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00:00:00.000 triggered today. We've got a form of martial law about to be invoked in Canada by the Trudeau

00:00:04.800 government. It's impossible to understate how significant and potentially dangerous this

00:00:09.480 development is. The last time this happened in Canada was in 1970. That's even before I was born.

00:00:14.520 When the Quebec terrorist group, the FLQ, they were committing robberies, bombings, kidnappings,

00:00:19.420 and murders. They were responsible for at least six deaths. And that's when Pierre Trudeau

00:00:24.300 implemented it during his just watch me moment. And at that time it was called the War Measures

00:00:29.220 Act. Now, I've been watching some liberal fart catchers online, working their utmost to try and

00:00:33.460 claim this isn't the War Measures Act because it's now called the Emergencies Act. Yes, Mulroney

00:00:38.720 redrafted it and renamed it back in the 80s, but make no mistake, people, the Emergencies Act is

00:00:43.620 the same thing as the War Measures Act. It's just been rebranding. You know, so the powers are the

00:00:48.700 same. Just what specific powers are to be taken is yet to be released, and it might take some days

00:00:54.260 yet. It could be as much as a week. There are some processes they're going to have to go through,

00:00:57.780 but we see where he wants to go. If one wants to invoke that act, though, it means they want to

00:01:01.940 make a big grab. They want to go beyond the authority and the legal means that they have

00:01:06.300 right now, and that's distressing. The act is a form of martial law. Martial law is where civil

00:01:11.920 rights are suspended in the name of an immediately pressing emergency. It's a suspension of civil law

00:01:17.340 by a government. For example, during the October crisis in 1970, when the War Measures Act was

00:01:22.140 invoked by Pierre Trudeau, nearly 500 people were arrested and detained without a warrant or

00:01:27.140 charges. They were just snatched off the street and put into jail. That's the sort of thing they

00:01:31.940 get the power to do under the name of, in that case it was war measures, now it's emergency. Here's

00:01:36.980 the text from the Emergency Act. It can be invoked if, A, it seriously endangers the lives, health,

00:01:42.900 or safety of Canadians, and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority

00:01:47.820 of a province to deal with it, or seriously threatens the ability of the government of

00:01:52.160 Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of Canada. Now, the death

00:01:58.180 and injury count from the truckers' protest remains at zero. It might be causing some heavy

00:02:02.400 economic harm and certainly annoying a lot of people. Let's not pretend for a second that it's

00:02:06.800 seriously endangering anybody's lives. The second clause is about the threat to the sovereignty or

00:02:12.120 territorial integrity of Canada. That clause is built in to refer to literal attempts at full

00:02:17.280 secession, you know, the unilateral declaration of a new nation, or the attempt to take and

00:02:21.840 occupy tracts of Canada to form new nations. Like, these guys are occupying some spots in Ottawa,

00:02:26.500 but they're not trying to break away. It's not a coup. The protesters are entrenched,

00:02:31.380 but they aren't starting any new nations. Martial law shouldn't even be considered for anything less

00:02:36.060 than a full civil war breaking out, a foreign nation invading or zombies literally coming up

00:02:40.320 from the graves. We're invoking it for a bunch of truckers who have set up a protest, and they're

00:02:44.560 honking horns, waving flags, and setting up bouncy castles. We're going to have to wait and see the

00:02:48.400 specifics, but the invocation of this act can have some very serious implications. Phones and

00:02:53.520 communications can be monitored. They can tap your stuff, and without warrant. People could

00:02:57.700 potentially be arrested without charges or warrants. We don't know yet, but that's where they're moving

00:03:01.040 towards. Fines and prison terms could be created on a dime for crimes that didn't exist a week ago.

00:03:05.460 The military may be tapped to come in. Think the hardest on that. Canadian soldiers cracking down

00:03:11.040 on peaceful Canadian citizens. So, you know, this would probably fall under the public order

00:03:16.640 emergency. I was reading the act, and that means any public assembly that may reasonably expect it

00:03:20.680 to lead to the breach of the peace. That's pretty broad. So they can, you know, get in the middle

00:03:26.940 of traveling to and from or within any specified area so they can, again, move on your mobility

00:03:30.560 rights. So they've already been doing that with the pandemic. And the use of specific property.

00:03:35.640 Like, these are essential rights we're talking about. What else are they going to criminalize?

00:03:38.320 donations to certain groups or individuals, sharing thoughts of support, communications.

00:03:43.700 You know, again, when you get into a martial law situation, it's very serious, and we don't know

00:03:47.500 where they're going to go. The suspension of rights can never be taken lightly, yet Trudeau,

00:03:52.000 with a minority government, looks like he might manage to pull that off. I don't like seeing any

00:03:56.040 government being empowered further. That which governs best is that which governs least. And

00:04:00.100 it's chilling to think of this particular government grabbing such power. I mean, Trudeau

00:04:04.000 is a vindictive, vacuous man of a prime minister, and this power could rush to overwhelm his little 0.92

00:04:08.280 head. And we're witnessing history in the making. The Trudeau government would rather invoke a form

00:04:12.800 of martial law than even consider lifting the ineffective vaccine mandates placed upon truckers

00:04:18.520 that caused these protests in the first place. This is not going to end well, guys. It's time

00:04:23.620 to wake up, Canadians. This action is not going to calm the situation in Canada. It's only going

00:04:28.040 to inflame it and divide us further. Leadership means talking with them, and they haven't even

00:04:32.720 started with an attempt of respectful negotiation. It doesn't mean capitulation, but you at least

00:04:37.640 talk to them and he's moved straight to invoking the emergencies act that's dangerous i'm very

00:04:43.880 concerned and i'm certainly triggered with that okay now let's check in with our news editor

00:04:49.400 dave naylor because he's got as always a lot to cover as these things break and as this unfolds

00:04:54.680 how are you doing there dave i'm not bad cory happy valentine's day well thank you yes uh it's a good

00:05:01.480 and bad day for some people i guess i haven't seen my box of chocolates from you yet well i'm

00:05:06.440 drafting a special card but you might want to open it when there's no children in the room

00:05:10.520 all right yeah another crazy day in the news uh a historic day in the news corey uh you've talked

00:05:16.920 about the prime minister bringing in uh the emergencies act which is you know just the war

00:05:21.960 measures act renamed he is going to address the nation at 2 30. so we'll see what his plans are

00:05:29.800 then that's 2 30 mountain standard time uh this he will it will have to pass parliament uh so but

00:05:37.160 i think the ndp will probably side with them as they usually do another major story that's just

00:05:42.920 breaking out of the coots border rcmp say they've seized a huge seized a huge weapons cache uh from

00:05:51.320 a small group that was within the larger protest 11 people have been arrested a dozen long guns

00:06:00.120 have been seized body armor has been seized as has handguns and ammunition uh so that's just

00:06:08.120 breaking and our reporter mel uh trying to find out uh what's going on down there uh our own

00:06:14.520 publisher derek fildebrandt has written a column about uh what he thinks of the emergencies act

00:06:20.120 coming in and you can guess uh you can guess what he's saying in that one cory's not happy

00:06:25.960 in the least no and just break in on you because doug ford announced this morning that the vaccine

00:06:33.220 passport will soon be gone as of uh march 1st the vaccine passports will no longer be needed in

00:06:40.060 in ontario and things will get back to normal this week in terms of uh maple leaf games and

00:06:46.940 ottawa senator games are going to have a full uh full uh seating again uh our reporter eva has

00:06:55.160 got a story on the site already on uh go give send go i always get them mixed up cory always

00:07:02.280 give send go somebody hacked them and released what it appears to be a donors list uh but

00:07:08.500 as not as the mainstream media has been reporting there are no huge foreign entity donations

00:07:16.460 They're mainly coming from ordinary Canadians.

00:07:20.380 Interesting political story out of Ottawa.

00:07:23.360 Our Defence Minister, Anita Anand, her husband runs the company,

00:07:28.120 and the company was able to beat out 18 others to get multi-million dollar COVID contracts.

00:07:36.060 So that's, you know, well, we'll let the readers make up their own mind on it.

00:07:42.460 Alberta unions are going to court to try and get the Jason Kenney relaxation of mandates

00:07:50.820 overturned. They're representing a whole bunch of unions that are demanding masking be brought back

00:07:57.680 and a vaccine passport be brought back. And sort of our ironic story of the day,

00:08:04.960 retired Senator Jim Munson. This is a guy who went on a diatribe in the last two weeks about

00:08:11.840 about the truckers' convoy in Ottawa.

00:08:14.520 He lives there and he's called them racist

00:08:17.580 and he's called them hostage takers 0.87

00:08:19.880 and all sorts of other nasty names.

00:08:24.020 Well, starting tomorrow, it's Kindness Week in Canada.

00:08:27.760 And yes, believe it or not,

00:08:28.980 he is going to be the face of Kindness Week,

00:08:31.920 a name-calling senator.

00:08:35.600 It's so Canadian, Corey, I can't believe it.

00:08:37.920 So a big, big day already.

00:08:40.520 and promises to be even bigger throughout the day.

00:08:46.080 Yeah, a lot unfolding.

00:08:47.620 I mean, that was actually just as I was setting up the show

00:08:49.320 and we'd heard about that firearm seizure

00:08:51.240 and those arrests down south.

00:08:52.920 And I'll talk a bit more further about the implications of that.

00:08:57.160 Boy, just a crazy time we're in right now.

00:09:02.200 I imagine as soon as there's details, you'll be putting that up.

00:09:05.580 Yeah, we are.

00:09:06.140 Mel Rizdin is on the phone as we speak with trucker convoy organizers.

00:09:10.940 And if I'm overhearing her conversation, right?

00:09:14.840 This was a small group that came in and they were always blatantly

00:09:19.880 suspicious of them because they didn't seem to fit in.

00:09:22.840 So we're going to have more details on that as the story develops.

00:09:27.240 Great.

00:09:27.640 Well, thanks for the updates, Dave.

00:09:29.580 Lots to cover as always, and I'll let you get back at it.

00:09:32.880 I'll talk to you a little later.

00:09:34.040 Thanks, Corey.

00:09:35.240 Thanks, Dave.

00:09:36.140 So, yeah, we'll see what's happened. I mean, it's very disturbing. I mean, we don't have the facts yet on what's happened down there with that truck that apparently had a number of firearms, body armor, things such as that.

00:09:53.440 11 people arrested.

00:09:55.540 Now, the timing of it does stink.

00:09:57.780 I saw a commenter talking about that.

00:09:59.340 I mean, wow, isn't that something?

00:10:00.520 Right when they want to invoke the Emergencies Act,

00:10:03.560 because, you know, if you've actually got armed insurrection,

00:10:05.760 you've really got people taking up firearms at these protests,

00:10:09.540 that does change the whole game.

00:10:11.480 That changes everything.

00:10:13.820 Everything.

00:10:15.720 Now, I know I've been to enough protests, whatever this was,

00:10:20.660 it did not represent the protesters at a whole, not even close,

00:10:23.060 but it can't be dismissed. It can't. Now, what were they thinking? I don't know. Was it a setup?

00:10:29.460 You know, again, we don't have facts. So this is just breaking right now. I will point out,

00:10:34.220 if we remember, if you want to look it up, look up the whole Weebo Ludwig thing. He was a terrorist

00:10:39.620 in Alberta, an eco-terrorist back in the 90s. I used to work in the oil field up north. And Weebo

00:10:44.560 lived on a kind of a religious commune up in northern Alberta. And he felt that sour gas

00:10:50.240 had been harming the birth of his grandchildren

00:10:52.840 in meeting people from up there.

00:10:54.720 And in that particular commune,

00:10:56.320 word is more that it was a matter of inbreeding

00:10:58.740 that was causing the issue. 0.92

00:10:59.820 All the same, Weibo was quite crazy and quite dangerous.

00:11:01.980 He was jailed for quite some time

00:11:03.560 and he passed away a while ago.

00:11:06.860 But the thing was throughout all that,

00:11:09.140 the RCMP actually did an undercover operation

00:11:11.960 and blew up a well site.

00:11:13.500 They blew up a well site

00:11:14.600 as a means to try and entrap Ludwig.

00:11:18.240 Like they committed a small act of terrorism

00:11:20.860 in hopes of catching a terrorist.

00:11:22.500 Now, I have no idea yet what's going on

00:11:25.700 with that truckload of arms that apparently has been seized

00:11:27.940 going down towards the Coutts border,

00:11:29.940 but I think it's not unreasonable to ask questions.

00:11:32.420 And it's not unreasonable to believe 0.71

00:11:33.700 that there were 11 lunatics on there too.

00:11:36.280 I don't know.

00:11:37.360 We have to wait for the facts.

00:11:38.560 Lorna, what am I supposed to report on?

00:11:40.520 The commenter, Lorna Bound, you too, Western said.

00:11:42.400 We only report on it when we know it.

00:11:43.980 I can speculate and that's what I'm doing. But we have no other facts aside from what is put out at this point. Something that's interesting though, if there were 11 people arrested, I hope we can find out who they were and what they were up to as soon as possible.

00:12:00.920 then. I mean, this would certainly give some indications of what these people are about. I

00:12:07.800 mean, what was their motivation? Were they unheard of? Were they outside of the province initially?

00:12:12.840 Were they part of a crazy group? I hate to admit it, but you know, there are some actually fringe

00:12:17.640 crazy groups out there. We had nutcases way back, thankfully this stuff's almost gone,

00:12:23.560 but in Provo's tour actually burning crosses. There was an Aryan Nations compound in the early 90s 1.00

00:12:28.920 up in the sundry area. And again, tiny minorities of lunatics and losers, but they do exist and 1.00

00:12:37.500 they can cause a lot of damage. So we will report on and find out what this is and as we can, but 0.97

00:12:43.740 it's serious no matter what the cause of it. And you can bet we're going to hear a heck of a lot

00:12:49.260 more of it. If I'm standing, and I'd never want to stand in Trudeau's clown shoes, but if I were

00:12:53.780 standing in them right now, I would certainly, of course, be using this right now. I would say

00:12:57.280 this is now justified because we have people showing up with firearms at these things. This

00:13:03.500 is very, very disturbing because otherwise the narrative the government had for invoking the

00:13:10.040 emergency act was bunk. It was nothing. It was an inconvenience. People were not getting harmed.

00:13:15.760 You know, property damage was minimal. Financial damage was real. You know, that was happening.

00:13:22.240 They were blocking trade. I mean, it's not stuff to be completely dismissed. There were people

00:13:26.560 living down there who are having a hard time just from the noise during the day or whatever. But

00:13:30.200 to the point of invoking the Emergencies Act, no, no. Or as it's really known in the past was the

00:13:35.540 War Measures Act. So things are developing fast and we're going to cover it as quickly as we can.

00:13:42.420 And as Nico's been popping up on the comments, yeah, go to the, for the, you know, check out

00:13:46.160 everything Dave's been writing, westernstandardonline.com. Oh, and I should mention

00:13:49.640 Derek Fildebrand, I meant to say that earlier in the show, is going to be coming in, joining me in

00:13:53.080 studio too. And we're going to talk about a column he wrote on the potential invocation of the

00:13:57.020 Emergencies Act and his thoughts on it and how we can push back perhaps. Yes, go to the western

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00:16:10.980 certainly seeing that. Now, Reid should be joining me pretty shortly here. In the meantime, let's see,

00:16:16.740 let's talk about some other things. I got to scroll down. When guests are late, I get backed up.

00:16:21.760 So let's talk about, I'm going to show a video, actually. See, here's where a lot of discussion

00:16:25.620 was on the weekend. You know, there's been a lot of back and forth on the type of people attending

00:16:29.800 these protests, but something that hasn't gotten nearly enough attention was the presence of

00:16:33.980 outright communist flags among protesters. So yeah, I'll get Nico to queue up that video and

00:16:40.380 oh wait, we got Reid. Okay, we're going to talk about that video a little later though. So hold

00:16:43.340 your ire for the communists for a little while. I'm certain I'll be talking about them a little

00:16:49.100 later. I never have used for communists. We have Reid Small coming in from BC. He's been

00:16:53.560 checking things out, reporting on news out there and checking in on some of the protests out that

00:16:58.800 way. So let's pop him in and see what he's got to say. Hey Reid, how are you doing there?

00:17:03.980 Okay. Good. Good. Good. Yeah. These live ones. It's always difficult to tell. Thanks

00:17:11.520 for joining us today. Can you hear me? Yeah. They're just a bit of a lag going on, I think.

00:17:20.500 Yeah. Happy to be here. Okay. So I'll just start. I mean, you've been writing a lot of

00:17:25.880 things on a number of issues. You're our BC man out there, but you went out to Surrey

00:17:30.720 and checked in on some of the other protests

00:17:32.520 that have been kind of springing up out in BC there?

00:17:39.060 Okay, maybe we'll get back to that video on the communists

00:17:42.140 until Reid can reconnect here.

00:17:43.920 I think he seems to be frozen up for the time being.

00:17:47.040 But we do have somebody working on coverage in BC

00:17:49.300 to try and work on these issues.

00:17:52.680 I'll give it a minute or two.

00:17:53.920 Reid has been, I believe the stories are up

00:17:56.280 on the westernstandardonline.com

00:17:57.980 and we have had protests going on in Surrey.

00:18:00.720 we're hearing about coots all the time we're hearing about ottawa let's try reed one more time

00:18:04.040 and uh see if his connection has his is improved there hey reed how you doing good good hopefully

00:18:11.080 uh hopefully we got that sorted out now okay great as i said live you know it's great you know we

00:18:15.900 catch things as they develop and as they go uh as nico says you got bc blockages developing down

00:18:20.920 there right now but of course we can always get some technical uh hiccups so uh thanks for joining

00:18:25.300 and you attended a couple of protest sites on the weekend did you yeah yeah there was a massive

00:18:30.620 protest at the 176 and 8th Avenue truck crossing in Surrey. And that's been going on since

00:18:37.560 last Monday. And, you know, what started with a very small group of demonstrators

00:18:43.880 had been cycling in and out in shifts throughout the week, ensuring that there was a round-the-clock

00:18:50.860 presence there. And word started to pick up. And on Saturday, things really, really popped off and

00:18:58.180 massive police presence, massive convoy stretching all the way from Chilliwack. It was pretty

00:19:07.000 incredible and very peaceful for the most part. I didn't see anything bad going on, no violence,

00:19:15.200 no aggression, despite what some people were saying. The RCMP did confirm that four people

00:19:21.660 were arrested uh for mischief uh however uh they didn't provide any more detail um i know on on

00:19:28.460 sunday they uh set up a perimeter and uh anyone who passed that perimeter was uh was a would was

00:19:36.220 told that they would be arrested so i'm assuming uh from what i've heard uh is that those uh four

00:19:41.420 arrests were people that were just testing that boundary and uh trying to push their way through

00:19:46.300 there but no assaults or anything like that yeah and that's something i saw in protests that i've

00:19:51.540 gone to and of course in a lot of videos we see i mean the the atmosphere of a peaceful sort of

00:19:56.760 positive thing i mean very serious protests and they're blocking borders it can't be understated

00:20:00.980 but they've always been very carefully peaceful and and respectful in general were you seeing

00:20:06.100 similarly then out there in bc yeah i mean people uh people have set up hockey nets there were kids

00:20:12.160 playing street hockey um it was it was really incredible and you know people of all races and

00:20:18.000 backgrounds were there and i feel like it's it's almost silly to have to uh mention that at this

00:20:23.100 point but given the the situation we're in where a lot of these demonstrators are portrayed by uh

00:20:28.580 one of one of our leaders as misogynistic and uh racist uh i certainly didn't see that when i was

00:20:36.100 there. No, no. There's a lot of diversity. You know, it seems, I think, that some of that line

00:20:42.480 has been dropping a little bit because they're realizing, I mean, people are seeing through it,

00:20:45.300 and if anything, it's just ticking people off further and making them look petty. They're

00:20:49.520 still trying to portray the protesters and demonstrators as extreme and violent and

00:20:53.240 dangerous, but they seem to be easing off a bit on the racist thing because there's just too many

00:20:57.740 images showing that it's not a racial thing. You can disagree with it, but it's never had anything

00:21:02.220 to do with race that was only brought in by people who were opposed to it yeah well i think this is

00:21:07.980 a relevant point with uh the emergency act uh being brought in or the you know the revised uh

00:21:13.740 war measures act um if if you can successfully portray a group of people as something that is

00:21:22.300 collectively regarded as bad then you can justify tyrannizing them um so if if enough people think

00:21:31.740 And they're, you know, while it is a minority, there are a lot of people out there that, you know, you can see on social media are demonizing these protesters across the country and, you know, calling them all sorts of things.

00:21:43.280 And, you know, if if that's the narrative, then you can justify tyrannizing them and shutting them down in a potentially violent way.

00:21:53.420 And obviously, we haven't seen that yet.

00:21:55.720 But I mean, things are certainly escalating.

00:21:58.040 so in bc at that crossing is that blockade then still currently set up right now

00:22:02.660 it is still set up there's uh far less people in attendance uh as there was on the weekend

00:22:09.320 but the block is still there and they don't have any intentions of leaving

00:22:14.360 so are they letting any traffic through with that one or is it just being in the area

00:22:18.600 um they they've been they've been traffic's been black backed up but they have been letting uh

00:22:24.260 letting it through although it's it's there's certainly been delays and uh a few a few truckers

00:22:29.920 uh that have been making the trip have expressed their frustration um again uh from what i saw the

00:22:38.580 vast majority of people even the truckers on the weekend that were uh backlogged and were not

00:22:43.520 participating in the protests were supportive um but there's definitely there's definitely some that

00:22:49.540 are uh voicing concerns about delays yeah well and that's something i guess that has the federal

00:22:56.120 government concerned it had me feeling kind of happy and seeing it spreading i mean we see it

00:23:00.120 bc now alberta i haven't seen anything in saskatchewan manitoba had protests in winnipeg

00:23:04.580 quebec said protests i mean people aren't giving up on this and they haven't been to date violent

00:23:09.700 uh that's been really remarkable all things considered for somebody who watches a lot of

00:23:14.880 protests over the years yeah yeah no violence again no one's going to want to bring their

00:23:21.140 young children to uh to a protest that is that they believe is going to get violent and there

00:23:27.360 was a ton of kids there on the weekend and it was all just you know good vibes all around kids

00:23:33.600 playing hockey people playing music um you know no violence at all i talked to a bunch of rcmp

00:23:41.760 officers and they had, they had no complaints. Um, the ones that I spoke to, um, so yeah.

00:23:49.540 So what's BC government reaction been to that? Like a lot of this, it's a federal thing,

00:23:53.720 but it's also provincial. A lot of the pressure from the convoy in Alberta has been directed

00:23:57.680 towards premier Jason Kenney here. Uh, what is the response from the provincial government in BC

00:24:02.340 been towards the local blockades there? Are they planning any actions or speaking of any threats

00:24:07.400 or anything like that? They haven't spoken of any threats yet. They just keep saying we're

00:24:12.500 monitoring the situation, we're working on it. And this is coming from the RCMP. As far as,

00:24:17.000 you know, Premier John Horgan goes, he made a comment last week after

00:24:23.020 BC announced a new set of vaccine mandates to encompass all healthcare workers,

00:24:29.800 as opposed to community care, acute care, long-term care. That mandate was previously

00:24:36.080 instituted. But now there's a new one. And he said that he won't be easing any restrictions

00:24:42.300 in, you know, as a result of a few honks, is what he said. But since then, he hasn't commented.

00:24:49.780 There will be a release today, a government release on, you know, COVID statistics, testing,

00:24:54.800 vaccination rates, that sort of thing. But the BC officials, John Horgan, Bonnie Henry,

00:25:00.700 Adrian Dix won't be appearing in front of the camera until until tomorrow. So I assume that

00:25:06.140 they'll they'll have something to say about it then. Okay, aside from convoy things, you've had

00:25:12.020 a number of articles, of course, you're always working out there in BC and reporting out there

00:25:15.260 for us. What are your other top stories you put out recently? And what are you working on?

00:25:21.100 Well, most of most of the top stories are usually COVID related. Like I said,

00:25:26.460 there was a new vaccine mandates to encompass all healthcare workers and private practices.

00:25:33.680 You know, this includes acupuncturists, physiotherapists, chiropractors, any private

00:25:43.200 healthcare practices, you now have until March 24th to get vaccinated against COVID, or you will be

00:25:51.000 basically fired, let go without pay, as what happened to the nearly 3,000 other healthcare

00:25:58.720 workers in the previously instituted mandate. The chief coroner released a report last week

00:26:04.760 on the overdose situation in BC. We saw well over 2,200 fatal drug overdoses in the province

00:26:13.320 in uh sorry in 2021 uh compared to to 2020 which is a roughly a 26 percent increase um and despite

00:26:22.020 the fact that most people assume that this uh drug crisis is is affecting people in back alleys

00:26:27.480 you know overdosing on the street uh that's actually not the case uh most most of the fatal

00:26:33.300 drug overdoses happened uh inside of residences um and uh yeah none of the officials have mentioned

00:26:40.500 anything about how um lockdowns and and you know locking people down in their homes may have uh

00:26:47.220 impacted uh the the dramatic increase that set the record yet again uh consecutively each year

00:26:53.460 since 2016. um so that's that's pretty big news right now um again as far as solutions go uh for

00:27:02.900 for the drug crisis, officials are talking about decriminalizing, picking up new safe injection

00:27:14.300 sites, things like that. And that's about as far as the conversation goes.

00:27:20.160 Yeah, the opioid crisis is massive. I'm glad you pointed that out. I had an incident last fall

00:27:26.720 that I wrote on and in our offices downtown here in Calgary, there are a lot of addicts all over

00:27:31.620 place and those are the visible ones that we see those are the ones on the streets the homeless

00:27:35.860 people the ones in rough condition but yeah i found that stat too when i was looking stuff up

00:27:40.580 the majority of the overdoses actually aren't happening out in the streets necessarily or at

00:27:44.740 the bus shelters as as you see they're people at home they're people with jobs um i i know three

00:27:50.900 people now personally one was more distant a while back but who've lost actually sons

00:27:56.020 to drug overdoses. It's not just a street person thing. This is a huge, huge problem,

00:28:03.260 and we really need to be addressing it, but it's getting overwhelmed with all the COVID mess right

00:28:06.680 now. Yeah, it's absolutely tragic. And in BC, one of the findings was that I believe it was 83%

00:28:14.840 was of the fatal overdoses, fentanyl and its analogs were detected.

00:28:23.220 fentanyl is becoming a real problem it's been it's been an increasing problem since 2016 as

00:28:29.540 these black market organizations are figuring out that they can ship it into the country and

00:28:37.920 a package about the size of an envelope as opposed to you know smuggling in large quantities of

00:28:43.320 of heroin for example from Southeast Asia which is a common place it comes from so this this

00:28:50.580 whole fentanyl thing is a real problem and we're seeing it in a lot of pressed pills being sold

00:28:55.500 as as uh illegally as pharmaceutical drugs uh specifically benzos um ton of people think they're

00:29:03.020 they're buying xanax and uh and they're they're just they're getting fentanyl and they're dying

00:29:08.860 alone in their in their homes as a result um it's really just awful uh you know i several people i

00:29:14.140 know um have been tragically impacted uh by the the fentanyl uh crisis yeah that fentanyl is just

00:29:22.540 so horrifically potent and and and addictive i mean it's just it's a you can't compare it to

00:29:29.420 anything else and as you said a tiny amount can be shipped out and then cut up and spread a long

00:29:33.840 way so of course it just brings the eye of opportunistic drug dealers you know straight

00:29:38.440 to it i mean the money that can be made for those those dealers and crap uh is just overwhelming

00:29:43.420 And another thing too is a lot of the time addicts will hear of an overdose from a specific

00:29:51.940 dealer or a specific line and they will actually, more users will flock to that source because

00:29:58.220 it's a stronger, it's a, it's a stronger supply.

00:30:01.360 It's, it's really just a sad world.

00:30:06.540 Yeah, it is.

00:30:07.280 Absolutely.

00:30:08.060 Well, thanks for checking in.

00:30:09.240 I'll let you get back at it.

00:30:10.500 It's good to get an update.

00:30:11.200 you know, I just like talking to and reminding folks, we have reporters on the ground, you know,

00:30:15.360 throughout the West, all over in major areas. And you're our main BC man, you've been putting some

00:30:20.000 great stuff out there on the site. So I'll let you get back to work on it. And we'll check in

00:30:24.740 again with you again down the road here. Awesome. Thanks, Corey. Great. Thanks. So yeah, that's

00:30:30.740 Reed Small. He's our, here's our BC senior reporter out there covering things down in

00:30:35.480 vancouver and he went to the protests themselves and uh yeah this this drug overdose overdose the

00:30:42.460 you know they're saying poisoning uh the other term that i think should be used more often though

00:30:46.760 is most definitely epidemic i mean it just goes on and on and uh it's just causing horrific damage

00:30:53.100 we we can't express enough and you know it is a symptom of everything that's been going on

00:30:58.640 with this pandemic with the stress put on people people put out of work you know we can't pretend

00:31:05.060 that this explosion of the addictions hasn't been at least somewhat correlated with the

00:31:10.220 restrictions, with the lockdowns, with the depression that it's causing. And not enough

00:31:14.420 people talk about it. For people who haven't been to Vancouver a lot, it's partly because of the

00:31:18.420 warm climate. It's because it's on a port area. It's been known since the 60s as an area with a

00:31:23.020 lot of addiction, whether it was heroin back then and crack later on. So with what you see in your

00:31:28.220 cities out here in the West, you can multiply it by a few orders when you look as far as Vancouver

00:31:33.760 actually for addiction, because it tends to get much, much worse out there. So I'm glad Reid

00:31:37.640 mentioned that. And we're going to get on now onto what's more breaking and pressing. And

00:31:43.120 that's with this potential declaration, I guess, of the Emergencies Act. And our publisher,

00:31:48.560 Derek Fildebrandt is going to join me. And we're going to talk at length about some of the reaction

00:31:51.400 to that, because this is just huge. And I don't think enough people understand the implications

00:31:56.320 of what this move is and what this means in Canadian history and contemporary. We're talking

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00:32:45.220 digital currencies usable in a day-to-day basis. Okay, as you can see, joining me here now is our

00:32:55.300 publisher, Derek Fildebrand. Boy, he was full of a head of steam when he came into the office this

00:32:59.980 morning so was I because again I mean we're all gobsmacked I mean as anybody who reads history

00:33:04.820 knows about government powers and authorities and the seriousness of this I mean this is

00:33:09.020 an incredible and troubling development so thanks for joining me and maybe we'll get you to lay out

00:33:13.860 why you felt compelled to come on the show to talk about it well it's just even though I'm the boss

00:33:17.940 you get to cut this interview off when it's done so I don't get to talk as long as I want to no no

00:33:22.960 we have another guest in a while but we got a fair amount of time to talk about this right now

00:33:26.380 Yeah, I think that's a good way of putting it. I came in this morning just gobsmacked. I didn't know, what do we make of this? I mean, we've been living under various degrees of authoritarianism for two years now as governments arbitrarily take away our rights, give them back, take away even more the next time, and we just keep going through that.

00:33:45.480 But it never dawned on me that we would see the War Measures Act, now renamed in the 80s, the Emergencies Act.

00:33:54.100 This is for times of war.

00:33:56.920 As you said on your show this morning, it was used in the First and Second World War and during the FLQ terrorism crisis.

00:34:02.600 I think even invoking it during the FLQ crisis was overkill.

00:34:06.080 But, I mean, at least there were bombs and assassinations and actual serious violence taking place.

00:34:13.840 And even then it was probably an overreaction.

00:34:15.280 It could be defined, at least at that time, as an attempted insurrection. I mean, there was no doubt about it. The FLQ wanted through force, and they proved it to separate Quebec. They didn't want a referenda. They were saying, we're going to shoot you until you let us go. So, I mean, it'll be debatable forever in history whether the act was certainly more justified then, though, than what we're looking at today.

00:34:34.300 But, you know, but some and I get it that people, a few people who live in downtown Ottawa, most of them are actually politicians, bureaucrats and media.

00:34:42.180 So they're very frustrated. And, you know, I guess it gets into a little further other than that.

00:34:47.120 I get that it's disturbing. But, you know, some honking and bouncy castles does not constitute domestic violent insurrection.

00:34:55.620 and you know we've had we had Occupy Wall Street uh actually I worked in Ottawa during that and

00:35:03.000 these guys camped all over the place and they were there for months and months and months you

00:35:07.300 know you had experience with Occupy Wall Street yeah uh and they were allowed to stay there for

00:35:11.740 the most part for quite a long time you had months yeah you had I don't know more and anti-pipeline

00:35:16.700 protesters who had blocked railways and bridges and they were allowed to do it they were not cleared

00:35:22.300 out by force. So, you know, even if these guys are breaking the law, and at least in some respects

00:35:28.680 they are, if the law is not enforced on one group, you can't enforce it on another. And no one even

00:35:34.000 thought for a second about going down the road of the Emergencies or War Measures Act. This is,

00:35:40.420 as I wrote my column this morning, it's an act of war. This is an act of war. And we got to be

00:35:49.080 careful not to fall into hyperbole here. I like to preface things by saying let's not be hyperbolic

00:35:54.540 and then I might say something hyperbolic. I'm gonna probably break that here but I do I think

00:36:00.080 this is an act of war as Trudeau has declared effective war on a group of protesters that he

00:36:06.640 deems to be domestic violent insurrectionists. And the thing is questionable too as we said

00:36:13.120 we've seen our rights eroded for two solid years now and they've utilized section one of the

00:36:17.220 charter to keep doing it they say the public health is so important we can stop you from

00:36:21.960 traveling we can put you out of work we can stop you from visiting families we can do all of these

00:36:25.660 things because section one makes it so important that the charter rights for the time being won't

00:36:30.060 apply now even with the implication of section one they didn't feel that was giving them enough

00:36:35.140 opportunity to get rid of the protesters so that makes me wonder again how big an action does he

00:36:42.120 have in mind, and that's when the word army starts coming to mind, is he going to look to tap the

00:36:47.200 military? Because he already has the access to the police. He already has the law technically on his

00:36:51.800 side to remove these guys. Why would he feel compelled to pull this trigger unless he's got

00:36:59.520 something big in mind? And that's what worries me. If this is going to end peacefully, we need

00:37:04.920 goodwill on both sides. We need de-escalation on both sides. A small example of that was Ottawa

00:37:10.940 Mayor Jim Watson. He is a partisan liberal. He was a liberal minister in the Dalton McGuinty

00:37:15.220 government. This is no right-wing freedom, libertarian-loving conservative here. He is

00:37:22.520 as liberal as it gets. He's an Ottawa liberal born through and through. And they negotiated to get to

00:37:27.100 get the truckers out of some of the more residential areas where it's spelled into to

00:37:31.060 get it probably where it should be concentrated, which is directly around Parliament Hill. It's a

00:37:35.040 political protest, so it should be around a political symbol. That was goodwill, and that

00:37:39.040 was de-escalation that's probably a better way that you're going to end this kind of thing

00:37:43.920 um and uh i apologize for that yeah gee you're always the one that gets on us oh i would have

00:37:50.680 slapped you up for that one don't worry i'm making a note of it oh yeah carry on um but instead this

00:37:56.140 is being ratcheted up to the point where they're you know the government and the government-funded

00:37:59.680 media are calling these people domestic terrorists uh violent the only violence that has been

00:38:06.080 committed to date uh has been from counter protesters and from the police on government

00:38:12.480 orders not a single one of these protesters has a recorded uh example yet of violence which is

00:38:19.840 actually shocking i mean you'd think that this many you would think just there's always going

00:38:23.500 to be a few wingnuts that are gonna and this is astoundingly peaceful actually and i would yeah

00:38:28.060 i would have thought there would have been at least a little bit from a couple of nexts and

00:38:30.680 any big group is going to have a couple of people like that and no doubt there's going to probably

00:38:34.660 is almost certainly some wing nuts in these groups. But it hasn't been violent yet. So what's

00:38:41.940 going to happen now is the cabinet has to put forward this declaration. The declaration then

00:38:48.240 goes to the House of Commons. It looks like Jagmeet Singh, Dave Naylor mentioned this on the

00:38:53.200 news update earlier, Jagmeet Singh's NDP are likely to provide the votes necessary to the

00:39:00.060 liberals to pass this. But we don't know much about what's going to happen, because this is a

00:39:05.820 very vaguely worded act. It's just the government now has, through cabinet decree, the power to do

00:39:11.840 really whatever's necessary to combat whatever emergency this is.

00:39:18.820 Yeah, I mean, it's unprecedented. And that's kind of what leaves that that hanging in the air with

00:39:22.740 us. And I mean, what gets me is this should be an act of last resort, last resort. And I haven't

00:39:27.380 seen any acts of the first resort yet. Like there hasn't even, and people say, well, he shouldn't

00:39:31.980 negotiate. No, you always negotiate first. It doesn't mean you capitulate. It doesn't mean you

00:39:36.200 agree, but at least gain that moral high ground and say, look, we tried, we tried talking to them.

00:39:40.880 They kept throwing eggs in my face, whatever. We made five efforts. It came to a failure. Now we're

00:39:45.300 out of options. We've got to move to plan B, but he skipped all that. He's never even made a slight

00:39:50.000 effort to even acknowledge that these guys might have a valid concern. And he's moving straight

00:39:54.800 to force we haven't seen, as I said, look at the gray hair I got. This hasn't happened in my

00:39:59.800 lifetime. This was prior to me being born was the last time this was invoked. Like people have got

00:40:03.820 to understand how serious this is. Yeah. And we have to now think about, well, what are we going

00:40:08.520 to do about this? Again, we have to see what start, what kind of decrees they start publishing.

00:40:12.860 I wouldn't be terribly surprised, but we don't know for sure yet. I wouldn't be terribly surprised

00:40:16.560 if they start banning media and anyone from publishing anything that encourages these people.

00:40:21.700 um you know the use of civil disobedience should be very sparing i mean uh the other side of things

00:40:28.040 you know the blm guys i don't know more all these occupy wall street anything you don't like about

00:40:34.020 the government policies is a case for civil disobedience for those guys i disagree and i

00:40:38.120 you know there's a degree of uh hypocrisy on all sides here you're fine with civil disobedience

00:40:43.120 if it's your side you're against civil disobedience if it's the other side so

00:40:45.720 you know which level do you like and which do you not yeah yeah so let's take everything with

00:40:50.560 grain of salt here, but these are people who have probably for the most part never protested in

00:40:54.840 their lives. They're not asking the government for anything. They're asking the government to

00:40:58.860 stop doing something to them, essentially to legalize them going back to their jobs. 1.00

00:41:04.560 That's a pretty reasonable thing. And they also have a pretty damn good argument that 0.74

00:41:08.900 while they might be breaking some noise bylaws and have some parking infractions, the real law

00:41:13.460 breakers are the governments, federal and provincial across Canada, which are breaking

00:41:17.320 at least the spirit of the constitution, our fundamental, our charter of fundamental rights

00:41:22.500 and freedoms, that the real lawbreakers here are the politicians, not them. And if they're breaking

00:41:26.300 it, well, it's just tit for tat. And, you know, a parking infraction is not, not as serious as

00:41:31.080 taking away your fundamental rights. So now we have to look at, you know, how are we going to

00:41:34.220 respond to this? So at least, you know, I think we should see, I would encourage a level of

00:41:42.040 non-violent civil disobedience. And for our part, the Western Standard, our news division,

00:41:48.040 Dave and Melanie and all those guys, they're not changing anything they're going to do

00:41:52.060 because they need to do their job professionally, fairly, neutrally. But as an organization,

00:41:57.100 the Western Standard, we're going to do what we did in the earlier 2000s when the government said

00:42:03.140 we weren't allowed to publish cartoons of Mohammed. Well, we're going to do the same thing now. We 0.73

00:42:06.820 are going to intentionally poke the government in the eye. We're going to break every single

00:42:11.120 order that comes out under martial law that we believe is unjust. And we're going to break it

00:42:17.140 in a nonviolent way. Yeah. And I mean, to give examples of that, because I was thinking about

00:42:20.760 that, how would that apply to a media organization? Editorial ones like you and I, not the standard

00:42:25.460 itself, but we would stand up. You think of wartime measures when it comes to press. If you

00:42:30.320 read things, even from the Gulf War, press members who could get into the site of the Gulf War had

00:42:36.060 to run every story through a censor before it was allowed to get back to the public and that's what

00:42:42.100 the steps on the huge freedom of the press rights but they say it's an emergency it's an act of war

00:42:46.840 thus we will step in the way i could see the government saying press are not going to be

00:42:51.020 allowed to attend actions to take down this protest we're going to get in there and bloody

00:42:56.220 cover it we're going no matter what and get me don't you think for a second we will not cover

00:43:00.240 that we will go in there don't your warnings are going to fall flat uh it's going to be more vital

00:43:05.800 than ever that the public get to see what's happening in there then. But that's the first

00:43:09.400 thing I think they tend to do when they do that. I mean, we worry about the police. We worry about

00:43:12.620 stuff. But as a press organization, this is very concerning. This is when they can say,

00:43:17.020 we could shut you down. We could fine you. If you write on this or if you write positively about

00:43:20.760 this, I mean, if you wrote positively about the other side in a war in the past, you find yourself

00:43:25.560 locked up. And that's the War Measures Act. That's the Emergencies Act.

00:43:29.580 Yeah, like there is, if you're embedded with soldiers, you probably can't be filing stuff

00:43:33.320 saying, I'm with, you know, the second platoon of the fourth company. We're about to move on such and

00:43:37.220 such. Yeah, because then you're going to get everybody killed, and you're agreeing to certain

00:43:41.280 things as an embedded reporter in a war zone. Okay, I can see that. But they also would censor

00:43:46.960 if you wrote anything negative, because, oh, we found some discontent among the ranks, or we

00:43:51.760 thought we saw some abuse of the citizens while they were moving through, which isn't flattering

00:43:55.940 for the army. In both sides of the First World War, you had a lot of peace-oriented people who

00:44:01.040 thought this is insane let's stop the killing let's just declare a white peace those people

00:44:06.440 on both sides of the first world war were censored um so we don't know we again we haven't seen the

00:44:11.460 orders yet but if they say you know you can't send reporters into some of these areas uh we're

00:44:16.560 sending reporters i don't care if they say you're not allowed to write anything that encourages

00:44:20.520 these encourages these people well you know i've i've been pretty agnostic around some of the

00:44:24.520 tactics used so far i'm i'm i'm not sure that blockading is the right way to go but if the

00:44:30.180 government tells me, and it tells the Western standard that we're not allowed to, well, then

00:44:33.780 I'm going to do it. I'm going to very clearly violate whatever orders they make. Yeah. And

00:44:38.400 there's the, and again, we'll talk about like how that could be, I'm just thinking myself,

00:44:41.260 because you know me, I get my backup too. So, okay, fine. If you want to get me to do something,

00:44:44.640 tell me not to. That's just my nature. Ask my poor suffering mother, or even my wife for that

00:44:49.820 matter. Yeah. But I wouldn't say right and say, okay, this is how to go smash windows and get

00:44:56.420 attention. No, but I would say, you know what? This is how you can go peacefully join and swell

00:45:02.060 the ranks of the protesters. Here's the highway. Here's the people you can meet. I want you to go

00:45:07.080 out. In fact, I'll do it myself if I get a weekend off and let's build those numbers up because you

00:45:12.540 know, the more citizens get up, the less you guys can push back and hey, again, government, what

00:45:16.720 you're going to do about it? I'm going to write about that. I'm going to encourage them. I'm

00:45:18.940 going to try and lead more folks there. At the same time, there's things that our premiers can

00:45:23.860 do. And I think, you know, Jason Kenney and Scott Moe have been on the side of the authoritarians

00:45:28.600 for two years now. They've tried to use some wishy-washy language. A lot of them want to do

00:45:32.860 it, but they have been doing it. And I don't think with proper justification, but I think those two

00:45:37.840 premiers in particular, and to a lesser extent, some other premiers have an opportunity to redeem

00:45:41.980 themselves here, especially the Western premiers, Alberta and Saskatchewan. What we need to see now

00:45:46.960 is clear declarations. And I think even legislation coming from both legislatures declaring that any

00:45:53.720 application of the Emergencies or War Measures Act in Alberta and Saskatchewan are null and void.

00:45:59.720 We are not going to cooperate. We need to have clear publicly communicated orders to all police

00:46:05.480 forces in the provinces, both provinces, not to cooperate with any federal officials whatsoever.

00:46:10.680 And I think the premiers need to call the military commanders at major bases in both provinces

00:46:15.880 and make clear that any military aggression under orders from Ottawa is not acceptable. We will not

00:46:21.880 tolerate it on western soil yeah i mean and that's how serious it could be we could see military

00:46:28.280 vehicles moving in on canadian citizens on our soil we're spoiled we've been lucky we've been

00:46:33.240 happy we haven't seen that we haven't experienced it i've been to other countries when that was going

00:46:37.800 on and seen it i was fortunate to get a lot of travel in my younger years we don't deal with

00:46:42.200 that atmosphere of fear we see the military as friends we don't get nervous when you see a

00:46:45.640 soldier on a corner it's oh cool kind of a soldier out on leave remember the 2000 uh 2004 2006 federal

00:46:51.240 election. The Paul Martin liberals ran an ad about guns in our streets. They said, you know,

00:46:56.540 Stephen Harper's prime minister, the conservatives are in power. There'll be guns, soldiers with guns

00:47:01.720 in the streets. And it was like warning of this fascist future state that Harper clearly had no

00:47:08.280 intention of and did not do. Well, now you've got Trudeau. We've had two Trudeau prime ministers.

00:47:13.960 The last Trudeau prime minister did have troops with guns in the streets. You can argue if the

00:47:18.020 AFLQ crisis warranted that or not. At least it was more than this. We could say that at least.

00:47:24.620 But now we're about, Trudeau is now invoking legislation that'll empower him to send troops

00:47:29.640 with guns into the streets. And there's been kind of a bit of a side tangent here. I think

00:47:34.840 the military's upper brass is very worried about how this is going to play out.

00:47:40.900 The upper brass, the really high guys, the heads of the three commands and the chief of staff,

00:47:46.240 those guys are political appointees you could tell their twitter is like woke liberals wearing

00:47:51.600 a uniform uh it's it's weird stuff but i grew up in military towns i grew up in army towns cfb

00:47:57.340 tretton cfb petawalla that's where i grew up i know the kind of guys the kind of women who joined

00:48:02.720 the military these are not people who have any intention of turning guns turning tanks on people

00:48:09.340 who are expressing themselves for freedom these most people join the military um because they at

00:48:14.820 at least have the idealistic expectation that they're standing for freedom. I think there's

00:48:19.340 real concern in the military. They're going after guys now who military... Two JTF2 members. Yeah,

00:48:24.980 just for attending a protest. Now, I'm pretty sure there's probably someone in the military who

00:48:28.340 attended a Black Lives Matter protest or all these things. And that's just JTF2. That's just 0.98

00:48:32.860 JTF2. I mean, how many regular soldiers in general? And again, yes, that's not what they

00:48:38.220 joined with the vision of turning a rifle on any Canadian citizen. I mean, if they envisioned it

00:48:42.000 all it would be again a circumstance of some crazed cult in a in a distant area you know

00:48:46.340 they didn't represent the majority not something like this you brought up the premiers and that's

00:48:50.260 another interesting point because i don't know how well legoa is going to go with this the bloc

00:48:53.700 quebecois are going to not they are not going to like this they were demanding trudeau apologize

00:48:58.060 for his father's invocation to the war measures act only the other year quebecers do not like that

00:49:03.260 act they don't like and it's the emergencies act i understand i know we've got all these liberals

00:49:07.500 attacking me on twitter you're already calling it the right thing it's the same thing they repainted

00:49:11.000 it. Scrape it, you got the War Measures Act underneath. And I don't, Legault's going to be

00:49:15.200 in a tough spot. I don't see him coming out supporting this. This is too much of a trigger

00:49:18.780 for his own constituents in Quebec. You know, he's not been a hardcore secessionist, but he

00:49:23.960 understands his voters. But he is a nationalist. Yeah, they want autonomy from Ottawa as much as

00:49:28.920 possible, and nothing is less so than having Canadian soldiers on their streets dealing with

00:49:33.040 people out there. Yeah, I'm not sure how this is going to go, how is this going to play out,

00:49:38.160 But I'd say I think the upper grass of the military and the political oversight of the military is very worried that the military, for lack of a better term, is not politically reliable right now, that they're not going to be, I think there's gonna be a lot of hesitation. I know the kinds of people who do this, and they did not sign up for, you know, beating up civilians who were just protesting nonviolently.

00:50:01.740 Well, you know, I showed a picture I put out a while back

00:50:04.280 with somebody saying, you know, on how to get out of a date

00:50:05.880 or stuff like that or a dinner date you don't want to go to

00:50:07.900 and they're taking a red pan and making a COVID test look positive

00:50:10.700 so they could send it to the date and say, sorry, I can't make it.

00:50:13.200 Jeez, it would be interesting if a lot of soldiers just had positive tests

00:50:16.060 every time they were called out to deal with it.

00:50:18.140 I'm sorry, I've got to isolate.

00:50:19.180 Well, this happened across the states with a lot of airlines

00:50:21.520 when they brought in mandatory vaccination for their pilots.

00:50:25.380 It wasn't coordinated.

00:50:26.860 It just pilots started calling in sick everywhere.

00:50:28.980 And maybe a media outlet would encourage us to remind, you know,

00:50:31.120 police officers, soldiers, other such individuals, if you've got the sniffles, you know, be responsible, stay home.

00:50:38.260 You know, but I just encourage all our listeners, our viewers, you know, if this is something that you think is too far for you,

00:50:46.720 nonviolent civil disobedience is how you can stand up to the power of the state here.

00:50:53.060 Do not comply. Don't do what they tell you to.

00:50:55.360 intentionally break rules that are non-violent, not damaging property, anything like that.

00:51:03.300 But at the end of the day, this has all been political. Trudeau created this crisis. He

00:51:07.480 talked down to these people like they're worse than trash. I generally disagree with the 1.00

00:51:12.980 unvaccinated. We're both vaccinated. That's an honest disagreement. And for me, it's a personal 0.72

00:51:17.420 health care choice. Choice. That's the big word. Choice. Yeah. Kenny and Mo, they brought in vaccine

00:51:22.760 passports, which were discriminatory, and I think a disgrace for anyone who would call themselves

00:51:27.280 conservative to do. But they at least didn't demonize the unvaccinated as if they're subhuman,

00:51:34.900 that they don't deserve to live any kind of life, that they're less than equal citizens.

00:51:41.780 But I think Trudeau's backed himself in a corner here, and he has always lived in his father's

00:51:47.220 shadows. You know, as terrible a Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was, at least he was smart and he

00:51:52.900 had some balls. I was about to say, that's what I've tweeted before. Senior Trudeau had two things, 0.97

00:51:58.000 intellect and balls, and Justin doesn't have much. Justin has an inferiority complex. He's always 0.99

00:52:01.860 living in the shadow of his father, and he wants his just watch me moment. And it's the response

00:52:08.840 of a small, insecure man living with the inferiority complex of his father. He wants this

00:52:15.760 just watch me a moment and we can't give it to them.

00:52:19.020 And I mean, this could be so easily de-escalated, de-escalated.

00:52:23.220 I mean, you make whatever excuse you want.

00:52:25.280 Just say that, oh, new data came in.

00:52:26.840 Lie, I don't care.

00:52:27.800 Just say, oh, look at that.

00:52:28.840 We have revised our policy.

00:52:30.320 Truckers will no longer need vaccines to cross.

00:52:32.160 I know the Americans still have the same policy,

00:52:33.460 but we're stopping it.

00:52:34.860 And that would, I bet you half of them

00:52:36.240 would leave at that point.

00:52:36.940 The other half wouldn't.

00:52:38.340 But now with that remaining half,

00:52:39.760 the government has a much stronger hand to say,

00:52:41.460 look, what you started this protest about is gone.

00:52:44.380 We need to move on.

00:52:45.760 back off, like a movement. Well, it's pretty easy to end this. He would rather declare war than back

00:52:50.520 off on a policy. It's pretty easy to end this. And you know, they all act so surprised that this

00:52:55.440 happened. Well, let's see. You ban people from their jobs, people with large vehicles that you

00:53:03.340 can sleep in, and you didn't expect them to do anything. The answer is simple. Give us our

00:53:09.360 freedoms back. Let these people go back to work. I guarantee you, every single trucker down there,

00:53:13.760 they want to go back to work if you let them go back to work they'll go back to work they're

00:53:17.740 going to pay bills they want to get at it i mean hey let get out of their hair they're going to be

00:53:21.420 back on the streets and again the remnants and i know there'll be some but actually i'm not at

00:53:26.800 that point just ended everything well the end of everything but i i can't i'm just talking about

00:53:30.340 incrementally i'm trying to put myself like i said in those big red clown shoes of justin's yeah

00:53:33.860 somewhere where you can maintain some pride show some progress and uh and maintain that the high

00:53:39.280 because there's some people saying they're never leaving until trudeau resigns well that's not

00:53:42.140 going to happen soon, or they're never leaving until every mandate's gone. I'd love to see that

00:53:45.820 too, but I don't think it's happening. But if he just took that first trigger out, because that was

00:53:49.220 the first big one. I mean, most people are protesting now because the whole thing, but if

00:53:52.880 he took that out, it would say there we've, we've changed something, but now it's got to get rid of

00:53:57.580 that one. So at least the truckers can go back to work. And then you put in place, I want to see

00:54:01.860 everything gone tomorrow. Like yesterday. This is disgusting stuff, but I mean, let's operate

00:54:08.560 within the realm of the possibility here.

00:54:10.220 Let's show that we're the reasonable ones.

00:54:12.760 We're the good guys.

00:54:13.840 And it's Trudeau who wants blood.

00:54:16.140 Yeah.

00:54:16.800 Oh, yeah.

00:54:17.300 Not us.

00:54:18.140 No, and this is bad.

00:54:19.200 We've only got a couple minutes here

00:54:20.480 before I get on to another guest.

00:54:21.620 But something I know is kind of out of the blue,

00:54:23.120 but you probably saw the news developing

00:54:24.180 with that disturbing arrest, it seems,

00:54:26.000 with some guys down by the Coots border.

00:54:29.000 I've been hesitant on this one

00:54:30.260 because we don't have details.

00:54:31.300 This is just a whole lot of,

00:54:32.760 but boy, it's very distressing.

00:54:34.500 I mean, if there really was a group of people

00:54:36.880 who were armed and heading down there,

00:54:38.160 That, unfortunately, really does give the government a new peace.

00:54:40.380 Well, where were they arrested?

00:54:41.660 Was it in Coots?

00:54:42.380 Apparently, they're on the way to the protest.

00:54:44.620 And, again, that's where a lot of questions are all over the path.

00:54:47.080 That's why we can speculate, but it's difficult.

00:54:49.920 I mean, did they get a leak?

00:54:50.880 How did they know this truck had these things?

00:54:53.160 Was this a known active group then or something?

00:54:55.820 There's so much we don't know yet.

00:54:57.140 We don't, but it's just for people to watch.

00:54:59.240 And that's just why I'm saying also, you know, throwing my plug, keep an eye on the Western Standard,

00:55:02.300 because as soon as we find out what's happening on that, because that's really, really big.

00:55:05.960 I will say, though.

00:55:06.900 We're going to report on it.

00:55:07.880 every time on Canadian news, I see it reported that they've, you know, you know, police have

00:55:12.860 seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition. I look at that. I'm like, I have that. Like,

00:55:18.620 what the CBC thinks is a large cache of guns and ammunition. It's just what a lot of us just keep

00:55:24.220 in a locker. I mean, at my buddy's place, you know, I did that one interview at the time when

00:55:29.020 I had his gun cabinet behind me there just for scenery. And he's better armed, I think, than

00:55:33.480 some branches of our military. Completely peaceful, harmless man as far as that goes.

00:55:38.600 But yeah, what they report on. I don't want to say much

00:55:42.460 until we know. We've got to wait for the facts. If someone was

00:55:46.300 arming to go down with ill intentions, well then absolutely that

00:55:50.300 should be taken deadly seriously. But it's hard to know what to

00:55:54.260 trust anymore. You've seen what I think has got pretty strong

00:55:58.120 circumstantial evidence, at least backing it, was a

00:56:02.220 false flag, no pun intended, was, you know, the Nazi flag in Ottawa. Every sign points to that

00:56:08.240 being a false flag operation. Or I drew the comparison earlier when I was talking about it

00:56:12.260 for some of us, you know, you wouldn't have been in Alberta at that time or whatever. We had Weebo

00:56:14.960 Ludwig in Northern Alberta. And as part of a sting operation, the RCMP actually blew up an oil well

00:56:19.620 to try and draw him in. I mean, they do some pretty goofy, you know, in hindsight things to

00:56:25.400 try and entrap sometimes. So nothing surprises. And again, I'm not saying that's what the case

00:56:28.860 is here. Just keep an open mind. We got a lot of facts

00:56:31.040 to come in. It very well could be that there

00:56:32.900 were some pretty misguided

00:56:35.020 individuals going to do some bad stuff. And if

00:56:36.980 so, good on the police for doing that.

00:56:39.320 But we don't know much yet.

00:56:41.220 But also, remember, the Premier

00:56:42.840 Kenny himself said that our CMP

00:56:44.920 officer was assaulted. Well, we

00:56:46.920 had reporters on the ground in Coots

00:56:48.460 find out within about an hour that that was

00:56:50.960 just not true. So we're following

00:56:52.940 up, and as Dave said, too, Mel's on the phone.

00:56:54.820 She's phoning. I mean, we're finding out. And as soon as we get

00:56:56.860 those facts, they go on our news site because

00:56:58.760 because that's what we do. So thanks for coming in. Derek's column, by the way, on this, where he

00:57:02.440 expands on it in quite strong words is on westernstandardonline.com, as are the rest of

00:57:07.000 our columns. And well, thanks for joining my show today. And I'm sure we'll have you on again soon.

00:57:12.200 If not, we'll see you at the pipeline. My pleasure, Corey. All right, Derek.

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00:58:05.640 minute late sorry to keep you in the lobby there david uh we'll bring david clement in from the

00:58:09.480 consumer choice center because he wrote a great call on universal child care schemes how's it

00:58:13.560 going david it's going well how are you very good i mean you know some pretty crazy times uh i i

00:58:19.560 I appreciate your coming in to talk about something that is still important and breaks up a little bit.

00:58:24.360 We can only go on about this, this developing mess in Ottawa for so long.

00:58:27.860 And we don't want to forget that they've got all sorts of other policies infringing on us at the same time.

00:58:32.420 So thank you for coming on.

00:58:34.380 Yeah, not a problem.

00:58:35.280 Yeah, in today's political arena, it seems like everything is being consumed by protests and COVID stories.

00:58:45.600 So I figured I'd get a little bit of something else out there.

00:58:49.560 um to see if to see if anyone is interested in anything else and and i believe they are and

00:58:56.040 these are still very important policies to us and and the universal child care uh promise from the

00:59:01.480 federal election appealed to a lot of people i mean if you're a a parent or a pair of parents

00:59:05.800 with you know limited income and you've got an option for child care that sounds inexpensive it

00:59:10.120 it holds a lot of appeal and and it's a big expense for people but as your column put you

00:59:14.760 know there's some side effects that people might not be considering it might not be quite as

00:59:18.440 beneficial as people would imagine if such a policy comes about yeah so essentially and and

00:59:23.960 to be honest this was one of the the policies in the last election that i didn't really love

00:59:31.400 um but i i didn't have any strong opposition to it um if they wanted to make child care more

00:59:39.000 affordable okay well this is one way of doing it and it was one of those things that i was

00:59:44.280 just kind of lukewarm to but some really powerful research has come out of the united states looking

00:59:51.320 at the impact of these pre-k programs these universal pre-pre-k programs and almost all

01:00:00.440 the evidence now suggests that any initial benefit of pre-k disappears by the end of kindergarten

01:00:07.320 And by grade three and grade six, there's actually a statistically significant negative impact on childhood outcomes.

01:00:20.440 And so that raises some big questions in regards to how we roll out a $10 a day daycare system throughout the country, who's deciding what is and isn't daycare that applies for that program, and really should make us sit back and say, okay, well, how do we avoid some of the negative consequences we've seen elsewhere?

01:00:46.880 Yeah. And I mean, what, one of the other things, I mean, I'm guessing getting to the root of the

01:00:51.380 negative consequences and you, and you allude to it. There's a lot more benefits if we're

01:00:54.860 going to spend the money often on just putting the money in the pockets of the parent and they

01:00:58.340 can choose whether they want childcare or they want the, if that money allows one parent to

01:01:03.380 stay home or for them to spend more time at home and interact with their child. When you give a,

01:01:07.460 a $10 a day program, that choice is taken away. You've either got to put your kid into the state

01:01:12.260 run or at least state regulated child care facility or or have the full expense of keeping

01:01:17.140 them at home which is uh kind of unfair i mean i think most studies find that i mean a child

01:01:21.300 especially in those developmental years does the best at home when it's possible yeah and i mean

01:01:26.500 the the reason why a cash transfer is the best option um is twofold i mean the pandemic has shown

01:01:35.060 really that the government is only good at one thing and that's sending cash to people

01:01:42.260 it is not good at very much else and two you then allow for alternatives that fit the lifestyles

01:01:51.380 of how diverse canadians are from coast to coast if you want to use the money to let's say aid in

01:01:59.940 the retirement of a parent who's going to look after your children you want to use it for a

01:02:05.700 smaller setting where there are fewer children you want to maybe stay home one parent takes

01:02:11.860 some time off work what about if you have a situation where you have non-traditional work

01:02:19.300 hours so you work at ford and you work the night time shift on the press there will probably be no

01:02:27.620 government approved vet childcare vendors available for you because it's very unlikely

01:02:35.540 that we will have anything under the $10 a day scheme that is beyond your traditional kind of

01:02:41.700 7 to 6 p.m. And so there's a variety of reasons why going that route is better. It just allows

01:02:50.420 for a lot more flexibility. And from what we can see, at least in the US, it doesn't come with

01:02:56.340 some of the baggage of these state-run programs and really the issue here is that if your

01:03:04.020 curriculum isn't great and that is that is all that is taught for those in the pre-k system

01:03:13.940 well then you really multiply the errors and any mistakes that may exist and so there's also some

01:03:20.900 level of security and having a more open and competitive system with cash transfers, because

01:03:26.100 then you let parents sort out what works best for them and their kids. Well, and as per the name of

01:03:33.260 your organization, you know, the Consumer Choice Center, it's a matter of choice. But unfortunately,

01:03:37.320 when it comes to a lot of these government programs, and I think there's a lot of politics

01:03:40.700 involved, they want to keep it centralized. They want to keep it to state, if not owned,

01:03:45.620 state-managed facilities, and sometimes there's a lot of political play going on. We see that

01:03:51.600 the same with school choice quite often. I mean, they don't want to give parents the ability to

01:03:55.640 have a voucher system and choose where to put their kids. They just want to say you either

01:03:59.340 pick the public system or pay fully private. There's no in between. Yeah, yeah. It will be

01:04:04.800 very similar to that, where if you want to do anything outside of the $10 a day system,

01:04:15.620 you'll be just paying for it full freight out of your own pocket and really if this is if this is

01:04:23.140 supposed to be about making life easier for parents uh both economically and in regards to

01:04:32.420 i mean a very important aspect of this is the impact um the impact economically this conversation

01:04:39.860 has on women i think we have to that is a legitimate concern in regards to um women in

01:04:47.300 our economy and the the roles mostly throughout uh our our national history um have been largely

01:04:57.060 gendered um but allowing for some more choice and some some more effective uh child care options

01:05:06.020 through cash transfers allows for either parent to figure out what's best for them

01:05:13.940 to really just have a more dynamic system overall. And I think that that's just it's

01:05:20.100 it's better for children. It's better for parents. It allows more flexibility.

01:05:25.540 And you aren't stuck with one only one option.

01:05:29.380 Yeah. And that flexibility is so important. I mean, I think we've evolved really well

01:05:33.300 from okay it's not necessarily the role that the woman has to be exactly raising the child and if

01:05:38.420 you got that cash you can say you know what hey dude you're gonna take six months off from the

01:05:42.900 kids because i'm bringing my career forward and there's no shame in that you know we've changed

01:05:47.140 it's great and it develops the whole family it's good for the kid absolutely absolutely and it's

01:05:52.900 that's one thing where the conversation about this the ten dollar daycare was always very gendered

01:05:59.380 about helping moms and specifically working moms. But the benefits of the alternative of cash 1.00

01:06:08.040 transfers was never discussed in that way. And I think it was a real missed opportunity because

01:06:13.420 it does allow for so much more flexibility. And like you said, I mean, for some people who are

01:06:20.440 watching, it may sound weird, the idea of the father taking paternal leave or staying at home.

01:06:26.480 but in a system where you have funds transferred rather than access to a program if you can find

01:06:33.960 space for it those things become much more of a reality uh more egalitarian it really is in my

01:06:41.600 mind a far superior option in comparison to the route we're going well and other caregivers as

01:06:47.620 well actually was that senior citizens you mentioned that briefly earlier grandparents

01:06:50.620 things like that uh you know they need to make some bucks sometimes uh we can keep that cash in

01:06:55.820 house to supplement their pension spend more time with the grandchildren it's great for the family

01:07:00.780 everybody wins and again but it's outside of that ten dollar system you can't help it with that if

01:07:05.100 you're stuck in this this government forced ten dollar system yeah yeah and and and it's one of

01:07:10.300 those things where it depends on what the availability is for spots um it's probably

01:07:16.460 still going to be a long ways away uh in terms of when these facilities actually open and are

01:07:23.020 available for application um in in other provinces beyond quebec and so i mean how quickly did we roll

01:07:32.220 out serb in this country and yes it had its headaches and some of its turmoil but generally

01:07:39.820 speaking in a matter of weeks the federal government transferred a significant amount

01:07:44.700 of money to a lot of canadians all at once somewhat efficiently now they had to do it very rushed

01:07:53.020 Obviously, there were instances where people who are no longer living got it and maybe people who are incarcerated, but by and large, the money got to the people whom the government deemed deserving of it.

01:08:06.020 And so how long is it going to take for $10 daycare to come to fruition and how much good could be done in the meantime, if we were able to rather just pivot the direction, take the money that we're going to spend and simply start transferring parents that money so that they can make those choices for themselves.

01:08:28.920 Well, that's it. Nine times out of 10, the parents know best. Though another area that

01:08:32.920 the government is very good at, aside from giving out money, is coming in and taking it too. It's

01:08:36.600 amazing how efficient CRA can be when they're coming after a nickel you didn't properly claim.

01:08:41.800 That's true.

01:08:42.920 It's just implementing programs when they tend to fall into the mire, and that's pretty consistent.

01:08:48.040 But you hold them to account a lot on that, and I appreciate it. I'll just direct people,

01:08:53.240 follow. David wrote an excellent column on the whole thing, breaking it down with links to the

01:08:57.400 studies and things that proved i mean it's not just a column speculating we've got some evidence

01:09:01.080 to show that the the universal child care isn't necessarily all it's cut out to be so go to

01:09:05.800 westernstandardonline.com and you can see that and where else can we find out about your work

01:09:10.200 david and what you're up to yeah so consumerchoicestandard.org is the organization i work

01:09:15.560 for i handle north america as well as at clement liberty on um on twitter excellent well thank you

01:09:25.000 very much uh it's good to see you again especially in these crazy times and nice to bring down the

01:09:30.200 tone of the conversation onto something that's still important but uh again can get overwhelmed

01:09:34.760 and and uh i appreciate that and i hope we get to talk again soon great you have a good one great

01:09:39.800 thanks dave so yeah it was david clement and uh yeah just as his name says on twitter you know

01:09:44.680 clement liberty he's a libertarian liberty-minded guy and and uh that uh center is great i mean it

01:09:50.760 talks about consumer choice, which we just don't get nearly enough of whether we're talking going

01:09:55.160 to a storefront or for government programs such as childcare. So it's well worth following up on

01:09:59.980 and I always appreciate his viewpoint on things. Though now I am going to get back to more of our

01:10:05.740 stirred up things. I may as well get my vein pulsing as we move towards wrapping up the show

01:10:09.580 and talk more about the protests. Something I was going to go on about, but my early arrival of my

01:10:14.360 guest there, Derek Fildebrand, sort of put it by the side, but that's okay. That was a good talk

01:10:19.460 as well, because I'm worried about the way that things have been framed, of course, with the

01:10:26.160 protesters and a lot of things and the double standard of the media. I mean, I'm not shocked

01:10:29.180 by it anymore. But I'm going to show a video from last weekend. There were counter protests last

01:10:33.820 weekend against the Truckers for Freedom protests down there in Ottawa. And we saw some flags

01:10:40.840 displayed in that counter protest that the mainstream media seemed to overlook. So let's

01:10:46.060 just run that and I want to talk about this for a minute so yeah people your eyes didn't deceive

01:11:11.740 you, that was the hammer and sickle. That's the symbol of the Soviet Union, the communist government,

01:11:17.040 the same one that killed millions of Ukrainians, pushing the same philosophy that has killed 0.79

01:11:23.520 upwards of 100 million people in modern history. That was communists. And they were in the middle 0.75

01:11:29.200 of that protest, waving that sick, sick flag. And it's sick. Shamelessly, their compatriots had no 0.99

01:11:37.840 problem with it. The other red flags you saw were union flags, because there's labor unions who

01:11:42.460 were organizing most of that protest. The irony of them yelling over and over to get rid of the

01:11:46.880 fascist occupation by the truckers. Guys, like or dislike the truckers, they want government out of

01:11:52.580 their hair. You don't, I get sick of the abuse of the word fascist. Fascists are sick. Mussolini was

01:11:58.040 the fascist. They did not want individual rights. They were the opposite of what the truckers are

01:12:03.480 pushing for. You can call the truckers all sorts of things, all these protesters, all sorts of

01:12:07.200 things, but they are not fascists, and I'm sick of that, but you guys are communists, at least the 0.98

01:12:11.900 ones waving the communist flag, that's not an exaggeration, that is literally what you clowns 0.93

01:12:16.620 were waving, and there was another banner in front of that, I only watched that on CTV, but I saw it

01:12:20.480 waved, and it said Marx was right on it, and that was in the front of the parade, now when we talk 0.98

01:12:26.260 about, and Trudeau goes on about it all the time, all the rest of that, that sick swastika flag we

01:12:30.780 saw, and the confederate flag we saw, but you know the things that are overlooked, the confederate

01:12:35.820 flag was actually chased out of the group. We played that video a while back. No sense playing

01:12:40.360 it again. But they got up and said, hey, that is not a part of us. Get out of here. You do not

01:12:44.380 represent us. And they pushed him out of there. That didn't stop the mainstream media and the

01:12:48.580 opportunists like Trudeau or Jagmeet Singh to play the politics of division and try and pretend that

01:12:53.580 the protesters had something to do with the Confederate ideology, you know, that hundred

01:12:59.380 and some year old support for slavery.

01:13:03.200 No, they smeared everybody with it. 0.99

01:13:05.240 And the protesters actually kicked that clown out of there. 0.92

01:13:08.220 The swastika flag never even got into the protest. 0.85

01:13:10.700 There was two pictures showing them way out in the outside.

01:13:12.960 They were never actually even in the protest.

01:13:14.820 And they got smeared with that.

01:13:16.480 Yet, a communist flag is waved and these counter protesters

01:13:20.500 and our mainstream media is dead silent.

01:13:24.160 Oh, but we did have a politician speak up, actually,

01:13:26.060 because I tweeted about it.

01:13:26.860 I do that.

01:13:27.940 You know, Nico throws that up now

01:13:28.980 that at Cory B. Morgan. That's one of my playgrounds there on the weekends. And I tweeted

01:13:32.940 about how CTV was silent on that and refused to

01:13:36.820 mention that Marx was right banner in the front. And Jason

01:13:40.860 Kenney retweeted that. He was disgusted by it too. I mean, whatever problems we have with

01:13:44.900 Premier Kenney, yeah, he's no fan of communists, that's for sure.

01:13:50.280 Authoritarianism, well, we can have a separate discussion about that. But at least

01:13:52.800 on that communist level, he had no use. And some poli-sci clown, this woman 1.00

01:13:56.940 retweets and saying, this is where the state of things are right now. I mean, a group of 0.93

01:14:01.340 fascists and swastikas are around and Jason Kenney is on about communists. What? Like she was talking

01:14:06.000 about that it was offensive that Jason Kenney called out communists. Really? You should be

01:14:10.660 ashamed of yourselves. You really should. A person, communists should be driven out of public

01:14:15.820 gatherings as swiftly and with as much disgust as Nazis and fascists. They're all extreme, 0.98

01:14:23.600 disgusting murderous ideologies they killed a lot of people there's that tweet yes uh and she 0.87

01:14:33.020 she wrote that up this you know she's got that precious blue check of credibility but yeah we

01:14:36.980 know they give them to anybody i mean they even gave one to me but yeah jason kenney just compared

01:14:40.420 the communist flag to nazi symbols and the confederate flag just in case you're wondering

01:14:44.220 how it's going in alberta yes he did well actually all he did was retweet my tweet but that tweet was

01:14:49.540 basically putting them on the same level

01:14:51.140 because they are the same level. 0.98

01:14:53.600 All of those flags are disgusting. 0.92

01:14:55.380 They all represent extreme regimes. 0.76

01:14:58.640 And I can't believe anybody living today

01:15:00.440 would wave one of these flags, any of them,

01:15:03.400 the swastika, the Confederate flag.

01:15:05.420 And I understand if you live in the South 0.86

01:15:06.760 and you're from Mississippi

01:15:07.380 and you've still got that endeared to it

01:15:09.500 as a symbol of your state, whatever. 0.98

01:15:10.980 But for a Canadian to be walking around with that's ridiculous. 0.96

01:15:12.900 And that's just you pretending that the idea of slavery 0.99

01:15:16.560 and those old times, it represents anything today.

01:15:18.840 And it doesn't.

01:15:19.540 And we call it out, and we should, but we're making an exception for communists, and we can't. We shouldn't. A lot of people are suffering today in North Korea. You know, Cuba's still recovering. I got a lot of those discussions online from people, the usual, oh, we never saw real communism yet, that's why it's failed. Guess what? There's no way for it to work. That's why it's never worked yet. It's impossible. And the only way to try and work is to oppress your people. That's why it happens every time.

01:15:48.680 What other philosophy in the world always calls for a country to lock in its own citizens?

01:15:53.820 You never hear of a capitalist.

01:15:55.420 The states don't have to keep Americans from fleeing the United States.

01:15:59.500 Their problem is people with ambition who want to start a new life are coming from around the world to come into the United States.

01:16:06.160 There's too many of them to handle sometimes.

01:16:08.060 So that's why they have border issues in Mexico and refugees coming from all over the world, often away from authoritarian states like communism.

01:16:15.560 You didn't see anybody leaving Florida on a rickety raft to try and get to Havana so they could live in the workers' paradise down there.

01:16:24.060 But you saw thousands and thousands of Cubans risking their life trying to get to the United States. 0.99

01:16:29.460 They know about communism, not some dumbass political science professor born and raised probably in privilege of Canada comfortably under a lack of communism to be able to say that crap. 0.98

01:16:40.220 or the other usual cellar-dwelling, self-styled anarchists 0.99

01:16:44.020 who think communism is a good idea

01:16:45.360 who have never actually probably left their province

01:16:47.300 to understand that that sick system does not work for anybody. 0.79

01:16:51.060 North Korea has to lock their citizens in.

01:16:53.640 People had to risk climbing over the Berlin Wall

01:16:56.000 to escape the communism of the Soviet Union. 1.00

01:16:59.740 And to see some sick jerks waving that 1.00

01:17:02.420 and have the Canadian political establishment 0.99

01:17:04.640 get upset that you would even critique it?

01:17:07.120 You guys should be up there pointing at it too 0.95

01:17:08.920 and say, this is sick. This thing should not

01:17:10.960 wave in our country. And you know what? I'm a pure

01:17:12.920 libertarian. I don't think the person waving the

01:17:14.720 communist flag should be charged or anything like

01:17:17.000 that. We should just always call them out

01:17:18.780 and point them out for the imbeciles 1.00

01:17:20.500 and repugnant fools that they 1.00

01:17:23.020 are. And I will. And I do. And I'm 1.00

01:17:24.900 thankful that Premier Jason Kenney

01:17:26.520 retweeted my tweet because he felt the same way about

01:17:29.020 it. And I'm sure a lot more people

01:17:30.920 do. So don't let the CBC and

01:17:32.960 these other wretches who understate 0.57

01:17:35.120 the sickness of what communism is

01:17:37.040 get away with that we can't go towards communism we can have the battles between right and left a

01:17:42.120 bit of socialism and capitalism fine but communism was sick and communism is the extreme form of

01:17:46.620 socialism it's just a matter of degrees the cbc speaking of though let's talk about the state

01:17:52.940 broadcaster they actually had it on yeah there it is the word freedom in this story man nico is on

01:17:58.680 it uh has been declared as a buzzword for extremists is what they're saying yeah they're

01:18:03.500 actually trying to say it's extreme to use the word freedom now. They're demonizing the word

01:18:08.200 freedom. Think about that. What better word is there in the world than freedom? Only the CBC,

01:18:16.840 the state broadcaster, the one and a half billion dollar funded Canadian trumpet for socialism

01:18:21.520 would say that freedom is a word that we should be offended by. My God. I think brainstorming was

01:18:29.460 something else they said. Maybe they should try a little, but apparently we're not supposed to say

01:18:32.360 that either, according to the bizarre world of the CBC. Somebody else pointing out, yeah,

01:18:36.640 Rachel Notley's Marxist hero, Shea Guevara, was on her watch. You know, you see those idiots 1.00

01:18:41.640 wearing the Shea Guevara shirt. I think I wore one for a comical photo shoot once. Don't worry, 1.00

01:18:46.940 I would never actually wear one of those in public purposely. That guy, look him up. He was

01:18:52.940 a disgusting homophobe. He was a racist. The things he said about black people, horrific. 1.00

01:18:58.660 And we're not talking about a guy from 200 years ago.

01:19:01.820 This was in the lifetimes of some of our senior citizens today.

01:19:04.860 Che Guevara was no hero. 0.99

01:19:06.660 He was a communist, murderist, racist, homophobic extremist. 1.00

01:19:10.800 You should be embarrassed wearing that guy's ugly face on your shirts. 1.00

01:19:15.100 But they've turned these sick extremists into heroes. 0.99

01:19:19.420 And we shouldn't be putting up with that.

01:19:21.180 And we shouldn't be putting up with the CBC claiming freedom is a controversial term.

01:19:25.760 My God, where are we getting to these days?

01:19:28.660 So that, let's see where we at.

01:19:31.180 Nico's got it up to remind everybody,

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01:20:10.000 I do want to go to a quick rant on one more news issue.

01:20:12.200 Actually, we're seeing a Dave talked about that briefly.

01:20:14.380 The kids today in Alberta schools are no longer masked.

01:20:17.100 They don't have to wear those bloody masks

01:20:18.400 over their faces.

01:20:19.580 And I listened to, I like reporting on my torturous

01:20:21.860 listening to talk radio as I drive into work.

01:20:24.000 Keep subscribing guys so we can start doing that broadcast

01:20:26.080 and really wipe out talk radio

01:20:27.220 because man, it's terrible.

01:20:28.540 and they reported on the kids being unmasked, and they went straight to some expert who was saying

01:20:33.940 there's absolutely no way, it was ridiculous the kids are harmed at all by wearing masks. It doesn't

01:20:38.220 bother them a bit, and we shouldn't worry about them. It really did. That's the first expert they

01:20:41.120 go to. They think it's harmless for kids not to be able to smile at each other. They think it's

01:20:44.480 harmless for kids not to be able to laugh at each other. They think it's harmless for kids to have a

01:20:48.080 quarter of their face covered up during the most important socially developmental years of their

01:20:52.520 life. That's an expert, and that's what our mainstream media gives us. And who do we got now?

01:20:57.560 Gil McGowan, look him up 1.00

01:20:59.200 if you really want to see a socialist imbecile, 1.00

01:21:01.000 and he is an imbecile. He's the head of the Alberta 1.00

01:21:03.020 Federation of Labor, which I will add

01:21:04.960 is constitutionally tied

01:21:07.200 as part of the board of Notley's

01:21:09.280 NDP party, and she's constitutionally

01:21:11.460 bound to follow the lead of 0.65

01:21:13.200 the federal party. So if you want to know about socialism,

01:21:15.780 central leadership, guys,

01:21:17.300 Jagmeet is Rachel's boss.

01:21:20.040 Gil is Rachel's

01:21:21.300 boss, to a degree, and he's going to court

01:21:23.220 to try and get the government forced

01:21:25.160 to keep masking your children

01:21:26.860 in school. That's what the Alberta Federation of Labor is doing today. That's what Rachel 0.86

01:21:30.900 Notley's left arm is doing today. The battles

01:21:34.920 for freedom are on 100 fronts right now. And we just can't

01:21:39.060 keep up with the people trying to take it away from us. So

01:21:42.720 okay, that's enough for today. Let's talk about tomorrow. For those

01:21:47.100 of you who've tuned in, thank you very much. We're going to be back at

01:21:50.600 11.30 tomorrow. And I'm going to have Barbara Kay. I mean, people who have been reading

01:21:54.860 columns for a long time, recognize that name Barbara's been writing. I don't want to insult

01:21:58.220 her, age her out or anything. She's written a lot of columns for a long time, a very well-established

01:22:03.000 journalist in Canada, and she writes columns for the Western Standard, and she had a great one,

01:22:06.780 and she's going to come on the show, and we're going to talk about that as well. Cornelius

01:22:10.260 Christian, and he's from Brock University, a professor there, and he wrote us a column as well

01:22:14.820 on Scott Moe in Saskatchewan, on how he hasn't even opened up as much as we really should.

01:22:20.380 There is some pushback for freedom. It really does exist. Two great guests, and of course,

01:22:24.020 there'll be lots of ranting out of me. I've always got more in me to go on about. Keep the feedback

01:22:28.360 coming. Email me if you've got guest ideas or commentary. cmorgan at westernstandardonline.com.

01:22:36.080 Check in and we will see you guys tomorrow at 1130.

01:22:54.020 We'll be right back.

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