Western Standard - The Pipeline： Emergency Act inquiry off to a bad start.

00:00:00.000 Today, today is April 27th, 2022. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:26.000 You're watching The Pipeline.

00:00:27.180 Today I'm joined as usual by the always wonderful Dave Naylor, news editor.

00:00:31.700 How are you doing?

00:00:32.640 Congratulations, my friend.

00:00:34.240 Thank you.

00:00:34.820 Bertha Fritz, how's he doing?

00:00:36.600 Fritz is big, fat, strong, and healthy.

00:00:40.660 He's very German.

00:00:41.500 He was exactly on time.

00:00:43.060 His due date, you know, there's only a 5% chance of hitting your due date. 0.83

00:00:47.800 And like a good German, he arrived exactly on time. 0.93

00:00:50.380 Very possible. 1.00

00:00:51.080 Following the orders already.

00:00:53.120 You had to go there.

00:00:54.860 At least, you know, we had a quick whip round in the newsroom

00:00:57.240 and got him a nice little pair of lederhosen.

00:01:00.120 Baby hosen.

00:01:00.920 That was very kind.

00:01:02.180 The staff was very kind around the office,

00:01:04.100 got him all sorts of goodies, including his baby hosen.

00:01:06.480 Nice.

00:01:06.980 Yeah.

00:01:08.260 Thank you.

00:01:09.120 You're welcome.

00:01:09.480 Both of you.

00:01:10.460 Also joined by the other guy, Corey Morgan, opinion editor,

00:01:14.760 opinion broadcast editor for the Western Standard.

00:01:16.180 How are you, Corey?

00:01:16.840 Good.

00:01:17.180 Always opinionated.

00:01:18.820 Well, you're paid to have an opinion as opinion editor.

00:01:21.760 I always prefer.

00:01:22.760 that's not what i've heard well not well well we're off to a good start already

00:01:29.500 uh well you can read in the bathroom wall yeah uh first i want to thank all of our western

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00:02:09.120 to independent, bailout free Western journalism. Let's get into the topics. Fun stuff today.

00:02:17.120 Twitter.

00:02:19.820 Oh, Nico, make sure we add in some sound effects after.

00:02:22.720 Some explosions.

00:02:24.180 Explosions and screaming.

00:02:25.540 Exploding heads.

00:02:26.300 Exploding heads.

00:02:27.860 Twitter, the Twitter bird.

00:02:28.980 The Tweety bird is being sent out of the cage.

00:02:31.540 Elon Musk has bought Twitter.

00:02:34.060 Twitter, the Twitter board of directors did everything they could to stop it, it seems.

00:02:40.200 But at the end of the day, they had a fiduciary duty.

00:02:42.640 It is sold.

00:02:43.420 We're going to talk about that.

00:02:44.840 what this is going to mean for free speech, not just in Canada, but right around the world.

00:02:49.400 This is a huge development.

00:02:51.140 And we're going to talk about some of the political fallout here in Canada,

00:02:54.440 some of the reaction from the would-be censors of the internet.

00:02:59.580 Alberta doctor slash lockdown aficionado slash NDP activist.

00:03:07.140 Joe Vipond, COVID Joe, is the safest man.

00:03:13.700 He is the bubble boy. He is the safest man from COVID in Canada.

00:03:17.860 And he caught COVID. He didn't just catch COVID.

00:03:20.400 He's spreading it coast to coast from Ottawa back to Calgary.

00:03:25.080 He is dropping off trinkets of COVID everywhere he goes. 0.92

00:03:29.100 It's just delightful, exquisite hypocrisy. 0.94

00:03:33.940 As Corey said on his show this morning, hypocrisy, Joe Vipont is thy name. 0.55

00:03:39.500 We're going to talk about this just delicious story.

00:03:42.200 And the federal government has called an inquiry, as they're required to by legislation, into the invocation of the Emergencies Act used to quash the Ottawa truckers' uprising.

00:04:00.120 All sorts of games being played into there, not really talking much about was the government justified in invoking effectively martial law, but how bad were these protesters?

00:04:11.460 That's really what it is. Inquiries off to a very, very bad start and all sorts of misinformation and lies still being peddled by federal politicians who invoked it themselves.

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00:06:32.000 Let's talk about such a fun story.

00:06:34.640 Twitter. Tweety Bird has been set free. Elon Musk, the most interesting man in the world,

00:06:40.400 is now the sole owner of Twitter. Dave set it up. Well, he made a massive bid the week before,

00:06:47.120 I guess now, sent it to the board. It was going to be $44 billion, well into the $50 range per

00:06:53.840 share. The board panicked. Staff panicked. Oh no, oh no. And they basically rejected it. So

00:07:01.440 elon went about his business and he went and got uh uh bank money he got it all financed through in

00:07:08.880 20 of his own wealth which is quite considerable obviously and he i think he basically started the

00:07:14.320 the process of going to individual shareholders and saying you know your company's not going to

00:07:18.880 grow anymore you might as well take my uh take my bid and uh the board finally capitulated they've

00:07:24.640 accepted the offer uh causing worldwide panic amongst amongst the woke uh twitter staff themselves

00:07:33.120 seem to be in a in a complete meltdown uh that i don't know they're gonna have to work for this

00:07:37.760 horrible horrible guy uh it's the end of the it's at the end of the world on the other hand you've

00:07:43.680 got people like uh donald trump jr getting 87 000 new uh new members or new uh clicks uh followers

00:07:52.960 Thank you. New followers an hour since he was reinstated.

00:07:57.800 Tucker Carlson reinstated. Lots of people that were banned now reinstated.

00:08:02.820 And Twitter has come out and said they were wrong.

00:08:06.500 Or sorry, Musk has come out and said Twitter was wrong to censor the New York Post when they were doing the Hunter Biden laptop stuff.

00:08:14.900 So the woke has panicked, the sponsors of free speech are related, good times ahead for Twitter.

00:08:24.640 And Donald Trump's launching his own social media account, Truth, Truth next week.

00:08:31.640 Yeah.

00:08:33.020 Corey, just give us some of the best examples.

00:08:38.140 There's just been, I know there's been some here, there's been tons abroad, but just the sheer gripping panic that, God forbid, there would be less censorship on the internet.

00:08:48.660 Oh, the hyperbole.

00:08:50.040 I mean, the one fellow I responded to, I can't remember his name.

00:08:53.320 There were so many, because I like rubbing their nose in it.

00:08:55.080 Because so many, again, they're flouncing, too.

00:08:56.680 They're saying, well, I'm leaving.

00:08:57.720 I'm out of here.

00:08:58.220 And it's been a few days, and I just like retweeting them.

00:09:00.440 Still here?

00:09:01.200 Still here.

00:09:02.160 Because they won't leave.

00:09:03.100 It's all talk.

00:09:04.120 But one was saying, yeah, well, I'll remain now, he said,

00:09:07.120 because I'm going to stay here to battle Nazis just as they battled Nazis in the past. 0.66

00:09:11.380 Dude, Nazis, you're a hero. 0.87

00:09:14.580 You're going to war.

00:09:15.660 But that's how crazed some of these woke people are over this,

00:09:19.100 over the fact that it's just going to be unrestrained.

00:09:20.760 You know, if it's true hate speech, if it's truly violent, any of that stuff,

00:09:23.800 it's still going to be knocked off there.

00:09:26.240 I mean, Musk isn't saying he's going to open it up to make it a dangerous place

00:09:29.560 or a hateful place.

00:09:30.400 And he's never demonstrated himself to be that sort of individual.

00:09:34.420 What they're afraid of is that they won't censor stuff.

00:09:37.760 That's the truth of it.

00:09:38.660 And that's what we're seeing.

00:09:39.520 And we're seeing how coddled and comfortable they got in that echo chamber of censorship.

00:09:44.480 And they're horrified.

00:09:46.100 They'll have to actually answer questions.

00:09:47.940 They'll have discourse.

00:09:48.840 They'll have differing opinions.

00:09:49.860 And it really has exposed them.

00:09:52.380 And just like one other thing I get a laugh out of, as much as they all, of course, loathe Trump. 0.88

00:09:57.000 Look, this screwed Trump more than anybody.

00:09:58.840 Because if there was any chance his new platform was going to take off really well,

00:10:01.880 Twitter still had to remain a place that was cracking down on conservatives

00:10:05.940 through shadow banning and all those things.

00:10:07.380 Now that they're not doing that, Trump isn't going to get nearly the traffic

00:10:10.420 to this new platform he's trying to get going.

00:10:13.020 So he'll be more upset than anybody.

00:10:14.900 One of the things I understood they may be doing is they're trying to get rid of spams and trolls,

00:10:19.360 right, and making it so you can't have an anonymous account.

00:10:23.280 You know, you need to show yourself, for lack of a better word.

00:10:26.560 You know, and that would be so good just to not have to deal with the, you know, the person who's got one followers spewing terrible stuff all over the place.

00:10:38.720 So that's good.

00:10:39.980 The other interesting political angle is what are the Liberals going to do?

00:10:43.560 I mean, they're all set to try and censor the Internet in various ways, shape or form.

00:10:49.520 How are they going to handle this?

00:10:50.940 How are they going to handle Twitter and its censorship?

00:10:53.700 So we're going to come to that in a second.

00:10:54.880 I know some of the attacks on Elon Musk have been actually racist in and of themselves.

00:11:00.080 He's from South Africa, and they've said, oh, what are you going to – this is going to – he's going to go back to his apartheid roots, oppressing people of color and things like that.

00:11:10.480 The fact that a man was born in a country doesn't mean he shares the ideology of a bygone, discredited regime.

00:11:17.560 It's absolute lunacy what's been going on. But I think, let's now get into what you were saying, Dave, the Canadian government's reaction, what they're going to do, and some of the other censorious governments around the world. I know Germany, a lot of countries like that are trying to bring in heavy regulations of social media platforms, including Twitter.

00:11:39.680 I've always found it baffling that Twitter or Facebook would give a crap what a country like Canada has to say. 0.94

00:11:47.500 Twitter is not a Canadian company. It's not regulated by Canada. 0.95

00:11:50.940 It's on the Internet. 0.71

00:11:52.300 And unless the Canadian government is prepared to force Internet providers to block Twitter like it's the Chinese Communist Party, 0.75

00:11:59.180 there's nothing they can really do. 0.69

00:12:00.500 And I have a feeling that a man like Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for one real purpose, to set it free, as he would put it, free speech in the modern town square, I have a hard time seeing Elon Musk saying, well, Justin Trudeau told me that I have to do this, so I'm going to comply.

00:12:21.900 What are the chances that Twitter says no?

00:12:25.480 And then we get into kind of a crisis in terms of the Canadian government's attempts to control the Internet.

00:12:31.620 Well, it's been one of the cornerstones of what they've been trying to do for months now.

00:12:36.540 They want the Internet censored.

00:12:37.940 They want to be able to control everything that Canadians hear.

00:12:42.780 So it's got to be setting up for, I mean, Musk would be delighted to take on Justin Trudeau, I'm sure.

00:12:48.720 You know, battle of minds there.

00:12:53.840 But what can the government do?

00:12:56.060 I don't know.

00:12:57.020 I mean, it can't ban Twitter, surely.

00:13:00.480 Can they?

00:13:02.020 I think short of, well, the CRTC controls a lot of the internet,

00:13:06.540 essentially the internet providers.

00:13:08.960 I suppose they could attempt to go full Chinese Communist Party style

00:13:14.500 and say Twitter is banned in Canada.

00:13:18.720 But that seems to be a bridge too far, even for these guys.

00:13:22.140 They might like to, but they probably would never get away with it through Supreme Court challenges and things like that.

00:13:27.860 As terrible as the Supreme Court is, I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court would not stand up for banning Twitter like it was a kiddie porn site or something.

00:13:35.560 So I can foresee very easily a circumstance here, Corey, where the Trudeau government passes this new social media censorship legislation. 0.53

00:13:46.240 and they send this to Elon Musk and he says, go F yourself.

00:13:54.780 What can the federal government do in that case?

00:13:57.980 Not much.

00:13:58.300 And I think that's part of why the establishment is freaking out.

00:14:00.620 I mean, Musk is a, he's just fascinating.

00:14:03.440 I mean, him and himself, he's a pure disruptor.

00:14:05.940 I mean, he's got that power behind him.

00:14:07.260 Nobody is controlling him.

00:14:08.860 I mean, I know there's conspiracy theories, but he's going to do what he will.

00:14:12.240 And he makes it pretty clear to the world.

00:14:13.820 he's got more money than the Canadian government almost. So what are they going to do to him? So

00:14:19.180 that's when you can't control somebody though, you're fearful of them. I mean, he's also a

00:14:23.160 little bit erratic. He's definitely eccentric. I don't think he's going to do anything dangerous,

00:14:26.680 at least to your common person, but he's certainly dangerous to the established order.

00:14:30.620 I think it's the big question mark about what he's going to do that scares them more than anything.

00:14:34.900 I love it. Chaos. He's an agent of chaos. I love it. And it's just so beautiful. Okay.

00:14:41.600 Okay. Well, speaking of spreading chaos, Dr. Joe Vipond. I can't even say it. Dave, tell us what Dr. Joe's doing. Give us a little background on him for those who don't know, too.

00:14:58.720 Typhoid Joe, as I like to call him. He is sort of the media darling for the mainstream media. Every sort of lockdown, pro lockdown rally, he was there.

00:15:10.860 rest of the nines and his masks and his scrubs and even uh with a stethoscope around and he's

00:15:16.620 got to check the heart of everybody in the crowd everybody in the crowd and he was the go-to guy

00:15:21.040 for the mainstream media oh yes we must lock down uh we're all going to die uh i think it was

00:15:26.660 cory was one of the first people that actually exposed him as basically one of the huge donor

00:15:32.080 to the ndp uh so he you know uh but that still didn't stop the mainstream media from from him

00:15:40.000 being the go-to guy. So fast forward to year three of the pandemic, and Typhoid Joe travels to

00:15:50.160 Ontario, complete with his basically toxic mask, tubing, and air, carries around an air filter,

00:15:58.080 right? For a respirator. He travels like Darth Vader. Yeah. So he arrives in Ottawa and somehow

00:16:05.700 now manages to get COVID.

00:16:07.700 How?

00:16:08.700 How's that?

00:16:09.700 Well, I don't know.

00:16:10.700 I don't know.

00:16:11.700 Toilet seat.

00:16:12.700 Toilet seat. 0.98

00:16:13.700 It'll get you every time.

00:16:14.700 Maybe he was drinking after 10 o'clock.

00:16:15.700 It could be.

00:16:16.700 He passed curfew.

00:16:17.700 It could have been.

00:16:18.700 So he tweeted this out.

00:16:19.700 He tweeted his positive COVID test.

00:16:22.700 And then lo and behold, he's got a video of himself walking around Parliament Hill.

00:16:27.700 Right?

00:16:28.700 So Ontario health regulations state, if you test positive for COVID,

00:16:35.120 You must isolate for five days.

00:16:37.680 And did Typhoid Joe isolate?

00:16:40.160 Just to check his mini bar total, I think, before he went for a walk around.

00:16:45.300 So he says he's following all the rules.

00:16:49.280 Looks like he's not to me from the outside.

00:16:52.140 And what was he not to walk for?

00:16:54.700 Some sort of conference of pointy-headed people.

00:16:57.240 Yeah, it was a climate activism or something.

00:17:00.740 course because yeah don't forget he went over to scotland for the big one over there even though

00:17:05.460 we're not supposed to travel and all that sort of stuff so uh he gets uh gets coveted goes around

00:17:13.220 walks around even somebody tweeted you're more of a danger on parliament hill than all the truckers

00:17:17.380 were for spreading these diseases so now he's got to get back to calgary somehow so he's decided

00:17:23.460 gonna rent a car and drive i've done that drive three days minimum at 12 hours a day it's a long

00:17:30.740 It's a long, hard slog, but he's going to do it somehow not interacting with another single human being and, you know, not spreading his COVID droplets across four provinces.

00:17:43.520 Don't see how we can do it myself, but I'm sure his tweets will keep us breathlessly informed on his cross-Canada travels.

00:17:52.300 Corey, I don't even have a question for you.

00:17:54.380 I'm just going to unleash you and 0.99

00:17:57.000 it's just a staggering hypocrisy. 0.98

00:18:01.140 I mean,

00:18:01.460 of the highest of levels,

00:18:02.820 you know,

00:18:03.320 and we got the smatterings of this last summer when you sent me out to cover

00:18:06.180 one of his protests and I went out there and there he is all masked up and

00:18:09.380 goggled and screaming.

00:18:10.400 It was the pro lockdown protest saying,

00:18:12.000 lock me up,

00:18:12.560 lock me up.

00:18:13.620 And then he went off to do some side media interviews.

00:18:15.440 He took off his mask for it.

00:18:16.560 So he's,

00:18:16.840 you know,

00:18:16.960 two feet from someone else. 1.00

00:18:18.420 He's always been a hypocrite, 1.00

00:18:19.700 but this time he's outdone himself. 1.00

00:18:21.860 And I'm certain that he's more than just a hypocrite. 1.00

00:18:23.760 He's an idiot. 1.00

00:18:24.380 I mean, I know he somehow got himself as a medical practitioner, but it doesn't mean he's not an idiot and he's showing it. 1.00

00:18:29.640 I mean, he did figure out, I think with enough people screaming at him, that six hours after saying you're positive for COVID and then going out and doing selfie videos on Parliament Hill, a popular tourist area crowded with people, might not be a good idea. 0.56

00:18:42.180 So he deleted that.

00:18:43.620 And then says he's going to do a road trip across the country.

00:18:46.080 says he checked with the Ontario and as our reporter checks with the Ontario site says

00:18:51.440 must, and it's in big bowl black, must isolate for five days after a positive test. He's breaking

00:18:58.380 every rule he's pushed. I mean, just a few months ago, people are digging up all his beautiful

00:19:01.920 tweets and shoving them back in his hypocritical mug and he deserves it and it looks bloody good 0.97

00:19:05.560 on him. Some of it, he was calling for people to be locked up for 14 days if they even came 0.96

00:19:10.860 in contact with a traveler who may carry COVID. This was only a few months ago,

00:19:16.000 much less if you tested positive for it. And the thing to get me is how many hours of airtime has

00:19:22.440 this medical miscreant gotten on mainstream media? They keep going to him. They keep talking to him

00:19:29.540 like he's an expert in something. He's a fool. And I bet you within a month or so, we're going 1.00

00:19:34.860 to see him on CBC or CTV as an expert explaining to us why we should lock ourselves up because

00:19:38.960 we're a danger to society. That's all I got. Not much chance of him coming on your show,

00:19:43.260 is there? Probably not. Well, he's welcome, though, by all means. Come in studio. I'm

00:19:47.800 vaccinated. Corey? Yes. I want you to invite him. I want you to invite him. And, you know,

00:19:54.360 Corey will be polite because, you know, he's always polite to guests. He's polite to a guest,

00:19:58.420 even if the guest is a twat. I'm not going to censor myself there. Yes. I just, okay. I didn't 0.98

00:20:04.400 say, Corey's always polite, even if they might not deserve a polite reception. He's polite to our

00:20:10.140 guests. That's the decent thing to do. I'd love to see him. I have a feeling, I have a feeling he

00:20:15.480 won't, but nothing to be lost in asking. He loves the camera. He certainly does. Okay. Well, before

00:20:22.580 we move on to our next topic, Corey, why don't you tell our listeners and viewers why they should

00:20:28.120 check out Bitcoin well? Why should they check out Bitcoin well? Well, because if you're, you know,

00:20:32.800 digital currencies in general. I mean, they're complicated. They're scary. A lot of people are

00:20:36.980 new to it. You need to be led into it in some ways for a lot of people if it's new. Bitcoin

00:20:41.700 Well is a trustworthy company. I think that's a lot of the biggest problem with these digital

00:20:45.260 currencies. You're not sure if you know who to trust, if it's legit. These guys are Alberta

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00:20:53.740 not, as I like pointing out, you know, some call center across the planet that's telling you about

00:20:57.920 these things, or you go on a website and a little pop-up window comes up with someone to chat with

00:21:01.660 you know, live one-on-one across the table with a person talking to you about it. They're there

00:21:06.440 to educate you, walk you through digital currency, see if it is for you. It might not be for you. I

00:21:10.340 mean, they're a good, honest service and they're legitimate. And they never hang on to your money.

00:21:15.100 It's non-custodial. So you always have it. They're just the facilitator to get you into the digital

00:21:18.820 currency world. When we've got a government that, as we're going to talk about in the next subject,

00:21:22.960 is prone to coming in and seizing your bank accounts and stealing your money, I think you'd

00:21:26.320 be crazy not to put it in a few new spots. And Bitcoin is certainly one of them. So bitcoinwell.com.

00:21:31.660 take control of your money. Check it out. We all, all three of us sitting around the table here,

00:21:36.900 we all use Bitcoin. Well, it's, it's the way to go. Keep the government's grubby hands off my

00:21:40.920 dollars. I actually forget dollars. Screw dollars. I like Bitcoins. All right. We'll get a little

00:21:47.940 Fritz College fun going with Bitcoin. There we go. Actually not a bad idea. Donations welcome.

00:21:54.920 Yes. All right. So the federal government in Ottawa has called an inquiry as per a requirement of the Emergencies Act.

00:22:04.300 They had to call an inquiry. I suppose they took some very interesting interpretation of the act's language because this act has never been used before.

00:22:13.280 The last time it's been used was in its previous incarnations as the War Measures Act.

00:22:18.440 This act is supposed to have a few safety valves in it, one of which is that there has to be an

00:22:24.200 inquiry called within a certain period of time afterwards to report on the reasonable use of

00:22:31.820 invoking the Emergencies Act and those kinds of powers. Was it justified? Was it a genuine

00:22:39.960 threat to Canada's national security and sovereignty and borders that could not be

00:22:43.800 resolved with existing legislation. That inquiry has been called, but the liberals have taken an

00:22:50.500 interesting interpretation of it. They're not, the mandate of the inquiry is not into, was the

00:22:56.740 government justified based on some real threat? Inquiry is essentially, you can elaborate on this

00:23:03.500 Dave, was, were the truckers that this was called against bad? Bad truckers, bad truckers. Well,

00:23:11.860 Trudeau left it to basically the very last hours that he had the legal opportunity to do so, to call this inquiry.

00:23:19.420 He then appoints a liberally appointed judge who's had connections to the Liberal Party, not surprisingly.

00:23:27.900 But he does have the power to call and get witnesses to testify.

00:23:33.980 No doubt the Liberals will hide behind cabinet confidentiality.

00:23:36.900 confidentiality. Oh, no, we can't talk about that. But interestingly, that's been overturned in

00:23:44.120 Alberta. Dr. Hinshaw is going to have to testify about that. But there's also another inquiry

00:23:49.200 that's already started. That's the House of Commons inquiry. And a couple of stories today

00:23:56.180 that we have on this site left me gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked. Our Justice Minister,

00:24:01.960 or Justice M.M., I call him, Marco,

00:24:06.020 was testifying about why he brought in the Emergencies Act.

00:24:08.880 And there are two stories out of it.

00:24:10.500 He said, well, the truckers were frightening

00:24:12.660 and they were threatening to burn down buildings.

00:24:16.060 And you'll remember that story.

00:24:17.640 At the heart of the time, somebody went in

00:24:19.340 and a very poor attempt to burn down a building

00:24:21.740 and everybody jumped up and down and blamed the truckers

00:24:25.040 and were trying to do mass murder

00:24:27.520 and burn the buildings down and the horror of the horror.

00:24:30.020 Well, that's already been debunked. The Ottawa Police Service is investigated and says it's got nothing to do with the truckers. Yet our justice minister is standing or sitting in front of this House of Commons committee yesterday saying that was one of the reasons. It's still propagating the fake news.

00:24:46.580 He directed it.

00:24:47.400 Public safety minister, actually.

00:24:48.600 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:24:49.240 Right.

00:24:49.460 Public safety minister.

00:24:51.200 And then in the same session, he says that one of the reasons they justified bringing in the Emergencies Act was because of what CBC was broadcasting.

00:25:02.820 CBC.

00:25:03.720 I mean, you're gobsmacked now, just like me.

00:25:06.700 And we all know that CBC, much of their reporting has already been debunked.

00:25:11.100 They've had to issue corrections.

00:25:15.040 They tried to link it to Vladimir Putin.

00:25:18.100 One of the reasons they brought in the act was because of a CBC report that it was all foreign funded, all this media flowing in from out of the country.

00:25:25.980 That wasn't true.

00:25:27.540 Just not true at all.

00:25:29.140 So even though all these stories are being debunked, they're still bringing it up as the reason they did it. 1.00

00:25:35.120 I mean, they just look stupid. 1.00

00:25:38.860 They really do look stupid. 1.00

00:25:40.340 And if you're watching the CBC and you're basing your political decisions on what the CBC shows, God help this country. 1.00

00:25:52.520 Corey, do you think the Liberals have more or less already invoked cabinet confidentiality when it comes to the parliamentary inquiry or from the House of Commons inquiry into this?

00:26:04.820 I'm guessing they're going to make the same attempt to invoke cabinet confidentiality.

00:26:10.340 as it applies to the judicial inquiry. Although that is not an ironclad defense. As Dave mentioned,

00:26:19.140 we've got the case going on here. It's not an inquiry, but it's a court case. In Alberta here,

00:26:24.820 we've got Dina Hinshaw on the stand testifying around, you know, was it, you know, use of 1.00

00:26:33.320 lockdowns and arresting people, beating up kids for playing hockey. Were all these things reasonable

00:26:38.160 from the threat of COVID, and she's been invoking cabinet confidence. Judges here have stricken that

00:26:45.400 down. I'm not sure how much of that parallel is going to carry over to there, but

00:26:50.320 do you have any sense that this inquiry is actually going to turn up something embarrassing

00:26:58.060 on the Liberal government's invocation of the Emergency Act, or do you think that it's likely

00:27:03.060 that this is going to help them skirt around it? Yeah, if it turns up anything, it'll be my mistake.

00:27:07.420 I mean, they've appointed a judge who's clearly liberal friendly.

00:27:11.200 As you said, cabinet confidentiality isn't ironclad,

00:27:14.080 but you need a very strong-willed justice to want to start trying to cut through that.

00:27:17.840 And I don't see the will coming from this justice.

00:27:20.100 Who knows?

00:27:20.540 I mean, you know, they can be surprising.

00:27:22.200 Sometimes the justice is quite independent.

00:27:25.500 But I mean, even with what we've got, we're seeing,

00:27:29.000 I don't think it's going to be groundbreaking.

00:27:30.500 We're seeing all of this stuff coming out in committee meetings,

00:27:33.860 in Senate all over the place that the government was in panic. They were scrambling. They can't

00:27:38.760 justify why they did it, but I hate to say it, but it doesn't seem to be inflaming the public

00:27:42.360 anyways. So, I mean, this will come through. It might show a few embarrassing things, and then

00:27:46.020 they'll put the report up on a shelf, and we won't hear about it again. I hate to be so cynical, but

00:27:50.060 I don't see much coming of it. Yeah, I figure that's probably it. If you don't like,

00:27:57.280 if you don't like, you know, that's the way it is. Essentially, on all sides of Canada,

00:28:01.200 if you don't like someone throw the book at them government overreach doesn't matter as long as you

00:28:06.000 don't like that group that's the way it runs heat to see it okay well that's it for today uh we want

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Western Standard - April 28, 2022

The Pipeline： Emergency Act inquiry off to a bad start.

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