Western Standard - LIVE SHOW - Triggered： Safety of children has to come before union interests.

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00:00:30.000 good morning it's april 1st 2022 welcome to triggered i'm cory morgan happy carbon tax

00:00:40.800 increase day if you hadn't noticed i mean in alberta actually we reduced some gasoline taxes

00:00:46.520 so your price went down a little bit at the pump today but for most of canada it went up and of

00:00:51.620 course ours would have gone down further had we not had justin trudeau's carbon tax slapping us

00:00:56.660 in the face today but hey we got to save the world apparently it comes at a big price it's also

00:01:02.020 april fool's day but unfortunately that uh tax increase is all too real and it's going to impact

00:01:07.080 fertilizer uh foodstuffs distribution everything when you when you tax energy you put a price on

00:01:14.520 everything so we're starting april with of course uh beginning but it will get better as the month

00:01:19.940 goes along so it's a reminder to everybody this is a live show comments are welcome i mean by all

00:01:24.840 means bring them in uh let's talk back and forth you know we got pamela from monte lake bc kathy 0.99

00:01:29.760 scott all you guys jumping in there i like to see that interaction you know that makes the difference

00:01:33.900 makes why we don't do these recorded like so many other shows having that uh going on the fly sort

00:01:39.940 of thing and possibly bringing in some commentary from viewers and guests is uh just helps make the

00:01:45.980 show more lively of course you know we get the odd technical issue and then we just got to run

00:01:49.200 with it as well but hey at least you never know what you're necessarily going to get either do i

00:01:53.180 which helps keep me gray while I'm going. So let's see what today's guests. We've got Dr.

00:01:58.160 Dennis Modery from the Alberta Prosperity Project. He's going to be on and explaining what that is.

00:02:03.720 We've had a number of commenters actually saying, bring him on. And, you know, they want to hear

00:02:08.520 more about this Alberta Prosperity Project. So of course, we reached out and Dr. Modery is going

00:02:12.620 to come on and talk to me today about that. And after that, Conservative Party of Canada

00:02:16.800 leadership candidate Roman Babber. You might remember he was an Ontario member of provincial

00:02:22.000 parliament. He got kicked out of caucus, Doug Ford's caucus, because he was too outspoken

00:02:27.500 against the mandates and things. Now he's running for the leadership of the federal party and we'll

00:02:32.860 see how that's been going for him. So let's get on to what's got me going today. I'm going to say

00:02:39.020 some good news and give some kudos for a change. Yeah, it's not an April Fool's thing. Jason

00:02:44.680 Kenny's UCP government got one right with Bill 15. It's a much needed piece of legislation and

00:02:49.720 I got to commend them for their courage to put it forth. Many prior governments have been too

00:02:53.640 cowardly to take on public service unions and it's led us into the mess we're enjoying today.

00:02:58.840 Now, the Alberta Teachers Union is on the warpath, of course, over this. They're indignant,

00:03:03.160 outraged, and spitting righteous ire. Union head Jason Schilling has called Bill 15 a

00:03:09.080 vindictive piece of legislation designed to punish the Alberta Teachers Union.

00:03:13.800 Now, before I get on to what Bill 15 is, let's break down what the Alberta Teachers Union is.

00:03:18.760 they call themselves the alberta teachers association let's not beat around the bush

00:03:23.240 they are a union the alberta teachers association takes mandatory dues from teachers does collective

00:03:29.880 bargaining on behalf of teachers and has the ability to initiate labor actions including

00:03:35.000 strikes that makes the alberta teachers association a trade union by every definition

00:03:41.080 the fact that they hide from that definition illustrates the disingenuous nature of their

00:03:45.480 organization. The authority and the reach of the Alberta Teachers Union is far too wide. They've

00:03:50.800 been acting under multiple guises, and now it's putting, or has been for quite some time, puts the

00:03:55.440 safety of students at risk. I mean, the union pretends to be little more than a governing body

00:03:59.660 for the profession of teaching, much like any other professional organizations and associations,

00:04:04.000 but it's not. It's through that role, though, that the union has assumed responsibility for

00:04:09.660 the investigation and adjudication of teacher misconduct. Now, as a union, the Alberta Teachers

00:04:14.980 Association can't effectively act as the organization in charge of teacher discipline.

00:04:19.120 It's an obvious conflict of interest, at least obvious to anybody outside from a teacher's

00:04:23.800 union advocate. So the UCP's Bill 15 is going to take the role of investigation and adjudication

00:04:29.460 of teachers' misconduct out of the hands of the union. It'll go into an independent body

00:04:33.920 to investigate and look into any allegations of misconduct on the part of teachers.

00:04:38.540 Of course, the union's gone nuts. There have been numerous cases, though, of serious teacher

00:04:44.100 misconduct, earning weak disciplinary follow-up and hearings conducted by the teachers union.

00:04:49.900 Over the years, provincial education ministers have repeatedly had to actually intervene

00:04:53.980 and impose stronger sanctions in the case of teacher misconduct. Due to a class action lawsuit

00:04:59.920 filed against the Calgary Board of Education on behalf of students allegedly sexually assaulted

00:05:05.540 by teacher Michael Gregory, the Alberta teachers union and their conflict of interest in disciplinary

00:05:11.520 issues has been it was really brought into the spotlight i mean the teachers union investigated

00:05:15.920 the actions of gregory included that he had assaulted students and they recommended a

00:05:20.160 suspension of his teaching certificate naughty nasty naughty mr gregory despite being aware of

00:05:25.120 the criminal nature though of gregory's actions the union chose not to report it to the police

00:05:30.560 when they were asked about it union representative jonathan teitmeyer said

00:05:33.840 the union's not under any obligation to report potential criminal behavior of teachers to the

00:05:37.600 the police. Citizens were aghast. Don't these guys have any sense of responsibility towards

00:05:43.080 the safety of the children? Do they really need it laid out in written terms why it might be

00:05:47.700 important to report knowledge of potential child sex abuse to police? The Teachers Union feels that

00:05:52.880 they shouldn't have to. I mean, that shows how disconnected they are and where their role is.

00:05:58.500 Now, the head of the Teachers Union, Jason Schilling, he made this galling statement in the

00:06:02.080 case of Michael Gregory. He said, as a result of our processes, this teacher was removed from the

00:06:06.800 profession and never taught again. Hey, this is true. Gregory never did teach again. He had a

00:06:12.180 short suspension, didn't come back to teaching, but furthermore, he committed suicide a while ago.

00:06:17.800 Schilling neglected to mention that part. So, I mean, because Gregory was criminally charged with

00:06:22.200 sexually assaulting the students. Once the police finally found out, no thanks to the union, they

00:06:26.320 charged him and he killed himself. But for Schilling to take effort or take credit for ending

00:06:33.240 the teaching career of the man who ended it through suicide, that's pretty vile. The teaching

00:06:38.360 profession is going to lose nothing in having the union removed from its role as a disciplinary

00:06:43.180 body. If anything, Albertans are going to feel more comfortable entrusting their children to

00:06:47.140 public schools in the knowledge that an independent body is going to be looking out for the safety of

00:06:51.100 their children rather than a self-serving union. Trust in the entire profession will grow. The only

00:06:56.820 teachers who would be upset with the teachers union not running disciplinary hearings are

00:07:00.500 teachers who feared they might actually be facing one of those disciplinary hearings.

00:07:04.620 The union's furious about losing authority in an area that they never should have had authority in

00:07:08.980 in the first place. When it comes to disciplinary actions, the Alberta Teachers Union has consistently

00:07:13.820 put the interests of teachers ahead of those of students. This puts students in danger,

00:07:18.820 and the practice has to stop. I mean, how could it not put the teachers' interests first? It's a union.

00:07:26.000 That's what they do. Let's go farther back to show how this has been going on. In 2014,

00:07:31.740 Education Minister Jeff Johnson was forced to overturn 20% of the cases that came before him

00:07:36.580 during his term. And here's three of the cases that Minister Johnson overruled the union

00:07:41.520 recommendations and imposed a lifetime ban for the teachers involved. The teachers union recommended

00:07:46.320 a two-year suspension for Darcy Robert Steele, who'd been found to have yelled at, kicked furniture

00:07:51.340 at and thrown things at his grade five and six students. He'd also been criminally convicted,

00:07:56.760 you know, not accused, criminally convicted of assaulting children in 2010. The teachers union

00:08:04.420 thought we should just give him a two-year suspension. Thankfully, the minister overrode

00:08:08.140 them and said, no, this guy's done for good. Baron Schnapp was given a four-year suspension

00:08:12.660 from the union for talking to students about penile and clitoral tattoos and piercings, 0.99

00:08:17.580 along with texting back and forth with a student about masturbation. 0.99

00:08:22.220 Well, again, thank you, Mr. Johnson. 0.55

00:08:24.340 He stepped in and said, I don't care what the union thinks. 0.92

00:08:26.360 This pervert is gone.

00:08:28.780 The union also felt that a three-year teaching suspension for Amanda Chilton 0.99

00:08:32.000 was appropriate after she had a sexual affair with one of her students 0.50

00:08:34.980 and attempted to cover it up. 0.99

00:08:36.440 Again, the union feels that perverts who sexually touch students

00:08:40.200 are all right if they just get a short suspension.

00:08:42.680 Not good enough.

00:08:44.040 they shouldn't be shocked when we're taking away the disciplinary power from these guys. It's

00:08:48.240 ridiculous. And that was just over the period of two years. Every one of those teachers now, 0.96

00:08:53.340 they'd be back teaching if the union's judgments weren't overturned by the minister. By the way,

00:08:57.580 when the NDP was in power, David Agin was the minister. He didn't overturn a single one.

00:09:03.880 Wow. Shows the NDP are owned by the unions. We can never forget that. Governments are typically

00:09:08.680 terrified of taking on labor unions, particularly those unions with teachers and nurses. It's so

00:09:13.980 it's refreshing to see Minister LaGrange taking such a definitive stance on an issue sure to

00:09:18.520 bring some heavy blowback upon the UCP government from the Teachers Union. Unions jealously guard

00:09:23.440 their authority, and they will fight back against any efforts to have it reduced. So let's hope the

00:09:27.560 government stands strong in this move. They've been prone to sagging under pressure at times.

00:09:32.000 When it comes to new government bills, though, this one should be a no-brainer. The safety of

00:09:35.380 children has to come before union interests. That's what I got for my rant today. Now, let's

00:09:42.420 check in with the news guys. We've got Eva Sudeik coming in, our reporter, to tell us what's been

00:09:48.420 happening at the Western Standard newsroom. Hey, Eva, how's it going? Good. How are you, Corey?

00:09:53.740 Pretty good. You know, like I said, it's an upsetting issue I was ranting about, but

00:09:57.520 we're seeing perhaps some positive movement towards stopping it. So, I mean, it's a nice change.

00:10:02.840 Good. Good to hear, but bad subject for sure. Happy Friday and happy April 1st.

00:10:10.240 well thanks I celebrate it every year yeah it's good for you along with April

00:10:15.920 1st in the newsroom comes federal tax increases this year along with the

00:10:20.320 alcohol tax increase comes carbon tax it is up 25% today people in Saskatchewan

00:10:27.200 are outraged as yesterday the provincial government voted against providing

00:10:31.120 relief by suspending provincial fuel tax this morning the gas hit 188.9 cents in

00:10:39.280 Regina and the provincial fuel tax if it had been taken away by the government it would have saved

00:10:46.560 people 15 cents per liter they're pretty jealous of us in Alberta here I haven't checked the gas

00:10:52.000 prices today but I know that Kenny's um provincial tax came off today yes I believe we we have a

00:10:59.280 reporter at a conference uh that I think premier Kenny's holding right away now yeah I think it

00:11:05.360 starts at 11 so rachel will have something on that later today and kenny's comments and her

00:11:10.400 very interesting questions i'm sure for kenny looking forward to it yeah um with the carbon

00:11:16.480 tax being raised today pierre polivier um polliver polliver paul yes stop listening to derek it's

00:11:24.160 paulia you're right pauliev i just just a habit now you know i have to change especially if he

00:11:30.960 becomes pm so we'll get used to it um so he held an axa carbon tax rally last night he talked about

00:11:38.640 just inflation and how much worse canada is getting for freedom um and the carbon tax and

00:11:45.920 how outraged he is on that i'm working on a story with alberta's environment minister jason nixon

00:11:52.400 his comments to federal environment minister stephen gilbo uh nixon rejected the federal 2030

00:11:59.120 emissions reduction plan he said it will only raise the cost of living for everyone

00:12:04.880 and the he really um said that he believes the that lack of consulting on a government part

00:12:11.200 led to this plan being approved mel attended a press conference this morning and she'll have

00:12:17.440 more info up later on danielle smith and her living stone mcleod ucp nomination

00:12:23.440 um she's also looking into response from the city on the offensive comment on the blue line

00:12:31.120 on police badges and their alleged white supremacy um corey i know you were ranting on your show

00:12:37.040 earlier so that'll be interesting to have a perspective from the city on what does it mean

00:12:41.680 and what do they think about those comments yeah it'll be good to hear some follow-up i mean that's

00:12:46.240 been left hanging other news hasn't touched that but we had a pretty senior city communications

00:12:51.520 official outright say that a number of police officers were wearing that patch directly it

00:12:57.400 wasn't implying it or anything he said a lot of them is what he said were wearing it because they

00:13:01.580 wanted to see a white supremacist police state so i i think that deserves an answer it definitely

00:13:07.420 does so um they're actually looking all over the city for someone to respond to mel she said

00:13:12.920 a lot of um pushing her one way and the other so hopefully we can get good comment on that

00:13:17.740 an explanation um canada their board our border regulations changed today now fully vaccinated

00:13:25.340 travelers no longer need to show negative coveted result to get into the country

00:13:31.180 canada is also on the international stage as the pope apologized today in the vatican for

00:13:37.580 the catholic church's involvement in residential schools i'll have a story up on that later today

00:13:43.820 and people's response to it how do they feel how do the people that canada sent indigenous native

00:13:51.180 people um what do they think about the pope's apology and what he said about them um a leaked

00:13:58.140 memo from the cfo of telus asked employees yesterday to participate in transgender day

00:14:04.300 by attending pro-gender ideology workshops and using pronouns in their email signatures

00:14:10.620 Our reporter Amanda is working on that and that'll be up later today too.

00:14:16.940 What we do have up right now is Ottawa is to rename the Trans Mountain Pipeline after backlash

00:14:23.020 from trans advocates. There are many colorful comments in there by politicians like our

00:14:29.580 Prime Minister and Pierre Pollyve. Now you got me mixed up you know. Oh you'll get used to it.

00:14:40.620 even comments about Caitlyn Jenner and her being named in the new pipeline.

00:14:47.100 Well, that's a very interesting read. I know that story garnered a lot of attention this morning.

00:14:51.660 Yes, our readers should definitely go check it out and see what that's all about.

00:14:59.100 What else? Amanda is interviewing Canadian veteran James Topp, who has been walking

00:15:04.700 across canada in protest of covid mandates um we will have that live interview up on our website

00:15:10.940 later today um he has made it all the way from vancouver to calgary so far or lethbridge and

00:15:16.540 then he'll be in calgary tomorrow and i believe he's going to speak at the freedom rally tomorrow

00:15:20.700 as well so there are many fans who will be excited for that one and yeah i had lots of tees today but

00:15:28.300 not much up on the site so far with our payday and whatnot going on um but that's all for news that

00:15:33.660 we got right on well yes uh it's been a busy day in the newsroom so just to remind everybody it is

00:15:39.260 all uh coming up and going to be on the website soon and i know i'm enjoying bugging you about

00:15:44.620 mr paulia's uh pronunciation of his name but as a person of eastern european descent you've

00:15:49.660 probably seen how terribly i've ruined and fumbled over many of our eastern european guests names

00:15:54.780 so uh don't worry you'll get plenty of chances to bug me about my uh pronunciation efforts later

00:15:59.020 I'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

00:16:05.580 you pronounce it? Oh, well, let's just make sure that I pronounce it correctly, but we'll fix that

00:16:09.800 up. Yeah, you've been saying Eva, right? So, okay. Thanks so much for having me, Corey. Thanks for

00:16:14.800 checking in. We'll talk to you later. Talk to you later. So yeah, guys, a whole lot is coming up

00:16:20.020 today. A whole lot is in the cooker today. Usually we've got a whole bunch of stories posted by now.

00:16:24.180 we've got a few absolutely as we said the trans mountain uh issue there with the trans gender

00:16:29.580 community has been a hot story as well as some others and they're all popping up there um

00:16:34.500 amanda's uh exclusive interview with with james top is definitely going to be an interesting one

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00:18:12.540 so yes we've got lots going as i said dr modry should be on pretty soon i'm looking forward to

00:18:19.960 that and we'll cover a few of the things there uh some of those things as well i mean

00:18:24.640 speaking of gender pronouns and so on i i know i've been somewhat following the the dark comedy

00:18:31.120 of uh you know as we see independent media growing and so on uh i i mixed as i watched

00:18:37.760 the ryan jesperson shows explosion up in edmonton for people who are familiar with it but either way

00:18:41.800 he had a producer who was very woke and very high strung and she had a meltdown on the show

00:18:48.720 and stomped off it and there's a number of things behind it if you want to look up all of that but

00:18:52.780 now after his show has been shut down over that for the last couple of weeks it's supposed to

00:18:59.540 come back next week she has announced she will not be coming back and that she doesn't feel safe on

00:19:03.800 the show and she's torpedoing his show from afar as a former employee it's just something else to

00:19:09.440 watch. It doesn't help the industry in general, even if left-leaning shows lose it. I just hope

00:19:14.840 they learn from this. Don't hire crazy woke people. If you see a Twitter profile with all 0.56

00:19:20.920 the gender pronouns and settler within it, you might want to reconsider putting that person on

00:19:26.860 your payroll because it dynamited what was still a show representing a point of view that need to

00:19:31.080 be heard out there. We'll see if he can recover from that. But hopefully there's some lessons

00:19:36.900 learned. Dave Rubin, I was thinking of him as an example of this. You know, he's a podcaster,

00:19:43.020 personality in the States. He wrote a great book. I really like his point of view. And he started as

00:19:47.240 a left-wing commentator. Actually, he was always very quite left-wing. And he got his butt handed

00:19:53.420 to him by Larry Elder in an interview. And it was an epiphany for Mr. Rubin, though, when he realized 0.98

00:20:01.600 that, man, you know what? I've been kind of wrong and full of crap for the last few years on this 0.96

00:20:05.260 leftist stuff and he converted and he's gone classical liberal and he's he's very you know 0.95

00:20:09.060 conservative minded and it's been fantastic like so don't write off you know some of these

00:20:13.660 personalities who are far over there people can wake up and come on and and Ruben has been

00:20:18.160 fantastic so maybe now that Mr. Jesperson has just learned what happens when you build a career on

00:20:22.460 woke people and they'd cut the legs out from underneath you without a moment's hesitation

00:20:27.820 perhaps you're on the wrong side of things because he still could have a heck of a lot to offer he's

00:20:32.280 a smart guy, interviews people. I mean, he's very experienced with it more so than me.

00:20:36.460 That show has a place, but we'll see if they learn from that whole fiasco over there or they don't.

00:20:41.260 As alternative media grows, all of us are going to be learning some interesting lessons. So I'll

00:20:45.440 bring somebody in more interesting than my rambling now, and that is Dr. Dennis Modry.

00:20:49.200 He's in the lobby, and he's going to talk to us about the Alberta Prosperity Project.

00:20:53.660 So without ado, there we go. Hey, Dr. Modry, how are you doing?

00:20:57.380 I'm excellent, Corey. Delighted to be on your show.

00:21:00.000 Great. 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.

00:21:18.380 Well, 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.

00:21:40.520 So fundamentally, the Alberta Prosperity Project falls under the Alberta Prosperity Society, which is a registered society.

00:21:53.220 The 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.

00:22:14.060 But 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,

00:22:38.660 it makes it pretty clear to most people that the opportunity to fix Alberta's circumstances

00:22:47.520 in Confederation is extremely difficult. But yet we understand, Corey, that there's a significant

00:22:53.740 number of people in Alberta. And actually, you'll know this from the Angus Reid survey from

00:23:00.200 January the 4th, in which 73% of Albertans polled were disillusioned with the federal

00:23:09.840 government. So the question is, is what do we do? So the point is, is there really fundamentally

00:23:14.740 two major paradigms in Alberta, there are those people who would like Alberta to stay in

00:23:19.620 confederation, but have a much better deal. And then there are those people who want Alberta to

00:23:24.500 become a new sovereign constitutional republic. What's unifying between these two paradigms

00:23:32.320 is that neither objective is possible because Alberta has no leverage. It has no negotiating

00:23:41.340 power in order to achieve independence within Canada or independence untethered to Canada.

00:23:47.980 So 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.

00:24:08.720 So 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,

00:24:28.860 which will accelerate the process of taking control of policing, pensions, immigration,

00:24:36.460 employment insurance, provincial tax collection, which sets the stage for the collection of federal

00:24:41.920 taxes as well. But in addition, has new regulatory arrangements for ATB and service credit union to

00:24:51.840 get them out from under the control of the federal government. That would protect depositors

00:24:57.660 from CRA and from the federal government.

00:25:01.300 And we've seen how Albertans can be seriously compromised

00:25:05.780 from during the trucker revolt

00:25:10.240 and how many people were concerned who made contributions

00:25:13.440 that their accounts were frozen.

00:25:15.100 So that sort of thing would be eliminated.

00:25:17.900 But the beauty of that referendum on independence

00:25:20.320 is that once you've achieved those objectives

00:25:22.700 that I just outlined,

00:25:24.680 you have that referendum on independence

00:25:27.220 and I believe it will be very successful and highly successful,

00:25:32.520 then the Albertican government can then go to Ottawa

00:25:35.340 and negotiate for a period of not more than 6 to 12 months.

00:25:40.120 And if Alberta doesn't get the deal that it wants, 0.97

00:25:42.540 it now has the moral and legal legitimacy to say to Albertans,

00:25:46.840 we are now a sovereign nation.

00:25:50.920 And so really that's the idea.

00:25:54.020 So we need to, as part of this project,

00:25:57.780 We need to educate people on the three potential outcomes.

00:26:05.220 One 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.

00:26:13.080 The other is to try and negotiate a better deal, and the other is to achieve independence.

00:26:21.580 Those are really the only three outcomes.

00:26:25.940 Either we do nothing and we know what's coming.

00:26:29.600 It's not often we know the future, but we sure do know it now.

00:26:35.020 Or, like I say, we can chart a new path forward, trying to fix Alberta circumstances and confederation or becoming a new constitutional republic.

00:26:44.480 But here's the key thing, is we don't have time.

00:26:47.020 We don't have time for constitutional wranglings which take 10 or 20 years or longer to resolve.

00:26:55.080 We know what's coming with the WEF-UN Agenda 2030 with respect to our oil and gas industry.

00:27:03.660 We've seen what's been proposed just even the other day with respect to what's coming regarding taxation of SUVs, etc.

00:27:14.060 You 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.

00:27:24.640 So we need Albertans to be educated on what it's going to take to chart that new path forward.

00:27:31.680 So we're setting up educational chapters throughout the province.

00:27:34.800 I think we've got about 40 set up.

00:27:36.420 There's about 70 in the wings.

00:27:37.780 we'll probably wind up having 200 or so uh set up within probably two or three months and um

00:27:45.760 that's the uh that's the essence of what we're all about cory happy to answer any questions though

00:27:51.660 great yeah well you've been i've been looking into it and you've been holding a lot of very

00:27:55.060 well attended meetings and quite a large schedule of a lot more to come uh something that was

00:28:00.360 interesting though i mean looking on this the site and uh you definitely are looking strongly

00:28:05.720 at a partisan approach to some things too. I mean, there's proposed party bylaws or

00:28:09.480 constituency association rules, theoretically, if those would come, but there are already a couple

00:28:14.740 of parties on the scene too, that are registered anyways, that are taking an independence approach.

00:28:21.840 Are you looking at forming a new party or merging or? No, no, absolutely not, Corey. It's really

00:28:27.860 critical for people to understand that we must remain a nonpartisan, non-profit organization.

00:28:34.660 We do not want to fall under the contribution limits that are in place by Elections Alberta, for one thing.

00:28:45.160 So we're nonpartisan. We do not want to be a super PAC or anything like that.

00:28:49.940 We want to educate Albertans to understand what the future will be if they do nothing

00:28:57.560 and what the future could be if we do something amazing that's never been done before.

00:29:04.660 So we absolutely are not going to become a party.

00:29:08.460 Now, 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,

00:29:29.480 looking at it from the perspective of the UCP bylaws and policies.

00:29:38.360 And we took into account every party's, even federal party's policies and governments.

00:29:45.380 We worked with three constitutional lawyers to draft that material.

00:29:49.140 So this is what we are recommending for a government to implement in terms of policies, governance and bylaws.

00:29:58.540 And 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.

00:30:06.900 It talks about the policies of a sovereign constitutional republic.

00:30:10.800 And 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.

00:30:20.120 okay no i appreciate that clarification because as i said you know i'm probably not the only one

00:30:25.560 who perhaps got confused about the mandate and agenda so that's good to see because i mean we

00:30:30.920 are seeing unfortunately some very ugly uh partisan games going on on the well pretty

00:30:36.360 much every level of government but uh with some better uh management and guiding documents perhaps

00:30:42.200 some of that could have been avoided i agree with you so uh would your organization now as

00:30:49.560 it grows be considering looking into uh i saw a couple of other commenters like uh encouraging

00:30:54.760 this sort of movement or fostering that in neighboring provinces and other provinces as

00:30:59.160 well well it's interesting that you asked that question because yes we've had requests from

00:31:04.680 central okanagan in bc and we've had requests from saskatchewan they want to adopt our platform in

00:31:11.560 terms of you know our educational messaging uh so there's a lot more coming corey um we've been

00:31:18.680 working with rapid boost the marketing and advertising company they're an international

00:31:23.560 company and so you know you'll see a lot more material that will be coming we'll obviously

00:31:31.480 we'll be working with um advertising or marketing our educational platform with western standard

00:31:39.880 and really virtually all of the media platforms that are in existence radio television legacy

00:31:48.040 media, alternate media, and social media in particular. So yeah, that's really where we

00:31:57.580 are right now. And we're just rolling things out with Rapid Boost as we speak.

00:32:02.800 Great. And it's been, like I said, interesting to watch. I mean, there's been a lot of new

00:32:06.040 organizations. We've got great tools at our disposal that we never had in the past. Like

00:32:09.780 way back when I was an independence activist, we didn't have the sort of social media like we do

00:32:14.220 today but you guys have gone beyond that too and gone back in the sense of holding a lot of in-person

00:32:18.700 meetings because not everybody's keen on on uh webinars and and uh facebook postings and twitter

00:32:24.300 and such they still like that traditional getting together in a room and discussing and moving

00:32:28.620 forward it seems to be working well for you guys well so far um yeah i mean it's really fun actually

00:32:35.260 you know having these events and then having particularly the part i love the best really is

00:32:40.140 is the Q&A. And Tanner Nadeh, who's our extremely bright economist, who's on our board and speaks

00:32:49.480 extremely well with respect to economic issues, you know, working with him and others on this

00:32:57.100 project is, and there are many, many, there are thousands of people that are behind this movement.

00:33:03.040 And but at these events, it's an opportunity to meet people, to talk to them in person, to answer their questions in person.

00:33:11.600 And 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.

00:33:20.960 And 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.

00:33:30.960 And one of the things that they engender as well is the interest by people to set up educational chapters and to become volunteers.

00:33:43.020 And, you know, putting it all together, I think, you know, we have a heart for Alberta.

00:33:49.340 We love Alberta and we want to protect Alberta in a way in which it's never been protected in 116 years.

00:33:55.400 And 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.

00:34:18.320 And 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.

00:34:41.820 But then again, it gives people hope for a better future.

00:34:47.000 But 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.

00:35:05.980 Because as you know, 3.5% of the population will control the outcome of the election.

00:35:13.500 And 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.

00:35:34.640 So 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.

00:35:49.000 But, you know, there's no reason, for example, that the UCP couldn't adopt these policies.

00:35:56.860 There's no reason why the UCP couldn't combine with the Wild Rose Party and adopt these policies.

00:36:02.880 There's no reason why those two parties couldn't align with other parties and adopt these policies.

00:36:09.660 The 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.

00:36:19.600 Well, that's great. I always appreciate more, just more discourse and movement towards

00:36:24.180 independence. I feel that the Canadian system personally, I've said that a lot of times is

00:36:27.680 actually broken and we need some sort of catalyst to repair it, whether it's the full independence

00:36:32.480 of a province and provinces or at least coming to the brink so much the Canadians are finally

00:36:36.940 willing to re-examine how we're sitting. So I like the direction you're going in. I see you've got a

00:36:41.640 couple of events coming up. There's going to be one in Stetler tonight, it looks like, and one in

00:36:45.420 sherwood park tomorrow where can people uh find information on you guys your website and your

00:36:50.660 social media presence and such well if you just go if you just go onto the website you'll see the um

00:36:55.640 the events advertised and the um and the locations as well um so they should they should be there if

00:37:04.300 you just scroll down a bit there's the sherwood park one uh for example now i i should tell you

00:37:09.600 we've got something interesting coming up next next Saturday in Red Deer we've done something

00:37:16.680 unique we've invited all of the political parties in the province to to provide a brief outline

00:37:26.960 of their vision for the future and how they will how they intend to achieve that vision

00:37:34.080 And 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.

00:37:51.520 So I think that's going to be kind of exciting.

00:37:53.640 We hope to live stream it to a few hundred thousand people in the province or more.

00:37:59.080 And we'll see which parties show up.

00:38:01.940 We don't know yet.

00:38:02.700 We've got some confirmation, but we'll be advertising that soon.

00:38:11.320 Yeah, so here's the list.

00:38:13.560 I think there's 10 or 11.

00:38:15.040 We've got a whole bunch more.

00:38:17.720 I mean, it's pretty remarkable, Corey.

00:38:19.960 I'm really surprised myself at how many requests we have for presentations throughout the province.

00:38:29.860 So I think we're doing a good job, you know, getting this movement going.

00:38:36.720 I 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.

00:38:47.120 you might be having a connection here uh dr modry uh i understand perhaps you're living in a rural

00:39:02.620 area i know i've been enjoying that in in prittis we'll see if you come back on but if not uh we'll

00:39:08.080 just kind of close this off we're getting to the end so just a reminder to everybody as he was

00:39:12.120 saying. There's a lot of events. Go to albertaprosperityproject.com and you can see

00:39:17.800 what they're up to there. And if you can still hear me there, Dr. Modry, I appreciate you coming

00:39:23.880 on to join us today. As I said, our viewers were looking forward to it and they appreciated the

00:39:29.320 talk today. I hope we can talk again soon as your movement progresses. Okay, but I believe the

00:39:36.260 internet bugs have gotten Dr. Modry, but as you can find more follow-up and I do hope we can

00:39:41.100 we can talk to them in the future as things develop. So I'm going to get back to, I didn't

00:39:45.940 say after the news, I do have to start talking about how we pay our bills and that is through

00:39:50.300 subscribers. So, you know, all those stories that Eva was talking about, all the new exclusive

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00:40:36.040 take it on, allow us to keep moving like this, you know, sponsors and subscribers. And that way

00:40:41.040 we can remain never taking a single nickel from the government and we won't. Now I noticed some

00:40:46.980 talk about with Dave Rubin, some people saying he's still, um, not necessarily credible because

00:40:51.860 he's, uh, him and his husband are, uh, um, they've got a surrogate, a surrogate set up and they're,

00:40:57.620 they're going to be adopting a child. I got to make it clear, guys, I'm a social liberal. Don't

00:41:01.560 make mistakes about who I am. And I'm just thrilled that Mr. Rubin and his husband are doing that.

00:41:05.080 and I'm sure they're going to make fantastic parents, and it's great, and I got no issue with

00:41:10.900 that whatsoever. I have no concerns about what his personal life is, and his political views

00:41:15.980 are very common sense and cutting and conservative in all the right ways, but we do have stuff that 0.97

00:41:22.780 is going over the edge and crazy, particularly with all this gender crap, like I was talking 1.00

00:41:26.960 about with the pronouns in the bio of the person, you know, that was hired at another show that 0.99

00:41:32.460 blowing them up. Either way, you know, we're just getting nuts when we have, you know, pre-operative

00:41:38.620 men competing with women in sports. There was a case, I guess, with a bicyclist, though, in a bike

00:41:43.560 race as a transgender was actually refused. They finally said, no, you're not competing against

00:41:48.500 women. It is an unfair advantage. I mean, we've got to face the physiological reality, so we've 1.00

00:41:53.360 got to get around it, but we can still have some fun with some of these things, too. So I'm going

00:41:56.760 to read a list from the Babylon Bee. That's a spoof site. You know, I don't really have an

00:42:01.500 April Fool's joke on the go today, but I like some humor now and then. And these guys have their

00:42:08.300 questions on whether or not you're a man, because apparently that's pretty confusing lately. We don't

00:42:12.120 know necessarily if you are a man. So they asked the questionnaire so you can find out. Number one,

00:42:18.040 do you pretend to enjoy cigars? Number two, is it uncomfortable crossing your legs for some reason?

00:42:24.200 And you know, it's funny, Justin Trudeau never has a problem with that. Number three, do you stand by

00:42:30.400 open car hoods, pointing and gesturing. Yeah, we like to pretend we know what the hell we're doing

00:42:34.700 in there. Number four, can you effortlessly win at every women's sport? That's an important 1.00

00:42:40.320 distinction. Number five, do you enjoy thinking about absolutely nothing for long periods of time?

00:42:48.200 I think there's some women who have that trade as well, so I'm not sure if that one 1.00

00:42:50.600 fully lines it up, but that does cover us a bit. Number six, are you incapable of finding the milk

00:42:55.680 in the fridge even when staring directly at it? Number seven, do you refer to a team of professional

00:43:00.960 athletes who have no idea who you are as we? Number eight, can you navigate unfamiliar roads

00:43:07.220 but are hopelessly lost in a mall? Number nine, do you pause Lord of the Rings 800 times to provide

00:43:13.020 your own commentary on the plot? Number 10, would you be completely and utterly helpless without

00:43:18.440 your spouse? Number 11, did you think about sex 27 times while reading this list? 28, 29, good grief.

00:43:25.680 Number 12, here's a big one, do you have XY chromosomes? So if your score, as if

00:43:32.940 you were keeping track of that and checking on any and all of those off, if

00:43:35.920 your score is over six, you're probably a man. I can't say for sure though,

00:43:39.680 because I'm not a biologist, and apparently you have to be to determine

00:43:43.920 these genders. So yes, there's a line to be walked. Again, I have no issues with a 1.00

00:43:50.280 couple of men being married, a couple of women, as long as they're happy, it's

00:43:53.300 consensual it's adult good be happy go out and do things adopt children hey as long as your great

00:43:58.180 parents come on we got a lot of horrible parents out there who were male and female there's no

00:44:02.700 assurances they're going to be good parents just because a couple is uh uh if you know uh straight 0.84

00:44:08.700 so uh i'm certain there will be uh some unfortunately bad gay parents and such too

00:44:14.240 and there's a lot of kids just need good unified families raising them and i'm thrilled when i see

00:44:19.680 that happen, but we also see these movements, these woke movements going absolutely bananas, and

00:44:25.360 you know, with this stuff about, you know, trying to pretend that a man swimming amongst a bunch of

00:44:32.000 women is a realistic, a competitive thing to do. Again, if that person wants to identify as a woman, 1.00

00:44:39.560 she, that's fine, but come on guys, sports, there's just physiological realities we have to face.

00:44:45.240 We're getting beyond the pale here now. You can't change that.

00:44:48.680 You try, but you can't change it.

00:44:51.400 Let's see. Here's some interesting stuff anyways.

00:44:55.220 The government did some polling on vaccine politics prior to the last federal election.

00:45:01.140 They were polling on vax mandates and found they were most divisive in regions where the liberals didn't hold many seats.

00:45:06.280 They basically realized liberals like the mandates and liberal supporters do and conservative supporters don't.

00:45:13.000 And this was just days before Trudeau called that snap elections.

00:45:17.140 And regionally, there's some notable differences.

00:45:22.120 And Atlantic Canada, for example, showed unanimous support for vaccine passports on flights.

00:45:28.660 And Alberta and Saskatchewan were unanimous in opposing it.

00:45:31.720 This is stuff we kind of already know anyways.

00:45:34.080 What kind of gets to me, though, is see, this is polling done on the government dime.

00:45:38.320 Polling is very expensive.

00:45:40.120 You know, polling for political parties is a part of the lifeblood of the party.

00:45:44.240 There's no avoiding it.

00:45:45.660 It's important to them.

00:45:47.520 You're always measuring.

00:45:48.500 You're always checking.

00:45:49.440 You choose your policies or at least your reactions or your electoral strategies based on it.

00:45:54.640 But you see, a party should spend their own bloody money on that.

00:45:56.960 They should be getting it from donors.

00:45:58.640 They should be getting it, you know, from supporters so they can pay for their polling.

00:46:02.120 But in this case, the federal government uses cabinet polling.

00:46:04.640 They use your tax dollars to see if and when it's a good time for them to call an election.

00:46:09.600 You 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.

00:46:19.100 It won't.

00:46:19.880 And a large part of what's going to cue that for them is polling.

00:46:24.100 The liberals are going to be polling like crazy.

00:46:25.840 And 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.

00:46:33.860 Again, that's just the way it goes.

00:46:35.400 We shouldn't have to pay for that.

00:46:36.760 that shouldn't be coming out of our dollars as taxpayers. They should pay for their own

00:46:41.140 bloody polling information. What else did we have? Yeah, somebody was asking something about 0.89

00:46:48.440 Danielle Smith. I'm not sure if you're going to repeat that question, but Danielle's back in the

00:46:51.880 race. You know, something I found interesting, I'm not sure I was asking about earlier.

00:46:56.120 So Danielle's going to run down in Livingstone McLeod, and that's a constituency just down south. 0.91

00:47:03.040 they really rejigged things. In Prittis, in my place, it used to actually be Livingstone McLeod

00:47:07.760 and then the NDP changed all the borders and everything because they were trying to

00:47:12.000 save their member out in Banff Cochrane as it was at that time. So they

00:47:16.040 changed it to Banff Canaanaskis and then High River is no longer actually in Highwood any longer

00:47:22.500 and Livingstone McLeod is where High River is and that's where Danielle resides. So she's going to

00:47:29.620 run for the nomination, um, for that spot. And, uh, she's never, she's not making bones about it

00:47:36.340 that if the leadership role becomes open, she will run for the leadership. And she's also said if,

00:47:41.900 if Jason Kenney stays within it with power, she'll stay on as an MLA, which is, I guess something

00:47:48.320 that, uh, Brian Jean didn't say as far as, cause we know darn well, Jean isn't going to stay if he

00:47:53.380 can't be leader. He's kind of proven that before, but, uh, some, nobody's been asking, maybe somebody

00:47:59.600 else can answer this for me, is we've got, what's his name, Roger Reed, and he's the MLA down in

00:48:07.200 Livingstone McLeod. He's the incumbent one there right now. Is he stepping aside? Is he planning

00:48:14.200 to step aside? Or does Danielle just feel he's, you know, replaceable in the nomination that she

00:48:20.960 can knock off the incumbent? Just some questions that we didn't quite ask. You know, Dave did a

00:48:25.440 a very good interview with Danielle yesterday, covered a lot of ground on things like that.

00:48:29.880 But that was one that wasn't hit. And I'm kind of wondering, because that nomination isn't a sure

00:48:32.920 thing for Danielle Smith either. I mean, if Reid holds, you know, it's hard to knock off an

00:48:38.720 incumbent. And if he holds a strong campaign, Danielle's campaign might be stopped right in

00:48:43.840 the gates when she's trying to go for the nomination. So that story is far from done

00:48:47.620 with what's going on with Danielle Smith. It's still interesting to see that she's interested

00:48:51.220 in getting back into politics. I mean, I've known Danielle a long time. I was very involved in the 0.68

00:48:57.200 Wildrose Party in the past. I was on the executive when Danielle won the leadership. It's a long

00:49:03.020 story I'll tell one day, but the night when it got leaked that she was doing that mass floor 0.95

00:49:07.980 crossing, I was a part of the ones leaking that out. I was very upset at that time. I mean, I

00:49:14.140 certainly hadn't talked to Danielle for a couple of years after that crossing and that mess.

00:49:18.100 We've been in communication again since, of course.

00:49:20.320 I mean, I've had her on the show, and we've seen her right here.

00:49:22.620 You know, we've kind of let those bygones by bygones.

00:49:25.200 I haven't taken it personally, and I still greatly respect her.

00:49:28.700 I thought she was fantastic in radio, and she's great in broadcast in general or writing.

00:49:36.760 I'm not sure about the jump back into politics.

00:49:39.480 It's going to be very difficult, I think.

00:49:42.940 You know, one of the problems is just it's trust, right?

00:49:45.040 So we'll see.

00:49:45.820 I mean, Danielle's well aware that that's a challenge. 1.00

00:49:47.940 We've heard that in the interviews and in talking to her.

00:49:50.620 Can she overcome those, though?

00:49:51.820 That's going to be a big, big handicap trying to climb back up.

00:49:55.160 I think she'll be great in government again.

00:49:57.920 I don't know what leadership will see as things unfold and so on.

00:50:00.700 She'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

00:50:15.820 and whether or not enough people will forgive it.

00:50:18.560 As we see with like Tyler Volstad saying,

00:50:20.200 Smith is dead to me, we wouldn't have gotten the NDP

00:50:21.680 if she didn't cross the floor.

00:50:23.160 Jackie saying, splitting the vote.

00:50:25.000 Alberta Free saying, she can't be trusted, 1.00

00:50:28.980 I believe it was, when it went up the scroll.

00:50:31.660 So this is, you know, June saying, Albertans remember.

00:50:35.620 See, so Danielle's got a very big battle 1.00

00:50:39.080 to try and convince a lot of people that she's learned

00:50:41.620 and her judgment will be more stable,

00:50:44.560 I guess you could say going forward. We'll see. But what a crazy time we are in federally,

00:50:50.040 provincially. We've got this race going on in Alberta. Well, it's not even a race. It's the

00:50:55.200 leadership review. The battles that are going on, you know, the changing of the rules. Kenny's

00:51:01.120 fighting for his political life. A large groundswell is fighting against him. That party,

00:51:06.360 if Kenny maintains it and stays at the head, is clearly going to split. There's some MLAs

00:51:10.080 are going to have to leave the party and cross the floor to somewhere or just be independents.

00:51:14.560 Federally, 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.

00:51:39.260 um and uh yeah like we don't know that whether this next conservative leader is going to be

00:51:46.860 another um prime minister for canada or if it's going to be another opposition leader i mean

00:51:52.340 their shelf life hasn't been all that fantastic uh as of late you know sheer and o'toole didn't

00:51:58.360 make it very long before the their own parties essentially tossed by the wayside so uh the

00:52:04.380 visions this time are quite different though and i mean something i i'm hoping i can get mr

00:52:09.140 Babylon. Like there's been a few issues I've had trouble with, like, like supply management. I

00:52:13.640 can't find any one of these guys really willing to knock off that ridiculous, nasty Soviet era 0.99

00:52:18.540 policy. And the reason for it is we have an extremely strong dairy lobby. They call it 0.96

00:52:24.660 cartels. It's what it is in Canada. You know, it's that, that system that protects a small number

00:52:29.280 of quota holders and these quotas, they're, they're assets. They're very expensive. Some of

00:52:34.100 these places that are worth millions of dollars, you can't just devalue it and flush it. You will

00:52:38.180 be sued. I understand that. But it's time for that system to go. That system was in other countries

00:52:44.260 before, like in New Zealand and Australia. They got rid of theirs. They bought out the quotas. It

00:52:48.240 takes a little while, but they get it out. And I've been very disappointed with these leadership

00:52:52.120 candidates, though, that none of them are willing to take on those cartels. They just don't have

00:52:55.900 the courage to do it. Pierre Polyev, you know, said, no, it would cost more to get rid of it

00:53:00.800 than to keep it, which I don't agree with or believe. At least he gave an honest answer where

00:53:04.860 sits on it. But these cartels really get to these leadership contenders and they donate a lot of

00:53:09.740 money because there's big money in protectionism. Leslyn Lewis, she went on about actually some of

00:53:17.380 the myths, one of which I should have called her on, but I'm trying to be nicer to these candidates

00:53:21.660 as I bring them on, at least for the first round. I don't want to be not nice, but I'll be a little

00:53:25.780 more cutting as we get future interviews. But she gave that myth about American milk having a high

00:53:29.940 puss content. Guys, that's BS. That's baloney. And that's the sort of crap that the, again, 0.71

00:53:35.440 Canadian dairy cartel spreads out there and is not true whatsoever. And none of these conservative 0.99

00:53:41.720 candidates will tackle that one. And I mean, some people get mad. I use the term and I'll keep using

00:53:46.700 it. I call it the Soviet style supply management system because that's exactly what it is. And for

00:53:52.920 those unfamiliar with it, I mean, it sounds so benign. Supply management, so what? Well,

00:53:56.700 its complete control by the government of the entire industry. I mean, how do you think of

00:54:03.300 anything more Soviet than making it illegal for you to sell something you made, something you

00:54:08.560 own? Because that's what it does. If you have, you go and get some cows and start milking them and

00:54:14.400 try to sell your milk without getting a government quota, they will throw you in jail. It is against

00:54:19.820 the law. You have to buy one of those quotas from somebody else, most of whom, by the way, are in

00:54:24.260 Quebec. It's no coincidence as well. These candidates don't want to stir up Quebec on that

00:54:29.760 one, but that's what you have to do. You can own chickens. I did, you know, for the first time in

00:54:34.760 a while today, I didn't get teased about how I had to cull my flock last week, but either way,

00:54:39.200 you can own chickens up to 300, which if you're in a commercial situation, isn't that many. As

00:54:45.780 soon as you have 301, if you don't have a quota and you sell one of those chickens, you will go

00:54:50.220 to jail. Turkeys, same thing. Eggs, as Ashley is pointing out, same thing. That's all under the

00:54:57.120 supply management. And it's all a bunch of lies when people try to justify it and say why we have

00:55:02.200 to keep it. Look, the beef industry doesn't need supply management. The pork industry doesn't need

00:55:07.500 supply management. All sorts of other industries do not need it. We don't need it with the dairy

00:55:13.240 here. And we really got to stop that one. There's been a number of studies and papers done on supply

00:55:18.140 management showing that it costs the average family anywhere from $500 to $800 a year. And

00:55:22.920 these are older studies. So it's probably gone up with inflation these days, especially with food

00:55:26.020 on their grocery bill, because they're paying that much more for their dairy, poultry, and

00:55:30.380 eggs, which are staples. And they go into every other part of food too, right? So

00:55:36.320 man, you know, that's what starts getting somebody frustrated. That's where you start seeing

00:55:41.800 independence-minded people. That's when I start seeing and realizing that our system's broken.

00:55:47.140 It's more than just policies, guys.

00:55:51.280 When we have a bunch of people who literally have conservative in the name of their party,

00:55:55.680 and not a one has the courage to take on a Soviet-era policy, a Soviet-style policy.

00:56:03.720 The last one to do it was Bernier, and if people remember that race, that was actually the big turning point 0.92

00:56:08.200 where Scheer thought it was cute, actually, at a dinner to do his thing and show the milk mustache,

00:56:13.180 because people knew he got bought by the dairy cartel.

00:56:15.420 That 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.

00:56:37.080 You know, and here's another story coming up.

00:56:38.540 Cost of living to go higher.

00:56:40.480 Inflation is likely to remain high and climb even higher,

00:56:43.140 the Statistics Canada told the Commons Finance Committee.

00:56:45.280 Again, they're almost stating the obvious.

00:56:46.840 I think we all kind of knew that.

00:56:50.200 Analysts say they'll have to change methods used to account for some price gains

00:56:53.640 that explain the difference between Canada and USA.

00:56:56.540 But yeah, we're seeing the price of everything rising,

00:56:58.840 and our differential between the United States and Canada is a large part of that.

00:57:02.540 Well, one of the most blatant and straightforward ones, again, is the dairy.

00:57:07.220 Go down there, check out the price of cheese in the States.

00:57:09.320 Boy, it's a fraction of what we pay over here.

00:57:13.060 Things like that.

00:57:13.960 And there's another story.

00:57:15.900 Oh, yes, this is back to crime doesn't pay.

00:57:18.460 And this ties into another product that people forget that is supply managed in Canada, actually, is maple syrup.

00:57:24.840 It really is.

00:57:26.420 And the Supreme Court ruled yesterday and upheld a steep fine against a ringleader in the biggest maple syrup heist in Canadian history.

00:57:35.760 So Parliament's sending a clear message, this is from their quotes, that crime doesn't pay,

00:57:39.540 and thus attempting to discourage individuals from organizing themselves and committing profit-driven crimes.

00:57:43.960 So I think most, well, I guess it depends on the crimes.

00:57:45.580 Yeah, there's violent crimes and things, but a lot of the property crimes are profit-driven.

00:57:49.520 So the syrup case, Chief Justice Wagner, gives the court an opportunity to clarify the scope

00:57:56.540 of judicial discretion. So in 2011, Richard Valère of St. Louis de Blandford, Quebec,

00:58:05.080 was a leading syrup bootlegger. Yeah, this is what happens when the government screws with

00:58:09.240 the market. This is how it came about. We had syrup bootleggers. As absurd as that sounds,

00:58:14.340 it's true. Because when the government screws with the market, the price goes through the roof

00:58:19.080 and black markets form. You get bootleggers. It happened when liquor was banned. It happened a

00:58:24.700 long time ago when cigarette prices went way high in Canada through taxes, but they weren't in the

00:58:28.640 States. So a massive cigarette smuggling industry built up in the 80s and 90s in Canada, and Canada

00:58:34.000 actually cut their taxes to stop that. Well, the supply management of maple syrup led to this

00:58:39.800 bootlegging. So this guy conspired with 16 accomplices to steal 9,500 barrels from a warehouse,

00:58:46.600 and uh he admitted to operating in black market syrup for 10 years like there's a cottage black

00:58:54.480 market syrup industry can you get any more canadian than that uh either way acknowledged

00:59:01.020 his only income between 2012 and 2011 was from selling maple syrup um wow you know and and a

00:59:08.600 story if you go farther back and i believe it was in toronto and montreal and i know this from owning

00:59:12.820 a pub that's sold pizza. Cheese is a huge expense. You think so, don't think about, but

00:59:17.760 cheese is massive. I was spending $10,000 a month in cheese, and I was in a small pub.

00:59:22.440 What would be $10,000 a month? Yeah, I was getting close to that. Because, I mean, the most expensive

00:59:26.180 part of a pizza, guys, is cheese. Pizzas give good margins and everything, but the cheese costs

00:59:31.160 you a lot, and those big blocks of mozzarella we'd have to grind up. Very expensive. Well,

00:59:37.480 this cheese, there was actual cheese smugglers who were smuggling it up to restaurants in Toronto

00:59:42.280 in Montreal from the United States because hey that makes a big difference in your bottom line

00:59:46.160 again it shows how anything if the government will regulate anything too much black market people

00:59:51.980 mafia and so on will actually take advantage of it and create a bigger black market and that's 0.99

00:59:58.020 happening with dairy products which is how how stupid it is um you know let's talk about one 0.98

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01:01:42.300 give me some good contents, guys. Yeah, cheese smugglers. I'd buy from them for sure. Yeah,

01:01:46.560 Alberta free. You know, if I could, I would have when I had my bar. Things I would do. My mother's

01:01:51.040 American, I'd go down to Idaho to visit sometimes. And literally I would buy, you know, hit the Costco

01:01:55.540 and get a big thing of the Parmesan cheese and bring it home. Because again, a giant thing of

01:01:59.940 good Parmesan, we're talking a quarter of the price. I mean, I couldn't bring back massive

01:02:04.440 amounts or I could have gotten in big trouble at the border. But even then it would save me some

01:02:07.960 money and help offset my cost of gas for going down on the visit. So yeah, you know, we were

01:02:16.240 into a strange world and our leadership candidates, again, if they won't take on such a no-brainer

01:02:21.700 as supply management, why won't they? I mean, there's the other, I saw a commenter saying,

01:02:26.500 oh, but the Americans have GMO theoretically and Canada is just theoretically free. Guys,

01:02:31.220 it's all regulation. It's all labeling. Some down in the States allows GMO, some doesn't.

01:02:36.900 Individual producers are allowed to do it. That's the way competition works. It's a good thing.

01:02:41.640 And 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

01:03:11.640 trade issues. Uh, somebody else saying butter as well. Yeah. It's half the price. All of those

01:03:16.360 dairy products. And these are things, you know, you won't export raw milk and things like that

01:03:21.160 typically, but you can export cheeses, butters, and these things are done a lot. New Zealand found

01:03:26.720 when they got rid of their supply management system. So I'm going to bust a few more myths

01:03:29.980 because it's a big beef with me that one. Um, supply management advocates keep saying

01:03:34.840 that it protects the small family farm. That's absolutely untrue. It's completely easily to

01:03:40.320 blow that myth out of the water. It's a lie. When supply management was brought about, there were

01:03:44.720 thousands and thousands of small dairy farms across Canada. Now there's hundreds and they're

01:03:50.520 huge operations. They're big commercial operations. And again, most of them are in Quebec. Part of

01:03:55.700 supply management worry was about having stable food supplies. That's fair enough. But that's

01:04:00.000 because you had a number of items that don't keep well for shipping. But you got to remember

01:04:03.600 refrigeration wasn't as good back then. Refrigerated trucking, as well as, you know, processes for

01:04:08.760 pasteurization. There wasn't as big of markets for exporting specialty things like cheeses and

01:04:13.600 butter and stuff like that. Freezing. We can sell chicken now. We can sell turkey. We can eggs

01:04:19.920 actually keep for a fairly long time. We don't need this system. Otherwise, pork producers would 0.95

01:04:25.140 have to have it. Somebody else brought up the wheat board. You got to remember, socialists all

01:04:28.660 said, oh, the world's going to end if we get rid of the wheat board. The grain farmers are all

01:04:32.220 going to be toast. No, they weren't. They were fine. We got to get rid of these archaic market

01:04:36.860 control policies they're they're hurting us all uh vince is asking how bee honey is sold

01:04:42.020 that one i think is fairly unregulated i got a beehive i'm actually starting my bees are coming

01:04:46.260 at the end of the month i'm pretty excited about that so i'm not going into it commercially you

01:04:49.620 know it'd be a hobby um but i think honey is fairly uh lightly regulated i mean there's there's a

01:04:55.680 registry for hives and you know for the commercial ones and things that you got to follow um one of

01:05:01.500 the nice things with honey i mean it's amazing it travels and it keeps very well and i guess

01:05:04.480 Canadian honey is very high in demand particularly our stuff from up north northern Saskatchewan

01:05:08.800 northern Alberta all that alfalfa and clover and uh even the canola and that it really makes for

01:05:13.760 really good product apparently as far as the honey goes you can export those things but there's no

01:05:18.120 supply management system there you can start your own beekeeping business if you want and try and

01:05:23.200 set up there we go yeah Calvin's on board okay yeah Calvin knows far more about the honey

01:05:28.840 industry than I do and as he said it's not supply managed there's there's some simple regulations

01:05:33.220 but it's easy. And that's the way every business should be. I mean, I believe I'm not an anarchist.

01:05:38.340 As I said, I'm a classical liberal. I want minimal government, but I understand we've got to have

01:05:43.600 some. And I want minimal regulations, but I got to understand we have some. If somebody was,

01:05:48.880 I don't know, padding their honey products with some sort of fake product to make it,

01:05:54.240 you know, go farther, I want to see them busted for that. I believe in effective labeling,

01:05:58.960 you know, when it comes to the GMO things and stuff like that. As long as there's clear labeling,

01:06:02.880 I don't have an issue with it typically. People can make up their own minds. I mean,

01:06:06.240 most science says GMO is fine anyways, but if a person's uncomfortable with it, they should have

01:06:10.000 the right to know what's in what they're purchasing and choose appropriately and let

01:06:15.040 competition in the free market deal with it. Let consumers get what they want. We don't get that in

01:06:20.240 dairy. 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

01:06:25.680 have a single bloody conservative candidate willing to strongly come out against that.

01:06:29.840 and that's sad because i mean we got a lot of other big policies that are pretty bad for canada

01:06:35.280 that we need candidates to come out against and um they aren't on the block for it yet so

01:06:42.640 where else is what else are you not going to touch because it's politically uh not expedient that

01:06:46.960 that really worries me a lot with these guys but we'll keep on them their campaign's long it's

01:06:50.800 going all the way until september 10th so sometime between now and then i will track down mr babber

01:06:55.440 and find out why he stood us up today. And we will get him on and talk to him. But as Ashley is

01:07:01.560 pointing out too, pasteurized and unpasteurized honey are available. Yeah. So again, it's consumer

01:07:07.000 choice, right? As long as it's labeled and people know what they're getting, why not? You know,

01:07:10.980 whether you think it's one is better or worse than the other. It's beautiful that way. But we've got

01:07:15.180 a lot of people of a mindset that hate the free market. They want the government to control

01:07:20.880 anything and everything. They don't think we can be trusted with our own markets to take care of

01:07:27.460 things. Babber's done a good job in Ontario. He seems good, but I'm curious why he hasn't shown

01:07:31.500 up after taking a long time to respond to interview requests. Is he unresponsive and unreliable? I

01:07:36.960 don't know. I can't speak for that. I mean, you know, we all make mistakes. A campaign is a crazy

01:07:41.580 time. I'm not gonna get on his case at this point about it or anything like that. I mean, we'll find

01:07:47.780 out what happened it was a scheduling confusion one of the things that keeps happening a lot with

01:07:51.620 guests and I keep trying to drive it home to them I put it in big bold print for the interview time

01:07:55.460 MST we are on mountain standard time and we've had a number of guests make that mistake

01:08:01.460 and just didn't get the time zone right and they don't make it on time for an interview so we keep

01:08:07.980 pushing that it's the challenges as I said of being live I love being live that interaction

01:08:12.580 with you guys and with the guests and stuff like that but once in a while it leads to these kinds

01:08:16.000 a, you know, snafus, but it's not the end of the world. As you can see, I can babble at length on

01:08:20.820 issues as we go. Here's Casey Willis, university administrators, professors of six-figure incomes,

01:08:27.020 preaching socialism and whining for more government funding. Yeah, that's another huge area. And

01:08:31.100 another area politicians are terrified of is academia and how sick our school's been getting.

01:08:35.740 There's a fantastic guy out there, Gad Saad, who's, you know, an academic, and he wrote a book called

01:08:41.340 the parasitic mind that really goes in and lays out a whole bunch of how nasty and sick the woke 0.94

01:08:47.660 world is in the universities and academia. And of course, that's impacting and influencing the 0.96

01:08:52.540 students who are coming out. And yeah, these profs make some big frigging money. And they're 0.71

01:08:58.220 protected. They're protected by tenure. They can put out their crazy stuff. And the students aren't

01:09:01.640 much better. Unless you're on the wrong side. We found that with Professor Whittowson in Calgary

01:09:05.820 You know, at Royal University, she wasn't woke enough and she went into subjects they didn't like.

01:09:11.840 In 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.

01:09:18.620 So, mountain daylight time.

01:09:21.380 Yeah, I understand, but either way, for time, I still call it mountain standard as far as that goes.

01:09:29.820 Maybe I'm wrong with it.

01:09:31.000 What either way or other?

01:09:31.880 People should know which one we're talking about when we get rolling out of Calgary.

01:09:35.100 but we'll get him back I'm sure he did want to talk to us and he's not dodging or deking on

01:09:39.740 purpose I'm certain it was just a mistake so we will talk to him now I'm going to wrap things up

01:09:44.540 I think today we'll get on to that uh April Fool's Friday but I'm going to remind everybody to tune

01:09:48.260 in Monday I've got and I emailed with him today I know he's going to come out Mike Baker and he's

01:09:53.400 from uh he used to be with the VP at the Calgary Police Association because he's going to respond

01:09:57.360 to uh some of this uh crap we've been seeing I mean we're the the thin blue line they've been 0.93

01:10:04.080 calling them white supremacists and things like that. And, you know, we want to hear from officers. 0.97

01:10:08.980 This is so demoralizing for these guys. Let's give them a voice to talk back and explain what's going

01:10:14.260 on here. So that's going to be a really good conversation with Mike Baker. And I'm going to

01:10:18.560 have Kerry Diot on. He was a member of parliament for Edmonton for some years, and he was with the

01:10:24.320 Conservative Party. And then we're going to break down a little more on the leadership race. You

01:10:27.780 know, it's good to talk to somebody. I don't hold a membership anymore. I mean, I watch all these

01:10:31.380 things closely, but I'm not, uh, um, inside any longer. I haven't had a membership in any of them

01:10:37.600 for years. Carrie, of course, is still very politically dialed in. So we'll get some good

01:10:42.000 insight on what is going on with that federal conservative race. And of course there'll be

01:10:46.140 lots of ranting and other things to go after that. So thank you all guys for, uh, oh, wait a minute.

01:10:53.240 Oh, wow. In the last second, it looks like Mr. Babber has just popped into the lobby here.

01:10:57.160 Okay. So great. Hang in there guys. I'm glad you didn't bail out quite yet. And we do have our

01:11:04.380 guest Roman Babber coming in. So we'll pull him into the studio. Hey, Mr. Babber, how are you

01:11:08.740 doing? I apologize for the delay. We had a little bit of an issue checking into our hotel, but I'm

01:11:13.320 glad to be with you. Okay, great. Well, no, we're glad we got you. Some viewers have been really

01:11:18.460 looking forward to hearing from you today as if I, and yeah, I was just about to close it off. I was

01:11:23.200 where, you know, sometimes I was talking about time zones and that sometimes leads to some problems and you're out in Ontario.

01:11:29.840 So I guess just as an introduction, you were a member of provincial parliament in Ontario,

01:11:36.060 previously with the Conservatives.

01:11:37.740 You got into a kerfuffle with your party leader, Mr. Ford, and found yourself as an independent

01:11:43.740 and are now, I could be getting some of this wrong, and are now running for the Conservative leadership.

01:11:50.160 Correct.

01:11:50.680 So my name is Roman Babra. I'm an independent MPP for the Writing of York Centre, which is in

01:11:57.040 North Toronto. I was elected in 2018 with Premier Ford. Regretfully, after offering a letter in

01:12:06.700 January 2021 opposing the lockdowns, I was asked to leave Doug Ford's Conservative Caucus. My

01:12:12.440 proposition was that COVID is a serious infection and it certainly requires protection for vulnerable

01:12:19.920 populations that are particularly susceptible to COVID, but it doesn't mean that we should

01:12:24.720 be locking down 15 million Ontarians or 35 million Canadians and potentially making them 1.00

01:12:30.000 sick as a result. And so we should factor in the toll of the lockdowns into our public health and

01:12:35.920 public policy response. And since then, I was a principal advocate against overreaching government

01:12:44.960 measures including passports and mandates and approximately a month ago i have announced that

01:12:50.480 i'm seeking the leadership of the conservative party of canada excellent so uh i guess i it'd

01:12:55.920 be safe to assume you would have opposed the imposition of the emergencies act uh against

01:13:00.640 canadians who were protesting against the mandates absolutely well first of all the uh invocation of

01:13:05.840 the emergency act does not meet the letter of the law in that there's other pieces of legislation

01:13:10.640 that are able to deal with it in that there was no prevalent national emergency that was dangerous to

01:13:17.920 many lives or safety of Canadians. And to add insult to injury, the emergency itself was

01:13:25.680 invoked by Parliament after the alleged emergency was over. You know, when I think back to the

01:13:32.800 invocation of the Emergencies Act, I think back to February 18th, which was probably a very

01:13:37.600 difficult day for many canadians including myself to watch truly peaceful protesters uh be handled

01:13:44.640 in that manner by police but but i think uh a wonderful thing uh has also happened that day

01:13:51.280 in that we saw that there was no injuries to the police there was no resistance uh by the

01:13:56.880 protesters and that they peacefully uh accepted regretfully the the the regretful conduct of the

01:14:03.040 police and uh had vindicated all of those that have accused this movement uh be it the mainstream

01:14:10.480 media or the government and proved that indeed that was a peaceful movement and that is how we'll

01:14:16.560 choose to remember it and hope that history will reflect on it appropriately yeah i believe i mean

01:14:21.600 hopefully we'll see some investigations and look back and really get a clear picture of what

01:14:25.200 happened there because we can't let the this be swept under the rug such an unprecedented and

01:14:29.520 dangerous move in in canadian history look uh we've we've seen regretfully a lot of overreach

01:14:36.880 by the federal government i think what's most regretful is that justin trudeau uh or in fact

01:14:42.560 no level of government had the decency or the leadership to uh speak to the truckers or or

01:14:49.600 anyone else there about the reason they were there which is mandates and uh i'm on record in fact i'm

01:14:55.280 the only politician to my knowledge in canada that brought legislation uh to uh protect workers

01:15:02.080 against uh workplace mandates uh and in ontario unfortunately my jobs and jabs bill was defeated

01:15:08.480 by the duck for conservative government on second reading but no no one had the uh decency to speak

01:15:14.240 to them about the reason they were there which is their ability to put food on the table uh without

01:15:20.960 uh doing something against their will and that is a trite proposition that i would think

01:15:25.120 most Canadians would agree with and it's regretful that the conversation had delineated to this

01:15:30.560 discourse. Yeah there's a lot of lives unfortunately been very disrupted and ruined through all of that

01:15:36.880 so I'll pivot back though to some more broad concern you know as I've been asking other

01:15:41.200 candidates on some of those federal issues and we come quite often from a regional approach of

01:15:45.520 course we're a western publication and there's been a lot of regional unrest I guess you could

01:15:50.320 say from the west some of these issues well one's a little bit regional but it was i might as well

01:15:56.000 jump right to that because i was talking about it just before you came on and that's our supply

01:15:59.040 management system uh that's been you know an issue and problematic for some people and dairy

01:16:04.240 producers well dairy consumers for some years now would you be willing to start looking towards

01:16:08.720 dismantling that i don't know i'll i'll have some consultations on that issue but i certainly

01:16:15.200 appreciate that i think that the global supply chain has been disrupted by uh lockdowns and and

01:16:22.640 government overreach and then regretfully when when you reopen the market then you obviously have

01:16:29.520 uh a great deal of demand and that in part causes a significant appreciation in pricing but i think

01:16:36.720 that generally uh i think ottawa needs to rethink the way it deals with the west um i'm going to

01:16:42.960 embrace canada's natural resources i will not let oil and gas be cancelled i think our natural

01:16:49.520 resources are a blessing and not just energy i think we need to develop mining for precious

01:16:54.160 metals that are very much needed right now around the world we need to stop buying resources from

01:16:59.600 rogue regimes not just to fix our balance sheet but i think doing so will be better for the planet

01:17:05.040 because canada will do it safer and cleaner than anyone else in the world i think we need to

01:17:10.000 repeal bill c69 to build new pipelines and to ensure that provinces all provinces are included

01:17:16.640 in the national conversation great so i'm going to move on to senate for a moment and something

01:17:23.200 i've asked every candidate as well in alberta we've had a tradition for quite some time of

01:17:26.880 going through the motions at least of electing our senators to nominate i guess as a province

01:17:31.440 to put forward sometimes that's actually succeeded and we've had some who were appointed after we've

01:17:36.160 elected and other times we haven't the liberals are very strongly against that but would you commit

01:17:40.400 as a leader and assuming presumably eventually prime minister to appoint elected senators from

01:17:45.200 provinces whether alberta or otherwise i think as someone who is very interested in the charter and

01:17:51.760 canada constitution i am a lawyer by profession i practiced for 12 years prior to my election

01:17:57.600 to parliament primarily in commercial and civil litigation i think that perhaps a national

01:18:03.040 conversation may be in order about the role of the Senate. I think that, if anything,

01:18:09.600 the role of the Senate has been magnified subsequent to the invocation of the Emergencies

01:18:14.320 Act because I'm of the view and I suspect that, in fact, Justin Trudeau withdrew the legislation

01:18:22.960 and because he didn't have the votes in the Senate. And so it appears as if the House of

01:18:28.480 sober second thought as our first prime minister uh referred to it may have a much greater role to

01:18:35.520 play in our democracy than um we we frankly thought and so i i think that um as prime minister

01:18:44.240 i will engage in robust conversation uh to see um what not just what what makes sense

01:18:51.040 for canada and canada's democracy which is the principal reason why i'm in the cpc leadership race

01:18:56.640 but also to see uh what what our provincial partners might be thinking and and what is on

01:19:02.400 the table i would not want to presuppose that outcome but i certainly think that there's room

01:19:06.720 to improve canada's democracy okay and then going further uh we also had a referendum here in alberta

01:19:13.200 recently on equalization uh most of the province at least the citizens feel that the program the

01:19:17.920 way it's set up right now hasn't been fair to alberta and much of the west and we do understand

01:19:23.360 it's constitutionally entrenched but the formula is within the authority of the the federal

01:19:28.080 government to calculate and it doesn't feel like it has served us well would you look at equalization

01:19:33.120 reform i would certainly look to have a conversation with all provinces about where we are

01:19:38.480 but i i think that we need to have a greater conversation beyond equalization and that is

01:19:44.560 um i i think that i'm running on restoring not just canada's democracy which i feel is has been

01:19:52.240 eroded but also canadian opportunity and that's by way of housing by way of access to health care

01:19:58.320 we know that canada has one of the uh lowest number of beds per capita in the oecd

01:20:03.840 countries um i think we need to look at at energy and the way that we transport energy

01:20:10.160 across the country and frankly allow uh every province to uh be included in the national

01:20:18.080 conversation. And that would probably include a discussion as to how we do equalization in our

01:20:24.400 country. Okay. Something that came out kind of out of the blue, but I mean, it was refreshing

01:20:29.760 to see something new in a leadership race, but I didn't quite anticipate it, but it was when

01:20:33.040 Mr. Polyev mentioned expanding the role of digital currencies or encouraging it and things such as

01:20:38.420 that. Do you see a role in embracing further with digital currencies within Canada or how it should

01:20:44.140 regulated or dealt with so um i respect and like human ingenuity and when it comes specifically

01:20:51.580 to cryptocurrency um i would suggest that um i would i would encourage uh the progress that um

01:20:59.500 we're making as as canadians um on cryptocurrency as long as it meets uh principal conditions which

01:21:06.540 is transparency in the market and an equal access to the market then i'm in favor of that what i am

01:21:11.820 however concerned with is um any friction by government as to the ability of of canada's

01:21:19.020 citizens to use digital currency or currency generally that's the nature of cash is that it

01:21:24.940 is negotiable and and that means that it's not negotiable it doesn't matter who uses a 20 bill

01:21:31.020 or where they use it it's just as good a 20 bill anywhere or by anyone and it's that nature of

01:21:38.140 currency that i do not wish for government to interfere in in any way um i i think that in

01:21:45.580 last couple years we have seen a great erosion of rights and freedoms around the country and

01:21:52.060 i do not believe that we want to go down the path where government has any friction as to how

01:21:59.020 canadians deal with their monetary currency okay so going a little wider into uh foreign affairs

01:22:06.540 which of course is very pressing right now we've got a terrible situation going on in eastern

01:22:12.380 europe in particular and sort of in a broader question what do you see as canada's role on the

01:22:16.700 international scene like are we to be something of a military power a peacekeeper an intervener

01:22:23.820 or staying clear where do we land and where do you see canada in the future sure well you know

01:22:30.220 my mom's family is from ukraine and and i myself was born in russia when it was still the soviet

01:22:35.100 union and i'm very heartbroken by the events in ukraine uh and we're witnessing a catastrophic

01:22:41.980 uh loss of life and infrastructure and i believe that first and foremost there needs to be a

01:22:47.420 greater effort to end the conflict and so i'm i'm glad that negotiations are ongoing but i think we

01:22:53.020 have to bring the parties to a ceasefire with respect to canada's general role in the world

01:22:58.620 um i think that um i would not be in favor of interventionism but i would i would want to

01:23:05.020 broadcast um a hopeful message of human rights and canada's democracy around the world however

01:23:12.220 i think that that opportunity is now eroded because canada's credibility on the world stage

01:23:17.100 as a democratic nation uh has eroded and and so really we can't be advocates for democracy around

01:23:23.340 the world where three and a half million canadians cannot board a plane because of their medical

01:23:27.500 status or or when folks are losing jobs daily because they made a different medical choice

01:23:32.860 and so i think that before um we can restore canada's standing around the world and before

01:23:38.780 we can be a credible voice in international affairs for the better uh we have to we have

01:23:44.620 to restore canada's democracy great um i'll kind of finish here perhaps with one more uh kind of

01:23:50.540 economic question since i just remembered it's april 1st our carbon taxes went up yet again

01:23:55.260 uh where do you stand on on carbon taxes and pricing in the future

01:24:01.100 so i oppose the carbon tax today's increase increased i think the price of of a liter of

01:24:05.900 gas by about uh 2.2 cents to to a total of 11 cents per per liter um just vis-a-vis carbon

01:24:14.860 and look i i'm on record i do not believe that taxing sally at the gas pump or making everything

01:24:20.940 more expensive by virtue of the carbon tax will do anything for global temperatures.

01:24:27.980 And so it's regretful at a time when life in Canada is already unaffordable,

01:24:34.940 and especially with the price appreciation, the price inflation that we're seeing

01:24:39.180 in the last couple of years as a result of us overprinting money and the result of the

01:24:43.660 jolting in the market resulting from lockdowns and then reopening of the economy that we would

01:24:49.820 further burden the consumer with what I believe to be effectively a virtual signaling measure.

01:24:57.340 Great. So just in kind of wrapping up, it's going to be a long campaign. It's going all the way

01:25:01.580 until September 10th there. It's quite the marathon. Can we look forward to you coming

01:25:06.380 out west at some time soon? Absolutely. I anticipate being in Manitoba over the next

01:25:12.540 couple of weeks. I then believe I have a trip to Saskatchewan. And also we are just in the process

01:25:19.580 of finalizing a trip uh to uh to alberta literally uh in the next two weeks and uh i'm i'm looking

01:25:27.740 forward to having conversations all around the country i think that um we are in a very um

01:25:35.180 i i would say that we are in a very challenging time for canada's democracy i think that without

01:25:41.340 democracy we don't have anything and it's not just democracy that's being eroded it's canada's

01:25:46.940 opportunity if i may take a moment uh i'm i'm an immigrant to canada i came here when i was 15

01:25:52.220 and i had every opportunity to work to succeed to join a small business to be elected from the

01:25:56.780 very electoral district that welcomed me as an immigrant and and i don't think that um many

01:26:02.140 canadians feel the same optimism that that i felt about our our freedoms and economic opportunity

01:26:09.740 okay well that's excellent i do appreciate you putting yourself out there we got such a wide

01:26:14.380 range of candidates this time around it makes it hard but the more we can talk to it and can you

01:26:18.140 know i'm a free market person and it comes to that with democracy the more we get in there i like to

01:26:22.620 think that the best uh we'll get in the end so where can people find more information about

01:26:26.860 your yourself and your campaign mr robber well our website is just being finalized but i do see

01:26:32.620 i do see the temporary home page at uh www joinroman.ca that's joinroman.ca but of course

01:26:39.980 Folks cannot give us their vote unless they register to vote with the Conservative Party of Canada.

01:26:45.740 And they can do that at our portal at joinroman.ca slash now.

01:26:50.320 All right. Well, thank you very much for coming in to join us today, Mr. Babber.

01:26:54.040 And I hope we'll get the chance to talk again soon as the campaign continues to flesh out and develop.

01:26:59.780 Thank you. And I, again, apologize for being slightly late.

01:27:03.920 They're late than never. All cool.

01:27:05.360 all right so that was uh roman babber one of the uh again i'd say one of those you know there's so

01:27:12.440 many candidates but certainly one of the better known ones he was out of the gates early in this

01:27:16.340 race for the conservative leadership in canada and definitely i'd say the most outspoken with

01:27:21.180 a good history when it comes to vaccine mandates individual rights when it comes to those

01:27:25.920 and of course the lockdowns and such and uh it cost him his role but he stood on principle in

01:27:31.500 the legislature in Ontario, and now he's taking it further. So it'll be very interesting to see

01:27:36.620 how that campaign develops and see how he goes. So that wraps it up for this week, guys. And as

01:27:41.680 I was just wrapping earlier, just to remind everybody, I do have Kerry Diot on Monday. He

01:27:46.200 was a former member of parliament, and he's going to be talking about this race more in a general

01:27:50.820 sort of way. And I am going to have Mike Baker, who was a VP of the Police Association in Calgary

01:27:59.160 Union. And again, talking about just the abuse and attacking that we've been getting against the

01:28:05.400 police forces in Calgary. It's just beyond the pale. So thank you all for joining me today. I'm

01:28:09.520 glad you guys who hung in there to catch Mr. Babber. He ran a little late, but we got him

01:28:12.780 just under the wire there. And have a good weekend. I will see you all on Monday.

01:28:29.160 We'll be right back.

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