Corey rants about communism and why it s time to get rid of the bureaucracy. Also, we have a new addition in the office and a change in the News Check-in. Corey has a new guest, Franco Tarrazzano of the Taxpayers Federation, who joins the show to talk about some polling on whether or not Canadians would like to see the federal government gone.
00:03:45.820Now, those people are senior citizens, and their grandchildren are being indoctrinated by an education system dominated by privileged idealists who speak of the ills of capitalism while earning six-figure incomes and living in gated communities.
00:03:58.100The education system doesn't tell students how communism killed 148 million people between 1917 and 1987.
00:04:05.180Instead, it rails against capitalism, which created the highest standard of living within the most peaceful and free nations on earth.
00:04:11.200Polling is now indicating that younger North American people are assuming an increasingly
00:04:15.020negative view of capitalism. They really don't know where their bread's buttered. They've been
00:04:18.700taught that capitalism is responsible for all the ills from social inequity to financial inequity
00:04:23.200to unhappiness. They really need to try a little time on a Soviet bread line. The consequences of0.82
00:04:27.600this shift are dangerous and real. Socialist Zoran Mamdani easily won New York City's Democratic
00:04:34.480mayoral primary on a platform of state-run grocery stores in a rental freeze. He may very well become
00:04:40.400the mayor of one of the largest cities on earth, and his policies are going to be a catastrophe.
00:04:44.680Socialism is the kissing cousin of communism. Socialist policies are used as incremental
00:04:48.880steps towards communism. And as socialism creeps in more deeply, authoritarianism always follows.
00:04:55.460China began reforms to move from pure communism in the late 70s. That led to economic growth,
00:04:59.680but they never shed the authoritarianism. Governments never willingly grant new freedoms.
00:05:04.160Those have to be taken back by citizens. People who value freedom, people with talent, people with
00:05:08.640ambition all chafe under socialism and they try to flee it. That's why it's only communist countries
00:05:13.500that actually have to block citizens from leaving their nations. We never saw people trying to move
00:05:17.480into North Korea and folks aren't taking rafts from the United States to make a new life in
00:05:21.380Venezuela. Communism only works in theory and when those who have experienced it fade away,
00:05:26.200the theorists dominate again and they're in academia and they're dominating the discourse.
00:05:31.420Universal basic income policies. That's the latest thing the socialists are pushing. They're using
00:05:36.160the excuse of AI impacts on the economy to pitch making every single citizen dependent upon the
00:05:40.560state through welfare payments in a UBI scheme. Some claim that economist Milton Frieden supported
00:05:46.020a UBI system, but they're misrepresenting what he was pitching. His vision involved a negative
00:05:50.260income tax system with a vision of a shrinking government, the size and scope of it getting
00:05:54.440ever smaller. And it's not going to happen. His approach is as unrealistic as the contemporary
00:05:58.760proponents of the system. What it will do is create a massive class of parasites while the
00:06:03.140productive will be squeezed harder to sustain them until the system collapses. Survivors of
00:06:07.620communism didn't just teach us about the economic failures of communism. They related the life of
00:06:12.600fear, living within an authoritarian society, the secret police, the lack of personal freedoms.
00:06:17.980But look at it now. Many of today's youth didn't think twice when complying to COVID reactions.
00:06:22.140The state learned how easily compliant citizens have become, and authoritarians now even ban
00:06:25.720citizens from not walking in the woods. 40 years ago, moves like that would have led to a mass
00:06:30.000protest from the young who learned at the feet of their parents what the dangers of authoritarianism
00:06:33.840are. Now they just shrug and stay confined to their quarters, play video games without question
00:06:38.400as ordered by the state. Young ambitious people who value freedoms are supposed to be our bulwark
00:06:43.680against creeping authoritarianism. Now they're docile and compliant. We should be reaching out
00:06:48.860to the survivors of communism to speak one more time. Get out there, guys. There should be a
00:06:53.440public education push to remind every generation that no matter how appealing communism might
00:06:57.480appear to the vacuous at a glance, it has a 100% failure rate. It's a part of history that we can't
00:07:03.560afford to repeat. All right, that's where I wanted to go, guys. Communism is like herpes. It's never
00:07:10.340gone. At best, it goes into remission for a little while. All right, so I've got today a substitute
00:07:16.200Dave, and that's Dave Winnick from the newsroom coming in to speak for the other day. How's it
00:07:20.120going? Not too bad. How you doing, Corey? Right on. Good, good. So you've moved from back, you know,
00:11:01.240Oh, my breath. We're going to be like Cuba. You know, we're going to have those old,1.00
00:11:04.760old combustion engine vehicles that would be worth a while.
00:11:07.080oh yeah either way i do feel for our farmers suffering under that i mean it's harvest time
00:11:12.040there that's our prime prime oh yeah we export i think it was five billion or whatnot in 2023 i
00:11:18.200think it was five billion dollars worth yeah it was huge between the us and china that's where
00:11:21.960most of it goes yeah i think it was what was it four i have what is it 4.5 million tons so that's
00:11:26.2003.8 billion dollars so that's crazy yeah and it's not like farmers can change their mind at this
00:11:31.240point in the season and say well we'll see something else yeah exactly committed at this
00:11:34.760point. Well, hope for resolution. Anything else you're working on before I let you go?
00:11:39.320What's coming up? Oh, I've got a few things down the pipeline. You'll just have to wait and see,
00:11:42.120Corey. Oh, geez. That doesn't help. I could never hand out teasers. All right. Well, thank you very
00:11:47.080much. I appreciate the check-in. I appreciate it as well. I'll let you get back in there working
00:11:51.160on that news copy that you do so well. Will do. Thanks. I appreciate it. All right. Thanks, Dave.
00:11:56.440So yes, this is why we can afford to have two Daves is because you guys have been subscribing
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00:12:22.840And as you can see, I mean, our staff is just expanding.
00:12:25.840There really is an appetite for truly independent media out there.
00:12:29.920So if you've already subscribed, thank you very much.
00:12:32.920And if you haven't yet, come on, keep subscribing.
00:12:35.480You know, if we get enough subscribers, we could probably get a third Dave back there.
00:12:38.340I mean, you can never have enough Daves in a newsroom.
00:12:40.580So let's just see what else is going on here out there.
00:15:40.020Now, we asked Leger to do two polls for us, okay?
00:15:44.140The first poll, very simple, asked Canadians,
00:15:46.880do you think the government should cut, increase, or maintain the size of the bureaucracy?
00:15:52.420And like, look, the polling results show that more than half of Canadians
00:15:55.960said it's time to cut the size and cost the bureaucracy.
00:15:59.400Only 4% of Canadians said that it should be increased.
00:16:03.220So I guess even some of the government bureaucrats are looking around their offices
00:16:06.180and being like, yeah, there's some fat to cut.
00:16:08.000but like look if you remove people who are unsure or don't know a total of 66 percent or two-thirds
00:16:14.760of Canadians are saying enough is enough take out the scissors it's trying it's time to trim the fat
00:16:20.500in Ottawa so just to uh play a little bit of devil's advocate I mean if they cut too much
00:16:26.900they cut too quickly wouldn't everybody suffer and be under you know a terrible pressure due to
00:16:31.060all the lack of all those government services provided you mean the federal services could get
00:16:35.760worse than what they are now? Is that what you're saying, Corey? I don't know. There's always room
00:16:40.020to get worse. Look, it's a great segue into the next question that Leger asked, okay? Because
00:16:45.820you know, when I talk about the cost of the bureaucracy, I always got to say, like, ask
00:16:50.160yourself, are you getting 77% better services from the federal bureaucracy? And it turns out the
00:16:56.480answer to that question is a big fat no, right? So the Leger poll, the second question found that
00:17:01.82050% of Canadians think services have gotten worse since 2016. Okay. Only 11% said that services have
00:17:12.320gotten better since 2016, but even the majority of those people still say that services should
00:17:17.980be better than what they have. So, you know, you asked me, well, if they cut off a bunch,
00:17:22.640you know, if they lay off a bunch of bureaucrats, fire a bunch of bureaucrats, will services get
00:17:26.660worse? Well, you know, I got to put that question back to the government union bosses that are
00:17:30.560fear-mongering right now over potential savings and be like hey hold on a second you uh the cost
00:17:36.540of the bureaucracy has gone up significantly for Canadian taxpayers and yet services are are still
00:17:42.400dismal okay so I look at the numbers and I'm like holy like this is such a bloated government
00:17:47.720and clearly adding more bureaucrats doesn't mean better results for Canadians no and a parallel to
00:17:55.200it which is you know kind of it's a different discussion kind of but it it offers a good
00:17:59.960parallel or can to post workers. Whereas, you know, we aren't getting more postal service than
00:18:04.400we ever did. In fact, we're using less than we ever have. But the cost of the institution is
00:18:08.540rising higher and higher. And I've been a little vocal online about my thoughts on postal workers
00:18:13.920and perhaps they should seek newer employment. But the union types and everything keep saying,
00:18:17.620well, you'll pay even more when they're all on welfare. How could we lay them off? It would mess
00:18:21.520with the entire economy. They contribute so much through their taxes. You know, that argument is
00:18:25.740going to come from the bureaucracies and their unions as well, right? Well, hold on a second
00:18:29.740though, right? The average compensation for a federal bureaucrat, the average is $125,000 a
00:18:37.260year. So no, we're not going to be paying more when it, when, and if the government cuts its
00:18:42.900bureaucracy, right? Like, come on. I mean, look, the bureaucracy is consuming more than half of
00:18:47.820the government's operating budget. And like, to a point that I think you're getting at,
00:18:51.940there's just certain things that we don't need the government to be doing, right? We don't need to
00:18:55.860have a essentially a government monopoly handing out mail right like come on we got email we've
00:19:01.900had email for a very long time we definitely don't need a government monopoly we don't need
00:19:05.840a government state broadcaster okay we don't need the government losing hundreds of millions of
00:19:11.860dollars trying to operate a train company i.e via rail right so there's just so many different
00:19:17.300things that we don't need any government to be doing and we especially don't need a government
00:19:21.940in ottawa to be doing so what about areas i mean one of the larger ones and they just went on strike
00:19:26.660last year i believe was a cra workers that that's a large section of the government i mean arguably
00:19:32.740that is an area where we will need a degree of bureaucrats and i i think most people agree they
00:19:37.460don't really work very efficiently whatsoever but how do you begin cutting in there well look one of
00:19:43.860the problems and i mean the cra uh highlights highlights the overall problem of the federal
00:19:48.340bureaucracy uh to a tee right where the cra has seen the second largest growth in its number of
00:19:54.100bureaucrats among all the different departments and agencies since 2016 and yet services are still
00:19:59.620poor right you've heard the taxpayer ombudsperson talk about the fact that the office is is flooded
00:20:04.820with complaints right so like good luck trying to get the cra on the phone when they inevitably
00:20:09.860mess up one of your tax returns you know what i mean so this is like the pure example to show that
00:20:14.900more government bureaucrats does not mean better services where you've seen the the the payroll of
00:20:19.940the cra um explode in recent years like higher and higher cost of taxpayers and yet the services have
00:20:25.860gotten no better i mean corey let me also talk about another aspect here right because it's not
00:20:31.140just the number of government bureaucrats that has gone up but the cost has as well because over the
00:20:36.020last four years the federal government has rubber stamped four million or sorry over one million
00:20:42.020pay raises over the last four years uh the federal government has rubber stamped 1.5 billion dollars
00:20:47.220in bonuses since 2015 and all these bonuses have been going on uh when for when departments can
00:20:54.100barely meet half of their own performance targets right like that's like writing your own tests
00:20:59.540getting a d minus and then giving yourself an eighteen thousand dollar bonus check i mean corey
00:21:04.980let's talk about you know probably the pinnacle of government waste over the last couple years
00:21:09.860Arrive scam, right? That simple app launched with a price tag of $80,000. It ballooned all the way
00:21:17.020up to $60 million. It became a national scandal. And then government executives working on that
00:21:24.020failed app, turn around and took home $340,000 in bonuses. So it's not just talking about cutting
00:21:31.240the number of bureaucrats. We got to talk about cutting the perks and pay of government bureaucrats
00:21:36.960as well. Oh, absolutely. It's ridiculous when we start hearing some of those. We've been beating
00:21:41.660up on the federal bureaucrats quite a bit so far here, and they've earned their beating thoroughly.
00:21:46.600But, and I know most of that poll is focused on federal, but there's plenty of room for
00:21:50.380provincial governments and civic governments to cut their bureaucracy as well, isn't there?0.99
00:21:54.460Oh, yeah. I mean, this is kind of the name of the game when you're looking at governments at
00:21:57.860all different levels, and I guess across provinces and even cities, is that government
00:22:02.900bureaucracies is what make up a huge chunk of each type of government's budget, right? And like,
00:22:08.860look, it all has to start at the top. I know I've been focusing on federal the most part, but
00:22:13.040we really have to focus on one more element here, and that's the political level, right?
00:22:17.880The politicians. Look, in Ottawa, our members of parliament give themselves a raise every single
00:22:23.280year. April 1, every year, they pad their pockets with higher pay from more of your money. And like,
00:22:29.260look, the government unions, before there was that major strike that happened back in 2023,
00:22:34.820like the government union bosses, they were pointing to the annual salary increase that
00:22:40.380members of parliament take every single year as a reason why bureaucrats should get more of
00:22:45.580taxpayers cash. So not only is the government bureaucracy a huge problem at all level of
00:22:50.320government, but so is the political out of touchness, so to speak, for a lack of a better
00:22:55.360term, especially in Ottawa. We're a backbencher, right? Along with collecting dust in the House
00:23:00.820of Commons is collecting a $210,000 salary. A minister's, right? Salary north of 300 grand.
00:23:08.060The prime minister's salary north of 400 grand. And every single year they're giving themselves
00:23:12.300salary increases that they don't deserve. For example, why would a finance minister of Canada
00:23:18.040deserve a pay raise when every single year they're running deficits in the tens of billions of
00:23:23.880dollars it makes no sense well and i think you know something that happens with politicians in
00:23:29.460general at every level is they they lose sight of whose money they're actually entrusted with
00:23:34.000and it happens it's a there's a cross-partisan issue we saw that come up recently and you guys
00:23:38.820have been critical of it the ucp government in alberta decided that we don't deserve to see
00:23:43.460what their expenses are for mlas and ministers what on earth is going on there what are they
00:23:48.900hiding that's a great question like what on earth is going on there because they should know better
00:23:53.780right? Like, come on, like they should know better. How many people in that UCP government
00:23:58.880had made a career going after government accountability, right? Come on, Corey,
00:24:04.360like you and I have been around for a little while now. Like we all remember that you have
00:24:09.060different members within that government. If another government would have done this,
00:24:12.680they would be losing their minds and they would be right to do so. Like, look, number one,
00:24:17.740to your point, what are you hiding, right? If you remove the receipt requirement from being online,
00:24:23.340like taxpayers have every right to be like, Hey, what are you trying to hide from us?
00:24:27.900But number two, and the heart of the matter is this, it is not those politicians money.
00:24:33.320It is the hard earned money of Alberta taxpayers and Alberta taxpayers have every right to know
00:24:39.080how their money is being spent. They have every right to be able to go online and proactively
00:24:44.120look at the receipts. So what we've seen from the Smith government on this issue here is completely
00:24:50.060the wrong move and they have to come out they go to apologize for the mistake and they have to
00:24:54.460right this wrong yeah no i certainly certainly hope they reverse them i just i also wanted to
00:24:59.260bring up just to remind people i mean yourself myself i mean speaking for myself i typically
00:25:03.580like most of what the ucp does but i'm going to hold them to account when they're wasting my money
00:25:08.300just as much as any other government and and we expect better of them you claim to be conservative
00:25:14.220you certainly were critical of them when the ndp was in power and then it's just bizarre i mean how
00:25:20.860did they not see the political mind they were stepping on when they pulled this off well hey
00:25:25.580corey you know before i came on the show i i called uh my colleague and a good friend of yours
00:25:29.820as well chris simms right our alberta director and i was talking to her about what's going on
00:25:33.980with this receipt scandal and she was also telling me some of the bogus claims that the government
00:25:39.660has been putting out there to try to defend its wrong decision. And she was telling me like,
00:25:44.580they're even saying that there's like safety issues, why they would take the receipts offline.
00:25:49.540Right. And I'm just sitting to myself like, that does not pass the sniff test for one second.
00:25:55.340Like Corey, you and I have gone out to restaurants or whatever. We've gotten receipts before. Never
00:26:00.840once has my receipt shown my own personal address. Right. Number two, if you are worried about some
00:26:07.600type of security issue. Well, I don't know, get a Sharpie, blackout the location of the place that
00:26:13.160you were staying. It's that simple. You know, all of this reminds me, that excuse reminds me
00:26:18.060of the Trudeau government, right? You'll remember the $6,000 per night hotel suite and the federal
00:26:23.880government didn't want to tell you that it was Trudeau who stayed in that room. What excuse did
00:26:28.460they give? Security, right? So like, look, I think the Smith government and really all governments
00:26:34.400across canada should try to hold themselves to a much better standard than the trudeau government
00:26:39.440when it comes to transparency yeah and almost all stay on their case i mean the the absurdity of it
00:26:45.360too it's not like the expenses were posted real time if it shows what hotel you stayed in it shows
00:26:51.120that you stayed there a month ago not today so people still don't know where you are right now
00:26:56.800it's just as you said it was the sort of thing i'd expect out of a liberal so it's pretty
00:27:00.400disappointing i hope they see the sense in this soon um one more thing i i see a press release
00:27:06.640came in that you guys have gotten like something of a court win when it comes to that capital gains
00:27:10.320tax uh shenanigans going on there yeah absolutely so hey you remember when the uh the federal
00:27:16.480government they wanted to move well really the cra said that they were going to move forward with
00:27:21.200this multi-billion dollar capital gains tax increase right and the cra was going to enforce
00:27:26.880it even before legislation was introduced in the house debated in the house or even passed into law
00:27:33.600right so immediately the uh the the canadian taxpayers federation we launched a legal challenge
00:27:38.640to fight the undemocratic and illegal capital gains tax increase now a week after we launched
00:27:44.480our legal challenge the federal government announced that it was backing away from the
00:27:47.840capital gains tax increase but we decided to continue with this legal challenge because we
00:27:52.720want to set the precedent. No taxation without representation, right? Unelected bureaucrats1.00
00:27:59.600shouldn't be deciding how much money to take from Canadians. The power of taxation has to0.89
00:28:04.400be within our elected representatives in parliament. Now, even though the federal
00:28:09.100government ultimately backed away from the capital gains tax increase, we are continuing to pursue
00:28:13.860this in the court to set that precedent. And the court just ruled, as the press release kind of
00:28:20.760says is that they're going to continue to hear our case, even though the other side didn't want
00:28:25.920that to happen. So we're pushing forward with this challenge to set that very important principle of
00:28:31.660our democracy, no taxation without representation. Excellent. Well, I hope it goes through as you
00:28:39.320hope, and at least make it a little tougher for these guys to pull these kinds of stunts. It's
00:28:42.620sad that we always have to be reactive, you know, when they just won't act principally to begin with.
00:28:47.960So you guys, I mean, again, the Taxpayers Federation, you're great with holding their feet to the fire. Before I let you go, where can people find what you're up to and support you guys if they want to?
00:28:57.580Well, Corey, thanks so much for having me on, man. Really appreciate it. Always fun to chat with you. Folks, head over to taxpayer.com. That's our website. Check out the newsroom. Got a bunch of great petitions on there. And if you want to follow us on social media, I mean, just type in Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and I'm sure you'll find us. But the best place to go to support us is taxpayer.com.
00:29:17.960Right on. Thanks, Franco. I appreciate you joining us today and the work you guys do.
00:34:32.860Jewish people in Canada. And it's being unchecked. We saw it recently with a Jewish man attacked on
00:34:41.680the streets, beaten in front of his own kids. The Kippah pulled from his head and thrown down.0.95
00:34:47.020A number of politicians certainly spoke up to condemn it. A bunch didn't. And then we still
00:34:51.380see the same liberals condemning islamophobia over perceived things happening here and there
00:34:55.520while we're seeing the number one group in canada being assaulted the number one hate crime charges
00:35:00.720in canada are jews by a long shot but the extreme left that's in control of everything well they're0.99
00:35:06.600feeding that this this bunch of clowns at the film festival if they're gonna take stances like that
00:35:12.520they shouldn't be any bloody tax funding going to them fund yourself go to hamas ask them for
00:35:18.680some money. See if they'll pay for your crap. Canada is just turning into an embarrassment.0.70
00:35:24.880And, you know, where do you go with it? Well, I'll tell you one area to go with it. I mean,
00:35:30.520that's going to be something interesting here. Tomorrow, there's going to be the court ruling
00:35:35.800for some who have been watching Alberta news on, you know, the dueling referendum questions,
00:35:41.760the applications to petition to get a question on a referendum to be put in front of Albertans.
00:35:47.940We had Fabio, the disgraced Redford era MLA has his nothing burger question that he's putting
00:35:54.600forward to say, hey, Albertans, do you all just want to keep things the same? Really kind of
00:35:58.900wasting time and abusing the system. But I guess he's got the right to try and waste that time and
00:36:02.980do so. He's going to get 300,000 signatures within now it's going to be two and a half months. I
00:36:08.040doubt he's going to do it, but who knows. But on the other end, the real petition from the Alberta
00:36:12.800Prosperity Project or the real question, where it's talking about asking Albertans if they want
00:36:17.080to leave and become a sovereign province. The question isn't whether or not Albertans should
00:36:21.460or shouldn't, you know where I stand on that, but whether the question should even be put
00:36:25.640to Albertans. The chief electoral officer of Alberta said, I got to put that to a judge,
00:36:32.080see if we're allowed constitutionally to ask that. What? So cowardice on the chief electoral
00:36:38.120officer's part, but whatever. So that's gone before a judge and they made the case last week
00:36:42.860as to whether or not we're even allowed to ask the question. Tomorrow he's going to say whether
00:36:46.540or not we're allowed to ask Albertans on that. You know, I don't think it's going to stop the
00:36:52.220referendum, no matter which way that judge rules on this. The segment of Albertans, which is 30%
00:36:58.320or more, that's a significant amount who want to go and they're dedicated and they're working on it.
00:37:03.480They're not going to rest without having a referendum on it. And bottom line is, if it
00:37:09.920doesn't go through that route, I mean, we can hold it even if he doesn't rule it's constitutional.
00:37:14.700We can fight that out after the question is held.
00:37:18.340But I'm wondering if this judge is taking this into account.
00:37:21.840Because if he tells Alberta that we are not allowed to have the question on independence,
00:37:31.240it's also telling Quebec they aren't allowed as well.
00:37:34.460And we know in Canada, it's been kind of widely accepted since the 80s
00:37:38.860that Quebec has every right to ask their citizens whether they want to stay or go in a referendum.
00:37:44.700And that's their right as Quebecers. Fair enough. But is a judge in Alberta ready to poke that hornet's nest? You can bet the independence movement in Quebec, and they are not gone, are watching this very, very closely. I strongly suspect the judge is going to say the question can go ahead, but we'll see. We're going to find that out tomorrow.
00:38:05.980Elaine, a commenter saying, Montreal Pride re-invited the gay Jewish community group. Yes, yes. I'm sorry if I didn't clarify that. I mean, they did exclude them. And then, of course, once the backlash hit hard enough, they changed their mind and said, okay, okay, we'll let the Jewish LGBTQ group march with us.
00:38:24.340You know, I understand people distinguishing or claiming to distinguish between Israel and Jews and Zionists.
00:38:32.920You know, they love using that to cloak it with just saying Jew.
00:38:35.580And especially when you see some of the hate coming up, just say Jew.
00:38:37.680Don't try to pretend it's a Zionist thing.
00:38:40.360But we saw that with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek when she boycotted the traditional Hanukkah lighting in Calgary over this.
00:38:50.640Because she didn't want to look like she's supporting Israel.
00:38:53.060Guys, Hanukkah has been going on a lot longer than the current incarnation of Israel.0.99
00:38:56.720It was a local religious observance of Jews, not Israelis.
00:40:34.460if there's going to be a referendum held in Alberta
00:40:36.440and condemns what he called imperial federalism.
00:40:40.940So it's interesting. It's a new policy. There's some policy that sounds interesting that it would abolish all federal programs and regulations intruding on areas of provincial responsibilities. And we have a lot of that problem, you know, the health act, things like that. The feds are really getting into a lot of things they shouldn't. But would endorsing the yes side be a better way to go? I got to admit, like, I liked a lot of things that Bernie did. I like a lot of things he stood up for. He was one of the only ones that stand up against supply management, things like that.
00:41:08.500what really seems like the PPC to a degree now is just treading water and just trying to find
00:41:13.200stances to stay on to keep well funding themselves and keep keep Maxine with a job
00:41:18.480I mean not that I oppose they're supporting independence I'm supportive of independence too
00:41:23.500but where are you going what I think I see is that they see most of their donors are in western
00:41:30.720Canada and tend to be independent supporters so they want to keep them happy keep the donations
00:41:36.600coming. They're just not making an impact or a mark in any elections. The by-election is coming
00:41:41.600up pretty soon. I guess I should note that. That's been going on in Alberta. That's where Pierre
00:41:45.280Polyev is running to get himself a seat after having lost one. It's funny, the hypocrisy again
00:41:54.680to the left. They were pretty quiet when they had Ninchy bounced up into Edmonton to a safe seat
00:41:58.740where he doesn't live to get himself a seat as a party leader. But now that Polyev is doing it,
00:42:03.580it's outrageous. It's wrong. I understand that, yes, he lost his original seat. So what? Does
00:42:08.900that mean that you are not allowed to pursue another one? Guys, you haven't read much political
00:42:12.000history. You've seen how the parliamentary system works. And he is the leader of the opposition. He
00:42:16.580needs to see that sort of stuff happens. Is it the most democratic thing? No, I don't think it is.
00:42:21.200Is it really totally fair to the local constituents that they lose a local representative? No, not
00:42:25.440really. But it's also not the outrage some people are making of it. But I read a CBC article,
00:42:31.280You know, yeah, I know. I read these things, but I got to keep up on stuff. I mean, most of my week
00:42:36.100is reading and consuming and watching and bringing stuff up so I can write about it and do these
00:42:40.660shows on it. And the CBC went up there and really worked hard because they sought out to find a few
00:42:46.400farmers who actually said, yeah, I don't like PolyEv and I think I'm going to vote for a1.00
00:42:50.000different party this time around. Look guys, the conservatives win in that riding with like 80%
00:42:57.160support numbers. It's not going to change. Uh, you know, even if somehow it's a by-election
00:43:03.060and nobody comes out and the long ballot annoyed enough people, he might drop to 75%, maybe
00:43:08.44070. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't. But it shows as well that the CBC went to
00:43:13.900so much trouble to assign somebody for such a long hit piece, just trying to find somebody
00:43:19.340in the farm community who didn't like Polyev. I wonder how many doors they had to knock0.90
00:43:22.880to find that. Speaking of fools in Canada and being ethically broken, you know, we've been
00:43:29.160watching, and there's some degree of debate on whether or not, not too much, whether or not it's
00:43:34.040a bright idea to ban everybody from the woods, from the forests, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
00:43:38.080because the fire hazard is very high. Apparently people fart fire and it might just spark one up
00:43:42.100if they let people walk in there unsupervised. So they just closed it off. It's public land,
00:43:46.640guys public yes hours i can understand shutting down atvs you know vehicles campfires of course
00:43:53.660things like that even banning smoking in there any lit yeah i can see that bring down some rules it's
00:43:59.020dangerous fine but people can't even walk in there oh wait unless you're indigenous ah yes of course1.00
00:44:06.580we should have known they're not gonna this is a applies to everybody but the first nations as
00:44:11.780usual. There's going to be a Mi'kmaq led play in a park, a park that nobody else is allowed into
00:44:17.520right now. But since they're indigenous, well, we'll look the other way on that ban. We'll let1.00
00:44:21.660them in. Race-based policy, guys, is wrong. 100% of the time, always. There used to be a bunch of1.00
00:44:32.460race-based policy that was wrong, and it was oppressing Native people in Canada. There used
00:44:37.860to be people weren't allowed to leave their reserves without the authority of an Indian0.91
00:44:42.280agent. They weren't allowed to vote until later on. This was all wrong. But turning it around to make
00:44:47.620preferential race-based policy for them later doesn't undo the wrongs of the past. It's just
00:44:52.640committing more wrongs for the future. It's dividing us further. And it's making a damn
00:44:58.180mess. And you better hope these morons with their play don't start a fire or you'll really look like
00:45:02.660idiots, won't you? This is nuts. Yes, this is so important. We're going to lock Canadian citizens1.00
00:45:08.760away from all public areas in the trees and bush, except for a theater troupe of Indigenous people.
00:45:14.680Oh my God, you wimps, you pussies. Look, if you're really going to step on right, step on all of1.00
00:45:19.720ours. Don't racially, selectively do it, you idiots. Either way, I can leave off on that bright
00:45:25.660note. But there's lots of bright stuff to look forward to. Guys, watch the pipeline tonight.