be harmed by hearing words with

00:28:51.040 which they disagreed and this did a huge for the president and then not only that not only did the

00:28:56.800 president cancel the talk after I tried to go to the university and make a speech in a public place

00:29:03.920 just because I wanted to push back against being uh you know not being allowed to come on campus

00:29:08.600 to give a talk I didn't want to be to be not be allowed to go there then there's this huge crowd

00:29:14.480 that shouted me down what does the president do he sends out a message the next day congratulating

00:29:21.580 the students and faculty members for what they did you know what kind of message does that send

00:29:27.500 from an academic leader a supposed academic leader who is having that attitude that it is acceptable

00:29:35.260 for people to for a small group a relatively small group of activists because there were people there

00:29:40.700 who wanted to listen to me speak um for them to be able to have that power to shut down uh views

00:29:47.020 with which they disagree. It's just completely shocking. Well, and so, I mean, a few years ago,

00:29:52.780 there was a professor, he might still be at the University of Lethbridge, it just popped into my

00:29:56.320 head, his name escapes me, but he was an avowed Marxist. He used to annoy the heck out of me. I

00:30:00.560 mean, he was very controversial, in my view, and belligerent and offensive in his views. He would

00:30:04.900 soft pedal even things such as the actions of Stalin and the people he harmed. And I couldn't

00:30:10.140 stand that. But it never occurred to me for a second that he should be fired or shut down or

00:30:15.400 kicked out of the university. It's just that we should debate this man and lay out why his

00:30:22.000 views are wrong and odious. But the mindset has changed now. And what does it take or what can

00:30:28.920 we do, I guess, is the question. I mean, it seems we've got a whole generation of snowflake students

00:30:33.600 coming up that have been taught that if you have a temper tantrum, you don't have to hear

00:30:37.200 anything that might offend your ears. Can we change this tide now, though?

00:30:42.000 It's going to be very difficult. And it's kind of funny because I actually am a socialist myself. I'm not. So I do have a very critical view of capitalism. But it's, you know, people disagree with me and that's fine. And in fact, it's good for people to hear, if you're not a socialist, what the socialist position is so that you can more fully understand it.

00:31:03.440 this is a huge battle now. Many of my colleagues say it's over. We're not going to be able to save

00:31:10.380 the university. I have a more optimistic type of view myself. I think what is required is serious

00:31:18.080 organization. So we need to have organization at the university level, at the national level,

00:31:25.720 and at the international level, and somehow work to get all these entities kind of acting together.

00:31:32.100 I am a board member for an organization called the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, www.safs.ca.

00:31:43.380 And what we want to do in that organization is organize local chapters for each university.

00:31:49.160 And that's the kind of on-the-ground type of organizing work that has to be done so that you can introduce faculty members to other faculty members who want to protect the academic character of the university.

00:32:03.900 You can bring the students in who are interested in this. You can bring in interested members of the public.

00:32:10.500 So it's not very glamorous work to be doing that, but it's really the only hope, I think, is to act in that way.

00:32:19.160 And that's what I'm going to be devoting the rest of my life to, I think, is to try to save universities.

00:32:26.400 People don't realize how important universities are in terms of being a bulwark against these autocratic types of intrusions.

00:32:35.780 If we lose our universities, we are going to have serious problems in terms of these sort of totalitarian impulses that we see already that are trying to assert themselves in Canadian society.

00:32:51.720 Well, that's it, because the graduates of these universities are going to be moving into senior academic positions, senior bureaucratic positions in the country.

00:32:59.860 They're going to be the regulators. They're going to be the ones that are managing a lot

00:33:04.780 of aspects of our lives very soon. And we would like to think that they have some good,

00:33:09.720 broad and tolerant views. But if they've been instilled with such an attitude of

00:33:14.520 entitlement and closed-mindedness as we're seeing right now, we could be seeing a lot

00:33:18.780 of much bigger trouble in 10 to 20 years. Yes. And one of the big areas which really

00:33:23.280 scares me is the legal profession, because we rely on our courts to uphold principles such as

00:33:31.440 the rule of law and equality under the law. Wokeism is completely opposed to that and has the idea of

00:33:39.240 this intersectional scale of oppression. And if you are a member of an oppressed group, somehow

00:33:45.540 the law should treat you differently than other people. And this is starting to infuse itself

00:33:51.240 into the legal profession now. So I'm very, very worried that in not too long in the future,

00:33:57.300 we will see these fundamental principles of the legal system being overturned by wokeism.

00:34:05.420 And in fact, it's not far off. We had the ward decision, which was successful, upheld

00:34:11.060 freedom of expression, but I believe it was 5-4 was the decision. And that could have just,

00:34:17.320 You need one more Supreme Court justice who starts to develop these kinds of woke ideas, totalitarian identity politics, and that decision is going to be overturned and we aren't going to have freedom of expression rights anymore.

00:34:30.860 As well, a very, very important example just happened.

00:34:34.960 Leah Gazan, the MP, NDP MP, wants to criminalize saying that the residential schools are not genocidal.

00:34:44.360 This is a major area of contention amongst historians, amongst many academics, for her to be saying that you should criminalize and put in jail people who have a dissenting position on this is just absolutely outrageous.

00:35:01.440 And the fact that it's being accepted and there's not a huge outpouring of opposition is an indication of how close we are to having complete autocratic types of processes take over our society.

00:35:18.420 Yeah, well, our elected officials, even the ones who have trouble with it, are afraid of that trap.

00:35:22.360 And that's what it is, is a trap.

00:35:23.580 Because if you speak against it, you're saying, oh, so you're trying to say the residential schools were good. 0.53

00:35:27.460 You're, of course, the racist word is almost immediately thrown out if somebody questions it.

00:35:32.860 And often they're just too scared to take on that battle, so they let it slide by.

00:35:36.720 But when you have a legal precedent that would shut down, legally shut down discourse on something that's definitely still very much in the investigative point of establishing in history, boy, that's a river we don't want to cross.

00:35:53.000 It's true.

00:35:53.720 And even if, you know, it's an idea that's wrong, like you should be entitled to be wrong because that's how we figure things out.

00:36:03.160 If you don't want to utter something for fear that it's wrong and therefore it's not going to be allowed, then you will not be able to enter into that investigation and see, you know, and it's possible there might be part of it that's right.

00:36:15.200 All these kinds of very, very complex kinds of questions that need to be examined openly and without fear that you're going to be subjected to some kind of punishment just for trying to figure it out.

00:36:29.620 And in the end, well, maybe it's incorrect, but, you know, still you've learned something by being corrected, by trying to understand something more fully.

00:36:39.080 So I think the universities and what's happening in the universities is permeating into all aspects of society.

00:36:47.280 And I am very afraid for the future.

00:36:50.340 You know, it wasn't that long ago where universities were functioning properly.

00:36:55.220 And really, it's only been in the last five, 10 years that we've had this takeover and it's on the move.

00:37:02.580 It's not going to stop where it is now.

00:37:04.880 It needs people to really take it seriously and really to fight back against it.

00:37:11.360 A couple of commenters, Terry French and Tom Abbott, I see the name, of course, Jordan Peterson has come up.

00:37:16.420 And I think of others like Gad Saad, though he hasn't been cancelled.

00:37:20.700 He's been very critical of these things.

00:37:22.340 But it's typically once they're outside the institution that they do that.

00:37:26.700 But, I mean, there is new platforms being given, I guess, to some outspoken people that are gaining some steam and bringing this into discussion.

00:37:33.620 but do you think, you know, they can make change or are they going to be taking part in this

00:37:38.180 organization of trying for, you know, academia and supporting it? I hope so. We have had Jordan

00:37:44.900 Peterson and Gads come and give talks at the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship,

00:37:51.500 you know, but it's difficult when you become a celebrity because then it's just, it's easier

00:37:56.800 just to go and talk to large crowds, which is very, I'm not trying to downplay that because

00:38:01.340 I think that that's very important. And both Gad said and Jordan Peterson, I've learned a lot from them. I really enjoy listening to them. We disagree on a number of things, obviously, but, you know, that's there's nothing wrong with that.

00:38:13.020 But I admire their principal defense of academic freedom and freedom of expression. But, you know, unfortunately, I think if it's going to be successful trying to pull our universities back, it's going to be doing the hard, unthanked, you know, task that is not very glamorous, as I said before, of going into each university and trying to find the people there

00:38:42.020 who support these principals, and then giving them some kind of organizational support.

00:38:50.120 Because that's very, very important for professors, is that if you stand up for the university,

00:38:56.840 and you're an individual, you will be taken out. There's no doubt about it. And they're

00:39:03.300 these administrators, and you don't have your faculty association to protect you.

00:39:07.480 So you need organization, you need serious help with, you know, supporting you, giving you the resources that you need to fight back against it. That is the kind of work that has to be done. And I am currently, you know, once I get through all my own, you know, difficulties with Mount Royal University, I'm really looking forward to working much more in a hands on fashion at the local university level and trying to tie each of those universities in to the

00:39:37.460 national organization that is in existence, and then the very, very good international

00:39:42.020 organizations. I just mentioned FIRE, which is the foundation for individual rights and

00:39:48.120 expression, I think, in the United States, the Free Speech Union in the United Kingdom.

00:39:53.480 There's a number of organizations like this. But the problem is we're all kind of working

00:39:57.420 sort of separately when we need to kind of have this sort of networking type of approach where

00:40:04.420 we tie everyone together so that we can act in a more kind of unified, organized fashion

00:40:12.400 to try to save our universities, which are failing, which are failing terribly. And anyone

00:40:19.100 who doesn't think there's a problem is not paying attention to what's happening in universities.

00:40:24.780 My case is very, very important. It's going through arbitration May, June, and I believe

00:40:32.620 november and december of this year and hopefully that case and with my reinstatement i'm fighting

00:40:38.720 hard for reinstatement back into mount royal university and if i'm not if i'm not reinstated

00:40:44.180 universities are over because i have done nothing wrong and it's just the complete abuse of power

00:40:50.380 by mount royal university which has allowed this to happen well i certainly do hope that

00:40:55.580 your challenge against mount royal is successful and i really want your group to take off i'll

00:41:00.380 point people as well. You wrote a great extended piece in c2cjournal.ca. It's called Into Wokeism's

00:41:06.980 Raging Maw. And for looking that up, guys, it's letter C, number two, letter C. It makes it hard

00:41:13.000 to Google it sometimes, journal.ca. But look it up. It's well worth a read, and you'll get a lot

00:41:17.340 more background on what's going on with Professor Witteson. And before I let you go, where else can

00:41:22.220 people find information then on what you're working on? Yes. So there's a website that's

00:41:26.420 been developed about my case. It's called www.wokeacademy.info. There's an area there about

00:41:35.120 my firing, which has, I believe it's 16 episodes about what went on there as well. There's

00:41:41.740 information that's posted onto the blog that's happened there. And I do a lot of posting now on

00:41:47.260 my Facebook page as well. So there's a lot of information that I post on a daily basis on my

00:41:52.720 Facebook page, which gives people a lot of information. Great. Well, thank you again for

00:41:57.440 coming on to talk to us today and for keeping up the fight rather than just kind of give it up and

00:42:01.240 going into retirement like so many do. I can understand the temptation for it. So I hope we

00:42:06.560 can talk again soon and perhaps be talking about a success on one level or another.

00:42:11.620 Thank you very much. Great. Thank you. Bye-bye.

00:42:15.500 So that was Professor Frances Whittowson. Guys, as I said, you can find her on C2C Journal with 0.79

00:42:20.000 that article and just Google her name and you'll see the activity. She's pushing back. And that's 0.98

00:42:23.820 what I admire. As I said, I don't agree with her. Socialism, oh boy, we will have to have a separate

00:42:27.900 discussion of that another time as well. But that's the thing. Discuss it. Don't ban, don't

00:42:33.200 cancel, don't shout down. And these are the people, these institutions that are raising the

00:42:39.820 next generation. I was talking to somebody a little while back about what's going on with,

00:42:46.080 say, for example, energy companies. Why are they being so weak-kneed when it comes to these

00:42:49.900 environmentalists? You know, Shell and some of the others, they're terrible. I mean, they sound like 0.88

00:42:54.460 they're run by, again, woke students. Well, that's because they're starting to be. The ones who came

00:42:59.000 through those post-secondary institutions, graduated, climbed the corporate scrotum pole, 0.97

00:43:03.040 got into these spots in these energy companies, and now this ESG garbage is coming out. They've 0.94

00:43:08.260 lost sight of the role of a corporation, guys, is to earn profit and money. It's not a shameful

00:43:13.880 thing. In fact, it's what you have to do. But this, this, this rot is getting in even on the

00:43:19.460 board level with these large corporations, with these woke morons getting in there thinking that 0.99

00:43:24.880 no, we can, we're supposed to be some sort of charitable organization benefiting the world. 0.99

00:43:29.940 And of course it's, it's leading to some, some terrible outcomes in these companies too. Guys,

00:43:34.980 you don't make money campaigning against yourself. And that's what happens when, again,

00:43:38.160 speaking of when you talk about appeasement, you know, and trying to feed the, the, the tiger

00:43:43.460 or a crocodile hoping it eats you last.

00:43:45.120 I mean, we look at these companies that fund oil companies

00:43:48.360 that are giving money to groups like the Pembina Institute.

00:43:51.540 Don't give the Pembina Institute money.

00:43:54.120 They're anti-energy.

00:43:55.200 They're not going to lay off you just because you fed them.

00:43:58.380 It's the same as getting back to the cancel mobs in general.

00:44:01.280 Don't apologize to them.

00:44:02.920 Don't back down.

00:44:04.220 They won't forgive you.

00:44:05.780 They won't.

00:44:06.300 Once they have you in their sights, they're unrelenting.

00:44:09.520 So you might as well fight.

00:44:11.040 Fight to the bitter end.

00:44:12.180 and don't toss them bones. Don't give them money. But you know, how counterintuitive is it? For

00:44:17.260 you're an energy company, you think, I know what is a good idea. I'll give money to the groups that

00:44:21.360 are trying to shut me down because that'll, that'll pacify them and make them okay. Well,

00:44:25.760 did it? No, of course not. They're just fighting you all the harder. But this is the upside down

00:44:31.500 absurdist world we're in today. And a lot of that comes out from these sorts of initiatives. Roland

00:44:40.080 commenter there, saying oil companies are getting $20 billion in royalties that belong to Albertans

00:44:45.080 paid off. I'm not sure what you're getting exactly with it, Roland, but I mean, part of it,

00:44:51.820 something I tweeted recently was, yeah, the budget, for example, was shored up to, you know,

00:44:57.160 yesterday's budget by $18 billion in royalties. Now, progressives are saying, oh, the oil companies,

00:45:02.920 they're just screwing us. They're taking all that out of the ground and they're leaving.

00:45:05.240 And what do you think really happens with that?

00:45:08.960 What do you think really happens when it comes to the point of needing energy and once they've done it and extracted it and sold it?

00:45:15.780 I mean, they explore, they employ people, they pay lease, you know, in land sales, they pay lease rights, they pay landowners to do seismic projects.

00:45:24.540 They, you know, hire individuals, they stay in hotels, they stay in restaurants.

00:45:27.280 All of those people are all paying income tax, paying GST, paying municipal taxes when they go in the area.

00:45:33.220 And then the oil company gets in there and drills a well, and lo and behold, they did all right.

00:45:36.580 They got a gusher. Great. They bring it into production.

00:45:38.540 They got to hire pipeliners, and they spend all that money, and they get it to the refinery.

00:45:42.280 And eventually, it gets into the gas tank of your car.

00:45:44.860 Meanwhile, the governments at every level are taking little bites all the way through.

00:45:49.820 And billions and billions and billions of dollars are going into governments, federal, municipal, and provincial.

00:45:55.700 And then it goes into your health care. That goes into your education.

00:45:58.260 or if it's the corporate profits, the evil corporate profits, where do you think it's going?

00:46:03.040 Your pension plan. What do you think makes it grow? I mean, really, these imbeciles that think

00:46:07.860 corporations shouldn't make any profit. That's fine. But are you content with an inflationary 1.00

00:46:13.040 environment with the cost of living and everything going up to know that your pension, and I'm

00:46:16.440 including even the CPP or private pension plans to have zero growth? Because that's the only way

00:46:21.980 they grow, kiddies. That's it. It's not magic. It's not unicorn shit that makes it happen.

00:46:26.200 it's investment in corporations. And when those corporations issue dividends, when they have 0.99

00:46:30.100 profits, that makes your pension grow. That's how you might be able to retire later. The unions

00:46:36.680 sure are quiet on that. They love to leave their members in ignorance on how that works.

00:46:43.520 You know, and they want ever bigger and bigger pension plans. I tell you, you want to see one

00:46:47.120 of the biggest areas of hypocrisy on earth? Look at the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. That fund

00:46:52.160 is worth, oh, what is it, hundreds of billions of dollars? And good on them. Hey, you're putting

00:46:56.420 your money in, you're saving it for retirement, your members. But they also, they aren't green 0.74

00:47:00.520 investors, guys. They own oil companies. And Roland said, no, you're wrong. Their pockets are

00:47:05.980 being filled. How much profit theft is theft? Oh, kiss my ass, Roland. Okay, so you're going down

00:47:09.320 the wrong track. Profit is not theft, Roland. If you want to try the non-profit system, go to

00:47:13.280 Venezuela. They nationalized the oil there. There was no profits there. In fact, they still have

00:47:18.780 the cheapest pump prices on earth. Nobody can afford a car, but damn that gasoline's cheap. 0.99

00:47:25.720 Ate our zoo animals, but we could drink gasoline. There's nothing wrong with profit, and it's not 0.95

00:47:31.480 theft. If you don't like it, Roland, don't buy their product. See, that's not theft. You don't

00:47:35.740 have to buy their stuff, do you? So yeah, you want to grind down corporate profits, see how that

00:47:41.280 works for you. And we see the same thing with all the people screeching and howling about Loblaws

00:47:45.800 and Galen Weston and, you know, the politics of envy. Look, look up the margins. Rather than

00:47:54.700 looking at gross profit numbers, look at the margins. And the margins for, uh, it's not so

00:48:02.900 easy, you know, it was Loblaws, yeah, are under 4%, the profit margin. I mean, the number is record

00:48:08.160 profits. Yes, because of inflation and the numbers get bigger and bigger, but it's only a 4% margin.

00:48:12.300 it. These companies sometimes lose money. Nobody, everybody's kind of quiet when that happens.

00:48:17.300 Others point out, oh, but the government gave them like $12 million for refrigeration. That

00:48:20.660 was unfair. Yeah, it was stupid. I don't agree with subsidies, but it doesn't mean I want to 1.00

00:48:25.440 claim that this, this company is a part of a conspiracy to make my, the price of my pork

00:48:30.480 chops go up. Have a look around. You don't have to go to Superstore. You can go to Walmart. Don't

00:48:35.480 like Walmart, go to Safeway. Don't like Safeway, go to the corner store, go to the farmer's market,

00:48:39.660 can grow your own frigging food. Just leave it competitive. You want to really screw it up? 0.96

00:48:45.140 Get government involved in it. That's the way to screw it up every time. Speaking of government

00:48:50.360 screwing things up, let's pivot here a little bit. So MPs have now voted how Commons Heritage

00:48:55.240 Committee, we're going to summon executives from Google and put them on the carpet and demand,

00:49:00.320 how dare you guys make an example by suddenly blocking people from news stories on your website?

00:49:08.100 Because you see, C-18 is coming down the pipe.

00:49:10.340 So not enough people are paying attention to that too.

00:49:12.280 That's a government control bill. 0.99

00:49:13.620 That's garbage. 1.00

00:49:14.640 It's crap. 1.00

00:49:15.720 And what it's doing is putting the screws to the social media giants. 1.00

00:49:19.420 Sure, they're giants.

00:49:20.560 They have to be guys.

00:49:21.440 I mean, you know, they're big companies.

00:49:23.600 But they want those companies to be forced to pay money to every media outlet.

00:49:29.600 Well, not every media outlet.

00:49:30.980 See, there's the catch, right?

00:49:32.540 But pay money to media outlets when news stories come up on their searches,

00:49:35.640 whether through Facebook and Google and things like that.

00:49:37.720 Well, you know, you can't, well, you can, you can try.

00:49:42.740 Why are you forcing it?

00:49:43.740 But you see, what happens then is they only pick certain companies that qualify.

00:49:49.300 This is where the government gets back to the media control and a lot of things.

00:49:52.160 See, if that bill goes through and they do it the way they like,

00:49:55.160 organizations such as the Western Standard are going to be put at a terrible disadvantage all of a sudden.

00:49:59.260 Because we probably won't qualify for this little screwover of Google and Facebook

00:50:05.580 where they would have to pay a few bucks to every media outlet that they show a link to on their

00:50:11.620 things. And we're very reliant on people finding us through Google. We're reliant on Facebook,

00:50:15.860 people finding us through that. We've got tens of thousands of Facebook followers. Look, those

00:50:19.980 companies aren't perfect by any means, but they're doing us a service. They're allowing people to

00:50:24.440 find us, to find our stories, to subscribe to us, to find our advertisers. And if we don't have that

00:50:30.720 access anymore, it's going to be really hard to get out to everybody. And the federal government

00:50:34.940 thinks they can put the gun to the head of these companies and say, these are the ones you're going

00:50:38.260 to promote and we'll pay you a little bit. No, we'll make you pay them for promoting it. So Google

00:50:42.960 said, screw you guys. We'll show you. We'll give you a taste of it. And they did. And the government's 0.99

00:50:47.280 furious. They're furious. And they're pulling it before the carpet and say, we have to pull you in

00:50:51.820 front of our committee and make you explain yourself. Why? Why? It's a private company. It

00:50:55.780 doesn't have to be a company you like. I understand that. I don't want to start a whole long line of

00:50:58.920 what Google suppressed or didn't in the past. Fine. Use something else. Go to Bing. But who is the

00:51:04.800 government to say, you have to operate your business like this? Who is the government to

00:51:08.020 say, you have to give searches to this, that, or that? It's not their role, but this is how

00:51:15.440 authoritarian and intrusive and dangerous and ugly our government is getting. They want to

00:51:21.340 control information, C-18, C-11. They want to control, they want to stop people like me to be

00:51:27.100 able to reach out and talk to people like you. That's the reality of it. They can choke YouTube,

00:51:31.760 Google, Facebook, all of these things. But the arrogance, the way they're summoning the heads

00:51:37.860 of Google to come in and speak to their committee. I hope Google tells them to go to hell and shuts 1.00

00:51:43.400 down all news access for a while. Teach them a real lesson. That thing is just not right. 1.00

00:51:51.980 Okay, Roland. Okay, let's go into it. Here's the old, I agree with profits, but greed is wrong.

00:51:56.800 Who's getting the profits but the heads? The rest of the middle class won't work or won't gain 0.98

00:52:00.280 anything. Okay, Roland, you weren't listening to me. It's not the heads who are making the profit.

00:52:04.680 It's everybody who has a pension plan. Look it up. Look it up. Where do you think the pension

00:52:08.360 plans grow? Who do you think owns the shares in these companies? It's not greed. And the rest of

00:52:12.840 the middle class worker won't gain? Really? That's who are relying on pensions, guys. They don't have

00:52:18.180 the million dollar mansions to retire into later on. They're relying on the pensions. And those

00:52:23.020 pensions are investing in these companies. And people like him, no, they go, it's greedy. We

00:52:26.520 shouldn't allow those companies to profit. Look up the economics a little harder guys, or you're

00:52:31.300 shooting yourself in the balls and it's going to cost you, not others. You know, the politics of

00:52:36.180 envy. Don't use the greed word. Greed. Who's being greedy? I want to take their profits away from

00:52:42.140 them because they're greedy. Um, listen to yourself. You're trying to steal somebody else's

00:52:46.620 asset. You're the greedy one. Work harder, make more money, save money, seal your windows, save 0.96

00:52:52.780 money on energy bills. Don't blame the gas company. All right, let's talk about spending

00:52:56.800 for a bit anyways. Here, just another example. Daniel Faith says, use DuckDuckGo and forget

00:53:02.060 about Google. Fair enough. See, that's the thing. As long as we have a competitive environment,

00:53:05.240 that's the important thing. Have lots of providers. No matter what the industry or

00:53:08.940 business is, you need multiple levels of provision, and you're fine. So we're going to talk more

00:53:13.720 about it at the pipeline that show will be on tonight, but we're going to talk about the

00:53:16.740 budget. I haven't talked too much Alberta stuff, but yeah, the budget came out yesterday. It's

00:53:20.720 what you would expect. It's an election budget. We've got an election coming up in May and the

00:53:26.200 government has opened up the floodgates of spending. I understand why they're doing it.

00:53:30.760 Doesn't mean I have to like it, but I understand why. Unfortunately, you know, we get so much

00:53:36.920 decisions of trying to pick the lesser of the evils with things. And it's a case of, well,

00:53:42.300 I know she's spending like a mad woman or a premier, but it's better than Notley would be.

00:53:47.460 and that's true. But man, I hate voting or choosing or having to be pushed into the lesser

00:53:52.020 of the evils. And, you know, so either way, though, what she has been doing, and it's infuriating the

00:54:00.240 left is she's unloading Rachel Notley's gun. When we're going into the election, what can Notley 0.82

00:54:04.360 say? You didn't spend enough on this. And then the UCPs could say, we just increased spending on

00:54:07.880 this. Well, you're not spending enough on that. Well, actually, we just increased spending on

00:54:11.000 that. So it's going to be very hard for Notley, because Notley's whole campaign basis is just

00:54:14.780 spend, spend, spend, spend, spend. Well, it's already being spent. Taves added a balanced

00:54:20.920 budget law. Yeah, whatever. You know, I appreciate it. And I still think the UCP are the better of

00:54:28.960 the bunch. By all means, I do not want to see Notley in. But balanced budget laws, you know,

00:54:32.640 the very first time I went to the legislature, in person to watch things, I was invited there

00:54:36.820 by Paul Hinman. He was the lone MLA for the Alberta Alliance Party at that time. And Ed

00:54:42.320 Stelmack wanted to go into deficits. You see, Ralph Klein had made a balanced budget law. He

00:54:47.820 said, it's illegal. You have to balance the budget. Well, Stelmack didn't like that. He

00:54:52.720 wanted to keep spending and go, you know, borrow money and live on the credit cards like we used

00:54:56.880 to, which he did. And it wasn't until just recently that we balanced it again. But he had

00:55:02.460 to repeal the law. So that's all it took. They went in with their majority. They sat just before

00:55:06.100 they tabled the budget, quick motion, all the way around the house, won the vote, repealed the law.

00:55:11.680 That's it.

00:55:12.800 So I mean, a balanced budget law, guys, it's not worth the paper it's written on.

00:55:16.140 It's gesturing, it's posturing.

00:55:18.660 Fair enough.

00:55:19.420 I'm okay with posturing.

00:55:20.740 It's part of politics, but there's nothing to it, guys.

00:55:24.340 There's nothing about it.

00:55:26.460 And that's the way it goes.

00:55:29.460 Another big issue.

00:55:30.580 Yeah, they're saying they're not going to be funding a police,

00:55:32.920 provincial police force at this time.

00:55:34.340 Now, I despise thinking that basically what the government has is a hidden agenda.

00:55:42.120 And I like to think that Premier Smith is planning on kind of turning around and moving towards imposing that provincial police force to, you know, ending the RCMP contract and all that good stuff once she gets a majority and is comfortable with it.

00:55:55.880 It's not a very honest way to go about it because she just doesn't want to fight that battle going into an election. 0.74

00:56:01.860 But if you don't, I'll say this, Premier Smith, you know, I doubt she watches, especially I've interviewed her a number of times before.

00:56:10.720 Who knows? If you're watching, remember what took down your predecessor.

00:56:15.200 He promised a whole lot of stuff and he didn't deliver.

00:56:18.420 And he got ripped out of his job.

00:56:21.160 And don't think for a second that the UCP members won't rip you out of your job as well.

00:56:26.740 And Daniel Smith has certainly learned the hard lesson of losing support from within your own party before.

00:56:32.200 So be careful because it was the bait and switch with the fair deal panel was a lot of what led to the end of Premier Kenney's career as Premier.

00:56:42.660 So please, Premier Smith, be careful when you soft pedal or back pedal on some things that were pretty core items of the conservative philosophy that got you into the role that you're in today.

00:56:54.360 I understand you can't go hell bent for leather on a whole Alberta agenda platform going into a provincial election in a few months.

00:57:01.860 But the day after that provincial election, you better not forget who brung you to the dance, because they will dump you in a heartbeat. We've seen that. How many conservative leaders? I think it's been listed. When's the last time a conservative leader has made it in Alberta for two elections? And it's not the voters who tend to kick them out. It's their own party members.

00:57:21.300 So be careful.

00:57:22.820 Be careful.

00:57:23.580 Again, I understand why perhaps you're putting the back burner on the provincial police force,

00:57:30.040 but it is a key element of things that we've been pushing for a long time,

00:57:36.580 as well as the pension plan and other things.

00:57:39.280 I'll leave off on a nasty note.

00:57:41.040 A 31-year-old Toronto man is facing 100 charges in connection with luring and sexual assault of children.

00:57:47.380 You know, these stories are all too common.

00:57:52.060 But the main one, if you want to look that one up,

00:57:53.460 is he's been charged and released before.

00:57:58.600 We got to start maybe making some of these judges room 0.64

00:58:02.520 with the criminals and pedophiles and sex offenders and such.

00:58:06.540 Just share a sale with them for a week. 0.70

00:58:08.260 You think they're that safe.

00:58:09.120 You want to release them among us.

00:58:11.360 Maybe you should put a little quality time in with them too.

00:58:13.680 Have them babysit your kids, grandchildren.

00:58:17.320 No, the kids don't deserve that. 0.96

00:58:19.460 The bloody people in the justice system who keep letting these predatory, vicious, violent, child-destroying animals loose, though, 0.63

00:58:27.560 we've got to start holding them accountable because this is enough. 0.81

00:58:30.580 You know, we're letting people out on bail. 0.98

00:58:32.120 They're shooting police officers and they're raping kids. 0.98

00:58:34.000 And I'm not talking in an exaggeration or figuratively. 1.00

00:58:36.580 This guy's a child rapist. 1.00

00:58:38.620 And he got let out and we had him before. 1.00

00:58:41.720 Either way, that's enough out of me, guys.

00:58:43.940 The vein's pulsing.

00:58:44.880 otherwise you know hey spring's approaching the weather's nice oil prices are high there's still

00:58:49.520 a lot of positive things to look forward to guys uh i appreciate you tuning in with me today i've

00:58:54.820 got a guest coming next week i can't say yet but i think it might be really really good i'm working

00:58:58.540 on that i sure hope so and otherwise there's still gonna be a good guest just might not be the one

00:59:02.580 i'm thinking of and of course there'll be lots of other stuff to report on be sure to check out

00:59:06.660 seven o'clock tonight the pipeline there'll be nigel and derek and i going on about a few more

00:59:10.720 news items and stories. And of course, keep coming to the Western Standard for your source

00:59:15.520 of information, guys. It's important to us and it's important to you. Thanks for tuning in.

00:59:19.540 See you next week.

00:59:40.720 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - March 02, 2023

CMS： The Liberal chain of CCP corruption

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