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00:00:30.000 good morning it's february 24th 2022 and welcome to triggered i'm cory morgan looks like the

00:00:38.260 weather's breaking a little that deep freeze is gone but uh the rest of the world is heating up

00:00:43.440 what a crazy crazy news time we've got going on all over the world and within canada there's that

00:00:49.680 old what chinese curse and blessing at the same time of wishing somebody to live in interesting 0.98

00:00:54.420 times well we've certainly got that and we'll be talking about a lot of it in the show today 0.76

00:00:59.440 This show, by the way, for those who are new to it, comes every day at 11.30 a.m. live, Monday to Friday.

00:01:05.320 We have a variety of guests on.

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00:01:12.620 Put your questions in there.

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00:01:15.460 That's part of the fun of a live broadcast.

00:01:17.800 If I can, I can try to get some questions from the commenters to guests or address them while I can.

00:01:22.900 But, of course, we don't necessarily get to them all.

00:01:24.900 And, again, try and keep it civil, though.

00:01:26.920 We're all here together.

00:01:28.880 My first guest today is going to be Marco Navarro-Gini. He's a political scientist and we are going to talk about the mess in Ottawa, the political situation, the emergency act.

00:01:38.140 It's on again. It's off again. It's going to make it through the Senate. Jagmeet's an ally. Jagmeet's a putt. It's not looking good for him.

00:01:44.820 So we're going to have some good discussion going on there. Western Standard columnist David Makachuk is going to come on.

00:01:50.480 He talks and writes about our international issues in depth quite a bit.

00:01:54.180 He's a very experienced journalist, and he's been talking to some of his colleagues or former colleagues in ABC and other broadcasters about, of course, the situation with Russia invading Ukraine right now.

00:02:04.640 Just madness going on in Europe.

00:02:07.960 Cameron James, you might remember him last week.

00:02:10.340 He was checking in, giving us live updates on the ground from the Ottawa protests.

00:02:15.020 He was out there interviewing people, talking to them, videoing, taking pictures.

00:02:19.940 He's with Indy News Now, and he's going to come on and talk about what he saw as the

00:02:24.720 protests were dismantled, I guess you could say, by police and the rest, and what's remaining

00:02:29.680 out there, what's going on, because they're not all necessarily gone yet.

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00:03:27.460 bitcoinwell.com. Hey there, Gloria from New Brunswick. Great to see people all the way out 1.00

00:03:31.220 on the other end of the country listening to us. I know we stay focused on a lot of Western issues,

00:03:36.100 but we do look great across the whole country. So let's talk about news and how it's just so

00:03:42.540 pact right now. We're experiencing a news overload. Russia's invading Ukraine, and what's the most

00:03:48.840 aggressive expansionist move we've seen from a nation in Europe since 1939? The implications

00:03:54.220 are huge, and the whole world's on edge. Our federal government's in full circus mode right

00:03:58.640 now as the prime minister managed to strong-arm the Emergencies Act through parliament, only to

00:04:03.500 abandon the act less than 48 hours later. The Truckers for Freedom protests, they've been

00:04:08.920 quelled for now, but the repercussions of the government actions to quell it are still being

00:04:12.920 felt by many. Organizers remain in jail while supporters continue to have their financial assets

00:04:17.780 frozen. More protests are sure to come, but we don't know what form they're going to come in and

00:04:21.860 how they might impact us. The pandemic seems to be winding down, but some restrictions are still

00:04:27.640 remaining and infections are continuing, even if they're less aggressive for now. So in light of

00:04:32.320 all of that, people can be forgiven for forgetting that Canada just experienced one of the most

00:04:37.400 aggressive and chilling acts of eco-terrorism in history last week. Now, while we can forgive

00:04:42.440 people, we can't let them forget this. We have to keep this in the scroll. For those who saw,

00:04:48.320 you know, it was overrun in the news, just to give a recap of what happened. Last week in northern

00:04:52.180 BC, at a remote pipeline construction site, over 20 eco-terrorists carried out an armed attack

00:04:57.600 against security members and pipeline workers. It was in what was a chillingly well-coordinated

00:05:02.480 assault. Terrorists in matching outfits descended on workers on the coastal gas link site, armed

00:05:08.000 with axes in the middle of the night. They smashed windows out of vehicles while people were in them

00:05:11.780 and fired incendiary devices into them. This is scary stuff. It appears they gained access to a

00:05:17.380 piece of heavy equipment and used that to smash other pieces of equipment, including trailers

00:05:20.520 that very well could have housed people at that time. The terrorists had also blocked the road

00:05:25.440 with fallen trees and they set traps of sorts to hinder any police response. They attacked

00:05:30.460 responding police members with smoke bombs and injured one of them. It's a wonder after all of

00:05:34.760 that that nobody was actually killed. Every single one of those terrorists escaped capture.

00:05:40.680 This incident should be dominating national news. We have at least 20 dangerous individuals at large

00:05:47.640 who have proven themselves willing to carry out potentially murderous terrorist acts.

00:05:52.600 These are extreme people and there can be little doubt that they have further violent acts planned

00:05:56.740 for pipeline construction sites. The RCMP have been virtually silent on this incident, likely

00:06:01.520 because they're still tied up with hundreds of officers trying to come home from their actions

00:06:04.640 in Ottawa. That the timing of the attack on the CGL site coincided with the police actions in

00:06:11.060 Canada's capital is likely not a coincidence. These terrorists knew police resources would be

00:06:15.560 limited. Has there been a task force set up to capture and charge these terrorists? Are large

00:06:20.600 numbers of police officers descending upon and settling into locations along the pipeline route

00:06:24.540 in order to keep the workers safe until these terrorists have been apprehended?

00:06:28.400 We've known, have any known environmental extremists been taken in for questioning?

00:06:33.680 I mean, one only needs to look at a guest list from any Extinction Rebellion gathering to find some.

00:06:38.500 These are the activists that David Suzuki addressed on the day when he was speculating about pipelines being blown up.

00:06:43.600 While Canada used every power at its disposal to shut down peaceful protests in Ottawa,

00:06:48.780 it continues to treat eco-terrorists with kid gloves.

00:06:52.140 Extremists in the eco-movement are feeling emboldened, and why shouldn't they?

00:06:55.380 They rarely face charges with their illegal actions, much less convictions.

00:06:58.940 They're going to continue to push the limits, and no legal authority appears to be willing to draw a line in the sand with them.

00:07:05.160 I'm certain that police forces are actively trying to track down and arrest these terrorists.

00:07:09.180 What are they getting the resources they need?

00:07:11.200 Do they have political support?

00:07:12.680 We need politicians standing and demanding action on these terrorists as vociferously as they did with the Ottawa protesters in their bouncy castles.

00:07:19.680 So far, all we've heard were the usual short statements condemning violence and nothing more.

00:07:24.240 The issue hasn't vanished.

00:07:25.600 It's only going to get more acute, and ignoring it is not going to make it go away.

00:07:29.800 It's hard to keep track of everything as the world appears intent upon descending into a form of madness.

00:07:35.220 But we still have to look at all issues and prioritize our attention and responses to them.

00:07:39.920 If the budding eco-terrorist campaign in northern BC continues to fly under the radar,

00:07:44.640 we're going to see somebody killed soon.

00:07:46.240 It won't be a matter of if, it's going to be a matter of when.

00:07:48.240 and the authorities can't pretend that they didn't see it coming. That's what's got me triggered

00:07:53.240 today. Now let's get on to that busy, busy newsroom. We're going to check in with Melanie

00:07:59.120 Rizdin there and see what they're working on. There's just so much to keep up over there. Hey

00:08:04.060 Mel, how you doing? Good. How are you? Oh, pretty good. Triggered as usual, but that's the name of

00:08:09.420 the show and that's what I'm all about. So you guys I know have been scrambling. I was in there

00:08:14.180 just before I came over to do the show here.

00:08:16.620 What stories are top in the list for you right now?

00:08:19.380 Well, of course, yeah, we've been very busy this morning

00:08:22.360 with the invasion of Russia into Ukraine.

00:08:27.380 We have been following that extensively,

00:08:30.000 and we've got statements from some leaders throughout Canada.

00:08:35.000 We've got statements from Trudeau, Kenny,

00:08:38.000 Michelle Rempelthardner, MP,

00:08:39.420 even Calgary's mayor has chimed in on their condemnation for what is happening over in

00:08:47.140 Ukraine right now. So we've got that up on the site there. And of course, we will be following

00:08:51.200 it very closely throughout the day. And we'll have any breaking news or updates out very,

00:08:55.920 very quickly. We also have up on the site, the launch of the very first Canadian made COVID-19

00:09:03.900 vaccine that was approved by health canada and will be brought into circulation in canada so

00:09:10.460 we've got information on uh on that new vaccine a couple of great columns to check out we've got

00:09:16.700 a column up from our columnist linda slobodian she is taking aim at trudeau uh of course for uh

00:09:23.980 everything that sort of happened with the emergencies act bringing it in uh bringing it

00:09:28.220 out within two days of it being voted in. And she talks about how Trudeau is showing his cowardice.

00:09:35.660 So you can check that one out. We also have a column from our Mike Thomas. He's taking aim at

00:09:41.420 Calgary's mayor, Jody Gondek. And this is with regard to her comments, just as ACERT was starting

00:09:49.600 to investigate a police shooting that left a man dead. Now, there were a lot of circumstances

00:09:55.920 is happening uh it looked as though the uh the man was was going to attack police he had already

00:10:01.760 attacked and stabbed one of the police officers canine uh dogs officers so uh yeah the the column

00:10:10.160 from mike is basically calling out gondack saying she really has no place to question police action

00:10:15.600 that led to this shooting especially before anything's even been uh thoroughly investigated

00:10:21.120 for that uh and we've got uh a reporter eva she has a story coming up where she's spoken to some

00:10:30.320 uh some people some immigrants here living in uh in calgary or in canada i think uh i think it's

00:10:35.760 calgary but they have they have families still in ukraine so she's getting uh some some sort of

00:10:42.400 first-hand comments and uh and discussion with uh some immigrants with what they are uh seeing and

00:10:50.080 what their family is dealing with back in Ukraine right now. And we've got some other stories that

00:10:56.080 we're going to have coming up here very quickly. Minimum wage is going up in Canada, Alberta for

00:11:04.640 workers on April 1st. It's going up to $16 per hour. Just to correct, that's a federal thing

00:11:11.760 going on though. That's not Alberta. Thank you. Federal workers. We don't want to get our businesses 1.00

00:11:15.440 uh worrying that they may have yes we certainly don't thank you okay yes and then uh we have a

00:11:21.200 petition coming up uh from the canadian taxpayer federation to get people to sign and look to

00:11:28.800 defund the cbc well i'm looking forward to defunding the cbc one of these days that institution

00:11:35.200 has to be dried up i mean if it's that good you know viewers would uh follow up and they'd be

00:11:38.720 fine without taking our tax dollars you would think yeah that's right uh we also just got a

00:11:43.680 story out here very recently police in Edmonton there was a shooting that happened recently and

00:11:51.760 armed they were chasing an armed man he was apprehended and they ended up having to

00:11:57.280 shoot him outside of a building but a stray bullet has actually gone through the building

00:12:02.560 and has hit a bystander killing him as well so just a horrible story there you know a very

00:12:09.920 very sad story uh just a one in a million chance that this could something like this could happen

00:12:15.520 and we have those details up on the site now as well yeah no it's been tragic i i followed that

00:12:21.520 story i saw amber posted that our edmonton correspondent she's uh of course very busy

00:12:25.840 with the budget we're going to have that coming out today and she'll be uh posting updates and

00:12:29.200 news on that i imagine uh yes she will she will have information on the budget coming up this

00:12:34.240 afternoon excellent well i'll let you get back to digging through all of that news melanie thank

00:12:39.520 thank you very much for checking in with us today. Anytime. Great. That's our Melanie Riston. And

00:12:45.660 I'll just remind everybody, you go to the westernstandardonline.com to get these news

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00:13:36.280 so yes busy busy news day you know and it's been a couple of stories a couple of police shootings

00:13:43.060 and you know the police I mean I have a mixed relationship with them as well as a libertarian

00:13:48.740 minded guy I always worry about too much force or overreach but at the same time those guys have got

00:13:53.840 a tough thankless job we're asking them to go into dangerous situations rough situations

00:14:00.440 they're not respected they're often you know spit on assaulted uh and they get into no-win

00:14:06.000 circumstances you know we saw that tragedy in calgary with that that poor man it sounds like

00:14:10.180 he had uh mental health issues and and things like that going on and uh he ended up shot the

00:14:16.800 problem is people uh um jump to conclusions as we saw with jody gondick and you gotta remember

00:14:23.780 she's a big defund the police supporter that's her big thing she wanted you know defunding them

00:14:28.420 isn't going to make them any better okay there's room to improve the police but taking away their

00:14:32.220 funding isn't the way to do it I mean do we want to increase training for cases when we have people

00:14:36.040 who have mental health challenges absolutely you know do we want to give more resources but

00:14:40.540 defunding them that makes it worse that makes them underfunded uh going into dangerous situations

00:14:46.020 perhaps under trained things like that but our mayor is an ideologue and she jumped on this when

00:14:50.740 the facts haven't come in yet and it's just wrong it's just wrong I mean there should be some

00:14:55.000 examination and introspection. Maybe police should have done something different. We'll find out over

00:14:58.940 time. But to have the mayor jump in and start stirring around with that is terribly irresponsible

00:15:02.860 when we don't have the facts in. And the same with Edmonton. I mean, this sounds awful. It sounds

00:15:07.140 like a bystander was shot inadvertently and as well as the offender. You know, the police

00:15:13.400 typically do not want to shoot and kill people. That's not what they're out to do.

00:15:17.720 But when left with no choice with an armed person, that's the outcome sometimes. I see a question

00:15:22.080 from Tisha Snave asking if there's protection that the government won't freeze Bitcoin.

00:15:26.580 As far as I could tell, and that's what we were talking about before with digital currencies,

00:15:30.040 the governments are coming after our banks. You got to remember they're going after the banks

00:15:32.940 because they're federally regulated and that's how they can force the banks to cooperate with them.

00:15:36.880 But the banks have no knowledge or access to digital currencies that you may own.

00:15:41.820 Now, if you take those currencies out and convert them and put them into a bank account,

00:15:45.500 they could become vulnerable. But these digital currency places, and there was a great tweet,

00:15:49.900 and I can't remember the name of that digital currency one in particular, but they basically

00:15:54.200 came out and said, we don't know, you know, we don't track that. It's non-custodial. We're just

00:15:59.220 the intermediary. We help people buy it. Once they have it, we can't, we couldn't share information

00:16:03.740 with the government, even if we wanted to, it's not ours to share. So your digital currency should

00:16:08.140 be safe. Just be careful to not let them get into some of the central banks, I guess. And that's

00:16:14.780 where your hard-earned money could go at risk. So I'm going to speak quickly to one more sponsor

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00:17:39.020 in we've got a lot of political babbling to get on with and that's uh marco navarro genie let's

00:17:45.480 pull him into the feed hey marco how you doing i am doing great how are you very good uh we seem

00:17:51.860 to have lost him for a moment we had a bit of an echo there i think he's just gotta fix up a

00:17:56.340 technical thing so marco's been uh he's written columnists columns for the western standard and

00:18:00.860 he has them in other areas if you search him out he's a political scientist and very outspoken on

00:18:07.480 on political issues in general. Of course, we've got a lot to cover right now. And, you know,

00:18:12.960 what happened in Ottawa? Why did Trudeau create such a hill to die on with the Emergencies Act

00:18:18.200 only to back off and repeal his own legislation within less than 48 hours later? We don't know.

00:18:27.560 And hopefully we can talk about it pretty soon. And I'm sure he's just reconnecting at this time.

00:18:34.240 So these are some of the challenges of a live show.

00:18:36.340 Helps me try to learn how to babble on my feet.

00:18:38.980 So just to recap for that.

00:18:40.680 Oh, there we go again.

00:18:41.560 I think we've got them now.

00:18:43.380 So let's pull them in.

00:18:44.260 Hey, is that a little better for you, Marco?

00:18:45.880 Yes, that's way better.

00:18:47.980 I must have clicked on something.

00:18:49.780 That was totally my bad.

00:18:50.900 I apologize about that.

00:18:51.900 Oh, it's quite all right.

00:18:52.780 These technical things, as we get a little grayer, it gets a little tougher for us.

00:18:56.320 But you're coming in loud and clear now.

00:18:58.720 Excellent.

00:18:59.480 Good to be here.

00:19:00.760 Great.

00:19:01.080 Great. And, you know, just as I was talking to the guests about how you, or the viewers on how, you know, you've been an outspoken active political scientist on political circumstances for quite some years in Canada, and you've had a lot to say, and something we really need to break down is what the hell happened?

00:19:17.420 What had gone on in this last five days where we went from suddenly having to turn the whole country upside down to ram this Emergencies Act through Parliament, only to find out that apparently we don't need it 48 hours later?

00:19:29.700 It's the most bizarre thing that I've witnessed in a long time.

00:19:34.100 I mean, if you backtrack a little more, you might remember that for the first few days,

00:19:38.140 the prime minister seemed to have been hiding under his bed somewhere and invoking, since

00:19:44.200 we're going to use that word a lot, that he had COVID and whatnot.

00:19:49.000 And then so he went from totally hiding to then full on, there is an emergency, the world

00:19:55.320 is coming to an end, we have to do this.

00:19:58.820 And then, of course, finally getting some measure of approval on the floor of the House of Commons, which, by the way, in no way signifies that Parliament approved the Emergencies Act.

00:20:11.500 It needs to go through the Senate to be fully approved.

00:20:14.760 So that was only the House.

00:20:16.520 And then two days later, bang, we switch it off and everything should be back to normal, they claim.

00:20:23.980 and they're making the claim that the opposition was making before,

00:20:27.660 which was there is no need for the Emergencies Act.

00:20:30.640 We can deal with all of this under existing legislation.

00:20:34.720 Indeed, that's what happened in Coutts.

00:20:36.300 That's what happened on the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor.

00:20:42.340 So there really was no need for the Emergencies Act at all.

00:20:47.400 Yeah, well, a couple of hours before Prime Minister Trudeau came out

00:20:52.280 announced that they're going to get rid of the emergencies act uh one of the uh appointed uh

00:20:56.840 liberal appointed i guess they're supposedly independent senators uh came out and said he was

00:21:00.680 going to vote against the imposition of that act and the invocation of it i wonder if i mean we

00:21:05.640 can only guess but maybe they're getting rumblings that this might not pass the senate and if that

00:21:09.400 got shut down in the senate it would be quite an embarrassment for the prime minister yeah i i've

00:21:14.120 heard about that of course our our brilliant uh senator uh from edmonton has already dismissed that

00:21:20.920 Paula Simms and saying that there's there's no evidence. Of course there is no evidence,

00:21:26.520 but the reality is this. The debate was going on in the Senate when the announcement was made.

00:21:35.720 If the Prime Minister was fully confident that the debate in the Senate was going to go his way,

00:21:44.200 he would have waited a few more hours, maybe an extra day to make the announcement,

00:21:50.360 and that would have given him essentially more robust support for the for the move of the

00:21:56.760 Emergencies Act. But the fact that they did not wait and could not wait, and you know as soon as

00:22:03.000 the senator from Newfoundland was done, yeah an independent senator speaking on behalf of the

00:22:09.880 government, that is so bizarre as well, got up and said that they were withdrawing the motion.

00:22:14.200 So there may be some truth to the rumor that the prime minister was afraid of losing the vote in the Senate,

00:22:23.200 which essentially means that a lot of these decisions that were made out of the PMO during this crisis were made out of fear and not necessarily out of a reasoned analysis.

00:22:34.200 Yeah, they're always reactionary rather than planned, and this was clearly not planned.

00:22:38.200 planned. I mean, as you said, liberal appointed senators, at least, were in the midst of preparing

00:22:43.960 their speeches. They were getting ready to talk, and this rug got pulled out from them. They did

00:22:47.200 not see this coming. I can't believe that the prime minister's office thought that morning that

00:22:50.880 that's what they were going to do. Another thing that somebody, people speculated on, Bonnie Dermott,

00:22:55.660 one of our commenters, it says, what about the bank run? And we've heard that perhaps there's

00:22:59.020 a lot of pressure from banks and so on, because they're saying, you know, this is putting us a lot

00:23:03.500 of instability into the economy and mistrust, because we don't know how long this is going to

00:23:07.040 go on and this act empowers you to seize accounts. And they took him aside and had some solid

00:23:12.220 discussions with him. I mean, it's only speculation, but that would have put pressure on him indeed.

00:23:17.400 There is some truth to it. I mean, you know, sort of informally, we all have friends who were saying,

00:23:23.000 I'm going to go to the bank and get my money out. I don't think that my friends are that peculiar

00:23:29.960 that have no connection to the average Canadian. So there is some truth to that. The other part, 1.00

00:23:36.620 of course is, and I think I tweeted about this a few days earlier, that this whole thing brought

00:23:43.180 together four institutions, private and public, who keep losing legitimacy and the trust of

00:23:51.000 Canadians. You think about that. The government, the police, the banks, and the media all wrapped

00:24:00.360 up into this into this Emergencies Act and the peddling of it and so you know it's a perfect

00:24:08.040 recipe almost for for skepticism but also for the absence of legitimacy that essentially 0.97

00:24:15.480 we also accompanying the the invocation of the of the act so a perfect stupid storm if you ask me 1.00

00:24:24.760 yeah well and unfortunately stupidity is not in short supply in Ottawa quite often which 0.99

00:24:29.480 I guess it adds to mistrust when people realize that those people, the amount of influence they 1.00

00:24:33.160 have upon our lives. And somebody who also was a big loser in this was Jagmeet Singh. He was,

00:24:39.820 as they were speaking, doing a media tour across the country. He was on a local radio station here

00:24:44.380 and he was all over explaining why it was so important that he, you know, go against the

00:24:49.040 Civil Liberties Association and other progressive organizations and support Trudeau in this

00:24:53.360 emergencies act. And then all of a sudden he's hanging out there on his own because Justin just

00:24:57.880 He said, no, we actually don't need that.

00:25:00.180 There are so many wrong things that intersect here with Jagmeet Singh that we could talk about it.

00:25:06.960 We could have a whole show about it.

00:25:09.460 For starters, he's been accused of having some ties with terror groups abroad.

00:25:17.400 So pointing the finger at a bunch of people because they were having parties, they were making noise.

00:25:24.400 apparently the hot tubs seem to have offended the media so much, as well as the bouncy councils.

00:25:32.280 It seems incongruent. But also, this is the NDP leader, the leader of the Labour Party of the

00:25:38.420 country. If somebody should take the side of the average Canadian worker, should have been

00:25:45.100 the NDP. And of course, there is a connection here, back to the last time we had war measures,

00:25:50.940 because the man who literally strangled Pierre Laporte with his own hands

00:25:58.320 was an FLQ terrorist, eventually went on to become an NDP car-carrying member

00:26:03.000 and was nominated to run as a candidate in Quebec.

00:26:08.820 So Singh and his connection to this goes sideways in so many ways.

00:26:16.220 In the end, as you point out, he's kind of the patsy in all this.

00:26:20.540 The prime minister roped him in to help him pass the legislation and then dropped him like a potato. 0.98

00:26:29.280 And, I mean, the prime minister should be embarrassed about this, but Singh is probably one of the biggest losers.

00:26:35.740 Yeah, I mean, as an individual, his own base, I'm sure many of them, you know, his own members of parliament held their nose and voted for that legislation on the guidance of Singh. 0.56

00:26:44.520 And his own members, I'm sure, were squeamish and uncomfortable. 0.98

00:26:47.040 And now to have sacrificed that much principle for a less than 48-hour imposition of that policy, they just look the fools. 0.98

00:26:55.760 That has to hurt their entire caucus at this point. 0.97

00:26:58.620 I mean, he's been sort of weak in leading the NDP anyways.

00:27:02.020 I wonder if his leadership might not be at risk at this point.

00:27:05.020 Well, there hasn't been a weaker NDP leader since probably Audrey McLaughlin.

00:27:12.020 And that's going back ways when you and I were in high school probably.

00:27:16.040 So, you know, we have to trek back that far.

00:27:21.060 I think, you know, his leadership has been precarious for a long time.

00:27:26.320 He was a pretty effective member of the Ontario legislature.

00:27:31.460 But I think we have a case of a small fish in a big pond here.

00:27:38.060 And over there, he was a big fish in a small pond.

00:27:41.000 He has been completely, completely ineffective.

00:27:43.440 And let's not forget that the NDP is an integrated party, provincial and federal.

00:27:50.820 So what he does at the federal level also hurts the brand at the provincial level in places where the NDP is either a contender or in office.

00:28:04.640 Yeah, I mean, by extension, this actually hurts Rachel Notley.

00:28:07.800 You know, as the Emergencies Act in general in Alberta wasn't popular.

00:28:11.880 And a lot of people don't realize it, but you can't buy a membership with the provincial NDP and not be a member of the federal.

00:28:16.860 It is all one party, and you can't avoid that association.

00:28:20.200 So that makes it very direct with the actions of the federal arm of it on the provincial leadership.

00:28:25.840 Yeah, you can't run away from it.

00:28:27.780 So I suspect that Madam Notley is not going to want to talk about this.

00:28:33.440 And if somebody brings it up, I would expect her to run in the opposite direction.

00:28:37.320 you know something i was kind of confused with uh i gotta admit and i'm a political weenie but

00:28:42.260 uh parliamentary procedure when it comes to a confidence vote i mean the government

00:28:45.940 pointedly kept refusing to say whether it was going to be a confidence vote or not a confidence

00:28:51.320 vote uh even when asked just before the vote though the i mean liberal members implied that

00:28:56.060 they were told it was going to be a confidence vote i mean how does that work does the prime

00:28:59.560 minister have to declare it at that time or can he retroactively say oh that was a confidence vote

00:29:04.720 I don't quite understand how that worked.

00:29:07.160 I think in the established tradition, all matters related to taxation are automatically confidence.

00:29:14.840 But the prime minister in certain circumstances can declare certain votes so crucial to be matters of confidence.

00:29:21.940 It's a way of threatening people, basically.

00:29:25.040 And Jean Chrétien was probably, in recent memory, the most effective prime minister at doing this.

00:29:31.360 He'd come up and say, do you want to go and face another election?

00:29:34.100 and he'd line them up and right behind them and vote the way he wanted them.

00:29:39.080 But to answer your question more directly, no, it cannot be done retroactively.

00:29:43.500 It needs to be stated right before the vote.

00:29:49.220 The fact that they left it until nearly minutes before the vote was taken

00:29:54.620 tells you that there are some serious tensions inside that party.

00:30:00.500 And the prime minister did not at all look comfortable or good, as good as he normally looks, making the announcement that he was rescinding the Emergencies Act.

00:30:11.600 So there is trouble in paradise.

00:30:14.420 Well, there's definitely some cracks from within.

00:30:16.360 I mean, we were seeing some outspoken members of parliament coming up and speaking about the prime minister's actions and policies even before the Emergencies Act thing came around.

00:30:23.880 And, you know, the liberals usually run a pretty tight political ship.

00:30:26.660 They keep their dissension inside.

00:30:27.960 I know we conservatives, it seems, as soon as we're ticked off, an MLA or an MP is out there in the media and tearing at their own leader.

00:30:34.060 But when the liberals do it, that's usually, in my view, a sign of a tip of an iceberg.

00:30:38.380 That means there's something bigger going on behind those closed doors.

00:30:41.240 Yeah, people have been making all sorts of comments about the fidgeting of the deputy prime minister.

00:30:49.040 That was weird.

00:30:50.040 And it's not just once, but now twice or three times.

00:30:54.460 And, you know, some people have said all kinds of things that she's on drugs or whatever, because, I mean, people who are on coke are kind of behave that way.

00:31:03.380 I'm not saying that she is, by the way, and I'm not trying to start the rumor.

00:31:06.260 But it's clearly a sign of some discomfort in what the prime minister is saying.

00:31:13.040 right um and i'm no psychologist uh but uh but but there is evidence of you know that sort of

00:31:19.460 behavior when people are struggling uh with the facts and inside their own conscience and and i

00:31:25.460 suspect that that is perhaps a vestige uh of that yeah i mean it really was for those who uh you

00:31:31.080 know the viewers who didn't see that with the press conferences two of them and and both times

00:31:34.520 you put freeland right behind turdokas you're showing your senior members but she was fidgeting

00:31:38.940 brushing with her hair and scratching. As an oilfield guy from the 90s, I did encounter

00:31:48.940 cocaine once or twice. Thankfully, that's not something I ever got into

00:31:54.220 in the long run or anything like that, but I've seen that behavior. Again, I wouldn't accuse her

00:31:58.060 of that, but that's what the look was. That's somebody strung right up, whether it's nervous

00:32:02.380 tension or too much coffee for all we know. Boy, that was bizarre to watch her in such a serious

00:32:08.140 conference to be like that. And the pressure is that she must be under, right? I mean, let's face

00:32:12.440 it, that there was a crisis in the national capital, a crisis which they were having

00:32:18.840 significant trouble, and the potential for violence. And I mean, the media, the regular

00:32:25.760 media always talked about the potential for violence as though it was going to come from

00:32:29.400 the truckers. But the reality is the potential of violence was greater, as we essentially saw

00:32:35.040 on camera on the side of the police. Those are weighty issues. Let's not forget that

00:32:41.280 the Deputy Prime Minister also has Ukrainian roots and given what is going on in Ukraine,

00:32:48.160 she must also be under significant pressures at the personal and also at the government level there.

00:32:53.840 Yeah, to be fair to Freeland, there very much could have been concerns about other things,

00:32:57.840 so we don't know what inspired her to be so wound up, but it is something.

00:33:02.320 thing. And another aspect you kind of touched upon was their narrative was kind of falling apart

00:33:06.720 with the big fight they had with the New York Times because the Times had reported that people

00:33:10.600 were arrested at gunpoint and the establishment media came out and Gerald Butts came out and they

00:33:15.200 were calling the Times reporters liars and getting in their face. And then it came out

00:33:19.860 showing pictures. Well, here we are. People were arrested at gunpoint. So not only did it show that

00:33:24.920 gross relationship between the legacy media and the prime minister's office because they were

00:33:30.460 practically parroting his talking points for him. But they were wrong. And, you know, this is just

00:33:36.160 the beginning of the crumbling of the whole thing. They're starting to look bad in hindsight on this.

00:33:39.820 Yeah, well, I mean, you know, when you're a Canadian liberal and the New York Times picks a

00:33:44.900 as well, was that the New York Times said that civil liberties were no longer guaranteed.

00:34:00.160 And the liberals jumped up and down and said, you know, according to the legislation of the

00:34:04.620 Emergencies Act is supposed to respect the Char of Rights. Supposed to, but no matter how much

00:34:10.420 they say it, the reality is different. Seizing people's bank accounts without due process

00:34:16.260 is not contemplating or respecting people's rights. Not to mention that, by the way, in the

00:34:23.920 last two years since the COVID regime began, the chart of rights went out the window without much

00:34:30.160 ado. No government or very few governments, if any, in Canada have been respecting the chart of

00:34:37.520 rights in the last two years. And so to say that the Emergencies Act provides for the respect of

00:34:44.080 the chart of rights, to me, that didn't give me any comfort whatsoever. So, and as you point out,

00:34:49.980 turns out the New York Times was right. Yes. And I mean, the whole point of imposing the

00:34:55.060 Emergencies Act is so you can suspend civil rights, if only for a temporary period in an

00:34:59.560 emergency. So there's no getting around that definition of that's what they were going after.

00:35:03.840 Well, thank you very much for joining me today to, you know, just discuss and shed a little more light on what's just such a bizarre event going on in Parliament during such crazy times.

00:35:12.680 I hope we can talk to you again soon.

00:35:14.440 Where can we find more information on what you're doing and what you're up to there, Marco?

00:35:18.500 I have a new startup think tank named the Holtane Research Institute, and it's HoltaneResearch.org.

00:35:28.120 We put out a book December, not last December, but the year before on COVID policy and the whole COVID regime.

00:35:37.460 If you pick it up, you might find that you might decide that we made a pact with the devil or we had a crystal ball or maybe both.

00:35:46.920 because we largely predicted or could see a lot of what came out of the COVID regime,

00:35:53.680 including, by the way, that there might be some kind of revolt

00:35:57.520 after people finally realized that they were being oppressed.

00:36:01.560 So the book is entitled, since you're giving me a chance,

00:36:06.260 COVID-19, The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic.

00:36:11.280 Great. Well, thank you very much.

00:36:12.700 Yes, I know it's kind of a sad, I told you so that some people are able to say at this point as things fell apart, but it's worth reviewing because it'll still predict what may happen if we don't change our course.

00:36:22.800 So thank you very much for joining me, Marco, and I hope we get the chance to talk again soon.

00:36:27.000 It's a pleasure.

00:36:27.640 Thank you for having me.

00:36:28.760 Have a great day.

00:36:30.060 Thank you.

00:36:30.800 So yes, HaltainResearch.org, guys, to find out more on what Marco is up to and his columns and everything are always fantastic.

00:36:38.560 I'm going to get right to our next guest, speaking of fantastic columns, and that's Dave Makachuk, because we just have so much to cover, and Dave watches those international issues so closely, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, of course, has got the whole world on edge.

00:36:52.120 So let's bring Dave in and see what's going on.

00:36:54.340 Hey, Dave, how are you doing there?

00:36:55.660 I'm good.

00:36:56.220 I'm good.

00:36:57.740 Quite a day.

00:36:59.560 The world has changed overnight.

00:37:01.020 Right. Yeah. Well, and as Marco was kind of saying towards the end, you know, he wrote and predicted a lot of what was coming. We talked a few weeks ago and basically it was as much as the Russians even then were still saying, oh, it's just a training exercise. Everybody knew they're going to invade sometime probably shortly after the Olympics. And here we are.

00:37:18.020 Exactly. I think with all the leaks from the CIA and the MI6, which kept us informed of what the Russians were doing all the way, I think they were totally right on. 1.00

00:37:36.320 They nailed it. They told us what was going to happen, and exactly what they said happened. 0.98

00:37:41.540 And they told us about the red flag, a method that Putin was going to use, and they told us about the build-ups on the border, about bringing in aircraft, about bringing troops into Belarus, about bringing ships into the Black Sea, which could land troops, and it was a fait accompli.

00:38:09.540 It was the fait accompli.

00:38:10.500 It was obviously going to happen, and all the denials and all the lies and everything else the Russians have said.

00:38:23.620 I mean, really, there was no reason, absolutely no reason to attack a peaceful country, which meant Russia no harm.

00:38:32.400 It just makes no sense, and I'm sure a lot of people are shaking their heads, wondering why.

00:38:38.260 Like, why did they do this?

00:38:40.300 And the only person who knows that is Putin.

00:38:44.520 Yeah, well, they've now really passed a giant point of no return.

00:38:48.300 Some people are still speculating, oh, he's just going to go into those areas

00:38:51.160 where there were some secessionists that declared independence,

00:38:53.800 but they've already been shelling, I believe, Kiev and moving out that way.

00:38:58.820 I mean, some of it's strategic, but at the same time,

00:39:00.700 I got a feeling he's not going to stop with just part of the country.

00:39:03.420 Well, if you've, I mean, probably everybody, yourself, everybody's watching CNN, apparently 16 different regions or cities or bases, facilities, military facilities have been attacked.

00:39:20.380 They started out with aircraft, airstrikes with helicopters and jet fighters.

00:39:28.300 And they have advanced jet fighters. And then they brought in the tanks and the troop movements.

00:39:35.880 And then they brought in their artillery. And then they brought in these really lethal, lethal weapons, these incendiary missiles.

00:39:49.500 and these hyperbaric tipped missiles which uh cause tremendous collateral damage if they're

00:39:59.180 you know the fact they're using these alone is a war crime on an innocent nation it just is beyond

00:40:07.740 belief and there are those the the theory that i'm getting is that putin was around when the

00:40:15.660 wall came down and that destroyed the old soviet union and the theory is he wants to revive it

00:40:25.500 and bring it back and as zelensky the president of ukraine said what's next who's next

00:40:33.740 will it be if i was if i was on the border of russia i'd be very worried

00:40:38.540 But again, the U.S., the United Kingdom, other nations, including Canada, are all reacting to it, the whole world.

00:40:52.000 Biden was just on TV saying that Putin will be a pariah.

00:40:56.400 But we shall see if sanctions, if these sanctions are tough enough.

00:41:01.220 They have to be harsh.

00:41:02.680 They have to be really harsh.

00:41:04.200 And that's what is key here, because basically Biden is playing every card he's got. He's not a wartime president. He's not a Ronald Reagan. And as much as I love General Milley, who's a great chairman of the Joint Chiefs, I think he's a good man.

00:41:27.620 and I think he has our backs on this, he's not a Curtis LeMay. And also times have changed.

00:41:39.720 The West could very well be in decline. Yeah, well, and now getting back to our

00:41:45.960 domestic response, and I mean, Trudeau is in a difficult position altogether. I mean,

00:41:51.460 we're not a military power. We have some influence, but limited trade with Russia and

00:41:56.600 the ukraine uh there's not too much pressure we can exert but still we we've got a large uh

00:42:02.920 particularly in the west you know a population of ukrainian immigrants and descendants uh

00:42:07.720 he wants to speak up on their behalf but what what can canada do or what should they do in

00:42:12.600 in this circumstance well i'm glad you asked that that's a very good question i just did a piece on

00:42:17.640 that uh a few days ago and i was a bit harsh on trudeau um i thought they could have done

00:42:23.960 much, they could have been much, much tougher. As far as I'm concerned, some of those things

00:42:30.020 that he announced should have been done already. And sending artillery troops in 30 days. In 30

00:42:37.420 days, this thing will all be over. What's the point? And saying we support our NATO allies,

00:42:43.560 that should have been done a month ago. And also, and I bring this up in my column,

00:42:49.220 the Magnitsky laws, which we passed in 2017, could be easily enacted against Russians who

00:43:00.460 have a connection to either war crimes or human rights abuses. We could have gone after these 0.95

00:43:07.480 guys a hundred times, and not a single thing was done. The foreign affairs people did nothing,

00:43:17.580 And Trudeau did nothing. And we not a single person has been targeted by those Magnitsky laws, which are on the books. We can actually hurt them. But and there was a veiled reference to, well, we'll go after some of their people and some of their banks.

00:43:35.720 nothing was named absolutely nothing was named which you know when you compare that with speeches

00:43:42.160 from biden and especially boris johnson if you get a chance to watch the 10 minute speech given by

00:43:48.420 boris johnson in the house in london it was absolutely churchillian it was amazing and he

00:43:55.560 hit them so damn hard really hard and that's the way you deal with putin you hit him hard at the

00:44:03.120 first go. And I think, I was really impressed by that. I think Trudeau could do a hell of a lot 0.98

00:44:10.780 more. A hell of a lot more. And again, with our foreign affairs policy, it's been like this for

00:44:21.120 years. We're soft on China. We're soft on Russia. We're soft on everybody. We talk a big game.

00:44:28.540 but what do we do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Those strong words from Trudeau meant

00:44:37.200 zip. So I hope, okay, the second round of sanctions are much tougher.

00:44:44.280 Yeah. And then beyond sanctions, we get into containment, I guess you could say. I mean,

00:44:49.900 as you said, weeks from now, even if we send arms, it's going to be over as far as, I mean, 0.76

00:44:54.280 just such an overwhelming force coming into there with Russia. There's concerns, of course, is this

00:44:59.880 expansionism going to keep going? So I imagine we're going to see a NATO build up in neighboring

00:45:04.200 nations. I mean, that's some of the stuff that Canada contributes a degree to. And then we put

00:45:08.040 some good feet on the ground in those exercises. But that just brings me back to the old days of

00:45:13.640 building up a Cold War and having a border with people massed on each side. And wow,

00:45:18.040 what a terrible time to go back to. Absolutely. And one of my good friends,

00:45:21.560 his son is in Latvia and serving with Canada and serving valiantly, I might add. And, you know,

00:45:31.140 we're all proud of them, absolutely, of those troops who are over there. They're doing their

00:45:35.200 best and they're supporting NATO. But your question is actually very good. What do we do now

00:45:40.320 looking down the road, okay? Because we all know Putin is going to sue for peace as soon as this

00:45:46.980 is over. And he's going to sue for diplomacy. And he's going to try and calm everything down

00:45:53.540 and get away with this. And we have to not let him do that. But to get back to your question,

00:46:01.980 what do we do next? Well, there was a recent study by the RAND Corporation. I think it was just

00:46:10.320 announced recently. And the RAND Corporation, the RAND organization, I should say,

00:46:14.800 is actually helping the United States government through this current situation.

00:46:22.560 And they said that, how do you contain Putin?

00:46:28.240 But also, how do you not get the Russians upset?

00:46:33.600 How do you strike a balance?

00:46:35.780 And they said that what you do is, the last thing you do,

00:46:39.460 or the last thing we should do,

00:46:41.680 is move a whole bunch of NATO troops right to his border.

00:46:44.800 Wrong, wrong, wrong, because that will just fuel the fire and give him reason to retaliate against those countries.

00:46:54.300 So what they suggested, the RAND Corporation study, is that we place small batches of troop concentrations in these countries close enough to Russia, but not on their doorstep.

00:47:09.980 Because that is just going to anger them and feed into Putin's future plans, which we don't really know what they are.

00:47:17.580 We're not sure.

00:47:18.620 Does he want to go after these other countries?

00:47:20.860 Does he want to restore Russia's greatness?

00:47:23.460 Possibly.

00:47:24.300 we don't know. We don't know the end game, but he may be playing the long game here.

00:47:30.620 Yeah. Well, I mean, we've got a lot of delicate and nuanced diplomacy to have to work on and

00:47:35.620 deal with in the weeks and months to come here. But I mean, we've never seen a military action

00:47:41.160 like this in our adult lives and in Europe. And it's, you know, we can't help but be very,

00:47:46.420 very concerned about it. So we'll have you back on Monday. We'll have a much better idea,

00:47:52.240 guess on how this goes hopefully as far as invasions go it can be i mean it being pretty

00:47:57.840 much inevitable that putin's going to take as much of ukraine as he chooses to at this time

00:48:02.000 i just hope it's with the least amount of bloodshed you know possible in such an awful

00:48:05.680 circumstance me too i know there there are uh pockets of resistance and there's fierce fighting

00:48:10.960 reported uh i don't think we know a hell of a lot i'm just i just know what i hear i'm hearing on

00:48:15.920 twitter or seeing on twitter and hearing on cnn and so forth uh pitch battles uh but i think that

00:48:22.720 eventually they'll just be overwhelmed they'll just be overwhelmed and i think in a few days

00:48:28.020 and god forbid no more killing let's let's just get this over with and uh and i hope i hope it

00:48:34.460 ends soon i have a buddy in kiev who's uh reporting for uh abc australia and uh he wants to

00:48:42.040 he's sheltering in place and he's hoping to get out of there soon he was reporting on everything

00:48:48.240 and he said Kiev is a quiet there's not a person on the street but let me just say this before we

00:48:55.240 go there are protests in St. Petersburg and Kremlin as we speak and if you go on Twitter

00:49:03.840 you'll see videos of those protests and Putin tried to quash those protests by saying if you

00:49:10.140 do this, your future is going to be in question. We're really going to come after you. So I credit

00:49:17.260 those Russians who have nothing against Ukraine, who are the brothers of Ukrainians,

00:49:25.460 basically. And I'm Ukrainian, and I say that too. There's no animosity from Russians against

00:49:32.840 ukrainians it's this man who is doing this and he's going he may pay a heavy price well i should

00:49:40.500 say the russian people will pay a heavy price he's not going to pay any price because he doesn't care

00:49:46.340 and that's that's that's my final word on that you bet yeah no that's another interesting element

00:49:52.180 we just didn't have time to go into it but we'll see how i mean resistance within russia goes on

00:49:56.560 this because no not everybody is favorable about this this whole idea on the part of putin and

00:50:01.200 he's going to have to answer to them to some point. And Russian politics are never an easy

00:50:06.080 or straightforward thing. So thank you very much. And we'll be watching it over the next few days.

00:50:11.340 And I'll talk to you again soon, Dave. Okay. Thanks, Corey. Take care now.

00:50:15.940 Great. Thanks. And Doug, did the Western standard go left-wing extreme now?

00:50:22.320 Where the hell is that coming from? Is we're reporting on an invasion of Ukraine?

00:50:26.360 God, I fear to think how far right we must have to be for your comfort, Doug.

00:50:30.520 Either way, sorry my narrative doesn't match what you'd like to see, but that is part of an opinion

00:50:34.860 show, and not all of our guests are always going to gel with an individual who wants to see.

00:50:39.820 Either way, we report on things as we see them and as we hear them. Somebody else talking about,

00:50:43.360 you know why, watching CNN. That's a good question. It's frustrating. I watch CTV at night,

00:50:48.080 not because I like their slanted coverage, but independent outlets still only have so many feet

00:50:52.500 on the ground to get out there, so that's the best source for some immediate news,

00:50:55.900 and we get everything else we can directly from other reporters,

00:50:59.500 which I'm going to do right away here, actually.

00:51:03.380 So we've got Cameron James of Indie News Now.

00:51:09.760 And Cameron was on with us last Friday when everything was going on in Ottawa.

00:51:13.280 He was live streaming and giving us check-ins as the police moved in on protesters.

00:51:18.040 And we have him here for a little while to report on, well, what happened over the weekend

00:51:22.440 and what things are looking like right now.

00:51:24.280 So let's bring Cam in here and, hey, how's it going over there?

00:51:29.280 Pretty great, Corey.

00:51:30.380 Thanks for having us on again.

00:51:32.140 We've been watching your stuff and really appreciating the Western Standards coverage.

00:51:36.740 Well, thanks, and I appreciate you.

00:51:38.400 And that's kind of, you know, as I'm beaking back and forth with some of our commenters,

00:51:41.540 but talking about why we still have limited, you know, resources to get out there.

00:51:47.100 Independent media is cutting through that and people like yourself are getting out in the ground.

00:51:51.080 and we do try to get those direct reports from people as much as possible

00:51:54.960 without having to rely on the mainstream outlist to get it there.

00:51:58.000 So I do appreciate that.

00:51:59.520 So were you there throughout the weekend then?

00:52:03.660 Yeah, we were there throughout the weekend

00:52:05.300 and we tried to get as much coverage as we could.

00:52:09.240 Of course, it was cold and we only had so much battery life.

00:52:12.080 But between our coverage and we've been creating

00:52:14.860 sort of a network of independent journalists as well

00:52:17.800 to try to maximize the coverage

00:52:19.820 and really spread these different links to people

00:52:23.240 so that they can access live streams

00:52:25.660 that are really one of the best sources

00:52:27.900 at this point in time of true unaltered information.

00:52:33.420 So we were there pretty much the entire weekend

00:52:36.640 and the following days as well

00:52:38.520 to try to see what was going on

00:52:40.220 with the new camps that were set up

00:52:41.740 and the camps that had moved to other cities as well.

00:52:46.520 Yeah, so there are a number of camps

00:52:49.680 still going at this point, I guess this would be the people who backed off from the downtown

00:52:53.840 occupation. Do those, I imagine those people seem to determine to stay as long as humanly possible.

00:52:59.840 They're still demanding the rescinding of all restrictions at this point.

00:53:05.020 Yeah, there's three major camps still outside the city, whether, apparently downtown Ottawa

00:53:12.560 is cleared. We were going to go check that out today. And there probably will be protests in

00:53:18.160 Ottawa although from what we're hearing it seems like the the major protests will be the in the

00:53:22.480 other big cities Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver so we're we've got a couple

00:53:29.160 connections to people who are in these different places and we're going to try to get up a multi

00:53:32.980 stream on the weekend because you know they say it's a fringe minority fringe minority that's

00:53:37.920 there it's been millions of people who have passed through Ottawa millions of people who have been

00:53:42.820 protesting at these other protests as well and it's important that people understand it's not

00:53:47.400 it's not a fringe minority. It's probably the majority of Canadians at this point that would

00:53:50.800 like answers about the mandates and restrictions and also about where our government, where our

00:53:58.240 government's loyalties actually lie. Yeah. And we've, you know, that's something we report on

00:54:03.480 a lot around here is the political play. And I had a political scientist on earlier talking about it.

00:54:07.700 So the, it's, we haven't seen anything like this before. I mean, they brought in the Emergencies

00:54:12.600 Act. They've used it to get into people's bank accounts, seize their balances. We've got people

00:54:17.820 in jail without bail. And now they've pulled the act back, but it sounds like they can still carry

00:54:23.000 on with the activities they started in the first place. But those who are remaining, I mean,

00:54:27.700 I don't think they've stopped the protest. They just scattered it.

00:54:33.140 Yeah, that's definitely what we're seeing as well. I know that there were some threats

00:54:37.300 from the financial, the Fintrac stuff, and the police saying people who are still involved

00:54:44.260 within the period that the Emergencies Act was activated, even though it wasn't actually fully

00:54:48.220 ratified, will still be penalized. So they were threatening that. And the other thing is that the

00:54:53.440 Fintrac beefing that was pushed through under the Emergencies Act, this amendment to the

00:54:58.660 crime, money laundering, and financial anti-terrorism act, that amendment went through

00:55:06.120 under the Emergencies Act without actually being ratified.

00:55:08.540 So there's a number of legal challenges coming through there,

00:55:10.860 of course, through Alberta, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association

00:55:14.860 and the Constitution for the CCF as well.

00:55:21.280 So they're all coming through with some challenges as well.

00:55:24.760 But I think there's a lot of people who are still pretty concerned

00:55:28.060 about the capacities under this new beefed up Fintrack

00:55:31.300 for what's possible.

00:55:33.080 And it seems like they just look to use these emergency powers to install this new monitoring system and penalty system.

00:55:42.300 Well, yeah, it's pretty interesting. Yeah, a lot of fear.

00:55:46.180 And there was a post from the the Ottawa police as well, saying that the majority of the response that they were looking for was actually through public relations and through communications in terms of altering behavior.

00:55:59.240 And I would say that's a direct sort of link, causal link there between looking to incite fear among anyone who is considering protesting or supporting the protesters financially.

00:56:09.700 And that seems to have been the major tactic there.

00:56:12.200 So there will probably be some serious considerations legally as well to that.

00:56:16.980 Yeah, and we have a commenter, as we see, we've got people who want to support, but they're not sure what to do.

00:56:21.020 I see Elaine saying, you know, how do we support people charged who are in jail?

00:56:24.660 Plus, they've had their finances and property seized.

00:56:26.620 you know now they were fighting she says they were fighting for all of us and now they face

00:56:30.340 consequences how do we help them and I mean I can't give really clear advice on it though as

00:56:35.000 you mentioned the JCCF I mean that's John Carpe and the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms

00:56:39.760 they're a registered charity your money can go there and help on the legal aspect of things

00:56:43.960 they're working for free for those people who've been incarcerated and they got challenges out

00:56:47.640 the Civil Liberties Association a very progressive organization but they understand the need for

00:56:53.660 again, civil liberties, as is in their name, you can support them. So I mean, right now,

00:56:58.760 yeah, avoid those fundraising sites, I'm afraid it looks like you're just gonna could end up

00:57:02.540 getting in some personal difficulties if you try. But getting to those legal groups,

00:57:06.960 if you really want to reach out and help that that could be ways that you may be able to do

00:57:10.060 it. Or maybe they could counsel you on how you can help. Yeah, getting counsel from some of

00:57:15.260 these legal organizations and lawyers who are involved, even just in terms of helping people

00:57:19.660 understand what their rights are has been something that we've been trying to do if people are looking

00:57:24.380 to support there are definitely some people who are still incarcerated and are looking for some

00:57:29.180 financial support there was a black buffalo who was an east coast an east coast person of color

00:57:35.960 who was arrested and it was kind of uh sort of obscured as to why he was arrested and is still

00:57:42.560 in detention so there is um fun that's uh tommy uh you might be able to find um some help there

00:57:48.200 if you'd like to contact us, we can get you in contact with the team who's looking to support

00:57:52.680 the legal front for him there. And there's a number of other people as well. Again, support

00:57:59.640 too, supporting all of these independent journalists who have taken it upon themselves

00:58:04.040 to do these live streams, to put out commentary. They need support as well because, you know,

00:58:09.180 our tax dollars currently are going towards what is pretty obviously corrupt and deceptive media,

00:58:13.960 and people are craving these sort of unbiased

00:58:18.040 and more appropriate representation.

00:58:20.560 So you can even go on the live streams on YouTube

00:58:22.760 and support those guys.

00:58:24.160 They take donations there.

00:58:25.580 That's going to be hard to interrupt.

00:58:27.540 And of course, if you can reach out to them

00:58:29.960 and say, is there anything you need?

00:58:31.620 Get them in touch with someone perhaps in their community

00:58:33.860 who can provide them with resources or things like that.

00:58:36.720 It's much harder for that to be interrupted

00:58:39.020 by the new FinTrack beefing.

00:58:41.060 Yeah, you know, it's one of those things

00:58:42.180 we've got more access to information than we've ever had before yet at the same time we're getting

00:58:46.060 more misinformation and pressure than we've ever seen before. I mean it's kind of incumbent on us

00:58:51.280 to try and cut through the BS and see things directly which again is why I loved it so much

00:58:55.960 when you were on the ground last Friday with a camera at the protests in person and you know

00:59:00.740 I'm here to watch and critique. If protesters had been violent or aggressive or assaulting officers

00:59:08.600 We would have reported on that just as quickly as seeing officers pressing on them.

00:59:12.440 But I need to see an unvarnished picture before I can form an opinion.

00:59:15.520 And we haven't been getting a lot of that.

00:59:18.240 Yeah.

00:59:19.260 One of the things that we have been working on the past couple of days here, and we're looking to get it out, hopefully tonight or tomorrow,

00:59:25.260 is sort of a counter to the general argument that was put forward by the politicians and then supported through media and also propaganda

00:59:33.980 And in terms of the main arguments for why this convoy was a bad thing and a dangerous thing, they were saying, of course, it's racist and misogynist.

00:59:42.540 We've got dozens of reports from people and accounts from people saying, no, of course not.

00:59:48.560 There are plenty of people from all sorts of backgrounds there who say, no, this is not the case.

00:59:53.140 In terms of the violence and harassment, most of it has been hearsay.

00:59:56.540 And we've got a number of accounts from people saying, no, this is actually the safest I've been.

01:00:00.040 i'm a woman who's five feet tall and this is literally the safest i've ever felt at these

01:00:05.140 protests here the the siege occupation sort of rhetoric um it it definitely looks and we've got

01:00:11.800 a whole lot of footage that makes it look a lot more like a festival and say if you had have

01:00:15.900 booked off wellington street for a festival it would have looked exactly like what this protest

01:00:22.300 was they say it was inaccessible for people and business owners however the truckers made sure

01:00:27.480 to coordinate with police to make sure all of the routes of access were there for emergency vehicles

01:00:32.120 and also so that everyone could get into the businesses. They said the businesses were

01:00:36.440 unaccessible. However, they sent out propagandized messages through unions, through the school board,

01:00:42.340 through various other entities to fearmonger the people of Ottawa and make them think that it was

01:00:46.660 unsafe to go downtown, which was obviously not true. And we've got footage of some of the businesses

01:00:52.160 that were open and they were jam-packed with people who were ready to be purchasing for them.

01:00:57.480 And one of the other big things was the desecration. They kept talking about this desecration. And we've got all sorts of footage, and you may have seen it as well, of the veterans coming together, taking down this fence and saying, no, there's no desecration. There are people here protecting these monuments and people looking to maintain their capacity to go and show their respect.

01:01:18.240 and um and then um of course they they kept saying oh the kids they're using kids as human

01:01:24.220 shields and we return back to this concept of no it's a festival people want their kids to be

01:01:29.320 present in what was a very loving and compassionate setting wherein there was a lot of fun activities

01:01:36.440 for them to participate in and you could see joy on all their faces and definitely no fear

01:01:40.980 even up and up to the actual police activity remember in the middle right in front of capitol

01:01:47.420 hill uh wellington and metcalf that was um still going on as a dance party and a party of course

01:01:53.900 at that time the kids had been leaving but it was still very high spirits in that in that place as

01:01:59.660 the police were coming in with the tear gas and the the automatic weapons and things like that

01:02:04.380 and breaking into vehicles to arrest people so that video we hopefully will have out within today

01:02:09.900 or tomorrow just as a pure refutation of this propagandized rhetoric to de-legitimize and you

01:02:18.380 know maybe even arguably dehumanize these protesters and the um the techniques that were

01:02:23.900 used are similar to some of the other un nations when they had protests as well so it's pretty

01:02:28.780 interesting yeah well and citizens on the ground have been more important than ever like i i watched

01:02:33.740 you know i think one of the most important clips we saw through this whole thing was a short clip

01:02:38.220 that somebody with their camera phone took back when that one clown on the very first day of

01:02:42.620 protest was walking around with a confederate flag amongst them and he was all masked up and

01:02:46.860 he was waving it and the fellow protesters said hey get out of here i don't know who you are i

01:02:51.820 don't know what you think you're representing this flag is is inappropriate for what we're doing it's

01:02:55.980 a distraction leave our midst right now and and he did because of course they made him feel very

01:03:01.020 unwelcome i don't even want to go into speculation on why he was there with that flag but the bottom

01:03:05.900 line was if we never saw that clip those who were opposing it and trying to keep that narrative going

01:03:10.780 would have said oh look at that this guy was waving that flag and he was a part of the crowd

01:03:14.780 he was welcomed by him and uh that was anything but the case and it's just very important to get

01:03:19.660 that different perspective out there and if it wasn't for one person with a camera while that

01:03:23.260 guy was chased off we never would have seen that perspective even myself i wouldn't know well maybe 0.98

01:03:27.340 they did let that idiot wave that thing around there and it didn't happen the other uh interesting 0.96

01:03:33.020 thing is um i mean the the other big incident that was being toted just consistently and i would say 1.00

01:03:39.180 belligerently by the politicians in the media was oh there was a nazi flag there and we have an

01:03:43.980 account a direct account that we're going to include in this video as well of a person of

01:03:48.460 color saying no this this guy was there and it was a satirical waving of the flag saying is this what

01:03:53.180 you want now whether that was in poor taste or not um and of course yeah you see the don't you see the

01:03:59.100 the uh anti-trudeau the canadian flag and the don't tread on me um he the this man was saying

01:04:04.700 yes we went up to him and he was saying no this is a this is a tyracle representation of the

01:04:08.940 direction that canada is going in uh we were also doing a live stream wherein we showed black

01:04:15.020 buffalo's vehicle in the middle uh right at metcalf in wellington where he had the don't tread on me

01:04:19.660 flag direct directly on his car and um the people in the live stream started going oh look there's

01:04:25.660 the white supremacist there's the white supremacist and we just went over to black buffalo and said

01:04:29.340 um there's some people in the live stream who are saying that this is a white supremacist symbol and

01:04:33.020 he went on to explain no this is not this is a general symbol of the you know the sovereignty

01:04:38.060 and the rights of everyone to be able to defend and protect themselves yeah it's a it's a libertarian 0.99

01:04:43.020 call but we saw how ridiculous and idiotic some of the messaging was you know when they're starting 0.99

01:04:47.020 to say hong kong is actually code for hill hitler come on you guys that was the most ridiculous yeah 0.99

01:04:51.980 Boy, I mean, if you're really modeling your policy based on 4chan, you're in a sad place.

01:04:56.600 And that was a member of parliament was one of them even did that, which, again, I mean, I keep circling back to that.

01:05:02.280 Getting there in person, cutting through it is critical. 0.97

01:05:06.660 And I mean, I think there's no circumstance where a swastika is welcome in the modern world. 0.62

01:05:10.680 It's an odious symbol.

01:05:11.820 If you're going to do it as a parody, you've got to make that very, very clear in advance because it's offensive and it's a repugnant symbol of a time of one of the worst periods.

01:05:21.980 of human history we've ever seen so I mean whoever and whatever the motivation was again the main

01:05:26.940 thing was it didn't reflect the people in the protest as much as Trudeau tried to make it out

01:05:31.820 to be and some of the complicit you know complicit media. Yeah one of the most disappointing aspects

01:05:38.700 of uh because we were following the house of commons in the senate one of the most disappointing

01:05:42.540 aspects in the house of commons is of course how an emergency act and this is sort of a testament

01:05:47.340 to the place that we are in as a country in an ideological front, the Emergencies Act was voted

01:05:52.780 on ideological and party lines, which is just a very disturbing concept. And then even in the

01:05:59.180 Senate, there was a lot of the partisan ideological rhetoric that was being toted there. Some people

01:06:04.920 were trying veiled responses to show restriction in terms of the independent senators group and

01:06:11.140 things like that. But there were a number of them who got right back into this mainstream political

01:06:16.500 rhetoric that is saying, no, these guys are bad and we should never accept them. And, you know,

01:06:20.880 there are definitely rights for people to be protesting, but this was not a peaceful protest.

01:06:26.260 And you can hear that exact line reiterated by about 50 different people in the House saying,

01:06:32.880 no, this is not a peaceful protest. So that level of deception and proper propagandized

01:06:38.980 weaponization of public messaging is certainly, certainly a major, major concern for Canadians.

01:06:45.900 And we're seeing a big shift away from the mainstream media.

01:06:50.740 Even in the past few months, I've noticed that the, you know, CBC and Global, maybe the majority of their viewers are actually hate viewers watching it going, what are you doing?

01:07:01.480 So we can probably hope that people start to see the lies through that as well.

01:07:07.100 And, you know, there's a number of actions that the government could take that I assume they did not because it would inherently red pill anyone associated with it.

01:07:17.040 Imagine if they did go through with all these financial penalties in all sorts of ridiculous ways.

01:07:21.280 And then they go and mention to someone who's still, you know, going with the narrative and they say, look, I donated a little bit of money because I wanted to support.

01:07:28.360 Now my finances are frozen. You know, that's basically going to be red pilling people.

01:07:32.180 So that's where it was more of a fear tactic. And I think that we should not drop the fact that our government used a fear tactic and violence to try to quell what was a peaceful protest. And that's very much unprecedented.

01:07:46.380 Yeah, and a lot of people lost faith in a lot of things, media and our government system.

01:07:50.820 I mean, one of the things that disappointed me, though, I wasn't surprised by it.

01:07:53.580 I was just as disappointed to see every Conservative member of Parliament vote exactly the same way as I was to see every Liberal member of Parliament vote exactly the same way.

01:08:01.120 If the system is supposed to work the way it's supposed to work, we should have seen some crossing their own party lines because they would say,

01:08:07.540 I'm here to speak for my constituents and my constituents support the Emergencies Act or my constituents oppose the Emergencies Act.

01:08:14.760 I can respect them standing on that. And not a one of them, NDP, Conservative, or Liberal did that. They all voted as they were told by their leadership. And that is not a functional form of party representative democracy. And, you know, it's an indication that Canada's system is broken.

01:08:30.860 yeah definitely the other thing that was extremely concerning as we were watching

01:08:36.460 the house of commons is that there were three significant places wherein um who was speaking

01:08:41.980 and there was a two separate conservatives and one liberal actually who were shut off as they

01:08:47.580 were beginning to ask the question one of them was the world economic forum question which has got i

01:08:52.700 think 600 700 000 views on on youtube at this point in time where someone was asking the world

01:08:58.540 economic forum question who in our parliament is in support of this and they said oh no this is

01:09:03.100 misinformation there was a liberal mp turnbull who was asking about the representation in the

01:09:09.260 media saying this you know i'm kind of concerned because what i'm seeing on the ground and what

01:09:13.360 i'm seeing in the media is not the same and he was shut down as well and then at the end right after

01:09:19.280 they voted in the emergencies act there was of course where candace bergen came out and wanted

01:09:23.560 to revoke it and had the signatures ready. And they just, it was one of the most disgraceful

01:09:28.680 things I've ever seen in the House of Commons where they shut her down and laughed and made

01:09:32.380 fun of her. And of course, Antony Rhoda went along with it the whole time as he did with some

01:09:36.860 of the other censorship as well. I know it was a terrible and ugly display. So before I let you go

01:09:43.240 then, what are you going to be doing in the next coming days and covering? And of course, where

01:09:46.900 can people, I see in the comment scroll, somebody posted from your channel there and where else

01:09:53.180 Can we see what you're up to, James?

01:09:54.940 So we will be having, we have a big TikTok following at this point.

01:09:59.320 So we're going to continue live streaming there.

01:10:01.740 We also have, like I said, a network of independent journalists.

01:10:04.880 And we were considering staying in Ottawa to consider what the protests were going to be looking like.

01:10:10.020 However, we have someone who will be here doing the live stream.

01:10:12.860 And we were considering going back to Toronto.

01:10:15.260 One of our other correspondents is in Calgary, perhaps even in Winnipeg for covering those.

01:10:21.080 And on our YouTube channel, which is Indie News Now, we are looking to have a multi-stream of all of the protests that are happening at the same time.

01:10:28.840 Because even last weekend, Toronto had 30,000 people.

01:10:32.260 Calgary had 20,000, 40,000 people.

01:10:34.080 Montreal had a huge protest as well.

01:10:35.840 And the sheer scale of this is something that I don't think a lot of people understand.

01:10:40.380 The Ottawa was like a mecca for three weeks.

01:10:44.300 And every day we were encountering new people who said, this is my first time here.

01:10:49.160 either i had to come down and support or i had to come down and see for myself because what the

01:10:53.900 media was saying and what social media was saying were in complete odds and i think that that um

01:10:59.240 that amount of people is is is like unknown to everyone at this point in time but it's certainly

01:11:04.500 in the millions great yeah and i'm tiktok confused i gotta admit i'm one of the older guys there

01:11:09.120 uh what's the how do they find you on tiktok on tiktok we're indie news now as well uh both on

01:11:15.980 YouTube and TikTok, we now show up as the first search. It is INDIE News Now. And you can find

01:11:23.780 that on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. The TikTok live streams have been quite huge.

01:11:30.600 We've got over a million views there and 600,000 live stream views. So it's really great to see

01:11:36.020 that people are engaged in this. And we've been getting a lot of support that's been keeping us

01:11:40.060 going. We're also starting to talk about the Russia-Ukraine issue as well. And there seems

01:11:45.480 to be support there. So we're looking to broaden our scope while still focusing on this issue that

01:11:50.560 I think is at the forefront of everyone's mind and should not leave the forefront of everyone's

01:11:54.800 mind in terms of the progression of these protests and also the response, the legal response to the

01:12:00.760 Emergencies Act and the current state of our government. So we will be covering that and

01:12:06.060 trying to get as many live streams as possible up on the YouTube and on our TikTok.

01:12:10.460 talk. Excellent. Well, thank you again for joining us, Cameron. It was good. I hope we can do it

01:12:15.760 again sometime soon. And yeah, I recommend people get out there and check out that Indie News Now

01:12:20.340 that I am faulted with that. I spelled it wrong. So when you're searching for it, Indie, I-N-D-I-E,

01:12:25.760 not with the Y as I did, News Now. Thanks again, and we'll talk again soon.

01:12:31.620 Thank you so much, Corey. We'll be following your work as well, and we'll be in touch.

01:12:35.320 right on. So yeah, that's something we do like to do here whenever we can is cut through and get

01:12:42.580 directly to people who have been there in person. Something, you know, I wrote a column on the other

01:12:48.300 day and we streamed, as Cameron pointed out, you know, there's these huge protests been happening

01:12:53.600 all over and the mainstream media really isn't paying much attention to them. And we're talking

01:12:57.600 tens of thousands of people getting out and we streamed it. If you look at the YouTube channel

01:13:02.240 with the Western Standard. You'll find it there. We actually set up with a tripod and streamed the

01:13:07.040 thousands and thousands of peaceful, upbeat protesters walking by us downtown in Calgary.

01:13:13.240 Again, whether you support them or you don't support them, whatever, but it's undeniable.

01:13:17.400 There's a heck of a lot of them out there, and this shouldn't be ignored. It's very important.

01:13:22.900 So again, be sure to subscribe to Cameron's channel. And if you haven't subscribed on our

01:13:27.120 channels, you know, YouTube, Rumble, of course, Rumble and Facebook, where we do a heck of a lot

01:13:34.320 of streaming, subscribe and get on there. So you see these updates, because when things break,

01:13:40.660 we bring them on. And it looks like Janine says she saw us there. Oh, good. You know,

01:13:44.880 we saw a lot of great people there when we came up to the protest. Like when we can,

01:13:47.740 we get out and get on the ground. We don't just want to regurgitate with the mainstream feeds you.

01:13:52.300 if that's the case, you can just turn on CBC. And no, we report our own news. We have a great

01:13:57.160 newsroom. And again, as Nico has brought it up there, you know, westernstandardonline.com

01:14:02.320 slash membership. Take it out so you can get beyond the paywall and see all the stuff we put

01:14:06.440 up. Again, you won't always agree with every column we write or every columnist that's out

01:14:10.280 there. But we've got a lot of columnists and you'll find some that you like their views on as

01:14:15.160 well. And it's a lot of good content. Some very experienced and smart people putting things up

01:14:21.100 there, not just the sort of stuff that I keep spitting out when I'm triggered. And, you know,

01:14:25.240 so some of these other news items have popped up. Yeah, Putin, I noticed. So he brought that up in

01:14:31.120 the thing. Yeah, Jagmeet Singh, you know, again, who just really embarrassed himself with this

01:14:34.780 whole thing over the Emergencies Act and all that. He has been silent for a couple of days.

01:14:40.300 And then all of a sudden, the one tweet he put out was in French, and it was something condemning

01:14:44.500 Putin's move, you know, in his invasion of Ukraine right now. But I guess he's probably

01:14:50.360 let the French autocorrector or autofill take care of it. And he actually called him Vladimir

01:14:55.440 Poutine, which was, it was pretty laughable, you know, good for a good chuckle and joke. But again,

01:15:01.780 it shows the depth of these are our leaders and they're tweeting things out ostensibly to the

01:15:06.940 international world to look at. And that hardly shows them as somebody with in-depth views on

01:15:13.060 things. And yeah, my own Twitter account there is Corey B Morgan. That's where we get a lot of

01:15:16.620 more unrestrained back and forth. I tend to speak my mind on Twitter. I tend to speak it here as

01:15:21.900 well, but I can be a little more abrasive there. If you want to email me, yeah, guest ideas,

01:15:27.280 comments, tell me I'm great. Tell me I'm a moron. That's fine. Send it to cmorgan at 0.99

01:15:31.420 westernstandardonline.com. You know, we need that feedback. This is how we're developing this. I

01:15:35.560 mean, this show is coming along great. We're moving into a bigger studio soon. Nico's putting

01:15:40.140 out a fantastic project. It's again, thanks to you guys subscribing and our sponsors. And this

01:15:45.580 is how we can cut through things. I want to mention again, we touched quickly on that,

01:15:49.760 you know, with the misinformation, with some of these reporters that all circled the wagons

01:15:53.940 with the New York Times, dared to report people were arrested by gunpoint. And then, you know,

01:15:59.320 Gerald Butts and others jumping all over it and saying, this didn't happen, this didn't happen,

01:16:02.540 you're lying, it's fake news. The pictures came up, it showed it, it really did happen.

01:16:07.200 The New York Times, a very liberal publication, very liberal. They were right. Was there a

01:16:15.440 Apologies? Of course not. In fact, well, it was Candidaland who reported on that as well with

01:16:20.560 the pictures, but Gerald Butts, you know, Trudeau's little buddy there, called it clickbait for them

01:16:25.920 putting up the one that's correcting him. Don't click on this. Why? Because it's going to cut

01:16:29.240 your narrative because you guys were lying. The mainstream media, I think Justin Ling was one that

01:16:33.240 was jumping up on there and a bunch of CBC reporters and the rest all saying there was no

01:16:37.580 armed gunpoint arrests at the protests. They sure didn't apologize later when it turned out there

01:16:42.760 absolutely was. And listening to establishment media parroting the government line like that

01:16:48.760 is very disturbing. Very, very disturbing. Some people got upset when I tweeted that out on a

01:16:54.740 tweet. I think I mentioned that yesterday too, but I went to the Soviet Union back in 87.

01:16:58.780 I toured around. I got to see what was still called Leningrad and Moscow and a number of

01:17:03.540 places. And of course, Pravda, that was a, you know, propaganda is the word I'm losing, you know.

01:17:10.780 Pravda, which is Russian for Truth, was their

01:17:12.840 main thing. That was their CBC.

01:17:14.900 And I said, you know, when somebody was saying

01:17:16.900 I've never seen the CBC in Canada

01:17:18.660 so clearly directly parrot the government

01:17:20.780 line as it has been.

01:17:22.820 And I retweeted it and said, I have.

01:17:24.920 I saw that when I was in Russia in 1987 0.61

01:17:26.900 and it's true. And that's what 0.99

01:17:28.800 the CBC is degraded into.

01:17:30.980 I mean, it was once had

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01:17:34.780 left lane, but we just don't

01:17:36.840 need it anymore. You know, you don't need a state

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01:17:40.780 we've got all sorts of alternatives. Even the people in the deep north, I spent four years

01:17:44.140 working in Inuvik. They got satellite television. We don't need these broadcasts up there. We don't

01:17:48.500 need the tax dollars going into it. We certainly don't need it as a trumpet for the government.

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01:20:34.400 So thank you for tuning in.

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