In this episode of Triggered, we discuss the Thin Blue Line Patch, the Alberta Prosperity Project, and the treatment of our police by the Trudeau government. We also hear from Senator-elect Erica Baroudis and Michelle Sterling.
00:00:30.000Good morning. It's March 31st, 2022, and welcome to Triggered.
00:00:38.860I'm Corey Morgan. This is the Western Standard's daily live discussion, guest interview,
00:00:44.680new sort of show, and of course with a lot of ranting and opinion out of me,
00:00:48.840though we cover some news items as well.
00:00:50.880This show comes live every day at 11.30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, Monday to Friday.
00:00:56.140I don't do holidays, though, and we come on for specials now and then.
00:01:00.000being live uh as i keep pointing out on every show for folks who are new i love seeing the
00:01:04.960comments you know this is the opportunity that comes with not looking at a canned show you can
00:01:09.260discuss things with each other you can send comments towards me send them towards the guests
00:01:13.220we won't necessarily read them all out or anything but i do see them all and uh it does uh keep things
00:01:20.140more lively you know and sometimes people bring up subjects and things that i never considered or
00:01:24.080thought of i get some really great stuff out of the audience so thank you guys for the comments
00:01:27.360and keep them coming. And of course, though, keep them civil. You know, we can be a little angry,
00:01:32.520a little grumpy. I'm that way all the time, but we don't have to be fighting with each other. And
00:01:36.640you know, on the internet and comment scrolls, that's unfortunately all too common. You know,
00:01:40.740I've seen a lot of discussions derailed by things. So I've got a couple of great guests as always
00:01:45.660today, so you don't have to listen to me for the entire hour and a half. I've got Senator-elect
00:01:50.120Erica Baroudis. She was one of the ones selected in our Senate elections. She's now a senator-in-0.54
00:01:56.160waiting. Being in Canada, that waiting could be a terribly long time or it could be short. We'll
00:02:00.980see. But when a prime minister finally gets in that decides to appoint them, she may become one
00:02:05.260of our Alberta senators. Then we're going to have Michelle Sterling. She's been on a number of times0.99
00:02:08.860from the Friends of Science to get a reaction to the latest emissions targets set out by the
00:02:14.840Liberal government and Trudeau and his henchman, Gil Bull, because, I mean, they've come up with
00:02:19.860some just outright crazy goals that they think they're going to meet by 2030. So Michelle will1.00
00:02:24.920add a little bit of realism. I know, you know, there's obviously a campaign going on about this
00:02:29.840for the APP, Alberta Prosperity Project. And thank you guys for pushing your cause. And I
00:02:34.860appreciate it. But quit spamming my comment scroll, guys. I've got Dr. Modry on tomorrow.
00:02:40.240We're going to talk about the Alberta Prosperity Project and we will discuss it at length.
00:02:44.480Okay. So let's talk about what's got me going aside from promotion of side groups. And I know
00:02:48.960that's what you got to do when you're trying to get a group room anyway. And that's the treatment
00:02:53.920of our police, particularly in Calgary. So over 865 police officers have died in the line of duty
00:03:00.280in Canada. Countless others have been injured or suffered from PTSD due to pressures from their
00:03:05.400career. Policing is a brutally difficult career, both physically and emotionally. I mean, police
00:03:10.180officers put their health and mental well-being on the line every day for their job. They work
00:03:15.580long hours and some terrible shifts and often experience family breakdowns due to their career
00:03:20.460choice. It's far from one of the best paying jobs out there either. I mean, with the time and
00:03:25.280training required in order to become a police officer, a person could train for any number of
00:03:29.080careers that pay better and come with a lot less personal risk and stress. So I mean, police works
00:03:33.640a calling, and it isn't for everybody. I certainly wouldn't do it. Now, the thin blue line patch,
00:03:39.520it's been worn by police officers for years, and Canadian ones, and it's as a recognition
00:03:44.080for the role of their fellow officers. It represents that fragile line between anarchy
00:03:48.860and law and order. So that's why it's a thin blue line. It's a symbol and it's over the Canadian
00:03:52.660flag as can be seen. It also serves as a recognition, honoring the sacrifices made by
00:03:57.540fellow officers, including those who lost their lives in the line of duty. Now the thin blue line
00:04:03.060is a symbol of solidarity and pride. It's benign and it gives officers a passive means to express
00:04:08.220their support for each other. Now due to lobbying from extreme anti-police elements, officers are
00:04:13.500being told that they must strip this symbol of memorial and solidarity. A myth is being perpetuated
00:04:18.820that this patch represents white supremacy. We should dismiss these ridiculous accusations
00:04:23.560immediately and out of hand as soon as we hear them. Instead, we're indulging these extremists.
00:04:28.180For the last few years, police forces from the RCMP to many municipal forces have been issuing
00:04:33.100orders banning officers from displaying this patch. These radicals aren't just the usual suspects who
00:04:38.640head those constant protests against policing and police forces. Some of these fringe thinkers
00:04:42.920reside within influential government roles.
00:04:45.920City of Calgary communications relations advisor Adam Messiah is one of those zealots.
00:04:50.920I was shocked when I heard his statement on a radio news broadcast this morning when he did an interview for Global News.
00:04:56.920So I'm going to play it so you can hear it for yourself.
00:04:59.920A lot of officers want because of medical lives matter.1.00
00:05:02.920A lot of white officers want because they support the idea of a white supremac police state
00:05:08.920and a Eurocentric idea of how Calgary is supposed to be.
00:05:12.920So, I mean, it's a short clip, and that might have sounded a little rough, but bottom line is, with no evidence to support it, Messiah said that a lot of police officers wear the patch because they support a white supremac police state.
00:05:24.540And he said that they want to create a Eurocentric world.
00:05:28.740This sort of statement is inflammatory, divisive, and utterly inappropriate from a civic employee.
00:05:34.860How many non-white officers wear that patch?
00:05:37.980And how must they feel to be belittled and accused of supporting white supremacism?
00:05:41.980supremacism from an influential city bureaucrat. Activists, including Calgary's current mayor,
00:05:47.080have been pushing to defund police forces for years while blaming officers whenever anything
00:05:51.480may go wrong. When the defund movement was indulged with increased funding for community
00:05:56.960initiatives to prevent crime, they were still outraged because the police themselves weren't
00:06:01.180actually defunded. Now, they always claimed that they wanted more community resources
00:06:04.940and that that's all that they wanted, but no, that lie was exposed once they got what they asked for.
00:06:09.700There wasn't enough for them. Their movement is vindictive, angry, and anti-police, and we have to
00:06:14.820stop indulging them. Their goals are not realistic, and they're putting all of us at risk. American
00:06:19.700cities that defunded their police forces experienced crime waves. Anybody but a crazed
00:06:24.020activist or a progressive mayor could see, and they could have seen that coming easily, yet we
00:06:29.200still see influential people calling to defund the police. In what world does defunding something
00:06:34.700improve it? Will defunding education make teachers better? Defunding health care improve
00:06:39.240surgical outcomes? The reasoning of the defund movement is outright bizarre, yet we continue
00:06:44.240to take it seriously. This constant campaign of insulting and belittling police is coming
00:06:49.480with a price. A Calgary Police Commission 2021 employee engagement report showed that
00:06:54.800just 19% of the respondents said morale within the force is good. Only 19% thought morale
00:07:02.240was good, the lowest levels in a decade. And is that really surprising? I mean, how's
00:07:07.300got a feel to prepare for a shift of putting your safety at risk at late night hours, dealing with
00:07:11.980people who are going to be spitting on you, berating you, and sometimes assaulting you,
00:07:16.320only to hear from your employers that you should be ashamed of your job, that you're a potential
00:07:19.660white supremacist, and you should be defunded. Is it any wonder that officers do act out on
00:07:24.460occasion? In any other realm of employment, when employees are acting out and behaving poorly,
00:07:29.240the employer will try and find out why the workers are experiencing poor morale.
00:07:33.560In policing, civic leaders are responding by doubling down on the abuse of the officers.
00:07:38.040Indulging the extreme anti-police activists is actually contributing to the problem of police misconduct.
00:07:44.640Happy, relaxed officers are far less likely to break rules than the ones who have been beaten down, insulted, and defunded.
00:07:51.000It's hard to believe this has to be said.
00:07:52.740The RCMP, they've been unable to fill their recruiting goals, and people are hardly lining up to join the other forces.
00:07:57.800Do activists really think quality of policing is going to improve as veteran officers are driven out while a smaller pool of activists come in to fill the void?
00:08:06.200I mean, police officers are human. Of course they make mistakes.
00:08:08.520And with their job, their mistakes can come with the most tragic of endings.
00:08:11.940We can't give them a pass when there's been misconduct, and nobody's saying we should.
00:08:17.240We entrust and task police officers with protecting us from harm.
00:08:20.900And we need to treat them with respect for taking on that role.
00:08:24.000The first step in respecting our police officers is to stand up and tell radical activists like Adam Messiah to get stuffed.
00:08:31.560We can't allow this constant anti-police campaign to be indulged and appeased.
00:08:36.300It harms officers, and by extension, it's going to harm all of us.
00:08:40.340If the thin blue line patch is tossed to the wayside, rest assured, whatever new symbol is created will be smeared and decried as well.
00:08:46.780The anti-police movement doesn't want police showing any signs of pride or solidarity.
00:08:50.920They only want the police to display shame and contrition for actions they, most of them, aren't even responsible for.
00:08:57.840Nobody should be treated like that for their career choice.
00:09:00.760And that's what's got me triggered today.
00:12:51.660I can only tease viewers on it at the moment, but if you come back to the site around 5 o'clock this afternoon, Mountain Standard Time, we're going to have some big, big breaking news.
00:13:03.600So there you go. Keep you on pins and needles there, Corey.
00:13:06.060Great. Much appreciated. And just that reminder, so you're going to be recording something on that as well.
00:13:11.000It's going to be a digital production, so just for everybody who wants to catch that as soon as it comes out,
00:13:16.400if you're every one of these ways that you're following watching this show right now, make sure
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00:13:24.420it is a pretty big scoop. It's going to be interesting. Yep. It's a big story. All right.
00:13:28.700Well, thanks, Dave. I'll let you get back on churning out that news and getting ready for that
00:13:33.380interview. Thanks, Corey. Great. Thanks. So that's our news editor, Dave Naylor. And again,
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00:14:37.620any longer is by supporting independent outlets like us. And then I was talking about the thing
00:14:43.760that got me going with that police rant this morning. I was, as I say, I tortured myself
00:14:47.460listening to talk radio on the drive here. And I listened to one of the hosts going on about that
00:14:52.360with the patch and the thin blue line saying, yeah, yeah, we should just be nice. We should
00:14:56.520just get rid of it and come up with a new one. That's a good idea. It'll make everybody happy.
00:15:00.240Like, really? Really? Nothing. Nothing they make and change it out to will make the activists happy.
00:15:09.540You got to stop appeasing them. But that's the message they want to put out because they like getting their mayor who comes on to their show every Friday and blathers at them and things such as that.
00:15:19.820You see, we are beholden in those ways. We'll report things, frankly, and directly to you guys.
00:15:25.140And again, getting to those patches, the police, I mean, they aren't perfect.
00:15:28.980And hey, I'm certain there's some racist police officers out there.
00:27:26.980Yeah, I'm getting worse as I go myself.
00:27:29.060but I'm a Gen Xer so I think you know tech wise you always hit a certain point and then you just
00:27:34.000stop learning further and then that's when you get start asking the kids to show you how to program
00:27:37.940things and stuff. Exactly. All right so I wanted to bring you in because I've been interviewing
00:27:45.060actually a series of the Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates and I try to throw
00:27:50.580them all a consistent question I think there's five of them I've interviewed now so far and
00:27:54.080another one tomorrow. And I ask if they would commit to appointing our elected senators,
00:28:00.660of which you are one of those. And all except Mr. Charest actually so far have positively
00:28:06.420responded. And Mr. Charest wasn't fully negative. He just wouldn't commit, which is a difficult one
00:28:12.640to see. So it's an important race, though. And that's another element within it. If we want our
00:28:17.320elected members to ever actually be appointed, we'll need a conservative leader who supports that.
00:28:21.320Oh, definitely. We do need that. And I think that, you know, it's very important in this race to see that they would commit to the autonomy and respect Alberta. I think that that's going to be a big, big item in this conservative leadership is seeing how they're going to actually listen to the West address Western alienation. And I think that the Senate election is a demonstration of that. It's a system that we have here unique to Alberta and something that we've just recently gone through.
00:28:49.620So for me, it's very important, and I think for Albertans, it'll be very important for them to honour that system and process that we have here.
00:28:57.260Yeah, well, and that's part of our problem, and that's what I, you know, being a Western outlet, I've hit them with a lot of questions, and they've dodged quite a bit on a lot of them.
00:29:05.400It's understandable in the, at least the purely political sense, if you want to win a federal race, particularly with weighted ridings, you have to make sure that you really appeal to Central Canada, particularly Quebec and Ontario.
00:29:16.600I mean, to a degree, I don't take it personally. It's math. But still, they don't want to touch equalization. They don't want to touch supply management. They don't want to even go into these issues if they can avoid them. That's where hopefully a senator could at least address these because you're not quite worrying so much about those things.
00:29:35.060Definitely. There's roles for everyone to play. And I would hope that some of the conservative candidates and as much as there's heavy numbers for them to win an election out east would still respect Alberta. They're representing coast to coast. So clearly our prime minister doesn't do that. But I would love to see a conservative candidate that would stand up for the West. But you're right. The Senate can also bring forward their own pieces of private members legislation that could address that.
00:30:04.340And as a senator, or in this case, Senate-elect, your role and responsibilities is to advocate for the area in which you present.
00:30:11.600And that is obviously a top of mind issue in Alberta and something that I would definitely champion, should I have the opportunity to out in Ottawa.
00:30:19.720Well, let's say from way back when, in the late 80s and 90s, you know, the big rallying call for the Reform Party was Triple E, Senate, which stand for equally elected and effective.
00:30:29.020uh now to get that would take constitutional reform and i've found no candidate yet willing
00:30:33.940to to go open that uh can of worms yet but i do think at least if you can get one of the ease
00:30:39.340you got a better chance of getting another one of them would be effective if they're elected
00:30:43.100it means they had to pass some bar aside from you know just appealing to a particular prime
00:30:47.480minister at a certain time but then getting effective once they're in but would you perhaps
00:30:52.240be rally you know lobbying a bit to try and reform the senate itself once you got in there
00:30:56.220Definitely. I mean, I think that that's where change can really happen. To your point, the triple E is the long marathon game. But I think the biggest sprint opportunity or short term win in reforming the Senate would be that elected role. You know, there's criticism that while Alberta is doing this, you know, you're the only one. Well, it's got to start somewhere. I think last time we were on, I was on the show, you talked about how in the states there, that's how it originally started as well with some of the states taking ownership
00:31:26.200over who they were sending to represent them, and that's kind of how they evolved to where they are
00:31:32.420today. And I do think there's an accountability, you know, I, very long runway of being there,
00:31:37.700and I don't believe that that should be the case in the Senate as well. I shouldn't be there till
00:31:42.040I'm 75. So I think there's lots of opportunity to really show the value out of the Senate and
00:31:46.760truly put it in a position to be sober second thought. And I believe that that first step is by
00:31:51.800appointing elected senates and then reforming it from within.
00:31:55.940So going beyond that, I mean, it's kind of been almost exclusively an Alberta initiative to elect
00:32:00.860our senators. Have you seen any indication of movement within other provinces? Like the more
00:32:04.660provinces get on board and start doing this, the more pressure it'll put on a prime minister,
00:32:08.480whether it's conservative or liberal or even Deputy Prime Minister Jagmeet Singh, to push and
00:32:14.360get those, you know, elected ones rather than their personal appointees. Like it can add to
00:32:19.240public pressure. But is there indications anybody else wants to move on this sort of thing?
00:32:23.880Well, I wouldn't say that this new NDP liberal coalition is going to be knocking down
00:32:28.500my door anytime soon. But I think when it comes to the potential for other provinces,
00:32:33.480that would be a great place for the West to really unite behind one another. I think that
00:32:39.100even during these elections, I'm a good Saskia girl. So know that Saskatchewan was watching
00:32:43.660the elections. Obviously, I can't speak to what policies Premier Mo would bring in or wouldn't.
00:32:49.240but I think Manitoba and Saskatchewan would be great partners as well as BC and actually if you
00:32:54.660can get those groups on side you could actually have that reform within the Senate. So I think
00:33:01.960it's a good strategy to look at but no I haven't heard specifics of someone ready to adopt the
00:33:07.800Senate Act in another jurisdiction. Yeah well I'm just kind of pitching that in a sense as you said
00:33:13.180you're a Saskatchewan girl and Premier Mo is actually a good you know receptive sort of
00:33:18.060Premier, I mean, maybe some of the elected senators, your senators in waiting technically,
00:33:22.280well, you don't have to wait passively. Maybe you can start pushing to get more people to join
00:33:26.580that waiting list in other provinces and help lobby in them. Because I think Saskatchewan
00:33:30.940residents, Manitoba, even some of the maritime citizens would be pretty happy to be able to
00:33:35.140make a mark on a ballot in that choice. I definitely don't agree. And we all know
00:33:39.620I'm not very quiet. So you'll likely see that coming down the pipe from me. And I know that
00:33:44.200the other Senate elects are also keen to, to approach both the federal and other jurisdictions
00:33:49.480to, to show that it's a beautiful thing of democracy to, to elect your Senate near the
00:34:06.900So the first one is definitely equalization.
00:34:08.760You know, I've lived in the West my entire life and understand. I lived in Saskatchewan when it was a have not province, then moved to Alberta in early 2000. So I've seen where, you know, you had great, great economic success and where it's been tougher times. And so I think it's a big thing to reassess that the formula just doesn't work anymore.
00:34:31.440and I think that that's something that obviously the Prime Minister doesn't want to address and I
00:34:38.620think Alberta could go even farther than we have on standing up to the federal government on what
00:34:44.520our fair deal looks like. So definitely championing that as I traveled around the province over the
00:34:49.740summer and during the election period, that is what I heard. It is we work really hard, we're happy to
00:34:54.800be a part of the team but this doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense for how we feel as part of
00:35:00.060the team and it doesn't make sense when we're having tough times that nobody steps up for us
00:35:04.160and honestly like if anyone's been a part of a team you realize that you know you've got to all
00:35:08.820come together and rally behind each other when you need it and I think that Alberta has has lived
00:35:13.620that long enough where they feel left out but always giving out of pocket so that's definitely
00:35:19.640something and then I'm very passionate about mental health for our veterans so I'd actually
00:35:23.840want to bring in a private member's bill that would also address kind of the gap when they're
00:35:29.140leaving their service to get the right mental health and not get lost in the system because
00:35:33.280those first few months or even year out of service is definitely something I think we need. We owe
00:35:38.860the people that stood up for us and put boots on the ground to protect our freedoms. So that's
00:35:45.700another one. A little bit, yeah. Oh, I was just saying that's a good one to hear. I mean, there's
00:35:49.360a tragic amount of veterans find themselves on the street or addicted because they come back from
00:35:53.400very stressful duties and suffer from PTSD. And if it's not addressed soon, it could really develop
00:35:58.700into something terrible so it's good to hear some some initiative on that yeah definitely i think
00:36:02.780it'd be a lot of work but uh something that i think there's you know you'd get support across
00:36:08.460the aisle uh and and in the house as well on something like that i'd like to think it'd be
00:36:12.860hard to see anybody opposing that though i mean our politicians never fail to uh underwhelm sometimes
00:36:17.660but uh so with your term actually in the in the case of this because it's kind of changed election
00:36:21.980by election is there uh an expiration date though on your election uh you know hopefully you get
00:36:26.940appointed before that hits but when does that end? Yeah I definitely think I have a little bit
00:36:31.740of a runway but at the to your point under the election act it can be called during a municipal
00:36:37.580provincial or a standalone election so I guess I'm also at the will of the provincial government on
00:36:43.740when they think that this term should go into re-election obviously I don't think that any of
00:36:49.500us should be just gifted it again we've got to work hard and earn the the votes of Albertans just like
00:36:55.260we did last fall um and as it sits right now you know uh like i said i've got some runways so i
00:37:00.860i would as of today want to put my name forward i i still think that there's lots of change to
00:37:04.940make in the senate and i'll continue uh talking loud and proud about that until uh i might have
00:37:10.140to put my name back on a ballot great and just to finish up so you were elected as a conservative
00:37:14.460party a canada senator um are you uh involved in uh the the leadership race at all or have
00:37:20.300you taken any stances are you just kind of watching at this point i am just watching at
00:37:24.220this point uh not kind of getting behind anyone i want to see the full scope um what i would hope
00:37:29.500as conservatives that and obviously there's so much going on in conservative politics uh provincially
00:37:35.180and federally right now but what i'm looking for is actually a candidate that can beat and unseat
00:37:40.540justin trudeau um you know i wouldn't be necessarily looking to all of my ideological
00:37:46.540beliefs lining up completely i don't think we need to be liberals to win uh or liberal light
00:37:51.260I think we can be strong conservatives with values that align with traditionally our party and that's
00:37:56.780what I'm going to be looking for is who who's going to do what they say they're going to do
00:38:00.140in their election and then the other thing is who can actually go toe to toe we have to show
00:38:04.380Canadians that you know as they keep going more left we need to be that right alternative for1.00
00:38:10.060Canadians and I want to see that from those leaders. Great well it is going to be a long
00:38:14.700horse race going all the way into September so we'll see how those campaigns develop and
00:38:18.860as i said i'm interviewing more and more of the candidates and seeing where they're landed they've
00:38:22.780all been pretty cagey but it's kind of be expected this early in the campaign as they fill out their
00:38:27.020platforms i suspect they'll get a little more uh specific and and some issues and things like that
00:38:33.180uh so there'll never be a dull moment oh no we don't allow that to happen especially with
00:38:37.980conservatives i mean if we're going after the liberals we're ripping each other up to the
00:38:41.260entertainment of everybody else so if nothing else show hopefully it gets more productive
00:38:47.500so uh thanks for for checking in with us today though i appreciate that and just seeing what
00:38:51.020you've been up to or what you're looking to do as a senator in waiting is there anything else you'd
00:38:54.620like to add before uh we let you go i just want to apologize for being late i'm usually like five
00:38:59.580minutes early so i do apologize for that i'm sure that all the your your listeners we're very happy
00:39:05.340to to hear more from you and less from me but uh no thank you for having me and i i'm more than
00:39:10.140happy to come back and talk about some of the issues as the leadership race um kind of gears
00:39:15.100up and what we can expect for Alberta. Excellent. Much appreciated. And I'll let you get back to
00:39:21.660waiting, I guess. And we'll talk again soon. Thanks for coming on. Thank you so much. Bye-bye.
00:39:29.640Yes, that's our Senator-elect, Erica Barutis. And, you know, again, it's a process. It's just
00:39:34.820looking at pragmatism. You know, you want to get things, even small victories. I mean, getting some
00:39:39.060of our elected senators in won't fix the whole Senate, but it's a good start and it moves in
00:39:44.020the right direction and it puts pressure on and the more that do so the better i'm going to speak
00:39:49.100quickly to one of our sponsors then i will relate that story from pennsylvania i was going to talk
00:39:52.600about because i want to add some balance to some things here on on real issues but either way the
00:39:56.200canada the canadian shooting association these guys are one of our sponsors they've been a
00:40:00.960fantastic one and they're there for you as an advocacy group to support your right and ability
00:40:07.440to use collect firearms i mean the name sort of says it all it's an association like anything
00:40:13.120else. I mean, I'm going to take up beekeeping this year and I'm going to join some sort of
00:40:16.980beekeeping association so I can share the resources with other people doing it and you can better do
00:40:21.200it and more safely do it. So with the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, they have all those
00:40:26.520resources, videos on safe firearm use, links to upcoming trade shows for firearms, things like
00:40:32.680that. And most importantly, and as I mentioned every time, they have a number of legal challenges
00:40:37.680out on behalf of firearm owners to make sure you preserve your right and ability to use safely
00:40:43.880firearms, whether hunting, target shooting, collecting, whatever you want. It's your business.
00:40:48.720These guys are lobbying for it. And as we know, with our rights, if we don't stand up for them,
00:40:52.380they will get taken away. The government is always eager to take your rights away. And one of them
00:40:57.280is property. And they keep recategorizing these firearms and stealing them from you. They're going
00:41:02.380to keep doing it as long as we let them get away with it. So join. If you're a firearms owner,
00:41:06.660you really should join the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, take out a membership with
00:41:11.860them. That's how they can keep moving to stand up for you and your rights and abilities out there.
00:41:16.420So they've been a great sponsor, and by all means, get on board. So yes, I ripped into the
00:41:23.780defund the police movement, and I will continue to. And I'm very upset with them. And I think
00:41:28.260there's some extreme activists, but I do want to add some balance that there are some real issues
00:41:31.460out there and ones that I haven't had to experience, but I gained some a little bit of
00:41:34.980of insight and understanding into. And it's a bit different in the States than here. I think we're
00:41:39.500much better up here with racial issues than the States. I think that's an easy statement to make,0.91
00:41:43.860but we've always got more to work on. So I'll give this story. Jane's heard it a number of times as
00:41:48.720she heard me have off to live rant it while I was working down there. I was running a seismic crew
00:41:53.920or at least a survey crew for it down in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It's kind of
00:41:57.680central Pennsylvania. It's where the little league world championship is held every year, actually.
00:42:02.300um and it was hard getting labor back then this was about 10 years ago i needed people just for
00:42:08.380straight out labor just to get on the lines uh where the the bush cutters were to cut for the0.99
00:42:12.040seismic lines and throw the bush off to the side they call them stick pickers down the states0.73
00:42:15.420simple job decent pay for what it is down there i mean when you're in an area where you can buy a
00:42:19.500house for 75 000 paying somebody you know 150 a day to walk on the line throw sticks off it
00:42:24.480is pretty good money but it was hard to get decent workers these guys i get from upstate
00:42:30.040New York. I'll spare you all the stories on that, but they drive me crazy. Either way, in the area
00:42:34.460I was in, we were renting because the boom was going on down there. I was actually renting a
00:42:37.300boarding house in a residential area to use for our field office and for me to stay in.
00:42:41.660And I had this young man who kept coming by. His name was Sharif and kept saying, you know,
00:42:45.700you got a job. You got a job for me. I thought, great. You know, I'm going to get into the labor
00:42:48.340pool. Something different. There's a large black population there in Williamsport and a lot of
00:42:53.380unemployment. Let's get these guys out working. It's great for me. They're employed. Everybody
00:42:57.320wins. This is perfect. Well, first, my own crew, unfortunately, not a lot of them reacted. I mean,
00:43:02.100a lot of them were fine, but a good number of them reacted negatively. And I laid down the loss. Hey,
00:43:07.160guys, don't you dare make a problem with this. As Sharif says, he's got a lot more friends and I
00:43:12.660will certainly replace all of you. These are local people I'm hiring. I'm looking forward to it.
00:43:16.700So we got Sharif out in the field. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, we discovered
00:43:20.960after a while. Sharif as a laborer sucked. He didn't like it after about 10 days or so. He quit
00:43:28.520on me mid shift, phones me up, says, I've had it with this. I don't like it anymore. Come pick me
00:43:33.820up. And of course I was not happy. This is mid shift. Dude, I don't have time for this. Keep
00:43:39.820finishing out the day at least and come in with the crew and we'll, we'll work on things after
00:43:44.540that. He said, no, I'm done. Well, fine, but I'm not picking you up until five o'clock when the
00:43:49.100crews are done. So that was it. Okay, about two o'clock in the afternoon, I get a phone call from
00:43:54.820the local sheriff. So what? Well, we've picked up a gentleman on the side of the road who says he
00:44:00.180works for you guys, and I just need to confirm that. I said, yeah, this Sharif, he works for us,
00:44:07.980or he did, and, you know, what's he done wrong? Well, nothing, but he was sitting on the side of
00:44:13.420road and then the person phoned in and and was concerned so well he quit and i was just we
00:44:19.260weren't picking him up till five o'clock uh that's all he says well can you come get him
00:44:23.500i said we're gonna get him till five so well i can't leave him out here fine so i drove out and
00:44:28.860got him and brought him in and you know we dealt with his paperwork and so on now what the issue
00:44:32.700was was sharif quit he walked out of the trees and he sat on the side of a rural road a local
00:44:37.580resident got upset because they saw a black man sitting on the side of the road and they called
00:44:40.620the police and the police indulged him and picked him up would they have done that if it was a white0.91
00:44:46.220guy on the side of the road no they wouldn't there's no way they would have done that nobody
00:44:49.660even would have phoned it in what an officer have said after confirming with the employer at least
00:44:56.300you know oh okay that's what it's about i can call this this citizen and tell them to calm down and
00:45:01.740then just let this fellow out until we come uh and pick him up no they wouldn't have done that with
00:45:07.580with a white guy, but they did with the black. I said, no, we're not even letting him out. He0.99
00:45:10.180hasn't committed a crime. He said the crime of being in a rural white area and freaking people
00:45:15.680out. This is something I've never had to experience. So it lets me know and understand at least a
00:45:21.380little bit of some of the frustration, the fear, the mistrust that goes on between some minorities
00:45:26.200and police services and with citizens in general. That was a really ugly little incident. Hey,
00:45:32.960I worked in Pennsylvania a lot. There's a lot of fantastic people out there of all races and
00:45:37.540all over, but there's definitely a lot more division going on down in the States, particularly
00:45:41.080when I worked in the South as well, of course, you know, in West Virginia and Louisiana and down
00:45:45.480there, there was huge issues. But these are things that I got to admit, and I don't like when people
00:45:49.320keep throwing it at you with white privilege, but there are some things of privilege I never had to
00:45:52.420experience those things. So there really are some roots to why some people mistrust the police.
00:45:57.900There really are some bad actions on the part of police, you know, not looking through situations
00:46:03.000and making assumptions and doing some things and servicing prejudices, more so in the states than
00:46:08.320here, but still here as well, clearly to some degree. So we can't dismiss, we shouldn't dismiss
00:46:14.040the concerns people are making with policing. It's real. What we do, though, have to stop is the
00:46:19.760crazed activists saying we have to defund the police, that we should take away their pride with
00:46:24.040the thin blue line and constantly belittle them, or as that Calgary official said, accuse them of
00:46:30.040white supremacy. That's ridiculous, and that only makes the divisions worse and further. There's
00:46:35.540room for nuanced discussion here. There's room to accept and admit that our police services
00:46:40.000have room for improvement and that we can fix these things, and there are some real problems
00:46:44.280to address. But to try and tear it down and defund it and attack our police forces is not going to
00:46:49.680fix this problem at all. It's going to make it worse. And unfortunately, our civic leaders are
00:46:55.660indulging that crap. And that's a real problem. And that's why I get worked up with it. But I do
00:47:00.540like to present both sides. There's stuff I haven't experienced, stuff I don't necessarily
00:47:04.020understand. I do think there's room to have some discussions and see how we can do it better.
00:47:08.660But I can't see in any sort of way how defunding these guys is going to make them better in any
00:47:14.780sort of way. So let's think a little harder. That's something I like to say city council all
00:47:20.180the time. Think harder, guys. I think I tweeted that earlier today because they're working now
00:47:25.160on banning vaping in public parks. This is one of their discussions, banning vaping in public parks.
00:47:30.680I've been tweeting pictures I show of the discarded syringes I see on my way into work every day.
00:47:36.180We've got a downtown that is unsafe. We've got out-of-control addicts. We've got people dying
00:47:41.320of overdoses, and they're concerned about somebody vaping in the middle of an open park. Guys,
00:47:46.520there's people shooting up in the alleys. Get your priorities straight. And as I said to them,
00:47:51.940think harder. Like, just get it together, you nutcases. You know, you're over in Vancouver
00:47:59.760right now, Mayor Gondek, because they're discussing ways that a net zero program will somehow bring
00:48:04.880more businesses to the city. Well, as Nico showed with that tweet that I put out with all those
00:48:08.980syringes in that stairway I walked through, no business is going to relocate and bring their
00:48:14.260staff into that environment. I don't think they care if some guy's vaping on a park bench,
00:48:18.540But if they walk to scout a potential office or business front or something to open and they see a bunch of syringes laying around and they see the ambulances rounding up overdoses, as I saw yesterday on my way in, and I tweeted those out as well, they're not going to come here.
00:48:34.320But our city priorities just seem to be out to lunch, and I don't get it with these guys, but that's where they're at.
00:48:41.820So that's why I keep reminding them, think harder, guys. It's not doing well.
00:49:19.560You're typically more polite and nuanced about it than I am, I think.
00:49:23.220But there's certainly some material to rant about.
00:49:26.220And you were the first person I thought of when I saw that coming up, you know, because you guys really like to, with Friends of Science, you know, break down the realities of policies, emissions control, climate change, and those sorts of things.
00:49:37.420And that announcement from Trudeau and Gilboa on trying to bring our levels, what, 40 to 45% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
00:49:46.440are just ludicrous and i got to get somebody to respond to this yeah i know that's uh totally
00:49:51.880ludicrous and uh especially when you think the the thing that's not being mentioned is that the
00:49:58.280federal government wants to bring in 400 000 immigrants so you can't reduce your greenhouse1.00
00:50:04.680gas emissions if you're bringing in that many people because every person has a carbon footprint
00:50:10.920and most of the people who immigrate to canada come from warmer countries they come from china
00:50:16.680india and the philippines those are the principal sources of immigrants to canada so this isn't a
00:50:24.120comment about immigrants per se it's about greenhouse gas emissions and how to either
00:50:30.920reach these targets so these are conflicting and contrary goals it's impossible to meet these
00:50:37.640targets and not to mention you know none of this kind of reduction can be done overnight you need
00:50:44.680magical new technology you need a lot of unicorns and we don't have either of those and things that
00:50:51.480are being proposed as the sort of magical solution like hydrogen well you know it doesn't exist at
00:50:59.080scale and if you look at the work of samuel for fari who's a chemical engineer he was a director
00:51:06.200General, a senior official with the EU on energy policy for 36 years. He's written a book about it.
00:51:13.540He worked on hydrogen for years. It's not the magic bullet because hydrogen has to be produced.
00:51:20.500And so it's actually an energy loss every step of the way. And it's quite dangerous for public
00:51:27.060consumption because it's a very tricky gas to handle. So, you know, they're proposing solutions
00:51:33.340that don't really exist and they're offering it sounds like lots of money but you know 9 billion
00:51:40.000here and 15 billion there and 1.5 billion here this is nothing to accomplish the things that
00:51:46.360they want to achieve it would be hundreds of billions of dollars. Well yeah and that cost
00:51:52.080that they throw out and I mean I see Claudette pointing and saying that yeah they just throw
00:51:55.420those out to appease the greenies you know they have never met a goal yet but but they can certainly0.98
00:51:59.700harm us a lot trying to get to those goals. I mean, we know they're not going to reach that
00:52:03.780level. It's just, it's impossible, but they can really, even if it's aspirational, harm us a lot,
00:52:09.860you know, 9 billion, 15 billion. And what they don't measure is the amount of economic activity
00:52:14.240they would quell and crush and cost of living increases it would put to people in general
00:52:18.620when they bring in these kinds of policies. Right. And I think the EV policy is an ideal
00:52:24.120example and uh kent sayer who's a professional engineer did an analysis a couple of years ago
00:52:29.800i think 2019 and he found that we would have to build eight site c dam equivalents eight to ten
00:52:36.840site c dam equivalents to meet the electricity requirements just for the ev policy not for
00:52:43.640decarbonizing all of canada and uh that we need ten thousand more megawatts just for the ev policy
00:52:51.480so if you think about that i mean site c dam began uh development back in 1988 so you know it's still
00:53:01.400not done it's fraught with problems it's way over budget billions over budget so to think that we
00:53:08.200could build eight or ten of those equivalent resources within the next eight ten years
00:53:15.160is absurd. Not to mention, where would we get that money from? If you look at the policies
00:53:21.420that have been implemented so far, about the time that Kinder Morgan dropped construction on TMX,
00:53:29.680that was about the time that Houston Energy Bankers out of, PPHB, Houston Energy Bankers,
00:53:38.200they they posted in their newsletter musings that Canada's policies were hostile to investment
00:53:46.840and they said that all of these projects like oil and gas forestry mining all these things that
00:53:53.420require 20 30 year horizons for development you know nobody would touch Canada because like that's
00:54:00.760just too scary to have policies that are hostile to investment that are based on whim and not on a
00:54:07.200clear kind of framework as the NEB used to provide. So, you know, you can tell that with this money
00:54:14.920the feds are throwing around, you'll only attract green crony capitalists. And my biggest fear on
00:54:21.260the electrical generation side is that we'll get so far into the EV policy and this transition
00:54:29.960and find out that we're stuck. We don't have enough money to build more resources and that
00:54:36.800we can't go back and that we've messed up the grid enough that ultimately people will be using
00:54:43.240this at home instead of, you know, we'll be going back to the days of candlelight. And I'm not
00:54:51.400kidding. You know, power prices would go astronomically high. So, you know, it's not a
00:54:58.100plan. What they've just provided is a bunch of ideology and modeling. There's no actual plan in
00:55:05.780any of it as to how these things will happen well and that's not as unrealistic you know it's not
00:55:11.220even just a prop you use that that came up during the energy crisis as it was hitting in europe i
00:55:15.220believe it was the german chancellor or somebody was implying that that's what they're going to
00:55:19.460have to do to deal with the crisis this winter is get out there and light candles to cook their food
00:55:24.900yes and you can make a little you can get these kind of you know clay pots and you can make your
00:55:30.100own little room heater it does work there's a whole bunch of videos on youtube it does work
00:55:36.340like to heat a room you have to be very careful so you don't light your place on fire but
00:55:41.060you know that's what people are being reduced to and of course as ezra levant told us back in 2017
00:55:48.740he said yeah that's what they want the ndp and the greens they want people to be in energy poverty
00:55:56.660they don't want them to have access to power whether it be fuel or whether it be electricity
00:56:03.140yeah the energy is i mean it's everything to us affordable accessible energy is so critical to
00:56:09.940modern survival and and just it's one of those frustrates me when it gets demonized i actually
00:56:14.580had michael binion on yesterday from the modern miracle network i i want to explain that a little
00:56:18.500some people get confused with the name of it you know saying it sounds almost like it's evangelical
00:56:21.380or something well no but what his intent was in naming that was pointing out that hydrocarbons
00:56:27.140and petrochemicals were a miracle they're a modern miracle all of these things we are enjoying today
00:56:31.380these long lifespans these comfortable living this being warm in winter this plentiful food
00:56:37.860all of it is due to hydrocarbons and and it's so ridiculous as a society that we're trying to spur
00:56:45.540spurn this miracle and not to mention you know when you look in the global context
00:56:52.020nobody else is doing the kind of cuts we're trying to do. And if you look at Europe,
00:56:58.580Europe is dying for more energy, right? I mean, if Putin decides to turn off the taps tomorrow,
00:57:04.100I think they have about four days, and then they're really in trouble, then everybody will
00:57:08.740be hauling out their candles. But you know, industry relies on natural gas as well, and oil,
00:57:14.340right? So then you don't have any jobs. So it's this huge domino effect. And for what?
00:57:20.820you know we're not even the world's largest emitters and not only that the most recent
00:57:26.420research shows that carbon dioxide is not the driver of climate change so why are we doing any
00:57:32.500of this there are environmental things that we can take care of that we have been taking care of
00:57:37.780like air pollution but you know reducing carbon dioxide is not a gainful purposeful thing to do
00:57:47.140it's destructive in every way to society. Yeah well and that's some of the stuff that
00:57:53.700Mr. Binion brought up and he was reading into some of those policies he tried to find some glivers
00:57:57.860of optimism to be seen within it because it looked like there was a couple of spots at
00:58:02.180least in that document where they did note that they're recognizing that we're going to have to
00:58:08.900continue to produce hydrocarbons for at least some years to come so who knows how expensive
00:58:14.100that would become with their plans i'm kind of wondering this is kind of out of left field but i
00:58:18.180spoke to a guest as well talk about the bay de nord project off of newfoundland for for oil which
00:58:22.900sounds very promising and exciting but it's been delayed and delayed as is the canadian way and
00:58:27.380we're now 15 days away from the next deadline do you think the government's faced enough uh reality
00:58:32.580though to at least approve this no probably not i mean it sounds absurd but i really don't think
00:58:40.900that they want to approve any oil and gas projects anymore and that's certainly what the
00:58:47.700engos are pushing for and you know people don't realize how powerful the environmental groups are
00:58:54.340in canada how much money they have how much influence they have how well networked they are
00:58:59.780how many billions of dollars came from foreign funds with foreign directions perhaps even from
00:59:06.420russia you know it's it's possible that we like europe have suffered from russian disinformation
00:59:13.780via the engo community because when you look at the russian um kyoto view from back in 2004
00:59:22.260they were never into the climate change hysteria they put together a very scientific presentation
00:59:27.540we actually have it on our blog um so you can go and look and see what they think they think
00:59:32.420that the climate change movement is a threat to human civilization which is effectively what you
00:59:38.260just said so and they've thought that since 2004 but you know they were maybe very happy to sit
00:59:45.460back and watch the west shoot itself in the foot while all these engos advocated for impossible0.99
00:59:50.900solutions so of course all of our competitor nations in the world um you know celebrate every
00:59:57.780time an NGO victory happens in Canada. Every time they shut down a pipeline, every time they shut
01:00:03.940down a project, all of our competitors are going, yes, we'll take that to the bank. So, you know,
01:00:11.740that's how stupid we are in this country and how energy illiterate, you know, even Jagmeet Singh
01:00:18.880has been going on and on about fossil fuel subsidies to big oil and why they're making
01:00:23.280more money. If the oil companies are making more money because global prices are up, it's because
01:00:28.920there's not more Canadian product on the market because the NDP and QB and all these ENGOs have1.00
01:00:37.000blocked access to market. If there was more of our supply in the market, prices could be lower.
01:00:42.360But since there's a shortage of supply, too bad. Well, so who made those oil companies richer,
01:00:51.000jagmeet it was you you and your engo cronies we'll be waiting a long time before we expect0.88
01:00:58.280economic reality to come from the ndp though uh cheryl one of our commenters did point out that
01:01:03.960rachel notley was actually critical of those goals it's funny but that's because i think
01:01:07.640uh rachel notley recognizes political reality even if she's not really all that up on economics i i0.86
01:01:13.560still always follow that uh wayne hayek's quote saying if socialists really understood economics
01:01:19.960they wouldn't be socialists so right she doesn't get it but she does know that if she latches on
01:01:24.760to that there's no way she's going to become the premier again but i i she's all in on shutting
01:01:30.760down the oil field as much as any of those ndp leaders are yeah of course she was at the zombie
01:01:35.720duck rally that was sponsored by the sierra club which has been funded by foreign billionaires to
01:01:42.200shut down the oil sands so yeah it's uh you know that was back in 2010 20 yeah 2010 2015.
01:01:52.040anyway it's on youtube yeah well i mean there's nothing like a good economic kick in the butt
01:01:57.880though to drive some reality and i mean germany was as you know people were celebrating them
01:02:02.360for a long time these guys are almost net zero they've shut down this they've shut down that
01:02:06.360but of course what people weren't realizing is they're just piping in more and more from
01:02:09.800foreign sources to make up for what they've been shutting down i mean sure they're building
01:02:13.480windmills and putting up solar panels but as with every country that's just a tiny supplement at
01:02:18.200best uh that reality that now though i mean it sounds like they're they're realizing the error
01:02:23.880of their ways well the paradox of renewables is that they always go with fossil fuels unless you
01:02:30.600have big hydro but most countries don't so you know you have to have fossil fuel back up to put
01:02:37.400wind and solar on the grid so you can i think germany at one point had added like 90 gigawatts
01:02:43.560of wind and solar and it made no difference in winter when the sun didn't shine and the wind
01:02:48.600didn't blow so you know that's trillions of euros floating around doing nothing when you could have
01:02:55.240just built a few gas plants now it's true you know and sadly what's happened in in europe is a
01:03:01.800geopolitical battle in many ways you know between the US and Russia over the European market because
01:03:10.600the EU has almost no fossil fuels because they choose not to exploit their own shale gas so they
01:03:18.440import about 600 billion dollars US worth of oil gas and coal every year and most of it most of the
01:03:26.680oil and gas is coming by land pipelines from russia now if you want to make peace just make
01:03:33.480that deal and don't fiddle with it and you know maybe this sounds uh like i'm a putin apologist
01:03:39.960i'm not i think it's terrible that he invaded ukraine although i think he warned people for
01:03:45.080about eight years about it but the way to make peace and supply europe with energy is to make
01:03:51.000a peace deal and make energy part of that deal because it's a common sense solution but if if
01:03:57.880the us is going to try and drive russia into extinction which it seems like they're trying to0.98
01:04:02.680do and sacrifice the ukraine and let europe be the ones at risk europe are the ones who will be1.00
01:04:10.200absorbing uh immigrants from war they'll be absorbing uh a potentially battle you know
01:04:18.360although there may be some very angry Ukrainians who bring that battle into Europe if they have to0.98
01:04:26.120escape the Ukraine and they can't complete their battles there. So Europe is being sacrificed and0.88
01:04:33.000the US is saying, oh, this is great. Now we're going to send you some LNG from us. Now we've
01:04:38.600opened a new market for us for natural gas. So it's a very complex geopolitical situation. We
01:04:45.640should try and calm it down in my opinion and make peace make a deal and you know chaos is next and
01:04:54.120it won't be pretty and it won't be easy to fix no we've got a terrible situation unfolding over
01:04:59.800there with bad ends to it and i mean a lot of it as you said it's complicated with a lot of factors
01:05:05.400all over the place one of which though we can avoid some of these dependencies and countries
01:05:10.040being stronger energy independence as you said in europe they were shutting in their own resources
01:05:14.360well now that left them with less uh ability to negotiate on things when when the crap hit the
01:05:19.560fan as it did i mean we've got the same in quebec they've got some great natural gas resources down
01:05:24.440there and they said they're going to refuse to develop them and it's absurd i'm just kind of
01:05:29.160hoping that again i i know i maybe i just maintain a crazed optimism but we're seeing all of this
01:05:34.920happening right now what better time to face reality and say the bay du nord is going to go
01:05:39.800because we need that domestic production on our east side of the country and quebec it's time to
01:05:45.560get in there and start developing that or we're going to cut your equalization you're not getting
01:05:49.160any more energy money from other provinces when you refuse to develop your own i don't expect that
01:05:53.320logic out of trudeau but maybe citizens will start speaking up i mean if all these newfoundlanders1.00
01:05:57.320get put out of work by shutting down the beta nord there's going to be some repercussions
01:06:02.200well you know the this can't go on for very much longer and we can't keep making these promises we
01:06:08.600We did a video and we also have a post about the monumental financial
01:16:49.000The problem with it, and it's a big problem,
01:16:52.360this will enable people to revoke a representative seat.
01:16:55.060So this includes MLAs, municipal officials, and school board officials.
01:16:58.620Cool. I like that. Problem is they've set the bar ridiculously high and they did it on purpose.
01:17:06.480So to petition, and I don't know the timeline offhand, you only get a certain amount of months.
01:17:11.940You have to get 40% of the eligible electors to sign an official petition in order to invoke a
01:17:17.260recall. Now think about the logistics of that. We've got some constituencies where 40% of the
01:17:22.360electors didn't even come out. You've got to get them. And then we're not talking about,
01:17:27.020You can't do an online petition. You can't do any of that sort of stuff. You have to get a physical
01:17:32.660signature on a piece of paper with their address, with their phone number, and their full name.
01:17:39.000Every one of them, 40% of the eligible ones. And when you go through these kinds of petitions,
01:17:44.080they'll strike off any that they can't prove their address with. They can't prove that this
01:17:47.400person signed it. If they phoned to confirm it, they can't. So you got to get more like 45% if
01:17:51.400you really want to make it happen. And in a short period of time, anybody who's really petitioned
01:17:56.700before understands that this is impossible. Anybody who's run for office before, you know,
01:18:01.820like I ran for the Libertarian Party federally, you know, to make some points. It was fun going
01:18:05.820to those forums and that. But I had to get 100 signatures from people just to get my nomination
01:18:11.340papers to be a federal candidate. I got about 120. And once they scrutinized everything, I was down
01:18:16.720to 101 when I brought that into the returning officer to get in. And it took me days to get
01:18:20.980those because not everybody feels comfortable giving a signature to somebody who shows up at
01:18:25.160their door and giving their address and giving their phone number. It's understandable. And even
01:18:30.600if they supported my ability to run, they just didn't want to have that on paper. Well, not
01:18:33.480everybody's going to want to support the recall. Yet you've got to get 40% of the eligible voters
01:18:39.840to do that. Most places with a functional recall, what they base it on is 40% or 30% or whatever it
01:18:45.940might be of those who actually came out to vote in the last election. That shows the active number
01:18:50.800of voters there, not the large number who didn't bother to come out in the first place.
01:18:55.900So this recall legislation, don't hold your breath. We'll get to see it happening pretty
01:19:00.940quickly because I think the people very upset with Sean Chu are looking to get that going and
01:19:06.260they want to recall Chu. So they're very motivated and they're working hard. Let's see. Let's see if
01:19:11.600they get 40% managed to recall Sean Chu. I'll lay my bet on it right now. They're not going to
01:19:16.840invoke the recall because they won't get nearly enough for the signatures. Not that everybody
01:19:20.500is necessarily thrilled in Ward 4 with Sean Chu. It's just logistically, it is an impossible bar
01:19:26.180that he has set. He's given you fake legislation. It's garbage. It's not worth the paper. It's
01:19:30.400now finally been at least brought in on, but it's no good. So either way, I wish I could celebrate
01:19:39.420it, but I can't. And plus the fact that he took three and some years to bring it in. I guess he
01:19:43.300just didn't even want the embarrassment of people going out and petitioning to try and recall,
01:19:46.920because, you know, people will try and recall Kennedy. They'll try and recall cabinet ministers.
01:19:49.900You do have to set the bar reasonably. I understand that. You can't make it too easy. You don't want people starting the day after election to work on recalling whoever they didn't like who won, and you can't constantly hold these. But if you set 40%, for example, of those who came out to vote, that's a pretty high bar. You've got to be pretty serious about it, and people have to be pretty seriously ticked off to sign on enough to turn that over.
01:20:14.740It's nice to have that means in those extreme situations when somebody's really crossed a line.
01:21:41.120we're getting the daily reports on how many people were in ICU. If the ICU numbers went down,
01:21:46.700they'd talk about the positivity rate of the testing. If the positivity rate of the testing
01:21:49.960went down, they'd talk about the deaths over the course of the last 30 days. They would pick
01:21:53.320whatever stat they could find to make it look bad. They'd never want to report on saying, hey,
01:21:58.280things are looking all right. And if they couldn't find anything else to say things are doing badly,
01:22:06.640Nelly, I mean, if they had to report that everything is looking on the up and up, they would search out and find some negative Nelly to go on and try to spread that fear. And usually it was people like Vi Pond and others. They're zero risk cultists. And it's, it's not reasonable, but they're pushing. They want us locked down again, and they're working towards it. So watch for it, guys. Watch for it. The pressure's coming. And it's being headed by the legacy media. When is this ever going to end? When we make it end?