Western Standard - The Cory Morgan Show - Faux Protests with Dr. Vipond, Melissa Mbarki on Resource Development

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00:04:08.000 now getting on to other causes and BS and bad media and poor coverage

00:04:13.340 I'm going to start in on the faux protests that have been going on for the last five six days now

00:04:21.740 due to Jason Kenney Premier Kenney announcing that basically COVID is going to become endemic

00:04:27.860 you know Dr. Hinshaw came out she said look we've gone as far as we're going to go this is here to stay

00:04:33.200 we've brought it under control our health systems aren't being overwhelmed we've got to start

00:04:38.380 working on how to live with this disease going around now rather than an active battle rather

00:04:43.940 than shutting businesses down rather than forcing quarantining and testing and things and whether

00:04:50.060 you agree with it or not I mean the numbers are good they're good it's into August now you know

00:04:57.200 these same people who are lighting up their hair on fire and protesting every day were the same one

00:05:02.360 screaming a month ago saying when we took our masks off that the world was going to end well it didn't

00:05:07.100 deaths or there hasn't been a death in Alberta from COVID in over five days at the point of this

00:05:10.680 broadcast right now you know what a 4.6 million people this is not a catastrophe this is doing

00:05:15.480 really really well sure some cases are going up but you know what the truth is they're like the flu

00:05:20.600 at this point they aren't killing people and that's kind of what matters isn't it but it's not

00:05:24.840 enough for the crazed union crowd and that's what this is and that's what I want to go on about

00:05:28.820 so Dr Joe Vipond Joseph Vipond you see his name he pops up in front of the news he's second only

00:05:34.880 to the head and inchie for stuffing his face in front of a camera whenever he can find one to

00:05:38.780 blather his point of view he wanted to turn his own daughter if you research the guy look him up

00:05:43.340 Joseph Vipond into a little Greta Thunberg he was he was chasing her around there trying to get

00:05:49.460 photo ops with Thunberg when she was out visiting here he's heavy into the environmental issues he's

00:05:53.780 heavy into political activism and he's also a heavy duty NDP donor actually if you go to

00:05:59.060 CoryMorgan.com you'll see I've got those pulled up he donates thousands to the NDP every year and hey

00:06:04.460 he's a citizen he has every right to do that of course he does but let's not pretend this is some

00:06:09.940 unbiased doctor it's like I talked about before this is not a doctor who happens to be an activist

00:06:15.240 this is an activist who happens to be a doctor yet the media goes to him all the time as if this guy

00:06:20.740 is the authority to speak to on COVID and I mean he knows his medicine to a degree but you got to

00:06:25.920 remember and temper it with his political agenda and it is an agenda he wants I mean so what he's

00:06:31.780 called for outright called for is a general strike he wants the whole province to go on strike he's

00:06:37.640 demanding the resignation of Kenny he's demanding the resignation of Dr. Hinshaw he's demanding the

00:06:43.060 resignation of the health minister and he's saying he wants to have everybody come out on a giant

00:06:48.200 general illegal strike and bring the province to its knees and force that because he doesn't want

00:06:51.740 to wait a year and a half for an election democracy has never really been a big priority for socialists

00:06:57.440 though and Dr. Vipond has demonstrated that in spades so what we saw though so I went out in person

00:07:03.540 to his kickoff you know there's going to be protests every day till the government's brought

00:07:08.180 to its knees and I tell you they've been pretty sad but I went in person because there are only a few

00:07:12.120 blocks from the Western Standard Office and I checked it out let's see is this going to be the seeds of

00:07:16.740 this general strike is he gonna bring the province to his knees what I saw was political theater at

00:07:22.120 its most gross you know and and I took a lot of pictures I put a video rant out there I mean so I

00:07:28.880 mean for starters Vipond's wearing his scrubs the doctor's wearing his scrubs you didn't come right

00:07:33.560 out of the hospital this is for show I mean if anything if you did come out of the hospital I mean

00:07:39.060 aren't these contaminated shouldn't they go into a special laundry but of course you want to look good

00:07:42.620 you want to look like the tired doctor in front of the cameras you're downtown Calgary come on I'm

00:07:46.880 surprised he didn't have a stethoscope around his neck while he was at a little gurney back there

00:07:50.340 that he could pretend to do CPR upon but the media just lapped this up so he set up in a low spot you

00:07:56.460 know in the park this low spot down there it's outside the courthouse at the McDougal Center and it

00:08:02.000 was really neat and you can see in the pictures then the cameras all set around there must have been 30 or

00:08:05.780 40 media members every possible mainstream media I was out layer out there CBC French the works and

00:08:11.540 that way being down low with all the cameras around them and all the microphones in front of them all of

00:08:16.460 40 or 50 protesters 80 at tops if I want to be really generous then could stand around and really make

00:08:23.240 this look like a big crowd so thankfully I was there to be able to actually stand back 100 feet and show no this

00:08:28.400 is not a big crowd at all this is actually pretty damn sad despite all the pumping the hoopla and noise

00:08:35.060 this was a small crowd within 10 minutes after a Vipon speaking that was the end of it it was over

00:08:42.140 and the other neat thing and I got pictures of there that may may pop up was the masking you know

00:08:48.080 and and dr. Vipon said in his tweets if you're not wearing a mask you're not welcome by the way I

00:08:51.800 didn't wear a mask when I went down there it's our park too I can go whenever the hell I want there

00:08:55.340 is no mask laws get over it Joe don't tell me what to do well Joe goes off to a side interview of

00:09:00.920 course because again he got cameras he's got microphones and he does his interview two feet from a

00:09:05.000 gentleman and he's not wearing a mask he took his mask off because you can't do good political

00:09:08.680 theater from behind a mask I guess CBC French no less and he did demonstrate Joe speaks fantastic

00:09:15.120 French good on you what is your ambition anyways you know we look in federal you're looking to go

00:09:19.140 further with things want to show that you can speak French this absurdity and it's still going 0.73

00:09:24.300 on and I listen unfortunately I torment myself we don't have western standard radio in my car yet so

00:09:29.080 when I'm driving I listen to some other news networks and they talk about the daily protests

00:09:33.520 you know the pro the province is still not backing down and they're still going ahead with the full

00:09:39.120 reopening of everything on the 16th despite these daily protests these protests are nothing they're

00:09:44.720 lame they're bugger all and I'm gonna keep going down there I'm gonna keep watching them and that's

00:09:49.740 again yeah here's the self-serving plug if it wasn't for the western standard if it wasn't for others

00:09:54.060 going out there taking those pictures from 100 feet back to show what a bunch of bs this was

00:09:58.260 anybody else tuning into the evening news would think there was some giant groundswell of opposition

00:10:02.960 to these policies I think some people are cautious on this they're not sure if it's the right move

00:10:09.380 but obviously they weren't motivated enough to all come out on mass and actually demonstrate

00:10:14.920 they're gonna watch and wait that's the majority of the province the vast majority of the province

00:10:19.320 a lot of those people down there protesting were holding up teachers union signs and things like

00:10:23.760 that this is a union group this is the term for this is astroturfing you're trying to make it look

00:10:29.480 like there's a big public groundswell of support or opposition to something when there really isn't

00:10:35.600 and with the part that was more stomach turning astroturfing is nothing new but was that complicit

00:10:40.220 media down there not being critical whatsoever basically participating with him to make this look

00:10:47.200 like something it wasn't and we've got to call that out we've got to report on that crap because we can't

00:10:53.240 act properly as citizens if we aren't getting the right picture what's actually happening outside

00:10:56.960 so the MSM mainstream media is letting us down yet again and they've done so so we're going to keep

00:11:03.520 watching that they're not far from the office I don't expect this to blossom and develop into something

00:11:07.520 especially since as the days keep going on the hospitalizations remain down and the deaths are not

00:11:13.120 happening we'll see time will tell now I'll get on to something a little more positive I've got a great

00:11:21.140 guest coming up her name is Melissa Embarkey she is very outspoken on Twitter you might have seen her

00:11:28.000 on there she's with the McDonnell Laurier Institute and she speaks to indigenous and aboriginal issues

00:11:33.520 and I'm going to have a chat with her about indigenous involvement in the energy sector conventional oil

00:11:39.060 field gas pipeline developments things such as that because you know they're hitting the news

00:11:42.940 and again the media portrays it as if First Nations are opposed to all development and that is tearing

00:11:48.360 apart communities and it's anything but the truth but it's good to get some clarity from an expert like

00:11:53.520 Melissa so let's get on with it all right so I'm joined with Melissa Embarkey of the McDonnell Laurier

00:12:01.260 Institute for people on social media you might have seen her she's been very outspoken on Twitter

00:12:06.480 uh policy analyst and outreach coordinator and indigenous policy so it's a a big field to cover

00:12:15.020 in an important area that's been in the news a lot so thank you very much for coming on to talk with me

00:12:19.260 today Melissa yeah thanks for inviting me and I I know with what you work on is again as I said a huge

00:12:26.500 field we could probably talk for hours but what I'd kind of like to focus on today is the energy sector

00:12:32.140 uh we've been you you've worked in the energy sector for some time we're finally seem to be coming out

00:12:37.780 of the pandemic there's been more demand for energy we're reinvigorating our fields we're getting rolling

00:12:42.680 but we just really want to make sure that our you know indigenous partners are taking part and

00:12:49.780 participating as much as possible how are things looking in that front um things are looking a little

00:12:55.620 better in terms of consultation and operators going out there and working with indigenous communities

00:13:01.380 so that being addressed um is making huge strides in the industry I think what people need to understand

00:13:08.340 is that indigenous people don't um oppose natural resource um development what they were opposing was the

00:13:16.260 consultation piece that was often missed um in first nations communities so we need to be aware of what it

00:13:23.380 is that we're asking and what it is that we are opposing and if there are people that are opposing

00:13:28.980 certain lines um you know they have their own agenda um they don't necessarily even speak for the

00:13:34.340 community that uh these lines are going through so I think in the future we need to start parsing out

00:13:41.300 what the issues are and who is actually um creating these issues and for what reason because once you get

00:13:49.380 down to that answer you'll find that the communities are actually in favor of many of these projects

00:13:55.540 because we do see the benefit that um you know these projects bring to our communities in terms of

00:14:01.060 workforce development in terms of small businesses like it brings a really um it brings a really big

00:14:08.980 um you know it brings a workforce that we never would have had prior so that's the stance that most of

00:14:15.700 us are coming from and I think we need to start listening to the voices of our chief and council

00:14:20.100 and our elected leaders you know so yeah I worked in the oil field for a long time and in isolated

00:14:25.380 regions and consultation and I think respect is the biggest word that gets lost I mean no community

00:14:30.580 wants to feel like companies are coming in and shoving them out of the way or or they don't want

00:14:34.820 participation in the token sense I think what we should be seeking is partnerships where we can mutually

00:14:40.260 benefit I imagine and that's one of the things that we we've been asking for our community benefit

00:14:46.020 agreements um because that encompasses everything uh from royalties to workforce to even um the areas

00:14:55.220 of housing you know a lot of these operators have seen the deplorable housing that first nations 1.00

00:15:00.100 communities have and they've actually stepped up and you know set aside funds for housing developments

00:15:06.500 and for um you know renos in these communities I grew up in a first nations community so I know

00:15:13.780 how bad these houses like I know just how um you know the living conditions can be um over

00:15:22.820 you can have four families living in one house you know and you know anytime we get any kind of

00:15:28.820 investment is is huge in these communities um you know when these agreements are signed these are one of

00:15:35.460 the things that first things that we look at is housing water um social community um programs these

00:15:42.820 are things that we put this money to and a lot of people don't realize that you know like we this money

00:15:48.980 goes directly into the reserve whereas if you look at funding like from isc this money doesn't always

00:15:55.620 100 make it to reserve you know like it gets channeled through um I'm gonna say contractors it gets

00:16:02.820 funneled through think tanks before any of the money actually hits a community so operations like

00:16:08.660 this goes directly to communities and I don't think people are seeing that and I think they do need to

00:16:14.820 realize that projects like this do greatly impact people on reserve yeah well and like any other

00:16:22.660 community I mean indigenous communities are going to have multiple points of view I mean we'll never have 1.00

00:16:27.300 everything anything where everybody agrees with the program part of the difficulty that we've been having

00:16:32.180 though is the consultation is great but we get multiple people saying they speak for the community

00:16:37.380 and while you might want to come in and really do consult you're not sure if you're consulting with

00:16:41.460 the right people how is that going to be resolved in the future well how it's always happened is that

00:16:49.220 before a band or first nation signs into an agreement they have to take it back to their communities and it

00:16:56.020 has to get voted on so the process that we go through is called the bank council request where

00:17:02.660 they bring the project forward it's either a yes or no you agree with it or not and then the community

00:17:09.220 community members vote on it and they say yes or no so most of the time 80 of the communities are in

00:17:15.620 favor and the other 20 or even 10 you know those are the ones that you hear in social media those are the

00:17:23.860 ones that are saying no we don't want this project to go through but your community just voted like

00:17:28.980 your community just went through this democratic process to say yes and now you're coming along and

00:17:34.580 saying no we don't want this so I think at the end of the day we need to figure out how the community

00:17:40.820 came to this decision and we need to respect their decision as well you know it might not be a decision

00:17:46.260 that I agreed with but at the same time if 80 percent of the people said yes I go with it you know regardless

00:17:53.380 if it was something that I agreed to or not and I think a lot of people they latch on to the ones

00:17:59.140 that say no and say oh look at this is what's going on when in actuality it's not yeah well in

00:18:06.020 particularly with the coastal gas link for example there was hereditary chiefs who were respected and

00:18:11.620 members of the community who were outspoken against the program though all of the elected members had

00:18:16.980 been in favor uh it's just difficult I guess and confusing to people outside of the community to know

00:18:21.940 what's going on there sometimes well with the head of hereditary system that's not uh something that

00:18:27.860 we see across Canada that's not something that you find in communities in Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba

00:18:33.460 this isn't something that's very common out there and very few northern BC communities have this

00:18:39.940 so I think for you know we need to kind of get over that um perception that they're the ringleaders

00:18:48.500 in our communities they do have a place in our communities and the people do need to figure out

00:18:53.780 what that place is for them um my grandfather was a respected elder and the community went to him for

00:19:00.900 advice but at the end of the day he wasn't the one that said yes or no to things you know like he guided

00:19:07.140 them as best they could and it was whatever the people decided that was his stance on it so different

00:19:13.620 communities govern themselves differently and I think the outside needs to see that and they also

00:19:19.380 need to realize that the hereditary system isn't for everyone and um it might be prevalent in some

00:19:25.540 communities but it's not for all and that's not a system that I'm very familiar with um but just from

00:19:32.500 what I see from the outside you know they need to get a community involvement um if their elected chief

00:19:39.140 chief and council got the community to say yes and they're saying no they need to find a way to bridge

00:19:43.940 that gap and they need to find a way to work with their people yeah so I mean a lot of it's just well

00:19:49.220 any community has their internal uh discussions and means and it's not always a non-messy process that's

00:19:55.060 just to be respected something that's kind of excited going forward though is we're seeing more

00:20:00.820 potential for outright investment and partnerships like there's groups that are considering investing

00:20:05.220 directly into the trans mountain pipeline and other projects have you seen much progress on on some of

00:20:09.940 these uh indigenous groups and coalitions moving forward with these sorts of things uh we definitely

00:20:14.740 see a lot more communities that are wanting to invest into these lines because we realize that's

00:20:19.620 the vital piece of infrastructure and we realize that it's the safest way to transport oil and gas

00:20:26.340 you know if you see these train derailments that have happened in the last five or so years that

00:20:31.700 they're they're quite high in number and you know it's not the safest way to transport oil I'm not

00:20:36.580 saying you know we need to find a balance of it we need to find a balance of real you know tracking if

00:20:43.780 we have to but at the same time we can't rely on just one mode of transportation we need to be able

00:20:49.140 to get our product out there by multiple sources and we need to make sure they're safe so if if people

00:20:55.460 are having concerns with pipelines then maybe the way to go is to increase regulation and to

00:21:01.540 say okay maybe we need modern monitoring systems every so often you know so it does detect the

00:21:07.460 leak right away we need to be fighting for things like this and not saying no to entire projects um

00:21:13.940 you know we need to be working with industry to figure out solutions and we're not doing that like

00:21:19.380 we're just bottlenecking them every step of the way and that's not the right way to go

00:21:24.980 yeah well it's a good communication inside and outside of the the indigenous communities like when

00:21:30.100 you get up north pipeline right away your average person would cross one and wouldn't even know it

00:21:33.780 they just think it's a cut line I mean they're not necessarily as detrimental or damaging and actually

00:21:38.340 in some areas I know a lot of trappers use them for access to their trap lines uh they're handy for

00:21:43.140 hunting I mean if they're well managed with erosion control and and responsibly they they won't harm

00:21:48.580 the region very much at all not at all and a lot of times these right right of ways are they're pretty

00:21:54.180 small like I mean the average one is 15 meters in length so they're not taking up a whole lot of

00:21:59.300 space out there and uh you know everything from it being um constructed and you know getting the line

00:22:07.300 in it it it follows really heavy environmental standards you know if they find a frog along the

00:22:14.180 way you know they stop operations to make sure these frogs are relocated a lot of people don't see this

00:22:19.860 they just see it as this this bad thing and actually if you look at the industry itself they

00:22:25.380 follow some of the harshest regulations out there and um but that means you know we can do better

00:22:30.980 you know we can always do better um but we definitely need to find that balance between

00:22:37.060 having these pipelines and creating a regulatory process that you know that they that will keep the

00:22:43.220 environment safe or safer yeah well and likewise outside of that when I worked uh on say seismic

00:22:50.100 projects we'd be in and out of the area we would bring in monitors from the the nearest uh communities 0.78

00:22:56.340 in the area to show us uh traditionally sensitive areas keep us away from areas where we might be doing

00:23:02.740 damage that we're we're not uh you know fit for our sort of operations and things such as that people

00:23:08.100 don't realize that we are making those efforts to avoid and keep the impact as low as possible and

00:23:13.140 and keep the communities dialed in and we would hire a lot of local people when possible too

00:23:17.540 particularly for brush clearing in that because they're familiar with the area and they're fantastic

00:23:21.300 up there they can work in the cold as opposed some city kid we would stick out there um is there been

00:23:26.020 much training and and working to bring people out there into operations and into active work on on

00:23:31.460 the projects as they go i think going forward uh this is definitely something the operators can think

00:23:37.140 about like how are they going to utilize first nations communities in their workforce how are they

00:23:41.940 going to you know help startup businesses small businesses um you know these are things that we

00:23:46.900 want to be part of and i think the conversation is going to go towards that direction versus you know

00:23:54.020 saying no to any sort of project i think if companies can bring these communities on board right from the

00:24:00.340 get-go so that they can actually see what goes on with these projects like they can look at the

00:24:05.940 environmental assessments that happened prior to anything being constructed they can follow along with the

00:24:11.460 regulatory process they can follow along with the construction process and then when it goes live

00:24:16.900 you know community members need to see projects from start to finish and sometimes what we're seeing

00:24:22.020 is that we're only brought in on the construction phase of it without ever seeing the regulatory

00:24:27.700 approval part of it which could take years if not decades so i think operators definitely need to be

00:24:34.100 they need to bring these communities on faster quicker and they need to definitely have them being

00:24:39.540 partly you know need to include them as part of that process because when you see how long a project

00:24:44.500 takes when you have this person saying no at the end it you know you can counter some of their arguments

00:24:51.940 and you could say well you're saying no to something that happened you know five years ago and we

00:24:57.780 you know we remediated that situation or we came up with this solution so it actually helps community

00:25:04.020 community members come up with solutions rather than problems along the way yeah well and it was

00:25:10.020 very important for us when we would bring monitors in and and do this they knew it wasn't tokenism we

00:25:15.060 were we want to bring local community members out we're going to see things that i don't know as a

00:25:18.740 contractor who's coming up and they can go back to the community and say yes we communicated that we

00:25:24.500 we approve of this we know what's going on up there we know what's going to happen and we've avoided

00:25:29.860 uh difficulties i i think the old ways often used to be just to try and cut a check to somebody make

00:25:34.500 it quiet and just plow on through it but it's not like that at all anymore no and it shouldn't be

00:25:40.260 and i think this is where our voices are starting to be heard and um as i've said before you know

00:25:46.500 we're not saying no to development we're just saying we're saying no to the console

00:25:50.980 and you need to have a be part of those projects and it's not just in a token way like people

00:26:01.860 genuinely genuinely learn um going through this process um if i hadn't gone through this with my

00:26:07.540 own community i wouldn't have known what had happened from start to finish um and then it later

00:26:14.260 influenced my decision and you know becoming involved in oil and gas so you know there's a lot

00:26:19.860 of key learnings out there and i think if we can include first nations um in these learnings then

00:26:27.060 they then we can all become part of the solution as opposed to creating problems in the future

00:26:33.460 yeah no that's great so what have you been working on lately with the mclaurray institute institute what

00:26:39.060 can we look forward to uh you releasing or speaking to in coming days um right now the hot topic is

00:26:45.300 residential school and i think with the search for unmarked grave um you know it's going to be in

00:26:51.620 in the media or you know it's going to be in the spotlight for quite some time um but we do address

00:26:57.380 different issues uh especially when it comes to fisheries you know that's also going to be an

00:27:01.460 ongoing issue um natural resource projects pipelines you know as as things start to um get

00:27:08.500 underway in our economy and you know things start moving a little bit faster you'll start to see

00:27:14.420 these issues arise again so we're just kind of addressing the you know current um the current

00:27:20.260 issues and then just going from there so it could be anything fisheries it could be pipelines uh you

00:27:26.180 just never know yeah well and the residential school discoveries i mean i've been just horrifying

00:27:32.020 for everybody and kind of drove home what we all are always knew we just really had it brought into

00:27:37.860 our faces and hopefully some productive ends come from this in the in the long run it certainly

00:27:42.420 made everybody much more sensitive and and uh difficult these days exactly um i think it just

00:27:48.660 brought more awareness out there like you said you kind of always knew this was out there but

00:27:53.540 people may not have known about the unmarked race and it just you know it just sheds lights on

00:27:58.980 or sheds a light on the indigenous issues that are out there um which are which encompasses

00:28:05.220 everything so we just never know what's going to be thrown into front and center uh so yeah we just

00:28:12.740 take it day by day and we just deal with it as it comes well great well where can people go to find

00:28:18.740 more information on what you've been working on and what's going to be coming up um usually a lot of

00:28:24.660 the op-eds and webinars are on the mcdonald laurier site so people can visit that and see what you

00:28:30.740 know the current topics are um twitter is usually a pretty good feed uh for all the current issues

00:28:36.740 and uh my stance on different indigenous issues um and yeah just i think twitter is probably the

00:28:43.460 best place but mcdonald mcdonald laurier institute is definitely another really good reason

00:28:48.740 yeah well twitter is good for that one-on-one engagement uh maybe even a little bit of scrapping

00:28:52.900 sometimes but the the deeper reads uh the mcdonald laurier institute i imagine would provide that

00:28:58.580 exactly great well thank you very much for joining me today i i appreciate the update and what you're

00:29:04.340 up to and i'd just like to hear some voices of optimism and cooperation you know not that black 0.94

00:29:08.500 and white this is on this is off like we really can all work together and benefit for some of the

00:29:13.780 resources we're blessed with out here in canada exactly great well i look forward to talking to you

00:29:20.180 again sometime soon yeah well thanks for having me on your show all right thanks melissa all right

00:29:26.020 well that was refreshing like i said i like having some positive policy you know discussions and talk

00:29:31.780 at times and let's talk about solutions not fighting you know the first nations aren't going away energy

00:29:37.540 demand isn't going away how can we work together how can we all benefit from this melissa is definitely

00:29:43.460 working proactively on these sorts of things and there are a lot of other people out there as well who

00:29:47.860 are we just don't always hear about them uh again getting back to my favorite target you know

00:29:52.340 the mainstream media they want to report on conflict they want to report and talk to whoever

00:29:56.580 the the most haywire opponent to a project is whether they actually speak for the people out there

00:30:02.020 or not and and uh some good rational discussions benefit us all so melissa's doing great work at

00:30:08.180 the mcdonald laurier institute and we're making progress with development as she said we've got

00:30:13.860 other challenges with fisheries and resource development in general mining hydroelectric

00:30:18.340 you name it we've got to get better at this rather than fighting about it all the bloody time

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Western Standard - August 06, 2021

The Cory Morgan Show - Faux Protests with Dr. Vipond, Melissa Mbarki on Resource Development

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