The Alberta Teachers Union is on the warpath, of course, over Bill 15. They're indignant, outraged, and spitting righteous ire at the Alberta government for what they call a vindictive piece of legislation designed to punish the Alberta teachers union.
00:08:44.040they shouldn't be shocked when we're taking away the disciplinary power from these guys. It's
00:08:48.240ridiculous. And that was just over the period of two years. Every one of those teachers now,
00:08:53.340they'd be back teaching if the union's judgments weren't overturned by the minister. By the way,
00:08:57.580when the NDP was in power, David Agin was the minister. He didn't overturn a single one.
00:09:03.880Wow. Shows the NDP are owned by the unions. We can never forget that. Governments are typically
00:09:08.680terrified of taking on labor unions, particularly those unions with teachers and nurses. It's so
00:09:13.980it's refreshing to see Minister LaGrange taking such a definitive stance on an issue sure to
00:09:18.520bring some heavy blowback upon the UCP government from the Teachers Union. Unions jealously guard
00:09:23.440their authority, and they will fight back against any efforts to have it reduced. So let's hope the
00:09:27.560government stands strong in this move. They've been prone to sagging under pressure at times.
00:09:32.000When it comes to new government bills, though, this one should be a no-brainer. The safety of
00:09:35.380children has to come before union interests. That's what I got for my rant today. Now, let's
00:09:42.420check in with the news guys. We've got Eva Sudeik coming in, our reporter, to tell us what's been
00:09:48.420happening at the Western Standard newsroom. Hey, Eva, how's it going? Good. How are you, Corey?
00:09:53.740Pretty good. You know, like I said, it's an upsetting issue I was ranting about, but
00:09:57.520we're seeing perhaps some positive movement towards stopping it. So, I mean, it's a nice change.
00:10:02.840Good. Good to hear, but bad subject for sure. Happy Friday and happy April 1st.
00:10:10.240well thanks I celebrate it every year yeah it's good for you along with April
00:10:15.9201st in the newsroom comes federal tax increases this year along with the
00:10:20.320alcohol tax increase comes carbon tax it is up 25% today people in Saskatchewan
00:10:27.200are outraged as yesterday the provincial government voted against providing
00:10:31.120relief by suspending provincial fuel tax this morning the gas hit 188.9 cents in
00:10:39.280Regina and the provincial fuel tax if it had been taken away by the government it would have saved
00:10:46.560people 15 cents per liter they're pretty jealous of us in Alberta here I haven't checked the gas
00:10:52.000prices today but I know that Kenny's um provincial tax came off today yes I believe we we have a
00:10:59.280reporter at a conference uh that I think premier Kenny's holding right away now yeah I think it
00:11:05.360starts at 11 so rachel will have something on that later today and kenny's comments and her
00:11:10.400very interesting questions i'm sure for kenny looking forward to it yeah um with the carbon
00:11:16.480tax being raised today pierre polivier um polliver polliver paul yes stop listening to derek it's
00:11:24.160paulia you're right pauliev i just just a habit now you know i have to change especially if he
00:11:30.960becomes pm so we'll get used to it um so he held an axa carbon tax rally last night he talked about
00:11:38.640just inflation and how much worse canada is getting for freedom um and the carbon tax and
00:11:45.920how outraged he is on that i'm working on a story with alberta's environment minister jason nixon
00:11:52.400his comments to federal environment minister stephen gilbo uh nixon rejected the federal 2030
00:11:59.120emissions reduction plan he said it will only raise the cost of living for everyone
00:12:04.880and the he really um said that he believes the that lack of consulting on a government part
00:12:11.200led to this plan being approved mel attended a press conference this morning and she'll have
00:12:17.440more info up later on danielle smith and her living stone mcleod ucp nomination
00:12:23.440um she's also looking into response from the city on the offensive comment on the blue line
00:12:31.120on police badges and their alleged white supremacy um corey i know you were ranting on your show
00:12:37.040earlier so that'll be interesting to have a perspective from the city on what does it mean
00:12:41.680and what do they think about those comments yeah it'll be good to hear some follow-up i mean that's
00:12:46.240been left hanging other news hasn't touched that but we had a pretty senior city communications
00:12:51.520official outright say that a number of police officers were wearing that patch directly it
00:12:57.400wasn't implying it or anything he said a lot of them is what he said were wearing it because they
00:13:01.580wanted to see a white supremacist police state so i i think that deserves an answer it definitely
00:13:07.420does so um they're actually looking all over the city for someone to respond to mel she said
00:13:12.920a lot of um pushing her one way and the other so hopefully we can get good comment on that
00:13:17.740an explanation um canada their board our border regulations changed today now fully vaccinated
00:13:25.340travelers no longer need to show negative coveted result to get into the country
00:13:31.180canada is also on the international stage as the pope apologized today in the vatican for
00:13:37.580the catholic church's involvement in residential schools i'll have a story up on that later today
00:13:43.820and people's response to it how do they feel how do the people that canada sent indigenous native
00:13:51.180people um what do they think about the pope's apology and what he said about them um a leaked
00:13:58.140memo from the cfo of telus asked employees yesterday to participate in transgender day
00:14:04.300by attending pro-gender ideology workshops and using pronouns in their email signatures
00:14:10.620Our reporter Amanda is working on that and that'll be up later today too.
00:14:16.940What we do have up right now is Ottawa is to rename the Trans Mountain Pipeline after backlash
00:14:23.020from trans advocates. There are many colorful comments in there by politicians like our
00:14:29.580Prime Minister and Pierre Pollyve. Now you got me mixed up you know. Oh you'll get used to it.
00:14:40.620even comments about Caitlyn Jenner and her being named in the new pipeline.
00:14:47.100Well, that's a very interesting read. I know that story garnered a lot of attention this morning.
00:14:51.660Yes, our readers should definitely go check it out and see what that's all about.
00:14:59.100What else? Amanda is interviewing Canadian veteran James Topp, who has been walking
00:15:04.700across canada in protest of covid mandates um we will have that live interview up on our website
00:15:10.940later today um he has made it all the way from vancouver to calgary so far or lethbridge and
00:15:16.540then he'll be in calgary tomorrow and i believe he's going to speak at the freedom rally tomorrow
00:15:20.700as well so there are many fans who will be excited for that one and yeah i had lots of tees today but
00:15:28.300not much up on the site so far with our payday and whatnot going on um but that's all for news that
00:15:33.660we got right on well yes uh it's been a busy day in the newsroom so just to remind everybody it is
00:15:39.260all uh coming up and going to be on the website soon and i know i'm enjoying bugging you about
00:15:44.620mr paulia's uh pronunciation of his name but as a person of eastern european descent you've
00:15:49.660probably seen how terribly i've ruined and fumbled over many of our eastern european guests names
00:15:54.780so uh don't worry you'll get plenty of chances to bug me about my uh pronunciation efforts later
00:15:59.020I'll have to bug Nico as well. My name is spelled E-W-A, but on the show, I seem to be E-V-A. How
00:16:05.580you pronounce it? Oh, well, let's just make sure that I pronounce it correctly, but we'll fix that
00:16:09.800up. Yeah, you've been saying Eva, right? So, okay. Thanks so much for having me, Corey. Thanks for
00:16:14.800checking in. We'll talk to you later. Talk to you later. So yeah, guys, a whole lot is coming up
00:16:20.020today. A whole lot is in the cooker today. Usually we've got a whole bunch of stories posted by now.
00:16:24.180we've got a few absolutely as we said the trans mountain uh issue there with the trans gender
00:16:29.580community has been a hot story as well as some others and they're all popping up there um
00:16:34.500amanda's uh exclusive interview with with james top is definitely going to be an interesting one
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00:18:12.540so yes we've got lots going as i said dr modry should be on pretty soon i'm looking forward to
00:18:19.960that and we'll cover a few of the things there uh some of those things as well i mean
00:18:24.640speaking of gender pronouns and so on i i know i've been somewhat following the the dark comedy
00:18:31.120of uh you know as we see independent media growing and so on uh i i mixed as i watched
00:18:37.760the ryan jesperson shows explosion up in edmonton for people who are familiar with it but either way
00:18:41.800he had a producer who was very woke and very high strung and she had a meltdown on the show
00:18:48.720and stomped off it and there's a number of things behind it if you want to look up all of that but
00:18:52.780now after his show has been shut down over that for the last couple of weeks it's supposed to
00:18:59.540come back next week she has announced she will not be coming back and that she doesn't feel safe on
00:19:03.800the show and she's torpedoing his show from afar as a former employee it's just something else to
00:19:09.440watch. It doesn't help the industry in general, even if left-leaning shows lose it. I just hope
00:19:14.840they learn from this. Don't hire crazy woke people. If you see a Twitter profile with all
00:19:20.920the gender pronouns and settler within it, you might want to reconsider putting that person on
00:19:26.860your payroll because it dynamited what was still a show representing a point of view that need to
00:19:31.080be heard out there. We'll see if he can recover from that. But hopefully there's some lessons
00:19:36.900learned. Dave Rubin, I was thinking of him as an example of this. You know, he's a podcaster,
00:19:43.020personality in the States. He wrote a great book. I really like his point of view. And he started as
00:19:47.240a left-wing commentator. Actually, he was always very quite left-wing. And he got his butt handed
00:19:53.420to him by Larry Elder in an interview. And it was an epiphany for Mr. Rubin, though, when he realized
00:20:01.600that, man, you know what? I've been kind of wrong and full of crap for the last few years on this
00:20:05.260leftist stuff and he converted and he's gone classical liberal and he's he's very you know
00:20:09.060conservative minded and it's been fantastic like so don't write off you know some of these
00:20:13.660personalities who are far over there people can wake up and come on and and Ruben has been
00:20:18.160fantastic so maybe now that Mr. Jesperson has just learned what happens when you build a career on
00:20:22.460woke people and they'd cut the legs out from underneath you without a moment's hesitation
00:20:27.820perhaps you're on the wrong side of things because he still could have a heck of a lot to offer he's
00:20:32.280a smart guy, interviews people. I mean, he's very experienced with it more so than me.
00:20:36.460That show has a place, but we'll see if they learn from that whole fiasco over there or they don't.
00:20:41.260As alternative media grows, all of us are going to be learning some interesting lessons. So I'll
00:20:45.440bring somebody in more interesting than my rambling now, and that is Dr. Dennis Modry.
00:20:49.200He's in the lobby, and he's going to talk to us about the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:20:53.660So without ado, there we go. Hey, Dr. Modry, how are you doing?
00:20:57.380I'm excellent, Corey. Delighted to be on your show.
00:21:00.000Great. Well, I appreciate you coming on. Like I said, you've got some strong supporters out there. The commenters on here were kept asking, hey, when are you going to talk about the Alberta Prosperity Project and so on? And I had to admit, I didn't know a lot about it. So let's get the guy who knows about it on and talk about it.
00:21:18.380Well, fundamentally, the Alberta Prosperity Project is really an inspiring initiative to unite all Albertans, businesses and organizations on how to protect their interests, their individual freedoms and rights and their prosperity by enabling Alberta to chart a new path forward.
00:21:40.520So fundamentally, the Alberta Prosperity Project falls under the Alberta Prosperity Society, which is a registered society.
00:21:53.220The project itself is really a massive educational program we're rolling out throughout the province to educate people on the rationale and merits of independence, independence within Canada or independence untethered to Canada.
00:22:14.060But it becomes evident when you look at the difficulty with respect to fixing Alberta's circumstances and confederation, given the history of Alberta and the abuse that Alberta has faced and continues to face, along with the structural electoral imbalance and then the five constitutional hurdles,
00:22:38.660it makes it pretty clear to most people that the opportunity to fix Alberta's circumstances
00:22:47.520in Confederation is extremely difficult. But yet we understand, Corey, that there's a significant
00:22:53.740number of people in Alberta. And actually, you'll know this from the Angus Reid survey from
00:23:00.200January the 4th, in which 73% of Albertans polled were disillusioned with the federal
00:23:09.840government. So the question is, is what do we do? So the point is, is there really fundamentally
00:23:14.740two major paradigms in Alberta, there are those people who would like Alberta to stay in
00:23:19.620confederation, but have a much better deal. And then there are those people who want Alberta to
00:23:24.500become a new sovereign constitutional republic. What's unifying between these two paradigms
00:23:32.320is that neither objective is possible because Alberta has no leverage. It has no negotiating
00:23:41.340power in order to achieve independence within Canada or independence untethered to Canada.
00:23:47.980So what is that unifying feature? What could bring the two paradigms together? It's the leverage of a successful referendum on independence, because that successful referendum on independence gives Alberta the moral and legal legitimacy to chart a new path forward.
00:24:08.720So envision, if you will, a government that is elected that will put the interests of Albertans first, that will go ahead, for example, and introduce, as my friend Rob Anderson has said from the Free Alberta Strategy, the Alberta Sovereignty Act,
00:24:28.860which will accelerate the process of taking control of policing, pensions, immigration,
00:24:36.460employment insurance, provincial tax collection, which sets the stage for the collection of federal
00:24:41.920taxes as well. But in addition, has new regulatory arrangements for ATB and service credit union to
00:24:51.840get them out from under the control of the federal government. That would protect depositors
00:24:57.660from CRA and from the federal government.
00:25:01.300And we've seen how Albertans can be seriously compromised
00:25:54.020So we need to, as part of this project,
00:25:57.780We need to educate people on the three potential outcomes.
00:26:05.220One is if we do nothing, we're going to fall into the abyss of the great reset, and we don't have a lot of time.
00:26:13.080The other is to try and negotiate a better deal, and the other is to achieve independence.
00:26:21.580Those are really the only three outcomes.
00:26:25.940Either we do nothing and we know what's coming.
00:26:29.600It's not often we know the future, but we sure do know it now.
00:26:35.020Or, like I say, we can chart a new path forward, trying to fix Alberta circumstances and confederation or becoming a new constitutional republic.
00:26:44.480But here's the key thing, is we don't have time.
00:26:47.020We don't have time for constitutional wranglings which take 10 or 20 years or longer to resolve.
00:26:55.080We know what's coming with the WEF-UN Agenda 2030 with respect to our oil and gas industry.
00:27:03.660We've seen what's been proposed just even the other day with respect to what's coming regarding taxation of SUVs, etc.
00:27:14.060You know, we need to get out from under the oppression that we faced for 116 years, that no federal government or provincial government has ever resolved it.
00:27:24.640So we need Albertans to be educated on what it's going to take to chart that new path forward.
00:27:31.680So we're setting up educational chapters throughout the province.
00:27:37.780we'll probably wind up having 200 or so uh set up within probably two or three months and um
00:27:45.760that's the uh that's the essence of what we're all about cory happy to answer any questions though
00:27:51.660great yeah well you've been i've been looking into it and you've been holding a lot of very
00:27:55.060well attended meetings and quite a large schedule of a lot more to come uh something that was
00:28:00.360interesting though i mean looking on this the site and uh you definitely are looking strongly
00:28:05.720at a partisan approach to some things too. I mean, there's proposed party bylaws or
00:28:09.480constituency association rules, theoretically, if those would come, but there are already a couple
00:28:14.740of parties on the scene too, that are registered anyways, that are taking an independence approach.
00:28:21.840Are you looking at forming a new party or merging or? No, no, absolutely not, Corey. It's really
00:28:27.860critical for people to understand that we must remain a nonpartisan, non-profit organization.
00:28:34.660We do not want to fall under the contribution limits that are in place by Elections Alberta, for one thing.
00:28:45.160So we're nonpartisan. We do not want to be a super PAC or anything like that.
00:28:49.940We want to educate Albertans to understand what the future will be if they do nothing
00:28:57.560and what the future could be if we do something amazing that's never been done before.
00:29:04.660So we absolutely are not going to become a party.
00:29:08.460Now, what you see on the website in terms of what we are recommending for policy and governance and what we are recommending for bylaws is the synthesis of many thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of drafting material,
00:29:29.480looking at it from the perspective of the UCP bylaws and policies.
00:29:38.360And we took into account every party's, even federal party's policies and governments.
00:29:45.380We worked with three constitutional lawyers to draft that material.
00:29:49.140So this is what we are recommending for a government to implement in terms of policies, governance and bylaws.
00:29:58.540And so when you look at the policy document, for example, it doesn't talk about the policies of a province struggling to get out of confederation.
00:30:06.900It talks about the policies of a sovereign constitutional republic.
00:30:10.800And the governance section describes exactly how that constitutional republic would be set up with checks and balances that are even more robust than the U.S. Constitution.
00:30:20.120okay no i appreciate that clarification because as i said you know i'm probably not the only one
00:30:25.560who perhaps got confused about the mandate and agenda so that's good to see because i mean we
00:30:30.920are seeing unfortunately some very ugly uh partisan games going on on the well pretty
00:30:36.360much every level of government but uh with some better uh management and guiding documents perhaps
00:30:42.200some of that could have been avoided i agree with you so uh would your organization now as
00:30:49.560it grows be considering looking into uh i saw a couple of other commenters like uh encouraging
00:30:54.760this sort of movement or fostering that in neighboring provinces and other provinces as
00:30:59.160well well it's interesting that you asked that question because yes we've had requests from
00:31:04.680central okanagan in bc and we've had requests from saskatchewan they want to adopt our platform in
00:31:11.560terms of you know our educational messaging uh so there's a lot more coming corey um we've been
00:31:18.680working with rapid boost the marketing and advertising company they're an international
00:31:23.560company and so you know you'll see a lot more material that will be coming we'll obviously
00:31:31.480we'll be working with um advertising or marketing our educational platform with western standard
00:31:39.880and really virtually all of the media platforms that are in existence radio television legacy
00:31:48.040media, alternate media, and social media in particular. So yeah, that's really where we
00:31:57.580are right now. And we're just rolling things out with Rapid Boost as we speak.
00:32:02.800Great. And it's been, like I said, interesting to watch. I mean, there's been a lot of new
00:32:06.040organizations. We've got great tools at our disposal that we never had in the past. Like
00:32:09.780way back when I was an independence activist, we didn't have the sort of social media like we do
00:32:14.220today but you guys have gone beyond that too and gone back in the sense of holding a lot of in-person
00:32:18.700meetings because not everybody's keen on on uh webinars and and uh facebook postings and twitter
00:32:24.300and such they still like that traditional getting together in a room and discussing and moving
00:32:28.620forward it seems to be working well for you guys well so far um yeah i mean it's really fun actually
00:32:35.260you know having these events and then having particularly the part i love the best really is
00:32:40.140is the Q&A. And Tanner Nadeh, who's our extremely bright economist, who's on our board and speaks
00:32:49.480extremely well with respect to economic issues, you know, working with him and others on this
00:32:57.100project is, and there are many, many, there are thousands of people that are behind this movement.
00:33:03.040And but at these events, it's an opportunity to meet people, to talk to them in person, to answer their questions in person.
00:33:11.600And I think people really like that. And so, you know, I think we've probably done because we just we've just launched as of February the 18th.
00:33:20.960And so it seems it seems as though the you're correct, Corey, it seems as though these events seem to engender a lot of traction.
00:33:30.960And one of the things that they engender as well is the interest by people to set up educational chapters and to become volunteers.
00:33:43.020And, you know, putting it all together, I think, you know, we have a heart for Alberta.
00:33:49.340We love Alberta and we want to protect Alberta in a way in which it's never been protected in 116 years.
00:33:55.400And in so doing, protect individuals' freedoms, rights and prosperity, which again has not occurred. And that's why we're facing what we're facing. So I think these are very passionate Albertans who, you know, love their neighbor, love their country, but realize that Canada has left Alberta already.
00:34:18.320And we're just, you know, educating people in a way in which we can formalize that process in a way in which Alberta's circumstances are actually fixed in Confederation, which I don't think is impossible, particularly when you run through the reasons why it's not.
00:34:41.820But then again, it gives people hope for a better future.
00:34:47.000But the key thing is, the key thing in all of this is when you create a movement, remember what Ralph used to say. He said, find a parade and get in front of it. And so what we're doing is we're creating that parade. We're creating that movement. And we want to have, you know, a half million minimum, but better a million or more members of this movement.
00:35:05.980Because as you know, 3.5% of the population will control the outcome of the election.
00:35:13.500And we want the members to support a government that honestly and legally will implement policies that will protect people's individual rights, their freedoms, and their prosperity in a way in which has never been done before.
00:35:34.640So I think we're at a precipice in Alberta society and in Alberta's relationship with the federal government. I expect that, you know, we're going to be attacked. Any independence movement is going to be attacked.
00:35:49.000But, you know, there's no reason, for example, that the UCP couldn't adopt these policies.
00:35:56.860There's no reason why the UCP couldn't combine with the Wild Rose Party and adopt these policies.
00:36:02.880There's no reason why those two parties couldn't align with other parties and adopt these policies.
00:36:09.660The key thing is Albertans need to be unified as to what it's going to take to protect ourselves and our future and our kids' future.
00:36:19.600Well, that's great. I always appreciate more, just more discourse and movement towards
00:36:24.180independence. I feel that the Canadian system personally, I've said that a lot of times is
00:36:27.680actually broken and we need some sort of catalyst to repair it, whether it's the full independence
00:36:32.480of a province and provinces or at least coming to the brink so much the Canadians are finally
00:36:36.940willing to re-examine how we're sitting. So I like the direction you're going in. I see you've got a
00:36:41.640couple of events coming up. There's going to be one in Stetler tonight, it looks like, and one in
00:36:45.420sherwood park tomorrow where can people uh find information on you guys your website and your
00:36:50.660social media presence and such well if you just go if you just go onto the website you'll see the um
00:36:55.640the events advertised and the um and the locations as well um so they should they should be there if
00:37:04.300you just scroll down a bit there's the sherwood park one uh for example now i i should tell you
00:37:09.600we've got something interesting coming up next next Saturday in Red Deer we've done something
00:37:16.680unique we've invited all of the political parties in the province to to provide a brief outline
00:37:26.960of their vision for the future and how they will how they intend to achieve that vision
00:37:34.080And then after that, we'll have a break and then we'll have a roundtable and ask, or I should put it this way, and permit questions to be answered by the individual presenters.
00:37:51.520So I think that's going to be kind of exciting.
00:37:53.640We hope to live stream it to a few hundred thousand people in the province or more.
00:38:19.960I'm really surprised myself at how many requests we have for presentations throughout the province.
00:38:29.860So I think we're doing a good job, you know, getting this movement going.
00:38:36.720I love the idea of, you know, working with Rob Anderson and his Free Alberta Strategy, if we can get him to, and he's going to be speaking as well.
00:38:47.120you might be having a connection here uh dr modry uh i understand perhaps you're living in a rural
00:39:02.620area i know i've been enjoying that in in prittis we'll see if you come back on but if not uh we'll
00:39:08.080just kind of close this off we're getting to the end so just a reminder to everybody as he was
00:39:12.120saying. There's a lot of events. Go to albertaprosperityproject.com and you can see
00:39:17.800what they're up to there. And if you can still hear me there, Dr. Modry, I appreciate you coming
00:39:23.880on to join us today. As I said, our viewers were looking forward to it and they appreciated the
00:39:29.320talk today. I hope we can talk again soon as your movement progresses. Okay, but I believe the
00:39:36.260internet bugs have gotten Dr. Modry, but as you can find more follow-up and I do hope we can
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00:40:41.040we can remain never taking a single nickel from the government and we won't. Now I noticed some
00:40:46.980talk about with Dave Rubin, some people saying he's still, um, not necessarily credible because
00:40:51.860he's, uh, him and his husband are, uh, um, they've got a surrogate, a surrogate set up and they're,
00:40:57.620they're going to be adopting a child. I got to make it clear, guys, I'm a social liberal. Don't
00:41:01.560make mistakes about who I am. And I'm just thrilled that Mr. Rubin and his husband are doing that.
00:41:05.080and I'm sure they're going to make fantastic parents, and it's great, and I got no issue with
00:41:10.900that whatsoever. I have no concerns about what his personal life is, and his political views
00:41:15.980are very common sense and cutting and conservative in all the right ways, but we do have stuff that
00:41:22.780is going over the edge and crazy, particularly with all this gender crap, like I was talking1.00
00:41:26.960about with the pronouns in the bio of the person, you know, that was hired at another show that
00:41:32.460blowing them up. Either way, you know, we're just getting nuts when we have, you know, pre-operative
00:41:38.620men competing with women in sports. There was a case, I guess, with a bicyclist, though, in a bike
00:41:43.560race as a transgender was actually refused. They finally said, no, you're not competing against
00:41:48.500women. It is an unfair advantage. I mean, we've got to face the physiological reality, so we've1.00
00:41:53.360got to get around it, but we can still have some fun with some of these things, too. So I'm going
00:41:56.760to read a list from the Babylon Bee. That's a spoof site. You know, I don't really have an
00:42:01.500April Fool's joke on the go today, but I like some humor now and then. And these guys have their
00:42:08.300questions on whether or not you're a man, because apparently that's pretty confusing lately. We don't
00:42:12.120know necessarily if you are a man. So they asked the questionnaire so you can find out. Number one,
00:42:18.040do you pretend to enjoy cigars? Number two, is it uncomfortable crossing your legs for some reason?
00:42:24.200And you know, it's funny, Justin Trudeau never has a problem with that. Number three, do you stand by
00:42:30.400open car hoods, pointing and gesturing. Yeah, we like to pretend we know what the hell we're doing
00:42:34.700in there. Number four, can you effortlessly win at every women's sport? That's an important1.00
00:42:40.320distinction. Number five, do you enjoy thinking about absolutely nothing for long periods of time?
00:42:48.200I think there's some women who have that trade as well, so I'm not sure if that one1.00
00:42:50.600fully lines it up, but that does cover us a bit. Number six, are you incapable of finding the milk
00:42:55.680in the fridge even when staring directly at it? Number seven, do you refer to a team of professional
00:43:00.960athletes who have no idea who you are as we? Number eight, can you navigate unfamiliar roads
00:43:07.220but are hopelessly lost in a mall? Number nine, do you pause Lord of the Rings 800 times to provide
00:43:13.020your own commentary on the plot? Number 10, would you be completely and utterly helpless without
00:43:18.440your spouse? Number 11, did you think about sex 27 times while reading this list? 28, 29, good grief.
00:43:25.680Number 12, here's a big one, do you have XY chromosomes? So if your score, as if
00:43:32.940you were keeping track of that and checking on any and all of those off, if
00:43:35.920your score is over six, you're probably a man. I can't say for sure though,
00:43:39.680because I'm not a biologist, and apparently you have to be to determine
00:43:43.920these genders. So yes, there's a line to be walked. Again, I have no issues with a1.00
00:43:50.280couple of men being married, a couple of women, as long as they're happy, it's
00:43:53.300consensual it's adult good be happy go out and do things adopt children hey as long as your great
00:43:58.180parents come on we got a lot of horrible parents out there who were male and female there's no
00:44:02.700assurances they're going to be good parents just because a couple is uh uh if you know uh straight
00:44:08.700so uh i'm certain there will be uh some unfortunately bad gay parents and such too
00:44:14.240and there's a lot of kids just need good unified families raising them and i'm thrilled when i see
00:44:19.680that happen, but we also see these movements, these woke movements going absolutely bananas, and
00:44:25.360you know, with this stuff about, you know, trying to pretend that a man swimming amongst a bunch of
00:44:32.000women is a realistic, a competitive thing to do. Again, if that person wants to identify as a woman,1.00
00:44:39.560she, that's fine, but come on guys, sports, there's just physiological realities we have to face.
00:44:45.240We're getting beyond the pale here now. You can't change that.
00:45:49.440You choose your policies or at least your reactions or your electoral strategies based on it.
00:45:54.640But you see, a party should spend their own bloody money on that.
00:45:56.960They should be getting it from donors.
00:45:58.640They should be getting it, you know, from supporters so they can pay for their polling.
00:46:02.120But in this case, the federal government uses cabinet polling.
00:46:04.640They use your tax dollars to see if and when it's a good time for them to call an election.
00:46:09.600You know, and don't think for a second that this alliance between the liberals and NDP is going to make it all the way until 2025, as they claim.
00:46:19.880And a large part of what's going to cue that for them is polling.
00:46:24.100The liberals are going to be polling like crazy.
00:46:25.840And as soon as they think they can win a majority, you know, as issues go up and down over the next couple of years, they will pull the pin without hesitation.
00:49:51.820That's going to be a big, big handicap trying to climb back up.
00:49:55.160I think she'll be great in government again.
00:49:57.920I don't know what leadership will see as things unfold and so on.
00:50:00.700She's very, very smart, very good policies, very common sense, but, again, has that handicap of making that extremely poor judgment and crossing the floor back in, you know, some years ago with the Wildrose Party.0.67
00:50:15.820and whether or not enough people will forgive it.
00:50:18.560As we see with like Tyler Volstad saying,
00:50:20.200Smith is dead to me, we wouldn't have gotten the NDP
00:50:44.560I guess you could say going forward. We'll see. But what a crazy time we are in federally,
00:50:50.040provincially. We've got this race going on in Alberta. Well, it's not even a race. It's the
00:50:55.200leadership review. The battles that are going on, you know, the changing of the rules. Kenny's
00:51:01.120fighting for his political life. A large groundswell is fighting against him. That party,
00:51:06.360if Kenny maintains it and stays at the head, is clearly going to split. There's some MLAs
00:51:10.080are going to have to leave the party and cross the floor to somewhere or just be independents.
00:51:14.560Federally, yeah, we got, I don't know, we got 10 federal leadership candidates now. I got Roman Babber, who's going to be on a minute ago. And I've interviewed about four or five others, and I'm hoping to interview each and every one of them. But this is a very wide spectrum in the federal race going on right now. Where that'll go, it's hard to say. There's quite some diversity. I'm just going to check really quickly, see if I've heard from Roman there. No.
00:51:39.260um and uh yeah like we don't know that whether this next conservative leader is going to be
00:51:46.860another um prime minister for canada or if it's going to be another opposition leader i mean
00:51:52.340their shelf life hasn't been all that fantastic uh as of late you know sheer and o'toole didn't
00:51:58.360make it very long before the their own parties essentially tossed by the wayside so uh the
00:52:04.380visions this time are quite different though and i mean something i i'm hoping i can get mr
00:52:09.140Babylon. Like there's been a few issues I've had trouble with, like, like supply management. I
00:52:13.640can't find any one of these guys really willing to knock off that ridiculous, nasty Soviet era0.98
00:52:18.540policy. And the reason for it is we have an extremely strong dairy lobby. They call it
00:52:24.660cartels. It's what it is in Canada. You know, it's that, that system that protects a small number
00:52:29.280of quota holders and these quotas, they're, they're assets. They're very expensive. Some of
00:52:34.100these places that are worth millions of dollars, you can't just devalue it and flush it. You will
00:52:38.180be sued. I understand that. But it's time for that system to go. That system was in other countries
00:52:44.260before, like in New Zealand and Australia. They got rid of theirs. They bought out the quotas. It
00:52:48.240takes a little while, but they get it out. And I've been very disappointed with these leadership
00:52:52.120candidates, though, that none of them are willing to take on those cartels. They just don't have
00:52:55.900the courage to do it. Pierre Polyev, you know, said, no, it would cost more to get rid of it
00:53:00.800than to keep it, which I don't agree with or believe. At least he gave an honest answer where
00:53:04.860sits on it. But these cartels really get to these leadership contenders and they donate a lot of
00:53:09.740money because there's big money in protectionism. Leslyn Lewis, she went on about actually some of
00:53:17.380the myths, one of which I should have called her on, but I'm trying to be nicer to these candidates
00:53:21.660as I bring them on, at least for the first round. I don't want to be not nice, but I'll be a little
00:53:25.780more cutting as we get future interviews. But she gave that myth about American milk having a high
00:53:29.940puss content. Guys, that's BS. That's baloney. And that's the sort of crap that the, again,
00:53:35.440Canadian dairy cartel spreads out there and is not true whatsoever. And none of these conservative
00:53:41.720candidates will tackle that one. And I mean, some people get mad. I use the term and I'll keep using
00:53:46.700it. I call it the Soviet style supply management system because that's exactly what it is. And for
00:53:52.920those unfamiliar with it, I mean, it sounds so benign. Supply management, so what? Well,
00:53:56.700its complete control by the government of the entire industry. I mean, how do you think of
00:54:03.300anything more Soviet than making it illegal for you to sell something you made, something you
00:54:08.560own? Because that's what it does. If you have, you go and get some cows and start milking them and
00:54:14.400try to sell your milk without getting a government quota, they will throw you in jail. It is against
00:54:19.820the law. You have to buy one of those quotas from somebody else, most of whom, by the way, are in
00:54:24.260Quebec. It's no coincidence as well. These candidates don't want to stir up Quebec on that
00:54:29.760one, but that's what you have to do. You can own chickens. I did, you know, for the first time in
00:54:34.760a while today, I didn't get teased about how I had to cull my flock last week, but either way,
00:54:39.200you can own chickens up to 300, which if you're in a commercial situation, isn't that many. As
00:54:45.780soon as you have 301, if you don't have a quota and you sell one of those chickens, you will go
00:54:50.220to jail. Turkeys, same thing. Eggs, as Ashley is pointing out, same thing. That's all under the
00:54:57.120supply management. And it's all a bunch of lies when people try to justify it and say why we have
00:55:02.200to keep it. Look, the beef industry doesn't need supply management. The pork industry doesn't need
00:55:07.500supply management. All sorts of other industries do not need it. We don't need it with the dairy
00:55:13.240here. And we really got to stop that one. There's been a number of studies and papers done on supply
00:55:18.140management showing that it costs the average family anywhere from $500 to $800 a year. And
00:55:22.920these are older studies. So it's probably gone up with inflation these days, especially with food
00:55:26.020on their grocery bill, because they're paying that much more for their dairy, poultry, and
00:55:30.380eggs, which are staples. And they go into every other part of food too, right? So
00:55:36.320man, you know, that's what starts getting somebody frustrated. That's where you start seeing
00:55:41.800independence-minded people. That's when I start seeing and realizing that our system's broken.
00:55:51.280When we have a bunch of people who literally have conservative in the name of their party,
00:55:55.680and not a one has the courage to take on a Soviet-era policy, a Soviet-style policy.
00:56:03.720The last one to do it was Bernier, and if people remember that race, that was actually the big turning point0.92
00:56:08.200where Scheer thought it was cute, actually, at a dinner to do his thing and show the milk mustache,
00:56:13.180because people knew he got bought by the dairy cartel.
00:56:15.420That was the thing. And Bernier wouldn't. And it cost Bernier the leadership. But we've got more of them to talk to. I do hope Mr. Babber makes it on soon. We'll see what happens, I guess. But that's one of the issues I've asked every one of them on. And yes, it hasn't looked very promising for them.
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01:01:42.300give me some good contents, guys. Yeah, cheese smugglers. I'd buy from them for sure. Yeah,
01:01:46.560Alberta free. You know, if I could, I would have when I had my bar. Things I would do. My mother's
01:01:51.040American, I'd go down to Idaho to visit sometimes. And literally I would buy, you know, hit the Costco
01:01:55.540and get a big thing of the Parmesan cheese and bring it home. Because again, a giant thing of
01:01:59.940good Parmesan, we're talking a quarter of the price. I mean, I couldn't bring back massive
01:02:04.440amounts or I could have gotten in big trouble at the border. But even then it would save me some
01:02:07.960money and help offset my cost of gas for going down on the visit. So yeah, you know, we were
01:02:16.240into a strange world and our leadership candidates, again, if they won't take on such a no-brainer
01:02:21.700as supply management, why won't they? I mean, there's the other, I saw a commenter saying,
01:02:26.500oh, but the Americans have GMO theoretically and Canada is just theoretically free. Guys,
01:02:31.220it's all regulation. It's all labeling. Some down in the States allows GMO, some doesn't.
01:02:36.900Individual producers are allowed to do it. That's the way competition works. It's a good thing.
01:02:41.640And in Canada, there is no competition. You can't. I mean, sure, they set their quality standards high, but the quality standards in the States are not low. That's a myth. That's BS. BS. And we pay through the nose for it. And it hurts us. We get in crap with trade agreements. It's one of the things whenever we get in the trade fight with other countries, European and American, they bring up, well, you guys protect your dairy and that's unfair. So we want concessions over here and here. It puts a thorn into our general
01:03:11.640trade issues. Uh, somebody else saying butter as well. Yeah. It's half the price. All of those
01:03:16.360dairy products. And these are things, you know, you won't export raw milk and things like that
01:03:21.160typically, but you can export cheeses, butters, and these things are done a lot. New Zealand found
01:03:26.720when they got rid of their supply management system. So I'm going to bust a few more myths
01:03:29.980because it's a big beef with me that one. Um, supply management advocates keep saying
01:03:34.840that it protects the small family farm. That's absolutely untrue. It's completely easily to
01:03:40.320blow that myth out of the water. It's a lie. When supply management was brought about, there were
01:03:44.720thousands and thousands of small dairy farms across Canada. Now there's hundreds and they're
01:03:50.520huge operations. They're big commercial operations. And again, most of them are in Quebec. Part of
01:03:55.700supply management worry was about having stable food supplies. That's fair enough. But that's
01:04:00.000because you had a number of items that don't keep well for shipping. But you got to remember
01:04:03.600refrigeration wasn't as good back then. Refrigerated trucking, as well as, you know, processes for
01:04:08.760pasteurization. There wasn't as big of markets for exporting specialty things like cheeses and
01:04:13.600butter and stuff like that. Freezing. We can sell chicken now. We can sell turkey. We can eggs
01:04:19.920actually keep for a fairly long time. We don't need this system. Otherwise, pork producers would0.95
01:04:25.140have to have it. Somebody else brought up the wheat board. You got to remember, socialists all
01:04:28.660said, oh, the world's going to end if we get rid of the wheat board. The grain farmers are all
01:04:32.220going to be toast. No, they weren't. They were fine. We got to get rid of these archaic market
01:04:36.860control policies they're they're hurting us all uh vince is asking how bee honey is sold
01:04:42.020that one i think is fairly unregulated i got a beehive i'm actually starting my bees are coming
01:04:46.260at the end of the month i'm pretty excited about that so i'm not going into it commercially you
01:04:49.620know it'd be a hobby um but i think honey is fairly uh lightly regulated i mean there's there's a
01:04:55.680registry for hives and you know for the commercial ones and things that you got to follow um one of
01:05:01.500the nice things with honey i mean it's amazing it travels and it keeps very well and i guess
01:05:04.480Canadian honey is very high in demand particularly our stuff from up north northern Saskatchewan
01:05:08.800northern Alberta all that alfalfa and clover and uh even the canola and that it really makes for
01:05:13.760really good product apparently as far as the honey goes you can export those things but there's no
01:05:18.120supply management system there you can start your own beekeeping business if you want and try and
01:05:23.200set up there we go yeah Calvin's on board okay yeah Calvin knows far more about the honey
01:05:28.840industry than I do and as he said it's not supply managed there's there's some simple regulations
01:05:33.220but it's easy. And that's the way every business should be. I mean, I believe I'm not an anarchist.
01:05:38.340As I said, I'm a classical liberal. I want minimal government, but I understand we've got to have
01:05:43.600some. And I want minimal regulations, but I got to understand we have some. If somebody was,
01:05:48.880I don't know, padding their honey products with some sort of fake product to make it,
01:05:54.240you know, go farther, I want to see them busted for that. I believe in effective labeling,
01:05:58.960you know, when it comes to the GMO things and stuff like that. As long as there's clear labeling,
01:06:02.880I don't have an issue with it typically. People can make up their own minds. I mean,
01:06:06.240most science says GMO is fine anyways, but if a person's uncomfortable with it, they should have
01:06:10.000the right to know what's in what they're purchasing and choose appropriately and let
01:06:15.040competition in the free market deal with it. Let consumers get what they want. We don't get that in
01:06:20.240dairy. We don't get it in chicken. We don't get it in turkey. We don't get it in eggs. And we don't
01:06:25.680have a single bloody conservative candidate willing to strongly come out against that.
01:06:29.840and that's sad because i mean we got a lot of other big policies that are pretty bad for canada
01:06:35.280that we need candidates to come out against and um they aren't on the block for it yet so
01:06:42.640where else is what else are you not going to touch because it's politically uh not expedient that
01:06:46.960that really worries me a lot with these guys but we'll keep on them their campaign's long it's
01:06:50.800going all the way until september 10th so sometime between now and then i will track down mr babber
01:06:55.440and find out why he stood us up today. And we will get him on and talk to him. But as Ashley is
01:07:01.560pointing out too, pasteurized and unpasteurized honey are available. Yeah. So again, it's consumer
01:07:07.000choice, right? As long as it's labeled and people know what they're getting, why not? You know,
01:07:10.980whether you think it's one is better or worse than the other. It's beautiful that way. But we've got
01:07:15.180a lot of people of a mindset that hate the free market. They want the government to control
01:07:20.880anything and everything. They don't think we can be trusted with our own markets to take care of
01:07:27.460things. Babber's done a good job in Ontario. He seems good, but I'm curious why he hasn't shown
01:07:31.500up after taking a long time to respond to interview requests. Is he unresponsive and unreliable? I
01:07:36.960don't know. I can't speak for that. I mean, you know, we all make mistakes. A campaign is a crazy
01:07:41.580time. I'm not gonna get on his case at this point about it or anything like that. I mean, we'll find
01:07:47.780out what happened it was a scheduling confusion one of the things that keeps happening a lot with
01:07:51.620guests and I keep trying to drive it home to them I put it in big bold print for the interview time
01:07:55.460MST we are on mountain standard time and we've had a number of guests make that mistake
01:08:01.460and just didn't get the time zone right and they don't make it on time for an interview so we keep
01:08:07.980pushing that it's the challenges as I said of being live I love being live that interaction
01:08:12.580with you guys and with the guests and stuff like that but once in a while it leads to these kinds
01:08:16.000a, you know, snafus, but it's not the end of the world. As you can see, I can babble at length on
01:08:20.820issues as we go. Here's Casey Willis, university administrators, professors of six-figure incomes,
01:08:27.020preaching socialism and whining for more government funding. Yeah, that's another huge area. And
01:08:31.100another area politicians are terrified of is academia and how sick our school's been getting.
01:08:35.740There's a fantastic guy out there, Gad Saad, who's, you know, an academic, and he wrote a book called
01:08:41.340the parasitic mind that really goes in and lays out a whole bunch of how nasty and sick the woke0.94
01:08:47.660world is in the universities and academia. And of course, that's impacting and influencing the
01:08:52.540students who are coming out. And yeah, these profs make some big frigging money. And they're
01:08:58.220protected. They're protected by tenure. They can put out their crazy stuff. And the students aren't
01:09:01.640much better. Unless you're on the wrong side. We found that with Professor Whittowson in Calgary
01:09:05.820You know, at Royal University, she wasn't woke enough and she went into subjects they didn't like.
01:09:11.840In her tenure, it appears, didn't protect her and they still managed to fire her, which is a frightening development as well while we're at it.