Western Standard - The Pipeline： TD bank says, don't vote Conservative. It's racist!

00:00:00.000 Good evening, I'm Derek Vildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard. Today is August 17th,

00:00:24.480 2022 and you're watching the pipeline uh i'm joined as i always am by uh the always sunny

00:00:32.220 western standard news editor dave naylor how are you feeling dave jim dandy jim dandy what

00:00:37.440 jim dandy good is that a weird british sign no you're good it might be a weird american

00:00:43.640 might be a weird american one it's good i'm feeling good okay uh i'm not gonna ask cory

00:00:49.280 how he's doing uh or he makes you more of the same if i had come up with jim dandy i would

00:00:54.760 have gone jim dandy i've never heard that before i don't know i i'm it's gotta be a weird british

00:01:00.500 thing uh too many damn british come down british around here uh speaking of too many british around

00:01:06.280 here we're gonna have uh another brit actually coming in uh nigel hannaford is going to be 0.96

00:01:12.220 stepping up as the new opinion editor of the western standard very excited to have him on

00:01:16.540 He was a senior columnist, the Congre Herald, member of the Herald's editorial board.

00:01:21.440 And then from 2006 to 2015, he was the manager of the speech writing department for Stephen

00:01:26.820 Harper in the prime minister's office.

00:01:29.380 He's going to be coming on, you know, as Corey transitions to more of a columnist role with

00:01:35.440 the Western Standard, Nigel's going to be stepping up as opinion editor. 0.99

00:01:37.920 So there's going to be just too many damn Brits. 1.00

00:01:41.840 Okay, Jim Denny. 1.00

00:01:44.040 Okay.

00:01:46.540 got an interesting show today. Kenny has pointed and fired his guns at Danielle Smith and her

00:01:54.300 proposed Sovereignty Act. Really an unprecedented level of involvement from the outgoing leader of

00:02:00.540 a political party, very seriously meddling in the race to replace him. I've never seen anything

00:02:07.340 like it. So we're going to talk about what Kenny's up to, what's he on about, and is he actually

00:02:13.820 going to maybe make any progress for candidates that he favors or at least maybe harm the prospects

00:02:19.700 of candidates that he does not favor. TD Bank, this is a great exclusive Western Standard story

00:02:25.740 that TD Bank says don't vote conservative. You do, you're a racist. Indigenous people don't like 0.99

00:02:33.820 pipelines and conservatives like pipelines. Therefore, if you vote conservative, you're a

00:02:38.940 racist. Definitely not anything racist, though, about saying an entire race of people have a

00:02:45.080 singular view on an issue of infrastructure and energy development. That's not racist.

00:02:49.860 Not at all. No. So yeah, that's just a fantastic, exclusive Western Standard Story we're going to

00:02:56.260 get into. And Tamara Litch, enemy number one in Canada, insurgent extraordinaire has been 1.00

00:03:04.680 honored at a big gala in Calgary. Best I'm aware, they have not sent the JTF2 Special Forces

00:03:12.280 to storm the place. Maybe they figured that the Rebels should be allowed to have a meeting,

00:03:19.120 get them all in one place so we could photograph them or something. But Tamara Lich has been 0.95

00:03:22.860 honored at an event. We're going to talk about how that went and what the fallout is.

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00:04:40.060 I don't know what we're going to do about you, Corey. 0.99

00:04:41.700 I can't say the damn thing. 0.96

00:04:43.340 Well, we've got it up on the screen for others. 0.99

00:04:45.500 There you go.

00:04:46.200 Just read the bottom of the screen.

00:04:48.540 That should be good enough.

00:04:49.900 Okay.

00:04:50.340 Thank you, CSSA.

00:04:52.460 Let's move on.

00:04:53.180 So, you know, when Jason Kenney was ousted by members of the UCP as leader, a lot of people were expecting that he would just step down either immediately or within a few days to allow an acting or interim leader to take over.

00:05:10.840 That's not always what happens, but it's pretty unprecedented that a leader of a party that just formed a majority government three years earlier is ousted by his own members.

00:05:20.480 um there was a lot of ruckus over this in fact in fact there were threats of fisticuffs in the

00:05:27.840 caucus meeting that was deciding this issue if if kenny should go and be replaced by an acting

00:05:31.960 interim leader uh kenny did stay though but he was very clear that he's going to stay out of the

00:05:38.200 leadership race uh scouts honor he's staying out of it um last uh sunday saturday saturday was the

00:05:47.880 radio show yeah i think yeah yeah well uh kenny kenny's staying out of this so to speak uh ended

00:05:54.640 pretty dramatically didn't it dave it did on qr 77 uh lobbed a grenade into the campaign trail by

00:06:01.480 saying daniel smith's proposed sovereignty act was was quote unquote nuts uh said it would lead

00:06:07.940 canada into a constitutional crisis uh the next day he obviously was well prepared at a press

00:06:13.700 conference and went even further, saying it was nuttier than squirrel turd, quote unquote.

00:06:19.820 And then he went on a long diatribe about how it wouldn't work and basically saying 1.00

00:06:27.080 the whole thing's idiotic. Of course, it's Danielle Smith's big, it was her first big 0.99

00:06:33.480 campaign pledge. I think it's something she's vowed that she would introduce the first day

00:06:37.320 in office. Kenny says, no, it wasn't interfering. He was just repeating what he had said last

00:06:43.400 September when this whole idea

00:06:45.320 first came up. So, yeah, whatever way

00:06:47.440 you want to have it, Mr. Premier, but

00:06:49.340 you certainly, you certainly

00:06:51.100 influence, you

00:06:51.920 you know, you can

00:06:54.280 he's basically helped, he's hoping to help

00:06:57.440 one of his established candidates

00:06:59.260 Taves against

00:07:01.360 Danielle by 0.69

00:07:02.940 crapping on her from a pie.

00:07:05.860 Whether it works or whether

00:07:07.320 it, you know, strengthens

00:07:09.320 her and gives her even

00:07:11.300 more momentum, because he's not a

00:07:13.220 overly well guy, not an overly liked guy in the province, Mr. Kenny at the moment. So I may give

00:07:18.760 her an added boost. Corey, this is certainly unusual. I'm sure there's been minor interventions

00:07:27.300 from outgoing leaders in races before where they maybe say something off the cuff, but this was

00:07:32.220 clearly planned. He was clearly waiting for this question. I'm sure no one would ever have questions

00:07:39.340 planted on a paid talk radio show for the premiere i'm sure that never happens but he was clearly

00:07:44.540 ready and willing to go for this and he this wasn't quick comment he went on at length and

00:07:48.860 then uh then the press conference monday he won on i think uh the press said it was a six

00:07:54.380 to eight minute answer it was it was a short speech that he gave about it um how unusual is

00:08:01.580 this and you know is is kenny um yeah how unusual is this how off-site is it for a premier to

00:08:12.780 or a sitting leader to intervene like this extremely unusual i mean interim leaders the

00:08:16.780 whole point of having an interim leader who's he is not technically i understand and i gotta

00:08:20.940 expand well he's acting like something yeah but uh you know when you're in that role that

00:08:27.660 transitional role and holding the seat, which in his case was his to begin with. So he's not interim,

00:08:32.860 but he's in that outward role. And I mean, that was part of the discussion, as you said,

00:08:37.060 at the caucus meeting. Look, I'm just going to maintain the course. I'm not going to step in on

00:08:41.300 the race. It's a matter of convention, form, class, and party unity. You just stay the hell out. I 0.99

00:08:47.500 mean, if there was an interim one chosen, it would be expected and assumed this is somebody who has

00:08:53.020 no strong direct connections to any of the campaign teams. We know the reality. There'll be

00:08:58.460 at least a hidden or, you know, discreet support. I mean, an interim leader or a leader sitting

00:09:05.780 until the end like Kenny is, is still going to have their preferences, but they keep them to

00:09:09.240 themselves. And to dive in like this, it's unprecedented. I don't think it's going to

00:09:14.600 have the impact he thinks it is either. So that's where I want to go with this next.

00:09:19.620 um he's a pretty unpopular guy in alberta although he he does have his supporters in the party he

00:09:25.760 technically got 51 percent in the leadership review but that is after they changed the rules

00:09:31.640 about a half dozen times and kept pushing it back down uh i think it's very fair to say he would

00:09:36.420 have gotten substantially less than 51 percent if they hadn't have cheated serially to do it but he

00:09:42.960 does still have a number of supporters and this is an internal ucp race there are still some jason

00:09:48.780 Kenny fans out there. It's just he's not universally beloved by the party the way he was, say,

00:09:54.140 on election night 2019. Corey, do you think this is going to have a significant effect? Do you think

00:10:00.980 Kenny is going to get much mileage for this? Well, he's getting mileage for Smith. I don't

00:10:07.080 think it was intentional at all, but that really established her as the sole anti-establishment

00:10:12.620 candidate. And if he talks about an act not working, well, there is one person who's familiar

00:10:16.280 with what doesn't work in dealing with Ottawa

00:10:17.980 because Kenny hasn't had anything successful

00:10:19.600 with them in three years as Premier.

00:10:21.540 So, I mean, how can he shoot at another plan?

00:10:24.480 People are looking for another plan.

00:10:25.960 Maybe the Sovereignty Act is nuts,

00:10:27.880 but that's for those members to decide.

00:10:30.560 He's not a good authority on what works

00:10:32.160 and what doesn't work with Ottawa right now.

00:10:34.260 But it's similar to that first debate.

00:10:36.420 When there were seven members

00:10:38.160 and they kept attacking Smith,

00:10:39.500 all you're doing is giving her more oxygen,

00:10:41.600 giving her more time to explain her act

00:10:43.720 and to stand out.

00:10:44.960 But as you said, Kenny pulled out all the stops, and this is a members race.

00:10:48.480 And even with all of that and all of the king's horses and men,

00:10:51.660 he could barely squeak 51% of the members to vote for him.

00:10:55.200 Now you've had these candidates running in party membership sales.

00:11:00.200 I don't see how Kenny's words are going to draw any of those supporters

00:11:05.120 towards his establishment candidate.

00:11:06.820 If anything, it's entrenching them against him.

00:11:08.400 So Dave, we've seen races before where the person running to become the leader runs against the record or the person of the outgoing leader.

00:11:20.260 You know, Jim Prentice may have been on a policy level, virtually a carbon copy of Alison Redford, but he ran against Alison Redford nonetheless.

00:11:29.560 You know, Paul Martin ran against Jean Chrétien.

00:11:33.260 That's even within a party.

00:11:34.940 That's not too uncommon.

00:11:35.760 But this is probably the first time I've seen the outgoing premier running against the leading person to become the incoming premier.

00:11:44.160 What's your take?

00:11:45.140 Do you think, you know, Kenny does still have a number of loyalists in the party outside of just those in his personal paid employee in the premier's office.

00:11:56.700 Do you think this is actually going to hurt, Smith?

00:11:58.820 No, not at all.

00:11:59.900 And unlike Corey, I think it will actually help her.

00:12:01.820 And, you know, as we've discussed before, Travis Taves, member of the Sky Palace community, fraternity, I guess, fraternity might be the better word.

00:12:12.980 So he's got that hanging around his neck.

00:12:14.500 All the other people that are running were caucus or cabinet ministers, and they're now running to fix the stuff that they screwed up well in power.

00:12:25.000 You know, Travis Taves, I'll fix health care.

00:12:26.640 Well, you know what?

00:12:27.460 You were in control of all the spending.

00:12:28.900 He didn't fix it in the last three years.

00:12:31.820 And now Danielle Smith has, you know, she's now the established anti-establishment candidate because Kenny's gone for her, gone for her personally, hasn't gone for any of the other candidates at all.

00:12:44.940 So, yeah, I think it can only help her.

00:12:48.780 So that's where I want to go next.

00:12:51.080 You know, if there's a few continuums or polls in this race, you know, nutritional left, right, you're, you know, you're red blues.

00:12:58.660 You have a federalist to full on independence. And then there's Kenny and anti-Kenny. And, you know, a lot of these are Venn diagrams overlapping and who's where is very confusing.

00:13:12.620 But the Kenny anti-question, I think, Kenny, you know, the relevancy of that question had been going down through this race.

00:13:19.480 It had been actually much more focused on the issues, namely the issue of the Sovereignty Act.

00:13:23.560 But Kenny's intervention, I think, now raises the prospect again of Kenny anti-Kenny.

00:13:30.120 I think it was in Kenny's interest in terms of his legacy and reputation that the race not be all about beating up on Kenny.

00:13:37.820 Because he's the sitting premier, it's a little awkward, I think, to be trashing him the way you could trash Alison Redford because she was replaced by an interim premier.

00:13:46.700 But he's now made himself a target again.

00:13:50.000 I'll put this to both of you.

00:13:51.400 Do you think this, you know, Brian Jean probably was the most anti-Kenny because he was always anti-Kenny.

00:14:01.540 You know, there's never been a moment where he's pro-Kenny, whereas Danielle Smith actually was pro-Kenny for a time.

00:14:07.620 Do you think this is going to have, you know, Jean still in kind of, at least by most polls, a fairly distant third,

00:14:14.560 but it's a third and then it's a total drop off to everyone else.

00:14:18.180 He's in third place, and there's that 10% to 15%, depending on what poll, of the vote that's left for him.

00:14:25.680 How big of an effect do you think this could have in consolidating that anti-Kenny vote that is still with Gene behind Smith?

00:14:33.800 Go ahead.

00:14:34.900 Sure. I think it'll be very effective.

00:14:36.720 I mean, the people who are truly anti-Kenny, they want the candidate most likely to knock off his successor, I guess you could say, in a sense.

00:14:44.980 And Kenny's established the one that's the biggest threat to Taves right now.

00:14:48.660 It's not Gene, it's Smith.

00:14:50.480 So those people who have that focus, whether it's, you know, it's not as much a policy focus, but an anti-Kenny focus, an anti-establishment focus, there's the person now.

00:14:58.660 Kenny said that's the one who's threatening the establishment.

00:15:01.780 Here you go.

00:15:02.440 I mean, he couldn't have directed him to her better.

00:15:04.140 I kind of feel like it's similar to the move that Jim Prentice made in the debate of the 2015 election, where he physically, same guy, he literally physically turned his back to Brian Jean, ignoring him, and went after Rachel Notley.

00:15:18.500 And then that was a signal to everyone in Alberta who wanted the old crooked Tories gone, that if you wanted them gone, you had to vote for that lady. 0.57

00:15:26.260 Because the attack on Rachel Nottingly did not go over very well.

00:15:30.340 It was condescending and just kind of nasty.

00:15:35.240 But what it did is it kind of depressed the Wild Rose.

00:15:37.520 It literally was Brian Jean standing there.

00:15:39.660 So this might be the second time that the conservative premier of Alberta

00:15:43.240 has very visibly turned his back on Brian Jean to launch an attack on someone else

00:15:47.700 and elevated that person as the person to beat himself.

00:15:51.780 Yeah.

00:15:51.880 But smarter people than us, Derek, told us, if the Kenny leadership wasn't so full of skullduggery and changes and whatnot, and it was held that first time it was supposed to be held, he would have been lucky to get 35%.

00:16:04.140 So there is a large chunk of the UCP party that just doesn't like Kenny.

00:16:10.600 But they want to be UCPers.

00:16:12.380 I think something about Brian Jean rubs them possibly the wrong way.

00:16:16.980 And, yeah, their support will go to Daniel, I think.

00:16:21.880 Okay. We're going to switch gears a bit here. In just the other room, we have a young reporter,

00:16:29.760 Jonathan Bradley. He's actually fairly new here, but he's broken some pretty good stories,

00:16:35.940 especially one with TD Bank. TD, if you've gone into a TD lately, it's very colorful,

00:16:44.720 very colorful place to be. In fact, it's downright maybe a bit gauche. It's over-the-top

00:16:52.480 or diversity. You'd be hard-pressed to actually find any information about financial products and

00:16:57.520 protecting your money there. It's very political and strange. And they've had a series of

00:17:06.320 I guess diversity or I don't know, whatever the hell you call these indoctrination sessions,

00:17:11.200 but some kind of diversity seminars and they had some diversity experts i guess in uh and i think

00:17:18.400 so we obtained a uh our reporter jonathan bradley obtained a secret recording of one of these

00:17:25.760 meetings and we've got the audio of it now let's uh let's play that for you non-indigenous politics

00:17:31.920 it's hard for some indigenous peoples but when you're actually looking at the different parties

00:17:36.560 what i've noticed and i don't actually like i don't know it's i haven't really voted that much

00:17:42.800 i'm starting to try to and learn more about it but from what i know um conservative conservative

00:17:48.640 goes against a lot of um what indigenous peoples are trying to do um because they advocate for 0.95

00:17:53.760 pipelines um they don't want indigenous people to have a voice etc whereas like let's say liberal

00:18:00.080 ndp they're a little bit more about it right um probably the green party's huge actually because

00:18:05.520 we're also very connected to the land so i would say more of those areas are what to vote for

00:18:11.760 versus like conservative because i i've noticed a lot of what their intentions are are kind of

00:18:17.440 against um indigenous i guess rights right so um but that's just very minimal um on the surface

00:18:25.600 knowledge that i know about politics so um yeah like substantially i'm going to repeat what carol

00:18:35.280 said um i i find that conservatives throughout the country um yeah that their priorities are not in

00:18:44.400 rect with reconciliation um we saw when doug board was first elected to office in ontario

00:18:50.960 to scrap the curriculum they were building to incorporate indigenous history and knowledge

00:18:58.200 and scrap that. It had nothing to do with the platform. I have not forgotten that.

00:19:05.460 Whereas I see people like Jagmeet Singh who are trying to consult and actually speaking

00:19:14.900 with indigenous people what we want what we're looking for in a government and

00:19:22.280 we all know all right so that's not the full thing it goes on and on so like

00:19:32.240 conservatives are racist because they like pipelines pipelines are racist

00:19:39.480 that's uh i think that's a fair summation of the whole thing right ideally yeah yeah uh dave what's

00:19:46.680 what's been the reaction to the story what did td have to say about it well td had nothing to

00:19:51.000 stay for day one and day two and day three and day four uh we heard lots of social media chatter

00:19:59.400 lots of prominent canadians talking about how ridiculous it was and and why why would td

00:20:04.440 even do this uh one of our staff members wives was that was at a td bank and there were three 0.95

00:20:11.840 people in line ahead of her to cancel their accounts because of this uh because of this

00:20:17.520 leaked tape uh yeah and jonathan had a source who was in the meeting and thought this is a bit

00:20:24.880 wacky i think i'm going to record this and send it to jonathan so it must have been going on for

00:20:29.100 a while because yeah for him to be like oh i need to start recording because this is nuts yeah god

00:20:33.740 bless uh uh anonymous sources just before i get to td's reaction jonathan also broke in in the next

00:20:40.340 day or so another great td story which a conservative mp uh called him and said you

00:20:46.760 know i went to the td bank to open up a fund for for the election and put money you know donated

00:20:54.180 to the campaign and in the fund and the bank asked him hey well what party do you belong to

00:20:59.240 And he thought that was entirely inappropriate and walked out and went to another bank.

00:21:04.820 So TD said, no, no, we were entirely mistaken.

00:21:10.820 That was just a conversation between two people.

00:21:13.920 Well, you know, our source was in the room that was full of staffers and being given this diversity talk by these women.

00:21:21.360 So sorry, TD Bank, that just doesn't cut it.

00:21:24.520 In terms of the other story, they admitted that, yeah, our reporting was correct, and they've issued an apology to that, the MP in question.

00:21:34.200 So, I don't think it would be, it was TD Bank's crisis communication team's best week.

00:21:41.500 They should have jumped on it on day one and come out with an explanation, but the bank doesn't look good in this at all.

00:21:47.880 uh uh oh geez what the hell do we even say about this uh cory um i i've been with td bank since i

00:21:59.660 was above 12 or something 10 or 12 when i opened my my dad took me to the bank you know my family

00:22:05.580 been with td since uh since they immigrated to canada we've been with td uh so i'm a third

00:22:11.460 generation TD customer. The Western Standard is with TD. I would have already pulled us out of

00:22:19.800 it. It wasn't such a pain in the ass to do, but I think we've got to. Unless, TD, you want to 0.98

00:22:25.680 become the latest sponsor of the Western Standard. Western Standard brought to you by TD Bank.

00:22:32.060 Don't vote conservative. It's totally racist. 0.92

00:22:34.680 um uh cory what yeah it's pretty common for corporations now to just go to the most extreme

00:22:43.920 side of woke um but is this really going to be damaging because you know changing the bank is

00:22:50.880 hard as i said like i haven't had i'm kind of ashamed to admit i haven't changed it because 0.95

00:22:55.260 it's it's a huge pain in the ass it's hard to see how many people put their money where their mouth 0.98

00:22:59.820 is when it comes to that. You're saying I don't put my money where my mouth is. And technically 0.99

00:23:04.080 on this issue, so far, you're right. But I mean, most people too, no, I mean, the clowns who teach 0.96

00:23:11.640 diversity training, these are the gender studies grads who managed to have a connection high up in

00:23:16.480 the offices and got themselves some sort of job given these seminars. I mean, you're not getting

00:23:20.760 the brightest of bulbs out there, but it says a lot about these woke companies that, you know,

00:23:24.620 with their ESG plans and things like that, that they're training staff for that. It may not,

00:23:29.820 turn away too many existing customers,

00:23:31.780 but I can see it chilling with ones who are looking to go.

00:23:34.640 I mean, there's still people currently shopping

00:23:36.400 for a place for the next mortgage,

00:23:37.640 for the next car loan, their next business banking.

00:23:40.720 Well, it was TD that rejected a mortgage for Rebel,

00:23:44.100 the Rebel, simply because they're the Rebel.

00:23:46.760 I mean, they're not Al Qaeda.

00:23:48.940 I mean, you can like them or not like them,

00:23:50.200 but they're not Al Qaeda for God's sakes.

00:23:52.660 They're a business and they're willing to pay you money

00:23:55.540 to do business with you.

00:23:56.460 They wanted to buy a building for God's sake.

00:23:58.480 Wasn't like they wanted, you know, something tiny or building cruise missiles or something.

00:24:03.440 So, I mean, if these were loans officers or who knows who they're speaking to with that,

00:24:06.860 there could be training staff to essentially say, this is the political sides you want to take.

00:24:11.280 And they, you know, maybe decline loans to people who hold the wrong political views.

00:24:15.040 I think they certainly didn't say that.

00:24:16.380 I wouldn't imply that, but that's what goes into that training.

00:24:19.400 Well, you know, if Paul is talking about waging war on some of the, you know, kind of the central banking system

00:24:28.120 that the big five chartered banks rely on very intimately.

00:24:32.640 I think if the banks are going to decide on the politics of their customers,

00:24:37.240 maybe the government should decide on the politics of the bank.

00:24:39.700 If the banks are going to be discriminating in politics,

00:24:42.100 well, wouldn't it be a shame if the central bank didn't directly lend to TD anymore?

00:24:47.140 If TD actually had to rely upon money in its own bank that its customers have put there

00:24:53.240 and not be able to rely on printed money from the Bank of Canada.

00:24:58.120 They're not endearing themselves to the old system, you know, with people who want to come in and make change, but with statements like that, I mean, it seems that the principle of the bank that should be just basically numbers and, you know, determining loan risk and things like that, it's been corrupted in a sense.

00:25:12.420 And I can see people shying away in the future, though, at the least, so it could cost them.

00:25:18.780 Okay, now I feel really bad, haven't put my money where my mouth is yet.

00:25:24.620 We got to change banks.

00:25:26.100 I got to do it.

00:25:27.520 So, yeah, one of our employees' husbands was at the bank and said there was a bunch of people.

00:25:31.920 The wife was at the bank.

00:25:34.200 And three people in line, head of her, were all closing their doors.

00:25:37.260 And they said it was due to this?

00:25:38.260 Yep. 0.94

00:25:40.920 TD, totally racist.

00:25:42.960 All right. 0.99

00:25:45.160 Speaking of very racist, very bad people, Tamara Lich, insurrectionist, terrorist extraordinaire, 1.00

00:25:54.640 honoured in Calgary at a gala just the other night. 0.73

00:25:58.820 She was.

00:25:59.860 She was awarded the George Jonas Freedom Award

00:26:04.400 a couple of months ago in Toronto

00:26:05.840 by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

00:26:08.940 They had a bit of a celebration in Calgary

00:26:11.280 to top it all off.

00:26:14.240 Tamara was there,

00:26:15.440 some of her, lots of, well,

00:26:16.500 hundreds of her supporters.

00:26:18.360 And she gave a nice speech.

00:26:19.920 I don't think she was photographed with anybody

00:26:22.640 that she's not allowed to meet.

00:26:23.940 But I did, she was photographed with that insurrectionist MLA Drew Barnes.

00:26:29.460 So I don't know if that's a breach of her bail conditions or not.

00:26:33.840 She's from Medicine Hat, and Drew represents half Medicine Hat.

00:26:36.620 I'm not sure which half she's in, but, you know.

00:26:39.220 Yep, so it could have been, he could be her MLA.

00:26:42.460 But by all accounts, a great evening was had by all,

00:26:45.660 and she was not taken down by a squat team upon leaving.

00:26:49.500 Corey, we weren't allowed to film this because the last time there were any cameras at essentially the same dinner but held in Toronto, the police sent a bunch of armed goons with guns all the way from Ottawa to a medicine hat to grab her, detain her, and fly her back to Guantanamo Bay or wherever we're taking these insurrectionists now.

00:27:14.440 um you know so what does this say now that uh that we have to have secret political speeches

00:27:22.900 because the person giving it could be arrested for doing it it's been so bizarre and unprecedented

00:27:27.660 yeah as you said I mean it was a most trivial of potential bail uh violations they sent two

00:27:34.600 homicide detectives no less all the way across the country to round her up for people trying to 0.96

00:27:39.760 pretend that this wasn't politically motivated come on get real I think Dave was just mentioning

00:27:43.720 a multiple murderer, alleged, a doctor who killed a number of people, is out on bail right now. And

00:27:49.900 they have persecuted. I think it's great, though, that we witnessed. These are packed dinners,

00:27:55.360 well attended. She's getting very good attention from people and appreciation. If they hadn't have

00:28:01.420 gone after her the way they had at the end of this, if they'd just find her and put her out

00:28:05.040 on bail and say, we'll see you in court next January, most of the candidate would have forgotten

00:28:09.440 who Tamara Leach is by now. I mean, people watching it closely would know that she was

00:28:12.880 involved and things like that but she wouldn't have turned into the symbol that she is guess who 0.53

00:28:16.440 the cover uh photo is of uh next to the next issue of the new american tamara litch really

00:28:23.660 or mike thomas has got a story on it it's up on the website now she's a glowing review of tamara

00:28:29.600 litch not so much of a glowing review of uh justin trudeau uh but you know that's you know as cory

00:28:37.200 says what the government has done to tamara has made her a folk hero uh it's also worth noting

00:28:42.360 the JCCF asked us not to publicize where this event was happening because it had to be an

00:28:47.680 undisclosed location. It was an undisclosed location because they didn't want the location

00:28:52.000 to be bombarded with anti-Tamera crap. So yeah, we withheld the location and hopefully it's still

00:29:00.800 a secret. All right. Well, that's it for today. This is a reminder that if you're not yet a

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Western Standard - August 18, 2022

The Pipeline： TD bank says, don't vote Conservative. It's racist!

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