Wildrose Leader Brian Jean Jean-Paul Bernier joins the show to talk about his new role as interim leader of the Wildrose Independence Party, and what it means for the future of the party. He also talks about why he thinks the party should go back to the fold.
00:00:26.800Well, like usual, they're not really doing anything in public, but they love meeting their little secret meetings and organizing and, I don't know, pontificating on things.
00:01:05.980Again, who can believe that we've gone from the wokeism of climatology and the fact that climate is changing, which, by the way, folks, it's always changed, to saying that they're going to reduce fertilizer.
00:01:20.600And yet, in their back breath, they talk about humanity and the importance of bringing up, you know, reducing poverty and feeding the world, that their actions actually show who they are.
00:01:43.220We need a government that is actually going to be there to protect the individuals, their rights, their life, their liberty, their property, their pursuit of happiness.
00:01:50.600And all of those things are being undermined.
00:01:53.400And we just need to get out and, I guess, reach out to Albertans.
00:01:58.080And I love your statement, go woke, go broke.
00:02:01.080Boy, does that pertain to government more than anywhere.
00:02:51.120Well, I think our members are going to take our party back.
00:02:55.000But, again, you know, when you're up against a cabal that has, you know, the communications lockdown, the website lockdown,
00:03:01.640they basically, you know, put a stranglehold on every area of our membership and putting out their, you know, ridiculous letters and slanderous letters.
00:03:13.380They're shooting ourselves in the foot.
00:03:15.680And it's very discouraging, you know, that I don't know whether you want to call them plants, gangsters, whether they're agents of destruction.
00:03:27.160You've been fighting the independent movement longer than anything, Corey, and you understand.
00:03:32.000But, boy, you really have to wonder, you know, some of these individuals that they've come in to make sure that we're not successful.
00:03:38.120And I have great faith in our memberships here on the 23rd of July at Baymont in Red Deer.
00:03:47.460We can't have a cabal of 10 destroying our party in the future for Alberta.
00:03:53.420Yeah, well, that's what I wanted to talk about because that's what kind of surprised me when I talked with you and Rick Northey recently was,
00:03:59.880okay, there's some disputes, there's some problems.
00:04:04.700But when you have an AGM coming that close, that's when ideally you'd say, well, let's throw it out on the floor at the AGM.
00:04:11.820We're going to have the members here, and this is when we can hash it out instead of trying to radically change the party 10 days before an AGM and leave members without a choice.
00:04:22.520So I imagine, I mean, you're going to be attending that AGM, and I hope it's a productive one.
00:04:31.940And again, you know, one of the sad things that we all realize is what people are like when they're intoxicated or high.
00:04:40.220And it's a real problem in our society when people get into that.
00:04:43.880The thing that I've realized more than anything when it comes to government and power and these institutions is that people become intoxicated and high with power.
00:04:52.780And again, they're just drunk and not thinking reasonable.
00:04:57.380And like I say, I have great faith in the members stepping up and saying, you know, we don't need you anymore to tell us what we can and can't do.
00:05:05.440And you don't respond to our emails and you don't.
00:05:09.880And again, it goes back to what we're talking with climate change.
00:05:12.440These woke individuals and woke politicians who want to reduce fertilizer and take away, you know, cheap fuel that helps, you know, an input into our basic life and living.
00:05:25.080And it's the same with inside government and our current board.
00:05:57.240I mean, I want to see a good competitive election.
00:06:00.340I want to see multiple parties really making a push.
00:06:02.500And unfortunately, when you're spending more time putting out fires from within rather than getting ready for an election in less than a year, it makes it difficult.
00:07:11.740And yet they want to attack these things.
00:07:14.060They want to reduce people's consumption of them.
00:07:16.720And it's just wrong what they're doing.
00:07:18.420And there's two things, Corey, I guess, that it's really boiling down to is trust and truth.
00:07:25.880And we have very little trust in our government, in our organizations, whether it's the WHO, whether it's, you know, Alberta Health Care, whatever it is, Alberta Education, that the trust has been diminished, if not, you know, eliminated for many people.
00:08:05.880And again, like it's disappointing to hear the front runner, who I absolutely say is the best of the pack, is now wanting to give away more money.
00:08:16.360How about making health care accessible instead of another ploy?
00:08:20.620And this is a problem that we have in this even so-called conservative movement, is more promises.
00:08:26.280What we need to do is promise to reduce the size of government.
00:08:28.960We need to promise to leave money in your pocket, not taxing it.
00:08:32.500We need to promise that you have your freedom, not saying what businesses you can and can't do.
00:08:36.840We need to reduce the regulations to say, you know, if you want to travel, you can.
00:08:40.100Give us back our constitutional rights.
00:08:42.420All of these core issues are being pushed to the side with, you know, little trinkets and sparkly items and a few flashing dollars saying, oh, you know, vote for me.
00:08:53.220And that's why the Wild Rose just needs to take back our party on the 23rd and be there for Albertans to actually have something that people can vote and believe in instead of the best of the worst.
00:09:03.520Well, things that kind of have to get worse before they'll get better and they are getting worse.
00:09:10.960And kind of, as I said, my monologue, when people can't pay the bills, when they can't feed the family, they're going to get up.
00:09:18.620And it doesn't matter how much you warn them about how the temperature is going to go up a degree in 50 years, potentially, or, you know, a tree frog in some obscure place.
00:09:26.800They're just worried about their immediate bills and they're not going to take it.
00:09:29.560So I guess the goal is, though, I mean, there's always that risk when people are ready for radical change because they've had enough.
00:09:35.800We're just going to make sure it's positive change because sometimes, of course, when people rush in a panic to change, they can take a negative path as well.
00:09:42.620So, I mean, it takes some planning and some electoral options and wisdom, I guess.