Western Standard - The Pipeline： Media say Trudeau loved at the Stampede

00:00:00.000 Good evening. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard. Today is July 13th,

00:00:25.000 2022 uh thank you for joining us on the pipeline today we've got a great show i'm joined as usual

00:00:31.420 by western standard news editor dave naylor who did not get the stampede clothing memo today and

00:00:37.000 is actually dressed professionally how are you got a dress for success right uh but also joining me

00:00:43.500 in cowboy cosplay is western standard opinion and broadcast editor cory morgan uh wearing something

00:00:49.660 that this morning gave me epilepsy i'm dressed for failure but i don't have to wear a necktie

00:00:54.340 What did you pay for that shirt?

00:00:55.940 It was 80 bucks.

00:00:56.920 80 bucks?

00:00:57.620 They saw you coming. 1.00

00:00:58.680 Yeah, well, hitting Lambleys in the middle of Stampede Week is about as dumb as shopping 0.99

00:01:02.400 ideas. 0.98

00:01:02.880 This is one of the cheap ones.

00:01:04.260 Well, you've got nice mother-of-pearl buttons.

00:01:06.900 I do, eh?

00:01:08.320 Rookie move.

00:01:09.420 Okay.

00:01:10.140 Amateur hour.

00:01:10.960 Okay.

00:01:11.360 I didn't bring my hat today.

00:01:14.060 Well, today we're going to be talking about the media claiming that Justin Trudeau was

00:01:19.120 hailed as our savior as he came to the Calgary Stampede.

00:01:22.820 He was mobbed, thronged by loving Calgarians. We're a bit confused by that. I think I saw some gallows and pitchforks and torches, but I don't think I saw the love, and I don't know about you guys.

00:01:36.260 But we're going to talk about the media's coverage of Justin Trudeau's glorious and triumphant entry into Calgary for the Stampede.

00:01:44.640 We're going to be talking about the Western Standard sort of debate that we held last Friday.

00:01:51.660 We had some UCP, not UCP, Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates in town for an event that the Western Standard hosted at the Petroleum Club.

00:02:01.860 Very interesting. Some pretty unexpected reactions, actually.

00:02:05.820 Some of you might get angry by what we have to say if you didn't watch it.

00:02:08.440 But we're going to be talking about who won that leadership event that we had last Friday. 0.95

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00:02:37.440 I've been sleeping better at night knowing she's locked up. 0.80

00:02:40.120 Yeah.

00:02:41.140 I'm still triggered if I see a bouncy castle.

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00:04:42.200 Well, speaking of media and government-paid media, I forget which outlet it was, but Dave, I'm sure you'll tell us.

00:04:48.800 Media reported that Justin Trudeau was, quote,

00:04:52.420 mobbed by his loving supporters in Calgary.

00:04:57.260 Tell us a bit about this.

00:04:59.760 Well, I was too young for Beatlemania, Derek,

00:05:02.100 but reading those reports in the mainstream media,

00:05:04.320 I thought that's what had happened again when Trudeau was in town on Sunday morning.

00:05:09.200 Canadian press report went out across the country that he was mobbed by supporters

00:05:14.900 and had a great old time at the stampede.

00:05:18.040 The truth is that he flew in on an unscheduled flight, left that morning from Ottawa, didn't tell anybody, there was no media press release saying he was coming.

00:05:27.680 He landed, he was whisked into a private liberal invitation only pancake breakfast where RCMP snipers were on the roof.

00:05:36.940 And of course he was making sure Tamara, she could have escaped from prison.

00:05:41.940 yeah uh so you know trudeau flipped uh i think one pancake um and obviously it was

00:05:50.580 that was mobbed by supporters because they're liberal supporters invitation only uh of course

00:05:56.900 a lot of the pictures showed him being mobbed by one person and the rest were security guards

00:06:01.140 around him of course uh who did not have any guns no no no guns there uh so that was it uh then he

00:06:09.140 got on his Challenger and flew directly to Montreal. So certainly burning up the emissions

00:06:14.840 for an hour or so visit to Calgary. But yeah, the mainstream coverage that evening and the next day

00:06:22.680 was positively gushing. And strangely, they all had basically the same headline, Trudeau mobbed

00:06:28.180 at Stampede. In fact, CTV actually ran a picture of Trudeau in 2018 at the Stampede, where he

00:06:38.300 actually went to the the you know the midway and uh he was a bit more popular back in 2018 than he

00:06:45.080 is now uh but they ran that photo under a headline you know the trudeau mobbed at the stampede it was

00:06:50.420 just it was not good not a good day for the mainstream media uh i think they also there

00:06:56.580 was a picture i think it was this year because he was with calgary mayor jody gondek right and

00:07:01.840 they were at the grandstand but if you pay attention it's an empty grandstand they dared

00:07:06.460 not go well. Human beings were around. Maybe there were a couple of bulls and kicking horses

00:07:11.220 around, or bucking horses, but they went to an empty grandstand so they could have a picture

00:07:16.180 at the stampede itself. Yeah, but you know what the reaction would be if it was a full

00:07:19.620 grandstand. He would be heartily, heartily booed. The PMO doesn't want that. Corey, so

00:07:25.700 Trudeau shows up. I think a more accurate headline, if we're going to say this was news,

00:07:31.220 would be liberals support Trudeau, or liberals support liberal leader. He went to a closed

00:07:39.620 invitation-only event. We didn't hear about it. I didn't see any publicity and advertising for

00:07:45.820 this event anywhere. Every politician and all the Calgary politicians who hold events here,

00:07:50.760 they advertise the hell out of it because they want lots of Calgarians and visitors in town

00:07:55.500 to go to their events. What do you think would have happened if Justin Trudeau just went

00:08:01.200 down you know right after the regular rodeo before uh before the chuck wagons at grandstand show

00:08:07.020 anything would happen well yeah if he were right down at the grounds and had that many people in

00:08:11.600 the audience he would be booed so much nobody would be able to hear anything he was mumbling

00:08:14.980 and saying and uh likewise if public word had gotten out about where he was holding his staged

00:08:21.540 event it would have been attracted protesters and hecklers and shouters and screamers and they knew

00:08:26.620 that. Like it was a politically wise stunt and photo opportunity. I don't fault the liberals for

00:08:31.620 doing this. It's smart the way they handled it. They would have gotten mobbed by angry people.

00:08:36.120 Yeah. They would have been mobbed, just not in the way they wanted. It's the media that was

00:08:38.960 stomach-wrenching for this. I mean, they were so complicit in building that false image of Trudeau

00:08:43.560 coming to Calgary, being, oh, adored by as many fans and hugged him. Even in the stock photo they

00:08:49.980 used for all of those, if you look, yeah, it's a dozen people. And if you look beyond it, it's a

00:08:53.800 an empty parking lot like this was a a grossly staged thing and not a single legacy media outlet

00:09:00.280 uttered a peep and critique of it Dave you've worked in kind of mainstream and legacy media

00:09:05.320 most of your career before we decided to do something like the western standard here um

00:09:10.140 do you think this was not meeting basic journalistic standards here like it was

00:09:16.800 something amiss?

00:09:19.700 Because it just seems

00:09:21.520 to be operating

00:09:23.460 in a parallel universe

00:09:25.460 here. Like, was this

00:09:27.420 outright dishonest or misleading?

00:09:29.660 This was not living up to basic

00:09:31.360 principles?

00:09:33.040 I mean, to get the story so wrong, it can't

00:09:35.340 be anything else but

00:09:37.020 not following

00:09:39.420 the regular principles.

00:09:41.980 There was no mention

00:09:43.540 of the Gondek photo in front

00:09:45.620 of an empty grandstand and like I said CTV used a 2018 photo I mean how is that

00:09:51.680 journalistically good well I think I think it would be okay if it's captured

00:09:57.080 the idea of the photos more or less to capture the essence of what's happening

00:09:59.780 sure and so you know if if Trudeau had been down on the rodeo grounds and was

00:10:05.060 an older photo but it was not misrepresenting it then fine because you

00:10:08.660 know we don't right here getting photographers out to these things is

00:10:12.440 expensive and time-consuming i think if it's if it's fairly representing what happened even if

00:10:17.080 it's not that exact time i think it'd be different but they were painting something that simply

00:10:22.600 didn't happen here there they painted uh an image i think at least for people outside of alberta

00:10:28.840 that trudeau could safely walk down the streets here sure and part of the problem there to be

00:10:34.280 honest with the legacy media is weekend staffing uh a lot of them are working from home now the

00:10:39.960 editors and they just don't have the staff on the weekend to to do their basic journalistic job

00:10:48.360 so they would take that one report throw the same headline on it and that's how it gets across

00:10:53.000 newspapers across the country it started with a newswire it was yeah it was just canadian press

00:10:57.480 so what it also may have just been a case of sometimes it's it's a risk even for us

00:11:02.520 to give an exclusive access to a story that can affect the coverage of it sometimes and i don't

00:11:07.880 think any of the media were told about this except for i guess that one canadian press reporter and

00:11:13.480 i don't even know who that is so graham uh he's a veteran reporter actually yeah it wasn't graham

00:11:18.920 thompson no no okay um i i don't know so i have no malice towards this reporter i don't even know

00:11:23.880 who it was but it appears that that was probably the only reporter told about this happening maybe

00:11:30.600 there was some local ethnic press in northeast calgary but um you know that it's not like the

00:11:37.400 press were invited to come cover this we would have sent some people sure when trudeau puts out

00:11:42.400 his schedule he's there's detailed information in there about press availabilities but of course

00:11:47.620 this event wasn't released publicly it was a secret the liberals kept it a secret under the

00:11:52.760 radar and you're right there was this one reporter there probably invited by the government uh to

00:11:57.520 record it and uh i guess he reported it accurately that he was mobbed by liberals well you say he was

00:12:04.500 mobbed by supporters, not a bunch of liberal members. Yeah. I mean, you know, you can see

00:12:10.640 where he said it. Hey, you got an exclusive to the prime minister. It's a rare opportunity.

00:12:15.160 Your story got spread far and wide. You're going to play nice with them because you're

00:12:18.720 not going to get invited to the next one. It's, but again, unfortunately, there's a

00:12:22.480 reason we weren't invited. Yeah. Well, it's unfortunate to the ones who picked it up from

00:12:26.600 the newswire. It didn't at least just look a little more into it. As Dave said, it was

00:12:29.740 a weekend thing to a degree. Some of it might just be attributed to kind of laziness. Okay.

00:12:33.340 I'll cut and paste it.

00:12:34.120 We got some content,

00:12:34.980 but it doesn't give the red impression.

00:12:36.900 Like the legacy media here should have known better.

00:12:39.480 At least the local legacy media,

00:12:40.780 like so Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun.

00:12:43.900 I mean, 1.00

00:12:44.220 even liberals there would know that that's bullshit. 0.99

00:12:46.920 They would know that Trudeau is not being mombed by adoring supporters as he 0.99

00:12:51.160 just walks down,

00:12:52.560 you know,

00:12:53.760 the concessions area of the Calgary stampede.

00:12:55.760 That's just not happening.

00:12:57.760 No,

00:12:58.460 no.

00:12:59.960 And your guess is as good as mine as to why.

00:13:02.500 Certainly, they're operating on significantly less staff than they used to have.

00:13:07.700 And, you know, as Corey says, maybe it was just Sunday laziness.

00:13:11.780 All right, well, let's switch gears a bit here.

00:13:13.980 We're going to talk about the debate we had last week.

00:13:19.500 So we had planned a debate.

00:13:22.060 Polliver had backed out.

00:13:23.620 I think it was pretty clear.

00:13:24.300 Just kind of front-runner status thing.

00:13:26.700 Having a debate kind of opens up.

00:13:28.760 We saw Pollock today.

00:13:30.340 He's crushing it.

00:13:31.320 He's headed very, very likely for a first ballot victory.

00:13:35.060 Going to a debate like this opens him up to attack, 1.00

00:13:38.380 and he can say something stupid. 1.00

00:13:40.260 So Paul Ver wasn't coming. 1.00

00:13:41.740 Then last minute, Patrick Brown was disqualified.

00:13:44.280 I don't think there were a ton of people coming for Patrick Brown,

00:13:47.240 but with Patrick Brown disqualified, we were down to Jean Charest,

00:13:52.220 Roman Babber, and Scott Atchison.

00:13:54.820 And so with the three, you know, we decided to change the format,

00:13:57.600 did more of a fireside chat, had kind of 25,

00:14:00.420 a series of three different 25-minute in-depth conversations.

00:14:06.380 Every politician's in town right now.

00:14:08.060 It's like it's been said,

00:14:09.620 Calgary Stampede is a petting zoo for politicians.

00:14:12.260 They're here, and they're getting pet.

00:14:16.340 So we went to a different kind of format, more in-depth.

00:14:21.760 And it actually, I think, was more informative than even I thought.

00:14:24.560 I think we really got at it because it was an event,

00:14:27.780 a series of chats focused on Western issues.

00:14:30.420 I'll ask you both this.

00:14:33.660 I'll start with Dave.

00:14:34.240 Dave, what was the biggest surprise of the evening?

00:14:37.520 For me, the biggest surprise was the amount of applause for Jean Charest

00:14:41.560 when he was talking about what he would do for Alberta.

00:14:47.160 That was very well received in the room.

00:14:50.180 He was talking about equalization and making it fairer for Alberta.

00:14:56.300 I think that resonated in the room, and yeah, he was a big surprise for me.

00:15:00.860 Corey, what surprised you the most?

00:15:02.380 Likewise, the same.

00:15:03.500 You know, we're hearing that reported even from, say, the conservative barbecue as well.

00:15:07.140 Sheree came out, he knew his audience, and he's convincing.

00:15:10.680 When he was here in studio, too, he feels genuine, at least.

00:15:13.660 You know, it's not my cup of tea.

00:15:15.020 I don't think he's going to win the leadership, but he has won some friends in Alberta.

00:15:19.160 This was a productive visit for him, and I do think he was genuinely speaking to the alienation,

00:15:24.840 and people felt that in the room.

00:15:26.120 And that type of format, to be able to sit and talk that way, actually, I think allowed him to express that a lot more than he would have been able to in a debate format.

00:15:33.920 So it was just about 24 hours earlier he announced on your show that if he became prime minister, he would create something that he calls the Alberta Accord.

00:15:46.180 And it'll be more or less a series of changes around confederation, around provincial autonomy, equalization and whatnot.

00:15:52.560 He didn't really talk about the details of what equalization would look like, and I suppose to be fair, that's more or less, he's promising to negotiate.

00:15:59.620 He's not promising a particular outcome, but he's promising a negotiation that will theoretically lead to a favorable outcome.

00:16:07.360 Now, I know a lot of the people commenting who are watching the event last Friday were unconvinced by Jean Charest.

00:16:15.340 I mean, we see politicians pander to Quebec all the time, and people pandering to special interest groups.

00:16:21.460 And I don't really see much pandering to the West that often. And I was really happy to see the pandemonium of all three candidates really trying to make the pitch for the West. But I think Jean Charest had the most specific plan for the West in particular.

00:16:38.020 I think his challenge, though, is the believability that he was, you know, he was a Mulroney progressive conservative, but then he was a Quebec liberal.

00:16:48.560 Although, you know, I guess that means something different in Quebec, but at least in English, a liberal is a liberal.

00:16:55.000 Unless you talk about British Columbia, who knows.

00:16:57.460 But what do you think Charest has to do to make his message believable?

00:17:04.280 He's making a strong pitch for Westerners, but I think that just many are thinking, we don't believe you.

00:17:11.320 True, and I think people are thinking he's yesterday's man, and that Quebec liberal premier tag hangs on him like an albatross.

00:17:19.760 That's a double if you're a Western conservative, Quebec and liberal.

00:17:22.640 Exactly. And you know what? His campaign has not caught fire like Polyev. He was in Grand Prairie this week, and 1,400 people.

00:17:34.280 In a small little grand prairie, turned out to see a polio.

00:17:37.640 And you see pictures of Sheree rallies, and there's maybe 20, 30 people in the room.

00:17:43.400 So his campaign just hasn't caught fire.

00:17:47.860 But he talks a good game when he's talking about Alberta.

00:17:51.760 So Sheree made a pretty serious pitch for Western voters,

00:17:55.560 and I don't know if you believe him.

00:17:58.200 I don't know if I believe it.

00:17:59.300 but a lot of people are pretty skeptical about it

00:18:04.200 because, you know, politicians make promises all the time.

00:18:07.440 But Polyev is making, see, I said it right,

00:18:09.760 Polyev is making some pretty big promises, too,

00:18:12.720 and conservatives, at least in significant numbers,

00:18:15.540 are believing what he has to say.

00:18:18.200 People thought Scheer was genuine, too, right?

00:18:20.780 With the carbon tax. 1.00

00:18:21.740 Yeah, well, some people are dumb. 0.99

00:18:24.660 But what do you think Chere has to do 0.99

00:18:27.000 to convince Westerners and Albertans that he means this,

00:18:33.520 that this is a promise he would follow through with

00:18:35.720 if he became prime minister.

00:18:37.780 Yeah, and I got that mixed up.

00:18:38.700 There's O'Toole with the carbon tax flipped off.

00:18:40.380 We've got so many conservative leaders,

00:18:41.840 it's hard to keep track anymore.

00:18:44.100 But yeah, there's so much cynicism.

00:18:46.300 And again, I mean, personally, I feel he's a bit genuine.

00:18:49.820 I think some people might feel that way.

00:18:51.060 But again, they get there and they get to Ottawa.

00:18:52.780 Well, we'll work on that and pick the can down the road.

00:18:55.220 And it'll be a watered-down follow-through at best if he got in.

00:18:59.900 I think that's what people feel.

00:19:01.420 So I think he surprised people.

00:19:03.120 He seemed more genuine in speaking directly to these issues,

00:19:05.420 but it's still not enough to tip us over the edge in the West typically

00:19:08.360 and make that much difference in his campaign.

00:19:12.020 So Scott Atchison, I think he's the least known of the candidates.

00:19:15.120 That's fair to say.

00:19:17.880 I don't think he really stood out very much at this event.

00:19:21.820 He hasn't really stood out really in any of the debates.

00:19:23.360 His positions, I mean, he's got a few interesting positions.

00:19:26.840 He's against supply management and all that.

00:19:28.740 I wouldn't see some points with folks like us around here pretty easily,

00:19:33.040 but not a lot of big, bold policy positions.

00:19:36.440 He didn't really stand out.

00:19:38.180 What was your impression of Atchison's Western pitch?

00:19:41.180 Well, I was asleep for about 25 minutes.

00:19:44.120 Oh, I was there.

00:19:45.600 That moderator was terrible.

00:19:47.400 Yeah, I know.

00:19:48.200 I don't like another episode of the pipeline.

00:19:49.680 Yeah.

00:19:50.120 Yeah. Atchison's just, he's just bland. He's milquetoast. He's white bread. You know, as you

00:19:57.420 say, he's got some fairly decent policies when it comes to firearms and supply management, but

00:20:04.400 he just, he's got no, he's not Mr. Excitement. He's not a very, he's not a Polyev style quality

00:20:12.260 orator. And, you know, he lost points with me because he didn't even stick around for the Q&A 1.00

00:20:17.000 with the media afterwards.

00:20:18.760 Got out of dogs.

00:20:20.480 He was getting so much other media.

00:20:22.140 Maybe.

00:20:25.880 Let's cover Roman Babber a bit here.

00:20:28.640 Out of the three on stage,

00:20:29.880 I think he's perceived as probably

00:20:31.200 the furthest to the right.

00:20:34.880 He made a name for him.

00:20:36.580 So the best thing that ever happened

00:20:37.740 in his political career

00:20:38.480 was getting kicked out of caucus

00:20:39.520 by Doug Ford.

00:20:41.480 He's taken the most interesting

00:20:43.140 route back into politics

00:20:45.640 that I've seen, 0.97

00:20:46.200 which is, screw you, I'm running for Prime Minister. 0.96

00:20:51.760 Corey, how strong of an impression do you think Babber made in this? 0.98

00:20:55.300 I think he made a decent one.

00:20:56.380 Again, he's not going to win the race, but as you said, he's establishing himself.

00:20:59.320 I mean, he would have languished in the Ontario legislature,

00:21:02.340 maybe would have risen the ranks over time, who knows.

00:21:04.860 But he's presented himself as a respectable, level-headed,

00:21:08.940 small-c conservative candidate in this leadership race.

00:21:11.560 And even if he's not going to win it, he's going places,

00:21:13.920 or he's going to be a part of that party.

00:21:16.200 And that's important to him.

00:21:18.320 If he had just left the provincial legislature and tried to run for an MP spot,

00:21:22.640 he might even have a hard time winning a nomination.

00:21:24.620 But I think whoever wins this race is going to have to make sure to take Baber seriously,

00:21:29.100 and he'll be a part of that party.

00:21:30.780 Yeah, and I think his comments on vaccines and mandates went down well with the crowd.

00:21:36.560 And as Corey says, if he runs for the Tories in the next election and Polyev becomes prime minister,

00:21:42.900 he's got to be a serious candidate for cabinet.

00:21:46.200 all right well um so with you cory who do you think won if like they weren't going at each

00:21:51.900 other like a debate but you know if you're gonna say uh you know who call it a win i'd still say

00:21:56.520 charade you know talking to people in the room afterwards and everything a lot of them already

00:22:00.480 had their preconceived notions of him so when i saw people saying wow i didn't expect that of him

00:22:05.820 and saying it in a positive way that's a win you know again it won't win in the leadership but he

00:22:10.320 definitely endeared himself to that crowd. And I think it's because we had such low expectations.

00:22:18.800 I mean, Quebec liberal and when he was a conservative, he was a Brian Mulroney Quebec

00:22:24.640 conservative, which was not the nicest thing for the West that resulted in the bloody reform party

00:22:30.320 being created as a result. But I think he easily exceeded everyone's expectations,

00:22:38.320 all of ours too. As did the moderator. Well, thank you. I'll remember that when we're doing

00:22:46.640 Christmas bonuses. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, we're gonna switch to Tamara Litch now.

00:22:54.160 Tamara Litch, Canada's most wanted. We should do a story on that. Canada's most wanted.

00:22:59.680 um she's back in jail um silly that she was ever charged with anything to begin with but

00:23:08.760 uh apparently violated bail conditions back in jail what happened she posed for a photograph

00:23:14.660 she had a list of people that she wasn't supposed to associate with so at a recent gala freedom

00:23:20.900 dinner ironically in in toronto she posed for a photograph where he was in the same photograph as

00:23:26.880 her. So several homicide detectives flew across country, arrested her, hauled her back to Ottawa

00:23:34.640 jail, where a justice of the peace denied her bail. So not a judge, but a justice of the peace.

00:23:41.840 So I'm sure there's going to be an appeal. But we're talking about a trial possibly in 2024,

00:23:48.400 which would mean she'd be in jail for two years before a trial would ever come up,

00:23:54.100 which is absolutely disgraceful. 0.94

00:23:56.080 It's disgusting. 1.00

00:23:56.800 It's third world country type stuff. 0.92

00:23:59.460 The other new thing today is a Give, Send, Go campaign has been started

00:24:04.700 with the approval of Tamara's lawyer to raise money. 0.91

00:24:09.900 She's lost her job, obviously. 1.00

00:24:12.200 She needs help covering legal fees.

00:24:15.680 And even though it only started this morning, last time I checked, 0.99

00:24:18.140 it was at $25,000.

00:24:20.520 Let's try to get the you are up for that Give, Send, Go up on the screen

00:24:23.540 if we can right now and uh let's let's just make a note uh if you're a short show let's move that

00:24:28.300 too i didn't know about it so yeah it will work but you know what bankrupt because of this you

00:24:32.820 know what we should um we should uh put that up on your show for the next few days let's get that

00:24:37.580 link up and push that because we'll push that on trigger for sure yeah absolutely let's let's do 0.56

00:24:43.020 that because this is this is bonkers third world tin pot dictator stuff um she's on these 0.97

00:24:53.000 very low charge you know these are really low charges to begin with they would have

00:24:57.400 they and they threw the book at her to try to get her with everything they could and it's still

00:25:00.580 pretty light stuff and uh yeah so she's being honored at a gala for her bravery and someone

00:25:08.500 comes in to take a picture and that's enough to consider it a bail condition throw her back in

00:25:12.980 jail uh i've got a guy in my neighborhood so they're you know about a year and a half ago

00:25:18.540 there was a machete attacker this guy went on the sea train in calgary and he attacked people with

00:25:22.920 a machete. And this guy is just on more or less house arrest, living in my neighborhood, a very

00:25:28.660 quiet family neighborhood. And he's allowed to go around. He's allowed to leave the house with

00:25:33.940 his parents and stuff. So this guy who goes around trying to chop people with machetes like it's

00:25:38.600 bloody Rwanda is free to walk around. But Tamera Litch is locked up here. Is there, does she 0.98

00:25:47.920 actually, I know she doesn't actually pose a real threat to us here, but do you think the government

00:25:52.880 that is pushing this genuinely believes she poses some kind of threat to the constitutional order?

00:26:00.280 No, but there's two things. Some of it's pride. We have a spiteful prime minister. He's maintaining

00:26:05.300 that mandate on truckers, the last mandate standing. There is no evidence whatsoever

00:26:11.020 that needs to be there aside from they ticked him off. And Leish did as well. And the other part is

00:26:17.000 they want to signal. I think some of them genuinely think we've got to make this preventative. We've

00:26:20.360 got to let everybody know if they're going to organize protests in the future, they're going

00:26:23.920 to pay a heavy, heavy price for it. And history is not going to look well on this. I mean, as you

00:26:30.680 said, it was a justice of the peace. Karen Selleck wrote a column on it that's been doing very well.

00:26:34.960 She's a lawyer and broke down like this justice of the peace wasn't even among justices of the

00:26:39.020 peace. We're not even a lawyer. This is a bureaucrat. This is an appointee. It's very...

00:26:45.240 party appointed them, do you think? I can only guess. And that prosecutor, of course, was a very

00:26:50.000 tight liberal. No, we're seeing politicization. We're seeing essentially a political prisoner. I

00:26:54.460 mean, there's the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. I mean, if you really tried to break

00:26:58.240 it down, maybe posing for that picture was technically violating a very petty and restrictive

00:27:05.500 bail condition briefly. But a proper judge would look at it and say, look, we aren't going to waste

00:27:11.340 the system's time and jail and and fly people across the country over something that minor i

00:27:15.500 mean we can issue a warning and say hey cut that out or you're going to have restrictions or we're

00:27:19.420 going to throw in two weeks of house arrest or something but you know say okay we're just going

00:27:22.700 to lock you up interminably because you opposed for instead they send the equivalent of friggin

00:27:26.460 u.s marshals to fly them across the country and and nabber it's nuts um okay yes the prime minister

00:27:35.100 is spiteful and yes he was terribly embarrassed by all of this but he and as much as he does

00:27:40.940 meddle in the justice system we know he meddles in the justice system uh he doesn't direct

00:27:47.420 individual prosecutors or judges or justice of the peace bureaucrats there's clearly a larger

00:27:55.420 part of the state here influences is a better word i mean it's not like he's making a direct

00:28:00.060 phone call and saying why would such a large section of the state the police and prosecutors

00:28:07.260 here and this bureaucrat justice if you're a prosecutor who wants to become a judge later

00:28:12.540 who do you want to make happy yeah you've got to start with basically the arresting officer

00:28:18.620 ask him why did you do this you'll probably say i was only following orders and they know well who

00:28:24.380 ordered you then get that guy in okay why did you do this well i was only following orders

00:28:29.340 and then that way it'll you know you can track it down to see where it leads well the government

00:28:33.820 itself declared this to be some kind of insurgency that was warranting of what we used to call the

00:28:40.540 War Measures Act, now the Emergencies Act. So the government did set the tone from the beginning

00:28:45.840 that this was not just a protest, this was some kind of insurrection. But they lied about it,

00:28:52.800 right? Yeah. Mendocino, the minister of lying, it was like 13 times said we only brought it in

00:29:00.980 because of the police asked us to.

00:29:03.220 And they didn't.

00:29:04.560 He outright lied about it.

00:29:06.660 Repeatedly.

00:29:07.180 Even when it's proven wrong,

00:29:08.020 he just kept lying to anyone.

00:29:10.180 So, sorry.

00:29:11.240 So how long do we expect

00:29:12.680 she's going to be locked up here?

00:29:14.480 Well, like I said,

00:29:15.240 the trial could be as late as 2024.

00:29:19.260 And the justice system

00:29:20.380 is backed up everywhere

00:29:21.480 from COVID and stuff.

00:29:22.660 Yeah.

00:29:23.500 I would expect the next step

00:29:25.340 would be an appeal

00:29:26.040 to an actual real judge.

00:29:27.740 There's no way 1.00

00:29:28.300 they're going to keep her in jail 0.72

00:29:29.200 for that time. 1.00

00:29:29.640 like that. I wouldn't have thought

00:29:31.580 they'd put her in the first place either. Nothing surprises

00:29:33.400 anymore. That's true. The charges were

00:29:35.540 ridiculous. The fact that the Crown 0.76

00:29:37.580 tried to keep her

00:29:39.660 without any bail from the very

00:29:41.360 beginning shows that they were out to

00:29:43.580 get her unreasonably so.

00:29:45.620 Like, what's the threat here? 0.94

00:29:47.780 Like, we let freaking pedos out 0.98

00:29:49.500 on bail. We let the accused 0.97

00:29:51.660 murderers out on bail. There was a cop killer

00:29:53.560 out on bail last year in Ontario.

00:29:56.100 We got a machete attacker in my own

00:29:57.480 neighborhood. Out, doing his thing.

00:29:59.640 It's disgusting. 0.97

00:30:03.240 All right. 0.63

00:30:05.120 Well, we're going to end it on that optimistic note.

00:30:07.240 We're going to wrap it up here.

00:30:08.460 I want to thank all of our Western Standard members.

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00:30:18.280 Well, that's it.

00:30:19.020 I think we need to get back to stampeding here.

00:30:22.680 I'm all dressed.

00:30:23.740 Let's go.

00:30:24.280 Yahoo.

00:30:24.780 You're good to go.

00:30:26.000 Dave, Corey, thank you very much for joining today.

00:30:28.220 And thank all of you for joining us.

00:30:29.640 God bless.

Western Standard - July 14, 2022

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