The Federal Government is trying to crack down on some of Canada's most vulnerable citizens, and they're doing it in order to protect the little guy. Is this a prelude to a total ban on guns and travel restrictions? Recorded in Vancouver, BC!
00:08:06.760Okay. Corey, I don't think we need to debate the efficacy of what they're doing here. It's clearly virtue signaling. It's clearly not going to do anything. I'm not sure the liberals even believe it does. If handguns are such a menace, they would ban them today.
00:08:23.860They would do it now, and they'd come and try and take it from our cold, dead hands kind of thing.
00:08:33.100What do you think the political – it's clearly a political goal they're trying to achieve here.
00:08:36.960I think they're smart enough to know this is going to do nothing.
00:08:40.340What is the political goal they're trying to achieve?
00:08:42.180It's ideological and it's control, and it is clearly political.
00:08:45.660I think the main indicator that it's political is the fact that they sat on this.
00:08:48.920You know, it takes a while to draft legislation, get all that ready.
00:08:51.540they could have tabled that months ago if they wanted to but they waited they waited until
00:08:56.100the world was on edge and the right disaster was going to approach and that disaster was this
00:09:00.900shooting in texas so they could look how reactive we are look how we're going to make sure we're not
00:09:05.560like that we're going to keep you all safe and again it doesn't matter that none of this would
00:09:08.960apply to what happened there or what will happen here it's a political move and it follows on
00:09:14.560their ideology and uh that's all it's modeled for is standing up and it makes it hard because
00:09:19.960Every time you oppose it or say something, oh, you support things like that shooting down Texas.
00:09:23.420No, I don't. But it doesn't matter. Now you're on the defensive.
00:09:25.660And that's the ugly kind of politics this government continues to play.
00:09:30.980Well, it's not just the liberals doing it.
00:09:33.340Jean Charest now is reversing his position on guns was he's not going to touch what the liberals have done so far.
00:09:42.540He's more or less good to respect the new stuff the liberals have done, including banning all sorts of stuff.
00:09:48.700But he's kind of added to his position now.
00:09:52.060Well, don't forget he was the premier in Quebec when they brought it in.
00:09:55.660So he's got a long history of supporting firearms registries and regulations and all that sort of stuff.
00:10:03.760So it's just giving more ammunition to the people in the race who are just describing him as really a liberal and conservative sheep's clothing.
00:10:14.080Corey, do you think, am I being overly paranoid here?
00:10:17.000Have I got my Alex Jones tinfoil hat on too much here?
00:10:21.320Or do you think they really are trying to move towards a total firearms ban?
00:12:26.000That's what's happening in Ontario now. They're being flown in by the dozens of drones.
00:12:29.440We've got a 9,000 kilometer border just to the United States. We've got coasts on either side
00:12:33.920of us. Nothing is going to stop firearms from coming in. Yeah. The black market is,
00:12:41.160but what my response was, well, if the government can pass a legislation like this,
00:12:46.660I am going to have an interest in the black market. I don't know many gun owners who will
00:12:50.960willfully surrender their guns to the government. I don't expect many gun owners to barricade
00:12:56.940themselves up in a strong room in their house and shoot whoever tries to take it. I don't think
00:13:02.660we're going to see that, but I think we're going to see exactly what you described there is,
00:13:07.380well, I lost the guns. And then you get in trouble for that. You know what happens if
00:13:11.760you misplace a restricted firearm in Canada? You know what the federal government can do?
00:13:16.340They can take your gun license away. Well, who cares? If they're taking away our guns,
00:13:21.200you don't need the gun license anyway. So, you know, you're going to have all of these guns
00:13:25.380that people own lawfully right now, and the government's going to abandon them. And eventually
00:13:30.480they're going to send a guy to your house to come and take them. I don't know where they are.
00:13:36.020Yeah, we had a boating accident and they're gone. And what we're going to have is all of these guns.
00:13:40.380And, you know, I'd rather see my own guns in the black market in the hands of some,
00:13:46.160I'm not going to say the words, unrighteous politician who would seize them from me.
00:13:53.480And I think a lot of people feel the same way. We're going to see, now a lot of those guns will
00:13:57.080to make it to otherwise fine, otherwise law-abiding people, but some people be less
00:14:01.800scrupulous. And the real black market, the black market that traffics in criminal guns,
00:14:08.360that's going to be flooded. That is who's going to benefit here is organized crime and pushing
00:14:13.200around illegal guns. There was a report this week, four years ago, the Liberals decriminalized pot
00:14:19.560and a report out four years later shows the black market and pot, the drug dealers are getting
00:14:24.560richer and richer. They're making more money now than they ever have. And they're selling more pot
00:14:29.080than the legalized, you know, government stores. Same thing will happen with guns, no doubt about
00:14:35.440it. All right. Well, we're more restrictions on guns, but the restrictions on the ability of
00:14:46.640every Canadian citizen to freely enter, leave and travel within their country is not changing.
00:14:52.500We're staying extremely restrictive. I suppose we're not, you know, North Korea is on what their 75th year of lockdowns. We're on, we're going to be approaching a year of severe travel restrictions on the unvaccinated in Canada. You still can't fly between, you can't get on a plane or a ferry if you go between provinces. You can't, it's virtually impossible to enter and leave on a plane.
00:15:19.800you can, but you have to pretend to quarantine for a few weeks. You can get away with it, but
00:15:24.780it's still, you're still technically breaking the law. Dave, there's some news on this,
00:15:29.620the federal government renewing the travel ban. Yeah, they voted this week. The vote comes up
00:15:35.400every month that they have to renew it. Is the vote of the cabinet? No, this is a vote of
00:15:39.440parliament. The liberal, sorry, the conservatives put in a motion to rescind all the travel
00:15:44.860restrictions and the the liberals the bloc the green and the ndp all said no no we must keep
00:15:51.420them uh the conservatives of course voted no to uh to rescind them so of course the majority rules
00:15:57.100and they're here for another month so the the conservatives can bring it up again june 30th
00:16:02.460and interestingly the head of west jet today was flying in europe and uh took a picture of himself
00:16:07.900not wearing a mask you know it's nice to fly mask free uh so the head of c or the ceo of west jet
00:16:13.740today uh you know announcing this is ridiculous he's joining a long list of people including
00:16:20.060alberta premier jason kenny who have argued this this for months and there just doesn't seem to
00:16:24.860be any medical reason for it doesn't there's not a one well so there clearly is none the science
00:16:32.300you know the liberals love to say follow the science they say it on everything every other
00:16:36.620country did yeah uh we're clearly not following the science it's clearly political what do you
00:16:42.380why would they do this, do you think? This is pure spite, ego, and embittered prime minister
00:16:49.240who just does not want to back down an inch on anything that people pushed back on him for. He
00:16:54.800was embarrassed by the truckers' convoys. He does not want to look like he's backing down on
00:17:00.540anything. There's no other basis for this. It's killing our tourism industry. Another month now
00:17:05.320of people rescheduling their trips. And let's not pretend it's a minor amount. I mean, there's a lot
00:17:09.940of unvaccinated people in the world. That's a large hit to our tourism industry, not to mention0.99
00:17:14.240just the hassle of crossing the border. This comes into people's consideration if they're
00:17:18.920going to go somewhere. We've got a whole world competing. We've got Mexico down there who wants
00:17:22.440to take tourists in. We've got Americans who will travel within the United States. And all of this
00:17:27.660just because we've got a prime minister with a chip on his shoulder. There's no science
00:17:30.840whatsoever to support keeping these vaccine mandates. And you know who's taking a big hit
00:17:35.920this week is the stampede uh you know all those americans who are going to come in uh just a0.99
00:17:41.840month away away you know they had their plans they're going elsewhere now although the unvaccinated
00:17:46.820people in toronto we were hoping to come and visit for a week not coming anymore so i guess all we
00:17:51.860have to hope for is that kevin costner's vaccinated or they'll be trying to find a new uh stampede
00:17:57.080parade marshal one of the cast members from uh that show there was that video he put out a while
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00:19:00.420When you have politicians who wish to take who use tragedy for political ends, like you're seeing in Canada right now, you know, the Canadian left wishes they had America's problems. They wish we had, you know, more. The Canadian left never had their 60s moment. We didn't have a Vietnam War. When when, you know, racial minority communities said we want to be treated equally. Canadians said, well, it sounds reasonable. Okay, you know, like we had problems and we sort of
00:19:30.360them out pretty well here. And the Canadian left was jealous. They never had their 60s. They just
00:19:35.900never had to have that moment. And so they're constantly trying to recreate America's problems
00:19:41.320here because they want to fight problems that we just don't have. And that manifests itself
00:19:46.880all too often on the backs of law-abiding firearms owners who just want to be left alone
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00:20:23.880you believe in your right to own, use, and safely carry firearms in Canada.
00:22:18.400So when you've got multiple people dropping out of the cabinet for something like this, it's pretty tough.
00:22:24.140That actually probably is a smart move to wait, just have these jobs temporarily folded in the meantime.
00:22:30.400Travis Taves is out. He's not announcing him as such, but he's well known to be sort of the kind of the Kenny establishment candidate.
00:22:39.020And I'm not really meaning that pejoratively, but he's backed by that inner circle around Kenny.
00:22:43.980A lot of senior people in the party affiliated with Kenny.
00:22:49.260On the other side, on the other polar opposite, you've got, not really by policy, but more in personnel, you've got Gene as the ultimate anti-Kenny.
00:22:59.320Anti-Kenny, but maybe not as outspokenly so.
00:23:04.540But with the exit from the race, unexpectedly, of Doug Schweitzer, we expected to kind of carry that more of the progressive conservative flag.
00:23:13.040That left a bit of a hole there on that side of the party, and we might see that being filled to some extent by Michelle Rempel-Garner.
00:23:23.620Actually, Dave, I'm going to go to Corey for your comment in a second.
00:23:27.140Why don't you tell us, we had the Western Standard's Rachel Emanuel break that just hours ago, an exclusive story about her testing the waters.
00:23:47.460We haven't been able to get a hold of her.
00:23:49.920But, yes, I mean, I think she's done federally supporting – what's his name?
00:23:56.180The mayor – supporting Patrick Brown was a very strange thing, I think, for her to do.
00:24:02.500He's obviously not going to win, so she may have cut off her nose to spite her face there.
00:24:07.280So she may be looking for other opportunities, and I think she would probably do fairly well in Alberta.
00:24:14.040Corey, I think for some time, Michelle Rempel's been very frustrated with federal politics.
00:24:20.680I think she's actually spoken publicly about frustration with the Conservative Party catering to, you know, kind of that central Canadian too much.
00:24:28.400She, you know, when the Conservative Party voted roughly 50-50 on a free vote about giving Quebec seats that its population does not deserve in the next redistribution of seats, she was very critical of her own party.
00:24:41.720I feel like she's been kind of checking out for some time.
00:24:48.680I don't think you could peg her, you know, that neatly as a traditional progressive Conservative.
00:24:53.860You know, one day, you know, she's like signing the Buffalo Declaration, which is a pretty hard line. Alberta and Saskatchewan rights document with maximum autonomy and respect within Canada, constitutional change, stuff that people don't want to talk about anymore.
00:25:11.560The next day, she's kind of, you know, speaking almost in kind of woke language.
00:25:20.380Then the day after, she's hard on firearms rights and fits right in at, you know, the Calgary Gun Show.0.65
00:25:28.020How do you think she would fit into this race?0.78
00:25:31.200I don't think she would well, to be honest.
00:25:34.420She hasn't been well established in the provincial political scene.
00:25:37.400And so she, I mean, there are a lot of overlap and there's a lot of, you know, operators federally as well as provincially, but getting a team will be a little more difficult.
00:25:44.420But that Brown, as Dave said, is sunk her not just federally.0.92
00:25:47.700I mean, the performance of Brown and some of the stunts they've done, including from Michelle's own Twitter account, you know, with trying to label opposing candidates as racists and that sort of garbage.
00:25:57.360She's not endeared herself to the Albert and Conservative set right now.
00:26:01.140As well, I mean, you could say it's somebody who's their own person and has a broad set of policies because she is hard to pin down, but it also can make her look inconsistent.
00:26:09.940I mean, if you are a really red of the red Tories, you don't like the regionalism, the autonomy move.
00:26:14.840Well, the Buffalo Declaration, rather than bringing in more that can make deal breakers for her on the other end or with a hardcore social conservative, her very socially liberal stances could sour some of them on things.
00:26:27.140So, I mean, she would be fresh, at least on the scene, which is something a lot of people are asking for.0.99
00:29:41.660She hasn't really been around and establishing with the UCP tribe.
00:29:46.740I mean, she could consolidate a lot of opposition to herself among the others who are already gathering.
00:29:52.180Again, it's not impossible to overcome, but she's got a big disadvantage if she's going to kind of almost parachute back into a provincial race.
00:29:57.960Well, maybe that's why she's looking for people to help her.
00:30:01.480Well, so let's talk about that coming from Federal or Provincial here. She's obviously a prominent Federal Conservative MP right now. But we've had a lot of Federal Conservative MPs come in, and the track record's not been great so far. You know, Jim Prentice came from on high, and it ended spectacularly.
00:30:22.680Brian Jean was a federal. Now, Brian Jean doesn't get actually tied with it as much for some reason.
00:30:29.400Maybe it's because he was not a very prominent MP. He was definitely a backbencher and was not
00:30:35.000very well known beyond his constituency. But he was a federal MP and came in with the Wild Rose
00:30:40.840and then for the UCP. Jason Kenney, obviously another very prominent federal conservative MP,
00:30:47.100came in, and that has now ended in disaster.
00:30:52.680I mean, there is a record of it maybe going poorly,
00:30:55.580but there is a record of federal conservative MPs
00:30:58.360being very successful in winning party leaderships.
00:31:08.600is this going to be a help or hindrance?
00:31:10.020Is this a net positive or net negative for Rempel
00:31:13.200as a federal MP, as a potentially running for the UCP?
00:31:16.740Well, what she's got, as everybody said, is the name recognition. And you can't beat the name recognition, because a lot of people that go, you know, when you're voting for city council, you may recognize, oh, yeah, I recognize that person's name. And that's why they get the vote. So it gives her a good advantage. I mean, it gives her, you know, one step ahead of anybody else that's considering running, certainly. But she's got to get organized.
00:31:41.260But do you think there's any fatigue with the idea of federal conservative MPs coming down to the Alberta level or not?
00:31:49.280I don't think so at the moment. I mean, let's hear what she has to say. We're just in hypothetical situations at the moment. Let's hear her platform. But you're right, though. There's not been a single one of them that's covered themselves in glory, has there?