Western Standard - The Pipeline： Can Poilievre be stopped？

00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Derek Filderbred, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline.

00:00:23.320 Today is April 13th, 2022.

00:00:27.600 I'm joined, as usual today, by Western Standard News Editor Dave Naylor,

00:00:31.620 who's finally got a shirt on that doesn't blind me.

00:00:33.860 There you go. But the tie does.

00:00:35.700 The tie is...

00:00:37.320 What was it? It's going to give me epilepsy.

00:00:40.760 Sorry about that.

00:00:42.020 And improving his tie game today is Western Standard Opinion and Broadcast Editor Corey Morgan.

00:00:47.000 How are you doing?

00:00:47.660 Very good today.

00:00:49.280 Beauty. Okay.

00:00:51.220 We've got an interesting show today.

00:00:52.780 we're going to be discussing, can anyone stop Pierre Polliver? His rallies are big. I mean,

00:01:00.240 they're really big. Very big. And I mean, he appears to be running away with it. We're going

00:01:07.120 to kind of, we're going to do an assessment of where the conservative leadership race is right

00:01:11.180 now. And if it's already as good as over. We're going to talk about inflation getting out of

00:01:18.000 control. The Bank of Canada doubling the overnight interest rate to banks today. I think probably

00:01:24.220 just a taste of things to come. Record inflation in Canada, record inflation in the United States

00:01:28.740 as governments have been printing money like it's going out of style. We're going to dive into that.

00:01:34.580 And six wave fear mongering. You knew it had to happen. COVID is not going away. It's going to

00:01:40.560 come and go and it's going to come and go and we'll have lockdowns and we'll have openings and

00:01:44.520 lockdowns and openings. Now the usual suspects, fear-mongering about a COVID-6 wave. We always

00:01:50.220 knew COVID-6 wave was going to come, but it sounds to me like they're laying the groundwork for more

00:01:55.360 lockdowns, more mandates, all of that kind of good stuff that the intelligent among you probably knew

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00:03:41.480 or $99 a year to support independent bailout-free Western media. Before we get into the first

00:03:49.420 topic, though, we should also plug a new show that's coming. You hopefully already watch

00:03:55.640 Triggered with Corey Morgan every day from 1130 to 1 Mountain Standard Time, but 9 a.m. on Monday,

00:04:03.900 Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. You'll also now be treated to the return of the Danielle Smith

00:04:09.340 show. Since Danielle Smith has been off the air with QR 770 in Calgary, there really just hasn't

00:04:16.340 been much in the way of any kind of freedom-oriented talk radio, period. In Alberta, at least, I know

00:04:22.540 in BC, you've got John Gormley. Saskatchewan. I said BC, yeah. I meant Saskatchewan. Sorry,

00:04:28.400 Saskatchewan. You wish, BC. There really just isn't much. There's a couple of good

00:04:33.780 pockets here and there. There's nothing in Alberta whatsoever. So we're going to bring

00:04:38.560 the Danielle Smith show right to the Western Standard. So it's going to be half an hour

00:04:42.280 Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, and then a full two-hour long-form interview, kind of like the

00:04:47.600 Joe Rogan experience on Saturdays, digging into issues of importance to Westerners. So I'm really

00:04:53.440 looking forward to that and bringing the Danielle Smith show right here. Okay, well, let's get into

00:04:58.620 it. I keep on telling people we're going to get to the topics, and I keep on throwing things in.

00:05:02.160 I'm just baiting you along, baiting you along, people. Can anyone stop Pierre Polliver? Skippy. Can they stop Skippy? Last night, a bunch of the Western Standard crew, at least, we went south from where our office is here to the south of Calgary to the Spruce Meadows, the big equestrian facility there, and massive turnout for a Polliver crowd.

00:05:27.760 Dave, I guess we'll just set the scene of what was last night,

00:05:31.480 and then we'll make it to the bigger picture of the campaign overall.

00:05:34.260 Just tell us what we saw last night.

00:05:37.080 Well, the host of the evening, MP John Barlow,

00:05:40.240 says final attendance figures were 6,500 inside and outside.

00:05:45.360 Incredible, really.

00:05:46.500 It was a homecoming of sorts for Polyev.

00:05:49.040 He was born in the writing.

00:05:50.700 He was born in nearby Shaughnessy,

00:05:53.060 actually talked about basically breaking into spruce metals

00:05:56.420 and riding his bike and some buddies around the horse he jumps and stuff like that.

00:06:01.560 So it was a homecoming.

00:06:02.940 His mother was there, his family was there, and the crowd loved him.

00:06:06.460 The crowd ate it up.

00:06:08.680 He talked about everything that was red meat to Conservatives,

00:06:12.760 from defunding the CBC to, you know, just getting everybody's back,

00:06:18.620 you know, everybody's freedoms back.

00:06:19.960 And the crowd ate it up, and it was just the latest in a stop across Western Canada

00:06:25.220 that has drawn unprecedented levels of public support.

00:06:31.020 So, yeah, quite a few of us were there.

00:06:34.280 I know you were there last night too, Corey.

00:06:38.280 I think there were more people last night in a single room for Pierre Polliver

00:06:43.820 than I'm willing to bet that Jean Charest is going to get at all of his events

00:06:48.560 combined across the entire campaign.

00:06:51.560 You see pictures of Charest events.

00:06:53.440 he's lucky to have a dozen geriatric

00:06:55.740 old progressive conservatives in a room 0.99

00:06:57.540 they pale

00:07:01.860 in comparison, I remember the first

00:07:03.760 conservative leadership race, I lived in a small town

00:07:05.900 and Tony Clement came through and it's like

00:07:07.540 oh, politicians come to our town, so we went

00:07:09.960 I don't know, there was

00:07:11.180 probably 30 people in the room for Tony Clement

00:07:13.640 but Jean Charest is supposed

00:07:15.880 to be the great red hope here

00:07:17.400 he is supposed to be the champion of the

00:07:19.780 red Tories, he's going to bring back real

00:07:21.560 progressive conservatism. He's going to pick up where Aaron O'Toole left off, essentially.

00:07:27.980 He was supposed to be the one to stop. Dave?

00:07:31.300 Well, I just said his support is Quebec. It's all in Quebec. You look at the 0.97

00:07:36.140 and any VIP that is supporting him, they're basically in Quebec. When he launched his

00:07:41.920 campaign in Calgary, it was 150 people. When he had the next night in Vancouver,

00:07:47.220 second night of the campaign, it was 100 people. Now you're looking at

00:07:51.080 6,500 for Pollywood. So certainly he's

00:07:55.280 got the public momentum. Don't forget, the last time Peter McKay was

00:07:59.160 seen to be as the frontrunner, and he ended up not winning. So

00:08:02.800 it's early days, long way to go until September, but he's definitely the frontrunner.

00:08:07.440 Yeah, but I'm not sure there's much comparison between, I know I was

00:08:11.280 all in, Peter McKay was going to win. I didn't think that was a good thing, but I thought

00:08:15.220 he was going to win, but he wasn't capturing any kind of zeitgeist. He was just the biggest name

00:08:20.100 in the race because no one really knew Aaron O'Toole, and he was certainly not drawing any

00:08:24.320 crowds. No, no, nobody cared back then. Nobody cared. It was a nothing race. I know crowds are

00:08:30.240 just one indicator, but they are a big indicator, Corey. Do you think of this? Can Polliver be

00:08:36.880 stopped? Yeah, I don't think he will, but I think he can. As Dave was saying, it's a long run on

00:08:43.160 this race. I'd like to play some devil's advocate. If I was a charise strategist, and I'm sure

00:08:48.100 they're already starting along those lines, I would make the Polyev-Bernier comparison to say

00:08:53.500 Bernier drew just as many thousands on the prairies, but it's that same core of people.

00:08:57.600 What we need is somebody who can win the election, not to win the leadership. And with weighted

00:09:02.140 ridings, if this was one member, one vote, I would say Polyev's just got it done. It's finished.

00:09:07.000 He's, you know, Westerners are going to come out on mass. Well, one member, one vote. Lewis almost

00:09:10.420 would have won last time. Yeah, exactly. But when you need with weighted ridings, he's got,

00:09:15.000 there's a lot of maritime ridings that Charest could do well in. There's a lot of Quebec ones,

00:09:19.980 some Southern Ontario, and still grabbing a bit of a percentage, lower mainland BC.

00:09:25.360 I wouldn't write Charest off yet. I mean, the populism that Poliev is showing is fantastic.

00:09:32.260 And I think conservatives have been waiting to see somebody to give some good red meat 0.98

00:09:36.580 conservatives and make them excited make them happy but when you start looking at how these 0.98

00:09:41.160 races happen strategically he's off to a great start but with so many months ahead of him

00:09:46.140 there's a lot of room for a potential stumble or for another campaign to suddenly pick up

00:09:50.320 it's already begun you can see what Shrey is going to do uh on the weekend he attacked

00:09:54.640 Polyev's support of the trucker convoy the freedom convoy so that's what he's going to do

00:09:59.460 and and Corey's right he's going to make uh Polyev's out to be some sort of right-wing lunatic

00:10:04.800 that can't win in southern Ontario and Quebec.

00:10:08.660 Which may backfire, but I could see them going that route,

00:10:11.560 and they might convince people to say,

00:10:12.840 well, he won't win the general election,

00:10:15.200 and that's what a lot of people think.

00:10:16.500 So the Bernier thing is interesting.

00:10:20.020 It's not yet.

00:10:21.520 Actually, it'll probably be published here soon,

00:10:24.020 but I'm working on a column right now talking about this rally

00:10:29.380 and this very topic, can Polliver be stopped?

00:10:33.560 And I've never seen any politician draw crowds like this, with the exception of Maxime Bernier.

00:10:39.580 Bernier probably didn't get crowds this big everywhere he goes, but he's the only one I've seen with any kind of comparison.

00:10:45.400 And I'll tell you, I know a lot of the people who go to these kinds of things.

00:10:49.140 And I did see a lot of faces last night at the Pulver event, who we also saw when Bernier was in Strathmore, Alberta, just east of Calgary here in the last days of the 2021 campaign, the last general election.

00:11:02.660 a lot they're not all the same but i i recognize many familiar faces uh geez there was maybe this

00:11:11.280 is a subtopic but you know when poliver said uh you know uh the first trudeau created this

00:11:16.580 the quebec separatist movement the second trudeau created the western separatist movement

00:11:20.180 uh one guy front row in front of uh poliver said yeah he's like yeah we're out and uh and uh and

00:11:29.620 And Polliver jumped in to address that. But I recognize people there last night who were Maverick Party, people who voted Maverick Party last time, people who voted PPC.

00:11:40.160 So, you know, Shereen might have an argument like, yeah, he can get the hardcore right wing loonies out, but, you know, he can't he can't win the general election.

00:11:50.060 Fine. Maybe that argument could hold for rallies, maybe. But in other polls, Dave, I don't know if you have the numbers handy, 0.99

00:11:57.100 but we were just looking at it, some new polling numbers on how Canadians would vote with

00:12:01.660 Polliver as the Conservative leader versus Charay as the Conservative leader.

00:12:06.220 Polliver was certainly doing much better. Yeah, well, and Charay's whole argument is

00:12:10.300 built to win. That's literally his slogan is, well, I can win. And that's not, I'm the best

00:12:16.380 guy. It's, I can win. Is that argument working? So we just looked at these polls. How true is that?

00:12:23.500 yeah it's again it's so far out uh it's just you know every day there's a new poll and every day

00:12:28.620 the results are different so it's he seems to be attracting more of a broader community than

00:12:38.940 bernier did bernier was the extreme far right sorry are we talking about pauloversary uh

00:12:45.340 And I'm talking the comparison between Polyev and Bernier. Bernier was limited to the extreme far-right and only got, what, less than...

00:12:58.380 Well, I wouldn't call it extreme far-right. When I say extreme far-right, I'm thinking like Nazis.

00:13:02.600 Yeah.

00:13:03.000 I think you're just saying relative to like middle-of-the-road conservatives.

00:13:06.020 Sure, but I think more middle-of-the-road conservatives are attracted to Polyev than they were then Bernier.

00:13:14.700 To them, Polyev is more palatable than Bernier.

00:13:18.460 So I think those kind of attacks, as Corey says, may backfire, 0.86

00:13:21.980 but right now it's all they've got.

00:13:25.860 So, okay, the rallies are, I think, a pretty big indicator of support

00:13:29.860 in an internal leadership race here.

00:13:32.060 And even if Shuri was right that he's the only one who can win the general,

00:13:35.120 and I don't think that's true at all,

00:13:36.860 but the data seems to suggest pretty strongly otherwise.

00:13:41.640 We're not in the general election.

00:13:42.960 We're in the leadership race.

00:13:45.760 I want to maybe get from both of you.

00:13:48.440 Is there any one individual who can beat Oliver?

00:13:53.060 And is it really Sheree?

00:13:54.400 That's sort of the mainstream media narrative that Sheree is the guy to beat him.

00:13:57.240 But is he?

00:13:58.120 Well, I think Lewis probably has a better chance.

00:14:01.300 I think Lewis can capture that vote.

00:14:05.060 you know, just as

00:14:08.480 certainly she'll be more popular in the West

00:14:11.020 than Charest

00:14:12.220 and probably in Ontario than Charest 0.99

00:14:15.040 it's just a matter of how she can do in Quebec 0.92

00:14:17.220 and further on down east 0.95

00:14:18.540 She's got a base to build on

00:14:21.000 already, I mean she surprised a lot of people 0.68

00:14:22.980 in the last leadership

00:14:24.520 I mean it was this

00:14:25.560 out of the blue came in as an exceedingly strong

00:14:28.880 contender

00:14:29.920 the other one, fourth year Brown

00:14:31.920 I don't see him making an impact outside of a select area

00:14:34.860 of Ontario. He's just not making waves. He's not exciting anybody. And yeah, Paulyev is the one

00:14:40.360 to beat. You got to watch that leading contender that gets all the guns pointed at you as well.

00:14:44.660 And they're going to be all after Paulyev. The excitement's contagious. If he can start getting

00:14:50.680 rallies that look like this in Newfoundland or Ontario or Nova Scotia. He has been in Ontario

00:14:57.420 and Vancouver. Huge rallies. And if they're looking like these, he's going to be hard to

00:15:02.920 seat there's no doubt about it people get on with the bandwagon so you know I actually do think we

00:15:07.280 need to continue to keep an eye on Lewis uh I've said before I dropped the ball with her last time

00:15:13.200 I just we all underestimated her yeah we just didn't give her the seriousness that I think she

00:15:19.140 deserved as a candidate uh if she had been taken more seriously she probably would have won she

00:15:23.220 just got next to no press because you know even even independent media like us that understand

00:15:30.180 this kind of stuff i think a bit better in the mainstream we still kind of drop the ball we just

00:15:34.580 she didn't have high profile endorsements she didn't catch much media and that kind of feeds

00:15:40.980 back on itself if you don't get media we don't we kind of assume you don't deserve media and

00:15:45.380 well that's often true but it's you know every once in a while turns out to be wrong and that

00:15:49.380 was the case i don't think there's a path to victory for charay unless poliver utterly implodes

00:15:56.020 Like someone's got the dirt on them. They find them, as they say, with a dead girl or a live boy, you know, unless they got the real dirt on him.

00:16:04.800 I don't see a path for Chiray to win because he's just so unpalatable with massive numbers of conservatives where he's not.

00:16:11.760 He can't even be considered a lesser of evil. You know, he's got his positions on the liberal gun registry, carbon tax, equalization.

00:16:19.220 And Albertans voted for Bernier in the 2017 conservative leadership race.

00:16:26.440 Bernier was not running as a rah-rah Quebec guy.

00:16:29.960 He was running almost as anti-Quebec politics, at least.

00:16:32.960 Charest has been a Quebec premier and gone to battle for Quebec against the West before.

00:16:38.240 So I think there's such a hard limit on how many conservatives would be willing to vote for Charest. 0.59

00:16:42.760 Whereas Lewis, she's a social conservative, and that will put some more red Tories off and social progressives. 0.72

00:16:50.320 But I think there is a path to victory for her, especially if all of her stumbles. 0.72

00:16:56.240 Because she's relatively inoffensive.

00:16:58.540 She's well-spoken.

00:16:59.400 She's not mean.

00:17:00.220 She's not nasty.

00:17:01.760 And I was listening to Anthony Fury on one of the post-media podcasts, and she was on there.

00:17:08.380 and it was kind of teed up for her to go after Polliver for, you know,

00:17:14.720 Brown said, Polliver's a racist.

00:17:17.980 He puts it to, you know, our second black candidate for prime minister here. 0.96

00:17:23.200 And she didn't take the bait.

00:17:25.060 She said, he's been nothing but a gentleman.

00:17:27.100 He's not a racist. 1.00

00:17:27.920 Brown's full of crap. 1.00

00:17:29.340 I think the venerable Rex Murphy, he put it best when he said, 1.00

00:17:33.340 he is so charisma.

00:17:34.960 He has no charisma, so it makes it seem that he does.

00:17:39.780 You know, he's just, people are fed up of just somebody who does something.

00:17:44.880 Like, Trudeau came to power on a charisma, you know, he has his charisma. 1.00

00:17:49.560 And people realized, oh, okay, he may have charisma, but he's a bit of an idiot. 0.99

00:17:53.520 So, it's nice to, people want to see someone who knows what they're talking about. 0.99

00:17:58.620 And I can just imagine a federal election debate between Polyev and Trudeau.

00:18:03.000 It would be just a massacre.

00:18:04.900 I'm looking forward to it.

00:18:05.740 Yeah, looking forward to it in a way.

00:18:07.540 But just to say, he's in Edmonton tomorrow night, Polyev,

00:18:11.280 and our Rachel Emmanuel will be on the scene filing reports from there.

00:18:15.540 So it'd be interesting to see how he does up north.

00:18:18.120 Yeah.

00:18:18.660 As I say, my column, he is, I mean this, you know,

00:18:24.100 without meaning to give offense, but he's kind of a nerd. 0.98

00:18:26.740 He looks like a nerd. 0.73

00:18:28.380 He looks like he graduated.

00:18:30.180 I bet he probably did graduate from the Fraser Institute's

00:18:32.580 Austrian economics internship program, like he looks like he did, but he, and he was talking

00:18:38.320 about all these kind of geeky talk, like monetary policy. I have never, ever heard a serious

00:18:43.480 candidate for office ever talk about monetary policy ever. And he somehow made it sexy last

00:18:49.100 night. The last conservative prime minister we had was a nerd. Uh, I don't Harper. I wouldn't 0.98

00:18:55.200 put as a, the last, the last time monetary policy was a major federal issue was under John

00:19:00.740 Deeth and Baker. But don't budgets balance themselves? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think people

00:19:05.360 might be ready for some nuance after years of that. Well, okay. This is, I guess, a good segue

00:19:11.560 from, well, to just inflation. We're going to, so inflation now, widely, finely recognized by our

00:19:21.580 betters as out of control. Bank of Canada increased the overnight lending rate, doubled it today from

00:19:29.980 point five to one percent. Dave, set it up here. Well, it's an effort to bring inflation under

00:19:37.220 control. It's five point seven percent in Canada, the highest in 30 years. It's even worse in the

00:19:43.160 States at eight point five percent, which is the worst in 40 years. It's incredible. And the Bank

00:19:49.320 of Canada blaming the Ukraine invasion for all the rising prices. But they also need to cool off 0.65

00:19:55.080 the housing market, which is out of control in Vancouver and Toronto and other places.

00:19:59.360 even getting hot here yeah yeah it's nice so uh if you own if you own it's nice uh so yeah as you

00:20:06.000 mentioned they doubled the the interest rates uh everybody speculated they were going to do this

00:20:11.920 everybody speculates already that they're going to double it again uh in the next uh in the next go

00:20:17.120 around so apparently it's already had a bit of an effect i was listening to a toronto real estate

00:20:21.520 expert uh this morning talking about how he's already seeing you know just the increase of

00:20:28.240 half a percentage point is going to increase a mortgage terribly uh everything's going up

00:20:33.900 gasoline prices of butter we were looking at today and i'm doing a story on that go and try

00:20:39.960 and find some meat it's a good steak costco costco it's still better isn't but but they don't sell

00:20:45.880 dog food you one bag of dog food each it's like soviet restaurant dog food lines yes dog food

00:20:53.780 We're in Soviet, Kanakistan. 0.86

00:20:56.140 Ask me if I'm happy I went back to my bank and locked in the mortgage for another five years, a few months ago.

00:21:01.500 I did too.

00:21:02.200 Yeah.

00:21:02.540 I saw this coming a mile away.

00:21:04.940 Yeah.

00:21:05.360 So I'm sorry if you didn't, but you should have seen it.

00:21:10.060 So Corey, inflation hasn't really been a major political topic since the 1980s.

00:21:16.300 I mean, when I was getting my first house and I was signing up in like, I don't know, 1.5, 2% interest, something like that.

00:21:23.020 And I was like, oh, geez, that's a lot of money over time. And my dad just slapped me upside the head. He says, let me tell you about the 80s, punk. Let me tell you about the 80s. That was interest rate. And my generation has never come close to anything like that.

00:21:41.000 You know, interest rates are still wildly low.

00:21:46.860 I guess, you know, you're not a financial speculator here.

00:21:50.320 Interest rates are going to have to continue to go up here.

00:21:53.960 But maybe we'll talk about the politics of this.

00:21:56.040 I guess it'll circle inevitably back to Polliver a bit here.

00:21:59.820 Let's talk about the politics of this.

00:22:04.420 The Liberals are now finally recognizing it's on the radar.

00:22:07.820 They're talking about it.

00:22:08.900 but is there anything the liberals can realistically do on inflation besides kind of token gimmicky

00:22:18.060 home tax-free savings accounts? Yeah, well, they won't, but they could. I mean, if they went back

00:22:23.760 to say the pragmatic question. Let me rephrase that. Is there anything within the liberal worldview

00:22:29.360 and universe that they could do that the liberal would plausibly do? Not the current version of

00:22:35.560 I mean, to do the true things we would need to stimulate the economy so you have real economic growth, real economic happenings that could counter that and put money into people's pockets and produce things such as resources to offset that sort of thing, they won't do it.

00:22:54.440 You know, they don't want to, even though everybody else is talking about it, they're not talking about expanding oil and gas production in Canada or potash in Saskatchewan or resource development in general, not using the strengths we have.

00:23:07.300 They're still fixated on virtue signaling, climate change, and spending, which is causing the bloody inflation in the first place.

00:23:14.680 So they could, but there's no way this ideologically driven government will do it.

00:23:18.080 I don't think the liberals believe that spending drives inflation, even though huge amounts of the new spending is driven directly by having the Bank of Canada print money to give to the government.

00:23:31.600 Like even Keynes understood that would happen.

00:23:34.100 Yeah, Keynes understood that.

00:23:36.140 And Keynes is not exactly our kind of cup of tea here.

00:23:40.180 The liberal answer to it seems to be, and maybe you could flesh out some of what they're doing here, Dave.

00:23:44.420 The liberal answer seems to be, well, if things are getting more expensive, the government should pay to offset some of those costs.

00:23:53.280 Don't think they're making the connection that, well, to have the money to offset those costs.

00:23:58.340 They're printing more money, that they're in a vicious cycle.

00:24:01.660 It's a vicious inflationary cycle.

00:24:04.960 We need to reduce costs.

00:24:06.620 So let's print some money and give that to people to reduce the costs of us printing money.

00:24:13.360 What are some of the actions the government's announced in the budget in the few days since that, from their mind, are going to tackle cost of living?

00:24:20.460 Well, I'm not sure they have announced anything. 0.95

00:24:24.340 Menstruation products are getting a lot cheaper for the trans community. 1.00

00:24:27.160 That's true. 1.00

00:24:28.060 Didn't you do a search on budget?

00:24:29.360 It's a new kind of economic cycle.

00:24:32.160 Did you do a search of the budget for the word inflation?

00:24:35.380 Do I remember that?

00:24:36.040 I did, and inflation was somewhat high on it.

00:24:39.180 um gender uh was what made me find the uh the uh i think what's ironic is what you didn't want to

00:24:46.700 find i was thinking was their top the the liberals are now kind of flush with money because of

00:24:52.860 alberta's oil right the with the increase in oil price uh they're getting much like alberta coffers

00:24:59.340 they're getting a bonus they're getting billions of extra dollars in in in money from a from a

00:25:06.380 sector of the economy. They want to shut down. It just does not make sense.

00:25:15.040 And, you know, I think it all goes back to when Trudeau says, well, I don't think about

00:25:19.940 monetary policy. Right. But to be fair, most prime ministers haven't thought about monetary

00:25:25.740 policy for a very long time. But it's since Stephen Harper. Right. He was an economist.

00:25:30.760 I mean, it's sort of an economy, but reality will bite them in the butt. 0.98

00:25:39.160 I mean, when push comes to shove, it doesn't matter how progressive a person thinks they 0.92

00:25:42.680 are or whatever, when suddenly they can't make the mortgage payment or the car payment,

00:25:46.680 they're not taking the vacation, they're cutting back on the food goods, their standard of living

00:25:50.360 actually starts to drop. And suddenly all those fluffy priorities that they loved out of the

00:25:55.240 Liberals become priority to. And that's where, you know, the life raft is being handed out. It

00:26:01.460 will be by a conservative, I think. I mean, we could see that the populace embracing conservative

00:26:07.380 monetary policy. The only thing that does that with the populace is when they actually start

00:26:11.440 feeling it. And we're seeing the signs that they are going to feel it really soon. So Paulingham

00:26:14.740 is positioning himself well. So let's dive into what Polliver is saying on this stuff, because

00:26:20.280 he really is kind of the only one, I suppose Sheree is now talking about monetary policy in

00:26:24.800 the sense that he says Oliver should stop talking about monetary policy. So Oliver's put a few

00:26:34.200 things on the table. He's put on the idea of unleashing Bitcoin and digital currencies as a

00:26:41.960 legitimized competitor with the Canadian dollar, welcoming. I was quite shocked by the stridentcy

00:26:47.980 of some of his rhetoric around this last night, saying things that my buddies say after a couple

00:26:54.060 sodas, you know, that you should not be limited to the Canadian dollar. Control of currency is

00:27:02.400 one of the most powerful tools that governments have. And we never talk about this kind of thing,

00:27:07.440 but it is a hugely powerful tool. And he wants to, for the way he's talking, at least, I don't

00:27:13.620 see if he would follow through with Prime Minister, but wants to break the government

00:27:18.180 monopoly on currency. That is a radical, radical change in economic and monetary policy. I think

00:27:25.300 a good one, but it's stuff I'm shocked to hear. You know, a lot of the mainstream media has just

00:27:31.940 hammered him for saying that his ideas will do anything about inflation. The mainstream media

00:27:37.940 more or less seems to side with the kind of elite consensus opinion that inflation should just be

00:27:42.660 controlled by the Bank of Canada and that the politicians have no business interfering with

00:27:46.980 that. Corey, do you think what is what he's saying overly simplistic? Is it populism in the

00:27:56.120 bad sense of the word of just telling people what they want to hear, and it's not going to fix

00:28:00.100 anything? I don't think it's that simplistic at all. Actually, he's diving deeper than as you say,

00:28:04.220 you would expect out of a candidate going out on a campaign. If you look, this is a, as you said,

00:28:09.040 a radical approach to it. Most of the thing people at best are just saying, well, at least the guy's

00:28:13.300 addressing it and I'm scared of it. And I know the liberal method isn't working. So what he's

00:28:17.480 offering must be better. But drilling down, I think most people in looking at economics think

00:28:23.300 it will be better. I think people are desperate at this point for anything. You know, Trudeau

00:28:28.820 was begged, begged by everybody not to raise the carbon tax on April 1st. Did he care? No,

00:28:33.960 he raised it. Right. Something as simple as that could have helped people get over the hump of

00:28:39.820 of inflation. Jason Kenney knocked 13 cents off a liter of gasoline by stopping to collect

00:28:47.060 the gas tax. Why can't Trudeau relax, take a few pennies off the gas tax?

00:28:53.000 He's ideologically hooked in. I mean, you got to remember what his father did to deal with that.

00:28:56.680 He tried wage and price controls, which failed catastrophic. But I wouldn't be surprised to see

00:29:02.320 Justin try the same thing because he's not a sharp learner.

00:29:04.120 Well, I don't think we're there yet, but I remember the, barely remember because I'm not

00:29:08.520 that old the the days of the 80s in calgary where people would just leave their keys in the mailbox

00:29:12.840 and walk away equity high interest double digit interest they were like 16 17 so i don't think

00:29:20.260 we're there yet but as cory says it everybody is having their way of life squeezed in some way

00:29:25.900 shape or form you're not going to drive to ban for that weekend getaway because gas is expensive

00:29:31.140 uh you're not you know you're not going to go on the holiday because you can't drive across

00:29:35.820 canada in your motor home right it's everybody's going to see a change in the cost of living

00:29:40.580 whether it's just their their family holidays or their food that they're buying or whatever it is

00:29:46.780 a shortage of dog food everybody's going to see some changes in their personal life my poor dog

00:29:52.440 is going to see a big change well that's it we got a big spending budget came out of the liberals i

00:29:56.000 mean they're on a filet mignon budget with a or you know diet with a hamburger budget and it's

00:30:01.540 got to clash and we're all going to pay it. So I think in a negative way, we're going to see some

00:30:06.160 positive change, but we're going to have to suffer some more things. Yeah. Okay. Well, before we move

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00:31:32.400 It's inevitable.

00:31:34.120 Another wave.

00:31:35.080 It's here.

00:31:35.620 Another wave.

00:31:37.280 I guess it's number six.

00:31:38.800 I've lost count long ago.

00:31:40.080 I actually count by lockdowns, not by waves,

00:31:42.040 but they're more or less correspond with the waves.

00:31:44.880 Is this one still an Omicron or are we?

00:31:47.660 No, I think it's still a variety of Omicron,

00:31:50.460 not as bad as Delta.

00:31:52.320 Omicron Plus.

00:31:53.240 Omicron Plus, Omicron Extra.

00:31:56.040 Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tam, said, confirmed we're in the sixth wave.

00:32:01.740 As you say, and Corey did his rant on it today, the fear-mongering has begun.

00:32:07.440 Oh, we must have lockdowns.

00:32:08.700 We must have masks on kids in schools.

00:32:12.220 The wastewater is going up with COVID.

00:32:15.440 The horror, the horror.

00:32:17.880 The wake-cancel culture mob is turning on their own.

00:32:20.640 You mentioned today, Rachel Notley, a really nice picture of her holding a newborn baby. 0.97

00:32:25.080 And it's, oh, Rachel, Notley's a baby killer.

00:32:28.060 The baby's going to die of COVID because Notley's not wearing a mask.

00:32:31.560 How many babies have died of COVID?

00:32:33.200 I looked up the stats.

00:32:34.260 So in two years, two and some years in Alberta with COVID raging and going on,

00:32:38.180 I've sorted and dug and calculated the death count at zero.

00:32:42.080 Zero.

00:32:42.480 Babies killed by COVID are zero.

00:32:44.620 Devastating.

00:32:45.060 So even if Notley increased the risk by 100-fold,

00:32:48.820 the chances of that baby being killed by her unmasked pose with that child,

00:32:52.800 that means it's zero.

00:32:53.380 zero times 100 but her followers are losing it on her over this yeah it's it's just crazy um

00:32:59.960 i like to think that people are coming around and saying okay we're in the sixth wave there's

00:33:05.720 going to be a seventh there's going to be an eighth there's we're here it's here forever guys

00:33:09.920 learn to live with it uh you want to wear a mask wear a mask nobody's going to criticize you for

00:33:16.100 it no one's going to refuse you entry into a into a business uh the fear-mongering is just

00:33:22.480 If Kenny makes masking mandatory in Alberta again, I will put a sign on the door banning anyone from wearing a mask into here.

00:33:31.800 I will take away that freedom because it's private property.

00:33:34.440 I will take away that freedom.

00:33:35.760 I won't allow them in here.

00:33:37.320 Well, you did get that phone call the last time from the NHS.

00:33:41.420 Yeah, they didn't call back after I told them where to go.

00:33:43.580 Yeah, you were a bad boy.

00:33:45.160 So, yeah, it's sixth wave.

00:33:48.060 There are some increased in hospitalizations.

00:33:51.500 There doesn't seem to be a huge upward trend in ICU numbers or deaths or anything like that.

00:33:57.100 But it's here and we're going to have to deal with it.

00:34:01.740 So we're already seeing, I know the largest school board in Ottawa has already imposed masking.

00:34:07.860 Even though they don't have the power to do it, the usual suspects are losing their minds.

00:34:13.280 They're jumping at any opportunity to reimpose masking, reimpose any kind of mandates, mandatory vaccines, all these kinds of things.

00:34:20.500 Um, let's bring it back to Alberta here. If Kenny survives his leadership race, I don't think he

00:34:29.460 will, but if he survives and we're in a sixth wave, that's, you know, say same serious level

00:34:36.180 as the fifth or the fourth or the third or whatever. How many weeks, Corey, until you think

00:34:41.780 we have mass mandates and lockdowns in Alberta again? I don't know. I don't think he'd be that

00:34:46.260 foolish but i can't predict anything anymore he has done it over and over he he brings in 0.96

00:34:51.160 restrictions he gets rid of them and we see the difference is we're only 13 months away from the 0.96

00:34:56.780 election and if he brings them back in he will be if he's not already done politically it will be

00:35:02.880 done because they won't forgive that we can't protest just wound down a little bit but if you 0.59

00:35:07.300 want to increase them triple them quadruple them in the belt line hey hipsters you really want to

00:35:11.640 see them come back and start honking bring back masks bring back the restrictions like that people 0.55

00:35:17.620 aren't going to put up with it this time every time they do it there's going to be a few more

00:35:21.220 and they're not the racists they're not the extremists they're people sick and tired of it

00:35:25.160 and uh yeah if kenny does who knows but it will be explosive and keep in mind there's still a huge

00:35:32.520 chunk of the population that is mired in uh mandates still that are that are federal they

00:35:38.240 can't get on planes i can't leave the country all those people are still trapped in it they've never

00:35:44.460 had relief no and uh even though most of the provinces are now out of the mandate scene but

00:35:50.360 you know i wouldn't put it past trudeau to bring in some more more restrictions if uh if it does

00:35:55.520 get out of hand but i can't see kenny doing it we haven't seen any uh now like i said we're two

00:36:00.740 years in we can't keep pretending that we don't know we haven't seen good evidence that any of

00:36:04.460 this is effective. If they could prove that it works, that maybe people be receptive. But now

00:36:08.480 we're talking wave six, like, wow. And it's, it's not lightening up. So well, you know,

00:36:14.560 conservative governments in Canada have proven completely cowardly in the face of the pressure

00:36:20.500 that comes from the mainstream media and the left, more left leaning parties in themselves.

00:36:25.820 You know, the UCP don't seem I don't think Kenny loves masking and mandates. I don't think he's

00:36:32.240 into that crowd. But as soon as the media start pounding the drum, start your stopwatch, because

00:36:38.080 you've got one week, they come, they come every time. I'm not convinced that if we have another

00:36:44.900 wave of some significance, once he's, once he's passed leadership review, I'm willing to bet there's

00:36:49.600 no, there's no lockdowns and mandates of any kind until, you know, I like to say, I think I've told

00:36:56.500 you guys this, if Kenny faced a leadership review every three months, he'd probably be a good

00:37:01.660 premier. Well, I heard there's a way to do that. They call it recall, but he didn't give us

00:37:06.500 realistic legislation for it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what do you think we're going to, what do you

00:37:12.560 think we can realistically expect? Well, let's talk Alberta and then Federer on, and we already

00:37:16.720 lightly touched on it, but okay. Sixth wave, let's say it's going to have at least some

00:37:22.380 significance here. These things do have some impact. What do we expect?

00:37:28.220 it's tough to say uh none of us are health experts we can't predict what do we expect

00:37:37.520 in terms of a return of mandates of any kind like i said i i don't think in alberta there

00:37:42.220 there will be uh i think i think if it was two years to an election maybe uh 13 months i think

00:37:49.300 it's just too close to to recover from yeah if he does at all i think it'd be masking it's the

00:37:54.900 it's the annoying one, but it's also the least intrusive. At least it doesn't put people out of

00:37:59.300 work. It doesn't, you know, really screw with their lifestyles. It doesn't stop them from

00:38:03.100 visiting families. All of those other things that restrictions do. It doesn't crush small

00:38:06.180 businesses like the passports did. They might go that route to show that, look, we're doing

00:38:12.100 something. It wouldn't be well-received. People would be upset, but if they were going to make

00:38:17.380 a move, that one I could see them doing. Like Dave was talking though, with a year away from

00:38:21.100 an election you want to start restricting restaurant hours yet again uh you know making

00:38:25.820 make from work from home orders i mean downtown we're seeing how busy it's finally gotten the

00:38:29.620 traffic is back yeah no it's terrible and uh i actually want the lockdown back i used to have

00:38:33.980 a great short drive to the office here like we were the only ones in town it was great but to

00:38:37.780 reverse all of those again that comes at a great cost i mean to businesses and individuals alike

00:38:42.640 masking drives us nuts and pisses us off but it doesn't bankrupt you so i could see them perhaps

00:38:48.200 making that move hey thanks for not saying the f word like you did on your show did you drop an

00:38:53.000 f-ball on your show today yesterday yesterday no you can't say that well here's what here's the

00:39:00.860 other thing in calgary and many other cities and uh actually not too many other cities but

00:39:06.000 maybe a couple cities nhl playoff start bars are going to be packed hopefully the flames go on a

00:39:12.580 very nice long run deep into the stanley cup finals could you imagine if county government

00:39:17.820 brings in restrictions on the number

00:39:19.980 of people who can attend to Flames game, cut it down by

00:39:21.920 50%, start cutting

00:39:23.820 bars, start forcing bars

00:39:25.700 and service at 10 o'clock when

00:39:27.880 you've got a West Coast playoff game that's only in the

00:39:29.920 second period. I can't

00:39:31.680 see that. He's done it before.

00:39:33.740 I think the appetite's dropping, though. I mean,

00:39:35.780 last night, there was a

00:39:37.520 different F word. Some felcher on

00:39:39.740 Twitter. That's a

00:39:41.680 worse F word. That's the worst you want

00:39:43.740 to read into it. Either way, he

00:39:45.600 throws

00:39:45.980 he throws a

00:39:48.020 programming note, right now

00:39:50.060 Nico, I want, we're going to put

00:39:52.060 Corey on a 5 second delay with a bleep

00:39:54.240 I want to

00:39:55.460 we're going to put new Don Cherry

00:39:57.960 rule for Corey, we're putting him on a bleep

00:40:00.240 either way, aside from

00:40:01.960 the direction

00:40:04.120 that went, this gentleman was trying to

00:40:06.080 say that the Polyev thing was a super spreader event

00:40:07.880 which was very effective in the past in getting all the lefties

00:40:10.200 loony whenever there's a large gathering

00:40:12.120 of people, and he got ratioed

00:40:14.300 for people not familiar with Twitter, it means just everybody just came and slammed him and

00:40:17.680 slapped him and said, lay off, take off, go away. There's hockey games. Like it doesn't have the

00:40:22.960 power it used to. Do you remember how many people died from that illegal rodeo? Some like just so

00:40:30.660 many. I think Corey did the same research, didn't he? Yeah. My dad's carry the six zero. How many

00:40:38.520 infections. I think they found one or something. Maybe one. Maybe one out of like quite a few.

00:40:44.740 They searched very hard. They worked hard. Oh, if they could have found it, they would.

00:40:48.320 Yeah. All right. We're going to wrap it up there. I want to thank all of our Western Standard

00:40:52.000 members for your continued support. Without you, we couldn't do the work we're doing. We're hiring

00:40:56.500 new reporters every few weeks here, it seems right now. If you're not yet a member of the

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00:41:05.140 $199 a year to get unlimited access to bailout free independent Western media from the great

00:41:11.900 team we've got here at the Western Standard. Thank you all very much for watching. Dave,

00:41:17.400 Corey, you were okay today. Yeah, you know, it wasn't your best man. It's blue sitting outside.

00:41:23.360 No one really wants to be crappy. And Corey, wash your mouth or I'm going to tell Jane on you. 0.96

00:41:29.420 I'm telling your mother. Oh, geez. Yeah. She watches all of these. 0.99

00:41:33.360 All right.

00:41:33.900 Thank you very much and God bless.

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