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00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's March 10th, 2022, and welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. This is the

00:00:38.040 Western Standards Live Daily Show. We run Monday to Friday, 1130 a.m. Mountain until about one

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00:01:39.620 with also with the fact that it's a bit interactive and live. Not everybody's on Twitter, but for those

00:01:44.620 who are, I've started a poll because we do have at least now the Conservative Party of Canada

00:01:48.980 leadership race is starting to flesh out. There's four people confirmed to come into it, and there's

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00:02:03.740 to get a feel of it and i know that only measures who my twitter followers like and dislike in the

00:02:08.280 race but it still gives a bit of a baseline for us to start with as this race develops uh it sounds

00:02:13.200 like i'll probably be talking to pierre polyev next week and i'll be getting as many other

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00:02:22.460 Corey B. Morgan, and put your vote in on that poll. A little later on the show, we'll check in

00:02:26.500 and see how that turned out. So, and I got a couple of guests on today. There's a lot of

00:02:31.940 contentious stuff going on. We've got people across the country here. I see like we've got

00:02:35.880 Chris coming from London, Ontario. I just, you know, some folks from Okotoks too, but we got

00:02:41.620 the Take Back Alberta initiative going on. It's a provincial thing in Alberta, but there's a real

00:02:46.500 strong push to take Premier Kennedy out of power, and that's coming to a head April 9th. David

00:02:51.820 Parker has been running that group. He's going to come on and talk to me about that. And then

00:02:56.260 after that, we're going to have Tarek El Naga on. He's a really interesting guy. We've had him on

00:03:01.520 the show before. Hey there, Leslie in Perth. So I just got to explain some of these things to the

00:03:05.040 Ontario audience. So we do cover national things, but we're a little regional today, but it's still

00:03:09.600 also a good conservative conversation. Tarek ran in the last election for the Maverick Party,

00:03:14.620 and he's considering running for the leadership now of that party. And it's a Western Canadian

00:03:18.680 party. So I'm afraid, you know, Matt and Hamilton, some of the others won't get the chance to vote

00:03:22.900 for the Maverick, but they're developing and they're interesting. And Tarek's really an

00:03:27.860 interesting fella, you know, a rodeo rider, a cowboy, well-spoken and a good personality.

00:03:32.820 It's going to be a fun conversation. He's coming in studio. So now let's get on to what's got me

00:03:38.620 worked up and triggered today. There's always something. Right now we've got leaders telling

00:03:43.100 people to drive electric vehicles in response to high gas prices. It's the modern day version of

00:03:48.620 saying, let them eat cake. It really is. In response to increasing pressure being put upon

00:03:52.580 Americans due to skyrocketing gas prices, President Joe Biden, or at least one of his aides, tweeted,

00:03:58.760 loosening environmental regulations won't lower prices, but transforming our economy to run on

00:04:03.600 electrical vehicles powered by clean energy will mean that no one will have to worry about gas

00:04:08.380 prices. And it means that tyrants like Putin won't be able to use fossil fuels as a weapon.

00:04:13.300 Okay, the first sentence of Biden's tweets, either an indication of total economic illiteracy,

00:04:18.620 or it's an outright lie. Perhaps it's both. I mean, of course, lessening environmental regulations

00:04:24.740 with lower prices. Throughout North America, energy projects have been delayed and hindered

00:04:28.940 for years due to onerous environmental regulations. Pipelines and other energy projects take years to

00:04:35.200 start due to a huge burden of consultation, permits, studies, and mitigation requirements.

00:04:41.180 Thousands of permits are sought and they're often rejected. Companies have spent billions

00:04:45.740 cumulatively in the last decade just in the application process for new energy projects.

00:04:51.060 Many of these projects never even got off the ground because the costs of application simply

00:04:54.540 got too high and the likelihood of approval became too low. A grade six student having been

00:04:59.700 just taught what the word economics is could look at that scenario and understand that

00:05:02.920 reducing those regulations would increase supply while reducing costs. It's just math, guys.

00:05:09.680 But Biden, along with other environmental ideologues such as Trudeau and his

00:05:13.620 eco-extremist henchman, Gilboa, apparently can't figure this out. But you've got to remember,

00:05:19.120 trust fund babies like Justin Trudeau and career politicians like Biden, who's been a senator for,

00:05:24.380 what, 40 years before becoming president or something, they have no clue what it really

00:05:28.300 actually is like for working people on the ground. They've never had to skimp and save in order to

00:05:33.620 buy a used vehicle that was only somewhat reliable, but was still essential in order to get to work.

00:05:39.140 They've never had to try and pack a number of children into a car in order to get them to get

00:05:43.240 get them to daycare and then go to work and then juggle the same kids at the end of the day at the

00:05:47.320 grocery store before heading home to feed them all. I guess those people could just ride a bike

00:05:50.920 or take the bus or spend $80,000 and buy an electric car, right? I mean, Biden and Trudeau

00:05:56.160 had nannies, chefs and chauffeurs to take care of all those things for him. So I guess it could be

00:05:59.860 understood why they don't understand how this is a problem for the majority of people. I don't think

00:06:04.860 those fools intended to insult the vast majority of working North Americans when they dismissed 0.99

00:06:09.320 the impacts of spiking energy prices, these privileged clowns really actually just don't 1.00

00:06:13.720 have a clue. Who needs a car to go on vacation where you could just fly to the Bahamas instead, 0.86

00:06:18.040 right? Maybe hit a private island with buddies like Trudeau does. Electric cars are an expensive

00:06:23.240 luxury and they're only good for virtue signaling at this point. I mean, we've had well over a

00:06:27.720 decade of pressure and massive subsidies towards electric vehicles and still in the world they

00:06:32.360 they only make up one in 250 vehicles on the road.

00:06:36.200 In North America, that goes up to 2%.

00:06:38.180 That 2% are typically high-income urban living people

00:06:42.340 who just want to have a virtue signaling second car

00:06:44.400 so they can show their neighbors how green they are.

00:06:47.480 I mean, electric vehicles are getting better all the time,

00:06:50.000 but they're still worlds away from the reach of common folks.

00:06:53.180 They're much more expensive than conventional vehicles.

00:06:55.780 They have a terrible resale value due to battery degradation,

00:06:58.440 which costs a fortune to replace them,

00:07:00.440 and they perform terribly in cold weather,

00:07:02.100 and have a limited range. That might change, but it's not there yet. If indeed the world did truly

00:07:07.260 start to shift en masse towards electric vehicles, the price of them would rise even further. Because

00:07:12.620 of course, we would see a run on the required precious metals, such as lithium and cobalt.

00:07:17.080 The next disconnect with supply and demand from those pushing for electrical vehicles

00:07:21.540 comes with the powering of them. These, and we heard all, free charging stations, they abound

00:07:26.300 right now. But they're anything but free in reality, and they won't stay that way for long.

00:07:29.820 somebody pays the bill for those charging stations one way or another, and it's usually the taxpayer.

00:07:35.280 Now, think about what would happen to the electricity prices in North America if 100

00:07:40.020 million electric vehicles suddenly entered the mix. Our generation capacity is nowhere nearly

00:07:45.040 strong enough to keep up with that, by the way. Carbon-based fuels and nuclear forms of generation

00:07:49.560 are apparently evil, but they're the best we have. We'd need millions of windmills and countless

00:07:54.300 square miles of solar panels just to meet this new demand. And that would take more precious

00:07:58.360 metals, by the way, so I guess we'll have more slave labor in third world countries in order to 1.00

00:08:02.100 mine that. The cost of electricity would skyrocket. Not only would it cost a fortune to charge an

00:08:07.200 electric car, but anybody with electricity feeding their home is going to feel the pinch.

00:08:10.920 Every business that requires electricity, which is all of them, will have to raise prices, and then

00:08:15.300 inflation will rise even further. The costs for the increased transmission capability will be huge,

00:08:21.120 not to mention millions of homeowners suddenly having to spend thousands to put charging ports

00:08:25.580 in their houses. Charging a car isn't like charging an iPhone, though Prime Minister Trudeau

00:08:30.460 probably can't tell the difference. It takes a lot of power, and most homes aren't equipped to

00:08:34.320 handle that. Again, for people like Trudeau and Biden, this isn't a big deal. I doubt they've ever

00:08:39.320 even opened their own mail before and directly paid a utility bill. They've got people for that.

00:08:44.600 But we have to look at those and pay those bills and experience the sticker shock. North America

00:08:49.320 has some of the most abundant energy resources on Earth. Yet we're in the midst of an energy crisis

00:08:54.000 because our leaders are ideologically driven imbeciles. 1.00

00:08:57.220 The world's in a crisis and energy is a huge component of it. 1.00

00:09:00.320 People are suffering and we might actually be moving into another recession.

00:09:03.720 We have the means right in front of us to address the problem, 1.00

00:09:06.780 but we need to get our green-obsessed governments to get out of the damn way

00:09:09.920 and let energy companies get to work in bringing more power to market.

00:09:14.100 The just transition is a myth,

00:09:16.020 and it's absurd to expect people to somehow simply jump over and get into an electric vehicle.

00:09:20.940 let them drive electric indeed yes the modern version of let them eat cake it's unreasonable

00:09:27.520 and it's insulting and that's what's coming from our federal political leadership right now

00:09:31.780 and that's what's got me triggered today okay well let's bring in our news editor Dave Naylor

00:09:37.220 to talk about the other stories that are topping the scroll today hey Dave how's it going good

00:09:42.640 good morning Corey I enjoyed your rant and I've got to say you that's nice that tie looks very

00:09:48.600 very uh sharp very snazzy well well thank you i mean your shopping mishaps are my opportunities

00:09:55.080 so i i appreciate your uh you know over purchasing of stuff uh just so you know i i'm in the market

00:10:01.400 for some more underwear as well yeah you're always there for me cory and i i do appreciate that uh

00:10:06.920 yeah i'm still trying to figure out all this modern technology and uh uh when i was ordering

00:10:11.880 some ties on amazon last week i accidentally ordered uh six and i got 12 by hitting the

00:10:17.640 duplicate buttons. Every man in the office got a tie and every woman got a tie to take home to

00:10:23.960 her man. So it was a happy day on Monday for the Western Standard staff. But on to more important

00:10:31.860 things, the news. The major story of the morning, Corey, is the UCP have disqualified Tim Hoven.

00:10:39.740 He's an Eckville cattle rancher who was trying to seek the nomination in the writing of Rocky

00:10:46.040 Mountain House, Rimby Sundry, to try and replace Jason Nixon, the government house leader.

00:10:51.640 He was seen as a strong challenger, but the UCP party bigwigs disqualified him this morning

00:10:58.420 because of an inactive social media account that he had on a platform called Gab,

00:11:05.400 which apparently, and he liked a couple of tweets from what the UCP is calling

00:11:10.960 known hate mongers, and they said that was reason enough to expel them.

00:11:19.340 Corey, this is going to start a huge wave of anger in rural Alberta, and I know your guest,

00:11:25.480 David Parker, will be coming on later. He's already talked to Linda Slobodian, who has

00:11:31.720 written up our story. He's using some very, very strong rhetoric on how angry people will be in

00:11:39.480 the area over this. And our Amber Gosling in Edmonton is on her way right now to a

00:11:44.980 Premier Kenney press conference in the capitals to grill him on what exactly happened here. 0.99

00:11:53.620 In other news, you remember that moron who was dancing up and down on the 0.98

00:11:57.820 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the start of the truckers protest. Well, the MPs on the 0.99

00:12:04.440 justice committee have quietly dropped their investigation into it. The woman still hasn't

00:12:10.300 been identified. Ottawa police would refuse to testify. So they've just quietly said she was

00:12:17.100 very naughty and let's move on. Poll out today on the initial Tory leadership race among conservative

00:12:26.880 voters pierre poly have well ahead at 41 percent uh nearest challenger is jean chere way back at

00:12:35.120 10 percent uh the uh commons uh foreign affairs committee was told uh last night that canadians

00:12:42.240 should brace themselves that this war in the ukraine is going to go on for a long time

00:12:47.840 uh the comparisons to the uh the bloody invasion of chechnya and how that dragged on was brought up

00:12:54.080 and all the military people are saying yeah this this is likely to go on for a while trudeau as

00:13:00.560 you know corey is in europe uh uh prancing around the the capitals there to try and solve this whole

00:13:07.200 mess uh he's talking strongly in europe about you know how important democracy is and he's uh he's

00:13:14.080 taking a twitter pounding uh pointing out or people are pointing out the fact that uh this is

00:13:19.920 is the guy who, you know, helped freeze truckers' banks accounts and brought in the Emergencies

00:13:26.260 Act. He's talking in European countries about how democracy is so important. So our mail

00:13:32.500 resident has put together a good piece on that, chock full of videos and memes. Stats Canada

00:13:40.040 has announced they're finally going to start compiling statistics on smuggled guns or stolen

00:13:47.640 guns that are used in in crimes in canada uh firearm supporters like yourself have uh have

00:13:54.280 long argued that the majority of gun crimes are are organized crime and using smuggled or illegal

00:14:00.840 handguns so they're finally going to start keeping some stats on that and uh mike thomas uh as uh as

00:14:09.000 nico's already put up on the screen he's got a good rant similar to yours on uh you know europe

00:14:15.080 is uh embroiled in a massive war right now and all anybody can talk about is electric cars so

00:14:21.800 that's what's up there now uh coming this afternoon as mentioned uh we'll be at the kenny press

00:14:27.080 conference that goes at 12 30 and our amanda brown is putting together a story on the canadians going

00:14:34.120 over to the ukraine to fight uh 550 of them so far in fact so many the canadians are being given their

00:14:41.320 own uh battalion uh to fight in and interestingly one of the world's if not the world's best sniper

00:14:49.480 a canada former canadian military uh officer has gone over to join the fight too he was among that

00:14:56.360 group of canadian snipers in afghanistan who were uh killing taliban from two two and a half miles

00:15:03.000 away with uh with incredible shots so yet another busy day corey lots of stuff up already and uh

00:15:09.960 lots more stuff to come great well thanks for the update dave and yes thanks again for the tie though

00:15:15.400 i mean it's undercutting this passive aggressive battle i've had with derek over the requirement

00:15:19.560 of ties in this place but uh i i still appreciate the uh sharing of it all the same so well you know

00:15:26.040 now you've got that one i think that brings your total to three ties so something like that

00:15:31.240 you're almost getting there to one a week yeah i'm even starting to tie him correctly now he's

00:15:35.080 beating me down i hate to admit it there you go all right thanks dave we'll talk to you later

00:15:40.360 take care corey great so just uh as nico has up there a reminder to everybody you know we

00:15:45.640 as he said amanda brown's one of our new reporters she's just been working hard on those stories and

00:15:50.520 getting them out there we've got people in ottawa now in edmonton bc all over uh linda

00:15:55.160 slobodian's coming from uh manitoba and we're doing all of that because we have members and

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00:16:43.540 there, because it is going to be a lively chat, Dave segued that well when we're talking about

00:16:48.480 firearms. You know, isn't this something? The government's been looking to take away our

00:16:53.260 firearms, looking to demonize, you know, law-abiding firearm owners all the time,

00:16:57.560 recategorizing firearms. Now we're finding out they never even really had statistics on

00:17:02.000 what kind or how many are being used in crimes. It's ridiculous, yet somehow they can

00:17:07.740 come out and start banning whole categories of them and taking away your property.

00:17:12.780 Well, the Canada Shooting Sports Association, these guys are the association, their name says

00:17:17.600 it all for those of us who responsibly, legally like enjoying firearms, whatever way you please,

00:17:22.400 whether it's target shooting, hunting, or even just collecting. It's not really anybody's business

00:17:26.480 as long as you're not hurting anybody, you can do what you want with them, or at least you should

00:17:29.980 be able to. These guys give the resources for you. I mean, everything from videos on good,

00:17:34.820 safe handling of firearms to when there's trade shows and firearm events coming up,

00:17:39.260 things such as that. And as well, most importantly to me, they have legal challenges pushing back

00:17:45.640 against the federal government on your behalf to make sure that you can maintain and continue to

00:17:51.360 have those firearms. If we don't stand up for ourselves, they will take it away. We've seen

00:17:55.620 that. We've seen that with their rights. As Dave was saying in his news update, you know,

00:17:59.020 people are laughing at Trudeau. The international media is laughing at him because here he is

00:18:03.320 wagging his finger at international leaders because he's worried about authoritarianism.

00:18:09.820 He practices it so heavily back here in Canada. He wants control. He loves control. And part of

00:18:16.040 that means taking away your property. So check out the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:18:21.580 take out a membership with them their website cssa-cila.org and help them stand up for your

00:18:28.500 rights you got to do it for yourself because no one else is going to do it for you okay speaking

00:18:32.880 of grassroots movements standing up for things and pushing back let's get david parker in he's

00:18:38.580 with uh take back alberta and discuss that initiative that's going on there with the

00:18:43.560 wild and crazy world of the united conservative party and the the constant battles hey david

00:18:49.640 how's it going hey cory good to see you i believe the last time i was on your show wasn't quite as

00:18:55.480 uh beautiful so things are really improving at the western standard i see our technology has come a

00:19:01.240 long way yeah it's going up and also i want to say that the last time i was on your show i was a

00:19:05.960 little bit inebriated and a little unkind and i'd like to apologize for that and uh and i did say

00:19:11.640 that um if aaron o'toole didn't win 10 seats my whole reputation was on the line so i have to eat

00:19:17.320 crow on that and aaron o'toole was not nearly as good as i thought he was but you were right on

00:19:21.800 that so i just wanted to thank you for that it was a good part of the early stages of the show to

00:19:27.400 learn about everything i've been developing as well so okay when we start getting uh a little

00:19:31.640 because i got all worked up during that too i'm a much better temper now i wait until after the show

00:19:35.880 before i really start cursing and swearing so it was all part of the building so it's great yeah

00:19:41.880 absolutely so getting on a little more contemporary though and no less uh contentious uh you guys i

00:19:48.200 guess your group is take back alberta and i the bottom line is you're organizing to make sure

00:19:53.080 enough people go to red deer on april 9th and register and vote to change out the the leader

00:19:58.600 of the ucp i guess that's kind of it in a nutshell right well take back alberta is more than just

00:20:03.560 that we're very much an educational organization that's trying to teach civic values to albertans

00:20:08.920 because as you probably know canada is the least civically engaged nation on earth

00:20:13.560 less than one percent of canadians own memberships and political parties and less than point one five

00:20:19.320 percent of those people donate volunteer and sit on boards and i mean as a former uh political

00:20:25.400 activist yourself to some degree i'm sure you know how little people like to get involved in

00:20:29.480 these things right oh yeah um so what i really see take back alberta as is a way of showing people

00:20:37.080 how to get involved and how to how to actually make a difference because there's a lot of people

00:20:40.920 that are very angry with jason kenny i think we saw a poll recently that came out the western

00:20:44.680 standard saying that 60 over 60 percent of ucp members want jason kenny to resign so i think

00:20:53.400 i think a lot of albertans want this but a lot of them don't know how the process works

00:20:57.240 and things like special general meetings or annual general meetings that's not part of their regular

00:21:02.120 life so you got to kind of walk them through the process but we've been massively successful at

00:21:06.840 explaining it to people i think okay so well we've got the meeting coming up and there's some

00:21:11.480 deadlines there's some numbers there's some costs associated with it i mean whether people wants to

00:21:15.880 go there and support premier kenny or or to vote against maybe if you could walk us through what

00:21:20.360 the process is if they wanted to take part in that yeah so it's uh you have to be a member of

00:21:25.160 the united conservative party before april 9th and what sorry before march 19th and that's because

00:21:32.120 there's a 21 day cool off period before an event just so like people can't find out what the

00:21:37.080 numbers are and dump a whole bunch of more people in so you can help plan the event things like that

00:21:41.800 you also have to spend 99 on what's called an sgm ticket special general meeting ticket

00:21:48.200 and that ticket is um a part of the covering the costs of the event we think there's going

00:21:54.040 to be a lot more people than the party had planned for initially the party planned for

00:21:57.480 2,800 people to attend. I believe this morning I heard that it might be over 9,000 although that's

00:22:02.920 not fully confirmed but you're here to hear first that there are speculations that it could be over

00:22:08.520 9,000 already. That will make for quite some logistical challenges. I mean a lot of people

00:22:15.720 want to take part in this. This is what was contentious and a lot of people were upset

00:22:18.760 about with the push for leadership review. A lot wanted to give members the ability to vote from

00:22:23.240 home or you know remote vote or mail-in vote or something because getting people physically to a

00:22:28.760 location for that many on a vote is i mean the lineups and everything uh even if it's half of

00:22:34.300 that speculation are going to be quite something at that center yeah so i think well we know for

00:22:39.840 a fact that 4 900 people have uh signed up that was in don bray's article yesterday i believe but

00:22:45.940 um i believe it's a lot more than that uh there seems to be a some technical issues around

00:22:52.120 registrations right now their site seems to be going down quite frequently so they're not actually

00:22:57.160 able to get the exact number but i believe that we'll see somewhere between 12 and 15 000 people

00:23:02.360 attend as for the logistics my organization is providing parking and we are planning staging

00:23:08.840 areas for members of our organization which will have shuttle buses so you don't have to worry

00:23:13.640 about parking um if you'd like to get involved with that or help us in any way you can sign up

00:23:19.720 at www.tba2022.ca and you will receive a phone call within 24 to 48 hours asking how you'd like

00:23:28.760 to be involved um so encouraging people to get involved on that because we are going to need a

00:23:34.920 lot of help for the logistics of this yeah and and uh you know i've got a commenter tammy lucas

00:23:40.200 saying you know i can't afford that sadly i'd be all over it and and that's part of okay it's about

00:23:45.240 there's a balance a live event costs a lot of money you've got to have a fee if you're going

00:23:49.080 recover it it is a political party uh but i mean it cuts both ways too i mean again there's some

00:23:55.400 people who might support premier kenny but they are they don't have the means and the ability to

00:23:59.160 get out and do that the other part is though just to remind everybody who might want to take part

00:24:02.600 that price goes up if you wait too long right like that's the early bird rate yeah so march 19th it

00:24:08.840 so you can register up until the day of the event up until 11 o'clock on the day of but if you

00:24:15.560 you register after march 19th which you must be a member for i got to reiterate that you have to

00:24:20.200 be a member before march 19th after march 19th you can still register but it's 149 and at the

00:24:27.280 door it's 249 so i recommend people register before the 19th just to save themselves a little

00:24:32.980 money now in terms of cost in terms of cost and there's people who you know genuinely suffered

00:24:40.600 through government mandates and things like that no longer have jobs no longer have the same kind

00:24:47.400 of means that perhaps they did before we are more than happy to help with busing getting you gas

00:24:53.800 cards for your trip and we can't buy the the sgm ticket for you that's against the rules but we have

00:25:00.120 it under a legal advisement that we can afterwards give you a gift of a grocery card or a gas card

00:25:07.240 right um and so whether whoever you vote for we want this to be a democratic process if you really

00:25:14.180 would like your uh sgm tickets covered and you have no and you have to have a means for it right

00:25:21.920 i tell all the crowds when i go to our meetings i say if you can't afford a hundred dollars for

00:25:26.720 your freedom but you can go and drink three times a week at the bar then you have bad priorities

00:25:31.780 however if you really are struggling financially we're more than happy to help you

00:25:35.900 yeah with transportation and things such exactly and i mean it's a fair enough rule we don't want

00:25:42.260 a larger group to be able to just you know pay the full freight for somebody they have to be

00:25:45.480 committed to to get in and exactly i think it's important yeah to have some skin in the game right

00:25:50.080 the truckers had a lot of skin in the game when they went to ottawa it cost them a lot they risked

00:25:54.920 a lot i was talking to one uh that's a friend of mine last night even and he told me that they've

00:26:00.540 taken away his license to drive a truck so now he's losing a lot of money right um i might put

00:26:05.200 them in touch with you and maybe you can have them on to talk about that but absolutely i think i

00:26:09.900 think they had a lot of skin in the game and and we should put some skin in the game too because

00:26:13.580 this is about sending a message to our government about how we feel about what's happened so getting

00:26:19.560 to a more local level and this is something you've commented on recently and it's another part of the

00:26:24.440 democratic exercise this isn't new with the the ucp or any party but it's getting pretty bad and

00:26:29.360 pretty ugly is the nomination process this is where people get to if they're members they can

00:26:33.400 take out a membership and choose their local representative and there have been some challenges

00:26:37.080 against incumbents and now uh two out of two of those have been disqualified for uh yeah i agree

00:26:43.240 i i think some very shaky grounds on past social media uh postings well i just sorry one sec uh

00:26:49.960 yep i think it's very odd because jody gateman was on the board of the united conservative party and

00:26:55.720 jason kenney asked her to be on the board of the united conservative party so to disqualify her

00:27:01.480 for posts she made before he asked her to be on the board means a couple of things one would

00:27:07.720 probably be that uh he didn't do his due diligence before if this is what he truly believes now

00:27:14.600 or maybe it just means that he's now disqualifying people on trumped up charges because he doesn't

00:27:20.200 want to have to deal with people who don't agree with his leadership and actually i'm going to be

00:27:23.800 honest i find it pretty sad that jason kenny is calling the people that helped get him elected

00:27:29.240 racist to hold on to power. It's just, it's really pathetic, really. And I hope that people see 0.98

00:27:36.320 through just the blatant lies that a desperate man is making. Yeah, well, and the character

00:27:43.580 assassination of Ms. Gateman on this, I mean, I've known her for a long time as well. We served on

00:27:47.600 the provincial executive together with the Wildrose Party. And I'm sorry, I saw no indications of

00:27:53.560 crazed racism or anything like that. I mean, I understand a degree of vetting that that makes

00:27:58.060 sense but come on it's very flimsy and not only that but to uh disqualify and then shoot at her

00:28:04.780 after the disqualification uh i don't think he's doing himself any favors here i mean these are

00:28:10.060 established grassroots uh operators with wide networks of people and uh you're upsetting them

00:28:16.140 further when you take this sort of tact i don't know i'm some of a democratic purist to a degree

00:28:20.940 that these nominations and it's always been a challenge i mean unless there's something

00:28:24.540 outstandingly odious with a candidate which is fair enough this is the process of vetting let

00:28:29.980 them get in on the race and that's the time you know if they're in and running and you say hey

00:28:33.420 this person's got a really questionable history and i trust the members to say oh yeah you know

00:28:37.660 what i don't want that person representing yeah exactly isn't that exactly isn't that democracy

00:28:42.540 right where we say to people hey here's the truth about these people when you run for office

00:28:47.420 fundamentally what you're doing is you're putting your past on display and saying you know what

00:28:51.900 maybe i made mistakes here's how i've tried to fix them that's what it should be right or you know

00:28:59.120 that they're hiding mistakes they made those things need to be revealed you know shine light

00:29:04.360 on these things i think if anyone looked into jason nixon's past it would be quite astounding

00:29:09.720 astonishing that he's having a candidate with an upstanding moral character like i would just i

00:29:17.040 i put my i'll put my reputation on the line here hopefully better than i did last time i was on

00:29:22.640 your show but i will say there are very few people i believe have more of an upright character than

00:29:28.720 tim hoven my mom has known his family for years um i didn't know him until he decided to run i've

00:29:34.640 only seen him from you know the news articles and talked to him but the community support that he

00:29:39.280 has i'm sure you heard of the over 200 letters that were sent to derek uh testifying to his

00:29:44.800 character after the slanderous emails were sent by the lmc uh which is the local nomination committee

00:29:52.400 so it's just it's become a bit of absurd to be honest right like this is a genuinely good man

00:29:57.440 and now they're trying to slander him as a white supremacist it's just it's sad yeah we're seeing

00:30:03.360 a lot of ugly political playing and then uh i i guess part of it though was he did let a nomination

00:30:08.720 go up in uh fort mcmurray and uh his preferred candidate got got the the the floor wiped with

00:30:14.640 him uh by by brian gene so now i mean jason kenny's in a very difficult position he's got a

00:30:20.560 person who very probably is going to be elected to be in part of his caucus this tuesday who is

00:30:26.800 running essentially against his own leader yeah i i think i understand uh the reaction of someone

00:30:34.560 who's cornered right these are the act not the actions of a rational man they're the act they're

00:30:39.200 not this is strategically silly right even if he was you know a maniacal genius or a great organizer

00:30:47.520 you don't create enemies right before a vote for your future right and yet somehow and i don't

00:30:54.960 really understand it he's decided to slander a good man who who's riding is less than an hour away

00:31:02.080 from the vote that will determine his future it's you know sometimes when people are cornered they

00:31:08.720 start to act irrationally and that seems to be what's going on here i think of course this is

00:31:12.960 an almost impossible situation for him right if he lets uh jason nixon get taken out by a challenger

00:31:19.920 that's pretty humiliating i mean jason nixon is his as jason nixon was going around the

00:31:24.240 legislators saying his prize pony right his uh his favorite son so in fact i know that jason kenny

00:31:32.400 and jason nixon have been going around telling everyone that he would be the premier after jason

00:31:35.760 kenny was gone right so to lose a nomination for the guy that you've been going around telling

00:31:41.920 everyone is amazing well i think that's a dangerous spot to be so i think that's why maybe they made

00:31:47.520 the calculation i just think it's very foolish so a valid question i've heard from a number of

00:31:52.800 people and i saw commander say though i mean is who would lead uh you know i mean again that would

00:31:58.100 come out down to a race but there's no real well aside from brian gene who really is putting his

00:32:02.220 name forward not a lot of clear contenders to replace uh jason kenny if he were moved aside

00:32:07.100 i mean the timeline starts getting really tight we're a year away from a general election

00:32:10.500 and uh you know that's something people really have to think about too if frustrated with with

00:32:15.260 premier kenny or not are you going to replace him with somebody winnable if you pull him out at this

00:32:19.980 point well i think the that's actually an irrelevant question i get asked it a lot and

00:32:25.740 this is my answer to it always is if jason kenny remains the leader of the united conservative

00:32:30.460 party rachel notley will be the next premier of alberta so the only way we have a chance of that

00:32:37.580 not happening is if we get someone new and here's the thing about politics that you know as well as

00:32:42.380 i do people really want to be premier and whoever wins this leadership race will immediately be

00:32:47.980 premier so i think there's going to be a lot of people that will come out of the woodwork i believe

00:32:51.980 it's been reported on the western standard that danielle smith would run if the job was open

00:32:56.380 i know of at least eight others who approached me asking to help me to help them in their

00:33:00.860 leaderships i've told them all the same thing that i'll say right now i will never support

00:33:05.180 a politician again i'm only going to support the people so my job i see going forward is

00:33:10.620 organizing the people, teaching them how to be civically engaged, and then having them hold

00:33:17.840 politicians' feet to the fire, because that's really what democracy is about, and we seem to

00:33:21.740 have lost that. I think that's, you know, ironically, Jason Kenney's strongest skill,

00:33:29.420 I mean, he's always been a very skilled political operator. He's been born and raised almost into

00:33:34.300 politics. He knows the game. He knows it federally and, you know, from the ground up with reform.

00:33:39.320 but people are tired of the political play you know they want policy they want leadership

00:33:44.640 I mean just because you know how to stack nominations and deal with these sorts of

00:33:49.780 internal races it's great that you have that talent but in watching that operation that's

00:33:54.880 what sours people on the entire process and the people managing it I mean really it's in Alberta

00:34:00.420 we've always valued grassroots democracy and we've really seen it erode this last couple years

00:34:04.420 yeah and i think a big part of that is actually and i say this to all of the rooms that i speak

00:34:10.180 in every night i say this is the people's fault right it's our lack of engagement our lack of

00:34:16.220 we haven't been paying attention to what our politicians have been doing we've mostly been

00:34:21.140 comfortable rich and comfortable and i like to say canada canadians and albertans even more so

00:34:27.980 to a degree because of how wealthy we are we didn't think we had to care about politics but

00:34:33.240 politics never stopped caring about us. And now people like yourself and I, we were involved

00:34:38.280 most of that time, but we both know most people weren't, right? And one of the most encouraging

00:34:44.840 things I've seen through this whole process with Take Back Alberta is a number of mothers that are

00:34:49.500 getting involved. They're very excited about realizing that they can be civically engaged

00:34:55.620 and that it isn't an impossible task or this scary thing. And they're doing amazing. They're

00:35:00.540 putting together more events than I've ever seen a political organizer that are professionals do

00:35:04.900 right so I'm very excited about the future of civic engagement in this province and honestly

00:35:12.040 the only way that corruption prop prospers is when there's not uh civically engaged population so

00:35:17.920 we can stop this we can make things better and I think we will oh fair enough and the means are

00:35:23.780 in our hands and that's something I always you know political wieners like us okay we always

00:35:27.760 bought memberships. We didn't need our arms twisted. But I mean, if people wonder why the

00:35:31.380 tail so often politically wags the dog, it's because when you've got one to 2% of the population

00:35:36.420 are the only ones taking part in partisan politics in any party, they have a disproportionately

00:35:41.500 strong influence upon where that party is going to go. So I mean, if you want to make sure your

00:35:47.860 voice is a lot more heard than just when you go to the polls, join a party. Yeah, get involved.

00:35:53.420 like i got involved at 14 cory and at 23 i got to work and i'm from a town just so everyone knows

00:35:59.420 there's eight houses where i grew up like and there's not a gas station for 30 kilometers right

00:36:05.100 and from 14 to 23 i got i was working for the prime minister at 23 years old because i got

00:36:10.620 involved when i was 14. canadian politics is great for that you get to do some awesome things if you

00:36:16.620 just show up so people just my request to people would be like get involved like our system isn't

00:36:22.620 as broken as people think it's that we're just not involved in it well i appreciate your coming on to

00:36:29.420 talk to us about what you guys are up to maybe i'll let you close out just with a final statement

00:36:33.340 and where we can find information on your organization and uh you know getting involved

00:36:37.900 if they choose to absolutely okay so i just thanks again corey for having me on sorry about that

00:36:43.900 first time but i think we both enjoyed it and uh let's wait about something else down the road

00:36:48.220 Of course. Yeah, so the organization is called Take Back Alberta. You can find it at www.tba2022.ca. In terms of what's happening right now in our province, there's a lot of fear and anger at what's happening.

00:37:07.280 And I say, don't get angry, people.

00:37:08.660 Don't get angry with corrupt people.

00:37:10.400 Just deal with them.

00:37:11.840 And the best way to deal with these corrupt people is to show up on April 9th,

00:37:16.160 buy a membership before March 19th, and vote out Jason Kenney on April 9th.

00:37:22.040 So thanks, Greg, for having me on.

00:37:23.840 Thank you.

00:37:24.280 The clock's ticking, and we're going to have some answers soon, one way or another.

00:37:27.980 So I'm sure we'll talk again soon, David.

00:37:29.920 Okay, thank you.

00:37:31.440 So, yes, that was David Parker with Take Back Alberta.

00:37:34.260 You know, I'll give a little background on what David referred to a couple times.

00:37:36.800 yeah the early incarnations of this show we did it twice a week it ran for uh almost three hours

00:37:42.880 a day on those two days and uh our tech levels yeah since deco's come about they've come way

00:37:48.640 higher and yeah we had a panel on and we were talking federal uh leadership things and it just

00:37:52.880 kind of got heated and out of control and hey some of that's my lack of experience as a host at that

00:37:57.200 time too i had three guests on and and one's uh uh being i you know david admitted i think a little

00:38:03.200 bit of a knob at the time but i didn't know how to get that under control so then i got heated up

00:38:07.360 and that just feeds it all and we all got on each other's throats i think in looking back it's funny

00:38:12.160 to look back on that video actually and just see how it came about and it's a sign of people who

00:38:16.480 take politics seriously though and you can get a little uh worked up when things go and and it's

00:38:22.000 just part of the development of things now whatever's going to happen in in april i don't know

00:38:26.400 i'm trying my hardest to to stay balanced on this one i mean i've been very critical and very upset

00:38:30.560 with the UCP these days on a number of levels and with Jason Kenney. And it frustrates me because

00:38:36.800 I really was excited when Jason Kenney united the parties. I really was supportive of that.

00:38:41.280 I was happy when Jason Kenney became the premier. I wanted him to do as well as possible.

00:38:47.520 I still think Jason Kenney was very good in federal politics. He was a very effective head

00:38:52.880 of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. He was strong in building the Reform Party and as an opposition

00:38:58.960 member. And as a cabinet minister, when he was in the federal government, he was very good.

00:39:05.720 But unfortunately, as a premier, he's been less than stellar. You know, the support numbers for

00:39:11.440 the whole party are low and rough. And we're fearful we're going to end up with with Premier

00:39:18.440 Notley again. So we've got that chance, though. I mean, he fought, you know, even having this in

00:39:22.740 the first place, but there is that opportunity. And again, if you support Kenny or don't support

00:39:27.000 you got your chance to get out there and do it and boy it's going to be a really unique event if

00:39:31.520 nothing else getting out to that uh gathering in Red Deer on that day uh as was pointed out you

00:39:39.660 know so when you start with the nomination games and uh Tim Hoven you see in a nomination for those

00:39:46.060 who don't you know play in politics like the rest of us you sell a whole pile of memberships as part

00:39:50.240 of it it's a matter of who can get those memberships out there and then get them in and uh out to vote

00:39:55.120 for yourself well hoven's been working on it for a long time and he sold a heck of a lot of

00:39:59.040 memberships and as david also pointed out those are in rimby rocky mountain house sundry that's

00:40:04.040 right near red deer so when you get if this was way up in fort mcmurray a lot of people perhaps

00:40:08.800 can't make it out for a saturday to vote in the upcoming thing on april 9th but all of these tim

00:40:13.340 hoven supporters that's a short drive they live right near there that's the only way they could

00:40:18.160 take out memberships in that race and now they're ticked off i mean they're furious they bought a

00:40:22.400 membership to support him, and he's been disqualified on very shaky grounds. They're

00:40:27.580 going to go to Red Deer. Kenny's between a rock and a hard place, though. Yeah, if you let Hovind

00:40:31.880 win, now you've got a senior cabinet minister unseated in a nomination, and that's an embarrassment

00:40:37.560 as well. Kenny has really just made a mess for himself, and I don't think he can get himself

00:40:42.760 out of it. We'll see. It's going to be quite an event coming up, and the party itself is just

00:40:49.620 ticking people off further and further as they kind of get desperate and scramble and do these

00:40:54.220 things. So, I mean, this social media thing, I looked into it and it sounds like Hovind had a

00:41:01.060 Gab account. I had one for a little while too, and it was tiresome. You know, there's those

00:41:04.460 frustrations when you get Twitter and stuff like that, and it gets so vitriolic and nasty or

00:41:09.880 controlled and censored, and Gab was kind of wide open, but it was an echo chamber of right and far

00:41:15.300 right people. But just because you had an account, is that enough? And I mean, what they talked about

00:41:20.240 was things, it wasn't even anything Hovind said. I guess he followed a couple of controversial

00:41:23.960 accounts with his Gab account, and he liked a couple of controversial postings. You know,

00:41:29.880 Rachel Notley followed my Twitter account. The head and inchie follows me on Twitter. I don't

00:41:34.720 think it means they support my political ideology. Not that I'm saying I'm some crazed far right

00:41:39.460 person or something, but I'm just saying a lot of people follow people on social media platforms

00:41:43.460 because they're interested in what they're going to say. It doesn't mean they even agree with what

00:41:46.200 they're going to say. So, I mean, this was very weak sauce to try and come up with an excuse to

00:41:51.620 disqualify a nomination candidate running like that. And he just didn't help himself. But again,

00:41:58.980 what were you going to do if you left him in there? He was going to be in some trouble as well.

00:42:04.680 I just want to remind people on that poll I threw up too, speaking of interactive, those,

00:42:08.280 if you're on Twitter, check it out. Go to at Corey B. Morgan. Let's see how the poll's doing.

00:42:13.060 for the federal conservative race, I put it out there so you can vote and check. So since I put

00:42:17.120 it up an hour or two ago, we've had almost 700 votes. It's 78.8% Pierre Polyev, 9.1% Lesley

00:42:26.060 Lewis, 8.1% Roman Babber, and 4% Jean Charest. Now again, that's more of a reflection of people

00:42:34.440 who follow me, not necessarily people at large. But when it is a conservative race,

00:42:39.480 It is somewhat representative, you know, when you look at that,

00:42:42.180 because, of course, Liberal members and so on aren't going to vote, period, in that race.

00:42:46.240 So, you know, that gives some indication of where things might be moving.

00:42:52.600 Mr. Polly, you have well in the lead.

00:42:53.980 Of course, he came out of the gates hard and fast initially.

00:42:57.520 He's already been campaigning for quite some time.

00:42:59.660 The others are just starting to get their feet under him.

00:43:02.000 It's been interesting back and forth with Leslyn Lewis and Roman Babber.

00:43:09.820 They're both kind of coming from the individual freedom front in a sense.

00:43:13.540 And Roman Babber, he was a progressive conservative member in Ontario.

00:43:19.840 He got kicked out of caucus there by Ford for being too outspoken against vaccine mandates.

00:43:25.340 Leslyn Lewis, of course, she ran in the last federal leadership race.

00:43:28.960 And as we were saying on the pipeline yesterday, you don't want to underestimate her. 0.96

00:43:32.720 She's a very strong, smart candidate.

00:43:34.900 And she did really well the last time around.

00:43:37.700 And she's going to do well again this time.

00:43:40.680 You cannot discount Ms. Lewis.

00:43:42.920 So, you know, they're all chasing Pierre Polyev at this time.

00:43:47.520 But races can change a lot.

00:43:49.660 That goes all the way till September 10th before they vote.

00:43:52.580 And there, Nico's brought them all up.

00:43:53.940 So, and Patrick Brown, there's one.

00:43:55.820 He's the mayor of Brampton.

00:43:57.340 He just had his name cleared.

00:43:58.500 he got kind of smeared pretty badly with a CTV story and it looks like he won it in the courts

00:44:03.440 he's very likely going to enter the race we'll see how that goes he's got some popularity Ontario

00:44:08.280 but see how broad it is Scott Etchison is considering it he's a I believe an MLA from

00:44:15.380 or MPP in Ontario Peter McKay people are tossing that around we don't know if he's going to run

00:44:20.480 again or not but it's a name that people consider Michael Chong same thing a past candidate these

00:44:26.720 guys are dipping their toes in the water they haven't ruled out a run for the leadership but

00:44:32.300 they aren't necessarily in it either but they're names that we're going to watch and uh Jean Charest

00:44:37.220 tonight is kicking off his leadership race at the Wildrose Brewery in Alberta here in Calgary

00:44:42.680 and uh yeah they used to supply and they're not a sponsor of ours by the way but I love the name

00:44:46.720 of the place and their beer is fantastic from back in the days when I could drink and uh when I did

00:44:50.980 own a bar we sold a heck of a lot of their products so uh just uh I'll throw that out there

00:44:55.620 they're a great local company uh and i think maybe it's careful on the part of charay i mean he's

00:44:59.960 going to be at his weakest in the west so he's going in to kick off his race when um in the in

00:45:06.220 the heart of the beast in a sense you know in the toughest realm that he can and then i suspect he's

00:45:10.640 still going to focus most of his race in central canada and eastern canada where he'll be stronger 0.78

00:45:14.360 but you might as well come out and uh into the hostile area and uh take your lumps and see if

00:45:20.320 you can't gain some support in the west as i said there's there's still some liberal-minded type

00:45:24.080 Western people who would support his kind of run. Looking on the federal front, this has been some

00:45:31.000 fun stuff I've had with Twitter and getting online and things in general. But we're watching,

00:45:36.220 not even federal, international, I guess you could say, the whole conflict in Ukraine.

00:45:40.740 Unfortunately, we've got the Team Turtle out there. What a weak, weak bunch of leaders we

00:45:48.440 have in canada so we got christia freeland who again is exceedingly weak uh deputy prime minister 1.00

00:45:54.640 and finance minister and the rest of the bobblehead in the background she's a very strange

00:45:58.520 person but i mean again this is the best trudeau can find to bring around himself and then melanie

00:46:02.860 jolie she's at foreign affairs and justin trudeau they're all over there in europe and trudeau is 1.00

00:46:07.680 just of course being trudeau he's an idiot and he's embarrassing us and you know even at the 0.99

00:46:12.700 dutch pressing does this man never answer questions you know after a conference and we've 1.00

00:46:16.180 had British news outlets just completely mocking his appearance. And Terry Glavin, who's a National

00:46:21.960 Post writer in Canada, he wrote a column, just to give a plug to another outlet, it's fine, you know,

00:46:27.160 when they write good stuff, and he's good, calling it Operation Photo Opportunity. And it really is,

00:46:32.920 get out there and look, it's obscene, you know, you've got a war zone, you've got soldiers,

00:46:38.100 and you've got Trudeau dancing around, taking selfies with them, doing his usual grinning ear

00:46:44.020 to ear. Hey, look at me, mom. I'm in a war zone. I'm an international player. No, you're an idiot.

00:46:49.860 You know, I understand politics always are a part of things. I mean, even back to World War II and 1.00

00:46:56.420 the summits, all the leaders would all get together for one pose, but it wouldn't be the grinning,

00:47:02.040 squatting, smiling selfies, guys. These were serious affairs. Look at that picture. I mean,

00:47:07.360 look at this other one, staged with these guys marching in front of a monument, perfectly framed.

00:47:12.480 How much time did they spend getting that picture perfect when they could have been actually talking about real international affairs? 0.98

00:47:19.340 And look at that imbecile grinning amongst all these soldiers, these guys who are putting themselves at very real risk and going into a conflict. 1.00

00:47:26.720 And this idiot's acting like it's a festival, except he isn't groping anybody that we've seen. 1.00

00:47:32.980 This is our federal leadership. 1.00

00:47:34.660 I am really you know Trudeau's embarrassing when he's at home but he's incredibly embarrassing when

00:47:40.900 he leaves Canada unfortunately I mean you know his performance in India of course none of us can

00:47:45.680 can get over uh and now over in Ukraine Poland and everywhere he's doing these things he's uh 0.98

00:47:51.540 just further further embarrassing the country I I can't help but keep calling him out there was a

00:47:56.880 CBC reporter reporter who did question Freeland and Jolie asking saying there's a lot of important

00:48:03.540 stuff going on in Canada. Why are you spending so much time out here? Now, it's mixed.

00:48:13.000 They should get over there if they're confident. You know, you should take part. This is an

00:48:16.760 important world event going on and everything. But if they're just going to be dancing around

00:48:20.560 doing all these stupid photo ops, then yes, they might as well be back home doing something over 1.00

00:48:23.860 here. Let the serious leaders take part over there and hopefully come about and bring some 1.00

00:48:28.080 good resolution to things. Right now, they're just in the way. Of course, that CBC reporter,

00:48:32.920 I suspect we're not going to see his name in the CBC for much longer

00:48:36.620 because they get very upset when the state broadcaster

00:48:39.140 dares to question the political leadership.

00:48:42.380 But maybe he'll get a landing in another outlet.

00:48:44.720 I'm sure he knew he was going to be in some trouble.

00:48:48.860 And, well, we'll see what happens with his career. 1.00

00:48:53.740 Something Dave talked about, speaking of disrespectful idiots, 1.00

00:48:57.660 everybody remembers that imagery of that woman who was dancing 1.00

00:49:00.180 on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

00:49:02.560 during the convoy protests.

00:49:05.220 And that was embarrassing. 1.00

00:49:07.020 That was stupid. 1.00

00:49:08.460 It was disrespectful. 1.00

00:49:09.860 All of those things are true.

00:49:11.240 Was it criminal, though?

00:49:12.720 I mean, that's the thing.

00:49:13.340 They kept talking about

00:49:13.780 we got a police investigation into it

00:49:15.740 and everything.

00:49:16.240 What charge would you have for doing that? 0.97

00:49:19.540 She didn't do any damage to it.

00:49:22.480 She wasn't trespassing.

00:49:23.920 It was open at that time.

00:49:25.240 It was even before the emergency was declared.

00:49:27.000 It was like the first day of the convoy protest.

00:49:29.080 And again, it ticked a lot of people off. I mean, we have people, everybody knows somebody who was a veteran. We've got family members going farther back who fought and often died in wars or suffered a lot of, you know, mental injuries as well. And to have some hammerhead dancing around with a beer in her hand on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is very offensive and insulting.

00:49:50.780 What is it, criminal?

00:49:51.980 And the MPs finally dropped.

00:49:54.300 They had a member of parliament committee investigating, trying to figure out who this woman was.

00:49:59.080 Again, getting back to, don't you guys have better things to do?

00:50:03.480 So they've actually dropped the investigation.

00:50:06.100 I mean, good on them there.

00:50:07.380 They realized that they do probably have something better to do.

00:50:11.980 And that was one of the areas, though, the cabinet blamed the convoy for in general.

00:50:16.520 I don't think anybody in the convoy in any leadership rule said, hey, let's go over and dance.

00:50:20.240 on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But, you know, as this fades away, they're being forced

00:50:26.300 to, you know, back off. And it's surprising. It shows the ability of their investigations anyways.

00:50:30.760 There's her picture, clear as day, and still the Ottawa police never could figure out who the hell

00:50:34.820 she is. That shows some pretty weak investigative powers on the parts of the powers that be as it

00:50:43.640 sits anyways. And the Commons Veterans Affairs Committee launched its investigation, saying,

00:50:47.940 given the shameful and disrespectful behavior shown by protesters in that incident.

00:50:52.380 And they passed a motion to undertake an urgent study to review these actions

00:50:55.600 and that the witnesses include the Ottawa Police Service.

00:50:58.280 Well, it came to nothing.

00:51:00.940 It came to them wasting more time.

00:51:03.260 Virtue signaling, I guess you could say, in a sense,

00:51:06.320 on the part of our federal leadership as usual. 1.00

00:51:09.880 And again, I certainly can't applaud what that idiot woman did 1.00

00:51:13.640 and the friends who were with her. 1.00

00:51:15.160 but does it really warrant the time of our parliamentary offices? We've got a lot of

00:51:22.500 stuff going on over here. You know, we got inflation going through the roof at levels

00:51:25.820 higher than we've seen since the early 1980s. We have the Bank of Canada raising interest rates.

00:51:31.620 We still do have to look into the fallout from having declared the Emergencies Act for 48 hours

00:51:38.580 officially once it got through Parliament, not even 48 hours. We should be studying that. Looking

00:51:44.240 back. How the hell did that happen? You know, the prime minister Trudeau so grossly overstepped his

00:51:49.900 bounds, still managed to strong arm parliament into supporting the emergencies act, which is a

00:51:54.380 form of martial law. And everybody gets all wild when I say that. Well, get over it. Look up the

00:51:58.520 definition. It is civil rights were suspended ostensibly to get these protests under control.

00:52:05.580 And that's a form of martial law, whether you like it or not. We should be looking back on that

00:52:11.460 and saying, holy crap, we've got a problem here. 0.97

00:52:13.660 But no, we're busy. 0.97

00:52:14.780 Well, we were busy trying to chase people around

00:52:16.680 who might have danced on a monument

00:52:19.340 during the early parts of the protest.

00:52:22.040 Embarrassment in general.

00:52:23.380 So yeah, a little more detail on what I was talking about

00:52:25.340 before talking about our firearms sponsor,

00:52:28.380 the Firearm Crimes Statistics Canada.

00:52:31.240 So it's still, it floored me.

00:52:33.000 I would have thought they already would have had this.

00:52:34.860 But for the first time, they're collecting data

00:52:38.100 on the number of stolen and smuggled firearms

00:52:40.680 used in gun crimes. Like we've had those numbers kind of anecdotally or through police services or

00:52:46.120 you know kind of roughly compiled. I'd always assume though that police services would have

00:52:50.920 some solid real figures on this. They don't. They never had them. So it might take a few years it

00:52:56.920 says by the way to compile these figures from a police nationwide. Like part of it is I think

00:53:03.640 they don't want those numbers out because then people will see wow it's not the guy with the

00:53:08.440 duck hunting shotgun in his basement who's been committing robberies. The shootings and murders

00:53:14.260 happening out there weren't committed by people with legal firearms. These were smuggled firearms

00:53:21.240 or stolen firearms. And, you know, cracking down on legal firearm owners isn't going to do a single

00:53:28.060 thing. It's kind of, it really always has been ridiculous logic. It's kind of like cracking 0.68

00:53:32.540 down on legal drivers because some other drivers drive drunk. Well, you might as well crack down

00:53:39.280 on me. I haven't had a drink in a few years, but it's just as logical to come after me

00:53:42.980 if there's a history of it. If the alcohol, I mean, they're trying to stop the whole thing

00:53:49.520 and they want to take firearms away from law abiding firearm owners. That's why they don't

00:53:53.680 want the data. They don't want people to really see that, wow, it's been misplaced. All these

00:53:57.800 firearms that they've been recategorizing, that they've been working to take away from legal

00:54:02.420 law-abiding Canadians is not justified. And it says it might take a few years for these changes

00:54:09.780 to be fully implemented. StatsCan wrote in a report to the safety committee.

00:54:13.380 And they also said the extent to which organized crime is involved in firearm-related

00:54:17.600 violence is currently unclear too. We know organized crime is a huge part of that.

00:54:23.760 Almost always when we see shootings on the streets and dangerous things like that,

00:54:29.160 it's tied to gangs, almost always, and that's organized crime. So, I mean, they're not saying

00:54:35.800 there isn't any organized crime element, but they're just saying the extent is unclear. Well,

00:54:40.060 you know, reading enough newspapers and seeing things, you can get a pretty good clear idea that

00:54:44.300 that's the bulk, again, of where things are. Look, the majority of firearm death, and they're not a

00:54:48.760 high cause of death in Canada in general anyways, is unfortunately suicide. Nobody likes to think

00:54:54.700 or talk about that. That's actually where the bulk of firearm deaths are in Canada, is people

00:54:59.360 taking their own lives, which is unfortunate. And that's something worth studying. But again,

00:55:03.040 that gets back to, let's get more into study, you know, our mental health supports, let's get into

00:55:08.000 addiction supports, things like that. Going after legal firearm owners isn't going to do a darn

00:55:13.980 thing to stop that. And taking away the firearms, unfortunately, as far as suicides go, it's not

00:55:19.380 going to save the life. If some person has unfortunately decided that they want to end

00:55:23.840 their life and they're very determined to do it, the lack of a firearm isn't going to stop them.

00:55:28.220 I mean, humans are fragile creatures. So, you know, if we want to take ourselves off the

00:55:40.240 planet, we can do it in a number of ways besides firearms. Just looking at something from somebody

00:55:46.620 joining from elsewhere. Sorry, Nico, I can't quite get what you're getting. We've got some

00:55:50.760 events coming. I know my guest has been delayed, unfortunately, at this point. The agency submits

00:55:56.760 early homicide survey questionnaires to police departments. You know, so this is, again, I get

00:56:00.240 a wonder about stats, Ken. They get a lot of money. And they've been submitting it since 2019.

00:56:04.400 Questions included barrel length of weapons used in crimes or whether it was reported stolen.

00:56:10.380 It says information collected to date was so incomplete it was unreliable, wrote staff.

00:56:14.920 What are we paying you guys for? You're Statistics Canada. That's your job is to get that reliable sort of stuff. I think if you want a lot of paperwork and documentation, the court system and justice, there's a lot there. It might be poorly organized. Well, let's get on that and fix it up. We're in the age of data, the age where you should be able to Google and dig up all sorts of statistics and numbers from organizations, whether it's internal or external at any given time, in short order.

00:56:43.580 yet our Statistics Canada, this heavily funded federal institution, can't seem to figure out

00:56:49.880 how many people are using what kind of firearms at any given time. All right, let's bounce off

00:56:54.920 that. We got Cheryl asking, who's paying for Kenny's new radio show? Yeah, you know, I haven't 1.00

00:56:59.520 talked about that yet, but yeah, it sounds like Premier Kenny is now going to be doing weekly

00:57:03.300 appearances on QR 77 and 630 Ched with his own show, his own call-in show. I think it's good

00:57:10.180 for a premier to get out. Ralph Klein used to do that now and then too, and take calls and answer

00:57:14.960 questions. But of course, we know the motivation. I mean, Jason Kenney's been the leader for quite

00:57:19.360 some time. And actually, I think John Voss with QR 77 said they pitched this to him like almost

00:57:24.900 two years ago. But of course, it's just before he's on the brink of perhaps losing his leadership

00:57:29.640 in a review that he suddenly feels it's time to get out and get on the radio once a week.

00:57:35.080 I don't think taxpayers are going to pay for that at all. In reality, it's going to be a good draw.

00:57:40.840 A lot of people are still going to tune in whether they like or dislike Kenny. I mean,

00:57:44.420 hey, if a premier wanted to have a half hour a week or an hour a week on the standard on one

00:57:50.340 of our broadcasts, we would probably give it to them as well and not at a cost or anything because

00:57:53.560 it's going to draw a lot of viewers and we'll sell some advertising and we'll do well with it.

00:57:57.200 So I don't think anybody is paying out of pocket for, you know, it's not a government thing or

00:58:01.580 anything like that with Kenny's appearance on those radio stations, the radio stations will

00:58:05.980 do quite well as it is with just being, you know, having such a high profile guest on on a regular

00:58:14.780 basis like that. Yeah, I like that title, you know, shock jock. Yeah, I don't think he'll be any

00:58:19.480 new Howard Stern. So we got Leslie watching from Perth. Is that Leslie and Lewis we're talking

00:58:26.220 about? Or no? Okay, I'm sorry. I'm just getting confused with some of the messaging we're getting

00:58:30.120 from our uh uh producer here but uh we we've got people watching or it's just a commenter coming

00:58:37.040 from perth hours we're all the way into australia people watching the show okay see i'm a little

00:58:42.360 slow looking forward in your studio a lot more communications we're gonna get a earbud where

00:58:46.420 people can actually talk to my dance butt and regular realize what's going on so hey leslie

00:58:50.420 thanks for tuning in from that far away what a fantastic time when we can um have these sorts

00:58:57.180 of discussions around the world like this so let's see uh sandy's saying there's no way she's

00:59:03.080 going to listen to him yeah okay that's fair enough uh uh maryland thinking it's going to

00:59:07.280 be a bomb people ate him alive on his facebook postings yeah we'll see it depends on how well

00:59:11.240 they screen those uh calls coming into him you know i mean when you call into a radio show you

00:59:16.040 get a producer and and uh whether they let the critical callers through or not i don't know i

00:59:20.880 don't know what their agreement will be uh but if it turns into a weekly roast for them it's not

00:59:26.020 going to do him any favors. Again, he is the premier though, and things break. So I think

00:59:30.240 he's going to get a fair viewership while he's at it. I'm still babbling away. I'm afraid Tariq is

00:59:36.720 just delayed for whatever reason, unfortunately. Hopefully he's here soon. We can talk about some

00:59:41.640 more news items. There's always more stuff to talk about. We've got Marina coming in from

00:59:45.260 London, Ontario. And yes, it looks like Tariq is just about outside the door. So we're finally

00:59:51.700 going to get him. And you don't have to listen to me rambling at length about the news items.

00:59:55.040 So I mean, it's hard for the fun anyway.

00:59:56.380 So this is part of my ranting.

00:59:58.480 And we will get him in and we'll talk about his potential run for the Maverick Party.

01:00:02.460 Here's one of the things that's coming in studio.

01:00:03.800 I know he had a meeting downtown and he said he was going to whip over here and he was

01:00:07.260 sure he was going to be here by 1220.

01:00:08.740 But yeah, it's downtown Calgary.

01:00:10.200 There's more traffic down here than we used to be due to the pandemic.

01:00:13.560 I don't know if anybody's been working down here lately, but we've all noted that actually

01:00:16.800 it's a good thing.

01:00:18.120 It's the only time I've celebrated seeing higher traffic when all those ridiculous work

01:00:21.660 from home mandates were lifted.

01:00:23.420 We were suddenly, we did see traffic expand in downtown Calgary.

01:00:27.840 People were getting back to work and it's just a sign of some vigor and life down here

01:00:31.760 because these small businesses have just been taking a beating over this last few years.

01:00:36.340 So, okay, I think we've got our guest ready to roll here.

01:00:39.580 We're going to run a quick ad and while that runs, we'll get Tarek sitting down and we

01:00:44.120 will have a chat here in studio.

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01:01:28.520 Okay, here we are, folks.

01:01:30.140 Welcome back, and I am joined by Tarek Naga.

01:01:33.060 I think I asked before if that's the right way to pronounce it.

01:01:34.900 I say Tarek like Derek.

01:01:36.360 Tarek, okay.

01:01:37.000 Yeah, so make it easy.

01:01:38.360 And Tarek's been here before.

01:01:39.680 You've been on the show back when you were running in the federal election for the Maverick Party.

01:01:44.000 You're just a well-outspoken character on Twitter.

01:01:47.180 Thank you.

01:01:47.500 and uh uh an interesting person i mean you you do uh team roping and uh many other things uh

01:01:55.420 i appreciate that thank you thanks for having me yeah but now we're hearing it you're considering

01:01:59.740 at least running for the maverick party leadership can you expand on that absolutely i am so again i

01:02:03.980 believe in the maverick message through and through i really think the west needs its own voice the

01:02:08.940 west needs its own autonomy um again we're seeing it time and time again uh and um i was in ottawa

01:02:16.300 for two period two weeks of the the trucker protest um and it reinvigorated why a 22 acre plot

01:02:25.420 in ottawa makes all the decisions for us here in the west and i said no more we need to get out of

01:02:31.020 ottawa so i came back and i i talked to uh the leadership at the maverick party and i said i'm

01:02:36.460 interested so yeah we've i'm exploring it and we've kicked off essentially an interest campaign so

01:02:41.500 whether that there's two big things to overcome here one is fundraising and then the other is

01:02:45.740 is membership sales and if both go well i'm i'm in great yeah because it it's i think the maverick

01:02:51.080 party right now is as an entity is more important than ever and some people have seen that like one

01:02:54.620 of the things i think was most indicative was the vote in parliament uh on whether or not quebec

01:03:00.940 should lose a seat based on population change you know this should have been a no-brainer quebec

01:03:04.720 didn't grow as fast as the rest of the country you just adjust it as it goes and off we go but

01:03:08.720 No, the Bloc got all wound up about it. They demanded that Quebec seats be protected. And okay, fine, we expect the Liberals to get in there and vote for that. But almost 50 of the Conservatives even got up and voted for this ridiculous thing. Now, how on earth can we get that, including a few Western ones?

01:03:26.220 Correct. Actually, more than a few, 10. 10 Western MPs voted for it. Pierre Polyev abstained from voting, which is very telling, again, because, again, if they are going to want to win Eastern Canada, they're going to start to need to appease Quebec and Ontario. We're back in the same story again.

01:03:43.160 And I could see why the bloc fights for Quebec. That makes perfect sense. They have one job, and that is the benefit of Quebec. Where is our Western MPs fighting exclusively for the benefit of the West? So it just goes and goes again. It reinforces the message that the West needs its own autonomous voice that speaks exclusively for itself and nobody else. I mean, there were MPs in Alberta that voted for that motion.

01:04:10.980 yeah and i mean you know politically see i understand where they're coming from because

01:04:15.740 it's that's what i kind of try to tell people in the regionalist don't take it personally it's math 0.99

01:04:19.800 right you can't win this country without that centered chunk and if you infuriate the quebecers 0.80

01:04:25.520 you're not going to form government but that means then that our interests are going to be 1.00

01:04:29.760 secondary if it comes to a touch so that's where having a western party you're bang on if anything

01:04:34.660 you can win the country without the western voice like that's it goes the other way around as long

01:04:39.940 as you look after the 230 seats east of manitoba you can win the country so you don't need the

01:04:46.180 west at all and we saw it three times in a row now when manitoba regardless of who you vote for

01:04:50.940 when manitoba starts to count their votes it is already called the prime minister's office the

01:04:55.280 only thing we have an impact on statistically is whether that's a majority or minority government

01:04:59.960 that's all we can impact so you're absolutely right having that exclusively western votes

01:05:05.020 that exclusively caters to us because i really think that fundamentally as a country we're too

01:05:09.700 very different values. What the Central and Eastern Canadian voter wants is very different

01:05:14.340 than what the Western Canadian voter wants. Well, it only makes sense. Look at the size of the

01:05:17.540 country. It's one of the biggest nations on earth. And to have a centralized government is just

01:05:21.000 ridiculous. I mean, Newfoundland, hey, anybody who's known some newbies, brilliant, fantastic

01:05:25.700 people, but vastly different in many ways, culturally and in thought from somebody from

01:05:30.800 BC or somebody in Alberta. Absolutely. I mean, we look at even the voting results. So Alberta

01:05:35.840 has contributed quite a bit in retail into Newfoundland's economy when we recruited quite

01:05:42.740 a lot of people from Newfoundland to work within our oil fields. Now, what happened was we've seen

01:05:48.420 it three times in a row, Newfoundland vote almost exclusively red. And to me, that's a vote against

01:05:53.600 Alberta, because that's a vote that supports a government that shuts down Alberta's industries,

01:05:57.820 brings in a carbon tax, etc. So who's really standing up for Western Canada if even our own

01:06:03.400 elected MPs here in the West aren't voting for it. And the interim leader of the Conservative

01:06:09.320 Party, Candace Bergen, again from the Prairies, from a Manitoba writing, she voted, she's

01:06:13.740 on the record, she's voted for the Quebec motion with the bloc.

01:06:17.640 So getting beyond that, then, I mean, leadership, building a new party is a lot of work. It's

01:06:21.960 tough. I've been very involved in a lot. The Maverick's still kind of in its infancy.

01:06:27.020 Jay has done what he can as an interim leader. We've had him on a number of times. I really

01:06:30.740 value is he was a reformer he knows how it works with a western party and being in there uh a

01:06:36.600 leadership race is an exercise that's really important i mean it's got to be competitive and

01:06:40.520 i mean i spoke to uh the other calling yeah craig is a great guy and i talked to him he was on the

01:06:46.600 show the other week but i mean i'd hate to see an acclimation nothing against him but you've got to

01:06:51.080 have a run you've got to make a race of it so it's kind of thrilled to see you know you're

01:06:55.140 considering it i'm not taking a sign on which candidate or another i just want to see a race

01:06:58.420 Absolutely. And Colin and I have talked, I have an immense amount of respect for Colin. I really, really like him. And if he wins, I think he would make an exceptional leader for the Maverick Party. But him and I have talked, and we both think that it's healthy, that it's a race. And that's why I'm looking at it right now, as long as I could get through these two, I wouldn't even call them hurdles, but I would call them really stages of entering the leadership race, which is fundraising and membership sales, then we're in.

01:07:26.620 And I would absolutely love to see a clean race that happens.

01:07:31.460 And then one or the other, like Colin, I've talked about this.

01:07:35.060 If he wins, I would love to stand in his caucus and vice versa.

01:07:37.680 I would love to have him in my caucus if I win.

01:07:40.400 Yeah, so you're staying friendly, of course, and that's great.

01:07:42.680 I mean, because leadership races, yeah, they can be great for a party.

01:07:45.060 They can also rip it to shreds if it gets too personal.

01:07:48.260 But again, you have to differentiate yourself then from the other candidate.

01:07:51.180 So assuming that you were in the race, why should people vote for you as opposed to Colin?

01:07:55.400 so i've put out a 10-point leadership platform that says this is what i'm going to do for the

01:08:00.920 west and the objective one is very clear this full autonomy for western canada and and that starts

01:08:06.680 by completely taking power out of ottawa and back into the provinces so working i don't want any

01:08:13.400 cop-outs on oh that's a provincial jurisdiction that's a federal jurisdiction that's i want to

01:08:18.040 be able to work with the provinces to say how can we put more power especially within alberta and

01:08:23.560 and Saskatchewan. The other thing I've proposed is let's be the first federal party that has

01:08:27.260 mandatory term limits on not just our MPs, but also on the leader so that there's never a

01:08:32.480 stagnation. That's one thing I'm proposing. Three, I'm proposing that we are the first federal party

01:08:38.160 that puts the opinion of our constituents, our voter, and our member right in the palm of their

01:08:43.600 hands. There is no mechanism today outside of super old school writing a letter to your MP

01:08:48.880 or your senator or an email let's have let's have a maverick party app where you could vote

01:08:55.260 live on certain bills like the emergency managers act you could send a message directly to your mp

01:09:00.400 saying okay this is what i think or this is what i vote on it then and then the other thing as well

01:09:05.680 is uh as a party what i'm proposing is that we procure all of our services contractors um our

01:09:11.340 businesses merchandise etc exclusively from western businesses um so there's i have it out

01:09:18.360 on on all my social media feeds those are some of the highlights um out of it but there's 10

01:09:23.880 major things that i'm proposing that if i'm leader of the maverick party these are the things that i

01:09:28.760 commit to in that platform we obviously drop the carbon tax colin i both agree on that support

01:09:34.360 western heavy industry sets agriculture oil and gas manufacturing all of our heavy industries

01:09:40.600 is really stand up for them and we're seeing the effects of not standing up for them

01:09:44.520 as the government for the last 10 years both sides of the aisle because again we've been soft

01:09:49.800 on that messaging because we want to appease quebec and ontario i'm done i owe quebec and

01:09:54.840 ontario nothing and it's all about western canada and western canada first uh so all of these things

01:10:01.000 are out on on all of my social media feeds facebook twitter etc um and again i love engaging with our

01:10:06.760 constituents so if you've got a question certainly ask me online and i'd love to be uh to be able to

01:10:11.080 that's right. So getting beyond that, the Western First Focus, something that's always been

01:10:18.680 interesting with reform before, you presumably, if you've got some members in there, they still

01:10:23.480 would be federal representatives in parliament. There's going to be questions that are national

01:10:28.520 in scope. Where would you and other Maverick members land? I mean, I know it's issue by issue

01:10:33.460 and so on, but I guess the general ideology is still important. I mean, you would vote on bills

01:10:37.940 that impact the entire country exactly so I look at again the block as as an

01:10:44.360 example so they've got 31 seats today they look at everything from a Quebec

01:10:48.760 line is it good for Quebec or is it not if there are then things that go beyond

01:10:54.080 so go national and don't have a detrimental impact on on Western Canada

01:10:59.540 Do you need a minute? If you do, you might as well.

01:11:02.560 You can turn the sound of, okay.

01:11:03.640 Oh, no worries.

01:11:04.240 I think I got it there.

01:11:05.020 All right, sounds good.

01:11:07.580 So the thing is, if there is an issue that doesn't affect Western Canada

01:11:12.000 or isn't detrimental to Western Canada, then I'd look at it issue by issue

01:11:15.560 and say, where's the most favorability?

01:11:18.780 But you always, every bill that would come out,

01:11:20.960 we would look at it first from a Western lens before anything else.

01:11:25.300 Okay, so I'll presume you would allow free votes,

01:11:28.300 It's like your individual representatives are based on their constituents.

01:11:31.180 Correct.

01:11:31.540 It's just always been a core principle.

01:11:33.380 Absolutely.

01:11:33.980 And if anything, it's one thing, not just a principle, it's one thing we're missing here

01:11:37.420 in the West, because I'll look at the O'Toole administration.

01:11:40.460 He said, if you don't support my carbon tax, you're out of the party.

01:11:45.180 And I remember him saying that.

01:11:46.900 And I said, well, what about all our Western MPs that are standing up?

01:11:50.840 The other thing as well is I look at the leadership race right now of the Conservative

01:11:54.820 Party and every person that's officially thrown their name in the ring, so whether it's Jean

01:11:59.120 Charest or Pierre or Leslie Lewis, and individually, they're good candidates. And quite frankly,

01:12:04.880 the most ideal scenario for the country is to see a CPC Prime Minister, to see someone from 0.55

01:12:10.920 the Conservatives become Prime Minister, backed by a block of mavericks that says, do not forget

01:12:16.860 about the West. This is what the West wants. You want our support, you have a Western agenda,

01:12:21.720 Because clearly the CPC Western MPs have not stood up for the West.

01:12:25.360 We've seen it over the last six years.

01:12:27.400 They have not voted for exclusively Western issues.

01:12:30.740 So we'd like to see a CPC prime minister backed by a block of mavericks, at least that's step one, up until we start to achieve legislative autonomy for Western Canada.

01:12:41.760 Yeah, well, and we can have effective governments, even if there was a, well, we shut out the thought, a longer liberal government that's there.

01:12:48.160 I think the Reform Party was very effective as an opposition in bringing Western issues to the fore that the progressive conservatives never would have done.

01:12:55.940 As long as the conservatives run or any federal party runs candidates in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, the West will never have its unbiased voice because you need those 230 seats.

01:13:11.760 It's proven over the last Alberta and Saskatchewan, I mean, specifically Saskatchewan, could not get any more vote.

01:13:16.880 Every single riding in Saskatchewan went blue. Almost all but four ridings in Alberta went blue the last time. And we still saw a Trudeau government. So no matter how blue we get, you really essentially the GTA area has more seats than Alberta and Saskatchewan put together. So if you don't cater to the GTA, you don't win the country.

01:13:36.060 Well, the GTA's voter values are very different than Western voter values.

01:13:41.680 So I think that there's, and again, the reform ran in their first year, if I remember correctly, they got no seats.

01:13:47.340 And then the next year, they got 50 seats.

01:13:50.140 So, I mean, again, this is a new party, but I think we've got a lot of runway.

01:13:55.680 Right. Western autonomy sentiment is incredibly strong, especially after seeing the crushing of the protest and the complete labeling of a fringe minority.

01:14:07.200 Well, that protest started from Western Canada, Corey. And again, we are independence minded.

01:14:11.840 We are freedom minded as Westerners. And we want just the government to get out of the way.

01:14:17.280 One of the things that I put out in my leadership platform is we're not a conservative party and we're not a liberal party.

01:14:22.000 we're in essence libertarian uh where it's strong fiscal policy but in terms of things that are the

01:14:29.360 i believe the government doesn't belong in your house in your bedroom in your place of worship

01:14:33.520 or in your business take that take so we're not and i love our logo that way is we're not left

01:14:38.880 we're not right we're west and that's and that's what comes first i like that and things it's a

01:14:43.360 good point that they change fast i see some great irony i mean you're probably too young to know

01:14:47.520 about it but way back when the mulrooney government they had the west locked back in the 80s this was

01:14:52.640 it it was conservatives they they've got it all right and the reform was starting to bubble up

01:14:56.320 because i mean that the big turning point there were a number of them it was a slow death but was

01:14:59.840 the cf-18 contract quebec or winnipeg had a a bid that was just far superior on every level cost

01:15:06.800 ability the whole works but quebec spoke up and said no you've got to bring it here and mulrooney

01:15:12.240 capitulated basically screwed manitoba and gave it to quebec and the west just lost it because i

01:15:16.960 I mean, we expected the liberals, but now when the conservatives are doing it, and that led to, though, I mean, as the reform rose, a total annihilation of the CPC, where they had two seats left.

01:15:26.340 I mean, that next election was two seats, and it was just Joshua Ray, of all people, and Elsie Wayne.

01:15:32.020 So I think, you know, will Sharae have learned from the regional whipping that they got back then?

01:15:38.480 I don't think he will, but we'll see.

01:15:40.880 And that's the interesting thing. I'm even keen to see how the leadership race is going to shape out for the Conservatives, because, again, the overwhelming choice during the McKay, O'Toole, Lewis, Sloan race, and this was, I think, 15 or 16, was for Alberta and Saskatchewan, head and shoulders above everyone else, Dr. Lewis was the number one pick, and she swept Saskatchewan.

01:16:04.360 But what put Erin O'Toole on top was Quebec. So the Quebec Conservative constituent vote put Erin O'Toole on top. So the thing is, even when it comes to choosing the leader of the Conservative Party, it isn't Alberta and Saskatchewan that determines it. It is predominantly the Eastern voter. So again, I mean, even when, and I would say the Conservative base is here, it's in Western Canada, and then still we don't have that level of control.

01:16:31.980 Yeah, so getting to that, I mean, one of the issues with the Conservative Party race,

01:16:35.980 part of where a Western leader doesn't come in, I believe when Harper got elected, it was one

01:16:38.660 member one vote. It was still the remnants of the old grassroots. Now they've changed it.

01:16:42.620 It's weighted per constituency across the country. I'm kind of mixed on those sorts of things. I mean,

01:16:48.100 if you were, say, just looking in the West, and if somebody sold 20,000 memberships in Calgary,

01:16:53.460 but not anywhere else, and wiped out every other candidate, well, that still kind of leaves

01:16:57.580 bc hang-in and a lot of good supporters on the rural areas but at the same time it's as democratic

01:17:03.340 as it gets with one member one right so uh exactly i i and that's what the maverick party leadership

01:17:09.100 races one member one vote uh irrespective of your constituency whereas again the conservatives

01:17:14.300 weighted by so if you have a constituency in quebec that sold 37 memberships they're still

01:17:19.340 considered um a weight they still get that same equal weight as let's say a very dense membership

01:17:25.340 in in a western riding so it is um it's still and again that's that's how erin o'toole won it is

01:17:32.540 is his quebec commitments so i'm interested to see how this shapes up uh and who's really going

01:17:39.500 to put out a true western platform but i'd like to see at at some point a partnership a non-formal

01:17:47.820 partnership where it's not but the best way i said it and i've said it over and over again

01:17:52.700 if in the election if erin o'toole had won and a group of mavericks had won we would make

01:17:58.380 him prime minister we would be his minority government backers um based on a list of

01:18:03.420 conditions that that the west wants um we're we're not seeing we're again i've yet to see

01:18:09.420 one candidate then from the cpc race say that they're running in a western riding there isn't

01:18:14.380 um you know there isn't a single one every single one of them is running ontario east

01:18:19.100 they're all eastern this time so as your campaign develops have you got some uh events planned

01:18:23.500 they're coming up here in the near future so uh considering the the timelines and so on the vast

01:18:27.900 majority of my campaign and i truly believe that the vast majority of our campaigning is going to

01:18:32.380 be electronic so whether that's social social engagements content etc i think again the future

01:18:37.500 of politics in canada is in in the palm of your hands that being said we are planning out some

01:18:42.460 town halls we do have a writing association town hall this saturday and our agm too um and so that's

01:18:49.660 for the the writing i ran in which is bamfairdry so we we are planning events um and at the same

01:18:55.980 time i am either remotely or or in person running with uh all of our constituency associations or

01:19:02.860 writing associations rather uh across western canada where i'm making visits to their their

01:19:07.260 events okay so what's the timelines uh you know as we start to wrap up i mean there's always going

01:19:11.820 going to be a membership cut off correct things like that so the biggest cut off the biggest

01:19:16.300 hurdle i've got right now from a fundraising and uh membership standpoint is march 25th so that's

01:19:22.620 the first uh and then at the end of april is when all our members that have bought a membership can

01:19:27.420 vote and then the second week of may is when our leadership vote does actually happen um so again

01:19:34.540 but to be able to get into the race march 25th i need to show a interest in membership sales

01:19:39.820 and interest in fundraising so i'm working with my team right now um to get that to get that done

01:19:44.540 i'm posting updates really live on social media as we go along in terms of where we stand today

01:19:50.060 and will i be able to enter i really want to um and we're working incredibly hard considering the

01:19:55.500 deadlines coming up here in 15 days uh to be able to enter but but i'm gonna give it i'm gonna foot

01:20:01.500 on the pedal full full throttle great well uh as we wrap up then for people who want to support you

01:20:06.300 or get involved or learn more?

01:20:07.640 Where do they find information?

01:20:08.400 The best two options is really Facebook and Twitter.

01:20:11.940 Just my name, Tarek Elnega, if you look those up,

01:20:14.800 that's where I'm posting all of my updates,

01:20:16.640 my platforms on them,

01:20:17.800 my links to membership and donations are there.

01:20:21.160 So those would be the two best options.

01:20:23.420 Okay, well, thanks for taking some time

01:20:25.180 to come in here and talk to us about it today.

01:20:26.260 Corey, thank you so much for having me.

01:20:27.760 I always appreciate it.

01:20:28.500 Yeah, I look forward to talking again

01:20:30.100 as the race progresses.

01:20:30.920 Most definitely.

01:20:31.540 Thank you, sir.

01:20:31.980 Thank you.

01:20:32.660 Thanks.

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01:21:15.540 Okay, so that was Tarek Elnega, and you know, as we said, he's running for the leadership of

01:21:21.540 the Maverick Party. He came in kind of late, so the deadline looks like it's two weeks from now,

01:21:26.360 just about the 15th before he'll have to get whatever their bar was. I didn't quite find out

01:21:30.840 of a certain amount of memberships he would have to sell and a certain amount of funds that would

01:21:34.000 have to go in. So if you're interested, by all means, check them out. It's a different alternative.

01:21:38.940 I don't know yet necessarily whether that's the way to go or not. I'm really, you know,

01:21:42.400 this is new for me being in more of a media role than in a political role. I don't hold a membership

01:21:46.740 with any party any longer. I won't. I mean, I certainly, I'm an opinion guy, so I'll give my

01:21:51.500 opinions and, you know, lean one way or another. But when it comes to times like now, when there's

01:21:55.900 a race whether it's the federal conservatives or maybe we're going to have a provincial

01:22:00.300 UCP race pretty soon or with the Maverick I do want to give it at least some balance on those

01:22:06.160 things in general and I do look back fondly on the reform times you know they were really making

01:22:11.740 some great headway but they eventually went by the wayside because that temptation to go national

01:22:16.580 of course is always a pressure it's always on you and they finally crossed into the Ontario

01:22:22.100 border and eventually morphed into what we have today, which, well, aside from Stephen Harper's

01:22:27.720 short period in power, hasn't been terribly successful, I guess you could say, but we'll

01:22:31.740 see what happens with it. Yeah, that coughing fit. Hey, I'm going to blame Jane with that new foster

01:22:37.060 dog. Yeah, we got two of them in the house now running rampant and everything, and I love them

01:22:40.780 to death, but boy, we got a whole new level of dog hair I'm dealing with these days. I think I had

01:22:44.180 one down the throat there. I'm going to close up with a couple of more news items I wanted to talk

01:22:48.660 about quickly, speaking of change on the federal front. So this one's a beauty. The Canadian

01:22:53.340 Mortgage and Housing Corporation last year awarded the equivalent of a five-figure bonus to every

01:22:58.700 employee on its payroll. This is for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation got some records and found

01:23:04.340 this out. Think about that, eh? Five-figure bonus. Look at how tough times are right now for everybody,

01:23:12.180 how we've been hurting, how we've been going through the pandemic and now the inflation's

01:23:17.960 hitting us, unemployment. But if you work for a government branch such as the CMHC, you get a

01:23:25.000 five-figure bonus. And what have they done? How good have they been? You know what the CMHC has

01:23:29.420 been doing all the time? They've been pumping out study after study on how to bring in a home equity

01:23:33.580 tax. Yeah, they want to come after your home equity. They want to steal. And that's the way

01:23:38.260 I'll put it. Taxation is theft. You know, there's the old saying and there's truth to it. They want

01:23:41.980 to steal your home equity. And we've reported on that a number of times. They keep putting out

01:23:46.100 study and commissioning study after study. And they make it sound like, you know, this is some

01:23:50.020 of the disguises that governments like to do to hide their intent or hide what they're doing,

01:23:55.240 is the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, you know, says a corporation. No, it's an arm of

01:23:59.520 the federal government. They're controlled by the federal government. They're funded by the

01:24:02.060 federal government. They're just a part of the federal government, but it makes it harder to

01:24:05.200 get into them. City of Calgary does it with Calgary Economic Development. They're horrible.

01:24:09.680 They're horrible. And I'd really like an investigation as to why Mary Moran, who ran

01:24:13.120 it so ineffectively and terribly for so long, even though they had a hundred million dollar

01:24:17.800 taxpayer slush fund from the city of Calgary, try and build businesses downtown. I was saying

01:24:22.720 the traffic's building up down here, but still it's in terrible shape. But you see, you can't

01:24:27.780 check them. You can't do a FOIP request with them. You can't look into that Calgary economic

01:24:32.020 development because they are a side corporation of the city of Calgary. Even though they're funded

01:24:36.980 by the taxpayers of Calgary, you're not allowed to look at it. Why? Why not? What are you hiding?

01:24:42.560 Well, CMHC is similar.

01:24:44.260 I think there's a little more transparency on those federal ones than with what they've done with the Calgary Economic Development.

01:24:48.700 We see government has all sorts of ways to hide how they're managing things and what they're doing with your money.

01:24:53.740 And these jackasses with the CMHC not only are working on ways to steal your home equity, but they're giving huge bonuses to their staff for doing it.

01:25:05.120 And so let's see, all the, okay, 121 of their 2146 staff have bonuses. 0.93

01:25:11.700 and the payments totaled $25,521,000.

01:25:16.840 That's where your tax dollars are going, guys.

01:25:19.900 Boy, another area of the tax dollars are going,

01:25:22.260 R2 media outlets, they're going out there.

01:25:24.300 We talked about that the other day.

01:25:25.980 You know, a minister was,

01:25:27.100 the heritage minister was applauding the media

01:25:29.080 for their good coverage of the convoy

01:25:31.740 and saying, we'll toss you some more dollars.

01:25:33.640 Yes, we'll give you some more bucks.

01:25:35.200 Thanks for the good work.

01:25:36.180 And hey, keep doing that

01:25:37.160 and we'll keep giving you more money.

01:25:38.860 The Western Standard doesn't take any of that.

01:25:41.160 We don't. Derek reported on it. It's funny. We talked about it on the pipeline. He applied.

01:25:45.260 We're actually an accredited or whatever way you'd call it, recognized by the liberal government.

01:25:49.040 There were a bunch of forums and hoops to jump through as official media. Thanks, guys.

01:25:53.480 Not that we needed your permission, but thanks. And now we would qualify for a whole bunch of

01:25:57.500 those subsidies. And they were shocked when Derek said, well, no, I don't want them. I just wanted

01:26:00.460 to see if we could get the accreditation. We don't take any of those dollars. But we rely on you guys.

01:26:05.040 We rely on those subscriptions. We rely on our advertisers. So it's very important.

01:26:09.760 and uh for those again i gotta keep reminding and nagging but that's how we stay in business guys

01:26:14.640 and it's how we stay independent if you haven't taken out a membership already

01:26:18.320 get on board and oh yes i do want to speak about my poll one more time thank you nico

01:26:23.100 so i've tweeted about that so let's hit that quickly uh this is the interactivity this is

01:26:27.220 the live stuff and this is what's fun i'll give it a refresh and let's see where i am sitting at

01:26:32.540 looks like 816 people voted on my twitter poll not a bad sampling for a couple hours

01:26:39.720 78.7% for Pierre Paulyev, 9%, well, 8.9% for Leslyn Lewis, 8% for Roman Weber, and 4.4% for Jean Charest.

01:26:48.840 So that hasn't moved a lot in the last hour.

01:26:50.340 It's been good and consistent.

01:26:51.320 You know, when you see a good, consistent poll number like that, it shows some solidity.

01:26:55.880 It does remind you, too, though, that's just my followers, not necessarily people at large.

01:27:00.060 But that's our first one.

01:27:01.400 We'll see how those polls, I'm going to run them now and then over the course of the next few months.

01:27:05.480 And as for Brad, yeah, it's just a poll that I ran on my Twitter account.

01:27:08.360 Corey B. Morgan. If people want to check it out, it's a few tweets back. If you have a Twitter

01:27:11.920 account, you can vote on it. If you don't have a Twitter account, well, you can look at it anyways.

01:27:16.160 How many members does the Western Standard have currently? I don't know. I'm not in

01:27:19.680 operations. A great deal. I'll say thousands and they've been fantastic and we've been growing

01:27:27.680 excellently because of that. That's how I'm on here full time now as a standard employee. So

01:27:33.760 thank you guys who've taken up memberships. And if you haven't already, please do use that code

01:27:37.900 triggered and you'll get that extra 10 bucks off and it's well worth it. I got a couple of

01:27:42.560 good guests in tomorrow. We'll get a little more federal and I'm going to have Barbara Kay on. I 1.00

01:27:48.440 mean, she's a very senior national columnist. She's been writing columns, you know, for a number

01:27:52.740 of large publications for a long time. And she wrote one for us. Well, she's written a number

01:27:56.900 for us and she is very frustrated and sick and tired of the narrative of everybody calling

01:28:03.720 everybody Nazis, you know, it's old, it's tired, it's wrong, and she's sick of it, and it'll be

01:28:09.420 good to talk to her, and yes, she is indeed Jewish, and she's taking shots in all directions, you know,

01:28:15.980 whether you like Maxime Bernier or not too, Maxime's been calling people Nazis, it's not just a left

01:28:19.820 thing, but people have been guilty about it, everybody I'm mad at is a Nazi, well, it's not,

01:28:23.320 look, there were real Nazis, and they were really horrible people, and they did some terrible things,

01:28:27.440 and there aren't really, thankfully, very many real Nazis left anymore, so let's quit calling

01:28:31.300 everybody one every time we get upset with them. So Barbara and I are going to talk about that

01:28:34.520 tomorrow. She was really good the last time we had her on the show. And I'm going to talk to

01:28:38.080 Calgary Councillor Sonia Sharp. And she's an interesting one, very independent minded, 0.90

01:28:42.900 something that's refreshing. You know, she, a lot of us kind of assumed she was going to be

01:28:46.700 very far left wing because she'd gotten the endorsement from the unions in the last election

01:28:51.020 and everything. But actually she's, she stands for herself. She's not in one ideology or another, 0.79

01:28:56.380 which is really unusual and refreshing. And I hope she maintains that, but we'll have an

01:29:00.600 opportunity to talk to her about that and how it's been for in these first few months in council so

01:29:04.640 that'll be a very good conversation as well and of course we'll cover lots of other news and issues

01:29:09.640 leading up to that so thanks you all for tuning in today come in back tomorrow at 11 30 a.m mountain

01:29:15.180 standard and we'll do it all again

01:29:30.600 We'll be right back.

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