While Western alienation is on the rise, no surprise there, the federal government is not doing a damn thing to stop it. I mean, if Mark Carney wanted to facilitate the development of cross-country infrastructure to deliver Canadian energy products worldwide, he'd be on it like a pit bull on a fat kid. He'd be holding press conferences on the issue, declaring pipelines to be in the national interest, and his government would be telling Canadians of the benefits all citizens could enjoy with increased sales of energy products around the world. Mark Carney is doing none of these things because he has no interest in allowing Canada s energy industry to continue to atrophy under a ridiculous regulatory process.
00:04:17.580Carney's lieutenant, Stephen Gilboa, has already been telling Canadians we don't need any more pipelines.
00:04:22.020And I don't recall Carney correcting him on that.
00:04:24.660Gilboa is an environmental extremist with a tenuous grasp on reality.
00:04:28.960Carney is no less extreme with his net zero ideology,
00:04:31.460but he's taking a more subtle and dangerous approach than Gilboa in shutting in the resources.
00:04:36.380Carney wants to let Canada's natural resources die on the vine
00:04:40.500rather than allow for increased development and exportation of them.
00:04:44.560While Carney loves wrapping himself in the Canadian flag
00:04:46.580and is trying to portray himself as a hero who'll protect Canada from the dastardly USA,
00:04:50.840yet he refuses to address Canada's largest vulnerability to the American economic bullying.
00:04:56.520Being virtually the sole customer for Canada's oil and gas exports,
00:04:59.740the USA has enjoyed discounted Canadian products for decades.
00:05:02.980There are some serious financial heavy hitters with a strong interest
00:05:05.780in maintaining Canada's energy status quo.
00:05:08.620I want us to wonder how many of those interests have Carney's ear or Carney's investments.
00:05:13.560The only way to regain investor confidence in Canada's oil and gas industry would have been to hit the ground running and declare utility corridors to be in the national interest.
00:05:23.140Carney would have to say that pipelines must be constructed.
00:05:26.520Instead, he's saying they might get constructed, which is another way of saying they'll never be constructed.
00:05:30.520in offering mealy-mouthed commitments to energy infrastructure while offering
00:05:34.520Quebec a veto on the matter and keeping the No More Pipelines bill in force. Mark Carney is
00:05:39.420signaling he wants to phase out Canada's oil and gas industry. That leaves only one tool left in
00:05:44.340the West's toolbox in order to achieve its potential in full for prosperity and stability.
00:05:49.580And that's with full and complete provincial independence. All right, well, that's what's
00:05:54.800got me worked up today. Let's turn and check in with Jen Hardison and see news updates and what's0.85
00:06:00.340going on outside of the world. Hey, Jim, how's it going? Hey, Corey, I'm doing good, thanks. Good,
00:06:03.980you're stuck here filling Dave's shoes. I mean, that's a big task. He's over in Israel and
00:06:08.920I'm no Dave Naylor, but I'll do what I can and step into his shoes.
00:06:13.080Certainly you'll do fantastic. So, you know, the news stories are still coming up. I see you're
00:06:17.700writing as prolifically as always. So what's top of the list today out there in the big bad world?
00:06:22.960Right. So today I'm working through the pandemic agreement by the World Health Organization that
00:06:29.080canada is a part of so i'm working my way through this dense text right now there have been several
00:06:35.480versions and what we're trying to get to the bottom of is just how much control member countries
00:06:41.560like canada are allocating to the who now it seems like the updated versions of the treaty
00:06:51.080don't have that uh more authoritarian language uh so it seems like they might have backtracked
00:06:57.800slightly on that so stay tuned on our website and we'll let you know just what to expect from that
00:07:05.080treaty if there is another pandemic member countries i think there's something like 192
00:07:11.000countries are signing on to that and they will be compelled then to follow certain pandemic
00:07:17.880related protocols such as sharing data surveillance there's a one planet or one
00:07:26.840earth agreement which is basically equalizing humans animals and the planet yeah so that's
00:07:34.920an interesting perspective i really look forward to them sharing my personal medical data with
00:07:38.440international organizations such as the who uh you know and sharing the personal details what
00:07:44.920a wonderful motion this is a lot to look forward to with that for sure definitely so your viewers
00:07:53.320can check back on our website to find out just exactly what is going to be part of that treaty
00:07:58.160by the end of the day. Next up, so we have some Freedom Convoy stuff, and it's actually, there's
00:08:05.680been a few minor successes this week. Chris Barber is in court today. He is filing an application for
00:08:12.920a stay hearing, which means that all of his charges will be dropped should he be successful.
00:08:18.940We should find out by Friday, but he's facing two years in jail and the seizure of his truck
00:08:24.840that he uses for his livelihood, of course.
00:08:28.860Chris Oldcorn in Saskatchewan, he's looking into MAID, medical assistance in dying for
00:08:34.720kids and people with mental health disorders.
00:08:39.760So the Evangelical Church of Canada released pamphlets, educational pamphlets for people
00:08:46.160to be aware of what dying with dignity for example which is probably the most prominent
00:08:53.600organization that advocates for MAID is putting forward about allowing kids and even kids with
00:09:01.040special disabilities to be to qualify for this state assisted suicide so yeah as a kid you can't
00:09:10.560vote you can't drink you can't legally smoke a cigarette but you can cut off your reproductive0.96
00:09:15.840organs or even choose death man we're really going on a great road down right we have this
00:09:21.520mature minor loophole in canada last year i did an in-depth story on it about the um surgeries
00:09:30.000for kids that are confused about their gender and the different avenues that they have to bypass
00:09:37.280their parents consent by claiming uh like independence from their parents essentially
00:09:42.800to go forward with these procedures so we'll hear more from chris old corn about what exactly is
00:09:49.920available to young people even young people with disabilities that seek euthanasia it's pretty1.00
00:09:56.800distressing it is and you know it's a tough week for kids actually because we have a study
00:10:01.760about um canadian children who live in food scarcity and believe it or not 40 percent of
00:10:09.200kids in newfoundland the study found are are not having enough food every day and we see that trend
00:10:16.160rising all across the country we heard in our news meeting this morning that the food bank
00:10:21.280uh visits across canada are up 90 so it's tough time out there especially for the kids yeah
00:10:30.320for canadians in general i mean there's an economic bone under the elbows up crowd
00:10:34.160to better hurry up as people are getting hungry. All right. Well, is that what you've got for today?
00:10:39.760Well, unless if you'd like to hear about the ostriches, which are always a favorite story for
00:10:44.320our viewers. People are concerned about that, actually. We've got people watching that as it
00:10:49.520unfolds. What's going on? We've got the federal government is obsessed with killing birds.
00:10:52.880They are, yeah, 400 of them to be exact. So the Federal Food Inspection Agency continues on with
00:11:00.800its mission to call 400 ostriches from a farm in bc despite legal appeals and mass profile maybe i
00:11:08.720shouldn't say mass protest it's not like the freedom convoy in ottawa or anything give it time
00:11:13.520yeah but people are camping out people are writing letters and uh it's all over social media too so
00:11:21.680people are really concerned about this because these are healthy ostriches that are not even used
00:11:27.520for food consumption and the federal agency is trying to have them called because uh last year
00:11:36.800a couple of their birds were found with avian flu and those birds are deceased and the farm owners
00:11:44.800say that they have the other birds have herd immunity and none of them have tested positive
00:11:49.840yet this call remains in place they want to really go after these birds well they really want that
00:11:56.000you know the the bird flu to turn it into the next big pandemic they've been trying to make
00:11:59.120that work for years since monkeypox failed but yeah and you know you make a connection there
00:12:03.280corey because in the pandemic treaty i've already read through today is that specifically cases like
00:12:09.280this where there could be viruses found in animals this is where the surveillance factor comes in
00:12:15.840so this data needs to be shared and then it needs to follow the who defined uh criteria for
00:12:24.800responding to it well it'll be interesting to watch i mean as it builds up they're not gonna
00:12:29.600be able to get in and call those birds easily so uh well bizarre times anyways uh we'll keep that's
00:12:35.040right let you get back there to keep digging into those who documents and uh hopefully come up with
00:12:40.160a good news story yeah maybe next week cory well thank you very much jen and uh i'll let you beg
00:12:46.320i know dave's left with you a massive workload while he's lounging out in israel right now
00:12:50.560yeah he has he's dropped it right on me and sean's away today too so yeah well thanks okay thank you
00:12:57.760all right that is jen hodgson as you see very busy covering a lot of you know very important
00:13:03.040stories and these are ones you don't hear about in legacy media that often so we're an ag yeah
00:13:06.960the reason we can do this the reason we're independent is because you guys have subscribed
00:13:10.640so just like a newspaper subscription guys 10 bucks a month 100 for a year get past the paywall
00:13:15.920support Jen, support Dave, support me and the rest of us in here to keep producing this content and
00:13:21.600getting it out to you. This is the future of media. If you've already subscribed, thank you
00:13:26.360very much. We really appreciate it. And if you haven't yet, come on, get on there, guys. It's
00:13:30.340not that much. So yeah, just I see so many of these issues. Government control. Could you
00:13:36.960imagine an unrestrained world with ostriches running loose, untested and people selling eggs?0.98
00:13:43.740We had an egg farmer arrested in Alberta recently.
00:13:46.080I mean, we see dairy farmers who get charged for, well, not charged.
00:13:50.840If they dare, though, to sell outside of a quota, well, then they will be charged.
00:14:15.580And that's another case of government control on a policy that maybe actually had a little bit of merit,
00:14:20.880but they take it and just blow it way beyond reality and common sense.
00:14:25.220I mean, if somebody's truly terminal, suffering, and really wants to kind of end, you know,
00:14:29.900early with a decision on that and they're of sound mind,
00:14:33.320I'm not averse to having the means provided for somebody in that circumstance.
00:14:37.360But now when we're, they've gone nuts with it.
00:14:39.820this is way beyond what Sue Rodriguez was trying to attain. This is way beyond what anybody with
00:14:44.440common sense would think. When you're getting into children, people with mental health disorders
00:14:47.440and people with non-terminal illnesses, and it sounds like it's not just being offered,
00:14:53.440it's being encouraged, and we should be very worried about that. All right, well, let's get
00:14:57.540on to, I'm looking forward to this, John Bolton, speaking of the future of media, and for, I know
00:15:03.680he's been across the country, and Calgary talk radio listeners will probably remember that voice
00:15:08.020once he pops on he was on for a number of times filling in and now he's been on youtube and
00:15:13.560excellently outspoken and covering the issues and just happy to have him on to discuss well
00:15:19.820things in general and the new media so thanks for joining us today john
00:15:23.160well well thank you you know i've been in broadcasting i'm i'm in my 60s now and
00:15:29.580being new media after being in broadcasting for 35 years is really quite something cory
00:15:34.440yeah well you're you're energetic i mean yeah uh some people would have uh perhaps taken off and
00:15:41.140uh retired or changed careers but you've just embraced the the new media and and you're doing
00:15:46.700great with it so far well thank you very much i'd like to thank you for having me on here today
00:15:56.140and um you know what's amazing got a bit of a delay i think do we it sounds like we got a bit
00:16:03.820of a delay, but you're still coming. I'll just let you speak for a bit and carry on and perhaps
00:16:08.080it'll catch up. Can you hear me okay, Corey? You're coming in. We just got a bit of a delay.
00:16:13.520Okay. No, what I think is amazing is that, okay, got you. What I think is amazing is that if I
00:16:21.440were in broadcasting today, I certainly wouldn't do local radio. I wouldn't be on a radio station,
00:16:28.100a television station. This is what I'd be doing. I think some of the young people who are doing
00:16:31.980um sort of basically podcasts on a daily basis many times a day are doing great work and probably
00:16:37.480making a heck of a lot more money uh doing uh broadcasting and i didn't make a lot of money
00:16:42.000over the years doing it no pension none of that i had to work under a under the umbrella of a
00:16:48.560it's really amazing where we are right now and after you know 60 years of my life here i am
00:16:52.740doing youtube which is pretty amazing and i and i enjoy doing it on a daily basis
00:16:57.180Yeah. And you get up at a gut awful early hour to get those videos out there, which I appreciate. So it's nice to start the morning and I catch what you've gone on about and a lot of federal issues. You hit again on the carbon tax, you know, we can't today. And I appreciate that. Like we can't let the government off the hook with this. As you said, now they're doing the about face and changing their tune on the carbon tax. Well, where is our money? What happened with it? Can you kind of expand on what you had to say with that?
00:17:27.180well what i said today was we heard yesterday that
00:17:35.080it's now been you know upset at your poly after not taking credit over um the carbon tax disappearing
00:17:46.800as mark carney wrote it away because if he hadn't been yelling out acts of tax for two years that
00:17:51.320would still probably be in place today. But I think that with the carbon taxes, we've been
00:17:57.800taken advantage of for so long. And today I said, you know, where's my money? I'd like to get it
00:18:02.700back. I thought Pure Poly during the campaign should have given everybody a carbon tax rebate
00:18:07.840to kind of refund some of the money that's been stolen from us over the years, which accomplished
00:18:12.060absolutely nothing, Corey. This did nothing for the environment. Stephen Harper said that carbon
00:18:18.060taxes are not about um lowering emissions they're about raising revenues and that's what the liberal
00:18:23.160government did for years six years in a row every april 1st and um i was just saying i want to speak
00:18:31.000out for everybody give me my money back give it back well it's a valid point that not enough people
00:18:36.760are pointing out as well i mean if you do believe that global warming climate change all those bad
00:18:41.820things are the biggest issue facing us today and and it's going to you know cost the future for the
00:18:47.280next generations well you should have been asking how well the bloody carbon tax is working and it
00:18:51.940hasn't done darn thing the temperatures haven't changed uh weather patterns haven't changed it
00:18:57.480was truly a completely useless policy uh maybe we should be applying that critique though now if we
00:19:04.220missed it on the consumer one on to the the commercial uh the industrial carbon tax because
00:19:08.360it's not gone. It's just moved. It has. And I mentioned this morning that, you know, we're
00:19:18.320going to get basically two more carbon taxes, the industrial carbon tax, as you mentioned,
00:19:22.860and the carbon border adjustment mechanism, which if things coming into the country don't live up
00:19:29.300to Mark Carney's rules when it comes to emissions, then they're going to put a tariff on it, which
00:19:33.380is going to cost Canadians more money. So if the money from the carbon tax, the carbon tax we've
00:19:39.480been paying every time we put gas in our car or pay to keep us from freezing to death in the
00:19:42.980wintertime, if that raised inflation, what are these two other taxes that are coming going to do
00:19:47.100to inflate inflation here in Canada? Yeah. So yeah, it's a bit of a delay. It's a little
00:19:58.060frustrating. The problem with the new media and going live, we still get some hiccups now and
00:20:02.800then. Maybe I'll turn a little bit, though. You've been also very outspoken, as if I, on looking at
00:20:08.920the Western independence issue. I mean, the frustration we've had, nothing's changing on
00:20:13.960the federal front. All we changed was the prime minister. He's put the same gang of clowns back
00:20:17.680in the cabinet. He hasn't repealed any significant policies that will impact the West. But the
00:20:24.840movement is still, I guess, having trouble getting out of the starting gates. What are your thoughts
00:20:29.040on where the independence movement's sitting right now in the West, even though it's got strong
00:20:31.880support building? Well, you know, I did a video, I've done a couple of videos, and I don't want
00:20:40.820to go over the same ground, Corey, but my concern is that there's really no leadership here.
00:20:46.280There's really no plan. There's really no communications. We've got a number of people
00:20:51.320who say they speak on behalf of the independence movement here in Alberta. I think of Jeff Rath,
00:20:55.340who I admire greatly. I think he's got a big voice, but I don't think he's the voice of the
00:21:02.100independence movement. You've got Cam Davies, who I question what his motivation is. He's got an axe
00:21:08.100to grind with the UCP. He's got an axe to grind, I think, with Danielle Smith, the Republican Party
00:21:13.480of Alberta, an unfortunate name for a party, considering what's been going on down south of
00:21:19.420the border. Then you've got something like Jeevan Mangat from the Wildrose Independence Party.
00:21:22.740and I was looking for some unity from these groups and somebody to come out to lead this
00:21:27.800movement and nobody does we need somebody to do that and I know I know people think that there's
00:21:33.960lots of time here but I don't believe that I think we need to get our ducks in a row now we need a
00:21:37.940leader we need a cohesive message for this or we're going to fail when it comes to the independence
00:21:42.060movement here and that's my real concern in fact this brings me back to 2019 I initially went out
00:21:48.660to an independence meeting in North Calgary, there were about a thousand people in an auditorium in
00:21:54.240North Calgary. And I think it was the Wexit party at that time, if I remember correctly. And after
00:21:59.380that, I started receiving email from two different groups who are at each other's throats. And I
00:22:03.960think there are lawsuits involved here. And I started to kind of move myself away from the
00:22:09.160movement because there was all this infighting. And I think all of these groups need to bury the
00:22:14.300hatchet, get together. We've got a common cause here. It's for independence in Alberta, and we
00:22:18.660have to have a cohesive voice. We have to have a leader. And I haven't seen that person come
00:22:23.280forward. That's my real concern here. Yeah. And I mean, a challenge when you get multiple groups,
00:22:29.680I mean, I've kind of spoke to an advantage of that in that it allows things not to be torn down by
00:22:34.560perhaps one group or another group, but at the same time, getting a consistent messaging is
00:22:39.920difficult. I mean, one group might be saying one thing, the next is saying another. And, you know,
00:22:45.020even if they aren't fighting with each other, it's giving your average undecided voter who's
00:22:48.980considering independence mixed messaging. And if you feel mixed messaging on a decision as big as
00:22:53.700independence, you're probably not going to make the mark on that yes box. So we need one person
00:22:58.160in the front, at least to speak for the movement. But I mean, they don't pop out of the ground like
00:23:04.380daisies. We don't really see anybody standing out to take that role yet.
00:23:09.920You know, I've been thinking about that. My wife sent me an email last night to do a series of videos on who you might think would stand out in this position. I really don't know who that person is right now. I was watching about a week or so ago, Candace Malcolm on Juneau News was talking with Preston Manning, you know, and Preston Manning back in 87. His message was the West wants in.
00:23:33.700He wrote an article, I think it was in the Globe and Mail, slightly before the election started.
00:23:37.900And I think he realizes the West wants out.
00:23:40.260He said if the Liberals win, there's going to be a growing independence movement here in Alberta.
00:23:45.020And I look at somebody like him, he's certainly, no disrespect to Mr. Manning, who I have a lot of respect for.
00:23:50.260He's certainly not of the age to lead a movement like this.
00:26:42.840yeah and i'll keep doing those videos at least like i said as i say in a lot of them i just
00:26:46.700want to share the mistakes i made so we can quit repeating them and get on with some new mistakes
00:26:50.820and uh you know eventually we'll run out of mistakes so uh you know before i let you go
00:26:55.160then where can people find you because your voice has been great and i'm looking forward as i said
00:26:59.240i love seeing independent media developing and getting out there and your show is a great watch
00:27:03.900so i want more people to tune into that in the mornings and then uh you know just start off the
00:27:08.380stay right. Well, thank you. If you search for John Bolton, you're going to come up with 5 billion
00:27:19.920videos of the former UN ambassador for the United States, that John Bolton, you know,
00:27:26.920the nemesis of Donald Trump. So look for John Bolton AB and you'll find my channel. It's been
00:27:33.200a great success back in early December. I had 400 subscribers. I just, I think I'm reaching 32,000
00:27:39.080now. I appreciate everybody for coming there. They come to see me in the morning with my big
00:27:43.400blue mug. I was at the Independence Rally May 3rd. I was the emcee there and I brought my big blue
00:27:48.260mug. Dozens of people came up to see me. I've got more recognition doing those morning videos than
00:27:53.160I did in 35 years of broadcasting on the radio. So it has been great fun. I appreciate you having
00:27:58.820me on today, Corey. I really do. Thank you so much. Well, it was great, John. And I look forward
00:28:04.620to watching more of your videos as you produce them. And well, we'll talk again soon, I'm sure.
00:28:10.220We got an exciting year ahead of us, if nothing else. I think we can pull it across the line,
00:28:19.440Corey. I really do. Let's all work together. I think that's the number one message that needs
00:28:23.700to be passed along to everybody all the people who are speaking out right now get together and
00:28:28.860i think we can do it i'm looking forward to it i really am thanks again great thanks so that was
00:28:34.080john bolton ab if you look that up you'll find him on youtube but he's on uh x as well actually
00:28:39.300i should have dug that up there uh you know but the best stuff is as you you could tell with with
00:28:44.540john speaking he uh the broadcasts don't come out with some of the lag that we had going on today
00:28:51.160with this show necessarily, but no, they're nice and crystal clear when you get John's show in the
00:28:57.260mornings. And that's how we bypass legacy media. As he was pointing out, there's going to be,
00:29:04.040if we're talking about just the independence movement, there's going to be opposition coming
00:29:07.980from all sorts of directions. They're rubbing their hands together. It's a lot easier to tear
00:29:11.900something apart. That's when it's on its way up than to actually get something together and growing
00:29:17.120and moving on its way up. And legacy media is all in with the Federalists. I mean, most of legacy
00:29:24.320media takes federal subsidies. So they do not want to see things change and they are not going to do
00:29:30.620us any favors. But you know what? We don't need them anymore. You don't need the talk radio anymore.
00:29:35.580You don't need the conventional television anymore. The future is on social media and John's doing it
00:29:43.160through YouTube. This show's broadcast for YouTube, Rumble, X, LinkedIn, all those places
00:29:48.500we stream out to. And that's how we can get our information unfiltered and get some of these
00:29:55.380things done. I mean, meanwhile, getting back to media, I should point out, yeah, as I mentioned
00:29:59.520earlier, Dave Naylor is in Israel right now. And he's covering some of the things. He's been putting
00:30:06.860out live video clips that you can find on X and on the Western Standard site from some of the
00:30:12.460horrible areas of where the slaughter has been going on, you know, where they came in and
00:30:15.480murdered families and kibbutzes and at a music festival. I mean, we get people on the ground
00:30:22.420and get out there and get you that news and information. And it's the, I don't know how
00:30:29.620else to put it. You know, when you see things like this, what Dave's doing, it again reminds you,
00:30:33.840you don't need the old form of media to get to those things. Further with that, I'm looking at
00:30:39.320the stuff coming out across Canada. In Toronto, the Hamas supporters, they're just getting
00:30:44.980totally out of control. They are attacking Jewish-owned businesses. You know, the world0.99
00:30:51.720has seen this before. And they're doing almost the game of, you know, getting as close into
00:30:57.080somebody's face, but I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you, while intimidating, while
00:31:00.860targeting. So they were smoke bombing people on a patio. You know, there are people committing
00:31:07.260the crime in the eyes of these terrorists supporting scumbags and that's what they are
00:31:10.540scumbags just want to have a coffee but they're at a jewish-owned cafe and suddenly these losers0.99
00:31:16.980these masked scumbags are coming and getting in their face and and intimidating them and
00:31:21.480lighting smoke bombs in their face and the police don't do a damn thing why because mayor chow0.87
00:31:29.440is a hamas supporter that's the only explanation any longer the toronto police and the weakness
00:31:36.620the limp-wristed approach, the pantywaists, going up and bringing coffee and donuts to0.98
00:31:41.200terrorist supporters in our streets while they target and intimidate an identifiable group.
00:31:46.820If it had been anything else, I mean, just imagine if there were Klansmen masked going
00:31:51.300into a black district weekend by weekend by weekend and marching and intimidating the
00:31:56.880black people in front of their houses. How quickly would the authorities move on that?
00:32:00.220And they should. But, oh, this is Jewish community. So we just carry on.1.00
00:32:05.000it's, it's, it's beyond the pale. But again, it's showing how broken Canada is. You want to know
00:32:10.880one of the first international accolades that Prime Minister Carney managed to get was Hamas.0.91
00:32:21.140For the second time now, Canada has been thanked by Hamas for its stances on the slaughter of
00:32:31.160Israeli people by that gross terrorist organization. This country is broken. And so0.99
00:32:37.540that's part of why, yeah, I want absolutely nothing to do with Toronto, with Canada, with what's left
00:32:43.780of it. And look what we got to look forward to, right? We still have no budget. There's no budget
00:32:49.360yet. There's not going to be a budget this year. He hasn't even scheduled it for next year.
00:32:55.060Really? We don't need to operate with a budget. The massive amount of spending that Carney has
00:33:01.040promised now, and no budget to tell us how that's going to work. I mean, we are looking at, and we're
00:33:07.420getting reports, Canada's moving into a recession, they're looking at possibly hundreds of thousands
00:33:11.460of jobs being lost soon, and we can't even get a budget out of the federal government. You know,
00:33:17.980speaking of the economics of independence, and it's one of the videos I got coming up in a little
00:33:22.160while, but I mean, because people deride Alberta and Saskatchewan, say you guys are only economically
00:33:27.740based on why you want independence. Well, it's not just that, actually. It's freedom-based as well.
00:33:33.140You know, Jen mentioned Barber, who's part of the longest mischief trial in the world's history.
00:33:40.160It's still going on because of its participation in the convoy.
00:33:45.120We haven't changed anything. What measures have come in to keep the government from imposing
00:33:48.480the Emergencies Act against people who oppose the government in the future? They haven't.
00:33:51.780So no, there's more to it than just the economy. But the economy is a big one. When you can't put
00:33:56.020food on the table and you can't pay your mortgage or rent, you know, when you actually aren't
00:34:01.420nourishing your children properly, the ties that bind to a broken system of a federation are going
00:34:08.720to weaken really fast and things are going to get worse fast. So Alberta, Saskatchewan, we have the
00:34:16.620means to be, you know, again, one of the most prosperous free countries in the world and we will
00:34:21.120and we can base a movement on the economics of it and not just the the cultural aspect alone
00:34:27.600culture is great language is great it separates things but again when you can't pay the bills
00:34:32.960you re-evaluate a lot of things we can't save canada we can it's it's beyond repair in a lot
00:34:39.700of ways but we can save the west let's look at one of the other things i mean what's going on
00:34:45.800Canada Post. You know, let's pivot a little here to our unions, right? Canada Post going on strike
00:34:55.240again. They just went on strike in December. Canada Post had lost $3 billion up to that point.
00:35:01.180They were losing about $300, $400 million a quarter for years and years. Billions they're
00:35:06.700losing. It's an obsolete service. They used to deliver 5 billion letter mails a year.
00:35:13.300now it's two billion letter mail a year but we still have as many postal employees as we ever
00:35:19.100had uh justin trudeau one of his uh dumber promises was to protect home delivery for mail
00:35:26.680there's still a third of canada's mail is delivered direct to the house five days a week
00:35:31.500how much junk mail do you need how many canadian tire flyers do you need
00:35:35.260i tell you what being a postie is a good gig you make a decent income for a completely unskilled
00:35:41.560job. And let's not pretend it's a skilled job. If you can walk and you can read, you can be a
00:35:46.560postie. It's got a good pension, great overtime benefits, the whole works. And they're going on
00:35:54.120strike. It's not enough. They want more. They want job protections. That's enough. That's enough.
00:36:00.260Now, will Carney show the courage to do what has to be done? I doubt it because he hasn't shown any
00:36:05.060yet. What has to be done? Canada Post has got to be cut down to about 20% of what it is. We don't
00:36:10.860need home delivery five days a week, one or two at best. We don't need home delivery at all,
00:36:17.700actually. We need it to just centralized mailboxes. I mean, we can lay off the vast
00:36:23.520majority of those guys. We don't need them. We have email. We have direct deposit. We have
00:36:29.620electronic billing. We just don't need it anymore. And for those clowns to go on strike yet again,1.00
00:36:36.300no, this is the opportunity. This is the time when the federal government should say, that's it,
00:36:40.680you're done, you're out. We're cutting it down. But will they? And there's other people saying,
00:36:45.180well, it's a crown corporation. You know, don't worry. It doesn't cost taxpayers. That's the line
00:36:51.260they tried to use last fall when these entitled postal monkeys went on strike. And no, because
00:36:58.020we ended up bailing them out for over a billion dollars. They're losing billions. Now the
00:37:02.780taxpayers are directly paying for Canada Post. It's much like CBC. It's something that most of
00:37:09.100don't use anymore, but we're still paying the full price for. And it's got to stop. How many
00:37:13.900more billions can we afford to pour into a service we don't need? But the federal government might
00:37:20.220keep going. Let's talk, you know, further on stupid unions. I mean, they always offer a lot of
00:37:25.560fodder for us. Unifor, Canada's biggest private sector union, apparently. That's the union that
00:37:33.920actually is a lot of journalists are members of. And what they are demanding is that Mark Carney
00:37:41.720crack down on businesses that are trying to leave Canada. Yeah. You understand what kind of scary
00:37:50.740talk that is? Crack down on businesses leaving Canada. What are you talking about? You're going
00:37:56.540to steal their assets and not let them move them? You're going to seize them? Are you going to force
00:38:02.100them to stay in business, put a gun to their head, say, you must operate in this country.
00:38:06.160We'll charge you if you don't. For people who haven't read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrug, that's just
00:38:11.240the sort of thing they pulled in that book. People said it was fantasy. Apparently not.
00:38:17.040Socialism, which is really the kiss and cousin of communism, always fails. Always. There's a 100%
00:38:24.040record of failure. They suck. It stinks. It doesn't work. It's an ideal and it's dumb.
00:38:28.540But we keep trying. We keep trying. Oh, it'll work this time. No, it won't.
00:38:32.100And one of the best indicators of why socialism always fails is because the country that imposes it always suddenly has to try and stop the flight of professionals and people of ambition from their jurisdiction.