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00:09:41.460And you got fresh honey to look forward to, right?
00:09:44.460You do. I'm getting the bees in, so then I'll be able to report on the show that there are multiple stings and other incidents I'll get before I torch the hive.
00:09:51.920All right. Well, on with today's news, and it's already been a busy Monday morning, Corey.
00:09:57.500In Ottawa, the controversial MPP Randy Hillier has turned himself into police.
00:10:03.660He's facing nine different charges, mainly due to his COVID preachings, and he's also charged with assault on a police officer.
00:10:15.620So he doesn't know where that charge is coming from, and the only thing he can think of is he hugged somebody, and that's being misinterpreted.
00:11:02.960Scott Moe is in Europe, in London today, opening up a trade office over there and also going to Germany to try and increase exports and economic development within Saskatchewan.
00:11:16.460uh kazillionaire bill gates has been invited to speak at a ted conference in uh in uh vancouver
00:11:25.760sorry next month uh he's featured with all the uh the left-wing types you got uh al gore and
00:11:31.640elon musk and uh and bill gates all speaking at the vancouver event and they're having what
00:11:37.960they're going to be calling a super protest uh against him uh the federal officials were
00:11:45.200testifying at the Transportation Committee that the Freedom Truckers posed a threat to social
00:11:50.660cohesion. They said their use of the internet was problematic and all sorts of horrible things like
00:11:58.900that. Our Dave Makachuk has got an interesting column up there on his thoughts on Canada should
00:12:05.300get rid of the RCMP. He uses the example of our BC Bureau story yesterday from Reed Small. It shows
00:12:13.240It's been 40 days since those 20 terrorists came in and caused millions of dollars of damage to the coastal gas link pipeline, and no arrests, no leads, no updates, just a typical radio silence from the RCMP.
00:12:36.760She wants basically everything from Russia censored because it's misleading.
00:12:41.400And we've got the Canadian Association of Journalists, that bastion of journalistic freedoms, violated their own policies on fact-checking when they reported some of that blockade stuff where their two reporters were arrested in B.C. a couple of months ago.
00:12:59.120So that's what we've got up now. We have big breaking news out of Ottawa. The Liberals have announced they are going to be buying new fighter jets. Initial reports say it's as many as 88 of them.
00:13:10.840And at $35 million a piece, Corey, I don't do math, but that adds up to a fair chunk of change, I think.
00:13:19.580And we've got one more Bill Gates story coming this afternoon.
00:13:22.840He's building a luxury new mansion or bought a mansion down in San Diego area.
00:13:30.400And interestingly, his buddy Al Gore has predicted that's one of the places that's going to be underwater
00:13:36.300when climate change wreaks havoc and raises the levels of the ocean.
00:13:41.460So hopefully he's got good flood protection down there in San Diego, Corey.
00:13:50.360Well, you know, these news check-ins, I mean, just to pat our own back a bit,
00:13:53.780you know, just to remind everybody, boy, they're getting long.
00:13:56.100We get so much content coming out every day with such a large crew across the country now.
00:14:00.880Lots to read and lots to follow up on.
00:14:02.700Yeah, Chris Oldcorn in Saskatchewan has hit the ground running, and Matthew down in our Ottawa Bureau, he'll be doing the fighter jet story.
00:14:14.720And our new Edmonton reporter, Rachel, is currently making her way across the country from Ottawa to take up her job there.
00:14:23.580So, yeah, we've got people in all the places that's big in the news right now, Corey.
00:14:29.540Great. Well, thanks for the check-in, and I'll see what's happening after the show there, Dave.
00:18:53.440It seems that the only times the government wants to streamline and pursue more efficiency is when it's taking away our personal rights and abilities for ourselves.
00:19:01.160it's it's a sad uh state of affairs yeah exactly and uh don't forget it would line their pockets
00:19:07.960quite nicely and the insurance companies were uh were frankly licking their lips on this thing
00:19:13.800this would have been just a crazy amount of money for them so well that's it and that's
00:19:19.720some of what happens i mean particularly if you have moving violations things like that your
00:19:23.800insurance rates as those are just inclined to speeding and things such and now and then we know
00:19:29.320know that our rates are going to go high very quickly and it inspires us to fight back on some
00:19:33.540of these uh offenses at times if you didn't have that ability i'd imagine there's going to be a
00:19:38.180lot more convictions and a lot more uh raising of insurance rates on people then well absolutely and
00:19:43.520the convictions would have been at far worse uh tickets as well or far worse charges with
00:19:49.680far more implications on insurance um transportation companies would have been severely hit on things
00:19:56.740like cbor and ccmta and things like that so yeah and that's a good point and that's kind of your
00:20:03.280specialty like just because a person goes to court of course doesn't mean they're going to win
00:20:06.120and it doesn't mean they'll throw out the entire offense but perhaps you could appeal to the the
00:20:10.100justice and and have your ticket reduced or or you know made into a less onerous penalty if they
00:20:15.560felt that you were genuinely uh remorseful and wouldn't do it again exactly yeah and this uh had
00:20:21.460no opportunity for that whatsoever this this was pure and simple a conviction factory and uh that's
00:20:27.620what it was from the get-go it was quite clear by some of the comments uh when a prosecutor asked uh
00:20:34.180one of the originators of this what happens with the innocent people and their response was ah who
00:20:38.340cares it's only money so that that really uh clarified what this was all about uh right from
00:20:45.300the start yeah well and most of us aren't in a position to be able to say it's only money i i
00:20:50.260wish uh it were so yeah and it's very serious i mean we're in some bad inflationary times
00:20:55.620uh actually a side note i didn't anticipate but cheryl don one of our commenters has asked
00:20:59.940there's a backlog uh sorry let me just send there's somebody bugging me and i'm gonna send
00:21:08.800him a message to uh sure and while you're working on that i'll talk about that as well i'm wondering
00:21:14.120about uh charlie works on that as things have been going for a while now with covet a lot of
00:21:20.600stuff got backed up whether it's medical procedures or uh oh sorry what actually happened was is they
00:21:34.680they let go a lot of the people that were involved in the court system they frankly uh told the
00:21:39.240the clerks in essence that well you're not wanted so go find other work so a lot of them did in
00:21:44.840calgary they had 22 clerks and office staff in traffic court and right now they're down to
00:21:50.740seven so that gives you an example of the kind of stuff that went on they had prosecutors leaving
00:21:57.600because frankly they knew they had a pretty good idea what was coming so so yes some of the delay
00:22:04.700was due to covid but that's no longer the case the delay right now is uh is manpower it's as simple
00:22:10.700as that uh they don't have the people that they used to have prior to covid and um now they're
00:22:18.620gonna have to try to play catch up um and uh i don't i don't know what uh what the plan is on
00:22:25.740that whether they plan on rehiring people bringing people back or whatever yeah would they uh extend
00:22:33.900deadlines on uh tickets then that got uh backed up because of these sorts of things or because
00:22:38.780of short staffing uh because i know often you know you only have a certain period of time
00:22:43.900well we'll we'll see how that plays out i mean frankly they're setting dates right now that are
00:22:48.860outside the 18 months to begin with uh you know we're just just off the bat so
00:22:54.940and that's a that's a manpower issue that they will have to uh address um because they didn't
00:23:01.900think they were going to have to address it because they thought it was going to be full
00:23:05.180steam ahead on uh this thing because the public uh didn't their attention wasn't drawn to this
00:23:11.980and um now it's off the plate or at least it seems to be off the plate any event so
00:23:18.940yeah well i mean of course we got a government that's in retreat on a number of public uh
00:23:23.900levels i guess you could say so there now is a good time for them to be receptive to public
00:23:28.460ire because uh they're they're kind of got their own internal squabbles going so they're trying to
00:23:32.380to avoid taking people off any more than they have to but i mean that's an unfortunate reason to
00:23:36.860get rid of a bad policy it should be for our sake not for their own expediencies
00:23:42.140yeah and it um it's going to be an interesting time with the provincial government in this province
00:23:47.900uh needless to say so yeah well and i mean justice doesn't come cheap you know i mean
00:23:53.260sure you've got to set up a court you have to have a process and things like that but that is what we
00:23:56.940pay taxes for and we we should have those protections uh no matter how trivial the the
00:24:01.740offense may feel to some uh they're all important to all of us oh well the traffic court is not a
00:24:07.420money loser don't kid yourself the government the government in no way loses money uh in in
00:24:13.180uh traffic court when you consider uh the amounts of uh money that come in through the uh traffic
00:24:20.060court system per se and don't forget this was not a move just for traffic court this was basically a
00:24:25.420move to take away the right to a fair trial and the right to be considered innocent until proven
00:24:31.500guilty from all provincial offenses not just traffic this was they were going for everything
00:24:37.020so you know and i'm pretty sure it wasn't going to stop there they would have tried to trim off
00:24:43.260some of the more minor criminal offenses as well in all likelihood at the end of the day so yeah
00:24:50.060Yeah, when they get a hold of our rights, they don't often give them back very easily or willingly.
00:24:56.060But I appreciate you coming in to kind of lay out and clarify a bit of some of that importance.
00:25:00.740And I'm sure you'll be watching this issue closely still.
00:25:03.360As we said, the government, you never know if they're going to try it again through a different means in the future.
00:25:07.960So where can people keep track of what you're doing and then find out about yourself?
00:25:12.120Well, when we hear about things, we try to get the attention of the public and the media.
00:25:17.460And I think now the media has really latched on to this.
00:25:20.920So I don't think that problem will be as tough as it was before.
00:25:25.780So, and I just want to thank the media for all the coverage it has been given over the last month or two.
00:37:19.480Canadian Shooting Association. It's cssa-cila.org. It's probably easiest just to Google them out
00:37:28.680though, Canadian Shooting Association. You can't miss them. They're a great organization. They're
00:37:32.620out to help you and keep your property safe so you can continue to enjoy it. All right. And
00:37:38.620I see Dave in the lobby. It looks like he's almost set to come in there. So maybe we're going to
00:37:44.000bring Dave Bradley in from Bitcoin Well and have a discussion about some policies that just got
00:37:50.180released. So, hey, you got her all set up or you're still kind of bouncing around a bit there?
00:37:56.260Right on. Good to see you, Dave. Good to see you, Corey. So yeah, this was a bit rushed, but we saw
00:38:01.620something that was unusual. We got a conservative candidate with Pierre Polyev putting out a release
00:38:07.540uh very directly addressing digital currencies and mentioning bitcoin in itself uh during that
00:38:14.420release did did you have a chance to read that yet yeah i had a look at it um kind of circulated
00:38:20.500around the bitcoin community in the last uh 12 hours or so and there's some interesting stuff
00:38:26.660in there for sure yeah and i read it so i mean one of the things he addressed and again this
00:38:32.340is just so unusual for a political race to see this sort of thing come up but it kind of shows how
00:38:36.740you know important digital currencies are becoming but he speaks along the lines of
00:38:41.220keeping cryptocurrencies and digital currencies legal like is there much threat that they're
00:38:45.620going to be illegalized um i wouldn't say there is in canada right now um you know bitcoin and
00:38:52.260other cryptocurrencies are regulated uh by fintrac a arm of the federal government right now and
00:38:57.460there's also some crossover with securities regulations which is regulated by the provinces
00:39:02.340at the moment um but we haven't seen like a large-scale crackdown like we've seen in some
00:39:07.460countries like china where they're you know china's banned bitcoin a dozen times at this point
00:39:12.180and the the future for bitcoin in china is very uncertain um that said we also haven't seen uh
00:39:18.900openly positive regulations or or policy come forward the way that we've seen in some other
00:39:23.460countries like el salvador which made bitcoin legal tender yeah that was an unusual uh you know
00:39:30.260uh step how's that been going in el salvador i think we kind of briefly mentioned that before
00:39:33.860but it's still developing right yeah it's it's still really developing um the big step that they
00:39:38.500took which uh notably was not mentioned in the release that uh that he put out was they made
00:39:44.900bitcoin legal tender so basically as far as the government of el salvador is concerned um you're
00:39:51.780you know you have to accept bitcoin in el salvador just like you do uh their other currency so he
00:39:57.380stopped short of that um that's something that i would like to see is bitcoin being considered
00:40:01.300legal tender or at least a foreign currency like you would with uh the us dollar or something like
00:40:07.300that but uh yeah it's still very new in el salvador but what we do know is that it's
00:40:12.340attracting a lot of investment it's attractive attracting a lot of people in the industry to
00:40:17.300bitcoin and uh you know i'd love to see canada go in that direction as well
00:40:23.140yeah so another part of uh mr polyev's release he talked about
00:40:27.380making the rules more clear with digital currencies and so she didn't quite go into detail though in
00:40:31.620which so i mean which rules do you need clarity or do they need clarity is he addressing a valid
00:40:37.700issue there well one of the things that uh that he mentioned like i i said was the securities
00:40:42.660regulations and right now those are regulated by the province um most provinces actually don't
00:40:49.060really have much of uh an involvement in how that regulation is taking place but we've seen ontario
00:40:55.940bc quebec and ontario or sorry uh ontario bc quebec and alberta all taking a somewhat uh cautious
00:41:04.820but active role in regulating that stuff and there's a risk right now that we end up with
00:41:08.980kind of a different treatment from province to province and that probably is less than ideal
00:41:14.500yeah i mean that would be difficult for for federalism in general i mean if you had something
00:41:18.340is considered a valid currency in one province and you can't utilize it in the next there's going to
00:41:22.660be issues so i guess it was good addressing i mean if we get 10 different regulations across
00:41:27.460canada it's going to be difficult for currencies in general so i guess that would be part of what
00:41:31.540spurred him you need a national initiative to pull that together then yeah i think a national
00:41:36.180initiative would be good um there's a lot of cautiousness coming from bitcoiners because
00:41:42.020you know we're we're very uh as a group i would say uh not entirely trusting of the government
00:41:47.700whether it's pierre or uh you know the current liberal government or whoever else it may be
00:41:52.900it would be very easy to get this wrong and end up over regulating and stifling um that kind of
00:41:58.260innovation that we're seeing out of places like el salvador well that's part of uh what it was
00:42:03.460also in his release was talking about you know making sure there was uniform things for the
00:42:07.140sake of taxation and other levels i mean if it does eventually get turned into a foley like0.99
00:42:12.420any other currency then then it'll lose most of its advantages it had in the first place
00:42:16.180Well, in some ways it would. Right now it's taxed like an asset, which can create some kind of unnecessary bookkeeping paperwork if you're doing small transactions. So it would be really nice to see it treated from a tax perspective, just like any other foreign currency.
00:42:32.680um so that that would definitely be a positive but uh yeah i think that uh doing less is more
00:42:41.060in this case and we just like to see we when i say we i think most bitcoiners would like to see
00:42:45.300uh as much as possible a hands-off approach to let uh let people use whatever currency they want
00:42:51.220and let uh innovation flourish and as a libertarian-minded individual i can't agree with
00:42:57.120you more on on that and as far as i'm concerned that the more the merrier let the let the better
00:43:01.480currencies rise to the top is the way to go with it. But I mean, I guess we are a civilized society.
00:43:07.320There's a degree of regulation. It'll always be that push and pull. What's that minimal regulation
00:43:11.120required? What about this? Just as a side note, it wasn't so much out of Mr. Paglia, but it's a
00:43:16.320question a lot of my commenters asked and things before. But people's Bitcoin, if it was in their
00:43:20.600cold wallet and such, I mean, it was still completely secure despite some of the recent
00:43:24.460actions of the government when they were seizing things. Like there was a myth that the government
00:43:28.560could get into take some of those assets but they had no access to those at any time right
00:43:33.120yeah it's a lot harder uh because you can very easily self-custody your bitcoin so this is
00:43:37.440something that uh has some basis in history you know where uh at one time the dominant money in
00:43:42.880the world was gold and then the us uh at some point uh about a century ago decided that they
00:43:48.960no longer wanted to allow people to hold their wealth in gold and they started confiscating gold
00:43:54.400and that there's there's definitely a worry of that uh coming from the federal government so
00:44:00.080i want to make sure that uh if possible there's no uh infringements on people's rights to hold
00:44:06.720and store their wealth however they'd like to do um so that's a big thing that goes back also to
00:44:11.120censorship resistance which is a key feature of bitcoin you know we saw that with the whole
00:44:14.960uh with the whole trucker protests and uh they were trying essentially to seize bitcoins that
00:44:20.320that they actually had no physical access to,
00:44:23.360and therefore were not allowed to seize it.
00:44:25.600And then the other area is sort of that store of wealth
00:44:28.800that we've talked about before, right?
00:44:29.980Where that is something that getting a positive law
00:44:33.260on the books could protect for the long-term.
00:44:50.320And what that means is that if you're sitting on dollars, they definitely will buy you a lot less than they would two years ago before this crazy money spending spree started.
00:45:01.740And, you know, putting Bitcoin legally on the books in Canada would allow people a long term right to continue to store their wealth in Bitcoin like that.
00:45:09.780And I think that's probably the single most important thing that we could we could get out of further regulation.
00:45:16.060Yeah, that's been an ongoing thing as it's still so relatively new and more people can feel safe
00:45:22.860and secure. And there's something of an irony where government regulation would make them feel
00:45:27.740safer. Depends on your mindset. Government regulation tends to make me fearful. But I
00:45:32.820understand there's a need for some degree of laws and controls on things and it could help develop
00:45:37.840the digital currencies altogether in general if we could get a stable system for it, I guess.
00:45:43.300Yeah. And in some ways, the best thing that they can do is to offer some assurance that there aren't more restrictive regulations coming down in the future.
00:45:51.260And passing a law, you know, most of the regulation that has happened in Bitcoin thus far has been happening at the policy level through, you know, groups like the Securities Commissions and through FinTrack.
00:46:03.500and having a law actually on the books that makes it specifically legal and allows people the right
00:46:10.040to hold their own Bitcoin would at least give a little bit more certainty that, you know, we're
00:46:14.660not going to have another government come in and try to confiscate people's Bitcoins or control how
00:46:19.840they want to use or spend those Bitcoins. Yeah, well, I mean, we're in for some interesting times
00:46:25.860as always, and it's been, you know, fantastic. And this is just developing so fast. It's a fluid
00:46:29.840thing but i just really found it striking when again i never would have imagined we'd hear a
00:46:34.000federal candidate for you know a major party uh talking about bringing in these kinds of
00:46:39.200legislations and addressing them which i imagine is going to make other candidates and perhaps even
00:46:42.800the liberals follow suit so i think overall it's got to be a good development i mean it's it's
00:46:46.960bringing a discussion up that nobody really was talking about and uh hopefully we can bring our
00:46:51.120better minds together and come up with a good stable policy in the long run out of it yeah i'm
00:46:55.360I'm not super surprised to see him come out with this release.
00:46:59.440I know that, you know, he's been a Bitcoiner for a while.
00:47:02.760That was something I was hoping you would ask him when he was on the show here.
00:47:06.060But he's been saying a lot of the same stuff that we talk about in the Bitcoin community.
00:47:12.980And, you know, his whole banging the drum on inflation over the last year, I think, largely stems from an understanding that our money is being eroded.
00:47:22.360And that is really the problem that Bitcoin solves.
00:47:25.120And on top of that, I think Bitcoiners as a group are growing rapidly and we're probably pretty close to single issue voters.
00:47:34.680You know, for me, having control over my own money is probably the single most important thing that any government could do.
00:47:42.000And any attempt to take that away would be a massive negative.
00:47:45.000So I'm not super surprised to see that.
00:47:48.680I think we're probably going to see, to your point, a lot more.
00:47:50.420We're seeing that around the world, the politicians are starting to see Bitcoiners as a constituency that they want to look at.
00:47:58.020And that's evidenced by, you know, there's probably at least a dozen U.S. senatorial candidates running with pro-Bitcoin platforms.
00:48:06.760And we've seen places like Miami where the mayor of Bitcoin is very openly pro-Bitcoin, and that's brought a lot of business to the city.
00:48:13.080And so I think that that kind of stuff is just going to continue to increase.
00:48:17.600Great. Well, it's going to be a long race with this one.
00:48:20.200I'm going to be having Mr. Polyev on again, probably before September 10th, when that ends,
00:48:23.940maybe even a couple of times. So I'll be sure to ask. And I'm going to be speaking to Leslyn
00:48:27.140Lewis tomorrow morning as well. So this will be a new question on my list to ask her to respond to
00:48:31.140that. We'll keep that discussion going. So thanks for coming on though, to talk and explain a bit
00:48:37.140about that to us. Again, it's a nebulous world. Actually, if you've got a moment for one more
00:48:41.020question from Cheryl Dawn, she's asking, I hear that from a number of people. This is just outside
00:48:45.280of the policy thing, but what happens if the, you know, if you have your resources, the energy grid
00:48:49.560goes down with you know the fearful bad times are happening and you have no internet how can you
00:48:54.180access your assets yeah transacting uh on the bitcoin network in the absence of a large reliable
00:49:02.200uh power grid is impossible in the long term uh but that's also true for our legacy financial
00:49:08.120system you know most of our money right now is digital and uh i think that if we ended up in a
00:49:13.660situation like that where uh you know there's no internet there's no power like we we saw recently
00:49:18.980in Kazakhstan people are going to run into a lot bigger problems than just how to spend their
00:49:24.640Bitcoin and I think that this issue gets brought up a lot especially from people who sort of view
00:49:30.520gold and silver as the the hedges to to that kind of a meltdown and I don't really think that that's
00:49:36.160a major problem that we need to consider because if the world really changed that way and there
00:49:40.780was no power grid and there was no internet and we weren't confident that they were coming back
00:49:44.080in a short amount of time, we would probably end up using something completely different that we
00:49:49.180don't even expect as money. It'd be something like bullets or cans of beans or something that
00:49:53.800can be used on a day-to-day basis. And I don't think that Bitcoin or gold would be the currency
00:49:59.500that we would use in a Mad Max meltdown. Yeah, no, and we'll just hope things don't fall apart
00:50:05.360that badly. I have mentioned before on the show, I live on an acreage and I'm a terrible gardener.
00:50:10.580I found that out, but I'm not too bad with my firearms.
00:50:12.700So if the zombie apocalypse comes, I might just go for my neighbor's garden rather to my own.
00:50:17.200But Bitcoin or gold won't be what the priorities will be at that point.
00:50:20.680But let's hope we just don't end up there.
00:50:22.760So thanks for answering all that, Dave.
00:53:32.260And Justin Trudeau goes to Europe, talks to the European Parliament, but how much he adores democracy.
00:53:40.560He just seems to have no sense of even the irony of this.
00:53:45.380And never mind the fact he has no sense of decency, no sense of even basic goodness.
00:53:56.540He goes to Europe and preaches democracy and just seems to think people should be applauding him.
00:54:03.480And of course, he had the backlash, thank God for that, because they're not that stupid over there that he can get away with this sort of nonsense.
00:54:12.120And I'm glad he got a face full of it.
00:54:15.380for doing this, because he really is one of the most hypocritical men I've ever seen. Much,
00:54:21.180much worse than his father in all ways, and much, much, much more stupid than his father ever was.
00:54:26.420At least his father had a brain and two which to rub together. The son has nothing but stupidity.
00:54:34.040You know, Mr. Blackface, going on and on about racism in Canada and how what a terrible sin it
00:54:40.540and he's the worst he's the worst person to break to to commit that sin and he's always0.71
00:54:47.900always going on self-righteously about how canadians are are terrible terrible racist and
00:54:53.820how how it's everybody else's problem but but never his own and and how and how how canadians
00:55:00.220don't respect democracy and and he's the worst the worst person to to do that but and i just i'm i
00:55:08.220really disgusted how he handled the freedom convoy it's just absolutely galling and and he's
00:55:16.300constantly constantly embarrassing this country on the world stage just just he embarrasses himself
00:55:23.900on the national stage well that's part of it is it's we see we get to see him unvarnished when
00:55:29.420he goes overseas he doesn't have his protective ottawa press gallery there to throw him softball
00:55:34.780questions at every conference he doesn't have a parliament dominated by liberal members
00:55:39.980and i mean you know the european union parliament i mean the ones who wanted to be polite just left
00:55:44.460and didn't hang around while he spoke and then others called him out solidly in ways we would
00:55:49.900never see in canada i mean he would never be eviscerated publicly as he did when he went over
00:55:54.460there i mean i think it was kind of a good dressing down yet embarrassing to us as canadians
00:55:58.780as a whole at the same time? Well, you don't really in your heart of hearts want to see
00:56:05.440your prime minister called a threat to democracy when they go overseas. It's not really what you
00:56:12.920want to see as a Canadian. You want your prime minister to go overseas and to be at least
00:56:18.980respected. And of course, Trudeau really isn't respected. He's really seen as a dictatorial force
00:56:55.940They seem to get along just fine together.
00:56:58.100They seem to be two peas in a pod because they really are very much alike.
00:57:03.920They not only seem to go off script quite a bit together and say the same sorts of things, but they both like to demonize their political enemies.
00:57:13.520Just like Joe Biden demonizes his political enemies as a bunch of white supremacists and neo Jim Crow people.
00:57:23.700So Justin Trudeau likes to demonize his political enemy as a bunch of Nazis and white supremacists.
00:57:32.600They both like to dismiss their political enemies as extremists.
00:57:36.480And it's quite worrisome because they don't like to engage in rational political debate and to actually address their political enemies or their political opponents.
00:57:47.460They like to talk about enemies all the time.
00:57:49.700They don't like to talk about political opponents or to engage in a rational political debate.
00:57:57.480That seems to be lost in Canada and the U.S., unfortunately.
00:58:02.440And it's the vindictive tone that's getting concerning right now.
00:58:06.000Like the convoys have been dismantled for weeks and weeks now.
00:58:46.260They want to go after everybody involved with this and punish them by all means.
00:58:51.520Well, yeah, as I said, as I wrote the other day, I mean, the OPP appeared before a parliamentary committee and said that the Freedom Convoy was a national security threat.
00:59:15.520And now, of course, that we know they never even had a gun in their possession, has Trudeau come out and said, I really want to apologize for being a part of these rumors that the Freedom Convoy constituted a national security threat?
00:59:31.280Has the police come out? Has this firebrand interim police chief come out and apologized for saying, no, they really pose no threat to public safety? No, he's gone crazy arresting people, piling up the charges. He's gone the other way when, in fact, they should be apologizing for going crazy and cracking skulls and going nuts against the Freedom Convoy people for no reason at all.
00:59:59.440Well, he does seem to be incapable of contrition. Like, we all did. I won't speak for you, I guess. I did a lot of stupid things through my 20s and 30s. I'm glad there wasn't digital cameras everywhere back in those times. I never danced around chronically in blackface as Justin did. But I'm sure there's a few things I wouldn't have wanted to be exposed today. But if it came up or something like that, I would say, look, I was drunk. I was stupid. I'm sorry.
01:00:24.280But Justin, when he does, it says, we all need to learn from this.
01:01:28.080I think, you know, I have nothing but contempt for Jagmeet Singh because he's one of these, what George Orwell used to describe as parlor Bolsheviks and what I call today is jacuzzi Marxists.
01:01:42.360He's one of these elites who sit around in their jacuzzis talking about the revolution.
01:01:48.020and they're they have no no no idea what working class people actually are because they never rub0.64
01:01:55.720shoulders with them they're part of the elite and they really have never seen a working class person
01:02:01.660and if they do they have nothing but contempt for them because they consider them deplorables like
01:02:06.700Hillary Clinton does and Jagmeet Singh thinks he's getting a great deal here because he's what he's
01:02:13.100got he's got this minimal number of MPs and here is his chance to be the deputy prime minister
01:02:18.640essentially I and I really know that half of his caucus at least can't stand him anymore because
01:02:26.400they're really old-style NDPers who really do have some affection for working-class people
01:02:33.880and they know Jagmeet Singh doesn't and they know this is nothing but a power grab and they know
01:02:39.740they didn't like the Emergencies Act and they know their conscience really didn't want them
01:02:45.060to vote for it. And I don't think they're going to last three years with Justin Trudeau.
01:02:50.340And I go back to 1972, 50 years ago, when David Lewis did actually sign a coalition deal with
01:02:59.680Pierre Trudeau, Justin's father, and it destroyed David Lewis and the NDP in 1974 when Trudeau
01:03:07.020walked away with a majority government and because people said well what the heck is the difference
01:03:11.580between the ndp and the liberals and this is exactly what's going to happen in the next
01:03:18.060election if sing stays tight with trudeau people are going to say well what's what's the difference
01:03:23.900because people are already saying that what's the difference between the liberals and the ndp
01:03:29.100there's really no difference at all because justin trudeau has taken the party so far at the left
01:03:34.540that there really is no philosophical or ideological difference between these two parties
01:03:39.260and sing has essentially said that sing wants his cake and he wants to eat it too he wants
01:03:45.820to he wants a coalition government but not in name he wants to pretend to be still in opposition but
01:03:52.140he wants to be part of the government and that's that's a cop-out that is that is just an absolute
01:03:58.300cop-out he might as well be saying this is a coalition government instead of wanting it both
01:04:03.980ways and it's it's a recipe for disaster which i said it's a it's an easy fit but it's a coalition
01:04:09.980from hell it is really what it is yeah well and the ndp kind of federally has two roles in my
01:04:15.580view i mean one is i guess to try and get in it hope that they can get into a situation like this
01:04:19.820where they can get as many uh you know policies pushed through as possible farther left than
01:04:24.860typically would have been but the other parts to be the left-wing voice of conscience you're
01:04:29.660an opposition and you accept that and in things like imposing the emergencies act that i don't
01:04:34.700think uh some classic ndp leaders and supporters would want to have supported they're going to have
01:04:40.620a hard time as you said carrying on uh supporting even if the parties seem indistinguishable from
01:04:45.500each other but the memberships are quite different well what's what really scares the hell out of me
01:04:50.380of this deal is not the pharmacare and the dental care, which does scare me because I don't think
01:04:57.000most liberals voted for more socialism. I think a lot of them did, but I don't think a lot of them
01:05:02.680did. But what scares me is that both of these men, Singh and Trudeau, are authoritarians. They are
01:05:10.620hardcore authoritarians, which the Emergencies Act showed. Singh was just rejoicing about this.
01:05:17.240You could just see he didn't have a care in the world about supporting Justin Trudeau with the Emergencies Act.
01:05:50.140You could see him saying, let's nail them to the wall because he's an authoritarian.
01:05:54.500And I really am worried about these two authoritarian junkies getting together and running the country, because I think they're going to do a lot of harm.
01:06:04.160Because Trudeau and Singh both have enemies lists.
01:06:07.600They like to go after conservatives and libertarians.
01:06:10.780They like to go after people who don't agree with them ideologically and politically.
01:06:16.080And I think together, Trudeau and his straight man, as I call saying, I think they're going to
01:06:22.080do a lot of damage to this country. Yeah, well, and they're not exactly
01:06:26.000a cerebral pair even between the two of them. So if they combine forces, it's not likely that
01:06:30.880something good is going to come of it. So going forward, though, we've got a, well, it looks like
01:06:35.840it's going to be a lively parliamentary session in summer coming. We've got the conservative
01:06:39.200leadership race going on. Maybe going out, do you have any thoughts on the lineup so far and how
01:06:44.640Well, I'm glad we got to this because I have been following conservative races since I was 12 years old, believe it or not.
01:06:55.440The first one I followed was Joe Clark's.
01:07:00.340I have a lot of concern about this one.
01:07:05.820I really, I'm not understanding why we've got so many people in this race right now.1.00
01:07:11.500and I'm not understanding why Jean Charest is here.
01:07:17.360I mean, what on earth is Jean Charest doing in this race?1.00
01:07:20.940I didn't even know Jean Charest was still interested in politics,
01:10:40.200Another he's going to be another liberal leader and we're going to elect another liberal
01:10:46.420government because that's all it's going to amount to, because it's not going to be any
01:10:51.240different than Justin Trudeau's government if we have Jean Chouret in charge.
01:10:55.560He's already said he's going to have a carbon tax.
01:10:58.200He's going to have the same gun control measures. He's going to do the same things that Justin Trudeau is doing. So what is the point? If we have Jean Charest, I will be supporting the People's Party of Canada because what's the point? It is absolutely ridiculous to say that we need a liberal to win because that's exactly what we've done in the past.
01:11:20.580We say, well, conservatives will vote conservative because they have no other option.
01:11:25.660No, conservatives stay home or they'll vote for a third party or a fourth party.
01:11:31.200And that is completely a fallacy to say that conservatives can somehow be forced to vote for a liberal leader because they have no other option, because they have no other choice.
01:12:01.940I know power politics, and I know sometimes we allow the forces of power to usurp the forces of principle, and that's unfortunately what happens in many cases.
01:12:22.160But I think we as journalists have got to keep printing the facts and the truth, and we cannot allow ourselves to be controlled by the forces out there of power that want us to become part of that process.
01:12:42.520Well, and that we certainly don't at the Western Standard.
01:12:44.980That's something we always pride ourselves on.
01:12:47.040So thank you very much for joining me today and adding all that.
01:12:50.760That's kind of a good note to close on.
01:12:53.020And while we know we can find your stuff on the Western Standard,