Western Standard - July 23, 2021


Mountain Standard Time


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 26 minutes

Words per Minute

168.5512

Word Count

14,519

Sentence Count

9

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

In this episode of Mountain Standard Time, host Nathan Guida talks a bit about the federal election and why he thinks the Liberals are likely to win in the fall. He also talks about why he doesn't think Justin Trudeau is likely to be re-elected.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 hello and good morning welcome to mountain standard time i'm your host nathan guida and today we're
00:00:13.500 going to be talking a little bit about the federal election before we get going too far down that
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00:01:04.300 get into the depths of the federal election this should be noted right from the top here that this
00:01:10.780 show is going on hiatus that is to say at least i'm going on hiatus i'm getting married in less than 40
00:01:17.500 days everything that i do when you don't see me in front of this camera and in front of this microphone
00:01:23.240 is for the wedding it's being hosted on my parents farm so that's a whole logistical
00:01:28.620 thing uh people are still you know being invited there's various family drama about everything from
00:01:35.800 questions of vaccinations to where people are going to stay etc it's all it's all a bit all over the
00:01:40.960 place but the point is that i just don't have the capacity to do both the show right now and prepare
00:01:48.440 for my nuptials so i'm thankful and hopeful that you'll all have that patience with me and whomever
00:01:55.000 is either chosen to guest host in my stead or uh if the show is indeed replaced for that time of hiatus
00:02:02.440 and they put something else in the slot of 9 a.m pacific 10 a.m mountain to 11 a.m pacific 12 p.m
00:02:09.880 so that's that you have that update again i'm going to miss all of you very much but here is my opening
00:02:16.880 statement let's get through this uh pre-recorded version of mountain standard time
00:02:22.420 the short version of the story is that the liberals are likely to win in the fall this is not to say that
00:02:31.660 there is no possibility of an upset the grits have been in power for years they've created more scandals
00:02:37.660 than any other government in recent history but between trudeau's charisma and the party machinery
00:02:43.560 of really the most successful party on earth on in many respects certainly in the english-speaking
00:02:49.740 world they've held power longer they've had control more often and quite frankly they've shaped the
00:02:56.500 entire narrative of a country that up until they took over with laurier had been run by conservatives
00:03:03.360 that party machinery and trudeau's charisma there is no effective opposition that stands in the way of
00:03:10.400 a third mandate for these people we must understand that effective opposition is the name of the game
00:03:17.720 when it comes to the westminster model the reason the government sits in aisles right so it sits across
00:03:23.420 from each other and not in a semicircle
00:03:25.840 is to ensure that everyone knows which side of initial issue you are on as winston churchill said
00:03:33.820 long ago in a half circle people can move laterally gradually slowly changing their position and he of
00:03:40.340 course he was talking about that on an issue you owe your voters an honest take of where you stand of
00:03:45.660 where you sit and winston churchill had the right to say that because winston churchill crossed the floor
00:03:51.680 something like four times in order to keep his principles alive he was a liberal he was a tory
00:03:57.180 he was a liberal he was a tory and then he went on to win world war ii so anybody who says a floor
00:04:01.360 crossing is completely unforgivable doesn't understand the fundamental principles of parliament
00:04:07.280 and is in effect disowning the man who won world war ii unfortunately even with the geography of
00:04:15.200 canada's parliament the tories have slowly but surely moved to the left on most social issues and towards
00:04:21.200 austerity on most economic ones the conservative base is made up of social conserves and i would
00:04:27.200 say fiscal stewards there are some fiscal hawks in there but for the most part i don't think
00:04:33.760 that most conservatives are austerity conservatives that's a very small amount of conservatives and a
00:04:39.280 lot of those austerity conservatives are actually people are just looking to make the rents themselves
00:04:44.240 right so they're tired that there's a kind of public subsidy in that area and if only that public subsidy
00:04:49.360 was eliminated then they could take that money off of people directly themselves and they would be
00:04:53.600 very interested in doing that and that's fine i understand that that's basic self-interest but
00:04:58.960 that doesn't mean that it's okay and i don't have a lot of time for austerity conservatives they they
00:05:04.960 always seem to not be able to put two and two together they don't want to suffer that's another
00:05:11.840 part of the conservative base for a lot of for most part most of them don't want to suffer the
00:05:15.920 american experience in health care there are plenty of people interested in renovating canadian health
00:05:20.480 care but they are not interested in having a fundamentally private option or only a private
00:05:26.320 option aaron o'toole would do well to recall all that when he looks at his base and realizes how
00:05:32.080 he has to motivate them to vote while the liberals are dictating the narrative the tories are sweeping
00:05:37.680 up the crumbs calling them their own when clearly they're not or worse declaring these small bits as high
00:05:44.400 crimes against our common humanity while justin trudeau and the gang make off with the entire
00:05:49.360 cupboard or pantry none of what the conserves are saying or doing resonates with the population in
00:05:55.280 general this is ironic because the liberals are extremely weak everywhere a combining of benefits
00:06:03.360 that puts families first would outflank them on social policy we just got through the serb we just got
00:06:08.480 through all of that all the kind of subsidies that were handed out in order to survive covet i am not
00:06:15.520 saying i want the canadian government to be in debt forever i'm not saying i want a model of of income
00:06:22.080 that just makes no sense or is is built on a house of cards but i think we're getting to a point where
00:06:30.000 our society understands that unless we start having a serious renovation of our wages and for that matter
00:06:37.600 our tariffs and all sorts of other economic national policy that will ensure that cheap labor is kept
00:06:42.640 out labor and labor can increase its its pricing with a shortened supply combined with supplies from
00:06:49.840 overseas are also cut off that we start to make things here at home we need to start thinking about
00:06:56.640 how we're going to properly redistribute wealth not not by higher taxation and not by the bizarre system
00:07:03.840 of income taxation that we have in the loopholes we have but probably a far more simplified benefit
00:07:09.360 system where we combine child benefits and the idea some of the ideas around universal basic income
00:07:16.080 and for myself i must be i must be completely clear that would mean essentially helping one parent stay at
00:07:22.800 home and that the family would be the basis of economic well-being even in the poorest quarters the
00:07:30.400 family would be incentivized home the home would be built again and homemade great again i guess
00:07:39.200 by allowing one of the spouses one of the parents to remain free to take care of the children um
00:07:47.360 economically wealthy no but free to take care of the children in a simplified benefit format
00:07:54.800 especially when we talk about universal child care and all that jazz you know where the easiest child
00:07:59.040 care is the fastest commute to child care is at home just like everything else cheapest way to get our
00:08:06.800 get better food and to make sure it's higher quality and ensure there's less pollution around transporting
00:08:11.200 food grow it at home homesteading homesteading is the rule of thumb if we have to have a more urban
00:08:17.920 version of homesteading so be it but i would still argue i would still argue that the best thing you could hope
00:08:25.280 for is to have one parent staying at home but the conservatives could definitely outflank the liberals
00:08:33.600 on this and it's not a it's not something that the liberals really have an answer to they don't have
00:08:42.160 an answer to national strategy and they don't have an answer to well just so many things because they
00:08:47.920 don't have a plan they just have a series of praxis a series of techniques that they keep the population
00:08:54.800 under control with and they incentivize people to vote for them but the conserves really could they
00:08:59.680 really could push through if they had a national vision transgenderism is another thing that could
00:09:06.560 easily get them votes in the federal election the tool and his advisors have gotten far too close
00:09:12.800 far too close to the liberals on too many issues i see no effect of opposition in this country
00:09:20.560 at least at the federal level and until something changes on that we are well
00:09:30.240 we're doomed so let us pray that the conserves in canada figure out a little bit more what they ought to
00:09:36.720 be doing and that uh slowly but surely you know a real a real vision for the true north strong and free
00:09:44.960 or even for us out here in the west hopefully that comes to pass
00:09:52.080 so we are going to work our way through a couple of different uh items today and we're probably going to
00:09:58.400 start off with uh the polling data as as it stands here in canada we are we're an interesting country
00:10:07.440 uh we have a kind of bizarre model having watched many american elections i i've kind of come to
00:10:12.400 believe that canada's boundary system for its ridings which are better built than the american ones let's
00:10:18.800 be clear they're not gerrymandered not the way the american ones are every a couple of them could use some work
00:10:24.320 but they are not like the american ones which follow highways for miles at a time just to capture two
00:10:32.640 different areas of rich folk or poor folk or middle folk or black folk white folk whatever whatever you
00:10:39.600 want to say uh whomever they're trying to capture they're trying to capture a certain catchment of
00:10:44.000 people so that they can ensure that that riding always stays blue or red or whatever it is right
00:10:50.560 in canada we have we have some similar dissimilar problems but fewer of them far fewer and i think
00:10:59.200 the other side of it is that when it comes to when it comes to the federal election our our riding system
00:11:07.840 is it's kind of interesting because it almost acts as a sort of electoral college to a point right because
00:11:16.240 i mean different provinces are weighted differently they have different amounts of seats and it's
00:11:20.480 something we need to change make no mistake i'm not advocating for central canada having as many seats
00:11:25.120 as they have even because of their population and as i've said a few times before on this show my
00:11:30.960 solution to the canadian problem is is pretty severe it's a complete redrawing of the boundaries within
00:11:36.960 canada to the point where we are a loosely confederated entity a very loosely confederated essentially
00:11:43.520 empire the empire of canada perhaps the the capital stays in ottawa perhaps not but we use something
00:11:49.600 that wouldn't look too different honestly that wouldn't look too different from a uh a riding well
00:12:00.000 about a boundary map that you would see uh if you go to your bishop's office and you see a diocesan map
00:12:06.080 of all of all of canada there's about 47 or 48 dioceses in canada and i would say that's about as
00:12:13.600 many provinces as we need to properly address the issues and before anybody gets all up in my face
00:12:18.080 particularly people who think the church burnings are okay right now not that there's a lot of people
00:12:22.000 watching this channel that are on that side of the issue but all i'm saying is people for against that
00:12:27.520 sort of thing and people have problems with you know church influence ever you know just for different
00:12:31.440 reasons and fair enough i would invite you to look at that map and the reason i invite you to look at
00:12:37.920 that map is that it does things i think i've mentioned this before as well but it does things
00:12:44.080 like include churchill with all of none of it none of it and churchill are far closer in culture people
00:12:52.000 understanding than churchill and even thompson let alone churchill and winnipeg and so the the reason i
00:12:58.800 use this example is quite frankly i still see churchill as an as a key strategic area in canada
00:13:03.920 especially if we're going to get serious about doing uh things in the northwest passage and and
00:13:10.240 taking advantage of whatever is happening with the climate the fact of the matter is if the ice pack
00:13:15.200 is moving then we can use that for better logistics and for world trade and international trade and
00:13:22.160 ensure that we're getting our goods to market and ensure that we're getting a good price for our
00:13:25.760 goods we're not just exclusively selling them to the americans and therefore getting but we're a
00:13:31.280 captive market we're getting chump change but the point that i'm trying to drive home here when it
00:13:36.080 comes to redrawing the boundaries of canada is that churchill should have joined none of it a long time
00:13:41.520 ago it should have joined the northwest territories that was actually discussed after under the last
00:13:45.280 trudeau i met a man in his 80s who remembers trudeau the elder and discussed with him at the
00:13:51.200 churchill airport the possibility of churchill being re-appropriated into the northwest territories
00:13:55.680 because it wasn't really getting anything out of being in manitoba and trudeau senior smiled nodded and
00:14:01.120 then proceeded to get on his flight as fast as possible to avoid the rest of this conversation so
00:14:07.200 that's kind of that's kind of i guess the the place to put it in a in a sense of where where do you
00:14:13.760 go from here how do you think about this equation where do you actually feel at home
00:14:18.560 do you feel at home as a rural person that's near calgary and calgary sucks up all of the energy
00:14:26.880 do you feel home in british columbia when a place like vancouver sucks up most of the political and
00:14:32.160 economic energy or victoria i mean the rest of the island you go up north island north island is not like
00:14:38.880 south island at all in in british columbia south island is urbanized and government workers and yeah
00:14:44.960 it's very statist and and and it's it's the soft status but somewhat severe socialism of a boomer
00:14:52.720 town right all these people are boomers they're they're old older they have to be older in order
00:14:57.200 to afford housing down there it's a it's a very interesting sort of setup i'm not even trying to
00:15:01.840 throw boomers under the bus there i'm just saying it's it victoria is if you aren't working for the
00:15:07.760 government you can't afford to live there and so that's south island north island i'm not saying there's
00:15:13.920 nothing pricey north island but but these are people who have to live by their own two hands
00:15:18.800 and they still have logging they still have natural resource extraction and there's a lot of working
00:15:23.120 class mentality which while it might lean all sorts of directions right-wing populace left-wing populace
00:15:28.960 they care about they care about their their elders having proper health care and they care about their
00:15:33.920 communities and it makes and it makes a more kind of communitarian and you know honor-based society
00:15:40.720 than sort of the urbanized alienated society down south and again what do you feel more connected to
00:15:47.760 what do you feel more connected to where where should your boundaries be in order to feel like
00:15:53.680 you are being properly represented well represented at any level of government also that you feel like
00:15:58.800 you have a proper group of people that you're with the people who you can actually identify with
00:16:04.320 that is my point when it comes to what's wrong with canadian federalism that's that's my entire point i think that
00:16:09.440 canada's federal issues are and provincial ones for that matter are never going to be solved until
00:16:15.440 you redraw the boundaries and make canada this loosely confederated entity that that quite frankly
00:16:23.120 is is it looks a little bit more like the united states but probably more like the eastern united
00:16:27.600 states which follow natural curves they're not just random lines that are that are drawn in the middle of
00:16:34.160 the map they're they're more natural they're built around rivers and watersheds and i would say the
00:16:39.840 same of of uh of canada at least in the west and throughout throughout all of canada
00:16:49.360 i uh i think the next the next thing to kind of get into here though is the polling data itself so let's uh
00:16:56.560 let's kind of jump into that as best we can where are we sitting where are we sitting at right now i think
00:17:02.480 the conserves sit at like 100 and something seats anyways is it about 100 seats and uh they're right
00:17:11.520 now they're saying that we're going to get a certainly at least a second liberal minority because 162
00:17:18.560 no we have 330 how many seats do we have in parliament right now we have 338 i guess we have 338 well that
00:17:29.680 would mean that that would be enough so the looking at a second liberal majority uh under this current
00:17:37.280 leader uh the ndp again staying down in the 30s the block staying in the 30s and of course the
00:17:42.960 conservative staying at about 105 i'll zoom in for that for you in case you can't quite read it from there
00:17:50.080 and supposedly the greens are going to take a seat uh depending on whether or not they can
00:17:55.520 well just manage their their issues uh they still have anime paul in charge of things
00:18:06.080 and that's where that sits right now i i must admit that i'm not surprised i'm not surprised at all
00:18:17.120 uh the liberal party of canada is one of the most successful parties on the face of the earth
00:18:23.200 when it comes to their electioneering uh more successful than the democrats united states more
00:18:27.360 successful than the republicans united states even since 88 which some leftists have some very
00:18:31.680 particular things to say about we'll get into that uh at our next show when we have stuart parker on
00:18:36.640 later this week but truly when you think about the the fact that we've had a conservative party in
00:18:45.360 this country in one form or another from its founding a conservative party founded it
00:18:53.200 their lack of success is just abysmal like it's just it's just astonishing how lacking in success
00:18:58.880 they've been since basically board and left office which would have been world war one so between laurier
00:19:05.280 in in the early century all the way to trudeau today the liberals have of our what how many we're on
00:19:12.640 our 34th or 35th prime minister the liberals have of those like 12 or 15 um it's it's not the way
00:19:23.600 it ought to be it ought to be less than that but the liberals have ruled this country uh for an exorbitant
00:19:30.480 amount of time and the reason that the liberals are capable of doing that is that they have this
00:19:37.280 bizarre consensus where the where the the quebecois know that they can trust the liberals to not uh throw
00:19:44.240 them under the bus or force them to meet the the standards or rules that the rest of canada is forced
00:19:49.760 to meet when it comes to language laws censorship culture immigration so the quebecois know that if
00:19:56.400 they vote liberal they're going to have their interests protected either bloc or liberal they'll
00:20:00.400 they'll have their interests protected and the central canadians know that is to say the ontarians
00:20:07.600 upper canada and for that matter atlantic atlantic canada knows that its entitlements won't be
00:20:12.880 curtailed right so no offense to atlantic canada but atlantic canada has been in one way or another
00:20:18.720 so i think some of the lowest thresholds for getting on ei in the whole country you only have to work
00:20:24.480 16 weeks 20 weeks whatever it is and you and you qualify for ei in atlantic canada in a way that you
00:20:33.040 just don't everywhere else in the country you have to have worked basically a year to qualify for ei or
00:20:37.520 the equivalent of a year in hours not not for it in months because you're working overtime you're working
00:20:42.080 overtime but to get your layoff proper and then to get full benefits in many other parts of canada
00:20:47.440 you don't you you don't have you have to you have to work for longer and so the benefits that go out
00:20:55.280 into atlantic canada not to mention the government jobs that are placed out there in short in order
00:20:59.200 to kind of shore it up and redistribute wealth from one part of the country to the other same with quebec
00:21:03.920 and even same with ontario right so quebec ontario and the maritimes all carry a good deal of government
00:21:09.040 jobs which are paid for by the west which which we we discuss at length on this show because of course
00:21:15.040 this is the sovereignty channel and we want people to be assured that at least
00:21:21.280 agitating for sovereignty is very much on our minds but more of a safe of the west in any case
00:21:28.640 however the point that that i'm trying to drive home here is that when it comes to the liberal
00:21:32.640 party they have this kind of brilliant blended model most maritimers don't have time for anything
00:21:38.400 that are mainstream liberal party values nowadays i'm guessing most maritimers don't have time for
00:21:43.200 censorship uh maritimers are always known for kind of speaking their mind that's kind of what they do
00:21:49.360 laid back but speaking their mind uh they and and having you know some traditional values in a sense
00:21:56.640 of like they come from old stock and they come from a heritage that is deep and rich and full of
00:22:02.960 suffering for that matter some real suffering in in those times but that that makes them real people
00:22:09.360 put it that way but the maritimers have no love lost for the liberals there's no there's no reason
00:22:16.800 to vote liberal really but they they do it in order to shore up their own benefits because it's in their
00:22:23.120 interest it's in the quebecois interest and then it's in central canada's interest again because the
00:22:27.920 liberals can be relied upon to kind of ensure that what social helps there are right now aren't taken away
00:22:35.040 maybe they're even slightly expanded but they will also keep the ship running because they have just
00:22:39.920 so much political clout everywhere they know so many people everywhere they know everybody on bay
00:22:45.120 street they know everybody that's that's building the ships in the shipyards they know everybody they
00:22:49.440 know all the oligarchs all the oligarchs know who the liberals are they all have them on their cell
00:22:53.680 phones they all have direct line communication between their families and the people who run the liberal
00:23:00.880 party of canada and so there's a deal that's kind of struck throughout central canada upper lower canada
00:23:08.400 ontario quebec and the maritimes and that is that these people can be trusted to keep the ship afloat
00:23:16.160 not cause austerity certainly not the austerity that that the conservatives would cause if they were in
00:23:22.800 charge and uh they just know how to they know how to run canada because they've been doing it so long
00:23:27.840 we're just going to keep them in charge and i tell you this as a conservative as somebody who considers
00:23:34.000 himself quite right of center i must admit that that logic is hard to defeat and it's really hard to
00:23:43.280 defeat especially when you have a complete lack of opposition by by the conservatives the conservatives
00:23:54.960 have completely lost their minds they they've completely lost their value structure i don't
00:23:59.760 even know i want to say they lost their minds they've become all logic and no heart and a complete
00:24:04.160 loss of understanding of where the base is at the base is nowhere else to be found the base is in one
00:24:13.360 place and that is in the socially conservative milieu for the most part and i'm talking about people you
00:24:20.400 don't have to be a social conservative like people think that i want to i want to kind of clarify
00:24:24.000 something here people think to be a social conservative you have to be like with me and
00:24:29.920 even friends to my right who are a part of a pretty traditionalist wing in the catholic church who think
00:24:39.120 that you know all contraception is wrong and that life life is for for the multiplication of children and
00:24:46.640 and having having having you know having your family your family first which means of course
00:24:53.520 children of family and and your spouse your wife loving your spouse with all your heart dying to
00:24:57.760 yourself etc going to church regularly probably too much according to most people and and everything
00:25:04.720 else revolves around that you know you the center of your social life the center of your
00:25:11.760 kind of your your community life is your your church your parish and you go build the church of home
00:25:18.320 with with children with family with with the investment thereof and everything else is secondary even your
00:25:24.160 career it that's that's just there to support the family you don't it i'm not there even necessarily
00:25:29.840 for self-fulfillment i want to contribute in a meaningful way and i want my talents to be used but my career is
00:25:35.920 not my primary duty my primary duty is my family and part of my vocation is quite literally to be
00:25:41.680 fruitful and multiply um to bring more souls to god that that might sound like total kooky town to some
00:25:50.640 people i know and i i'm not saying that that's the base of the conservative party not even close but if
00:25:57.040 that's the far end if that's the extreme of the base then let's wander our way back towards uh something
00:26:03.280 closer in the middle let's say you are a person who has no problem with contraception let's say
00:26:08.080 you're a person who really does think that their career is about equal equal importance to their
00:26:13.360 family or at least that's where they were getting their fulfillment before they found their spouse
00:26:17.840 and now you know because i didn't get married that young and so they are a typical somewhat middle class
00:26:22.720 even upper middle class uh suburban sort of family or even a rural family that's just managed to make
00:26:28.640 good money at something they've got a decent business they have two or three kids and that's
00:26:33.120 it they don't have four kids they don't have six kids they don't have nine kids they have two or three
00:26:37.600 at most and even in her fertile years the you know the wife is taking contraception and they are staying
00:26:47.360 very straight and narrow on how many kids they want to have and they put all that excess time into their
00:26:55.360 careers and paying down the mortgage etc now that family still has plenty of quote-unquote socially
00:27:03.280 conservative things going on inside of it that are still uh applicable to the the tories the tories
00:27:10.640 could still reach in and motivate that family they don't have to just be the christian heritage party in
00:27:15.760 order to get people to vote for them and one of the ways i would say that is that i think that family
00:27:20.480 especially if those kids are somewhere between the ages of eight and 18 they're putting their kids
00:27:26.320 whether they put them through french immersion which of course is subsidized private school for
00:27:30.160 the rich we'll talk about that another time but the whether they're putting them through french version
00:27:35.360 or they do have them in private school or they just don't have the money for that but they put them
00:27:38.800 through a really good public high school that high school is preaching a doctrine of transgenderism
00:27:44.640 and i'm guessing that no matter how progressive that family feels on a given day they have a cousin
00:27:51.760 who's lgbtq they have maybe gone to a parade or whatever or they don't mind putting up a rainbow flag
00:27:59.760 during pride month on their facebook they might have all that stuff going for them but none of them
00:28:05.280 think none of them think for even a second that they want their daughter or their son to change genders
00:28:12.320 they don't want that they don't want that at all they they don't agree with that the vast majority
00:28:18.000 of them do not believe that you can just wake up one morning and decide that i'm not a girl anymore
00:28:23.120 i'm a boy now or i'm not a boy anymore i'm a girl now and i'm going to not just dress like it or put
00:28:28.400 up some makeup or whatever i am literally going to get surgery in order to irreversibly damage my anatomy
00:28:39.040 and change my gender the vast majority of canadians don't agree with that and you don't have to be
00:28:47.520 some kind of radically traditional catholic person and i don't even get to go to the latin mass mind
00:28:52.640 you because we don't have it here in prince george but the point is that you don't need that guy
00:28:59.520 to vote for you and then lose everybody else the nine tenths of the rest of the block you know and now
00:29:04.800 you've lost that poll and the liberals have gained that seat you don't need you don't need just me
00:29:09.920 there are plenty of people along the rest of the nine tenths of this block this poll this district
00:29:15.920 who do not agree and you don't need you don't need to be in in just rural alberta or rural british
00:29:23.280 columbia or ontario for that to be the case no there are plenty of people in suburban writings and in
00:29:29.600 even i would argue even in you know downtown municipal urban writings that the center of cities
00:29:38.640 who do not agree particularly with the transgender agenda the idea that somebody who is a
00:29:47.760 somebody somebody who is
00:29:50.080 you know older wants to do that stuff to themselves and pay their own way nobody nobody's going to argue
00:30:01.120 with that because most people are civil libertarians on that account those of us who are more religious
00:30:06.080 whatever else still gonna be like that's that's not okay but do we think that we have the right to
00:30:10.960 interfere with it like at a at a kind of state level legal level logistical level not really and and you
00:30:17.760 know not you do you boo nobody really wants to say it that way but the fact of the matter is that
00:30:23.520 an adult's an adult's an adult like i can't do much about it in a secular democracy when an adult wants
00:30:29.600 to do this thing to their body or to their psychology etc to their hormones but children are a different
00:30:36.160 matter children belong to all of us at a certain level because that's the future of the country and
00:30:41.120 their innocence and their integrity and their ability to grow in confidence of what they are
00:30:48.160 they were born with a certain set of genitalia which is directly identified one-to-one with most
00:30:54.720 of their psychology biology and physiology and for those outliers the that's that's a different grace
00:31:00.960 a different question a different sort of compassion but for something that you can't even
00:31:06.000 say is the vast majority was something that is the entirety of the population with few caveats people
00:31:12.640 are born with certain set of genitalia which then conforms which directly conforms to their psychology
00:31:19.200 biology and for that matter for those of us who believe in such a thing their soul that is not a
00:31:25.280 controversial statement that only became a controversial statement because of a bunch of 12 year olds on twitter
00:31:30.560 and other activists trying to turn it into a controversial statement and i'm not afraid to
00:31:37.120 say that out loud because i've had people on the left on my show too who have been cancelled just for
00:31:42.160 stating the obvious we are not robots you can't just interchange our parts and make make people think
00:31:48.720 it's going to be all okay that's wrong that's evil that's not true and a discussion full stop coming
00:31:55.040 back to the federal election the tories could probably take a majority government literally
00:32:01.920 by proposing a total ban and stop on all transgender surgery below the age of 18.
00:32:11.520 i i'm not joking i'm not joking i don't think that's a flamboyant thing to say at all or an
00:32:15.600 ostentatious thing i say no children are children and we are not going to allow for there to be agenda
00:32:22.960 that literally is life-altering irreversible damage in the realm of the most most central
00:32:28.960 part of your human being as a material being like forget us who believe in souls you people
00:32:34.080 who don't believe in souls like what you are is a self-reproducing machine with another human being
00:32:42.560 right that's what you are you're an organism that produces more of you that's like the central
00:32:48.000 tenant of what you are that's evolution 101 and so if you don't make more of yourself you will cease to
00:32:54.880 exist as a people as a species and that's it you want to pass on your culture your values everything
00:33:02.400 else you need to reproduce you can't reproduce if you are going to surgically alter your genitalia
00:33:10.080 and your and your sexually reproductive system you can't and i don't think you have the right i don't
00:33:17.920 think anyone has the right to sterilize a child even a child who's asking to be sterilized but then again
00:33:25.200 how would a child know what sterilization means like a child asking for you to murder him or her
00:33:33.360 because they're having a bad day children can't consent to suicide any more than they can consent to
00:33:38.160 the puberty blockers they don't understand and the least we can do is ban the inalterable irreversible
00:33:49.600 damage that such fooling around with such dangerous ideas could produce when it comes to children you're
00:33:58.320 an adult you want to make that decision as an adult i don't agree with it but this is canada and i can't
00:34:03.600 do anything about it good for you whoop-de-doo but children deserve their innocence they have a right
00:34:11.680 to their innocence and ripping that away from them through indoctrination and confusing them giving
00:34:18.800 them gender dysphoria through absolutely bizarre bizarre ideologically charged rhetoric from the pulpit of
00:34:27.200 sex ed or teachers or your principal or whatever or assemblies with bringing in a guest speaker
00:34:36.560 that's all wrong and it all leads one place which is children fundamentally
00:34:40.960 being unhappy with themselves and from that unhappiness
00:34:46.320 absolute tragedy ensues
00:34:50.080 so if the federal conservatives are looking for
00:34:53.280 an issue that would literally land the majority that's not the only issue but that would be a big
00:34:59.280 one that is an issue that could easily knock over some toss-up writings motivate the base to come
00:35:06.480 out harder motivate the base to get more organized and spend more money on donations and totally change
00:35:12.720 the tone when it comes to aaron's uh rhetoric and and symbology so that was kind of our our opening bit
00:35:19.920 there uh we've kind of cruised along for a little while here let's let's jump into some of the
00:35:25.280 things that my dear producer has uh produced for us when it comes to uh the election let's start with
00:35:31.680 this let's talk about election integrity canadian voters are likely to face foreign cyber interference
00:35:38.640 in the next election say cyber spice digital spy agency expects false narratives around voter fraud to
00:35:44.560 surface canadian voters are likely to face some form of foreign cyber interference ahead and during
00:35:51.040 the next federal election warns canada's cyber spy agency including false information about voter fraud
00:35:56.560 however that meddling is unlikely to match the scale and influence as seen in the u.s says the communications
00:36:02.560 uh increasing our threat cyber tools organizational capacity cyber activity against future federal
00:36:10.400 elections it says cyber threat actors will likely try to take advantage of any new covet 19 related changes
00:36:21.680 expect to an increase in mail-in ballots so i want to i want to stop dead here
00:36:27.760 and we're going to do we're going to observe two things okay so we've just read through this a
00:36:31.680 little bit and what is happening here it's important who is speaking and who are they speaking to
00:36:38.160 so we have the head of or or a statement coming out of the cse great the connect communication security
00:36:45.840 establishment and it's being read from the report so it's not a person it's it's this establishment so
00:36:52.480 this is speaking on behalf of the entire this is speaking on the canadian equivalent of the cia
00:36:57.200 essentially right see like csis is is the big is the big guy but i mean this is speaking on behalf
00:37:03.760 of all canadian intelligence like that is to say our intelligence agencies and apparatuses which includes
00:37:08.640 the rcmp it includes csis it includes all sorts of different things it includes the army all those
00:37:15.200 pieces put together this person is speaking on behalf of all of them in the sense that they are making
00:37:20.000 a firm declaration a firm declaration on election integrity so we you know they people might be
00:37:29.040 sewing false stories about voter fraud about election integrity fraud about a lack of a lack of
00:37:35.600 transparency okay that's called salting the field that's called salting the field that's called
00:37:42.480 conditioning the argument you've you've already by the very way you framed your opening statement and
00:37:48.640 framed for and especially as an institution you're somebody who's in charge you have framed this in
00:37:55.440 some very very dark terms because you have essentially decided that well anybody saying it anybody saying
00:38:04.720 that there might be fraud or there might be something wrong is a foreign actor sowing dissent and quite
00:38:12.400 possibly a a betrayer to canada a traitor that's that's a statement
00:38:22.640 i for saying you know what i have some questions about the integrity of this election
00:38:29.120 could be essentially be said well i mean you're just a puppet of russia you're just a you know you
00:38:33.520 you are a foreign agent or being paid by foreign powers to influence canadians to uh make them doubt
00:38:41.760 the integrity of their elections which is funny because i was never really trying to do that but
00:38:45.280 now that you're saying it i mean i didn't really want to get paid to do that i wasn't really i wasn't
00:38:51.840 looking for uh foreign money in my bank account on that account but i'll take some free foreign money
00:38:56.160 if they want to because i do have questions about election integrity and i'm just asking those for free so
00:39:00.960 i didn't know i could get paid for it but let's see here that the issue took hold during the last
00:39:11.200 year's u.s election after then president donald trump made unfounded claims about widespread voting fraud
00:39:17.680 okay yeah there it is and that's the cbc for you i'm going to zoom in a little bit for you guys
00:39:30.960 what happened during the 2020 election we need to step back for a second we need to be honest about
00:39:41.360 something here that's another thing that canadians don't envy about the american election the american
00:39:46.400 system is completely decentralized when it comes to how they elect their presidents and how they elect
00:39:53.280 to their national government and at one point i explained to somebody that everybody from touch
00:39:59.200 screens to carrier pigeons were on the table when it came to a u.s election and that is not really an
00:40:05.680 overstatement american elections are an absolute debacle because they have no federal agency that
00:40:15.120 conducts their federal election i'm not a big state guy i'm not i don't want there to be a federal
00:40:22.240 agency for everything and i think plenty of the federal agencies in canada that are alphabet soups
00:40:26.880 could go away i don't think they have i don't think they have a lot of legitimacy we need to gather
00:40:33.040 our revenue which should be streamlined and we need to vend those services which people are entitled to
00:40:39.760 in canada and we need to do that in an efficient manner as well outside of that a lot of what the
00:40:46.480 government does is wasteful and a lot of it's paper pushing and a lot of it's a lack of accountability
00:40:50.560 and we all know that however in america because they have that suspicion about everything they
00:40:57.520 have failed to complete that one brutal task of simply creating a federal elections commission
00:41:04.320 that would take care of their federal elections and help ensure there was integrity
00:41:10.080 in america you can get a mail-in ballot not by your own request but by you know the the ballot
00:41:18.160 master general whatever the postmaster general in your local district declaring that everybody gets
00:41:22.640 a paper ballot everybody gets one sent to their house and the elections commissioners in the united
00:41:27.840 states in several swing states and several battleground ridings they did this and this is where things get
00:41:35.440 hairy in canada to get a mail-in ballot you must ask for it
00:41:42.320 it that's it full stop you must request a mail-in ballot you cannot have it just randomly sent to
00:41:51.040 your house it doesn't just come in the mail and it can't be mishandled by someone and it can't be
00:41:56.480 picked up by someone and filled out on your behalf because that person would have to know when it's
00:42:00.800 arriving in your mailbox if you send out 10 million ballots via mail that are unsolicited then
00:42:09.360 i just have to keep visiting postal boxes and i will find ballots won't i i'll find them because
00:42:15.840 they they'll be there and i'm not saying as a post i'm not even saying as a postman i'm not trying to
00:42:20.400 denigrate our postman or question their integrity i'm just saying is i mean those postal boxes are not
00:42:25.520 super well secured you break into one and you don't even steal anyone's bill or check you're just
00:42:30.640 stealing their ballot you grab their ballot you fill it out on their behalf you get enough of them going
00:42:34.640 you have five ballots 10 ballots 30 about that's enough to swing an election in some of the tightest
00:42:38.720 writings we have in this country let alone the united states let alone the fact that it does seem
00:42:44.800 to be that there were a lot of extra extra ballots returned where there shouldn't have been there were
00:42:49.200 ballots there are people who never received their ballot i'm someone who's never received a ballot
00:42:53.600 before here's here's a free take for you i never received my ballot for the leadership election where
00:43:01.520 bernier lost to sheer so that was an election ago for for and when andrew sheer became leader of the
00:43:08.400 party i lost like i didn't get my ballot like i never i never saw it they had my address i had been
00:43:15.600 a paid up member i told i wanted my ballot or whatever and i never got my ballot i'm not saying
00:43:22.080 somebody filled that out on my behalf and made sheer beat bernier i would have voted for bernier but
00:43:27.440 and probably trust but the the fact of the matter is we're here at the end of these things and
00:43:39.600 what's the point like i i didn't get my ballot how many other people didn't get their ballot i heard
00:43:44.640 that story a couple of times with different people do i think it's a conspiracy necessarily
00:43:48.320 no i don't think there was a conspiracy in the leadership election of the conservatives which
00:43:54.160 took place in 2017 i don't think that there was a conspiracy to make sure that me and a bunch of
00:44:03.120 other conservatives didn't get their ballots however i do believe that the fact that we didn't get our
00:44:11.520 ballots shows just how stupid mass balloting is by sending it through the mail because you can't tell
00:44:19.440 who is going to get their ballot and who isn't if they solicit their ballot and it's putting through
00:44:24.160 kind of secured mail it's delivered people fill out their ballot and then send it back that's different
00:44:29.920 that's how donald trump voted for himself and he was voting from florida he was using his address in
00:44:34.800 florida to vote for himself which good for him because he wasn't going to win he wasn't going to win dc
00:44:39.600 so he spent his vote on a swing state good for him the point that i'm trying to drive home here
00:44:46.240 is that they're salting the field america does have voter fraud problems it's always had voter fraud
00:44:53.040 problems and it won't stop having voter fraud problems until it gets its federal system
00:45:02.240 that russia china and iran named groups and individuals connected to russia china and iran
00:45:09.600 have conducted most of the observed cyber security against democrat democratic processes
00:45:17.440 okay so basically they're telling us that we are going to be attacked by iran and china
00:45:23.680 and russia and told that our election isn't safe and secure
00:45:35.840 all i have to say to you whoever you are listening
00:45:41.040 is that if you want election integrity do your best to show up in person to vote even with the
00:45:49.040 pandemic so recently behind us and if anybody at any level of government says that you just mail out
00:45:56.880 all the ballots and have them all sent back in no no people must request with proper identification and proof
00:46:11.200 mail in ballots no unsolicited ballots unsolicited ballots are a gateway
00:46:18.640 into voter fraud a total gateway it's wrong and and i a final point i'm going to drive home here when
00:46:26.080 it comes to the question of election integrity the other day at we were at a we were at a fabric store
00:46:32.880 we were grabbing some stuff from a fabric store and my beloved and i and uh one of her helpful co-conspirators
00:46:40.320 who's doing helping with all the decorating and that sort of stuff and so we're at this fabric store
00:46:44.720 and they refused to take uh my better half's 50 bill and she looked at them and one of the reasons
00:46:52.400 i'm marrying this person she's she has she has real gumption on stuff like this she stands her ground
00:46:57.520 brilliant she's much braver than i am in many respects and she looked them dead in the eye she
00:47:01.920 said you can't not take my money that's illegal like this is for all debts public and private this is legal
00:47:10.160 tender you are not allowed to refuse legal tender and the person just looked back at her and said
00:47:15.760 i am like we have been getting fakes we've been getting counterfeit 50 bills so i'm not taking your
00:47:22.720 money and they had a back and forth for a bit and eventually you know my beloved paid with credit
00:47:32.240 uh she later reflected that it was only going to be about seven bucks out so she should have just left
00:47:36.320 the 50 there and said i'm taking my stuff here's the 50 dollars if you want to cash it cash it if you
00:47:41.920 don't uh charge me with shoplifting go ahead and see what happens it's legal tender keep the evidence by
00:47:48.960 the way um so i i guess that what i'm trying to drive home there is if people are capable of faking
00:47:57.360 50s why do we not think that people are capable of faking ballots now people have to say well what
00:48:05.040 are the stakes well the stakes are i mean in the united states the stakes were exorbitantly high
00:48:10.960 right they were they were as high as they would get right like was trump really the disruptor we all
00:48:15.840 think he was only partially he was really just a gadfly he was really just a digital gadfly on
00:48:21.440 twitter and everything else to try and get us to think again about questions of class inequality
00:48:27.920 foreign influence china domestic manufacturing the working man the working family working class
00:48:36.080 what it means to be an american what it means to have a national sense of pride a national strategy and
00:48:41.120 world world peace in the sense of foreign foreign policy should result in less wars not more of them
00:48:54.160 that's what donald trump was for i hope that we see another trumpian like character again in america
00:49:00.400 in the not so distant future but we can't have that in canada we've talked about that before you can't
00:49:06.720 have a trump-like figure in canada or bernie sanders in canada why because they would never be allowed
00:49:11.520 to run because the leader of the party would rule them out cast them out cross out their name not
00:49:17.360 sign their nomination papers a long time ago that's that's how that works in canada now and
00:49:22.160 stewart parker's talked to us about that a lot lately but let's get back on track here
00:49:28.400 if we can fake 50 bills we can fake an election ballot okay like it can't be that hard and i don't
00:49:36.800 know who's passing out 50 bills at the fabric store like why that's the place you're spending your money
00:49:43.760 or for fake 50s i don't like i don't know what you're doing i don't know why you need to buy your fabric
00:49:51.120 with fake money but i mean i guess not not even good for you but like i'm impressed that you got
00:49:58.880 away with it and i but i'm just still confused that you got away with it at at a fabric store
00:50:04.480 like i don't know why you wanted to do that but don't bother but election integrity it's not rocket
00:50:11.360 science it's not rocket science it's very easy to have that go wrong um
00:50:21.120 the federal what is this is this about canada or is it about the other one
00:50:26.160 yeah okay a couple of things that are going to be uh featured in
00:50:35.600 featured in the election
00:50:38.720 let's let's uh let's grab something else to screen share here uh let's talk a little bit about the green
00:50:44.720 party again this has been an interesting thing to watch we'll talk about it more tomorrow as well with
00:50:48.640 our with our contributors but the green party is a bit of an interesting thing to watch for a couple
00:50:54.160 of reasons because the green party is the green party is what a lot of both progressives and conservatives
00:51:06.320 wish their parties could be it's it's a reinvigoration of the progressive conservative idea and and i'm only
00:51:13.680 commenting on this again how much does a green party mean to western canadians and stuff not that much
00:51:18.000 though admittedly some of their seats are out here some of the only places they've managed to get
00:51:21.120 elected right out here british columbia and then of course back in new brunswick but of course that
00:51:27.280 person walked across the floor and went to the liberals which is not going to bode well for them so
00:51:36.080 the turmoil in the green party we've talked about this a little bit when it comes to capture and that
00:51:39.600 sort of thing but like the green party i guess in a sense is still a small enough place with thin
00:51:43.600 enough walls that we can actually hear what's happening over there right like
00:51:50.240 sometimes the big rich guy gets divorced and you're like wow i really wonder what was going on
00:51:55.280 there like you think she would have stayed with him just for the money and i mean obviously she
00:51:59.440 has a right to some of the money due to our laws and stuff like that and we'll see how well she does
00:52:02.800 and see what kind of lawyer she can afford but sometimes the rich guy does get divorced but it comes
00:52:06.800 out of nowhere because he was up in his house which is a few meters back from the street and is a
00:52:12.560 nice big house with big thick walls and there's no way to know what's going inside of there until
00:52:16.720 one day you see a moving truck but the house hasn't been sold and the green party is the opposite
00:52:23.360 of that the green party while it looks a little bit more polished is like one of the tiny homes that
00:52:27.920 you see in some of these lots now there's tiny homes there are these half these half lots instead of
00:52:34.640 it being the broad side of the house facing the street it's the narrow side of the house faces
00:52:38.640 the street and the people inside of it are are a little bougie and a little posh and a little bit
00:52:44.720 you know bohemian and they're kind of yuppie and and but they are they you know in between what
00:52:50.720 they're smoking and what they're drinking they they can get a little raucous and so we are actually
00:52:55.600 hearing the the dirty laundry being discussed of the green party out loud whether the quiet parts
00:53:02.080 being said out loud and it's kind of an interesting thing to see because you don't get to see that in
00:53:07.120 many places anymore elizabeth may speaks out about rumors swirling around green party turmoil well
00:53:13.680 let's take a look here former green leader elizabeth may is speaking out after months of
00:53:18.960 near silence on the internal strife engulfing the party she headed for 13 years the statement to media
00:53:24.800 tuesday afternoon may says rumors about her involvement in party power struggles have pushed her
00:53:30.160 clarify that she has no role in the green's governing bodies members of the federal council
00:53:35.440 which governs most of the party's affairs have clashed with leader anime paul for months over
00:53:41.280 issues that range from the israeli-palestine conflict to staff layoffs and funding for paul's
00:53:45.440 riding campaign in toronto center may says she did have first-hand knowledge of green mp jennica atwin's
00:53:51.680 defections to liberals last month a loss of one-third of the green caucus that may call painful but no
00:53:57.360 cause for misplaced anger blame and name calling may says she fully supports the green party adding
00:54:02.640 simply that our leader is anime paul and only our members have the authority to call that into
00:54:06.640 question falling short of a full-throated endorsement statement comes a day after paul held a news
00:54:11.840 conference to show her party has pushed a period of tumultuous acrimony ahead of a likely push past it
00:54:19.040 ahead of a likely election this year
00:54:24.560 interesting well we're getting to see that dirty laundry out loud and well outside people are talking
00:54:30.640 about it people are saying it people are going through it and we're getting to hear it because
00:54:34.880 the green party is still just a small enough place that and but thin enough walls that you can you can
00:54:39.920 hear that stuff so that's interesting um let's take a look here a few more things on the canadian
00:54:47.120 election apparently mark carney was going to run for the liberals but he's not going to run for them
00:54:52.400 anymore until this federal election is over um so that mostly because i think he doesn't want the press
00:55:01.200 of doing it so let's uh zoom in on that a little bit
00:55:10.000 so who was mark carney well we all remember mark carney was says he won't run won't be in on the
00:55:15.840 liberal ticket if there's an election this fall the former governor of the bank of canada and the
00:55:19.520 bank of england told the canadian press he's made commitments to help in the global fight against
00:55:24.320 climate change you can't walk away from them just a few months before a crucial united states conference
00:55:29.760 oh i see so he busy he busy with climate change stuff he doesn't have time for us little people well
00:55:40.000 i think the real reason mark carney isn't going to run i don't know if he necessarily
00:55:47.440 wasn't going to win maybe they did some polling and said oh it's it's iffy
00:55:53.920 i doubt that they would have put him into a safe seat i think the reason that he's really not going
00:55:58.560 to run is he doesn't want to come in until it's more clear that trudeau is going to leave
00:56:10.320 um it's between mark carney and uh oh my goodness what is her name
00:56:18.560 why can't i remember who it is trudeau's cabinet
00:56:21.040 there we go christy christy christy freeland and of course um the other one who's the other one
00:56:43.120 not christy freeland and katherine and katherine mckenna mckenna and freeland basically run the
00:56:48.880 government we both know that uh in many respects and justin trudeau has kind of deferred it to them
00:56:55.760 in their entirety and so between freeland mckenna and carney that's who is going to take the next
00:57:03.920 liberal leadership position which we all know right that's not that's not news we all know that
00:57:09.280 the question is when is justin going to leave he's very young he's extremely young he's one of the
00:57:14.560 one of the youngest prime ministers we've ever had and so the question becomes do will justin
00:57:20.320 leave will he stay what is he going to stick around um and i think that justin trudeau isn't
00:57:26.800 going to stay very long after this last mandate they're going to ride his name one more time he'll
00:57:30.960 have had his three elections he won three times which is what you need in canada to prove that you belong
00:57:36.880 with with with chretchen you belong with trudeau senior and you belong with john a and you belong
00:57:42.720 with uh i don't think louis saying the wrong did that but i think king did uh mckenzie king
00:57:51.600 and uh i think i think that's exactly it um i think that trudeau will take his third mandate
00:58:00.800 do a victory lap stay in parliament for a couple of months and then he'll leave and that'll leave
00:58:06.080 things wide open for kind of reformation of the liberal party into a kind of perfectly technocratic
00:58:14.960 machine we're this is interesting like i we're gonna get back into uh we'll we'll get back into
00:58:22.560 the mark carney thing in a second but i i've been talking about technocracy on the show well because
00:58:27.520 the show started in covet right i've been talking about technocracy on the show for a long time and
00:58:33.840 one of the things i want to get into here for just a second is like if we're headed back into the 1920s
00:58:39.760 again if we're if the 2020s are going to be like the 1920s one of the things that happened throughout
00:58:44.000 the 20s and the 30s was this bizarre pivot into right we saw that fascism and collectivism and
00:58:50.320 communism and totalitarianism but part of that was a pivot into you know what we see in art deco and
00:58:56.000 everything else of that time period that that was the great the great kind of burgeoning of
00:59:02.240 industrialization that was coming after the war so the war had kind of put them through another
00:59:06.960 industrial intensity right because even up until world war one 50 of the population of all western
00:59:12.800 countries still lived in the country they still lived in the rural parts of their country because it
00:59:18.480 still took an enormous amount of manpower to make the food to feed the world and after world war
00:59:24.880 one that slowly changed that chain well that definitively changed the city became the new
00:59:31.520 center there were the small towns started to empty and the big towns started to get big really big
00:59:39.760 and and if you go through old towns not the ones that got bombed to the ground in europe though
00:59:45.360 there's still a few pieces of them left that you can see that but if you go through old towns
00:59:49.600 particularly in the united states you'll see just so much evidence of what happened in the 1920s and
00:59:53.920 we all know that the 20s and the 30s right some of the skyscrapers all that sort of stuff happened
00:59:58.880 what am i getting on about what i'm getting on about is that into the 20s and in the 30s and then
01:00:05.360 the 40s right the liberal party of canada headed up by mckenzie king right comes into being and becomes
01:00:11.840 kind of this perfectly technocratic entity that really was almost indistinguishable from the non-genocidal
01:00:19.840 side of nazi germany it had ministers uh who were the ministers of everything like cd how it had a
01:00:27.760 completely centralized plan of how to adjudicate things in canada it aggrandized itself in a huge way
01:00:36.320 including the custom scandals we all remember king versus bing king had the ostentatiousness to fight
01:00:42.800 the vice regal representative of course his governor bing and to essentially fundamentally
01:00:49.120 undermine the governor general for the rest of eternity he won that fight and to this day nobody
01:00:54.560 takes the governor general very seriously um and and then especially as we get into the war
01:01:02.240 and mckenzie king continues to run the war effort again in a very technocratic way
01:01:07.040 and finally into the post-war era he essentially sets up canada as a vassal state to the united states
01:01:13.520 as a branch plant system so put your your wartime factories are now going to become consumer time
01:01:19.760 factories let's build cars here let's build planes here this is where the haviland comes from right the
01:01:24.000 beaver and the otter and the twin otter all that comes together we still build some of the havilands right
01:01:29.200 the buffalo the water bomber all of that comes together and canada is is turned into this perfectly
01:01:40.480 kind of technocratic state uh a model a model state a model technocracy in post-war era now
01:01:49.120 what's happening right now with the liberal party of canada if they successfully rebrand if they've
01:01:56.320 recaptured the imaginations of canadians right because they have this charismatic leader now
01:02:00.560 he had no depth and almost no intelligence he doesn't know what he's doing he has no idea what's
01:02:05.520 going on if people even think he has brilliant electoral strategy he's a little bit of a strategic
01:02:09.520 thinker when it comes to like how to be popular i guess but ultimately he has handlers handlers
01:02:13.840 handlers handlers people are telling him what to do every day all the time they're guiding him through
01:02:17.760 things using his name as cover using his name to get him elected now at some point that's got to
01:02:24.960 give because i mean whether it's the scandals that are coming out of parliament and his uh inability
01:02:29.920 to keep it in his pants which is just a statement of fact um there's no need to get into any proper
01:02:36.320 accusations on account but but the truth of the matter is that our prime minister is not a chaste man
01:02:41.360 and not a chaste man even for uh the proper side of the species um our our prime minister and and for
01:02:49.680 that matter the the alienation of his wife because we have to remember for a time there sophie was living away
01:02:54.560 from him um probably because of his proclivities uh and also because quite frankly i mean she's
01:03:02.000 beautiful she's brilliant she can she can do what she wants and and uh she could definitely get very
01:03:07.920 far in life without having to use him she she has her own background her own money her own legacy
01:03:14.640 but one way or another again the handler stepped in managed to pull sophie back into the fray managed to
01:03:19.840 say hey be a good wife be a nice wife help the prime minister get re-elected help help justin out
01:03:25.680 and so they did but hopefully his marriage doesn't end i don't want anyone's marriage to end but
01:03:33.680 he's been prime minister now for a few years he'll be prime minister for another two maybe maybe three
01:03:39.360 probably two after this election well if one is three mandates and he can go off into the sunset
01:03:46.640 leaving his party in the hands of honestly far more competent people who i still don't trust but
01:03:52.720 far more competent people such as christia freeland mckenna uh and then of course carney who will enter
01:03:59.600 politics just a little while just as he leaves because the king makers have decided that carney deserves a
01:04:06.720 place in government that's the thing about canada canada is a strange place it's it's basically a one
01:04:18.480 horse town uh and the one horse is the liberal horse the kind of half donkey thing in the corner that's
01:04:24.640 half mule half donkey half bizarre that we call the conservative party it really does make an ass of
01:04:30.080 itself most of the time and it doesn't know what to do it doesn't know how to gallop like a horse
01:04:33.920 doesn't know how to look prim and proper it doesn't look know how to look competent and strong
01:04:37.920 it just it's a workhorse it'll work conservatives know how to work and conservative governments
01:04:43.920 are hard-working governments there's no question of that but it just looks goofy it looks silly it looks
01:04:51.280 pathetic and so and so until conservatives not just improve their image in general but just
01:04:56.800 come off as not just a workhorse but a competent one a competent confident intelligent insightful
01:05:02.960 visionary workhorse they're not going to get anywhere and with respect to what's going on
01:05:09.680 here with carney we're going to bring that back into the stream so apparently he's hanging out
01:05:14.640 doing climate change stuff while he while he's busy right it's just a crucial conference i thought long
01:05:19.600 and hard on this because i believe strongly in public service and in the government's agenda
01:05:24.000 which i fully support in the end despite the temptation running and the wrestling with it
01:05:29.520 uh commitment to commitment so he'll be stuck with stuff like that critical his work will be crucial to
01:05:38.720 the success of the un conference known as cop 26 it's a girl time in the cop 26 cop 26 made commitments
01:05:48.240 da-da-da-da-da carney did not rule out running if there was another time
01:05:54.800 infrastructure katherine announced so she would not see grief election in ottawa said okay that's interesting
01:06:01.520 uh prime political real estate that could become a laundry pad for carney
01:06:07.600 especially in that ottawa south david mcgintier canada carlton karen mccarran step aside uh open up their
01:06:16.000 spots for carney still bank a governor going 2012 quietly for the idea of leadership run
01:06:21.520 recorded by liberals desperately searching for a new savior after the 2011 election flame out
01:06:28.640 he spoke promoting a new kind of calendar combines the pursuit of profit with social purpose
01:06:33.040 all righty well
01:06:36.560 that's carney
01:06:37.280 i don't know what to say to that i i think that i think the thing with carney is that
01:06:46.720 he's a globalist and uh and he's a he's a perfect technocrat and i i have to admit that if if we have
01:06:53.760 to be stuck with the liberal party for as long as we're going to be stuck with them until the conservatives
01:06:58.000 get their crap together i think that i would definitely take a carney over a trudeau because
01:07:04.880 the thing with trudeau is that he's like he's terrifyingly egotistical and he also has no sense
01:07:10.720 of of values he has no values like he doesn't cling to his faith at all in for values he doesn't do
01:07:16.720 anything for his values and so it's it's just he has no sense of of morality and ethics uh that might
01:07:23.840 guide his his governance um he's not even good at being a bad governor you know he he just does
01:07:29.360 whatever his handlers tell him to do and his handlers always tell him the same thing which is
01:07:33.360 is increase increase your increase your spending and keep virtue signaling and i don't like that
01:07:40.320 carney i think understands the value of a dollar to a point i mean he ran two banks you'd hope
01:07:45.840 that he would know how much money you have and how much money you don't have and then how much money
01:07:50.880 you can spend i i would hope for that but i have doubts i have doubts i i mean he gets paid either way
01:07:58.560 right so if he overspends our money if he doesn't overspend our money who knows let's uh let's talk a
01:08:05.280 little bit more about at least one issue that's going to be pretty close to the hearts of western
01:08:09.360 canadians and that is of course the gun buyback so gun owners hold signs as they participate in
01:08:21.760 in a rally organized by the ccfr against the government state gun rules and that was in september of 2020
01:08:35.760 i'm starting to get better uh after my late nights guarding the cathedral from would-be
01:08:41.840 arsonists but i'm still a little bit tired i might take another nap today because i gotta be on again
01:08:46.800 tonight at like three in the morning gun buyback a huge taxpayer boondoggle at the worst possible
01:08:53.600 time taxpayer advocacy group the federal government's plan to buy back newly banned guns
01:08:58.800 will cost a lot more than its initial estimate says a tax advocacy group the cost could be hundreds of
01:09:04.240 millions of dollars more than what we were sold uh sold on said franco turzano a director with the ctf
01:09:11.760 really this has the markings the makings or a huge taxpayer boondoggle which would be coming at the
01:09:17.760 worst possible time parliamentary budget officer release report at the end of june indicating that
01:09:24.160 the number of affected firearms is roughly 150 000 and 518 according to the canadian sports arms and
01:09:32.960 ammunition the ccaaa i think that used to be the cc the c ssa i don't know why this is c
01:09:40.800 saa but oh well depending on the actual number of effective firearms buyback take-up rate the
01:09:47.440 pricing structure the estimated cost of compensation could be as high as 756 million if all gun owners
01:09:54.320 identified by the c saa participate in the buyback
01:10:02.160 a billion dollars because by the time it's administered right always a quarter of like it
01:10:06.720 take some things by a third or by a quarter and then add it to it to just know what it's going
01:10:11.120 to take to administer something right because that's you had a lot of people's paper to push
01:10:15.840 right you got a lot of work to do what about capture what about having to do follow up right
01:10:21.520 all the rest of it and i actually you know here's something so
01:10:25.360 my my dearest is a uh is you know works for works for the canadian government and a lot of what she
01:10:35.040 does is following up with people uh to try and see what's going on and where where the money is
01:10:40.560 that they owe so i'm trying to imagine for a moment like i mean that's bad enough but that's but that's
01:10:47.840 like taxation and like taxation is taxation do i agree with how much we get paid we get we get taxed
01:10:53.200 this country no i don't but death and taxes right like nobody's going to argue that point so
01:11:02.000 the the i'm trying to imagine getting a phone call that says hi my name is
01:11:09.040 sherry and i work with the canadian you know canadian regulations around firearms right i work with the
01:11:18.480 uh firearms board of canada it's like that or even the rcmp i hi i i'm i'm sherry i'm calling you from
01:11:26.080 on behalf of the rcmp to let you know that you we need you to turn in your gun you'll be given your
01:11:30.960 compensation i try to imagine that phone call i'm trying to imagine that back and forth i'm trying to
01:11:35.920 imagine what somebody might say to that person if they were really upset um and for that matter we know
01:11:42.800 they're armed so i i just don't see that going well it's one thing when you're being told hi i'm an
01:11:49.520 auditor with the cra or hi i'm with uh bc revenue agencies or hi this is this is impark and you owe
01:11:56.880 us 30 dollars in tickets now it's 300 in tickets because we're jerks uh yeah i i get that but but
01:12:03.760 again calling a person most likely a man and a lot of people who work for the government are women so you
01:12:10.560 have a woman on the phone calling a man telling him that they're going to take his gun away and
01:12:15.440 they're giving him less less than market value for it i see that going badly i see that being a really
01:12:23.840 really negative conversation uh and just one more thing that's going to add to the problems of of the
01:12:29.680 federal election um the gun buyback program is a huge boondoggle but at the same time i don't think
01:12:34.800 i've even heard anything from the conservatives about this it's been totally silent on this question
01:12:39.680 so get rid of that
01:12:46.160 the last thing that we're going to get into here is uh the idea of canada's history so obviously a lot
01:12:53.520 of canadian history is under attack right now because quite frankly canadians never knew their
01:12:58.960 history to begin with and now somebody's actually bothering to erase it and now suddenly we're all up in
01:13:04.880 arms that might sound kind of cynical but the truth is that canadians didn't know their history very
01:13:09.840 well to start with and now we're finally getting into a point where canadians need to be honest
01:13:15.280 about how bad things have gotten and that is to say in current history in our current civilization
01:13:21.200 and so they're looking to the past to save them and there's some values back there and the other
01:13:25.520 side is looking to the past to burn it down because obviously that's why things are bad today is
01:13:29.760 because of what happened yesterday it's nonsense erasing and falsifying canada's history jeopardizes
01:13:36.560 the underpinnings of society say historians as the trend of removing symbols of canada's past
01:13:44.400 and renaming buildings and streets grows histories historians warn of the consequences
01:13:49.680 of attempts to misrepresent or erase the country's history if you control the past you control the
01:13:55.360 present and the future the aim of those who want to control the past either obliterating it or attaching
01:14:01.280 shame to those who cling to the past is a desire to clear the public space to wipe it clean of
01:14:05.680 symbols and mythology and narratives or replace it with something else
01:14:09.680 it's an old trick it's an old trick if you want to shape the future go after a country's history
01:14:24.240 the history of a country the legacy of a family
01:14:28.400 we do this all the time i want to imagine i want you to take two two families maybe even their siblings
01:14:34.480 right so the two brothers are siblings and one of them manages to get married and stay married and
01:14:41.360 the other one gets divorced now the children from the stay married family provided that it's not an
01:14:48.640 abusive household that just didn't result in divorce they're going to grow up believing like
01:14:55.680 their parents love them and they love that their parents love each other and that stability
01:15:00.720 in the family is a fundamental this is reality that's what happens that's the default position
01:15:07.360 the children on the other side are going to grow up thinking that families are inherently unstable
01:15:13.040 perhaps even unsafe right and that you can't trust anybody because hey even mom and dad got divorced
01:15:18.000 that's not good and finally if either of those spouses those former spouses begins to
01:15:24.400 denigrate the other one and shape the narrative around that child's mind right
01:15:29.120 they're going to think that part of them is wrong your father is such a bastard your father is such a
01:15:36.720 bad person i hate your father your father carouses your father right like you know even now that we're
01:15:42.720 not together anymore he carouses and whatever the same thing going the other way your mother is such
01:15:46.960 a b word a lot of other words we won't say on the show um your mother never loved me your mother
01:15:53.680 your mother never was was comely and never never cared uh your mother nagged me to death you hear
01:16:01.520 that enough times from either spouse former spouse ex-spouse and what's going to happen inside of that
01:16:06.960 kid's head is they're going to start to believe that they are part bad because they know that they're half
01:16:11.760 of one of the parent that's how it works even children understand without maybe necessarily knowing the
01:16:16.880 biology of it all one man plus one woman equals child provided that you know god blesses their union
01:16:25.600 and so that child's going to grow up thinking that they are half bad they are half evil they are half
01:16:33.760 something terrible and what we need to realize is that that's what we're doing every time we misinterpret
01:16:41.760 our history and tell people that hey your founding prime minister was a flaming racist and white
01:16:47.120 supremacist who should be killed if he ever walked the earth again but he won't walk the earth again
01:16:52.400 so instead we're going to tear down his statues and vandalize his home and his home riding and everything
01:16:57.760 else and i guess the point that i'm trying to draw here is that we need to be honest about the fact that
01:17:03.040 people aren't going to people people don't just tear down things just like tearing down things
01:17:14.000 if you tear something down somebody else is putting something up
01:17:18.560 and they're going to shape that narrative to the best of their ability absolutely they are and if you
01:17:26.080 don't if you don't do very strategic planning around that you are you know in for a world of pain a world of hurt
01:17:39.600 the fact of the matter is that
01:17:45.520 falsifying and erasing our history is a guaranteed way of creating an abusive present because if we were
01:17:53.920 just abusive in the past and there's no virtue then why is there any point in having virtue now
01:18:01.760 when we redeem our our image of our parents in our past when we kind of see what was wrong but also
01:18:07.840 what was right when we take that cross on of cross of of interpreting your own story and doing your best
01:18:14.000 to intervene accurately but also redemptively then you can get somewhere but as a country that is just
01:18:22.960 completely lost its mind and has decided that it's somehow this racist genocidal juggernaut
01:18:33.760 when we still don't have the population to properly build an army can't even cover the face of our own
01:18:40.800 corner of the earth it's so vast and we are so small i'm not saying that bad things didn't happen
01:18:46.560 they did happen there was some really bad stuff that happened throughout the 20th century and before but
01:18:56.480 we canadians would do well to remember that we live in one of the most just just societies on earth and
01:19:05.760 anything less than that is simply us
01:19:14.400 denigrating ourselves in a way that it doesn't need to be
01:19:18.720 we've made mistakes but the answer is not just go and have
01:19:23.680 terribly negative things to say about our people about our time about who we are
01:19:34.080 well i think that's about the show for today uh it's been a bit of a long one for me um and i'm
01:19:46.960 thankful for everybody who has tuned in again this was pre-recorded and being pre-recorded makes it a
01:19:53.360 little bit different uh we don't have the comments we don't have the live interaction and uh some of that
01:20:00.080 energy i get from the crowd just isn't quite there but i am hopeful that people enjoy this pre-recorded
01:20:07.520 version of mountain standard time i hope that it felt fairly similar in flavor and candor again i
01:20:13.680 wanted to mention that i am officially going on hiatus as of the end of tomorrow's broadcast
01:20:21.200 well it'll be a recording as well i'm hopeful to have steward and aaron on
01:20:25.280 they are of course as always our our most faithful contributors and always give us an
01:20:32.880 interesting perspective uh maybe maybe just as i leave actually i'd like to give a little bit of a
01:20:38.240 defense to why i always uh always chosen or have had them as my most you know consistent people on
01:20:46.320 this show and i think that there was at least a couple of reasons one of them was if we're going
01:20:54.560 to talk about sovereignty we need to talk about it with all sides you can't we can't have western
01:21:00.320 canada go off into the nethers uh without without an honest discussion with our brothers and sisters
01:21:08.000 who do not share our perspective exactly i'd say most people who are sovereignists are probably right
01:21:13.280 wing there is such a thing as left-wing sovereignists and there is such a thing as left-wing
01:21:18.480 separatists and so and for that matter we have a left-wing separatist federal party and provincial
01:21:24.080 party in quebec so obviously separatism can be left-wing and right-wing so i wanted to have
01:21:33.520 that perspective on our show that was really important to me and they're also just blue chip
01:21:39.600 contributors like they've been they've done this for so long they can talk for an hour and have no
01:21:43.600 problem and they and they just provide good tv if you want to put it that way they provide good tv
01:21:47.760 but they're just they're very insightful people and i think another aspect of it all was that
01:21:53.920 there are also two people that are completely alienated from their side of the spectrum and
01:21:57.600 that's because they're still talking about class while everybody else is talking about race and and other
01:22:04.560 immutable characteristics that that separate us and divide us and and you can't i can't do anything
01:22:09.280 about the pigment of my skin right like i'm a status indian maybe for some people i look white passing
01:22:15.760 fine i don't care i'm a status indian i got a card in my pocket and my skin tone is of a certain tone
01:22:22.240 and that's how it is but i don't need to be treated because of my skin tone or because the card in my
01:22:26.720 pocket or whatever i need to be treated because of my own integrity and how i carry myself and
01:22:30.880 there are people who don't look anything like me who also suffer from maybe similar problems or
01:22:38.320 whatever and if we could all get together and unite around a similar issue and then fight for that issue
01:22:44.080 to be resolved what the left currently calls intersectionality but what used to be called
01:22:48.480 solidarity would occur and in that solidarity we would actually get some you know some change some
01:22:54.000 forward progress having them on the show helps articulate that a little better because they can
01:23:01.520 point out really well that that this is what's wrong this is what's wrong from that perspective
01:23:07.360 from the language of a different perspective and it's something that can then be used to help
01:23:12.640 understand things from our perspective which is further to the right and how we might achieve our
01:23:17.600 goals and our ends i think as a last point too um as was mentioned not too long ago on here
01:23:23.280 there's only there's only one group of people that are still talking about class and that is the right
01:23:35.760 race
01:23:38.640 race is totally dominating the left to the point where they're all in kind of an identitarian tizzy
01:23:43.600 and that's really bad because you can't change your race can't do anything about your race you're born
01:23:50.320 with it but you can do something about your behavior and you can do something about your social status
01:23:57.520 especially if you work with other people the same social status to elevate your social status or at
01:24:01.600 least get paid better for being on the bottom of the tiers or below the top and i think it's that simple
01:24:10.000 at least for me it is that's why i've had people of differing perspectives on this show quite frequently
01:24:16.000 but i'm thankful for uh these about 45 it'll be 46 episodes to be perfectly candid with you but i'm
01:24:26.480 thankful for these 40 45 46 episodes with the western standard uh that we've had we're going on hiatus
01:24:34.720 uh hopefully that hiatus comes to a close around september and i want to say from the bottom of my heart
01:24:43.200 uh again we do have one more show tomorrow but that's going to be with with guests but
01:24:48.160 the bottom of my heart i'm just deeply thankful for the opportunity i've been afforded here and finally
01:24:56.000 there is there is no path forward there is no path forward when it comes to what's going to happen
01:25:04.560 with canada and what's going to happen with with the west and for that matter what's going to happen
01:25:08.640 in your community without again i would use that word solidarity but also a a unification of purpose
01:25:15.840 and an agreement on values
01:25:19.360 if you really believe that sovereignty is the only way forward that's fine but
01:25:25.040 that's going to require communicating it and and explaining your position and explaining why
01:25:30.320 and and helping people understand and if there is one thing that is wrong in this world today
01:25:35.280 and throughout the entirety of the 20th century 21st century it is the breakdown in communication
01:25:44.000 we have to be able to communicate we can't communicate can't get anywhere
01:25:49.120 so i leave you with that thought we'll see you tomorrow for one last show before i go on hiatus
01:25:55.680 this was mountain standard time thank you so much for watching