Western Standard - LIVE - Triggered： The UCP is tearing itself to shreds.

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 good morning it's march 25th 2022 welcome to triggered it's friday and i'm cory morgan

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00:01:14.640 Hey, Beverly and Carrie Ann and Red Deer.

00:01:17.460 Now, we've got a big special day coming tomorrow.

00:01:19.680 For those who aren't familiar with it, it will be Earth Day.

00:01:23.340 So be sure to make sure to put off all your laundry, your dishes,

00:01:27.820 you know plugging in your car all of that until about 8 30 tomorrow night let's see if we can

00:01:32.660 break a record calgary did that before for earth day you know they set off this whole big thing

00:01:36.280 this virtue signaling exercise and we actually managed to have our energy usage go up that day

00:01:42.400 i was so proud celebration of of human ingenuity and and progress and technology hey there sandy

00:01:49.060 and tracy gary wow we got a whole bunch carla and salmon arm anna marie meyer another thing you know

00:01:54.860 let's see. Has anybody got a birthday going on this weekend? I like seeing that interaction,

00:01:58.680 see what's going on. We see where everybody's coming out of. Anybody celebrating surviving

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00:02:11.760 advertisers so we can pay our bills. But if you got one coming up this weekend or going,

00:02:15.480 hey, shout it out out there. Let's get these comments going and let's talk about some

00:02:20.160 celebratory things sometimes. Now, I got a couple of good guests coming in today. I got

00:02:24.760 Western Standard's new Saskatchewan reporter, Christopher Oldcorn, and he's a very experienced

00:02:30.320 journalist. He's been at a number of venues for quite a while already, and it's great to have him

00:02:35.780 on out in Saskatchewan because we just haven't been covering Saskatchewan as much as we really

00:02:40.520 wanted to and should, and now we are, and boy, he's putting this stuff out. So that's great.

00:02:44.460 We're going to have a talk with him and introduce him to you all because as we can see from those

00:02:48.500 commenters, even Terry giving a legal land description, people are all over the place.

00:02:52.900 We've got a lot of people out in Saskatchewan.

00:02:55.300 As well, we're going to have Edmonton journalist Tom Braid come on.

00:02:57.900 And he's got an initiative to push back against cancel culture.

00:03:01.600 And that'll be pretty interesting.

00:03:03.080 It's something that actually, not just, you know, somebody going on about cancel culture.

00:03:08.300 He's got an idea of actually putting together, I guess, an organization to strike back at the mobs.

00:03:13.460 And it's going to be an interesting talk to see what he's got going on there.

00:03:18.220 Of course, now I've got to get on with the negative and get on with what's got me worked up for the day.

00:03:22.160 and it's the UCP. They've done it again. So I got a message, you know, on the social media battles

00:03:26.840 we've been having lately. And this is for the apologists for the UCP executive as they move to

00:03:32.720 rig the leadership review. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. Common statement, and it

00:03:38.960 works. It's insulting enough to UCP members and Albertans in general that the party in power is

00:03:44.360 currently and flagrantly trying to rig their own leadership review process in order to protect

00:03:49.300 Kenny's leadership. It's a complete insult to our intelligence. They try to claim the move

00:03:54.560 was to completely change the process was in order to better accommodate the members. Come on, you

00:03:59.820 guys. We don't better than that. You can see through this. The people who are now calling

00:04:03.940 a mail-in balloting system the only democratic way to do a leadership review are the exact same

00:04:09.380 people who said such a system would be undemocratic and could be prone to abuse and corruption.

00:04:13.980 This isn't a simple flip-flop. It's bald-faced lying, and they're fooling nobody. Just at least

00:04:20.620 be upfront with us. The Premier and his dwindling number of supporters are outright desperate,

00:04:25.240 and they're in total panic. Their effort to create a leadership review system so expensive and awkward

00:04:30.960 to participate in that it would limit the participants to a small number of people that

00:04:35.940 they felt they could control backfired completely. They underestimated the ire among party members

00:04:41.120 with Kenny's leadership is nearly 15,000 people shelled out $100 each to take part in the review

00:04:46.280 two weeks from now. Political parties live and breathe on internal polls. You know damn well

00:04:52.580 they've been polling and questioning members like mad and with only weeks remaining until the review 0.61

00:04:57.760 they concluded that Kenny was going to lose this thing. They knew it. The only solution they could

00:05:01.740 find was to strong arm the party executive and get the process kicked down the road by another month

00:05:06.760 in some. This move is likely going to backfire as well, as the members are now more inflamed and

00:05:11.520 more mistrustful of the party leadership than ever. But they bought themselves some breathing

00:05:15.400 space in order to try and come up with some sort of plan to win the review. There was no need to

00:05:20.460 go to a mail-in ballot, and they're lying and claiming it was the only option. The UCP raised

00:05:25.200 $1.5 million from registrants. With that kind of money and weeks to work with, they could have

00:05:31.300 easily set up balloting stations around the province to accommodate the large number of

00:05:35.640 voters. That wouldn't have bought them the time they needed, though, and that they knew they were

00:05:41.140 losing. They need that extra month. Now, upwards of apparently 40,000 UCP members may be eligible

00:05:46.940 to vote in the review. That doesn't assure Kenny's survival of this review by any means, but

00:05:51.460 it changes the pool of electors, and they're so desperate they felt they had nothing to lose. So

00:05:55.920 let's just shake up the system and hope we can change the outcome. Recently leaked audio of

00:06:00.400 meetings that Kenny held with staffers exposes the premier as labeling his opponents as racists

00:06:04.820 and extremists. He sounds just like Justin Trudeau. And he has gravely insulted a large

00:06:11.200 segment of the party membership, if not the majority of it. It's a tired trope and UCP

00:06:17.140 members didn't sign up to take part in that crap. That Kenny can't even hold a private meeting 0.99

00:06:21.380 without it being recorded and leaked demonstrates the respect he's commanding, even within the upper

00:06:26.420 echelons of his own party. Kenny is needed to try and use staffers on unpaid leave to campaign on

00:06:32.580 his behalf. And that's because his introverted style of government management has left him with

00:06:38.140 no grassroots basis of supporters anymore. No volunteers or ground workers. He took his

00:06:43.180 position for granted and now has little to no human resources to tap into to try and win this

00:06:48.240 review. Trust has been shattered within the UCP. Legal action on behalf of members is in the works

00:06:52.960 now. Dozens of constituency association presidents are calling for Kenny's resignation, and the

00:06:58.540 number of MLAs and open revolt against the Premier appears to be growing by the date.

00:07:03.220 If there's going to be any slim hope of Kenny retaining his leadership, it's going to have to

00:07:07.640 be done in demonstrating his ability to lead rather than playing political games. He's losing

00:07:12.220 the games. The window opportunity for that sort of display is likely long closed, though. The

00:07:16.900 bridges have been burned. Albertans and UCP members are repulsed with the party, and it's showing in

00:07:22.320 polls outside of the party and with the discord within it. Even if Kenny somehow manages to cling

00:07:26.800 to the leadership until mid-May, and even if he somehow garners over 50% of the votes,

00:07:31.260 the party is irreparably damaged. There's going to be a mass floor crossing, as too many MLAs

00:07:36.160 have passed the point of no return already, as they've been calling for the resignation of

00:07:40.020 Kenya or openly opposing him. Constituacy associations are going to dissolve, and we're

00:07:44.000 going to have multiple conservative parties in the legislature again. Rachel Notley, in the

00:07:47.800 meantime, is smiling like a Cheshire cat. The only way the UCPL managed to win the general

00:07:52.100 election slated to be held a year from now is to demonstrate that they have dramatically changed

00:07:56.580 to reform themselves, and this has to start at the top.

00:07:59.440 Kenney's proven himself to be willing to drag the party into electoral oblivion

00:08:03.120 rather than allowing a fair, open leadership review 0.98

00:08:05.760 to be held by the very damn rules his supporters set in the first place. 0.92

00:08:10.100 If Kenney really thinks he can pull it off, he has no other option now 0.96

00:08:12.820 but to resign and run for the leadership again.

00:08:15.200 If he really has the chops to win a general election,

00:08:17.920 he has to show that he can win against the contenders within his own party.

00:08:22.060 The role as premier was Kenney's to lose.

00:08:25.140 Conservative parties in Alberta usually are elected to multi-decade dynasties.

00:08:29.480 In three years in power, Kenny has managed to lead the UCP into a position where they could potentially lose power after one term,

00:08:35.180 and that's even without a big vote split going on.

00:08:37.720 He has to be held accountable for this.

00:08:40.300 Had he even implemented simple promises such as recall, which still hasn't been proclaimed, of course, they're scared of it.

00:08:45.680 Or followed through on the fair deal panel, perhaps, but he didn't do any of that.

00:08:49.360 Maybe some of his original supporters would still be behind him.

00:08:52.160 Unfortunately, he's done nothing but dodge and disappoint.

00:08:54.740 It's only going to get uglier with each day that Kenny desperately tries to retain his role as

00:08:59.400 leader. It won't make it easier if his supporters keep trying to feed us BS about the process while

00:09:04.480 they're at it. They're killing what little amount of credibility and trust remains out there for

00:09:08.960 that party. And it's just going to get worse. That's what's got me triggered today. And it's

00:09:14.760 got a lot of people triggered today. I mean, that process has just been beyond the pale so far.

00:09:19.240 let's get in and see what we've got going on the news here so today we have our reporter

00:09:26.120 eva sudic coming in to talk to us about what's going on because yes the stories are just

00:09:30.480 piling up out there hey eva how's it going good how are you cory very good very good so

00:09:36.220 what has been breaking in the news today before we get on to what's coming in the future here

00:09:40.260 um we have an update on canadian oil a natural resource minister said we will increase crude

00:09:47.000 oil exports by 300 000 barrels a day to turn the world markets further off of russian oil

00:09:55.080 but like you said earth day is tomorrow and the natural resource minister is concerned

00:10:01.160 about the environment he wanted to assure people that this will only replace

00:10:05.240 russian gas consumption and not increase it on a global scale

00:10:10.040 what are your plans corey for earth day tomorrow i heard you i overheard you and dave talking about

00:10:14.200 it? Yeah, as I said, I've got a lot of domestic plans in mind, you know, things I don't typically

00:10:18.880 do, as Jane can attest to. I'm going to do a whole pile of, well, actually, she won't do my laundry 1.00

00:10:22.760 for me either, but I'm doing all my laundry tomorrow night at 8 30. I'm going to make sure

00:10:26.040 that dishwasher's full and loaded. Maybe I'll plug in the car and even turn up the heat in the chicken

00:10:31.140 coop just to make sure we're fully utilizing all those fantastic developments we have as a species

00:10:36.880 with all that power and moderate amenities. I've never heard that before when I grew up

00:10:42.960 being taught in school about Earth Day. That's not what they told me to do.

00:10:46.080 Oh, well, you had the wrong teachers, but, you know, you're growing.

00:10:51.100 For oil imports, Pierre Polivier said he wants to double Newfoundland's oil production

00:10:57.420 and build pipelines across Canada, part of his new conservative campaign.

00:11:02.140 We have an article up explaining Polivier blasting Trudeau, and he tells us Canada

00:11:07.300 imported 73,000 barrels from Saudi Arabia in 2020. Seems that Trudeau loves oil and gas only if it

00:11:14.800 isn't Canadian. Yeah, just to cut in, I know we've had a few people have a challenge with that one. 0.99

00:11:21.260 It's spelled so counterintuitively. I have to do it, though. It's Pollyav. The best way to do it 1.00

00:11:26.980 is just not to think about how his name is spelled and then say it. I know for us English speakers,

00:11:31.580 it can be challenging, but he might end up as our prime minister. We're going to have to get better

00:11:34.560 pronouncing it. I know you always spell it right, and that's what makes it harder to pronounce,

00:11:37.760 but I just had to interject there. Paulie, yeah, I've got to keep that in mind when I'm calling

00:11:41.600 him and trying to get him on my articles and whatnot. Okay, good tip. Trudeau also and the

00:11:50.500 finance minister, they had approved a grant of over $43 million to the WE charity, and now

00:11:57.480 this is back as a conflict of interest case resurfaced this week. You can read more about

00:12:04.600 that on the site. The Parliamentary Budget Office report was released. The analysis for the Canadian

00:12:11.940 carbon tax said Canadian households could see losses in the thousands by year 2030

00:12:17.280 if the tax continues. And we have comments from Environmental Minister Stephen

00:12:23.980 Gilbo on that one. Did I say that name right? That's, that's right. I call them all sorts of

00:12:31.240 other stuff. It doesn't look anything like the spelling, but no, your pronunciation sounded

00:12:34.420 just fine there. Yes. I'm used to just saying uneven Steven and that's it as well. Um,

00:12:41.160 there's updates on those involved in the freedom convoy. Uh, Tamara Litch and Chris Barber were

00:12:46.980 grouped together in a court case yesterday. Um, now they're jointly accused of 10 charges.

00:12:52.420 follow-up story just came out. Lich wants her bail conditions changed on the premise that they 1.00

00:13:02.340 violate her charter rights. I'm really wondering if this appeal will do anything since the whole

00:13:08.200 Freedom Convoy was on the basis of it violates charter rights, and we know how that went over.

00:13:15.000 Many Canadians are still upset about that, including myself, so I'm really wondering what's

00:13:20.200 going to happen with that. Yeah, that's in the air. The lawyers have certainly got their work

00:13:25.900 cut out for them in the weeks and I think months to come since that convoy. And as we see all these

00:13:30.620 parliamentary committees and Senate committees reviewing things, it's not looking very good for

00:13:34.360 the people who wanted to crack down on the convoy. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, I hope so.

00:13:40.180 And then in upcoming news, the Tories are outraged that Trudeau and Singh are continuing the COVID

00:13:45.880 mandates federally. Melanie has a story on that. It'll be coming out later. And this afternoon,

00:13:51.700 Kenny will be speaking for the first time since the UCP leadership scandal. That's at three o'clock

00:13:56.820 and Dave will be all over it. Right on. Well, lots going on, lots covering. Yeah, so that news

00:14:02.840 conference, it's going to be interesting. You know, often on, if you see a Friday afternoon

00:14:07.260 conference, if it's particularly if it's before a long weekend, it means they're trying to take

00:14:10.820 out the trash they're going to drop something they don't want to address so uh chances are i

00:14:16.640 mean who knows he might say a whole lot of nothing there's a a whole lot of crazy going on right now

00:14:20.540 but i i find news conferences uh just before friday at close of news days is usually where

00:14:27.100 you're going to get some of your most interesting nuggets of news coming out of those guys because

00:14:30.160 they're hoping people forget about it over the weekend yeah they always leave it till last minute

00:14:34.180 and keep dave in the office all afternoon it's really unfair yeah we know kenny's never been on

00:14:39.460 time for one of his news conferences yet so he'll probably be a little after three yet folks for

00:14:44.120 those who are watching but uh thank you very much for the update then uh eva and uh we'll see you

00:14:48.940 later on yeah see you later thanks great thanks but yes uh as i said lots breaking busy news times

00:14:55.760 uh i guess if anything to you know we can thank our our crazy uh politicians and governments for

00:15:01.880 is they give us no end to things to rant and report on it's not hard to find uh things to

00:15:07.740 cover. It's just hard to keep up with everything as fast as it breaks. And sometimes people have

00:15:11.600 a difficulty even believing it might be real. It's just, yeah, Frank Boucher there. Hey, Frankie,

00:15:17.720 watching the EU members roasting our potato. Yeah, Justin Trudeau on his Euro tour has not

00:15:23.600 been resonating well. It's been just a catastrophe over there as he addressed that empty room.

00:15:31.880 But doing us proud on the international stage as usual. You know, another story that's been

00:15:36.780 sliding under the radar. And this is part of what gets me a little, again, upset with the UCP as

00:15:41.560 they're busy, like a bunch of, you know, hornets all ripping at each other and tearing their own

00:15:45.340 party to shreds, is there's some big government stories sliding under the radar that they probably

00:15:50.900 should be on top of. And one of which is that Thomas Dang thing. This is bizarre. And it really

00:15:57.200 should be making a lot bigger news. I mean, those who are familiar with it, Thomas Dang was an NDP

00:16:00.780 MLA. Last December, all of a sudden, out of the blue, the RCMP raided his house. It was the

00:16:06.720 Cyber Crimes Division. They haven't laid charges yet, but there's an investigation on the go. And

00:16:12.900 so far, Dang appears to have admitted that he had tried to hack Jason Kenney's personal health care

00:16:18.780 account, and that in using some of the information, he actually managed to get into somebody else's

00:16:24.360 health care account and get some personal information about their vaccination status.

00:16:29.240 I've said it before, it's pure speculation, but I mean, he was claiming, oh, he just wanted to 0.97

00:16:34.820 expose holes in the security of the government's website and so on, which is a load of crap. We 0.97

00:16:41.920 know that's a load of crap. Dude, that's not your job. It's not for you to go in there and do that. 1.00

00:16:46.120 As I say, oh, I just went in to rob that bank just to see if their security was okay. Honest,

00:16:50.420 I was going to give the money back later. Yeah, right. So he got caught. But now the news is

00:16:56.100 surfacing. It sounds like from an email that he was in communications with Notley about some of

00:17:01.080 the information he'd found as early as September. Now, Rachel Notley's claiming she knew absolutely

00:17:06.220 nothing about Dang's attempts to hack the private medical information of elected officials in

00:17:11.960 Alberta. And I'm still surprised he hasn't been charged with something yet, but the investigation

00:17:15.440 is ongoing. We'll see with that because that is very, very serious. But did Notley know? And as

00:17:22.700 some UCP MLAs are asking, unfortunately, is getting lost within their own infighting right

00:17:26.760 now, but they are rightly asking, what did you know? Mrs. Notley, when did you know it? In September,

00:17:33.220 we knew you had some knowledge. Did you have knowledge of what was going on, where this

00:17:36.380 information was coming from? I'm sure she'll probably deny it, but emails get leaked. That's

00:17:40.340 how we found this much. You know, you said you knew absolutely nothing about it in December when

00:17:43.900 you suddenly removed him from caucus after the RCMP raided his house. It sounds like you knew a

00:17:48.620 little bit about this months before that. Were you just waiting maybe to see if he really would

00:17:52.880 hit the jackpot and find four or five UCP MLAs who hadn't been vaccinated? Because we know that's

00:17:57.500 what he was probably looking for. Violating people's personal, private health care records

00:18:03.680 and rights. This man should not be sitting in our legislature at all right now as it is, even if

00:18:09.780 Notley is faultless and has nothing to do with it. It's an embarrassment that a person would do

00:18:15.240 something like that and still sits as an elected representative. Though, to be fair, he hasn't been

00:18:20.640 charged or convicted of anything. The only person at this point who can kick him out of the

00:18:25.140 legislature is himself if he chose to resign. If he had any sort of principles, I think at this

00:18:29.500 point he would, but I guess maybe he needs the job because he's obviously a pretty crappy hacker.

00:18:34.100 So that's where that sits with Mr. Dang. I see Chris Oldcorn in the lobby. I'm going to speak

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00:19:54.920 Saskatchewan person, Chris Oldcorn in here and have a discussion this morning. We'll pop him

00:20:01.440 into the studio there in a second. There we go. Hello, how are you doing? I'm great, Corey. How

00:20:06.480 are you doing good good i've been looking forward to this you know you came on and as i was saying

00:20:11.380 almost in an apologetic way to our readers but we we have not uh we we've been reporting from

00:20:17.300 saskatchewan we got some stuff from out there we always have but i i think we've uh woefully

00:20:21.680 neglected the news out there just didn't have quite enough resources now we're growing we have

00:20:25.700 you out there and boy you've been putting out a lot of great content so far so i'm just happy to

00:20:29.460 announce to our saskatchewan followers that will be treating them better with their their local

00:20:33.440 news now? Yeah. Well, one of the great parts of actually starting this week was the fact that

00:20:38.620 the provincial budget was this week on Wednesday. So as a reporter, that's a great week to start

00:20:44.740 because you get all kinds of different stuff that comes out of it because you've got major

00:20:50.260 spending like healthcare education, not to mention, you know, you've got some other things

00:20:55.820 that they are doing in terms of trying to reduce wait times. There's some childcare stuff in there.

00:21:02.080 So there's all kinds of stuff going on right now in the budget, as well as some other things going on around the province as well.

00:21:08.720 Later today, I will be with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation at the legislature with their National Debt Block, which is actually making a tour through Saskatchewan today.

00:21:17.580 And actually earlier today, it was in Saskatoon. And right now it is traveling to the legislature here in Regina.

00:21:25.480 know. So I've had a very fun first week. There's been plenty to talk about and be able to make

00:21:32.780 connections. And I've actually found that the politicians here are actually very willing to

00:21:40.300 talk because there's just not that many reporters here to begin with. And the access is actually

00:21:46.900 pretty good, I would have to say in my first week. I mean, even the NDP has been extremely

00:21:53.440 quick at responding to anything I request, even from them, which, you know, you were just talking 0.61

00:22:00.920 about the NDP, MPP in Alberta, doing some interesting crappy hacking jobs. But here in

00:22:11.200 Saskatchewan, there is just the Saskatchewan party and the NDP as well, kind of similar to what you

00:22:16.320 see in Alberta with the UCP and the NDP. But the Saskatchewan party here has been in for

00:22:23.460 quite some time. And Premier Mo actually is leaving today. He's going over to the UK

00:22:29.880 on a trip to open the Saskatchewan Trade and Investment Office, which we'll have a story on

00:22:35.660 this weekend. It's interesting. Maybe to kind of roll back to the budget a little bit then. I mean,

00:22:41.680 Saskatchewan's got a similar economy to Alberta's, a lot of, you know, it's resource-based, a lot more

00:22:46.760 agriculture, but there's a lot of oil and gas going on out there as well, and those sorts of

00:22:52.220 resources. So obviously, their royalty revenues must have increased coming into this budget as

00:22:57.900 it did in Alberta, but has there been any kind of discussion over here? We actually managed to

00:23:01.780 balance the budget. Is there discussion of reaching a balanced budget in Saskatchewan as well soon?

00:23:05.780 good question um yeah their natural resource revenues are up 1.6 billion dollars over last

00:23:14.980 year uh and the interesting thing is um they spent it all plus a little more uh and they say they're

00:23:24.020 gonna balance the budget and i was talking with tom mckay at the uh tax federation uh and i was

00:23:31.540 talking to him because like i just came from ontario and it seems that every provincial

00:23:35.140 government seems to be very good at trying to balance the budget four to five years from now,

00:23:38.640 but never in the year they're actually in power and actually presenting a budget.

00:23:43.240 They could have balanced this budget. Just to give you a comparison, they had 1.3 billion in

00:23:50.120 natural resource revenues last year and 2.9 this year. I wish my investment portfolio would go up

00:23:57.340 over 100% year over year like that, but they still managed to spend it all and then some.

00:24:03.200 uh now there is the premier mo at his press conference after the budget on wednesday

00:24:10.000 i was asked about why there was absolutely there's 32 tax and fee increases in this budget

00:24:16.860 and no reductions and premier mo was asked uh like isn't this a priority to try and one balance

00:24:24.160 budget and reduce taxes and he said oh yeah we want to reduce taxes eventually um which

00:24:30.120 eventually is what like is that two years from now is that 70 years from now who knows um so

00:24:36.700 there was plenty in the budget of new things and the one that is really riling people up is the

00:24:43.140 pst being attached to more stuff and it's basically being attached to stuff the guard said you

00:24:50.620 couldn't do for the last few years and stay in your house so you want to go to a riders game

00:24:55.580 there's now PST on that ticket.

00:24:57.640 You want to get a gym membership?

00:24:58.840 Ask me out there.

00:24:59.860 You can't interfere with the Riders games.

00:25:01.880 Oh, yeah.

00:25:02.340 No, and try buying a watermelon here in weeks that there is Riders games.

00:25:09.160 And it's not just Riders games.

00:25:11.560 It's gym memberships.

00:25:13.480 You want to go to a craft show, there's PST on it.

00:25:16.140 You want to go curling, there's now PST on it.

00:25:18.780 So basically everything the government forced you not to do for two years,

00:25:22.480 they now want you to pay more to go do after they open it up.

00:25:25.360 that is like the riders thing is really as you mentioned like that is like literally a religion

00:25:32.340 here in saskatchewan and it's like online everybody's like i don't have to pay more

00:25:39.560 for a riders game why are they taxing the riders like the one reason they're taxing is because

00:25:44.640 they sell out every game so that's easy money but the riders aren't happy either because they're

00:25:50.340 like you know we're gonna get people to come back to games this year because we've had a hard time

00:25:56.080 even running games or having people in the stands and now that they can come back it's going to cost

00:26:00.560 them more and that's just the psd is the thing that's really rattling them off however that what

00:26:07.960 they're using that psd money for is additional money to reduce the backlog of surgical wait

00:26:14.740 times right now uh so they are taking all the money they're going to make on that and put it

00:26:19.940 towards the surgical wait time reduction.

00:26:22.820 However, they don't have anyone to actually do it,

00:26:25.400 and they started a brand new agency

00:26:28.580 on healthcare workers being recruited to the province,

00:26:32.880 not just here, but they're hiring 300 people

00:26:35.880 from the Philippines to come here to work as nurses

00:26:38.080 and so on as well.

00:26:40.420 So they are trying to address it,

00:26:42.600 but they're not gonna be able to get it

00:26:43.740 to pre-COVID wait times until 2025 at the earliest,

00:26:48.320 March, 2025. And that's everything goes perfectly. And that's, of course,

00:26:52.320 waiting on a health list. That's literally going to be forever for some of them. Let's,

00:26:56.960 let's hope everybody who really needs treatment. And we're seeing that in every province,

00:27:00.480 in every jurisdiction, everywhere, unfortunately, it's just, they got to play catch up from all of

00:27:05.040 the craziness of those years of COVID now. And I mean, that's the thing, every province, every

00:27:10.960 country is trying to recruit more healthcare staff, and they're all competing with each other.

00:27:15.760 and uh you can only catch up as much as it's uh but i see on the budget so they did a lot of record

00:27:20.560 uh medical spending but uh educational organizations don't think they spent enough on them

00:27:27.280 no um first off i'll have to explain the inflation rate here in saskatchewan it's

00:27:33.440 actually below the national average so the inflation rate here was only 4.7 percent

00:27:38.400 uh but the budget for health for sorry for education only went up a little bit more than

00:27:44.400 one percentage point so the educational like the school board and so on is viewing it as

00:27:52.160 cut because they're not even matching inflation now in saying that they did fully fund the two

00:27:57.680 percent increase uh from the teachers collective bargaining agreement uh so that two percent

00:28:04.640 increase for all the teachers uh was included in the budget so there's not going to be cuts

00:28:10.560 related to the fact that they can't pay enough teachers because the increase is was completely

00:28:15.520 fully funded um it's other areas that they may have to cut services however they have invested

00:28:22.320 a lot including and you have to keep in mind in in saskatchewan that they include child care

00:28:27.600 in their education budget and there was an increase there as well so there's an increased

00:28:31.520 amount of spots available in child care um but yeah there is if you look at it comparing it

00:28:37.440 to the inflation rate yes it's a cut um but at the same time they really had to prioritize in

00:28:43.040 this budget healthcare and they did yeah well and if health and education sort of as uh carol

00:28:49.520 one of the commenters saying you know education never thinks they get enough and there's never

00:28:52.400 enough in health and those are always the top two issues for people and and we could uh triple

00:28:57.520 spending and there would still be room to build another school or bring in another diagnostic

00:29:02.160 machine it's a difficult area for budgeting and it'll never quite be enough for some uh turning

00:29:07.120 into a more federal front there. I see you wrote a piece on, it looks like Maxime Bernier is

00:29:13.840 battling the ticket he got while he was protesting in the last election out in Saskatchewan.

00:29:19.040 Well, the ticket I was specifically talking about, there was the election night one,

00:29:23.120 because the People's Party had their election night party in Saskatoon. And that's just one of

00:29:31.440 many, many tickets that he is presently fighting across Canada, but both himself and another couple

00:29:38.360 of the other organizers got tickets from that COVID election night thing because people weren't

00:29:42.220 wearing masks. And the Friday before, the provincial government had put back in the mask

00:29:48.460 wearing requirements. Now, the interesting thing about that is, is that it was an indoor-outdoor

00:29:54.980 event. So there was no mask requirement for being outdoors. So if you walked in the door and you

00:30:00.440 the mask in your pocket and then you put it on. The problem being is there was all kinds of

00:30:04.620 coverage of that night that got shot across Canada on TV and people's phones and so on.

00:30:10.620 And the police got tons of complaint calls. Surprise, surprise. So that's one of the tickets

00:30:16.840 that he is presently fighting. Plus, he's also trying to be able to board an airplane again

00:30:21.060 because he was banned from flying in airplanes as well. And actually, his defense there, I think,

00:30:27.580 is great because his defense on that is i'm the leader of a political party that has a higher

00:30:32.340 percentage of the vote than the green party does and we now meet the threshold to be in the debates

00:30:37.380 because you need to be at four percent he was at four percent polling in the debates in the last

00:30:41.780 election and they denied it now that it's official with a national election the next debates they

00:30:48.940 cannot deny the people's party of canada a spot a podium to debate because they had 4.7 percent

00:30:55.420 clearly making it over that four percent requirement which by the way maxim durian is

00:31:00.460 very excited about he's very excited to be allowed to compete in a debate where he actually has

00:31:06.140 already more support than the green party did uh and they still denied him in the last election and

00:31:11.980 i mean we saw what the bloodbath was with the green party in the last election i mean it was

00:31:16.700 it was a complete destruction of that party oh yeah i mean infighting speaking of which and

00:31:21.660 ripping themselves down i mean here in alberto we're trying to outdo them with the ucp

00:31:25.340 But they did a heck of a job on their own leader there since then.

00:31:29.340 It was something to behold.

00:31:32.000 So Bernier, I mean, trying to fill a void as being an alternative.

00:31:35.500 I mean, technically, aside from the lack of seats,

00:31:39.680 they can't deny that he has more popular support than the Greens.

00:31:43.820 I mean, that's been established now.

00:31:45.820 But it'll be...

00:31:46.520 It's official.

00:31:47.800 I mean, in the next election, there's no way they can deny him entry into the debates.

00:31:54.380 Period.

00:31:55.340 Yeah. Because it would actually violate election, the election act. So they can't deny it.

00:32:03.060 If they maintain themselves for that long, too, as a party. I mean, that's a long time in alternative party months to get to whenever that next election may be as well.

00:32:12.560 Well, look at the weird marriage between the NDP and the liberals federally.

00:32:17.680 Yes.

00:32:18.020 I mean, essentially, in this last election, Trudeau didn't win the popular vote to begin with.

00:32:24.540 And now he's basically made Jagmeet Singh prime minister because he's going to do whatever Singh wants so he can stay in power until 2025.

00:32:32.400 At which point, who knows if Trudeau is going to step aside and someone else will take over or he'll run again.

00:32:38.500 But popularity wise, he's lucky he went to election when he did because he would have been in serious trouble if he waited another six to eight weeks.

00:32:44.980 Yeah, no, he's not doing any better for time passing.

00:32:48.020 I mean, Alberta, for the time being, it seems we've kind of settled our masking laws, our vaccine passports, all of that stuff.

00:32:58.620 I mean, it may resurface with another surge in infections and so on, but even the most haywire of health advocates are finally being kind of quiet and accepting that we can live without these restrictions for now.

00:33:12.280 Is that battle kind of finished in Saskatchewan as well, or do you still got some push and pull going on over there?

00:33:17.860 Interesting question. Saskatchewan was actually the first province to be fully open again in

00:33:23.220 terms of no vaccine passports and masks. When I go to the legislature, there's very few people

00:33:31.060 that are wearing masks here. It's basically just the NDP and there's only like 12 of them

00:33:36.420 and a couple of their staffers. A couple of the journalists I saw wearing masks a couple times.

00:33:42.900 None of them were actually wearing them correctly, which was the funny part.

00:33:45.460 they just had over their mouth but not over their nose it's like what do you think that's actually

00:33:49.600 doing um so it's just virtual just virtue signaling at this point um but i i don't see

00:33:57.540 um particularly masking in this province coming back without a fight because even when you go

00:34:04.420 to the grocery store i would say at best one in five people's wearing a mask that's good i mean

00:34:11.460 know a lot of us have been tired of that you know we'll see i mean uh again we see we know though

00:34:16.600 how quickly a panic government can respond with restrictions if they feel that infections are on

00:34:20.520 the rise again but hopefully we're all done with it it's just good to get a an update from what's

00:34:24.840 going on out you know on your end of the the things as well we hear a lot about it in Alberta

00:34:28.860 and in BC i think there's court challenges trying to force it in schools again we'll see how that

00:34:33.040 goes uh Reid has been updating us on that uh the short-lived uh uh thankfully CP rail strike that

00:34:40.880 happened over there. Did that have, I mean, I know it, it struck a lot of fear in agricultural

00:34:47.180 producers and of course the potash industry. I mean, Saskatchewan is the most dependent

00:34:50.340 in Canada on rail service. Aside from that though, did the two-day disruption, hopefully

00:34:57.360 it didn't do too much harm and they're stable now?

00:35:01.160 Yeah, no, it was, luckily it was extremely short. Actually 15% of the total workers who

00:35:07.500 were on strike are actually in Saskatchewan because rail is so important here. So yes,

00:35:13.140 there was a couple days of disruption in terms of not being able to move products, but they are

00:35:19.000 pretty much back to normal now. I was talking to the transportation minister the other day,

00:35:23.900 and they weren't too concerned with regards to how fast it's going to come back. If they would

00:35:29.440 have gone on strike for three or four weeks, it would have been a big problem. But two days at

00:35:34.760 At this point, given all the disruptions we've had in supply chains in the last two years, a couple of disruptions are not really all that big anymore here because quite often you have, oh, all these people tested positive for COVID.

00:35:49.420 We've got to shut this place down for a week. 0.52

00:35:51.600 So the rail strike was actually probably shorter than any of the COVID shutdowns that they had to do.

00:35:58.940 And at this point, they're used to the shutdowns.

00:36:01.220 Yeah. Our agricultural producers across Canada have already had a hard enough time. The drought in Alberta was brutal. I think in West Saskatchewan, it's been pretty bad as well. They need a break. And the last thing they need is transportation issues to add to their challenges as things go. So that's good. Just in closing up, I guess then. So what are you working on now? And what do we got to look forward to breaking in Saskatchewan in the next days to come here?

00:36:24.500 Yeah, I'm going to the Canadian Tax Federation press conference at the legislature this afternoon with the debt clock. I'm also working on a story about the new trade and investment office in the UK. That is, Premier Mo is headed over there with some others right now for promoting Saskatchewan oil and also agricultural products.

00:36:47.660 uh and they will be there for the next week and they're actually bringing an actual full-time

00:36:53.260 saskatchewan trade investment office in london uk ironically where i went to journalism school

00:36:57.820 and they will be going on to germany after that as well on that tour and basically they're

00:37:05.460 promoting the fact that we got stuff here you don't have to get it from russia let us supply you

00:37:10.440 uh which is a good message i mean saskatchewan has uh 15 billion dollars in natural resource

00:37:16.520 exports every single year and you know the oil price is really good right now uh in terms of

00:37:24.180 if you're an oil producer and want to make money it's not good for the average person going to the

00:37:29.040 pumps but europe is so dependent that some countries like the uk have said we're going to

00:37:34.520 keep taking russian oil because without it we can't keep our country going and we saw what

00:37:38.900 happened in the uk not that long ago when they had a problem getting oil into the country and

00:37:43.600 they couldn't even move food around in trucks because they had no gas to move stuff around with

00:37:48.320 and they don't want to be in that position again and saskatchewan can help solve the problem to

00:37:52.660 make sure that they don't get in position like that again and they don't have to keep buying

00:37:57.140 oil from putin well it's good to see some initiative coming from our provincial leaders

00:38:02.020 because we're not going to see any good initiatives coming from the federal front i think on our behalf

00:38:05.900 i i think uh i think uh premier mo's uh trip to europe is going to be much more successful than

00:38:10.960 Trudeau's has been. Well, that was a low bar to pass, but I'm sorry. Yeah, it's a low bar, but

00:38:15.500 yeah, Mo won't even have to jump. He'll just be able to walk right over the bar because it's

00:38:19.580 probably buried six feet deep right now. Great. Well, thank you very much for coming in to check

00:38:24.940 in. And like I said, I really appreciate that you're out there and looking at all the stuff

00:38:28.600 you're covering and putting in and our Saskatchewan, the viewers and the readers and listeners are

00:38:32.520 going to be thrilled as we expand our coverage out there in your province. And I look forward

00:38:37.060 to talking to you again soon, Chris. Thank you very much, Corey. And I'm very looking forward

00:38:41.860 to working with the Western Standard. Right on. You too. Thanks. Yeah, it was Chris Oldcourt. And

00:38:48.080 as I said, he's just kind of got rolling with us recently. And the stories are really coming in

00:38:53.140 already. And it's fantastic. We've tried it. We're a new organization. We're a couple of years old.

00:38:59.480 We're really expanding. It's going great. And we just hadn't gotten a good solid footing in

00:39:04.160 saskatchewan yet though we have a lot of readers and viewers from saskatchewan so they're really

00:39:08.740 going to enjoy seeing that expanding more because it's a province that needs coverage as does manitoba

00:39:13.260 of course we really uh we've got linda out there doing a lot of stuff and things but we're just

00:39:17.880 constantly broadening our things as well with our auto office nbc we're really spreading around the

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00:40:56.000 haven't already. And there's my Twitter account, Corey B. Morgan. If you really want to get

00:40:58.840 scrapping with me and get some good political discourse. Twitter is my favorite playground.

00:41:03.140 That's where I get going. And there, if you really want to tell me where to go,

00:41:06.860 that's the place to do it because I'll be more unrestrained in telling you what you can do with

00:41:10.180 yourself. And that's all part of the fun of the discussions and being online. I do want to answer

00:41:14.680 you. I see a question from Kathy Tesner came earlier in the comments asking

00:41:18.700 if the folks at the Western Standard support APP.

00:41:22.760 I'm just going to guess. Now, I can't answer for the Western Standard as a whole, of course,

00:41:26.260 or even any individual people.

00:41:29.760 But I'm thinking it's either Alberta Pension Plan

00:41:31.580 or Alberta Provincial Police.

00:41:33.380 In the case of myself, I support both fully.

00:41:37.720 We've seen, and I was talking earlier about Jason Kenney

00:41:39.960 not following through with the Fair Deal panel report

00:41:42.340 and a lot of that, you know, they travel the province,

00:41:44.160 they ask, he played the song and dance,

00:41:47.020 asking us what we want,

00:41:48.360 and they concluded we want those things.

00:41:50.260 And then he just kept kicking the can down the road

00:41:51.980 and we've seen no progress going towards any of it.

00:41:54.240 And I'll explain a bit of why.

00:41:55.640 No, no, there's some people playing the emotions. Oh, we've got to keep our RCMP. We've got to

00:41:58.760 don't step on our RCMP. Okay, guys, they're not going anywhere. They just don't have to be

00:42:04.680 our prime police force. They can stick to federal issues, just like the Americans have the FBI for

00:42:11.000 federal issues. We can have the, oh, it was Alberta Prosperity Project. See, there's too

00:42:14.820 many APPs going on out there. Okay, well, I'm still going to talk about those things,

00:42:17.620 because to be honest, I don't know a lot about the Alberta Prosperity Project. Let me write

00:42:21.740 down so I can learn a little more about it. Because believe it or not, and I know people

00:42:27.660 have mentioned it to me before with that project, and I've really got to get myself better educated

00:42:32.240 on it. As much as I am a blowhard and I talk at length about a great many things, if I don't know

00:42:36.960 a lot about them in general, I won't address them. So I'm not going to talk about the Alberta

00:42:40.500 Prosperity Project quite yet. I got to look a little more into that. I will dedicate myself.

00:42:44.660 I know a little bit about it, but not enough to speak at length on that. But thanks for that heads

00:42:49.360 up. So since I started on that ramble, then let's talk about some independence things though, and

00:42:52.840 then such and a fair deal panel. And I promise next week, you know, today I'll have a closer

00:42:57.840 look at the Alberta Prosperity Project and I'll talk about that next week. And so back to the,

00:43:04.640 where was I there? The police force. Yes. An Alberta Provincial Police Force. Look,

00:43:09.980 it's not saying the RCMP are horrible or anything either, but it's an opportunity to create a new

00:43:14.120 force to address some of the problems we got. We got all this idiotic, you know, defund the 0.99

00:43:18.780 police movements and stuff like that going on. And it's a shallow, vindictive way to push back 1.00

00:43:23.860 at police forces that perhaps are out of date, that perhaps need to change some cultural attitudes

00:43:27.880 within their organizations, that need some better training, that need some better policies.

00:43:32.400 But it's hard to change a giant old institution. And that is what the RCMP is, is a giant old

00:43:37.480 institution. And it's managed and run by Ottawa. And they aren't going to reflect our values out

00:43:42.220 here. It doesn't mean there's no place for them, but they don't need to have such a large place

00:43:47.120 in our province and it is large uh now as we've seen with our provincial government yeah they

00:43:51.280 can screw up a whole number of things so they could screw up a provincial force if they put

00:43:54.560 it together as well you can't not move on an initiative for fear of failing on it though

00:44:00.720 we could create a local police force uh that that would be better geared to deal with with

00:44:05.520 local issues particularly in rural areas you know rcmp officers are usually transferred from across

00:44:09.760 the country might not understand you can't blame them the dynamics of the circumstances they're in

00:44:14.640 in different areas i mean rural southern alberta is nothing like northern quebec which is nothing

00:44:19.840 like newfoundland which is nothing like northern alberta or downtown calgary and these rcmp officers

00:44:25.120 get dropped into these circumstances and transferred a lot and it doesn't necessarily

00:44:29.360 mean that they're gonna be able to do an effective job part of it's being integrated within your

00:44:34.320 community community and i know there's another aspect of why they move them it's hard to get

00:44:38.160 corrupted police forces if they are moved around all the time too because they won't develop those

00:44:42.720 relationships and get integrated. But we've got to find a balance. Either way, I'm very

00:44:48.360 supportive of an Alberta Provincial Police Force. I think it would be a good development

00:44:53.860 for us. And again, don't take it as an insult to the RCMP. Let's look at it as a new development

00:44:58.020 or evolution in local policing. The RCMP aren't gone, but they designate it to more role where

00:45:02.820 it's more appropriate for a federal force. And the officers, once the contract is up,

00:45:07.280 because we just contract the RCMP, we're under no other obligation. Other provinces have

00:45:10.960 their provincial forces. A lot of those officers, if they like it out here, can transfer over, do

00:45:16.100 some new training and become part of the Alberta Provincial Police. It's not like these members

00:45:19.620 vanish the second we stop using them. So, you know, there's a lot of emotional arguments being

00:45:24.460 made against the moving to an Alberta Provincial Police Force, but I see a lot of rational ones.

00:45:30.280 And yes, I want to see us distance from Ottawa control in every possible way we can. And that's

00:45:35.140 one of the doable ways to do that in advance. The other is the Alberta Provincial Pension Plan.

00:45:41.900 You know, again, you see, I got all my acronyms wrong for what that APP was, but they're both

00:45:46.600 things that, like I said, those two I know a lot about. With the Provincial Pension Plan,

00:45:51.940 that's getting again to taking control of our money. One of the areas is, you know, people

00:45:56.020 worry about equalization, health transfers, and on how a lot of federal spending, you know,

00:46:02.400 with Alberta, we take a net loss year after year after year with that. We put out more than we get

00:46:06.940 back in spending transfers. And we hear about equalization because it's the most blatant. It's

00:46:11.120 the one you see the most easily. But you know what? Pension, we take a beating. We have a terribly

00:46:15.580 bad deal. And it's just demographic. It's not spiteful on the part of Ottawa or anything.

00:46:19.680 We have a young demographic here who are working and often in a higher income bracket than other

00:46:25.620 parts of Canada. So they put in a disproportionately high amount of money into the CPP. And being

00:46:31.420 younger, they're going to be a lot longer before they collect. So what we actually pour, it's

00:46:35.780 another way that a bunch more pours out into the other part of the country versus what we collect

00:46:40.860 back in it. We localize that. It would better reflect our own actual population base. The other

00:46:47.060 thing too is it gets it out of the hands of Ottawa. And that's what's very important. We got this

00:46:51.020 ideological government. Look at this stuff they do. They'll seize our bank accounts for crying out

00:46:54.920 loud. They'll do all sorts of things. How much longer do you want to entrust them with your

00:46:59.800 pension as little as it is. And I'm afraid the CPP doesn't pay off a heck of a lot. It's better

00:47:03.380 than nothing, but it's not that great. And just a second, Wildrose, could I mention that Wildrose

00:47:10.880 supports all these things? Yeah, I can. I just did. No, I know the Wildrose Independence Party

00:47:14.700 does support all of those moves towards independence. This is Maverick actually on

00:47:18.520 the federal front. And the UCP pretends to. But then we're getting back to the pension. Again,

00:47:24.240 this isn't something that nobody, somebody else isn't doing. Quebec has their own pension plan.

00:47:28.660 It's that usual hypocrisy too. Albertans are labeled and smeared with every possible name and accused of many things whenever we pursue any of those policies that we could do to strengthen our place for ourselves within Confederation. But other provinces do it with impunity. With a local pension plan, we can take that in and control our own funding.

00:47:50.520 I mean, what if Ottawa starts taking those funds from our pension plan and investing them into electric cars?

00:47:56.820 You know, they want a virtue signal with every dollar they can.

00:47:59.760 I mean, they shouldn't be investing in anything.

00:48:01.440 Well, aside from just having some blue chip things, you know, have a good investment advisor using that pension fund to properly invest in things to get a return and not worry about their ideological leanings.

00:48:11.500 But we can't trust the federal government not to look at that pot of money and either take it and fire it into general revenues or use it to start investing into virtue signaling projects that really don't serve the person in the end of it who wants to get a return on the money they've worked to earn and put into a pension plan and hope to get a return on down the road.

00:48:34.320 So either way, I am very supportive of an APP on both those fronts.

00:48:41.060 And as I said, with the Prosperity Project, I'm going to have to look more into that to talk further.

00:48:45.800 My next guest should be coming up pretty soon.

00:48:47.600 Let's talk about one of our sponsors here, and that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:48:53.540 These guys have been sponsoring us for a long time, too.

00:48:55.460 Speaking of Ottawa, speaking of them infringing on our rights, getting in our face.

00:49:01.200 Well, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association is there to help stand up for you,

00:49:05.420 stand up for your right and ability to legally, responsibly own and enjoy firearms.

00:49:10.640 You know, their name says it all.

00:49:11.620 If you Google them, Canadian Shooting Sports Association,

00:49:14.940 they've got all sorts of resources.

00:49:16.940 Like any sort of hobby or pastime you have,

00:49:20.200 there's associations where you can get together with other people,

00:49:22.300 share resources, share experiences, and better enjoy whatever you're doing.

00:49:27.600 In this case, there are videos on, say, firearm use.

00:49:31.380 There's links to local trade shows to buy and exchange firearms or parts

00:49:35.220 for target shooting, hunting, whatever you want to do with it.

00:49:37.920 And the other and most important part to me, they're pushing back.

00:49:41.920 They've got multiple legal challenges against the federal government

00:49:45.380 on behalf of firearm owners because they keep recategorizing firearms

00:49:50.300 and then trying to take them away from you.

00:49:52.860 They're turning you from a law-abiding firearm user into a criminal

00:49:55.960 when they take what used to be a legal hunting rifle and suddenly say, it's now assault style.

00:50:01.780 And then they steal it from you. Oh, they give you a compensation. Well, you know what? If they

00:50:05.000 take it without giving you a choice, it's stealing. I don't care if they give you money back.

00:50:09.120 So these guys are going to court on it. They're pushing. They got three different legal challenges,

00:50:13.120 but they need you. Of course they can't, you know, they don't get their money from,

00:50:16.400 from nowhere. And the government certainly isn't helping them. So you got to take out a membership

00:50:20.180 with them guys. Canada, Canadian shooting sports association, get on there, take out a membership.

00:50:24.680 you get those resources as a firearm owner anyway, plus you're helping them with those

00:50:29.580 legal challenges to make sure that you can continue to enjoy those firearms as is your

00:50:34.760 right. Hey, we don't have our rights unless we stand up for them, I'm afraid.

00:50:40.140 So let's talk about a few more of the news things. Here's some interesting stuff.

00:50:43.520 That was something that Eva talked about earlier. So we've got interest-free loans that we were

00:50:48.260 giving for China, that some of them that run to 2045, this is when we talk about a corrupted 0.92

00:50:55.980 government. Now, these went from the 1980s to the early 2000s. So you know what, this is something

00:51:00.400 we can't even blame Trudeau for. Hopefully, I would give credit that maybe it was the Harper

00:51:06.060 government that said, hey, that's enough and stopped giving the loans to Beijing. But these

00:51:11.100 things were going on for decades. I mean, that went from Mulroney's term through Chrétien's term

00:51:15.420 and into Harper's, and Justin, as incompetent and as inept and as beholden to China as he is, 0.96

00:51:21.260 had nothing to do with this. But because they're given 45-year, 50-year loans, 0.93

00:51:25.440 it's interest-free and at low interest, they're still outstanding. Think about that. You got to

00:51:31.660 work your butt off, save, get a down payment, get a good credit rating, hopefully get it together

00:51:37.140 to buy a house and pay down your loan. But the federal government takes your money. That's the

00:51:42.340 things I'm talking about. That's why I don't want them to have any more of our money than they have

00:51:46.220 to when I'm talking about even pension plans, because they got that pool of money and they're

00:51:49.420 going to use it in ways that don't benefit you. And lending money to China, I can think is a pretty

00:51:54.540 terrible way to use your money. I mean, they're doing pretty good for themselves, guys. Maybe it

00:51:58.820 was these seed loans helped, but give seed loans to local businesses. No businesses out here are

00:52:04.060 getting interest-free loans like that, or at least most of them aren't, unless you're with

00:52:08.520 the WE charity or something like that. Who knows what kind of connections federally you can get

00:52:12.840 some pretty sweetheart deals for things. But yeah, this is outrageous. And so there's 168 loans

00:52:20.480 provided to China and all but 21 were totally interest-free for 40 to 50 years. And others

00:52:28.340 carried interest rates ranging from one to 9%. And even if those interest rates sound like, well,

00:52:32.640 maybe it's a little reasonable, you got to remember back when these loans were given,

00:52:35.080 interest rates were a heck of a lot higher than they are now. So this was a gross sweetheart deal.

00:52:40.920 And they're saying they're providing to help ensure Canadian exporters could compete. Oh,

00:52:44.840 enough. Enough. So we got to give our customers money to buy our stuff. If that's the case,

00:52:51.020 we don't deserve to compete. That's ridiculous. And that's the stupid game of subsidy wars and 0.98

00:52:58.260 going back and forth and screwing yourself with bad policy. Welcome to Canada, right? 1.00

00:53:03.940 is a, unfortunately, bad policy is one of the things we're very good at. So this, these loans

00:53:12.420 were, let's see, they were put out through Export Development Canada, and they did require cabinet

00:53:17.640 approval. So cabinets back in those days, the Chrétien cabinet, perhaps the early Harper

00:53:21.740 cabinets, Mulroney's cabinets, said, yeah, yeah, you know, don't worry about that guy who can't

00:53:26.840 afford his car loan or can't afford to buy a house here in Canada or wants to start a business and

00:53:31.140 get things rolling because he's got a really good idea or she. And let's just lend that money to

00:53:36.820 China. Well, real long term, give 40, 50, 60 years, no interest. Isn't that nice? Doesn't that feel

00:53:43.080 good? Doesn't make it good when you pay those taxes coming out of your wallet and see some of

00:53:46.420 these initiatives they're doing for you with your money. Man, yet he gets reelected again and again

00:53:51.420 and again. So I don't know. I don't know what it takes to get rid of these guys. Actually, again,

00:53:54.440 say that wasn't even true though. I'm just talking about government in general. Let's look at some of

00:53:58.120 the other stuff. Yeah, repeated cabinet claims. And I had a fight with somebody on Twitter about

00:54:01.800 that earlier today. But the usual thing, that myth that carbon taxes are net, you know,

00:54:09.060 revenue neutral, or even maybe beneficial, you will get more back from the carbon taxes

00:54:14.200 than you'll put in. When that carbon tax comes in, you'll get so many rebates,

00:54:19.440 you'll happily have more money in your pocket when you're done with it than you did to start with.

00:54:24.340 Well, it's not true.

00:54:26.380 Well, we knew that. 1.00

00:54:27.280 It's a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:54:28.040 We always knew that. 1.00

00:54:28.780 How do we save money being taxed?

00:54:30.580 There's never a way you save money being taxed. 0.99

00:54:33.480 There's never anything more stupid, but welcome again to federal policies. 1.00

00:54:38.320 Stupid doesn't stop them. 1.00

00:54:39.780 Well, look at who runs this country. 1.00

00:54:41.880 So they tell you, you give us your money, we'll give you back a piece of it, and it'll make you money.

00:54:48.600 Wow.

00:54:49.480 I trust an Amway salesman more than that.

00:54:51.440 There's a better chance of getting a return.

00:54:52.720 they take off a chunk. It doesn't just go and come back, guys, or increase, no less. Yet that's what

00:54:58.700 they've been selling people. That's what they're claiming. So April 1st, when your price of

00:55:02.780 everything goes up, again, based on a lie, by the way, they lied. They said it wasn't going to go

00:55:07.540 up beyond a certain point on that carbon tax. Catherine McKenna lied. It's going up again.

00:55:13.420 It's going to cost you more on everything. And these guys are trying to tell you it actually

00:55:17.860 is going to put more money in your pocket. So, you know, back to my earlier rant at the start

00:55:22.500 of the show with that old, good old Western saying, don't piss on my leg and tell me it's

00:55:26.340 raining. That's the same thing. You can sit there and take money out of my wallet and look me in

00:55:31.560 the eye and say, I'm giving you more money than I'm taking. You are not. You are not. And it went

00:55:36.260 before a budgetary office report the other day, because Stephen Gilboa, yes, uneven Stephen has

00:55:42.140 ever put him, claimed that all but the richest among us are going to be better off paying carbon

00:55:48.680 taxes. And he said, most households will see a net loss. Well, this is the reality. This is the

00:55:54.540 budget office. You know, so not crazy Stephen Gilboa, not that criminal. And he is a criminal

00:55:58.820 and arrested for his extreme environmental activities. He's crazy. And he is in a very 1.00

00:56:05.200 strong position in the Trudeau government. Man, the cabinet this guy chooses for himself is just

00:56:09.420 frightening. But either way, so budgetary office, people who actually know numbers,

00:56:14.260 said, no, most households are going to see a net loss and they will run thousands a year for

00:56:20.160 households by 2030. That's what you can afford extra thousands per year into this. While this

00:56:25.020 government looks you in the eye and says, they're saving you money. Welcome to Canada. I'm just

00:56:30.880 happy to see some of these committees are digging into this and exposing some of this crap. It 0.98

00:56:35.640 doesn't seem to be changing anything, but at least we're seeing what's going on with it.

00:56:39.580 it's insane what these guys are doing in there and what they're claiming. But it's getting exposed.

00:56:45.000 Keep on the news. Keep watching these things. Because, of course, this doesn't make the CBC

00:56:48.220 headline news. This doesn't make CTV's headline news. Hey, by the way, Gil Bull's lying again.

00:56:53.560 No, they just give him more soundbites and let him spread more of his BS. They actually give

00:56:57.600 that guy more time. Self-serving, but I can say, keep coming back to the westernstandardonline.com

00:57:04.780 so you can get these news things we will report on these things and we'll expose that crap for 0.97

00:57:10.300 the crap that it is and it most certainly is every day they give us a little more to speak on so it 0.86

00:57:17.440 looks like we got our guest there Tom is ready to roll I believe he's in the lobby and we'll pop 0.98

00:57:23.100 him in because I like this initiative that Tom Braid has on the go on pushing back at cancel

00:57:27.760 culture so hey there Tom how's it going over there pretty good thanks for having me I got an

00:57:34.280 echo I don't know why but okay well we just got a little bit of a stall there it seems to be

00:57:40.640 coming through when you talk so uh welcome to the show I guess you're working through your phone

00:57:43.860 there yeah I believe it or not my rescue cat uh ran around and unplugged my cable box and now I

00:57:51.640 lost my cable my plug-in internet so I had to switch to the phone sorry I'm late that's all

00:57:56.580 right actually Jane and I got two new rescue uh well they're they're foster dogs we have in our

00:58:00.820 house right now that we brought in and they're unholy terrors. I tweet regularly with some of

00:58:05.280 the stuff they've managed to pull off at our place, but it's well worth it. So we can still

00:58:12.640 hear you well enough when you're going there though, Dom. So I just wanted to, and I framed it,

00:58:16.720 you've got, you're putting together a whole new organization that's focused on basically pushing

00:58:22.920 back against cancel culture. That is one of the initiatives for sure. Something I've been working

00:58:29.600 on for months and months but with late recent things that have come up i've kind of pushed it

00:58:36.240 ahead a couple months but it's uh online protective services.com uh you know and there's

00:58:44.320 lots of things to protect yourself for uh with online activity with bullying

00:58:48.800 cancel culture and woke cancel culture right-wing cancel culture you know there's a lot of bad stuff

00:58:57.120 where people try and engage the public and uh you know they end up getting attacked

00:59:03.760 it doesn't seem to matter who you vote for but there certainly is more left-wing woke attack

00:59:10.800 mobs out there than the conservative ones as far as i can see yeah well and to be fair i mean it 0.96

00:59:16.800 does come from both sides there seems to be a bit of an atmosphere that's grown with a lot of people

00:59:20.960 they just seem to feel that i don't like what you're promoting i don't agree with what you're

00:59:25.040 doing and we are going to make sure that you are just torn down from your pulpit perhaps put out of

00:59:30.080 your job uh you know we might ruin your platform we will do everything possible to make sure you

00:59:35.840 don't have that ability to speak and that entitlement that people feel that they can do

00:59:39.840 that to others is just galling yeah the uh you know the people that run businesses get singled

00:59:46.720 out because they support a cause and trying, you know, cancel people out. I still got a real

00:59:56.800 serious echo. I don't know why, but so sorry. I'm kind of. That's all right. You're coming in

01:00:05.940 quite clearly with us. I understand what's happening when you got a headset in and if

01:00:10.060 you got sound on a front speaker, you'll kind of get it going in your own head and it can make it

01:00:14.060 difficult to talk but if you kind of ignore your own voice and talk through it'll it'll kind of

01:00:18.100 work there it looks like you might have frozen up a little bit on us now though tom

01:00:20.880 okay tom's a bit frozen right now so he is having some some technical difficulties but i'll kind of

01:00:27.680 expand on what we had been talking about and as you said that there's a real problem with

01:00:32.800 canceling culture it's uh it's organized it's really harming some people and it's really

01:00:37.880 dragging them down uh i see movement again maybe tom's back here sorry sorry uh youtube was

01:00:43.980 running in the background. So I was literally listening to the show five minutes earlier and

01:00:49.000 live, which pretty well was driving me nuts. Okay. Sorry about that. No problem. So I was just

01:00:57.200 framing a little more on what's going on and how so badly some people are being damaged with

01:01:01.400 acts of cancel culture and just some of that atmosphere that's going on and the need to

01:01:07.520 finally push back rather than just keep falling victim to it. Yeah. Well, the thing that really

01:01:12.860 helped me go public with this this week was the New York Times of all places have changed massive

01:01:22.440 change in their editorial stance where they have officially come out against cancel culture and to

01:01:28.800 the point where it's actually risking democracy it's crush free speech it is fueling the anger

01:01:37.380 that's down in the states and the people think Canada's angry and and you've got the right left

01:01:42.340 fighting here if you know how countries devolve into civil war uh there are pockets of the states

01:01:51.260 that are ready to you know they're already armed up anyway but they're ready to go it's ugly just

01:01:56.240 completely ugly and so the new york times who actually took part in cancel culture uh encouraged

01:02:02.140 it fired their own editorial editor for ready for running the column from tom cotton which you know

01:02:09.400 You may hate his guts. Who cares? Doesn't matter. The thing about op ed pages, it used to be he said, she said, they said, we said it was all about pushing your button, getting you thinking, writing letters to the editor, having civil dissent towards against each other.

01:02:25.420 I mean, argue your points. And but The New York Times is blowing up in their face and mainstream media is taking a pounding because they actually help fuel cancel culture.

01:02:37.820 And now when you get something like the New York Times coming out and saying this is our editorial stance that we are going to fight cancel culture, and that includes going against Hollywood and all their supporters, it's a very good thing.

01:02:50.860 And so I'm sitting there going, wow, this idea of planning and trying to, you know, formalize just got endorsed by the New York Times of all places.

01:03:00.700 Well, yeah, and then for those who don't, you know, follow American media that much.

01:03:03.880 I mean, the New York Times is a very liberal publication.

01:03:07.500 And that incident that happened, I mean, I'm the opinion editor here at the Western Standard.

01:03:13.960 I check out those columns I choose, and they run.

01:03:17.660 But, I mean, I wouldn't be held responsible for what somebody else said on something I ran in here.

01:03:23.360 I mean, if I ran somebody on an inappropriate, Derek would take me aside and say, don't run that guy again.

01:03:28.900 But I wouldn't be swarmed and fired for it.

01:03:32.680 I mean, this was Cotton's point of view, not even the editor's point of view.

01:03:35.440 And the mob, though, just was unrelenting.

01:03:38.660 They came down and cost a man his career.

01:03:41.880 Right.

01:03:42.440 And I'm kind of thinking they need to hire him back, pay him out a whole lot of money

01:03:46.340 and pay him.

01:03:47.100 And why don't they put him in charge of their anti-woke cancel culture committee?

01:03:53.480 Why don't they make him editor-in-chief?

01:03:54.800 He knows what it's like to get fired for doing his job.

01:03:57.660 uh you know when your job is to collect editorials opinion pieces op ed that's why they call it that

01:04:04.500 and you're you you you mix it out there and let people have a discussion and you get fired for

01:04:11.980 actually doing your job it's like firing a chef for cooking you a steak well and it and it scares

01:04:17.540 people from discourse like i said if i got an op ed though i don't i won't hold my breath on it

01:04:21.800 happening but if rachel notley sent me one even if i didn't agree with her point of view and

01:04:26.000 everything in it. Of course, this is a person of importance. I would put that in there. And I know

01:04:29.720 a lot of readers would be outraged in seeing her name on our print, but I don't think they'd, for

01:04:34.220 one, I don't think they'd be calling for my cancellation over it. And I know I wouldn't

01:04:38.160 be cancelled in that case, but that's what it's come to with publications. They become terrified

01:04:42.120 of putting anything that might bring the mob on them. And that's bad for journalism all around.

01:04:47.240 Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. It brings one voice only. You know, I see radio programs. Daniel Smith is a guest on a podcast or a YouTube show. And people are canceling. I'm canceling my support for your Patreon support for the show. You just had a right lunatic on.

01:05:11.920 like daniel campbell is uh she's awesome i mean you know she's pretty damn balanced yeah she's 0.59

01:05:18.780 conservative yeah she's right wing you know no she's not gonna you know uh be best friends with 1.00

01:05:24.700 notley but rachel notley and the crew but she'd sit down and have dinner with them she wouldn't

01:05:30.060 throw eggs at them and stuff so there's no it's so much discourse uh just you know and so much

01:05:36.540 hatred and it's like if you don't vote for the ndp then you're hated you know before you used to be

01:05:44.620 able to talk politics now it's like forget it and you know after these protests that we've had and

01:05:50.860 and you know i hear people say oh i'm triggered when i see a flag flying on a car are you kidding

01:05:57.020 me you know like i'm ashamed i have to take my canadian flag down because i'm ashamed like

01:06:02.220 get over yourself seriously and then we've seen this infecting a lot of news you're an experienced

01:06:07.820 journalist you were uh in there for for decades um as well you know we have a number of people

01:06:12.620 here we're with the quetzal culture in the newsrooms and things it's actually sort of

01:06:16.460 helped us at the standard but it's ruined people's careers there was a long and i'm forgetting his

01:06:20.380 name it was a sub stack piece that was written uh by a gentleman who was i believe with the

01:06:24.940 vancouver sun he was there for decades and same sort of thing he ran a column that they didn't

01:06:29.820 agree with and uh it was some new news reporter who was woke and lost it and his editors they

01:06:34.460 threw him under the bus so fast decades of working there and his career was ruined it was just

01:06:39.420 unbelievable what could be done i mean there's no more loyalty when the mob comes yeah and i

01:06:45.500 yeah that's uh you know i i i am going to push back against uh cancel culture and group mobs and

01:06:55.500 you know what and am i worried about them coming after me bring it uh you know just you want it you

01:07:01.180 want to attack me just spell my name right you know i'm on twitter at yeg tom braid used to be

01:07:07.100 sun tom braid but when i left uh the sun media uh six years ago i i changed it so i'm yeg tom braid

01:07:16.540 and i i i i been trying it took me years to decompress from being a full-time journalist

01:07:22.140 i mean i was 24 7 that's all i did for 40 years i'm extremely boring person met my wife 38 years

01:07:29.740 ago been married 35 years uh you know been audited a couple times matter of fact they said we actually

01:07:35.500 owe you more money because you you took it too safe on your write-offs so like never been charged

01:07:40.540 with a criminal crime never been convicted of a criminal crime unlike elizabeth may and the mayor

01:07:46.140 of vancouver who have both been uh for protests by the way and then you get the mayor of vancouver

01:07:53.580 telling the protesters come in say what you want no one cares what you have to say and get lost no

01:07:58.060 one wants you here pretty rich from a guy that actually was charged and criminally convicted

01:08:03.020 of protesting the pipeline into sort mood so maybe we are hitting uh uh a turning point though a

01:08:11.020 tipping point as we said with the new york times like i i think some of these these liberal

01:08:15.100 publications that took gleeful part in the cancel culture and the swarmings the monster they created

01:08:21.260 has turned on themselves and they finally realized it i mean we have a more localized

01:08:25.260 example with uh ryan jesperson whose show is still down to this date because he he tweaked his own

01:08:31.340 audience and he didn't realize that he was uh you know the the mountain of cancellers he created

01:08:36.540 eventually is going to turn around and bite you and that's exactly what it did but maybe with

01:08:40.780 these incidents we can finally start to get some reason into people realize how destructive

01:08:45.820 this trend is yeah well i got back into it online last night i mean i jumped into the shallow end

01:08:53.260 head first um could have ended badly but uh you know people started the i mean there's all sorts

01:09:00.060 of people i'm speaking of triggered this is one person who identifies as stacy with the hair on

01:09:05.980 fire saying ryan jesperson has triggered her uh you know she's got serious uh mental issues and

01:09:13.580 and and it's pushing her to the edge and people are like oh my god don't hurt yourself brian's

01:09:18.780 such a bad guy this is a no name no face twitter account demanding an apology because he said

01:09:26.220 stacy with her hair on fire and she is self-identified he her i don't know this person

01:09:31.740 self-identified themselves as the Stacey with the hair on fire, which is not a person,

01:09:37.300 and how they've been hurt and wronged.

01:09:39.560 So they attached onto Sarah's situation where, you know, they definitely got into it on air.

01:09:47.160 She is not completely innocent in what happened.

01:09:49.780 She has to take responsibility too.

01:09:51.760 But it's all Ryan is the worst thing since sliced bread.

01:09:55.160 I mean, people have just been booting him while he's down.

01:09:57.420 Last night, people started – I wonder what Julie Rohr would do. 1.00

01:10:03.820 I wonder what she would say.

01:10:05.260 Now they're starting to put words in a dead woman's mouth. 0.72

01:10:08.200 I saw that was repugnant to invoke that.

01:10:11.600 That triggered me because I love Julie Rohr, and I was her instructor,

01:10:17.080 which is completely inappropriate to say that,

01:10:19.060 but I was her photojournalism instructor.

01:10:22.100 I was her job placement instructor.

01:10:26.040 I helped get, not get her, her talents got her the job, 0.99

01:10:29.800 but I was involved with helping her get her first full-time staff job 0.57

01:10:33.720 in Sherwood Park News.

01:10:36.180 People would remember her as Julie Rice, but her maiden name was Julie Rohr.

01:10:41.980 She fell in love with photography, told me she was going to become,

01:10:45.380 you know, in her class, and her class only had 84 hours over two semesters.

01:10:49.200 It's just a minor, minor part.

01:10:50.900 It was a writing course with a little sidebar of photography.

01:10:54.260 She said, you know, she's fell in love with photography.

01:10:56.380 I'm going to become a wedding photographer, a family photographer.

01:10:58.480 It's like, oh, my God, I'm trying to teach you how to shoot car crashes

01:11:00.780 and burning buildings and portraits, and now you're going to go off on a wedding thing.

01:11:04.960 And she actually left the news business and did that. 1.00

01:11:08.020 That's what she did.

01:11:09.220 She's a very inspirational person.

01:11:10.840 She's on Ryan Jesperson's editorial board.

01:11:13.660 People who don't know Julie Rohr's story, she did get cancer, fought it.

01:11:18.320 Two young kids, horrible.

01:11:20.320 She fought it head on.

01:11:23.780 you know walk to the valley of the shadow death i mean my god uh she was completely inspirational

01:11:29.620 she was the founder of the editorial board with ryan jesperson so now people oh my god what would

01:11:34.020 she say you know thinking she's going to crap all over ryan jesperson i i posted last night 0.83

01:11:40.500 the words that i knew her and i knew her enough that she would be really pissed off at how petty

01:11:46.260 this has become because you know what there are way bigger issues i mean how about fighting for

01:11:51.220 your life you know leaving a legacy for your two kids knowing you're going to die like julie would

01:11:56.420 have crushed these people and uh you know i i know what it's like to deal with a lot worse things i

01:12:03.620 mean i've worked as a journalist full-time for 40 years took me years decompressed from all the dead

01:12:08.820 people in my head uh you know i've survived war zones i'm coming up on my 30th anniversary of

01:12:14.500 of surviving an execution in Somalia, like a literally AK-47 in my forehead, click, click.

01:12:21.100 AK-47s don't misfire, but we had just survived a gun battle and ended up in this emergency war

01:12:28.080 with people bleeding and dying all around me. And the guy got pissed off that I took pictures.

01:12:32.120 And the next thing you know, I'm eating his AK-47, but he was out of bullets, I guess,

01:12:36.520 luckily. So, you know, that's 30 years of extra life. I mean, I, I'm, people want to come after

01:12:42.800 be i always tell him i'm already dead i died december 3rd 1992 every single day that i've

01:12:48.720 been alive since then has been a bonus i came back and really got involved in the community

01:12:53.600 was awarded the queen's golden jubilee medal fighting for a hospital in edmonton that took

01:12:58.080 care of severely disabled medically fragile children including my son who passed away at

01:13:02.720 16 and a half years old i go back to julie roar she she would ask me how do you keep going how

01:13:07.840 how can you work in such a negative job in journalism with so much bad stuff and you're

01:13:13.400 teaching on the side and you're working in the community and you're raising money for buses and 0.99

01:13:17.120 you know simple policy in my life is uh shit happens and then it happens to you you know no 0.97

01:13:24.820 no one's ever defined by what you do when something good happens when a hundred thousand 0.98

01:13:30.240 dollar scratching when who cares like you know but humans are defined by what they do when something

01:13:35.400 that happens to them you find out you find out who you really are well and then so now you're

01:13:41.880 you've reached another phase in your life and you want to make some some positive change

01:13:45.640 so getting on to we've established we know cancel culture is a problem we know

01:13:50.200 it is uh something that's got to be addressed we know that some institutions are finally coming up

01:13:55.160 to face it so how are you setting things up and how can we push back like how do we fight back

01:14:00.680 against it you know i i'm gonna have different news feeds um kate uh you know case features

01:14:11.880 because you know people don't have to hire me to protect them online but there's case studies

01:14:16.200 ryan jesperson's an incredible case study because it's actually the far left the woke

01:14:23.160 you know whatever people call them you know the snowflakes i hate all these you know stacy with

01:14:28.360 with her hair on fire, Karen's, I hate all that stuff, you know, using the names. But, you know,

01:14:34.440 it's an incredible case study, because Ryan has been involved with cancel culture. Mike Nichols,

01:14:42.060 one down, one to go, right after he lost his mayor, the other one to go is Jason Kenney. I mean,

01:14:47.380 really over the top hatred of Jason Kenney and the whole government, he wants UCP gone. So

01:14:55.380 basically he's a promoter for the NDP because it's the only other party that can win you know he

01:15:02.200 the show is definitely left-leaning and uh you know they got all sorts of hot topics and you

01:15:08.920 know it's it it's been quite entertaining and frustrating at times to watch as well

01:15:14.880 but his own woke mob literally turned on him and they they're still kicking him because he

01:15:22.680 He went on the air yesterday and said, okay, we're retooling.

01:15:26.180 He didn't use the right word.

01:15:27.400 Now people are crapping on him for that.

01:15:30.020 I'll just go back to Julie Rohr real quickly.

01:15:31.740 Sorry for getting extended.

01:15:32.980 But within a half an hour, I was unbelievable.

01:15:36.220 Julie's mother came out and endorsed my quote, my tweet, like, leave her the hell out of this. 0.99

01:15:46.080 And she would be pissed off.

01:15:47.440 And Julie's mother said, I believe in the sentiment of this, you know, this tweet.

01:15:55.580 And for what it's worth, Ryan, I want you back on the air.

01:15:58.700 For what it's worth, that means a lot.

01:16:01.180 And, you know, people back the hell off, time out, leave her out of it. 0.90

01:16:04.980 You know, like when you start reaching for, geez, I wonder what this dead person who used to be really close to Ryan would say.

01:16:11.800 Would she pile on?

01:16:13.040 That was the insinuation.

01:16:14.780 No.

01:16:15.040 and her mother agrees yeah well and it shows some of i mean as i've described it before when the mob

01:16:22.160 really gets moving on somebody and they really have as you said it's a great case study i'm

01:16:25.200 looking forward to documenting it because we've got to show all these examples so people understand

01:16:28.520 what's been happening facts brain grabs yeah they get so wound up that they feel entitled and then

01:16:35.660 and they set aside i think you know the person who brought her up might if they were calm realize

01:16:40.200 this invoking and trying to speak with the voice of somebody who's passed away is an extreme poor

01:16:45.960 taste to say the very least and you're not nobody can do that when somebody is gone no matter what

01:16:51.700 you may think and just don't go there but they were swarming they felt indignant they felt entitled

01:16:57.120 and they didn't think twice before doing something as as as cruel as that yeah you know they everybody

01:17:04.040 feels untouchable because they it's like the mob beatings you know once oh you get to kick the guy

01:17:09.040 no one's going to do anything it's like unbelievable ryan didn't help himself by

01:17:13.380 staying silent for six days before saying by the way and he and he did it on ryan jesperson

01:17:20.100 twitter feed not even his real talk the show and the last week ryan has blocked me sarah blocked

01:17:27.460 me and i'm out supporting ryan to a point but um you know he blocked me because i put a poll up i

01:17:35.060 also published his numbers on twitter on on youtube i mean the show was already in trouble

01:17:39.880 uh when they launched over a year ago this is before sarah started by the way it these are

01:17:45.920 facts when they when he launched over a year ago he had six eight ten plus thousand views on just

01:17:52.940 youtube i'm not talking about all of his downloads on podcasts because it's impossible to find those

01:17:57.860 numbers right now unless he releases them he he had uh numerous shows that had 25 000 hits on

01:18:05.000 youtube okay a year later march 1st they had 1100 views you're getting 2000

01:18:12.920 uh and then the rest of the month before this blew up he was getting 2000 2500 1800 views

01:18:22.520 that's a pretty big drop from 25,000 when you when you survive on clicks uh you know when they

01:18:28.420 rolled out the headlines were and his edify feature and stuff number four in canada he beat

01:18:33.520 oprah number four in canada for news entertainment it's entertainment news and entertainment it's

01:18:39.120 not his he doesn't have a news show he has an opinion show and make that straight that is not

01:18:45.340 a news show uh you know he doesn't have a newsroom like you do you actually throw to news reporters

01:18:50.780 um you know it it's it's opinion and that's fine people you know that msnbc rachel not or you know

01:18:59.220 maddo uh tucker carlson it's opinion it's the nice news and more opinion or the feeling of you

01:19:07.000 know the more the merrier if you don't like his content i wasn't big on it but just don't follow

01:19:12.160 it i don't want to see it canceled i don't want to see it gone it represents a segment of people

01:19:16.500 who wanted to watch that he he interviews a lot of guests and goes into subjects that i certainly

01:19:21.240 wouldn't and and likewise i cover some areas that he just won't the more stories the more shows the

01:19:27.460 more uh you know broadness we have in the social media world or just new media world the better

01:19:33.300 and when you know as much as i'm not a fan of ryan it's a loss when his show is gone and these guys

01:19:39.800 realize absolutely i get and i can tell you right now that in the power war room and the mdp the

01:19:45.420 The Alberta NDP, they are not happy.

01:19:48.480 I mean, nobody from the NDP has gotten involved as far as I can see with the pile on or defense.

01:19:54.480 I don't want to defend them because there's too many angry women out there right now and men that are pulling. 1.00

01:20:03.600 You know, he's lost sponsors, you know, and, you know, he's lost Patreon sponsors.

01:20:10.920 You know, he's paid financially.

01:20:12.580 But, I mean, Sarah is, you know, this goes down.

01:20:18.160 She's lost her own job on a live broadcast that there was a meltdown, you know, 0.77

01:20:26.880 like an emotional, like very emotional live TV.

01:20:31.680 They stopped.

01:20:32.760 She stopped him dead and demanded for him to say what she wanted him to say.

01:20:37.360 Can you imagine, Ian, if Naylor right now cut in and told you what to say

01:20:43.460 and you don't even know what he's talking about?

01:20:45.700 Like, it was unprofessional.

01:20:48.460 I mean, he had – Ryan had two live guests, one of them on his editorial,

01:20:52.920 one of the heads of his editorial board, and Tristan,

01:20:56.940 a high-profile National Post author, writer, and they were live on deck.

01:21:05.100 he was looking at them and then all of a sudden he was stopped like blah he didn't know what to do

01:21:11.700 he he it stunned him and and unfortunately they do all of their advertising live or like you do

01:21:19.100 if they had pre pre-rolled advertising where he you know was at the car dealership and talked

01:21:24.680 about cars and had video clips they could have cut away and said we'll be right back they couldn't

01:21:29.660 It was just stunned silence, fumbling.

01:21:33.520 And then, you know, he said, okay, yeah.

01:21:35.960 I mean, Cody the cowboy or whatever the hell the guy's name is, you know, 0.85

01:21:40.180 he said that Sarah was racist. 1.00

01:21:44.840 Stupid words. 1.00

01:21:46.360 But, you know, she's not racist. 1.00

01:21:48.420 But what do you call a woman who hates white males with beards that want to 1.00

01:21:55.560 start a blog? 0.98

01:21:56.820 What is that?

01:21:57.780 That's something.

01:21:58.220 It's not racist.

01:21:59.660 she's white he's white but it's definitely something and not terribly tolerant so we're 1.00

01:22:05.740 kind of hitting the clock here though yeah lots to cover yeah the you know i'm gonna i'm gonna

01:22:11.020 have a counselor of the month award uh their case studies will be done their name you know

01:22:17.340 the same stuff they do where they work if they own a business general public can soak it all in and

01:22:23.260 and do what they want

01:22:24.660 because the general public does that.

01:22:27.880 You know, Mike Tyson's got a famous quote

01:22:32.040 and it's, everybody's got a plan

01:22:34.300 until you get punched in the face, you know? 0.99

01:22:37.980 And bullies, bullies, Sarah was being a bully 1.00

01:22:41.820 and this guy said, you're racist. 0.99

01:22:44.560 So he punched her in the face, 0.98

01:22:46.020 not literally, but figuratively.

01:22:49.020 She got very emotional on air

01:22:50.780 and now they're off the air.

01:22:53.260 And the pylon, you know, before Sarah blocked me, I read a tweet from her where people said, he apologized.

01:23:03.800 Not fast enough.

01:23:05.960 He's got to be held accountable.

01:23:08.080 You work there.

01:23:09.580 The accountability is he goes off the air.

01:23:11.500 Now you don't work.

01:23:13.260 And when you work as a producer in the media business, you know, I'm honest to God.

01:23:21.780 Sure, I know that.

01:23:23.260 i mean who wants a time bomb in their uh studio well you know the cbc there's got to be a show

01:23:29.040 there where you know you get a fired up you know extremely left-wing vegan electric car driving

01:23:34.860 woke person you know hey there's an audience for that yeah um you know and ryan when it when that

01:23:42.960 argument first happened ryan was like this is awesome this is he said she said there's been

01:23:48.320 lots of good you know tv shows columns and stuff like that but it ryan wasn't looking at it the

01:23:53.520 way his supporters and and and the woke mob saw it and now he's off the air and i do hope it comes

01:24:00.140 back i don't know it's going to come back damaged but i hope it comes back because the the opposing

01:24:07.160 opposing voices are important i mean six months ago if you told me i would be on your studio

01:24:12.900 in your brand new studio on air as you guys grow and ryan jesperson will be dark and off the air

01:24:20.340 i would have called the best psychologist i could have found for you because that is insane talk

01:24:26.160 you know and and ryan when he started number four on the podcast list if you go to apple podcast

01:24:34.880 right now he's not even on the top 100 so i don't know his i don't know his listeners the numbers

01:24:40.960 I can, you know, guess that YouTube with his 2,000 to 2,500 daily listeners now instead of 10 to 25,000 is a fair, I mean, you can't lie.

01:24:53.120 YouTube is, the counts are there, you know, so are the podcasts dropped as much?

01:24:57.720 He's off the top 100, you know, so hopefully he comes back because there's an election coming in up and quite frankly, the NDP need him.

01:25:08.180 He'll have a lot to cover.

01:25:09.600 okay before you go here then quickly a couple of commenters saying where can we find you and dash

01:25:13.920 yeah saying we should insert the links in the chat box we're getting better with those things

01:25:16.800 and that but uh yeah that website again because you got that case study to begin with and uh

01:25:21.840 we can keep yeah the website is just it's dark right now but it's active but it says coming soon

01:25:27.920 um so it's onlineprotectionservices.com okay and .ca as well but anyway .com

01:25:37.360 um on twitter i started an account it's at online protection 99 because that's as many characters as

01:25:47.440 they'd let me i i couldn't so online protection 99 i am yeg tom braid that's been active for a long

01:25:56.960 long long time that's a twitter account well thanks for the work and the initiative i'm

01:26:02.880 looking forward to it and we will definitely follow it as you document and move and uh give

01:26:07.520 us ways to push back against this this odious trend that we've got going on so thanks for the

01:26:12.240 time to come in to talk to me today tom and i'll let you get on with enjoying the weekend hey thank

01:26:16.960 you very much right on thanks so yeah that was uh tom braid again a well-established journalist

01:26:24.000 up in edmonton and again really pushing back on that cancel culture that trend uh something when

01:26:28.960 when I, when I talked to Tom on the radio, like the entitlement, the lack of hesitation is this,

01:26:33.820 this remorseless, almost sociopathic approach for some people when they feel entitled to rip

01:26:40.560 somebody down because they disagree with something they did. I, I, an example of my own a couple of

01:26:44.780 years ago, I wore a branded shirt from a company and I'd done a Facebook video where I was making

01:26:51.340 fun of Trudeau. Hey, something new, right? And this, some liberal got so upset. She actually 1.00

01:26:56.820 tracked down the company that was on my t-shirt and phoned them and demanded that I be fired.

01:27:01.060 I didn't even work there. I didn't even work there. But it shows the mental fixations that

01:27:07.560 people have. You felt entitled to try and reach out and wreck my life. You wanted to make me

01:27:14.100 unemployed because you didn't like my political point of view. There is something terribly wrong

01:27:20.540 with you. And as Tom brought up, somebody else got so worked up, thought it was okay to bring

01:27:25.700 up the name of somebody who passed away and try to speak on their behalf. Like, who do you think

01:27:32.420 you are? You can't do that. Don't you dare do that. But when people get into the mob, the

01:27:38.440 pitchforks, the torches, they stop caring about anybody else anymore. They're just fixated on

01:27:44.200 tearing down and destroying somebody else. Tom's analogy was right. You know, when you see those

01:27:48.460 horrible videos now and then of a swarming, when a group of people get together and start kicking

01:27:52.260 somebody when they're down they all just feed off each other and it gets worse and worse and we're

01:27:56.780 seeing that we see that we've got a local recent example with with with ryan jesperson and we see

01:28:01.360 it all over the place with all sorts of other publications and people so uh yeah it's gonna

01:28:06.000 be interesting seeing a way to uh yeah brad's saying it doesn't come up he's uh just uh building

01:28:11.080 it it's a it's a parked website i'll be tweeting it and so on as as uh tom starts uh populating it

01:28:16.540 and filling it because it's a void you know so he's actually looking at providing a service to

01:28:19.840 protect companies and people from the mob because it really is a damaging thing. So we've run things

01:28:25.980 out, guys. We're up against the weekend, which is good. It's been a long week and we got a lot

01:28:30.820 more breaking. Be sure to watch. We're going to be live streaming from the Western Standard with

01:28:34.840 Jason Kenney's press conference this afternoon. It's supposed to start at 3, so I would imagine

01:28:38.980 3.10, but you should probably get on early. You never know. He might be on time for a change. He's

01:28:42.980 got a lot of things he's got to change if he wants to keep his darn job. So that's going to be 0.98

01:28:46.920 breaking. We don't know what he's going to be saying today. I don't know. I threw one out there

01:28:51.700 in the newsroom. Nobody believed me. And I'm probably still wrong. I think he's on the brink

01:28:55.500 of resigning. But that wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. We'll see. It could be just more fluff

01:29:01.180 and campaigning and trying to save his butt as this leadership review nightmare carries on. But 0.97

01:29:07.100 that conference is going to be this afternoon. We'll be, of course, streaming it, covering it,

01:29:10.420 and writing on it live. Many, many other stories. As we saw, we got a great guy in Saskatchewan

01:29:14.720 on Monday. I'm going to be talking actually to our Ottawa columnist, David Creighton,

01:29:19.760 our senior parliamentary one. He's been writing a number of columns you can find

01:29:23.000 online, of course, at thewesternstandardonline.com. And I'll be talking to Charlie Pester from

01:29:28.560 Points. He's, it's quietly something else that's happened is the ND or the NDP, the UCP government

01:29:34.520 has backed down on their plan to get rid of traffic court. They kind of scrapped it and

01:29:38.260 shuffled it off to the side. Not saying a heck of a lot about that, but I'm going to talk to somebody

01:29:42.260 who, well, his specialty is dealing with traffic courts and traffic tickets and get that perspective

01:29:47.120 on just what happened there and whether the government's going to try and come back after

01:29:50.340 this again. So be sure to tune in Monday morning, guys, at 1130 a.m. Thank you all for tuning in

01:29:54.980 with me today, and we will see you then. Have a good weekend. Don't forget to turn on the lights

01:29:58.960 for Earth Day.

01:30:12.260 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - March 26, 2022

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