Western Standard - The horrors of communism are being forgotten

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:28.900 Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show as we hit the tail end of summer.

00:00:33.600 Even though in summer a lot of things slow down in the news,

00:00:35.340 there's still plenty going on and we'll be covering a whole lot of that.

00:00:39.380 We've got a new fixture in the office.

00:00:40.740 Jeremy, you can see over my shoulder over there.

00:00:43.560 We've switched some folks around and we'll have a little bit of a difference

00:00:46.520 in the news check-in in a short time.

00:00:48.420 So be sure to send an email and say hi to Jeremy there.

00:00:51.800 We've got from the Taxpayers Federation, Franco Tarrazzano is going to come on

00:00:55.720 and talk about some polling those guys have done on whether or not

00:00:58.760 Canadians want to get rid of the bureaucracy and we'll have a news check-in and some other things

00:01:04.880 going on soon. I do want to mention, so I was in Longview, well yeah, I was in for a short time in

00:01:10.260 Longview last weekend and we mentioned that with Dave during the news check-in. Jane has a thing 0.98

00:01:15.180 she sets up at farmers markets, things like that and I said on the show that I would be there and

00:01:20.780 I was. I helped Jane set up and I helped her break down but I didn't state it clearly enough. I guess

00:01:25.560 A couple of folks actually came out to meet me at that and I wasn't there and I feel terrible about that.

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00:01:33.980 I know you drove all the way to Longview. It's a nice drive. I mean, I bet that, but I'll grab you a coffee.

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00:01:48.780 So it wouldn't be just a table carrying my honey there at that.

00:01:52.480 All right, let's get on with what I'm going to rant about today.

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00:02:04.720 So I'm going to talk about communism here, guys.

00:02:07.380 It's been 36 years.

00:02:09.380 Yeah, some of it's great enough to remember it.

00:02:11.160 The world witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall on their TV sets.

00:02:14.060 The wall was a symbol of the repressive nature of communism,

00:02:17.600 and its fall was the beginning of the end of communism in Europe.

00:02:20.440 The Soviet Empire crumbled soon afterwards, and while Eastern Europe still struggles with

00:02:25.700 some elements of freedom and democracy, it's incontrovertible they're much better off now

00:02:30.100 than they had been under communist leadership. But unfortunately, as time passes, it's being

00:02:34.020 forgotten just how odious communism was. The siren call of a fantasy world of happiness and

00:02:40.880 equality under an all-controlling benevolent government that's offering communism is actually

00:02:44.560 starting to take hold on the younger generation, and it's going to end really poorly for the

00:02:48.700 Western world if this sick ideology isn't countered decisively and soon. It's a mind

00:02:53.760 rot that festers until fools manage to actually implement communism to prove yet again that 1.00

00:02:58.740 it's an untenable system that offers nothing but corruption, suffering, and death. Without 0.99

00:03:02.800 active communist states to serve, though, as an example to the West, it becomes easier for people

00:03:06.900 to forget the ills of the system. Generation X, of which I'm a part, grew up with the imagery of

00:03:12.980 people risking their lives as they climbed the Berlin Wall while being shredded with razor wire

00:03:17.080 and fearing a bullet from a Soviet soldier.

00:03:19.680 We watched people desperately building ramshackle rafts

00:03:22.960 and trying to reach Florida from Cuba,

00:03:24.560 and many died on that trip.

00:03:26.300 The most effective voices against communism

00:03:28.700 were those who'd actually lived in it and endured it.

00:03:31.500 They counseled their children about what they suffered

00:03:33.880 and what they must never happen again.

00:03:35.720 They offered stories and experiences

00:03:37.160 to help a generation visualize

00:03:39.160 what it was like living in a system

00:03:40.440 where the state controlled every aspect of your life

00:03:43.080 to the point where you're actually willing

00:03:44.420 to risk your life to escape it.

00:03:45.820 Now, 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.

00:03:58.100 The education system doesn't tell students how communism killed 148 million people between 1917 and 1987.

00:04:05.180 Instead, it rails against capitalism, which created the highest standard of living within the most peaceful and free nations on earth.

00:04:11.200 Polling is now indicating that younger North American people are assuming an increasingly

00:04:15.020 negative view of capitalism. They really don't know where their bread's buttered. They've been

00:04:18.700 taught that capitalism is responsible for all the ills from social inequity to financial inequity

00:04:23.200 to unhappiness. They really need to try a little time on a Soviet bread line. The consequences of 0.82

00:04:27.600 this shift are dangerous and real. Socialist Zoran Mamdani easily won New York City's Democratic

00:04:34.480 mayoral primary on a platform of state-run grocery stores in a rental freeze. He may very well become

00:04:40.400 the mayor of one of the largest cities on earth, and his policies are going to be a catastrophe.

00:04:44.680 Socialism is the kissing cousin of communism. Socialist policies are used as incremental

00:04:48.880 steps towards communism. And as socialism creeps in more deeply, authoritarianism always follows.

00:04:55.460 China began reforms to move from pure communism in the late 70s. That led to economic growth,

00:04:59.680 but they never shed the authoritarianism. Governments never willingly grant new freedoms.

00:05:04.160 Those have to be taken back by citizens. People who value freedom, people with talent, people with

00:05:08.640 ambition all chafe under socialism and they try to flee it. That's why it's only communist countries

00:05:13.500 that actually have to block citizens from leaving their nations. We never saw people trying to move

00:05:17.480 into North Korea and folks aren't taking rafts from the United States to make a new life in

00:05:21.380 Venezuela. Communism only works in theory and when those who have experienced it fade away,

00:05:26.200 the theorists dominate again and they're in academia and they're dominating the discourse.

00:05:31.420 Universal basic income policies. That's the latest thing the socialists are pushing. They're using

00:05:36.160 the excuse of AI impacts on the economy to pitch making every single citizen dependent upon the

00:05:40.560 state through welfare payments in a UBI scheme. Some claim that economist Milton Frieden supported

00:05:46.020 a UBI system, but they're misrepresenting what he was pitching. His vision involved a negative

00:05:50.260 income tax system with a vision of a shrinking government, the size and scope of it getting

00:05:54.440 ever smaller. And it's not going to happen. His approach is as unrealistic as the contemporary

00:05:58.760 proponents of the system. What it will do is create a massive class of parasites while the 0.94

00:06:03.140 productive will be squeezed harder to sustain them until the system collapses. Survivors of

00:06:07.620 communism didn't just teach us about the economic failures of communism. They related the life of

00:06:12.600 fear, living within an authoritarian society, the secret police, the lack of personal freedoms.

00:06:17.980 But look at it now. Many of today's youth didn't think twice when complying to COVID reactions.

00:06:22.140 The state learned how easily compliant citizens have become, and authoritarians now even ban

00:06:25.720 citizens from not walking in the woods. 40 years ago, moves like that would have led to a mass

00:06:30.000 protest from the young who learned at the feet of their parents what the dangers of authoritarianism

00:06:33.840 are. Now they just shrug and stay confined to their quarters, play video games without question

00:06:38.400 as ordered by the state. Young ambitious people who value freedoms are supposed to be our bulwark

00:06:43.680 against creeping authoritarianism. Now they're docile and compliant. We should be reaching out

00:06:48.860 to the survivors of communism to speak one more time. Get out there, guys. There should be a

00:06:53.440 public education push to remind every generation that no matter how appealing communism might

00:06:57.480 appear to the vacuous at a glance, it has a 100% failure rate. It's a part of history that we can't

00:07:03.560 afford to repeat. All right, that's where I wanted to go, guys. Communism is like herpes. It's never

00:07:10.340 gone. At best, it goes into remission for a little while. All right, so I've got today a substitute

00:07:16.200 Dave, and that's Dave Winnick from the newsroom coming in to speak for the other day. How's it

00:07:20.120 going? Not too bad. How you doing, Corey? Right on. Good, good. So you've moved from back, you know,

00:07:24.380 We've got Jeremy back there now.

00:07:26.680 Your claim to fame was the acuity and skill with which you destroyed the Shanghai noodles back there. 1.00

00:07:33.240 Yeah, finally on this side of the glass for a change.

00:07:35.300 There you go.

00:07:36.260 And you write some excellent news stories.

00:07:38.880 Thank you.

00:07:39.200 And you've been very prolific since coming here not too long ago.

00:07:41.740 So welcome to the show and looking forward to your updates.

00:07:45.820 So what's happening in the newsroom right now?

00:07:47.340 Well, I guess starting off the bat, Dave Naylor, our editor-in-chief, he's going to, or actually he's in Vancouver at the moment.

00:07:54.380 And I think he's there for about a week or two, I think.

00:07:57.180 And apparently Air Canada now starting, I think it's going to be tomorrow,

00:08:00.480 is going to start canceling flights going forward for the weekend.

00:08:03.120 I think there's going to be about 10,000 flight attendants that are ready to walk off the job.

00:08:06.560 Apparently, they're talking about poverty wages and I guess talks with the union near Canada broke down.

00:08:11.340 So we'll see if Dave's going to be back in two weeks or not, I guess.

00:08:14.080 He's driving out there, though, didn't he?

00:08:15.640 I have no idea, actually.

00:08:16.560 He might be driving back.

00:08:17.500 Nobody even knew if he was even out there for two weeks or if it was just a week, but I guess it's two now.

00:08:21.900 It might expand.

00:08:22.900 He'll take that excuse.

00:08:23.660 see if he's got his car there exactly those those uh flight attendants were offered something like 0.52

00:08:28.380 a 38 raise and they still uh said no well i think it was too it's kind of weird as well because they

00:08:34.140 aren't getting paid for anything except when they're airborne so it's like you know when

00:08:36.940 they're boarding and that they don't even get paid apparently they were saying what they claimed yeah

00:08:40.060 yeah i have no idea but i guess i guess we'll find out when talks sort of resume i guess whenever

00:08:43.980 that's going to be yeah so they're gonna make the uh the government's gonna have to step in probably 0.93

00:08:47.340 on that one that's the joys that come when the government says okay we're going to take away

00:08:50.380 the ability to have replacement workers well then all of the in federally regulated areas

00:08:54.780 it means that the feds are going to have to step in pretty much every time there's a strike well

00:08:57.580 you would assume as much yeah oh well i hope too many people don't have flying plans this week i

00:09:01.820 sure don't that's for sure yeah i'm not going anywhere anyways um in other news um you know

00:09:05.980 our christian artist uh sean foyte that's been causing about a true controversy or whatnot

00:09:10.620 recently with um sort of his uh mega affiliations and whatnot and let it let us worship concerted

00:09:16.060 all over the country. Apparently, he's going to be doing one at the Alberta legislature grounds

00:09:20.380 on the 22nd, which is only the second one that hasn't been canceled so far in the whole country.

00:09:24.220 I think the first one that wasn't also canceled was in Saskatoon on the 21st. I guess we'll see

00:09:28.220 what happens there, if there's going to be protesters or what the deal is. Well, you know,

00:09:31.980 carry on, guys. You've taken a guy who nobody'd really heard of aside from a time.

00:09:36.100 I haven't, yeah. Chased him all over, but I'm sure it's probably going to be packed. It would

00:09:39.280 have faints he manages to hold. Well, you would assume as much because it is apparently supposed

00:09:42.280 to be free. I don't know if the other ones were, but this one is, according to what data we've

00:09:45.860 Well, hopefully, if it gets stupid, it's still safe, at least. We don't need the nutcases getting too... 0.99

00:09:50.420 Well, hopefully, it's a turning point. Yes, we don't have any... Yeah, exactly. People getting rambunctious.

00:09:54.420 And also, lastly, speaking of communism, China. Tariffs on Canadian canola, apparently, are going to start on Thursday. 75.8%.

00:10:01.220 What do you think about that?

00:10:03.940 Well, you can get me going.

00:10:05.120 Might as well.

00:10:06.300 Well, it says a lot. It's the usual thing, because this is all coming about, because Carney...

00:10:11.140 I think that was under Trudeau, actually.

00:10:12.600 They put a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles

00:10:15.320 to protect an electric vehicle manufacturing market

00:10:17.400 that Canada doesn't actually have.

00:10:19.820 And meanwhile, now, Western Canadian farmers

00:10:22.100 are paying the price for it as China retaliates at us.

00:10:25.800 So good move, Mr. Carney.

00:10:27.460 You're really shaking up things

00:10:29.560 without your fine diplomacy and economic work.

00:10:31.960 And as usual, Westerners pay the bill. 0.98

00:10:33.920 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:34.480 Well, someone you were saying had to do

00:10:35.780 with electric car tariffs or whatnot from China.

00:10:38.340 Do we even import that many electric cars from China?

00:10:40.640 No.

00:10:40.840 I don't think so. That's why I don't really understand what the whole deal is.

00:10:43.800 And we don't manufacture many into Canada either. You know, we failed. We keep pumping money into

00:10:47.800 battery plants and everything. I guess they figure if they could just ban enough competition,

00:10:51.240 ban the production of regular cars, starve the Western farmers enough,

00:10:55.400 suddenly the market will blossom for this Canadian made electric vehicles.

00:11:00.120 Hopefully, hopefully.

00:11:01.240 Oh, my breath. We're going to be like Cuba. You know, we're going to have those old, 1.00

00:11:04.760 old combustion engine vehicles that would be worth a while.

00:11:07.080 oh yeah either way i do feel for our farmers suffering under that i mean it's harvest time

00:11:12.040 there that's our prime prime oh yeah we export i think it was five billion or whatnot in 2023 i

00:11:18.200 think it was five billion dollars worth yeah it was huge between the us and china that's where

00:11:21.960 most of it goes yeah i think it was what was it four i have what is it 4.5 million tons so that's

00:11:26.200 3.8 billion dollars so that's crazy yeah and it's not like farmers can change their mind at this

00:11:31.240 point in the season and say well we'll see something else yeah exactly committed at this

00:11:34.760 point. Well, hope for resolution. Anything else you're working on before I let you go?

00:11:39.320 What's coming up? Oh, I've got a few things down the pipeline. You'll just have to wait and see,

00:11:42.120 Corey. Oh, geez. That doesn't help. I could never hand out teasers. All right. Well, thank you very

00:11:47.080 much. I appreciate the check-in. I appreciate it as well. I'll let you get back in there working

00:11:51.160 on that news copy that you do so well. Will do. Thanks. I appreciate it. All right. Thanks, Dave.

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00:12:35.480 You know, if we get enough subscribers, we could probably get a third Dave back there.

00:12:38.340 I mean, you can never have enough Daves in a newsroom.

00:12:40.580 So let's just see what else is going on here out there.

00:12:45.880 Interesting things.

00:12:46.700 You know, the parliamentary session is going to be quite something when it comes up.

00:12:50.680 I see the Conservatives are really kind of coming out swinging.

00:12:54.020 You know, there's the Canadian Sovereignty Act that Pierre Polyev is going to put out there

00:12:59.460 to kind of push and encourage, I imagine, Carney and the Liberals to move on things

00:13:05.180 because they really keep talking a big game, but they aren't doing anything.

00:13:08.500 And Bill 5 is all talk, but he always puts a caveat.

00:13:10.920 Oh, as long as we have consensus.

00:13:12.200 Well, in other words, then nothing's going to get done.

00:13:14.500 So, you know, the Sovereignty, Canadian Sovereignty Act for the Conservatives,

00:13:18.300 it's not going to pass. It won't. That's the way it works in our parliament, but at least hopefully

00:13:22.940 it can dominate the discussion. And I see Michelle Rempel-Garner. She's pushing out saying they want 1.00

00:13:29.460 to eliminate two-tier justice by, this will be interesting, prohibiting judges from factoring in

00:13:33.780 a non-citizens immigration status when determining sentences. Sounds so bizarre, but we might

00:13:38.200 remember that story not too long ago with that sick fellow. And no, I didn't mean it sick in the

00:13:44.720 seek in that sense. I meant actually sick because he tried to buy services from a 15-year-old girl

00:13:49.500 and was charged with that. And the judge said, well, we'll kind of lay off on that because I

00:13:54.700 wouldn't want to mess with your potential citizenship application. Like what? You know,

00:13:59.240 isn't this kind of a no-brainer? One of the people we would rather not have here. But is that screwy

00:14:04.840 to that point where we actually have politicians say maybe we actually have to make laws to stop

00:14:09.520 judges from doing that. But then you got to think of the consequences. We don't want legislators 0.73

00:14:14.180 is actually micromanaging judges. That's a slippery slope to go into as well and could

00:14:20.760 cause more damage than good. But it just, I guess it's giving us an idea of what the flavor

00:14:26.660 of the parliament is going to be in a month when it reopens. And I got a feeling it's going to be

00:14:31.700 a pretty lively one. Good for guys like me anyways, who are always looking for more rant-worthy

00:14:35.220 material and stuff to cover. And we're in for interesting times, if nothing else. All right,

00:14:39.540 let's bring somebody else in who's no stranger to ranting and talking about common sense things

00:14:43.780 for the most part. He's got Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation on deck. Hey,

00:14:48.340 Franco, how's it going? Hey, Corey. Good to be with you, man. Yeah, it's been a while. It's

00:14:52.540 about time. Yeah, I love it. Let's get into some ranting and raving. Cool. Well, one of the things

00:14:58.420 you might have heard me ranting about a bit is Carney is good at talking, but not really good

00:15:02.420 at doing. And they have hinted at possibly reducing the size and scope of the bureaucracy

00:15:08.760 out there, though they haven't done anything yet. But I see you guys have been more proactive.

00:15:12.720 You did some polling on what Canadians might think of that.

00:15:15.960 Yeah, I mean, look, like the federal bureaucracy is so bloated, right?

00:15:19.200 Okay, like the federal government added 99,000 extra government bureaucrats since 2016.

00:15:24.920 99,000 more federal paper pushers, right?

00:15:28.280 But it's not just the number of bureaucrats that have gone up.

00:15:30.720 Still have the cost, okay?

00:15:32.960 The cost of the federal bureaucracy has ballooned 77% since 2016.

00:15:39.280 It is outrageous.

00:15:40.020 Now, we asked Leger to do two polls for us, okay?

00:15:44.140 The first poll, very simple, asked Canadians,

00:15:46.880 do you think the government should cut, increase, or maintain the size of the bureaucracy?

00:15:52.420 And like, look, the polling results show that more than half of Canadians

00:15:55.960 said it's time to cut the size and cost the bureaucracy.

00:15:59.400 Only 4% of Canadians said that it should be increased.

00:16:03.220 So I guess even some of the government bureaucrats are looking around their offices

00:16:06.180 and being like, yeah, there's some fat to cut.

00:16:08.000 but like look if you remove people who are unsure or don't know a total of 66 percent or two-thirds

00:16:14.760 of Canadians are saying enough is enough take out the scissors it's trying it's time to trim the fat

00:16:20.500 in Ottawa so just to uh play a little bit of devil's advocate I mean if they cut too much

00:16:26.900 they cut too quickly wouldn't everybody suffer and be under you know a terrible pressure due to

00:16:31.060 all the lack of all those government services provided you mean the federal services could get

00:16:35.760 worse than what they are now? Is that what you're saying, Corey? I don't know. There's always room

00:16:40.020 to get worse. Look, it's a great segue into the next question that Leger asked, okay? Because

00:16:45.820 you know, when I talk about the cost of the bureaucracy, I always got to say, like, ask

00:16:50.160 yourself, are you getting 77% better services from the federal bureaucracy? And it turns out the

00:16:56.480 answer to that question is a big fat no, right? So the Leger poll, the second question found that

00:17:01.820 50% of Canadians think services have gotten worse since 2016. Okay. Only 11% said that services have

00:17:12.320 gotten better since 2016, but even the majority of those people still say that services should

00:17:17.980 be better than what they have. So, you know, you asked me, well, if they cut off a bunch,

00:17:22.640 you know, if they lay off a bunch of bureaucrats, fire a bunch of bureaucrats, will services get

00:17:26.660 worse? Well, you know, I got to put that question back to the government union bosses that are

00:17:30.560 fear-mongering right now over potential savings and be like hey hold on a second you uh the cost

00:17:36.540 of the bureaucracy has gone up significantly for Canadian taxpayers and yet services are are still

00:17:42.400 dismal okay so I look at the numbers and I'm like holy like this is such a bloated government

00:17:47.720 and clearly adding more bureaucrats doesn't mean better results for Canadians no and a parallel to

00:17:55.200 it which is you know kind of it's a different discussion kind of but it it offers a good

00:17:59.960 parallel or can to post workers. Whereas, you know, we aren't getting more postal service than

00:18:04.400 we ever did. In fact, we're using less than we ever have. But the cost of the institution is

00:18:08.540 rising higher and higher. And I've been a little vocal online about my thoughts on postal workers

00:18:13.920 and perhaps they should seek newer employment. But the union types and everything keep saying,

00:18:17.620 well, you'll pay even more when they're all on welfare. How could we lay them off? It would mess

00:18:21.520 with the entire economy. They contribute so much through their taxes. You know, that argument is

00:18:25.740 going to come from the bureaucracies and their unions as well, right? Well, hold on a second

00:18:29.740 though, right? The average compensation for a federal bureaucrat, the average is $125,000 a

00:18:37.260 year. So no, we're not going to be paying more when it, when, and if the government cuts its

00:18:42.900 bureaucracy, right? Like, come on. I mean, look, the bureaucracy is consuming more than half of

00:18:47.820 the government's operating budget. And like, to a point that I think you're getting at,

00:18:51.940 there's just certain things that we don't need the government to be doing, right? We don't need to

00:18:55.860 have a essentially a government monopoly handing out mail right like come on we got email we've

00:19:01.900 had email for a very long time we definitely don't need a government monopoly we don't need

00:19:05.840 a government state broadcaster okay we don't need the government losing hundreds of millions of

00:19:11.860 dollars trying to operate a train company i.e via rail right so there's just so many different

00:19:17.300 things that we don't need any government to be doing and we especially don't need a government

00:19:21.940 in ottawa to be doing so what about areas i mean one of the larger ones and they just went on strike

00:19:26.660 last year i believe was a cra workers that that's a large section of the government i mean arguably

00:19:32.740 that is an area where we will need a degree of bureaucrats and i i think most people agree they

00:19:37.460 don't really work very efficiently whatsoever but how do you begin cutting in there well look one of

00:19:43.860 the problems and i mean the cra uh highlights highlights the overall problem of the federal

00:19:48.340 bureaucracy uh to a tee right where the cra has seen the second largest growth in its number of

00:19:54.100 bureaucrats among all the different departments and agencies since 2016 and yet services are still

00:19:59.620 poor right you've heard the taxpayer ombudsperson talk about the fact that the office is is flooded

00:20:04.820 with complaints right so like good luck trying to get the cra on the phone when they inevitably

00:20:09.860 mess up one of your tax returns you know what i mean so this is like the pure example to show that

00:20:14.900 more government bureaucrats does not mean better services where you've seen the the the payroll of

00:20:19.940 the cra um explode in recent years like higher and higher cost of taxpayers and yet the services have

00:20:25.860 gotten no better i mean corey let me also talk about another aspect here right because it's not

00:20:31.140 just the number of government bureaucrats that has gone up but the cost has as well because over the

00:20:36.020 last four years the federal government has rubber stamped four million or sorry over one million

00:20:42.020 pay raises over the last four years uh the federal government has rubber stamped 1.5 billion dollars

00:20:47.220 in bonuses since 2015 and all these bonuses have been going on uh when for when departments can

00:20:54.100 barely meet half of their own performance targets right like that's like writing your own tests

00:20:59.540 getting a d minus and then giving yourself an eighteen thousand dollar bonus check i mean corey

00:21:04.980 let's talk about you know probably the pinnacle of government waste over the last couple years

00:21:09.860 Arrive scam, right? That simple app launched with a price tag of $80,000. It ballooned all the way

00:21:17.020 up to $60 million. It became a national scandal. And then government executives working on that

00:21:24.020 failed app, turn around and took home $340,000 in bonuses. So it's not just talking about cutting

00:21:31.240 the number of bureaucrats. We got to talk about cutting the perks and pay of government bureaucrats

00:21:36.960 as well. Oh, absolutely. It's ridiculous when we start hearing some of those. We've been beating

00:21:41.660 up on the federal bureaucrats quite a bit so far here, and they've earned their beating thoroughly.

00:21:46.600 But, and I know most of that poll is focused on federal, but there's plenty of room for

00:21:50.380 provincial governments and civic governments to cut their bureaucracy as well, isn't there? 0.99

00:21:54.460 Oh, yeah. I mean, this is kind of the name of the game when you're looking at governments at

00:21:57.860 all different levels, and I guess across provinces and even cities, is that government

00:22:02.900 bureaucracies is what make up a huge chunk of each type of government's budget, right? And like,

00:22:08.860 look, it all has to start at the top. I know I've been focusing on federal the most part, but

00:22:13.040 we really have to focus on one more element here, and that's the political level, right?

00:22:17.880 The politicians. Look, in Ottawa, our members of parliament give themselves a raise every single

00:22:23.280 year. April 1, every year, they pad their pockets with higher pay from more of your money. And like,

00:22:29.260 look, the government unions, before there was that major strike that happened back in 2023,

00:22:34.820 like the government union bosses, they were pointing to the annual salary increase that

00:22:40.380 members of parliament take every single year as a reason why bureaucrats should get more of

00:22:45.580 taxpayers cash. So not only is the government bureaucracy a huge problem at all level of

00:22:50.320 government, but so is the political out of touchness, so to speak, for a lack of a better

00:22:55.360 term, especially in Ottawa. We're a backbencher, right? Along with collecting dust in the House

00:23:00.820 of Commons is collecting a $210,000 salary. A minister's, right? Salary north of 300 grand.

00:23:08.060 The prime minister's salary north of 400 grand. And every single year they're giving themselves

00:23:12.300 salary increases that they don't deserve. For example, why would a finance minister of Canada

00:23:18.040 deserve a pay raise when every single year they're running deficits in the tens of billions of

00:23:23.880 dollars it makes no sense well and i think you know something that happens with politicians in

00:23:29.460 general at every level is they they lose sight of whose money they're actually entrusted with

00:23:34.000 and it happens it's a there's a cross-partisan issue we saw that come up recently and you guys

00:23:38.820 have been critical of it the ucp government in alberta decided that we don't deserve to see

00:23:43.460 what their expenses are for mlas and ministers what on earth is going on there what are they

00:23:48.900 hiding that's a great question like what on earth is going on there because they should know better

00:23:53.780 right? Like, come on, like they should know better. How many people in that UCP government

00:23:58.880 had made a career going after government accountability, right? Come on, Corey,

00:24:04.360 like you and I have been around for a little while now. Like we all remember that you have

00:24:09.060 different members within that government. If another government would have done this,

00:24:12.680 they would be losing their minds and they would be right to do so. Like, look, number one,

00:24:17.740 to your point, what are you hiding, right? If you remove the receipt requirement from being online,

00:24:23.340 like taxpayers have every right to be like, Hey, what are you trying to hide from us?

00:24:27.900 But number two, and the heart of the matter is this, it is not those politicians money.

00:24:33.320 It is the hard earned money of Alberta taxpayers and Alberta taxpayers have every right to know

00:24:39.080 how their money is being spent. They have every right to be able to go online and proactively

00:24:44.120 look at the receipts. So what we've seen from the Smith government on this issue here is completely

00:24:50.060 the wrong move and they have to come out they go to apologize for the mistake and they have to

00:24:54.460 right this wrong yeah no i certainly certainly hope they reverse them i just i also wanted to

00:24:59.260 bring up just to remind people i mean yourself myself i mean speaking for myself i typically

00:25:03.580 like most of what the ucp does but i'm going to hold them to account when they're wasting my money

00:25:08.300 just as much as any other government and and we expect better of them you claim to be conservative

00:25:14.220 you certainly were critical of them when the ndp was in power and then it's just bizarre i mean how

00:25:20.860 did they not see the political mind they were stepping on when they pulled this off well hey

00:25:25.580 corey you know before i came on the show i i called uh my colleague and a good friend of yours

00:25:29.820 as well chris simms right our alberta director and i was talking to her about what's going on

00:25:33.980 with this receipt scandal and she was also telling me some of the bogus claims that the government

00:25:39.660 has been putting out there to try to defend its wrong decision. And she was telling me like,

00:25:44.580 they're even saying that there's like safety issues, why they would take the receipts offline.

00:25:49.540 Right. And I'm just sitting to myself like, that does not pass the sniff test for one second.

00:25:55.340 Like Corey, you and I have gone out to restaurants or whatever. We've gotten receipts before. Never

00:26:00.840 once has my receipt shown my own personal address. Right. Number two, if you are worried about some

00:26:07.600 type of security issue. Well, I don't know, get a Sharpie, blackout the location of the place that

00:26:13.160 you were staying. It's that simple. You know, all of this reminds me, that excuse reminds me

00:26:18.060 of the Trudeau government, right? You'll remember the $6,000 per night hotel suite and the federal

00:26:23.880 government didn't want to tell you that it was Trudeau who stayed in that room. What excuse did

00:26:28.460 they give? Security, right? So like, look, I think the Smith government and really all governments

00:26:34.400 across canada should try to hold themselves to a much better standard than the trudeau government

00:26:39.440 when it comes to transparency yeah and almost all stay on their case i mean the the absurdity of it

00:26:45.360 too it's not like the expenses were posted real time if it shows what hotel you stayed in it shows

00:26:51.120 that you stayed there a month ago not today so people still don't know where you are right now

00:26:56.800 it's just as you said it was the sort of thing i'd expect out of a liberal so it's pretty

00:27:00.400 disappointing i hope they see the sense in this soon um one more thing i i see a press release

00:27:06.640 came in that you guys have gotten like something of a court win when it comes to that capital gains

00:27:10.320 tax uh shenanigans going on there yeah absolutely so hey you remember when the uh the federal

00:27:16.480 government they wanted to move well really the cra said that they were going to move forward with

00:27:21.200 this multi-billion dollar capital gains tax increase right and the cra was going to enforce

00:27:26.880 it even before legislation was introduced in the house debated in the house or even passed into law

00:27:33.600 right so immediately the uh the the canadian taxpayers federation we launched a legal challenge

00:27:38.640 to fight the undemocratic and illegal capital gains tax increase now a week after we launched

00:27:44.480 our legal challenge the federal government announced that it was backing away from the

00:27:47.840 capital gains tax increase but we decided to continue with this legal challenge because we

00:27:52.720 want to set the precedent. No taxation without representation, right? Unelected bureaucrats 1.00

00:27:59.600 shouldn't be deciding how much money to take from Canadians. The power of taxation has to 0.89

00:28:04.400 be within our elected representatives in parliament. Now, even though the federal

00:28:09.100 government ultimately backed away from the capital gains tax increase, we are continuing to pursue

00:28:13.860 this in the court to set that precedent. And the court just ruled, as the press release kind of

00:28:20.760 says is that they're going to continue to hear our case, even though the other side didn't want

00:28:25.920 that to happen. So we're pushing forward with this challenge to set that very important principle of

00:28:31.660 our democracy, no taxation without representation. Excellent. Well, I hope it goes through as you

00:28:39.320 hope, and at least make it a little tougher for these guys to pull these kinds of stunts. It's

00:28:42.620 sad that we always have to be reactive, you know, when they just won't act principally to begin with.

00:28:47.960 So 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?

00:28:57.580 Well, 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.

00:29:17.960 Right on. Thanks, Franco. I appreciate you joining us today and the work you guys do.

00:29:21.820 I hope we get to talk again soon.

00:29:23.300 Hey, thanks, Corey.

00:29:24.640 All right, thanks. So once again, that's Franco Tarazano with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:29:28.920 They really are a great group, guys. And what I do like is, as I pointed out, too,

00:29:33.460 they don't play favorites. They don't care if somebody's wasting your money,

00:29:37.360 they're going to call them out. It doesn't matter which party. Perhaps some of them within them are

00:29:42.200 a bit like me. You get even more angry when it's a party you personally prefer than others,

00:29:46.980 though they are a non-partisan organization. So check them out if you want to keep up on things.

00:29:51.640 I mean, look at the things like the Teddy Awards they do and stuff just to expose the amount of

00:29:56.660 your money that's being wasted. That's kind of what I was getting at a little, you know, when I

00:30:01.440 asked, like with these politicians, they honestly forget. I mean, people call it dome disease or

00:30:06.620 when we'd send them out federally, I'd call it auto-washed. It doesn't take a politician long

00:30:11.560 to forget that they're entrusted with our money. It's not their money. They should instinctively

00:30:18.380 feel that, you know, they're the steward of it. And that means that they should be as transparent

00:30:22.880 as possible. It's not hard to post your bloody expenses. What on earth was the UCP government

00:30:30.440 thinking? As I said, I would expect that of the NDP. I would expect that of the liberals.

00:30:34.460 I expected better of the UCP. But you know, it's not one of those things where I said,

00:30:38.020 going to storm out of the room, quit supporting which party or that. I don't know. I'm not a

00:30:41.800 member of any party, but there's ones, as I said, I prefer over others. But guys, this doesn't look

00:30:47.200 good. And it was just so avoidable. What on earth were you thinking? Either way, welcome to politics,

00:30:52.400 right? As I said, none of them are immune from it. And I know a lot of politicians, even on the left,

00:30:57.360 some of them honestly do feel they're doing a service. I just think when they're in a little

00:31:00.220 too long, they kind of lose vision of what they began with. I'm mixed on that. Term limits is

00:31:07.300 something that's talked about a lot because I think you know there's been a recognition that

00:31:11.740 leaders particularly if they're in too long they get too stale they've lost what they were there

00:31:16.540 for Ralph Klein used to refer to it as the fire in his belly I mean he was arguably one of the

00:31:20.200 most successful politicians in Canadian history but his last few years he was just kind of mailing

00:31:25.840 it in his term for it was he'd lost you know he had the fire in the belly but he didn't have it

00:31:29.880 later and it would have been probably better if he'd have just had eight years as premier and then

00:31:36.420 been done. But at the same time, you know, it's a discussion worth having. Shouldn't that decision

00:31:43.420 be up to the electors though? Do you force it? The problem with the term limit is if you've got

00:31:47.740 a politician, you see that in the States and they, you know, it's the president and they're on their

00:31:51.260 second term, that final year they're in, they know they're done. And if they aren't a principled

00:31:55.340 person, boy, if you really want to see somebody at the trough or somebody who doesn't care what

00:31:59.200 the voters think any longer, have somebody when they know they have absolutely no way to come

00:32:04.600 back into that office. So when they got nothing to lose, then they can become even more dangerous.

00:32:10.280 Lots of discussions worth having anyways. But part of it, hey, just keep holding their feet

00:32:14.700 to the fire. So I think again, talk to your UCP MLA. If those guys, I honestly, this one is so

00:32:20.080 stupid. I think they're going to reverse on that really quickly. I think. But if they don't call 1.00

00:32:25.900 your MLA, call whomever and just say, guys, what the hell's the matter with you? I do not want to

00:32:30.580 see Premier Nancy. If you pull stunts like that, that's how you're going to do it. Okay, let's get

00:32:36.020 on to some more idiocy, where our tax money gets wasted and spent. The Toronto International Film 1.00

00:32:41.380 Festival. And it's a big one, guys. Among film festivals, you know, there's some massive ones

00:32:46.780 out there, ones in Cannes and Sundance Film Festival down in the States. The Toronto

00:32:53.160 International one is a big one. And it gets millions and millions and millions of tax dollars

00:32:58.160 from all three levels of government out there, federal, provincial, civic. And, you know,

00:33:02.500 it brings a lot of people, brings a lot of attention. Should bring some responsibility

00:33:06.880 too, though. So there was an entrance that was into it, and it was a documentary about

00:33:12.620 an Israeli hero, a man who, you know, saved people from Hamas on October 7th, October, you know,

00:33:19.240 2023. And it was a documentary of it. And the documentary, it wasn't a theoretical thing. It

00:33:25.440 used footage from October 7th. It used footage from the cameras of the Hamas terrorists because

00:33:33.480 those terrorists were so proud of themselves as they murdered everybody and attacked a music

00:33:37.620 festival and murdered families and household pets and everything else they did. They actually shot 0.65

00:33:42.080 footage of it and shared it with everybody. They were proud of it, but apparently they've decided,

00:33:48.120 well, we didn't get permission from Hamas to use that footage, so we're not going to allow that

00:33:52.300 documentary to appear at this music festival. No, the reason they don't want it at the music

00:33:59.280 festival is because it's something that's sympathetic to Jews. Let's quit beating around 1.00

00:34:03.560 the bloody bush with these arseholes, all right? How much more of this have we got to see? I mean, 0.99

00:34:09.380 they backed off enough at the Montreal Pride March where they actually banned Jewish Pride

00:34:14.400 marchers from the group. They did. This isn't stuff to be made up. The extreme left has embraced

00:34:21.700 embraced the movements of Germany in the late 30s. They really have. They're targeting and 0.64

00:34:28.780 attacking businesses. They're excluding Jewish people. We're not talking Israel. We're talking 0.99

00:34:32.860 Jewish people in Canada. And it's being unchecked. We saw it recently with a Jewish man attacked on

00:34:41.680 the streets, beaten in front of his own kids. The Kippah pulled from his head and thrown down. 0.95

00:34:47.020 A number of politicians certainly spoke up to condemn it. A bunch didn't. And then we still

00:34:51.380 see the same liberals condemning islamophobia over perceived things happening here and there

00:34:55.520 while we're seeing the number one group in canada being assaulted the number one hate crime charges

00:35:00.720 in canada are jews by a long shot but the extreme left that's in control of everything well they're 0.99

00:35:06.600 feeding that this this bunch of clowns at the film festival if they're gonna take stances like that 0.94

00:35:12.520 they shouldn't be any bloody tax funding going to them fund yourself go to hamas ask them for 0.97

00:35:18.680 some money. See if they'll pay for your crap. Canada is just turning into an embarrassment. 1.00

00:35:24.880 And, you know, where do you go with it? Well, I'll tell you one area to go with it. I mean,

00:35:30.520 that's going to be something interesting here. Tomorrow, there's going to be the court ruling

00:35:35.800 for some who have been watching Alberta news on, you know, the dueling referendum questions,

00:35:41.760 the applications to petition to get a question on a referendum to be put in front of Albertans.

00:35:47.940 We had Fabio, the disgraced Redford era MLA has his nothing burger question that he's putting

00:35:54.600 forward to say, hey, Albertans, do you all just want to keep things the same? Really kind of

00:35:58.900 wasting time and abusing the system. But I guess he's got the right to try and waste that time and

00:36:02.980 do so. He's going to get 300,000 signatures within now it's going to be two and a half months. I

00:36:08.040 doubt he's going to do it, but who knows. But on the other end, the real petition from the Alberta

00:36:12.800 Prosperity Project or the real question, where it's talking about asking Albertans if they want

00:36:17.080 to leave and become a sovereign province. The question isn't whether or not Albertans should

00:36:21.460 or shouldn't, you know where I stand on that, but whether the question should even be put

00:36:25.640 to Albertans. The chief electoral officer of Alberta said, I got to put that to a judge,

00:36:32.080 see if we're allowed constitutionally to ask that. What? So cowardice on the chief electoral

00:36:38.120 officer's part, but whatever. So that's gone before a judge and they made the case last week

00:36:42.860 as to whether or not we're even allowed to ask the question. Tomorrow he's going to say whether

00:36:46.540 or not we're allowed to ask Albertans on that. You know, I don't think it's going to stop the

00:36:52.220 referendum, no matter which way that judge rules on this. The segment of Albertans, which is 30%

00:36:58.320 or more, that's a significant amount who want to go and they're dedicated and they're working on it.

00:37:03.480 They're not going to rest without having a referendum on it. And bottom line is, if it

00:37:09.920 doesn't go through that route, I mean, we can hold it even if he doesn't rule it's constitutional.

00:37:14.700 We can fight that out after the question is held.

00:37:18.340 But I'm wondering if this judge is taking this into account.

00:37:21.840 Because if he tells Alberta that we are not allowed to have the question on independence,

00:37:31.240 it's also telling Quebec they aren't allowed as well.

00:37:34.460 And we know in Canada, it's been kind of widely accepted since the 80s

00:37:38.860 that Quebec has every right to ask their citizens whether they want to stay or go in a referendum.

00:37:44.700 And 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.

00:38:05.980 Elaine, 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.

00:38:24.340 You know, I understand people distinguishing or claiming to distinguish between Israel and Jews and Zionists.

00:38:32.920 You know, they love using that to cloak it with just saying Jew.

00:38:35.580 And especially when you see some of the hate coming up, just say Jew.

00:38:37.680 Don't try to pretend it's a Zionist thing.

00:38:40.360 But we saw that with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek when she boycotted the traditional Hanukkah lighting in Calgary over this.

00:38:50.640 Because she didn't want to look like she's supporting Israel.

00:38:53.060 Guys, Hanukkah has been going on a lot longer than the current incarnation of Israel. 0.99

00:38:56.720 It was a local religious observance of Jews, not Israelis.

00:39:01.760 Difference, okay?

00:39:02.980 Very tightly connected to Israel and Jews, of course.

00:39:06.840 But for her to boycott that, no, her problem was with the Jews.

00:39:09.500 Let's not beat around that bush.

00:39:11.380 Because it was a Hanukkah lighting, not a, you know, a menorah lighting.

00:39:16.880 Not anything to do with Israel.

00:39:17.980 These guys cloak, if nothing else has come out from the horrors that were pulled off by Hamas, 0.99

00:39:25.100 those vile terrorists, is it really exposed that you don't have to scratch that hard 0.96

00:39:30.220 on the extreme left and the extreme right to find the Jew hater underneath. The Venn diagram of hate 0.98

00:39:35.740 overlaps in there and neither of them can claim to be the bigger hater of the other because they

00:39:41.580 They both do a very fantastic job of it.

00:39:44.620 But these games that are going on,

00:39:47.280 quit pretending it's about Israel, guys.

00:39:49.980 This group that wanted to march in that parade

00:39:52.240 were just Jewish people,

00:39:54.380 many of whom were born in Canada,

00:39:55.720 never been to Israel,

00:39:56.480 had no interest in being in Israel, 0.96

00:39:58.180 but they happened to be gay

00:40:00.000 and they wanted to take part in the pride thing.

00:40:02.940 And you guys stopped them for a while.

00:40:04.400 You thought you could get away with stopping them

00:40:05.840 without that much backlash.

00:40:08.060 And likewise, I mean,

00:40:09.660 the absurdity of this film festival

00:40:10.940 to use that shaky excuse.

00:40:12.820 Oh, we didn't get Hamas's permission to use that footage,

00:40:15.200 so we can't put it on.

00:40:16.760 They put it out on themselves in public, guys.

00:40:20.200 And who cares? 0.98

00:40:21.760 Hamas, they're a terrorist group. 0.99

00:40:24.620 It's absurd. 0.97

00:40:26.280 Let's see, back in the independence end of things, though.

00:40:29.080 The PPC, Maxime Bernier,

00:40:33.020 has endorsed the yes side

00:40:34.460 if there's going to be a referendum held in Alberta

00:40:36.440 and condemns what he called imperial federalism.

00:40:40.940 So 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.

00:41:08.500 what really seems like the PPC to a degree now is just treading water and just trying to find

00:41:13.200 stances to stay on to keep well funding themselves and keep keep Maxine with a job

00:41:18.480 I mean not that I oppose they're supporting independence I'm supportive of independence too

00:41:23.500 but where are you going what I think I see is that they see most of their donors are in western

00:41:30.720 Canada and tend to be independent supporters so they want to keep them happy keep the donations

00:41:36.600 coming. They're just not making an impact or a mark in any elections. The by-election is coming

00:41:41.600 up pretty soon. I guess I should note that. That's been going on in Alberta. That's where Pierre

00:41:45.280 Polyev is running to get himself a seat after having lost one. It's funny, the hypocrisy again

00:41:54.680 to the left. They were pretty quiet when they had Ninchy bounced up into Edmonton to a safe seat

00:41:58.740 where he doesn't live to get himself a seat as a party leader. But now that Polyev is doing it,

00:42:03.580 it's outrageous. It's wrong. I understand that, yes, he lost his original seat. So what? Does

00:42:08.900 that mean that you are not allowed to pursue another one? Guys, you haven't read much political

00:42:12.000 history. You've seen how the parliamentary system works. And he is the leader of the opposition. He

00:42:16.580 needs to see that sort of stuff happens. Is it the most democratic thing? No, I don't think it is.

00:42:21.200 Is it really totally fair to the local constituents that they lose a local representative? No, not

00:42:25.440 really. But it's also not the outrage some people are making of it. But I read a CBC article,

00:42:31.280 You know, yeah, I know. I read these things, but I got to keep up on stuff. I mean, most of my week

00:42:36.100 is reading and consuming and watching and bringing stuff up so I can write about it and do these

00:42:40.660 shows on it. And the CBC went up there and really worked hard because they sought out to find a few

00:42:46.400 farmers who actually said, yeah, I don't like PolyEv and I think I'm going to vote for a 1.00

00:42:50.000 different party this time around. Look guys, the conservatives win in that riding with like 80%

00:42:57.160 support numbers. It's not going to change. Uh, you know, even if somehow it's a by-election

00:43:03.060 and nobody comes out and the long ballot annoyed enough people, he might drop to 75%, maybe

00:43:08.440 70. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't. But it shows as well that the CBC went to

00:43:13.900 so much trouble to assign somebody for such a long hit piece, just trying to find somebody

00:43:19.340 in the farm community who didn't like Polyev. I wonder how many doors they had to knock 0.90

00:43:22.880 to find that. Speaking of fools in Canada and being ethically broken, you know, we've been 0.99

00:43:29.160 watching, and there's some degree of debate on whether or not, not too much, whether or not it's 0.98

00:43:34.040 a bright idea to ban everybody from the woods, from the forests, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,

00:43:38.080 because the fire hazard is very high. Apparently people fart fire and it might just spark one up

00:43:42.100 if they let people walk in there unsupervised. So they just closed it off. It's public land,

00:43:46.640 guys public yes hours i can understand shutting down atvs you know vehicles campfires of course

00:43:53.660 things like that even banning smoking in there any lit yeah i can see that bring down some rules it's

00:43:59.020 dangerous fine but people can't even walk in there oh wait unless you're indigenous ah yes of course 1.00

00:44:06.580 we should have known they're not gonna this is a applies to everybody but the first nations as

00:44:11.780 usual. There's going to be a Mi'kmaq led play in a park, a park that nobody else is allowed into

00:44:17.520 right now. But since they're indigenous, well, we'll look the other way on that ban. We'll let 1.00

00:44:21.660 them in. Race-based policy, guys, is wrong. 100% of the time, always. There used to be a bunch of 1.00

00:44:32.460 race-based policy that was wrong, and it was oppressing Native people in Canada. There used

00:44:37.860 to be people weren't allowed to leave their reserves without the authority of an Indian 0.91

00:44:42.280 agent. They weren't allowed to vote until later on. This was all wrong. But turning it around to make

00:44:47.620 preferential race-based policy for them later doesn't undo the wrongs of the past. It's just

00:44:52.640 committing more wrongs for the future. It's dividing us further. And it's making a damn

00:44:58.180 mess. And you better hope these morons with their play don't start a fire or you'll really look like 1.00

00:45:02.660 idiots, won't you? This is nuts. Yes, this is so important. We're going to lock Canadian citizens 1.00

00:45:08.760 away from all public areas in the trees and bush, except for a theater troupe of Indigenous people. 1.00

00:45:14.680 Oh my God, you wimps, you pussies. Look, if you're really going to step on right, step on all of 1.00

00:45:19.720 ours. Don't racially, selectively do it, you idiots. Either way, I can leave off on that bright 1.00

00:45:25.660 note. But there's lots of bright stuff to look forward to. Guys, watch the pipeline tonight.

00:45:30.140 We'll be on with a panel there.

00:45:32.320 Nigel has stepped back.

00:45:33.940 He's not full-time anymore,

00:45:34.940 but he's still going to be doing columns.

00:45:36.020 He's going to be on the pipeline.

00:45:36.940 He's doing his show.

00:45:38.900 And, you know, thank you for tuning in today

00:45:41.680 and supporting us

00:45:43.200 and supporting the growing number of Daves

00:45:45.360 we have in our newsroom.

00:45:46.740 So we will see you again next week at this time.

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Western Standard - August 14, 2025

The horrors of communism are being forgotten

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