00:00:56.020We got a great show today. Danielle Smith, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fires Dina Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer. Gaster, she's gone. Big, bold move, one that's been expected for some time. A lot of the media just can't believe she actually did what she said she was going to do here.
00:01:16.880We've also got, I'm sure you've seen it in all the legacy media, a lot of the lefty politicians and journalists all pushing, not just for a return of masking, but to make masking permanent and mandatory at least half of the year, if not all year round.
00:01:36.020what the hell is driving this? They seem to really miss COVID. They really just miss the
00:01:43.240good old days when we're all in this together. And they want to make us all in this together
00:01:47.640with mandatory masking again. We're going to talk about what the hell is behind the big push by the
00:01:52.300media and the political side of them to make masking mandatory at least half of the year
00:01:58.080on a permanent basis. And Justin Trudeau is overseas for the G20 meeting.
00:02:03.540And, you know, he had a little run-in with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping.
00:02:09.520Oh, I think I said that right, didn't I?
00:02:12.120Is it Xi Jinping? I kind of make it all one word.
00:02:15.400I'm going with it. Take the wind while I can. Move on.
00:02:18.660He had a little run-in with him, and then he was asked by the press later if the Chinese genocide of the Uyghur Muslim people is genocide.
00:02:28.120And he said, no, not in so few words, but in a very Justin Trudeau navel gazing way. He said, no, no, China is not genocidal. But you know who is genocidal? Canada. Canada is the genocidal ones.
00:02:44.320uh i'm unaware of the death camps that are being operated uh maybe somewhere up in athabaska
00:02:51.120but uh yeah quite just a typical justin trudeau way of representing canada on the international
00:02:57.860stage going around making excuses for the chinese communist party and blaming canada for much worse
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00:04:28.180Okay, let's get into it. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, when she was running for the leadership of
00:04:34.000the United Conservative Party a few months ago,
00:04:36.700she really made Alberta Health Services,
00:04:40.340AHS one of the whipping boys of her campaign.
00:04:43.840The media focused mostly on Sovereignty Act,
00:04:48.680but I think in tandem with that was stuff around
00:04:52.440the mismanagement of healthcare in the province,
00:11:48.700So that's obviously pretty tightly tied in with all of this stuff. I think everyone's noticed over the last week, this quick, out of nowhere, the volume turned up on the maskers. They're back. I thought we beat them. They're gone. No, no, they haven't given up.
00:12:09.440um there's you're seeing uh twitter profiles pop back up wearing masks covid uh is in existence
00:12:17.340there still is covid but it's not a pandemic anymore it's an endemic um and it's the fall
00:12:23.540we've there is respiratory illnesses in the fall as there always is have you noticed how they've
00:12:29.600rebranded that by the way they don't talk about covid anymore they talk about yeah viral respiratory
00:12:34.940They're kind of trying to make it a part of a suite of other things that have always been with
00:12:40.300us. And the media, unions whose members would benefit from not having to go to work or something
00:12:48.620if we could get back to lockdowns, they've been ratcheting up calls for permanent masking.
00:12:55.420I'll draw attention in particular to one column. Do you have the name of that columnist from the
00:12:59.420the Globe and Mail? Maybe not. Not off the top of my head. There's a staff columnist for the Globe and Mail based in Vancouver. Marsha. Marsha. Marsha. I don't know. But she wrote a piece calling for permanent mandatory masking every fall and winter. She said something along the lines of, well, you know, this time of year, we put away our sandals and bathing suits and we bring out our parkas and boots.
00:13:29.400our masks. It's just a part of the way it should be. And anyone who is opposed to that doesn't care about the lives of the children and is a sociopath. Well, that's going to soften people up. That's going to get people on site saying everyone who disagrees.
00:13:45.400agrees. Oh, I've been having those discussions. I want to kill children, apparently, according to
00:13:49.400the people. Oh, yeah, I want my kids all that. Now. It's, but it's really ramped up. You've got
00:13:58.600chief medical officer in Ontario recommending masks, I think Quebec just did too. Here in
00:14:03.800Alberta, well, we don't care about our chief medical officer anymore. But the Premier Smith
00:14:08.840said hard, no, but you got the unions banging the drums calling for this stuff. And it's all
00:14:14.760all ironic because now they're trying to cloak it in the kids because the number of kids being
00:14:19.160admitted right now with respiratory illnesses, seasonal respiratory illnesses, is up very
00:14:24.300significantly. Why is that? Why would it be right now that now that COVID is pretty much in the
00:14:30.940review mirror, why would kids be in with respiratory illnesses? You know why it is? It's because we've
00:14:37.340locked them down for two years and kids who would normally be slobbering over each other, sharing
00:14:41.680each other's germs getting gross but natural immunities didn't get them and that's why they're
00:14:47.680sick they're sick because we locked our kids down deprived them of two years of schooling
00:14:51.940and they don't have the immunity necessary so now they're getting sick so what's the answer
00:14:55.900masks and of course you know right behind that will be more lockdowns um i'm going to give you
00:15:02.940the first shot of this cory why the hell would the with the unions and large segments of the
00:15:08.480legacy media be pushing so hard for mandatory masks when they know, follow the science. They
00:15:13.740know what the science says, and the reason for these kids getting sick is the lockdowns that
00:15:17.020they themselves supported. Yeah, and the ability of masks to stop this is negligible at best. We
00:15:21.020have the numbers. If you look... Oh, just in case YouTube's watching, masks are wonderful.
00:15:26.340Masks are great. Masks will save you from everything. In fact, masks stop me from getting
00:15:30.940cancer. Just in case you're watching YouTube censors. But if you look at it, you search the
00:15:43.260overwhelmed by flu outbreak. 2017, hospitals overwhelmed by flu. This happens every three
00:15:48.560years. And even if the lockdowns had nothing to do with it, it's a cycle that comes. And masking
00:15:54.300didn't make a difference with it coming or going. It runs its course and it goes on. And it doesn't
00:15:58.440cause, yes, some vulnerable children. It's dangerous. I mean, we can't understate that.
00:16:02.400But the masking thing, I see a lot of it as a political trap, because you lay that trap, especially here in Alberta, for example, where the unions and Gil McCown dearly want to get Daniel Smith to lose the next election.
00:16:14.540They will lay every adverse outcome on Smith and say, it's because we didn't mask.
00:16:20.400Even if there's no basis for it, it doesn't matter.
00:16:52.520It has nothing to do with the science.
00:16:53.660Yeah, I think there's kind of two real reasons they want to wear it. One is mass hypochondria. We've now got a whole society of hypochondriacs. The unions wanted it maybe for a few reasons. One is just the pure partisan political parts of it.
00:17:11.600You know, Gil McGowan, Alberta Federation of Labor, the government unions, they want to at least say they have it so that they can lay any adverse effects at the feet of the government here.
00:17:23.940Another is fear, because when you see masks, it means, oh, shit, something has gone down.
00:18:50.320I mean, it's something that everybody thinks they understand.
00:18:55.200Certainly, just about everybody has an opinion on.
00:18:57.700So it's red meat for journalists who perhaps find it rather difficult to make an interesting story about some of the things that actually happen in government.
00:19:05.880But this Globe and Mail columnist, I don't know.
00:19:13.420I don't doubt her sincerity that she believes that we're sociopaths if we don't wear masks.
00:19:18.040If you're prepared to write that people who won't mask up are sociopaths, yeah, you're a true believer.
00:19:23.960And there are people and plenty of people in the media drinking each other's bath water.
00:19:30.500There's also a way that journalists enter into the profession that sort of comes through woke journalism schools into woke newsrooms.
00:19:41.500And there's an awful lot of peer pressure to conform to what seems to be the general consensus.
00:19:47.940But look, she's already a lefty. She's old. She's not a J school grad. She's old.
00:19:52.520Well, it's been going on since for a very long time.
00:19:55.360yes she can be uh but what i'm trying to get is what spurred the sudden obsession
00:20:01.520in newsrooms with columnists and reporters what spurred the sudden obsession with oh
00:20:06.880shit i forgot about masking yes everybody get behind masks you just came out of nowhere yeah
00:20:11.360well i mean part of it is that you get uh it's an easy it's an easy story it's a process story
00:20:17.040you've got somebody prominent like the uh chief medical officer of health in ontario saying this
00:20:22.480everybody thinks they understand it so everybody wants to write about and comment on it
00:20:26.560um you know when we talk about diversity in the media they never think about diversity of opinion
00:20:33.600and these newsrooms have and these opinion pages have been self-selected for decades
00:20:38.400to just put a certain point of view in like i think i can't speak for you gentlemen i can speak
00:20:44.880for myself i said i got no problem with somebody who wants to wear a mask it's a free world it's
00:20:49.280their choice if that makes them feel better do it just don't ask me and don't try to tell me that
00:20:56.960that should be my choice if i don't agree that's not the way your typical newspaper reporter media
00:21:04.960columnist tv anchor thinks about these things because they have been telling each other that
00:21:10.960masks are good for so long they don't know other way to do it it is just a it's a consensus that
00:21:17.440they've come up with um i think they just got lonely for the mask yeah it's like a teddy bear
00:21:23.360there's still some adults asleep with a teddy bear it makes them feel safe and cozy and i think
00:21:28.560we're a diving bell on your head for all i care right just leave me alone you want a face tattoo
00:21:33.760get a face tattoo just i don't want to wear a face tattoo no i'd actually i'd almost rather
00:21:39.040tattoo a mask on me than wear one at least that'd be a hell of a face tattoo you'd never have to
00:21:44.320have to worry about sitting next to anybody on a bus ever again too. There you go. That'll just
00:21:48.720help with social distancing. Don't make eye contact. That's right. Okay. A little switch
00:21:55.820gears a bit here. So Justin Trudeau in Cambodia, are they in? Phnom Penh. Yeah, Cambodia. So he had
00:22:05.300a little run in. So he had a side meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping. And you know, I don't
00:22:13.440I don't think any of us are great fans of Xi Jinping. He's in our cup, not our communist cup of tea. But it was a one on one. And I think it appears that this was supposed to be a closed door meeting. I mean, Reagan met with Gorbachev and Kennedy met with Brezhnev. But they would, you know, there's there's a confidence to these meetings. And if something is allowed out, it's agreed in advance. Otherwise, you can't do diplomacy. Even with enemies, you have to maintain confidence to be in
00:22:43.420able to do diplomacy. And Trudeau and his office apparently leaked this whole damn meeting, resulting in a bit of a blow up Xi Jinping corners Trudeau and gives him what what I couldn't really tell from the tone of his voice because I can't understand Chinese Mandarin, but that's not a here nor there. But Trudeau was holding a press conference. And one of the journalists said, you know, asked him for his opinions on the genocide of the Muslim
00:23:13.420Uyghur people, people who are rounded up into concentration, re-education camps, I think the
00:23:19.580Chinese communists call them, ask them, you know, would you call that a genocide?
00:23:23.500Would you call them residential schools, perhaps?
00:23:28.060Trudeau might call them residential schools.
00:23:31.980Yeah, yeah, if the Chinese call them the residential school, then they might
00:23:34.780finally call them genocide. You know, I think we're going to need, actually, let's play the video.
00:23:41.500Everything we discuss is then leaked to the paper. That's not appropriate. And that's not how the way the conversation was conducted.
00:23:51.500If there is sincerity from your part, free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have. We will continue to work constructively together.
00:24:10.500constructively together, but there will be things we will disagree on, and we will have
00:24:25.880Well, that's the prime minister having a very serious
00:24:40.300and important talk about the weaker people. So you've got these people rounded up into concentration camps, mass murder against these people from a totalitarian communist regime, and Trudeau cannot bring himself to use the G word, but he has no problem throwing around in Canada, where, you know, very bad things in many
00:25:10.240cases took place to indigenous people a long time ago, but in some cases not as long ago, but very bad things that I don't think a reasonable person would call genocide. I think we would, there'd be other terms for it as a, that's a particularly loaded term.
00:25:27.980Well, if you're gonna call that genocide, what are you gonna call the Holocaust? You gotta come up with a new word.
00:25:32.920Yeah, it's like when you say, if we're far right, if we're fascists, well, then you need a whole new word for fascists and far right.
00:25:40.240You know, so yeah, if the residential schools are genocide, then we need a whole new term for, well, what we've traditionally considered genocide.
00:25:50.260Good point, but what the hell do you think he's trying to do, threading the needle here, that Canada's a genocidal state, but communist China's mass murder of the Uyghur people is not?
00:26:01.480Is he trying to make a case here that it's bad, but it's not genocide?
00:26:06.480Well, I mean, we all know what's really up here.
00:27:05.880just trying to be diplomatic, because, you know, he, by leaking his conversation with Xi Jinping,
00:27:10.740he torpedoed, blew that, blew that pretty bad. That's, I mean, we've all had, you know,
00:27:19.460we're in journalism, we've had meetings in confidence with people we don't like,
00:27:24.000but you don't break confidence, because, you know, you break confidence on one,
00:27:27.040you burn a source, well, no one talks to you again. That's right. You're sure you get one
00:27:31.500good hurrah out of it, but that's, that's kind of the end of the road of anyone's willingness
00:27:34.700to talk to you. Do you think they're actually, I think Nigel actually maybe raises an interesting
00:27:40.520point that he will not call it genocide because it would just be bad diplomacy with China.
00:27:48.420Of course, this is a longstanding thing. If you look, Parliament did a motion on declaring that
00:27:53.640a genocide. Every Liberal member voted in favor of declaring it except for the Cabinet and the
00:27:59.640Prime Minister abstained, or they were absent. Yeah, but there was 260 some MPs, which included a whole pile of Liberal MPs as well said yes, but Trudeau and the cabinet excuse themselves so that they wouldn't have to address it. So they've hidden from this for some time. But there's a couple of issues going on. We kind of understand why he dodged it. But this is what graded me. This is our leader. This is a national leader. And to be so gobsmacked. I mean, that video is you saw like he was a deer in the headlights.
00:28:29.380He was terrified. Oh, my Lord, somebody hasn't written me talking points. What on earth am I
00:28:34.300going to do? This man is incapable of thinking on his feet. And that scares me as a person who is
00:28:39.480being managed by him as our leader, as well with the breach of diplomacy. The other thing that he
00:28:45.380did, if you want to weaken yourself, no other leader is going to talk to that man in confidence
00:28:49.260again. You don't know what he's going to leak. I mean, I don't think they took him very seriously
00:28:53.440to begin with. But as per usual, with his international trip, he has managed to embarrass
00:28:58.660us and reduce our status on the world stage yet again and a lot of it could have been very easily
00:29:03.700avoided with some diplomacy and thought but he seems incapable of either you know i i couldn't
00:29:08.660help but think of zoolander when i saw him speaking here i don't know did you ever see zoolander no i
00:29:14.980didn't okay it's a 90s classic so i'm a 90s kid i remember growing up with this cory knows that i
00:29:21.300guess here and it's funny because there it takes place in a very similar part of the world i think
00:29:26.020malaysia or at least the end of it takes place in malaysia and you know so there's a bunch of guys
00:29:31.060very similar kind of national costumes in malaysia around uh and there's like world leaders at this
00:29:36.420thing and he's been he's like this male model what inexplicably dumb male model
00:29:44.340and when he talks it just sounds like zoolander um
00:29:50.100At this point, I actually kind of like Trudeau's International Visits because they're funny.
00:30:20.100no one cares about Canada Canada is obsessed with what the world thinks about Canada but you know
00:30:27.340how much the rest of the world thinks about Canada about as often as we think of Denmark
00:30:31.020we know it's there we have some kind of preconceptions about it but it's not terribly
00:30:36.720important and I hate to break it everybody Canada's just not that important and it's unfortunate but
00:30:43.200we're obsessed with what the world thinks about us but I'm not sure they really think much about us
00:30:47.220Unfortunately, when they do think about us now, they see Prime Minister Zoolander, so...
00:30:51.720It doesn't help, at least he didn't dress like Aladdin, not this time, so I think they locked his tickle trunk before he could come out of it.
00:31:02.720That's another Cory Morgan classic right there, Cory Morgan's tickle trunk.
00:31:10.720Well, you know, as long as he doesn't go to the World Cup in Dubai, because there he might bring out the Aladdin.