Western Standard - LIVE - Triggered： Race baiting from elected officials has to stop

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's March 8, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. This is the

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00:00:49.340 and occasionally shorter when we've covered all we need to. But it's been turning out. It's great.

00:00:55.960 We've got some good guests coming in and we've had a lot of good guests in the past.

00:00:59.040 just a reminder to everybody if you're just joining comments are welcome uh it's part of

00:01:03.880 being live hey there doug uh you know put your your thoughts your views in there your questions

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00:01:17.320 go through them uh we can't do that in recorded shows so it's important to have that interaction

00:01:21.780 it really helps the experience i think in general and uh try to keep it civil though when we can

00:01:26.920 so today i've got an interesting guest he's coming in studio he's rob booth he goes by rooster um

00:01:33.600 he is a uh trucker who actually got up went to ottawa with his truck and spent weeks there one

00:01:42.240 of the occupiers if you want to call it that much he was one of the protesters with the truckers for

00:01:46.640 freedom convoy we haven't really had any good frank discussion from people who sat on the ground

00:01:51.700 and participated in those for the entire length of course when we got a witch hunt going after the

00:01:55.600 the former protesters, you can understand why some people were reticent about getting on media

00:01:59.400 on that. But it'll be a really good talk with Rob to see what he saw, what his thoughts were,

00:02:03.320 what inspired him to get out there. You know, we need that perspective more. After that,

00:02:07.380 I'll talk to Western Standard reporter Reid Small. And he's our senior BC reporter out there,

00:02:13.220 covers this stuff on the lower mainland. One of the stories that really caught my eye with his was

00:02:17.540 there's been attacks on some Russian establishments in Vancouver area, including a church and a

00:02:23.240 community center. You know, blue and yellow paint was thrown on them. It's just sort of things are

00:02:29.480 getting ridiculous in this already ridiculous world. So we'll talk to Reid a little bit about

00:02:33.080 that, what he's reporting on, plus just get an update from BC while we've got him. So time for

00:02:39.380 me to get on with my rant. What has got me triggered today? Well, it was pretty easy to

00:02:43.860 get triggered as I watched my Twitter scroll last night and I saw Courtney Walcott put a fine

00:02:52.300 thread of tweets out there about the protesters in Calgary. You know, many people don't agree

00:02:57.100 with the anti-pandemic mandate protesters, whether in Ottawa or anywhere else. I mean,

00:03:01.660 some people think the movement's based on naivety or it's anti-science or that people's

00:03:06.060 health will be put at risk if the mandates and restrictions are dropped as the protesters are

00:03:10.200 demanding. Residents in areas where the protests have been happening are getting upset with the

00:03:14.200 noise and traffic disruptions. Some of them feel that the protests should end because of that.

00:03:18.760 There's a lot of reasons for people to debate whether the protesters are correct or not,

00:03:22.540 or whether it should be happening or not.

00:03:24.520 All of these things are debatable, and in a healthy democracy,

00:03:27.440 people can and will have reasonable debates in the public arena.

00:03:32.320 One thing that has to stop, though, is this divisive, baseless, and outright slanderous campaign

00:03:38.100 being waged upon anti-mandate protesters by people who want to label the protests

00:03:42.840 as being some kind of white supremacy movement.

00:03:45.780 It's adding tension, it's dividing people, and it's making rational debate impossible.

00:03:50.900 When I see some random ding-dong on social media harping on about how all the protesters are racist,

00:03:55.460 I don't pay it much mind. I can just block the idiots and move on. Pretty easy.

00:03:59.220 But when I see elected officials get it in on the game, though, I have to speak up,

00:04:02.620 because we have to take this seriously.

00:04:05.300 So the latest example, and I just say the latest because there's been many,

00:04:07.940 all the way up to Prime Minister Trudeau, you know, calling a Jew a Nazi.

00:04:12.280 This is rookie Calgary city councillor, Courtney Walcott.

00:04:17.240 He's been in for a few months there.

00:04:18.520 He went on a Twitter tirade against the people who have been peacefully protesting in Calgary every Saturday by the thousands.

00:04:24.220 In one of Walcott's tweets, and I'll quote it here, he said,

00:04:26.720 These protests aren't about COVID public health measures.

00:04:29.700 They're about white supremacy and opportunism.

00:04:32.500 Our laws and bylaws are not built to fight white supremacy.

00:04:35.720 So government must rely on noise complaints and tickets instead.

00:04:38.620 But that's a slow and painful approach.

00:04:40.340 you can't make this stuff up guys now part of the reason walcott went off uh is that despite his

00:04:49.240 calls for counter-protests he was trying to encourage people to get out and counter-protest

00:04:52.540 against the freedom protesters downtown only 50 people showed up at the counter-protest hey some

00:04:57.520 people got out there but it was hardly much against thousands of people who were protesting

00:05:01.520 you know against mandates and while not all citizens may support the protesters most calgarians

00:05:06.320 aren't bothered by them enough to go downtown and protest against them. So Walcott went straight to

00:05:11.640 playing the race card in his frustration. I've been periodically checking out the protests for

00:05:16.560 over a year now. I was pretty critical of them in the early stages. They were fairly small affairs

00:05:20.560 and they did tend to be dominated by people with some pretty far-fetched views on things.

00:05:25.020 To be clear though, I never saw a whiff of racism at these events. If I had, rest assured, I would

00:05:29.820 have spoken up. I would have called it out. Even the imagery of racism, whether unintentional,

00:05:36.320 or foolish, such as when tiki torches were brought out up in Edmonton. I called it out. I've got no

00:05:42.020 use for that stuff. Now we got protests that are gathering thousands of people. The atmosphere

00:05:47.080 at these rallies is even less extreme. I mean, numbers are coming out, and they moderate the

00:05:51.800 crowd. And it's a positive, peaceful environment. And aside from disrupting traffic in an area for

00:05:57.680 about an hour a week, it's pretty much harmless. Again, I have not seen a single sign of racism

00:06:03.020 or racist intent. Many people

00:06:05.100 in the crowds weren't white. I can't speak for

00:06:07.020 them, of course, but I suspect they wouldn't 0.97

00:06:08.960 be there if the protests were dominated by white

00:06:10.940 supremacists. Even as a white guy,

00:06:12.960 I don't want to walk around a crowd of white supremacists.

00:06:16.000 But they aren't there. Where'd

00:06:17.020 you find a crowd of white supremacists anyways?

00:06:19.060 Where do these guys gather?

00:06:20.780 If this is such a huge and growing movement, shouldn't they be

00:06:22.840 pretty easy to spot?

00:06:24.900 I remember years ago, when the hateful 0.99

00:06:27.100 idiots with the Aryan Nations, Aryan Guard,

00:06:29.160 and whatever other things these clusters of

00:06:31.240 white nationalists called themselves year by year. I mean, they always existed. They're always around

00:06:35.360 and they used to come out to protests and marches downtown in Calgary. Even back then, they rarely

00:06:40.940 managed to gather more than a couple dozen people. And of course, the public had no use for those

00:06:44.960 morons. Now we don't even see those little protests anymore. I'm not saying racism doesn't

00:06:49.920 exist. It certainly does. We need to be on guard for it. And as a society, we still have to work

00:06:54.560 to eliminate it. There's things we're doing wrong. But let's not indulge that fake narrative

00:06:59.280 that a large organized group of racists exists out there. If anything, that kind of crap makes

00:07:05.180 us overlook the real cases of racism when they happen. People who have difficulty renting places

00:07:10.100 because of racist landlords, or people who have difficulties in the workplace because of racist

00:07:14.020 business owners, or just, yeah, some vile outright racists on the ground that might

00:07:18.340 berate and insult people or even assault people because of their race. But they're rare.

00:07:23.540 We need to watch for them. If everything is racist, though, then nothing is racist.

00:07:28.080 The world is in crisis right now, with a war being conducted in Ukraine.

00:07:31.880 The economy is in crisis as inflation and energy prices fly through the roof.

00:07:36.080 People are tired. They're worried and they're stressed due to the pandemic.

00:07:39.660 But they're holding out hope that we're moving out of this mess.

00:07:42.060 The last thing we need right now is to add stress and social division

00:07:46.020 through feeding a false narrative of there being some sort of organized white supremacist movement

00:07:50.980 holding protests in cities across the country.

00:07:53.960 Courtney Walcott has been divisive, inflammatory, and irresponsible.

00:07:58.620 Many of the people he branded as white supremacists are his constituents.

00:08:01.940 Many of the people at those protests probably voted for him, though I doubt they ever will again.

00:08:06.320 We need to call out and condemn real acts of racism whenever we see them.

00:08:10.620 We also need to call out and condemn acts of race-baiting when we see it.

00:08:14.400 Walcott should be offering an apology to the citizens of Calgary.

00:08:17.680 Instead, he continues with his campaign of destructive division.

00:08:20.740 We shouldn't have to put up with that.

00:08:23.540 That's what's got me triggered today. Hey, Debbie in Ontario. There, I wind myself down

00:08:27.640 greeting some of the people in the chat area. So I'll let that cool down. We'll talk more

00:08:33.280 on civic issues and things like that as we go forward. But yeah, Walcott's really a piece

00:08:36.360 of work, guys. I mean, boy, talk about insulting. So let's bring somebody less insulting in

00:08:41.520 and that's our news editor, Dave Naylor. Dave, how are you doing over there?

00:08:45.520 Oh, good. I can be more insulting anytime you want, Corey. Hey, how's that? You're looking

00:08:50.500 tired how's that new dog of yours he is keeping us up uh yeah he's he's quite uh we've got three

00:08:57.300 of them in the household now and uh they haven't synchronized their bathroom habits yet so i haven't

00:09:01.460 gotten very solid sleeps yet but as i get older i don't make it through a night without a bathroom

00:09:05.620 visit myself either so i just got synchronized with the dogs perhaps we should do a monthly

00:09:10.180 segment on you know cory's dog of the month you get uh get some forever homes for them yeah well

00:09:15.780 we're fostering we're always turning them over anybody who is interested i'm always tweeting

00:09:19.060 about it and things like that anyways. Well, while you've been getting triggered, we've been

00:09:24.060 getting busy here in the newsroom, a very busy morning so far. Our top story at the moment is

00:09:30.240 a Linda Slobodian piece out of the Siksika Cardston riding down south. They held a meeting last

00:09:39.820 Friday, which the premier attended, and it was jam-packed. There was 100 people inside who were

00:09:45.400 sort of like handpicked to go and outside there were 200 protesters including some that had formed

00:09:52.280 the uh the main barricade down in coots uh it seems like forever ago but uh just a couple weeks

00:09:59.120 ago they were outside with their tractors uh kenny's security men obviously worried about this

00:10:04.700 and whisked him out the back door and quickly away into the night uh leaving the protesters

00:10:10.900 even angry outside that he wouldn't come and talk to them.

00:10:14.880 So that story is up, and there's video of that.

00:10:18.000 Our publisher, Derek Fildebrandt,

00:10:20.560 has taken a break from doing whatever it is publishers do,

00:10:24.320 and he's filed a column on Pierre Polyev

00:10:26.860 and what he brings to the Conservative Party race

00:10:30.700 to replace Erin O'Toole.

00:10:33.420 We've got some good stuff coming out of Ottawa this morning.

00:10:37.460 You remember a gentleman called Maurice Sinclair?

00:10:39.760 He was the guy who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission all those years.

00:10:45.820 It turns out the feds have paid his law firm $200,000 for only two months' work.

00:10:52.140 But everybody says that was all above board and nothing to see here.

00:10:56.780 Move along.

00:10:58.320 Rachel Notley at home suffering from COVID.

00:11:02.400 We hope she gets better soon.

00:11:04.140 She has put out a tweet slamming Jason Kenney's plan to tell Trudeau to take down his travel vaccine mandates and vaccine passports.

00:11:14.000 She's not happy that they're being brought down.

00:11:17.360 Drivers in BC who are paying, some of them are paying well over $2 a litre now, got some bad news when their government announced they will not be following Alberta's lead and they will not be lowering the fuel tax.

00:11:32.360 Premier Kenney announced Albertans will get a $0.13 a litre break starting April 1st for our record high gas prices.

00:11:43.120 Todd Lowen, Corey, you'll remember, was punted out of the UCP caucus last year.

00:11:49.940 He's demanded an RCMP investigation into some of the actions taken by Jason Kenney's staff

00:11:56.720 in the weeks leading up to the November AGM down here in Calgary for the party.

00:12:03.560 So he's still stirring the pot there.

00:12:09.160 Bad news for donors of the Freedom Convoy.

00:12:13.360 If you were frozen, the Canadian Bankers Association says

00:12:16.640 your account will be marked for the rest of your life.

00:12:20.420 Big news out of the United States this morning.

00:12:23.000 President Joe Biden has banned the importation of Russian oil.

00:12:28.600 So I think they import 10% of their oil is Russian-based.

00:12:34.020 And, gee, Corey, I wonder where they could possibly find a replacement for that Russian oil.

00:12:40.840 And you remember the interesting story we had yesterday about the National Archives

00:12:46.020 They're scrubbing more than 7,000 pages of things about John A. MacDonald and the War of 1812 and the Fathers of Confederation.

00:12:56.760 Well, it turns out that that was all done because of one phone call from a Toronto Star reporter who was asking questions about it and asking for an apology for there not being any mention of residential school and John A. MacDonald.

00:13:11.900 And the librarians panicked and scrubbed 7,000 pages just because of one Toronto Star complaint.

00:13:20.000 So lots of stuff to come this afternoon too also, Corey.

00:13:24.820 The government of Alberta is going to be holding a press conference on changes to the Municipal Government Act.

00:13:31.740 That's to prevent cities like Edmonton from bringing in their own mask mandates when the province has taken them down.

00:13:39.080 And the iconic cafe, you remember that establishment in Ottawa at the height of the Freedom Convoy.

00:13:46.980 Our male resident has talked to the owner of the cafe, and it looks like they're being forced to close.

00:13:52.340 They're behind in the rent, and it looks like they're getting evicted.

00:13:56.160 And the cafe owner is not too pleased that Justin Trudeau is giving away millions and millions of dollars to help other businesses,

00:14:04.200 but he's being forced out, likely because he helped the truckers.

00:14:08.300 So once again, a busy day, Corey, lots of stuff for everybody to go to and look on the website, and we'll be churning it out all afternoon.

00:14:18.860 Great. Yes, always busy. Well, thanks for the update, Dave. Looking forward to those stories as they pop up.

00:14:24.300 And yeah, this truckers convoy, you know, now it's the fallout stage, right?

00:14:27.260 Like they won't seem to let it go. Okay, the protests are down, but now we're going to chase them down and make sure we really just punish these guys to the ends of the earth if we have to.

00:14:36.460 Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing what your first guest says

00:14:39.880 and whether he's seen any fallout.

00:14:42.660 Yeah, that'll be a good question to ask him if he's had anything direct.

00:14:45.380 Maybe after our interview, he might, but I don't want to get him in trouble.

00:14:49.060 All right, Garth.

00:14:50.200 All right, thanks, Dave.

00:14:52.280 So, yeah, Dave Naylor, you know, from our newsroom,

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00:16:59.720 And yeah, lots going on.

00:17:00.720 So, yeah, Joe Biden, oh, boy, you know, he gets up to talks this morning.

00:17:03.920 I mean, they're in trouble.

00:17:05.100 They're in huge trouble.

00:17:06.320 Energy, you know, we've been screaming it from the rooftops for a long time.

00:17:11.300 And, oh, wait, Wanda, just as I get distracted by these comments.

00:17:15.680 Wanda says, Western Standard, B.C., and it would be nice if you spoke about us instead of Alberta all the time.

00:17:19.440 And that's true, Wanda.

00:17:20.480 That's why I'm going to have Reid Small on.

00:17:22.220 He's our B.C. reporter, and that's our senior B.C. reporter.

00:17:26.020 We've got other sources out there in B.C. as well.

00:17:28.860 and we do want to expand it and we're getting better with it. And I'm going to have Reid talk

00:17:32.340 about BC issues this afternoon to close out the show. I am in Calgary. So naturally I end up a

00:17:37.600 little more Calgary centric, but as we keep building, we're going to get to either KC in

00:17:41.780 Ontario, we're going to get more sources in different parts of the country. And I appreciate

00:17:46.180 the feedback from viewers and listeners. You know, I see another one there from Pamela from

00:17:49.960 Monty Lake, BC and Marion in Stouffville, Ontario. We're really getting out there. Saskatchewan. Yes,

00:17:55.520 we need more out of Saskatchewan parking. And we've got a reporter out there. He puts stuff

00:17:59.980 out all the time too. So thank you guys for that feedback and input. So getting back to Biden,

00:18:04.920 you know, that was something to watch this morning. It was not to be surprising at all.

00:18:10.080 You know, the energy costs are going through the roof and that impacts everybody. I mean,

00:18:13.920 whether you're heating your homes, whether you're buying goods, it doesn't matter if you don't drive

00:18:17.040 and people are getting a reality check. When the cost of energy goes up, your cost of everything

00:18:21.540 goes up. Your food, your rent, your home heating. It's all going up, guys. So, you know, remember

00:18:26.940 that stupid photo that used to go around from some moron holding up a sign? I don't need gasoline

00:18:30.680 because I ride the bus. Think harder, buddy. And it's pressuring all of the United States right

00:18:36.160 now. It's pressuring our little world right now. So, Joe, though, what's he doing? Well, he's kissing

00:18:40.940 Venezuelan butt. He's on bended knee to Saudi Arabia. He did get up and say that they're going 0.75

00:18:45.940 now ban the 5% of their oil that comes from Russia. Okay, fine. But he won't even utter the

00:18:51.600 word Keystone. We have one of the biggest oil deposits on the planet right north of the American

00:18:57.220 border. We have a pipeline built right up to it on each side. It would take very little to connect

00:19:01.220 that and get that flowing because, I mean, I was talking online with some other oil producers.

00:19:05.360 They're maxed out. They're doing all of the production they can right now. We've filled

00:19:09.780 every pipe. We've filled every train. We've done everything we can, and that's why the prices are

00:19:13.240 going up. But Joe won't even talk about Keystone. Why? He's beholden to all those green clowns that

00:19:19.640 put him in office in the first place. He had to kiss all his environmental butts to get those 1.00

00:19:23.620 votes, and he just will not admit that dirty, dirty Canadian oil might help ease the pain for

00:19:29.240 American citizens. Though I think citizens are going to realize that. He is in incredibly grave

00:19:33.020 trouble when the midterms come up this fall. And, you know, I don't know, hopefully maybe they change

00:19:37.960 his Metamucil prescription or something like that, and he'll realize that bringing affordable energy

00:19:42.480 to his citizens is not only better for the American people and better for Canadian people,

00:19:47.200 but it'll save his own political butt come this fall. But maybe it's good if he'll get a spanking

00:19:50.820 there as well. Okay, so my guest is in studio. I'm going to bring him in pretty quickly. We're

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00:20:54.480 and I've been looking forward to this. You know, we need more genuine talk just about what people

00:21:00.100 have seen on the ground. My opening rant, I was going on about that, you know, with what I saw

00:21:04.120 in the Calgary protests and what I saw on the ground was much different than what the media

00:21:07.940 was reporting, much different than what local politicians are talking about. And Ottawa agree

00:21:12.720 or disagree with what happened in the protests. We can't get a clear picture until we talk to

00:21:15.900 people who've actually been there. So I really appreciate you coming in and talking to me.

00:21:19.620 Yeah, truly. Thanks for having me here, Greg.

00:21:21.040 So I guess we'll start from the start. Most people understand what the protests were about,

00:21:24.920 but still, what personally inspired you? I mean, that's quite a commitment to get up

00:21:28.180 across the country take time off work as it turns out put yourself at legal risk for me for me was

00:21:34.720 just for me was basically my kid my grandkids future just seeing what's coming down the pike

00:21:39.660 with what Trudeau's been doing and the people that he works for what they're trying to build

00:21:43.820 I'm just I'm not I mean it's our freedom that they're trying to take away and it's our kids

00:21:48.220 future so that was basically it for me yeah so I mean people take it very seriously we are

00:21:53.320 concerned you're worried I mean it's not a minor thing to say I'm just going to pick up and

00:21:56.880 and camp out in a city on the other side of the country uh you know you were very concerned about

00:22:02.040 that absolutely so how did you get on board like how did you uh are you a lease operator you have

00:22:06.920 your own truck or uh yeah we have yeah we have uh i have some things going on with trucks here

00:22:11.960 um but it basically was just uh online um uh tiktok is actually i saw uh the idea come i was

00:22:18.880 with chris barbara actually saw and it just you know lit a fire in me i've been waiting for a

00:22:22.880 couple of years for something to happen because it just seems like these guys just keep getting

00:22:27.080 worse and worse and worse for us here. So without people saying it and without what we want to do,

00:22:33.280 they're just, you know, deciding amongst themselves and we'll just do as we're told.

00:22:36.880 Yeah, so that goes into a bit of a broader issue. The protests, I think, I mean, it was the

00:22:43.380 mandates, it was the pandemic, it was that stress that really brought it to a head.

00:22:47.840 But there was a bigger issue for you then. You're more concerned also about broader

00:22:51.360 government control, individual rights, things like that. Like it was more like the pandemic

00:22:55.460 was the starting point, but it's gotten to be more. Absolutely. It was, I mean, look at the,

00:23:01.260 I'm familiar with Ukraine years ago, right? And I mean, this is almost like a mirror image, 0.96

00:23:04.640 what we were seeing happening in Ottawa with what was going on with, you know,

00:23:07.500 instead of our government just facing us, they decided to essentially attack us. So.

00:23:13.760 Yeah, there's, it's been a terrible disrespect to the citizens, you know, I mean,

00:23:17.280 again, a government, okay, they'll tend to cater to the majority, but in a proper democracy,

00:23:22.200 you'll respect the minority and hear them out. That was something very striking during the

00:23:27.620 convoy protest that I was still frustrated and annoyed with was Trudeau, okay, fine,

00:23:32.780 I can understand you're not going to agree with these guys, but he never once made even the

00:23:36.300 slightest effort to acknowledge that you might have a point. There might be something worth

00:23:40.000 addressing that there's any reason to offer even a glimmer of respect to you.

00:23:44.780 No, exactly. I mean, and that was very disrespectful. He wouldn't even hear us. He

00:23:48.780 just basically just kept on with more threats and more threats and more threats. And obviously,

00:23:53.740 we're not intimidated very easily. So it led to basically the government violent on their own

00:23:59.740 people. Yeah. So back to your own experience, you got on the road. How long did it take? It

00:24:04.220 was a few days of traveling within a convoy? I believe it was about six days, I believe it

00:24:09.180 it took us all together um i kind of caught up uh about midway on that when i was a little bit

00:24:14.700 behind but had to chase but um so through all the towns through all the just all along the side of

00:24:21.000 the highways the support was overwhelming very much so yeah and that was something interesting

00:24:25.360 to watch you know as we saw it we were talking about before the show like this it was very

00:24:28.960 underreported we're hearing the rumblings and everything but it you know the snowball analogy

00:24:32.980 really is the best one i think particularly it came from a lot of directions but mostly in the

00:24:36.680 west when we started bc and that you're hearing these rumblings it just kept getting bigger and

00:24:40.740 bigger as it was going it was like a self-feeding thing as people saw more flags being waved on

00:24:44.600 bridges and people on the sides of roads it inspired more people to get involved and come

00:24:49.100 out and make their way over there so when you arrived in ottawa like what kind of plan was

00:24:53.660 there though like you know you're okay here's a whole whack of trucks showing up on a spot a lot

00:24:57.140 of you probably haven't even been downtown ottawa before uh was there some kind of coordination

00:25:01.740 though like how did you know where to park or sit up well we basically we uh um we didn't really

00:25:07.240 have a whole big plan when we got to ottawa i think in ottawa once we got into ottawa we had

00:25:11.880 the uh the leaders were doing what they were doing but we were uh we basically broke off into our own

00:25:16.540 little groups and blocks and stuff and basically started to kind of you know um run our own sort of

00:25:22.020 uh um i wouldn't say i don't even like the word protest because it wasn't that really it was just

00:25:27.100 basically hear hear our voice yeah a demonstration i i would call it a protest i know it's hard to

00:25:32.280 encapsulate it in in a word and and uh but i mean you you're getting out there you felt your

00:25:37.960 common channels aren't getting your message out so people move on to extraordinary channels and

00:25:42.520 there's where again i mean people fault the protesters for how things came about but

00:25:46.120 i think in hindsight maybe some of his advisors could say the same thing if trudeau just been

00:25:50.920 respectful in the earlier parts it probably only would have been a quarter of the people showing

00:25:54.020 up in ottawa in the first place that's right and uh he could have dealt with things much more

00:25:58.920 effectively but just that abrasive middle finger to the protesters and ignoring he actually fed

00:26:04.680 the fires of this he absolutely did and i mean when you uh basically give the middle finger to

00:26:08.940 the working class of your own country but yet you support things like blm and those guys it's just

00:26:14.640 it's a messed up situation yeah it politicizes and divides so when you got there um as i saw in

00:26:21.160 calgary and as we saw online i mean it was a jubilant atmosphere it was almost a festival feel

00:26:27.300 to it as opposed to other protests it it was nice to feel canadian again it was nice for people to

00:26:32.620 be able to open up there was tears there was hugs there was joy there's hope um it just it's it's

00:26:38.960 it's so hard it's so surreal to try and explain the feeling of it um it's one of those you had

00:26:43.960 to be there i i think i think i mean it's a lot of the same feeling on some of the uh the get

00:26:49.100 togethers that are happening in the cities and stuff right now all over the place it's that

00:26:52.220 atmosphere and it's that that we're trying to we're still trying to build the unity and we're

00:26:55.620 not going to quit we're still going to try and make sure that our children have a future here

00:26:59.660 yeah well people don't get up and do that because they're happy with things they do it because

00:27:03.120 they're upset but this was such a different approach and uh you know as i said earlier i've

00:27:06.580 attended a lot of protests in the past i went to uh g71 in calgary many years ago and the tier

00:27:12.760 tier or was it g7 it was the energy summit either i'd gone to one of them and and the fencing around

00:27:18.320 tele center was out and the environmental protesters were smashing themselves against

00:27:22.220 the fences and the tear gas was lobbing out and they were spitting at police and spray paint was

00:27:26.320 put out some windows were smashed yeah and that's typical of a lot of protests and i mean people

00:27:30.080 are angry and i don't even take sides on the protests you're angry you get out and you do

00:27:33.000 that but this one people were angry but they didn't express it violently they didn't vandalize

00:27:38.100 areas they didn't i mean there was a lot of noise i'll grant it if you lived down there it'd be

00:27:42.760 annoying after a while. There was definitely traffic blockages. It was a form of civil

00:27:48.300 disobedience, though not in a massive way. The border blockages were kind of a different affair,

00:27:52.720 but I kind of want to focus on Ottawa. Maintaining that piece, was that easy or

00:27:57.920 were there occasionally challenges that others kind of had to control themselves?

00:28:01.520 There was definitely challenges in it. I mean, there was whoever, I mean, there was people down

00:28:05.800 there that were dead set on getting a reaction out of us. But I mean, like I said it a few times

00:28:11.140 while we were down there the adults are in town and they've never had to deal with people like

00:28:14.300 us before so um it was uh the the police cooperated with us in the beginning they were listening to

00:28:19.560 our radio and stuff we would just be talking on the radio we were all over town the locals were

00:28:23.800 saying how the uh they were so impressed that the uh crime rate had dropped since we were down there

00:28:28.620 they've never felt so safe walking around downtown um i will say this maybe it'll get me in trouble

00:28:33.600 or not but there were certain business owners that i talked to that were told not to open up

00:28:37.000 So the mainstream media had said that they weren't going there because they were feared for their lives, which was, again, another just propaganda.

00:28:45.540 Yeah, and we're seeing follow-up, unfortunately, and pushback.

00:28:48.720 Dave Kneeler, our news editor, was just talking at the start of the show about that cafe in Ontario right now in Ottawa.

00:28:55.180 It sounds like they might be getting shut down.

00:28:56.640 They're not qualifying for things because they dared to service the people.

00:29:00.700 You know, at the same time, they were making it mandatory and they were going to imprison a tow truck driver for not doing what they told them.

00:29:06.380 I mean, what an insane irony, you know.

00:29:09.400 Isn't it? Is it not? Is it not?

00:29:11.380 And then when you see what Trudeau did to his own country,

00:29:16.380 and then he's over with the Ukraine flag on,

00:29:18.640 and he's talking about how he's going to fight for democracy.

00:29:21.720 And I'm like, really?

00:29:22.920 Yeah, it's hard to believe the words out of his mouth.

00:29:24.880 I mean, I don't want to digress too much.

00:29:26.100 I spent a lot of time on Mr. Trudeau.

00:29:28.320 We've got the bigger issues going on for sure right now.

00:29:32.940 And so, I mean, the labeling, that must have been frustrating for you guys.

00:29:35.940 I mean, the worst of it all, I think, was, I mean, there was always the racist crap that's being thrown out.

00:29:40.040 And I started my rant in the show about that with what's happening here in Calgary.

00:29:43.160 But they were even accused people of that, like roving rape gangs down there and rapists.

00:29:46.760 Like, where does this come from?

00:29:47.740 It was just, and that was for me and for most of us, that was the most frustrating part because it's just blatant lies.

00:29:53.860 Now, you know, you sit at home and you watch the news and then you hear stuff like that.

00:29:58.140 And I mean, you know, you believe it or you don't believe it.

00:30:00.420 But I mean, we kind of grew up thinking that we should be able to trust media, right?

00:30:04.660 We should be able to believe what you guys are telling us.

00:30:07.260 You know what I'm saying?

00:30:08.160 But when it's you directly that they're accusing of all this stuff, it really hits home.

00:30:13.440 And it just, it's completely and utterly changed my direction in life here now as far as plans and stuff, right?

00:30:20.440 Well, and that's been a real problem in this.

00:30:22.320 I mean, the media has always had its slant.

00:30:23.940 And boy, I love to, we got a self-interest for me to smack at the mainstream media all the time.

00:30:28.460 But they don't do themselves any favors.

00:30:30.120 And they really, the term I keep using is they overplayed their hand so hard on this convoy thing.

00:30:35.920 Their bias was just so unvarnished and hugged.

00:30:40.080 I think it went both ways to a degree.

00:30:42.040 I mean, I know people don't believe it, but there are some genuine reporters and ones who just wanted to get down and talk.

00:30:47.000 And after the waters had been soured so badly by the mainstream outlets themselves, they weren't assaulted, but they weren't treated friendly by people on the ground.

00:30:56.640 And I've seen that in Calgary as well.

00:30:57.860 But it's a self-perpetuating problem.

00:30:59.700 Now you've got a dislike on one side and one on the other,

00:31:01.600 and we're not going to get a clear message or a picture of what's happening.

00:31:03.740 Well, I think the people are just at the, who do you trust now, right?

00:31:06.740 Like which media do you trust?

00:31:08.760 We know there's certain ones that are just going to,

00:31:10.960 they're going to spin it for their narrative and Trudeau already admitted

00:31:14.080 paying them. So that's who do you trust now, right?

00:31:16.720 Yeah. Well, we've got so many people now who can report from the ground and

00:31:19.460 that that's, what's great. You know, we had,

00:31:20.820 we had a fella in Ottawa who was giving us live streaming from the protests.

00:31:25.100 We were down there. So yes, we didn't see any rape gangs or, or you know,

00:31:28.220 crazed uh racist symbols or anything uh people can push past it like the the whoever that wiener was

00:31:34.780 with the confederate flag who for a very short period of time walked among you know fully masked

00:31:38.400 one of the only ones in the whole group yeah and then was pushed out as i said earlier the main

00:31:43.180 thing with that wasn't even just the pictures that the media jumped all over and showed look

00:31:45.500 at confederate flag look the main thing was another bystander and i don't know who did the

00:31:49.700 video it was just like a 20 second clip showing the crowd saying hey get lost you aren't part of

00:31:55.160 us. This is not what we're about. We have no interest in whatever you're trying to promote

00:31:58.660 or waive. Be gone. And if a bystander hadn't videoed that, the narrative of this being a

00:32:05.920 symbol that was embraced by that crowd would have been played up even more. So we're in a good time

00:32:11.140 though. We're in a time where everybody's got a phone. Everybody's got a camera. It's really hard

00:32:14.820 for people to misconstrue what's going on when there's so much evidence coming from citizens on

00:32:19.600 the ground. You know what I mean? You can still take citizen journalism and clip it or screw it

00:32:23.780 up. I mean, there's a room for that. But when there's so many sources, we're in a good time.

00:32:28.860 The media is having a heck of a lot harder time controlling the narrative today than they did 20

00:32:32.260 years ago. Absolutely they are. And obviously the big formats, I mean, they still have the ability

00:32:36.320 to silence stuff. Too much truth comes out and they're still, you know, I've had TikTok accounts

00:32:42.500 that have been deleted at 51,000 followers. I mean, you know, you start getting... Yeah,

00:32:47.620 the social media giants are another one and we're beholden to them, you know, as an alternative

00:32:51.420 media outlet i mean a lot of our traffic comes through these channels most of our viewers view

00:32:55.820 on facebook videos and uh in our case you know and we're not on tick tock so much but uh we do

00:33:00.620 have an account you know but uh youtube and i want to remind everybody get on our rumble channel

00:33:05.180 we could be cancelled anytime rumble won't do it so i like to remind the viewers all the time

00:33:10.540 we broadcast to all of them and again i think in a free market these are social media giants

00:33:15.420 but others will sprout up you know they can't play whack-a-mole forever right right yeah so

00:33:20.460 you've got more initiatives though so i mean that's what people are asking now a lot of the

00:33:23.420 mandates have come down things are reducing i think some of the protests are going to wind down

00:33:27.100 like in calgary particularly the provincial stuff is all gone but there's still federal mandates

00:33:32.940 but you plan on still being active now absolutely you know and if you don't mind i just want to read

00:33:37.820 you something sure it's from one of my um partners big rivers his name he was down there in ottawa

00:33:42.780 with us and um i mean we all lean on each other now after experiencing what we've experienced it's

00:33:47.420 just it's hard to just come back and then just meld back into the society that we left on that

00:33:51.820 convoy because we're so awake now and we've seen so much right so big river said this and it's

00:33:56.620 something i'd just like to share with you guys and i i think it's great he said he thinks what

00:34:00.380 separates us is we have realized and truly understand that our materialistic earthly

00:34:04.140 possessions have zero effect or meaning without freedom right and so with that being said he

00:34:10.620 believes that we are the fringe the one percent that would actually stop life's life to demonstrate

00:34:15.900 their beliefs and maybe four percent would go out of their way after work to support this

00:34:20.780 and i think that's pretty strong i think that you know what i'm saying oh yeah absolutely i

00:34:25.020 mean it was a minority of canadians who still went out but it represents a larger bunch and it

00:34:28.780 says a lot most people won't do that so if you will get thousands though to do that sacrifice

00:34:34.140 to realize you know i i my job isn't as important to me as this my you know location isn't as

00:34:39.660 important to me as this i need to get out and express myself uh it's only a minority of people

00:34:44.220 to do it, but it represents a much bigger issue if that many people are going to do such a thing.

00:34:47.740 That's right, yeah. And I mean, the World Economic Forum is not being quiet about their

00:34:51.500 plans anymore. I mean, it's everywhere now, right? Oh, and it's being exposed. I mean,

00:34:56.460 I did a rant on that last week and it just took right off. I mean, it's really going out there.

00:35:01.580 I think there's perhaps a little too much stuff being attributed to the ability of the World

00:35:05.340 Economic Forum, but it's not a secret that they really have some pretty odious intents and plans

00:35:09.740 as well and the exposure of them is uh i think just depowered them quite a bit we've got to keep

00:35:14.860 on but we do definitely have to keep spreading the truth and we have to keep letting people know

00:35:19.260 you know we have to wake people up i mean um a lot of people are just in their own little bubble

00:35:24.780 and i mean i get it and that's all good and fine but it's not gonna you know it's gonna be there's

00:35:28.860 a few movies out now and i'm just i'm i'm numbed i can't remember the name of the one that i wanted

00:35:33.180 to see right now but there's a few movies out that play into this right now and i'm sure you're

00:35:37.180 um sure your viewers would be able to oh they'll they're very vocal you should see when i take

00:35:42.220 them off they can really let me know a lot of things that's part of the fun of live and being

00:35:46.460 you know discourse this group think that we're bringing to an end which is is really important

00:35:50.380 i think right now and it's funny how a minority can really wag a majority i've talked about that

00:35:54.780 before like with political memberships for example only two percent of the country holds a membership

00:35:59.100 in a political party right well that two percent has an incredible amount of influence over the

00:36:04.060 people managing your country so think a little harder you know a little bit of effort on your

00:36:07.340 part and you can make a lot of change absolutely that's right and uh and that's what we saw i mean

00:36:11.740 sure it was only the one percent showed up in ottawa but guess what one percent of 38 million

00:36:16.380 people is a lot of freaking people that's exactly right and i mean that was that was just there in

00:36:21.020 ottawa but then how about the number that was supporting uh that couldn't join us in ottawa

00:36:25.980 that wanted to join us in ottawa well that leads to some of the symbols a lot of people supported

00:36:30.060 by donating and that's where we saw you know well over a hundred thousand individuals throwing in

00:36:34.780 ten bucks throwing in a hundred bucks some some big donors as well but they say i can't make it

00:36:38.780 or they don't feel it's their thing to do but they wanted to put money in it shows that this

00:36:42.300 represented a much bigger thing i think that fundraising scared the establishment as much or

00:36:48.220 more than the amount of people have gathered on that hill because that let them know there's a

00:36:51.660 much bigger uh pond of things it's easy to hit like on facebook it takes a little work to pull

00:36:56.540 out your wallet put in a credit card and send some money somewhere that's right and that shows

00:37:00.700 commitment to the cause right there right and so like you say um they raised a huge amount of money

00:37:05.980 as far as that goes right and then the uh uh the treatment of the organizers etc and just uh i mean

00:37:12.780 that that again is another whole total show yeah i'll be talking to a lawyer about that tomorrow

00:37:19.100 from who's out there and and uh following up on that and that's part of it too so then now we've

00:37:23.660 we've got a spiteful government. I mean, the main protests are taken down. I mean, it's not over.

00:37:28.460 They're still happening every weekend. You've got more plans, but they're on the witch hunt.

00:37:32.900 They're chasing after the organizers. They're chasing after businesses. They're chasing after

00:37:36.480 people funded. Have you yourself dealt with any backlash or pushback? I have not at the moment.

00:37:41.400 I have not yet. Yeah. And I don't want you to. I appreciate you coming on. We've had difficulty

00:37:45.700 and I understandably from people who were there, like that's what I just want somebody to relate

00:37:49.880 from what they saw on the ground but they're worried that i could lose my job i could be

00:37:54.920 reporter my bank might screw my credit rating or i mean this is how bad it's gotten dave was

00:37:59.560 talking about that there's gonna be permanent marks on people's banking because they donated

00:38:02.840 and it's and that's to me that's even wrong it's insanity as far as i'm concerned that's insanity

00:38:08.120 that's just that's just uh fear-mongering right well but some of us aren't afraid of it so and i

00:38:13.560 mean um again it's for my grandchildren's future i'll do whatever i have to do to make sure that

00:38:18.280 they have one in this country well and uh you know it's a cliche and it's cheesy but it's true

00:38:22.840 with that freedom ain't free you know and and there's always authoritarians who want to take

00:38:27.080 it that's the nature of it it's been known since the beginning of human history somebody's going

00:38:31.000 to want to take more and people are going to have to push back and grab it back they'll never stop

00:38:35.800 you know our great grandchildren will have some new battle but if you give up you're sure to lose

00:38:40.680 right right and i know like there's a good there's a bunch of us that were down there that giving up

00:38:45.240 is not in our it's not in our dna so uh and we're not going to so we're just as a matter if i keep

00:38:50.760 saying this over and over we're just getting started so okay so well is there anything you

00:38:54.520 can say on what your next initiatives are and what you plan on doing as much as i would love to

00:38:58.600 um let's just say that uh let's just say that the trucks are going to keep rolling so we're not

00:39:05.000 canada's not done with convoys yet um on just maybe on a bit of the political end i mean you

00:39:09.160 follow it closely is there any indication that they might be considering dropping those cross

00:39:13.800 border mandates yet like that was kind of the initial trigger as we said it was a much bigger

00:39:17.560 thing in the end but not that not that i've heard but again so to me to me i'm seeing a bunch of

00:39:24.760 smoke and mirrors again right now going on i mean the provinces are not all provinces are dropping

00:39:29.080 them either with the mandates mass mandates and stuff i've noticed like ontario is still kind of

00:39:33.080 hanging on there a little bit there's a couple of them but um my my only fear is that the provincial

00:39:37.560 can do whatever they want as far as dropping mandates listening to the people but it's the

00:39:41.400 federal guy that I'm concerned with, because what's he going to put into place for his next

00:39:45.520 temper tantrum? Well, that's it. Yeah. I mean, for one, you've got to make sure that if you're

00:39:48.620 going to do that in the future, we're going to push back. There's the other thing. And they're

00:39:51.760 warning us saying, we're going to crack down on you. Well, I think the citizens put the government

00:39:54.820 on notice too and say, you push it too far. This is what's going to happen. Absolutely right. And

00:39:59.480 there's still more mandates. I mean, some people are saying it's over, give it up, but no, they

00:40:02.700 aren't. If you want to travel, you have to be vaccinated. If you want to take a truck and it's

00:40:07.780 a living. I mean, long haul truckers are a different type. I mean, that should be expanded.

00:40:11.060 My brother drives B train, but he never crosses the border. He works oil field stuff. That's his

00:40:15.340 thing. You can't just flick a switch and move into another part of it because you can't cross

00:40:19.820 the border. So these long haul guys are screwed. That's right. You can do different. I ran south,

00:40:24.540 ran the ice roads. I've done oil patch myself. So there's different facets to the transportation

00:40:29.120 industry. But I mean, a lot of guys, that's they're living and that's their life. It's a

00:40:33.520 lifestyle. Yeah. And that's their specialty within the trucking industry. I mean, sure,

00:40:36.800 they could pivot but you know they were already doing fine and they weren't spreading anything

00:40:40.640 come on let's get no i mean that's exactly so okay well i'm not sure what else to cover where

00:40:46.160 can we find out more on what you are up to if you'd like to or uh i'm on i'm on tick tock i'm

00:40:51.520 on getter um we are there's some things that are in the works right now um again we're not saying

00:40:57.040 too much right now just because of uh who might be listening and you know you you can't uh it's

00:41:03.760 It's tough to be able to speak freely about freedom in Canada anymore, it seems.

00:41:08.060 But there will be stuff popping up for sure.

00:41:10.560 I'll probably stay in touch with the ox.

00:41:11.940 Yeah, you bet.

00:41:12.760 That's where I was going to follow up.

00:41:14.380 There's more to come.

00:41:15.200 I'm sure we'll be talking again as it unfolds.

00:41:17.740 So I just appreciate you coming in and showing, okay, guys, see, yeah, he's a trucker.

00:41:22.920 He looks like a trucker.

00:41:23.820 I was oil field for 20 years.

00:41:25.160 Yeah, you know, this suit and tie thing is still, I'm getting, Derek and I are still

00:41:28.060 fighting about that.

00:41:29.260 But you don't have horns coming out of your head. 0.79

00:41:31.480 you're you're not vicious violent insane you're not a hillbilly you're you're just a working

00:41:36.680 person we're just uh we just uh just a man who wears his heart on their sleeve and just doesn't

00:41:41.720 take any from anybody if i could say that fair enough right yeah that's good that's how most

00:41:47.560 people are i think when given the chance well thank you very much for coming in and uh mr rooster

00:41:52.040 as uh the name goes and yeah i'm sure we'll be talking again soon appreciate you all right thank

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00:42:39.300 Okay, so that was Rob Booth. You know, as I said, I've been looking forward to that. I mean,

00:42:43.640 I talked to a lot of politicians, even cabinet ministers, other folks like that, and we get some

00:42:48.000 interesting information. But let's talk to somebody who gets out there and gets their

00:42:52.260 hands dirty. And I don't just mean his work wise, but he was somebody who got off his butt, went

00:42:57.900 out there and pushed back. And as you've seen, you know, he's not some crazy person. He's not

00:43:03.540 violent. His interests aren't in, I meant to go there, you know, where was this stuff about it

00:43:10.360 being an uprising that was going to turn over the government, you know, and that sort of garbage.

00:43:15.480 I mean, we've covered that. If this was going to be such an uprising, the government, and you know,

00:43:20.080 they'd love to put every charge they could upon people, they would charge them with treason.

00:43:24.680 That's what the law is against that sort of thing. And they didn't because it didn't happen.

00:43:31.160 Everybody's been charged with mischief. That's their charges, you know, maybe some traffic

00:43:36.560 violations. As Rob said, you know, Iran, he was insulted, you know, because we heard the

00:43:43.100 government talking about them having like rapists among them. These are parents, as he said, a

00:43:47.760 grandfather. You know, they've got no use for rapists. If there are rapists wandering around, 0.78

00:43:51.260 I got a feeling the rapists would have suffered a heck of a lot more out of the other truckers

00:43:56.620 and protesters if they caught them trying to harass people than even the police would offer. 0.54

00:44:02.100 And yeah, a handful of leaders, as we said, Tamara was locked in without bail for a long 0.99

00:44:07.020 period of time. Others are still in there. Over what? I mean, over what's the

00:44:13.040 the violence, what was going to happen that they were going to pull off. I mean,

00:44:19.420 things come to a head. It's fine. Maybe it come to the point where the protest

00:44:23.120 needs to be moved along and we need to negotiate and work on that. But the way to do it wasn't by

00:44:28.760 dehumanizing the people who were attending it, wasn't by marginalizing their message. That just

00:44:33.540 entrenches them further. It's as I was talking earlier with Ron, if Trudeau had just, I'm sure,

00:44:39.960 again, I don't know if he's bright enough to figure it out, probably not, but I'm sure some

00:44:43.740 of the liberal advisors realize, man, we blew this. Like, if we'd have just nipped this in the bud

00:44:47.680 early, it would have been just a few hundred people showing up in Ottawa, and we could have

00:44:51.580 got this under control. Instead, he made a fool of himself, made international headlines as Canada

00:44:56.460 imposed a form of martial law to try and get their own capital grounds under control.

00:45:03.200 They just sat down with guys like Rooster there and talked for a little bit. You don't have to

00:45:06.840 agree with them, but you know what? It's amazing how much people can be calmed down if they just

00:45:11.020 know you're listening to them, if you're taking them seriously, if you're respecting them as

00:45:14.400 citizens. And we haven't. We didn't respect them whatsoever, and we still aren't. That's part of

00:45:19.720 why I was ticked off with that race-baiting garbage that was coming up before out of that

00:45:26.640 Councillor Walcott. What's that, Soneca? What's wrong with hillbillies? Okay, I don't want to

00:45:30.560 knock all hillbillies. Not by any means, but depends on what you want to define as hillbillies

00:45:35.560 and whatnot hey i i spent some time working in west virginia when i was in the oil field and uh

00:45:39.720 i hey beautiful country out there and there were some fantastic people in west virginia but i tell

00:45:43.720 you there are a lot of those people in the hills that uh kind of fit up to some of the stereotypes

00:45:48.360 and uh they're a little uh scary i don't know if i want too too many of them uh up front in front of

00:45:53.000 the house but uh all the same we get people of all sorts and uh we've got a government that is sick

00:45:59.880 We've got a media institution that is sick.

00:46:02.100 These things are, again, they need a shakeup.

00:46:05.280 They need pushback.

00:46:06.700 We need to remind them that we won't put up with too much.

00:46:09.800 And some of the stories Dave's talking about, you know, let's go into a little further on it.

00:46:15.200 Dave touched upon that.

00:46:16.440 The Crown Indigenous Services won't comment on a $200,000 contract to an ex-senator's firm.

00:46:22.040 Like these senators, think about these guys.

00:46:23.660 Appointed, you know, no accountability to the voters.

00:46:27.780 They'd just be holding to the prime minister.

00:46:29.180 They don't really do a heck of a lot of work.

00:46:30.500 Some put in a lot of committee time, but they get an incredible pension.

00:46:34.540 I mean, it's a patronage pit.

00:46:36.640 You know, if you do good political favors, you can get in there and get a good reward in it with a Senate seat.

00:46:45.860 Well, this guy was a former senator, then goes back into his law firm.

00:46:49.840 And you can see he made some pretty good connections in Ottawa.

00:46:51.660 He got $200,000, even though he worked as a federal negotiator, on a child welfare claim.

00:46:59.180 And that payment worked out to $3,500 a day.

00:47:02.400 And it was a sole-sourced contract.

00:47:04.160 There's a term we don't, well, we hear too much

00:47:06.780 and we don't pay enough attention to.

00:47:09.540 But sole-sourced means it didn't even go out to bid.

00:47:12.360 The bottom line is the government said,

00:47:13.580 hey, we've got a job for you.

00:47:15.000 Here's 200 grand.

00:47:16.820 Yeah, get back to us.

00:47:18.020 Do what you can.

00:47:19.880 We've got to put things out to bid.

00:47:21.820 Sole-sourced is dangerous.

00:47:23.400 That's when the true corruption starts happening.

00:47:25.720 Though, I mean, you can put it out for bid

00:47:26.780 and rig the bidding system

00:47:27.780 and make it look like sole source. Corruption on government, unfortunately, they're very good at

00:47:32.380 what they do. And it's in our face. They're stealing from us. So we should have a right

00:47:39.600 to be upset. We should have a right to push back. With some of those numbers, yeah, Sinclair joined

00:47:43.820 the firm that he got paid, you know, this thing for in 2020, but he didn't even leave the Senate

00:47:49.160 until January 2021. So he was already feathering his nest. This is the stuff we get leaked out.

00:47:56.040 and we're not supposed to push back? And then getting back to that with our rotten media and

00:48:00.680 how inbred, and I'll use that term, our media is with our government, particularly the Toronto Star,

00:48:07.160 which I refer to as the Red Star, because they've got some columnists on there and

00:48:13.380 editorial stances that would make Stalin blush. But it was a reporter that prompted, as Dave was

00:48:20.000 talking about, this purge of websites they deemed to be offensive. The chief archivist,

00:48:25.400 Now, we've got to remember, this is where the records of Canadian history are stored.

00:48:30.100 And the records aren't always pretty.

00:48:31.980 That's fair.

00:48:32.600 A lot of our history isn't pretty.

00:48:34.240 A lot of people did very bad things. 0.84

00:48:36.100 Canadians did a lot of bad things. 1.00

00:48:38.200 The residential schools were a terrible, misguided thing that did a lot of damage.

00:48:41.660 The internment of the Japanese or the Italians during the World Wars, unforgivable.

00:48:47.820 But we shouldn't lose the history of it.

00:48:49.920 In fact, that's how we avoid repeating it.

00:48:52.820 Well, what do we have?

00:48:53.820 A reporter.

00:48:55.400 gets upset with something seen and the government falls over backwards to purge it.

00:49:02.680 Well how much power does a reporter have? I mean we're media but boy we don't have power like that

00:49:07.960 and I wouldn't want it. It's not the place of the media to tell government what is or isn't

00:49:13.960 in the archives. So the star headline announced she wanted pages modified or taken down ASAP

00:49:19.320 And the Library and Archives Canada said their sincerely sorry some users were offended.

00:49:25.400 So they ripped it down and purged it.

00:49:28.620 Man, that's not good.

00:49:30.360 In 2021, there was a removal of pages on John A. Macdonald, another Fathers of Confederation, stuff on the War of 1812.

00:49:37.040 After an email from Jacques Gallant, who's another star reporter, he wanted an apology, emailed the archives to complain,

00:49:43.380 there's an online biography of John A. Macdonald

00:49:45.380 and it admitted anything about the

00:49:47.480 residential schools and the Chinese head tax. 0.99

00:49:52.280 I'm sure it's

00:49:53.520 all in there. Dig a little farther.

00:49:55.260 The first part of the apology

00:49:56.980 is, or the biography, is covering

00:49:59.320 his life and he had dozens

00:50:01.380 and dozens of policies. He was involved in some

00:50:03.280 railroad corruption and some

00:50:05.360 schemes getting things across the country too.

00:50:07.260 But it doesn't mean that he wasn't a founder

00:50:09.360 of the country. It doesn't mean he wasn't our first

00:50:11.500 prime minister. It doesn't mean it's not worth recording what he did as a significant historical

00:50:17.340 figure. Revisionist history is dangerous. You know, if we want to get back to 1984, that book

00:50:24.700 that was written, that one that somebody says starts sounding so familiar, one of the main

00:50:29.140 things in that book was talking about the control of information, the control of the way we talk,

00:50:34.740 the control of what we're allowed to speak of or not allowed to speak of. You know, they talked

00:50:39.400 about new speak and terms and language. Well, that's what we got going on. When you're purging

00:50:44.780 history, when you're purging the English language, when you're controlling things like that, it's not

00:50:50.440 healthy. That's not good for history, ancient history, or our contemporary history. If that's

00:50:57.140 where we are, it's being controlled by somebody like a Toronto Star reporter. Wow, that's

00:51:02.880 distressing. We're reporting on that. I said, we make no apologies. We're going to dig into it. I

00:51:09.160 I mean, we do want to hit our mainstream competitors when possible

00:51:14.340 and expose just how rotten they are.

00:51:17.460 But at the same time, you know, we just have to, yeah, there we go,

00:51:21.600 the Ministry of Truth, you know, is it the Toronto Star?

00:51:23.980 I think that's more the CBC, actually.

00:51:26.400 The CBC is much more blatant with it, and they're a true state broadcaster,

00:51:31.680 and they get so mad when I refer to them as that.

00:51:34.900 But that is what they are.

00:51:36.100 a state broadcaster is beholden to the government, you know, quite often and parrots their lines and

00:51:44.620 the CBC does it all the time. They keep saying, no, we're just a national broadcaster. No, when

00:51:49.940 I look at your coverage and what you guys do, you're a state broadcaster, you've earned your

00:51:53.880 label, wear it. And I'm not going to apologize for insulting your journalistic sensibilities by

00:51:59.920 calling you guys what you are. So I'm going to talk about another one of our sponsors quickly

00:52:04.840 before I get on to Reid Small, as somebody was asking, one of the commenters, we need to hear a

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00:52:48.440 owners. You know, not people who want to abuse them or hurt anybody. They're an association like

00:52:51.800 anything else. But the other thing they're doing is standing up for firearm owners.

00:52:55.780 And in doing that, they got a number of legal challenges out on behalf of firearm owners

00:53:00.640 against the federal government, against the liberals, because the liberals keep

00:53:03.820 illegalizing your property, keep scooping your property, taking it away from you. And if we

00:53:09.760 don't push back, they're going to keep doing it. They want to take it all. They failed in the 90s

00:53:13.820 with Alan Rock when they, C-68 was it, I think back then, but they haven't given up. They're

00:53:18.520 just doing it now in a frog and water way. Well, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association is

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00:53:32.980 or just Google Canada Shooting Sports Association and see what they can offer. What's that, Rich,

00:53:40.020 about my opinion on Alberta separating? I share that opinion a lot and I'll talk about that a

00:53:44.340 little later. But first, we're going to talk to Reid Small, who's our senior BC reporter out there

00:53:49.420 suffering on the left coast and reporting diligently for us. So let's bring him in here

00:53:54.220 and talk about some of the stories he's been working on.

00:53:57.760 Hey, Reid, how's it going out there?

00:53:59.800 It's going well, Corey. Thanks for having me.

00:54:02.180 Yeah, and you've got a good moniker. It's spelled the same way, actually.

00:54:05.080 My middle son there is named Reid as well, but I doubt he watches.

00:54:09.840 I'm pretty boring as far as that's concerned.

00:54:12.860 So I wanted to start just in bringing you in.

00:54:15.940 One of the things that caught my eye and some of the lunacy in this crazy world that's going on right now

00:54:20.140 is that people have been vandalizing some Russian establishments

00:54:26.700 down in the Lower Mainland, B.C.

00:54:28.940 Yeah, yeah.

00:54:29.940 So most recently over the weekend,

00:54:31.720 it was actually the Russian community center

00:54:34.340 in Vancouver's Quetzalcoatl neighborhood.

00:54:37.220 So I guess someone or a group of people,

00:54:40.600 we don't know at this point,

00:54:42.740 got buckets of paint and vandalized the front side

00:54:48.560 of uh the russian community center and uh vpd says that they haven't made any arrests yet but

00:54:54.240 they're they're actively investigating um i'm not sure how much resources they're putting into

00:54:59.520 uh investigating that because there's just been a ton of crime uh in uh in the in the city recently

00:55:06.160 a lot of violent crime uh random assaults um tons of drug overdoses but uh they do they do say that

00:55:13.040 they're taking it very seriously. And this just comes three days after a church was vandalized

00:55:20.480 actually in the province's capital of Victoria. St. Sophia's Russian Orthodox Church is the name.

00:55:29.680 And someone got a bucket of red paint and they threw it all over the front end of the church

00:55:36.840 there um and actually a in similar fashion uh another russian orthodox church was vandalized

00:55:43.320 in calgary on the 26th of february uh so where we are seeing a theme uh happening right now uh

00:55:52.360 hopefully it doesn't go as far as what we saw with uh you know the church burnings you know

00:55:57.320 god forbid and and uh all the the residential school chaos of this uh this past summer um

00:56:04.520 I mean, the question I find myself that I keep asking myself is, you know, why why are these people doing that?

00:56:12.620 What motivates someone to to vandalize a church, for example?

00:56:17.520 Do they do they really feel as if that they are in some in some warped way helping the situation for the Ukrainian people?

00:56:28.020 and they are, in fact, harming the Russian state by doing that?

00:56:32.320 Or are they just using an unfortunate situation as a means to justify their own destructive desires?

00:56:42.220 And I think it's probably the latter.

00:56:44.280 I think these are probably just some people that are, you know, they want to vandalize and they want to destruct.

00:56:55.360 And so they're using this as an opportunity to do that, much like we probably saw with the church burnings in the summer.

00:57:03.000 It's an excuse by cowardly virtue signallers, I guess.

00:57:06.480 I mean, you can be genuinely upset with the situation, certainly upset with the residential school exposure of graves and things.

00:57:13.480 But what possible purpose is being served by attacking social establishments from people who had absolutely nothing to do with any of the things you're perturbed about?

00:57:22.700 the problem is obviously with the person perpetuating the violence, or at least the

00:57:27.340 vandalism, than with the issue itself. It's just a cowardly way to express themselves. And it's not

00:57:32.140 helping at all. I mean, there's no Russians in Canada. I think it'd have anything to do with 1.00

00:57:35.820 what's going on over there in Ukraine. Taking it out on them is ridiculous. It only makes things

00:57:40.700 worse. Yeah, yeah. And then also there's been, you know, some Russian businesses that have been

00:57:46.780 threatened in BC as well. The Russian Spoon Bakery in Vancouver, the owner told me yesterday that

00:57:54.480 she's been receiving threatening phone calls and emails from people, despite the fact that she has

00:58:00.520 publicly voiced her support for the Ukrainian people. And she said that she does not support

00:58:06.860 the war in any way. And she actually serves Ukrainian food at the bakery. But it doesn't

00:58:15.180 make sense to me. But as far as the vandalism goes, I think it's most likely just people that

00:58:22.400 are, they're angry and they see an opportunity to justify vandalizing something. Yeah. Well,

00:58:30.420 that's just why I wanted to point out, as you said, as far as crime goes and with what's going

00:58:34.180 on in Vancouver and area, it's relatively minor in that sense. It's not minor to the people who

00:58:39.320 attend that church or live around there, but still the police only have so much they can do.

00:58:42.860 But I hope if we can expose that, hey, if you know it's your neighbor who's in a basement, who's an idiot doing that, or if it's a relative or whatever, even if you don't feel they should be charged, let's just citizens get each other under control here because this is not a good trend.

00:58:56.380 I know we can't dedicate hundreds of police to chase down some paint that's been thrown, but it is a problem and it divides people and it really upsets a lot of people.

00:59:04.240 It's just not a good trend.

00:59:05.140 Yeah, I mean, realistically, it's probably young men, 17, 18-year-olds, that usually ends up being the case once they're caught.

00:59:22.320 So going further then, just to expand more on, you know, we've got you on here to talk about your BC reporting crime.

00:59:28.180 I mean, in general, that's a very big issue you've got in the Lower Mainland.

00:59:31.760 It takes up a lot of your reporting file.

00:59:33.700 Do you see many indicators as to why it's on such a spike these days?

00:59:39.860 I mean, as for the why, the short answer is I don't know.

00:59:45.040 I mean, it's a very complex issue.

00:59:49.920 I think that policy in the city, I mean, a lot of criminals know that, you know, if they

00:59:57.640 steal something and they get caught and they get arrested, they'll be released.

01:00:03.700 they'll be released in, you know, in short order. And sure enough, they end up repeating the same

01:00:09.260 crime over and over again. Like there was a guy that was arrested for robbing a convenience store

01:00:13.740 in East Van with a machete. And he was arrested. And, you know, the next day, he was arrested again

01:00:23.020 for robbing another store. And this was about a month ago. So it's, as far as why, I mean,

01:00:31.840 it's I really don't know I I mean is the solution to crack down more severely and and and have

01:00:41.800 stricter punishment is that gonna take away the incentive for these people to you know these

01:00:47.480 repeat offenders to keep doing that probably uh but I I just I don't know and then on top of that

01:00:54.520 you have um you know a lot of mental health issues a lot of a lot a lot of drug addiction

01:01:00.380 um and uh it's just it really is chaos particularly in uh in in east vancouver right now on the

01:01:07.660 downtown east side and uh we've seen recently that's been spilling out into you know places

01:01:12.740 like robson street in the west end uh you know more you know high-end areas uh we're seeing a lot

01:01:20.120 of uh a lot of robberies and and the most concerning has been the random assaults um there's

01:01:26.160 been a major increase in people just randomly lashing out and and attacking people but as far

01:01:33.580 as as far as why that's happening I mean if I was going to take that back to first principles I mean

01:01:38.860 I would say it's it's probably a mental health issue how we go about correcting that is is you

01:01:49.060 know everybody has their own idea and it's really really a complex issue okay well getting on

01:01:55.920 something that perhaps the government can address a little more immediately. You guys have some of

01:01:59.540 the highest energy prices in the entire country, of course. You've enjoyed a carbon tax there

01:02:03.740 provincially for quite some time. And you wrote recently, there's no indication though that the

01:02:08.860 B.C. government is going to do anything to try and take some of the pain away. Like in Alberta,

01:02:12.620 Premier Kenny has been getting some royalties in. There's B.C. royalties coming too. People forget

01:02:17.020 that. There's a lot of oil and gas in B.C. But no signs that your Premier is looking to take some

01:02:22.620 of that pressure off citizens. Yeah, no, no signs yet. So yeah, I mean, we know that your way in

01:02:28.540 Alberta, there was some some temporary, some temporary reductions in, you know, gasoline and,

01:02:34.900 and diesel taxes to, to help alleviate some of these crazy high prices. But yesterday,

01:02:44.300 Minister, Minister Mike Farnsworth, BC safety minister did say that the province has no plans

01:02:50.120 to reduce any taxes on fuel anytime soon.

01:02:54.360 He said that British Columbians are getting a break in other ways,

01:02:58.940 specifically mentioning money being saved on childcare programs

01:03:04.680 and reduced insurance rates with ICBC.

01:03:09.300 And so he kind of justified it by saying that British Columbians

01:03:13.300 are saving in that way.

01:03:15.380 But as far as saving money on fuel itself,

01:03:19.160 he he says there's there's really no plans to to reduce those taxes and then last week Horgan said

01:03:27.660 that John Horgan Premier John Horgan said that there's there's really no

01:03:35.220 seemed to have lost Reid there he was just he might be back in a moment there I lost his

01:03:44.280 connection there um i'll address something uh kind of what he was talking about too i saw a

01:03:49.180 commenter asking about the homeless people in the park in vancouver uh i imagine it's probably still

01:03:54.260 jammed with them you know vancouver is always i mean i remember as a child one of my parents took

01:03:58.860 me out there in the late 70s or something and seeing that's the first time as a kid i really 0.55

01:04:02.420 got to see homeless people on the streets uh due to being a port city due to having a lighter climate

01:04:07.780 due to having a long ongoing heroin problem in vancouver they've always had a huge uh homeless

01:04:13.680 an addiction problem going on out there more than than any other city in canada and of course these

01:04:19.680 days with fentanyl and the opioid addiction going you know the epidemic happening vancouver is

01:04:24.640 suffering worse than all of them as reed was saying some of the assaults and everything were

01:04:28.320 troublesome and of concern but uh you know it's a complicated issue uh mental health you know

01:04:36.080 he used those two words and it's an important one because it's one of those areas where we've really

01:04:39.840 screwed up as a society. If you really want crime prevention, you really want to stop crime,

01:04:44.400 we have to get to the roots. And addiction and mental health are tied hand in hand. They're

01:04:48.720 very close. People who are addicted to things often have an underlying mental health concern.

01:04:55.440 Mental health treatment is actually very advanced in a lot of ways. Some people can function

01:04:59.200 very well. We don't stigmatize somebody if they're diabetic and need insulin to live. We don't

01:05:05.360 stigmatize somebody who needs a heart medication to keep from having a heart attack. And if somebody

01:05:09.600 needs a medication to maintain themselves mentally there's nothing wrong with that they're just you

01:05:14.800 know sick like anybody else the problem is if they haven't gotten that help and they haven't got that

01:05:18.560 medication of course we know they can get a lot of trouble pretty much everybody's known somebody

01:05:22.960 who's had mental health challenges and if it gets out of control it can be bad and sometimes people

01:05:27.520 self-medicate and that's when you get into addiction and that's when you you know they

01:05:31.120 rather than doing it through a doctor they end up with a meth addiction or fentanyl and things that

01:05:35.840 they feel they can control their demons with that lead to a destructive end in the end and it leads

01:05:41.120 to people on the streets desperate and crime goes up uh i wish we would have better conversations

01:05:46.400 about those things one of the other problems has been the deinstitutionalization you know we

01:05:51.520 we keep trying because we don't like to think of people being incarcerated on a mental health

01:05:56.160 issue we do know they're sick but sometimes people can't take care of themselves and kicking them out

01:06:00.880 and assuming that they're going to continue to medicate themselves doesn't always work out i

01:06:04.560 I mean, that's the end goal, but sometimes we have to accept that sometimes some people have

01:06:08.000 to remain in care indefinitely. And if we would accept that, and it doesn't have to be some

01:06:12.900 horrible one flew over the cuckoo's nest institution, but just some places where they

01:06:16.580 can have some secured care, I think it would do a lot of good for the people who are sick

01:06:21.680 as well as people outside of it who deal with the people with mental health issues when they

01:06:26.380 unfortunately end up in the streets. On a lighter note, I'm not sure it doesn't look like we're

01:06:30.780 going to get read back, but he writes a lot of great stuff out in Vancouver and BC as one of

01:06:34.340 our commenters were saying, we could use, you know, we're a Western standard. We need more BC

01:06:37.860 content. If you have a look and if you're a subscriber, a set reminder, take out a subscription,

01:06:42.320 look up, read small, and you'll see all the stories he's putting about all the time from BC.

01:06:46.140 He's covering it. Some of them are kind of fun. I wanted to hit on that with them if I had a chance,

01:06:49.640 but thousands of unauthorized sexual enhancement products were seized in BC. Yeah, I guess there

01:06:55.900 was some black market, I don't know, dildos or something that got sold. He started his headline

01:07:00.900 out saying it was a limp sales week for a long list of unauthorized sexual enhancement products

01:07:06.100 seized by health Canada crime of the century we can't get the fentanyl under control but

01:07:12.420 black market boner pills damn health Canada is going to get on those again though I mean

01:07:19.060 it could be serious if these are uncontrolled medications or things somebody could get

01:07:23.060 seriously hurt so you know if you're having some problems getting things to stiffen up maybe you

01:07:29.220 talk to your doctor and see if we'll get a proper prescription uh don't get some of those

01:07:34.180 alternatives offered in those other stores i think most of them probably won't help you whatsoever

01:07:38.340 but some might actually do some damage and you might find yourself in a worse position than you

01:07:42.420 were in the first place but it was a funny story from reed as you can see he had some fun with the

01:07:46.180 word play as he wrote it and again it is bc centric we're expanding we are covering more stuff in

01:07:53.460 regions all over the place as we go um you know i'm going to tie in a person asked about my thoughts

01:07:59.540 on you know western independence albert independence i i have said many a time i believe

01:08:03.700 our system's broken i think independence is where we're going to end up one way or another

01:08:07.060 provinces are going to break free our unity has been shattered our federal leadership you know

01:08:11.220 it insults the country it tears it apart when that'll happen i don't know how it'll happen i

01:08:16.660 don't uh but uh at this point what i worry about too you see we've got the energy crisis hitting

01:08:22.820 we're getting slammed right now and the inclination of the government is is going to be to come in i

01:08:30.020 think alberta's oil is suddenly going to be turned i see reading the lobby i'll pull them in in a

01:08:33.060 moment uh they're going to suddenly declare you know what alberta's oil is now canada's oil we

01:08:37.620 need to save the country and we're going to jump in there we're going to impose price controls or

01:08:42.420 i mean look at we got a government that will force a tow truck driver force by order of law

01:08:47.220 to do their bidding that's you know basically mandated slavery so yeah this is a government

01:08:51.620 that will also force private businesses to say, you have to sell your product to the country at

01:08:55.360 this price. They're going to do it. Mark my words on that. And that's when the independence movement

01:09:00.020 is really going to wake up again. I'm going to pop Reid back in just for a few more minutes so

01:09:04.960 we can close it up there. It's a live show. We get technical issues. So let's pull Reid in.

01:09:09.720 There we go, Reid. I was just talking about that big crime of the century with the seizure of all

01:09:13.500 the sexual enhancement products in BC. You know, a lot of people were pretty concerned that their

01:09:18.300 their black market supply boner pills might have been uh disrupted but uh there are it's it's a

01:09:24.560 good thing you stocked up before uh before they raided that's right no i've got a running

01:09:29.560 subscription so uh either way i guess i'm just going to kind of cap off i know you had a technical

01:09:36.040 issue it happens uh what stories are you working on out there right now and and uh you know just

01:09:41.080 uh what's happening out in bc is a cap off before i let you go yeah yeah today i'm going to be uh

01:09:46.900 following up with Vancouver Coastal Health. I see that their Chief Medical Health Officer,

01:09:53.140 Patricia Daly, has been discussing transmission and the lack of efficacy with COVID-19 vaccines

01:10:02.580 as far as transmission goes. And so I've been trying to kind of pin her down for some clarification

01:10:07.860 on that and and see uh see you know what she has to say about uh the province uh being so hell-bent

01:10:16.440 on keeping its vaccine passports in place because as you know Alberta is now mask-free and you know

01:10:22.880 many provinces are dropping the the vaccine passports but but BC is just dead set on uh

01:10:30.540 on keeping those in place so I really want to want to chase that as hard as I can and and get

01:10:37.020 some clarification because there's been so much contradictory information coming from

01:10:42.120 the Premier, from the Provincial Health Officer, from the Minister of Health, and then from various

01:10:47.140 Chief Medical Health Officers in the respective jurisdictions. There's so much contradiction.

01:10:53.040 And as soon as you start asking difficult questions, they just don't answer. And so I'm

01:10:59.440 going to keep following that until I get some answers. Great. Well, you got your work cut out

01:11:04.420 for you. I really appreciate it to having that voice out in BC. As I said to one of our commenters,

01:11:07.980 you're out there. And I guess if people have tips or things they want to cover, your addresses

01:11:12.100 are small at westernstandardonline.com. Yeah, that's correct. Great. Well, thanks for checking

01:11:18.840 in with us, Reid. And we'll look forward to more stories as you keep pounding the pavement and

01:11:22.940 hopefully your sexual enhancement supplies become secure again in the future.

01:11:27.580 Yeah, I know I'm running low, so hopefully it opens up. Awesome. Thanks, Corey.

01:11:33.180 We'll talk to you later.

01:11:35.200 And, you know, just a heads up to people.

01:11:37.460 We are, as I said, we've been growing in a massive way.

01:11:40.480 We're moving into a nice, bigger studio next week.

01:11:42.900 I'm really looking forward to that.

01:11:43.840 I know Nico is.

01:11:44.560 He's sick of having to work so close to me all the time.

01:11:47.440 He's not paid enough to deal with that sort of crap.

01:11:49.360 He'll have a little more breathing space.

01:11:51.180 Something else we're doing is a big website revamp.

01:11:54.760 And the Western Standard site is going to be improving dramatically.

01:11:58.560 and part of that's really going to be helping us break down the news stories with regions you know

01:12:03.100 a lot more effectively you'll be able to find your local news a little more clearly I mean right now

01:12:07.620 it's all there it's fantastic and because we have so many contributors you really have to look

01:12:12.000 through the site to see all those stories because they're popping up that quickly I think that's why

01:12:15.320 some people think that we're not covering BC on issues you know we don't cover them as much as

01:12:20.400 Alberta yet but we're increasing it and those stories kind of fall between the cracks we keep

01:12:25.420 looking. It's all there. It's definitely there. And again, as you guys keep subscribing,

01:12:29.740 we'll keep increasing that coverage for it. And, you know, we'll be able to better serve you there.

01:12:37.620 So what else we got going on in the news? Oh, yeah. Back to following up with the Freedom

01:12:41.860 Convoy sympathizers as accounts were frozen by a cabinet order. This is disturbing. This is

01:12:47.980 really disturbing. This is for the Bankers Association. And they said that these people

01:12:52.460 are going to have their files marked for life. Marked for life. If you donated 20 bucks to a

01:13:01.300 protest you saw on the other side of the country, you could have your file marked for life. What

01:13:06.580 does that mean? Does that mean you'll never get a mortgage again? Does that mean your credit

01:13:11.260 cards are going to be seized? Does it mean you're just always going to be watched? Is there certain

01:13:15.060 sites you won't be allowed to spend money on? This is very disturbing. Very disturbing.

01:13:20.280 um and they also disclosed they froze the accounts of individuals who never appeared on the

01:13:25.480 uh there was an rcmp blacklist of 257 names so 257 people that the rcmp felt were falling which

01:13:31.520 is again questionable as it stands but some of these other people who now have had their accounts

01:13:36.920 frozen and apparently will be marked for life weren't even part of the rcmp ones they said

01:13:42.240 they primarily relied on those but there were obligations under the order to uh order let's see

01:13:48.900 required to banks to make their own determination. So the banks now determine

01:13:52.260 whether you're going to be marked for life. What? I don't even like my bank typically at the best

01:13:58.440 of times. I don't want them to determine whether I'm responsibly spending my money or not.

01:14:03.200 This is really problematic. So again, getting back to digital currencies, why we want to get

01:14:06.500 the heck away from our federally mandated and controlled financial systems. There's yet another

01:14:12.840 reason among so many why we have to distance ourself from these institutions uh you know uh

01:14:20.480 so i mean this was asked even by an end a new democrat mp uh he said were there accounts of

01:14:25.440 individuals frozen that did not appear on names submitted to the by the rcmp and the banker

01:14:29.160 association said yes and once an account is frozen and eventually unfrozen are there any permanent

01:14:34.000 markers he was asked and he said there would be something in the file indicating a freeze to take

01:14:38.400 place. So, marked for life. If you dare support any causes, and you know, it won't be just the

01:14:44.560 trucker thing. They've set the precedent now. Maybe if you donate to the wrong political party,

01:14:49.000 you'll be marked. Maybe if you donate to the wrong charity, you'll be marked. This is big.

01:14:55.920 This is really big, and this is bad. Meanwhile, getting back to controlling your whole lives,

01:15:02.480 let's not forget universal basic income. That's still being discussed in Ottawa right now. There's

01:15:08.220 a Senate bill, which again sees these Senate bills and there's a private members bill from

01:15:11.800 the NDP. Both of them are for universal basic income. Now, I don't think either of those bills

01:15:17.340 are going to be finally go all the way through and get into imposed. When the time comes, and I

01:15:22.980 think it is coming, you see the government loves testing the water. They're letting these bills go

01:15:26.240 forward. They can keep, you know, chumming the water as far as I'm concerned, getting ready to

01:15:30.480 set the foundation for a universal basic income program. They'll bring it before parliament and

01:15:36.420 ram it through. Right now, they're still just figuring out how they're going to do it. But

01:15:40.480 that's scary, guys. That's going to make a huge amount of people dependent on the government.

01:15:44.900 And guys, it's not a program. It's not a concept that hasn't been tried before. They've tried it

01:15:49.420 in other countries. It failed. I think it was Finland did a huge experiment with it. It failed.

01:15:53.960 Manitoba did a localized experiment with it. It failed. Guess what? When people are paid to sit

01:15:58.420 on their ass, they'll sit on their ass. That's what they do. It's human nature. There's a lot 1.00

01:16:03.140 of ambitious people out there, but there's also a whole heck of a lot that just need to be enabled

01:16:07.140 to sit around and do nothing. And these universal basic income programs lead to that. Plus people

01:16:13.720 say, oh, this will, you know, I mean, some people say that there's some economists who talked about,

01:16:18.480 I think it was, was it Hayek or one of the others that said it, Mises maybe, but he pitched it,

01:16:24.400 said it was a good plan. But you see, that's universal basic income if you were to get rid

01:16:29.120 of every other form of government transfer and eliminate it. Then just go to a basic one. So

01:16:37.320 let's say, okay, $2,000 a month is the basic line, but now there will be no more AISH. There will be 1.00

01:16:43.180 no more unemployment insurance. There will be no more welfare. There will be no more old age

01:16:48.720 security. There will be like all of those programs gone. Not to mention fire permanently the hundreds

01:16:55.980 of thousands of bureaucrats who administrate all those things. That's part of the bloat of the 0.97

01:16:59.660 government. You know, the amount of administration for all this myriad of little programs all over

01:17:04.380 the place employs a whole lot of people determining it and sending out those funds. Government won't

01:17:08.460 have the courage to lay off all those parasitic civil servants. So don't use UBI as an excuse 0.99

01:17:16.780 saying you're going to make government more efficient. It's just one more program on top

01:17:20.220 of others. And it just makes citizens that much more dependent on the government. And of course,

01:17:25.660 then when you're dependent, you're under control. Speaking of controlling government people,

01:17:29.720 yes, Jean Charest is coming to Calgary to announce his leadership bid for the Conservative Party.

01:17:33.060 So it is going to turn into a race now. We've had Pierre Polyev announced sometime back he's

01:17:38.800 going to run. He's been pretty clear about that. Charest, we've got quite a contrast. I mean,

01:17:44.120 Polyev is a true blue Conservative, you know, on the ground, or at least he speaks as such.

01:17:50.520 Charest, very much a red Tory. You know, he was, he was the liberal prime minister, premier of

01:17:55.460 Quebec. When he sat, for people who remember way back, him and Elsie Wayne alone in the House of

01:18:00.920 Commons, that was of the progressive conservatives way back then. He's still at it and he still

01:18:05.500 carries a fair amount of weight, you know, so it's interesting that he chose Calgary, but that's

01:18:09.900 quite typical of these leadership races too. O'Toole kicked off his race in Calgary as well

01:18:14.080 and then went on with his liberal leadership from there on forward of the Conservative Party.

01:18:19.680 they start here and then they move elsewhere i mean we just got a lot of conservative members

01:18:24.240 and voters out here so uh we'll see how that goes it's interesting though and he's going to be coming

01:18:29.580 to town we'll see how his reception is it's the wild rose brewery of all names that he chose to

01:18:34.000 do it at they got a facility out back there for functions it's a little small but it'll it'll do

01:18:39.700 and see where he's platforming and why he thinks albertans would want to vote for him

01:18:45.460 Let's see. Yes, the public works minister, speaking of sole-sourced contracts, there was a

01:18:51.720 lease sole-sourced to a Liberal Party donor. Yeah, donate money to the Liberal Party. And look at

01:18:55.740 that, you get these leases. Isn't that cool? Well, her department's refusing multiple requests to

01:19:01.960 disclose those payments. It went to a Quebec landowner and that property was used to process

01:19:08.460 illegal immigrants. This country is so bloody corrupt. These things are in the news. They're 0.84

01:19:13.780 in front of us. You can bet CBC isn't headlining this, though, because their masters in Ottawa

01:19:17.920 don't want us digging into that, realizing, again, there's this inbred sort of thing

01:19:22.040 that's going on. You know, Blackhawks Reporter and the Western Standard are covering a lot of this

01:19:25.940 stuff, but as you dig into Parliament, as they keep digging, it gets uglier and uglier, and it

01:19:30.800 stinks. It just stinks, and we're in an increasing amount of trouble talking about news. One thing

01:19:38.220 that was a good casual tweet last night for people who saw it, but Trudeau did a presser,

01:19:42.240 you know, he's embarrassing us over in Europe as usual. He's not a good foreign player. He's not

01:19:46.020 respected over there. He was with the Dutch prime minister and with Boris Johnson and himself. And

01:19:53.180 I guess they did a conference and there was a Globe and Mail reporter. And that's what I do

01:19:57.220 like Twitter for too. You get some candid chat, you get some discourse from some of the people

01:20:00.600 on the ground out there. And she was saying that the Dutch reporters afterwards were saying,

01:20:04.700 just that prime minister of yours doesn't answer any questions, does he? No, no. Because they kept

01:20:08.220 asking him questions on the Ukraine thing, which is why he was ostensibly there. And Trudeau did

01:20:12.640 his trademark word salad of just spitting out a whole bunch of words with no content, which does

01:20:18.380 reflect what is going on between his ears, I guess. You know, unless he has a rehearsed speech

01:20:23.200 to give, Trudeau can't speak to things. He can't speak on his feet. He's been very well trained

01:20:27.380 to just, if you don't understand the question, which is most of the time, just spit out a bunch

01:20:32.800 of irrelevant crap and avoid it. But foreign reporters haven't had to deal with that as much

01:20:37.580 is our localized ones who've just been trained to accept it and won't question Trudeau on it

01:20:41.220 and won't hold his feet to the fire. So at least the Dutch reporters are saying, what's with this

01:20:44.620 idiot? They didn't say it exactly in those words, but I'm sure that's what's running through their

01:20:48.000 minds. He does not do our nation favors overseas. You know, in Canada and the Netherlands have had

01:20:52.860 a very close relationship for a long, long time. I mean, in World War II, it was predominantly 0.92

01:20:56.700 Canadian soldiers who went over there and helped liberate the Netherlands. You know, we hold a lot

01:21:01.960 of high regard for each other. And to have Prime Minister Pinhead over there representing us is

01:21:08.580 an unfortunate thing to see right now. It's not helping us any with our own international

01:21:13.200 relations. I think I've covered a lot of what we need to cover today. I just want to remind

01:21:17.220 everybody then, so, you know, there's my Twitter account, Corey B. Morgan, you know, if you want

01:21:21.200 to follow me, get on my case on there, discuss things, debate things, that's the place to do it.

01:21:26.120 Again, take out a subscription with us, email me, there it is, my email address,

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01:21:40.060 response to all of them, but I do read them all. And it's important to have that interaction and

01:21:44.640 covering things. Tomorrow, I've got lawyer Keith Wilson. He was over there to represent the

01:21:48.600 truckers for Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. He was on the ground. It'll be interesting to talk about the

01:21:53.360 legalities of what's going on. And then a former cabinet minister and member of the legislature,

01:21:58.320 Donna Kennedy Glans. I've had her on the show before and you know, she's again, a bit of a 0.57

01:22:02.080 red Tory sort, but she's got some good common sense. We actually had a good conversation before

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Western Standard - March 09, 2022

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