Western Standard - The Pipeline - August 4, 2021

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00:01:00.000 G'day. Today is August 4th, 2021. You're watching The Pipeline on the Western Standard. I'm

00:01:19.020 Western Standard publisher, Derek Fildebrandt. Joining me today is Dave Naylor, news editor

00:01:24.480 of the Western Standard. How are you doing, Dave?

00:01:26.680 I'm doing well, Derek. Welcome back from holiday.

00:01:29.040 It feels good.

00:01:29.580 I'm kind of still waiting for my gift.

00:01:34.800 I got nothing.

00:01:36.240 I caught a lot of fish, but I don't think WestJet lets me bring that.

00:01:42.140 Corey, you're still alive?

00:01:44.140 I am.

00:01:44.600 I heard the pipeline was actually even better while I was going.

00:01:46.520 That depends on who was listening.

00:01:48.320 Some people might not have enjoyed it, but I enjoyed it.

00:01:51.520 Honestly, I didn't get to watch it.

00:01:53.060 I was sitting on a boat somewhere fishing.

00:01:56.560 Surely I would never drink beer while fishing.

00:01:58.980 That's illegal.

00:02:00.280 That's illegal.

00:02:01.060 You're not allowed to do that.

00:02:01.720 You don't do that.

00:02:02.700 So I would never do that.

00:02:05.200 Well, we've got an interesting show for you for a show in August.

00:02:09.700 We're going to be discussing Ottawa's rejection of the Alberta government's proposal to allow pepper spray as a regulated and legal tool for self-defense.

00:02:21.300 Speaking of self-defense, we're going to discuss a case where an intruder near Red Deer has been shot dead.

00:02:28.660 We're going to get into that case.

00:02:31.140 We've also, as usual, we're going to be discussing the mandatory mass types,

00:02:38.820 these anti-social gatherings that have been taking place across Alberta

00:02:45.400 and I believe other parts in the West.

00:02:47.520 People who just can't let go of the good times.

00:02:51.260 We're all locked down and things were just so terrible.

00:02:54.700 They want to go back to the good old days.

00:02:56.840 We're going to be talking about them.

00:02:58.760 As well, we're going to be talking about the CBC losing more money as usual, advertising revenues down again.

00:03:07.760 CBC needs a bailout again.

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00:03:16.760 CBC just needs more money.

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00:06:41.120 all right well uh so now we're going to get to the right part of the show here uh it'll we'll

00:06:46.560 begin with uh pepper spray uh the alberta government has proposed that uh the criminal

00:06:52.680 code of canada be amended so that people can use it as a tool of self-defense uh dave tell us what

00:07:00.440 ottawa said they gave us a big fat no derrick uh sort of second slap in the face in less than a week

00:07:07.240 from our Ottawa brethren.

00:07:09.740 This was a response to a letter that Casey Maddu,

00:07:12.940 Alberta's justice minister, had sent to his federal counterparts,

00:07:17.740 noting an increase in hate crime attack,

00:07:20.760 especially against marginalized women,

00:07:23.100 and basically said, you know,

00:07:25.900 let Albertans have another tool in their toolkit to...

00:07:29.620 Oh, a tool. There is pretty much no tool.

00:07:31.380 Yeah, that's true.

00:07:32.760 In their toolkit to protect themselves.

00:07:35.320 you know he noted the increase and seems to be drug-fueled crime he also blasted

00:07:43.480 the government and said they should bring in a mandatory minimum for for hate

00:07:49.480 crime offenders if you when you if you're convicted of it the mandatory

00:07:54.840 minimum they have to go away for and Ottawa said no to both the rejection

00:08:02.140 came from Federal Safety Minister Bill Blair and we all feel much safer with

00:08:07.820 Bill Blair in charge of things. Well he's banned anti-tank weapons.

00:08:14.380 Yes. We're much safer because the Panzerfaust is now outlawed. I thought my

00:08:19.360 neighbor might be getting one for Christmas. It was on my list and no

00:08:23.740 Penza-Faust in my stocking so minister Blair says no he said also no to the

00:08:32.800 mandatory minimum saying those jail terms in the past have led to an increase

00:08:38.920 in the indigenous jail population and and other other skewed crime rates so a 1.00

00:08:46.980 week after ignoring Alberta and their Senate election they're also ignoring

00:08:51.880 his own pepper spray? Well, Jean Chrétien said, pepper spray, I put it on my stake.

00:08:59.600 You know, Jean Chrétien was a big fan of pepper spray. That was for protesters, less so for

00:09:05.380 self-defense. You know, in Canada, there is essentially no sanctioned tool for you to

00:09:12.140 carry around for self-defense. You can carry a knife, I guess, but that's a lethal weapon,

00:09:18.260 obviously. If someone attacks you and you use a knife, chances are they're not the one going to

00:09:25.340 jail. Corey, I mean, I think I know where you're at, but yes, I'm guessing you think it's okay to

00:09:33.140 carry pepper spray. It's a step in the right direction. Step in the right direction. But do

00:09:38.200 you think that this was, the cynical part of me says, the province never thought for a second

00:09:44.260 that Ottawa was going to do this?

00:09:46.400 This was maybe just a way of kind of getting some good press

00:09:49.320 with the base, trying to gin up a little controversy

00:09:52.700 with Ottawa on something they couldn't lose?

00:09:54.220 I think, you know, it was a shot in the dark.

00:09:56.400 You know, maybe you'd get it, but realistically, we know.

00:09:58.720 I mean, if you want to make something not come into policy

00:10:00.520 from Ottawa, have Alberta support it.

00:10:02.460 I mean, Madhu's no fool, but it was worth a try.

00:10:06.360 It highlighted, I guess, there have been some bizarre assaults

00:10:08.840 on minorities in Edmonton, and they feel vulnerable.

00:10:11.700 As we've reported on a lot here, though,

00:10:13.540 I mean, our public transit system in our downtown is getting outright dystopian, you know, and there's a lot of aggressive people down there.

00:10:23.300 I think people are asking for this.

00:10:24.960 But no, I don't think Madhu really thought he was going to get it.

00:10:28.160 Pamela asked, does Bill Blair have taxpayer-paid security?

00:10:32.280 Absolutely he does.

00:10:35.100 You know, when I was in politics, I received, you know, definitely more than my fair share of threats, some of which were lethal.

00:10:42.320 it never occurred to me that I would want security guards

00:10:45.040 I applied to the RSMP for a permit to carry my own handgun

00:10:48.300 no

00:10:49.580 so even a public official receiving death threats

00:10:52.000 who's trained in the use of firearms

00:10:54.100 is still not allowed to have it

00:10:55.940 so if I wanted security I would have had to

00:10:58.260 at the cost of probably several hundred thousand dollars a year

00:11:00.460 have someone follow me around

00:11:02.800 that's a more appropriate use

00:11:05.020 I would really like to live in a country

00:11:06.940 where leaders just defend themselves

00:11:09.920 where you can imagine like

00:11:11.640 the Schwinigan handshake with

00:11:13.780 Chrétien and getting back to him again. That was one of the

00:11:15.880 few times I respected him. He grabbed that guy by the throat

00:11:17.980 and shoved him out of the way. You know what? You don't

00:11:19.840 come aggressively approaching a political

00:11:21.900 leader. He didn't wait for the RCMP.

00:11:23.960 He dealt with himself. Now, what I didn't like

00:11:25.920 about that was that if virtually

00:11:28.000 anyone else besides the Prime Minister

00:11:29.580 had given him that shake,

00:11:31.360 they probably would have been charged.

00:11:33.720 That's definitely what happens in Canada. If you defend yourself,

00:11:35.900 there's a high likeliness

00:11:37.780 that you're going to get charged yourself.

00:11:39.320 Well, and it's the responsible use.

00:11:41.100 Like some of the hyperbole when this discussion came up,

00:11:43.040 though, I was glad it came up.

00:11:43.900 I'm glad Maddie brought it up.

00:11:45.260 So there's going to be people pepper spraying each other everywhere

00:11:47.000 and it's going to be closet.

00:11:48.460 Look, it'll still be illegal to go out and just walk up

00:11:51.120 and pepper spray somebody. 0.94

00:11:52.480 That is an assault with a weapon.

00:11:53.940 If you're not in a defense situation,

00:11:56.180 you're going to get in a great deal of trouble

00:11:58.220 misusing that pepper spray.

00:12:00.460 Most people don't want to do that with it.

00:12:02.300 They aren't going to do that with it.

00:12:04.720 You know, but it's this assumption that it's just going to be

00:12:07.340 a mad free for all of pepper spray.

00:12:09.060 Come on, you guys.

00:12:10.100 Well, I mean, if it's legal and people are carrying it around in their purses and their pockets,

00:12:14.800 it might get used.

00:12:16.240 There might be cases where it's used too liberally.

00:12:18.420 This is actually a problem we have with police officers because they carry non-lethal weapons now.

00:12:23.500 Police often carry pepper spray.

00:12:25.480 They carry tasers.

00:12:26.480 You remember, you know, just roughly seven or so months ago,

00:12:31.120 two Calgary Police Service officers, they couldn't take down this gangly little kid who was playing hockey.

00:12:36.820 Great crime of playing hockey during COVID. 0.99

00:12:39.400 And one of the officers says, I'll fucking tase you. 0.99

00:12:43.020 And she pulls her taser because the guy was playing hockey. 0.99

00:12:45.780 It didn't comply with getting arrested by the police for playing hockey.

00:12:49.760 So non-lethal weapons, because they're non-lethal, I think,

00:12:54.360 do lend themselves to being maybe used a little too liberally at times.

00:12:59.840 Which is to say, if we're not going to legalize pepper spray because it can be used too liberally,

00:13:05.180 then that means we need to legalize firearms to carry around.

00:13:07.600 We need open carry.

00:13:09.960 We need closed carry.

00:13:11.240 And contrary, again, to what people think and say, I mean, I spend a lot of time working and hanging out in Texas.

00:13:15.900 Love it down there.

00:13:16.820 It's open carry down there.

00:13:19.040 The Americans, I mean, they have a gun culture. 0.98

00:13:20.600 They have more shootings.

00:13:21.260 There's issues to deal with.

00:13:22.180 But the people, these shootings aren't happening with the legal firearm owners walking around.

00:13:26.080 No.

00:13:26.460 There isn't a free-for-all there. 1.00

00:13:28.400 You know, oh, you stepped up, shoot, and I'll blow your head off. 1.00

00:13:30.580 It doesn't. 0.98

00:13:31.280 How many people are getting shot in Montana where people could walk around with a big revolver on their belt like a cowboy?

00:13:37.180 And it comes to responsibility and rights.

00:13:39.980 I mean, it's as fickle and shallow as the old, you can't yell fire in a theater.

00:13:44.400 Sure you can.

00:13:45.220 There just better be a fire.

00:13:47.060 You know, you've abused your free speech if you're making a false claim of fire,

00:13:51.240 and then there's a problem.

00:13:52.540 But in the meantime, we trust people to use their speech right. 0.85

00:13:55.980 And this just constantly wiping out all rights for fear of the abuse of it is bad and ridiculous,

00:14:01.240 and that's where we're heading.

00:14:02.240 A lot of my female friends, they don't care what anybody says. 1.00

00:14:07.660 They're carrying it, and it's in their purse.

00:14:10.040 And not one of them has told me a story yet where they've even actually had to pull it out and threaten to use it.

00:14:16.280 But they sure as hell feel safer having it on their person in case they need it.

00:14:22.320 And bottom line is women will do that. 1.00

00:14:25.080 It doesn't matter what the government says.

00:14:27.420 Well, I'll leave it with this.

00:14:28.880 Real feminists shoot back. 1.00

00:14:31.560 So, well, on the topic of self-defense, there is a story, I'm not sure if you had it very first, but definitely early out of the gate, Dave, shooting, I don't believe it was in Red Deer, I think it was outside of Red Deer?

00:14:45.900 Yeah, just outside Red Deer, middle of the afternoon, holiday Monday afternoon, a homeowner

00:14:53.780 reported a break and enter in progress.

00:14:58.680 It turned out, the RCMP later revealed, that he was actually in a struggle with the bad

00:15:05.480 guy, and the bad guy ended up being shot to death, and the homeowner ended up being taken

00:15:11.820 to hospital.

00:15:12.920 So, RCMP being their usual tight-lipped self about this, we don't know much about either of the parties involved.

00:15:23.420 We were able to find out, and it may not be related at all, but the same place was the scene of a grow-up bust back in 2020 when marijuana was illegal.

00:15:34.680 Oh, this property was?

00:15:36.000 This property, yeah.

00:15:37.520 They found a couple hundred grand worth of pot plants.

00:15:40.860 Again, it may be absolutely nothing to do with it, maybe previous owners, but for some

00:15:49.380 reason somebody decided to break into this place in the middle of the afternoon and paid

00:15:54.900 with his life.

00:15:56.720 The question now goes to, will the homeowner be charged?

00:16:01.200 And if you look at all the previous cases, the Maurice family down in Okotoks, which

00:16:07.560 we've covered extensively it's likely that they will and the next question is

00:16:13.080 is there a jury in the world that or jury in Canada that will convict them you

00:16:18.180 know we don't know much about this yet it's it's pretty murky I think we knew

00:16:23.020 pretty pretty much right away we'll say the Eddie Marie's case that these were

00:16:26.800 thugs who broke onto his property had no reason being there and he had every

00:16:31.940 right to defend his property with force and his defend his family with force we

00:16:37.240 We don't know much about this case yet. We know that it was an invasion and that the invader was shot.

00:16:42.240 And even if you do believe in the right to self-defense, even if you believe in castle doctrine,

00:16:48.240 you don't have a right to just shoot anybody who comes onto your property, even hostile.

00:16:52.240 There is limits around this stuff.

00:16:55.240 The RCMP have said they were involved in a fight.

00:16:59.240 There was a physical altercation between homeowner and break-and-enter camp.

00:17:04.240 What it was, don't know.

00:17:06.600 But the homeowner ended up in the hospital.

00:17:09.280 So I think we're going to have to get a bit more information about this case.

00:17:14.480 We can talk about, though, the broader issue of your ability and right to defend your property.

00:17:19.480 You know, those questions if he gets charged and goes.

00:17:21.820 I mean, it's interesting there was a grow-up.

00:17:24.160 I mean, is this somebody who has some criminal difficulties or involvement with other things?

00:17:29.300 That does change the dynamic of what's been going on.

00:17:32.400 And if this was a turf battle, we just don't know.

00:17:35.220 But that principle, as you were saying, though, when it goes to jury, as with the Stanley case,

00:17:39.420 I mean, if this was an unrelated, you know, just a burglar trying to come in,

00:17:42.060 and he was beating this man, and, you know, as it appears on the surface,

00:17:47.080 and he feared for his life, a jury will let him go.

00:17:49.760 But he might have to run the gauntlet for a year and a half of misery before he gets it.

00:17:52.320 That's the problem, is, you know, these kinds of, those kinds of cases, at least,

00:17:56.460 you normally get off in the end, but it's going to bankrupt you,

00:17:59.360 and it's going to destroy your life in the meantime, going through the court process.

00:18:02.400 and making lawyers rich if this was a case again we don't know but i mean the property was involved

00:18:07.600 in a crime before uh grow up i mean if it's if it's kind of a criminal and criminal then who

00:18:14.000 knows it may have been some beef there maybe it wasn't pure self-defense it could be some details

00:18:18.960 yeah we're we're gonna need a bit more to come out of about this one but obviously anytime

00:18:23.040 we have these shootings and self-defense on a property catches our attention because we've

00:18:27.920 We've seen this story before, and it's all too often the victim that's made the criminal.

00:18:33.600 Well, and we know that the jury will exercise common sense when it comes to it in the long run.

00:18:38.360 I mean, that's why Maurice eventually got acquitted.

00:18:39.980 They knew that we're just not going to make a case of this.

00:18:42.060 We're wasting our time and his.

00:18:46.140 You know, let's change the benefit of the doubt is on the homeowner.

00:18:49.880 I mean, you know, the presumption is that this person was defending himself until we find evidence otherwise,

00:18:54.300 because it's backwards right now.

00:18:55.360 I think one of the big difference in this case is that, from the Maurice cases, that was middle of the night, and they were skulking around in the middle of the night.

00:19:03.340 You had a child in the house.

00:19:04.520 Yeah, a child, and this was broad daylight, Monday afternoon, holiday Monday afternoon.

00:19:10.720 It's not a usual break and enter time.

00:19:12.000 It's not a usual break and enter time. Let's wait for the details, and then we'll get the full story, hopefully.

00:19:17.920 Okay. Well, we're going to move on to our next topic, which, oh, yes, anti-social gathering, social gatherings.

00:19:29.680 So, you know, you remember when we'd have, there'd be protests in downtown Calgary, downtown Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina, Winnipeg, around people protesting against lockdowns and violations of their liberties.

00:19:43.220 you'd have one crazy person

00:19:47.300 one person in the crowd with a crazy sign

00:19:50.040 and the media focused right in on them

00:19:52.400 it definitely annoyed us

00:19:53.940 because it's a cause I think we sympathize with

00:19:56.880 very strongly

00:19:57.900 but the legacy media would focus on the one guy with a crazy sign

00:20:02.980 and they'd say, oh it's a small protest 1.00

00:20:04.620 and look at these guys, they're nuts 0.98

00:20:06.480 well now we're getting the other side of the coin here 0.99

00:20:10.640 we're getting the lockdowners

00:20:12.880 the people who want to send us back to good old days where we just sit around getting fat and

00:20:17.200 collect government checks all day. People who want to lock us down. To be fair, I guess there's

00:20:24.280 a spectrum of people who just want. They're saying it's tracing, but these are the people who opposed

00:20:28.600 opening up entirely. So they're protesting against social gatherings, but having a fairly nice social

00:20:35.120 gathering doing that in the meantime. Corey, you were there at least for the Calgary one. Why don't

00:20:39.940 you tell us what it was about? Yeah, I went down and I'd seen again, and I expand on this in my

00:20:44.920 show, which we recorded today, which will be coming up pretty soon with The Cory Morgan Show.

00:20:49.240 Dr. Vi Pond, who's been a very visible person in the media, he comes forward, he's an emergency

00:20:53.740 doctor in Calgary, had been tweeting, you know, with the big socialist raised fist and saying,

00:20:58.760 it's time for a general strike, we have to push back. He demanded the resignation of Hinshaw,

00:21:03.480 resignation of Kenny, resignation of Shandro, demanded an election, said we're going to bring

00:21:07.220 Alberta to its knees and said we're going to start a general strike and we're going to have

00:21:12.960 mass protests down there every day until we get our way. Mass protests. Mass protests. So I went

00:21:19.480 down to the first day and yes it was something. Maybe again as I said if I'm going to be generous

00:21:26.880 there are 80 protesters. There were at least 30 mainstream media members though the cameras and I

00:21:31.820 took a lot of pictures I put them out there again you'll see them on my show. This was a staged

00:21:37.040 political theater. You know, Vipond was wearing his surgical scrubs. I mean, you didn't come from

00:21:42.800 the hospital to the park downtown, doctor. You know, where was your stethoscope, right? You know,

00:21:48.380 how far is this going to go? But it was ridiculous. These are people demanding. I mean, as somebody 0.98

00:21:52.340 tweeted, they should be chanting, lock me up, lock me up. I mean, you guys are at, you're demanding

00:21:58.220 that your rights be infringed upon. And meanwhile, it's purely political. I mean, this is a politically

00:22:04.120 involved individual the people I saw there they were holding obviously they just grabbed on short

00:22:08.280 notice what they could so mostly it was education signs but they were typical I guess your union

00:22:12.700 stock signs that you might have around and I guess they've been doing it the signs that really

00:22:18.560 make sense it was just all these teacher signs yeah these cut out ones from the unions they're

00:22:22.820 like oh I guess we didn't make our own signs for this one we're gonna have to get the protests

00:22:27.880 for the curriculum signs yeah so I will see if this blossoms I mean there was a few more people

00:22:32.740 on the weekend, it sounds like, but it's the weekend, you know, more people had time to pop

00:22:36.440 out, but it doesn't seem to be snowballing into this tremendous general strike that's going to

00:22:41.260 bring Premier Kennedy to his knees yet anytime soon, but they are being portrayed, and what did

00:22:46.880 frustrate and annoy me, and I certainly took my swipes, was the mainstream media. I mean, he set

00:22:51.240 up in a low spot, he had all the cameras down there, and you had your handful of people around

00:22:54.680 the outside, so it looked, if you're sitting low, as if you're in the middle of a crowd. That's why

00:22:58.520 i was back 100 feet taking pictures no there's 60 people here guys uh don't don't don't believe

00:23:03.380 what you see on cbc uh speaking of cbc i got up this morning turned or uh heard their update

00:23:09.860 their lead item was alberta exploding in anger at jason kenny for for bringing down the covid

00:23:17.100 requirement i mean come on yeah what 60 80 people is not an entire province exploding in anger no

00:23:24.580 and it's not just the cbc i listen to a radio show mainstream media yeah they have to do something

00:23:29.180 they have to this is the nugget they've chosen yeah people are angry at jason kenney over covid

00:23:34.960 and it's his former people who are still angry i think people have maybe simmered down a bit since

00:23:40.740 we're pretty much reopened here now uh but the anger at the government is over beating up kids

00:23:46.580 for playing hockey for jailing pastors for raiding and attacking churches for uh for being uh for

00:23:54.360 thuggery shutting down businesses that's what people are upset about yes you've got the regular

00:24:00.260 social justice warriors and the union activists who couldn't be bothered to change their signs

00:24:04.800 from the latest professional protests they went to who are upset but i don't know anyone who is

00:24:10.700 pulling their hair out who isn't a professional protester for this people are happy to be back

00:24:15.800 to some sense of normality.

00:24:17.100 And that's what I wanted to see down there.

00:24:18.580 I would not necessarily want to see,

00:24:19.640 but if I was going to read something into it,

00:24:21.600 if you saw the common person,

00:24:22.980 the person who doesn't show up for these,

00:24:24.500 it's not the usual suspects.

00:24:26.160 You saw some folks coming down.

00:24:28.220 I'm certain there are some people concerned.

00:24:29.780 I mean, they've been fed fear and doom for 18 months

00:24:33.540 and that they are worried that we're opening too early

00:24:35.880 and they're concerned.

00:24:36.700 But they're not concerned to the point of the uproar

00:24:38.620 and marching in the streets

00:24:39.580 that this group wanted to have down there.

00:24:42.360 But again, the media, and as I said on the radio,

00:24:43.860 I heard that in the news report,

00:24:44.740 despite protests across the province.

00:24:48.020 Kenny is still going ahead.

00:24:49.460 These are nothing, guys.

00:24:50.720 I mean, an LRT train holds more people than that protest held.

00:24:54.500 Were there lizard people?

00:24:55.660 What about the lizard people?

00:24:56.300 I didn't see any lizard people, but, you know, if you get close enough.

00:25:01.280 All right.

00:25:01.960 Well, speaking of CBC, not in their headlines is their latest demand for another bailout.

00:25:09.980 The CBC gets, I don't know, what is it?

00:25:11.760 It's about $1.4 billion a year.

00:25:13.460 $1.2 billion.

00:25:13.960 Okay, $1.2 billion a year. It's an annual automatic bailout every single year.

00:25:19.900 CBC's never made a profit to a single year in its existence that I'm aware of.

00:25:25.060 But the times are tough, hard times at the CBC. Dave, why don't you tell us about it?

00:25:31.800 They reported an 18% drop in ad revenue over the last year, which many of the mainstream media is also reporting.

00:25:41.260 and they're making their usual plea now.

00:25:45.120 We're going to have to cut shows.

00:25:46.720 We're going to have to cut services unless we get more money.

00:25:51.900 And they say they might, just might,

00:25:56.920 have overestimated a bit on their Olympic ad revenue.

00:26:01.460 They predicted 400 million bucks

00:26:03.680 they were going to make off the Tokyo Olympics.

00:26:09.500 Sorry.

00:26:11.260 CBC projected they make $400 million? Off the Olympics. Off the Summer Olympics?

00:26:17.260 Off the Summer Olympics. In a lockdown Olympics? Yes. Because I guess everybody's locked down.

00:26:23.260 Jesus. I'm going to put my dog in charge of CBC if I'm Prime Minister. Holy crap.

00:26:30.260 Well, you haven't heard the ratings yet. The ratings are in for the opening ceremonies. 0.96

00:26:33.260 you know one of the one of the big glamour events uh 500 and i believe 75 000 people

00:26:40.400 canada watched the olympics uh now at the same time over on ctv you could watch master chef

00:26:48.380 and close to a million people

00:26:50.480 that's a good way to show exactly how so they may have overstated the the money that

00:26:58.460 they were going to make. But CBC President Catherine Tate says, you know, all is not lost.

00:27:05.880 Give us more money and we will be that beacon of light. So there you go.

00:27:11.860 Corey, I mean, devastating news, obviously. What do you think would happen if the CBC had to cut

00:27:20.100 its services? Nobody would notice and nobody would care. They stink. Let's just not beat

00:27:25.500 around the bush. Their viewership sucks. And if they have, I mean, advertisers follow viewers. 1.00

00:27:31.180 If they could prove a large number of people watching, you know, whether the advertiser agrees

00:27:37.160 with CBC and socialized radio or not, they'll buy ad space. But nobody's watching. Their news

00:27:43.100 is garbage. Their shows are not drawing people. I mean, every media outlet's hurting, but what's 1.00

00:27:49.480 frustrating is every other media outlet has to deal with it. The CBC just gets bailed out and

00:27:54.540 bailed out. I'd say the advertising dollars they do get, in my view, are stolen from the

00:27:58.620 private market. All the other media outlets that are trying for a finite advertising pool

00:28:02.560 are out there. They can get undercut by an institution that's subsidized

00:28:06.780 $1.2 billion a year and biting into those advertising

00:28:10.500 dollars that could be actually spread around to mainstream media outlets or even smaller

00:28:14.500 media outlets that people actually watch. But, you know,

00:28:18.400 they don't fear ratings and it's showing. You know who is buying ads was

00:28:22.380 announced this week is Unifor, the mainstream media's union.

00:28:26.800 They're buying anti-conservative attack ads on CBC.

00:28:30.640 Well, they're preaching to the converted there.

00:28:32.560 Yeah, their audience is...

00:28:34.640 Well, I don't think they're buying, they're not buying just on the CBC.

00:28:37.260 No, no, just on CBC.

00:28:38.540 They're going across the mainstream media.

00:28:41.160 They're spending a lot of money.

00:28:42.400 You know, and we weren't planning on talking about that,

00:28:45.240 but I think that's worth just getting into a little bit.

00:28:48.740 Unifor, so Unifor is this big kind of catch-all union.

00:28:52.380 and it represents a ton of so-called journalists

00:28:56.620 in Canada. And this is an extremely partisan union.

00:29:00.820 I think I could be mistaken, correct me if I'm mistaken

00:29:03.920 and people in the comments can too, but is it part of the Canadian

00:29:07.620 Labour Congress? I believe a whole bunch of them merged together at one point.

00:29:12.740 The Canadian Labour Congress is, so it might actually be one of these sub-unions of the NDP.

00:29:16.620 They're Canada's biggest private sector union.

00:29:19.260 Yeah, but if they're a part of the Canadian Labour Congress, they might then also be essentially one of the subsidiary parties of the NDP.

00:29:26.220 So it's one of these weird things.

00:29:27.620 Just like Gil McGowan and the Federal Federation of Labour is constitutionally entrenched within Notley's NDP.

00:29:34.040 They pull an incredible amount of power.

00:29:36.360 So maybe, Dave, make a note of this.

00:29:39.000 Let's look into that.

00:29:39.960 See if all the media members who are part of Unifor, are they effective members of the NDP because of their structure?

00:29:49.260 Let's do a little look at this to see if Canada's media is effectively, officially partisan.

00:29:53.960 They're already paid by the government, but let's see if they're party members, too.

00:29:58.460 Okay.

00:30:00.340 Well, I think that's it for...

00:30:02.400 I didn't miss anything, no?

00:30:03.700 I think we covered all we wanted.

00:30:04.940 I'm trying to get used to the new format.

00:30:06.040 I'm not actually controlling a screen up here.

00:30:09.260 You know, we're...

00:30:10.860 I feel like we're in the space shuttle here.

00:30:13.340 Good.

00:30:13.760 Don't forget to forget the members again on the way out.

00:30:16.180 No, of course.

00:30:16.980 Well, first, let's start with people who do advertise with real private sector media.

00:30:22.920 Exactly. And reaping the benefits, we hear.

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00:31:50.480 Well, thank you Dave, thank you Corey, and thank you everyone watching, especially Western

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