Western Standard - August 20, 2021


Live: Derek Sloan's announcement in Cochrane


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In this episode, we have a special guest, former Yukon MP Rob Anders, join us to talk about some of the things he's frustrated with in our current political climate. We also talk about his own health issues and how he's dealing with them.

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00:14:21.000 hello everyone wow there's a good echo we're going to get started here in a few minutes
00:14:33.140 so we thank you guys all for your patience we're glad to see everyone and we'll get
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00:19:21.000 Hello everyone so we still have some people coming in so if there's some
00:19:30.480 spots beside you try and shove in as much as you can we do have some extra
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00:23:51.000 Alright, so if everyone wants to grab a seat and get ready, we're going to get this show on the road.
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00:25:51.000 all right everyone the time is here so just to let everyone know we've got a
00:26:02.500 few people that are gonna talk before Derek and one of the people has become
00:26:09.400 a good friend and it's an honor for me to introduce mr. Rob Anders former
00:26:18.420 Member of Parliament.
00:26:33.880 Hopefully I don't cause too much feedback here tonight.
00:26:37.640 Well, my guess is the reason you are here is the same reason that I'm here, which is
00:26:46.100 that you're frustrated.
00:26:48.420 right
00:26:55.780 let me talk about some of the things that frustrate me
00:27:00.580 we have pastors that are being jailed fined harassed
00:27:09.300 i know art and david polowski i consider them friends of mine and the idea that those guys
00:27:16.100 were dragged into jail okay that they are being dragged before the courts
00:27:22.340 continually it's a political witch hunt my friends then we have pastors Tim
00:27:29.120 Stevens in this province with $200,000 worth of fines weighing down upon him
00:27:39.640 imagine how stifling that is for just about anybody that we have pastor
00:27:45.100 Coates and the Grace Life Baptist Church that was barricaded, seized by the government for them to
00:27:54.760 have freedom of worship and assembly. That we've recently had 50 churches burned, vandalized,
00:28:04.960 and a lot of politicians, a lot of the mainstream need have been silent on this, right? And that's
00:28:12.740 why I want to give a shout out to my friends in rebel there's some of the
00:28:16.000 folks from rebel news here tonight
00:28:19.180 To Adam Seuss and Sheila Gunn-Reed and Ezra Levant and all the rest of the team for covering
00:28:48.420 the stories that the other people are choosing to ignore. God bless you.
00:29:00.920 My own congregation has been spied upon. We've had people sitting at the back
00:29:07.100 while my priest gives a sermon looking to see if they can lay down some sort of
00:29:12.980 violation and you know this all I said when I last met and introduced you know
00:29:19.980 Derek and Airdrie but it's gotten worse since then we have a member of
00:29:27.440 Parliament David Yordiga who was denied the ability to run for the Conservative
00:29:33.780 Party who was pressured for three days to say that he had to resign because he
00:29:38.940 dared question mandatory vaccinations I voted for Derek Sloan in this last
00:29:55.500 leadership race he was my first choice
00:29:59.420 in the leadership race before that my first choice was Pierre Lemieux and he
00:30:10.240 was also denied the ability to run as a conservative in this election and then
00:30:17.660 we also have a candidate who is going to run for us for the Yukon party I know
00:30:22.760 these people because I helped develop the campaign plan that put the Yukon
00:30:27.860 party into power in the Yukon when I helped Brad Cathers structure that
00:30:32.720 campaign strategy when he was a member of our National Council okay so all of
00:30:37.460 these people are my friends and it pains me when I see them treated the way they
00:30:41.000 are pains us all you bet it does you know this morning I watched a video sent
00:30:49.760 to me by a friend of mine about what was going on in France people were being
00:30:54.380 denied the ability to buy groceries because they didn't have a vaccine
00:31:00.680 passport contemplate that contemplate that right now I want to say in terms
00:31:10.160 of my own personal history I got COVID okay I had a fever that lasted for a
00:31:17.140 couple days I had a dehydration headache that lasted for eight days I normally
00:31:23.560 don't take anything but at the sixth day just to prevent myself from going stir
00:31:27.640 crazy I started doing acetaminophen to kind of ease some of the pain I then had
00:31:32.620 it moved to my lungs at one point it was so difficult for me climbing the stairs
00:31:37.540 that I had to stop and catch my breath just climbing the stairs okay I was in
00:31:43.720 bed for three weeks because of it but that all being said I know that myself
00:31:48.880 and Eric Lowther who's going to be speaking here as well we are both
00:31:52.980 subscribers to thank God that we had doctors who were able to get us
00:31:58.180 ivermectin they were willing to prescribe us ivermectin
00:32:06.480 the protocols in this province are such that if a doctor prescribes ivermectin
00:32:14.080 they can have their license pulled.
00:32:17.360 Pharmacists were threatening doctors with pulling their license and the ability to practice medicine.
00:32:23.040 That is wrong, right?
00:32:31.000 Some of this stuff I'm talking about, and I'll go on a little bit,
00:32:34.520 this is the stuff of Stalin and the KGB and the Soviet Union, right? 0.57
00:32:41.140 Let me talk about another big issue.
00:32:44.080 So the first one was mandates, okay?
00:32:47.560 The second one is firearms rights, all right?
00:32:50.980 Justin Trudeau wants to disallow, wants to ban, etc., outlaw 1,500 varieties of firearms, right?
00:33:00.240 I don't want to be dictated to from Ottawa with regard to that type of thing, all right?
00:33:05.920 Jason Kenney has been dragging his feet on us choosing our own chief firearms officer.
00:33:11.400 I would even prefer that that person is elected by firearms license holders in
00:33:15.960 the province of Alberta rather than chosen by the Premier or the Prime
00:33:19.680 Minister we have threats with authorization to transport that'll make
00:33:30.960 it difficult for people to take their guns either to ranges or even get them
00:33:34.520 repaired. This is ridiculous. And we think of High River. Has anybody been held to account
00:33:43.140 for all the doors that were kicked in, all the firearms that were seized, the list that
00:33:50.380 they must have had in order to do that, even though that list was outlawed? Right? These
00:33:57.380 are egregious violations of our rights. I want to move on to the third issue, which
00:34:02.280 is taxes specifically carbon taxes okay these taxes are in the process of being tripled
00:34:13.560 our pipelines are being blocked from alberta being able to get it to some of the ports that
00:34:18.600 we need to export this we've had a half trillion dollars added to our deck because of trudeau's
00:34:25.720 covid scenario and i don't care whether you call it a carbon tax or carbon pricing or a carbon
00:34:35.720 levy or whatever type of sneaky word you know maze you want to use on this you're hiking taxes
00:34:42.680 and no conservative should be in favor of increasing taxes
00:34:46.520 Now Derek Sloan, the man I voted for in this last conservative leadership race, he's a
00:35:01.520 leader.
00:35:02.520 He's braved seven fines going to religious services, going to rallies across this country,
00:35:11.520 standing up for freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
00:35:14.520 When a lot of other politicians cowered, they didn't come out, they didn't speak, they didn't say anything.
00:35:21.060 They were mum, silenced.
00:35:23.900 Okay, he's a firearms owner.
00:35:26.580 He's opposed the Paris Agreement.
00:35:36.080 He's called out climate alarmism, the thing that is strangling the lifeblood of the province of Alberta.
00:35:42.880 okay he's had the courage to talk about wuhan china being the source of this covid
00:35:53.920 when other people were calling him names and saying no no no that's not true and now
00:35:59.200 as more and more is that's true okay he actually had gatherings of doctors to talk about what
00:36:07.920 should be done in terms of the protocols etc and it was removed okay all this censorship etc
00:36:15.200 and so my friends for these various reasons because we don't believe in mandates
00:36:23.440 okay because we believe in firearms rights and because we want to kill the carbon tax
00:36:30.400 for all these reasons we're here tonight this my friends this is alberta
00:36:37.920 My friend, Eric Lowther, Member of Parliament for Calvary Centre, sir.
00:36:49.900 Way to go, Rob.
00:36:54.780 You know, I've known Rob for 20-plus years, and he talked just like that 20 years ago,
00:37:00.360 so he's never deviated from commitment to conservative themes.
00:37:05.980 and I'm especially glad to see all of you and especially glad to see you made it down to Cochrane Hill
00:37:10.540 and maybe half of the group's still up there I don't know that hill's a tough one
00:37:14.320 yeah my name's Eric Lauder I live in this riding and I did thank you and I I did serve I did serve
00:37:23.520 in Ottawa and I represented Calgary Centre at that time and I was part of the official
00:37:28.780 opposition of a foreign party and many of you probably helped during those years and
00:37:32.760 I've always voted conservative and I've always stayed tuned in with what was going on and I've
00:37:42.500 been a little bit frustrated here in our own riding that our current member of parliament has
00:37:48.080 never had a nomination race in about 14 years and four elections but anyway I was watching the
00:37:53.720 leadership race like many of you probably were and I didn't know Derek Sloan from anybody and
00:38:01.000 And yet, here was a fellow standing up, and every time he spoke, I thought, you know, that's resonating with me.
00:38:07.000 I like what he has to say.
00:38:08.180 He said, you know, this lockdown's gone too far.
00:38:10.880 We don't need to go this far.
00:38:12.560 He said, you know, maybe Theresa Tam isn't doing what Canada needs. 1.00
00:38:16.680 She's doing what WHO needs, and maybe she should go, right?
00:38:20.440 And I like it when he said, you know, when the oil patch in Alberta is booming, it's not bad for Canada.
00:38:30.160 it's good for canada so why are we putting roadblocks we should make it easier he said let's
00:38:34.720 get out of the paris accord and these global agreements that we sign on to you know we don't
00:38:39.600 need that we don't need that and you know in all of his talks and all the things he spoke to
00:38:46.960 he kept a one theme it's about canada first let's do what's good for canada and in addition to that
00:38:54.400 every time he spoke every time he spoke i picked up he used the word vision vision and you know we
00:39:03.480 need a positive vision for our country and i think he's got it in his in his heart and in his head
00:39:09.320 and why he's standing and doing what he's doing and why is vision so important well our founding
00:39:15.040 people who started this nation knew it was if you went to parliament today if you went to parliament
00:39:21.860 and you went up the peace tower,
00:39:23.360 which is the big tower in the middle of the parliament buildings,
00:39:27.960 whether you know it or not or whether you like it or not,
00:39:30.160 there's verses, scripture verses,
00:39:32.360 embedded all through the parliament.
00:39:34.920 We are.
00:39:35.800 It's part of our heritage, part of where we came from.
00:39:39.180 Right?
00:39:40.240 So on the peace tower, on the peace tower,
00:39:42.880 there is verses on each side of the peace tower.
00:39:45.900 And on the west side,
00:39:47.960 the side that's pointing to us right now,
00:39:50.980 there's a verse from Proverbs and it says without a vision the people perish
00:39:58.480 the people perish and you know Derek Sloan has given us a vision of a
00:40:05.620 Canada that can work a Canada that's founded on values and principles that
00:40:10.480 are going to make the nation stronger not weaker make our nation number one on
00:40:14.660 the planet we've got all the potential to do it he believes it and he's made me
00:40:18.640 believe it and that's why I've been supporting him and I hope every one of
00:40:22.420 you do tonight as well now the next speaker I want to introduce is somebody
00:40:26.620 who I've had a long time friendship with this gentleman served in Parliament your
00:40:32.360 Parliament for 15 years and as far as I was concerned he is a hero there he was
00:40:36.400 the chair of the Justice Committee he's got a heart as big as a house and he's
00:40:42.960 just as tough as a bear but he's a big teddy bear when you get to know him would
00:40:47.960 please welcome my good friend and former MP, Art Hanger. Good evening. A few of us
00:41:07.220 were reminiscing here just before the the event started, before the speakers
00:41:12.800 came up we were talking about the good old reform days and they were good that
00:41:21.440 was how politics is really done and as we organized and we ran in that first
00:41:33.620 campaign back in 1993, what happened? The Progressive Conservative Party was given
00:41:43.340 a gut punch and they went from a majority to two seats in the House. Two! They
00:41:50.480 couldn't believe their fortune. They were very very upset about it, let's put it
00:41:56.380 that way but that is what needs to happen again today I think I think it's
00:42:08.380 the Conservatives that have lost their way we know what Trudeau is all about
00:42:13.300 we know what the NDP is all about but it's the Conservatives that need another
00:42:19.480 gut-punch. They have lost their way and they need to be replaced.
00:42:36.240 The unfortunate part is that there's a lot of collusion going on in the East
00:42:43.540 amongst all these parties. It happened back in 1993. They would all get together
00:42:50.900 and they would try to trap, trick, cause all kinds of grief for the reformers,
00:42:58.160 and they're doing it again. They're doing it to Derek, they're dragging
00:43:05.100 their feet on this registration, and he will tell you more about that. But it is
00:43:11.340 is tragic to think that we have a bureaucracy and a media that have been
00:43:17.880 bought out, bought out so much so that we will never know the truth about so much
00:43:24.960 of it.
00:43:27.180 So here we are today, you have heard it said, victory is sweet, but I tell you, unless you
00:43:50.140 have endured a long and difficult struggle facing overwhelming odds trusting
00:43:59.240 in God's providence for strength after expending all of your own assets and
00:44:04.600 energy unless you have trod this path you really know very little about the
00:44:13.720 sweetness of victory. True victory leaves a lasting, deep, satisfaction that
00:44:25.560 rests quietly in your soul, content with the knowledge that you have persevered
00:44:32.260 to the end, having done all. And that is where we're at.
00:44:43.720 you're going to have to make every step count you're not going to allow your
00:44:50.860 opponent your opponent to distract you and they will and you have to keep your
00:44:57.760 eyes on the goal this man Sloan he understands this path he has felt the
00:45:11.480 sting of his colleagues indifference when the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
00:45:19.840 ostracized him, then unceremoniously booted him from the National Caucus, and then without
00:45:29.360 due process kicked him out of the party.
00:45:34.720 Shame on them.
00:45:41.480 so why did they do that why was it because his values frighten them was it
00:45:58.040 the truth that they feared? Did he not conform to their unspoken agenda? What? I
00:46:12.660 think it was all of them, all of the above. So what is there left to say? You
00:46:23.560 folks insist on coming out to hear what this man Sloan has to say you're not
00:46:32.620 going away is it that you want to walk is it that you want to walk this
00:46:44.320 political path with him is it is it that you share his values and want to take up
00:46:59.160 some of the burden he carries is it that you clearly see a threat against your
00:47:12.800 freedom and seek his leadership is this what your desire is then know this know
00:47:28.280 this not only will you share the load but you will commit to reaching out to
00:47:37.400 your friends your neighbors and others in the community and bring them into the
00:47:42.320 fight. There is a lot at stake here. Do not think, do not think that this campaign will be easy.
00:47:58.400 It will not be easy. Campaigns like this never are easy.
00:48:03.120 Always remember, it's not just about you, or your future, but it is also about your
00:48:16.200 children's future, and your grandchildren's future, and the future of your community.
00:48:30.360 Great Reset is about to take away that future and there's no turning back. Yes
00:48:41.160 this is only one constituency, it's only one, but victory begins by taking that
00:48:50.280 first step so I asked you Derek Sloan asked you to come and plant that flag of
00:49:03.040 yours tonight now the clock is ticking the incumbent MP out here Blake Richards
00:49:14.660 has to go. He has done enough damage. That's damage in itself. Nothing is damaged. Folks,
00:49:36.140 I would like you to welcome Mr. Derrick Sloan MP to this stage.
00:49:47.140 Derrick, where are you?
00:50:06.140 You
00:50:36.140 I don't think this stage is big enough, I like to move around up here, so forgive me
00:51:00.640 if I fall off okay listen I believe that Canadians are ready for change
00:51:12.540 and myself and my team have traveled to over 15 Alberta towns and cities in the
00:51:18.660 last couple of weeks and we're seeing clouds just like this in almost every
00:51:23.060 single one of them
00:51:30.640 So we are starting a movement that's going to spread across the country, but for the
00:51:37.560 next 33 and a half days we're going to take a brief hiatus right here in Banff Airdrie.
00:51:47.960 I was elected Conservative Member of Parliament in 2019.
00:51:53.520 I ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party with the slogan,
00:51:58.060 Conservative Without Apology.
00:52:06.820 I'm sick of Conservatives apologizing for their values.
00:52:16.440 It's OK if you apologize when you make a mistake,
00:52:19.940 but you should never apologize for your core values that you stand for.
00:52:31.040 This leadership race had, as far as we can tell,
00:52:33.760 the highest entry requirements of any leadership race in the entire world.
00:52:39.360 In terms of the money that was required to get in, in terms of the time frame,
00:52:43.340 it would have been cheaper to run for President of the United States
00:52:46.420 than to run for leader of the Conservative Party.
00:52:49.940 Nine people entered that race, four of them qualified, of which I was one, and our team
00:52:59.940 did very well.
00:53:00.940 And we enjoyed traveling to here and to many other provinces in Canada.
00:53:05.940 We loved it.
00:53:06.940 That's great.
00:53:07.940 Thank you so much.
00:53:09.940 And our message of positive, proactive, never backing down, whether it's controversial
00:53:18.940 controversial or non-controversial, struck a tone with Canadians who are sick of politically
00:53:24.180 correct leadership, they're sick of politicians telling them nothing when they speak.
00:53:35.780 And after that, the leadership race, things were not going well in Ottawa, and after four
00:53:45.180 or five months of attempting to play as a team member in ottawa i was unceremoniously kicked
00:53:52.300 out of the conservative party it was ostensibly for a hundred and thirty one dollar donation
00:54:00.700 that had been made apparently by somebody who's racist
00:54:05.740 it didn't matter that we've received 13 000 separate donations raised nearly 1.4 million
00:54:12.540 that the conservative party had accepted their cut of that $131
00:54:18.760 that they had processed it on their own website
00:54:22.360 that they had allowed this person to become a member
00:54:25.540 that this person had voted in the leadership race
00:54:28.700 that they had examined his license
00:54:31.080 that he donated under a name that was not known well
00:54:35.660 none of that mattered and I was kicked out
00:54:38.980 But it was not about a donation. It was about a leader who didn't want anybody vying for attention on his platform.
00:54:48.980 It was about a leader that didn't want anything stepping in his way of taking the Conservative Party from a Conservative Party
00:55:07.980 party to a liberal like party and he's moved at lightning speed ever since
00:55:21.100 if they were actually
00:55:37.980 And they told us all for his money, and I did, and they sent me a letter and said,
00:55:48.980 you're a very plain, you're going to run in the next election.
00:55:51.980 And within a month, they had pulled my membership against the will of my local conservative
00:55:56.980 writing board members.
00:55:58.980 They pulled a nomination against the will of my local members who dominated me in 2018,
00:56:04.980 and voting for me again, I was going to never win.
00:56:11.100 20.
00:56:18.920 They took that money and they gave it to the next candidate
00:56:21.940 that they put in my place.
00:56:29.120 They have virtually assured that that riding will go to the liberals.
00:56:32.980 they put a a brand new person in after ripping the person out against the wishes of the riding
00:56:39.440 and o'toole has said that he wants to win
00:56:42.900 but he hasn't he didn't stop there he's done many other things he he just forced a good alberta mp
00:56:54.340 up in the north david urdiga to resign because he said that mandatory vaccines were a hallmark of
00:57:01.260 tyranny. He's forcing a candidate in the Yukon to step down because he had some things to say
00:57:18.280 about mandatory vaccinations as well. This is not the hallmark of a conservative party.
00:57:25.360 in fact it's clear that all the legacy parties are corrupt
00:57:31.780 there was no stand federally against the lockdowns that destroyed thousands of
00:57:46.640 businesses across the country and right here in Alberta
00:57:55.360 There was no offering or talking about alternative treatments for COVID
00:58:00.680 that are being used all over the world.
00:58:11.220 There was no stand against mandatory quarantining.
00:58:17.840 In hotels where your family doesn't know where you're going
00:58:20.960 and you're being taken by people you don't know who they are.
00:58:25.360 And now they want to bring mandatory vaccines for every man, woman, and soon child.
00:58:39.400 Almost worse than this, the liberals want to censor the internet
00:58:43.560 so that anyone who doesn't agree with them will be silenced.
00:58:47.220 the liberals also want to push
00:58:54.120 well and the conservatives frankly
00:58:55.900 shamefully damaging climate
00:58:57.980 policies that will shut Alberta
00:59:00.020 down for good
00:59:01.220 I've never seen
00:59:08.240 a liberal government so
00:59:10.120 cynical that they will
00:59:12.120 turn on things that they've said merely
00:59:13.980 mere months ago
00:59:15.120 when the opportunity comes to gain a few votes.
00:59:19.760 It was only a few months ago that Justin Trudeau said,
00:59:23.020 oh, mandatory vaccines, no, that would be divisive and harmful.
00:59:27.140 Vaccine passports would divide the country. 0.97
00:59:30.140 But now that he thinks he can gain a few points in the polls,
00:59:34.500 he's not afraid to say exactly the opposite of what he said only a few months ago.
00:59:40.940 It's shameful.
00:59:41.820 he's also willing to trample on just about every liberty we have whether it's religious liberty
00:59:49.240 freedom of conscience freedom to choose what medical treatments you want
00:59:54.080 just this past week the liberals are making this election about abortion again which i they do it
01:00:02.300 every time and i tell the conservatives you have to stop running away but they're doing it again
01:00:06.980 And now they're going so far to say that being pro-choice means that only women get choices.
01:00:13.580 Doctors don't.
01:00:14.940 As if a doctor should have to perform an abortion or a euthanasia if it goes against their conscience.
01:00:21.500 I don't think they're actually going to do that.
01:00:23.160 But this is the lows that the liberals will go to to foment their following and to double down on toxic policies and division.
01:00:36.980 this is the extreme to which Justin Trudeau is willing to go and I just want to say today
01:00:47.140 mark my words you will not get away with this Justin Trudeau
01:00:51.320 you will not get away with this
01:01:06.980 Everything that he does provides us as a country.
01:01:14.980 It is shameful.
01:01:16.980 Every trick in his book is about pitting Easterners against Westerners,
01:01:22.980 black people against white people, men against women, 0.60
01:01:26.980 indigenous against Europeans, and vaccinated against unvaccinated.
01:01:31.980 This division needs to stop.
01:01:36.980 We will overcome him and we will never forget what he has done to this country.
01:01:57.620 But in all of this, where were the conservatives?
01:02:04.660 was Aaron O'Toole. Albertans trusted you to stand up for them. They trusted you to stand
01:02:17.260 up to Justin Trudeau when he was dividing and conquering here in the West. But instead,
01:02:23.520 you stood silent when we had the greatest crisis in this country in peacetime. You stood
01:02:31.020 goodbye you stared your mps into silence there's many of them that were questioning these lockdowns
01:02:37.340 many of them questioning many many things and yet you forced them to be silent this whole time
01:02:45.420 it's shameful and your mp in this lighting as rip was calling mps behind the scenes
01:02:53.420 and telling them to be quiet and telling them to vote for liberal legislation it's shameful
01:03:01.020 The party and the leaders stood silent when tens of thousands of Canadians had their businesses closed.
01:03:11.920 While eating disorders, anxiety disorders skyrocketed, suicides, domestic violence, overdoses, nothing.
01:03:22.340 They said nothing about alternative treatments for COVID, nothing about different ways of addressing the problem.
01:03:28.240 they said silent the only thing they could say it was buy more vaccines vaccinate people faster
01:03:33.840 the silence was definite and it came at a point in our history
01:03:40.380 where we needed someone to stand and no one did
01:03:44.500 they said nothing when pastors were going to jail
01:03:58.420 they said nothing when justin trudeau would go to his black lives matter rallies with his with
01:04:05.840 his cabinet and pastors were trying to open their churches and they were going to jail they said
01:04:10.360 nothing. They didn't say anything about the mandatory hotel quarantining until several
01:04:19.740 women got assaulted. Do we have to be assaulted before the Conservatives will stand up for
01:04:25.680 our rights in this country? It's shameful. It took them about three days to get a tepid
01:04:34.820 response from erin o'toole about mandatory vaccines and apparently he doesn't believe in them
01:04:41.940 i don't trust him he kicked he kicked david urdiga out of the party for being against him
01:04:48.020 he tried to shut down the guy in the yukon for being against it i don't trust him at all what
01:04:53.540 about that what about the pledge he wrote with his own hand he would never bring in
01:04:56.820 a carbon tax remember that pledge how long did that last a few months
01:05:04.820 Not only this, but other MPs were bullied and shamed in silence behind the scenes.
01:05:10.880 It's atrocious what we're seeing.
01:05:15.680 He had his health critic write a lengthy paper about how certain drugs should be legalized for gay men
01:05:21.620 without spending any time whatsoever to write a paper on some drugs that might be useful to fight COVID-19.
01:05:34.820 He's mentioned a lot of liberal catchphrases, but I've never heard him mention ivermectin
01:05:42.140 or many other drugs that could be useful in this fight.
01:05:51.200 The leader failed to stand up for Alberta's energy independence by being in favor of the
01:05:55.900 Paris Agreement and by being in favor of carbon taxation and other climate alarmist methods.
01:06:04.260 got it. He also said that he could afford to lose some votes in Alberta. I think that
01:06:18.500 wish may come true. He also said that he didn't want anybody
01:06:31.500 that comes to my meetings to be in his party.
01:06:35.140 Well, I have news for you, Mr. O'Toole.
01:06:38.180 The people that are coming to my meetings
01:06:39.660 are the base of your party, my friend.
01:06:44.340 How many people here are conservative voters,
01:06:48.400 former voters and donors and volunteers
01:06:50.920 and things of this nature?
01:06:53.020 Many, many, many people.
01:06:57.520 The leader failed to stand up for conservative values,
01:07:01.180 and he even voted against a bill by Kathy Wagenthal,
01:07:05.580 someone in his own caucus, a private member's bill,
01:07:08.960 and it was a bill that wanted to address sex-selective abortion
01:07:11.920 when an abortion happens only because the person doesn't want
01:07:16.420 that particular gender of baby.
01:07:18.500 It's something that most Canadians are actually against,
01:07:20.760 about 80%, depending on what poll you're looking at.
01:07:24.460 And typically, when a party brings forward a private member's bill,
01:07:27.420 every member of the party votes for it.
01:07:29.040 I can't remember a single private member's bill a liberal brought forward that every
01:07:33.040 liberal didn't vote for.
01:07:35.040 And yet, he voted against it.
01:07:38.040 Who?
01:07:43.040 Your MP in this riding voted against that bill to ban sex-selective abortion.
01:07:50.040 That's right.
01:07:52.040 He had a conservative mandate in this rioting where over 70% of the people in this rioting voted for him.
01:08:00.480 He had nothing to lose.
01:08:01.800 The next person on the ballot, I don't know what they got, 12%, something way down there.
01:08:07.640 He had nothing to lose.
01:08:09.640 He had no reason to back down from representing his constituents.
01:08:14.840 But instead, he cared more about currying the good graces of O'Toole
01:08:19.800 than for standing up for his own constituents here in the riding.
01:08:29.640 The liberals are once again turning this election into abortion.
01:08:33.820 It doesn't matter how many times O'Toole marches in parades
01:08:37.840 or says he's pro-choice or votes against his own members' bills,
01:08:42.380 The Liberals always campaign on controversy. That's what they do. They campaign on division. That's why I've said that Conservatives must stand strong.
01:08:54.820 we cannot avoid controversy therefore we must not back down we must have a measured approach
01:09:08.500 that never backs down because they want to use controversy to call us into silence that's what
01:09:14.980 they do and it's picked up on by others in the liberal elite and these things and and and and
01:09:20.760 and they want us to be quiet absolutely that is why i advocated for a policy of never apologizing
01:09:30.760 and never backing down it's the way to do it and it's the only thing that works
01:09:42.600 and you know i am i am disappointed by many conservative mps
01:09:46.040 but some of them deserve more opprobrium than others some of them deserve a
01:09:55.700 little more ire from their constituents than others and one of them is the MP
01:10:00.440 in this riding Blake Blake Richards he's he's the whip of Aaron O'Toole and he's
01:10:07.160 carrying O'Toole's water out here he's doing O'Toole's dirty work out here when
01:10:12.860 And when conservative MPs don't want to vote for some of this liberal legislation,
01:10:18.100 he's calling them behind the scenes saying,
01:10:19.780 well, you know, come on, can you just support it?
01:10:21.520 Or can you, at the least, can you just abstain?
01:10:24.520 I can't tell you how many times I got a call from this guy.
01:10:27.480 You know, he wanted me to back down and back off.
01:10:30.760 That's his job.
01:10:32.840 And he calls himself an Albertan.
01:10:34.420 He's been out here representing this riding for 14 years.
01:10:38.300 Never been challenged.
01:10:39.520 you don't get challenged if you do the party's dirty work they'll protect you
01:10:43.800 and a lot of MPs out here take their position for granted
01:10:48.100 they take their support for granted because they say oh well
01:10:51.660 what are they going to do vote liberal I'm going to win anyways
01:10:55.100 so I'll just do whatever I want
01:10:57.240 no more
01:10:59.780 no more
01:11:02.160 It's time, and I'd like to say right now, I want to put cowardly MPs on notice.
01:11:20.160 When you take your constituents for granted, when you care more about Ottawa than you do
01:11:29.620 your own constituents, we're going to come for you.
01:11:40.520 This will be a shot across the bow to the Conservatives but many other people in this
01:11:44.080 country we will target those cowardly MPs we will win this riding and we will extend this movement
01:11:58.880 across the whole country so if you haven't gathered it already i would like to tell you
01:12:11.120 officially that I have decided to run in this riding, in this election.
01:12:19.760 I am here. I am here.
01:12:41.120 And I'm not going anywhere, and listen, listen, we've done our homework, we have excellent
01:13:04.360 support here, and I'm telling you right now, there is no chance that a liberal or an MDP
01:13:10.020 he's going to win this riding.
01:13:11.440 This is a two-horse race.
01:13:18.460 It's going to be Blake
01:13:19.600 or it's going to be me.
01:13:21.380 I'm telling you that right now.
01:13:28.320 That's right.
01:13:29.180 That's right.
01:13:30.200 Now, listen.
01:13:31.460 Now, I see we got a hand in the audience.
01:13:33.880 You know what, ma'am?
01:13:34.620 Just wait until we're done.
01:13:35.520 You can come up and you can ask me personally, okay?
01:13:37.740 But listen, I'll tell you this.
01:13:40.020 If you like the Maverick or PPC, God bless you, and God bless both of those parties, okay?
01:13:46.180 But support them in a different riding, okay?
01:13:48.640 Because this is going to be a two-horse race.
01:13:50.860 We've done our homework, okay?
01:13:52.860 No offense, okay?
01:13:53.920 God bless both of those parties.
01:13:56.060 But just let us have this slice of the pie, because I'm telling you, we've done our homework.
01:14:00.940 It's going to be Blake or me.
01:14:02.280 We've done our homework.
01:14:03.200 We know how this is shaping up, okay?
01:14:05.860 But don't worry.
01:14:06.760 The NDP and Liberals cannot win, okay?
01:14:09.880 We've looked at it.
01:14:10.880 There's no way, okay?
01:14:12.180 There's no way.
01:14:14.000 No chance.
01:14:19.580 So listen, I want to thank you guys so much.
01:14:22.300 I'm just floored by the freedom-loving spirit in Alberta and other places.
01:14:27.320 But I've been here for three weeks, and it's amazing.
01:14:29.840 And I'm just honestly humbled every single time I get in a room in front of you.
01:14:33.880 So thank you so much for being who you are.
01:14:36.640 It's amazing.
01:14:37.480 Thank you.
01:14:38.880 So I just want to tell you here, and thank you so much for being here, but I'm going
01:14:49.300 to tell our audience that's watching across Alberta and across the country, I want every
01:14:54.400 single freedom-loving Albertan to come to this riding and flood it with our message
01:15:00.240 because we are going to take this riding.
01:15:02.120 so sign up on my website if you're watching if you're watching this online right now go to
01:15:14.180 derricksloan.ca sign up to volunteer let's bring you down here the people in this riding aren't
01:15:19.280 going to know what hit them so listen we're getting a lot of support here in a lot of
01:15:30.860 different parts of Alberta and a lot of people have said Derek you should run to
01:15:34.460 be premier of Alberta
01:15:37.860 now i i'm honored by your by your request and your enthusiasm but i will be a little bit busy
01:16:05.460 in the next election running to be
01:16:07.720 Prime Minister of this country.
01:16:27.280 But, listen, in the meantime,
01:16:29.660 this is going to be a barometer of the status
01:16:31.600 of freedom in this country.
01:16:33.200 people from coast to coast
01:16:35.620 are going to be watching the outcome
01:16:37.440 in this riding
01:16:38.520 they're going to say
01:16:39.740 can an independent individual
01:16:42.660 take on the establishment
01:16:44.160 can we succeed
01:16:45.960 but I'm going to need
01:16:51.240 each and every one of you to be with me
01:16:53.340 are you with me
01:16:54.980 are you with me here
01:16:56.480 I'll need you all.
01:17:06.640 Listen, we cannot let democracy die in darkness.
01:17:11.120 The mainstream party structures have destroyed democracy.
01:17:17.440 David Yardiga can't even put out a letter saying that mandatory vaccines are wrong without getting kicked out of the party.
01:17:24.740 this is awful this is the type of world that we live in okay we could not let
01:17:32.000 this system take over our country let it be known
01:17:42.100 let it be known that individual people matter let let it be known that
01:17:48.400 individuals can vote for a person and not just the color let it be known that
01:18:01.780 people can vote for a person with integrity and not just talking points on
01:18:06.220 TV to join with me in these next 34 days as we take this riding back it will be a
01:18:19.360 litmus test of what is to come next but after that it's all the way to Ottawa
01:18:36.220 Hey, everybody, that's awesome.
01:18:51.540 Let's give another big round of applause for Derek's phone running here, right here, and
01:18:55.620 Derek Baradry.
01:19:01.300 All right, I'm going to give Derek the microphone here in one more second.
01:19:04.760 he's going to close this thing up but it's time for me to yeah nobody wants to listen to me but
01:19:10.540 it's it's time for me to do my work so at the back of the room you're going to see a bunch of
01:19:15.980 tables set up and those tables are there so that we can get your support as Derek said it's time
01:19:22.880 to send a message and we need all of your help everybody here so Derek's campaign is officially
01:19:30.500 launching the paperwork needs to get submitted tomorrow I need at least a
01:19:35.740 hundred individuals that live in Banff Airdrie and hopefully they're here to
01:19:41.840 sign on Derek's nomination paperwork there's a table there I need you guys
01:19:47.420 all to go over to that table line up sign up and let's get this started
01:19:51.560 tomorrow all right
01:19:56.600 second of all as you know campaigns they take volunteers and they take
01:20:02.440 money we have a table open for donations
01:20:05.560 all right so there's a table open for donations
01:20:21.560 Hey guys, sorry. So there's donation forms. If you're interested in donating, as I said, the campaign is going to cost money and we're starting at zero. So we start at zero and we need all of your help. Volunteer forms are out there. Sign forms are out there if you want to put a lawn sign up. There's forms for that too.
01:20:44.920 We just ask all of you to get involved, talk to your family, your friends, your kids.
01:20:49.740 We want you all, and we've got a space for you all, all right?
01:20:53.020 So come help us take this riding back.
01:20:56.120 If you need anything else, go to www.gerricksloan.ca,
01:21:00.320 and I'm going to give it to Derek now to finish up.
01:21:03.320 Thank you, guys. I'll be at the back. Come talk to me.
01:21:14.920 all right everyone thank you so much and so dan is just saying we need 125 signatures at the back
01:21:38.120 there so if we can do that i'm going to close the meeting quickly i see i see a question yes what's
01:21:43.240 I'm going to answer everyone's questions after we want to close, but what is it, ma'am?
01:21:48.240 I'm from Ontario. Why have you picked this riding?
01:21:54.240 And thank you, but can you just tell us why?
01:21:58.240 Sure. Absolutely.
01:22:00.240 Okay, so the question here is why have we picked this riding?
01:22:03.240 Now, we're going to have some exciting announcements to make in the next couple of days
01:22:07.240 about other people that we're running in some other areas, okay?
01:22:10.240 But this announcement tonight is about this riding.
01:22:13.920 You all know that I've, many of you know, that I've started a federal political party.
01:22:19.660 It has not yet been approved.
01:22:22.660 But we are going to be running people in this election.
01:22:26.300 Some, not many, but some.
01:22:28.180 So we wanted to make sure that we had a toehold in the West and also in the East.
01:22:34.740 Also, because of the cowardice of the conservatives, as I told you before,
01:22:39.500 we want to make sure that we're targeting people that deserve to be targeted not people who are
01:22:44.560 doing their job as the whip of the party he's been carrying O'Toole's water out here in Alberta
01:22:50.700 and he has been telling all the MPs to stand down on important legislation so that is why I'd be
01:22:57.400 happy to talk to you more about this afterwards if you'd like to know but that's why we've chose
01:23:02.660 this writing we will be running people in other areas as well and those announcements will come
01:23:07.120 soon but we wanted to make sure we had representation here in the West and in
01:23:13.540 our touring around Alberta people were very excited to hear about my movement
01:23:17.680 and they wanted to see that so that's what we're doing we're not leaving
01:23:21.040 Ontario alone either don't worry about that but we're making announcements kind
01:23:25.420 of you know one at a time okay so thank you for that I'm not going to take any
01:23:29.080 more questions but you feel free to come up you can ask me as many questions as
01:23:32.200 you want okay we we we have a schedule to keep but i will say as i've been accustomed to do and
01:23:39.020 as i've done in every single one of my meetings here in alberta as has been done for the last
01:23:44.140 hundred years at every town council meeting and is done daily in parliament i'm going to close
01:23:48.700 this meeting with a brief prayer you may join me if you like you don't have to okay let's stand
01:23:56.020 Dear Lord, we thank you for this great country.
01:24:02.600 We thank you for all the patriotic Canadians that are joining us here tonight
01:24:06.260 and around the world on the World Wide Web and across Canada.
01:24:10.160 We thank you so much for the blessings we have in this country.
01:24:13.500 We pray that you would help us to get this country back,
01:24:16.380 though it may cost us and though we may have to fight.
01:24:19.700 In Jesus' name, amen.
01:24:26.020 Okay, thank you so much.
01:24:30.060 So feel free to come up and talk to me and make sure if you're from this riding
01:24:33.060 and you would like me to run, you sign our paper at the back, okay?