Western Standard - CORY MORGAN： Trudeau’s gun grab expands

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:28.760 Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. What have we got here? It's November 20th, 2022. I'm, of course, Cory Morgan. We have a guest producer today. And good to see you. Hey, you know, since we've got the guest producer, I see Wild Rose in the comments there. Why don't you guys help me out along here? You're hearing me all right there, Wild Rose. You're coming in okay?

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00:01:17.600 We got a lot of good stuff coming up today.

00:01:20.840 And hello from Fort Mac.

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00:01:24.280 And there, we got somebody saying, you can hear me.

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00:01:38.580 So, okay, I'm going to go on about Trudeau's gun grab in a minute.

00:01:42.020 We're also going to have a guest, Derek Smith.

00:01:44.080 He's going to talk about his new book, One Face, Two Face, Black Face, Blue Face.

00:01:47.960 Some of you might remember his book that came out earlier.

00:01:50.160 It was How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom.

00:01:54.060 It was sort of in a Dr. Seuss sort of style, and it was quite funny, and it was very good,

00:02:00.220 and the illustrations were great and everything else.

00:02:02.440 We talked to him back then.

00:02:03.260 He's got a new one that has come out now just in time for Christmas.

00:02:05.920 You get things for your family and friends.

00:02:08.120 We'll also, of course, check in with Dave, and we'll check in with the marketplace commodities

00:02:12.680 for the Ag Market Report.

00:02:14.980 Okay, let's get on to some rants.

00:02:16.060 Some of the stuff that's been going off in the news today, what's got to be pissed off?

00:02:19.840 There's always something.

00:02:20.600 And it's nothing less than an invulgar watching the Trudeau Liberals piggyback on tragedies to forward their agenda to disarm all Canadians.

00:02:29.540 Let there be no doubt the illegalization of all firearms is the intent of the Liberal government.

00:02:34.140 It's been so for a long time.

00:02:36.080 The Liberals under Jean-Crentin started the process with their long gun registry in the 1990s.

00:02:40.820 And though they always denied it, the intent of the registry was to identify every firearm in Canada with the intention of illegalizing and seizing them in the future.

00:02:48.480 They can't take them if they don't know who has them, however.

00:02:51.400 The enough bureaucracy of the federal government ultimately led to the demise of the registry.

00:02:55.880 And while the Liberals pushed the registry, they claimed it would be simple to administer and the costs would be in the millions.

00:03:01.740 Well, after more than that decade of effort, an estimated 60% or so of fire is re-registered,

00:03:06.260 and the cost to the registry had ballooned to over $2 billion.

00:03:09.740 The registry was rife with errors, and the accuracy of the records couldn't be trusted.

00:03:13.600 It was pretty easy for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make the case when he put the long gun registry out of its misery, out of our misery, in 2012.

00:03:22.720 Unfortunately, remnants of the registry remained as RCMP officers took advantage of the disastrous floods in Alberta in 2013

00:03:28.680 to search and seize firearms from homes abandoned due to a mandatory evacuation order.

00:03:34.400 Or we're to be believing that officers had six cents telling them which homes had the firearms in them.

00:03:39.100 Now, the Liberals have since, of course, returned to power, and they're as determined as ever to steal the property of law-abiding firearm owners.

00:03:45.640 They've also learned from their failed registry efforts, so they've adopted now a new tactic of incremental gun bans,

00:03:52.240 with the timing based on releasing the bans shortly after mass shootings.

00:03:55.980 It's disgusting.

00:03:57.220 After the horrific mass shooting in Nova Scotia in 2020, the Liberal government used an order in council to ban 1,500 types of firearms.

00:04:03.240 They determined to be assault-style weapons.

00:04:06.120 Their definition of what was an assault style was completely arbitrary, but they didn't care.

00:04:10.540 The intent was to legalize as many firearms as possible in one fell swoop.

00:04:14.540 Even some forms of pellet guns had been included, for crying out loud.

00:04:17.340 The Liberals then bided their time, waited for another mass shooting.

00:04:20.740 Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time before that happens,

00:04:22.840 and in New Evaldo, Texas, 21 people were slaughtered in a school by a psychopath.

00:04:27.200 And while the world was rightly aghast and mourning,

00:04:29.500 the Liberals took advantage of that mood and imposed a sudden ban on the transfer of all legally owned handguns and new sales.

00:04:34.820 never mind that handguns had no part in that disastrous, horrible shooting, and that legally

00:04:40.460 owned ones aren't a problem in Canada. The Liberal opportunists knew when best to strike.

00:04:45.280 Now, after a shooting in a gay nightclub in Colorado, the Liberals have taken advantage

00:04:49.640 of the incident to suddenly propose banning all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines.

00:04:55.020 Again, these kind of firearms have nothing to do with the recent crime, and they're not

00:04:59.000 problematic in Canada. Most of them are used for target shooting or hunting. Millions of firearms

00:05:03.440 are suddenly becoming illegal in Canada. Millions of Canadians who own them never committed, nor

00:05:08.240 do they plan, nor will they commit crimes with them. Many of these Canadians will become instant 0.99

00:05:13.740 criminals, however, if they don't comply with these latest rules. The government, though, I think

00:05:17.400 has bitten off more than it can chew this time. Firearm owners have had enough, and hundreds of

00:05:21.740 thousands, if not millions of them, are not going to be handing over their law guns to the government.

00:05:25.760 The government doesn't know where most of those firearms are, and owners won't be cooperating.

00:05:30.440 How many harmless people are going to find themselves, though,

00:05:32.480 charged with serious offenses because they possess firearms that were banned?

00:05:35.780 How much time is this going to take up in our justice system?

00:05:38.000 How much police time is going to be dedicated to tracking down

00:05:41.100 and trying to figure out where these millions of long guns are?

00:05:45.040 Our law enforcement and justice resources are being diverted

00:05:47.460 towards harassing law-abiding citizens,

00:05:49.820 while gang-lang shootings with smuggled firearms continue to rise.

00:05:54.200 It's an absurd obsession, and the Liberals will not give it up.

00:05:58.720 It's time to refuse to comply, guys.

00:06:01.340 Part of what killed the registry was our refusal to comply.

00:06:04.140 Refuse this time, too.

00:06:05.480 We can't let them get away with it.

00:06:07.360 That's what's got me wound up today, guys.

00:06:09.440 The latest and greatest of the liberals.

00:06:11.520 Okay, let's check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:06:17.360 and see what's happening elsewhere out there in Alberta.

00:06:20.880 So we'll pop him into the theater.

00:06:22.980 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:06:25.460 Dave.

00:06:25.940 Dave.

00:06:27.320 Mr. Naylor.

00:06:28.520 Oh, hang on, hang on.

00:06:31.240 What are you doing to me, Corey?

00:06:34.620 We're just five minutes into the big game, Canada's first World Cup match in 36 years.

00:06:40.580 They're on a break, and you're calling me in for a news break?

00:06:46.140 Come on, man.

00:06:48.740 I'm not sure if the viewers can hear you, Dave.

00:06:51.540 I'm afraid I can't.

00:06:55.940 working on things we'll get it going though if uh others can hear you maybe keep talking about

00:07:00.500 news updates dave can you hear me now i gotcha oh sorry corey i was busy watching something much

00:07:07.780 more important than you the uh first canadian uh soccer match at the world cup and in 36 years and

00:07:15.220 uh so far canada is holding their own against the uh number two ranked uh belgium so we'll

00:07:20.900 We'll make it short and sweet so we can all get back to the game here.

00:07:24.640 We're going to get our news copy up.

00:07:26.240 When you're doing nothing but watching the footy, as you odd over the pond, folks call it.

00:07:31.300 It's called multitasking, Corey, multitasking.

00:07:34.780 So we've got the Calgary police are seeking a serial sex attacker.

00:07:39.740 Four women have been assaulted in the northwest part of the city near the Dalhousie LRT in the last little while.

00:07:46.160 And police are putting out an alert.

00:07:49.220 We've got the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms proposing some amendments to the controversial Bill C-11 that the feds are trying to put through.

00:08:00.880 Our Lee Harding has talked to former Mounties about Bill Blair's testimony at the trucker inquiry, basically saying he's not to be believed.

00:08:11.760 Some tense moments in Lower Mainland yesterday, Corey, where some armed robbers got into a shootout with RCMP.

00:08:20.020 So our Reid Small out in Vancouver has got the latest on that.

00:08:23.860 And a couple of financial stories.

00:08:26.440 You have to feel sorry for Elon Musk a little bit.

00:08:29.220 He's lost $100 billion in the last week or so, mainly on Tesla shares.

00:08:35.980 But even though he's lost $100 billion, he's still the world's richest man by quite a bit.

00:08:42.240 And some lucky man in Calgary is $70 million richer after winning the Lotto Max.

00:08:49.260 And our story from Thomas has got all his plans on what he's going to do with the cash.

00:08:55.400 So that's what we've got at the moment, Corey.

00:08:56.920 Very good story I'm about to hit publish on as soon as there's a whistle.

00:09:00.980 about Canadian Justice Minister Lamedi musing about sending in tanks to break up the trucker's

00:09:10.620 inquiry. So just when you think you've heard it all out of the Feds, the Liberals managed to

00:09:16.880 outdo themselves by thinking of sending in the heavy artillery. Well, that's something else. I

00:09:23.700 didn't know our military still had any operable tanks, but it's insane. You know, you can't make

00:09:29.180 this stuff up you can't i guess they could have borrowed one from the museum of the regiments

00:09:34.060 here in calgary but uh yeah it's just ludicrous and uh already the internet memes are starting

00:09:39.900 you remember that that poor guy who stood up to the tanks in in china at tiananmen square uh you

00:09:45.980 know it's that sort of stuff and it's it really is just absurd and of course nobody will resign

00:09:52.220 nobody will lose their jobs over it well we'll see what comes out of yeah you know the inquiry's

00:09:58.780 coming and going but i'll let you get back to uh watching the the football and let's uh see how

00:10:03.500 canada fares in it anyways all right i'll make sure i send you a message when we win right on

00:10:08.780 thanks for the update dave okay that is our news editor dave naylor thankfully it got to the point

00:10:13.980 where i could hear him as well as you guys we're doing great here justin's hammering away over and

00:10:17.900 i tell you that control board and everything nico's got set up over there is is intimidating

00:10:21.900 and scary i'm sure i wouldn't even imagine get it turned on and so far we're doing great here

00:10:26.140 So that's awesome.

00:10:27.700 So this is the time I'd like to remind you too,

00:10:29.080 all those stories, things Dave's talking about

00:10:30.660 popping up there when he's not dealing

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00:11:17.920 have subscribed so far. So yeah, lots of stuff going in the news. Speaking of people who don't

00:11:21.260 need extra money, I guess, is Elon Musk. I mean, look at those numbers, 100 billion, you know,

00:11:26.380 as he's lost in his net value in the last little while. But at the same time, he still has billions

00:11:31.260 and billions more. I'm sure he'll be fine. The people rubbing their hands together, just eager

00:11:36.680 about Twitter going down the toilet. And you see, these are leftists who love Twitter. They love

00:11:43.700 controlling the messaging with Twitter. They loved censoring conservative thought on Twitter

00:11:47.880 until it was gone. 0.66

00:11:49.100 Then suddenly we'd rather burn this thing to the ground. 0.99

00:11:51.680 We'd rather dynamite it. 0.97

00:11:52.560 We'd rather see it gone than see free speech.

00:11:55.300 I mean, Musk hasn't tweaked it like they had it tweaked

00:11:58.720 to try and make it more conservative, friendly.

00:12:02.920 All he did was made it balanced again.

00:12:05.180 He opened it up to free speech.

00:12:06.420 And I'll tell you what, it'd be purely anecdotal,

00:12:09.020 but I've got the images tracking my Twitter stats.

00:12:11.220 As people know, I'm a Twitter nut.

00:12:12.280 I love spending a lot of time on there.

00:12:13.840 And I was having trouble gaining more than maybe 40 or 50 followers

00:12:17.660 a week. In this last three, four weeks, I've gained about 3,000 followers. The engagement

00:12:23.080 has been incredible. Loads and loads of people following, engaging, lots of them fighting with

00:12:27.380 me. The message from previously throttled, verified Twitter accounts is now getting more broadly

00:12:33.420 spread out there. It's a better thing. And I don't think Twitter's going to die for it. It's

00:12:37.800 definitely, he's come in like with a wrecking ball to try and fix it. And he's shaking a lot

00:12:41.880 of things up. It's going to take a while to fix and some sponsors are dropping off. But really,

00:12:46.560 He's cut out a pile of fat. I mean, that company was clearly bloated with a lot of people that

00:12:52.040 never needed to be there in the first place. And the ones who were there now are going to be

00:12:55.560 working harder. I don't think Twitter's going anywhere, much to the disappointment of all of

00:12:59.740 them who were reading eulogies to it last weekend because of basically like a schoolyard rumor that

00:13:04.660 it was going to go down and collapse that weekend. It didn't, and it won't. And we'll see what's

00:13:10.260 going on with that. And okay, I see through the glass screen windows, I'm not sure what's going

00:13:15.520 on some sort of soccer things are going don't be watching that game till after this show this is

00:13:18.880 more important you can always uh check into it uh uh later on and get the highlights right so you

00:13:27.360 know one of the bigger shows last night was daniel smith premier in alberta i know this is a you know

00:13:31.600 people lots of people tuning in from across the country but it's interesting and important because

00:13:35.060 a lot of the stuff she's changing or looking to change are going to impact across this whole

00:13:40.080 country you can bet every premier is watching what smith's doing because they'll see if it

00:13:44.320 works for her or not. Like the Sovereignty Act, standing up to Ottawa, you can notice Saskatchewan,

00:13:48.140 Manitoba, BC, every province, Quebec, they're watching. What can we do to stand up to this

00:13:52.880 overbearing, self-interested federal government and see if it succeeds or it doesn't? The other

00:13:58.640 part was the healthcare spending accounts. Oh, Notley, just her head popped predictably. Oh,

00:14:04.180 lordy, lordy, oh, she's going to Americanize our healthcare. That's what she always goes for. 1.00

00:14:07.660 Look, this is, she's talking about a healthcare spending account, which is going to give 300 a

00:14:12.000 year to every Albertan. You can use for whatever you want to. You can save within it. You can put

00:14:18.200 more in. Yeah, that's one of the things she talked about before. You could, you know, they give you

00:14:21.180 300. You can put another 300 if you really actually want to save one in. You can use it to offset

00:14:24.720 a dental checkup cost. Or if you're diabetic, you're testing strips. Or, you know, hearing

00:14:31.300 aids. There's so many things our health system doesn't cover. And they don't like talking about

00:14:37.200 that. But our universal system is actually the shits. Guys, there's a lot of stuff that are very 0.99

00:14:41.460 much health, but they aren't covered. And we can't afford to just keep expanding it to cover

00:14:45.680 everything. The bloated current universal system is unsustainable. Every province in the whole

00:14:50.700 country has been pumping more and more and more money into our healthcare system. And guess what?

00:14:54.880 The results are going down. You have to change how you're doing it, not just putting more money in.

00:15:00.780 But Notley, her interest is the unions. And here's one of the beautiful areas of hypocrisy

00:15:05.540 on Notley's part. And you know, Jane is, my wife, you know, again, that ever patient woman who

00:15:10.780 somehow puts up with movies. She's also a fantastic researcher and likes digging into things. So she

00:15:14.580 went searching because I'm wondering about that. Provincial union employees in Alberta. And I had

00:15:19.140 some people on Twitter saying, that doesn't apply to me. And I'm a provincial employee. Okay, I don't

00:15:23.160 know. Maybe it's contract by contract. But they have a number of health savings accounts. They

00:15:27.740 call them different things. But these are tax funded. And then they say, oh, no, but I got to

00:15:32.240 pay into it too. Yeah, it's matched by the taxpayer. And one aspect of one aspect of those three

00:15:37.800 accounts that build up for them. Remember, none of us get those, none of them are the normal people.

00:15:41.260 But on top of that, they get 900 a year that they call a flex account. So three times as much as

00:15:46.200 what's going to go into the Albertan medical savings account. And they can use that on whatever

00:15:53.220 they please for medical things. That's not a problem. But Notley goes bananas when every other

00:15:57.920 Albertan, the commoners, might get that sort of account to save for other treatments, massage

00:16:02.740 therapy, physiotherapy, lots of those things that aren't covered. This is a problem all of a sudden.

00:16:06.860 It's not a problem when her union buddies are lapping up billions of dollars out of your taxpaying butts, but it's a problem when the commoners get it. 0.99

00:16:14.040 And it's really exposed, Notley, for what she is.

00:16:15.740 She really got ripped into, surprisingly, from global and CBC recorders, reporters, I should say, at a conference.

00:16:21.820 It didn't go very well for her at all.

00:16:23.700 So we'll see how that goes.

00:16:24.900 Notley's actually getting into some trouble here, I think.

00:16:27.140 Now, what people are going on about is some of the stuff Smith was musing about a year and a half ago on one of her podcasts.

00:16:33.620 And this is something Smith is going to have to address.

00:16:35.240 and she did a bit of that with that address last night. She kind of finished with that

00:16:38.620 and pointed out and said, look, you know, I've been a media member. I've done a lot of things

00:16:43.560 for a lot of years, and there's going to be a lot of things I've said out there. And there are

00:16:46.400 thousands and thousands of hours. And you know, the NDP and their little monkeys are squirreling 0.86

00:16:50.420 around and they're trying to find things they can take out of context or blow up about. But I mean,

00:16:54.380 when you're a person on a talk show, I mean, you know, like with this, when I've got a guest who's

00:16:57.640 late or I've screwed up, I babble on for quite a period of time sometimes just to fill the time.

00:17:02.300 I could say nearly anything and that years later could be pulled up and people could say, look what

00:17:07.900 he said then. Okay, fine. That's then. But Smith, Danielle has to draw the line and say that was

00:17:14.440 then. And we're not going to address that. We have to keep the focus on the policies now that are

00:17:20.280 going forward, you know, and that's kind of what she said in her address. She could say stuff that

00:17:24.880 I said while I was in my role as a media person is different than what I'm obligated to do in my

00:17:29.840 role as the premier because now she's responsible for the whole province. Now she has an entire

00:17:34.760 caucus to answer to. Now she has a cabinet and idea balloons that were put up during podcasts 0.97

00:17:41.300 and radio shows, columns even. I mean, they pulled up a column from 20, 30 years ago, I think, from

00:17:47.300 the Herald and started going on about that. She's going to say, I'm not even going to address them

00:17:51.000 anymore. It's over. We're talking about what's happening now and in the future. And, you know,

00:17:57.740 We need to have those discussions.

00:17:59.460 Kim Holmes talked about that.

00:18:00.760 I'm just going to sidetrack with one of the commenters.

00:18:02.400 I like to see people commenting, and I like to address those.

00:18:04.440 Talking about the Nurses Union in BC, all the nurses that were fired because they refused the jab,

00:18:08.740 and the union didn't back them up, and how the NDP in BC is deep into it.

00:18:12.600 Yeah, I mean, that's NDP.

00:18:13.880 NDP is union.

00:18:15.780 You know, a column I did a little while ago that drove them bananas when it went out,

00:18:20.260 the truth about the NDP or what they don't want to hear you talk about or something like that.

00:18:22.940 It was a few weeks ago.

00:18:24.440 Read their constitution.

00:18:26.220 Those guys are borderline Marxists.

00:18:27.880 They are centralized control.

00:18:30.140 They're all about, and it's right in their constitution,

00:18:31.900 the unions control those parties.

00:18:33.680 They have guaranteed spots on the party board.

00:18:36.380 And the provincial wings are answerable.

00:18:38.280 That really drives them nuts, but it's true.

00:18:40.400 Notley's boss is Jagmeet Singh.

00:18:43.000 EB and BC, Jagmeet Singh.

00:18:45.460 If they come, push comes to shove

00:18:47.220 between the NDP and the federal NDP,

00:18:50.200 the provincial one, it's all one party.

00:18:51.880 You can't buy membership in one and not the other.

00:18:53.340 It's all one party, centralized.

00:18:54.620 Again, Soviet style.

00:18:55.600 did they like? Well, then Jagmeet's the boss. He will overturn it or take away their provincial

00:19:00.280 status. So keep that in mind. Notley can talk and talk and talk, but it's reality. It's Jagmeet

00:19:04.540 who calls the shots. Likewise in BC. And they're very beholden to the unions. Notley does not want

00:19:11.220 to see benefits going out to common Albertans without having a union around them. That's what

00:19:16.780 the bottom line is. She doesn't care if you die on a waiting list. She doesn't really want to see 0.87

00:19:20.920 reforms or changes. She just wants to see more money poured in so you can hire more union members 0.82

00:19:25.460 will donate more money to her party and they can keep moving us towards their Marxist utopia 1.00

00:19:30.360 if there was such a thing. But that's what they want to keep trying for. You know, socialism. 0.98

00:19:35.160 Let's just keep trying it over and over. One of these times it's going to work.

00:19:38.600 Boy, there's sure a lot of hundreds of millions of people die in the effort though, don't they?

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00:20:38.080 for it i'm going to reach out and try and get him on to talk about this because they are really

00:20:41.640 making a big grab this time guys if you own firearms check them out canadian shooting sports

00:20:46.360 Association take out a membership. They've got a lawsuit going on right now that they've just

00:20:49.860 launched against the federal government or their handgun basically banning the way they're doing

00:20:56.460 it. All right, let's get on to author Derek Smith and have a chat about his latest book. Hey, Derek,

00:21:01.120 good to see you. Hi, Corey. Thanks for having me back on. Good to see you again. Yeah, and so for

00:21:05.100 people who weren't here at the very start of the show, I'll just kind of reiterate you put out that

00:21:08.280 book last, well, not last year, not that long ago, The Prime Minister Who Stole Freedom. It was like

00:21:13.380 a parody on the the whole uh convoy affair and things like that it was it was brilliant and the

00:21:18.660 uh the the the the graphics were fantastic illustration i guess i should use the proper

00:21:23.780 term for it of course it was nice poetic dr seuss sort of style and uh it did really well so now

00:21:28.780 you've done a new one and it's come out what a couple of weeks ago i believe one face two face

00:21:33.540 black face blue face yeah we uh we released the book last week and uh it's been doing really good

00:21:39.920 really positive response from people. A lot of people are saying they enjoy it more

00:21:43.740 than how the Prime Minister stole freedom, and we're really working hard

00:21:48.160 to kind of keep pushing out the political satire

00:21:52.100 as we move forward with our brand. I think that

00:21:56.080 no matter which party is in power or whoever's kind of working behind

00:22:00.140 the scenes, that we kind of focus on anybody being available to be in the

00:22:04.120 crosshairs so long as they're warranting that kind of

00:22:07.280 attention.

00:22:09.900 Yeah, well, and putting things

00:22:11.440 out, I should note, actually, our Goofy Newfie

00:22:13.340 there, I see Arthur Green noting what an awesome room

00:22:15.480 you're in, and I remember that from the last time you were on

00:22:17.480 the show. It's quite a background

00:22:19.500 you got going on there. You

00:22:21.380 draw a lot of envy from that, along with

00:22:23.320 your fine work in

00:22:24.840 political parodies, that's right.

00:22:27.180 Thank you. We actually built this room for my kids during

00:22:29.340 the lockdowns because they started to get

00:22:31.360 a real interest in

00:22:33.380 retro gaming, and

00:22:34.880 And, you know, I'm really into preserving the 80s and 90s lifestyle that I grew up in that

00:22:40.840 I kind of said to my wife, you know, if we can afford it, let's do it.

00:22:43.580 And, you know, I always joke that this is for the kids, but really it's for the whole

00:22:47.300 family.

00:22:47.660 And we have a blast down here.

00:22:49.560 It's it's I know it's the envy of a lot of a lot of families when they come over with

00:22:53.200 their kids.

00:22:53.620 But we've made a lot of friends, needless to say.

00:22:57.400 Well, I don't get you back to your book because you made a lot of friends there.

00:23:00.300 and I mean I like

00:23:02.620 you know I think we kind of talked about that last time

00:23:04.940 political communication I mean I write

00:23:06.740 big long drawn out columns and people

00:23:08.740 read them and it's great and there's lots of big thick

00:23:10.860 books but at other times you know there's a

00:23:12.780 role for all sorts of ways to communicate

00:23:14.660 and bringing people's

00:23:16.680 interest to it, bringing their interest to the issues

00:23:18.660 and this is a fun way to do

00:23:20.580 which is still serious messaging

00:23:22.660 it's a different way to communicate

00:23:24.360 satire is very important, parody is

00:23:26.740 important you know and even from

00:23:28.480 the old CBC air farce, or This Hour Has 22 Minutes, as much as I don't care for that network.

00:23:34.280 They held a role, and as do your books. You've got serious messaging packed within

00:23:38.300 a good humorous package. Well, we try to keep it simple. And what I find is that on the political

00:23:44.000 spectrum, when it comes to comedy, I think that you kind of only see comedy on one side of the

00:23:49.260 scale when it comes to publications these days. And that's why when we first did How the Prime

00:23:53.860 Minister Stole Freedom, our focus was, let's start bringing comedy to another angle and make

00:23:58.160 it simple enough that people who have forgotten to laugh over the last couple of years can look

00:24:02.460 at something that really was a big movement in Canada, not only in the country, but for the world

00:24:07.680 and kind of find some humor in it. And we'll poke fun at the gaffes that those who deserve it the

00:24:12.260 most and kind of take the gloves off, which is essentially what we've done in the second book.

00:24:16.860 We had a lot of people reach out to us when the first book went viral saying,

00:24:21.100 you know, can you do Jagmeet next? Can you do Chrystia Freeland? Can you do Omar?

00:24:25.740 And I kind of just said, instead of finding one person, why don't we just do them all? Let's put

00:24:29.040 them all in one book and kind of take the gloves off, so to speak. So that's kind of what we wanted

00:24:33.100 to do was focus the comedy on the one side of the scale that you normally don't see it on.

00:24:38.320 Yeah. I mean, there's, there's something to be said. I mean, you know, it's a balance. I mean,

00:24:41.160 hey, I think it's fine when, when, when there's comedy, poke and fun at conservatives too,

00:24:45.120 but you need both ends of the scale. And yeah, so the graphics of the transportation minister,

00:24:49.620 for example were great but he is kind of

00:24:51.560 a comical looking fellow to begin with

00:24:53.440 and that's okay we all have our moments you know

00:24:55.140 somebody could draw a cartoon and make fun of my

00:24:57.040 grey hair stuffing all over the place

00:24:59.660 or what not it's just

00:25:00.840 serious messaging but it's not

00:25:03.500 necessarily a cruel shot by any means

00:25:05.360 we're just having fun

00:25:06.600 I noticed there's a lot more text though

00:25:09.380 this book you went a little more in depth I think

00:25:11.560 than the first one you know where you went more

00:25:13.520 for the short hitting poetic and there's a little more

00:25:15.500 depth this time

00:25:16.200 it was well the first one again was uh almost like a like a parody of the grinch which is the

00:25:22.740 way we wrote it out um to kind of match the text and format of that book we wanted to keep the dr

00:25:28.440 seuss parody like nature to these books and when it came time to write our second book we followed

00:25:35.260 along on the one fish two fish books that came up from dr seuss but i've noticed a lot of dr seuss

00:25:41.220 books aside from a small handful they're mostly about rhyming and about you know they don't really

00:25:46.100 have a purpose of a story so when we wrote this book I kind of said you know we want to have some

00:25:50.860 of that text in there to really get across our point of the comedy what we want to convey the

00:25:55.340 jokes and the gaffes and and to really try and land them all into one small book and give everybody

00:26:01.500 the the justice they deserve in terms of uh being knocked uh for for the slip-ups they've had over

00:26:07.520 their time in office so it was definitely a challenge and it'll be a challenge going forward

00:26:11.800 with our future books.

00:26:13.200 We have another book coming out in February

00:26:14.900 in time for the one-year anniversary of the convoy.

00:26:18.300 And it's going to be called Hold the Line,

00:26:19.780 The Ballad of Tamara Leach.

00:26:21.500 And we've actually gained permission from Tamara

00:26:23.460 to use her name and likeness in the book.

00:26:25.240 And I'm really looking forward to bringing that one

00:26:27.020 to everybody in February.

00:26:28.600 And that's going to be a little more rich text as well.

00:26:30.940 Yes, you got ahead of me.

00:26:31.860 I wanted to talk about that with you moving on too.

00:26:34.260 I mean, there's been a person, you know, again,

00:26:37.400 I wouldn't say unsung.

00:26:38.340 And I think lots of people have been certainly giving Tamara credit, you know, do where it is.

00:26:43.560 I mean, she was never anybody, people who knew her before the convoy and that, I mean, she was politically active,

00:26:49.580 but she didn't expect or plan or want to be in the middle of all this.

00:26:53.440 But she took on the role and stuck with it and went with it kind of where it carried her.

00:26:57.780 And now she's been, well, she paid a terrible price.

00:26:59.760 She was in prison for a long time, repeatedly, and is still facing these charges.

00:27:06.120 So I think it's fantastic.

00:27:07.560 you're going to give it you know some coverage from a point of view again that doesn't have to

00:27:11.280 be a dry editorial but it's still an important book. Yeah I've been very fortunate over the last

00:27:17.720 few months with the success of the first book to not only make very good friends with Tamara but

00:27:23.560 also with people in the political business and political realm. I was recently in Ottawa a few

00:27:28.380 weeks ago for the Emergency Act Commission for support to Tamara to sit with her and kind of

00:27:34.740 just, you know, be there for support for what she's going through. The government's taken away

00:27:39.000 her voice and silenced her out of embarrassment for the way they've handled things. If you've

00:27:44.140 been following the POEC at all, you'll notice that they really haven't done much to present a case

00:27:50.060 for the emergencies act or for invoking the act. And it's really hard, not only for myself to sit

00:27:55.620 there as a citizen, but to look at somebody as Tamara and say, this is somebody who was locked

00:28:00.180 away in jail for longer than her charges would have kept her in jail for had she have been

00:28:04.900 convicted. She's not allowed on social media. She's not allowed to, you know, do anything

00:28:09.260 in terms of talking to people or socializing anywhere or accepting awards or she'll get 1.00

00:28:14.020 locked up again. It's tough. It's really tough to watch somebody go through that because

00:28:18.440 they say she's free, but it's like being in jail every single day. And hopefully justice is served

00:28:25.780 when all this is done.

00:28:26.600 I know her case is ongoing.

00:28:28.240 And as a friend,

00:28:29.400 I definitely stand by

00:28:30.240 and support everything

00:28:31.520 she's going through

00:28:32.380 and can honestly say

00:28:33.500 she's one of the nicest,

00:28:34.900 kindest people

00:28:35.520 I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

00:28:36.760 And I really can't understand

00:28:38.400 the prosecution

00:28:39.000 that's going ahead on her.

00:28:40.880 No, and I've had people email me too,

00:28:42.880 say, why haven't you had her on the show?

00:28:44.020 And not everybody follows things that closely.

00:28:45.400 Look, I would desperately love 0.97

00:28:47.280 to have Tamara on the show. 0.92

00:28:48.740 You know, I can't for her sake.

00:28:51.120 She cannot do that. 0.51

00:28:52.280 She will be thrown back

00:28:54.240 into the remand center. If she dares start talking on media, she can't do it. The moment she's free

00:29:00.820 to, I'm going to be sending emails and nagging her. Hey, get on there. We've got to talk. 0.79

00:29:04.720 And it's funny you say that because when I was in Ottawa, like her lawyers,

00:29:09.400 her, her, where she stays is a few blocks from where the commission is being held,

00:29:13.620 but there's actually a boundary in Ottawa where she is not allowed to go.

00:29:17.640 Everywhere she goes, her lawyers must walk with her. There was an incident. I know she mentioned

00:29:22.620 it during her testimony but while i was there there was an incident she was outside having a

00:29:26.300 cigarette on the sidewalk and there's people actively watching where she's sitting that

00:29:31.260 they've called the police and said oh she's outside without legal representation and the 0.97

00:29:35.100 police have come by and said if you were three inches more over this in this direction we would 1.00

00:29:39.500 have had to take you to jail and and her lawyers literally have to follow her around like like 1.00

00:29:44.380 they're attached to her and grafted to her and i look at that and go it's just unfair treatment

00:29:50.700 uh there there are some who didn't get charged i i've met a very large handful of convoy organizers

00:29:56.780 uh at my time in ottawa and again online and through this this uh experience with uh with our

00:30:03.900 books and and i've kind of always said at one point not that they should have been charged as

00:30:08.700 well but it's it's it's a one or all thing i think if you're going to charge one you need to charge

00:30:12.780 them all there were some who weren't charged there were some who now can put out books who can

00:30:17.020 can go online and have their podcasts and do whatever they want to do while others are silenced

00:30:22.980 and damned just to make, you know, an example out of them, which I just don't agree with at the end

00:30:26.780 of the day. Yeah. Well, and it was, whether people want to admit it or not, it was an organic 0.92

00:30:31.240 movement. It came out of nowhere. Nobody planned this six months in advance or, or really had a

00:30:35.600 solid structure or anything of that to us. And that's why there's a number of people who did

00:30:39.260 get charged. Some of them are more sympathetic people than others, I guess you could say in the,

00:30:43.960 the public sphere and i believe that's part of why tamara though they fear and loathe her so much

00:30:50.760 from the prosecution standpoint is because she's the most frightening because when you listen to

00:30:56.680 tamara when you talk to tamara like i have spoken to her before i just can't have her on the show

00:31:00.840 uh she's not crazy she's not a screaming extremist she's not looking to make trouble or hurt anybody

00:31:08.200 and people realize that the more they see of her the more they understand of her they

00:31:11.880 she isn't the monster. Whether you agree with what the convoy was or not, they realize that

00:31:17.360 this prosecution is absurd. It's way too much for somebody who's really not presenting a harm to

00:31:21.660 society. Absolutely. I fully agree. I've said from day one that I take the same stance as Pierre

00:31:26.820 Polyev did during the convoy, that I support legal protest. I support those who come legally

00:31:31.600 to voice their concerns legally. And those who commit illegal actions should be charged and

00:31:39.100 held to a high standard of those actions and when it comes to people like tamara i mean anybody who's

00:31:44.960 been a critic of her i simply say it's a shame you don't have time to sit down with her and have

00:31:49.820 a conversation because after five minutes you'd sit questioning yourself how can anybody do

00:31:54.820 anything i don't think she has a diabolical bone in her body no no and like i said i haven't spoken 0.95

00:31:59.520 to her on the phone since the convoy but i had a good conversation back when she was uh when she

00:32:03.040 was with the maverick and trying to organize that and you know again people say oh that's a party

00:32:07.120 that's out there okay fine but they weren't hurting anybody and she was genuine and rational so

00:32:11.480 you're getting back to that with your next book it'll give i guess another platform to just be

00:32:15.940 able to explain herself somebody who's been so so demonized and and uh you know since vitriol

00:32:20.560 has been directed at her uh just to help get her message out there well i really want to get her

00:32:25.880 message out but at the same time show canadians that she was speaking for all of us this wasn't

00:32:30.300 just her or a group of truck drivers this was her saying this is the voice canada needs and this is

00:32:35.960 the voice that Canada should have no matter what side of the spectrum you're on whether you vote

00:32:39.540 for the left the right the middle uh your rights at the end of the day are your rights and and she

00:32:44.480 would be fully supportive of anybody's rights to protest and uh that's that's kind of the point we

00:32:49.040 wanted to move on to with her story and I know as we go on to future books we're maybe going to try

00:32:53.580 to drift a little bit out of the political realm and kind of just stay in comedy and satire and

00:32:57.800 from time to time dip back in we don't want to put ourselves in a box but this was a story I felt

00:33:02.000 was really necessary and also that should be out in time for the one-year anniversary of the convoy.

00:33:07.160 Yeah, well, and so with your books, obviously, you're going to be doing more. They've been a

00:33:10.300 good success. It's kind of turning into a series. Let's get on to where can people get your books,

00:33:14.680 Derek? Currently, people can find them on Amazon, both digitally and physically.

00:33:19.360 We're still working with multiple publishers to try and find a way to get them into retail.

00:33:24.100 Unfortunately, because of their content, even though it isn't crude or obnoxious,

00:33:28.280 because it criticizes the government, a lot of retailers don't want to carry these books.

00:33:32.000 And I know there's a lot of people out there that really just don't want to support Amazon

00:33:35.300 for multiple reasons.

00:33:37.060 And I've said, you know, we're working, we'll keep people posted.

00:33:40.120 But as for right now, they can find them on Amazon.

00:33:42.540 And I believe they have it on sale for Black Friday.

00:33:45.040 So people want to save a few dollars.

00:33:46.660 Now's the time to grab a copy.

00:33:48.300 And that's good.

00:33:49.380 I mean, you know, it's a great time, though, where, I mean, the booksellers kind of all

00:33:52.920 contracted.

00:33:53.740 It has been happening for a long, long time.

00:33:55.580 I mean, even back in the 90s, when I'd buy lots of books, it was Kohl's or chapters.

00:34:00.780 there was really only a handful, only a small amount of independent booksellers and they had

00:34:04.400 a limited amount. And if you were an author and you couldn't get into those books, well, you're

00:34:08.460 out of luck. I mean, unless you're going to knock on doors and sell them, you couldn't do so. Look

00:34:12.280 at it today though. You're on Amazon. It can be found. Your book, despite those retailers,

00:34:17.540 can reach a wide number of people across the country or even outside of the country.

00:34:21.800 Have you had much actually for foreign sales now, come to think of it?

00:34:25.320 We've seen a ton in foreign sales off the first book, not so much this time. And I think a lot of

00:34:29.460 it is just as slow to the plate as to getting promotion out and things like that. But I think

00:34:35.600 the first book did very well in Australia. We had sales in the Netherlands, in Eastern Europe,

00:34:43.800 Japan, we seen some sales, a lot of United States sales as well. So we're kind of being bought up

00:34:49.840 all over the world and people are just enjoying the books. And at the end of the day, that was

00:34:54.220 the purpose of them was just for people to smile, have a laugh and be entertained at a low price.

00:34:58.540 And that's what we want to keep doing going forward.

00:35:01.320 Excellent.

00:35:01.760 So the easiest way to find the newest one, I imagine, is if you just go to Amazon and search for one face, two face, black face, blue face, it should bring you right to it, I imagine.

00:35:09.560 Correct.

00:35:10.040 Yeah, if you even search for How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom, I believe if people click on my author name, it'll take them to all of our books.

00:35:16.040 So they'll be able to find it, no problem.

00:35:18.120 And you're active on Twitter as well.

00:35:19.500 We might as well get that out there.

00:35:20.340 What's your Twitter handle if people want to get you there?

00:35:21.900 I am.

00:35:22.120 Because of the letter, the character Max on there, it's under Unaccept Fringe, and people can find us under there because Unacceptable Fringe is the name of our company that we make our books under, so people can find me at Unaccept Fringe.

00:35:35.880 They can also find me on YouTube at Unacceptable Fringe, where I occasionally post some videos and content when I'm not dealing with a family full of sick children with the flu, and I try to get my point out if people want to see me on the other side of books and kind of get my political grifts.

00:35:52.800 Excellent.

00:35:53.360 Well, I thank you for your work on the books

00:35:55.000 and for coming on to talk about it.

00:35:56.620 I really hope they continue to take off

00:35:59.060 and I'm looking forward to watching them

00:36:00.300 keep them coming out.

00:36:01.660 Thanks so much, Corey.

00:36:02.620 And thanks again for having me.

00:36:03.560 It was my pleasure to be here.

00:36:04.780 Right on.

00:36:05.300 We'll talk again, I'm sure, Derek.

00:36:07.740 All right, that was Derek Smith.

00:36:09.460 As you can see, he's got another book out

00:36:10.940 and more in the cooker and they're great.

00:36:12.880 And yes, and he's got that enviable room

00:36:14.840 in the background.

00:36:15.400 As you can hear, he's a family man.

00:36:17.260 And that's the importance.

00:36:18.060 I think he talked to me a bit about that

00:36:19.160 in the first place.

00:36:19.980 It's part of how that came about was,

00:36:21.400 you know, how can you do things from home, spend more time with your family? I mean, those kids,

00:36:25.420 they're only kids for so long. Mine are all grown up and yeah, what the heck happened? How did that

00:36:29.220 happen? Yeah, we get older quick. But yeah, check those things out because that's how we can support

00:36:33.840 them. Similar to what I was talking about. You know, I give a plug to this, like keep guys like

00:36:37.660 Derek and others out there making this content, just poking a little fun. It's interesting to

00:36:41.740 think that it was getting international, a little out there. Again, serious issues, but you can do

00:36:46.500 them with a tongue in cheek and make it a more palatable message. It doesn't mean the messaging

00:36:51.480 isn't serious or what you're saying isn't. It's just another way to get it out there.

00:36:58.560 Let's see. Some of the discussions there. Canada not being a sovereign nation. Well, Shannon,

00:37:06.000 you can email me and I can look into that a bit. At the bottom, yeah, some of those things,

00:37:11.280 whether it's something's technically a sovereign nation or not, it can be complicated, I guess.

00:37:16.500 But as for papers being signed and things, I don't know.

00:37:20.000 One of those things when it comes to it, you know, I mean, we'll talk a little bit about that in some sense.

00:37:24.060 Like I've worked in, you know, independent circles for quite a while.

00:37:27.200 I mean, I founded an independence party and I've written independence-minded things.

00:37:31.860 I encounter a lot of people who talk about Alberta never actually was part of Confederation or here's a loophole or here's a way out or whatnot.

00:37:38.960 I don't even want to debate so much whether or not, you know, this comma wasn't in the right spot or that paper wasn't correct or this isn't.

00:37:45.680 because it's one of the areas where perception is reality, as far as I'm concerned.

00:37:50.360 As far as, like speaking just for Alberta, say, as far as Albertans are concerned, 99% of Albertans

00:37:56.480 feel that Canada is a part of Confederation. They might not be happy about it. They might want out

00:38:00.900 of it, absolutely. But as far as they're concerned, whether it's technically true or not,

00:38:04.660 they think they're part of it. And de facto, that means they are. It means it's part of a nation.

00:38:09.820 If you're going to move out from the nation, the only way to do so is to have a majority

00:38:13.860 of people in that province say we want out and do so in something like a referendum.

00:38:19.240 But I mean, I've heard of, you know, again, a lot of things. We saw some of that too with

00:38:23.060 people have misconceptions about a lot of how the parliamentary system works.

00:38:28.620 Back when Rachel Notley was in power, for example, you know, there's no shortcuts. And there was

00:38:34.300 George Clark, an activist gentleman, we've agreed on some things and disagreed on a lot of others,

00:38:39.040 but he'd started a lot of petitioning and he'd gotten thousands and thousands of signatures

00:38:43.760 and held a fair amount of, you know, gatherings and rallies and things like that, where he was

00:38:48.720 under this misconception that you could force an election. You could force Rachel Notley out of

00:38:54.000 power, or you could force the issue so that it goes to it with a certain amount of signatures.

00:38:58.460 And it's just absolutely not true. It was, I guess, you know, maybe it was an awareness exercise,

00:39:03.460 but it really was kind of a waste of effort. You can't change the rules, guys. You can't make that

00:39:08.020 election come early, no matter what weird interpretation of the local constitution or

00:39:12.580 things you are, you cannot petition somebody out of power. Likewise, that weird memorandum of

00:39:16.740 understanding that was on Facebook that, you know, you keep hearing about people. It was treason.

00:39:21.800 They were trying to overthrow the government. Look at the MOU. Look at this memorandum of

00:39:24.620 understanding. Look at it. Yeah, have a look at it. It was dumb. And it wasn't realistic. And it

00:39:29.860 was only really actually put out by a handful of people on a social media group. It was no

00:39:34.240 realistic movement towards an insurrection. It never was. It was never going to amount to one.

00:39:39.600 And should it be called insurrection if somebody wants to make a misguided effort to go to the

00:39:44.040 governor general and say you should overthrow the government? The governor general is not

00:39:48.840 going to comply. It's not in the cards. But either way, we're in the system, we're within,

00:39:55.380 and it does make it difficult to change things. It makes it hard rules to play within.

00:40:00.800 Kim's saying, Alberta doesn't want to leave Canada. They want to leave Quebec and Ontario.

00:40:03.320 we want to stop eating under the thumb. You know, maybe, and part of what it is, I want out of the

00:40:07.540 system. The system's broken. The constitution's broken. The agreement is broken. It's not the

00:40:13.560 people. There's fantastic people in Quebec. There's fantastic people in Ontario. There's a lot of

00:40:17.640 arseholes out there too. It's fine. And the bottom line is let them do what they will in their 0.99

00:40:22.740 provinces. But we've got this system with one of the largest land masses on earth. You know,

00:40:27.300 we've got people who are vastly different from coast to coast. I mean, look at the people from

00:40:31.740 Newfoundland, there's no doubt that's a completely different culture out there. Great one. But it's

00:40:35.440 different. So yes, with Quebec, as with New Brunswick, as with BC, as with, of course,

00:40:41.320 Alberta and Saskatchewan. So how can you think that with all of those cultures, all those different

00:40:45.700 interests, all those different ideologies, and you can mash them all in under one centralized

00:40:50.100 government and have everybody be happy, squeeze them all in and force them to comply under a

00:40:55.420 government that was only elected by one region. Of course, we have unity issues. And that

00:41:01.040 it's that damn system. There's some of the irony. There's things I talk about all the time. You want 1.00

00:41:06.140 unity? Give power to the provinces. That's the way to get unity. I was listening to some of that

00:41:11.520 talk actually with Smith's Sovereignty Act, because she changed the name of it from the Sovereignty

00:41:15.400 Act to the Sovereignty Act within a Unified Canada. Because there's a lot of ding-dongs out 0.92

00:41:19.540 there saying, oh, she's borderline separatist. This Sovereignty Act is moving towards independence. 0.95

00:41:23.280 No, it's quite the opposite, actually. If some of that act is successful and does bring more to

00:41:30.560 powers into the provinces where they belong independence movements will actually reduce

00:41:37.120 but the government's going to fight it and that is what develops bigger independence movements is

00:41:42.000 when the federal government stops and hinders efforts to change things so if we could change

00:41:48.080 the system and i i always point to my favorite there's no perfect system but switzerland is

00:41:52.080 brilliant that way 26 cantons you know 26 little province is very independent if you look at their

00:41:57.520 constitution the federal government has very limited authority i mean they have authority

00:42:01.600 on some very big things you know the military mail you know uh currency things that you need

00:42:07.440 a federal authority to deal with but other than that everything else goes down to those localized

00:42:11.280 governments and there's four official languages there like this country is tiny in size four

00:42:16.640 official languages all that devolution of power now if you're going to believe the laurentian

00:42:20.560 elitists in central canada who think that the way to keep unity is to soviet style moscow central

00:42:27.360 force the provinces to comply with your federal mandates. Well, Switzerland should have shattered

00:42:33.100 into 26 pieces about 150 years ago. Instead, you don't hear of secession movements there.

00:42:39.160 In fact, it's one of the most unified, happy countries on earth, and not to mention prosperous,

00:42:44.080 and they're landlocked. You know, that's one of the big things people are always going on about

00:42:49.740 with Saskatchewan, Alberta. You're landlocked, you could never get by. Why not? Lots of countries

00:42:55.380 landlocked. Doesn't matter. Either way, it's the system. It's the system. Stick to that. This is

00:43:01.240 what we got to fight against is the system, the contract, the agreement. Don't fight against the

00:43:06.580 people. We all know people in different regions who we love or care for or respect or whatnot.

00:43:12.060 And it's going to be a losing battle if you go after the people all the time anyways. Don't

00:43:15.840 worry about the people. Worry about the system because that's what's screwing us. And yeah,

00:43:20.400 there's a small number of people using that system to get us. But if you want to change it,

00:43:27.860 go after the system. Don't worry about getting ticked off at the people. I mean, you can get

00:43:30.700 ticked off at them. I do it all the time. Watch me on Twitter. I rip into them daily. But I'm

00:43:34.080 talking about moving towards productive change, making activists' efforts, political efforts,

00:43:38.540 any of those things. You've got to watch that system. And look at the system. It's crazy.

00:43:43.940 We got, like Dave mentioned, so they were musing about tanks, tanks, going after the Freedom

00:43:49.380 company. Look, there were some things they did that were annoying. They blocked up roads. They

00:43:53.540 choked things up. They honked their horns. I guess if you lived in an apartment and you really had

00:43:57.480 those horns blaring for a week, that would be pretty frigging annoying. But does it warrant

00:44:01.740 tanks? I mean, they didn't send tanks, but for these nutcases in the liberal offices,

00:44:06.600 this shows how high a horse they're on, how elitist they are to even muse about,

00:44:12.640 to even for a second think we should send tanks

00:44:15.860 after Canadian citizens.

00:44:18.960 It's appalling.

00:44:20.900 And these are the power brokers we have in charge of us.

00:44:23.220 Of course, no wonder they didn't have a problem

00:44:25.240 invoking the Emergencies Act,

00:44:26.920 which suspends our fundamental freedoms.

00:44:31.000 And the tanks, I mean, where does it go?

00:44:35.080 The communications from these nutcases.

00:44:37.380 And this is, you know, getting into some of these other stories.

00:44:39.140 There was a blacklist here.

00:44:40.640 This is of 201 trucking companies that participate in the Freedom Convoy.

00:44:45.920 Now, I don't even know what degree they're talking about participating.

00:44:48.900 I mean, giving a few of their truckers leave because they said, hey, I want to go to Ottawa to protest for a couple of weeks.

00:44:54.540 I don't know.

00:44:55.500 But they got a blacklist, 201 companies working in Canada.

00:45:00.120 And staff included a blacklist, 45 firms that received the Canada emergency wage subsidy.

00:45:05.680 And basically, they were threatening those companies, basically saying we're going to freeze your corporate accounts.

00:45:10.600 So the insurance is going to be suspended.

00:45:12.640 And send your semi-trailers home.

00:45:14.240 This is the communications from Chrystia Freeland.

00:45:16.980 Yeah.

00:45:18.000 These companies, these hardworking companies that were losing revenue because of mandates

00:45:21.700 because they couldn't get their drivers back and forth across the border.

00:45:24.920 These are the threats.

00:45:25.760 This is what our government was doing to them.

00:45:27.860 Meanwhile, they're going after them because they took the emergency wage subsidy.

00:45:31.940 We had thousands of companies taking tens of millions of dollars of the wage subsidy.

00:45:36.840 It turns out they were already declared insolvent.

00:45:39.380 this government pissed away billions of our dollars just throwing money willy-nilly out for

00:45:44.320 their lockdowns but boy they sure get efficient in cracking down on companies that may or may not

00:45:50.000 have been supporting the convoy this is a authoritarian government that really really

00:45:57.780 has no concept of respect for the rights of the citizens the companies the individuals and we're

00:46:02.600 seeing that coming out I mean I talk about these emergencies act hearings as being something of a

00:46:07.080 waste of time because what's the worst that's going to happen? Maybe we'll come out at the end

00:46:10.520 and say, you didn't, you shouldn't have imposed it. You didn't need to. Naughty, naughty. Don't do it

00:46:15.460 again, please. Okay. Or he might just say, ah, it was fine. You did the right thing. But either way

00:46:21.400 we look at it, nothing's coming out of it that way. But we are seeing at least some of this

00:46:24.680 information getting exposed to citizens and realizing just what kind of lunatics we have

00:46:28.880 running the show in Canada and how little respect they have for you and your rights.

00:46:33.560 So we're getting that out of these hearings.

00:46:35.360 So keep paying attention to them.

00:46:36.580 You know, Prime Minister Ding Dong there is going to be taking the stand himself in a couple of days here.

00:46:41.960 I'm sure that's going to be agonizing to listen to.

00:46:44.720 Maybe, though, maybe something will slip out.

00:46:47.380 I mean, when he goes off script, we know he can't think on his feet.

00:46:51.140 And he's, I'm sure, getting carefully drilled and grilled and scripted right now, telling him what you should say and what you shouldn't.

00:46:58.400 So what I expect is going to be a lot like Parliament.

00:46:59.980 He's going to treat it like Parliament.

00:47:01.200 and he'll just babble out a canned answer to every question over and over again.

00:47:05.080 And if they try to ask him to expand on it, he'll just repeat his canned answer

00:47:08.480 and it will frustrate the people asking, but it will lead to nothing.

00:47:12.240 And, uh, yeah, I mean, and here's some of the stuff too.

00:47:15.240 This one's getting a little strange and I do want to be a little careful with this one.

00:47:18.900 So there's that claim and that the lawyer who got thrown out of the, uh,

00:47:21.760 the emergency side hearings the other day, uh, because he'd been saying he's got evidence that,

00:47:27.180 you know, those Nazi and Confederate flags that were the handful that showed up

00:47:31.140 very briefly and strangely during the convoy protests, were actually being held by a liberal

00:47:37.580 operative. And it sounds like he might be getting sued over it. We'll see what happens. Be careful.

00:47:44.940 If you're going to accuse somebody of it, you better be pretty confident that was the guy doing

00:47:48.100 it. I don't know if it's that guy or not. And I guess the courts will sort that sort of thing out.

00:47:52.360 But it did stink to high heaven when those flags came out. I mean, come on, come on. We saw one

00:47:58.080 flag that went among the crowd of a guy who was

00:48:00.040 fully masked. Fully masked.

00:48:02.760 And what did the crowd do? They chased

00:48:04.040 him out of there. They kicked him out. Let's get the hell out of here.

00:48:06.140 You don't represent us. We don't want that flag here. 1.00

00:48:08.020 It's got nothing to do with us. That's one flag.

00:48:10.320 Another one that was on the back of a pickup truck

00:48:12.020 that pulled through. Okay.

00:48:14.500 And then this swastika 0.61

00:48:16.160 one. But that one didn't even go 0.96

00:48:18.240 into the protests.

00:48:20.080 It wasn't a part of the protests. There were just these strange

00:48:22.140 pictures that showed up of these guys walking

00:48:24.100 along the side carrying this thing and going up some

00:48:26.020 steps. Nobody else saw it. It never

00:48:28.020 actually went there. That reeks. That really reeks. Whether or not it was actually this person who did

00:48:33.400 that though, okay, I'm not going to make that acquisition. You got to really know what you

00:48:36.600 talk about before you accuse somebody of something like that. We'll see. But it's interesting. And

00:48:43.080 Denise is saying who the convoy lawyer knows and who it is and can prove it. Perhaps. And if he can

00:48:47.320 prove it, then I'm looking forward to it. I'm just being careful because I don't know. And

00:48:51.920 you know, I just won't dip in there. But I don't put anything beyond some of these people trying

00:48:56.860 to undercut and sabotage. I mean, like I said, when we've got a federal cabinet minister,

00:49:01.780 you know, it was just musing still, even for a second musing about sending tanks against Canadian

00:49:07.120 citizens at a protest. I don't put anything beyond these guys. It's crazy. And it's unfortunately

00:49:13.180 real. So it's a wild world. It gives me lots of stuff to rant about. Lots of subject matter,

00:49:21.320 of course, all the time. Let's bring things back down to earth for a moment and get to our check

00:49:28.900 in with Jim Busicombe of Marketplace Commodities. And let's speak to a few more domestic issues

00:49:35.720 before I start getting that vein pulsing too much in my head there. Hey, Jim, how you doing?

00:49:39.480 Good, good. How are you doing, Corey?

00:49:41.140 Very good. Very good. You know, like I said, I'm always sounding worked up and wound up,

00:49:44.240 but it's actually as my normal state, you know, so.

00:49:47.080 You'd make a good grain trader. That seems to be our life as well.

00:49:51.160 Yeah, well, I think of those old days of trade, you know, on the marketplace floor,

00:49:54.380 so the guy's screaming and shouting out there and everything.

00:49:56.520 I might have done well with that, but who knows.

00:49:58.360 Yeah, we still do that.

00:49:59.800 We just aren't in a big room all together doing that.

00:50:02.220 No, no, screaming in the office.

00:50:04.640 Great.

00:50:05.600 So, you know, something you'd know today, I mean, speaking of, you know, agricultural commodities

00:50:11.100 and some of the outside factors that can impact them domestically.

00:50:14.860 I mean, this is kind of, you guys watch it all very closely.

00:50:16.680 Not everybody else can watch everything that tightly.

00:50:18.260 but with Brazil of all places, you know, you see things happening outside. Truckers had shut down

00:50:23.780 roadways and suspended the export of agricultural products for a little while. We don't hear anything

00:50:29.540 about that in the mainstream media, but this is the sort of thing that still impacts our domestic

00:50:33.820 commodities, right? You know, it does. Yeah. So speaking about Brazil, that is a big deal. It's

00:50:41.140 the second largest exporter in the world, only second to the United States. And their main

00:50:46.500 commodities that they grow are corn and soybeans. So yes, that does affect their shipping out of

00:50:55.260 those countries right now. It is a latter part of their crop here. So it's not as impactful as if

00:51:01.400 perhaps it was in April, May, like when they're taking off their main soybean harvest, actually

00:51:06.880 earlier Feb, March, April. But still, you know, the customers have to go to other places to buy

00:51:12.420 those commodities. So they got to come into Canada, they got to come into the United States,

00:51:16.240 Russia, Ukraine. So these geopolitical events that are happening in many places in the world

00:51:22.380 and Brazil being one of them that we're not hearing much about today are certainly impactful

00:51:27.540 right down to Western Canada where farmers are producing their grains.

00:51:33.040 Well, and then corn, you were mentioning in a prior show, I mean, we're actually importing

00:51:37.880 a fair amount of that into Canada so that if the prices that go up that impacts local producers

00:51:42.860 and then they might start looking more uh at uh domestic other grains or things like that like

00:51:48.560 how fast or how far down the chain does this sort of international uh fair impact local commodity

00:51:54.540 trade it does take some time before it impacts us right here in in in Alberta but yeah we are

00:52:02.860 starting to see corn imports from the united states pick up into the lethbridge area so into

00:52:09.420 the livestock feeding area which we refer to as feedlot alley and if they're unable to you know

00:52:15.820 well they'll still be able to get it but if the price on it increases because united states can

00:52:20.620 export to other areas as well of course uh some of the buyers may go back to use more of our

00:52:27.420 our domestic grain so on feed grains that tends to be barley and wheat and we do have it here in

00:52:34.380 western Canada so it's it's a bit of a logistics problem which we've talked about on prior shows

00:52:39.660 as well on getting it from the farm gate to the end user in a timely basis so you know all these

00:52:47.640 kind of things have have impact for sure yeah I mean as you said the truth they don't happen

00:52:52.560 overnight but if you're planning it you know farming is an increasingly complicated business

00:52:57.100 and producing so when you're figuring out what you want to produce or when you want to market it

00:53:01.900 uh you kind of have to try and watch in 100 directions all at once to know your best

00:53:06.140 timing with things yes yes for sure so um you know that's actually something interesting too

00:53:14.060 we tend to get a lot of questions and we spend a lot of time discussing markets

00:53:19.420 with everybody involved in our industry um i was talking about with my traders this morning

00:53:24.780 and actually you know markets are trending roughly about 25 percent of time and 75 percent of time

00:53:31.680 they just trade in a what we'd call like a more of a narrow range there's a lot of chatter that

00:53:36.540 goes on there's the ranges can still be quite substantial but that's the time period that

00:53:43.120 we're actually moving into right now between U.S. Thanksgiving which is tomorrow and Christmas the

00:53:47.960 market tends to yeah there seems to be you know the noise and chatter dies down a little bit over

00:53:54.160 the next month and uh a bit of a tighter range on prices as well so i mean in a sense though that's

00:54:00.700 it's part of the services you guys offer is i mean you're watching all the chatter and and uh reading

00:54:06.400 you know the trends are trying to and interpreting that yeah that's correct i mean we we spend a lot

00:54:13.300 of time watching that we spend a lot of time discussing that trying to make sense of it back

00:54:17.320 to both uh the farmers that we buy from and the customers that we sell to both far and wide they

00:54:23.800 they they hear a lot of what's going on and they don't really know what or how that's going to

00:54:29.560 impact their operations and yes that's our job to try make some sense out of that for them

00:54:35.880 well great well has there anything more you want to touch upon before i let you go today jim

00:54:40.840 uh no i think that's good cory i'm happy to again we've got a full team of traders here that

00:54:48.440 are always doing marketing

00:54:53.260 for both farmers and end users.

00:54:56.780 And we'd be happy to help

00:54:58.680 with anything that needs to be done.

00:55:01.200 Great.

00:55:01.920 Well, thanks again, Jim.

00:55:03.220 And we will talk to you again next week.

00:55:05.640 And that's Jim Fusicum

00:55:07.280 at marketplacecommodities.com

00:55:09.460 if you guys are looking for more information

00:55:11.180 and some help on figuring out

00:55:13.120 how to run that big, crazy, complicated agribusiness.

00:55:16.480 Thanks a lot, Corey.

00:55:17.300 Thanks. I'll talk to you next week.

00:55:19.120 All right. So check those guys out, guys. I mean, again, our, you know,

00:55:24.520 ag production is a massive part of our economy in Canada.

00:55:27.780 I know a lot of our listeners and viewers are in the ag business and it's,

00:55:32.560 you know, the days of a small, you know, subsistence farm are long gone.

00:55:37.760 It's big business. These are big commodities.

00:55:39.720 And of course you want to maximize what you're producing,

00:55:43.600 whether, you know,

00:55:44.420 choosing what you're going to produce or when you're going to sell it and

00:55:46.740 things like that. And that's where they can help out with that. So you can focus on the things on

00:55:50.540 the ground, which are important to you with that. And, uh, it's to see the merchandise, uh,

00:55:55.500 agricultural commodities sourced and delivered throughout Canada, the U S Southeast Asia,

00:55:59.040 check them out. All right, guys, let's see what else I can ramble about as we wrap things up

00:56:04.720 today. An interesting one coming out of Alberta, if we're going to talk actually, you know, I was

00:56:08.460 on a bit of a rant on regional things, but Tyler Shandro is, is, is our justice minister in Alberta

00:56:12.680 right now for people outside of the province. And he put a statement out saying that Brenda

00:56:17.340 Lukey risked the integrity of the investigation in the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia

00:56:21.460 and is demanding she be pulled out of office. Now, that issue really has not made enough

00:56:29.060 ground. It hasn't caught enough interest. You had a politicized head of the top police force

00:56:38.700 in the country, poking around in a hot, active investigation on the biggest mass shooting in

00:56:44.360 Canadian history while it was going on. There should be a number of people losing their jobs

00:56:49.020 over this. And again, the media has been pretty quiet about it. I mean, they reported on it,

00:56:52.240 but now, well, that was yesterday's news. No, it shouldn't be. So I'm glad to see Shandra bringing

00:56:56.200 that up again and getting back to some of the discussions, you know, speaking of, again,

00:57:02.180 the parasitic nature of socialists, you know, they're entrenched in Alberta and they really

00:57:05.860 are organizing hard to fight and fight and fight and get nutley back in this spring and some of

00:57:10.820 the stuff they're doing what they've been doing for one is and i'll give them credit for smart

00:57:15.460 political organizing they're getting out there and getting as many people that they can refer to as

00:57:19.380 leaders to come up and come up against policies from premier smith and the ucp so they got all

00:57:26.740 the municipalities to stand up and say we don't want a provincial police force we don't want it

00:57:32.980 it. We never asked for it. We don't want it. You know, I mean, you got hundreds and hundreds of

00:57:35.820 these kooks. I tell you, you want some of the craziest, goofiest, dumbest politicians, aside 1.00

00:57:39.880 from the prime minister that are out there that it's surprising it's in municipal. People don't 1.00

00:57:44.620 pay attention to those elections. So the goofballs often find their way to the top. And we do it in 1.00

00:57:48.560 a scale as large as Calgary, or we got a mayor who's on a $87 billion climate plan to your local

00:57:55.600 reeve. And I bet most people can't name who their local reeve is. But either way, the NDP round them

00:58:00.740 up and say, we don't want provincial police. I'll tell you what citizens do. And you know,

00:58:05.380 one of the other things people say, it's going to cost more to get provincial police. So what?

00:58:08.180 It's worth it. When they're coming to steal our guns and they're coming to steal them. And that's

00:58:11.840 the word I'm going to use is they use buyback programs. No, if you didn't give permission to

00:58:16.040 sell it, it doesn't matter how much they pay you for it. It's theft. And they want to steal your

00:58:20.640 property. They want to take it. And that's been one of the areas of contention even before Smith

00:58:24.260 came in was basically the province of Alberta saying, we aren't going to cooperate with this.

00:58:28.560 Ottawa, if you want to come steal the property of our citizens, you're going to have to come in

00:58:31.900 and do it yourselves. Now, the arm that the government has to do that is the RCMP. And as

00:58:36.780 we can see, the leadership of the RCMP is broken. It's corrupted. It's politicized. That's Brenda

00:58:42.860 Luckey. She should be gone. Now, get the reach of the RCMP out of our province. Bring in a provincial

00:58:50.580 force. Get rid of them. It's not saying every RCMP officer is bad. There's a lot of fantastic RCMP 0.91

00:58:55.260 officers. In fact, I'm sure a lot of them would love to work in a comparable force within the

00:59:00.700 province. And hey, they could. If we build a new force, they can work for them and still work within

00:59:05.040 the communities they have. But the RCMP as a force, no, it's hopelessly politicized. It's run

00:59:10.760 by somebody like Lucky. Get her the hell out of there. We don't need her. We don't want her. I 1.00

00:59:15.320 don't care if it costs a few more bucks for it. And every other province should be saying the same

00:59:18.220 thing. And that's the other thing. Quebec has their own provincial police. Ontario does. Newfoundland

00:59:22.680 does. Why is it always that? Why are Albertans always the assholes when we're asking for stuff

00:59:25.960 that other provinces have been doing for decades? That's always the case. Likewise with the pension 1.00

00:59:29.840 plan and likewise with the sovereignty act. I mean, that's where the NDP went and rounded up a

00:59:34.500 bunch of first nation leaders and got them all to come up a conference and we don't agree with that

00:59:38.420 sovereignty act. You haven't even read it yet. It hasn't been drafted yet, jerk offs. So how could

00:59:44.380 you oppose it? You don't even know what's in it, but you had some good conversations with people

00:59:48.640 who got you to line up and do your part.

00:59:51.480 Thanks, guys.

00:59:52.540 It doesn't matter. 0.85

00:59:53.800 A First Nation citizen has as many votes

00:59:55.520 as every other citizen in Alberta.

00:59:56.900 And that's great.

00:59:57.320 That's the amount of votes they should have.

00:59:58.500 One per person.

00:59:59.300 Don't like it?

01:00:00.180 Vote differently in spring.

01:00:01.920 All right.

01:00:02.620 It's getting near time to wrap things up, guys.

01:00:05.800 So next week, like I said,

01:00:07.300 I'm going to try and get Tony Bernardo on as well.

01:00:09.100 You know, I'll be ranting and raving

01:00:10.160 about a lot of other things as we go.

01:00:12.620 I appreciate you all coming in,

01:00:14.500 joining today again this week, guys.

01:00:16.480 And again, we've had Justin on

01:00:18.260 And as our interim producer, he's done a fantastic job, as I said, in that big, crazy, complicated thing out there.

01:00:24.100 So we will see you all online throughout the week.

01:00:27.060 Keep reading my columns, eh?

01:00:28.440 And I'll see you again next week at the same time.

Western Standard - November 24, 2022

CORY MORGAN： Trudeau’s gun grab expands

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