Western Standard - LIVE - Triggered： UBI schemes tie in with the WEF’s great reset plans.

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning, March 24th, 2022, and welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. This is the

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00:00:52.200 day live, and it's been developing into a really good show. Something I like to remind

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00:01:18.200 won't always address every comment but uh we'll try and catch as many as we can and again a reminder

00:01:23.180 though even if we get worked up with each other let's try and keep civil hey there sandy so and

00:01:28.500 getting on i got a couple of good guests today i got david clement he's a friend of the show he's

00:01:32.040 been on before he's written columns for the western standard he put one up recently where he's a

00:01:36.980 quite critical of where ron paul stands on his uh uh ukraine russia situation the way they're

00:01:45.020 looking at that david's a very libertarian minded guy usually ron paul sort of supportive thing but

00:01:49.300 he's got a differing point of view with Paul on this so some discussion just a general discussion

00:01:54.100 on what again what should North America try to do in that horrible circumstances over there hey

00:01:58.040 there Brenda and then I've got back again former BC radio host Kid Carson we were going to have

00:02:04.880 him on the other day there was a scheduling mess up and he didn't quite make it but we're assured

00:02:09.260 he's going to be coming on today I'm looking forward to that he got cancelled basically he

00:02:13.460 had to leave his station he was very popular out there in Vancouver but he wanted to talk too much

00:02:18.140 about things such as the pandemic and stuff like that and pressures from the powers that be moved

00:02:23.720 him along and he's now on his own but he's much more outspoken and I think when we see a lot of

00:02:29.420 these guys in these cancelled circumstances they're a lot more relaxed once they get out of

00:02:32.800 the mainstream world of things. So let's move along here and get on to what's got me triggered

00:02:39.300 today and happy birthday from Innisfail from Bonnie to somebody. I haven't had one well I

00:02:45.440 had one recently, but either way, I don't want to talk about that. What's got me going though,

00:02:49.120 and it's been going through the Senate, it's been going through some other areas, and that's

00:02:51.740 universal basic income. You can call it guaranteed basic income, universal basic income, livable

00:02:57.140 basic income. What we call it doesn't really matter. What needs to be understood is actually

00:03:01.280 what these schemes are. They're moves towards socialism on a massive scale, and they all fit

00:03:05.920 in quite nicely with the goals of the World Economic Forum and their aspirations to bring

00:03:10.060 about a great reset. Let's not forget, just a reminder, Trudeau spoke to the World Economic

00:03:14.420 Forum and he told the UN he sees the pandemic as an opportunity for a reset. This isn't conspiracy

00:03:19.060 land. This is documented statements from our Prime Minister. He doesn't see the pandemic as a

00:03:23.540 disaster. He sees it as an opportunity. We have every reason to take this seriously and be

00:03:28.820 concerned with it. What we've been seeing quietly making its way through the Canadian Senate is

00:03:33.980 Trudeau's words being turned into action. Senate Bill S-233 lays out the framework for a UBI scheme

00:03:39.960 being imposed in Canada. If such a policy comes into being, it'll be the largest expansion of the

00:03:45.040 welfare state pretty much ever seen in the modern democratic world. It'll of course be a disaster

00:03:49.580 for citizens as well. I mean, the Liberal government likes trying to bring in major

00:03:53.320 changes through stealth. Think of how they keep flying the idea balloons for a home equity tax

00:03:58.460 through the CMHC, which is the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. It's the government arm

00:04:03.200 dealing with home ownership and things like that. They keep spending money studying the issue and

00:04:07.120 building the groundwork for such attacks. Whenever their moves towards stealing the

00:04:11.620 home equity become exposed, though, they vociferously deny any plans on it. Then they

00:04:15.680 resume studying it again to see how they can implement it. How many times have we got to

00:04:18.880 see smoke before we know there's a fire? They use the frog in water technique. Every time we

00:04:23.120 get exposed to the notion, it settles in a little more. It's something that may become a done deal.

00:04:27.960 They're trying to desensitize Canadians to the concept of basically losing a chunk of your home

00:04:32.560 equity. They use the politics of envy and division as well, of course. The studies they commission

00:04:37.940 refer to home equity as being a windfall, and one even said Canadians have won the lottery with this

00:04:41.860 equity, and they made their money as they laid on the couch and watched TV. That's the sort of talk

00:04:45.660 they're doing. I mean, we're talking class warfare in a sense. So why are they so desperate to take

00:04:49.540 the home equity from Canadians, though? Well, it ties right again into the World Economic Foreign

00:04:53.960 Plans. You can't control people unless they're dependent on the state. You can't make people

00:04:57.860 dependent if they hold independent assets and wealth. Private property is considered a scourge

00:05:02.620 by socialists. What larger pool of private property is out there, though, besides the

00:05:07.340 equity inside people's homes? The home equity tax idea is one of the things it would take in order

00:05:13.460 to fund a universal basic income program, because it would be huge. You were talking about a welfare

00:05:18.100 program to pay everybody to sit around, theoretically. I mean, there's that twisted

00:05:23.200 notion, oh, people will just get up and work, you know, they're going to work despite having it

00:05:26.600 there. No, they won't. A lot of them, we're just going to sit around and we're going to have a lot

00:05:29.680 of career video gamers while the rest of us have to work harder to try and pay for them.

00:05:32.980 Now, they first pitched their UBI plan with a private member's bill last year. They know that

00:05:37.080 such bills won't become law, but it allows them to broach the subject without taking too much heat.

00:05:41.400 Again, it's a strategy of desensitization. Now, with that private member's bill now dead,

00:05:45.880 the Liberals have brought it back with a Senate bill. Same sort of thing. Senate bills rarely

00:05:49.220 become law, but it gives the Liberals a platform to promote the concept further and start to

00:05:53.400 lubricate the process to get it through parliament eventually. I mean, the liberals already have the

00:05:57.980 state broadcaster working on things on their behalf. The CBC called the CERB program, which

00:06:04.120 was like a universal basic income program, though it was supposed to be temporary. The CBC is calling

00:06:09.680 it a great success. How the hell is the CERB a great success? As Nico brought up, $12 million

00:06:14.700 of it, for example, were sent to foreign applicants with foreign addresses. It was a mess. It was a

00:06:19.880 disaster and it's costing a fortune. Inflation is running rampant. We have labor shortages because

00:06:24.900 it messed with the labor markets. We've borrowed so much that our great-grandchildren won't even

00:06:29.200 be able to dream of paying these bills off. Serve as a success if one's goal is to crash and then

00:06:33.960 reset the economy, however. UBI schemes have failed everywhere they've been implemented.

00:06:39.280 The government knows damn well that won't be sustainable in Canada. The problem is we're

00:06:44.060 being governed by ideologues and not particularly bright ones. Trudeau, Freeland, Gilboa, they're

00:06:50.160 the top ministers in Canada. It's not a group with a solid grasp on economic reality. It's a shallow

00:06:55.400 group of privileged fools who've swallowed the tripe they heard at World Economic Forum gatherings 0.99

00:07:00.020 and they've managed to convince themselves that they can usher in a new socialist utopia. 0.99

00:07:04.700 These vain little people are willing to crater Canada's economy further as they see it as a means

00:07:09.100 to a longer-term end. A government willing to seize the assets of peaceful protesters while

00:07:14.340 enforcing a form of martial law upon bouncy castles is capable of anything. So as inflation

00:07:20.000 keeps skyrocketing, along with energy prices and Eastern Europe is mired in war, we're seeing just 1.00

00:07:25.200 the environment Klaus Schwab has been hoping to see along with his useful idiots such as Justin 1.00

00:07:29.840 Trudeau. UBI is only a step, but it's a big one. Now that the government is bold enough to put it 1.00

00:07:35.280 to the Senate, we know it won't be too long before they feel they can work to implement it in full.

00:07:39.560 We can't pretend we didn't see it coming.

00:07:42.180 The warnings are now pushed back.

00:07:44.900 All right, that's what's got me wound up today.

00:07:47.700 Let's bring our news editor, Dave Naylor, in.

00:07:50.280 I'm sure he's going to have a bunch of good news and things will calm me right back down, right?

00:07:53.800 I just can't believe you didn't shave this morning, Corey.

00:07:56.720 Oh, I know, I know.

00:07:58.400 I try to look pretty for everybody, but, you know, just with everything else,

00:08:01.400 I did take care of the nose hair problem I had, though.

00:08:03.720 Yeah, maybe the ears tonight?

00:08:06.320 That's a big task.

00:08:08.020 I'll see if I can get you off of it. 0.98

00:08:09.620 Jane will help you out.

00:08:10.920 Yeah.

00:08:12.160 Busy day in the news again, Corey.

00:08:15.140 Just a little bit of breaking news before I give you the rundown.

00:08:18.280 Our Mel Rizdin just finished covering a Jason Kenney press conference in which Kenney announced that Alberta will give $5 million to the Ukraine war effort.

00:08:31.200 He's stressed to buy defensive weapons, things like gasoline, night vision goggles.

00:08:37.280 But it's certainly the first time even he could remember that the provinces got involved to, you know, to sending money to governments who are involved in a war at the time.

00:08:49.540 News that's on the site. We'll start with a good exclusive we had this morning, Corey.

00:08:54.400 The Western Standard has learned that Andrew Scheer, the former Conservative leader from 2017 to 2020, will endorse Pierre Polyev in his run for the leadership.

00:09:07.280 which will be decided in Ottawa on September 10th.

00:09:11.120 So that's a feather in Paliyev's cap early on in the campaign.

00:09:16.360 Our political reporter, Linda Slobodian, has done double duty this morning, checked in twice.

00:09:22.000 First, the contentious Rimby-Strathmore-Sundry writing involving Jason Nixon.

00:09:31.120 They finally set a date for their nomination meeting.

00:09:34.740 Tim Hoven is the challenger there.

00:09:36.480 They've changed it a couple times, but hopefully this will be the final date for that.

00:09:42.460 And Linda also updates the UCP internal investigation into the Chestermere-Strathmore Constituency Association meeting that saw the current MLA here.

00:09:54.900 All her supporters cleared out and Jason Kenney supporters put in. 0.98

00:10:02.780 You mentioned the useful idiot Stephen Gilbeau. 0.98

00:10:07.120 He was somewhat wrong in testifying at the Commons yesterday. 0.99

00:10:10.480 He said that green energy in Canada does not operate with government surpluses.

00:10:17.180 Well, he might, he should have known that the government has given billions and billions of dollars to that sector of green energy.

00:10:25.080 And, you know, was he deliberately lying or was he just uninformed?

00:10:30.480 uninformed i guess we'll have to leave that up to the viewers to uh to decide uh we've got a column

00:10:36.640 from calgary mp michelle rempel gardner talking about uh proportional representation on the site

00:10:43.680 now and uh here's something everybody knew except the liberals uh corey uh gofundme and give send go

00:10:51.440 executives were on parliament hill yesterday uh testifying that uh the donations that came in

00:10:58.000 for the trucker convoy were overwhelmingly small amounts from canadians and liberal fears of

00:11:05.200 foreign money leading to toppling the government were just hyperbole and conspiracy theories so

00:11:13.760 lots of stuff up there already lots more stuff to come this afternoon just about to put out a

00:11:20.880 Thank you for joining us

00:11:39.200 And up here

00:11:46.340 And up here

00:11:50.620 of our state broadcaster's Twitter account, as you said, you know, they're claiming perhaps it

00:11:55.180 was a hack. It's gotten, in my view, more of the smell of a disgruntled employee, but who knows?

00:12:00.220 I'm certain the broadcaster themselves did not want to put that tweet out there, though.

00:12:04.540 No, exactly. And thank goodness we can never be hacked, eh, Corey?

00:12:09.520 I sure hope not. But you see, I put out so much crude and nasty stuff, nobody would know if my

00:12:13.660 account was hacked or not anyways. Right on. Have a good weekend.

00:12:16.980 All right. Thanks, Dave. So, yes, there's Dave Naylor with the updates on what's going on right now in the news. So there's the reminder if you want to see those full stories expanded, the details on them from our columnists, our reporters, Eva, Amber, Dave, Melanie. The list is getting too long for me to remember there. Get on westernstandardonline.com slash membership. Take out a membership. It's free for two weeks to give it a crack. See if it's what you like and it is worth it.

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00:14:57.460 things so yeah we got the the ucp nomination battle going on you know speaking of politics

00:15:02.580 speaking of things going on there's always so much and uh it looks like a hornet's nest happening

00:15:08.360 out in uh erdry chestamere because leela here has been fighting tooth and nail with premier

00:15:13.760 kenny over a number of things now we've got uh jason nixon looks like his nomination he might

00:15:18.860 lose it up there in Sylvan Lake area. Like this, this party is just in turmoil right now. And we're

00:15:25.160 looking at about a year from the next scheduled election date. So they better get it together. I

00:15:30.700 know Rachel Notley is rubbing her hands together and hoping she gets in for another term as our 1.00

00:15:36.020 premier. And if the UCP can't figure out what they're doing, there's a very good chance she

00:15:41.520 might find herself back in that seat. So we're going to be watching with interest, that's for

00:15:44.820 sure. It's just over a month until Jason Kenney's leadership review goes on. And whether or not he

00:15:51.560 will actually be selected by members to stay on as the leader of the UCP, time will tell. But we're

00:15:57.420 watching a lot of political machinations. And again, I see some of that irony. Kenney supporters,

00:16:03.720 Kenney's a political player. I mean, he's a career politician. And he's pulling every string and doing

00:16:09.000 everything he can to make sure he keeps that leadership with things like, you know, fights

00:16:12.200 going on at constituency levels and things that have happened in Lila Harris area.

00:16:16.560 That might work and win you delegates, but that's the sort of thing that really sours the voters,

00:16:21.940 right? People are sick of that inside play and the dirty tricks and the constant,

00:16:27.020 you know, infighting. I just, we need some leadership and I don't know if we're going

00:16:34.240 to see it or not. Again, I've always been, you know, before I'd been very supportive of

00:16:38.560 Jason Kenney, I wanted him to win the leadership. I wanted him to get the NDP out. He did manage

00:16:43.000 that. But ever since then, it's been difficult to get his feet stable and underneath them. And we

00:16:48.300 really need it right now. The other thing Dave brought up, you know, was the announcement today

00:16:52.200 that the province is going to send $5 million to the war effort out in Ukraine. It's an unusual

00:16:58.100 precedent. You know, the provinces don't typically get involved in international conflicts like that.

00:17:03.900 I'm certain that you know some of it's genuine they're concerned and they care about things over

00:17:08.900 there but we get a lot of battles on who's in what jurisdiction and who's doing what where and you

00:17:13.220 know things like that going on in the Ukraine-Russia conflict I'm not sure if it's the place of the

00:17:17.340 province to get anywhere more you know direct than maybe just making statements on those sorts of

00:17:22.680 things and perhaps being facilitative you know supportive of the federal government if they're

00:17:27.460 making efforts but to put money directly into that effort Alberta tax dollars I mean I don't

00:17:32.320 mind going there. I'm of a like mind. I know some people have different views on what's going on

00:17:36.400 over there. But I just don't know if it's the role of the provincial government. But it seems almost

00:17:41.440 it's another experimental means too from Premier Kenney to try and buy more electoral support,

00:17:47.160 a little more love on the federal scene. And I don't know if that's where he's supposed to be

00:17:53.280 going. We got a lot of stuff to take care of right here in Alberta. As I said, not only for his own

00:17:58.140 political fate, but with our own policy issues and things such as that, I mean, he's gotten

00:18:03.300 the high resources prices have taken a lot of pressure off the UCP. We've got a balanced budget.

00:18:09.400 He has been talking about reducing some of the fuel taxes. That'll give us a break. We can afford

00:18:14.120 to do that because we are, you know, experiencing a lot of royalty revenue from high prices right

00:18:21.360 now and Alberta's producing as hard as we can. But starting to dip your toe into the mess over

00:18:27.560 in Ukraine and Russia. I'm just not sure if that's where we want our provincial leaders to

00:18:31.600 go, but that is where they're going, whether we like it or not. We will talk a little bit more

00:18:35.840 about the, well, how, you know, what is the right approach to Ukraine and Russia? There's certainly

00:18:40.620 some very heated opinions on that. We can all sit in North America and make up our views on

00:18:46.760 these sorts of things. And I'm going to bring in my guest, David Clement, to talk a little bit

00:18:50.060 about that. He's a columnist with the Western Standard, as I said, and he's been on the show

00:18:53.900 a number of times. I've known David for quite a while. He does a lot of good stuff, writes some

00:18:58.100 interesting things. So let's talk with David. How are you doing out there, David? I'm doing all right.

00:19:02.600 How are you? Very good. Very good. So you wrote your recent column. You're a liberty-minded guy,

00:19:08.580 typically would lean towards supporting things like Ron Paul and libertarian movements down

00:19:14.500 the United States. But you've differed quite strongly in your column with where Ron Paul

00:19:18.900 went on on his thoughts with supporting uh or not supporting the ukrainian russian conflict you know

00:19:23.880 and where it's landing perhaps you could lay out a little bit what you wrote on there

00:19:26.660 yeah so i mean what essentially my argument is that the the folks in the ron paul crowd are

00:19:36.520 taking the arguments that i made about the war on terror which were accurate and the world is a

00:19:42.140 worse place because we didn't listen to them at the time, and trying to recycle them to fit into

00:19:49.780 the conflict that is going on in Ukraine. And I mean, there are obvious differences

00:19:56.680 between the conflicts. We're talking about a war on terror, which is a war on a concept

00:20:02.740 largely held by people in non-government organizations or non-state actors and terrorist

00:20:12.380 cells and things like that across numerous borders and boundaries. Obviously, this is

00:20:18.920 one country invading a democratically elected, or a democracy, one that is attempting to

00:20:28.360 join the EU and embrace, I don't love using the word Western, but for lack of a better term,

00:20:36.140 Western ideals in terms of freedom and markets and trade and civil rights.

00:20:43.620 And so my argument is that they are trying to take old, old, accurate arguments and make them

00:20:50.820 work in this scenario as if Putin's grievances against NATO somehow justify or it's somehow

00:20:59.620 reasonable for him to take this action against Ukraine. Yeah, and I've seen a lot of that

00:21:07.840 discourse. We see it for some of our commenters here and things too. I mean, people to try and

00:21:11.540 paint NATO as some sort of aggressor almost in this conflict. And I mean, there's been always

00:21:17.000 a lot of sabre-rattling and back and forth. I mean, NATO has stood out as, I guess, an

00:21:22.540 anti-imperial Russian force. You know, now that communism is gone. But the bottom line

00:21:28.540 is only one of those two forces invaded a country, and it wasn't NATO.

00:21:33.360 It was not NATO. And if NATO was this warmongering threat that Putin and I would call his useful

00:21:42.400 idiots in Canada and the United States proclaim this to be. If NATO was a warmonger, why did we, 1.00

00:21:55.740 why did NATO, and I'll exchange NATO with we just for simplicity's sake, why did NATO not go to war

00:22:04.140 when they invaded Georgia or Chechnya or Ukraine in 2014 or what they did in Syria or even Ukraine

00:22:11.980 now um if war was what nato wanted well the table has been set for war for a long time then

00:22:19.820 and it's pretty clear that nato is not the aggressor and let's also factor in that the

00:22:27.020 idea that putin would take ukraine to create a buffer zone between him and nato well he already

00:22:34.060 borders other NATO countries, he would essentially, if they were to absorb Ukraine entirely and it

00:22:44.180 became part of Russia, well, he would be adding more countries to the border of what is that new

00:22:50.940 Russian imperial state. If he creates a buffer zone and installs some sort of puppet government,

00:22:57.400 which is another possibility, all that is essentially doing is ensuring that Ukraine

00:23:02.680 is the war zone for some future conflict that he envisions. I mean, both of those seem quite silly 0.89

00:23:10.160 in terms of why NATO would want to cautiously, overcautiously approach this situation in regards

00:23:20.580 to their support for Ukraine. So if, you know, if a hands-off approach isn't there, like what

00:23:27.980 approach though should, as you said, the West, you know, for lack of better terms, where should

00:23:33.160 we sit with this though? I mean, there's a lot of different point of views. I mean, on how far

00:23:41.140 we should go, whether sending money, whether doing nothing, calling for the no-fly zone,

00:23:45.680 that could be a very big hot button if that's actually imposed. Yeah. So my take is we should

00:23:51.200 absolutely be using a no-fly zone at the very least as a bargaining chip and be willing to

00:23:57.480 enforce it. And the people on the other side of this argument will often say, well, that could

00:24:04.020 be perceived as an act of war. That could be something that Putin sees as a clear escalation.

00:24:12.860 But that fails to remember the obvious fact that what is and isn't an escalation is entirely

00:24:20.420 Putin's prerogative. And you could make a very strong case that the sanctions that we are imposing

00:24:26.500 could be very reasonably viewed as an act of war.

00:24:33.740 And I'll just quickly walk you through what the consequence of the sanctions will be,

00:24:40.260 because they are going to be quite damning.

00:24:44.040 So the ruble's crashed.

00:24:45.740 The Russian stock market is non-existent.

00:24:48.460 In the span of a few weeks to a month,

00:24:51.840 ordinary Russians are going to be faced with product shortages.

00:24:55.300 their most basic goods and foods. Even if a country was willing to sell to them,

00:25:01.260 they don't have a payment system to facilitate that beyond what the Chinese offer.

00:25:07.280 Russian companies can no longer receive foreign currency payments. They're entirely economically

00:25:12.320 isolated. Half of their central bank reserves have been seized. Almost all of the Russian

00:25:18.760 domestic industry that produces anything um is relies on products from around the world as

00:25:26.120 components and just recently maersk and msc which are the largest container companies in the world

00:25:32.440 have said that they won't deliver containers um i would say most planes in russia within the next

00:25:38.620 month are going to be grounded by virtue of boeing saying they will not supply parts uh rolls royce

00:25:45.080 who makes the engines, who says they will not supply parts. Both of those companies saying

00:25:50.380 they will not supply service manuals. And then if you look at food, 40% of everything grown

00:25:58.520 in Russia comes from seeds that are imported. And so in the longer term, if this holds,

00:26:05.860 Russia isn't going back to the days of Gorbachev. They're going to go back to the days of full-scale 0.84

00:26:10.820 rationing breadlines and poverty. And could Putin view that when it comes to it as an act of war

00:26:17.600 and means for escalation? Of course he could. And so we're playing this game of what does or what

00:26:24.260 does Putin not see as an escalation, all while they're bombing civilian sites, they're firing

00:26:32.700 on nuclear reactors, which in and of itself could be viewed as an escalation. And innocent Ukrainians

00:26:41.020 Civilians and those who are otherwise civilians who have taken up arms are dying in the process.

00:26:46.060 And so I think a no-fly zone is the very least of what we could do. 0.72

00:26:49.560 And it's what the Ukrainians have asked because they've quite courageously said, you defend the skies and we will do the rest.

00:26:57.340 And that's quite a remarkable statement from a country who militarily is nowhere near the size of Russia. 0.95

00:27:05.860 And yet that is their request, and that's all they're asking, is if you can protect our skies, we will hold them off, and we will push them back. 0.94

00:27:15.180 And so I think that that is the appropriate approach in regards to NATO. 0.64

00:27:19.940 Yeah, well, I mean, a lot of what you're talking about, it sounds like the long-term sanctions, things like that, in the end, I mean, money talks, and Putin is going to, and unfortunately the Russians on the ground are going to pay a terrible price for all of these sanctions.

00:27:31.480 but that takes a little while to really take hold and put that pressure on the leadership.

00:27:36.600 In the meantime, the issue is the Ukrainian people on the ground and this ongoing battle that's

00:27:41.400 killing again a lot of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers along with civilians. It's just a bad

00:27:45.800 situation that how do we end it sooner rather than later and avoid escalating it? I mean,

00:27:50.280 these are all difficult questions to try to answer, but I've got to try.

00:27:54.760 Yeah, but if you're at the negotiating table with the Russians, which NATO and the Ukrainians

00:27:59.400 certainly are you create your your list of provisions um which if not met are reinforce

00:28:08.440 a no-fly zone um and and once you do that you have clear timelines and timetables and then

00:28:14.280 the question of escalation is is up to putin and and his his uh invading army in regards to what's

00:28:21.640 next i mean the incident last night in regards to the nuclear reactor it's still unclear

00:28:29.160 what munitions were used but assuming that they were anything of um any serious size i mean

00:28:36.440 being 100 or 200 meters away from a nuclear reactor having a direct hit is a pretty pretty

00:28:45.080 clear escalation that would have Chernobyl-like effects if it had struck a reactor and not

00:28:55.080 part of the administration building there, which we don't know whether that was on purpose or a

00:28:59.480 matter of luck, but either way, it's reckless. Yeah. I mean, I would hope and think,

00:29:04.680 I mean, it was a matter, reckless would be the term, but maybe some indiscriminate shelling.

00:29:09.160 I mean, it'd be virtually suicidal to hit such a large reactor and it just wouldn't serve their

00:29:14.200 own purposes very well on any front to cause a meltdown or something as awful as that. But it

00:29:20.280 does illustrate the danger of when you've got an active conflict going on on things that could

00:29:24.260 happen, even if unintentional. Yeah, I mean, and it begs the question on what's next.

00:29:31.460 So what is NATO's line in the sand? I mean, President Biden and others have said that

00:29:37.120 they're not going to commit boots on the ground. And I can certainly respect that. And that's not

00:29:42.400 what I'm calling for in this moment, but there certainly has to be an internal conversation.

00:29:49.540 What if the city of Kiev is shelled and bombarded in the same way that the Russians

00:29:56.260 did in Chechnya or they did in Syria? Would that warrant intervention? Or is it really just only

00:30:04.040 if they touch Poland or Romania or the other NATO countries that border the conflict in Russia that

00:30:13.160 we intervene. I don't know. But we're seeing escalation on the side of the Russian army and

00:30:20.900 Putin. And it appears to be getting worse. It appears to be getting more indiscriminate. It

00:30:26.260 appears to be more focused on civilian areas and instances of reckless shelling with the

00:30:34.800 nuclear reactor. And so I think the conversations need to be had beyond, well, we're not going to

00:30:42.600 do anything unless they touch Poland. I think that there's probably a scenario in between what's

00:30:49.780 going on right now and Russian troops crossing the Polish border where NATO has to do something.

00:30:56.260 And I would argue that a no-fly zone now probably goes a long way to preventing any further

00:31:05.400 escalation to the point where we actually have a full-scale hot war that spills over

00:31:13.060 into Romania or Poland.

00:31:16.300 Yeah, no, we don't want boots on the ground at all.

00:31:19.020 That would be a terrible outcome.

00:31:20.940 I mean, we got to start looking at the longer game, though.

00:31:22.860 eventually this is going to be resolved, whether it's with Putin finally realizing he bit off more

00:31:26.780 than he can chew and backing out, because it does look like he's getting a lot more pressures than

00:31:30.560 he anticipated, or perhaps he occupies Ukraine and then things calm down there. But you know,

00:31:35.660 there's going to be, we're back into a Cold War circumstance. I mean, it'll be similar to where

00:31:39.400 we were 30 years ago. We're going to see more build up. And there's some of the irony, as you

00:31:43.620 said, NATO is going to get more funding than they've ever had before. They're going to expand

00:31:47.820 their capabilities. They're going to stock up more on the borders of Ukraine and Belarus and

00:31:53.180 other areas. So this isn't going to calm things in the long, long run. So we'll still have a

00:31:56.720 longer term problem to deal with. Yeah. And many European countries have kind of had their

00:32:01.520 awakening moment in regards to their own domestic military spending. The Germans reversed 0.81

00:32:07.300 in a matter of two or three days several longstanding policies they had when they committed

00:32:15.260 to send lethal military aid to Ukraine when the German Chancellor announced that they were going

00:32:21.760 to increase their defense spending to 2% or more of GDP, all things that would have seemed impossible

00:32:30.640 a month ago and entrenched and not something that you would foresee. And so we will likely see that

00:32:41.320 in other countries in Europe. Because we have to remember the reason why, why did Ukraine want to 0.67

00:32:46.520 join NATO? They had this imperial power on their border who had long stated publicly and has viewed

00:32:54.780 that Ukraine should be part of their sphere of influence. And the reason we're in this conflict

00:33:03.500 is not because NATO is some aggressor that is encircling Russia. It's because the people

00:33:11.300 the free people of Ukraine decided for themselves that NATO membership was advantageous for them

00:33:19.940 given their circumstances. And based on what we've seen, it was entirely warranted. And so

00:33:24.240 those who argue on the other side of this often forget that this was the Ukrainian people making

00:33:31.620 this decision for themselves in a democratic country for good reason. And I don't think

00:33:37.480 Vladimir Putin gets to have a veto by way of military intervention on the will of the folks

00:33:46.120 in Ukraine. Yeah, well, it's a large, complicated and breaking problem at the moment, and it's going

00:33:53.420 to take, again, just a lot of discussion. There's going to be different views. You know, I like to

00:33:57.720 hear as many as possible, and hopefully we can find a middle ground and somehow stabilize this.

00:34:02.560 took decades to end the last Cold War. Hopefully we can finish this one sooner.

00:34:06.880 So, well, thanks for coming on today. And what else you got?

00:34:10.400 Yeah, no, no, no. I was just going to say thank you very much for having me.

00:34:16.320 This is something that's going to probably dominate the news cycle for quite some time.

00:34:22.160 And I'd argue for good reason, because it is likely only going to get worse for the people

00:34:26.960 in ukraine who have i mean so valiantly defended their country in ways that most people watching

00:34:35.120 this show will have no comparison to um i mean almost almost zero of us have ever had a moment

00:34:43.440 in our lives where we've had to make the decision of whether or not we were going to put it all on

00:34:47.600 the line and you have everyone from the 80 year old making multiple cocktails to college students

00:34:55.600 who are making that very choice right now yeah we'll watch and see what comes of it so uh we'll

00:35:03.520 look forward to seeing well more columns and discourse from you david thanks for coming on to

00:35:07.440 talk to me today and i'm sure we'll be talking again soon thank you very much thanks that was

00:35:12.480 david clement and then you can find him online as well and he writes columns here and does a lot of

00:35:17.200 other things um yeah so let's you know the comment scroll as usual some of the squirrels are going

00:35:22.320 squirrely and that's fine that's what the scroll's there for and that's what you can do uh it's funny

00:35:26.880 with people going on oh it's the wef line the w you know if you remember i kicked off this show

00:35:30.880 ripping into the wef and uh so i i don't know which am i am i a patsy for the wef or am i a

00:35:37.680 conspiracy theory who for calling out the wef guys make up your mind on your conspiracies you're

00:35:42.160 getting crossover okay so the wf is real i haven't heard anything from the wef on this conflict

00:35:48.080 maybe there's something out there they're irrelevant they're they have nothing to do with

00:35:51.600 it they're an organization i'm concerned about i'm worried about how they uh are influencing

00:35:56.160 politicians but it's some of the same people cross over from organization to organization

00:36:01.440 but it's unrelated and then some of the other garbage with some people talking about how we 1.00

00:36:05.520 got a free ukraine from the nazis oh kiss my ass kiss my ass okay the president of ukraine 1.00

00:36:10.400 is a jew and let me tell you a little bit of history jews make terrible nazis there's that's 1.00

00:36:14.560 pretty well documented guys you know there is some battalion of of extremists out there guess what 0.90

00:36:20.960 Every country in Eastern Europe has, unfortunately, an anti-Semitic element.

00:36:27.740 They have some organized groups. 0.79

00:36:28.820 They always have.

00:36:29.600 There have been skinheads.

00:36:30.720 There's been the Sons of Odin.

00:36:32.720 They change their names.

00:36:33.680 They do their things.

00:36:34.480 They're always there.

00:36:35.840 But it doesn't dominate the country.

00:36:37.620 And it certainly does not justify having Russia go into a foreign country. 0.77

00:36:43.040 They invaded you guys.

00:36:44.200 Why is this so confusing to you?

00:36:46.500 Ukraine is a sovereign nation.

00:36:48.440 Even if people say that they were corrupt.

00:36:50.100 Oh, so what?

00:36:50.960 God, a quarter of the countries in the world are corrupt. It doesn't justify a neighboring nation 0.82

00:36:56.720 invading them. I don't know what world some of you guys are in. They're bombarding them. It's not

00:37:02.260 fake stuff. It's not stuff made up by the MSN guys. They invaded. They crossed the border.

00:37:08.420 They moved in on them. They weren't threatening Russia by any means. And I know it's complicated.

00:37:14.800 I know there's secessionist movements in eastern Ukraine that probably, for the most part, down

00:37:20.180 there want to join Russia. Yes, that's been going on. But, you know, somebody else think it's not

00:37:26.800 our problem. Actually, in a big world, it is June. It is whether we like it or not. You know how long

00:37:33.400 and I'll make that comparison. When you got an expansionist state in Europe, how would it have

00:37:39.820 worked if we just said, well, when Hitler took Poland, it's not our problem. When Hitler took 0.84

00:37:44.900 France, it's not our problem. When Hitler went into Hungary, guys, it is our problem. When it's 0.69

00:37:50.880 expansionism, it becomes all of our problem. And we have to address it. I don't agree. I don't

00:37:57.900 think we should send troops over there whatsoever. I don't like the idea of pushing on a no-fly zone.

00:38:01.840 I think that's a big line to cross that could escalate things and make them a hell of a lot

00:38:05.260 worse. I don't want to see anybody else fighting in this thing than already are there. I mean,

00:38:12.740 I do not want to see Canadians showing up. Actually, we've got Paul Hughes. Just a side note, 1.00

00:38:18.020 those who might be familiar with Paul, he's a social media personality. He served on

00:38:22.320 Princess Patricia's light infantry in Canada. He's a veteran. He was also, he ran the farm

00:38:29.640 out in Calgary along over by Canada Olympic Park. Winston, oh, you're a sad little man. Either way,

00:38:38.360 I just have to address some of our commenters who clearly have brain damage like Winston Smith there.

00:38:42.720 So, Paul Hughes, though, I listened to him on the radio this morning.

00:38:45.560 He actually went all the way to Ukraine himself.

00:38:47.280 He did put his feet on the ground.

00:38:48.960 And I don't exactly understand what he's planning on doing over there,

00:38:53.340 aside from perhaps getting himself into trouble.

00:38:55.820 I hope he's all right.

00:38:58.120 He's always been more focused on food security and poverty issues than an international one.

00:39:02.780 As I said, as a veteran, he watches those things quite closely.

00:39:07.120 And he's over on the ground.

00:39:08.940 And, you know, I was asking Eva about that because she's one of our reporters and she's been a part of the community of Eastern Europeans in Alberta and Canada. 0.97

00:39:19.860 And again, it's talking about why we shouldn't care.

00:39:21.420 Some people are saying Alberta has a massive Ukrainian population or people of that descent.

00:39:27.400 And they're concerned about their relatives over there.

00:39:30.760 They've got friends and family over there.

00:39:32.400 Same with people.

00:39:33.100 There's Russian people over here, too, who are worried about their friends and family.

00:39:36.380 we're stuck in this war that have gone in there. I mean, we, and there's some propaganda on both

00:39:41.920 sides, but there's been enough of it from enough of these Russian soldiers. And that was the BS 0.98

00:39:45.340 line Putin was given before as he built up the arms. Hey, it's just a training exercise. Hey,

00:39:48.800 it's just a training exercise. These soldiers did not know they're going to go in and invade

00:39:52.940 and take over their neighbors in Ukraine. So, you know, they're suffering as well. There's a lot of

00:40:01.440 innocent soldiers on both sides getting killed out of these things. Nico's got my Twitter account up.

00:40:06.020 that's where we can get, you know, of course, a lot more hot discussion on these sorts of things

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00:41:32.560 Ah, right, Soneko, you do some research on the Azov Battalion, and it's a governing organization

00:41:39.600 of neo-Nazis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go again. Yes, yes, there's a little battalion full of

00:41:43.760 some guys who wave some Nazi stuff, and apparently they're run by a Jew. If you're going all the way 0.98

00:41:48.240 to the top, come on, get real, get real. Again, in every country, you could probably find a battalion

00:41:53.600 full of extremists. It doesn't justify bringing a foreign invasion, guys. It doesn't. I'm sure

00:41:59.700 there's probably 50 or 100 actual dyed-in-the-wool neo-Nazis in Alberta somewhere. Those kooks are

00:42:05.580 always around. Should the Americans invade us? Should Russia invade us? Cut it out. It's ridiculous. 0.97

00:42:13.460 It's ridiculous. You know, let's get on to some real discussion on this, and I'm sorry, but 0.95

00:42:17.640 Putin's not saving the world from Nazis, guys. He's an authoritarian thug. He invaded a peaceful 0.98

00:42:24.620 country, and people are suffering. That's the bottom line, and we got to bring this thing to an

00:42:29.800 Oh, Suzanne, I'm sorry I sound pathetic to you. 0.99

00:42:32.200 Reality does suck. 0.97

00:42:34.160 All right, so let's talk about some of the stuff 0.95

00:42:36.000 Dave was talking about, speaking to things.

00:42:38.040 The Freedom Convoy truckers.

00:42:40.260 Yes, there was that narrative going on for,

00:42:42.800 oh, Hitler was part Jewish.

00:42:44.020 I don't know, I gotta resist looking 0.99

00:42:45.500 at some of these goofy commenters. 0.92

00:42:46.720 Man, it hurts my head. 0.87

00:42:49.200 Okay, so they've been talking about

00:42:51.040 the Freedom Convoy truckers,

00:42:52.200 speaking of theories of outside funding

00:42:54.200 and why you should have intervention.

00:42:55.440 Doesn't this sound sort of familiar?

00:42:57.120 You know, the Liberal government used that.

00:42:58.860 They're saying it was a foreign force pushing. I now sound like a Nazi supporter, Suzanne. I can barely begin to tell you why that is just repulsive. But I assure you that in my family, we didn't make good Nazis. You guys are disgusting, some of you. You really are. 0.83

00:43:15.860 So, now, the numbers are in. We're talking about 8, maybe 10% of the funding that went towards the 12 million dollars for the Truckers for Freedom Convoy was from foreign dollars.

00:43:30.980 And a whole pile of that was probably actually Canadian snowbirds down south of the border.

00:43:39.320 So, no, this wasn't an insurrection.

00:43:41.400 This wasn't funded by foreign people trying to have somebody take over Canada.

00:43:47.600 This was no January 6th.

00:43:48.780 This was nothing of the sort.

00:43:50.960 And that's what's coming out in front of Commons committees now.

00:43:53.780 You know, this was part of the rationale they used to impose the Emergencies Act on Canadians.

00:43:59.620 The reasoning they used to basically suspend our civil rights

00:44:05.180 because they were saying we're going to be taken over by a foreign country through funding through

00:44:10.020 this truckers for country. The bouncy castles apparently were putting the whole government at

00:44:14.020 risk. The occupation of Ottawa was going to be an effort to overthrow. Well, the numbers are showing.

00:44:18.760 It's not the case. It was not true. 88% of the funds originated in Canada. 86% of the donors

00:44:25.040 there were from Canada. And that money still ceased. That's not their money. We're going to

00:44:30.600 see a lot of legal things following up on this whole truckers convoy and protests in Ottawa.

00:44:35.820 I mean, this is far from done. They've suppressed it. They've pushed it down, but they haven't been

00:44:40.560 able to justify why they did it. They haven't been able to justify such heavy-handed means

00:44:45.760 against our own Canadians. And those things are starting to come out in the wash now. And we've

00:44:50.460 got to stay on that. We've got to follow up with it. And of course, as I was going on about yesterday,

00:44:55.480 We've still got political prisoners based on this.

00:44:57.920 Tamarilich is still stuck without bail in jail.

00:45:03.000 And we've got people with their account seized.

00:45:06.340 We've got people's lives ruined.

00:45:07.240 We've got businesses that have been shut down.

00:45:09.160 And we need to investigate these things.

00:45:10.900 We need to make sure that this government doesn't get away with this.

00:45:16.120 Speaking of the liars in government, as Dave mentioned and I mentioned earlier, yeah, Gilbo.

00:45:20.360 You know, this is our big environmental crusader in Ottawa.

00:45:23.080 while this is one of Trudeau's top people, his big fella up there, he said that we don't

00:45:29.060 subsidize the production of wind energy. He told that to the Senate on Thursday.

00:45:33.320 What? The government doesn't subsidize wind energy? This is a senior minister saying this.

00:45:39.840 Well, yes, we do. And he said we didn't subsidize solar energy. And he says that we subsidize

00:45:46.760 fossil fuels. Okay. This BS line from the federal front and Gilboa. And again, if it was just some

00:45:54.420 environmentalist clown, okay, I got to live with that. But this is one of Trudeau's top confidants 0.95

00:45:58.820 and he's claiming that we don't subsidize. Well, right in the middle, I mean, the green

00:46:03.080 infrastructure fund gets $9 billion. $2 billion goes to this low carbon economy fund. Another

00:46:09.360 $1 billion to a smart renewable and electrification pathways fund. $400 million to the Arctic

00:46:14.320 Energy Fund. $200 million to the Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities Program. $200

00:46:19.300 million in Climate Action and Awareness Fund. That's not subsidies, Gilbo. It's billions of

00:46:25.600 dollars, you liar. This is a federal cabinet minister lying right to the face of a Senate 0.98

00:46:30.060 committee. And again, he gets away with it. This is the government that's stuck in in Canada right

00:46:35.860 now. So yeah, I know as we follow up on the trucker's convoy and what happened over there,

00:46:39.500 I don't hold a lot of confidence that we're going to get too many answers,

00:46:43.780 but I still want our politicians to at least keep up the pressure,

00:46:46.640 media members to keep up the pressure,

00:46:47.980 because we've got to find out what happened,

00:46:49.240 what motivated these guys, and how this ended. 0.96

00:46:51.560 But yeah, when you see crap like that from Gilboa, 0.92

00:46:53.820 it also, they won't hesitate to just actually lie outright to us 0.93

00:46:58.000 when we ask direct questions, and that's concerning.

00:47:01.420 At the very end of the show, I'm going to run a clip

00:47:03.420 from the House of Commons with Pierre Polyev actually questioning

00:47:06.020 on a very simple question.

00:47:07.500 Some of you might have already seen it online.

00:47:09.500 I was during a commons committee going on and he was just asking a minister about the cost of

00:47:15.920 housing in Ottawa and it's painful to watch this thing with the back and forth but it's also an

00:47:21.260 illustration of these people that were paying some very healthy six-figure incomes to govern

00:47:25.400 our lives and how they act like juvenile hammerheads unfortunately in our house of commons

00:47:33.420 and it's no wonder we're in some of the mess we are right now. I'll wrap up before we get to our

00:47:40.080 guest pretty quickly here. I mean, a lot of this is all tied together as well and gets back to the

00:47:44.840 World Economic Forum that I started with. You want to talk about another thing to help bring about a

00:47:48.540 crash, you know, aside from the universal basic income, let's make sure people's housing is

00:47:52.400 screwed up. Make sure that inflation helps us crash. Well, our new housing supply is shorted 0.99

00:47:56.940 demand by 40,000 houses a year right now. That's a federal bank regulator saying that. The

00:48:02.500 government's talking about everything to deal with housing except increasing supply. This is

00:48:05.800 basic economics, people. If we don't have enough houses, the price is going to go up. Why is the

00:48:10.820 government not concerned about this? Well, because they're too concerned about trying to steal our

00:48:13.960 home equity. That's, we are in a lot of trouble, folks. And these testimonies, these things we're

00:48:20.580 seeing, the thing is we're seeing the right talk. They're digging into the right issues,

00:48:25.220 but I don't know if it's going to lead to any change. They're not afraid to just BS us,

00:48:29.040 and apparently we're not afraid to re-elect them. But we need more houses quickly. Right now,

00:48:35.820 we're needing about 250,000 households a year, and we're creating about 200, 210,000. But we've

00:48:41.660 got a government, I think, that's very determined that actually wants a crash. They actually want

00:48:46.160 us to hit bottom, because that'll justify them in their extreme moves to, well, reset the economy.

00:48:53.460 Either way, let's talk about the media. Here's another area of fun for me. We're going to bring

00:48:57.040 in our next guest. This kid Carson, he's a radio host out, or was a radio host out in Vancouver,

00:49:02.340 a popular one, and made a lot of news when he parted ways with his employer, essentially over

00:49:09.460 speaking on things they didn't want to dip into. It sounded like I listened to his podcast. I mean,

00:49:15.320 it's not just that, you know, it's not hate-filled and throwing things back and forth, but it was

00:49:18.160 definitely a differing of opinion, and they had to part ways. But I mean, I'm certain Mr. Carson

00:49:22.320 can explain it much better than I, so let's bring him into the show here, and hey there, how's it

00:49:26.880 going, Mr. Carson? How are you, Corey? Nice to see you. Yes, good to see you. I've been listening

00:49:31.280 to your podcast, but I get to meet you face-to-face here somewhat, I guess, in a virtual sense. So

00:49:36.300 welcome to the show. Thank you. What a time to be alive, brother. Oh boy. Yeah. Well, you know,

00:49:43.180 for a guy like me who makes a living out of ranting, I mean, they give me lots of stuff to

00:49:46.660 work with. So I should be thankful for that, but it's pretty miserable for the rest of the people

00:49:50.160 having to live through it. I feel the same way with content for my podcast. I'm never going to

00:49:55.240 run out we've got a little bit of a journey ahead of us i think yeah well and you've sort of changed

00:50:00.620 formats uh so i mean just to give some background to people who aren't familiar with you uh you'd

00:50:05.460 been in media for some time but you were with uh we're of a music format station but you'd still

00:50:09.660 speak you know on issues and things in between right yeah i mean i i introduce songs on the

00:50:13.800 radio it's not a very complicated job and uh you know part of my job is to to connect with the

00:50:18.900 audience and speak about things that are relevant and um and but a lot of silliness as well as as

00:50:24.460 the stereotypical morning radio show dj giving away money and uh you know playing fun contests

00:50:29.820 but um you know part of connecting with your audiences is reflecting what's happening in

00:50:34.460 the world and it started to get to the point where you know i i wasn't able to um speak about

00:50:41.740 the things that were going on and at that point you start to feel like um your audience is going

00:50:46.460 to perceive you as being disconnected or um out to lunch or with your head in the sand and then

00:50:52.140 And then I started to realize the media landscape around me is like that.

00:50:55.820 And I didn't want to be a part of that.

00:50:58.140 So I'd really hoped that I could sprinkle in a little bit of what we call the truth to my audience.

00:51:03.360 And any time I did, the reaction for me personally in my Instagram with DMs and emails and messages and tweets was phenomenal.

00:51:11.040 However, it obviously didn't fly very well with the management.

00:51:15.920 No, and that story is common in a lot of areas.

00:51:18.560 And I mean, you know, and you didn't even go, in my view, terribly deeply into issues

00:51:22.620 in that.

00:51:22.900 You just, you know, express some things, break up some shows.

00:51:25.220 And we see that trend a lot.

00:51:26.720 Like I listen to a lot of music, a talk radio listener, or at least I used to be a lot because

00:51:30.580 that's where I got a lot of political things when I'd work, I'd listen.

00:51:32.940 And that's where you'd expect to hear that kind of discourse and things. 0.96

00:51:36.320 And it has gone to crap, to be blunt, because talk show hosts are afraid of shaking things 0.97

00:51:42.820 up. 0.98

00:51:43.080 I mean, that used to be the basis of things is exploring concepts and policies and going

00:51:47.500 into them and not necessarily agreeing, but we've seen, I don't know if you're familiar with Daniel

00:51:51.480 Smith. She was a host out here in Alberta. She ended up so many clashes with the station

00:51:55.940 management. She had to quit. She's on her own and sort of podcasting now as well. But it's those

00:52:00.800 pressures that keep coming on. And it's unfortunate because we're getting a very

00:52:04.780 dull vanilla world of discourse out there. And it's to our detriment.

00:52:09.680 It's a very strange time these last couple of years, because as a media personality,

00:52:15.360 We have coaches and consultants that come in and tell us how we can grow our audience.

00:52:22.000 And one of the big things that I was always told is, yeah, if you can ruffle the feathers

00:52:25.580 and get people to react, if you can make someone laugh, that's powerful.

00:52:31.580 But if you can make someone cry or get angry, that's also really powerful.

00:52:35.340 And so I always used, I dipped into those sort of bag of tricks when I'd be introducing

00:52:40.860 sort of silly topics and you try to divide the audience.

00:52:43.740 You try to polarize people so that they're intrigued and interested in the conversation.

00:52:48.780 But suddenly these topics that have come up with the pandemic, it's like if you even go there, if you ruffle those feathers, you're shut down.

00:52:59.700 And it starts to make you really feel uncomfortable in your stomach.

00:53:03.420 You think, well, why can't I engage in these conversations?

00:53:08.720 People want to.

00:53:09.760 I mean, we're all on Instagram.

00:53:11.580 We can see the conversations happening.

00:53:13.320 We can see the mothers, you know, debating in their Facebook groups whether or not they should get their kids vaccinated.

00:53:20.000 You know, I wanted to be able to present both sides of the story.

00:53:23.660 And but you're just not allowed to.

00:53:26.340 That's it's almost creepy.

00:53:28.940 Well, it is. I mean, there's always been a push.

00:53:30.820 I think there's always been human nature in some individuals that they would rather just shut down contrary opinion than debate it.

00:53:36.380 And that's just natural. But they never had so much power, it seems, as they have today.

00:53:40.620 I mean, before they could scream and try and shut people down, but it wouldn't happen. But I mean, the term is cancel culture, and it's very real. And it's, it's shutting things down. I mean, you don't have to agree with somebody, you should be able to debate it. I mean, if they're that far off the edge, if they're that wrong, talk about it, don't shut them down.

00:53:57.200 especially when there's so much evidence to show there's another opinion that's very valid

00:54:02.600 you know uh the cancel culture is not just for media personalities and and censoring people on

00:54:08.080 instagram it's like doctors that are coming out scientists that are coming out they're being shut

00:54:13.380 down um you know it's it's a very i just uh interviewed a guy yesterday that's gonna be on

00:54:18.180 my podcast uh probably later today uh dr stephen pellick from university of british columbia this

00:54:24.060 guy is like, I mean, imagine a simpleton radio host trying to interview a scientist at a university.

00:54:30.540 It's not only intimidating, but it was, my mind was melting with what he's telling me. And he's

00:54:36.420 like, these facts that I'm sharing with you are out there. Everyone knows what's happening. So

00:54:42.260 him reading the mainstream headlines, I mean, he's beside himself that, you know, this information

00:54:47.760 is in front of Bonnie Henry. It's in front of all the other people making these decisions.

00:54:51.680 um yet they're choosing to hide it you know bury it and um and ignore it so dude i don't know i

00:54:59.380 don't know what's next but all i know for me personally i couldn't just sit by and become

00:55:02.580 the guy that uh is uh looks oblivious or up to lunch you know um although i've been interpreted

00:55:08.700 in a few different ways um i see that there is a an insatiable appetite for just some authenticity

00:55:15.880 for some truth and for being curious it's not like i know all the answers but i'm curious like i want

00:55:22.660 to know why it's so weird that i would want to present another opinion why is that a bad thing

00:55:26.680 so if we ask more questions if we get involved in just honest mature adult debate i think i mean

00:55:34.120 that's where we need to go well and you know as you pointed out i mean there's an audience for it

00:55:39.940 i mean i don't know how often i get it as well when i've gotten a good guest on and they talk

00:55:43.420 and people say oh i i am so happy i was able to hear that i can't hear this person anywhere else

00:55:48.760 i find them on youtube i i see them on twitter but you don't see them on ctv or cbc or any of our

00:55:54.660 main outlets anymore i mean the people want to hear it and it's showing i mean it's giving me

00:55:59.700 hope though because we're finding ways to bypass it i mean to look at the the the biggest example

00:56:04.440 in north america has got to be joe rogan i mean there's people are livid with him and you know

00:56:08.420 rogan himself has rarely actually said to too many controversial things it's guests that he's

00:56:13.020 brought on uh which again right or wrong he's there to ask them he's inquiring and uh it's

00:56:20.040 putting it out there but people don't even want that discussion to happen and that's that's

00:56:23.900 distressing joe rogan is arguably the the greatest content producer on the planet right now

00:56:30.080 his ratings are i think i don't know like 11 million a day 11 million people and just dominating

00:56:37.660 mainstream the next guy to go solo will probably be tucker carlson you know i mean uh because his

00:56:44.900 ratings are and he's fantastic at what he does you know three million a night compared to 11

00:56:49.880 million with joe rogan so it's only a matter of time before he goes independent more people end

00:56:54.540 up doing that it's disappointing though cory because there's something about there's something

00:56:58.940 magical about mainstream i don't know if it's nostalgia you know the way we grew up with it

00:57:02.620 it was always the truth um you it's frustrating to not see your your beliefs represented in

00:57:12.060 mainstream media because there's something to it almost validates it in some way validates it with

00:57:16.300 your friends your neighbors your your you know family members co-workers that that you that you

00:57:21.340 matter that your opinion matters and when it's not in mainstream media um you end up feeling like

00:57:27.260 a crazy person like i've looked at myself in the mirror going i wish i didn't know what i knew

00:57:31.900 because now i'm like a nut job i'm the mayor of nutsville so when you have someone and that's

00:57:37.260 what really motivated me to although it was short-lived to say something on the radio that's

00:57:42.140 public that's mainstream that's a pop music station uh playing bruno mars and all the rest

00:57:47.900 is that for so many people it was like oh my god this opinion was represented in the mainstream

00:57:53.260 i'm not crazy um and of course now i'm off in the corner doing a podcast but the way the people have

00:58:00.300 found me and and reached out and said yeah thanks for for at least it was even if it was one or two

00:58:04.860 blurbs on the air um you gave me a little bit of hope you know so yeah you're right though it's

00:58:10.340 great that we can find ways around the mainstream i think people are waking up especially after what

00:58:14.120 happened in ottawa we the trust has been lost and people are going to be seeking out uh truth

00:58:19.380 tellers wherever they are yeah well and and people are gaining a new audience and some commenters

00:58:25.080 are already saying they'd listened to your uh podcast with the accountant it was very widespread

00:58:30.000 and appreciated by people.

00:58:32.040 I mean, it sounds like it'd be dry subject matter,

00:58:33.960 but no, it's very actually engaging.

00:58:36.460 I mean, if you're talking about an audit

00:58:37.600 of a downtown business or something,

00:58:39.420 maybe it'd be a little dull,

00:58:40.420 but we're talking about some big dollars

00:58:41.920 and some crazy stuff going on on the front

00:58:44.620 and nobody else is talking about it.

00:58:46.360 And people are happy to hear somebody is.

00:58:48.820 That's a great episode, actually.

00:58:50.960 Even when I'm interviewing these people,

00:58:52.420 sometimes I wonder, oh, is it going to be dry?

00:58:55.080 That guy was great.

00:58:55.960 And the episode is called

00:58:56.880 What Happened to the Convoy Money

00:58:58.480 on my podcast channel. But I mean, this guy was in the room. He's describing how people are coming

00:59:04.760 in with fists loads of cash. After the GoFundMe and the Give, Send, Go accounts were shut down,

00:59:11.320 people were showing up in Ottawa and just throwing money on a stage. And volunteers are picking up

00:59:15.920 the cash, coming in, and they don't even want to touch it because they feel guilty or they don't

00:59:21.200 want to be... There's just so much love in the air. So people come in and dump the cash on a

00:59:25.360 table and then this accountant guy's like okay um bundle up into envelopes he'll hand it out to the

00:59:31.080 truckers i mean what he saw behind the scenes um is it's it's so interesting that's so far my most

00:59:39.300 listened to episode people just uh love it but he really gives an insight into uh tamara and who is

00:59:45.380 still i believe in jail um without bail he gives a real insight into how she got involved and it

00:59:51.100 really meant to happen that way she was just starting a fundraiser to help the truckers

00:59:55.820 because of her savviness on social media she ended up becoming the face of the convoy

01:00:00.140 which was never meant to be her thing um anyways it's a it's a fantastic interview i'm glad that

01:00:04.860 your uh your audience has has checked it out that's cool absolutely and we're getting uh voices

01:00:10.300 out that couldn't get there before uh and i think the mainstream really overplayed themselves a lot

01:00:15.820 over this whole convoy thing i mean it was actually i gotta admit in a self-serving sense

01:00:19.180 for the western standard we gained more subscribers in this last month than you know in in many months

01:00:24.540 of effort before i mean we'd been doing well but it spiked us because people and the same thing

01:00:28.060 we're hearing from them oh i just can't turn the tv on anymore i can't open the paper uh i mean i

01:00:33.180 watched that ctv or no cbc one when when a host was implying that there was russian involvement

01:00:38.700 in the money going to the convoy like this is our our state broadcaster you guys i mean come on

01:00:43.180 it's become like tmz in a sense yeah and definitely an agenda i mean there's always been some media 0.86

01:00:50.320 bias that's reality there's leanings but to get so flagrant it really soured people i think they

01:00:56.160 overplayed their hand uh another area though that we see a lot in and now that you're moving into

01:01:00.480 that world with podcasts and things is uh you know they used to call them the intellectual dark web

01:01:04.480 and it's tied in with joe rogan and peterson and god sod and a lot of those uh professors and such

01:01:10.820 They're from universities. They've been canceled in their own schools quite often. And that's another disturbing area because this is the next generation coming up and they're getting an incredibly slanted worldview as they go through higher education. But at least these professors aren't just canceled and shunted out. They're actually getting out and bypassing the filters of the mainstream media and the filters of their educational institutions. And they're reaching a lot of people.

01:01:32.960 it's shocking i've been a joe rogan fan for a long time and you know don't agree with everything

01:01:39.300 you don't ever agree with everything that someone says but i mean in my opinion that guy always held

01:01:44.800 his guests feet to the fire you know he's got to produce he's famous for his catchphrase you know

01:01:49.260 pull it up jamie on the screen or whatever he's got a producer in real time you know okay you're

01:01:54.400 saying that's a fact let's pull up the document where is it tell us the website they pull it up

01:01:57.880 they review it in real time i mean his interviews often go for you know two or three hours long

01:02:01.840 because he is fact-checking as he goes.

01:02:05.500 And I think a lot of his apologetic tone lately

01:02:08.080 is because now that he's really moved

01:02:10.100 into the mainstream with the Spotify deal,

01:02:13.480 he's no longer on the fringe.

01:02:14.860 In the fringe, you can pretty much do whatever you want.

01:02:17.040 Once you're in the mainstream now,

01:02:18.640 people come after you.

01:02:20.760 So he's had to really,

01:02:22.780 lately in the last few weeks,

01:02:24.280 be much more balanced.

01:02:25.240 And I can even hear the way his interview style is.

01:02:27.660 He's very, very smart the way he does it.

01:02:29.800 it almost seems like he's arguing against his guest but to draw out more of the of the facts

01:02:35.680 you know so um he's he's a genius it's no it's no doubt no wonder that he's uh at the top of

01:02:40.820 his game and the number one broadcaster now in the world oh yeah i mean he's a great interviewer

01:02:45.620 i mean for people who haven't listened to his shows i mean part of it what's it what's subtle

01:02:48.960 with it is is he's genuinely engaged that's what's making it worth listening and he's not gonna

01:02:53.080 overrun his guest he's curious he's he takes his questions where they will take him because he's

01:02:58.540 genuinely wants to get an answer out of it doesn't mean he agrees with a guest but he he's pulling

01:03:02.800 more information out of them and he's very good at it and it makes it a good listen I mean I couldn't

01:03:07.000 pull off a show for three and a half hours I would bore everybody right to tears after a you know

01:03:11.720 after an hour and a half they're already starting to drop off on me here so uh for him to actually

01:03:16.540 gain followers and make such an engaging thing but and again these platforms didn't exist 20 years

01:03:21.320 ago you know there was no such thing as an independent show that could be so long and so

01:03:24.520 in depth and uh like i said it's a frustrating time but it's an exciting one i i mean the whole

01:03:28.760 world is open to uh new new views now and it it's gonna be hard to stop us yeah even for myself

01:03:34.440 i mean thank god technology is where it is now where you know guys like us can can can reach the

01:03:39.600 world and reach you know thousands of people um you know a few years ago i would have been dead

01:03:44.760 in the water um for expressing my views and and maybe i wouldn't have had the courage to say

01:03:49.540 something to be honest because you know i have three kids i have a four-year-old i have an eight

01:03:53.200 year old and a 17 year old stepdaughter and uh you know my number one job is to provide for them

01:03:57.820 um but with people now i mean my instagram account has been steady around 30 000 people for for a

01:04:04.400 while and then after this within less than a week i jumped to you know i think i'm just i think i

01:04:10.100 just passed 70 000 and for me i just i can't even it's mind-boggling i don't know how real famous

01:04:16.380 people do it with their millions of followers my 70 000 i'm trying to message people back and i'm

01:04:20.840 trying it's just but and i had a basically a lump in my throat for the first two weeks non-stop i

01:04:27.240 mean legit like getting teary-eyed reading some of these messages it has made me feel although i've

01:04:33.700 lost my job and that's a whole another scary topic um it has made me feel like i'm getting

01:04:39.940 paid in love if that i know that sounds a little corny um i feel more relevant now these last uh

01:04:47.660 two or three weeks than i have for the last two years on on pop radio so um i'm just going to

01:04:55.260 take my run um yeah joe rogan's a huge inspiration um i i want to kind of follow in his vein of of

01:05:01.900 truth telling and curiosity like you mentioned interview some some voices that aren't getting um

01:05:07.980 exposure um so i i am revitalized in my passion for broadcasting i'm excited um and there's a

01:05:18.300 lot to cover there's a lot of territory and probably a lot of weird things are going to

01:05:21.420 happen over the next five years you know as i watch your show yeah you know what's up there's

01:05:25.980 a lot of things this the stage is being set for some weird stuff to go down and um i i'm honored

01:05:32.140 and privileged now to be one of the voices out there

01:05:36.460 trying to spread another point of view.

01:05:39.260 Yeah, well, it's good to hear from you and humanize

01:05:41.280 and make some people realize as well

01:05:43.100 that not every person who's in the mainstream media

01:05:45.400 or was in the mainstream media is evil or infected or bad.

01:05:49.960 You know, the institutions themselves, I think,

01:05:52.740 are rotten to the core, but a lot of people within them,

01:05:54.780 a lot of the people who make up the Western Standard

01:05:56.340 actually are former mainstream media writers

01:05:58.920 and producers and such.

01:06:00.940 they've left that but landed here i mean uh there's some as you pointed out i mean you've

01:06:06.600 still got a fear for your own job you got bills to pay like everyone else we have a talk radio

01:06:10.000 show host in calgary who i used to really really enjoy uh he's just really again gone so flatline

01:06:16.060 and dull i can't handle him anymore i know he hasn't changed but he needs to keep his job

01:06:20.440 yeah and he's got a young family and and you know he doesn't not everybody can necessarily make the

01:06:25.240 leap into a a new platform or format i mean social media it's a scary jump and then you've

01:06:30.380 made that jump and then so far so good yeah I mean a lot of the time it's station management

01:06:36.420 they're just they're terrified because the people who are loudest on the keyboard you know the

01:06:40.380 keyboard warriors you know I remember the first time I even mentioned that I didn't like wearing

01:06:45.680 a mask now the full conversation was I will wear a mask you know in the early days I'll wear a mask

01:06:52.640 to protect my neighbors I don't like it and the keyboard warriors came out and just my boss came

01:06:59.880 the next morning with thousands of emails. People were so upset. And I thought, wow, that's crazy

01:07:05.720 that now you can't even express that you don't like wearing a mask. Like we're not supposed to

01:07:09.980 like it. We're not supposed to rush out and get a mask that matches our outfit. Like it's not

01:07:15.580 supposed to be a fun fashion accessory. This is a crappy thing that we've got to cover half our

01:07:20.180 faces. But even expressing that you don't like something like that gets a certain type of person

01:07:26.740 really riled up and that really freaks management out so then you know although they're not they're

01:07:32.160 not bad people they don't want to lose ratings and lose advertisers and sponsorships and money

01:07:39.460 ultimately so then they end up telling everyone to to shut up so you're right good people end up

01:07:44.120 keeping their mouths shut for a variety of reasons and um my hope is that you know more people in

01:07:50.920 mainstream will just start to stand up a little bit. I don't know if it's behind closed doors

01:07:57.740 and try to talk to their managers and go, guys, we need to stay relevant here. And

01:08:02.900 the people out there, they want to hear another side. It's getting a little tacky now that we

01:08:09.340 can't stand up and have another point of view. I don't know how that's going to happen, but

01:08:13.380 we can just hope. Well, we'll see. I mean, a lot of the mainstream, they're not making a lot of

01:08:18.340 money in those those organizations radio stations newspapers it's not like it used to be so they

01:08:22.300 got to start re-examining themselves the model isn't working uh you know you're competing now

01:08:27.340 with things like the standard like your podcast uh even rebel and other things are coming out

01:08:31.500 there there's substitutes and streaming music of course is really cutting into radio stations so

01:08:36.060 maybe shutting down uh you know discussion is the wrong way to go if you want to retain audience

01:08:41.000 with unique content but they they aren't ready to look that way yet maybe that'll come as they

01:08:45.760 get more desperate. I think a lot of old school systems need to crash and burn before they're

01:08:52.360 rebuilt. And yeah, I don't know what that looks like, but it's kind of a scary, nerve-wracking

01:08:57.300 thought. We all want to be comfortable. But I think over the next five, seven years, I think

01:09:02.200 it could be very interesting. Lots for us to talk about. Most certainly. Well, I'll let you get on

01:09:07.260 with it. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your podcasts and your interviews now that you're

01:09:11.760 unrestrained and settling into the new world of alternative media uh you know it's it's as i said

01:09:17.280 it's a tough realm to get into but the world's your oyster right like you could i think somebody

01:09:22.000 else referred to you as perhaps the next joe rogan or the canadian joe rogan i mean that's that's the

01:09:26.240 bar to aspire to for sure someone called me the walmart joe rogan i'll just start hey there's a

01:09:34.080 lot of money in walmart hey i was still flattered i'll take it man i'm not above buying stuff from

01:09:39.520 there now and then hey times are tight thanks for the time today man it was really nice to connect

01:09:44.160 with you great thanks so where can we find what you're doing and what you're up to i saw some of

01:09:47.600 that in the background there just to remind everybody and the people listening on audio

01:09:51.200 how can we find kid carson and your uh shows going forward you can connect with me at kid carson.com

01:09:57.520 there's a link there with all my podcast episodes and ways that you can support

01:10:01.760 and um yeah i mean i'm just i'm i'm flattered by all the great response so far and yeah i'm on

01:10:08.320 all the platforms apple spotify i am doing video podcasts i'm not like you you look very comfortable

01:10:14.160 behind the mic uh the camera um i've been a radio guy forever and never had to worry about what my

01:10:19.520 face looked like if i had my double chin exposed so now i've got the camera set up i'm doing these

01:10:24.480 podcasts and video which you can watch on spotify and uh that's another whole thing i'm trying to

01:10:28.880 conquer well i'm certain you will i mean you get used to it more as you go with me it's just a

01:10:33.440 a matter of age i'm not so worried about things like when i was in my 20s i'm happily married my

01:10:38.520 wife puts up with how i look now so uh the audience can uh deal with my shiny forehead and bad hair

01:10:43.640 yeah i'm just a little shine there see yeah it's easy style in there all right well no it was really

01:10:49.640 great i hope i get the chance to talk with you again soon down the road and uh i really want

01:10:53.060 to see your podcast take off i'm looking forward thank you so much cory i appreciate it great thank

01:10:56.660 you so yes that was kid carson and uh check him out it's a good and i like seeing these new podcasts

01:11:02.620 taking off as you can see and as the commenters just loved them we could see that I mean I know

01:11:06.540 you guys don't hesitate when you don't like my guests to let me know about it well if you can

01:11:09.840 still hear me there kid they're all thrilled with you and I assure you this is a critical crowd

01:11:14.300 they're hollering at me half the time but as I said I mean I'm crabby I go on about things but

01:11:20.700 I'm optimistic at the same time we're seeing technology and communication moving in ways

01:11:24.520 that they never did before Daniel Smith who I brought up as that local example you know she

01:11:28.860 got pushed off of regular radio, but she's resurfacing on a number of different areas to 0.96

01:11:33.600 talk. The cancel culture, and this is where it gets tougher in mainstream media, you know,

01:11:38.360 when they went after Danielle, it wasn't just complaints about her. What they did was went

01:11:43.880 after her sponsors. They would phone up, you know, the car dealers and things like that and say,

01:11:51.020 we will never come to your place. We'll pick at your place. They threatened everything. You know,

01:11:54.220 if you keep that host on the air, it was actually very troublesome and disturbing.

01:11:58.860 A lot of it came about because of Danielle interviewing a UCP candidate, and she had

01:12:06.060 gotten demonized as a supposed racism, and she wasn't. It was a bunch of BS. It was a character

01:12:10.720 assassination, and I'm forgetting her blood name for some reason. I've had her on this show. 0.79

01:12:15.820 Either way, she started a charter school. I'm sure her name's going to come back to me pretty

01:12:18.700 soon. Brilliant woman, actually, very brilliant, and Danielle interviewed her when the character

01:12:22.960 assassination was going on. It turns on she had like a stalker, essentially, who was leaking a

01:12:26.980 bunch of private conversations out of context to make her look bad. It was terrible. It was terrible

01:12:31.740 what they did to her. Danielle interviewed her and there were so many complaints just because

01:12:36.360 Danielle talked to her that QR 77 took Smith aside and she was spanked by the program manager

01:12:43.220 and they pulled the archived interview off of the radio archives. Like it was absolutely ridiculous.

01:12:51.660 Ah, there we go. Thank you, Jane. Yes, Kaylin Ford. There we go. Can't believe I'm forgetting that

01:12:55.660 name. If you want to know a number of brain farts, I tend to get quite often names. I don't know if I

01:13:00.200 hit my head when I was ski jumping one too many times on the wrong spot, but I have a hard time

01:13:03.820 with names sometimes. So Kaylin Ford, she was just terribly treated by the mainstream media and by

01:13:08.800 people in general. But for Daniel Smith to even dare interviewing her, it wasn't Smith saying

01:13:13.960 right or wrong. She just had her as a guest. The people went haywire. What a terrible, terrible

01:13:18.960 trend. So you see people like Kid Carson though. And what I like is, okay, he's not fading off

01:13:24.760 into the wilderness. He's not gone. He's jumped onto a new platform. It's got to be scary. He's

01:13:30.080 got a young family. As he said, you know, he's going to have to find new sponsors, subscribers,

01:13:34.880 whatever way it goes. Same thing here with the Western Standard. You know, Derek and Dave made

01:13:39.740 a big leap and everybody who got this thing going and the subscribers are holding that up and that's

01:13:44.040 how we're paying our bills. But we're showing the mainstream isn't the only way out. You know,

01:13:48.840 there is alternatives. We can develop those alternatives. We can talk about those different

01:13:53.460 messages and still have the conversation. Another thing I do fear though is information overload.

01:13:59.700 As we know, there's a whole lot of BS out in the internet as well. I mean, as some of the

01:14:03.220 commenters point out, they think what I'm spreading on some issues is, that's fine. Well, except for

01:14:07.220 the ones calling me a Nazi. I don't put up with that. But I mean, you do have to be more careful.

01:14:12.340 It puts a lot of responsibility on you. You have to look at your sources. You know, is this a good

01:14:16.980 publication? Are they really putting out a real story or is it BS? I mean, that's a, you know,

01:14:21.300 just to beat our own drum at the western standard that's why we do have a core of real reporters on

01:14:25.700 the ground we have somebody in ottawa we have somebody in edmonton we have dave here who

01:14:29.860 maintains those new standards he was a newsman for decades we don't just cut and paste press

01:14:34.820 releases and put them into stories we fact check you know uh mel is chronically on the phone phoning

01:14:40.020 sources and confirming things that this is the new media and this is the way things go now

01:14:46.020 and that we can build that but there's a lot of them that don't there's a lot of new media

01:14:49.380 outlets, and I'm not going to knock specific ones. There's some great ones out there,

01:14:53.320 and I've got nothing but respect for Rebel and True North and Postmillennial and the things

01:14:57.220 they're doing. They all have their things, but there's some that are just horrific out there,

01:15:00.680 and you've got to watch for them. That's all. Just take some care. I'm going to move on to a

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01:15:25.140 Like I said, a lot of what keeps people out of the digital currency world is just not exactly knowing what it is.

01:15:30.640 I mean, it does sound strange, you know, this alternative currency.

01:15:33.020 I mean, I grew up with dollars and cents and everything.

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01:15:49.680 to feel more comfortable is with more education. They've got corporate plans. You can pay your

01:15:53.620 employees in Bitcoin a portion of it. It's voluntary and so on. We do that here at the

01:15:57.020 Standard. I get a portion of my check, comes into my Bitcoin wallet. And there's actually a matching

01:16:01.900 program. It's one of the most generous things I've seen out of Derek. And trust me, he's not

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01:16:16.600 services and they can keep you rolling in the digital world. Okay, on to the federal front a

01:16:22.320 little bit. Yes, we got the Conservative Party of Canada leadership. They've set the date. It's

01:16:27.100 going to be September 10th when they are going to announce their new leader. They've adopted those

01:16:32.400 rules. It's their third leadership race in six years. And, you know, maybe they'll find the

01:16:37.880 right one. I don't know. Again, it's a longer conversation as to why I'm an independent

01:16:41.600 supporter because I do feel the whole system's broken. And the video at the end of this show

01:16:45.660 is going to kind of demonstrate a little of that. But in the meantime, somebody's got to lead the

01:16:50.260 party. And, you know, the conservatives typically at least are less bad than the alternatives.

01:16:56.460 It's unfortunate that we have to settle that way. But either way, the candidates have till April

01:17:01.140 19th to send in their applications and it costs $200,000 to get in. So this is not just for your

01:17:07.180 run-of-the-mill grassroots person to get involved. And of course, it's going to cost you a lot more

01:17:10.060 than that to make the run. And there's a refundable deposit, assuming you behave correctly.

01:17:15.840 Now, that's not too far from now. It's a month and change. But I'm hoping, I mean, right now,

01:17:20.720 and I like Pierre Polyev, I like him a lot. But he's the only one officially in so far.

01:17:25.920 Jean Charest is kicking tires. I think he's going to go for it. But I mean, the best thing with a

01:17:29.980 race is to get as many candidates as possible. Get in there, make it a race, sell those memberships,

01:17:34.720 share those ideas, make it competitive. A blowout is never good for anybody. And that deadline's

01:17:40.080 coming up pretty darn fast. So hopefully some more entrants come into this race right now, because

01:17:46.100 again, if Pierre walks away with it, I mean, I won't be the saddest person on earth, but I think

01:17:50.820 they would have lost the benefit of having a good competitive race like that. I mean, the House of

01:17:55.280 Commons, speaking of the Conservatives and how sick they are, I want to talk about that a bit.

01:17:59.260 They had a vote, and I think there's a story on that standard, to bring in a policy because

01:18:06.240 Quebec's been whining.

01:18:07.380 You see, Quebec isn't growing as fast as Alberta.

01:18:10.300 Alberta's growing fast.

01:18:11.380 It's, hey, man, it's Alberta.

01:18:12.480 We want to live here.

01:18:13.280 Quebec isn't growing that fast because, hey, come on, bitter people and poutine, there's

01:18:15.840 only so much you can embrace.

01:18:17.220 So there's some great things in Quebec too.

01:18:19.640 But they said, hey, we're going to lose seats, dude, because our seats in parliament are

01:18:24.300 supposed to be based on population.

01:18:25.940 We're going to lose seats now, and Alberta's going to gain a handful of seats.

01:18:29.260 due to the new rejigging for the population.

01:18:31.480 Well, we don't like that.

01:18:32.320 We're screaming about it,

01:18:33.060 and the Bloc put a motion forward saying,

01:18:34.220 let's stop that.

01:18:35.800 And they won.

01:18:36.800 That motion got through. 1.00

01:18:37.640 Alberta's going to get screwed out of their seats, 1.00

01:18:38.900 and Quebec's going to get more.

01:18:41.200 That's not so shocking out of the Liberals and Bloc and NDP,

01:18:43.560 because they're a bunch of socialists,

01:18:44.940 and they all thrive on kissing Quebecois.

01:18:48.240 But most of the CPC MPs supported that motion as well.

01:18:52.820 Many, at least.

01:18:53.520 I don't know if it was most or not.

01:18:54.720 But yeah, there was a lot of Conservative Party

01:18:56.160 supporting that too.

01:18:57.040 so that's where the system shows and how broken it is guys and that's why again i look at western

01:19:01.400 independence see no matter what party you get in there their lips are locked on central canadian

01:19:05.660 voters and at the direct expense of the west michelle remple wrote that column dave was talking

01:19:12.520 about she was talking about proportional representation as perhaps a means for she

01:19:17.700 references that vote as well in her column actually i i'm not a big supporter of proportional

01:19:22.220 representation but it's another concept of things it could give more strength to regional areas i

01:19:26.840 mean it's it's worth examining i again i think uh well for one changing the electoral system i just

01:19:31.780 can't see the government ever getting the will to really do it and i'm just not sure if that'd be

01:19:35.040 the best way to go but at least she's talking about it but right now when we can just keep

01:19:39.860 overriding our whole principle of even having representation by population across the country

01:19:44.020 through votes in parliament we know how often the west is going to get screwed in these policies

01:19:47.880 which is essentially 100 we can't get out of it and the conservatives were no better for us in

01:19:54.260 that vote than anybody else. And well, I shouldn't say that because some of them voted against that.

01:19:57.980 Probably all the Western conservative members. You know, maybe it's time for the Maverick Party

01:20:03.340 to be that one because at least they wouldn't split themselves on that. They would say pretty

01:20:06.580 clearly, no, you keep our seats in the West because that's the way the bloody system works.

01:20:10.960 The system doesn't work. That's what the truth of it is, you know, and the mainstream media system

01:20:17.260 is starting to stop working. So just to show that, I'm going to play a video before we wrap things

01:20:22.620 up and i'll chat shortly after that video uh nico's going to throw that on because let's see

01:20:26.780 our six-figure paid house of commons workers in action let's see the progress they're making

01:20:31.900 and how they're standing up for us in there for the minister of middle class prosperity who is

01:20:36.480 a member of parliament here in ottawa what is the average cost for a home in the city of ottawa

01:20:43.660 the honorable minister mr speaker my uh title is the minister of tourism and associate minister

01:20:52.360 of finance i'm sure my honorable colleague across the way knows that but let me say mr speaker 156

01:20:57.400 000 jobs the honorable member for carlton the minister of treasury board can help by telling

01:21:04.040 us the average cost of a house in the nation's capital the honorable minister mr speaker i want

01:21:11.080 to say 106 percent of jobs have been recovered since the lowest point of the pandemic member

01:21:16.920 What is the average increase in house prices since this government took office in 2015?

01:21:28.060 Canada's economy contracted by 17% between February and April 2020,

01:21:33.100 the largest and most sudden contraction in real GDP since the Great Depression, and we're already back.

01:21:38.480 Just the average house price. 0.94

01:21:41.420 5.5 million Canadians lost their jobs, and they're all back.

01:21:45.320 Member for Carleton.

01:21:46.500 And what would they pay for the average house?

01:21:49.200 The Minister.

01:21:49.660 Mr. Speaker, in 2020, unemployment rated more than doubled from a pre-pandemic level of 5.7% to a racket of 13.7%, 6% now.

01:21:58.580 Member for Carleton.

01:22:00.400 I think there's a problem with the audio in the chamber.

01:22:02.980 The question was, what is the average cost of a house in Canada today?

01:22:07.580 The Honourable Minister.

01:22:08.520 Mr. Speaker, our government has made historic investments in housing affordability, and we will continue to do so.

01:22:13.060 The Honourable Member for Carleton.

01:22:15.060 And how affordable are such houses?

01:22:17.060 The Honourable Minister.

01:22:19.060 Mr. Speaker, our government has made historic investments in housing.

01:22:22.060 We will continue to do so so that housing is affordable for all Canadians.

01:22:25.060 The Honourable Member for Carleton.

01:22:27.060 If so, how much have house prices increased since this government took office?

01:22:31.060 The Honourable Minister.

01:22:33.060 Mr. Speaker, let's talk about how it is possible for people to afford their houses with good employment.

01:22:37.060 And that's why employment income fell by an unprecedented $28 billion during the pandemic.

01:22:43.060 honorable member of carlton is that agonizing or what yeah as jason fist says seriously we pay for

01:22:51.020 this yeah that hundreds of thousands as a matter of fact to those individuals and of course millions

01:22:57.200 and millions and millions i mean question period committee questions they rarely give good direct

01:23:03.400 answers and the conservatives can be just as bad jason kenny can be just as bad answering direct

01:23:07.400 questions stephen harper used to play some of those games in question period as well but you

01:23:11.880 know just just even get up rather than get up and down so arrogant they're so arrogant that he just

01:23:17.200 would not want to give an answer to a direct question uh on principle he didn't want to say

01:23:23.340 to mr polyev even look we got a committee looking at the local prices and i'll get back to you when

01:23:29.480 we've got those numbers which is still a non-answer but at least to address you know acknowledge that

01:23:33.860 he asked the question but they're so arrogant so self-centered so feel that they don't have any

01:23:40.740 obligation to answer questions from other elected officials that they will stand up and stonewall

01:23:46.320 like that in our house of comments again i don't have a lot of faith in fixing canada up i really

01:23:54.620 don't when these are our representatives and again the liberals aren't the only ones guilty of it but 0.99

01:23:59.020 they're the worst for it and of course we see it when trudeau gets up with his idiocy he'll get up 0.99

01:24:03.460 and you know toss out word salad to a couple of questions and then run off and hide and let junior 0.99

01:24:08.380 ministers take care of everything else in there after that. But man, this is just painful. It's

01:24:14.140 such a serious time. Real estate really is an important thing. Claudette's saying what oil's

01:24:19.200 at 116 a barrel now. Yeah, we've got a lot of things on our plate to be concerned about. And

01:24:25.160 these are the ding dongs we got representing us in Ottawa. I worry about that. So one last time 0.96

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01:24:50.300 has so far. I got a good show coming up on Monday. Speaking of the oil prices, people familiar with

01:24:54.920 Dan McTeague. He's from gasbuddy.com. He always speaks on those issues. He's from, he was a liberal

01:25:00.620 member of parliament in years gone by, but back when liberals actually, there still were some

01:25:04.740 principled ones among them. He's far from the current liberals of today. He's nothing like

01:25:10.680 that. And we're going to talk energy prices. He's got a lot of I told you so is coming up right now

01:25:14.440 because he's been warning us about this energy crisis and that's what it's turning into. It's

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