Today's guest is Sam Cooper, an investigative journalist who has been leading the charge on the Chinese interference issue going on in elections and with government and in general, and he's got his own news outlet, the Bureau. And it seems as well now we're talking about Indian interference.
00:02:53.800Now, the Liberal government's been collapsing in the polls, and Trudeau is desperate.
00:02:58.960He ignored the results of his own study and jumped out there,
00:03:02.460and he's trying to blame the grocers yet again for the food price increases.
00:03:07.100Now, he's taking a threatening tone with them.
00:03:09.540He said he'll impose taxes on grocers if they can't tell them how they will lower grocery prices by Thanksgiving, which is just a few weeks away.
00:03:18.100Now, even if those grocers decided to be completely altruistic and become nonprofit organizations, the price drops on food would be negligible at best.
00:03:26.040Again, they only got 3.6% to work with.
00:03:28.900Shareholders, of course, would say, to heck with that.
00:03:30.460Then they're barely making anything anyways.
00:13:49.500But again, if we're going to electrify Canada,
00:13:51.740we got to start spending those dollars here. Where's the Western Canadian reactors? Where's
00:13:55.760the talk about that? Not hearing about it. All we're hearing out here is more of the punitive
00:14:00.120side of things as to why, again, the Western Canadian energy industry, of course, are the
00:14:05.940bad guys who have been polluting Canada's environment and the world, you know, and the
00:14:10.640rest. So yeah, lots going. But okay, stay on the foreign file. As I said earlier, I've been looking0.53
00:14:16.320forward to speaking to him. I've got, he's in the lobby there, investigative journalist Sam
00:14:21.160Cooper of the Bureau and he started that up and he's just been on top of the foreign interference
00:14:25.660file all year long on the Chinese foreign interference. And now the Indian issue has
00:14:32.640broken amidst it just to take an already crazy issue and make it even more so and more complicated
00:14:38.900and I'd say more tenuous at this point considering the announcements from Justin Trudeau this week.
00:14:45.300So as well, the Bureau came out with a story right afterwards talking about this Indian
00:14:50.700interference issue wasn't all that new. The Trudeau government was aware of it and like
00:14:55.200others, they chose not to act. So we'll get Sam to expand on that. So thank you very much for
00:14:59.460joining us today, Sam. Thanks for having me, Corey. So I, as I was saying in the lead in,
00:15:05.500you know, we've got so much going on, it's hard to see how much to cover. But I mean,
00:15:09.760it was quite a bombshell. I mean, to hear the leader of a nation say in parliament that
00:15:15.480another nation has had agents assassinate somebody on our soil. I mean, that's pretty,
00:15:21.020this is serious as it gets. But I mean, it kind of, I guess, overshadows the fact that whether
00:15:28.820or not that's, you know, the accuracy or proof going on with that, that this could be a consequence
00:15:35.080of them ignoring warnings from the security agencies again years ago. Yeah, that's right.
00:15:40.320What my exclusive report for the Bureau revealed was that I've been tracking, as you know, sensitive, internal, confidential Canadian records for a while now.
00:15:51.100These are what led to the bombshells about China's election interference.
00:15:55.360But I learned from my documents and sources that the concerns of CSIS are, of course, China is the number one threat.0.65
00:16:03.540Russia, of course, is in that interference mix deeply and has been always.0.75
00:16:10.320a democracy a huge economy but CSIS is concerned deeply involved in both our electoral politics
00:16:18.400our institutions and perhaps more importantly like China they are using and targeting their1.00
00:16:25.280large diaspora in Canada to interfere and so that uh when I knew that I had a lot of information on
00:16:33.440CSIS's blocked efforts to roll up and intervene against these Indian intelligence networks being
00:16:40.640run out of consulates in Canada and so when Mr Trudeau dropped his bombshell seemingly out of
00:16:46.400nowhere in Parliament I knew it was time to bring out my evidence from documents that said indeed
00:16:52.640CSIS wanted to move forward with the threat reduction powers as you recall given to them
00:16:59.120by the harper government really to target and uh roll back terrorist networks in this case cesus
00:17:05.520was so concerned that indian intelligence was so deep into communities uh in vancouver that they
00:17:12.800wanted to intervene target a diplomat there and uh it's a long story that i'll make short because
00:17:19.760i've repeated it over and over again trudeau's government blocked this intervention because
00:17:25.680global affairs canada values trade uh deals diplomacy political wins with other governments
00:17:33.440in this case india uh other agencies other departments in ottawa were worried that this
00:17:39.120was too politically sensitive for ceases to dive into vancouver and also as you recall prime minister
00:17:45.200trudeau's big trip to india was planned for 2018 so in a nutshell ceases plan to intervene was
00:17:52.880blocked in ottawa and they did nothing in vancouver so when i heard that now mr trudeau is uh
00:17:59.040alleging india has ties to this assassination of a sikh separatist leader in vancouver this was the
00:18:06.400sikh community was the one targeted and infiltrated according to csis they wanted to intervene they0.76
00:18:12.800couldn't and so we can ask the fair question do hostile state activities such as not only spying
00:18:20.080on Canadians, but in this case, allegedly being close to or involved in an assassination,
00:18:26.320can these activities build up because Justin Trudeau's government hasn't intervened against
00:18:31.920India, and more importantly, China? So as you say, there's so much politics involved here. But
00:18:38.080again, I want to stress, this is a story I've now reported at the Bureau. After only a few
00:18:44.040months in operation, again and again, it refers to the Chinese so-called police stations in Canada
00:18:50.160Again, Trudeau's government, warned since 2015, literally took no action until my stories brought really a lot of this activity to light.
00:18:59.080At least now we're having a debate about it.
00:19:01.400Your stories have been driving this whole issue, and it really is appreciated.
00:19:06.540I mean, when we talk about we pride ourselves as being a safe haven for populations to come from other nations if they've been oppressed or they're in danger.
00:19:14.700And when we're seeing so much evidence that they're still being intimidated here, whether it's Chinese immigrants to Canada, and now, of course, potentially the worst possible outcome with a Sikh person on our soil, I mean, it's just unbelievable that it's led to this.
00:19:31.920That's right. I talked to a former BC federal conservative politician who lost in the 2021
00:19:39.320election. But the point she made that is that she and her family came from Korea to live a better
00:19:45.900life, to run away from those geopolitical concerns facing off North Korea, where they were living.
00:19:52.080And as an MP, she found that similarly, immigrant communities were coming to her and saying,
00:19:58.420We're being chased, surveilled, targeted by hostile foreign regimes on Canadian soil, and CSIS and the RCMP know about it, but aren't equipped to protect us in this democracy that we came to.
00:20:12.700So she argued that, of course, we need a deep inquiry to look into these issues, but she would be aligned with many people that have said, as the evidence has showed, as I've reported, above all, the Trudeau government has really let down the very multiculturalism that this country is supposed to support.
00:20:35.020Canada clearly needs laws such as a foreign agent registry that the United States has
00:20:40.560and has used, by the way, to crack down on Chinese transnational repression.
00:20:45.700And yet in Ottawa, we've learned this week that nowhere on the Trudeau government agenda
00:21:01.600it could potentially be a growing relationship with India, I guess. You don't want to0.86
00:21:06.560constantly be battling with them, but at the same time, you can't be a pushover. I mean,
00:21:10.260if the registry didn't seriously hinder trade between the United States and China,
00:21:15.560there's no reason to believe such a registry, if done correctly, would cause too much diplomatic
00:21:20.480damage within Canada. Oh, it has to be done correctly. And there are examples out there
00:21:25.900for Canada to lean on. Of course, Australia facing the very same deep interference and attacks
00:21:32.620on their democracy from China acted years ago. As the documents I've reported on have said,
00:21:39.940Prime Minister Trudeau was directly led to the example of Australia and now other countries.
00:21:45.180And so look, the model is out there. And as pretty much any reasonable Canadian expert I'm aware of
00:21:51.660says, look, this is now a tool of modern democracies.
00:21:55.440The world is getting tougher out there.
00:21:57.540If you don't have, you know, a fair law such as this in place,
00:22:01.420you're leaving your populations wide open to, let's just come out and say it,
00:22:06.780essentially secret police activity on Canadian soil.
00:22:10.940And one thing I'd like to add, Corey, I, you know,
00:22:13.900among any other reporters that are chasing down this story,
00:22:17.020Again and again, my reports have pointed to the use by these hostile foreign nations.0.91
00:22:24.260I won't name them all here, but China and Russia would be at the top of the list.
00:22:29.120The direct use of organized crime elements in diaspora communities, which is completely unacceptable and is something that the United States is cracking down on for sure.
00:22:41.160Absolutely. So, I mean, you know, this is just, I guess, we're seeing the results of what's a huge
00:22:45.720and boiling issue that's been going for quite some time. It took a lot of pressure, a lot of arm
00:22:49.880twisting, a lot of foot dragging, but it sounds like we might finally have a public inquiry
00:22:54.700getting rolling. They broadened the terms of it to go beyond China and into others. At first,
00:23:00.820I thought maybe this was a way to dilute it, but it sounds to me that if you're going to do the
00:23:04.560inquiry, actually, we should be looking at every nation. I guess it's probably a good thing.
00:23:08.880Yeah, you know, I have complex thoughts on this. I have been open to the thinking that there's definitely some people that would like to make this an inquiry about, you know, chasing rabbit holes about who was behind the convoy, looking at Russia, looking at United States politicians, which would be a mistake.
00:23:28.520But what is not a mistake, I believe, would be to focus 90% more on China because all the experts, former thesis officers say, by far, China is the most deeply involved threat in Canada. But yes, Russia and India are also, you know, as my reports have shown, documented to be big threats that use many of the same tactics.
00:23:51.440And now I suppose Prime Minister Trudeau has come out and without revealing too many details, at least alleged that he too believes India is involved in deep operations in Canada.
00:24:03.700So I would say to sum up, let's focus on China, but let's also understand, as I say, that China uses proxies, it targets the diaspora, it uses any element, including front and center organized crime actors, and the concerns are that Russia and potentially India are using those same methods.
00:24:24.920so of course we should look at whether they are and uh i've said to others cory we don't just
00:24:31.280need a foreign agent registry if we're dealing with criminal proxies we need stronger laws
00:24:36.260against transnational crime as well well yeah we have to keep all of our canadians safe
00:24:41.560particularly our newer ones that we've brought in and they're getting you know people from taiwan
00:24:45.360people from china dealing with that and now as we said you know when i don't know if ukrainian
00:24:50.800citizens may be getting pressure from Russian sources. Like, we're supposed to be the safe
00:24:55.820haven. It won't necessarily be easy, but we got to get started on this. But again, our relations
00:25:02.220with India now have certainly been as chilly as we've ever seen them. CSIS must have provided1.00
00:25:07.580the prime minister with some information, at least pointing towards that. But is there more
00:25:12.680that could be released then to clarify on what's going on? Because it really just seems to have
00:25:17.080made a mess. Well I would agree with that and I think a lot of people are scratching their heads
00:25:23.040about the way this information was disclosed. Look there were already enough indications that
00:25:28.480RCMP national security and I believe organized crime units probably were looking at this
00:25:35.160targeted shooting outside a temple in Vancouver this summer and that's not a surprise to me0.99
00:25:41.680Because if you remember, the Air India mastermind was also executed in recent years and police were not shy and saying it could be anything from organized crime, state sponsored crime, potentially another state.
00:25:56.900You take your pick. And let's not forget, my reports have already shown that CSIS believes not only are they worried about India being active in Canada, but they're worried about Pakistan being similarly active in Canada.
00:26:11.680to counter india so when i boil all this down uh will prime minister trudeau be able to produce
00:26:17.680more evidence you would think he has some sort of document but does he want to produce more evidence
00:26:23.600and could this just uh i'm not and others aren't convinced you know how clear could the line to
00:26:30.320india be or could it just be going into a rat's nest of uh networks that could include uh
00:26:37.040intelligence agencies, internessing rivalries at this temple, organized crime. It could be
00:26:44.340anything. And you're right when you say, I think Canadians need more because there's now an
00:26:50.020international diplomatic crisis underway. Well, and we have large Indian communities in Canada
00:26:56.980and Calgary and Vancouver, everywhere. You know, they're fantastic Canadians. They're a complicated
00:27:01.420society. You have their Sikh populations, the Hindu populations. I can't imagine this has aided
00:27:08.840with feelings within the community of new Canadians. It had nothing to do with all of this
00:27:13.440mess, but they start turning the side eye at your neighbors sometimes. I believe that's right. And
00:27:19.040we've seen it already, you know, in our wonderful Chinese, Canadian, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Canadian
00:27:25.440communities look uh politicians like former conservative kenny chu out in richmond bc came
00:27:32.000out and told me in my book willful blindness we're seeing tooth and nail diaspora battles
00:27:38.400in the asian canadian community between essentially what we can call you know pro-democracy forces
00:27:44.640and uh what would be uh you know the the communities that side more with beijing's hardliners
00:27:51.840and it why is it happening essentially it's because canada doesn't have the right laws in
00:27:57.920place to support democracy and to make sure that uh uh when we're in canada you know you're going
00:28:04.320to of course you can uh express your views but the that doesn't enable you whatever regime you
00:28:10.800may be friendly to another country to spy on your neighbor and you're right now that uh you know
00:28:16.400know, what we see happening, the allegations in Parliament Hill this week, it can only lead to
00:28:22.880more, you know, more distrust within diaspora communities in Canada. So CSIS, I mean, you can0.92
00:28:30.380sense the frustration coming from some people within it. They know their mandate, they've worked
00:28:34.040hard, they're trying to make the government aware and prevent these things, but they get ignored.
00:28:39.080And that's, I'm imagining why some of these documents end up getting leaked out. And, you
00:28:44.520know, further you put it forth. That's not, I guess, the ideal way for security documents to
00:28:49.240come out. But if if there's no other option, if the government's stonewalling them, you can see
00:28:54.720these leaks continuing. I can confirm exactly what you say. Of course, speaking very carefully,
00:29:00.820there are legal actions underway. I need to be careful to protect my sources to protect myself
00:29:06.820indeed, but I can confirm that it's gone beyond frustration. It's fair to say that people in
00:29:14.600Canadian institutions for years have been approaching me because they believe, one,
00:29:20.580first of all, for decades, most specifically with China, Canadian governments, that is,
00:29:26.040successive prime ministers have been targeted. Some governments have responded better than others,
00:29:31.820But the situation since 2015, coincidentally to Xi Jinping rolling out more forcefully what we call his United Front Interference Networks and the Trudeau government not responding to this threat.
00:29:46.120the situation has become so dire in Canada that indeed people that walk around with badges to
00:29:53.360protect Canada came to me and said they don't see any other path but for an established journalist
00:30:00.160on this file to tell Canadians what's really going on. And by the way, they say that Canadians still
00:30:06.620don't know the half. There's sensitive information I have I can't report. There's information too
00:30:11.920sensitive for people to even share with me so i do believe uh there's many people in canada's
00:30:17.360government that uh that i won't mince words here when they say words like elite capture or in other
00:30:24.720countries state capture look that is what china is trying to do in canada and so there are people
00:30:31.600on the inside that are concerned that uh not only are politicians captured but you know whole
00:30:37.520segments of institutions may be under the sway of foreign states which is unacceptable and yet
00:30:44.080we still don't have the reasonable laws that our allies have to counter uh these attacks on our
00:30:50.080democracy as it's such a shame i know you're not gonna let up on this issue uh you're very
00:30:58.000persistent and you've been doing a fantastic job before i let you go you've got your your book on
00:31:02.720this and uh the the bureau uh where can we point our viewers to find out more in detail on what
00:31:07.920you've been doing sam sure you can go to uh the bureau.news uh for now i'm on sub stack i'm
00:31:15.280building up a strong list of subscribers we've got a great community there and as i say pushing out
00:31:21.280these international breaking stories takes a lot of time it takes legal support so i really
00:31:26.800appreciate you know everyone that can come to the page read the stories and support you can find me
00:31:32.240on Twitter at Scooper Cooper, which will lead to my page and my book. And I hope there's a lot of
00:31:38.680international reporting and breaking news in the future. And I'm working towards that.
00:31:43.400Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us today and for the work you've been doing, Sam.
00:31:47.060And I hope we get to talk again soon. My pleasure, Corey.
00:31:50.660All right. Thank you. So as you heard, that was Sam Cooper. And yes, he's just been all over this.
00:31:56.020If it weren't for him, I don't think this issue would be where it is. I think most people can
00:32:00.480agree on that. And that reminder at the end, we were talking about independent media, talking
00:32:04.320about how to keep up on these things. Get on there, go to thebureau.news. He's working as an
00:32:09.760independent investigative journalist now. He needs support to do that. When I booked him,
00:32:15.400when I was trying to get him a while ago, actually he was over in Taiwan. Like he's on the ground
00:32:19.340getting the information directly, working on these things. And it costs money. It takes resources. So
00:32:27.000you know, keep supporting these journalists because we've seen, you know, this isn't coming
00:32:30.560up from legacy media anymore. It's coming up through other sources. They're afraid to shake
00:32:35.640the boat. They don't want to scare their, their liberal masters and, and guys like Sam have been
00:32:40.380holding their feet to the fire. And it's so important. I mean, this is huge. It's huge.
00:32:45.360Whatever happened with that, that shooting in Vancouver, if indeed, I mean, I don't know,
00:32:52.000But if we've had a foreign government, you know, assassinating somebody on our soil,0.91
00:32:58.100I know some people have been bringing up the history of the guy who was shot and talking
00:33:02.920about how it sounds like he was a pretty bad actor in a number of fronts.
00:36:33.140like, was that the reason you did it right on the first day of parliament? Because they knew about
00:36:36.380this earlier, probably, surely. But you wanted something this important to have as much political
00:36:41.780impact for your own benefit as possible. That's not responsible leadership. But what's the, you
00:36:50.640know, somebody else saying no extra judicial killings, it's not okay for them, it's not okay,
00:36:53.840but no, that's right. We just, we're in a, we're a civilized democratic, modern country, we got a lot
00:36:59.100of challenges and a lot of threats to our democracy. That's not where we go. Somebody
00:37:05.580I saw a comment earlier asking about the march and the protest for the children and that going on.
00:37:12.620Well, we are covering it. And Dave mentioned that at the start when he was talking about the stories
00:37:15.880happening. I mean, right now, all those marches are currently happening right now. We've got
00:37:20.040reporters out there on the ground, and we will be reporting on things at the westernstandard.news
00:37:25.920uh, as they come in. So, uh, you can go there and see the updates. I'm not speaking to it right now
00:37:30.780because I, I mean, I, I know as much as you guys about it, you know, in the preparation and the
00:37:34.740stuff leading up to it, the counter protests leading up to it. And, uh, I got a feeling
00:37:38.380there's going to be a lot of, uh, uh, pretty heated exchanges to say the very least going on
00:37:43.940between protest groups. I, I drove downtown to Calgary today and they were set up already a
00:37:49.140couple of hours ago, uh, a bunch of people on one side of the street and a bunch of people
00:37:52.840the other all screaming across the street at each other. And that was hours before the official
00:37:57.420start time. So I imagine it hasn't gotten any better since, but we'll see what happens with
00:38:02.280it. We got a lot of frustration going on out there. And I said before, I'm mixed on it. I mean,
00:38:07.240I've never made a secret of that. I'm pretty socially liberal, guys. I'm not a social
00:38:10.420conservative. But at the same time, I also see the right to the parents to be sacrosanct. This is
00:38:19.120where the line keeps getting crossed by the activists. They keep pushing and pushing and
00:38:23.520pushing. I understand there are some intolerant parents who children, you know, are hitting into
00:38:30.900their teens and realizing that they're not straight. They'd be afraid to say so in their
00:38:35.440household and things such as that. Fine. You know, we're growing as a society. We're getting better.
00:38:41.280We're getting more accepting of all of those things. But it's not the role of the school
00:38:45.020system and the unions. Remember, it keeps coming to the unions to bypass the parents, though,
00:38:51.000and get in the middle of that. That's not their role. It's not their role at all. And they keep
00:38:56.420crossing it. And that's what this battle is right now. And we saw the Toronto Star earlier,
00:39:00.340basically saying parents don't have the rights to know what their kids are doing.
00:39:03.900BS, they don't. They're the parents. The parents may not always be right. But it's not the role
00:39:10.220of the state to get in the middle unless we're talking about true, serious, physical or mental
00:39:14.960abuse, and I know they're broadening the definition of mental abuse and calling it serious. If some
00:39:20.920kid walks up to the parents and say, hey, I'm a girl today, and you say, no, you aren't, that could
00:39:25.980be considered serious mental abuse. Come on, guys, you've moved that goal line way too far beyond the
00:39:31.960reasonable. Leave the kids alone. That's the thing with the activists. Why are they always focused on
00:39:39.220going after the kids. Leave them the hell alone. When they get 16 and into 18 years old, they'll
00:39:45.760have a much better idea of where they're going, what their identity is. Some families will be
00:39:51.020better at dealing with their children than others, but it's not the state's role. And that's where,
00:39:58.040that's why people are on the streets today. You know, there are some people out there,
00:40:01.280and that's how it's being phrased by the legacy media. Of course, they're saying it's all anti
00:40:04.360LGBTQ demonstrators. Well, no, not necessarily. They're pro-parent demonstrators, pro-parental
00:40:09.860rights. And not all of them. There are some amongst them. Oh, there's certainly some hateful
00:40:15.640people in there, and some people who think that homosexuality should be illegalized again, or
00:40:20.900that same-sex marriage rights should be reversed, and garbage like that. They're out there. They1.00
00:40:25.560have the right to have that view. It's a dwindling view, and it's a wrong view, in my view. But
00:40:30.720most of them are just concerned parents and is being framed the wrong way, but they're pushing
00:40:37.460it too far. They've pushed the parents too far. You know, Commander St. and Lethbridge, a leader
00:40:43.840of Antifa known as a Marxist is a junior high school teacher. Yeah, you know, like the ridiculousness
00:40:48.720going on in our schools and the acceptance of when it goes too far. That nutcase who was out there
00:40:57.240with his great big fake giant boobs, you know, as a shop teacher. And the school board couldn't
00:41:05.360find the courage to just get up and say, this guy's screwed in the head. He's dressed
00:41:11.140inappropriately. This is not right for the students. This is not a good example. And we're
00:41:16.700going to impose a dress code to remove this person from their job. They wouldn't do it. They couldn't
00:41:22.040do it. They were too scared. The well-being of the students fell beyond what his paradox is saying.
00:41:28.320He trolled everyone. Yeah, I don't know if he was trolling or nuts or whatever it was. I don't care.
00:41:32.520The bottom line is what he did expose, whether intentionally or unintentionally, was that
00:41:36.460the schools and the school boards won't stand up for the rights of children when somebody has
00:41:41.400crossed the line dramatically in front of them like that. And parents have had enough. They're
00:41:47.280getting concerned. And that's what a whole lot of them out there demonstrating today are. I put a
00:41:52.360post up on Twitter recently, showing a picture from one of the Edmonton protests, and it had
00:41:57.480a setup. They actually got a booth set up with a picture of Karl Marx and saying it's the
00:42:03.560Communist Party. Join us here. You know what? I'm going to say this outright because we don't say
00:42:09.020it enough. Communists are as bad as scumbags as Nazis. They are. Communists killed hundreds of
00:42:15.180millions of people. They're murderous thugs. They're disgusting. And the hammer and sickle
00:42:21.380should be spit on as quickly as a swastika when you see it surfacing again. They should have the1.00
00:42:26.500right to put their stupid table out there, but call these people out because there's no room
00:42:32.720to have people embracing that sick ideology. When they sit there and stand on a high horse and
00:42:39.380saying that people are embracing a sick ideology by protesting in parents' rights, yet you'll
00:42:45.040happily sit there manning a table, a communist table, communists, the ones who starve millions0.99
00:42:51.160of Ukrainians to death, millions of Chinese that oppressed people for decades and decades.1.00
00:42:57.920No, no, I'll call you scumbags out when you push that crap. Just as I'll call it some scumbag out
00:43:03.420who pushes a swastika. That's disgusting too. Well, you know, there's a double standard when
00:43:08.460it comes to it. If some idiot was sitting there with a table with a couple of swastikas saying,
00:43:12.240you know, let's, you know, bring about a new Nazi party in Canada. I think people will rip that
00:43:16.380table down and then, you know, give those guys a few swift kicks in the butt moving along0.84
00:43:19.620as they should. But communists, well, that's not so bad. Yes, it is so bad. They're two sides of
00:43:26.260the same coin. They're authoritarian extremists who don't care about the population and who will
00:43:31.820murder citizens for the sake of their ideology. So yeah, it's a sick, sick ideology.
00:43:42.720So speaking of crime, I'm just going to hit a couple of things as we kind of wrap things up,
00:43:45.760a few news stories. Crime costs Canadians more than 43 billion a year, you know, turn the page
00:43:50.600a little, because we've got a weak, weak justice system, if you want to call it that. And this is
00:43:57.440where people talk about it's too expensive to keep incarcerating, it's too expensive to get
00:44:00.420more police, it's too expensive. BS, you know, when we're cost 43 billion a year, because the
00:44:06.020crime's committed, unchecked crime, I'm sorry, you know, that's totals expenses from police
00:44:11.080over time, lost wages from victims, funeral expenses, trauma, 43 billion a year. Uh, yeah,
00:44:17.320I think we've got some money that we could crack down on and, uh, make more effective crime policy.
00:44:23.740But again, where is it coming from? Well, let's have a look here. There was an inflation summit.
00:44:28.720This is a neat story that's come up. I think Dave mentioned that or not. Uh, cabinet had one of the
00:44:33.320retreats, Trudeau's cabinet, you know, so a couple of dozen people, a few dozen people got together
00:44:37.800out there for three days. And let's see, what did they spend? $275,000 on an inflation summit.
00:44:46.240Yeah, three days in a Vancouver hotel, and they spent $275,000 to examine inflation. Can you
00:44:53.180imagine just sat there eating their caviar, drinking their Dom Perignon, and dwelling on
00:44:58.180why are Canadians having higher prices for everything? They've got no clue, these elitist
00:45:03.280jerks. True Marie Antoinette sort of behavior. What would he expect out of a trust fund baby
00:45:07.900prime minister like Justin Trudeau? His cabinet's reflecting him. They are tone deaf. They have no
00:45:12.680idea what common Canadians are actually suffering under their inflationary regime, their overspending
00:45:17.900regime, the regime that is stepping on the rights of Canadians every day. So for these scumbags,
00:45:23.560and I'll call them that, to sit there sipping on that, to have $275,000 to sit in a hotel for three
00:45:30.000days. Room charges were $130,000. Three days. The catering alone was $46,000. Again, it's just the
00:45:41.140cabinet. You know what? We've got a giant bunch of buildings and facilities on Parliament Hill
00:45:46.100where those guys can get together at a fraction of that cost. No, no. We want to travel on the
00:45:53.580dime of the taxpayers, sip those expensive foods, drink those, you know, eat the good foods,
00:46:00.840sip the wine. It's sick. It's sick. This is a broken government. And it's only going to get
00:46:06.960worse. This is what I'm worried about. This week is going bananas, like I was saying, from bombshells
00:46:11.040dropped in Ottawa with the India thing, with going after the grocers, you name it, things like that.
00:46:15.580It's a desperate government. It's only going to get worse as they continue to drop in the polls.
00:46:20.240He's going to keep coming up with things to try and sidetrack us from it somehow.
00:46:24.600All right, to close things out with the dark comedy of interesting news that was released out of all this.
00:46:28.420Yeah, India has put out a warning to travelers saying, you know, Canada could be a dangerous place for Indians to travel to because of politically condoned violence happening over here.
00:46:39.380Yeah, the shots get back and forth, get more and more observed.
00:46:42.660i mean there are some very real dangers going on if we've got assassinations happening on our soil
00:46:47.340though i don't think your your typical indian tourist has to worry about it over here but
00:46:51.080that's the sort of games that are going to get going and they're going to get a heck of a lot
00:46:54.180worse as we go along unfortunately so uh that covers it get on there guys western standard
00:47:00.700news the news stories will keep coming up there's going to be a whole lot breaking and a whole lot
00:47:04.740more we're riding on through the course of this week and uh tune in for the pipeline that's going
00:47:10.160to be on a little later tonight guys and that's where we'll have our panel breaking down a bunch
00:47:14.620more of these issues and getting some more updates on things so thank you very much for
00:47:18.000joining us today and we will see you all again at this time next week here's what commodity prices
00:47:25.120are doing in lethbridge today cash barley remains at 340 feed wheat is steady at 355 while october
00:47:31.740corn is unchanged at 350 and november december is trading at 318 per metric ton in the milling
00:47:37.640wheat markets, December Minneapolis futures are higher 1.25 cents at $7.81 per bushel,
00:47:42.600with local hard red spring bid for October movement at $9.55 per bushel.
00:47:47.420Looking at canola, November futures added $3.10 at $7.3740 per tonne, with delivered
00:47:53.560values for October movement at $1.672 per bushel. In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices
00:47:59.380are higher 0.5 cent at $0.365 per pound, and yellow peas are lower 25 cents at $10.75 per
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