Western Standard - The Pipeline： Trudeau government encourages mandatory vaccination.

00:00:00.000 Hello, today is January 12, 2022, and you're watching The Pipeline on the Western Standard.

00:00:27.500 Thank you very much for joining us this evening.

00:00:29.980 I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:32.720 Today I'm joined, as always, by Western Standard news editor Dave Naylor.

00:00:36.700 How are you doing, Dave?

00:00:37.540 I was doing okay until I came into the studio and you were singing Sound of Music.

00:00:41.960 I've never done that.

00:00:44.200 You know, I visited...

00:00:45.600 Yes, you're stirring the scales.

00:00:48.060 I actually visited Salzburg in Austria in 2012, and I didn't know what the Sound of Music was.

00:00:53.900 i was walking around the city like why the hell is there sound of music tours everywhere and

00:00:58.100 mementos everywhere i had no idea and then i watched the movie on the plane coming back i was

00:01:02.600 like oh that makes sense uh also joined by western standard assistant opinion and broadcast editor

00:01:09.320 and host of triggered with cory morgan cory morgan good day well uh we've got a good show

00:01:16.580 as always for you today but i think today is really gonna get you triggered uh we're gonna

00:01:21.460 be talking about uh federal health minister uh duclos is uh putting mandatory vaccination on

00:01:29.260 the canadian agenda uh duclos says it's happening elsewhere austria speaking of austria and bad men

00:01:35.340 coming to your houses for papers um see that was a segue a great segue uh i like to pat myself on

00:01:42.860 the back when i get a good one like that yeah um uh mandatory vaccination and uh following closely

00:01:50.260 after that is Quebec Premier Francois Legault bringing in the vax tax. If you're not vaccinated

00:01:57.700 in Quebec, well, banning you from living your life as a normal human being is no longer good

00:02:03.360 enough. The vaccine passport, well, those of you who fear that that's just where it starts,

00:02:09.480 well, you were right. Quebec will be bringing in a vaccination tax. If you are an undesirable in

00:02:15.120 Quebec, you're going to have to pay for the

00:02:17.440 privilege of being there.

00:02:20.880 What else was it?

00:02:22.140 Oh, yes. Speaking of

00:02:23.580 insane people from Quebec. 1.00

00:02:29.660 Hey-o. 1.00

00:02:30.580 You're two for two. 0.95

00:02:32.220 Speaking of insane people 1.00

00:02:34.040 from Quebec. Insane liberals, 1.00

00:02:35.800 insane Quebecers. 1.00

00:02:37.940 Mr. Stephen Gilbo. 0.97

00:02:40.320 Is that how you say his name?

00:02:41.580 Gilbo. Gilbo. I don't know.

00:02:44.080 What did you say? Nothing.

00:02:45.120 uh james make a note uh we're putting that in the starfish nominations for the year

00:02:51.720 uh mr uh jill bow that's i think how you say it that's what i'm going with uh said uh well

00:02:58.440 audible is going to phase out fossil fuels within two years also uh i'm traveling to uranus

00:03:05.660 and uh dave is uh now uh publisher of the calgary sun there you go there you go

00:03:14.340 We're just, we've declared it.

00:03:15.800 Yeah, two years from now.

00:03:17.640 Two years.

00:03:18.360 Actually, the taking of the sun is not actually entirely possible.

00:03:21.540 No.

00:03:22.400 Not in the state it is today.

00:03:24.280 Okay.

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00:05:32.980 to go. So check it out. Well, let's get started. Mandatory vaccination. Surely things will never

00:05:39.880 go there, Defenders of Vaccine Passports said. Vaccine passports are necessary because

00:05:47.300 if you're unvaccinated, you're going to spread COVID to other people more than if you're

00:05:52.640 vaccinated. They never said that, right? Corey, they never actually said that?

00:05:57.540 a few folks actually said that it was going to stop the spread i believe i played a video clip

00:06:03.460 of that yeah so as we know the the science uh the data is looking pretty clear at this point

00:06:07.800 uh if you're vaccinated uh it is less likely that you'll be hospitalized but vaccinated and

00:06:13.840 unvaccinated alike there is no difference whatsoever in transmission you are just as

00:06:19.700 likely to contract or transmit covid vaccinated and unvaccinated uh youtube i am not giving a

00:06:25.900 health advice, and I would never contradict the advice of the World Health Organization or Alberta

00:06:29.700 Health Services, our local health authorities. I apologize, repent for anything. Anything I say

00:06:34.720 involving COVID and vaccinations is a joke and should not be taken seriously. 0.99

00:06:39.760 So with that out of the way, yeah, it's bullshit. It's clearly not doing anything for transmission. 0.98

00:06:44.900 The whole vaccine passport was brought in to keep us safe. The idea is to keep us safe so that

00:06:50.640 the unvaccinated masses don't infect us. Turns out that's not it. Not good enough. Now it's 1.00

00:06:57.520 about ICU capacity, as if the government monopoly over healthcare is the fact of individuals making

00:07:02.280 personal healthcare choices. So now Ottawa, so we're not going to get into Quebec yet. We're

00:07:08.080 going to start with Ottawa. Health Minister, was it Jean-Yves Duclos, says it's a conversation we

00:07:17.160 need to have uh dave why don't you tell us exactly what the federal minister of health said

00:07:20.940 sounds like inspector clouseau in a way doesn't it i thought it sounded familiar 0.92

00:07:25.420 all of these imbecilic clouseau-esque politicians are all from quebec yes we've got a problem here 0.98

00:07:33.520 but there's a pattern uh derek canadians have been watching what's happening around the world 0.99

00:07:37.560 uh places like austria that are making the vaccine mandatory places like germany that are heavily

00:07:43.180 considering making it mandatory. Italy, where anybody who wants to work, have a job over the

00:07:49.100 age of 50, has to be vaccinated. And our health minister, federal health minister Duclos,

00:07:55.820 set heads exploding across the country on Monday when he sent up an obvious trial balloon.

00:08:02.220 There was sort of floating policy, and he said that the provinces should consider bringing in

00:08:07.500 laws to make it mandatory. Because of course, healthcare is a provincial jurisdiction. So of

00:08:16.900 course, that caused heads to explode, as I said, and to me, it's just a matter of time

00:08:24.300 before it comes in. It was obviously, you know, the provincial government used to do this all the

00:08:30.500 time. They would send out a trial balloon with one of their favorite columnists, they would

00:08:35.260 breathlessly report it and you know two weeks later they would bring it in if they got a good

00:08:40.080 response from the uh from the public but uh uh yeah it's uh we we never thought we'd you know

00:08:48.200 two years two years ago we never thought we'd get into this situation but we are here now no doubt

00:08:53.300 about it this is as i said in my column the other day this is the point of no return like there's

00:08:58.640 not much further you can go beyond here i suppose there's degrees of mandatory because it is already

00:09:03.380 mandatory let's be clear we already have mandatory vaccination if you want to go to a restaurant

00:09:09.140 like a normal free human being would do you must be vaccinated you want to go buy a coffee you

00:09:15.380 want to go to the theater you want to do any of these things you must be vaccinated even though

00:09:19.220 the data is now amply clear that you're just as likely to transmit uh covid or or contract

00:09:24.900 covid if you're vaccinated or not there is no difference there so the protecting other people

00:09:28.820 argument clearly doesn't wash anymore. They're now down solely to the ICU capacity argument.

00:09:34.580 And that's the fault of governments, not of individuals. It's not the fault of individuals

00:09:38.740 that Canada has a status monopoly healthcare system that is unable to adapt to anything,

00:09:43.940 even after two years of this. I mean, we've been operating on, you know, Canada's healthcare

00:09:48.980 system has been operating right on the edge of capacity long before COVID. This is a new thing.

00:09:55.060 is typical. That's pre-COVID. Yeah. Yeah. And even with two years, two years of it,

00:10:01.340 they still can't get ICUs under control. You know, why didn't they do an ICU surge at the start

00:10:06.900 and just keep it there? Corey, I mean, this was kind of a fever dream. This was,

00:10:15.660 there's no way, I mean, even I didn't think they'd go this far a month ago. But the thing is to keep

00:10:21.200 on moving the goalposts further and further.

00:10:23.580 And I mean, I think we might

00:10:25.400 be, though, I'm trying to hold a kind of weird

00:10:27.200 optimism out of this, hitting a critical

00:10:29.320 mass tipping point, and the real

00:10:31.280 authoritarian, almost cultists

00:10:33.300 on this control and getting people

00:10:35.080 vaccinated are getting desperate because we're starting

00:10:37.280 to see some new numbers, and we're starting to see some changes

00:10:39.240 out of authorities.

00:10:41.580 You know, we're not talking about weird

00:10:43.220 blog sites and YouTube University.

00:10:45.880 The European Union,

00:10:47.400 as recently, that just broke this morning,

00:10:49.440 said, oh, hold on. We got some studies showing that actually, if we keep doing these boosters,

00:10:54.100 there could be some adverse effects to people's immune systems. I mean, they're not saying stop

00:10:58.260 yet. We are not giving medical advice. We are not contradicting the medical advice of the World

00:11:02.480 Health Organization or Alberta Health Services or any other local health authorities. This is

00:11:06.740 Corey telling a joke, we assure you. But I mean, that's what they released from the European Union.

00:11:11.420 And then the Center for Disease Control out of Atlanta put out striking numbers just a few hours

00:11:16.480 ago because they've gotten the studies in on the Omicron variant. And it's as we've been seeing

00:11:21.600 pretty much all over, a greatly reduced chance of actually harming somebody, 94% less chance of

00:11:28.560 killing somebody than Delta, which was already an infinitely tiny number. And these numbers are

00:11:35.000 getting public and they're coming from strong authorities, you know, the Centers for Disease

00:11:38.180 Control, the European Union Health Authority, not fringe things. So this really undercuts a lot of

00:11:43.520 that case because, for example, we have not like tweeting today saying we need to start vaccinating

00:11:47.240 kids right in the class because we're not doing it fast enough. Well, when we're looking at those

00:11:50.760 numbers, the chances of a child being harmed by the Omicron variant, they've got a better chance

00:11:55.700 of being hit by a meteor. And I think people are paying attention and they're saying, well, hang on

00:11:59.780 here. I mean, let's, and that's why the pro, like I said, the almost obsessive vaxxed ones, like

00:12:05.800 our health minister federally, it's rather than reasoning, they're doubling down. They're saying

00:12:11.360 We've got to get those needles in the arms before people change their minds.

00:12:14.040 That's not a good way to go.

00:12:15.920 And coming back to this, earlier, there was an argument, even though it wasn't supported by the data,

00:12:21.860 but I was hopeful, at least, that having a large percentage of the population vaccinated would stop transmission.

00:12:31.040 That was the hope.

00:12:31.820 That was my hope.

00:12:32.580 That was really one of the main intentions of it.

00:12:36.440 It turns out the vaccine is really just good for mitigating how likely, how sick you're going to get if you get COVID.

00:12:44.660 It's still good.

00:12:45.740 It's a good thing.

00:12:47.320 I think it's still a positive.

00:12:49.560 But it's certainly not killing COVID.

00:12:51.940 I mean, so the COVID zero cultists, they're left spinning their wheels here.

00:12:57.540 It's now, it's no longer actually vaccination as a prudent public health measure.

00:13:03.020 It is now vaccination as virtue signaling.

00:13:05.980 It is just showing that you're a part of it.

00:13:08.140 It's like wearing a mask.

00:13:09.260 We know that not that I'm giving health advice, Mr. YouTube, but the mask doesn't do anything.

00:13:14.660 It's there for show.

00:13:15.660 It's there to show that you're taking this seriously and that we're all in this together.

00:13:20.520 It's a badge of support for the cause.

00:13:22.360 It's like wearing a ribbon on Seinfeld.

00:13:24.600 You know, why aren't you wearing the ribbon?

00:13:26.580 So the vaccines almost started to become that, which is unfortunate because I think it still does have important benefits.

00:13:33.380 But it's now just a signal, a sign of compliance with the zero COVID zero cultists who will never win because there's going to be no such thing as COVID zero probably for a very long time.

00:13:44.600 All right. Well, then we'll transition from maniacs in Quebec maniacs in Ottawa to just Quebec maniacs in Quebec.

00:13:56.540 Quebec Premier Francois Legault, I guess, took his cues from Ottawa and said, OK, this is a conversation you want to have.

00:14:04.380 Well, Quebec is going to be the first to take you up on this.

00:14:07.440 He's announced the vax tax. Tell us about the vax tax, Dave.

00:14:10.500 Well, he's saying, Derek, that 90 percent of the hospital cases in Quebec are the unvaccinated.

00:14:15.560 And the 10 percent that are vaccinated should not have to pay the cost of the unvaccinated.

00:14:21.260 So he's bringing in a health tax.

00:14:23.680 Hasn't said what it is yet, but anybody who's unvaccinated is going to have to pay a significant tax.

00:14:30.900 A couple hundred bucks, a couple thousand bucks, I don't know.

00:14:34.500 Again, people's heads blew up all across the country because if Quebec can do it, why not all the other provinces?

00:14:42.520 So we quickly had Jason Kenney, his office issue a statement saying he would never, ever do it here.

00:14:48.780 he said something about vaccine passports

00:14:51.660 along the same lines

00:14:53.400 that was never going to happen

00:14:54.860 he's never flip-flopped on any of these things

00:14:56.620 no not that

00:14:57.800 so yeah

00:15:00.080 and lawyers

00:15:01.480 John Carpe from the Justice Center

00:15:03.980 Justice

00:15:05.100 Constitutional

00:15:06.500 he's vowed to file a lawsuit

00:15:11.680 the day that

00:15:12.560 the law is enacted

00:15:14.840 or becomes law

00:15:17.180 in Quebec. And there's all sorts of, Corey hit it up on his show today, this would defeat the

00:15:23.600 Canada Health Act. This would make the Health Act meaningless. So this is certainly a historical

00:15:32.200 thing that they're trying to do in Quebec. You know, there's a part of me that is happy

00:15:38.100 to see the Canada Health Act blown up. It's a terrible piece of legislation. The Canadians

00:15:42.600 have this cult-like

00:15:45.220 respect for. They revere this

00:15:47.080 thing even though, you know, we

00:15:48.900 have a very expensive healthcare system

00:15:50.880 with very, very

00:15:52.760 mediocre outcomes. We don't have a

00:15:54.940 terrible system on a global scale.

00:15:57.320 Compared to other developed countries, though, we

00:15:59.000 are nowhere near

00:16:00.980 the top of the pack. And dropping.

00:16:02.540 And dropping. And we have amongst

00:16:04.900 the most expensive systems.

00:16:08.560 But 0.99

00:16:09.080 McKinians are kind of cultishly 0.91

00:16:10.780 devoted to this it's just a sign of national identity because the americans don't have it

00:16:15.100 there's really only two health care systems in the world you know people canada and america there is

00:16:18.940 no other other countries don't have health care at all there's only two models um part of me wants

00:16:24.460 to see the canada health act blown up but this seems to be almost the opposite way of doing it

00:16:28.460 destroying the canada health act should be done by allowing freedom of choice instead is actually

00:16:34.220 quite the opposite uh it's getting rid of universal health care in form of still a government like a

00:16:40.620 a status monopoly of health care, but introducing direct discrimination in health care. I mean,

00:16:47.600 any country worth its, any Supreme Court worth its salt would clearly strike this down as

00:16:51.900 unconstitutional and discriminatory beyond just the Canada Health Act, because that's not part

00:16:56.240 of the Constitution. Corey, this is obviously going to face quick and swift court challenges.

00:17:03.700 Do you think there's, what do you think the chances are that the Supreme Court actually

00:17:07.160 lands on the right side here? Do you think they're just going to back the government?

00:17:10.620 I don't know anymore.

00:17:12.300 You know, I mean, two years ago, I would have said this wouldn't even be considered.

00:17:14.680 It's like we're talking about with other things.

00:17:15.820 But now with the courts, they just seem to be willing to follow the panic and say it's for the public good.

00:17:20.320 And we're going to set aside rule of law and allow these things to happen to people.

00:17:24.860 I don't feel as confident that a justice would strike this down as they should or that Quebec would even care.

00:17:32.460 They've never exactly been known for paying attention to what federal court judges tell them.

00:17:36.200 They can introduce the notwithstanding clause.

00:17:38.240 Yeah, but Quebec is the other cases, but this would be a charter case.

00:17:42.960 Yeah, I guess this would be a charter case.

00:17:44.340 So they could that would apply.

00:17:46.080 But Quebec is the only provinces ever invoked the notwithstanding clause.

00:17:49.240 Other provinces seem to not be allowed to use it.

00:17:53.240 Well, let me ask you guys, if you were the 10 percent of unvaccinated people in Quebec, does the threat of a thousand dollar tax make you rush to the jab station?

00:18:03.600 Or is it hard in your position? 0.86

00:18:05.660 Does it say, all right, screw you, government. 0.98

00:18:07.960 If you're coming after my money now, I'm going to hunker down even more. 0.92

00:18:11.360 Yeah, I mean, we're at the point where pretty much everybody who is no longer vaccinated,

00:18:15.240 people have very strong feelings against it.

00:18:17.400 They have personal feelings.

00:18:18.860 They believe it may harm them, or they just, another point of principle.

00:18:23.220 But if they've gone this far, they've been chased out of restaurants,

00:18:25.560 they've been chased off their jobs, they've been chased away from sports,

00:18:27.560 they can't travel.

00:18:29.160 Can't walk their dog.

00:18:30.020 Yeah, can't walk your dog after 10. 1.00

00:18:32.140 By the way, send that poop to the legislature.

00:18:35.340 they're not going to bend now so this is just punishing them further it's just beating them

00:18:40.240 down it's not going to do anything fixing anything it's clear politics the only as i said there's

00:18:45.320 different levels of mandatory here it is already mandatory because you're now completely shut out

00:18:49.320 of society unless you've managed to get your hands on a less than authentic version of a

00:18:56.780 vaccine passport speaking with the the canadian taxpayers federation representative in in quebec

00:19:01.220 but he was talking about that

00:19:05.920 there is a black market of

00:19:07.200 counterfeit vaccination papers

00:19:09.460 I've never seen anyone with any

00:19:11.720 I've never seen any of these

00:19:13.160 I'm not aware of anyone in my life

00:19:14.700 this is just a rumor I've heard about

00:19:16.500 I've heard humans are pretty good

00:19:18.880 and show some pretty good ingenuity

00:19:20.500 when it comes to things like that

00:19:22.360 but I guess

00:19:25.780 clearly a tax is not going to work

00:19:28.460 the only level after that

00:19:30.440 And the only way actually for the federal government to directly impose a vaccine passport, sorry, not a vaccine passport, a mandatory vaccination to the next level would actually be to declare it a crime, to put it into the criminal code of Canada.

00:19:44.700 I don't know what they call it, medical noncompliance, probably come up with some silly bureaucratic term like that.

00:19:50.960 They would have to put it into the criminal code of Canada.

00:19:54.280 So, which is implausible, although we always think these things are implausible.

00:19:58.880 And then, like, a couple of months later, their policy.

00:20:01.460 What happens if they bring in the War Measures Act?

00:20:03.700 Can they do it under that?

00:20:05.260 Yeah, but you would have to arrest 10% plus of Canada.

00:20:11.580 That would be more than the rest of the prison population of the planet combined, I'm pretty sure.

00:20:16.860 I'm pretty sure it'd be pretty difficult to imprison a tenth of the country.

00:20:21.100 And I have a suspicion that that tenth of the country disproportionately owns more than a tenth of the guns.

00:20:28.740 I have a difficult time seeing how this is going to be executed very, very peacefully.

00:20:33.840 Well, as you said, the lawyers are chomping at the bit.

00:20:36.280 I'm sure they've got their challenges all lined up.

00:20:37.920 It's just a matter of setting the date for the second they try to impose that legislation.

00:20:41.760 It's going to be in there.

00:20:43.640 As we say, it could take up to 18 months or something to get through the courts.

00:20:46.720 But the first thing they're going to seek is an injunction.

00:20:48.460 They're going to say, hold on, stop this right now.

00:20:50.760 yeah until we hear it and i again i would think a judge would have an injection all the all the

00:20:55.880 injunction seekers have so far failed they've they might get 24 hours here and there but that's it

00:21:01.960 they've always failed and they've always said you know the government can basically do what they

00:21:05.160 want for their well the courts have been insane like so you know canada's constitution really is

00:21:10.280 hardly written the paper worth the paper it's written on there's all these great rights and

00:21:14.520 freedoms that are listed in the charter here then it's got this wiggle stuff these are all subject

00:21:19.560 to things that are reasonable in a free and democratic society. Reasonable limitations.

00:21:26.760 Well, the government has a very broad definition of what are reasonable limitations. And when

00:21:33.320 these things have come to court and constitutional lawyers, guys like the GCCF and others who have

00:21:38.260 been out there, the government lawyers say that, oh, we're justified. And the courts have very

00:21:45.080 rarely actually required government to produce data, to actually produce testimony, actually

00:21:50.040 prove that these are reasonable limitations on freedoms in a free and democratic society.

00:21:55.540 They're just not held to the same standard as they normally would. The courts seem to be

00:21:59.780 hyper-politicized and fearful of going against the state and limiting any of these powers.

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00:23:55.460 I mean, these guys are nuts. 0.99

00:23:56.560 I'd rather give them tranquilizers. 1.00

00:23:59.380 I'd rather sedate them.

00:24:00.940 Yeah. 0.83

00:24:01.440 I think that'd be fine.

00:24:02.200 I'd rather them do nothing.

00:24:03.860 I like when people say, oh.

00:24:04.720 So you just promote them all to the Senate immediately.

00:24:06.760 Yes, everyone should be a senator.

00:24:08.760 When people say, oh, the government's doing nothing, I'm like, that's great.

00:24:11.900 Remember when Belgium didn't have a government for a few years?

00:24:14.420 Best few years Belgium ever had.

00:24:16.460 It was great. 1.00

00:24:17.540 No one could do anything.

00:24:18.540 Perfect.

00:24:19.300 Gridlock is my goal in politics.

00:24:23.520 I just want gridlock.

00:24:24.220 I want the government to do nothing.

00:24:25.460 They do nothing, I'm pretty happy.

00:24:27.620 Okay. 0.98

00:24:28.720 So back to maniacs in Ottawa. 0.92

00:24:31.240 federal environment 0.85

00:24:33.520 and climate change minister

00:24:35.680 Stephen Gilbo

00:24:37.700 says that he

00:24:39.680 is, Ottawa, the federal liberals

00:24:41.420 are going to phase out fossil fuels in two years

00:24:43.720 Dave, what else

00:24:45.500 do you wish for in two years?

00:24:46.880 Do I only get

00:24:49.500 one wish?

00:24:51.700 No, no, no, you're Ottawa

00:24:53.380 you get whatever you want, just grant it and make it

00:24:55.400 legislation in itself. Alright, well to go along

00:24:57.500 with Gilbo getting

00:24:59.340 rid of fossil fuels in two years i'll get rid of winter so well that seems to be kind of uh actually

00:25:06.540 in opposition because it's going to take some global warming to get rid of winter well let's

00:25:10.540 give it to somebody else so gilbo makes this announcement he's going to get rid of fossil

00:25:14.540 fuels in two years uh of course he doesn't provide any specifics but he does admit hey

00:25:20.060 it may cost more it cost you some more uh so erin o'toole the leader of the opposition

00:25:25.740 saw this clip and immediately ran outside with his film crew

00:25:30.140 and did a video on a chilly, chilly Ottawa day

00:25:34.200 and standing in front of the Eternal Flame,

00:25:36.860 the House of Commons in the background.

00:25:38.660 And he's got his big winter parker on.

00:25:40.340 And he just rightly mocks Stephen Gilboa left, right and center, 0.98

00:25:45.740 saying it's ridiculous.

00:25:47.120 You know, how can you get rid of fossil fuels in a winter country

00:25:50.620 in less than two years when actually all we've really taken is baby steps

00:25:55.240 You know, we put in a few electrical power stations, sold a few electric cars, but what we've done so far is minuscule.

00:26:04.140 And he's talking about getting rid of it in two years.

00:26:06.400 Well, I was really impressed with O'Toole on the steps of Parliament there.

00:26:10.280 He said he's going to get rid of the carbon tax.

00:26:12.080 Oh, yes.

00:26:13.560 No, no.

00:26:14.420 No, he didn't say that.

00:26:15.200 I didn't say that.

00:26:15.960 No, that was during the conservative leadership.

00:26:17.940 Yes.

00:26:18.460 Yes.

00:26:18.780 And then he flip-flopped in the campaign. 1.00

00:26:20.660 Ah, shit. 0.99

00:26:22.160 Well, he has said he's not going to phase out fossil fuels. 1.00

00:26:27.320 Or at least he'll take four years to do it, perhaps.

00:26:29.200 Yeah, he'll do a more moderate version, I'm sure.

00:26:33.980 Corey, we don't even need to talk about how insane this is.

00:26:36.080 We know it's insane.

00:26:38.100 It obviously isn't going to be done.

00:26:40.480 I mean, so that's kind of the silver lining here is, well, it's impossible.

00:26:44.560 Short of like a Pol Pot march everyone into the forest, it's impossible.

00:26:49.100 It's as ridiculous as unfortunately getting rid of winter would be. It's just not going to happen. Getting rid of fossil fuel use in two decades is probably impossible right now. But the chilling part is this isn't just your run of the mill nutcase running around. This nutcase is our environment minister. He has some degree of authority to actually try to accomplish this. I mean, he won't accomplish it, but he sure can beat the hell out of us trying. And we should be very concerned.

00:27:15.600 we should considering how unrealistic ideal ideological and clearly just deranged this guy

00:27:23.760 is how could you even say we could get rid of this in two years this is how many albertans would that

00:27:28.880 make unemployed in two years two years from now how many oil patch workers become unemployed

00:27:33.920 well then indirectly i'd say a majority of albertans would be unemployed exactly and our

00:27:37.600 houses we'd actually have to leave alberta because it would be uninhabitable we'd be employed building

00:27:43.360 the wall on the east boundary because i got a feeling that would finally be enough to say you 0.76

00:27:48.720 know what quebec and the rest of your associates in ottawa go to hell you know what i'm all of a

00:27:54.560 sudden in favor of ottawa trying to phase out walls if this is what it finally takes us to 0.66

00:28:00.000 finally pick up some pitchforks and maybe some shovels and trowels and build a wall

00:28:06.080 you know what it actually could like if ottawa tried to do it like it would knock out tens of

00:28:12.000 thousands of people in direct unemployment hundreds and hundreds of thousands indirectly

00:28:18.320 it would be beyond the great depression would look like nothing it would it would be apocalypse

00:28:24.960 let's play to enbridge you know what shut down line five for service for two weeks that's all

00:28:29.680 yeah just shut it down for a couple weeks clean it out you know put some pipe cleaners in there

00:28:34.640 run a pig or two up and down it that's all and just just do that and give them a taste just

00:28:39.280 I propose we end fossil fuels in eastern Canada now, like right now.

00:28:46.020 Let's just stop it right now.

00:28:47.700 Let them know what they're in for.

00:28:49.240 As Corey says, this guy's not a wingnut.

00:28:52.140 Well, he is a wingnut, but he's not one of the normal wingnut.

00:28:55.440 He's got power.

00:28:56.400 He's one of the most powerful politicians in Canada.

00:28:59.120 He's a senior member.

00:29:00.300 He's a senior member of Trudeau's government.

00:29:02.100 So he can sit in his office all day thinking whack-a-doodle ideas to kill the fossil fuel industry and do them and put them into process, put them into action.

00:29:15.440 It's frightening.

00:29:17.180 Rational.

00:29:17.880 It's frightening.

00:29:18.380 Well, remember, and this is the same guy who, before he was an environment minister, was the heritage minister.

00:29:24.160 And what was his main accomplishment?

00:29:26.440 Censorship bills of the internet.

00:29:27.760 This is the minister who has been driving the agenda on censoring the internet, particularly trying to take down people who just disagree with liberals, disagree with the government. 0.96

00:29:40.020 This guy is mad. 1.00

00:29:41.960 He is insane and he is dangerous. 1.00

00:29:44.040 And Prime Minister Hammerhead keeps him in a senior position in Ottawa, along with a health minister who wants mandatory vaccination. 0.86

00:29:49.460 I'm getting very concerned about this government.

00:29:52.200 It is a minority government.

00:29:53.600 I mean, he doesn't have a majority to push this. 0.99

00:29:55.400 And he's that arrogant. 0.80

00:29:56.080 And the opinion polls still have him leading. Trudeau is not plunging at all. I don't understand why the rest of the country is not waking up, why Eastern Canada is not waking up and saying, hey, you know what? We're already paying, Vancouver is paying close to $1.70 a litre in gas. With the carbon tax upcoming, you're still going to be paying $2 a litre for gasoline. 0.55

00:30:22.760 They're not going to wake up.

00:30:24.420 I mean, I was talking to Wagner the other day about when I was 29 and leading the upper

00:30:28.940 Independence Party because Ottawa wasn't waking up.

00:30:30.480 I had no gray hair in those pictures from back there.

00:30:32.500 Look at it now.

00:30:33.260 And it's gotten no better.

00:30:34.620 If not, it's gotten worse.

00:30:36.760 It's not Ottawa that's going to wake up.

00:30:37.820 They won't.

00:30:38.540 It's us.

00:30:38.880 Back then, we at least had the Reform Party and the Canadian Alliance.

00:30:41.400 We at least had a party that represented the West and at least from time to time put the

00:30:45.800 fear of God in the East.

00:30:47.660 Today, we've got...

00:30:48.880 Anybody heard of the Maverick Party lately?

00:30:51.120 Well, we've got Aaron O'Toole.

00:30:52.000 leadership about air no tool to scare uh that'll do it well looks like you're stuck with us then

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00:31:30.260 Well, I had fun.

00:31:32.180 It's getting light.

00:31:33.540 I'm hungry.

00:31:34.500 Probably need a beer.

00:31:36.140 I'm sure you guys do.

00:31:37.600 Dave?

00:31:38.280 No drinking in the office, though.

00:31:39.860 I never allow that.

00:31:42.120 You know, we're like Tabor around here.

00:31:45.580 They don't drink at Tabor, right?

00:31:47.320 We're not.

00:31:49.240 Depends.

00:31:49.680 not legally. We're a dry office. Absolutely. Well, thank you very much, guys. Thank you all 0.64

00:31:56.280 of you for joining us today, and God bless.

00:32:19.680 Thank you.

Western Standard - January 13, 2022

The Pipeline： Trudeau government encourages mandatory vaccination.

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