Western Standard - CMS： The NDP leadership race just got interesting.

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00:05:57.940 The race has become interesting.

00:05:59.720 In the future, the NDP is on the line.

00:06:01.400 The Nenshi-McAllen battle won't do the party or Albertans really any favors,

00:06:05.160 but it will offer us some fantastic political drama to observe.

00:06:08.400 I'm looking forward to watching it, kind of like that morbid fascination

00:06:11.300 akin to a kid who just put a couple of bugs into a jar and wants to see them fight.

00:06:15.780 I'll try and give it a little shake now and then when I can.

00:06:17.600 I don't really care who wins.

00:06:19.200 I just want to see how low they're going to go in trying.

00:06:21.420 So the NDP race, which I was indifferent to, has finally become exciting,

00:06:26.120 and I'm looking forward to covering it with all of the zeal I just showed now.

00:06:30.820 All right, let's see what else is going out there in the Big Bad World of News

00:06:33.460 and check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:06:35.880 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:06:36.920 It's going well, Corey, and you're right.

00:06:38.340 The NDP leadership campaign is now a must-watch event for anybody interested in politics.

00:06:44.900 Oh, yeah, those two, I mean, assuming they follow through with their hints and running,

00:06:49.220 they're not going to be nice to each other.

00:06:51.400 No, all we need is Janice Irwin in there, and that'll even make it more interesting. 1.00

00:06:57.400 It certainly would.

00:06:58.620 Well, we'll keep trying to twist her arm and get her to throw her hat into the ring. 1.00

00:07:02.520 Yeah, now, Old Gill certainly doesn't like us.

00:07:05.160 You'll remember the confrontation he had with Arthur Green,

00:07:09.620 who was then our legislature bureau chief, at a protest march.

00:07:13.460 He gave Arthur the middle finger and didn't speak very kindly to him.

00:07:20.540 No, no, but, I mean, that is sort of par for the course for a guy like him

00:07:25.000 who believes intimidation and that sort of thing is what you're supposed to do

00:07:28.480 at a political rally.

00:07:29.960 Yeah, and I don't think former Mayor Nenshi is our biggest fan either,

00:07:34.760 but, you know, that makes the game a lot more fun.

00:07:36.980 It certainly does.

00:07:38.340 As usual, a busy, crazy Wednesday.

00:07:40.660 Corey, I don't know if you're a fan of Gutfeld on Fox every night.

00:07:46.820 A news comedian, I guess, is the best way to describe him.

00:07:50.240 But holy cow, did he ever take a run at our prime minister last night,

00:07:54.740 Justin Trudeau, and his $4 million mine gender proposal,

00:08:01.120 mine clearing gender proposal for the Ukraine.

00:08:04.740 So our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford, has a column on that.

00:08:09.960 That's leading off our site.

00:08:11.880 And if you go into it, westernstandard.news,

00:08:15.060 you can press the link and see what exactly Mr. Gutfeld said about Mr. Trudeau.

00:08:20.540 And it'll make your lunch hour more enjoyable.

00:08:24.880 You remember yesterday that Wendy's announced plans to hold surge pricing.

00:08:29.780 So your baconator will cost you more in heavy use areas.

00:08:37.520 And your ice cream will be costly more in warm days.

00:08:41.320 But it was a pretty big and pretty fast outcry.

00:08:44.600 And it didn't take Wendy's more than 24 hours to back down and change that plan.

00:08:49.820 So that's happening.

00:08:51.760 We have a story from Lee Harding about a Windsor policeman

00:08:55.280 who thought he would be good and donated $50 to the Freedom Convoy.

00:09:02.880 Well, his police department in Windsor wasn't happy with that

00:09:05.660 and fined him 80 hours pay.

00:09:09.440 So he'll be paying for that donation for a while.

00:09:13.160 RCMP are investigating a jailhouse slaying in Drumheller

00:09:16.960 where there was a big fight and ended up killing one inmate.

00:09:21.400 What else do we have?

00:09:24.340 Enbridge slashing hundreds of jobs in Calgary this morning.

00:09:29.120 Up to 700 people got jobs.

00:09:32.280 Western Standard or Western 700 people got layoffs, excuse me,

00:09:37.700 layoff notices according to our sources.

00:09:41.240 And this is the fun one of the day for me, Corey.

00:09:46.120 Toronto teachers are demanding the day off in April when it's a lunar eclipse.

00:09:53.360 Because I guess they're afraid of what might happen to students and themselves

00:09:57.480 if they happen to stare up at the eclipse during daylight hours.

00:10:02.380 They'll all go blind.

00:10:04.880 Well, you know, I mean, I think part of their job

00:10:07.120 should be allowing natural selection to take its course.

00:10:09.400 I mean, let those kids get up there. 1.00

00:10:11.160 The smart ones will retain their eyesight and let the others cook their eyeballs.

00:10:14.840 But I mean, I'm pretty harsh that way.

00:10:16.780 Exactly.

00:10:17.100 I was reminded of it was a President Trump that came out

00:10:19.980 and looked straight up at an eclipse and that caused some hilarity.

00:10:24.260 And Stephen Harper's wife, Lauren, tweeted last night,

00:10:27.920 you know, when she went to school, part of the science was,

00:10:30.740 okay, you'd make a cardboard viewing thing to hold up

00:10:33.840 and the reflection would show.

00:10:35.940 So, yeah, it's weird times.

00:10:38.660 We live in, Corey.

00:10:39.580 And Premier Smith is just wrapping up a press conference now

00:10:42.620 on the province's new renewable energy plans and rules.

00:10:47.100 So our energy reporter, Sean Polzer, is listening to that.

00:10:50.500 And he'll have a report up in the breaking news section very soon.

00:10:55.320 Right on.

00:10:56.100 Well, lots on the go.

00:10:57.240 I'll let you get back to sorting and sifting through it

00:10:59.420 and getting it up to the site there, Dave.

00:11:00.920 Thanks for checking in.

00:11:01.940 And I'll talk to you a little later.

00:11:02.920 Yeah, we'll see you on the pipeline.

00:11:04.620 You bet.

00:11:05.620 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:07.280 And as you can hear, yes, the stories are just constantly breaking

00:11:09.700 and coming out.

00:11:10.340 Everything from the somewhat light, you know,

00:11:12.620 to the Wendy's cheeseburger scandal going on to, you know,

00:11:17.080 of course, more serious issues and happenings going on with, well,

00:11:21.440 press conferences from Premier Smith or other news items

00:11:25.520 that are basically breaking on things.

00:11:27.760 So, guys, the reason we can do that, the reason we're independent,

00:11:29.860 this is the nag, this is where I come in to remind you, is subscribers. 1.00

00:11:33.860 We don't take tax dollars.

00:11:35.380 The way we can do this is through you paying $9.99 a month,

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00:11:41.740 Get past the paywall.

00:11:42.680 It helps funds guys like Dave, myself, the rest in the newsroom,

00:11:46.900 Jonathan, who's just gone up to Edmonton.

00:11:48.680 He's working up in the legislature there.

00:11:50.020 I'm sure he's going to do fantastic.

00:11:51.440 If you haven't subscribed already, please do, guys.

00:11:54.240 Westernstandard.news slash subscription, as you can see on the bottom.

00:11:57.220 And, you know, nag other people to get on. 0.76

00:11:58.620 And this is how we can beat that odious legacy media.

00:12:02.860 I want to start with something positive.

00:12:04.240 I got sent this from a viewer, a subscriber, Jennifer.

00:12:08.480 And this book is fantastic, okay?

00:12:10.580 So this is called The Birchbark Caper.

00:12:12.940 And if you can see on it, this is from 1981, I believe.

00:12:16.760 The picture on the one side, if you look, is actually a caricature of Pierre Trudeau 0.64

00:12:20.980 as a big, ugly frog.

00:12:22.960 And the one on the right is of Peter Lougheed as a beaver.

00:12:27.280 And, yeah, it's a great book.

00:12:29.160 It kind of reminds me of Derek Smith's The Prime Minister Who Stole Christmas.

00:12:35.000 You know, it sort of reads along that line.

00:12:36.800 Some fantastic cartoons and characters.

00:12:39.660 These guys were a columnist and a cartoonist from back in the 80s,

00:12:45.180 and they put this book together back then.

00:12:46.640 Now, the book's in magnificent condition, and I gave it a read.

00:12:51.120 And it was fun and good to read.

00:12:53.880 I'm not trying to sell this book, but the other point that it really drove home,

00:12:56.560 and that's what Jennifer wrote in the note she sent with the book as well,

00:12:59.440 was you could read that book, and most of the issues within it are just like,

00:13:04.400 you know, today nothing's changed.

00:13:05.980 Even another Trudeau in the Prime Minister's chair.

00:13:09.180 The attacks on Alberta.

00:13:10.560 The attacks on the oil field.

00:13:12.300 The constant battles, the back and forth.

00:13:14.700 So it brings us back to that circular point all the time.

00:13:18.620 We keep hammering our head on that wall of confederation, and nothing changes.

00:13:23.780 It's been over 40 years since this book came out,

00:13:26.460 and nothing really substantive has happened to make it any better.

00:13:32.280 We're coming up on the 40th anniversary of Pierre Trudeau's famous walk in the snow.

00:13:38.440 You know, it was in February, I think, in 84, when he said,

00:13:42.480 finally to himself, it's time to step aside and move on.

00:13:46.640 Maybe, just maybe, Justin will be inspired by his dada one more time and walk in the snow.

00:13:53.820 I doubt we should be so lucky.

00:13:55.420 He sounds as defiant and stubborn as he's ever been, but we can always hope.

00:14:00.440 Mike from Freedom Honey actually stopped by the Western Standard Studios as well,

00:14:04.500 and he dropped off a fantastic deep dish pie, actually.

00:14:07.800 So this is getting to be a great gig.

00:14:09.360 You know, I'm not like a CBC guy who's making six figures and getting all those perks

00:14:13.360 and flowing all over the world.

00:14:14.540 But hey, you know, if you want to send little books and pies to the Western Standard newsroom,

00:14:19.620 they're more than welcome, of course, or at least just subscribe.

00:14:22.640 So, all right, let's see, we'll get on to what else was going on in the news.

00:14:26.200 Speaking of that, this has been kind of a big one going on.

00:14:29.920 Is, yeah, the RCMP acknowledged it never interviewed Justin Trudeau,

00:14:33.940 never interviewed him when they were supposedly considering investigating into the SNC-Lavalin Group scandal.

00:14:40.420 This just came up in the House of Commons Ethics Commission Committee.

00:14:45.960 Now, they, in the end, decided there wasn't enough there to lay charges,

00:14:51.620 but now we're starting to find out, no, maybe there was enough there to lay charges.

00:14:54.320 But they didn't investigate it if they didn't even interview the prime person involved in the whole scandal,

00:15:02.780 the one at the top of the heap.

00:15:04.540 He wasn't even, you know, we're not talking about interrogation.

00:15:07.260 We're not talking about beating him.

00:15:08.400 I'm not talking about putting him in cuffs and dragging him aside.

00:15:10.480 But you at least do your job and interview, follow through, try to see what happened,

00:15:15.860 get his version of the story, get an idea of what's up.

00:15:18.560 But they didn't even do that.

00:15:20.720 So basically, Prime Minister Trudeau was declared innocent before the investigation even got started.

00:15:29.340 It's a rigged game in Canada, guys, and it's ugly. 0.88

00:15:33.040 It's ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly.

00:15:34.980 And now, you know, these admissions come now, as well with the Aga Khan scandal,

00:15:40.040 you know, where Justin and family went to stay on a rich private island resort, you know, the first time.

00:15:46.860 He's done it again since then.

00:15:49.080 We do have two-tiered law. 0.95

00:15:51.560 Again, when you take it, you know, people get upset when I call it the Trudeau regime.

00:15:54.180 They get upset when I say Canada is broken.

00:15:57.280 But when there is a political class that isn't held to the same standard of the law that the rest of us are,

00:16:05.300 then the country is indeed broken.

00:16:09.040 There's no getting around that.

00:16:11.800 But, well, we'll just keep pushing on.

00:16:14.720 We've got to get this clan out of here, but I don't know what it takes.

00:16:17.560 I really don't.

00:16:19.160 But what was this, you know, some of the questioning from committee.

00:16:23.060 Why didn't the RCMP exercise its absolute statutory right under the criminal code

00:16:26.380 to obtain a production order to search warrant from justice to, you know, examine cabinet documents?

00:16:32.420 And the commissioner said, we weren't able to obtain enough information or evidence.

00:16:36.320 Well, wait a minute, so they didn't, they couldn't obtain enough evidence to go out and pursue evidence.

00:16:42.360 They're talking in circles.

00:16:43.820 They're stonewalling. 1.00

00:16:45.320 So, you know, funny, when people talk about things like the Alberta Provincial Police Force,

00:16:50.160 we talk about forming our own out here.

00:16:52.140 It doesn't mean it would be a perfect force or a great force.

00:16:54.460 But, boy, when you look at how unfortunately sick and broken the RCMP is, you know, it's time.

00:17:00.600 It's time.

00:17:01.040 I mean, sure, there's lots of fine RCMP officers, but that central leadership, that corrupted leadership,

00:17:05.880 clearly beholden again to the party in power that will not hold the federal party in power to account,

00:17:13.100 won't keep them to the same standard of law as the rest of us, then we should get out. 0.99

00:17:17.820 Why is it that we're jerks in Alberta when we even talk about it anyways? 0.98

00:17:21.180 Ontario's got its own police force. 0.99

00:17:22.480 I believe Quebec does.

00:17:23.360 Newfoundland does, I think.

00:17:24.700 Most cities do.

00:17:26.880 But the RCMP in rural areas and most of Alberta is still a prime force.

00:17:31.040 I see it's time to get out, guys.

00:17:32.540 These guys are, you know, not doing anybody any favours.

00:17:36.700 Landon appears to be running a little behind, it seems, so we'll just carry on talking about things.

00:17:40.660 I'll talk about another issue sort of related to what he's been working on with holding the city council to account.

00:17:50.160 And there's been more and more talk about political parties possibly getting in on the municipal scene.

00:17:55.380 And, of course, people are getting very, very upset with that, particularly, and unsurprisingly,

00:18:01.040 existing municipal politicians.

00:18:02.360 If they won already and got their role and got their seat in the old system, they don't want it to change.

00:18:08.220 The issue we have is that we've got a lot of these municipal politicians, we see the same thing all the time.

00:18:14.860 When they come up as an independent, they don't need to go through a nomination.

00:18:20.600 They don't need, they don't have that first vetting that's going on.

00:18:24.060 People in general don't know who they are.

00:18:25.860 So they know, because if you look provincially and federally, Alberta in general, anyways, tends to vote fairly conservatively.

00:18:33.260 So they campaign conservatively.

00:18:34.700 Ninchy did it.

00:18:35.460 Gondek did it.

00:18:36.320 Others did it.

00:18:36.940 And then they get in and they swing hard left because they can rely on our apathy.

00:18:41.340 And it's our own fault there.

00:18:42.320 There's truth to that.

00:18:43.100 It's our own fault in that front.

00:18:44.720 But they rely on our apathy to just stay in there. 0.96

00:18:47.640 And voters don't get off their butts and fire these guys.

00:18:52.280 Now, why would a party change that?

00:18:54.880 That's some of the questions that people might have.

00:18:56.340 But think about it.

00:18:57.060 In Vancouver, they actually knocked off Vancouver, the land of the left, knocked off an incumbent mayor, which is a tough job in any city.

00:19:04.100 But it's because Vancouver has a political party.

00:19:06.680 You see, with a party, as I said, the first thing is it would give some vetting.

00:19:10.920 So somebody, the party presumably would have a set of broad principles.

00:19:16.340 They're going to have things that they all agree on.

00:19:17.820 The candidates agree on, the volunteers agree on, things such as that.

00:19:20.460 So there's going to be people running for nominations to get in on these.

00:19:24.500 And they're going to compete against other people for those nominations.

00:19:27.620 If it turns out it's a closet lefty, it's going to be exposed at the nomination stage, not once they're in office.

00:19:35.600 So you've already got that first level of accountability.

00:19:38.360 The other problem we have is we lose a lot of what could have been potentially very good civic politicians because they didn't know how to campaign.

00:19:49.160 It's a different sort of art form.

00:19:51.420 It's a different sort of skill.

00:19:52.240 They don't teach you how to run in a campaign or manage a campaign or any of that in high school.

00:19:57.280 You might be one of the most well-qualified individuals in your profession imaginable, but it doesn't mean you know how to run in an election or get that across to other people.

00:20:07.420 You might be fantastic in office but don't know how to campaign.

00:20:10.980 So they run and they lose.

00:20:13.600 Parties provide resources.

00:20:15.560 They provide training.

00:20:17.180 They can provide some consistency to show like your average person looks at you blankly.

00:20:24.400 I mean I got to watch that language now and then when I use the term GOTV, which is a big part what I want to get to with this municipal races and parties as well.

00:20:31.100 It's a big term that's always used in election races.

00:20:34.800 GOTV, GOTV.

00:20:35.880 Well, what's that?

00:20:36.400 Well, it means get out the vote, especially in tight votes.

00:20:39.540 You see, people will identify one way or another but it doesn't mean they will get off their butts and actually vote.

00:20:45.720 So that's why when there's a campaign, they're hammering on your door like crazy.

00:20:49.980 They're phoning your phone like crazy.

00:20:51.060 They're driving you mad.

00:20:51.980 They're annoying you.

00:20:53.420 And most of what they're always asking is, can I count on you for your support?

00:20:57.440 They want to know who you're going to vote for.

00:21:00.000 And the reason for that is so that they can follow up when election day comes or advanced polling comes to start phoning you and nagging you yet again.

00:21:05.800 I know it's annoying.

00:21:06.980 But just say, hey, come on out and vote.

00:21:08.760 Do you need a ride to the poll?

00:21:10.040 We can give you a ride to the poll.

00:21:11.980 You know, get out and vote.

00:21:12.980 Let's get you checked off so we can stop nagging you. 0.95

00:21:15.240 It works.

00:21:16.420 It works.

00:21:17.000 It can bring out many, many more voters than would have normally done it.

00:21:20.520 If it's a good item on television, they might choose not to vote rather than come out that day.

00:21:25.220 And that's where the apathy wins the day.

00:21:27.080 Parties have mechanisms, databases, training, volunteers to get out that vote.

00:21:34.320 So party candidates will be able to do that.

00:21:38.280 Now, in the last Calgary, well, Alberta municipal elections, there was a union-backed group.

00:21:43.720 It always comes down to those public service unions.

00:21:45.380 A union-backed group, and they had a $1.7 million fund.

00:21:52.380 Huge.

00:21:53.260 When you're talking municipal politics to start spreading that around and doing more promotion and things, that's a lot of money.

00:21:59.320 And you can only gather that sort of money as a large, organized group.

00:22:04.360 So what did they do?

00:22:06.020 They endorsed loads and loads of candidates.

00:22:08.880 And loads and loads of those candidates won.

00:22:11.820 What did we get to follow?

00:22:12.800 Oh, well, now we've got candidates that are beholden to the public service unions.

00:22:16.260 That means the unions are getting more sweet deals.

00:22:18.240 We're getting larger sunshine lists.

00:22:19.800 We're getting more highly paid civil servants and bureaucrats that we don't need.

00:22:23.720 And suddenly, Edmonton and Calgary are issuing huge tax hikes, as usual, because you've got to pay those bills.

00:22:30.680 Why did the unions win?

00:22:31.700 Because they're organized.

00:22:32.840 It's funny.

00:22:33.120 People say, I don't want to see partisan come into our municipal system.

00:22:35.500 Guys, it's already there.

00:22:38.360 It's just informal.

00:22:40.220 It's informal.

00:22:41.280 Bringing in an actual system at least would bring it to the fore.

00:22:44.280 You'll see it.

00:22:44.980 It won't be hidden.

00:22:45.780 It won't be some side group that nobody's heard of that's lobbying and helping out different candidates.

00:22:50.040 It will be parties out in the open.

00:22:52.300 Parties you can scrutinize and choose between because the parties are already there.

00:22:57.180 The only thing that I say it over and over again, worse than a partisan system in municipal politics is an informal partisan system in municipal politics.

00:23:05.640 Don't try to delude yourself.

00:23:07.400 It's there.

00:23:08.320 These groups are there.

00:23:09.980 And people have talked about that.

00:23:11.820 You know, I think I talk a little more about parties in general.

00:23:13.760 I've taken part in a lot of them.

00:23:15.200 And, yeah, it gets frustrating.

00:23:16.620 You know, one of the things I hate seeing more than anything else is whipped votes. 0.99

00:23:20.060 And every party does it.

00:23:21.440 Conservative parties do it.

00:23:22.420 Liberal parties do it.

00:23:23.260 The rest of them do it.

00:23:23.840 When you see what should be a contentious vote in a legislature, parliament, or any of those spots, yet each member votes exactly on party lines, none deviate, I despise that.

00:23:35.620 Because you know that a few of them do not agree with how they voted, but they voted that way because the party told them to.

00:23:40.260 That's the ugly side of partisanship.

00:23:42.900 That's a problem with partisanship.

00:23:45.240 But let's just imagine for a moment.

00:23:47.220 Let's say we took parliament and just wiped out parties somehow.

00:23:50.920 Nobody in there was any longer a member of a party.

00:23:54.580 Okay, well, unfortunately, under our system, actually, let's say we even had a republican system.

00:23:58.920 We elected a head of the parliament, a head of state separately.

00:24:02.120 So we do have a president, prime minister, whatever that might be.

00:24:04.560 We've also got 308 or whatever it is.

00:24:07.460 Members of parliament now that have no party affiliation.

00:24:10.120 They're all in there and they've got no parties.

00:24:11.820 How are they going to get anything done?

00:24:13.280 What are they going to get done?

00:24:15.060 Nothing.

00:24:16.200 Absolutely nothing.

00:24:16.840 Within hours of this imaginary scenario, you know what they're going to do?

00:24:20.420 They're going to start talking with each other and forming groups, forming alliances.

00:24:24.780 They're going to start doing nose counts and see whose group is larger than which group.

00:24:28.220 Which group can get which done?

00:24:29.460 Which group agrees more on these principles versus those principles?

00:24:32.860 Maybe we can get this bill done if this group works on that bill and then we all vote together and get that bill through.

00:24:36.800 Guess what you got now?

00:24:37.600 You got a political party.

00:24:38.820 It'll be back within hours.

00:24:39.880 It'll just be informal.

00:24:40.780 Because we can't operate without that.

00:24:44.800 And I saw, you know, people talk about proportional representation.

00:24:48.620 There's where you get too many parties into the mix and you can really get into dysfunction.

00:24:52.860 I think it was Tristan Hopper.

00:24:53.980 Maybe it was somebody else who pointed out.

00:24:55.600 I saw a great tweet online where they said, you know, if you want to see what proportional representation would look like,

00:25:02.460 just look at the deal Justin Trudeau just cut for the Pharmacare with the NDP to remain in power, which is exactly right.

00:25:10.860 Unfortunately, if you get into that and you get into all these endless minority governments and a bunch of horse trading going on with a whole bunch of different parties, 0.96

00:25:17.200 you can really start getting some terrible policy in.

00:25:20.280 Now, getting back to municipal politics again and what a party can offer is policy formulation.

00:25:26.500 You see, for people who don't watch, and I don't blame you, but if you don't watch municipal politics closely enough,

00:25:33.320 unfortunately, what happens a lot is, again, let's look at the city of Calgary.

00:25:35.860 You know, they're managing over 1.2 million people in this city and their budget is massive.

00:25:41.520 And rather than formulate policy, what they keep doing is asking administration to formulate the policy.

00:25:47.340 It's kind of backwards.

00:25:48.420 Then administration brings it back to the council and mayor and the mayor is usually just accepted as it is.

00:25:53.700 In a party system, the party resources, the staffers, the rest are going to formulate policy.

00:26:00.360 They're going to write the bills and then they will work and debate and amend and fix up those bills.

00:26:05.540 Does it always make a good bill?

00:26:06.820 No, not necessarily.

00:26:07.740 Of course not.

00:26:09.000 But what do you expect to come from city administration when you're getting them to write the legislation all the time?

00:26:14.660 Well, the legislation isn't going to serve Calgarians.

00:26:16.460 It's going to serve the bureaucrats. 0.69

00:26:17.700 It's going to serve the unions.

00:26:18.960 Guess what?

00:26:19.420 Why do you think the budgets are exploding?

00:26:21.260 And they've made it backwards.

00:26:24.400 They've made it backwards.

00:26:25.360 We used to see that all the time in the city council.

00:26:30.100 And Head Ninchy used to scream at Sean Chu, for example.

00:26:32.980 When Sean Chu dared.

00:26:34.040 I remember one scene where Sean Chu dared to question the numbers put out by a bureaucrat who was hired to build bike lanes.

00:26:41.120 Who gave out a bunch of baloney stats about how many people want to ride bikes.

00:26:44.140 And Chu dared to call her out.

00:26:46.040 And Ninchy went totally off on Sean Chu about that.

00:26:48.700 How dare you question her.

00:26:50.140 You don't question our city staff like that in here.

00:26:53.320 Well, wait a minute.

00:26:54.080 If city council can't question the major city staff, who does?

00:26:57.780 That's exactly what they're supposed to be doing in there.

00:27:00.660 But the administration bureaucracy is wagging.

00:27:03.480 Is the tail wagging the dog?

00:27:05.080 The elected people actually are riding it and not doing the work.

00:27:08.900 But they also don't necessarily have the resources.

00:27:11.220 How much time can one city councilor have to write up a policy, a large policy or a motion?

00:27:17.860 But if they got a party behind them, they could.

00:27:19.980 They could dedicate some people to looking at that.

00:27:23.200 Dedicate the party to actually going on the ground and seeing what people want.

00:27:26.460 If they want that policy or if they don't want that policy.

00:27:29.420 The other people think some opponents have been saying, folks online, say,

00:27:32.540 add partisanship, it'll just ruin everything.

00:27:35.280 Everybody will come in and they'll just walk the party line.

00:27:38.160 Well, maybe.

00:27:38.680 I don't know.

00:27:39.560 It's up to us as voters again.

00:27:40.960 We have to be engaged.

00:27:42.040 I mean, we can screw up a party system just as well as an independent system.

00:27:46.100 But who's to say it's not screwed up already?

00:27:50.200 You know, it's already a mess.

00:27:51.480 So I don't know if we can make it much worse.

00:27:54.080 Plus, the party system coming in, if one comes in,

00:27:56.860 doesn't mean a person can't run as an independent.

00:27:59.000 You can still go out there and run as an independent.

00:28:01.880 So why not?

00:28:04.860 Jordan saying, for the city of Calgary, the bureaucracy is basically the Senate.

00:28:07.660 Yeah, kind of in a sense where they're appointed and they have a whole lot of power,

00:28:12.760 yet they have no accountability.

00:28:14.000 So yeah, that's sort of a way to put it.

00:28:15.860 Though it's even more so, it'd be as if the Senate was writing the bills for Parliament.

00:28:20.240 I mean, there are Senate bills, but they rarely pass.

00:28:23.060 Jordan saying, could Calgary legally enshrine a constitution?

00:28:26.600 Well, it's getting into a different sort of road.

00:28:28.220 I mean, there's also discussions about having a municipal charter and things like that

00:28:31.560 that would enshrine more rights for municipalities and back and forth.

00:28:35.260 But I don't know about a constitution.

00:28:38.000 The municipalities are a creature of the provincial government.

00:28:41.600 They're an extension of that.

00:28:43.100 They're actually somewhat beholden to the provincial government.

00:28:45.280 I like to see more local government.

00:28:46.640 I don't want to see the province stepping in any more than it has to

00:28:49.680 when it comes to municipal politics.

00:28:50.900 We saw that in Chestermere in Alberta,

00:28:52.560 where they had to fire a mayor and a few councillors 1.00

00:28:54.300 because they were just that, that crap crazy and screwed up 1.00

00:28:57.940 and corrupted by the looks of things. 1.00

00:28:59.580 They had to actually fire them.

00:29:01.000 They had to intervene.

00:29:02.160 At least there was a way to do it.

00:29:04.080 It looks like I'm guessing Jordan's not going to make it in.

00:29:06.600 That's unfortunate.

00:29:07.720 Either way.

00:29:08.260 So what Jordan, Jordan Landon, I'm getting mixed up.

00:29:14.700 Sorry, Jordan.

00:29:16.040 Landon Johnson was working on.

00:29:17.460 He started the initiative to recall Mayor Jody Gondek.

00:29:21.740 Now, I'll give a little more history on that.

00:29:24.480 Jason Kenney, when he was premier, before he was premier,

00:29:27.620 he promised us direct democracy legislation.

00:29:30.300 He said, when we get in, you know, this was back when the NDP were still in,

00:29:34.120 he was saying, when the UCP gets in, we're going to empower Albertans

00:29:37.760 by giving them the ability to recall politicians

00:29:41.220 and we'll give them the ability to force referendums on issues as well.

00:29:47.040 And after a couple of years in power, he finally gave us that legislation. 0.99

00:29:52.340 And it was crap. 0.99

00:29:53.320 I wrote about it multiple times at the time. 1.00

00:29:55.300 I was furious because the legislation was crap. 0.90

00:29:59.740 What he did was gave us theoretical legislation where you could recall somebody, 0.97

00:30:05.380 but set the bar so high that it's impossible to actually do it.

00:30:11.400 And it just, it bugged me just from the deceptiveness of it.

00:30:14.180 I would rather his honesty and saying, I just rather,

00:30:16.140 I don't think it's good legislation and we're not going to do it.

00:30:18.740 But to give us a fake, and that's what it was, a fake recall legislation,

00:30:22.340 a fake referendum legislation is basically just trying to pull the wool over the eyes

00:30:26.520 that people have put in there.

00:30:27.340 And it really ticked me off and it still does.

00:30:29.740 So what Landon did, though, was he invoked the legislation as per what is on there

00:30:37.820 to see if he could actually get a recall for Gondek.

00:30:40.700 Now, you've got to have a massive amount of signatures

00:30:43.860 in order to actually initiate the recall.

00:30:47.600 Massive.

00:30:48.940 So, I mean, Gondek was elected by, I think, 400 and some thousand votes in total

00:30:53.560 or something like that.

00:30:54.580 And he needs, for Landon to get this initiative through,

00:31:00.460 would need over 500,000 signatures on the paper,

00:31:05.240 more people than voted in the entire election to get the recall going. 0.85

00:31:09.840 It's ridiculous. 0.97

00:31:10.900 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0.98

00:31:12.800 At least he's trying, but it's just not going to happen. 0.87

00:31:15.780 OK, and people, you've got to remember, this is on paper.

00:31:19.680 This is a petition that has to be witnessed by somebody.

00:31:22.520 It has to have the person's name, phone number, email, contact information, and their address.

00:31:28.040 It has to be on there.

00:31:29.260 And not everybody is comfortable sharing that with somebody who shows up at their door

00:31:32.780 or somebody they see at a shopping mall or somebody they see somewhere else.

00:31:36.400 So to think that you're, and they got a two-month timeline, too.

00:31:38.680 They got 60 days to do it.

00:31:40.400 It's just not going to happen.

00:31:42.260 But he did really get a lot of people excited about it.

00:31:47.180 And there were a lot of other individuals came out to work on this petition.

00:31:51.200 There's people still working on it right now.

00:31:52.980 They're signing, I've been watching online, you know,

00:31:55.860 opportunities for people to sign the petition all over the city at different businesses,

00:31:59.280 different venues.

00:32:00.880 And the benefit that I'm seeing that's coming out of this is in multiple levels.

00:32:05.500 Even if it wasn't what the initial attention was.

00:32:07.720 The first thing was that it did expose, as James, the commenter, saying, 500,000.

00:32:11.940 Yeah, that's crazy.

00:32:12.460 Yes, it is.

00:32:13.140 It did expose just how crappy the legislation is. 1.00

00:32:15.940 It's garbage, okay? 0.99

00:32:16.980 But at least that was a way to drive it home, bring it into the news scroll. 0.99

00:32:20.120 Most people didn't even know we had such a legislation.

00:32:22.520 So thank you, Landon, for bringing it into the news scroll 0.99

00:32:24.840 so people saw that there is such legislation and that it's crap. 0.92

00:32:28.960 And Premier Smith actually did at one point say, 0.95

00:32:31.740 though I haven't heard any other further plans to change it,

00:32:33.860 but maybe this is the opening to start pushing for that.

00:32:36.120 She said that this is not workable legislation.

00:32:38.640 It looks like it's not functional.

00:32:40.540 Something's got to change with it.

00:32:41.640 So I appreciate that. 0.98

00:32:42.860 And the other part is it got people off their butts.

00:32:45.220 I went to City Hall when they kicked their campaign off a few weeks ago with this. 0.50

00:32:49.040 And hundreds of people came out to try and, you know, put their names down and sign on this

00:32:54.660 and to take more petition forms so they can go out and get more signatures.

00:32:58.120 And these are the people, these are the businesses that are getting the signatures,

00:33:02.160 things around here.

00:33:02.820 Now, they can't use those signatures for anything else but the recall.

00:33:06.860 Let me be pretty clear about that.

00:33:08.420 I've been watching kind of the Facebook group that's talked about it.

00:33:10.360 Some people were also asking, well, couldn't we photocopy these signatures

00:33:12.700 and contact these people later for the election?

00:33:14.320 No, no, that's abusing the list.

00:33:17.240 That's these people signed for the recall and nothing else.

00:33:20.560 Do not use those names or contact information for anything else.

00:33:25.180 Don't share it with any other group.

00:33:27.220 I've noticed a couple of questionable groups, actually, and I wanted to ask about it.

00:33:30.160 Unfortunately, Landon's not here.

00:33:32.260 But there's some questionable groups saying they're going to help with this.

00:33:34.680 Okay, but remember, those groups thrive on databases and getting names on lists.

00:33:38.320 And if people find out they signed the petition for this

00:33:40.680 and they're suddenly getting phone calls or spams or things from a group

00:33:43.820 that they wanted no part of, they're never going to sign another petition again.

00:33:48.040 Never.

00:33:48.780 Plus, you will have given Mayor Gondek, who implied as much,

00:33:52.620 that people's privacy would be violated through this,

00:33:56.240 given her more ammunition.

00:33:58.360 No, no, Landon isn't supporting any of that.

00:34:00.120 Let me make that clear.

00:34:01.320 But when you've got a lot of volunteers working in a lot of different directions,

00:34:04.380 some people can be misguided with it.

00:34:06.200 But what they are doing is they should be networking with each other,

00:34:09.200 and I think they are.

00:34:10.360 Again, these are the workers.

00:34:11.660 These are the people who go out and campaign.

00:34:13.120 The people willing to go out and petition and try and get this done,

00:34:15.720 these are the ones you do want coming out in the next municipal election.

00:34:19.220 Because, yeah, you're not going to recall her this time around,

00:34:21.200 but you sure as heck can make sure she gets fired next time. 1.00

00:34:24.640 And you need people on the ground doing that.

00:34:26.640 And right now those people are being gathered.

00:34:28.220 They're learning how to campaign.

00:34:29.480 They're learning how to petition.

00:34:30.820 They're meeting each other.

00:34:32.300 I hope that database is being maintained.

00:34:34.640 I hope there's a group that's forming out of all of this

00:34:37.620 that's going to withstand and make it beyond this petition,

00:34:40.220 and then put that effort in on something that will be achievable in the next election,

00:34:44.940 and that is firing Jody Gondek and a whole bunch of those crazy, terrible councillors we got in there. 0.64

00:34:52.200 Either way, like I said, I'd hope we'd had the chance to speak with Landon.

00:34:55.560 He apparently can't make it.

00:34:56.900 So, let's talk about some other stuff.

00:34:58.940 This was an interesting one.

00:35:00.140 Now I'll get into my self-serving news, but there's some truth to it.

00:35:02.860 This is,

00:35:03.260 The ongoing federal bailout of money-losing news corporations perpetuates media failure.

00:35:08.900 Journalists told the Commons Heritage Committee yesterday.

00:35:12.560 John Gormley, if you're from Saskatchewan, you're familiar with him,

00:35:15.900 he had a radio show over there forever, and he's fantastic.

00:35:19.180 He just retired recently from the radio,

00:35:20.860 and it was one of the best talk radio shows you ever saw.

00:35:25.880 And unfortunately, you know, he's retired, and it happens, he gets tired.

00:35:29.800 But he said legacy and, you know, media lobbying and asking for more money in bailouts

00:35:35.600 isn't making for better media.

00:35:38.200 No, it's making it worse.

00:35:39.360 When we're bailing out failures, all you're doing is encouraging more failure.

00:35:44.300 And it's good to see that coming out to these committees.

00:35:47.100 Like, we've got some hard times coming.

00:35:49.880 I was just curious.

00:35:50.780 I looked at it because somebody sent me a link with the stock number for Chorus Entertainment.

00:35:55.920 And Chorus Entertainment is a big one.

00:35:57.620 It owns a whole whack of radio stations, including a lot of talk radio stations.

00:36:01.720 It owns global, you know, global television, and a whole bunch of media.

00:36:06.160 They're down to 70 cents a share.

00:36:10.420 That's down 85%, I believe, since 2015.

00:36:13.740 So, I mean, it's plummeting.

00:36:14.860 It's going into the toilet.

00:36:15.820 They're going broke.

00:36:16.860 They're heavily indebted.

00:36:18.540 They suspended their dividends around Christmastime, which means, you know,

00:36:22.600 they just don't even have the money to pay their shareholders anything out of revenues.

00:36:26.200 They are up the creek.

00:36:27.300 How much longer all those stations, television, radio, and otherwise are going to make it?

00:36:31.800 I don't know.

00:36:32.880 It's not going to be for much longer.

00:36:34.720 The Red Star is bleeding money like crazy.

00:36:37.640 Jordan Lunt's saying Post Media has been doing poorly.

00:36:39.680 That's right.

00:36:39.980 I think the only one that's doing somewhat well is the Globe and Mail because they brought in

00:36:43.020 the subscription system early.

00:36:44.540 You know, the thing is, these media outlets have to change.

00:36:49.260 They've got to find another way to maintain their base because the current route has failed,

00:36:56.560 and it's failing, and just getting more money to pour into a failed model isn't helping them,

00:37:03.320 and they're going down.

00:37:04.260 So, yeah, I mean, it says Parliament in 2019 approved a $595 million bailout, yeah,

00:37:10.720 including, you know, payroll rebates and all sorts of things, and viewership is going down.

00:37:15.240 You see, I still wouldn't support these media bailouts if they did work, but, boy,

00:37:21.460 at least, you know, if they could work, but they don't work.

00:37:23.580 They're failing.

00:37:24.240 They're not helping.

00:37:24.900 And, yeah, you know, here's an interesting one, and that's part of also was pointed out

00:37:30.400 by Gormley, and this is a quote from me.

00:37:31.640 He says, I don't necessarily accept the supposition that Canadian media is in trouble because it's

00:37:34.700 underfunded by government.

00:37:36.580 You know, he said the government has nothing to do with this.

00:37:39.640 He said the media is in trouble because it did two things.

00:37:41.880 It bet on a modernized definition of journalism that backfired, and they lost audiences.

00:37:47.800 Secondly, it whistled past the graveyard as the internet and social media developed technology

00:37:51.580 to mitigate content revenue away from the media, which was always entirely predictable.

00:37:56.500 Anybody looking at things should have seen it coming, but they seem to live in a world

00:38:00.800 of denial.

00:38:01.380 They didn't want to change their ways.

00:38:03.200 They took on bad models, and now they're going broke.

00:38:06.500 And, no, it's not due to lack of government funding.

00:38:08.500 That's for sure.

00:38:09.480 Absolutely.

00:38:12.000 Let's see.

00:38:12.580 Let's talk about other things that are interesting out there.

00:38:15.840 The House of Commons voted 318 to 0.

00:38:19.860 That's unanimous, guys.

00:38:22.580 Unanimous to give second reading to a bill banning replacement workers in the federally

00:38:27.820 regulated private sector.

00:38:29.980 This is disturbing, guys.

00:38:32.360 This is getting intervention into private businesses now.

00:38:35.040 This is saying if your private business has workers going on strike, you are not allowed

00:38:41.920 to hire anybody to replace them.

00:38:43.220 In other words, you are now immediately over the barrel.

00:38:45.800 You're done. 0.99

00:38:46.560 They have a gun to your head. 0.97

00:38:48.920 It's wrong.

00:38:49.860 It's wrong. 0.90

00:38:51.200 And yet, 318 cowards in the House of Commons voted to get that because they're terrified 0.67

00:38:55.760 of the unions.

00:38:56.800 I keep talking about unions on here a lot.

00:38:58.660 Well, that's part of the reason is because the unions are at the root of so much of the

00:39:02.100 ugliness we're seeing in politics.

00:39:03.520 And we get the cowardice that comes from our parties and our governments on all levels because

00:39:08.800 every one of them is terrified of having some sort of strike happen just before an election.

00:39:14.100 They never want that.

00:39:15.940 This is different now.

00:39:16.800 This is getting into private sector.

00:39:18.900 Federally regulated, yes, but private sector.

00:39:21.540 The Teamsters, for example.

00:39:23.000 I mean, truckers are federally regulated.

00:39:25.400 Remember when they were forced through vaccinations?

00:39:27.140 How did that all work out anyways?

00:39:29.440 And where were the unions to help those truckers? 0.75

00:39:32.000 Where were the Teamsters?

00:39:33.380 I don't know.

00:39:33.760 They were padding their wallets somewhere.

00:39:35.080 The Teamsters aren't exactly known as an honest union, typically, are they?

00:39:40.640 But they're federally regulated.

00:39:42.420 So it would be illegal to hire replacement truckers if there was a strike.

00:39:46.460 I mean, a strike.

00:39:47.420 A strike is a right.

00:39:49.380 And it is something that I don't believe should be banned.

00:39:52.200 I don't believe unionization should be banned.

00:39:54.900 But if there's going to be a battle between workers and the ownership of a business,

00:39:59.240 you've got to allow them tools both ways.

00:40:01.480 The skilled, experienced help walk out and hold their picket signs, fine.

00:40:04.480 But then the business should have the right to see if they can replace them.

00:40:06.720 You know what?

00:40:07.040 If the business can replace them that easily, the strikers screwed up.

00:40:10.840 They obviously weren't worth as much as they thought they were.

00:40:13.060 And that's how these things get resolved.

00:40:15.440 And if the business screwed up and found out that they can't replace these workers as easily as they hoped,

00:40:20.280 well, then they'd better start negotiating with the workers.

00:40:22.780 But when you take away the ability for the business to hire replacement workers,

00:40:25.920 it basically means the business will be shut down the moment these guys go on strike.

00:40:30.000 You've just handed them a loaded gun, the unions, and taken away all recourse for the business.

00:40:35.120 This will not do well.

00:40:36.060 So, yet, as I said, 318 to 0 voted in favor of this.

00:40:42.520 And, yeah, it's going to really screw things up further when things were screwed up enough already.

00:40:50.160 Let's see.

00:40:50.580 Conservative MP Kelly McCauley in Edmonton.

00:40:52.840 Yeah, he got a house order compelling.

00:40:55.560 Those two arrive can, arrive scam app witnesses, to testify or be taken into custody.

00:41:00.960 So, it's going to be interesting to watch this.

00:41:02.340 They've got three weeks now to surrender themselves.

00:41:04.840 Surrender.

00:41:05.440 Like I said, there's a warrant out for them.

00:41:08.120 They have to show up.

00:41:09.840 If, you know, they've been summoned twice and they've ignored it both times.

00:41:14.580 It's funny, again, with a little guy like us, if I get summoned or something and don't show up, don't worry, they will come get me.

00:41:20.320 Well, in this case, finally, it took a lot of work.

00:41:22.540 But there is essentially the parliamentary form of a warrant.

00:41:26.220 These guys have to show up and start speaking.

00:41:27.960 Now, the problem is they might come before Parliament and just fire out a bunch of lies or just not answer questions even though they're standing there.

00:41:33.680 But having them dragged physically in there is showing you at least we're following up a bit on these guys who clearly, by all appearances, been robbing us of our tax dollars.

00:41:43.540 The latest update, you'll see that on the Western Standard.

00:41:46.120 Let's talk about Trans Mountain.

00:41:47.400 Let's talk about Trudeau and his PharmaCare bill, right?

00:41:50.800 He's signed a deal with the devil.

00:41:53.200 Him and Jagmeet Singh are going to bring in this partial PharmaCare thing.

00:41:57.980 They're fighting with the provinces of Quebec and Alberta over it already.

00:42:01.220 They're going to fund insulin for diabetics and birth control for the promiscuous.

00:42:09.340 And fine, I don't know.

00:42:12.400 I don't want to go into that.

00:42:13.080 But they're going to mismanage the hell out of it.

00:42:16.160 There's the problem.

00:42:17.240 If you want to take a commodity and make it hard to get and make it expensive and limited and rarefied, let the government manage it.

00:42:25.700 Just look at it with health care in general.

00:42:28.860 How easy is it to get in to see a specialist?

00:42:31.300 How fast can you get in through an emergency room?

00:42:33.600 How long does it take an ambulance to get you to a hospital?

00:42:36.000 How many people need a family doctor? 0.99

00:42:38.820 Oh, but it's free.

00:42:40.020 Yes, it's free to die waiting. 0.54

00:42:41.400 So now when you get government now taking over pharmaceuticals, get ready for supply to be screwed up.

00:42:51.580 Look, think of it all the way back and you can make comparisons to the Soviet Union.

00:42:56.780 They ran out of toilet paper. 0.81

00:42:58.260 They ran out of ridiculous things because the government was trying to manage it. 0.69

00:43:02.680 The government can't manage those things well.

00:43:06.780 Wildrose is saying, why is Alberta opting out?

00:43:08.680 I'm missing on something on the surface.

00:43:10.600 It seems good.

00:43:11.000 Well, part of it is, part of it, I mean, to be fair to the federal government, we haven't seen the full bill yet, so we can't see for sure.

00:43:18.160 Part of it is, it's not their bloody jurisdiction.

00:43:20.380 This is provincial.

00:43:21.340 If the government wants to do this, they've got to be working with the provinces because the provinces are the ones that are supposed to administer the delivery of health care, and that includes pharmaceutical goods, if the government's going to get involved in the first place.

00:43:33.180 The other thing is, it's another one of those federal programs saying, either you take it or we take the money away.

00:43:38.220 Well, wait a minute.

00:43:38.900 It's our money.

00:43:39.660 All the provinces are saying, give it to us, and we'll deal with it.

00:43:42.740 Whether or not the provinces deal with it better or not, I don't know, but it's more government overreach.

00:43:46.380 That's part of the problem.

00:43:47.520 And it gives a poison pill because, of course, yes, then they can say, oh, look at those mean, nasty, you know, provincial politicians want to make diabetics keep paying for their insulin.

00:43:56.660 No, that one always has bothered me.

00:43:58.160 It is a bad one, and that's why they chose that one, where they want a bunch of, you know, unplanned pregnancies happening and flooding the hospitals and, you know, abortuaries and everything else.

00:44:08.480 It's, it's politics.

00:44:12.920 It's not making people better.

00:44:14.180 It's not saving money on health care. 0.82

00:44:16.100 So to go back to that point, the latest news on the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the pipeline that Trudeau regulated out of existence and then had to buy with our own money because he's finally backed himself into a corner because he'd shut down every other possible pipeline in the country already.

00:44:30.800 It's turned into a disaster, of course.

00:44:33.240 It started at $4.5 billion.

00:44:34.400 It was supposed to be worth it.

00:44:35.080 It's up to $40 billion.

00:44:37.200 It just went up yet again in estimates by 10%.

00:44:41.140 And it's also, of course, going to be delayed by some more months.

00:44:47.200 This thing was supposed to be done years ago.

00:44:49.140 Delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed.

00:44:50.420 Why?

00:44:50.840 Because government is running it. 0.96

00:44:52.760 So, again, you want efficient pharmaceutical delivery.

00:44:56.920 You want things like that.

00:44:58.160 But trust me, having the government do it is not going to be the way to make those services better or more accessible.

00:45:05.460 I mean, I think we can be finding ways to make sure people don't fall by the wayside.

00:45:08.280 I hate to think of a diabetic person who can't make the bills because they're paying for insulin or things like that.

00:45:12.780 But, again, getting government in, guys, it's not going to make it better. 0.99

00:45:17.160 Speaking of which, let's wrap up with a couple other quick little things in government stupidity. 0.98

00:45:21.360 Ottawa is looking at banning electric heaters. 0.99

00:45:23.180 Yes, portable electric heaters.

00:45:24.300 They're going to ban them. 1.00

00:45:25.680 Apparently, they decide they're unsafe.

00:45:26.760 So, when your heat pump fails, after you got rid of your natural gas and your backup was an electric heater, I guess you're just going to freeze.

00:45:34.000 What I suggest is, I don't know, tearing the wood out of your local member of parliament's office.

00:45:39.280 Bring it to your house and start a fire to make yourself warm.

00:45:42.200 Because they banned every other bloody way to do it.

00:45:44.500 We're a winter country and they're actually considering banning electric heaters now.

00:45:48.140 Now, speaking of government overreach, speaking of government just going well and beyond.

00:45:53.380 But that's how insane this government's gotten.

00:45:56.000 How it needs to be reined in.

00:45:58.500 Wendy's, one more thing.

00:45:59.540 Yes, I guess you're going to have to, the surge pricing went by the wayside.

00:46:02.920 I was looking forward to see that experiment go a little farther.

00:46:04.940 People get upset when their cheeseburgers might go up.

00:46:08.700 But the thing people forget as well with capitalism, when they get to do things, if they'd have had that surge pricing in, it can help them maintain lower pricing during the slower hours.

00:46:16.540 Like, people forget that other half of it.

00:46:18.620 They lost it as if it's your right.

00:46:20.900 It's your intrinsic right to have access to cost-effective fast food.

00:46:26.080 Guys, it's Wendy's.

00:46:27.060 I can't believe how much you lost it.

00:46:28.300 The sense of entitlement you have.

00:46:29.380 Don't like it.

00:46:29.860 Shop somewhere else.

00:46:30.520 But that's not the view of things.

00:46:31.580 Either way, they did speak up.

00:46:33.080 Wendy's backed off.

00:46:34.300 And we're back to your normal greasy burgers.

00:46:36.620 They'll probably just raise the price on all of them now.

00:46:39.080 I'm not sure if that's a better outcome.

00:46:41.820 Oh, well.

00:46:42.600 Such is life.

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00:46:44.200 That's what I've got for you today.

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