CORY MORGAN SHOW： Carney’s new slush fund is another indication that Canada is broken
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Summary
Corey rants about why Canada is a crappy place to do business in, and why the government needs to do something about it. Also, the Prime Minister announces a new $25B Sovereign Wealth Fund to invest in Canada.
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the place where you got to get your news your updates i mean come on there's none of that bs
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legacy media stuff here or at least you get my opinion on all of that stuff i mean it's debatable
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on how accurate it may or may not be but you're going to get it if you're tuning in anyway i want
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to kind of start by uh again thanking some of the people i've been on the speaking circuit lately
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hitting all these towns in alberta they've just been packing the houses on these independence
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talks with this let's talk alberta thing i was in tilly alberta last night great full room of people
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All right, so in a little while, I'm going to have,
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in the canceled crowd with the pitchforks and torches
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And really, guys, they actually do have good pizza there.
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I got the Substitute Dave in today, so it'll be a good chat there as well.
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I'll start with what I'm going to rant about today, though.
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And I mean, I have to hit it, get right to the point.
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Canada is a crappy place to invest into or do business in.
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I mean, the regulatory environment, coupled with general ineptitude from the government,
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has been strangling the Canadian economy for over a decade.
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We had a recent report from RBC concluding over a trillion dollars in capital has fled Canada in the last 10 years.
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It's not Fraser Institute or one of those places you can question.
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The GDP per capita continues to drop, and it looks to be an outer freefall when you compare it to the United States.
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When you look at those numbers, we average 73 U.S. dollars per hour per person,
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compared to 97 U.S. dollars per hour per person in the United States.
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So even the Kearney government can no longer ignore this.
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Instead of addressing, though, the root causes of why Canada has become an investment pariah,
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the Kearney government has instead announced the creation of a $25 billion,
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If investors won't invest in Canada now, they feel that they might get part of their investment
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covered through a fund created by, you know, debt dumped on taxpayers. That'll bring them in,
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right? Citizens who truly hate their pocketbook are also invited to invest into this catastrophe
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and waiting. The government will set the standards of how they'll determine who gets a piece of this
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fund, and that invariably leads to well-connected insiders with questionable investment notions.
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The grifters can smell opportunities like this a mile away, and rest assured they're already
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salivating over this one. The foundation of this fund, it's like the debacle of the Trans Mountain
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pipeline expansion. Government policies made expanding the pipeline so economically unviable,
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the private proponent of the project pulled the plug. Even the Trudeau government realized it
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pushed things too far, but rather than cut away the roadblocks, all they had to do was get out
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of the damn way. And that's what had driven the investors away. The government bought the project.
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Then through typical mismanagement, they built the project at a 600% higher price
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And years late, the taxpayer never needed to invest a penny
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The principal reason means the same with these other major projects.
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Canada's new spaceport, that's another prime example of what happens
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when the government rushes to invest in something.
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A handful of creative souls who leased property from the government
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for thousands a year managed to lease it back to the government
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All that land contains is a gravel road leading to a small concrete
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pad. Perhaps maybe there's a little hand-scrawled note there saying Rocket Porch or something as
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well. Just think of what those economic wizards could do with $25 billion or more to play with.
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Carney's already been misrepresenting this fund by calling it a sovereign wealth fund and
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comparing it to what Norway has. Sovereign wealth funds are created through government surpluses,
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not by putting the bill on the credit card of the taxpayers. The funds typically have a mandate of
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stabilizing the local economy and investing to get a maximum rate of return. In Norway, the fund,
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their fund, purposely invests 100% outside of Norway, so it doesn't meddle with the domestic
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economy. It also is mostly placed in relatively safe equities, real estate, and bonds. Carney's
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debt fund is going to stay 100% within Canada and is going to be dedicated to high-risk investments.
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If the investments weren't high-risk, private investors would buy in without tax funding.
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This is just another corporate welfare fund which will predominantly invest in losers,
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And it's likely going to be targeted to areas where Liberals need growth and electoral support
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Look, we already have the Canada Infrastructure Bank and other government subsidy programs in place.
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All these funds and initiatives avoid addressing the elephant in the room.
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Political red tape in general has been hampering all developments.
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And the granddaddy of all those roadblocks is the de facto veto authority
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given to Indigenous bands over all projects.
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Chiefs, both elected and appointed, along with a plethora of lawyers and bureaucrats,
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swarm every new development with demands and threats despite not having the authority to stop
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them. Not a single major project in Canada has been proposed that doesn't have one Indigenous
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band or another opposing it. The government must stop indulging these claims and lay down the law.
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Consultation with Indigenous groups is a constitutional requirement, but consent is not.
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If the government could find the courage to stand on its real authority and guarantee that projects
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would be completed despite Indigenous opposition, the investment dollars would flood in. Canada's
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loaded with resources the world wants, and investors would be eager to dive into them.
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Alas, though, courage and liberals aren't terms we often see hand-in-hand. Slush funds created
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through indebting citizens are easier to create than taking principled stands and governing
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responsibly. This new sovereign wealth fund is just another indication of what an increasing
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number of Western Canadians are realizing. Canada is broken. All right, well, I guess
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off to an upbeat sort of thing. How's it going, Dave? Yeah, no bad, Corey. It's been a while.
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Guys, a lot of the news you're seeing is coming out of him happily typing away back in the newsroom over there.
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Well, I got a few things for you, Corey, today.
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I mean, well, I guess one of the big ones is Alberta's finally raised the speed limit to 120 kilometers an hour over a little stretch of highway.
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I think it's Highway 2 south of Leduc as part of a pilot project.
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So that'll be interesting to see what happens there.
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I mean, I know it's been fairly popular with the public so far for the people they've polled.
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But, I mean, well, I hope everything goes well.
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But, I mean, we'll see what the opposition comes, right?
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Every time there's a fender bender or a crash, they're going to say,
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It's just maybe it's just because of bad driving.
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And a nice story as well, too, is I don't know if you probably saw this.
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The Buffalo Sabres fans last night stepped up and sang,
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oh, Canada, after the mic cut out for the singer in their game against the Bruins,
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which is kind of a nice story because I think in the past few years,
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there's been fans on both sides booing both national anthems.
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So it's kind of nice to see that, even though people can say in Buffalo
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there's probably a lot of Canadian fans that's right across the border.
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but no it was a good gesture and i i think it was a nice change from the torqued environment
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to things going i mean i you know i'm an independent supporter but i'm not there to
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undercut the anthem or things like that just showing i think actually that some of those
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guys trying to say that the americans are nasty and they're gnashing at us and they want to
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not everybody in that room was necessarily canadian singing that anthem they just kicked in
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hopefully we get more of that i mean it's it's the relationship between our southern partner
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has been pretty badly beaten on and eroded over this last year.
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but there's been no shortage of vitriol on our side too.
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Yeah, and we were talking before this just actually broke just recently.
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City of Calgary said that their CEO, David Duckworth,
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I think it's going to be effective, I think, May 1st.
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And they said it's on the departures, I mutually agreed.
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So I don't know if there's any controversy to that
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a lot of people don't look at city halls enough to realize that it's those insiders,
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Well, I mean, if they're doing it right, it's potentially worth it.
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They're managing billions of dollars worth of, of, uh, infrastructure and operations,
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It seems to me there was a fellow in transportation named Trevor Morgan, I think it was, or
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some years ago, but he left instantly and there were some rumors of some really crazy
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stuff that had gone on, but they closed the ranks, everything went silent, and then he
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just rode off into the sunset with a, you know, probably a six figure severance package.
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And I guess this one being mutually agreed, I imagine he's giving a soft landing, but maybe hopefully at least to some reforms in that city hall, I guess.
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Do you remember the Briex scandal from the 90s?
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Well, this is kind of similar because apparently the RCMP have charged the guy who was the former CEO of RPX Gold for fraud and forgery because they're alleging that he's been manipulating mining data that was tied to a Northern Ontario gold project.
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i think it was called wawa gold project so it's kind of like the briex thing except not as big
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at least so far as from what we know okay well the briex one the thing that still got me with
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all of that too though was the two big principles in that uh walsh who was in the bahamas who
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suddenly died of a heart attack it's one of those things i mean i watch too many tv shows
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maybe they should just look for a syringe mark or something on him and uh de guzman i think it was
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was the name of the Filipino gentleman, the engineer who engineered the fraud, jumped
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You know, when you rip people off for billions, your life expectancy just isn't really that
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Apparently, it was just a run-of-the-mill heart attack and a suicide out of the helicopter.
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Well, he's supposed to be showing up in court by, I think it's June 5th, so I guess we'll
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Well, let's get to see history repeating itself.
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I would suggest this man not take any helicopter rides.
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And this morning, actually, I think it was Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson
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announced at a conference in Ottawa that the federal government's going to be
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advancing their new nuclear energy strategy and committing billions to expanding the sector
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I was just curious what your whole thoughts are on nuclear power going forward.
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I think it's great if the government doesn't irresponsibly screw it up.
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So that's a big caveat because the government loves doing that.
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But I don't have a beef with nuclear generation abilities.
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We've got Saskatchewan with, with all of those uranium supplies.
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We've got, uh, you know, it's getting aged and out of date.
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I mean, the can do initiatives where we're very successful.
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Like if they could just get the, over the hangups with nuclear.
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I think it's all the safety thing that they'll think it's like another
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Chernobyl or meltdown, like, was it Fukushima or whatnot in Japan?
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That was a tsunami and Chernobyl was a, you know, a run by a Soviet system.
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They couldn't manage to invent a functional alarm clock.
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It's not much wonder that they had a meltdown, but, uh,
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we'll see. There you go, exactly. And also the last one is, Calgary police apparently have laid
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firearm charges, trafficking charges against a 44-year-old man as part of an expanded
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investigation that was into a 2025 shooting death of Madison Cobb. I don't know if you remember that
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one, but apparently there's more to this now. Apparently the probes uncovered several weapons
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and prohibited items going forward, so this might be bigger than just one little murder.
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Yeah, there's something about it. It was about a firearm with a filed-off serial number.
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I believe so, yeah, correct, yeah, and that's going into trafficking, I think, so yeah, it's going deeper, I suppose, you could say.
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I just hope more people pay attention, you know, realize here's where the problems are, these traffickers, these gangsters, these problematic people, but the government's too busy chasing our hunters.
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I didn't see Grandpa's 12-gauge out there using crime.
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I don't know, it's usually a lull before the storm, I'm sure.
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insane will blow up tomorrow yeah looking forward to seeing what you're right about it and uh
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well thank you for the update and keeping things rolling for us dave sounds like a plan now thanks
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corey appreciate it all right that is our main uh i don't know what's your title description
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these days though uh that's a good question you're a senior reporter or maybe senior reporter it just
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says reporter on the the name tag i think so but i mean you're i think so now yeah it seems like
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to settle into the show with us to bring us up to date.
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You'll see his name at the top of a lot of stories,
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along with a whole lot of other people contributing,
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This is where I shake the cup and ask for your money
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Commenters Jacqueline saying, why would Alberta want to build a pipeline through BC
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when the so-called indigenous would just claim it as theirs.
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Yeah, well, you know, then there's challenges going south too.
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But, you know, the indigenous thing, and I know it's not beyond belief.
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I mean, when there's claims going on on anything and everything,
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that's why no private investor will touch it with a 10-foot pole.
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If people would realize the federal government has the authority
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to basically put their foot down and say, too damn bad. All right, guys, we consulted you.
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We did what we could. We compensated how you will. We hired what we would, but now it's done.
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It's over. The dirt's going to move. If you blockade the pipeline, we will arrest you.
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But this government has no cojones. They would just rather just keep, like I said,
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buying slush funds or forming slush funds, giving money to their friends, do what they can for a few
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years, and then riding off into the sunset with your tax dollars. So it's going to take a major
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change to get anything through. I got a feeling though, this is, you know, my bias and you hear
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it from me a lot. If we had an independent Alberta, boy, we'd have a heck of a lot of leverage all of
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a sudden to start talking with the folks in BC. Cause I tell you what, one thing that makes people
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really receptive to pipelines is getting hungry. And if suddenly they're not having a good time
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getting their goods and services across Alberta, you know, coming into BC or going out, they're
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going to get hungry really fast. And then we can negotiate some things. And I suspect that thing
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they'll go on the ground. Okay. Speaking of food, speaking of hungry, I'll use that as a cheesy
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segue. We've got Farouk from Paul's Pizza coming in. It's been a while and boy, you've been pissing
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everybody off again, Farouk. I appreciate it. How are you doing? I'm good. Yourself?
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Good, good. I mean, still at it here. You know, carrying on. You know, looking, I was getting the
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image for your appearance on the show and I see that the main thing that pops up was the last time
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you were on here a few years ago. It's not often a pizza restaurant owner becomes so
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newsworthy, but you certainly like to speak your mind, I guess.
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Yeah, you know, freedom of speech and all that. At the end of the day, I use the, you know how I am,
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I use my social media platform to express my opinions. And I just try to get others to get
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on board i i want other business owners especially in alberta to start speaking up and not be afraid
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of this cancel culture bullshit well that's it and they're really coming out of gin swarms
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unfortunately maybe just for those who haven't heard about it necessarily i mean legacy media
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certainly doesn't touch these things effectively or whatnot uh what did you do that got them all
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worked up this time uh so you know me being you know kind of stupid at times i noticed that uh
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And I kept seeing a post about MMIW2GSLGBTQI.
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I don't know if I got it right, but I'm pretty close.
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So, you know, I just made a stupid joke about it, not knowing what MMIW was at the time.
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And I kind of just woke up the next day and it exploded.
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and um since then i've just had people coming after me from all parts of the country and you
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know i've had a lot more support which is nice as well yeah no you certainly have i think people
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are really appreciating uh that you're not backing down i you know the the first instinct for a lot
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of people if something happens whether it was inadvertently or just you know uh put something
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out on social media quickly uh is to say oh man i'm sorry and delete it and back off and apologize
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And of course, the reality is when the cancel mob gets going, even if you to back down and apologize, they're still going to come after you.
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So I appreciate that you're just saying, no, to hell with you guys.
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You're not, I mean, you're there to sell pizzas and beer.
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You're not really, you know, your goal isn't to tick people off so much, but you're not going to, you know, cower every time somebody gets a little upset with you.
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So I've been doing this for about seven years now.
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So I have plenty of experience with dealing with the cancel culture.
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And like you said, they, when they smell like, you know, weakness, they pounce.
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So, you know, I, I'm not one to back down, especially from those kinds of people.
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And I just want others to know, you know, speak your mind as well.
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If they're going to call you, block their number.
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who cares say what you want it's your business well absolutely so i mean what have they been
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doing you know just to lay it out i know they've been kind of bombing your reviews they've been
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trying to get you knocked off social media they're calling you every name in the book apparently
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you're a white nationalist i don't i don't i haven't written the rules on what night white
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nationalism lands in but it just seems to me there's a part of it that you don't qualify
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well for in that aspect i mean i am a light-skinned arab i'm not i'm not too dark uh so the white
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nationalist Arab post, because, you know, they actually think I'm some Arab guy that wants to
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be white, which is completely false. So over the years, I've just been getting, you know, tons of
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messages. Hey, you're a KKK member, you're a white supremacist, this and that. And then one day,
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someone messaged me, call me a white Arab nationalist, which I thought was pretty funny.
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So I decided to take a picture of myself, look all goofy, and just post it on my social media,
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and I kind of ran with it. Well, that's part of it. I find a part of what disarms
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uh people on social media if they're coming in the attack mode is just lean right into it just
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push right they don't expect that and they don't know what to do i've had people on x come after me
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you know saying oh you're this or that usually you know with a a homophobic slur or anything and
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then what i'll do is counter back and say well you know if you buy me some flowers i i might do some
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of those things you're talking about with yeah i mean you got to start just easing into this and
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it shuts them up everything they don't know what to do so just lean in yeah their brains kind of
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explode when you fight back they don't know what to do I mean they're not the brightest people so
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it's honestly not too hard to uh to roast these guys um at the end of the day usually what happens
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is they message me after I roast them or they comment hey can you take that down you know I'm
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so sorry I was wrong blah blah blah which I'm not gonna do because you know if I if I if I do that
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I know they're just gonna go do it again to someone else or myself but yeah always always
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fight back man there's there's nothing wrong with fighting back and you know I get it from the from
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other business perspective and people's perspective because these guys they're they're like piranhas
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man they'll go after your family they'll call like they're calling my charities and trying to get my
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charities to not accept my money they're calling the landlord um they're they're sending threats
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of arson you know you name it they're finding my my employees instagrams and messaging my employees
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so uh just at the end of the day they can't do anything i've told them for seven years if you've
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ever had an issue you know where i am you know where to find me and not one one soul has come
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in and wanted to discuss things with me so they're just a bunch of uh i don't want to swear but you
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know they're a bunch of pansies that hide behind a keyboard and uh there's nothing to fear man
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all it is is words at the end of the day yeah and i don't know if you remember a guy named paul
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stinson he ran the white moose cafe up in dublin ireland years ago it was a cafe and hotel beautiful
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little spot it was the same time as i used to own the pub down in prittis area and such and i know
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how easy the money is in the pizza and beer business. It's not exactly as thrilling as some
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people might think, though we had a good run. But that Paul Stinson guy did a similar thing. Like he
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was just unapologetic against the woke. He went after cyclists. He went after vegans. He did
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things like that. And it drove them haywire and they would protest. But in the end, it led to his
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place being packed. He had a Facebook page with 150,000 followers, I think, on it. And the irony
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again is they would go after him, call him every name in the book. And a homophobe was one of their
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favorites with them. He was as gay as gay could be, you know, but they just don't even look that
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deep. They just immediately throw all the labels out the second they get upset and they don't even
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know what the hell they're talking about. Yeah. I think, uh, I think last time I have a pretty
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good memory. Last time we spoke, I think you brought that up and yeah, you know, uh, I think
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that's a smart tactic because you know, when you're, when you're pissing people off, they're
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going to start talking about you when they talk about you that's publicity and it's free publicity
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which is even better so all it does is it attracts people into your business that didn't know about
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you before uh the the people who are like-minded are going to come and support you more as well
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and then at the same time it deters all these uh i call them weirdos and uh brokies you know
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deters all these far left extremists who sit at home and have no money to uh to spend anyway so
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at the end of the day, all it is doing is, you know, growing my brand and driving up business.
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Well, that's it. And you're showing most of the people, if they look at it, it's just humor. And
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if it's not humor to somebody's taste, we'll just go somewhere else. It's a little different when
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it's a business, I guess, but you know, that whole MMW, Ambersand, all that other stuff that
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that was mocked all over the world. Late night talk show hosts were mocking that. They were going
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crazy, uh, laughing their heads off at that thing because it was ridiculous. Uh, but of course the
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woke nut cases can't target them, but they found a local target with you. If you were truly being
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hateful, if you were really being a jerk saying, you know what, I'm going to refuse to serve gay
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people, or I'm going to assault, uh, black people coming in or something insane like that. Well,
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I'd be up there saying, geez, I'm not shopping at the guy's place either. He's, he's crazy,
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but you've not been hateful. You've just been having a good lark with some of this stuff.
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Yeah, at the end of the day, man, you know, running a business is a lot of work.
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And social media, just like the gym, is kind of my escape.
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It's all about comedy at the end of the day, putting a smile on people's faces.
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And like you said, like, I've never denied service to anybody, to be honest.
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Someone comes in with a gay shirt or someone comes in with a, you know, a turban.
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uh i mean i do kick some people out here and there but that's just because they get drunk
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and obnoxious and try to start fights it doesn't matter if they're black or white or or red you
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know we we treat them all equally so at the end of the day we don't we have never discriminated
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against anybody and uh half my staff are colored i have i have gay people that work for me but the
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difference is they don't go around and flaunt it they don't make it you know you know their whole
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life they don't push it down our throats they don't push it down children's throats and that's
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that's kind of the difference. That's kind of, you know, where I have an issue is when people
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go over that line. Yeah. Well, and, and something, at least as things are kind of ongoing, this is
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what it's been a couple of weeks sort of since it recently hit the fan with you again, all over
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again. Uh, you're, you're still sort of, you're poking the hornet's nest at least, uh, not
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apologizing, getting on there, making some funny posts on X or on Instagram and, and, and things
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like that uh how have sales been as if you've seen an impact up or down out of this or is it
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just kind of the same as it's been um i'd say like our so our airdrie location uh the ceiling's not
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as high because we're so busy but uh the calgary locations have have gone up a lot more than the
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airdrie location and the airdrie location has also the numbers have also gone up um i've sold
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a lot of merchandise i'm working on an online shop i've had a every day i've had a shit ton
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of customers come in from Red Deer, Lethbridge, Saskatchewan, just to meet me and shake my hand.
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I've had guys bring in their kids to shake my hand and say, you know, this is a good guy.
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You know, I want you to kind of, it's kind of weird, but I want you to grow up and kind of be
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like this guy when you grow up, you know, have the same kind of mindset. So yeah, it's all pretty
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much been positive for the most part. I mean, there are some negatives, like we're getting
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prank calls, you know, customers harassing the staff. It's kind of died down, happens here and
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there at first it was every every minute someone was calling and swearing at us or giving us you
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know a fake order that you know we would catch but yeah it's uh it's been good the positives
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have definitely outweighed the negatives well that's good uh what about i know airdrie seemed
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to kind of been the main flashpoint though you guys have a number of of locations as you pointed
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out uh there have been efforts by others to try and see if they can't get your license pulled or
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things like that i think some local airdrie politicians basically kind of said look we
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we can't do anything about this he's not done anything illegal uh is that efforts to try and
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shut you down that way still continuing uh i know they're they they made a a petition on change.org
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i you know i never heard about until they did it i think they have a little over 3 000 signatures
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last time i checked and basically it's to get the the mayor and the city council to overlook our
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business license to see if they could remove it. But I know the mayor came out and made a,
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the new mayor came out and made a statement saying that, you know, she can't really do anything.
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We haven't broken any bylaws. If you have an issue, call RCMP, contact BBB or Human Rights.
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I spoke to RCMP, the guy just laughed, said, yeah, I follow you. You haven't done anything
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wrong. Don't worry about it. BBB is basically just Yelp. So they really have no impact on any
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any kind of business they're just you know a bullshit entity and i i haven't heard from human
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rights yet so uh at the end of the day there's nothing they could do it's free speech it's the
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internet we're not uh we're not china north korea or uk yet right but yeah everything everything's
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been good so far good and i i know another thing i mean they did that with me i i had google reviews
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that claim that people saw mice running around in my uh dining area and that they'd gotten
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sandwiches that were moldy uh stuff like that used to happen with my restaurant when i would
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tick people off online. Uh, it really, I mean, you don't want to see that in your reviews because
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people might not know the backstory as to why some idiot is putting that, that garbage on your
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reviews. But still, I mean, it, the impact of that's, I guess, more limited anyways. I mean,
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the most of the time I use a Google review is if I'm traveling somewhere and looking for somewhere
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new, but you're, you're mostly have already got kind of your, your steady regular local crowds,
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I guess. Yeah, I would say, uh, for us, I mean, we have so many Google reviews cause we've been
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around forever it doesn't really matter it doesn't affect us uh what they don't understand called
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cancel culture is when you mass review someone good or bad google uh picks it up and they just
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delete it all so if you go and search my google reviews the latest review you'll see is from three
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weeks ago because they just deleted it all so it really has no effect on us and like over time you
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kind of get used to it and you just go ah whatever it's google you know who's not many people are
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actually going to go and you know scroll through google reviews yeah well and part of what's kept
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you going as you said you you've been there plus the prior owners this is a well-established
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business it's been there a long time i have eaten i live down south i go to the shaughnessy one
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occasionally and uh i i said it before the show i'm happy that it really is good food and great
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pizza you want thick cheesy you know artery hardening pizza that's the place to get again
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an unapologetic good meal because i mean if your food was crappy i'd still have you on and talk
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about it but i would dodge that in the end just to to to not cover it but it really is uh some
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good stuff so before i let you go you know maybe i'll let you get a bit of a plug-in where can
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folks get in and get a good meal and uh just show that they're not gonna let others push around a
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guy who's outspoken with his business yeah so uh we we don't have just pizza just for anybody
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watching we have a huge many we do steaks uh fish and chips wings you name it uh so it's not just
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pizza so if you don't like our style you can get something else uh we have two two locations at
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calgary one inch honestly like you mentioned one off 32nd uh and 28th street in the northeast and
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then the original here in airdrie which we moved about a year and a half ago to the other side of
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the highway uh we're in a big brand new building we put about a million bucks into it and our sales
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are up 40 since we moved um if you want to follow me you can follow me on facebook at the paul's
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pizza airdrie uh instagram is just paul's pizza x i believe is just paul's pizza other than that
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you know i appreciate the support and uh never back down right on well that's great advice and
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i appreciate what you've been doing serving good food and uh serving outrage to the woke it's it's
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a service that uh we all really do appreciate people have had enough of it so thanks for taking
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some time to talk to us uh maybe i'll have you on in a couple years when you piss them all off over
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something new all right thank you corey you have a good one take it easy have a good amen so yes
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guys, that's Farouk with Paul's Pizza. And yes, he's mentioned all those spots where you can see
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him online. And more importantly, you know, hey, give a thumbs up online, support people when
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they're speaking out, just taking advantage of free speech, but get out there, try their product.
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Look, you can come on and roast me in the comments. If I was steering you wrong, if you think it was
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a bad meal, it really is good eats there. So let's go to those places that just, they're just small
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business people. And that's part of social media now. Anyways, that's what you got to do. As I
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said, I was in the bar and restaurant industry for some years with the pub I owned. You've got to
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build a presence, an identity. That's what really builds a solid business, you know, an atmosphere
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there and a customer base. And social media has become a tool of that. I got to admit, I wasn't
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as courageous as Farouk with, you know, kind of getting into it, using the business pages to get
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into politics. But because I was in politics outside of the restaurant, I would still get
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blasted. But with our page, you'd be a bit cheeky on it. You'd be a bit fun. You want people to
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follow your social media just to see what's happening and to see it being lively and interesting.
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And it draws them out, makes it get into their mind when they're deciding where they may or may
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not eat at some point. But we just can't let these mobs win, you know, these cowardly seller dwelling
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wimps. And that's what they are. They're blue haired losers. They're people who haven't worked
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for a living. They don't understand the pressures and pains of running a small business. They don't
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respect that ability. You know, if there was a business owner, as I said, if Farouk was really
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actually being nasty and awful and bad to people, well, then I just wouldn't go. It's as simple as
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that. I'm not going to bother protesting and review bombing and all that stuff and say, I'm
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going to take my dollars and I'll shop somewhere else. But the woke can't stop there. They want it
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shut down. They want it canceled. They want him driven out of business. They want the employees
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he has driven out of business. And we can't let these traveling mobs do that. It's a sick,
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weird, human nature thing. And there's much to it. I mean, it really does go back to that
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psychology of the witch hunts from hundreds of years ago in Massachusetts. When the local crowd
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gets all worked up, it's a pack mentality. They swarm and they like doing it to businesses. They
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get a sick sense of satisfaction in pulling something else down. Don't like it. Leave it
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alone. Let's see what else we got here. Bernie Moore saying a sickle liberal government is
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bringing back the Online Harms Act, pure BS liberal overreach. Yeah, there's something to
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be afraid of. The cancel culture and mobs and crowds coming after your ability to speak
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are one thing. Having the government come after you, that's even scarier. That's when we got some
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of these very low bar set for what you might be charged with a hate crime for this government is
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getting more and more uh authoritarian and it's it's getting um really problematic we gotta watch
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out for those this is one that the the government's pushed through now i guess the liberals these are
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the weirdest things not a high priority you'd think but they're pushing a bill to allow the
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search and seizure of your mail through canada post without a warrant that's packed into an
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omnibus bill that's going through right now, I guess. Why? What, what high issue is there where
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they feel they should have the right to go in and rip into your mail and look at it? Now, thankfully
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your physical mail, I mean, most people don't use it for much of bloody anything anyways anymore.
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It's mostly just junk mail coming in and a few bills that you might not have switched to
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electronic billing yet, but why do they want to dig into that? You know, this is, I mean,
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I understand if there's a warrant and if there's a need and they've already got that ability. If
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it. If you've got criminal activity going on, they're strong enough and suspecting it's going
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on, they can get a warrant and they can start monitoring those things. Why do they need a bill
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to get in that easily to your personal mail? And you know, they're not going to stop there because
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that's the problem. So if they're not getting the information control and power over you through
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your mail that they want, because it's obsolete, how long before they're going into your email,
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your personal communications. We saw that over the course of the COVID thing when they were getting
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into people's cellular accounts and things and such as that. This is really, really terrifying.
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It really is because we are a digital world and we have a lot of personal things online
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and we can really be messed with pretty quickly by a government that is adversely attacking it.
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I mean, look how bad they were when they had a minority,
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when they had a little bit of control over them.
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People who don't watch politics too, too closely got to understand
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a lot of the power actually hides in the committees.
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That's where the stuff goes on that you don't see.
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And that's where they're held in check quite a bit.
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We always watch Question Period and everything,
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but it's the committees where the real meat and potatoes are.
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and when you have a balanced committee with opposition members on it they're sort of forced
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to at least respect a bit of democracy in different views and try to make a case but
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once they stack those committees with nothing but liberal members they're just gonna like crap
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through a goose that legislation stuff they're going to want to do is going to go through there
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without hesitation and we should be scared guys really scared uh speaking of authoritarians you
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know you've probably seen that story it's in the western standard francis widdowson so uh you
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you probably saw that video go out. She went to Lethbridge University. She knew kind of that
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they were going to come after her. All she did was go in and sit down and have a coffee in this
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case. And the police came in and literally arrested her, took her away in handcuffs
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for the crime of sitting and having a coffee. But why? Speaking of courageous people like
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Farouk or others, she won't back down. She doubles down. She dared to break the orthodoxy. She dared
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to question the indigenous state of affairs. She dared to point out the reality that in Kamloops,
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not a single body has been found because there aren't any bodies, because it was a hoax.
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And it's a hoax that now we can call a fraud because the band got $12 million to exhume and
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investigate this thing and didn't do anything with it. Frances Whittowson keeps calling it out. She's
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a professor who won't back down. So now they've literally arrested her. When she goes to other
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places. Protests are organized. They get aggressive and dangerous around her. If you've
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ever met Frances, she's just a small slip of a woman. It's not hard to physically intimidate
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somebody like that. And that's what they do. She's got bigger cojones than our prime minister does
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because she just will not stop on this. And I'm so glad she's continuing with that. So she's been
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charged $600 for trespassing. It's a point of principle. It's only 600 bucks, but it's their
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way of shutting down the message. I've heard me talk about that on here a couple of times.
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I've been charged with trespassing by the Siksika Reserve for publishing a couple of videos
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of the conditions on that reserve, the reserve that got $1.3 billion out of Trudeau a few years
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ago. And the housing is falling apart. The dogs are running around. The garbage is all over the
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place. They want to shoot the messenger. So they lay these charges. They come after you. They use
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the legal system to shut down the messaging. It's another form of canceling. And Widowson's getting
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it. I'm getting it. Guys, we got to keep pushing back. We've got to keep fighting. The easy route
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is just to duck your head down, apologize, and leave. And that's not even the easy route. When
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a cancel mob comes after you push back that is the way to do it when they see you retreat they
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just keep coming as i said on x where i fight all the time and so on when they throw insults at me
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i just dive right back into it you know and they don't know what to do uh
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ford's progressive conservatives this is something so uh this is the headline from
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the standard ford's pc slipped a second as the liberals take a lead amidst the
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gravy train backlash. So those who might not remember, there was a $29 million jet that Doug
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Ford bought, you know, with tax dollars for himself to get around quite a luxurious little unit
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in Ontario. And when people all got pretty pissed off about it, he got quite petulant and stirred up
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but before he managed to get even a ride on it, he sold it again. But it really does show a
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government that's starting to reach its end cycle. And they're really losing track of what ticks
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people off and what doesn't. And, you know, Dave, our news editor, we talked about that in the
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pipeline last week. He says, you know, it's not unreasonable for a premier in a province as large
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as Ontario to have a plane to get around. And that's true, but it's the way they did it. And
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is the level of the plane that they got. Now, he doesn't need to be flying in an old World War I
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biplane, you know, and put a scarf on and try and hope for the best. But you don't need a luxurious
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jet either. You are just in a province. You can get a pretty good plane that's going to fly a
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handful of people around. Plus, you should just approach, make your case first before buying it.
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What he did was just bought it. It was on the books, never made a peep about it. And so, by the
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way a taxpayer is on a plane that's going to fly me around, a jet. He didn't need something that
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excessive. In Alberta, Alison Redford, we had government planes here in Alberta. They weren't
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jets, but they were well-equipped planes to fly cabinet ministers and people around and everything.
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She was using it to fly to Palm Springs. She was taking family members on it and friends.
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She was totally abusing it. Now the planes are gone altogether, including Alison Redford is
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on altogether. But when they start feeling that superior, when they start getting that arrogant
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with your money, that's the beginning of the end. Redford was just brutal. She built what was called
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the Sky Palace, if you guys remember. It was a part on an administration building, kind of a
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penthouse unit up top, which had been used for a number of things. But she was having it converted
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with tax dollars to basically be a little luxury apartment of her own, a little palace of her own
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downtown in Edmonton to keep her well appointed as the queen of Alberta. They just infuriated
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people and it got her knocked out. So in Ontario is Doug Ford finally, finally, because it's been
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amazing how bad he's been as a premier yet. Still, they seem to like him. Is he slipping? The
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liberals have slipped past him a little bit, but it's hard to say. One of the things, if you look
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at electoral trends in Canada, Ontario likes to vote the opposite way of whoever's in power
00:40:52.460
federally. Most of the time, whenever there's a, a liberal government in Ottawa, they tend to put
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a conservative government in Ontario and in Toronto and Queens Park. Uh, I think that's a
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little bit of why Ford's hanging in there, you know, when, and then when there's a conservative
00:41:07.800
government in, they tend to go NDP or liberal. And this time it might be changing, uh, the, uh,
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the dynamic. They've had enough of Ford and there's no sign as well that there's going to
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be a conservative government in Ottawa for a long, long time. Well, never probably. If you want one,
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you got to get out of the country. That's the bottom line. Let's see where else we're at,
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you know, with people seeing true stuff. Charles Adler, you might remember as a radio host, a name
00:41:37.840
who wasn't that bad, but I don't know, he slipped in the shower, bumped his head five, six years ago
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and went bananas and suddenly woke up as a liberal, a hardcore liberal. And actually,
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I think most people understand why he went that way because lo and behold, eventually bang,
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here's Charles Adler appointed to the Senate. Yeah. So media members realizing that, because
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yes, media doesn't offer a nice big pension or a heck of a lot of money, uh, independent or even
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legacy really, unless you're in the CBC, he smelled the gravy train. He wanted to retire in comfort.
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He wanted a low-stress, high-pay job, so he switched himself into being a liberal shill,
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and his effort paid off. After a few years, he was put into the Senate where he resides,
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but still pokes around on social media. And he was taking shots on X, basically saying the liberals
00:42:32.060
belong in government forever, they're the best government around, blah, blah, blah. But he seems
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to forget that the pretense of Justin Trudeau claiming that senators are going to be independent
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now. They're no longer liberal senators. They're just appointed by the liberal government, but
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they're not liberals anymore. They're independent senators. Chucky, you're supposed to be liberal.
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You're independent, I should say. You've let your veneer fall off. Perhaps dial it down. Go have a
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donut or something. Stay off social media. Actually, no, carry on. Keep it up. Keep showing people how
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sick and broken the system is. I mean, it's supposed to be another level of government
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that adds accountability. It's supposed to be a powerful level of government in the Senate,
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for the most part, is a joke. It does a bit of committee work that's okay now and then,
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but for the most part, it's a joke. You look in the United States, senators are among the
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most powerful people in the country because there's only 50 of them or whatnot versus a
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whole load of people in Congress. In Canada, senators are just a joke. They're appointed,
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they're there for life they don't do anything of significance once in a while they'll raise their
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backs over something over to parliament that is is just too uh beyond the pale but either ways
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charles just shut up you're not doing any favors for things uh alex zolton's been covering things
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in bc very well speaking of governments going down because uh eby is just floundering he's just in
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trouble and uh zolton's been covering the the leadership race of the conservatives which
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they've really been at each other's throats for a bit. Unfortunately, the race did begin with a
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land acknowledgement. Guys, that cultish crap. Cut it out. That's what ripped the conservatives
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apart in BC in the first place. We need politicians with the knackers to say, that's it. No more of
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this indigenous pandering and crap, because that's what's swinging the whole needle in BC right now.
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That's where previously even NDP supporters down in the lower mainland are saying, my lord, I might
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lose my home. I might lose my property. I don't know what's going on. They gave title to a whole
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areas to bans and they won't tell us exactly what it's about, but people can't get their mortgages
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renewed. I want out. And this RIPA thing, this indigenous right thing based on the UN
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is threatening the wellbeing of the entire province and people are realizing it. And EB
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doesn't have the courage to get rid of it and get out of it. The conservatives can own this in BC.
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they can really win this knocky be out of power but what people in bc want to see is somebody
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telling the indigenous lobby enough enough get stuffed we consulted we're done with you this
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endless circle of supposed reconciliation over things that happened a hundred and some years ago
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that's now bankrupting the province they've had enough and the majority of bc still votes
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but if the Conservatives are going to be so stupid
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leave it at that, guys. Tune in to the pipeline
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all that good stuff on social media. It helps us
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week at this time i'll have a whole new set of issues another guest and uh we'll break down
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some more news for you so thanks again see you then