Western Standard - LIVE - Triggered： What Hollywood is trying to call chivalry, the rest of us call assault.

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00:00:30.000 good morning it's march 28 2022 welcome to triggered i'm cory morgan nearly to the end

00:00:40.720 of march spring is finally coming along that's good because after 51 years in canada i still

00:00:46.760 have to admit i hate winter so i'm looking forward to sunnier warmer days this show well i won't be

00:00:52.640 any sunnier warmer i'll still be the crabby devil i always am but this show is going to be coming

00:00:56.600 to you live daily at 11 30 a.m mountain standard time monday to friday it's the western standards

00:01:01.600 news and opinions sort of show we get a lot of great guests and things like that uh good to see

00:01:07.500 everybody coming in from pamela and monte lake bc and others from all over the place i like seeing

00:01:12.700 those comments i like showing you know why it's important to have these live shows is to oppose

00:01:17.520 to so many recorded ones we can have that interaction chat with each other perhaps i can

00:01:22.280 get some questions forward to the guests or comments towards me just try to keep things

00:01:26.220 civil of course keep on the up and up and we can all enjoy ourselves on this ride today heading

00:01:31.360 towards easter uh cheryl saying i think will smith was triggered yes he certainly was and i'm gonna

00:01:38.120 start off with talking about that in a moment uh i just wanted to mention today's guests i'm gonna

00:01:42.300 have charlie pester he's with points and uh these guys it's an organization actually it helps people

00:01:46.760 fight traffic tickets and such and of course he's well dialed into how traffic courts work and what

00:01:51.580 they are and alberta quietly backtracked on their little plan to end traffic court so it's gonna be 0.92

00:01:57.000 interesting to talk to mr pester about that and some of the other challenges because when the

00:02:00.860 government backs down on something doesn't mean they're done often just means they're trying to

00:02:04.240 take another approach dave bradley from bitcoin well is going to come on quickly we're going to

00:02:08.320 talk a bit about bitcoin and digital currency policies in canada and then i am going to have

00:02:14.160 western standard parliamentary columnist david creighton on the show he's been writing a lot of

00:02:18.140 stories for us out of Ottawa. There were a lot of opinion articles on it. Good to see a lot of

00:02:23.560 people from BC. I see Wanda and Lisa and BC Prairie Girl. Wow, you're all out there. Scott's in Fort

00:02:29.160 Mac. So we're getting a good, broad selection of viewers. I appreciate it. So let's talk about

00:02:35.360 Will Smith. We got it. It's the top of the news. Let's talk about the Academy Awards. And the

00:02:38.900 Academy Awards last night were interesting for the first time in years, but for all the wrong

00:02:44.000 reasons. The annual spectacle has been experiencing a steep decline in viewership for years now and

00:02:49.760 much of that's due to people tiring of the celebrities using the stage as a pulpit to

00:02:54.040 righteously lecture us over the latest social justice cause of the week. We watch, or at least

00:03:00.360 we used to watch, in order to see the top people in the realm of movie production recognized and

00:03:04.620 awarded for the best products of the year that they've produced. It's a huge industry and it's

00:03:10.080 a craft that takes talent and tremendous work to excel in. We don't, however, really care what

00:03:14.660 their political views are, though we still get constantly barraged with them. Now, the spectacle

00:03:19.160 last night, if nothing else, showed the world, though, just what an odd, disconnected, cloistered,

00:03:24.220 entitled world the Hollywood elite live within. So I'm going to play a clip of what happened for

00:03:30.000 those who haven't seen it yet, and I'm going to warn you, there's some graphic language in it,

00:03:33.800 and it's about a minute. You know, take a second to turn on your device if you don't want anybody

00:03:37.140 We hear Will Smith's expletive-laden tirade,

00:03:40.180 but, you know, it's going to be hard to rant further

00:03:41.820 if you haven't seen actually what has happened,

00:03:43.720 and I'm sure you've been hearing people talking about it all morning.

00:03:45.780 So here we go.

00:03:46.780 Who's got the hardest job tonight?

00:03:49.260 Javier Bardem and his wife are both nominated.

00:03:53.560 Now, if she loses, he can't win!

00:03:59.800 He is praying that Will Smith wins.

00:04:02.920 Like, please, Lord!

00:04:05.120 Jada, I love you. G.I. Jane 2, can't wait to see it. All right.

00:04:12.120 That was a nice one. Okay. I'm out here. Uh-oh. Richard.

00:04:26.120 Oh, wow. Wow.

00:04:31.120 Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me. 1.00

00:04:35.200 Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth. 1.00

00:04:39.540 Wow, dude. 1.00

00:04:41.280 Yeah.

00:04:41.760 It was a G.I. Jane joke.

00:04:43.820 Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth. 1.00

00:04:48.800 I'm going to, okay? 1.00

00:04:52.500 So I can, oh, okay.

00:04:56.240 That was the greatest night in the history of television.

00:05:00.700 Okay.

00:05:01.120 okay

00:05:02.920 wasn't that something and what a bizarre moment and it is too bad because i mean i think chris

00:05:15.240 rock is hilarious and and uh will smith is a fantastic actor but it shows these guys again

00:05:20.560 they aren't in the real world with the rest of us guys so let's break this down a little i mean

00:05:24.340 chris rock went over the line he made fun of will smith's wife with a joke about her alopecia a

00:05:29.140 condition that causes a person to lose all their hair. It was crude and it was uncalled for and it

00:05:33.160 was the wrong place for it. I mean this wasn't a celebrity roast or a small stand-up gig. Now all

00:05:38.260 that said it didn't justify Will Smith's getting up on the stage and assaulting him. Oh I know it

00:05:42.340 was just a slap but it was a single hard-hitting open slap and rather than beating him to a pulp

00:05:48.240 it was still an assault. Humanity never ceases to disappoint me but one positive development we've

00:05:53.560 had in the developed world is a total intolerance for physically assaulting somebody. It's simply

00:05:58.300 not considered acceptable, nor should it be. Now, Smith could have reacted a number of ways,

00:06:03.160 whether it's walking out of the show, shouting from the floor, or simply ignoring it and talking

00:06:07.340 with Rock and the show producers after the show. Whether he was in a bad mood or had a head full

00:06:12.320 of Colombian marching powder, who knows? His judgment was poor, though, and the spectacle was

00:06:16.200 sad. Whether we like it or not, people look up to the Hollywood elite as role models, and they

00:06:20.600 really should stop. The elites of Hollywood, for the most part, are spoiled, entitled, liberal

00:06:24.820 children who should only be taken seriously when they're practicing their arts in the entertainment

00:06:28.640 field. They have little exposure to reality, and as we can see, very little grip upon it when they

00:06:33.300 encounter it. Now, some people have been trying to portray Smith's act as being chivalrous. I mean,

00:06:38.000 perhaps that was the intent, but it still doesn't justify an assault like that. Society, for the

00:06:42.220 most part, has moved beyond that sort of action. Rock shouldn't be let off the hook either. I mean,

00:06:47.060 what the hell was he thinking going with that personal joke in a primetime performance? Again,

00:06:52.400 though, it demonstrates that disconnect and self-centered view from celebrities. Rock was

00:06:56.260 only thinking about making his mark on the show, not about how it would impact a person on the other

00:06:59.780 end of the joke. Some people think this might have been a purposeful publicity stunt. I wouldn't put

00:07:04.700 it beyond the clowns in Hollywood, but I doubt it in this case. I mean, they're even calling some 0.88

00:07:07.840 people, they might take away Smith's Academy Award in this. And they didn't get good ratings

00:07:13.320 out of it, guys. I mean, if it was staged, they cut it in the United States. People didn't see

00:07:17.900 that. The only people who saw it were in Australia and Japan. They're all seeing it after the fact.

00:07:21.100 it was a very terrible job if indeed it was staged. But if anything, it's boosted YouTube's

00:07:25.920 ratings. The Academy Awards show dumped Kevin Hart a couple of years ago over some tasteless

00:07:30.620 tweets he did. But now they have hosted a physical confrontation between two privileged

00:07:35.040 celebrities. They really need to get their priorities straight if they want to claim that

00:07:38.940 virtue signaling high ground they're always pursuing. Normalizing assault is not a good

00:07:43.780 development here. Keep this debacle in mind. The next time you see one of these celebrities

00:07:47.620 telling us how we're supposed to live and consume energy and how we're supposed to eat, vote, and

00:07:51.640 govern ourselves. These people are not to be taken seriously, and we should really stop giving them

00:07:56.500 ink for anything aside from their work in entertainment, though I know I'm giving them

00:07:59.860 attention right now. They're here to entertain us and distract us from the world for a little

00:08:03.940 while. They're not here to educate us, and we shouldn't let them try. Ricky Gervais said it

00:08:08.620 all too well when he eviscerated them while hosting the Golden Globe Awards for what I'm

00:08:12.240 sure has got to be his final time. I won't insult you with an attempt at his accent, but I will

00:08:15.740 quote it. This is what he said as he got ready to give the awards. So if you do win an award tonight,

00:08:21.060 don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the

00:08:25.820 public about anything. You know nothing about the real world, and most of you have spent less time

00:08:30.020 in school than Greta Thunberg. So if you win one, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent

00:08:35.360 and your God, and fuck off, okay? It's already three hours long. Now let's get on to the first 1.00

00:08:40.840 award. I can't close it any better than he did back then. So that's addressing the latest in

00:08:46.940 the news and what's been going on today. We'll watch as that develops. I wouldn't be surprised

00:08:51.660 actually. There might be some charges late as things go forward. A bizarre night, but it keeps

00:08:56.820 us with lots of spicy stuff to write about. So let's get on to some real news now and talk to

00:09:01.420 the Western Standard News Editor for a check-in, Dave Naylor. Hey Dave, how's it going?

00:09:05.660 It's going well, Corey. I think as one of your viewers noted, Will Smith was triggered

00:09:11.500 Yes, he certainly was.

00:09:14.240 I hear you had a sad weekend.

00:09:17.580 I did.

00:09:18.520 I did.

00:09:19.660 We culled our flock of chickens at home.

00:09:22.880 And yes, as a man who's not been a farm-raised guy, I did a lot of outdoors work and things,

00:09:28.240 but they had to be moved along.

00:09:29.740 They'd gotten too old to produce any longer.

00:09:32.080 And the reality and cycle of life meant I had to take them out.

00:09:35.160 And I'm a terrible wimp when it comes to it, so I'll be quite shattered for a while over this yet.

00:09:39.740 But the freezer is full.

00:09:41.460 And you got fresh honey to look forward to, right?

00:09:44.460 You 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.

00:09:51.920 All right. Well, on with today's news, and it's already been a busy Monday morning, Corey.

00:09:57.500 In Ottawa, the controversial MPP Randy Hillier has turned himself into police.

00:10:03.660 He's facing nine different charges, mainly due to his COVID preachings, and he's also charged with assault on a police officer.

00:10:15.620 So 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.

00:10:23.040 He's now facing an assault charge.

00:10:24.720 uh the uh bizarre news continues out of ottawa a report out today showing taxpayers have funneled

00:10:33.140 millions and millions of dollars uh out to pay for quarantine hotels thousands of hotel rooms

00:10:39.560 booked for months across the country to house uh covid travelers and uh 139 bucks a night they

00:10:46.480 were paying for these hundred uh you know thousands of rooms uh barbara k you're one of your columnist

00:10:52.740 Corey's got a good column up already on Trudeau and the Emergencies Act, and you can just guess what she thinks about that.

00:11:00.340 A couple of Saskatchewan stories.

00:11:02.960 Scott 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.

00:11:16.460 uh kazillionaire bill gates has been invited to speak at a ted conference in uh in uh vancouver

00:11:25.760 sorry next month uh he's featured with all the uh the left-wing types you got uh al gore and

00:11:31.640 elon musk and uh and bill gates all speaking at the vancouver event and they're having what

00:11:37.960 they're going to be calling a super protest uh against him uh the federal officials were

00:11:45.200 testifying at the Transportation Committee that the Freedom Truckers posed a threat to social

00:11:50.660 cohesion. They said their use of the internet was problematic and all sorts of horrible things like

00:11:58.900 that. Our Dave Makachuk has got an interesting column up there on his thoughts on Canada should

00:12:05.300 get rid of the RCMP. He uses the example of our BC Bureau story yesterday from Reed Small. It shows

00:12:13.240 It'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.

00:12:31.340 We've got our foreign minister, Jolie, calling for Russian wartime censorship.

00:12:36.760 She wants basically everything from Russia censored because it's misleading.

00:12:41.400 And 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.

00:12:59.120 So 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.

00:13:10.840 And at $35 million a piece, Corey, I don't do math, but that adds up to a fair chunk of change, I think.

00:13:19.580 And we've got one more Bill Gates story coming this afternoon.

00:13:22.840 He's building a luxury new mansion or bought a mansion down in San Diego area.

00:13:30.400 And interestingly, his buddy Al Gore has predicted that's one of the places that's going to be underwater

00:13:36.300 when climate change wreaks havoc and raises the levels of the ocean.

00:13:41.460 So hopefully he's got good flood protection down there in San Diego, Corey.

00:13:47.920 That's it for now.

00:13:49.740 Right on.

00:13:50.360 Well, you know, these news check-ins, I mean, just to pat our own back a bit,

00:13:53.780 you know, just to remind everybody, boy, they're getting long.

00:13:56.100 We get so much content coming out every day with such a large crew across the country now.

00:14:00.880 Lots to read and lots to follow up on.

00:14:02.700 Yeah, Chris Oldcorn in Saskatchewan has hit the ground running, and Matthew down in our Ottawa Bureau, he'll be doing the fighter jet story.

00:14:14.720 And our new Edmonton reporter, Rachel, is currently making her way across the country from Ottawa to take up her job there.

00:14:23.580 So, yeah, we've got people in all the places that's big in the news right now, Corey.

00:14:29.540 Great. Well, thanks for the check-in, and I'll see what's happening after the show there, Dave.

00:14:34.840 Take care, Corey.

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00:15:48.800 get on to a policy that kind of slid under the radar, and I want to talk some more about it

00:15:52.680 because they kind of quietly got rid of that with the traffic courts.

00:15:56.580 And Charlie Pester, I reached out and he's agreed to come on the show

00:15:59.440 and talk to us a bit about it because this is his specialty

00:16:01.600 and I've been looking forward to this.

00:16:02.860 So let's bring Charlie into the show here and have a discussion

00:16:06.060 with the kind of almost bizarre government back and forth policy.

00:16:10.400 Hey there, Charlie. Thanks for joining us today.

00:16:12.500 Good morning. Thanks for having me, Corey.

00:16:14.720 So, I mean, I'll just give everybody a recap,

00:16:16.580 though I think most people were aware of it.

00:16:18.340 This went on for a few months.

00:16:19.720 there was a proposal to essentially scrap traffic court move it all on to uh some sort of online

00:16:26.280 just payment system uh with with very little means of recourse or appeal and in traffic violations

00:16:32.760 uh there was a lot of backlash of course

00:16:37.720 and then they have uh uh quietly finally just they delayed it and delayed it and now it sounds

00:16:42.680 like they've finally gotten rid of it all together um well we we would hope so but uh it's been going

00:16:49.880 on for more than a few months this uh this thing started about 10 years ago um and they they tried

00:16:57.400 to swing it through uh with uh the provincial government just before the ndp became the

00:17:04.680 government and then when they got punted and the ndp came in they tried to swing it through at that

00:17:10.040 time too the ndp uh wasn't didn't have any part of it so it just kind of sat there and sat there

00:17:16.600 and then they pushed it again uh with this government and they decided to bite during

00:17:21.160 the middle of co-op uh covid and um so it was really hard to get uh traction out of the public

00:17:28.280 until very recently and uh oh boy did the public ever catch on quick though um and so um i think

00:17:37.400 that's what was the uh the big factor was the the public just were just screaming and uh put an end

00:17:44.840 to this thing so yeah well as you said when a government keeps trying on something i mean often

00:17:50.120 they back off but it doesn't mean they're done with it they might be looking for another way so

00:17:53.880 we want to be aware of of what happened and i get frustrated i mean when they they talk about right

00:17:58.920 so some things are just trivial here and there well traffic offenses can very seriously impact

00:18:04.520 somebody's life uh and you should have every right to defend yourself at least if anything's been

00:18:09.800 been laid against you yeah traffic court is really the majority of the public if they ever have any

00:18:16.200 um involvement or interaction with the court system it is it is generally through the traffic

00:18:23.480 court system um and so this would have put a really sour taste in people's mouths and um so 0.92

00:18:31.480 So it's nice that it's gone from a personal note.

00:18:35.320 It's nice that it's gone.

00:18:36.720 And I think for the public in general in Calgary and in Alberta and actually across the country,

00:18:42.540 because I have no doubt if this thing flew here, other provinces would have jumped on board and tried to do a similar kind of thing.

00:18:52.380 It's unfortunate.

00:18:53.440 It 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.

00:19:01.160 it's it's a sad uh state of affairs yeah exactly and uh don't forget it would line their pockets

00:19:07.960 quite nicely and the insurance companies were uh were frankly licking their lips on this thing

00:19:13.800 this would have been just a crazy amount of money for them so well that's it and that's

00:19:19.720 some of what happens i mean particularly if you have moving violations things like that your

00:19:23.800 insurance rates as those are just inclined to speeding and things such and now and then we know

00:19:29.320 know that our rates are going to go high very quickly and it inspires us to fight back on some

00:19:33.540 of these uh offenses at times if you didn't have that ability i'd imagine there's going to be a

00:19:38.180 lot more convictions and a lot more uh raising of insurance rates on people then well absolutely and

00:19:43.520 the convictions would have been at far worse uh tickets as well or far worse charges with

00:19:49.680 far more implications on insurance um transportation companies would have been severely hit on things

00:19:56.740 like cbor and ccmta and things like that so yeah and that's a good point and that's kind of your

00:20:03.280 specialty like just because a person goes to court of course doesn't mean they're going to win

00:20:06.120 and it doesn't mean they'll throw out the entire offense but perhaps you could appeal to the the

00:20:10.100 justice and and have your ticket reduced or or you know made into a less onerous penalty if they

00:20:15.560 felt that you were genuinely uh remorseful and wouldn't do it again exactly yeah and this uh had

00:20:21.460 no opportunity for that whatsoever this this was pure and simple a conviction factory and uh that's

00:20:27.620 what it was from the get-go it was quite clear by some of the comments uh when a prosecutor asked uh

00:20:34.180 one of the originators of this what happens with the innocent people and their response was ah who

00:20:38.340 cares it's only money so that that really uh clarified what this was all about uh right from

00:20:45.300 the start yeah well and most of us aren't in a position to be able to say it's only money i i

00:20:50.260 wish uh it were so yeah and it's very serious i mean we're in some bad inflationary times

00:20:55.620 uh actually a side note i didn't anticipate but cheryl don one of our commenters has asked

00:20:59.940 there's a backlog uh sorry let me just send there's somebody bugging me and i'm gonna send

00:21:08.800 him a message to uh sure and while you're working on that i'll talk about that as well i'm wondering

00:21:14.120 about uh charlie works on that as things have been going for a while now with covet a lot of

00:21:20.600 stuff got backed up whether it's medical procedures or uh oh sorry what actually happened was is they

00:21:34.680 they let go a lot of the people that were involved in the court system they frankly uh told the

00:21:39.240 the clerks in essence that well you're not wanted so go find other work so a lot of them did in

00:21:44.840 calgary they had 22 clerks and office staff in traffic court and right now they're down to

00:21:50.740 seven so that gives you an example of the kind of stuff that went on they had prosecutors leaving

00:21:57.600 because frankly they knew they had a pretty good idea what was coming so so yes some of the delay

00:22:04.700 was due to covid but that's no longer the case the delay right now is uh is manpower it's as simple

00:22:10.700 as that uh they don't have the people that they used to have prior to covid and um now they're

00:22:18.620 gonna have to try to play catch up um and uh i don't i don't know what uh what the plan is on

00:22:25.740 that whether they plan on rehiring people bringing people back or whatever yeah would they uh extend

00:22:33.900 deadlines on uh tickets then that got uh backed up because of these sorts of things or because

00:22:38.780 of short staffing uh because i know often you know you only have a certain period of time

00:22:43.900 well we'll we'll see how that plays out i mean frankly they're setting dates right now that are

00:22:48.860 outside the 18 months to begin with uh you know we're just just off the bat so

00:22:54.940 and that's a that's a manpower issue that they will have to uh address um because they didn't

00:23:01.900 think they were going to have to address it because they thought it was going to be full

00:23:05.180 steam ahead on uh this thing because the public uh didn't their attention wasn't drawn to this

00:23:11.980 and um now it's off the plate or at least it seems to be off the plate any event so

00:23:18.940 yeah well i mean of course we got a government that's in retreat on a number of public uh

00:23:23.900 levels i guess you could say so there now is a good time for them to be receptive to public

00:23:28.460 ire because uh they're they're kind of got their own internal squabbles going so they're trying to

00:23:32.380 to avoid taking people off any more than they have to but i mean that's an unfortunate reason to

00:23:36.860 get rid of a bad policy it should be for our sake not for their own expediencies

00:23:42.140 yeah and it um it's going to be an interesting time with the provincial government in this province

00:23:47.900 uh needless to say so yeah well and i mean justice doesn't come cheap you know i mean

00:23:53.260 sure you've got to set up a court you have to have a process and things like that but that is what we

00:23:56.940 pay taxes for and we we should have those protections uh no matter how trivial the the

00:24:01.740 offense may feel to some uh they're all important to all of us oh well the traffic court is not a

00:24:07.420 money loser don't kid yourself the government the government in no way loses money uh in in

00:24:13.180 uh traffic court when you consider uh the amounts of uh money that come in through the uh traffic

00:24:20.060 court system per se and don't forget this was not a move just for traffic court this was basically a

00:24:25.420 move to take away the right to a fair trial and the right to be considered innocent until proven

00:24:31.500 guilty from all provincial offenses not just traffic this was they were going for everything

00:24:37.020 so you know and i'm pretty sure it wasn't going to stop there they would have tried to trim off

00:24:43.260 some of the more minor criminal offenses as well in all likelihood at the end of the day so yeah

00:24:50.060 Yeah, when they get a hold of our rights, they don't often give them back very easily or willingly.

00:24:56.060 But I appreciate you coming in to kind of lay out and clarify a bit of some of that importance.

00:25:00.740 And I'm sure you'll be watching this issue closely still.

00:25:03.360 As we said, the government, you never know if they're going to try it again through a different means in the future.

00:25:07.960 So where can people keep track of what you're doing and then find out about yourself?

00:25:12.120 Well, when we hear about things, we try to get the attention of the public and the media.

00:25:17.460 And I think now the media has really latched on to this.

00:25:20.920 So I don't think that problem will be as tough as it was before.

00:25:25.780 So, and I just want to thank the media for all the coverage it has been given over the last month or two.

00:25:35.360 All right.

00:25:37.760 Well, that's much appreciated.

00:25:39.800 And yeah, no problem.

00:25:40.460 We cover things when we feel the government hasn't been treating us well.

00:25:44.340 That's part of our job out there.

00:25:45.760 So maybe they'll have learned from it though. It's rare occasions when they do.

00:25:50.640 So thanks Corey. Thanks. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Talk to you down the road. Thanks.

00:25:56.240 Thank you. Bye. So yes, that was Charlie Pester from points is the name of his company and,

00:26:02.160 and their specialty is, uh, again, helping people in, in navigating the traffic courts and things

00:26:07.200 like that. And this was, I really think a bigger issue than a lot of people realized on what had

00:26:13.840 happened you know uh but kind of like tracy is saying yeah they'll take the rights away little

00:26:18.000 by little by little and it's true and the fact that the government would even think that they

00:26:22.240 can just step in and and sweep that right to defend yourself aside is really troublesome it

00:26:28.880 shows how indifferent they are to our rights and and how disconnected they are from us and how it

00:26:35.440 impacts us like again if you've got a you know hey every traffic ticket i've gotten i've got to admit

00:26:41.280 I've never wrongly gotten a traffic ticket before. I always actually was speeding. I always actually

00:26:46.340 did roll that stop sign or whatever I might have gotten over the years. I don't believe I should

00:26:52.100 have been, you know, let off the hook. I think there were a few that were in some bad fishing

00:26:55.580 holes, perhaps, where it wasn't, they were looking to write tickets to make money rather than reduce

00:26:59.600 traffic hazards. But I did know the limit and I got it. But all the same, not everybody, a couple

00:27:06.160 of things, not everybody is necessarily guilty. I mean, an officer can screw up, equipment can

00:27:10.060 corrupt circumstances can change. Things happen. You need the ability to get in and defend yourself

00:27:15.920 in those cases. And if you're a person who drives for a living, like I make no secret of it. I drive

00:27:20.460 Uber still once a week. I like getting out. I get out Friday nights, usually drive around.

00:27:24.380 I get to talk to a lot of interesting people and get a really good broad outlook. Actually,

00:27:30.300 I really like driving Uber still. It's just a good thing for me. But I need a class four license

00:27:36.240 for it. I can only get a couple of tickets and then I don't qualify for Uber anymore. If I only

00:27:41.720 have a couple of tickets, it's a different standard than regular drivers. I mean, it wouldn't be the

00:27:46.140 end of the world for me. I work here full time at the standard, but now for other Uber drivers and

00:27:50.100 so on, these aren't high income guys and women. These are people, you know, working hard, making

00:27:55.060 bucks out there like taxi drivers and such, but a couple of tickets, they could lose their line

00:28:00.920 of work. This is very, very serious. I mean, again, if you're doing that for a living, you should be

00:28:05.220 careful with your driving. Absolutely. But you got to look at how much impact that is having

00:28:10.420 on some low-income people. They could lose their job. Or if you look at other low-income people,

00:28:16.760 insurance rates, as we said, you get too many tickets, they shoot through the roof. And people

00:28:21.220 say, oh, again, it's your own fault. You got the tickets. That's fair enough. But you should have

00:28:24.960 the right, if the penalties can be that direct and that extreme upon yourself, you should at least

00:28:30.800 have the ability to defend yourself. I mean, if it's a chronic speeder, lunatic driver, dangerous

00:28:35.240 driver, they're going to lose their license. That's fine, but they're not going to win it in

00:28:37.940 court. But to have the government think they could just take that away and put it into the hands of

00:28:42.180 an adjudicator and basically make you guilty until proven innocent. This is not cool, guys. And as

00:28:49.280 was said by the other commenter, when you start, you know, with the little bits of rights, they're

00:28:55.320 going to expand further. How far will it get? Will it get to petty crimes, shoplifting, things like

00:29:01.240 that? And again, I don't have much sympathy for shoplifters, but innocent people get accused of

00:29:05.600 things. That's why we have courts. You have to have courts. Even if the charge is small, you have to

00:29:12.320 give the person the ability. And the government didn't think they had to. The only reason they

00:29:16.560 backed off on that was because we pushed back. Because we said we're not going to put up with it.

00:29:22.900 uh june asking uh late to the party news about randy hillier yeah he's been taken into police

00:29:28.360 custody i believe at this point what's going to happen next i don't know he brought himself in

00:29:32.040 you know voluntarily and i i believe he's been formally charged i don't know if that leads to

00:29:36.560 further uh arrests uh or like a formal arrest or incarceration or if they'll just uh take him

00:29:43.540 before a justice and then put him out on bail oh the government's been pretty reticent about bail

00:29:47.640 lately but it's a significant thing to see an elected official uh being charged like this this

00:29:51.880 is quite something we're watching it very closely as we can see surrender to the ottawa police

00:29:56.280 and uh we we have matthew out there in ottawa one of our prime reporters i'm certain he's watching

00:30:01.460 that very closely out there so if anything breaks and anything we learn again get to the western

00:30:06.320 standard online and you'll be able to find out uh so before we get to our next guest is still a few

00:30:11.880 minutes away i might as well talk about uh the western standard itself you know i usually do

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00:31:25.340 I mean, as we heard that association of journalists,

00:31:27.380 and that kind of ties into this other thing too.

00:31:29.320 And this is how sick the legacy media is getting.

00:31:31.700 You know, these guys not even realizing

00:31:32.760 their own wrongdoing.

00:31:33.900 So as was reported, we've got a recent story.

00:31:36.500 40 days after the coastal gas link attack,

00:31:38.640 those terrorists who attacked it,

00:31:40.440 smashing equipment, assaulting security people,

00:31:42.920 putting a lot of people at terrible risk.

00:31:44.880 20 people in the night came out and did this.

00:31:47.160 There hasn't been a single arrest.

00:31:48.880 We haven't gotten any updates on what's going on with it.

00:31:51.800 We don't know if they've managed to come close.

00:31:53.720 I mean, I understand that the RCMP, you know, has to be careful and keep some stuff tight with their investigations.

00:32:01.160 But, boy, you know, that's one of the areas where there's a lot of trust gets lost with the RCMP often.

00:32:06.040 They're terrible when it comes to communications.

00:32:08.020 Really awful.

00:32:09.520 And it frustrates us with them.

00:32:12.840 It reduces trust.

00:32:14.600 So I don't know what's going on up there.

00:32:16.700 But they've been dealing with that mess up with the coastal gas link pipeline. 0.99

00:32:20.480 That's what those idiot Hollywood celebrities were opposing, by the way, 1.00

00:32:23.060 in virtue signaling going on about. 1.00

00:32:25.120 It's a gas line.

00:32:26.140 You know, it's been under construction in BC for a couple of years now.

00:32:28.900 It's approved by all 21 First Nations reserves all the way along the line.

00:32:33.620 They've agreed with all of them.

00:32:35.140 But some extreme activists have been fighting it every inch of the way.

00:32:38.940 And a bunch of them locked themselves into this shack they built in the middle of a pipeline.

00:32:42.420 and it literally forced the police to have to chainsaw their way through the door and pull

00:32:50.920 the people out of that shack and arrest them. Well, it turns out two of the imbeciles locked 1.00

00:32:54.920 in that shack were CBC reporters. They were paid by your tax dollars. They were our employees. 1.00

00:33:01.280 And the first thing they did, if you look up those videos, we've played them in the past,

00:33:04.160 oh, hey, I'm a journalist. I'm a journalist. There's being embedded in reporting on something

00:33:08.960 and there's taking part in something.

00:33:10.880 And yeah, they'd gotten some tax money

00:33:12.540 to film a documentary on these guys,

00:33:14.300 but they weren't just filming them.

00:33:15.580 They were with them.

00:33:16.440 They were participating.

00:33:17.460 They were inside on this thing.

00:33:20.320 Again, we talk about people in Canada

00:33:22.900 getting arrested and held without bail for weeks

00:33:24.880 because they organized bouncy castles

00:33:26.980 and honking horns and annoying politicians in Ottawa.

00:33:30.520 But these guys set up whole blockades on a pipeline. 1.00

00:33:33.420 They assault people and they get nothing out of it.

00:33:37.600 we got some very bad double standards going on right now. But either way, I'm just getting back

00:33:42.560 to shooting at the mainstream media. If I went down there or any of our reporters and we were

00:33:48.960 at some sort of protest like this, you know, or anything similar and got arrested in the process

00:33:54.240 and whoever was doing it was saying, oh, no, no, I'm with the Western standard, with the Western

00:33:57.600 standard. Now I can't necessarily speak for Derek, but I got a sneaking suspicion he'd say,

00:34:01.160 no, you aren't. If you're not down there covering it, you're down there actually taking part in it.

00:34:05.900 you're on your own. Sorry, you exceeded what your limits are as a journalist and what you're going

00:34:12.520 to do. The CBC people didn't do that. And the Association of Journalists dropped the ball

00:34:18.020 as they tried defending these clowns who were taking part in the midst of this protest. 0.74

00:34:23.960 What's this Sylvia saying? Just like the reporters that joined a sit-in at a hutterite colony in 0.87

00:34:27.440 Alberta a couple of years ago. Yeah, there's those animal rights people. They're triggering me a

00:34:31.300 little. I'm still a little sad about having to cull all those chickens last weekend, but

00:34:34.920 all the same. I'm a real softy when it comes to animals. You know, I'm not big on people,

00:34:38.660 but I love the critters. Either way, there is a line between, you know, journalism and activism.

00:34:45.000 And once it gets crossed, you can't be both. You can have an opinion. You know, I get emails from

00:34:50.920 people all the time. Oh, Corey, you're so biased. Well, yeah, that is my job. I'm an opinion editor

00:34:54.940 and I have a show where I share my opinion. You don't have to agree with it. And as we know,

00:34:58.720 plenty of people don't agree with my opinions and that's perfectly fine that that's what it's all

00:35:03.160 about. But that delineation between our reporters and people like me who specialize in opinions has

00:35:09.580 to always be clear. And that's part of why we've been doing great as well. Dave in the newsroom

00:35:14.900 makes it very clear as he's managing the reporters and what's going out that we stick to news,

00:35:20.820 we stick to news coverage and leave the opinion stuff to blowhards like myself to cover on shows 0.78

00:35:27.640 and things like that. And even then the opinion has lines. I can have my opinion, but I can't go

00:35:32.180 out and join one of those protests and deck out my vehicle and honk horns and so on, then I'm not

00:35:38.700 really representing much of anything appropriately. So we've got a real problem in Canada going on

00:35:44.520 between what is appropriate journalism and what isn't. I'm going to speak to one of our sponsors

00:35:49.540 before we get on to our next guest here too, and that's getting back to some rights, I guess,

00:35:54.920 and individuals, and that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. These guys have been with us

00:36:00.060 for a while. So if you are considering owning a firearm, if you already own firearms, you know,

00:36:05.700 there's a lot of us. We're legal law-abiding firearms owners. We want to go hunting. You

00:36:11.200 want to go target shooting. You want to collect whatever. It's your business. As long as you're

00:36:14.300 not harming anyone else, there's not a problem. But unfortunately, our government often does have

00:36:19.360 a problem with that. And they constantly keep changing, like hunting rifles and things as

00:36:23.240 such as that, recategorizing them, turning you from a law-abiding firearm owner into suddenly

00:36:27.800 a criminal. And then they take your property away. And yes, they say they'll buy it back. But hey,

00:36:32.560 if you're being forced to give it away, that's not a sale. That's still a theft.

00:36:36.840 These guys are standing up for you. They have multiple court challenges out on your behalf

00:36:41.560 as a firearm owner against the Liberal government on those recategorizations and seizures. But they

00:36:48.480 need your help. They're like everything else. You've got to join them. You've got to get on

00:36:51.300 there, take out a membership with them. That's how they can afford to keep these fights up. 1.00

00:36:55.100 Because if you don't fight back, they'll take it away.

00:36:57.320 It's like we talked about with the traffic tickets and things such as that as well.

00:37:01.060 The only reason the government backed off was because of public pressure.

00:37:03.700 You've got to keep the pressure up.

00:37:05.360 The Canadian Shooting Sports Association, they're helping keep that pressure up on your behalf.

00:37:10.120 And they have other resources as well.

00:37:11.760 You know, they have videos on safe firearm use.

00:37:14.800 They have links to trade shows and events, things such as that.

00:37:18.480 So check them out.

00:37:19.480 Canadian Shooting Association. It's cssa-cila.org. It's probably easiest just to Google them out

00:37:28.680 though, Canadian Shooting Association. You can't miss them. They're a great organization. They're

00:37:32.620 out to help you and keep your property safe so you can continue to enjoy it. All right. And

00:37:38.620 I see Dave in the lobby. It looks like he's almost set to come in there. So maybe we're going to

00:37:44.000 bring Dave Bradley in from Bitcoin Well and have a discussion about some policies that just got

00:37:50.180 released. So, hey, you got her all set up or you're still kind of bouncing around a bit there?

00:37:56.260 Right on. Good to see you, Dave. Good to see you, Corey. So yeah, this was a bit rushed, but we saw

00:38:01.620 something that was unusual. We got a conservative candidate with Pierre Polyev putting out a release

00:38:07.540 uh very directly addressing digital currencies and mentioning bitcoin in itself uh during that

00:38:14.420 release did did you have a chance to read that yet yeah i had a look at it um kind of circulated

00:38:20.500 around the bitcoin community in the last uh 12 hours or so and there's some interesting stuff

00:38:26.660 in there for sure yeah and i read it so i mean one of the things he addressed and again this

00:38:32.340 is just so unusual for a political race to see this sort of thing come up but it kind of shows how

00:38:36.740 you know important digital currencies are becoming but he speaks along the lines of

00:38:41.220 keeping cryptocurrencies and digital currencies legal like is there much threat that they're

00:38:45.620 going to be illegalized um i wouldn't say there is in canada right now um you know bitcoin and

00:38:52.260 other cryptocurrencies are regulated uh by fintrac a arm of the federal government right now and

00:38:57.460 there's also some crossover with securities regulations which is regulated by the provinces

00:39:02.340 at the moment um but we haven't seen like a large-scale crackdown like we've seen in some

00:39:07.460 countries like china where they're you know china's banned bitcoin a dozen times at this point

00:39:12.180 and the the future for bitcoin in china is very uncertain um that said we also haven't seen uh

00:39:18.900 openly positive regulations or or policy come forward the way that we've seen in some other

00:39:23.460 countries like el salvador which made bitcoin legal tender yeah that was an unusual uh you know

00:39:30.260 uh step how's that been going in el salvador i think we kind of briefly mentioned that before

00:39:33.860 but it's still developing right yeah it's it's still really developing um the big step that they

00:39:38.500 took which uh notably was not mentioned in the release that uh that he put out was they made

00:39:44.900 bitcoin legal tender so basically as far as the government of el salvador is concerned um you're

00:39:51.780 you know you have to accept bitcoin in el salvador just like you do uh their other currency so he

00:39:57.380 stopped short of that um that's something that i would like to see is bitcoin being considered

00:40:01.300 legal tender or at least a foreign currency like you would with uh the us dollar or something like

00:40:07.300 that but uh yeah it's still very new in el salvador but what we do know is that it's

00:40:12.340 attracting a lot of investment it's attractive attracting a lot of people in the industry to

00:40:17.300 bitcoin and uh you know i'd love to see canada go in that direction as well

00:40:23.140 yeah so another part of uh mr polyev's release he talked about

00:40:27.380 making the rules more clear with digital currencies and so she didn't quite go into detail though in

00:40:31.620 which so i mean which rules do you need clarity or do they need clarity is he addressing a valid

00:40:37.700 issue there well one of the things that uh that he mentioned like i i said was the securities

00:40:42.660 regulations and right now those are regulated by the province um most provinces actually don't

00:40:49.060 really have much of uh an involvement in how that regulation is taking place but we've seen ontario

00:40:55.940 bc quebec and ontario or sorry uh ontario bc quebec and alberta all taking a somewhat uh cautious

00:41:04.820 but active role in regulating that stuff and there's a risk right now that we end up with

00:41:08.980 kind of a different treatment from province to province and that probably is less than ideal

00:41:14.500 yeah i mean that would be difficult for for federalism in general i mean if you had something

00:41:18.340 is considered a valid currency in one province and you can't utilize it in the next there's going to

00:41:22.660 be issues so i guess it was good addressing i mean if we get 10 different regulations across

00:41:27.460 canada it's going to be difficult for currencies in general so i guess that would be part of what

00:41:31.540 spurred him you need a national initiative to pull that together then yeah i think a national

00:41:36.180 initiative would be good um there's a lot of cautiousness coming from bitcoiners because

00:41:42.020 you know we're we're very uh as a group i would say uh not entirely trusting of the government

00:41:47.700 whether it's pierre or uh you know the current liberal government or whoever else it may be

00:41:52.900 it would be very easy to get this wrong and end up over regulating and stifling um that kind of

00:41:58.260 innovation that we're seeing out of places like el salvador well that's part of uh what it was

00:42:03.460 also in his release was talking about you know making sure there was uniform things for the

00:42:07.140 sake of taxation and other levels i mean if it does eventually get turned into a foley like 0.99

00:42:12.420 any other currency then then it'll lose most of its advantages it had in the first place

00:42:16.180 Well, 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.

00:42:32.680 um so that that would definitely be a positive but uh yeah i think that uh doing less is more

00:42:41.060 in this case and we just like to see we when i say we i think most bitcoiners would like to see

00:42:45.300 uh as much as possible a hands-off approach to let uh let people use whatever currency they want

00:42:51.220 and let uh innovation flourish and as a libertarian-minded individual i can't agree with

00:42:57.120 you more on on that and as far as i'm concerned that the more the merrier let the let the better

00:43:01.480 currencies rise to the top is the way to go with it. But I mean, I guess we are a civilized society.

00:43:07.320 There's a degree of regulation. It'll always be that push and pull. What's that minimal regulation

00:43:11.120 required? What about this? Just as a side note, it wasn't so much out of Mr. Paglia, but it's a

00:43:16.320 question a lot of my commenters asked and things before. But people's Bitcoin, if it was in their

00:43:20.600 cold wallet and such, I mean, it was still completely secure despite some of the recent

00:43:24.460 actions of the government when they were seizing things. Like there was a myth that the government

00:43:28.560 could get into take some of those assets but they had no access to those at any time right

00:43:33.120 yeah it's a lot harder uh because you can very easily self-custody your bitcoin so this is

00:43:37.440 something that uh has some basis in history you know where uh at one time the dominant money in

00:43:42.880 the world was gold and then the us uh at some point uh about a century ago decided that they

00:43:48.960 no longer wanted to allow people to hold their wealth in gold and they started confiscating gold

00:43:54.400 and that there's there's definitely a worry of that uh coming from the federal government so

00:44:00.080 i want to make sure that uh if possible there's no uh infringements on people's rights to hold

00:44:06.720 and store their wealth however they'd like to do um so that's a big thing that goes back also to

00:44:11.120 censorship resistance which is a key feature of bitcoin you know we saw that with the whole

00:44:14.960 uh with the whole trucker protests and uh they were trying essentially to seize bitcoins that

00:44:20.320 that they actually had no physical access to,

00:44:23.360 and therefore were not allowed to seize it.

00:44:25.600 And then the other area is sort of that store of wealth

00:44:28.800 that we've talked about before, right?

00:44:29.980 Where that is something that getting a positive law

00:44:33.260 on the books could protect for the long-term.

00:44:35.900 So right now, one of the main ways

00:44:38.440 that the current government is taxing us

00:44:40.940 is kind of an underhanded way of doing it

00:44:42.500 is through inflation, right?

00:44:43.540 So we've seen unprecedented spending out of this government

00:44:46.840 and all of that has been funded

00:44:48.620 by unprecedented money printing.

00:44:50.320 And 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.

00:45:01.740 And, 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.

00:45:09.780 And I think that's probably the single most important thing that we could we could get out of further regulation.

00:45:16.060 Yeah, that's been an ongoing thing as it's still so relatively new and more people can feel safe

00:45:22.860 and secure. And there's something of an irony where government regulation would make them feel

00:45:27.740 safer. Depends on your mindset. Government regulation tends to make me fearful. But I

00:45:32.820 understand there's a need for some degree of laws and controls on things and it could help develop

00:45:37.840 the digital currencies altogether in general if we could get a stable system for it, I guess.

00:45:43.300 Yeah. 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.

00:45:51.260 And 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.

00:46:03.500 and having a law actually on the books that makes it specifically legal and allows people the right

00:46:10.040 to hold their own Bitcoin would at least give a little bit more certainty that, you know, we're

00:46:14.660 not going to have another government come in and try to confiscate people's Bitcoins or control how

00:46:19.840 they want to use or spend those Bitcoins. Yeah, well, I mean, we're in for some interesting times

00:46:25.860 as always, and it's been, you know, fantastic. And this is just developing so fast. It's a fluid

00:46:29.840 thing but i just really found it striking when again i never would have imagined we'd hear a

00:46:34.000 federal candidate for you know a major party uh talking about bringing in these kinds of

00:46:39.200 legislations and addressing them which i imagine is going to make other candidates and perhaps even

00:46:42.800 the liberals follow suit so i think overall it's got to be a good development i mean it's it's

00:46:46.960 bringing a discussion up that nobody really was talking about and uh hopefully we can bring our

00:46:51.120 better minds together and come up with a good stable policy in the long run out of it yeah i'm

00:46:55.360 I'm not super surprised to see him come out with this release.

00:46:59.440 I know that, you know, he's been a Bitcoiner for a while.

00:47:02.760 That was something I was hoping you would ask him when he was on the show here.

00:47:06.060 But he's been saying a lot of the same stuff that we talk about in the Bitcoin community.

00:47:12.980 And, 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.

00:47:22.360 And that is really the problem that Bitcoin solves.

00:47:25.120 And on top of that, I think Bitcoiners as a group are growing rapidly and we're probably pretty close to single issue voters.

00:47:34.680 You know, for me, having control over my own money is probably the single most important thing that any government could do.

00:47:42.000 And any attempt to take that away would be a massive negative.

00:47:45.000 So I'm not super surprised to see that.

00:47:48.680 I think we're probably going to see, to your point, a lot more.

00:47:50.420 We're seeing that around the world, the politicians are starting to see Bitcoiners as a constituency that they want to look at.

00:47:58.020 And that's evidenced by, you know, there's probably at least a dozen U.S. senatorial candidates running with pro-Bitcoin platforms.

00:48:06.760 And 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.

00:48:13.080 And so I think that that kind of stuff is just going to continue to increase.

00:48:17.600 Great. Well, it's going to be a long race with this one.

00:48:20.200 I'm going to be having Mr. Polyev on again, probably before September 10th, when that ends,

00:48:23.940 maybe even a couple of times. So I'll be sure to ask. And I'm going to be speaking to Leslyn

00:48:27.140 Lewis tomorrow morning as well. So this will be a new question on my list to ask her to respond to

00:48:31.140 that. We'll keep that discussion going. So thanks for coming on though, to talk and explain a bit

00:48:37.140 about that to us. Again, it's a nebulous world. Actually, if you've got a moment for one more

00:48:41.020 question from Cheryl Dawn, she's asking, I hear that from a number of people. This is just outside

00:48:45.280 of the policy thing, but what happens if the, you know, if you have your resources, the energy grid

00:48:49.560 goes down with you know the fearful bad times are happening and you have no internet how can you

00:48:54.180 access your assets yeah transacting uh on the bitcoin network in the absence of a large reliable

00:49:02.200 uh power grid is impossible in the long term uh but that's also true for our legacy financial

00:49:08.120 system you know most of our money right now is digital and uh i think that if we ended up in a

00:49:13.660 situation like that where uh you know there's no internet there's no power like we we saw recently

00:49:18.980 in Kazakhstan people are going to run into a lot bigger problems than just how to spend their

00:49:24.640 Bitcoin and I think that this issue gets brought up a lot especially from people who sort of view

00:49:30.520 gold and silver as the the hedges to to that kind of a meltdown and I don't really think that that's

00:49:36.160 a major problem that we need to consider because if the world really changed that way and there

00:49:40.780 was no power grid and there was no internet and we weren't confident that they were coming back

00:49:44.080 in a short amount of time, we would probably end up using something completely different that we

00:49:49.180 don't even expect as money. It'd be something like bullets or cans of beans or something that

00:49:53.800 can be used on a day-to-day basis. And I don't think that Bitcoin or gold would be the currency

00:49:59.500 that we would use in a Mad Max meltdown. Yeah, no, and we'll just hope things don't fall apart

00:50:05.360 that badly. I have mentioned before on the show, I live on an acreage and I'm a terrible gardener.

00:50:10.580 I found that out, but I'm not too bad with my firearms.

00:50:12.700 So if the zombie apocalypse comes, I might just go for my neighbor's garden rather to my own.

00:50:17.200 But Bitcoin or gold won't be what the priorities will be at that point.

00:50:20.680 But let's hope we just don't end up there.

00:50:22.760 So thanks for answering all that, Dave.

00:50:25.480 And I appreciate it.

00:50:26.700 Again, you know, it's just digital currencies are such a big growing world.

00:50:29.620 And we're still kind of learning as we go here.

00:50:31.480 So yeah, I hope I can talk to you again on the show soon.

00:50:38.460 Are we frozen?

00:50:39.240 I think Mr. Bradley may have frozen up a little bit there.

00:50:43.880 So I was just kind of closing up with Mr. Bradley at the end of the interview there anyway.

00:50:47.820 So I don't know if he can hear me or not, but I think we got through what we need to.

00:50:51.840 And we do have the next guest, David Creighton, in the lobby.

00:50:54.780 So we will pull him in there and have a talk with him.

00:50:57.820 David Creighton's our new senior parliamentary columnist.

00:51:01.360 And he's been prolific in writing a bunch of great stuff on the Western Standard already in this last few weeks.

00:51:06.440 So bring Mr. Creighton in and have a talk.

00:51:09.240 Hey there, how's it going? Oh, it looks like we got a triple view going on. We just got

00:51:15.020 the technical glitches of a live broadcast. Oh, I think you might be muted there, David.

00:51:24.640 Perhaps. Yes, you are. See if I can. Okay, we're on. We're on here. There we go. There's one of

00:51:31.320 the things I'm looking forward to in the end of the COVID world and all that with all of those,

00:51:34.700 can you hear me yet? Can you hear me yet? Things that haunt us for some time yet.

00:51:39.780 So thank you for joining me on the show, though.

00:51:42.320 It's the first time we've had you on here and, you know, kind of a belated welcome to the Western Standard family.

00:51:47.080 Well, it's very nice to be here, Corey.

00:51:48.600 Thank you for having me on.

00:51:50.200 So in joining on with us and writing all that stuff, as I said, you've been quite prolific.

00:51:55.140 Our federal government has been generous enough to give you lots and lots of things to write about.

00:51:59.860 You're never hard pressed for stories.

00:52:02.300 um maybe we'll just kind of go backwards on some of your more recent stuff on the ongoing

00:52:07.260 persecution of the uh convoy organizers well i i'm just absolutely disgusted with what's been

00:52:16.400 happening with the on you know as the the ongoing persecution of these political criminals and and

00:52:23.640 that's that's exactly what's what's going on here and i i i blame justin trudeau for setting

00:52:30.180 the standard here which is one of the lowest standards i've ever seen in any democracy

00:52:35.480 and this might be the audible police going mad and that's exactly what they're doing they're

00:52:41.100 acting like gestapo agents and all this going after people who had a peaceful protest and

00:52:48.280 parked their trucks on wellington street and they're treating them worse than murderers and

00:52:53.520 rapists. And it's ridiculous because as we all know, during COVID across North America, 0.98

00:52:59.600 we were letting out rapists and murderers on the streets because it was deemed too 0.90

00:53:04.700 dangerous to keep these people in prison. And yet we're talking about prison sentences

00:53:10.020 for people who were peacefully protesting insane COVID vaccine mandates. And now we have an MPP.

00:53:19.600 In fact, he's my MPP, Randy Hillier, is facing jail time because they say he attacked a police officer.

00:53:28.180 I mean, this is outrageous.

00:53:30.060 This is absolutely outrageous.

00:53:32.260 And Justin Trudeau goes to Europe, talks to the European Parliament, but how much he adores democracy.

00:53:40.560 He just seems to have no sense of even the irony of this.

00:53:45.380 And never mind the fact he has no sense of decency, no sense of even basic goodness.

00:53:56.540 He goes to Europe and preaches democracy and just seems to think people should be applauding him. 0.99

00:54:03.480 And 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. 0.99

00:54:12.120 And I'm glad he got a face full of it. 1.00

00:54:15.380 for doing this, because he really is one of the most hypocritical men I've ever seen. Much, 0.98

00:54:21.180 much worse than his father in all ways, and much, much, much more stupid than his father ever was. 1.00

00:54:26.420 At least his father had a brain and two which to rub together. The son has nothing but stupidity. 1.00

00:54:34.040 You know, Mr. Blackface, going on and on about racism in Canada and how what a terrible sin it 1.00

00:54:40.540 and he's the worst he's the worst person to break to to commit that sin and he's always 0.98

00:54:47.900 always going on self-righteously about how canadians are are terrible terrible racist and 0.94

00:54:53.820 how how it's everybody else's problem but but never his own and and how and how how canadians 0.95

00:55:00.220 don't respect democracy and and he's the worst the worst person to to do that but and i just i'm i

00:55:08.220 really disgusted how he handled the freedom convoy it's just absolutely galling and and he's

00:55:16.300 constantly constantly embarrassing this country on the world stage just just he embarrasses himself

00:55:23.900 on the national stage well that's part of it is it's we see we get to see him unvarnished when

00:55:29.420 he goes overseas he doesn't have his protective ottawa press gallery there to throw him softball

00:55:34.780 questions at every conference he doesn't have a parliament dominated by liberal members

00:55:39.980 and i mean you know the european union parliament i mean the ones who wanted to be polite just left

00:55:44.460 and didn't hang around while he spoke and then others called him out solidly in ways we would

00:55:49.900 never see in canada i mean he would never be eviscerated publicly as he did when he went over

00:55:54.460 there i mean i think it was kind of a good dressing down yet embarrassing to us as canadians

00:55:58.780 as a whole at the same time? Well, you don't really in your heart of hearts want to see

00:56:05.440 your prime minister called a threat to democracy when they go overseas. It's not really what you

00:56:12.920 want to see as a Canadian. You want your prime minister to go overseas and to be at least

00:56:18.980 respected. And of course, Trudeau really isn't respected. He's really seen as a dictatorial force

00:56:26.460 and as a buffoon by some 0.98

00:56:28.780 because he really acts like a buffoon at times. 0.98

00:56:32.380 And it's all there for the world to see. 0.99

00:56:35.280 He has acted like a buffoon 0.99

00:56:37.800 and he's acted like a dictator. 0.99

00:56:39.540 And that's really not good for the country.

00:56:41.980 And it really isn't.

00:56:43.320 But of course, the United States

00:56:44.780 is seeing the same thing with Joe Biden

00:56:46.380 when he goes overseas.

00:56:47.780 I don't think it's any accident

00:56:49.420 that the two of them appeared together

00:56:52.060 so many times in photo ops

00:56:54.940 at the NATO conference.

00:56:55.940 They seem to get along just fine together.

00:56:58.100 They seem to be two peas in a pod because they really are very much alike.

00:57:03.920 They 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.

00:57:13.520 Just like Joe Biden demonizes his political enemies as a bunch of white supremacists and neo Jim Crow people. 0.96

00:57:23.700 So Justin Trudeau likes to demonize his political enemy as a bunch of Nazis and white supremacists. 0.95

00:57:30.920 So they have a lot in common. 0.91

00:57:32.600 They both like to dismiss their political enemies as extremists.

00:57:36.480 And 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.

00:57:47.460 They like to talk about enemies all the time.

00:57:49.700 They don't like to talk about political opponents or to engage in a rational political debate.

00:57:57.480 That seems to be lost in Canada and the U.S., unfortunately.

00:58:02.440 And it's the vindictive tone that's getting concerning right now.

00:58:06.000 Like the convoys have been dismantled for weeks and weeks now.

00:58:10.760 Things are calmed down.

00:58:12.200 We're getting a lot of Senate committees and others looking in and finding out that a lot of the justifications used to act against them,

00:58:18.780 whether it was the supposed firearms that Justin Ling made up

00:58:22.160 or the foreign funding, the Russian influence.

00:58:26.640 All that's falling apart.

00:58:27.820 That narrative is falling apart.

00:58:29.520 But instead of even just quietly letting it go

00:58:32.160 and trying to move on with government business,

00:58:34.100 they still seem determined to crack down ever harder.

00:58:36.360 They're laying even more charges against Tamara Leach,

00:58:38.700 who's clearly a harmless, accidental activist almost out in medicine hat.

00:58:44.280 And they are not letting it up.

00:58:46.260 They want to go after everybody involved with this and punish them by all means.

00:58:51.520 Well, 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.

00:59:01.680 Based on what?

00:59:03.720 They had never had any evidence that the Freedom Convoy was harboring firearms or bombs or what?

00:59:12.180 Nuclear devices.

00:59:13.820 And this is absolute nonsense.

00:59:15.520 And 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?

00:59:31.280 Has 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.

00:59:59.440 Well, 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.

01:00:24.280 But Justin, when he does, it says, we all need to learn from this.

01:00:28.180 We all made this mistake.

01:00:29.520 Like, he just can't own anything he's done.

01:00:32.600 I can respect a person who makes mistakes if they will at least admit it.

01:00:36.220 But he's never done that.

01:00:38.220 No, he's never wrong.

01:00:39.520 In fact, if I recall, he blamed everybody.

01:00:43.100 He blamed Montreal for his blackface.

01:00:46.320 He blamed everybody else.

01:00:47.720 He says, it's because I grew up in a racist city that I did blackface.

01:00:52.220 I mean, he couldn't even say that mea culpa. He doesn't know the meaning of that word,

01:00:59.040 and he certainly would never use it because he's never to blame for any of his actions.

01:01:04.700 So getting further and deeper down our rabbit hole, you wrote on the liberal NDP alliance and

01:01:10.880 partnership. I mean, it's not a formal coalition government. We don't have

01:01:14.160 Singh and some members in cabinet or anything, but this is pretty tight and pretty integrated.

01:01:19.440 Do you think that this is going to last, though, all the way until 2025?

01:01:25.220 Well, I find it difficult to believe.

01:01:28.080 I 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.

01:01:42.360 He's one of these elites who sit around in their jacuzzis talking about the revolution.

01:01:48.020 and they're they have no no no idea what working class people actually are because they never rub 0.64

01:01:55.720 shoulders with them they're part of the elite and they really have never seen a working class person

01:02:01.660 and if they do they have nothing but contempt for them because they consider them deplorables like

01:02:06.700 Hillary Clinton does and Jagmeet Singh thinks he's getting a great deal here because he's what he's

01:02:13.100 got he's got this minimal number of MPs and here is his chance to be the deputy prime minister

01:02:18.640 essentially I and I really know that half of his caucus at least can't stand him anymore because

01:02:26.400 they're really old-style NDPers who really do have some affection for working-class people

01:02:33.880 and they know Jagmeet Singh doesn't and they know this is nothing but a power grab and they know

01:02:39.740 they didn't like the Emergencies Act and they know their conscience really didn't want them

01:02:45.060 to vote for it. And I don't think they're going to last three years with Justin Trudeau.

01:02:50.340 And I go back to 1972, 50 years ago, when David Lewis did actually sign a coalition deal with

01:02:59.680 Pierre Trudeau, Justin's father, and it destroyed David Lewis and the NDP in 1974 when Trudeau

01:03:07.020 walked away with a majority government and because people said well what the heck is the difference

01:03:11.580 between the ndp and the liberals and this is exactly what's going to happen in the next

01:03:18.060 election if sing stays tight with trudeau people are going to say well what's what's the difference

01:03:23.900 because people are already saying that what's the difference between the liberals and the ndp

01:03:29.100 there's really no difference at all because justin trudeau has taken the party so far at the left

01:03:34.540 that there really is no philosophical or ideological difference between these two parties

01:03:39.260 and sing has essentially said that sing wants his cake and he wants to eat it too he wants

01:03:45.820 to he wants a coalition government but not in name he wants to pretend to be still in opposition but

01:03:52.140 he wants to be part of the government and that's that's a cop-out that is that is just an absolute

01:03:58.300 cop-out he might as well be saying this is a coalition government instead of wanting it both

01:04:03.980 ways 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

01:04:09.980 from hell it is really what it is yeah well and the ndp kind of federally has two roles in my

01:04:15.580 view i mean one is i guess to try and get in it hope that they can get into a situation like this

01:04:19.820 where they can get as many uh you know policies pushed through as possible farther left than

01:04:24.860 typically would have been but the other parts to be the left-wing voice of conscience you're

01:04:29.660 an opposition and you accept that and in things like imposing the emergencies act that i don't

01:04:34.700 think uh some classic ndp leaders and supporters would want to have supported they're going to have

01:04:40.620 a hard time as you said carrying on uh supporting even if the parties seem indistinguishable from

01:04:45.500 each other but the memberships are quite different well what's what really scares the hell out of me

01:04:50.380 of this deal is not the pharmacare and the dental care, which does scare me because I don't think

01:04:57.000 most liberals voted for more socialism. I think a lot of them did, but I don't think a lot of them

01:05:02.680 did. But what scares me is that both of these men, Singh and Trudeau, are authoritarians. They are

01:05:10.620 hardcore authoritarians, which the Emergencies Act showed. Singh was just rejoicing about this.

01:05:17.240 You could just see he didn't have a care in the world about supporting Justin Trudeau with the Emergencies Act.

01:05:23.980 A lot of NDPers did.

01:05:25.620 You could see when they stood up to speak about it, largely those with the gray hair.

01:05:32.100 You know, the old style NDPers, you could see them saying, I don't want to vote for this.

01:05:36.840 I don't feel comfortable with this.

01:05:38.840 Singh was just ecstatic about it.

01:05:40.640 Yeah, let's go after these working class people, these deplorables out there in the street. 1.00

01:05:46.580 Who the heck do they think they are? 0.97

01:05:48.280 You could just see the anger. 0.99

01:05:50.140 You could see him saying, let's nail them to the wall because he's an authoritarian.

01:05:54.500 And 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.

01:06:04.160 Because Trudeau and Singh both have enemies lists.

01:06:07.600 They like to go after conservatives and libertarians.

01:06:10.780 They like to go after people who don't agree with them ideologically and politically.

01:06:16.080 And I think together, Trudeau and his straight man, as I call saying, I think they're going to

01:06:22.080 do a lot of damage to this country. Yeah, well, and they're not exactly

01:06:26.000 a cerebral pair even between the two of them. So if they combine forces, it's not likely that

01:06:30.880 something good is going to come of it. So going forward, though, we've got a, well, it looks like

01:06:35.840 it's going to be a lively parliamentary session in summer coming. We've got the conservative

01:06:39.200 leadership race going on. Maybe going out, do you have any thoughts on the lineup so far and how

01:06:44.640 Well, I'm glad we got to this because I have been following conservative races since I was 12 years old, believe it or not.

01:06:55.440 The first one I followed was Joe Clark's.

01:07:00.340 I have a lot of concern about this one.

01:07:05.820 I really, I'm not understanding why we've got so many people in this race right now. 1.00

01:07:11.500 and I'm not understanding why Jean Charest is here.

01:07:17.360 I mean, what on earth is Jean Charest doing in this race? 1.00

01:07:20.940 I didn't even know Jean Charest was still interested in politics,

01:07:24.680 and he just reappears out of nowhere.

01:07:27.380 And I don't understand why he even thinks he should be in this race. 0.99

01:07:32.220 What we need in this race is a clear conservative.

01:07:37.100 Jean Charest is not that man.

01:07:38.440 He is clearly a liberal.

01:07:39.920 He always has been.

01:07:41.500 and I don't think there's anybody in this race 0.95

01:07:46.740 that's clearly a conservative who can win

01:07:48.820 except Pierre Paulyev.

01:07:51.120 I've known Pierre Paulyev since he was,

01:07:53.300 and believe it or not,

01:07:54.140 and this is very true,

01:07:55.700 since he was a volunteer for Ezra Levant's campaign

01:07:59.620 as an MP in Calgary,

01:08:01.820 and I've known him that long,

01:08:03.980 and I really think the conservative party

01:08:07.980 needs a conservative leader

01:08:09.740 because we haven't had one for quite a while.

01:08:13.080 And if we do not have a clear conservative party in this country,

01:08:17.180 we're going to have three political parties that continue to be liberal parties.

01:08:22.660 And that's what we've had for far too long.

01:08:25.740 And I don't understand why we've got MPs supporting people like Patrick Brown,

01:08:32.180 who once again is not a conservative.

01:08:34.920 He was a horrible leader of the provincial party.

01:08:38.780 And I don't know what he's doing in this race either. 0.94

01:08:41.900 We've got other good people in this race, but clearly are not going to win.

01:08:46.840 I think I would like to see Maxime Bernier in this race.

01:08:50.920 I really would like to see Maxime back in the federal party.

01:08:56.040 I know Maxime very well.

01:09:00.040 And I admire what he's trying to do with the People's Party of Canada.

01:09:04.340 But I would like to see him back in the federal party because we need a strong federal party.

01:09:11.780 And if we don't see a conservative leading this party, I think anything is up for grabs in that case.

01:09:20.840 But we need a conservative to lead the conservative party.

01:09:24.860 There's no question about that.

01:09:26.020 And right now, I don't see any alternative except for Pierre Pagliot doing that.

01:09:31.140 And he's certainly the most credible candidate.

01:09:37.900 And once again, where are some of these people popping up?

01:09:40.640 It's very, very odd to me that Jean Charae came out of nowhere.

01:09:45.520 And I thought he was completely a forgotten man in Canadian politics.

01:09:54.980 Yeah, well, and he can't be underestimated.

01:09:57.720 I mean, I was as surprised as you when the name came up.

01:10:00.080 I thought, you know, that was a voice from the past.

01:10:02.020 I know he's still around, but I wouldn't have thought he'd make another go for the big chair.

01:10:07.080 But, I mean, he came on.

01:10:08.400 We had him on the show, I think it was last week, maybe the week before.

01:10:12.140 And he, well, he's an unapologetic Liberal, as far as I would put it that way.

01:10:16.420 He doesn't, you know, as opposed to O'Toole, who's a closet Liberal.

01:10:21.080 But he's going to garner a certain degree of that vote.

01:10:24.040 There is a risk he might end up being the leader of that party.

01:10:27.040 It's going to be an interesting race to watch.

01:10:28.740 Well, I'm most disappointed with people out there who say we have to elect Jean Chouret

01:10:35.100 because he can win.

01:10:37.680 And I'm saying win what?

01:10:40.200 Another he's going to be another liberal leader and we're going to elect another liberal

01:10:46.420 government because that's all it's going to amount to, because it's not going to be any

01:10:51.240 different than Justin Trudeau's government if we have Jean Chouret in charge.

01:10:55.560 He's already said he's going to have a carbon tax.

01:10:58.200 He'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.

01:11:20.580 We say, well, conservatives will vote conservative because they have no other option.

01:11:25.660 No, conservatives stay home or they'll vote for a third party or a fourth party.

01:11:31.200 And 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.

01:11:42.300 No, they just stay home.

01:11:43.520 They don't vote.

01:11:45.020 We need to rally around a positive conservatism, and that has to happen.

01:11:54.300 But I mean, I have been around politics for so long.

01:11:57.940 I tend to be cynical about these things.

01:12:00.540 I know what happens.

01:12:01.940 I 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.

01:12:22.160 But 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.

01:12:42.520 Well, and that we certainly don't at the Western Standard.

01:12:44.980 That's something we always pride ourselves on.

01:12:47.040 So thank you very much for joining me today and adding all that.

01:12:50.760 That's kind of a good note to close on.

01:12:53.020 And while we know we can find your stuff on the Western Standard,

01:12:56.280 do you have another site?

01:12:57.940 Are you working on some stuff right now?

01:13:00.640 Well, I am because I'm concerned.

01:13:02.600 In fact, I'm very concerned right now that I'm hearing the same stuff

01:13:06.840 about another COVID wave coming, another COVID wave coming,

01:13:12.440 that the forces of lockdown and put those masks back on

01:13:19.060 and get a fourth or fifth booster shot are at work again and we have to be very vigilant

01:13:26.180 that we're not going to go back into another horrendous lockdown after because we are in an

01:13:34.100 economic crisis right now produced by two years of covet uh the inflation produced by the biden

01:13:42.260 administration south of the border and the and the bad policies in this country and by the war

01:13:49.060 in ukraine which is which is fueling famine across the world right now in addition to

01:13:56.180 disastrous economic consequences we cannot afford any more disastrous economic policies so

01:14:04.820 uh we we don't need any more lockdowns and we don't need any more

01:14:08.820 bad economic policies. So I think we have to be on guard for that right now.

01:14:14.960 Yeah. Well, the battle never stops. It just has its ups and downs. So here's to hoping though,

01:14:20.180 that maybe we've hit bottom and to start moving into a positive direction somehow soon. So thanks

01:14:25.320 for checking in with us today, David. I hope to have you back again soon to talk some more

01:14:30.120 of these issues. Would love to, Corey. Thank you so much. Great. Thanks. So that was our senior

01:14:34.920 your parliamentary columnist, David Creighton. And as I said, he's been putting a lot of columns

01:14:38.660 out there since coming on board and they've been well-received. You can certainly get a flavor of

01:14:42.940 what Mr. Creighton is about. I'll just answer a couple of commenter questions. I see Pamela Jones

01:14:48.160 Kenny put a couple out, getting onto the political end of things, asking about the chances of Trudeau

01:14:53.520 stepping down. That one's kind of interesting. I don't think we'll see it happening fast if it's

01:14:58.920 going to happen, but it's not impossible. There's a lot of ambitious liberals hiding in that 0.96

01:15:04.660 caucus. They are not liking Justin. They want to climb the ladder. They think it's time for a new

01:15:09.160 leader. I tell you what, liberals are ruthless. I mean, those guys play political hardball. And if

01:15:14.840 they can find the cracks, we saw some of it just before the Emergencies Act was getting imposed,

01:15:19.960 they will tear him down. But we'll see. And it really depends on the liberal support numbers.

01:15:25.380 If the liberal support numbers are getting bad, if they're looking ugly within a year and some

01:15:30.020 from now, you see the timeline they're going to look at is the next federal election. You can't

01:15:34.040 go, I mean, in a minority government, you can never count on it for sure. But if they think

01:15:39.140 they can pull them out and replace them and entrench somebody who can win the next election

01:15:42.740 in time, they'll do it. But at this point, with this coalition, or alliance, I should say,

01:15:49.060 I think they're going to leave it alone from within for a while and see what irons out. And

01:15:53.280 he's probably got some fires to put out from the Emergencies Act already. Also, he asked about

01:15:59.120 Michelle Ruppel-Garner backing Roman. I think Michelle Ruppel-Garner's been behind Patrick

01:16:06.480 Brown, actually. I think she got involved in his campaign as his campaign chair. And yeah,

01:16:11.640 Patrick Brown is an interesting one, a bit of a red Tory. Yet, you know, one thing to give Brown,

01:16:15.940 I'm hoping to get him on the show as well. He was actually outspoken early when he was the mayor of

01:16:20.780 Brampton on health issues that other politicians wouldn't touch. He was taking the Ontario Health

01:16:26.620 authority to task because of their miscategorization of COVID deaths. Nobody else was doing that. No

01:16:32.740 politicians were doing that. We were all on here on the shows and online and alternative media,

01:16:37.100 but not politicians. And he was saying, hey, give us the numbers of how many people died

01:16:41.240 with COVID versus of COVID, because that's been a huge question all the way through that people

01:16:45.820 still aren't answering. And it's hard to give accurate numbers. You know, was it somebody who

01:16:49.900 came in with an inoperable heart condition who was really going to die within three days, no matter

01:16:54.100 what and happened to test positive of COVID? Or was it somebody that could have had six more

01:16:58.600 months of life, six more years of life, and COVID finished it off? It's very important to look into

01:17:02.800 those. And to his credit, Patrick Brown was actually one of those digging into that. Aside

01:17:07.780 from that, though, from what I can see, he's red Tory for the most part. So I mean, I give some

01:17:12.420 credit I take away. But it's an interesting one to see where that's going to go. Again, as this

01:17:18.860 campaign goes along. There are so many candidates, they just keep popping up. I think we've got 10

01:17:24.380 of them now. I've got another one, a fellow from Saskatchewan and forgive me, I've forgotten his

01:17:28.840 name offhand. Again, they're coming up so quickly. He's going to be in studio on Wednesday and we're

01:17:33.020 going to talk here and I'll be talking to Lesley Lewis tomorrow. It won't be live again. It's hard

01:17:37.100 to get these candidates live, but I'm going to record that conversation with Dr. Lewis tomorrow

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01:19:14.340 and see what else we got. Yeah, that CGL thing again, waiting for the RCMP to ever

01:19:20.060 respond to that. What's going on? What's with your investigation there?

01:19:24.880 Other things, convoy claims contradicted. This was from a couple of days ago, but still,

01:19:28.960 it was a Toronto Star story claiming Ottawa police recovered loaded shotguns from Freedom

01:19:33.920 convoy truckers. We talked a bit about that earlier. There's no charges because it didn't

01:19:38.920 happen. Like this is, we're doing the follow-up finally on what has gone on on these protests and

01:19:45.620 that. No guns. Well, that's a big deal, guys. I mean, I'm still dealing with ding-dongs and 1.00

01:19:50.980 peckerheads on Twitter who say this was an insurrection. We had to stop it. There was a

01:19:55.300 declaration of a new order and stuff. Hey, any crack pocket, throw an internet thing out saying

01:19:59.180 we're going to take over the government. Was there ever a realistic threat? Was there ever

01:20:03.960 a realistic chance or effort or anything to be seen saying that this was going to happen? No,

01:20:09.840 of course not. One of the only things they could possibly claim was they had a bunch of firearms

01:20:14.860 ready for the insurrection. Well, it turns out there were none. And yeah, Conservative MP Dane

01:20:20.620 Lloyd from Sturgeon River in Alberta raised it at a Commons Public Safety Committee. These committees

01:20:25.200 are where the real stuff is happening. We're not seeing it in Parliament, but thankfully in

01:20:28.860 committees, the real stuff's getting exposed and our ugly mainstream media isn't covering enough

01:20:33.680 of it. That's the thing. The Toronto Star embarrassed themselves, you know, by putting

01:20:37.820 that in. The story headlined by Justin Ling, he's a freelancer, but they put it in, called Inside

01:20:44.160 the Convoy and it claimed that they had concealed weapons in their vehicles. It said, fears there

01:20:49.160 were weapons inside some of the trucks proved prescient. A police source said that loaded

01:20:54.180 shotguns were found. That's what Ling wrote for the Red Star. And the story was quoted by the

01:20:59.720 Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendocino. And he was saying it's nothing short of miraculous that

01:21:05.380 nobody was seriously injured. Well, considering there were no bloody guns in the first place,

01:21:09.200 I guess it's not that much of a miracle. But I mean, this was a legislation built on bullshit. 0.99

01:21:15.960 That's the problem. The Emergencies Act was not justified. There was not enough 0.99

01:21:20.220 reason to bring it in. And we're finding that out now. The facts are coming out.

01:21:24.180 but the mainstream media doesn't want to touch it.

01:21:26.660 The Red Star sure doesn't want to admit 0.84

01:21:28.340 that they helped contribute to that BS

01:21:30.040 with stories like that.

01:21:33.120 Oh, yeah, the Alberta Prosperity Project.

01:21:35.000 Kathy asked about that.

01:21:36.580 Actually, yes, I got to follow up on that email today.

01:21:38.420 I talked to Dr. Modry,

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01:21:43.740 So we'll get onto that a little later.

01:21:46.520 And yeah, that other talk,

01:21:47.740 Dave mentioned that in the story.

01:21:48.840 Cabinet must regulate the internet in Canada

01:21:50.820 to curb Russian disinformation.

01:21:52.760 This is where it gets dangerous again.

01:21:53.820 You see the government's using every excuse, everything in their power to control information.

01:22:00.140 Information is everything.

01:22:01.540 I mean, if you really do go all the way back and read 1984, Orwell knew what he was talking about.

01:22:07.180 A true authoritarian, totalitarian state has to make sure that they are controlling what we see, what we hear, and what we can say.

01:22:16.320 And it was done in the Soviet Union in the past, and in Canada, they want to move that way.

01:22:21.400 They want to enter.

01:22:22.180 That's what I mean.

01:22:22.700 they're using the carrot for some of these publications with their subsidies and things

01:22:27.300 such as that, or the CBC itself, which is just a state arm or the liberal part of these days.

01:22:31.340 And then they're going to use the stick on the rest of us. And that's when they start. They'll

01:22:35.120 say, oh, it's just the Russian stuff that we're going to ban. It's just this stuff. It's just that 1.00

01:22:38.160 stuff. They will move farther. They will. And they'll come after publications like the Western

01:22:43.880 Standard. They're using C-11, things like that, to try and shut down non-legacy media communication.

01:22:50.400 It's very dangerous, very disturbing, and we've got to stand up for it.

01:22:56.700 But again, as the story writes, you know, getting back to that association of journalists,

01:23:01.620 self-described as the national voice of Canadian journalists, breached their own records,

01:23:08.140 breached their own ethics code, the records are showing with that pipeline protest.

01:23:11.860 Media is really problematic in Canada and needs to change.

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01:23:18.020 We're out here.

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Western Standard - March 29, 2022

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