On this episode of The Western Standard's Pipeline, we talk about what is increasingly looking like another major lockdown or shutdown in Alberta, the Great Reset, and why we should all be worried about it. . . .
00:05:33.000We'll start with the current semi-lockdown, sort of semi-voluntary but not really voluntary lockdown that's taking place in Alberta right now.
00:05:43.000And what's increasingly pointing towards, I think, another lockdown happening here in Alberta.
00:09:30.000What the hell do you think you're doing and where are you coming from?
00:09:35.000But again, it's more, I'm afraid that it has very little to do with calming the infections as opposed to undercutting the provincial government, as well as some of the doctors who've been very outspoken calling for lockdowns.
00:09:49.000It turns out, again, maybe genuinely concerned about things, but very tightly tied to the NDP.
00:09:55.000So we're seeing a very ugly game unfolding here.
00:09:59.000The numbers are going up and people are worried.
00:10:02.000I mean, we want to do something, but the question is whether or not a lockdown even will do anything to stop this.
00:10:07.000I think frustrations are also growing, gentlemen.
00:12:56.000If people are going to be convinced of the need for a lockdown, we have to be convinced that the threat is consummate with destroying absolutely everything else.
00:13:05.000And when the first lockdown took place, I grudgingly was, I took, fine, I'll comply.
00:15:10.000The number of cases that have been transmitted and identified to hospitality, you know, bars and restaurants, it's incredibly, incredibly low.
00:15:18.000And now, you know, you've got guys like Palliser in Manitoba who's now hiring private investigators to go out and bust people and encourage people to snitch on people for having people over for Christmas.
00:15:30.000I mean, I don't I might be wrong, but I think at the very least, a large number of people, probably a small majority, at least in Alberta, if not in other provinces, are not going to buy in the kind of social license, if you will, to another massive shutdown, particularly at Christmas.
00:15:49.000People are going to say, look, we bought into this the first time it was it turned out to be unnecessary.
00:15:55.000We can point to examples now like Sweden, which have done extremely well without shutdowns, taking reasonable, moderate measures.
00:16:02.000I don't think there's going to be anything close to universal compliance.
00:16:08.000And unless you have that kind of moral authority for universal compliance, the shutdown doesn't matter.
00:16:14.000Everybody, absolutely everybody needs to do it together or it's utterly useless.
00:16:19.000And so I think what the government's doing right now, I think they've it as we said, I don't think it would be fair to say Kenny wants a shutdown.
00:16:26.000I do not think it's fair to say he sees this as a great moral virtue signaling that say Doug Ford does.
00:16:32.000But he's I think he is bending towards Hinshaw and whatnot, what you're telling him, you need to do this.
00:16:39.000The media is banging the drum for media outside of us are doing that.
00:16:44.000And I think what we're seeing right now is they're just trying to lay the groundwork for it, saying, hey, guys, we tried this lesser shutdown didn't work.
00:16:51.000We have to do this. I'm sorry. I don't want to.
00:16:54.000But I think it's a big problem because as the pandemic has become strangely ideologically divided, most of the people against these lockdowns, they're not just the conspiracy theorists.
00:17:06.000This is all mind control people. I think a majority of people take it seriously.
00:17:11.000They understand this is a bad thing. This is not fake.
00:17:15.000There is a real pandemic, but we we simply can't.
00:17:20.000It's not as bad as we were told it was going to be. We can't shut down society for years on end.
00:17:25.000And guess what? There's a vaccine on the way.
00:17:41.000It'll start probably with health care professionals and VIPs and then it'll work its way down to plebs like us.
00:17:48.000But that's hope is on the horizon and we've got to move forward.
00:17:54.000So I think without almost universal buy in for a lockdown like there was with the very first one in March or whatever last year, it's useless.
00:18:03.000And it really just becomes a purely political virtue signaling operation, even if that's not really what the government's trying to achieve.
00:18:16.000Oh, we could fill a whole show on that. We should move on.
00:18:19.000Well, speaking of politicians and the pandemic, the Great Reset.
00:18:25.000Now, the Great Reset has been a term that's been floated around by some of the hard left for some time to use the pandemic as an excuse for a massive reset of Western society and Western economy in their centrally planned, all knowing beliefs.
00:18:52.000Now, a lot of the people who've been talking about this have been generally on the fringe.
00:18:57.000I've seen it kind of going around a lot of the more conspiracy theory related groups.
00:19:01.000And, you know, you see the guy who would have the sign saying the end is nigh before the pandemic has beware the Great Reset sign now.
00:19:10.000So it's been easy to kind of dismiss this as a fringe and kooky thing, but it no longer is.
00:19:15.000Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just the other day used those exact words and the need to use the so-called Great Reset to usher in a great new Trudeopian age.
00:19:29.000Dave, why don't you queue up what it is the Prime Minister said and what he was trying to really dig at?
00:19:35.000He was speaking to a United Nations committee in September, Derek.
00:19:39.000And basically, I think you summed it up nicely.
00:19:42.000He was basically saying the pandemic is a good excuse to completely do a Great Reset, to reset Canadian financial thinking, to reset Canadian social plans, environmental plans,
00:19:56.000basically scrub everything we've got now and start again and do it all over again.
00:20:02.000Sort of got into the woodwork for a little bit, but now it's starting to come out.
00:20:08.000And a lot of people are certainly talking about it across the country.
00:20:33.000The main thing was that they're put together by pointy headed academics and ideologues, and they do these papers at great expense to the developed world.
00:21:48.000I mean, I live on an acreage and I'm well armed, but not everybody is going to perhaps go through that as comfortably.
00:21:55.000It's just, it was astounding to hear a world leader.
00:21:58.000Well, that's the thing is, you know, the, you know, these, you only hear UN's agenda 21, agenda 2030.
00:22:05.000I mean, it's, it's kooky stuff, but you're right.
00:22:08.000We normally, you know, these are aspirational goals written by a bunch of UN bureaucrats and politicians who are fine to put their name to it.
00:22:25.000It's not the great powerful organization something.
00:22:29.000It does all sorts of kooky, crazy and stupid things, but I don't believe the Illuminati are running this thing.
00:22:34.000But you don't, I don't take it seriously because no one else, none of these world leaders generally take it seriously.
00:22:42.000But then we have the prime minister of our country explicitly endorse this stuff and take it seriously and saying, this is something we're going to do.
00:22:49.000Well, then I have to sit up and take notice of that.
00:22:51.000It's no longer in the kooky, the end is nigh guy, sign holding guy.
00:22:56.000This is now the prime minister holding up the sign.
00:23:28.000Don't ever believe it's going to be different folks, but I mean, with the exception of a few folks in the Tory ranks, the Tories have been very quiet about this.
00:23:39.000Maybe they don't want to sound conspiratorial because a lot of this talk often is associated with that.
00:23:44.000But I mean, this is Trudeau trying to use, and he's not the only world leader doing it, but he's the only one I'm aware of so far who's explicitly endorsed it in this language.
00:23:56.000Joe Biden says build back better and all the crap rhetoric associated with that.
00:24:00.000Trudeau was pretty blunt and straightforward with it.
00:24:02.000You know, one of the arguments I did see from some other people on Twitter and saying, you know, well, look, Trudeau is not some shadowy cerebral sort of mustache tweaking backroom monster.
00:24:13.000The argument they're making basically is Trudeau's too stupid to come up with something like that.
00:27:05.000But geez, France is better run than Canada.
00:27:07.000Okay, well, we're gonna move on from there to more madness, much closer to home.
00:27:14.000As you can probably tell, we are in our Calgary offices, the Western Standard here.
00:27:20.000And not very far away from our offices, probably above not more than a kilometer to our east is Calgary City Council, where they are have already voted to, but not yet finalized their plan to partially defund the police.
00:27:36.000Partially defund the police, I don't think it'd be fair to say this is defunding the police the way the hardcore BLM activists say, although that doesn't mean anything.
00:27:44.000Where they had the opportunity to defund the police in the Chas zone in Seattle, I think it was, they just replaced it with a bunch of gangland warlords instead of the police.
00:27:59.000I just, it's actually good to have a couple communist states around just so we can watch what's happening.
00:28:05.000Although, as Chas fell apart, inevitably, they very quickly said that wasn't real communism.
00:28:10.000So we're, the world is still awaiting our first real communist state.
00:28:13.000Dave, why don't you break down what's happening with this whole defund the police movement with city council?
00:28:20.000Where it's at, and where are the kind of political, you know, how the different sides to drawing the political lines?
00:28:27.000Well, that's going to be the big issue in the campaign next year, I think, Derek.
00:28:32.000Councillor Evan Woolley has proposed taking $20 million out of the Calgary Police Service budget over two years, $10 million a year,
00:28:40.000and giving it to various social service agencies around the city, you know, to help battle homelessness and drug addiction and whatnot.
00:28:49.000That has been approved by a city committee, and will now go to a public meeting of Calgarians on November 23rd,
00:28:58.000before going back to a final vote on city council, which seems very, very split on this issue.
00:29:05.000Councillor Farkas, who has announced he's running for mayor, yesterday started a petition that seems to be doing very well,
00:29:13.000getting thousands of Calgarians to say they don't want the police defunded.
00:29:22.000Councillor Sean Chu is also on Farkas' side.
00:29:25.000He's a former Calgary police officer, served for 21 years, so I think he knows what he's talking a little bit about.
00:29:32.000Well, that seems to be split with the Nenshis and the Woolies of the world.
00:29:37.000In fact, it's got so bad, Woolie called Chew a moron last week.
00:29:42.000So, I think that's going to set the tone of the debate for the next year,
00:29:47.000and we're just under, what, 10 months away from the next election.
00:29:51.000Yeah, well, it just, it is something, and along with calling Chew a moron,
00:29:56.000something else that was distressing in that same sentence that Woolie spat out that day was,
00:30:01.000he was also saying he wanted to target any developers who contributed to Sean Chu.
00:30:05.000I'm not, you know, he didn't expand on what targeting means and what he's going to do to these,
00:30:11.000but, so these politicians are actually going after the funders of their competing members on council over a vote.
00:30:18.000It's just absurd. That sounds very much like the NDP going after businesses that contributed to the Tories.
00:30:23.000Very much, very much so, as that strategy seems to be going around.
00:30:27.000Although in the Calgary City Council case, you get the implication, at least, that it's not just to boycott businesses,
00:30:33.000but that to use the power of City Council to hurt the developers, to use the power of the state, rather than voluntary boycotts.
00:30:40.000There's some undertones of that, which is kind of concerning, you know, and I wish Mr. Woolie would expand on that,
00:30:45.000but I very much doubt he will. But I mean, that's how emotional this thing has gotten.
00:30:49.000And then I'm looking at others. I mean, they're trying to polish this turd and that's what it is.
00:30:54.000I mean, the public are realizing, wait a minute, you know, and I've said it before and I'll say it again.
00:30:57.000If this was part of cutting spending all around on the entire city, because the police is a big part of the budget.
00:31:03.000They're saying, look, we got to get our spending in order, which they do.
00:31:05.000And we're going to cut on street maintenance and we're going to cut on fire.
00:31:09.000Even we got to make it more efficient. We just can't afford it. That's part and parcel of the whole thing.
00:31:13.000I could be more understanding of that. You know, we need to streamline.
00:31:16.000We need to get costs under control. We're in a terrible crisis, but they're not.
00:31:20.000They're doing this purely to appease Black Lives Matter, which if you read Black Lives Matter's Canada's site,
00:31:25.000you know, people keep, they get on my case when I call them extremists. They are.
00:31:28.000They're not just calling for defunding a little bit. They want to abolish the police.
00:31:32.000And they say it outright on their site. These guys are pandering to these extremists.
00:31:37.000And then you listen to Shane Keating saying, oh, well, we didn't defund them. We reallocated. Oh, come on.
00:31:45.000Well, that's great. Let's take all the welfare.
00:31:47.000Reallocated back to the taxpayers then.
00:31:49.000Yeah. Well, this is actually, you know, let's let them get away with calling it reallocation.
00:31:55.000This way, conservatives and libertarians in government, we can abolish entire departments to say we're reallocating it.
00:32:01.000Sure. We're reallocating 20% off of the teachers too.
00:32:03.000And that'll improve their teaching because that's the theory is if we defund these things, they're going to get better.
00:32:07.000And then we listened to Ward Sutherland. He came up with a tweet too, expressing shock because I guess the police were saying,
00:32:14.000well, there was a bunch of positions we were going to hire for and now we're not going to because that's what happens when you get defunded.
00:32:19.000You run out of money. And he was expressing shock that they're not going to hire.
00:32:23.000Well, Ward, what did you think was going to happen? You cut from this clown show in City Hall is something else.
00:32:29.000But it is starting to backfire and they're starting to feel some of that pressure.
00:32:32.000And that's why we're seeing guys like Sutherland and Keating suddenly trying to make excuses for this foolishness.
00:32:37.000But they always seem to be reactive and really don't understand when they're stepping into the pile of manure until they have their ankle deep in it.
00:32:45.000Maybe there's a chance that they'll regain some common sense in this next meeting and back off on this.
00:32:51.000Look, when we get rid of the rest of the government, then we can defund the police.
00:32:54.000Hey, give me open carry laws and I could go with a lot less police.
00:32:57.000Yeah, well, you know, if I'm allowed to pack when I walk down Stephen Avenue, I feel pretty good without police.
00:33:04.000That's fine. But until this is the problem of the left here.
00:33:10.000They propose changing doing away with police.
00:33:15.000I shouldn't say the whole left, but the more extreme left, although now even the moderate left is kowtowing to it with partial police defunding.
00:33:22.000But they're not you know, they talk about doing away with this without putting anything in its place.
00:33:28.000If you're going to have reduced policing, you must allow greater freedom of the individual to protect themselves.
00:33:34.000That's not what they're talking about.
00:33:36.000They want still zero zero right to defend yourselves.
00:33:39.000All these same people oppose castle doctrine.
00:33:42.000They oppose stand your ground doctrine.
00:35:02.000There hasn't been any sign yet that these would be mandatory.
00:35:06.000I mean, if there is a camp for people who are infected and it is voluntary.
00:35:10.000A quarantine facility or something I'll call it.
00:35:12.000I'm pretty sure they'll stay away from the word camp.
00:35:14.000I mean, yeah, the original concentration camps were set up by the British in South Africa during the Boer Wars, but they don't really use that word anymore.
00:35:52.000And there's cause to be concern as things perhaps spiral deeper into higher infections and more deaths that some of these controls might really get out of control.
00:36:01.000As I said, the internment camps and military coming around, I think, is well off of the horizon and distant.
00:36:07.000But we do have to be vigilant because we have some very eager authoritarians.
00:36:11.000Well, we have seen massive encroachments of authoritarianism, even early signs of a totalitarianism right across the world, not just in Canada in this.
00:36:22.000This has seen a massive expansion of government powers.
00:36:25.000Once government powers are taken, they're rarely given back in full measure.
00:36:30.000And also, you should remember, Justin Trudeau has no constitutional authority for a national lockdown.
00:36:36.000Healthcare is an exclusively provincial area of jurisdiction.
00:36:39.000The Supreme Courts have incorrectly ruled in the past that the federal government's allowed to fund healthcare, but it's not allowed to dictate on-the-ground healthcare policy.
00:36:49.000Justin Trudeau has no grounds to do it.
00:36:51.000Justin Trudeau can announce that he's calling for one and try to bully the premiers to do it.
00:36:57.000He has every right to use his bully pulpit to do that.
00:37:36.000But if they have to, then they should close everything and warn people.
00:37:40.000I think there's a bit of validity to it.
00:37:42.000I mean, we've talked about that and how inconsistent some of these piecemeal things are and things coming and going.
00:37:47.000If, in fact, this latest buzzword, circuit breaker, I love how they attach the words to try and make a spoonful of sugar, I guess.
00:37:57.000If you want it to be effective, you've got to go for real.
00:38:00.000You've got to lock people right up for a couple of weeks.
00:38:03.000And I don't feel confident that that necessarily would even work.
00:38:07.000But a piecemeal halfway lockdown where we're still going to the grocery store, we're still interacting and going out, I don't know how effective it might be.
00:38:16.000Which said it would be a catastrophic lockdown if you did it that way as well.
00:38:21.000But your point's valid, you know, I mean, saying no to it.
00:38:24.000But if you're going to do it, don't piss around.
00:38:27.000If you're going to do a lockdown, they should say, okay, buy your groceries in the next two days, stock up, you know, make your own toilet paper, whatever you got to do.
00:38:38.000Everyone's going to shut down and you have to do it for several months, simply doing it for just two weeks and stuff.