Western Standard - LIVE： Triggered - Charest is the candidate for the Laurentian elite

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 good morning march 11th 2022 welcome to triggered i'm cory morgan this is the western standards

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00:00:47.720 at 11 30 a.m mountain standard time and run to about one o'clock usually monday to friday it's

00:00:54.360 been going quite well we got a lot of good discussion issues and guests coming along

00:00:58.760 uh make sure to fill up that comment scroll you know i like that interactivity

00:01:03.320 that's the the advantage i mean otherwise we might as well just record everything so

00:01:06.920 be sure to get your comments in there talk with each other send questions out to me i won't

00:01:11.000 necessarily read or get to every one of them but i do see them all and it helps keep things

00:01:15.880 fresh we get some really good ideas and notions and questions out of the comment scroll that we

00:01:19.560 didn't anticipate sometimes and it really adds to the whole discussion though uh yeah well the ones

00:01:26.600 on Jere's status. We'll see. I'm not terribly big on it myself, but I don't know if I can use that

00:01:31.380 term. Either way, so I got a couple of good guests. I got Barbara Kay coming on. She's one of our 1.00

00:01:36.200 senior columnists, and she's been writing columns across the nation in some major publications for

00:01:40.960 a long time. She wrote one recently on the use and abuse of the term Nazi. You know, we just see it

00:01:45.680 tossed out there frivolously and all the time, and it's tiresome, and she called people out on it.

00:01:51.120 So we're going to talk a bit about that. I also, this was a recorded interview. It was the only

00:01:54.800 time I could catch her, but I got Calgary Councillor from Ward 1, Sonia Sharp, and talked 1.00

00:02:00.640 to her about her first six months in office. Now, for people following the Calgary election, we had

00:02:06.320 some slates going on. We had unions endorsing a certain number of councillors and candidates and

00:02:12.220 everything, and it really looks like the vast majority of those on council were going to be

00:02:16.140 really under the thumb of the unions and quite left-wing. But actually, Councillor Sharp, even

00:02:21.060 though she was endorsed by the unions coming in, has proven herself to be very much her

00:02:25.480 own person. She stands up for herself and she's shown a lot of common sense in what

00:02:29.580 was a very volatile first six months of council. So we'll play the recording of that interview

00:02:34.320 I had with her yesterday, a little later in the show as well. So I'm going to get on

00:02:39.560 to what's got me going today. And you know, this wasn't something unexpected, but it's

00:02:43.360 time for me to talk about it. And that's the Canadian establishment and they've selected

00:02:47.720 their candidate for the conservative leadership. And yes, that candidate is Jean Charest. They

00:02:52.600 don't really care what the name of the party in power is, as long as the leader is a liberal

00:02:56.940 in reality. And Charest has that down in spades. And Charest has been basically a charter member

00:03:02.620 of the Canadian Laurentian elite since the 1980s. And while he's been something of a political nomad,

00:03:07.840 he's consistently remained a liberal at heart. And when I talk about Laurentian elite, I mean,

00:03:13.020 it's a term you've seen thrown around out there. It talks about those people who feel entitled to

00:03:17.680 control Canada. If you're in the St. Lawrence River Valley area, if you're in Ottawa, if you're

00:03:23.680 in Hull, you're in that sort of part of the world of Toronto, Montreal, this is where this group

00:03:28.020 comes from. It always is. These are the ones who actually run our country, and they don't look 0.73

00:03:32.700 highly on those who come from outside of there. So for those young enough not to remember Jean

00:03:36.960 Charest that well, I'll review him quickly and some of his history. Charest won a federal seat

00:03:42.120 in the 80s with the Progressive Conservatives, and he was put quickly into cabinet by Brian

00:03:46.700 Mulroney. I mean, he was a young minister at that time. It was quite a coup. And then he stayed in

00:03:54.040 there until 1993, when the progressive conservatives were obliterated electorally

00:03:57.960 by the Canadians who were repulsed with their ongoing arrogance, whiffs of corruption, and of 1.00

00:04:03.100 course, the regional favoritism. Of that sweep, only Chiray and Elsie Wayne, they were only two 0.99

00:04:08.800 members of parliament who survived. I mean, we went from the largest majority of Canadian history

00:04:12.340 to the PCs being reduced to just two seats.

00:04:15.160 And Charest held one of those.

00:04:17.300 So this led to Charest becoming the PC leader essentially by default.

00:04:21.400 He did lead the party into a bit of an electoral recovery in 1997

00:04:24.360 when they won 20 seats, but they were still eclipsed by the Reform Party.

00:04:28.860 And they were the rump of a fading party.

00:04:30.600 I mean, that was the last gasp of the Progressive Conservatives on the federal scene.

00:04:33.860 So Charest abandoned them, and he moved on to interprovincial politics

00:04:38.240 as a liberal in Quebec in 1998.

00:04:41.780 And you've got to remember, again,

00:04:42.960 Charest fought all efforts to merge the PC party with the Reform Party.

00:04:46.260 He wanted to keep those PCs red.

00:04:48.160 You know, there were old players back then, David Orchard and a few others.

00:04:51.160 They just wanted to make sure there was always a progressive conservative party in there

00:04:54.020 to keep as a thorn in the butt of the conservatives.

00:04:57.920 And, yeah, you know, eventually they did die and fade away that party, 0.85

00:05:01.940 but sure, not to the wishes of Charest.

00:05:05.320 So as the Premier of Quebec, Charest became Premier.

00:05:07.620 He fought heartily to increase equalization for Quebec.

00:05:10.460 and claimed there was a regional imbalance that harmed Quebec economically.

00:05:14.640 It's a load of bunk, of course, but it always sells well in Quebec.

00:05:17.520 I mean, you're going to be the premier of Quebec.

00:05:18.960 That's what you got to do.

00:05:19.780 You're not going to get in there otherwise.

00:05:21.720 I mean, he campaigned in Quebec on tax reductions,

00:05:23.660 and then he moved on to raise all sorts of costs and fees,

00:05:27.140 insurance rates, all sorts of things.

00:05:29.120 Typical red Tory campaign style.

00:05:31.740 You know, campaign conservative, govern left.

00:05:34.340 He tended to blame the Harper government later on for a lot of Quebec's woes, of course.

00:05:38.360 Now, eventually, Sheree wore out his welcome as Quebec's premier in 2012 when he lost his own seat in a general election.

00:05:44.140 So he resigned as the leader. He then traveled through the elite circles as a consultant for quite some years, you know,

00:05:49.620 and you'd see his name popping up. Most notably, of course, was with Huawei in recently.

00:05:55.180 And Huawei is, you know, a Chinese company with some very corrupt underpinnings, some real big problems.

00:06:01.800 And, you know, those ties to China with the Laurentian elites in Canada run deep.

00:06:06.340 Now Sheree has decided to run for the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:06:11.580 At his kickoff last night, the answers to his questions posed by David Naylor with the Western Standard were pretty telling,

00:06:17.560 and Dave and I are going to talk about that in a bit here.

00:06:19.720 Sheree said he's proud of the work he did to sort out the situation of Huawei executive,

00:06:25.520 and I'm terrible with these pronounces, Meng Wenzhou.

00:06:28.520 I might be corrected for that later, but I mean, she was the daughter, I believe, of the head of that corporation,

00:06:34.020 and there was definitely some problems. So she was arrested. That led to, of course,

00:06:38.520 the incarceration of two Canadians, the two Michaels that they got referred to later.

00:06:43.080 And eventually there was a hostage exchange. I mean, nobody likes to admit it, but that's what

00:06:47.620 happened. They let those two out and they sent Meng back to China. So after 1,019 days in detention,

00:06:55.080 shortly after Meng was released from house arrest in Canada, the two Michaels got released. And

00:06:59.900 Charest was a whole part of that thing. Whether it's a good thing or bad, he was on the Huawei

00:07:06.380 side of things. He was the negotiator on that end. So, I mean, he's entrenched in those old

00:07:10.440 corrupt institutions. Now, when he was asked about his support for the National Long Run Registry,

00:07:14.660 Charest kind of dodged, you know, because there was, as a Premier of Quebec, he didn't want to

00:07:18.540 see it go away. When he was asked about the carbon tax, again, got mushy. He didn't commit to

00:07:22.680 repealing it, that's for sure. I guess it's better than lying about repealing it as O'Toole did.

00:07:26.720 you know, it's a more principled stance by not, you know, saying you're going to get rid of it.

00:07:31.220 Charest happily implemented a carbon tax in Quebec. He was a strong proponent of the Kyoto

00:07:35.220 Accord commitments from the 90s that put Alberta's energy production at risk. Look, the Laurentian

00:07:40.920 elites are tiring of Trudeau. They also realize that Trudeau might be heading towards an electoral

00:07:45.260 lawsuit, so they need to hedge their bets. And Charest is their man. In policy stances, Charest

00:07:50.740 is no different than any federal liberal. We'll see continued carbon taxes, capitulation to Quebec

00:07:55.660 and China, along with moves to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens. We can look forward 1.00

00:08:00.020 to the same old Central Canadian crony capitalism as outlying provinces are drained to feed the

00:08:05.860 Central Canadian monster. O'Toole was a liberal who presented to be a conservative, and that 0.98

00:08:09.660 cost him the election. Chiray's not even pretending to be a conservative. That might actually garner

00:08:14.160 him the support of Central Canadian establishment, and that could lead to him winning the next

00:08:18.660 federal election. It won't be easy for somebody who is clearly liberal as Chiray to win the

00:08:22.720 leadership of the CPC, but he has some heavy backing. He's most definitely a contender,

00:08:26.840 and he's no fool, unlike the Liberal leader of Canada right now. The Laurentian elite will win

00:08:32.140 eventually, and Canadians will continue to lose again. That's what we got coming with Charest.

00:08:38.900 Okay, so before I get to our news check-in with Dave Naylor, he was sent out on assignment last

00:08:43.800 night to the Wildrosebury, where Jean Charest announced his entrance into the Conservative

00:08:48.420 party race and Dave got right into there in the scrum and got a couple of questions directly to

00:08:53.200 Sheree which were ones that our mainstream media surely wouldn't have asked so I mean again it 0.98

00:08:57.360 shows he pushed in there got those questions asked on our behalf uh because the other and it forced

00:09:02.860 the issue for Sheree to answer those things which he obviously didn't want to get into uh let's just

00:09:07.500 play that clip before we get to Dave. Mr. Sheree, Dave Naylor with the Western Standard. You have

00:09:14.300 held some policies that Westerners

00:09:16.440 haven't liked. Long gun

00:09:18.000 registry, the carbon

00:09:20.320 tax, your work with the Chinese 1.00

00:09:22.560 Huawei group when

00:09:24.180 they were holding prisoners.

00:09:26.060 How are you going to overcome those obstacles in the

00:09:28.480 West? You have a list there.

00:09:30.960 Let's start with Huawei

00:09:32.400 and what we did in

00:09:34.320 Huawei. I'm very proud of what we did

00:09:35.980 in helping to

00:09:37.660 sort out the situation of

00:09:39.940 Ms. Meng Wanzhou. And I worked with

00:09:42.240 the family of Michael Kovrig.

00:09:44.300 so that we could free the two Michaels.

00:09:47.520 And we worked with them very, very closely throughout the whole process.

00:09:52.440 And I never did anything and would have never done anything

00:09:55.540 that would have been contrary to the interests of my country.

00:09:58.060 So in fact, we were very, very active in helping resolve that matter

00:10:02.240 and to bring the two Michaels home.

00:10:04.200 So on that, on the long gun registry,

00:10:06.940 the police forces in Quebec are the ones who said,

00:10:09.580 if you're going to do away with the registry,

00:10:11.140 why don't you just transfer over to us the information that's there?

00:10:14.760 That's the long and the short of it on that.

00:10:18.100 It's very simple to do.

00:10:20.360 And your other question was on...

00:10:21.700 Carbon tax.

00:10:22.160 Well, we will have an opportunity to talk about that during the campaign,

00:10:26.460 but let me start by the beginning.

00:10:28.580 We need a very, very comprehensive approach

00:10:32.200 that includes policies that are going to promote economic growth

00:10:36.020 and make sense by themselves.

00:10:37.480 Carbon capture and storage, blue hydrogen, green hydrogen,

00:10:40.900 small modular reactors, hydro, of course, is part of that, biofuels.

00:10:47.080 I mean, those are the things that we need to be smart about.

00:10:50.220 And I'm very committed to designing a policy that is going to be good

00:10:54.120 and will deal with transition.

00:10:56.520 I'll give you an example.

00:10:57.860 I was in Europe a few weeks ago.

00:10:59.660 The European Commission just announced their transition energy policy.

00:11:04.320 And in their transition, they're including nuclear and natural gas.

00:11:08.660 and they're doing it for a reason because it makes sense if you want to transition to a point

00:11:15.220 where you take carbon out of the economy or the energy sector well then that's what you have to

00:11:20.860 do you need to be smart about it and that's what we'll do for canada but the provinces will be part

00:11:26.080 of that and the industry will participate in that

00:11:28.700 okay so there's uh was picked up by our intrepid news editor dave nailer out in the field hopefully

00:11:41.200 he got at least one or two good beers into him for uh his troubles as well down there so let's

00:11:45.400 bring him in and talk about that hey dave how's it going good morning cory you've heard that

00:11:50.920 expression about you couldn't organize a booze up in a brewery that's kind of what it was like last

00:11:55.740 night. Yeah, a bit of a gong show. Well, I guess maybe, you know, these races get off to a crazy 1.00

00:12:01.180 start. It's probably, we'll see how many times he shows up in the West through the course of the

00:12:06.420 rest of the campaign. Yeah, it's probably kind of like the Prime Minister in a federal election

00:12:12.600 campaign. We may have had him just the once. So we'll see, remains to be determined. Sheree is

00:12:18.460 off to Vancouver tonight for an event out there. Okay, so yeah, you dove right in there and you

00:12:24.600 You got a few good questions in before the rest of the legacy media could get in there.

00:12:29.580 And, you know, good Western issues.

00:12:33.040 What did you think of Sheree's response is there?

00:12:35.480 Well, you know, mealy-melt, I guess, would be the way to go, Corey.

00:12:42.340 You know, you heard the clip.

00:12:44.140 He was proud of his work in resolving the hostage-taking of the two Michaels.

00:12:49.740 I'm sure that's not going to completely scrub his hands clean.

00:12:53.660 He was taking money from the communist Chinese government in terms of the long gun registry.

00:13:00.000 He put the blame on Quebec police, but he was the premier at the time.

00:13:06.420 And the carbon tax, you know, he talked about everything but a carbon tax.

00:13:11.620 He talked about modular small nuclear devices.

00:13:15.800 He talked about hydrocarbons.

00:13:17.620 uh uh he says you know we'll have a we'll have a robust debate on the carbon tax during the uh

00:13:24.020 during the campaign but then he didn't mention anything uh anything about it uh you know his

00:13:29.140 plans at all so uh remains to be seen what will come out between now and september 10th okay well

00:13:38.180 so what else have we got uh grinding up the newsroom today as we go into the weekend yeah

00:13:43.540 one last thing on or a couple last things on last night uh oh yeah one interested viewer of the uh

00:13:50.500 uh the western standard live stream was one pierre polyev uh we were the only ones uh to

00:13:57.780 live stream it and uh we saw him check in and uh and watch the broadcast so uh he certainly knows

00:14:04.740 where to go for uh conservative leadership uh news and uh yeah i'd almost forgotten it's been a while

00:14:12.260 since i've been in a scrum that large and uh i'd almost forgotten how uh how rude and pushy the uh

00:14:18.020 the french media is but uh it was all brought back to me uh last night uh other news today

00:14:25.060 we've got an amanda brown story up right now on the top of our website uh talking about an rcmp

00:14:31.540 arrest in rocky mountain house recently in which the uh the officer basically picked up and and

00:14:38.100 threw the arrested man into the back of his police truck and his legs went flying and it's kind of

00:14:45.540 kind of disturbing to watch it's not something you see every day so you can go and check check

00:14:50.660 that out disturbing story corey on the number of kids participating in minor sports across the

00:14:58.420 country the numbers are plummeting uh to the last time they checked around like 2020 the number was

00:15:04.900 about only 60 percent of canadian children were participating in sports with all the cancellations

00:15:11.940 during the covet 19 pandemic that number will plunge no doubt even further and officials are

00:15:18.500 worried that you know come down the road in a couple of olympics from now the lack of children

00:15:24.580 in sports is going to hurt the canadian efforts we've got a story on perhaps the woman who's got 0.99

00:15:31.060 the best job in the liberal government bureaucracy she's the chief science advisor to justin trudeau's

00:15:39.300 cabinet and despite earning many hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay she has not produced

00:15:45.620 a single report in the last two years but she has found time in her busy schedule to jet off to 19

00:15:54.020 separate faraway locations around the world uh at a cost of over a quarter million dollars so

00:16:01.380 nice work if you can get it there uh our eva suddick has got a story out on

00:16:09.380 angus reed poll showing mental health stresses amongst canadians have skyrocketed during the

00:16:14.900 olympics 54 of all canadians say their mental health has deteriorated and my favorite story

00:16:22.180 of the day uh cbc for the second time has had to retract a trucker's convoy story uh the first one

00:16:30.820 they did and had to retract was when they claimed the russians were behind it obviously fake news

00:16:36.980 there and the second one they just retracted was one where they said uh the foreigners foreign

00:16:42.660 donations were behind the main thing behind the uh the convoy and of course that was not true and

00:16:48.580 and they've retracted that statement.

00:16:51.340 So, yeah, lots of good stuff up there already, Corey,

00:16:55.380 and we're getting stuff ready for the weekend.

00:16:57.780 I've got a Dave Makachuk column about to go up on the fighter jet situation

00:17:03.360 where Poland wants fighter jets donated to the Ukraine

00:17:07.920 and the U.S. is standing in the way.

00:17:11.340 Makachuk will present an argument on how to get it done.

00:17:14.740 uh so yeah very busy morning and lots of stuff to come this afternoon great well thanks for the

00:17:21.160 updates i'll let you carry on managing that newsroom and still digesting what you got out

00:17:26.060 of the conference last night aside from some good craft beer at the wildrose brewery yeah and it's

00:17:30.080 it's moving day too so we've got to get all packed up and uh i hear i hear rumors core that you don't

00:17:35.360 have a lunch today why why is that yes our our brat of a foster dog jumped up on the counter and 0.62

00:17:42.280 stole my sandwich off me this morning as I was getting ready and I didn't have uh time to make

00:17:47.400 myself another one so uh there was half of a chewed sandwich left after I recovered it from him but I

00:17:52.560 figured I'm gonna have to go without so just a warning for some of the commenters and people

00:17:56.220 I'm gonna be crabbier than usual today well maybe because it's moving moving day Derek will buy beer

00:18:01.640 and pizza yeah we'll see all right we'll talk to you later you bet I'll see you in a while okay

00:18:11.460 and that was Dave Naylor. So I'll just kind of remind everybody, you know, and as you saw from

00:18:15.060 that video we played earlier, Dave got right in there in the trenches. He's a veteran newsman,

00:18:20.360 decades in the industry. And during that scrum, he got that mic into Jean Charest's face and asked

00:18:26.720 some questions that I don't think Mr. Charest wanted to address. You know, what about the

00:18:30.120 long gun registry? These are Western questions we're concerned about, and it was a big issue

00:18:33.560 when Charest was in as a premier. Of course, the carbon tax, it's a big contentious one.

00:18:38.960 and the Huawei connections.

00:18:42.440 You know, these are the tough questions

00:18:44.280 that need to be hit on these candidates

00:18:45.780 if they're going to hope to become the leaders of that party.

00:18:48.940 And, well, you know, as we saw in the video,

00:18:51.700 Jean Charest, like any experienced politician,

00:18:53.680 sort of danced around all three of them,

00:18:55.300 but at least they were tossed at him

00:18:56.560 because the legacy media probably wouldn't even have touched it.

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00:19:54.400 I mentioned earlier. Anybody who's been familiar in reading news in this list last, I won't say

00:19:59.900 exactly how long, but over a period of time has been familiar with Barbara Kay's name out there

00:20:03.620 writing and then it's been always great when we can get pieces from her and she wrote one recently

00:20:08.320 I'd like to talk about so let's bring Barbara in and have a discussion about that. Hi Barbara how 0.95

00:20:13.580 you doing? I'm fine Corey how are you? Pretty good a little hungry but uh I had a Labrador who used

00:20:20.640 to steal things off the counter so I know I know what's that what that's like so sorry. Yeah they

00:20:26.280 could be pretty smart when they when they want to be oh I've got some spare calories that I can

00:20:31.260 burn through the day anyways, that won't put me at too much risk in the long run, but it comes with

00:20:37.000 it. So, I'm glad you checked in. You wrote an article on something that always annoys the heck

00:20:42.140 out of me, and it's just been happening too much. It's a bigger and bigger trend, and that is with

00:20:47.160 people just, your column was entitled, you know, everyone needs to stop calling everyone else a

00:20:51.680 Nazi, and that's not even a left thing, a right thing. That word is being abused and overused by

00:20:57.760 people all over the place and it's it's getting tiresome and offensive to some it certainly is

00:21:05.040 all over the place uh i mean i think i i do hear it more from the left but uh you do occasionally

00:21:11.920 hear it from the from the right as well and it's it this reductio ad hitlerum i think it's called

00:21:19.680 in latin uh when you when you really dislike someone you hate their politics you hate their

00:21:25.760 tactics, you call them a Nazi. Because in our society, the worst thing in the world you can

00:21:33.140 be is a Nazi. Everybody knows that the Nazis were the worst, and Hitler was the worst in all of 0.88

00:21:38.100 recorded history. Nobody's been worse than that. But because of that fact, it's so important to, 0.95

00:21:46.320 you know, be careful about who you call Hitler, because it shuts up the other person real fast,

00:21:52.740 Right. I mean, once you've if I'm if I'm a fan of Donald Trump, which I'm not, by the way, but if if you are and somebody says, oh, but he's as bad as Hitler, instead of defending Trump's policies or anything else, you're going to be saying, no, no, no, he's nothing like Hitler.

00:22:12.040 oh yeah well and then they start saying but he's this and he's that so you end up discussing whether

00:22:17.900 he's hitler or not instead of tell me why you like donald trump you know and and then get into

00:22:24.280 maybe a little bit of substance uh about why anybody could uh be in favor of trump yeah it

00:22:31.080 just immediately derails any kind of nuanced conversation because now and and if a person is 0.85

00:22:35.680 truly being vitriolic they'll start accusing you of defending nazis which is ridiculous you're just

00:22:40.020 trying to explain that this was not an appropriate comparison and whatever your conversation was

00:22:44.820 it sure and it sure does look bad when it's your own prime minister uh comparing uh civil

00:22:52.180 disobedience uh people that are exercising their right to protest uh they that they're aligned

00:22:58.820 with nazis and not once but twice three four times there was a real concerted effort there

00:23:06.260 to embed the idea that these uh you know freedom convoy people uh were aligned with

00:23:14.260 uh white supremacy and uh the worst kind of racism and bigotry terrible yeah well and as you said i

00:23:22.660 mean you can understand for an unprincipled person why it's a go-to i mean you know 99.9 percent of 0.65

00:23:27.860 the world if they've read history and understand it they know that that it's just the most odious

00:23:31.700 thing you could possibly accuse somebody of being so so they go there but it's it's certainly not a

00:23:37.060 good way to go is cheryl's asking did justin trudeau ever apologize to lanceman i i don't

00:23:41.220 believe he ever did he just let that go he didn't and and uh you could tell i don't know you could

00:23:49.480 sort of tell that he knew what he was doing he really didn't care um and he was very determined

00:23:54.780 about it too that was extremely disconcerting um that he he just he seems to have just lost

00:24:03.660 a kind of the uh the sense of boundaries uh in terms of discourse of where you go and he he

00:24:09.900 doesn't seem to care much anymore i i see it more and more that he's he's really pushing boundaries

00:24:15.020 that in the past he would have he would have apologized simply as well one parliamentarian to

00:24:20.940 another you just don't do that kind of thing but um i i don't see much restraint in him anymore

00:24:28.780 and as we uh age out you know the newer generations get more distant from the the atrocities that

00:24:34.620 happened you know almost a century ago now we're getting towards and we don't want to desensitize

00:24:39.580 people to what really happened i mean that was still a modern day horrific period of time that

00:24:44.780 we never want to forget because as we're seeing in europe we're still capable of getting on each

00:24:49.020 other's throats and i saw it from another side with i was at a protest and a number of people

00:24:53.500 this was quite a while back well a year or so ago and they had put they were against vaccination

00:24:59.100 mandates and such and they put yellow stars on their jacket because they said we're being

00:25:02.700 uh you know singled out and and uh this is symbolizing no guys no this is you look you're

00:25:08.460 appropriating something of a completely different horrific tragedy i understand why you're upset but

00:25:13.340 do not it's just not a valid comparison i i find elevation of either uh what you know

00:25:20.860 people have lost i think people have lost the ability to speak uh to say what they think

00:25:29.340 using reasonable discourse because the the maybe it's social media where you have to get

00:25:35.260 get your opinion out in you know very few characters or or uh because we don't have

00:25:42.840 rational debates anymore it's there's so much anger and divisiveness uh that you just want to

00:25:48.060 say you want to it's it's instead of punching the other person you know you really want to 0.88

00:25:54.100 punch them out instead uh you just automatically go for the all misogynist transphobic uh you know 0.99

00:26:01.840 some kind of bigotry. Um, it's interesting. It does, it's a tactic that is, I see mostly from 0.99

00:26:08.120 the left. Uh, but because the force of the word Nazi or Hitler is far greater than if you say

00:26:17.800 what you're saying is just like the Marxists or, you know, you're, you're, you're a real Lenin or,

00:26:25.360 or that guy's like a real Lenin. I don't even think most people would even react to that. As

00:26:30.840 you say everybody you know there's so much uh ignorance about the past because it's two

00:26:36.400 generations back uh so people don't really understand when they put on a yellow star they

00:26:41.440 young people don't really have any concept anymore of what it means but they've also lost the idea

00:26:47.000 of how terrible it is to be what the word communist used to stand for um that's that to me is a bad

00:26:56.600 word to me it's pretty well as bad as calling somebody you know a fascist or a nazi uh but it

00:27:03.720 isn't it isn't to people on the left no i mean we rightly most people are disgusted whenever they

00:27:10.320 see a swastika appear anywhere uh but they kind of shrug their shoulders and accept it when you 0.55

00:27:15.180 see a hammer and sickle i mean uh that that hammer and sickle murdered millions of people as well

00:27:20.360 and again it's and you shouldn't throw the term communist at somebody casually either you said

00:27:25.100 in your article you weren't a fan of uh of obama either but you never called him a stalinist

00:27:30.300 no i i i don't i try not to do that you know you mentioned the hammer and sickle

00:27:34.780 i remember i was in toronto some years ago and uh there was going to be a meeting of some kind

00:27:41.660 and it was at a bar downtown and it was called the i think it was a pub that was called the

00:27:47.660 hammer and sickle or it was called something else but it was all the whole uh theme was uh

00:27:54.460 all the motifs of communism it had soviet art on the walls um and it was done in a spirit of irony

00:28:01.980 and kind of as a a fun theme um so it's interesting that that that the whole soviet experience

00:28:12.300 is something that i think most people on the left today uh don't even recognize they recognize it as

00:28:20.620 yes communism was an excessive an excessive kind of thing um whereas nazism was pure evil

00:28:31.260 they they don't i don't think they believe that communism was an evil system yeah well there's

00:28:39.180 a very solid death count to quite make it clear the communism was was quite evil and i mean whether

00:28:44.140 people want to i'm sure if we could turn back time and pull some people up from the grave who

00:28:48.860 were proponents of both of those systems a lot of them actually did think somehow in their weird

00:28:52.540 way they were doing the right thing or making the world a better place but clearly they were not at

00:28:57.100 all and we can't put on any kind of rose-colored glasses to look at those those periods of history

00:29:02.540 and well every every totalitarian thinks that what they're doing is in the end going to be

00:29:07.900 better for at least for their own nation i remember um historians used to think uh

00:29:13.660 Mussolini, when fascism, when he invented fascism, it actually was seen in a very positive light at

00:29:21.960 first. It sounded good what he was doing in the beginning. It was only later, you know,

00:29:28.240 in retrospect, and when he aligned with Hitler, that fascism sort of definitely got a bad name.

00:29:35.060 But in the beginning, it looked like it was going to be very good for Italy and pull it out of its 1.00

00:29:40.160 economic doldrums and all that sort of thing. So sometimes you really you really have to know

00:29:45.180 your history. It's a good lesson. And I wish they taught history with far more rigor than

00:29:50.980 than they do. Let's say we don't we don't want to purge the history of the actions of communists,

00:29:57.620 Nazis, fascists by any means. We need to educate people on it. And but at the same time, just quit

00:30:01.860 bloody throwing it around in contemporary situations because they don't apply. And

00:30:05.440 and it's, it's reducing what the real impact of what those actions were back then.

00:30:10.040 Yeah, for sure.

00:30:12.260 So I guess, you know, moving on beyond that,

00:30:13.840 just a plea to get people to stop using that word.

00:30:16.640 It becomes, there was a column you wrote a couple of weeks ago

00:30:19.160 that got a lot of our commenters stirred up with the Western standard.

00:30:21.760 We might as well go there because Jean Charest announced his leadership bid

00:30:24.420 in Calgary last night, Dave was there.

00:30:28.660 And you did feel that Jean Charest may be a good potential leader

00:30:32.000 for the Conservative Party.

00:30:33.140 Perhaps we could talk a little about that one.

00:30:34.540 sure uh yeah i i knew i knew when i wrote it that it was woo you know i hope i don't know i hope i

00:30:42.380 don't see pitchforks outside my my door knowing that i was writing for people largely who who

00:30:49.020 for whom charret is real anathema but uh look let's face it i am from the east um and i i do

00:30:58.620 have memories of Charest that are very positive. You know, as a Quebecer who lived on a knife edge

00:31:06.560 through two referendums here in Quebec, the second one was far more scary than the first one.

00:31:19.100 And he was really the star of that show. There weren't many people, you know, Lucien Bouchard

00:31:26.860 was one of the most um magnetic and charismatic uh orators uh i've ever encountered in politics

00:31:35.340 he was a real force and the only guy that really could stand up to him and measure him in terms of

00:31:42.220 uh winning over an audience was jean charay so that was kind of his moment in the sun i guess

00:31:47.980 uh so i know a lot of westerners say well i'm sorry that he i'm sorry that he swayed

00:31:52.860 the reference i would have liked to see quebec leave you know well there's there's a number with

00:31:57.500 that sentiment i'm almost there myself but yeah we're getting that perspective and there's some

00:32:02.460 truth to that i mean i i ripped into him in my opening monologue a bit but i mean a part of his

00:32:06.700 history i did say he became the premier of quebec but i should say he displaced what had been a

00:32:11.100 strongly entrenched party quebecois government uh for quite some time in quebec when he brought

00:32:15.260 in the liberals which uh i you know would be a a definitely a victory for people who want a unified

00:32:21.100 country i guess at that point well look it's not just about unity it's about it's about who who

00:32:27.740 can win uh who can unseat the liberals uh we you know we you people talk about charay i i i heard

00:32:35.500 the last five minutes of your previous uh talking to to dave and uh they said oh look at his baggage

00:32:41.980 look at his baggage he's got the huawei uh connection and uh the carbon tax he's got this

00:32:49.420 and he's got that he can't surmount that baggage and i'm thinking to myself look at the baggage

00:32:55.980 that trudeau has accumulated uh you know the lavaland thing and the we scandal and the black

00:33:02.860 face i mean you know you can go on and on with the baggage that jean trudeau has i mean pierre

00:33:08.300 trudeau has i mean sorry justin just one of those trudeaus here also had baggage but justin has a

00:33:16.140 tremendous amount of baggage and yet um there something like 33 of of the population intends

00:33:24.780 to vote for him so it it shows you that baggage is not as important as people think it is if they

00:33:32.300 see you as an overall um strong leader uh of the country whose economic policies uh basically or

00:33:43.180 well, the fact that Justin gives away a lot of money helps. But I mean, it's not so much about

00:33:51.260 an individual policy. It's more about, do you feel confidence in a leader? And Justin Trudeau

00:34:00.340 should not inspire confidence, but he's had enormous good luck in that the people he's up

00:34:06.660 against, uh, inspire less confidence. So, you know, um, basically his, his main competition

00:34:14.840 at the moment is, is, is Pierre Polyev, who, by the way, I, I have a lot of time for Pierre. I,

00:34:20.380 I like him very much. I admire him. I think he's smart as a whip and, uh, I, I enjoy his performances

00:34:28.120 in the House. But I feel he's very intense and very provocative at times. And I understand why

00:34:39.720 the base, why the conservative base likes him very much. But I think I do not see him yet. I think

00:34:47.540 he's young. I don't see him yet as being that person in whom a solid majority or even a third

00:34:58.000 of the country would say yes he he's he's a leader that i think represents could represent me and and

00:35:05.840 and um that i feel confident that he would be for all the people and for i i think charay has that

00:35:12.720 quality of sincerely representing he wants to represent all canadians he's a conservative who

00:35:20.480 want you know maybe not in the sense that albertans want a conservative look if he's energy friendly

00:35:26.480 All he has to be is energy friendly and do his, you know, passionate, I represent all of Canada thing.

00:35:37.680 Honestly, I think he would take away a lot of liberals who don't like Trudeau, but they don't see a conservative leader that they would give their complete trust to.

00:35:51.180 I'm not sure Polyev is the guy who's going to take moderate liberals away from Trudeau, but I can see Charest taking a lot of moderate liberals away.

00:36:06.320 Yeah, well, the question starts coming down to, and that's what we'll see unfolding over the course of these months in the race, is do we want to turn, I mean, that's the truth.

00:36:15.740 he's a Tory of the red sort not with scandals tied to him or things or whatnot but should we

00:36:20.700 liberalize the party more or go for the small c conservative in in the fiery way of Polyev 0.99

00:36:25.340 uh do we believe that winning is more important than than hanging on to those principles

00:36:30.280 it's a an internal discussion that conservatives always have but sorry you talk about hanging on

00:36:36.020 to principles what kind of principles apart from the gun registry or or look we the conservatives

00:36:42.400 have had several opportunities to hang on to their principles in terms of some bills that have

00:36:48.560 passed that should never have passed with conservative votes that had to do with education

00:36:55.320 and with children and conversion therapy and all that stuff. They voted without a second thought

00:37:02.700 for it. And that is about the reddest. It's about the most liberal bills that have ever been passed

00:37:09.820 uh in parliament and they they they didn't care because they don't put they don't put that

00:37:15.860 principle which they should because it's the basis of our culture um parental rights and and

00:37:22.320 the kind of education that we would like to see our our children have they didn't put those

00:37:26.340 principles first so you know this idea that that oh uh we're we're so pure out here you know we

00:37:33.840 have we conservatives we we're we're pure in our motives i don't i'm i i'm not buying it i'm not

00:37:40.020 buying it at all okay well and and again you know yes western conservatives for example some of them

00:37:45.420 voted in favor of uh you know retaining quebec's seat there and that uh recent vote going on and

00:37:51.120 uh you know protecting that down there so we can't assume just because of a regional origin that a

00:37:54.820 person's going to necessarily stand up for the region but i mean westerners we're just uh

00:37:58.800 particularly with us out here we we're uh gun shy you know we we've uh yeah i get it i know we're

00:38:06.000 very divided but the thing is that that canada has uh it the the people who are truly conservative

00:38:13.040 of the kind that albertans like are uh are an absolute minority in the country so even if you

00:38:18.960 got every single vote in the country from every single vote and you know that that there's a lot

00:38:23.760 of wasted votes uh for hard line and i shouldn't say hard line but for purer conservatives there's

00:38:30.880 a lot of wasted votes because a lot of them come from the west so you know there's only that many

00:38:35.280 seats uh i don't know i'd like to vote for i'd like to vote i'd like to get trudeau out myself

00:38:42.240 i i think jean chariot has a very good shot at it and uh and i and i would like to see energy

00:38:49.360 friendly policies and i'd like to see uh i would like to see responsible economic policies uh and

00:38:54.880 i think he could deliver on that and i don't even know if he can take quebec at this point because

00:38:59.920 he's not got a lot of love there at the moment but um he's very canny he's very smart he has

00:39:05.760 he's a professional he's had a long history in politics he's a real grown-up is what i mean to

00:39:12.080 say uh there have been a lot of in my opinion uh the conservative party has been looking to amateurs

00:39:19.360 and to untried people uh because there's a kind of desperation to find that magic bullet

00:39:25.520 um you know another harper which there is nobody uh in sight at the moment and even he

00:39:31.920 he didn't satisfy everybody he wasn't didn't satisfy the social conservatives he didn't

00:39:36.320 you know uh it's always a difficult to satisfy all the conservatives there just isn't it's too

00:39:43.280 it's too uh mixed a bag well conservatives have always been a hornet's nest to try and hold

00:39:49.280 together as provincial or federal we're watching that happening all over the place i mean our

00:39:52.880 battles in alberta right now are going to be legendary in just the next few weeks

00:39:56.800 uh well i mean if nothing else one thing mr shere certainly offers though he would be a more

00:40:01.600 cerebral prime minister than the one we've got right now because well it's pretty low i know

00:40:06.400 that's a low bar but uh whatever shere maybe he's he's certainly no fool and he's experienced so

00:40:12.240 that's for sure it's the closest compliment you'll get from a regionalist like

00:40:17.680 so but i mean i'm glad to see a race i always like that i'm glad to see different ideas coming up

00:40:22.080 acclamations coronations they don't do anybody any favors you know you you've got to get it up

00:40:26.720 there and get it on the line and let the members get together and discuss that so it's good to see

00:40:31.680 a number of people coming from different directions and uh we can hopefully trust in

00:40:35.520 the wisdom of the membership to pick the best person out of the job that's we have to hope for

00:40:41.280 all right well thank you very much for coming in to join me today and for keeping providing

00:40:44.640 those great columns though it's a really do enjoy them on the standard and i hope we get the chance

00:40:48.960 to talk again soon perhaps a little further up in the race there okay i hope so too thanks for

00:40:54.160 having me corey great thanks have a good weekend cheers so that was barbara k and and uh yeah you

00:41:01.360 know i see some of the comments scroll was predictable we know that we're the western

00:41:04.640 standard we're gonna get that but we we do have to discuss those things and uh you know

00:41:08.720 know, acclimations and coronations, I don't like seeing those in races. I do want to see some of 1.00

00:41:14.980 those issues pushed and prodded. I mean, I don't hold a political membership. I'm certainly going

00:41:20.040 to lean one way or another and talk about who I like and don't like in these races and things

00:41:23.960 like that. If I were a Conservative member, I couldn't see myself voting for Sherey. But I don't 0.99

00:41:30.660 think it's a bad thing to have that perspective come into the race, so it has to be discussed.

00:41:35.920 And I don't know if I mentioned earlier, I should be talking,

00:41:37.940 it looks like on Tuesday with Pierre Polyev, he's going to come on the show.

00:41:42.160 And I suspect a lot of our viewers will appreciate his point of view.

00:41:45.540 He's been very popular with the small C conservatives and such.

00:41:49.020 But it is a big race.

00:41:49.960 I mean, a question that has to be asked, can he win?

00:41:54.680 You know, we know we like him.

00:41:56.600 We know he stands for what we'd like to see, but can he win?

00:42:00.280 And then the question is, well, maybe you'd prefer to be in opposition

00:42:03.120 and just stick to what's there.

00:42:04.660 I don't see that necessarily as being so bad.

00:42:06.980 Or I spoke with Tarek Al-Naga from the Maverick Party yesterday.

00:42:12.600 And maybe a parliament with a number of parties is the way to go.

00:42:15.340 And then, you know, there'd be a red conservative sort of party in central Canada that dominates

00:42:20.320 and a Western conservative party.

00:42:22.020 And they're just going to have to find ways to get together and agree on some votes, you

00:42:25.860 know, have a compromise.

00:42:27.420 The old term for it is a pizza parliament.

00:42:29.920 Sometimes you're going to have a bunch of different parties coming in.

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00:44:11.040 yeah, Dave was at the conference last night and we showed that video earlier and everything.

00:44:17.480 It was great content though. That's what I liked. A lot of people forget, you know,

00:44:21.080 some of those talk about with firearm owners and things. And you see what had happened when the

00:44:26.760 registry went down. We had that registry through the 90s. That was pushed by Alan Rock and some

00:44:32.900 others. And it failed. It failed dramatically. I mean, only probably 60% of the guns in Canada

00:44:39.000 really got registered, the long guns. And it cost billions of dollars, even though they said it was

00:44:43.620 only going to cost a few million. And finally, it was completely scrapped. But when it was scrapped,

00:44:48.840 That's when the police forces of Quebec were demanding.

00:44:51.480 They wanted the data from it.

00:44:53.820 And Jean Charest's premier was supportive of that as well.

00:44:57.380 And you know what?

00:44:58.740 We know, and we can't prove it, but we know.

00:45:01.220 Anybody who watched the High River situation with the RCMP when the floods happened, the disasters happened,

00:45:06.840 and the RCMP were down there kicking down doors, and somehow they knew.

00:45:10.340 Somehow they knew all the houses that had firearms.

00:45:12.740 This registry that doesn't exist, they didn't kick down doors of houses that didn't have firearms.

00:45:17.620 They only got the ones that people happen to have registered them.

00:45:20.520 So we know the data is out there anyway.

00:45:23.600 And, uh, but, uh, Sheree wanted that data shared in the beginning.

00:45:27.640 I guess, again, let's just talking about like things with the carbon tax.

00:45:29.840 At least he's being honest about it.

00:45:30.800 He's saying share it with our police forces.

00:45:32.020 We want to keep it and maintain it and have it going.

00:45:34.400 Uh, well, that's what happened in High River.

00:45:37.820 We know that data is going around.

00:45:39.160 It's really out of date now.

00:45:40.420 I mean, it was never that good to begin with, but that's a big issue in the West.

00:45:44.020 And no conventional media would have ever asked Sheree that.

00:45:46.500 no legacy media. As Dave said, he had to elbow his way past the tax funded French media to get in

00:45:54.460 there and get those questions. He knows what he's doing. He's not shy. And he got those questions

00:45:58.520 to Charest. I'm sure Charest didn't want to talk about carbon tax out here as well. That's why he

00:46:02.180 talked around it because I mean, it's an odious thing in the West. We do not like it. And if it

00:46:09.860 was left to the CBC questioners, he probably never would have talked about it. It would have been

00:46:12.840 more fluff. So, uh, well, we'll keep watching that race. I'm going to look at, I wrote, I ran

00:46:17.560 that poll the other day. I see my Twitter account is up there at Corey B. Morgan for those people

00:46:21.720 who do, uh, engage on Twitter and follow it and that. And, uh, I ran a poll just to see where my

00:46:28.140 followers sit as far as, uh, supporting the candidates, the four that are fully officially

00:46:32.820 in right now. And it's been up now for, uh, almost 24 hours since it's final. There were 1400 votes,

00:46:39.080 It's not a bad sampling.

00:46:40.040 And again, it just reflects who follows me, not the people at large.

00:46:43.660 80.7% were for Pierre Paulyave.

00:46:47.580 8% for Leslyn Lewis.

00:46:49.460 She was second.

00:46:50.600 Roman Babber was 7%.

00:46:52.480 And then Jean Charest at 4.4%.

00:46:54.740 And again, not too surprising.

00:46:57.480 It doesn't, you know, how much that would actually reflect on the conservative leadership

00:47:02.120 race outcome, I think is pretty slim because Charest-type supporters and such 1.00

00:47:08.860 probably aren't the ones that follow me on Twitter a heck of a lot. I tend to poke at them and things

00:47:13.120 like that. I mean, I'm a small C classical liberal there. You can see it. And Pierre Paulyev,

00:47:17.720 certainly outstanding though, among my supporters there. The thing we got to watch in this race

00:47:22.220 though, and you can't underestimate it. I mean, Denny, they're saying Chiray is ancient history.

00:47:26.720 Well, we'll see. Cause you can't, this kind of race, when it used to be one member, one vote, 0.97

00:47:31.740 that's how Stephen Harper won. And that's because you could get hundreds of thousands of votes,

00:47:37.040 sell those memberships in the West, and win the race, you know, just in sheer numbers. But what

00:47:42.820 they've got now, and I'm pretty sure I really need to dig into that, is you get like 100 votes or 100

00:47:48.500 points per riding, I think it is, or something like that. And there's, there's what, 328 ridings

00:47:52.920 in Canada or something. You have to win support, it doesn't matter if you've got 100,000 supporters

00:47:58.880 in Calgary, there's only 14 ridings here, whatever it might be, it's only going to add up so much,

00:48:03.320 you've got to win support across the country. You've got to get into, you've got to work very

00:48:07.060 strategically and win that support all over the place. In fact, you can actually do very well

00:48:12.820 if you can find and pull out supporters in really weak conservative ridings. Because if you get into

00:48:18.280 a really weak conservative riding, maybe there's only 100 members there in the first place. So if

00:48:22.980 you could get 80 of those, you're going to get that 80 points versus in Calgary, where you're

00:48:27.100 going to have to get thousands to make up that 80 points in the same riding. You see, it's more

00:48:32.380 nuanced that way. And skilled operators like Sheree, some of the people who are managing his

00:48:37.540 campaign know that. So they're going to be working it out there. So, you know, my Twitter poll,

00:48:41.860 again, only shows who's among my supporters follow it. But when you look at how that's going

00:48:45.980 to be weighted out across the country, it's going to probably be very dramatically different in that

00:48:51.760 way. And then of course, let's give you the questions of first vote, second vote. I mean,

00:48:54.980 whether somebody wins it on first ballot. With the systems in the past, we had a large trend of

00:49:00.220 the third place finisher in the first run would always win in the end.

00:49:03.620 That's how Redford won.

00:49:04.480 That's how Stéphane Dion won.

00:49:06.460 That's how Ed Stelmack won.

00:49:07.800 And what that always leads to actually is usually a very weak leader.

00:49:11.080 And that's why all three that I listed were very weak and they didn't last

00:49:13.580 very long.

00:49:15.040 As Cliff is saying, 0.87

00:49:15.800 it's a sick system. 0.94

00:49:17.260 It is. 0.82

00:49:18.340 Sylvia is saying Roman Barber makes her laugh.

00:49:20.640 What a joke.

00:49:21.020 I don't know.

00:49:21.720 I mean,

00:49:21.860 he's an Ontario one who got in a large amount of battling with the Ford

00:49:25.600 government,

00:49:26.020 mostly over vaccine mandates and things like that.

00:49:27.960 but he's definitely got a strong niche of support, and as Nico's been pulling up, we've got a lot of

00:49:32.780 other candidates lining up. The race is certainly very early at this point, and they can change.

00:49:38.160 Again, so Jim Morrison asking, okay, is Pierre part of the West, you know, WEF, and that's big,

00:49:43.080 and it's been happening a lot. Now, I did a rant on the WEF. I broke down what they're about,

00:49:48.660 and I'm concerned about them. I mean, that video, actually, if you look it up on the Western

00:49:51.840 Standard Sight has got, boy, I think like 70,000 views. It really went off. I do take it seriously.

00:49:58.140 I do take Klaus Schwab seriously. I do not like, I mean, I've read into them. It's not a hidden

00:50:01.940 conspiracy. It's not some strange, obscure thing. It's really there. But the other part is how much

00:50:08.100 do they actually influence the people who did attend all their forums? Just because you've

00:50:11.080 attended one of their events doesn't mean they necessarily control you. I mean, there's no doubt

00:50:17.340 Schwab wants the Great Reset. Schwab wants to bring in world socialism. Schwab wants to

00:50:22.640 centralize power. He wants people to lose their wealth so they can reset it in this weird vision

00:50:28.160 of his. That's not a secret. How much influence he really actually has on those people, though,

00:50:33.760 is the question. And it's not to say none. He definitely has some. I mean, Justin Trudeau

00:50:38.180 parrots his crap openly. Trudeau talked about the Great Reset. He spoke to the World Economic Forum. 1.00

00:50:43.980 We had others like Canadian Conservatives, like Michelle Rempel. 0.91

00:50:47.100 I believe Jason Kenney might have attended one before, too.

00:50:50.200 And I think Pierre might have.

00:50:51.820 I'm not sure.

00:50:53.180 But, I mean, it doesn't mean that they've embraced the view of that forum.

00:50:58.700 Politicians will attend and go to all sorts of different organizations and groups as guests, as listeners, and sometimes participants.

00:51:06.200 So, I honestly, yeah, Pamela Jones-Kenney said that Pierre was on True North this morning.

00:51:11.240 He said he has absolutely nothing to do with them.

00:51:12.720 So, you know, the World Economic Forum is real, their goals are real, but let's not give everybody an immediate guilt by association if they've ever come in contact with them. If you go into some of those large international things, it's almost unavoidable that you'll bump into them. But if they do embrace the World Economic Forum goals, then yeah, we do have a real problem because it does have some very sick and destructive goals.

00:51:35.240 So I'm going to turn the page a little bit here and get on to a nonpartisan candidate, though.

00:51:39.880 And it was an interview I had.

00:51:41.440 And just keep this in mind, you know, I know not everybody's from Calgary watching this, but this was a break.

00:51:46.700 You know, Calgary had an election that turned over a whole council.

00:51:49.300 And again, we had a very strong union influence and so on.

00:51:52.860 And they endorsed a number of candidates.

00:51:56.740 And most of the union-endorsed candidates won.

00:51:59.980 But it was something that was nice that happened.

00:52:01.820 you know one among those union endorsed ones made it very clear that she's not a part of that and

00:52:07.080 she's been taking common sense stances and council and we're having that problem in municipal councils 0.97

00:52:11.800 all the way across the country every city has got this challenge going on with some very terribly

00:52:18.140 left-leaning crazy city councils out there so it was nice to talk to a common sense one who's

00:52:22.840 gotten through she had a tumultuous six months she was fighting without Stephen Carter we didn't dig

00:52:26.760 much into that. He's a local weasel we have. He's gone now from the mayor's office and she's

00:52:33.720 settling in after her first six months in, but it's good to see decent folks getting into those

00:52:38.460 roles and taking some common sense things. And maybe we can see more of that in the municipal

00:52:42.420 level of government. So we'll run that and then we'll have some more talk about some news items

00:52:45.760 here. Well, thank you very much for coming on the show, Councillor Sharp. I've been looking forward

00:52:50.300 to talking to you for quite some time. It's such a huge turnover in the Calgary City Council and

00:52:56.240 mayor, we don't see that very often. This is more of a once in a decade sort of thing. And

00:53:00.920 admittedly, there were some concerns about perhaps, you know, it seemed almost as if there

00:53:05.200 was a slate or an unofficial party of councillors. But among them, I mean, you've proven yourself to

00:53:11.340 be quite an independent thinker and standing up for yourself. You're not, you're not obviously

00:53:15.780 not acting as a part of any group. So that's to be respected. And I really been looking forward

00:53:19.640 to the chance to chat with you about that. Great. Well, thanks for having me. I really

00:53:23.600 appreciate being here today so i mean it's it's quite a learning curve i mean and a huge thing i

00:53:29.840 guess at least a bit of a disadvantage in coming into such a a new council with so many new faces

00:53:35.360 though there were a couple of veterans who came back i i guess just in in your experience in this

00:53:40.000 last you know you're almost halfway through your first year uh in a nutshell how's it been going

00:53:45.280 for you you know uh things been really obviously like things have been going great um you know i

00:53:51.360 came into this this this job this role with um i would say a wealth of experience of dealing with

00:53:57.440 municipalities in general so having that 20 years under my belt already as a previous city employee

00:54:03.760 you i was able to navigate the system day one um so i kind of you know it was a it was nice to have

00:54:09.120 the refreshers those first couple weeks on orientation but um you know i know the system

00:54:14.000 i know how municipalities work i know the city of calvary very well i had pre-existing relationships

00:54:19.280 where, you know, I needed to get some work done right out of the gate. That was, you know, kind

00:54:23.080 of easy to cross the line. But you are still learning everybody else, right? You've got, you

00:54:27.880 know, 14 new colleagues, some with, you know, different agendas, some with similar issues that

00:54:33.460 you're dealing with. And, and you still have to kind of brand yourself and make sure that you're,

00:54:39.100 you're defining who you are, part of that 15, part of those 15 people. So, you know, my biggest

00:54:46.620 thing was you know to represent my community make sure that i'm following through with the things i

00:54:50.940 talked about on the door and and being me um that was one thing that i promised my constituents what

00:54:56.780 you see is what you get and and that's something that i will continue to do for the next like three

00:55:01.420 and a half years so far we've been in this for six months um and there were some moments right

00:55:06.300 where things are up and down um there were some issues you know personality issues and you have

00:55:11.820 to deal with that but you need to deal with it the way that you would deal with the situation

00:55:15.580 how do you deescalate things um and amongst ourselves and how do you work together how do

00:55:20.540 you collaborate to get things across the finish line uh for the greater good so you know those

00:55:25.420 first i would say you know three months um they're they they're their hardest ones um just to learn

00:55:31.340 different personalities and how people operate and now we're in the like the the next three that we

00:55:36.060 we're almost hitting six months now um some of us have really gotten to know each other quite well

00:55:40.940 and um and we kind of even know like what triggers that person you know and um or what will make this

00:55:46.220 person like totally collaborate and those are those are great things um and to think that we're

00:55:51.260 already at our almost six month mark is quite insane actually i'll be honest because we've done

00:55:56.700 a lot of work in six months i know my office has been extremely busy um with just constituent stuff

00:56:02.540 and and everything that's going on in the city and so i'm looking forward to what the rest of

00:56:07.820 this year is going to bring so great well mayor gondek came in i guess with a very ambitious start

00:56:13.740 i guess you could say it was very quick hitting suddenly there was the declaration of a climate

00:56:17.420 emergency and then the the unexpected issue that really kind of i think caught a lot of people

00:56:21.500 flat-footed was the event center and it's kind of back in the news now so i mean it's on again

00:56:26.540 off again it it seems the deal had fallen apart last fall and now it appears that uh there could

00:56:32.460 be some new life being breathed into it with some different players i i think you're one of the ones

00:56:36.700 that were on that committee? Are you not? I am one of the ones on the committee. So there are

00:56:41.600 three councillors out of the five that are on the committee. Myself, Councillor Dan McLean,

00:56:46.800 and Councillor Courtney Walcott. We also brought in Deborah Yeldon from the Calgary Chamber and

00:56:51.600 Brad Perry from Calgary Economic Development. And so, you know, there was a deal last July,

00:56:57.680 there was changes in council. I would say there was some, you know, background information that

00:57:03.340 still needs to kind of be researched there was a break in communication a project of that scale

00:57:09.100 you know thinking back now that i think back about about all of this is you know i think council

00:57:14.300 should have been kind of briefed at something like the scale of a new council saying this is

00:57:18.140 where the project's at this is where we're going um would there have been an opportunity to stop

00:57:22.940 maybe you know things going off the rail could have been um but i would like to say that we've

00:57:28.140 dealt with that and now we need to move forward so the new council committee was struck um the

00:57:35.580 uh well this week sorry i'm like i'm wondering what week it is uh on the 8th and uh what's

00:57:40.380 important here is that we make sure that now we work together to move forward the the event center

00:57:47.420 is very critical for the city it's critical for downtown it's a you know it's it's the heart of

00:57:52.460 of the Rivers District. And so now we need to use that momentum and keep going.

00:57:57.740 I think almost everybody would agree that something has to be done with that zone down

00:58:01.920 there. I mean, we now have a giant zone of parking lots on the edge of a downtown that's

00:58:06.260 already ailing and has already had challenges being a destination for people to come down

00:58:11.120 and do things. I guess a lot of the debate there's going to be how much obligation is

00:58:17.340 there on the part of the city of Calgary or taxpayers to participate in filling that

00:58:21.080 void and how much is in the private mix it's going to be quite a discussion but we can't wait

00:58:25.820 too much longer I mean this has been going on for a long time now yeah and that's a great point um

00:58:31.540 so I think the the what we need to know what we really need to do first is get the third party up

00:58:36.720 and running and get that going they will have those conversations with the partners um and time

00:58:42.380 and speed is important um you know we do know that everything everything's raising in price so

00:58:48.020 cost escalations are a big deal. But what we want to make sure is transparency on what is going to

00:58:54.660 be taxpayers, what's going to be private funding. That was very transparent towards the end of the

00:59:00.420 second deal. And really, what does this mean for Calgary? So that is what's really important.

00:59:06.420 And so right now, I don't have all those answers for you, but that is something that we hope to

00:59:10.760 get to sooner than later. So Calgary downtown in general, and I work downtown, with the work

00:59:18.000 from home orders lifted. It's been nice to actually see how crowded it's gotten. It was

00:59:21.440 so moribund down here for so long, but still, there's a massive amount of downtown vacancies

00:59:26.940 as well as issues of social disorder. I mean, that happens when an area ends up getting

00:59:31.860 a lot of vacancy and issues. I mean, we're in a unique period of time. It's not in your ward,

00:59:39.740 but of course, everybody's got to work together on that sort of thing. Have you got plans or

00:59:44.100 notions on initiatives to try and sort of, I guess, make Calgary's downtown more appealing,

00:59:48.300 I think both to citizens and to, of course, commercial customers to hopefully start filling

00:59:52.120 those spaces. Yeah. And so we do have a downtown strategy team that was, you know, it's taken a

00:59:58.040 couple of years to fill that team properly. And so they've just given that team a director.

01:00:02.680 And so his name is Tom Muller. And I've worked with Tom for many years and he's in charge of

01:00:06.400 the whole downtown strategy, which is a great, what's going to be great for this team to work

01:00:11.140 together and there's a lot of office to residential conversions and that's great so we can start

01:00:15.540 moving people downtown get that density of people living there but what we really need now is the

01:00:21.940 amenities so how do we draw those people downtown and who's the audience so are we looking at

01:00:26.660 drawing in students are we looking in drawing families um you know this single folks so you

01:00:31.360 need to make sure you're crafting the downtown to the right audiences that want to live down there

01:00:35.520 I know it's not really part of Ward 1, but a vibrant and sustainable downtown really does help the suburban communities.

01:00:44.480 We got to get that tax base downtown so that we can look at opportunities outside of that area.

01:00:51.600 And it's been struggling for a long time.

01:00:55.160 I'm trying to think like pre-pandemic, we're looking 2016, 2017, when things started to kind of go sideways.

01:01:02.260 And then, you know, we had the pandemic and it just kind of got worse.

01:01:05.480 And I think that's what we now need to look forward and say, OK, how can we draw the right balance of people and amenities downtown to increase that tax base so that the rest of the city can really benefit from it?

01:01:19.020 So, I mean, it's kind of tied into it and related, you know, back to that area, though, of social disorder and challenges.

01:01:25.360 And I mean, that's a I think a multi-government level sort of thing.

01:01:28.260 got mental health issues to deal with we've got addiction issues to deal with and poverty issues

01:01:32.500 but it still it does tie into the municipal and transit uh some lrt stations are still

01:01:38.420 remaining closed i know there's been more initiative to bring uh security and police on

01:01:42.180 but people are kind of wondering well how long are these facilities going to remain shut down

01:01:45.380 because it feels like a band-aid solution to a bigger problem i mean it's understandable it was

01:01:49.460 out of control down there something had to happen quickly but uh what's on the go to try and get

01:01:54.500 things i guess kind of closer to normal because that's what will draw people downtown as well more

01:01:57.940 if they feel safe when they can ride downtown and enjoy it so we we had um a couple weeks

01:02:04.820 so we had an emergency meeting with transit and so they offered some solutions right away uh to

01:02:10.180 what was happening in some of the more northwest stations that we've seen an increase of you know

01:02:15.700 homelessness and crime and mental health issues um so you know we and and not just that it's got to

01:02:21.620 make sure that it's safe for everybody and so we've added more officers there was 18 graduating

01:02:26.900 class that was able to jump on right away i believe there's another class of new transit officers

01:02:31.540 um going through the system right now and and this is a bigger this is a bigger problem right like the

01:02:37.220 the the the transit stuff we're seeing is just you know it's a it's a piece of it all but what

01:02:44.020 we really need to focus on is how are we working towards our mental health strategy how are we

01:02:49.300 working with our provincial partners in order to make sure that there's funding to get the right

01:02:55.140 resources in place to support what's happening um you know we had a meeting today with cps as well

01:03:00.820 it's one of the areas that's you know got some issues happening in the community because of

01:03:05.460 what's happening in the transit so we have to make sure we're working together but we we as a city

01:03:10.580 need to work with all levels of government to get the proper funding and resources to support our

01:03:14.980 communities this is really important um what i would also say is that there some of these these

01:03:19.940 these train stations, they might need a little bit extra, you know, equipment. Do we need turnstiles?

01:03:25.940 Maybe. Do we need more cameras? Maybe. You know, we need to start looking at municipalities that

01:03:30.260 are much larger than Calgary and learn from them. I don't think I've been to a train station in

01:03:36.180 Vancouver or Toronto that you can get in without a ticket on the platform. So these are things we

01:03:41.840 need to start reconsidering. And transit's been really great. They've been really open to like

01:03:46.980 hearing our suggestions and, you know, will it cost more money? Possibly. But these are the

01:03:51.580 conversations council has to have in order to keep our transit and our roads safe. So we've got to

01:03:56.440 really fundamentally focus on our priorities, particularly this year, moving forward for the

01:04:01.840 next three and understanding from the last couple of years that we're in a different place now.

01:04:07.160 Well, increased ridership, you know, I would, you know, a lot of people think increased ridership

01:04:12.820 is going to change everything and, you know, everything's going to go back to normal. And

01:04:15.960 we don't know that. And so I think you'd be naive to say, yeah, well, but I think we've got to be

01:04:21.420 very cognizant. We're at a totally different time in our lives now. And the city is a different

01:04:24.940 place. Yeah. So in talking with multiple levels, that's always been a challenge in municipalities,

01:04:31.840 the relationship of the last administration and the provincial government was pretty toxic.

01:04:37.540 And the current one, unfortunately, at least to a degree, has been a little bit

01:04:40.840 challenged, to say the least, when it came to things like health authority, who has the authority

01:04:47.340 to look out, I guess, on health regulations, whether it's municipal or provincial, and if

01:04:52.660 there's a difference of opinion, it seems to have been resolved for the moment. But has there been

01:04:57.040 any discussion, an item that comes up periodically quite often is the pursuit of a city charter

01:05:01.100 or adjustments to the Municipal Governance Act. Are you taking part in or looking at any of those

01:05:07.460 kinds of initiatives in the future? I mean, I keep myself with, like, we keep ourselves apprised

01:05:14.100 of all the information. I believe this morning I heard that, you know, Minister McIver has

01:05:18.100 made some, you know, surgical changes to the MGA regarding just putting some positions in place

01:05:25.100 for the cities not to put specific health regulations on their own cities. But, you know,

01:05:32.260 that's where we're sitting with that. And I'm not putting any initiatives forward to change the MGA

01:05:36.320 at this point, or allowing the cities to have more power or less power. The province has gone

01:05:42.840 in to do a surgical change. That's good. Because if we're going to open up the MGA to do bigger

01:05:47.480 changes, that's a whole different story. There's things in the MGA that, you know, that's not just

01:05:52.280 health and safety. There's planning things that can be looked at as well. So this is something

01:05:58.620 that I heard this morning that it was very minor, very surgical. And then we just kind of learn from

01:06:03.680 that and say, does it ever have to change again? And I always think like you can, you can always

01:06:08.740 go back if you need to. It's really important to have those conversations and that relationship's

01:06:12.900 really important as well. What about in the regional area things? I'm actually living in

01:06:18.660 Prittis. I'm right on the edge of the city, even though I work in the city and I lived in the city

01:06:22.060 for 30 years. So I'm still concerned with city issues, of course, but there's been a lot of

01:06:27.700 clashes. Again, when it comes to the metropolitan plan and some possible overriding of authority of

01:06:35.640 municipalities, foothills, Rocky View, and such, you're on at least one of the more suburban

01:06:42.240 wards. Are you going to be looking into some of those issues as things go forward? It's been quiet,

01:06:47.620 I guess, on the front of the new administration so far, but I can imagine as the city considers

01:06:51.820 outward growth as is normal, we're going to see some sparks probably flying pretty soon.

01:06:57.460 And so perhaps we could preemptively avoid some of those.

01:07:01.560 So I don't sit on any of the committees with that for like the MD of Rocky View or the other municipality committees at this point.

01:07:09.360 But there's different important issues, obviously, bordering each of the municipalities.

01:07:14.440 We do share a very fine border with the MD of Rocky View.

01:07:18.600 So, I mean, I have like Lynx Ridge, for example, and it's kind of split between Bear Spa, but Bear Spa is not in Ward 1.

01:07:23.840 so there's always little issues that we may have to work together as a city

01:07:27.020 municipality together which is important and that's again relationship building

01:07:30.560 and making sure you have that you know those conversations at the table but

01:07:35.240 right now what I'm really focusing on is listening to the constituents and those

01:07:39.140 that really do border that those lines and making sure that they're taking

01:07:43.280 they're being taken care of and if there's issues happening on the MD side

01:07:46.460 that's affecting them then it's my then it's my responsibility to have that

01:07:50.780 conversation with the MD of Rocky View. Okay. Well, I appreciate that. I think I've covered

01:07:55.780 a lot of what I wanted to cover. Are there a few issues you'd like to address before I let you go

01:07:59.200 here? No, I mean, I think this has been a great opportunity to have a conversation and I would

01:08:05.440 say there's a lot more to come for sure in the next three and a half years. So happy to come on

01:08:10.260 the show again one day, Corey. Thank you so much. Excellent. Thank you. That's part of why I wanted

01:08:14.340 to stay a little broad. I'm hoping to talk to you again in the future as we get specific issues and

01:08:17.840 things like that, but just to get a feel with a new counselor on where you're going and what

01:08:21.560 you're looking to do. But as I said, so far, I'm not out for plain flattery, but it's just good

01:08:26.440 to see that you've been looking at issues broadly, it seems, and you're your own person, which is

01:08:29.900 really appreciated and not always the case in City Hall. So thanks and thanks for coming on

01:08:34.960 and I hope we talk again soon. Thank you so much.

01:08:37.600 hey guys yeah i see some of the comments and i'll address them like in that case

01:08:47.840 uh it's hard with city councillors especially when they're in session to to get them on during

01:08:52.200 this show because they're in so that was actually a recorded one it was a little earlier so she

01:08:55.660 wasn't able to see those comments uh but there were good ones and some things you know asking

01:09:00.420 about wf again i have no idea in that case uh she's uh you know we didn't i didn't get too

01:09:06.640 rough on anything it was her first interview on here as a new councillor and as i said this shows

01:09:11.680 how sick calgary city council is though with one of the things she talked about which is considered

01:09:17.120 controversial it shouldn't be was even talking about perhaps having turnstiles or some sort of

01:09:20.940 means to check tickets on transit like everywhere else in the world i actually listened to a couple

01:09:27.140 of radio djs uh on a music station uh last week or so because the city of calgary actually had

01:09:34.940 some officers down there checking tickets and they were screaming about it's a cash grab and

01:09:38.320 and it's cracking down on the poor homeless and everything guys these are trains not homeless

01:09:42.260 shelters it's not unreasonable it's not a cash grab to ask people to pay their bloody fare

01:09:47.900 I haven't ridden the train in a while now but for a while I was using it to get down here downtown

01:09:51.640 I never got checked for a ticket once and I'm sure there's a lot of people who just didn't bother

01:09:55.980 buying them it's an honor system I did keep buying them because I pay for a service I take that's the

01:10:01.180 way it goes. I don't need enforcement to keep me doing that, but a lot of people think otherwise.

01:10:05.560 So, I mean, how many millions was the city losing in that? I don't know. And the other aspect was

01:10:09.740 a lot of, and we put videos up of it. We covered it. The open drug consumption, the drug deals

01:10:16.820 that were happening on trains. I mean, this was just a pipeline for addicts, not to mention,

01:10:21.640 I've shown maps of the crime. Everywhere where the train line goes, there's a huge crime wave

01:10:26.340 everywhere within walking distance of a train station, because it's just a pipeline for the

01:10:30.320 addicts and the criminals to get out to other neighborhoods. You know, none of them are paying

01:10:34.020 for their tickets to get on the bloody train. So just one solution. There's that map. Man,

01:10:39.380 Nico's quick. I didn't warn him. I was going to pull that one up, but he found it. So as you can

01:10:43.220 see those dark colors, I mean, it's bold. You can see the crime follows the train line.

01:10:49.140 Maybe if these guys had to pay $3.80, whatever it is, to ride the train, it would reduce the

01:10:54.880 amount of them using the train for those purposes. Simple solutions for things. Save some money,

01:10:59.260 get people to pay for the service and uh you know layout there's a the inside of a bus station you

01:11:05.900 know where they're homeless people basically set up camp and live for a night like it's turning

01:11:09.260 into a mess so some of these things we've got to take care of and and uh sonia's actually willing 0.98

01:11:15.400 to even dip into that which a lot of councillors aren't it's it's frightening that even those sort

01:11:19.480 of common sense things are not up for discussion and she hasn't fallen down their rabbit hole and

01:11:24.720 i hope she doesn't so we'll keep an eye on that because again every city's dealing with a lot of

01:11:28.120 these problems right now but Calgary's downtown is something else let's pivot a little more

01:11:32.220 provincial lots going on I'm gonna have uh Jody Gateman on the show next week actually she's

01:11:37.700 gonna come on she was punted as a potential nomination candidate for the UCP uh on some 0.87

01:11:43.240 very shaky grounds and old social media posts Tim Hoven was another one kicked out and he was

01:11:48.480 running against Jason Nixon and uh uh or just to answer a question I know it distracts some people

01:11:55.440 when I get going Ashley's asking how do you get what you steal on a train well they just walk

01:11:59.200 onto it they push their shopping carts right onto the train you can go out and cut off your catalytic

01:12:04.460 converters out in the residential area and then ride the train down and push your shopping cart

01:12:08.560 over to the uh place that's buying them and you know none of them admit that they're buying them

01:12:13.880 but obviously somebody is uh so no it's not hard at all for those guys there's no control on those

01:12:18.580 trains they have increased some enforcement but sitting up maybe turnstiles is the way to go you

01:12:22.920 know just make people pay and uh not that uh complicated i wouldn't think but it isn't in

01:12:27.880 calgary anyway tim hoven yes so he's vowed to fight uh drive-by attempts at character assassination

01:12:33.180 that disqualified him uh running against jason nixon in rimby rocky mountain or sundry uh he

01:12:39.260 says the united conservative party resorted to insinuations allegations and petty attempts to

01:12:43.160 oust him from a competitive campaign against nixon uh that was a statement he put out like

01:12:48.620 the woes of the UCP and particularly Jason Kenney are far from over. And he's in some

01:12:55.960 serious trouble. You know, all of those ticked off members that Hovind sold memberships to,

01:13:01.340 they're going to be going and voting against Kenney on April 9th. And I was talking to David

01:13:04.620 Parker yesterday. I was quite surprised. I mean, we're hearing numbers all over the place,

01:13:09.460 but it's definitely going to be thousands and thousands of people converging on this Red Deer

01:13:13.580 Hotel to make this vote. We'll never have seen anything like that. The Western Standard will

01:13:17.600 be set up. We're going to be there, a whole bunch of us. We're spending the whole weekend there

01:13:20.900 covering it. We're going to be live streaming and interviewing a lot of people. It's going to be

01:13:24.700 quite a wild weekend, but it's just getting worse and worse by the day, it seems. And the by-election

01:13:29.720 is coming up right away in Fort McMurray, Lacklebish, and that's where I'll be talking to

01:13:34.840 Paul Heyman on Monday. He's been running in it. And as well, we've got Brian Jean, of course,

01:13:41.240 probably the favorite, but we'll see what the vote split. Paul was saying in an interview

01:13:44.400 recently with the standard that if the vote's split the right way, he could win that perhaps

01:13:47.880 with 35% support. And that would certainly shake things up too. But you know, neither outcome,

01:13:52.100 there's no outcome looks good for Premier Kenney. Brian Jean is running basically on an anti-Kenney

01:13:56.380 platform. Paul Heman, of course, is running from a completely different party. And if the NDP wins,

01:14:00.540 well, that's saying, well, gee, the NDP could win all of Alberta if Jason Kenney is still Premier.

01:14:06.180 So there's no avoiding it. That's going to be Tuesday night. We're going to be covering that

01:14:09.240 as well when those results come in. So keep an eye on this site. We'll have those reported as

01:14:14.420 soon as they come in. We're probably gonna have some panels and people talking about it. And yeah,

01:14:19.020 so I'm going to talk actually before getting a little more news here as we wrap up the week

01:14:22.940 about another one of our sponsors. And it's a valid one considering Jean Charest and his stance

01:14:27.600 on firearms. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, cssa-cila.org. I've talked

01:14:35.040 about them a lot. Their name says it all. Look them up. Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

01:14:39.340 If you own firearms, you're looking to own firearms. This is an association where you can

01:14:44.340 get together with people and share resources. Everything from where are there going to be

01:14:49.940 trade shows or some videos on the safe operation of firearms, you know, target shooting, collecting,

01:14:55.900 storage, all of that stuff. They got all those resources there as any association of people,

01:15:00.620 you know, with a common interest will have. And then most important of all, they've got multiple

01:15:04.740 legal challenges. As you can see, yeah, they're mentioning Jean Charest is no friend to Canada's

01:15:09.620 firearm owners. They've got legal challenges against the government standing up for your

01:15:13.940 right to keep your firearms. Because what keeps happening, you know, the registry came and went,

01:15:17.500 it fell apart. But what they're doing now is every year they do an order in council and they

01:15:21.620 illegalize a whole bunch more firearms on some arbitrary basis. And suddenly you have to turn

01:15:25.820 them in or you're turned into an instant criminal. It's wrong. And they're using the courts to fight

01:15:29.980 back for you. And the only way to do that though, you got to join them, take out a membership with

01:15:35.620 these guys. It's worth it. You know, just beyond the court challenges, but also just as a good

01:15:39.500 resource for you as a firearm owner. So check them out. Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

01:15:44.480 They are a good group, a good cause, and they'll help you out. And they've been sponsoring us,

01:15:49.800 which helps. Getting back to the tax funded world, the CBC, Dave talked about that earlier.

01:15:55.340 they retracted another false Freedom Convoy story that suggested foreigners played a large

01:16:00.660 part in the protest. They claimed, what, it's funny, the world this hour is self-described

01:16:07.900 as Canada's most trusted audio newscast. Really? Yeah. You know, all 100 viewers or whatever it

01:16:13.840 is of that. But either way, in a report, they said that the fundraising was from foreigners

01:16:21.420 and so on. No explanation was given. It turns out it was a pile of BS. And they've yanked that

01:16:29.800 and apologized and backed off. But you see, the damage gets done already. This was all the buildup

01:16:33.960 that the bought and paid for media, and you don't get any more bought and paid for than the CBC,

01:16:39.020 was doing to try and make support or make the case for why Justin Trudeau was going to suspend our

01:16:44.060 rights in using the Emergencies Act and take things over. So the CBC was in trouble. They did

01:16:53.100 their thing, but they backed off. And you know what? It won't hurt them a bit, unfortunately.

01:16:56.360 That's just the way it goes. Mask mandates, those are dropping across the country. We're seeing that

01:17:01.480 all over the place. I'm liking seeing that, of course. And the whining, the way it's getting

01:17:06.020 going though, isn't it? I'm watching people, well, I'm going to keep wearing my mask. Well, good for

01:17:09.340 you. I don't care. And then there's others saying, I'm not going to go out to businesses now because

01:17:13.780 So this demasking is going to hurt business.

01:17:16.180 Oh, BS. 1.00

01:17:16.880 You guys are full of crap. 1.00

01:17:18.000 I was in a restaurant last night for the first time in a while, and I talked to them. 1.00

01:17:20.660 I said, no, I mean, the masking has helped them for sure in getting rid of all those

01:17:23.580 regulations.

01:17:24.280 But the other part was the vaccine passport.

01:17:27.880 Their sales since then have finally been closer to what they were two years ago. 1.00

01:17:31.400 We've got to get rid of these stupid mandates. 1.00

01:17:33.340 And these dumb arseholes that are constantly pushing, they aren't even making the health 1.00

01:17:36.920 case anymore. 1.00

01:17:37.800 They aren't.

01:17:38.840 It's a point of principle of saying we just have to keep control of everybody all the time.

01:17:45.080 We've got to keep everybody masked.

01:17:46.180 And I'm going to keep masking and we just got to, we won't stop.

01:17:49.180 It's a zero risk cult.

01:17:50.440 It's a cult.

01:17:52.300 Well, the world's unmasking whether you guys like it or not.

01:17:54.780 You want to hide in your basements and fear, fine.

01:17:57.800 But I'm sick of you spreading your fear.

01:17:59.600 Take your fear and shove it somewhere deep and dark.

01:18:02.100 I'm tired of it.

01:18:03.460 We are following the science.

01:18:04.620 That's why the world is dropping mask mandates.

01:18:07.220 It's funny how silent old shrill Rachel Notley got when her partner Horgan in B.C. said he's dropping the mask mandates.

01:18:15.020 When Jason Kenney did it, it was going to be the end of the world.

01:18:17.280 It was terrible.

01:18:17.820 It was awful.

01:18:18.300 Oh, my God.

01:18:18.780 People are going to be stacked like cordwood.

01:18:20.480 The bodies, the horror, the humanity.

01:18:23.500 Horgan does it.

01:18:25.540 Crickets.

01:18:25.960 Then she went back to her B.S. corporate tax grab line that she's been spouting out for the last four years. 1.00

01:18:32.700 That's why we really do have to get our crap together somewhere. 0.50

01:18:35.580 one of these parties or something on the conservative front in Alberta, because if 0.96

01:18:40.740 not Lee gets back in, listen to her. She's insane. We are going to be in for four years 1.00

01:18:46.620 of hell. So we better figure out what the hell we're doing. But for now, yes, we, we, the world

01:18:52.940 is moving in the right direction. It's been in the wrong direction for a long time. Some people say

01:18:56.860 it's too, you know, let's see, too little, too late. I don't know. It's never too late. At least

01:19:01.060 get it done get out of it we're getting there we're really close to normal we still get these

01:19:06.520 federal mandates still can't get on a plane we still have people who lost jobs because they

01:19:10.480 didn't choose to be vaccinated we got a lot of stuff to work out but we're going the right way

01:19:14.780 and actually i'm talking to a guest next week about masks uh he did uh some studies he's a

01:19:19.780 scientist and uh people say masks are harmless well he did some things with uh breathing studies

01:19:26.660 and tests and such. And he found that, no, they aren't necessarily as harmless as a lot of people

01:19:31.460 were putting across. I mean, there's certainly not something that's going to drop you. People

01:19:34.000 wear masks for workplace uses all the time for all sorts of things, but they're not completely

01:19:39.720 harmless either. And we got to, let's have an open talk about this. Let's discuss this. This guy

01:19:44.360 has got those numbers out there. So it's not just the inconvenience and these aren't minor

01:19:49.200 inconveniences. And one I've gone on about with the masks a lot was, I mean, I don't hear terribly

01:19:55.300 well it's a long story on that worked around some helicopters didn't listen to the safety guy blah

01:20:00.020 either way uh i supplement my hearing a lot with a bit of lip reading and when a person's got a

01:20:04.980 mask on of course i can't do that and that's just in my case supplemental at least i can turn you

01:20:09.060 know my head and put my left ear towards somebody and get that what they're saying if it's in a loud

01:20:13.540 environment and pull it off people who are fully deaf really are having had a miserable time with 1.00

01:20:18.740 the bloody masking this isn't a minor inconvenience this is taking them out of the communication loop

01:20:23.620 loop with the world for years. There was a gentleman, Craig, he used to come to my bar

01:20:28.920 all the time when I owned it down in Pritis, a fantastic guy. And I couldn't, you know, I was

01:20:32.920 always be astounded with how good he was at lip reading. When it was a loud night in the bar,

01:20:37.040 I had better communications with Craig back and forth because he could do the lip reading and

01:20:41.400 express himself. You know, whereas the other customers, of course, were just trying to scream

01:20:46.560 into the noise. So, you know, Craig and many, many other people who are hearing impaired,

01:20:51.600 I'm sure are extremely celebrating the end of these bloody masks.

01:20:56.600 They're uncomfortable. They're not good for us. And the people who really are scared,

01:21:00.920 really are, they're scared. You know, they're not just ones with a political agenda, not just the

01:21:05.000 zero-risk Celtics. They've been programmed. What a terrible place to be. You're actually going to

01:21:11.200 be nervous. You're going to have stress levels. Your heart rate's going to go up if you leave

01:21:15.080 your house because there's people around you without masks on. I mean, it annoys me, but I

01:21:20.340 also feel sorry for them. That's a horrible way to live. What a terrifying place to be.

01:21:24.920 I mean, this is not good. This is what two years of fear-mongering has done to us. And we've seen

01:21:31.300 the numbers. We can't keep pretending the numbers aren't there. It's not two years ago when this was

01:21:35.520 first coming out and we didn't know what was going to happen. And masking, the benefits have been

01:21:40.120 negligible at best. Negligible. Everybody's realized that we've just got to learn with,

01:21:46.320 live with this. We got to look at long-term solutions and we're not hearing enough discussion.

01:21:50.600 I want to get more guests to go on about that in the future. We realize our healthcare system fell 0.54

01:21:55.720 short, but we're not doing anything to fix it yet. You know, we just keep pumping money into a broken

01:22:00.800 system. We've got to examine the system. Are we going to learn from this two years of crap or not?

01:22:06.540 Because even if it's not COVID, I mean, who knows what bug is going to come five years from now, 0.99

01:22:10.460 10 years from now. And if it starts pressuring the limits of our healthcare system again,

01:22:14.140 And guess what? They'll lock us down again, whether it works or not. So let's get that

01:22:19.360 capacity. Let's make sure. I mean, I know we can't keep a hospital with beds and wards and

01:22:24.480 trained staff on standby all of the time in case they suddenly need to accommodate a thousand

01:22:30.120 people in the ICU. But we do and can change the system to make that more flexible. Like one of

01:22:36.140 the main things that got to on my nerves, we put it off and passed off so many surgeries and

01:22:40.880 procedures, which probably killed, we can't measure the amount of people because of deferred

01:22:44.880 treatment. And it's because we've got all these centralized hospitals. Well, decentralize it.

01:22:52.980 Let's get out of this rigid, socialized system. Let's keep the hospitals, because you couldn't 0.99

01:22:57.000 bring a bunch of contagious people in where there are going to be these surgeries. Well,

01:22:59.640 why can't we, you know, you go to other countries, you'll find surgical centers specialized for all

01:23:04.600 sorts of things that aren't in hospitals. You can get a hernia operation at a standalone clinic.

01:23:08.640 And guess what? The pandemic wouldn't have slowed them down a bit. You get back surgery at a

01:23:12.580 different place. You can get your dialysis at a different clinic. You can see an oncologist

01:23:17.260 in a different cancer center. And that way you're not losing and putting off all of these procedures

01:23:23.000 because you're worried about keeping the hospital from having infectious people within it.

01:23:28.920 You know, the hospital can stay going for the acute cases, but you know what the problem is?

01:23:32.720 It's the unions. They're going to get ticked off because private facilities, and that's the only 0.83

01:23:37.060 the way it's going to work. You're going to have to have some private facilities. It doesn't mean

01:23:39.700 you're paying out of pocket. It just means that they're going to be outside and running. Yes,

01:23:43.940 they're going to make some profit. What do you think the unions do? Man, those guys make millions

01:23:47.580 and millions of dollars too. But we need to re-examine the system and nobody's talking about

01:23:51.760 that. Nobody's got the balls to talk about that, but we have to talk about it. Canada's system is 0.93

01:23:55.580 not the best in the world. It's one of the crappiest and it's getting worse all the time.

01:23:59.780 And nobody has the courage to talk about it, not just tweak it, not just fix it a little bit. We

01:24:05.060 need to gut this system and rebuild it based on world models. There are so many European models,

01:24:10.300 Australian models, all sorts that are far better than ours. They're getting better bang for their 1.00

01:24:13.960 buck. Everybody still gets coverage. So let's start talking about it. We haven't yet. That's

01:24:19.600 the next phase of recovery from this pandemic is what do we have to do differently so we don't have

01:24:23.540 to go through this again? And reforming the healthcare system is going to be a key component

01:24:27.160 of that. All right, that's enough ranting out of me for the week. Let's remind everybody again,

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Western Standard - March 12, 2022

LIVE： Triggered - Charest is the candidate for the Laurentian elite

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