Western Standard - Triggered： AHS mismanagement of emergency services led to the death of a senior

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's June 7th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. This is the

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00:02:52.880 to talk to Western Standard reporter and columnist, Chris Oldcorn, and we'll just get up to date from

00:02:57.680 what's going on out in Saskatchewan. He's been out there writing prolifically covering the

00:03:01.220 Saskatchewan issues and items. As I said, we're not just all Alberta. And of course, a lot of

00:03:05.220 Saskatchewan items, news items are common to every province. So, you know, we don't want to be

00:03:09.000 too focused on that as well. UCP leadership candidate Bill Rock is going to be on. He

00:03:14.500 announced. The thing that's kind of striking with him is he's at least not one of the UCP MLAs or

00:03:19.860 former MLAs, which pretty much the bulk of those announcing their intention to lead that party

00:03:24.620 have been so far. So maybe he'll have a fresh outlook. We'll have a conversation with him.

00:03:30.880 First, of course, we got to get on what's got me going today. And this, I really am. I worked up

00:03:36.480 and pissed off about this. And this is something that's happening across the country, but it's

00:03:40.180 particularly happening in Alberta.

00:03:43.280 So it was only a matter of time.

00:03:44.960 EMS personnel have been raising the alarm bells for years

00:03:48.620 on the crisis within emergency medical services.

00:03:51.260 Here at The Standard,

00:03:52.100 we've written a number of stories in columns

00:03:54.060 exposing the extended and growing wait times

00:03:56.800 for ambulance services across this province.

00:03:59.560 The Health Sciences Association of Alberta

00:04:01.400 has been posting daily red alerts in Alberta cities

00:04:05.240 as areas find themselves with no ambulance services available.

00:04:08.740 So, of course, what's finally happened, a woman in her 80s has bled to death while waiting over half an hour for ambulance services in Calgary.

00:04:16.220 She was a mere four kilometers from the largest hospital in Alberta.

00:04:21.400 According to Google Maps, it would have taken less than 10 minutes to drive her to that hospital in a car.

00:04:26.120 An ambulance, presumably, would be faster.

00:04:29.200 And speaking to a paramedic in Calgary familiar with the incident, he's heard that this death would almost certainly have been prevented had there been timely trained medical intervention.

00:04:38.540 Bystanders waited helplessly as a woman slowly faded away in front of them and the minutes ticked away since calling 911.

00:04:45.900 The problems plaguing Alberta's emergency medical services under AHS management are many.

00:04:50.580 There's a lot of factors.

00:04:51.980 The big one yesterday, though, the largest contributing factor to the death of that woman in Capitol Hill, Calgary, was the usage of paramedics for hallway care in hospitals.

00:05:00.160 At any given time in a large Alberta hospital, you'll see half a dozen or more ambulances parked in and around the emergency area.

00:05:07.480 If you go into the hospital, you'll see upwards of a dozen or more paramedics hanging around caring for non-critical patients in the hallways and waiting rooms of the facility.

00:05:15.740 They're not allowed to leave until hospital staff sign off on a patient.

00:05:19.500 So they're trapped there.

00:05:20.760 And hospital staff find it easier upon themselves, of course, not to sign off quickly so they can dump the care upon the paramedics.

00:05:27.220 This leaves paramedics stranded while cities run out of available ambulances.

00:05:31.440 With AHS now running the entire show, it's centralized.

00:05:35.700 It wasn't that way in the past.

00:05:37.480 They cower in terror, of course, of public service unions. 0.86

00:05:40.160 They don't want to raise the ire of the nurses' union by taking away the hallway care given by paramedics.

00:05:45.240 So they look the other way, despite the paramedics' union calling foul for years.

00:05:48.640 The bigger union wins in the end, and citizens are the ones paying the ultimate price.

00:05:53.280 Had paramedics been allowed to leave Foothills Hospital last Sunday,

00:05:55.920 they likely would have arrived to the scene where that senior was dying

00:05:59.240 and gotten her back to advanced care in time to save her life.

00:06:02.600 Instead, I imagine they were sitting helplessly in a hospital,

00:06:05.160 watching patients with non-life-threatening conditions.

00:06:08.520 The dispatch service can carry some of the blame here as well.

00:06:11.960 In case you were wondering if you didn't know,

00:06:14.160 if you call 911, the operator is not allowed to tell you

00:06:18.020 how long it's going to be until emergency services arrive.

00:06:20.900 You can ask and ask, they won't tell you.

00:06:23.100 This has been a problem all over the system.

00:06:25.140 A case in Okotoks led to firefighters staying on the scene of a serious injury,

00:06:28.480 waiting for nearly an hour for an ambulance.

00:06:30.860 And emergency services simply told the firefighters how long it would be

00:06:33.920 they could have transferred the patients themselves. Instead, the person's life was

00:06:37.720 put at risk and trained firefighters were unavailable to respond to any fires that might

00:06:41.760 break out. All they needed was to be told. Time is everything in emergencies, whether

00:06:46.280 medical or with fires. The longer one waits for trained responders, the higher the chance

00:06:50.520 of a negative outcome. This is common sense, but that's always lacking when it comes to

00:06:54.100 big bureaucracies. Had bystanders attending to the dying senior known it would take over

00:06:58.900 for half an hour to get an ambulance,

00:07:00.540 they may have chosen to drive the woman themselves. 1.00

00:07:03.560 Or, with enough fit people, 0.99

00:07:05.180 they could have carried her to the emergency room

00:07:07.520 in less than half an hour from that location.

00:07:10.320 Hell, they would have been better off calling an Uber.

00:07:12.540 At least ride-sharing apps will let you know

00:07:14.280 how far the car is away from you.

00:07:16.140 Uber does a better job than our bloody ambulance system.

00:07:19.620 All we can do now is hope

00:07:21.440 that this tragedy acts as a wake-up call.

00:07:23.480 AHS has ignored every other alarm to date.

00:07:26.620 so it's hard to tell if the needless death of a local senior will be enough to make them take

00:07:33.180 action unless things take change dramatically though and soon it won't be a matter of if

00:07:38.540 another person dies waiting for an ambulance it's going to be a matter of when and there's just no

00:07:43.120 excuse for it all right well that really has got me pissed off today let's let's get on to uh the

00:07:49.660 newsroom and dave naylor i'm sure there'll be some other stories to distract me from that

00:07:52.980 annoying one. Hey, Dave, how's it going? You know what, Corey? I'm as infuriated as you are. There

00:07:57.900 seems to be no reason that this poor woman had to die. AHS knew this has been coming. Everybody's

00:08:04.780 been warning about it for months and months, and it's finally happened. Absolutely disgraceful.

00:08:11.680 We've got an early story up there now as our Mel Risden is trying to find out what the hell

00:08:18.360 happened. She's talking to Alberta, trying to talk to Alberta Health Services, trying to talk

00:08:23.200 to Alberta Health, trying to talk to the paramedics union. Everybody so far, especially Alberta Health

00:08:29.320 and Alberta Health Services, head in the sands, Corey. They know this is a big blunder and they're

00:08:36.360 trying to get their story straight or they're just not going to say anything at all. But

00:08:40.140 absolutely, absolutely unforgivable that this woman had to die. And I was pissed off about it

00:08:47.120 as you are. Of course, this will now spark the old debate about whether pit bulls should be allowed

00:08:54.960 in cities. They're currently banned in Ontario cities, and no doubt this tragedy will spark

00:09:02.400 that conversation to be held once again, and Armel will be on top of that too, trying to get

00:09:08.480 both sides of the story there. Other stuff we've got on the go right now, Lila Ahir has joined the

00:09:15.400 UCP leadership race, another former Jason Kenney cabinet minister basically coming out and saying

00:09:25.200 we need to admit to our mistakes and try and move on. The boss, Derek, has got a good column about

00:09:31.980 Justin Trudeau. He's taking everybody's guns away from them across the country. Perhaps he should

00:09:37.680 take his bodyguard's guns away and have them just rely on karate if the prime minister is ever

00:09:44.180 attacked uh we've got a story from our arthur green on the conservatives saying uh many canadians

00:09:50.100 aren't getting enough to eat because they can't afford it and i certainly went grocery shopping

00:09:55.380 on the weekend corey and i was a bit shocked at the bill and uh we've got a story out of ottawa

00:10:01.380 all these airport delays you want to fly anywhere you got to get there three hours in advance and

00:10:06.340 you know the feds knew this was coming all the the traveler data shows that this was going to be

00:10:12.340 booming and they seem to have taken no steps to try and get ahead of the game and address it

00:10:19.460 and we've got a what looks to be a toronto area boy charged with uh threatening to shoot up a

00:10:25.780 florida gay pride week event uh down there so uh cross-border police cooperation led to

00:10:32.420 his arrest in ontario yesterday and uh he's being charged with uh with all that sort of stuff in

00:10:38.820 florida uh so that's what we've got at the moment as mentioned mel will be digging uh hard on the

00:10:45.060 the pit bull tragedy and our amanda brown's got an interesting story on uh what's being served

00:10:51.540 for children at uh some british schools and uh it'll make your skin crawl uh uh corian it may

00:10:58.660 have uh what were those bugs uh that you had on at the start june bugs uh yes sorry sorry i caught

00:11:07.220 you right in the middle of some technical work there. But yes, June bugs could be on the kids

00:11:13.540 menu at some schools in England. So that's what we've got going at the moment, Corey.

00:11:20.740 Great. Well, thank you very much, Dave. Sorry for being distracted for a moment. We had some

00:11:27.700 guest confusion pop up during the conversation. So take advantage of the keyboard while you

00:11:32.340 informed our listeners on what's going on over there at the newsroom.

00:11:34.820 No problem. I'm always here to cover for you, Corey.

00:11:38.620 Yeah, no, it's appreciated. And it's important to know where those bug recipes are coming from.

00:11:43.120 Well, thanks for the check in, Dave. And we'll see you after the show.

00:11:48.240 Thanks, Corey.

00:11:50.520 So yeah, this is the point where I remind all of you, as you heard from Dave, that we've got a lot

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00:12:54.420 appreciated and uh it helps us keep providing this stuff so yeah as dave was pointing out you

00:13:01.780 know this mess with ahs and some people might not know the history of it and and with ambulance

00:13:06.060 service but we've been writing on this for for quite some time i have in particular uh i've

00:13:10.580 spoken with uh some people i know i've gone to kings uh town hall meetings in small towns one

00:13:15.860 of the other issues that's been happening is in rural areas you see the city hospitals

00:13:20.020 They suck in the ambulance service.

00:13:22.840 So it's not even just city ambulances that are all tied up here. 0.97

00:13:25.540 And we've written on it a number of times.

00:13:26.900 And the union is constantly bringing that up.

00:13:33.980 That while they're all sitting in the hallways, doing hallway care, the rural areas lose all their ambulances too.

00:13:41.100 So Airdrie, I mean, that's where you had a paramedic who dropped dead.

00:13:44.320 It sounds like nothing would have saved that poor man.

00:13:46.520 But there was an incident there.

00:13:48.080 He couldn't get an ambulance for nearly an hour in Airdrie, and he was at a health center at the time.

00:13:52.720 This is a huge problem.

00:13:55.120 Yet, as Dave was saying, you know, we've got our reporters.

00:13:58.080 We started that yesterday when we heard this story, calling AHS, calling, you know, the bureaucracies, calling the hospitals, calling the services.

00:14:04.660 These guys won't talk.

00:14:05.860 They got their heads buried in the sand, as Dave put it, and it's not going to be fixed.

00:14:10.060 If they won't address this bloody thing, it's not getting any better.

00:14:14.380 And how long before somebody else dies?

00:14:16.280 Like I'd heard also about a case, apparently in Cochrane, where a person, a young person died of anaphylactic shock from a bee sting.

00:14:30.000 This is one of those incidents too.

00:14:31.400 You know, sometimes it can be questionable, as I said, if a person's in a very serious accident or if they had a heart attack.

00:14:36.180 There's a lot of things that no response time would have helped with.

00:14:39.240 But an epinephrine shot with somebody going in anaphylactic shock will save them pretty much every time.

00:14:45.140 and that shot was never brought. It was never applied and a young girl died. All it would

00:14:49.740 have taken is having, but where was their ambulance? Who knows? It was somewhere else

00:14:52.120 because we're pulling them out of areas like Cochrane, Prittis, where I live, Strathmore.

00:14:56.380 Some of the numbers, again, if you're on Twitter, look at what the union has put out there. They

00:15:02.540 put out maps showing some of the ambulance response times. You get ambulances coming

00:15:05.460 from like Vulcan to Calgary and if people don't know Alberta very well, that's like an hour and

00:15:09.620 some away. And meanwhile, this, it just infuriated me so much. As I said, this was so close to the

00:15:17.160 biggest hospital in all of Alberta, they literally could have carried that poor woman to the hospital

00:15:23.940 faster than the ambulance took to get to her and start treatment on her. I imagine they were

00:15:30.140 probably doing everything they can, putting pressure on, but the wounds were just way too

00:15:33.620 severe for your average public member, especially over the course of half an hour. She bled out.

00:15:39.460 She could have been saved. 0.87

00:15:40.840 She bled out.

00:15:42.560 There's just no excuse.

00:15:44.040 But we've got to keep this alive.

00:15:45.640 Let this serve as a wake-up call.

00:15:47.340 Because if we don't change this, if we don't realize, you know, that this is going to cause more, that we're going to see more of this happening, we're going to see more deaths.

00:15:58.060 It's as simple as that.

00:15:59.140 And the frustration, I mean, these poor EMS workers, I mean, the stress that they're put under, they know.

00:16:05.100 they know while they're sitting there in a hospital nursing somebody with a broken leg

00:16:09.280 that there are serious incidents happening outside in the city that they can't attend to.

00:16:14.600 They can't use their training. I mean, it's a different kind of training. They're not nurses

00:16:18.160 and nurses have specialized training too. You can't stick a nurse running around in the streets 1.00

00:16:21.800 treating people in emergency situations. It's no sense having an EMS worker in the hospital 0.97

00:16:27.880 acting as a nurse and that's what they're doing. And why? Why has it been over, what, 13 years?

00:16:34.920 since Ed Stelmack pulled all that together

00:16:36.720 because we didn't have this problem

00:16:38.060 before they centralized all of the ambulance services.

00:16:41.220 We did not have this problem.

00:16:43.280 And now with 13 years under our belts to realize

00:16:45.640 this has been a catastrophic error,

00:16:47.740 it's been a total failure and people are dying

00:16:50.140 and the government still hasn't done anything about it.

00:16:53.080 So yeah, I lay that blame on a number of governments.

00:16:54.920 So let's go through the premiers we've had since then. 0.98

00:16:57.140 Alison Redford didn't do a bloody thing about it.

00:16:59.480 Jason Kenney hasn't done anything about it.

00:17:01.240 Prentice didn't do anything about it.

00:17:02.900 Notley didn't do anything about it.

00:17:04.300 and maybe the next premier will bloody well do something about it this is a an embarrassment

00:17:10.600 and and more than that it's causing deaths it's causing harm you know anybody who's taken any

00:17:17.720 kind of first aid training should know that that there's that golden you know i think they call it

00:17:22.840 it's not even a golden hour you know it's a golden few minutes the faster you can get to somebody in

00:17:26.700 a trauma and something like that the better the chance that you can avoid a bad outcome

00:17:33.660 As well with somebody else, one of the commenters, I'm sorry, it's already gone up the scroll, but was pointing out, you know, we don't rely on them, we start treating them ourselves.

00:17:43.340 And there's some truth to that.

00:17:44.580 I had an EMS worker from out in Cochran on as a guest, some of the regular viewers might have seen.

00:17:49.400 And he was talking about that, talking about how they've been setting up, putting defibrillators in public areas, training people in emergency management, things like that.

00:17:59.700 I mean, being a bit more independent, absolutely.

00:18:02.820 I mean, it's still good for the public to all be able to do some basic emergency care.

00:18:06.260 I mean, everybody should take a St. John's ambulance course.

00:18:09.660 Just in general, it's good for you.

00:18:10.820 I had to take a lot when I was in the oil field, and it doesn't hurt a bit, and it helps us in general.

00:18:15.460 But still, we shouldn't have, at any given time, dozens and dozens of ambulances around the province

00:18:21.320 sitting around in emergency rooms while people are literally dying out in the streets.

00:18:25.780 Another aspect others have brought on, I mean, it's a big complicated issue with a lot of facets.

00:18:30.440 And when you hear those sirens going off all the time, as I saw one of the commenters pointing out

00:18:34.380 too, quite often, especially for us downtown, it's overdoses. It's chronically overdoses. These guys

00:18:39.480 are constantly responding to overdoses. They're happening all over the place. We have what,

00:18:44.160 four or five people a day dying in Alberta of overdoses now. And a lot of those, whether they're

00:18:48.960 at home or on the streets, they take, of course, emergency response to respond to them. So we've

00:18:53.060 got to work on our addiction crisis as well. In this case, in this case on Sunday, four kilometers

00:19:00.080 away was the biggest hospital in Alberta and a woman died bleeding to death waiting over half an

00:19:06.880 hour for an ambulance. That is unacceptable. That is wrong. It is a waste. What are we as a civilized

00:19:14.320 society? Where is our social safety net? Where are our taxes going? What are we doing for ourselves

00:19:19.760 if we can't even have an emergency response

00:19:22.180 in our own major cities

00:19:23.660 when something like this happens.

00:19:25.700 So no, I'm not going to let this one go.

00:19:27.440 I'm going to be on this.

00:19:30.100 We can't let this situation keep going on.

00:19:33.540 As I said, paramedics, us, other people,

00:19:36.780 the unions have been screaming this

00:19:37.960 from the rooftops for years

00:19:39.140 and the government has ignored it.

00:19:40.560 And now somebody's died.

00:19:41.760 And I'm sure there's been other deaths.

00:19:42.800 You just can't necessarily attribute it

00:19:44.260 directly to the slow response time.

00:19:46.280 But come on, we know with law of averages,

00:19:48.140 it's happening.

00:19:48.400 Okay, I'm going to get off the ranting. I'm going to get on to one of our advertisers and then get

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00:21:00.320 it. Okay. So let's get on to Chris Oldcorn. He's our Saskatchewan chief out there. Hey,

00:21:06.680 Chris, how are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you, Corey? I'm good. Good. Like I said,

00:21:10.600 know i get worked up you probably caught a bit of my the tail end of my rant there but we just had

00:21:14.200 an awful awful situation out here in alberta i i'm wondering actually since i've got you or do you

00:21:18.840 follow that so much in saskatchewan like are the ambulances uh centralized there as well or is that

00:21:23.640 uh sort of spread out among the communities uh well it depends on where you are they are actually

00:21:29.560 having some issues uh in rural areas uh because they don't have doctors the staff the ers and

00:21:35.720 they have some problems also with ambulances but they are trying to put ambulances as close as

00:21:41.080 possible like spread them out uh as opposed to having sort of a centralized spot that they would

00:21:46.120 come from but obviously with the province the size of saskatchewan and the size of the population

00:21:51.880 uh they do obviously it's hard to cover the whole province effectively and uh there's there's plenty

00:21:57.960 of areas where um you know there might be one er doctor so obviously that doctor's not working 24

00:22:04.520 hours a day seven days a week uh they are trying to recruit um just but so is everybody else on

00:22:10.200 the planet it's like where do you recruit from when every other province is recruiting at the

00:22:15.640 same time uh and also across the us so the the market for doctors is is pretty hard to find them

00:22:23.400 they're doing everything they can but the government actually is bringing in nurses

00:22:27.960 from the philippines they're hiring 3 000 over the next two years to help with the nursing shortage

00:22:32.600 uh but as far as ambulances go um there hasn't been much in terms of expanding that beyond what

00:22:38.040 it is right now yeah it's happening everywhere and that's health care in general so i'm throwing you

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00:22:48.920 kenworth also pointing out you know why don't we bring back the ones they fired for not being

00:22:52.360 vaccinated uh thousands of health care workers you know that's kind of another issue that ties

00:22:56.360 into the whole thing province by province some have dropped their vax mandates some haven't

00:23:01.160 uh and then some people i think you know even though the vaccine mandates have dropped they've

00:23:04.760 said well i'm not coming back to you guys you you left me out in the cold i'm done so we got a lot

00:23:08.840 of factors contributing to this uh health care problem we actually have a lot of travel nurses

00:23:12.920 working in saskatchewan right now which is basically you're you're hiring there's there's

00:23:17.240 companies and all they do is travel nurses and you hire nurses and then they come and work for

00:23:21.480 you for like two months and then they go somewhere else for two months and they're they're trying to

00:23:25.320 do that to sort of uh plug some of the problems in the system because they they just don't have

00:23:29.560 have enough, but some of those travel nurses are practical nurses, not RNs, and they're making $85 1.00

00:23:34.800 an hour. That's lucrative. Yeah, which is about $35 more an hour than you make as an RN working 1.00

00:23:41.920 for the province. And I won't even say how much more it is compared to what a show host at the 0.95

00:23:46.800 standard makes, but that's a separate issue to go into altogether too. All right, we'll get back to

00:23:51.420 more of the stuff of your stuff though. Something a little broad and interest though, and it's a

00:23:55.880 column you put out last weekend on everybody's favorite young scold Greta Thunberg and how the 0.95

00:24:02.700 eco warriors want you poor and dead. Where were you going with that there? Well, if you just simply

00:24:09.720 look at the policies that are out there and actually yesterday, there was a big surprise

00:24:14.000 to everyone who went to get gas. I did a story last Friday on gas being a buck 96 here in the

00:24:19.580 province actually can see it on the screen there uh and it's now uh 207 uh and that's just like

00:24:26.440 four or five days later and that was after the raise to a buck 96 we were at a buck 79 uh basically

00:24:32.780 about a week ago uh and my column is is basically uh about how the there's no longer there used to

00:24:43.080 be a push that economic growth meant that every country was supposed to grow and eventually become

00:24:48.320 developed country like canada the us uk you know europe that type of thing uh there's now a push

00:24:54.400 uh instead of economic growth it is to stall countries where they are and then uh take the

00:25:00.240 wealthiest countries and move them down into the poorer brackets so they're not using as much

00:25:05.840 uh and this is an actual you know this is things are talked about at the wf and the un and so on

00:25:12.240 uh and they and so basically they want you either poor or dead that's your two choices uh and if

00:25:17.360 there's a thing called the human development index there's four different um quadrants on it

00:25:22.800 canada obviously being in the top and basically they want to eliminate the top two quadrants and

00:25:27.200 have everybody living in the bottom two and then eventually everybody down at the bottom which is

00:25:31.520 essentially we're all living in mud huts again and walking two miles a day to get our water

00:25:36.400 that's the only way the planet will survive apparently but right now i don't think people

00:25:40.240 are going to survive the gas prices if uh the federal government and provincial governments

00:25:43.680 don't start doing something, because it's getting to the point of absolute ridiculousness now.

00:25:48.780 Those international organizations, there was a thing a while ago with the World Economic Forum,

00:25:53.060 as you mentioned them, and they had a picture showing the empty streets and saying, you know,

00:25:56.540 look what the pandemic did. It's great for the environment. We want to see more of this. Like,

00:25:59.700 well, that wasn't a good sign seeing empty streets. That was a world that was in lockdown.

00:26:03.540 We shouldn't be celebrating this. We should be avoiding it.

00:26:06.420 Yes. It's crazy. I really don't understand why our leaders and other leaders of the developed countries participate in the WF and so on. It doesn't make any sense. Like, why put restrictions and stuff on your own growth and essentially try and destroy your own economy?

00:26:28.400 um yeah that's a great picture uh and like i don't get it i don't understand why our government

00:26:36.560 is so incompetent uh and or purposefully trying to make things as expensive as possible because

00:26:43.200 we're not even done with the climate um the carbon tax uh hikes uh we've only had three so far and i

00:26:50.640 by 2030 i think gas is going to have what is it about 36 cents 37 cents per liter will just be

00:26:58.440 the carbon tax i mean can you imagine how expensive gas is going to be and this hurts

00:27:04.160 and in particular the gas price hurts a sector that was just absolutely killed in covid which is

00:27:09.380 called travel um and when you make it so expensive now just to fill up your car people aren't going

00:27:18.500 to travel. And then once again, you're destroying another industry that's very strong in Canada.

00:27:22.580 The travel and tourism industry in Canada is massive. It's one of our biggest businesses.

00:27:28.840 But when you have gas prices this high, I mean, they're over $10 in California, America. Now

00:27:33.980 that's per gallon, but still that's even more expensive than gas is in Canada. We need our

00:27:38.360 governments to actually stop this craziness about like not drilling here, not getting oil here,

00:27:44.020 and stop going to the Middle East

00:27:46.200 begging for oil

00:27:47.180 and we're literally sitting on oil

00:27:49.520 and we should be getting gas

00:27:51.760 super cheap

00:27:52.840 because literally we are a major supplier.

00:27:55.620 Yeah, I think some of that

00:27:56.460 ties into other ideologies as well.

00:27:58.340 I mean, if it's not the climate

00:27:59.340 hardcore ideology,

00:28:00.560 it's the socialism

00:28:01.340 and something socialists always discover

00:28:02.960 is while they can't rise everybody

00:28:04.400 up to the same level,

00:28:05.460 they can effectively claw everybody

00:28:07.360 down to the same level

00:28:08.680 and they would rather everybody suffered

00:28:10.080 as long as they suffered equally

00:28:11.580 or at least aside from the elites.

00:28:14.020 So either way, I just like I wanted to bring that up to start and just remind everybody, you know, you write an opinion piece once a week as well, not just all that Saskatchewan news you do.

00:28:22.780 So for folks who, you know, you're allowed to put your opinion out on some items as opposed to just writing on the news.

00:28:29.120 And that was a good one. So I appreciate it.

00:28:31.740 And Moe is actually right now doing the same kind of tour of Washington, D.C., New York that Kenny did.

00:28:37.460 He's down there pushing energy and investing in Saskatchewan actually this week.

00:28:40.880 Yes, I was just about to bring it up because it's a story of yours in the scroll there, which I think is great.

00:28:46.760 I mean, it's unfortunate that our federal government has dropped the ball.

00:28:49.920 They're not doing their job on our behalf because that should be a federal government's role.

00:28:53.340 But at least the premiers like Kenny and Mo now are saying, well, to help this, we're going to go down and speak up for our provinces in person down there.

00:28:59.660 And when I was covering news in Ontario, Doug Ford was making trips down to America and doing trade deals with states.

00:29:06.040 and not the the u.s government but doing an actual trade deal with individual states

00:29:11.160 uh and that is something i think maybe other premiers need to look at as well if the federal

00:29:17.480 government's going to neglect you know trade for our biggest industries such as energy for example

00:29:24.480 then um then it falls it has to fall on the shoulders of the premiers there's there's no

00:29:30.620 option. I mean, Trudeau has basically proven that he can't do anything right. And we're seeing that

00:29:38.840 now. And unfortunately, with the NDP propping him up, we're gonna have him around for at least a

00:29:43.300 couple more years. So if I'm a premier, if I'm Mo, if I'm Kenny, or whoever replaces Kenny, I'm going

00:29:51.380 down south of the border and seeing what I can do myself outside the federal government.

00:29:55.960 Yeah, and I'm hoping we see more of that, you know, across the country. I mean, why not in

00:29:59.040 in Newfoundland and New Brunswick.

00:30:00.520 I don't imagine the Prime Minister

00:30:02.680 is doing much better in promoting those places

00:30:05.540 as whether it's tourist destinations

00:30:06.900 or whatever products and services

00:30:09.940 they might have to trade.

00:30:11.240 I mean, come on, if they're incompetent out here, 0.91

00:30:12.500 they're incompetent out there.

00:30:13.380 I mean, if it's not Toronto or Montreal,

00:30:15.560 Trudeau probably isn't doing much about it.

00:30:17.180 So it's a good trend to see, I guess.

00:30:18.620 Anyways, you see some proactive premiers.

00:30:21.500 Absolutely.

00:30:22.400 So getting on to another story.

00:30:23.420 This is the one you got at the top of the scroll.

00:30:24.980 This is kind of strange and distressing.

00:30:26.960 So a Canadian teen was arrested for planning a mass shooting in Florida?

00:30:31.900 Yes, he was arrested early yesterday morning.

00:30:35.380 There was a press conference last night about it.

00:30:37.700 It was a joint investigation.

00:30:40.620 The Toronto and Peel Police Services were involved.

00:30:44.040 The FBI was involved.

00:30:46.300 And so was the West Palm Beach Police Department as well.

00:30:51.240 I know West Palm Beach very well.

00:30:52.320 I used to actually spend two or three days there a week when I lived in Miami.

00:30:56.960 because I had business up in West Palm. So yeah, it's very disturbing. It was going to be sort of

00:31:04.600 similar to the shooting that happened in Orlando at the Pulse nightclub back in 2016. He was

00:31:11.940 planning a mass shooting. He used a video chat app that I'd never heard of, but I looked it up,

00:31:18.400 and it's basically, you just randomly chat with people on this thing, and it just pairs you up

00:31:24.000 with another individual chat back and forth or put you into a group. And he went in there and

00:31:28.300 he was showing the gun he was going to use and what he was going to do and how he was going to

00:31:32.800 do it. And I guess someone reported it and then they were able to track it and they actually were

00:31:38.060 able to arrest him. He was still in Ontario when they arrested him. The event he was going to shoot

00:31:42.940 up was coming up this Sunday. Now the West Palm Beach Police Department and Pride Festival

00:31:49.580 Organizers have obviously increased security because they don't know if he was acting alone

00:31:55.140 or not. At the present moment in time, they don't have any reason to believe there was any other

00:32:00.400 people involved in it other than him. But he did kind of say he lived in West Palm Beach,

00:32:06.200 which he didn't. And we don't know anything about him because he is underage. So we just know it

00:32:12.820 was a male. But as far as any details on it, obviously he's protected because he's a minor.

00:32:18.000 Canada has charged him with threatening to do a mass shooting,

00:32:21.540 and the U.S. is presently looking at what they're going to charge him with.

00:32:25.260 But they are most likely going to ask for extradition to the U.S.

00:32:28.940 to put him on trial there as well.

00:32:31.740 Yeah, I mean, whether he was just, you know, talking big or not,

00:32:34.740 I mean, you have to take this sort of thing seriously.

00:32:36.860 I mean, we've seen some of the horrific shootings that have happened

00:32:39.300 and things like that, and that has happened in Florida

00:32:42.020 in a gay bar, you know, recently, relatively.

00:32:45.640 yeah i'm glad in this case it was headed off before you know we're reading reports about

00:32:50.400 the shooting actually happening it's just uh maybe you know the fact that this was headed off

00:32:55.420 they can start to learn from this and find out what the hell is driving some people to try and

00:32:59.480 do these kinds of things yeah like the pulse nightclub 49 people died and 53 people were

00:33:03.960 taken to the hospital with serious injuries um and this would have been just as bad or worse

00:33:08.920 uh because it was like a block party so there would have been possibly you know several thousand

00:33:14.760 people there not a couple hundred that was in the pulse shooting so it could have been much worse

00:33:19.240 yeah well either way uh i'm you know so unfortunate we have a canadian connection to that but i'm glad

00:33:24.840 that uh there never was a shooting as you said they're worried about you know others being

00:33:28.680 involved hopefully it's just one one troubled kid just spouting off online and nothing happens

00:33:34.440 um here's another interesting one so that this was the uh fake indigenous professor resigning from

00:33:39.720 from the University of Saskatchewan. Again, yeah, the bizarre world there. 0.50

00:33:45.300 Yeah, I'm not sure why you would fake that because it's pretty easy. Like if

00:33:50.720 someone wants to kind of look into your past, and find out, you know, who are

00:33:55.400 your parents, for example, and it turns out her parents were not indigenous,

00:33:58.980 which then would make it very hard for her to be indigenous, unless she was

00:34:02.200 adopted, which she was not. She fakes very well being indigenous and studying 0.99

00:34:08.380 Indigenous Health, and she was actually a scientific director with the Canadian Institute

00:34:17.020 of Health Research for their Indigenous Health Institute. She has received millions of dollars

00:34:23.800 in government grants for Indigenous research as an Indigenous professor. She was actually one of

00:34:30.140 the stars of the medical school at the University of Saskatchewan. She couldn't have been more out

00:34:36.320 there in the open promoting herself as a professor if she tried. And obviously, as you can see by the

00:34:45.300 photo there, she faked being indigenous for quite some time until she finally got caught. And the 0.88

00:34:49.720 university did investigation, found out that yep, she is not indigenous. And so she resigned before

00:34:56.940 she could get fired, basically. Well, you know, at the start, you're saying, you're not sure why

00:35:01.200 she did it. But then you kind of listed, I think, why, why an unprincipled professor would do it,

00:35:05.160 as you said, there were a lot of grants. There's a lot of extra attention. It's a competitive world

00:35:10.020 for research, for committee chairs, for things like that, you know, to get the funding. But we

00:35:16.460 know that a lot of things go out to tender specifically for Indigenous issues. And if it's

00:35:20.980 an Indigenous professor involved, they're going to jump to the top of the line for those things.

00:35:24.880 So I'd suggest there was a pretty solid basis of self-interest as to why she would carry on that 0.88

00:35:30.460 that scam. Yeah. And she did it for years. It wasn't like she did it for six months. I mean, 0.94

00:35:35.920 this is someone that was, you know, a famous indigenous professor. She has written multiple

00:35:40.540 books, hundreds of scholarly articles. I mean, it wasn't like she faked it for, you know, six

00:35:46.540 months. We're talking a long-term fake and she finally got caught. Yeah. Well, I mean, the world's

00:35:53.860 changing though. And some of the definitions are, so, I mean, she might have an appeal she could

00:35:57.200 push and saying she identified as Indigenous, because we're already seeing that battle happening.

00:36:02.360 There were a couple of people in the States who claim they identify as Black, even if they're not

00:36:05.600 Black whatsoever. And there's some crazed woke people who say, yeah, we have to recognize them

00:36:11.580 as Black now. I mean, it's absurd, but that's the world we're in today. 0.92

00:36:16.080 And actually, the University of Saskatchewan, as part of their recommendations from the

00:36:20.280 investigation, is they're going to be changing how you identify at the university. It's no longer

00:36:26.600 going to be self-identification which is how she claimed to be indigenous she didn't have to show

00:36:30.600 any proof uh they're now putting in a process they haven't publicly come out with it yet but

00:36:35.560 they will shortly uh basically that will outline how if you're going to be anything other than

00:36:41.720 white basically how you have to prove that you are um whatever minority group you want to claim

00:36:47.240 that you're part of i wonder as far as race goes a few more out of the academia tree yeah we'll

00:36:53.960 We'll see what happens because I'm sure if one person does it, I'm sure there's others.

00:36:59.560 Yes, I'm afraid so.

00:37:01.540 Where there's smoke, there's fire.

00:37:03.120 Yes.

00:37:03.920 Well, interesting stuff.

00:37:05.420 So before I let you go, what else have you got in the cooker?

00:37:07.540 What's coming out in Saskatchewan?

00:37:09.380 Yeah, well, the Saskatchewan Rough Riders, they've got their home opener this weekend

00:37:14.460 against the Thai Cats on Saturday at 5 o'clock, so I'll have a preview for that.

00:37:17.800 working on a story where I'm in the process of trying to buy a gun which will actually take

00:37:24.860 eight months so I won't be able to do that before the federal government makes it impossible for me

00:37:30.080 to actually purchase a gun but I'm going to show what the process actually is at the present moment

00:37:34.980 in time which will who knows how fast the Trudeau government's going to move on that handgun ban

00:37:41.120 But I had a very interesting discussion yesterday with the owner of a gun store, and he explained a lot about gun rules in the past and how useless they've actually been.

00:37:52.580 For example, when they banned AR-15s, an AR-15 has never been used in a shooting in Canada that was legally acquired.

00:38:02.340 So it's only the illegal ones.

00:38:03.960 And the same with handguns.

00:38:05.220 uh, most, almost all crime related handguns is with the ones that are smuggled in that are

00:38:10.680 unregistered, not the lawfully owned firearm owners. Uh, in Canada, the only place you can

00:38:16.820 actually use a firearm is on an actual range and you have to go directly from your house directly

00:38:21.440 to the range and back with your handgun. You know, that's the rules. Um, so making how much

00:38:28.360 harder can you make it to use a gun than that? Uh, and then now they're, they want to take that

00:38:32.520 away from people. And that's a little bit frustrating. And also we have the NDP leadership

00:38:39.180 race heating up here in Saskatchewan. When I say heating up, I use that term very loosely as there's

00:38:44.640 two candidates. And actually there was, it looked like a coronation for a while. We've now got a

00:38:49.300 second candidate who threw her hat in the ring about seven, eight weeks ago. And it's between

00:38:54.340 Carla Beck, who is an MLA here in Regina and Caitlin Harvey, who is a lawyer up in Saskatoon,

00:39:00.520 and they have their leadership vote coming up on the 20th.

00:39:03.740 So I'll have some stories coming up on that as well.

00:39:05.800 And we'll see what happens when Mo comes back from America.

00:39:09.500 Right on. 0.89

00:39:10.300 Well, thanks for coming to bring us up to date on that

00:39:12.800 and all issues Saskatchewan and worldwide with your columns.

00:39:17.020 So I'll talk to you again soon, Chris.

00:39:19.780 Thanks, Corey.

00:39:20.420 Have a great day.

00:39:21.180 Thanks.

00:39:21.880 So yes, that was the Western Standards.

00:39:23.260 Chris Oldcorn watched for his columns on the weekends.

00:39:25.720 And of course, his Saskatchewan stories are coming out every day, all the time.

00:39:28.640 he's reporting on lots of stuff. As you can see, everything from the Rough Riders to crazy

00:39:33.500 professors to local leadership races. So lots to cover there. And yeah, the firearm thing. I don't

00:39:41.180 know if others have seen it. Derek Fildebrand, our publisher, put that out on Twitter and he's not

00:39:45.800 bluffing. The Western Standard for another employee incentive program, he's offered $500

00:39:51.180 in interest-free financing to any of us who work for the standard who want to purchase a restricted

00:39:56.260 firearm or a handgun before the transfers stop. So I'm not sure who may be taking advantage of the

00:40:02.820 financing program or not. But you know, we've got a number of staff at the Western Standard. Hey,

00:40:07.120 that's a good deal. Nothing's better than getting some bucks and being able to pay back, you know,

00:40:11.760 on an interest free basis. But it's showing how much we as an organization in general support

00:40:18.060 the federal government's move to try and disarm everybody. Let's get on to something a little

00:40:24.020 lighter here. You know, I got a picture here of Jodi Gondek. Today was the day she was to

00:40:28.960 display her Oilers, or was it yesterday? Her Oilers color. So there she is, the Flames.

00:40:35.840 She's the mayor of Calgary. The Flames lost to the Edmonton Oilers in the playoffs. And there

00:40:40.960 was a bet between the Mayors. And she had to, I think she had to read off some things, you know,

00:40:45.560 expounding on how fantastic the Oilers were in the works. Just in time for the Oilers to get

00:40:49.960 swept out of the playoffs. But hey, they did get another round beyond Calgary. You know what?

00:40:54.020 I'm on Gondek's case for a lot of things, and I will be on Gondek's case for a lot of things.

00:40:59.360 But I think it's not bad when we see some of our politicians and leaders lighten up a little.

00:41:04.200 I believe Nenshi used to actually shy away from those bets and things like that.

00:41:08.300 You know, just have some fun, lighten up, get out there, you know, have a laugh, take on some city spirit.

00:41:15.020 So, yeah, she's looking goofy with her paint on and her jersey.

00:41:18.440 But you know what? I'll give it a good on you in this case, Mayor Gondek.

00:41:22.920 This is, you know, just doing a good job as a city's ambassador on that front, at least anyways.

00:41:29.140 And then I'll get back to getting on your case as to why you're a terrible mayor in general.

00:41:32.840 But in this case, it wasn't a problem.

00:41:35.940 Let's see.

00:41:38.740 Here's an interesting story.

00:41:39.960 I'm going to go through the news a little bit before we get to our next guest, Mr. Rock there.

00:41:44.120 And yeah, this was a story that was put out.

00:41:46.540 This shouldn't shock anybody, but this is Anita Anand, our defense minister.

00:41:49.860 When we're in a world, a period of world turmoil like never before, you know, when there's not been Canadian Armed Forces taking part directly in anything with all that crazy stuff in Eastern Europe so far, but we're certainly paying a lot more attention to those things.

00:42:04.520 They've realized that we need new recruits for the Army, Navy, you know, air people within the Canadian Forces.

00:42:11.200 Why?

00:42:12.120 Well, because they fired a whole pile of them with the vaccine mandates.

00:42:16.280 She didn't make any mention of that when she talked to the Commons Defense Committee.

00:42:19.120 You know, if they wanted to bring back a whole bunch of already trained, already, you know, qualified people for the armed forces, all they have to do is lift their bloody vaccine mandate.

00:42:30.680 And there's a number of them you can bring back into your ranks.

00:42:34.580 I mean, again, how many times does it have to be said?

00:42:37.800 It's finally hit the mainstream.

00:42:39.340 We're seeing columnists, personalities, doctors talking all over saying, look, these mandates don't stop the spread.

00:42:46.440 There's not much point in maintaining them any longer.

00:42:48.720 they're causing more damage than good. Those who have chosen to get vaccinated have done so. Those

00:42:54.100 who won't will not at this point. So get over it. It's spite. It's pure spite. And yeah, so the

00:43:03.200 Department of National Defense said on May 31st, a total of 1,573 soldiers, sailors, and air crew

00:43:08.700 resigned, were discharged or faced discipline for failing to show proof of vaccination. And in a

00:43:14.540 force the size of Canada, it's not a very, very large force. That's a pretty significant chunk

00:43:21.160 pulled out of there. Plus another 307 civilian employees were suspended without pay. And then

00:43:26.440 reservists, that's another aspect of our military that wasn't even disclosed. But no, she went up

00:43:32.100 and just talked about this great hiring fair and recruitment campaign they're going to put out,

00:43:36.000 but won't even entertain the question of perhaps taking back some of these people. I mean, of those

00:43:42.280 1,500 soldiers and sailors. I imagine a number of them were highly skilled people. It's going to

00:43:48.400 take, you know, you don't just hire somebody and pop them in and fill the role. That's a lot of

00:43:52.040 training. That's a lot of experience. That's a lot of time out there. And they just, this government

00:43:58.020 is so stubbornly hung up on their vaccine mandates, no matter what the costs are. And it's just,

00:44:04.880 as I've said in a recent column, I think it's mostly because Trudeau has a chip on his shoulder.

00:44:08.500 He got pushed. He's dug his little heels in, and he just does not want to be. I mean, the rest of the world is opening up. The rest of the world lets people fly domestically without masks and vaccine mandates. We're the ones who are the outlier. And it's been getting embarrassing. There was that hockey player from the Spinning Chicklets podcast. You know, I'm forgetting his name offhand now. He was live tweeting his experience at Pearson Airport. I think he was just trying to get to Buffalo. And he was stuck there for basically a day and a half. Massive, long lineups.

00:44:37.940 You know, people were upset.

00:44:39.900 Our tourism industry is taking a wallop from this sort of thing.

00:44:42.820 It's an embarrassment.

00:44:44.280 We're putting people out of work and they're saying, well, we're shorthanded to hear Canada. 1.00

00:44:48.060 Well, yes, that's because you fired all the unvaccinated. 1.00

00:44:50.360 You've got the staff right there. 1.00

00:44:52.720 Bring them back.

00:44:53.280 And why are the staff all backed up?

00:44:54.620 Well, because there we go.

00:44:55.680 Lucas said, yeah, Ryan Whitney.

00:44:56.960 Thank you, Lucas, one of our commenters.

00:44:58.640 You see, that's where I like the live shows too.

00:45:00.540 The commenters can fill in the gaps when I brain fart on things.

00:45:04.700 And so Ryan Whitney put that out there,

00:45:07.300 but I mean, that was hundreds of thousands

00:45:08.800 of people were viewing that tweet and hearing that

00:45:10.640 and they're seeing that.

00:45:11.700 And these businesses that have had a hard time

00:45:13.620 the last couple of years with tourism,

00:45:15.200 with people coming in, domestic travel,

00:45:17.700 well, this hurts them all the more when you see this. 0.97

00:45:19.760 You know, people are looking from the States,

00:45:23.600 they're looking from Europe saying,

00:45:24.400 I'm going to schedule my vacation somewhere else.

00:45:27.260 I don't feel like waiting in giant lineups.

00:45:29.540 I don't feel like running the gauntlet

00:45:30.920 on proving vaccination and a whole bunch of things.

00:45:33.860 And again, if you could prove that it served a purpose, if it showed that it was making people

00:45:38.600 safer, if we really could see some evidence that it's saving lives, but it's not. The science is

00:45:43.740 in. You know, it's ironic. They're always telling us, follow the science, follow the science. Okay,

00:45:47.420 fair enough. Well, the science now is saying that these mandates aren't helping anybody. So drop

00:45:51.720 them. They won't. Because now we've moved beyond science and into ideology. And unfortunately,

00:45:58.880 you can't reason with an ideologue. And we've got an ideologically driven federal government

00:46:03.780 right now. So it's leaving us short all over, as I said, with our health services, with our ambulance

00:46:09.440 attendance, with our nurses, how many people have we lost in our healthcare system? As I said,

00:46:15.160 while we have a person dying, waiting for an ambulance in Calgary, just lift the mandates,

00:46:21.440 invite these people back, but they won't do it. And we're all paying a terrible price for that.

00:46:27.500 And we've got to start pushing back. Okay. I'm going to speak to about one of our sponsors

00:46:31.380 again before we get to our guest i see mr rock waiting in the lobby there so that's the the

00:46:35.620 canadian shooting sports association you know these guys have been a good sponsor for us for

00:46:40.240 quite some time and they are a good responsible outfit you know the thing we stand up for is

00:46:45.140 responsible firearm use safe firearm use uh we you know canada is different we aren't a second

00:46:51.400 amendment country we do understand that you know i think most of us don't have a problem with some

00:46:56.320 background checks with licensing, things like that, training for safe firearm use. But it's never

00:47:01.880 enough. It's never enough. The government still wants to take everything away from the law-abiding

00:47:05.580 owners. Well, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association is lobbying on behalf of firearm

00:47:10.720 owners, responsible ones. Plus, as an association, they provide a lot of resources, as you can see.

00:47:15.300 Things for target shooting, black powder. I mean, all those hobbies that people do, again, 0.68

00:47:19.280 harmlessly. I have never heard of somebody robbing a bank or having a gangland shooting

00:47:23.720 with a black powder rifle.

00:47:25.160 It doesn't happen.

00:47:26.300 But these are the sort of things

00:47:27.200 that are going to end up

00:47:27.760 getting taken away and banned.

00:47:29.520 And if you don't stand up for yourself,

00:47:31.560 they will win.

00:47:32.280 The government, again,

00:47:33.060 getting back to ideology.

00:47:34.040 It doesn't matter

00:47:34.800 if it's going to fight crime.

00:47:35.720 Their ideology makes them want

00:47:38.280 to take these pieces of property

00:47:39.680 away from you.

00:47:40.700 So you've got to help them help you.

00:47:42.500 And that means joining

00:47:43.220 the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:47:45.100 Take out a membership.

00:47:46.400 They got all kinds of resources there for you

00:47:48.020 as a firearms owner.

00:47:49.440 Plus, of course, again,

00:47:50.540 they're going to be standing up.

00:47:51.580 As you can see,

00:47:52.320 they've got you covered.

00:47:53.720 They will be pushing back on your behalf against this ideological push in Ottawa against the responsible, safe use of firearms in Canada.

00:48:02.720 All right.

00:48:03.220 So let's get on a little domestic on to the United Conservative Party leadership race.

00:48:07.920 I have the mayor of Amescon, Bill Rock, who has announced and thrown his hat in the ring for the leadership of the UCP.

00:48:15.220 So thank you very much for joining me today, Mr. Rock.

00:48:17.640 Well, welcome, Corey.

00:48:18.860 Thank you very much for having me on your program.

00:48:20.560 Yeah, so something I said right at the start of the show earlier when I was listening to my guests coming on today, something that was good to see and refreshing with yourself is of all the people lining up for that top job, they're all either current MLAs or former MLAs, so you're not coming from within the pack.

00:48:36.740 No, no, I'm here for rural Alberta.

00:48:41.940 Yeah, well, and that's a large part of the province without doubt. I would imagine your platform is still going to encompass policies for the sake of urban as well.

00:48:49.620 Oh, yes. I see a big divide between rural Alberta and urban. You know, we all have the same struggles. We have crime, we have issues with our hospitals, we have issues with our ambulances. And, you know, the infrastructure, whether it's Calgary, Edmonton, rural Alberta, we're all way behind the ball on infrastructure. So I want to close the divide between rural and the cities.

00:49:14.920 yeah no and it's good to see somebody you know addressing it i mean that is a lot of uh

00:49:20.360 i guess kind of as my earlier rant but we've got different ideologies and still there should be

00:49:25.080 room though to have people have different needs and ideologies in different regions of the province

00:49:28.520 to still stay within the same umbrella as a party i would think oh yeah definitely definitely uh

00:49:34.360 you know we all want a better alberta that's what we're all here for we're here to make a better

00:49:40.040 Alberta for all Albertans, whether you're rural, small town, you know, whether you're Fort McMurray

00:49:46.320 or High River or Medicine Hat, we all are in the same boat. Yeah, well, and as some of the

00:49:55.540 commenters are saying, like Mike Bedard saying he wants to get the hell out of Calgary anyways,

00:49:59.540 and myself, you know, I live just outside of the city. A lot of urban people, actually, I think

00:50:03.840 the rural or at least semi-rural is where we're going to have a lot of growth. So, you know,

00:50:08.460 should be embracing each other's movements within the province and we've seen a lot of that movement

00:50:14.940 uh from the cities out into the rural portions of the province but what of course is is delaying

00:50:20.940 that movement is you know we we struggle with internet access we struggle with cell phone access

00:50:27.820 um you know we talk to a lot of people uh i'm just i'm just fortunate amisk has not too bad

00:50:35.020 of internet i'm able to do this interview but if you try and phone me chances are you're not going

00:50:39.340 to get a hold of me i have no cell phone service in alberta we're not a third world country out here

00:50:44.860 yeah and it's been frustrating actually i've got starlink at my place in uh and i'm just

00:50:49.100 10 minutes out of the city borders of calgary but that it's either that or the telus hub for

00:50:53.180 internet service where i live which again is it's kind of ridiculous that close to a developed

00:50:58.140 province like this you know i don't know how many years it's been and you know and they've they they

00:51:02.860 keep saying, well, you need a minimum of 100 megabytes per second upload speed. A lot of our

00:51:09.420 area out here, we're working at two and a half to three. We're lucky in Amos, we're at 12.

00:51:16.380 That's a long ways from 100. Yeah, it's functional anyway,

00:51:19.740 but there's room for improvement and internet is becoming a need. I mean, 20 years ago,

00:51:24.060 okay, it wasn't something considered, but now it really is a requirement for workplaces,

00:51:27.740 for communication and just living in general. Yeah, and the COVID brought that,

00:51:31.660 you know, the real strengths and weaknesses to it. You know, we went to a lot of Zoom meetings,

00:51:37.500 you know, so we were social distancing and we found that a lot of our people on our board of

00:51:44.500 directors across central Alberta, you know, they couldn't really attend the meeting because it was

00:51:51.540 so delayed that they were missing out. And I'm talking people that are just outside the city of

00:51:55.500 Red Deer. Yeah. So going further, I guess, into your campaign now, you're in your early stages

00:52:01.100 and that, but have you fleshed out, like, what are your main planks that you're bringing as a

00:52:04.860 leadership candidate? Well, the main things I'm after is, you know, bringing awareness to rural

00:52:10.880 Alberta. And like I said, rural crime, I've been an advocate for the rural crime associations for

00:52:17.460 many years now. Our ambulance service and hospital services has taken, you know, significantly been

00:52:26.860 reduced and you know that in the cities as well how many code reds do we have across the province

00:52:33.980 and our infrastructure we've been promised money for infrastructure federally not so much

00:52:40.780 provincially but federally we've been you know promised money for infrastructure 2013 we got

00:52:47.100 promised 17.1 million dollars to date and this is 10 years later we've seen 2.1 million dollars of

00:52:54.460 that infrastructure money so albertans are paying a lot of money uh into these programs whether it's

00:53:00.860 federal you know federal gas taxes or income taxes and we're seeing that money end up in

00:53:06.140 vancouver and toronto and quebec and not not staying in alberta yeah so um maybe moving on

00:53:15.020 a little more internally uh especially since you're not as ingrained into the party itself

00:53:20.620 or at least not on the elected level of it at this point.

00:53:24.240 But party unity, you know, the UCP has been like a bunch of hornets on each other

00:53:27.820 for a couple of years now from the constituency level up to elected members within caucus.

00:53:33.800 What could you bring to try and pull that together?

00:53:36.640 Because, I mean, it doesn't matter who's leading.

00:53:38.340 If that party keeps up like that, I can't see them winning another election.

00:53:41.960 Oh, I can't see them surviving.

00:53:43.700 I believe I'm a good leader.

00:53:45.980 You know, I, like I've been a councillor for the last eight years.

00:53:50.740 I've been a mayor of our village for the last five.

00:53:53.900 I sit on quite a few boards and I've been chairman of quite a few boards.

00:53:58.820 So, you know, I have the experience of bringing a team together and, you know, getting to the, you know, the root of the problems and being effective.

00:54:07.440 uh i think that's what's happening now is we aren't listening to our membership like we should

00:54:14.900 be listening to our membership i know there's a lot of ca associations that you know are are

00:54:21.380 really struggling with their membership and and that boils down to leadership yeah okay um so one

00:54:29.580 of the big issues we've had going on for quite a while is uh of course it's jurisdictional i mean

00:54:35.020 Alberta versus Ottawa on a number of levels, independence movements are really starting to gain some steam.

00:54:42.760 How would you address that?

00:54:44.320 I mean, we've always got to seem to defend ourselves from a hostile federal government at times.

00:54:49.560 Where should we be working in that front?

00:54:51.440 Well, we spent how many hundreds of thousands of dollars on a fair deal panel that traveled across the province?

00:54:56.740 I attended some of those meetings myself.

00:55:00.480 And we've made no action on what the recommendations are.

00:55:05.020 You know, the one that we are talking is, you know, our private police force, which was what, seventh or eighth down the list.

00:55:11.740 We haven't dealt with any of them near the top.

00:55:16.060 So we need to stand up to Ottawa.

00:55:20.300 And I know there's other premiers in Canada that want to stand up to Ottawa.

00:55:24.740 But, you know, it's one of those things when Ottawa is holding the purse strings, you got to be very careful what you say so you don't lose your purse, you know, your money.

00:55:35.020 So are there ways, though, to defend, you know, getting out of being that vulnerable to them? I mean, as a, you know, a province where they could pressure us with our own money like that?

00:55:44.500 Well, this is where we go back to, you know, our own pension fund, like Quebec in Alberta, you know, having our own revenue agency, you know, you look at what Quebec does, and the leverage they have over the federal government. And, you know, that's, that's kind of the leverage, you know, we're a very rich province, we send a lot of money to Ottawa. And they, we need to leverage all of those things.

00:56:13.240 oh yeah it's something i've said a lot over the past is we got to stop getting so upset with

00:56:17.880 quebec uh and start figuring out what they're doing and emulate it because uh hey you know

00:56:22.120 stomping our feet hasn't gotten us anywhere maybe realize why they're they're as influential as they

00:56:26.300 are yeah yeah and and you know we have as much leverage as the big cities in in ontario we

00:56:34.000 you know we have a lot of money uh we have a lot of technology that we should be selling around the

00:56:40.300 world that the federal government isn't pushing. I happened to meet with a lady here on the

00:56:47.220 weekend and a lot of our innovation and technology in Alberta, of course, is oil and gas related.

00:56:55.240 And this technology is sought after worldwide. And yet our federal government is not pushing

00:57:02.800 the technology that we have available here in Alberta. You can probably talk to a lot of people

00:57:08.660 that they resource human resources

00:57:14.560 for the oil and gas sector worldwide out of Alberta.

00:57:18.440 And yet we're not selling this stuff.

00:57:21.820 So it's kind of a two-phase plan

00:57:23.860 when you go from leadership,

00:57:25.320 say presumably you've won the leadership.

00:57:27.600 The next part, of course,

00:57:28.560 is to ensure that the party forms the next government.

00:57:32.080 Rachel Notley, I mean, can't be underestimated.

00:57:34.020 The NDP is very popular in a lot of quarters.

00:57:36.700 so how would you uh bring about the party into a winning conditions to ensure that

00:57:41.780 they do form another majority well i i that that's going to be a big job yes rachel notley is a very

00:57:50.100 smart woman you know and uh she now has the experience of having been premier had the

00:57:56.620 experience of you know having formed government but you uh you don't see the infighting with the

00:58:01.700 NDP party. So, you know, there's one thing that you have to, you know, you have to stop right away

00:58:07.940 and you have to make sure that you have a better plan than the NDP for the people of Alberta.

00:58:16.660 Yeah. So financially, I mean, the budget was recently balanced, but, you know, a lot of it

00:58:21.500 was based on having some strong resource revenue and prices, which is good. I mean, use it while

00:58:26.380 you got it. But we often seem to forget. I mean, it wasn't due to spending cuts so much or getting

00:58:30.780 things in order what could you do to assure that we could remain in a balanced budget and keep our

00:58:35.340 debt down well i'm gonna get myself into trouble for this we we need to look at a performance-based

00:58:43.260 system in in alberta for our public services and you know we've tried it before but we fell short

00:58:51.340 of of having that um so it seems like most of the governments and and and notley did this also

00:58:59.180 um if you got a problem throw more money at it well throwing more money at a problem if you don't

00:59:03.980 have a plan is is just a waste of money so you have to build good solid long-term plans and i'll

00:59:10.780 go back to how we think you know on a municipal level whether it's municipalities or small towns

00:59:16.780 and villages we we think of where we're going to be in 10 or 20 years or 30 years um it seems

00:59:24.220 like their provincial government is is and notley was no better uh they're just trying to get through

00:59:30.780 to the next election and we've got to quit that type of thinking we've got to look long term is

00:59:35.980 our alberta health services sustainable you know for the next 20 to 30 years at what we're spending

00:59:41.580 is our education system sustainable you know for the next 20 or 30 years um and we have to get out

00:59:48.940 of that way of thinking yeah well there's no doubt and sustainable you know it's a term that needs to

00:59:53.660 to be applied to more of our our big spending and social programs i mean it's applied to the

00:59:57.860 environment all the time and a number of other things but we've got to look at the spending

01:00:02.260 trajectories of a lot of our programs and and it just doesn't look like we can carry on on that

01:00:06.780 path for much longer we're gonna run around out of money yeah yeah we were we're you know we're

01:00:11.940 we can't rely on oil and gas revenues for the next 100 years you know we have to put money into

01:00:19.500 innovation whether it be into agriculture into forestry into technology um you know we need to

01:00:25.900 attract you know the uh private sector to invest their money in those places and uh you know like

01:00:33.660 i say oil and gas it'll probably be around for another 50 60 years but you know when you're

01:00:39.820 looking at a province or you're looking at a municipality you're going to think 100 years out

01:00:43.740 okay well i mean as i said earlier too i when it comes to a leadership race i mean i want to see a

01:00:49.860 good democratic run the the more the better get more voices more ideas out there so it's great

01:00:56.120 to see again somebody outside of the establishment fold uh throwing their hat in uh is there more

01:01:01.280 you'd like to add before i let you go and where can people find information on yourself in your

01:01:04.960 campaign well i was uh i wasn't actually planning on doing this uh you know a month ago it boiled

01:01:12.880 down to when Jason Kenney did his resignation, I looked at the pool of candidates running and I

01:01:19.120 thought, no, we need a strong voice from rural Alberta. And I have advocated with the government

01:01:27.200 people and both provincially and federally. So yeah, that's where I'm at. So my campaign is not

01:01:34.640 quite as fast and polished as the others. Currently right now there's stuff on,

01:01:40.240 you can follow me on Facebook and you know that's where you'll find a lot of information and

01:01:49.040 we will get more information out as it becomes available great well yeah I know it's only the

01:01:53.760 early stages I just heard that you'd announced a few days ago so I appreciate you coming on to

01:01:58.960 talk to us about it today and I hope we can check in with you again as the campaign develops once

01:02:03.280 the rules are set out and we know how long it's going to be okay well thank you very much Corey

01:02:07.600 you and I greatly appreciate and have a great day. Great. Thank you. You too, Mr. Rock.

01:02:11.500 Okay. Thanks a lot. All right. So that is Bill Rock, the mayor of Amisk. And yes, he's another

01:02:16.620 of the people who has launched their bid to run for the leadership of the UCP. And again,

01:02:23.760 it's somebody outside of the party, outside of the fold. There's more information available on

01:02:28.760 Facebook. And I imagine the campaign will develop with a website and more detail and things as it

01:02:33.060 goes. It's pretty early stages of the whole campaign for Mr. Rock or pretty much any of

01:02:38.820 the contenders at this point. Now, of course, I'll be trying to get all of them on as this

01:02:43.300 campaign continues to develop for who becomes the next premier. That's what makes these races

01:02:48.640 a lot heated in our system is you're not just running for the leadership of a party. Once

01:02:54.900 the person wins, they are immediately, at least upon getting into the legislature, they will be

01:02:59.540 the premier. And then they will have to run into a general election. But a lot of people

01:03:04.940 are going to be wanting that position. So this is going to be a very competitive race.

01:03:09.920 All right, let's see. We're looking at some more news items to go through some of that. This is

01:03:13.280 getting back onto ideology and some of this goodness I was going on about. This is a statement

01:03:19.240 from MP Ryan Turnbull, a liberal, of course, saying climate plan rated, he called it painful.

01:03:27.440 He said, it's going to be difficult and painful to achieve our climate goals.

01:03:31.140 We have to switch our lifestyles.

01:03:33.940 This gets back again to that social engineering.

01:03:36.820 You know, it's a term that kind of went out of use, but it's a true one.

01:03:39.900 It's these elitists, these people in government that want, and some business elitists as well,

01:03:46.660 but they feel they're on top of the world, but they want to control what we do.

01:03:50.120 They want to tell you how you live, what you do.

01:03:52.740 I mean, some people are talking in the more, you know, social credit system way they're

01:03:56.940 talking about. And that's not like the old social credit party, but it's where basically you'll get

01:04:01.280 credits. You know, you'll be like a trained dog. You get your little niblet if you do the right

01:04:04.880 thing from the government and you'll be spanked if you do the wrong thing. They want to control

01:04:09.740 your lifestyle. How dare you, you arrogant jerk, say you are going to have to switch your lifestyles. 1.00

01:04:17.000 You're the one that's going to be flying around the world, of course, on these climate things, 1.00

01:04:20.100 I'm sure, like Gilbo. And you're the one who's making a good six-figure salary, who has your

01:04:27.900 accommodations covered in Ottawa, that has your flights covered. The working world, you're sitting

01:04:33.060 on that elitist position and telling us, you're going to have to change your lifestyle. You're

01:04:38.160 going to have to tighten your belt. At least he's acknowledging it'll be painful. But of course,

01:04:42.160 it's not his pain. He wants you to have the pain because he's an ideologue and he thinks he's

01:04:48.920 better than you. He's a true elitist. Some of the irony in some of the discussions and debates,

01:04:52.860 and I'll be speaking to a guest about that a little later this week. What about the elitism

01:04:57.680 that's out there? And populism, how populism has been made out to be extreme. And they talk about

01:05:04.800 populism being a terrible thing and a bad trend. And they're really slapping it, you know, Pierre

01:05:10.080 Polyev, because he's a populist. What is a populist? Well, somebody who's appealing to

01:05:14.140 majority. It's also called democracy. Admittedly, populism can go bad. The population as a whole

01:05:22.900 isn't always right. Arguably, in his very earliest of years, yes, Hitler was a populist. Vladimir

01:05:30.060 Lenin was a populist. But for the most part, it's still the best system is to represent the

01:05:37.480 majority because the thing, if it's not a populist, it's an elitist. And that's what we have here with

01:05:42.020 Trudeau and his MP Ryan Turnbull, who's telling us we have to switch our lifestyles on his behalf. 1.00

01:05:50.080 No, kiss my ass. It's my lifestyle. It's not your business. But these guys don't want to stop there. 1.00

01:05:56.200 And this government doesn't do things with incentives or trying to encourage. They do it

01:06:01.220 with a gun to the head. Of course, they do it with punishments. They do it with carbon taxes. They do 0.98

01:06:04.620 it with shutting down industries. They do it with legislation. And in the end, eventually, if you're

01:06:09.280 standing up to them, they arrest you. Ask Tamera Leash about that. She's a political prisoner.

01:06:14.900 She's out now on bail. She's still bound and gagged publicly. She's basically on house arrest 1.00

01:06:20.020 for mischief. These authoritarian, elitist government officials, how dare you sit there 1.00

01:06:29.220 and say, we're going to have to switch our lifestyles and that's going to be painful. 0.99

01:06:32.280 Just my butt, Turnbull. Change yours first. Lead by example. I don't imagine you're driving 0.98

01:06:38.360 a Prius or a Tesla to Parliament, or maybe you are, maybe you've got the money for that sort of

01:06:45.060 luxury. We don't. And taxing us into oblivion is not the way to go. But again, he's popular. He's

01:06:53.840 in Ontario. Oh, he'll be reelected. Don't worry about that. Because you see, what will change

01:06:58.580 later when they talk about where they're going to lay this pain to save the world, where they're

01:07:02.340 going to lay this pain to stop climate change, which Canada apparently is responsible for 1.6%

01:07:07.560 of the emissions. So think about that. If we shut down everything in Canada, everything,

01:07:12.200 if we actually eradicated every human being in Canada, it would limit emissions in the world by

01:07:18.840 1.6%. It is a realistic goal, but I mean, that's what they're talking about. We've got to get

01:07:23.640 realistic. You see, if it doesn't work in Ottawa and it's not selling in Toronto, they're going to

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01:09:20.760 the news items. So Bill S7, that's that one, again, that's sliding under the radar pretty hard.

01:09:26.380 Finally, some liberal senators even are standing up and saying, hey, this is beyond the pale. It's

01:09:30.340 too much. Even liberal appointed senators saying this is infringing way too much on the privacy

01:09:35.860 and rights of Canadians. And apparently your paper mail, you know, a letter, those things we

01:09:43.660 still get now and then, has more privacy protection than your email. See, this bill is going to let

01:09:50.540 them search and seize without warrant your digital data. They can make you open your phone, your

01:09:55.960 laptops, search through your private things. And they still, though you're protected with your

01:10:01.940 physical mail, they have to get a warrant to get into that. It's unfortunate they're going to push

01:10:05.980 this primitively. But look at this government, look at their obsession. It's always about control.

01:10:12.200 It's control, control, control. They want to search your items without a warrant. I mean,

01:10:18.640 talk about, again, other things as far as that goes with, you know, going after tourism and

01:10:24.560 ruining it badly enough with our travel nightmares in the airports and all around and Canada's

01:10:28.780 reputation. I mean, we're a country that invoked a version of the War Measures Act to take on some

01:10:32.800 truckers because the bouncy cans, castles, and the horns were scaring Prime Minister Ding Dong

01:10:37.740 there. Well, he pushes back with more and more authoritarian moves. So they could, again, Bill

01:10:43.800 S7 will let them search your cell phone, your tablet, your laptop, and you'll be compelled to

01:10:50.200 surrender your passwords, or they will confiscate your device. They'll steal it from you. They will

01:10:55.740 steal it from you. That's what this bill has given them the power for. What are they? Who do they

01:11:00.040 think they are? What is this addressing? This, again, is a solution in search of a problem.

01:11:05.180 Sure, there's a lot of people carrying, you know, some awful stuff on their laptops. So we have law

01:11:10.600 to deal with that. And we've got warrants. You know, there are, again, some people say, well,

01:11:16.280 there could be child porn on there. Okay, yes. And I imagine there's a lot of vulgar, disgusting

01:11:20.620 child porn carrying people who have child porn in their houses too. But it doesn't mean you 0.99

01:11:25.000 suspend the government or you suspend your protection from unlawful search and seizure

01:11:29.860 and just let the government kick down any door they like to search for it because you know some

01:11:34.260 people have it. You have to protect the rights of the majority who are innocent. But this bill does

01:11:38.600 the other way and the only bar it puts for a customs agent is reasonable general concern.

01:11:44.500 That's the word in the legislation, reasonable, general concern.

01:11:49.240 That can mean anything.

01:11:52.060 All that certain person says, I thought they blinked a little too hard.

01:11:55.500 I got generally concerned, and now I want to steal their property and seize it and search through it.

01:11:59.620 Their personal information, their business transactions, their family photos, whatever else might be on there.

01:12:04.580 It's no minor thing now to look into somebody's cell phone.

01:12:08.560 You've got your world on there.

01:12:10.640 And they can do this without warrant, at least if this bill goes through.

01:12:14.500 So, I mean, witnesses are testifying that no, you need a higher threshold. You know, you've got to. And that higher threshold is already on with letter mail. So why are we not having it with our digital devices? I'm hoping. I'm kind of watching this issue with interest, though, because mostly the Senate's dysfunctional. Mostly the Senate's loaded with appointed, useless, you know, just guys who sit around collecting massive salaries and they're going to get a great pension.

01:12:40.440 but they're actually standing up this time 0.88

01:12:42.800 and liberal appointed ones, no less.

01:12:45.200 So credit where due again, right?

01:12:47.420 They're saying this bill goes too far.

01:12:50.260 They're saying it stinks.

01:12:51.580 They're putting it to the question.

01:12:53.540 It'd be really interesting

01:12:54.340 if this doesn't even pass the Senate

01:12:55.760 or if they shredded it and amended a great deal

01:12:59.780 because it still would have to go

01:13:00.720 through the House of Commons.

01:13:02.040 And it's rare when the government puts a bill

01:13:03.980 into the Senate if they want to get it in.

01:13:06.880 You know, S bills are unusual

01:13:08.580 and especially government bills.

01:13:10.440 And there's a lot of nuances to that.

01:13:12.060 Like if you see S-275 or whatever the numbers were,

01:13:14.780 that's a private member's bill.

01:13:16.200 Again, it's just somebody making a statement,

01:13:17.840 making noise.

01:13:18.400 It's not a big deal.

01:13:19.560 Same with commons,

01:13:20.240 ones with private member bills rarely go anywhere.

01:13:23.000 When you see S-7, a low number like that,

01:13:25.880 that's a government bill.

01:13:27.260 That's the liberals.

01:13:28.100 They want that in there.

01:13:29.960 And their own senators are saying,

01:13:31.460 I don't think so.

01:13:33.760 So it'll be, you know, seeing if,

01:13:36.260 you know what I mean?

01:13:36.520 Prime Minister can make a deal with the devil there

01:13:39.600 with Jagmeet Singh

01:13:40.620 and maintain his parliamentary majority,

01:13:42.240 but maybe he's lost control of the Senate.

01:13:44.140 That's nice to think.

01:13:47.220 We'll watch that one with interest.

01:13:50.060 Let's see.

01:13:50.780 Here's another one.

01:13:51.380 I'm saying the feds had plenty of warning.

01:13:52.820 A federal agency had ample warning

01:13:54.560 of rising passenger volumes

01:13:56.200 before hours long delays at the airports.

01:13:59.140 I mean, again, you know,

01:13:59.800 so many things with the government.

01:14:00.740 Of course, we're warning you.

01:14:01.680 We're telling you all the time

01:14:02.780 these issues coming.

01:14:05.000 But here's another one.

01:14:05.780 I was ranting before on Trudeau 1.00

01:14:07.160 likes to keep a stupid cabinet around himself. 1.00

01:14:09.360 And he does. I've never seen so many lackluster individuals holding senior cabinet positions in a government than I have in the Trudeau administration. All of them, all of them. And Omar Al-Habra, Al-Habra, I'm sorry, I'm bad with pronunciation, though. You watch that transport minister, that goofy little weasel. And he is, again, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's a transport minister. 1.00

01:14:34.760 So he's just saying, oh, it's good news.

01:14:36.360 We're seeing tremendous demand for travel.

01:14:37.700 And that's good.

01:14:38.280 That's his literal quotes.

01:14:40.420 Now we're working on identifying the bottlenecks, he says.

01:14:44.000 Good for you.

01:14:45.160 I told you already where this was going to be coming,

01:14:47.100 particularly with the bloody vaccine mandates.

01:14:49.600 But he won't talk about that.

01:14:51.020 He has his orders from above.

01:14:54.720 And he's actually, you know,

01:14:57.160 he says there's other jurisdictions that have volume issues

01:14:59.220 that don't have public health measures.

01:15:01.380 Whatever, guys.

01:15:02.580 We saw this coming.

01:15:03.620 You were warned you didn't do anything about it because, again, you're stubborn.

01:15:07.200 You've got a chip on your shoulder, and you will not drop these useless, damaging, expensive vaccine mandates

01:15:14.060 that are short-staffing airports, that are slowing down security,

01:15:18.120 that are slowing down every part of the process and embarrassing us around the world.

01:15:24.940 All right, let's see. 0.91

01:15:26.060 In the UCP race also, yeah, Leila Ahir, she's the MLA from Chestermere.

01:15:30.400 She's expected to be announcing today that she's running for the UCP leadership as well.

01:15:36.620 You know, here was one who kind of, she was on the outs in the UCP government under Kenny, for sure.

01:15:40.880 She was not getting along with the premier.

01:15:43.540 I was kind of thinking and waiting that she was going to be another one of the ones turfed out pretty quickly off to the wayside with Todd Lowen, who's now running for the leadership, and Drew Barnes.

01:15:52.920 She kind of clung in there in the back bench.

01:15:54.560 You didn't hear a lot about her, but now she's popped forward and said she's going to run for the leadership of the UCP.

01:16:00.400 So we'll see how that campaign goes.

01:16:02.200 An interesting thing is she used Ryan Jesperson's show to announce her bid for that leadership, which Ryan Jesperson's show, we've gone on about that on here.

01:16:13.640 He had that crazy woke producer who had a meltdown and basically, you know, shut his show down for weeks and it's back.

01:16:21.380 It's a very left-leaning show, very much like ours.

01:16:23.740 It's the other side of the coin.

01:16:25.800 And my producer is not crazy.

01:16:28.020 But either way, it's just an odd choice.

01:16:30.580 When you're running for a leadership of a party,

01:16:32.720 then you typically want to initially reach out

01:16:35.600 to where the party membership is.

01:16:38.320 I mean, you want to do your media everywhere.

01:16:39.860 That's fine.

01:16:40.480 I understand.

01:16:41.340 I mean, you can go on Jesperson later

01:16:43.140 and some of the other left-leaning shows

01:16:45.500 as your campaign develops.

01:16:46.880 But for your kickoff,

01:16:48.480 for your first real public conversation,

01:16:51.560 don't worry, it's not me with my nose out of joint

01:16:52.740 that she hasn't come on here.

01:16:53.780 I'll still invite and maybe she'll come on.

01:16:55.220 I'm not that insecure with things. I just find the strategy unusual.

01:17:01.260 Who are you targeting? Who do you think is going to buy memberships that's in that audience

01:17:05.620 that's going to help you win that leadership? Or what are you going to promise then as a

01:17:10.220 leadership candidate to appeal to the people who are in his audience? I mean, it's a matter of

01:17:14.640 reaching the right people. It'd be like somebody running for the NDP leadership

01:17:19.420 and coming on my show to announce it. I mean, hey, yeah, I'll have you on. Come on and talk.

01:17:23.720 Let's see. You're running against Notley. Sure. But I don't think a lot of our listeners and

01:17:27.780 viewers will be the prime people for whoever that NDP contender is to sell memberships to,

01:17:33.080 and it won't do a lot of favors in their helping win the leadership. So I don't know. We'll watch.

01:17:37.620 It's a big race. As I said, it's for the premiership and it's going to be highly

01:17:40.840 competitive. And we're going to see people coming from all over the place. And again,

01:17:44.700 I welcome a here to the race like anybody else. It's just a very unusual way to start into it,

01:17:50.020 isn't it? Uh, oh yeah. Here's another beauty. So here's CTV, man. I tell you, they're starting

01:17:58.500 to make CBC look reasonable, which is quite something. Uh, so that now they've got their

01:18:04.240 experts again. And that's something David Creighton wrote about it. Something I wrote about these CTV

01:18:07.780 experts that they're always getting at. But now they're talking about the easing of public health

01:18:11.220 restrictions, you know, the, the masking, the vaccine mandates, all of that stuff, letting us

01:18:15.900 go to work, letting us walk around in public, you know, all those little freedoms. Well, it didn't

01:18:20.500 lead to the massive outbreak of COVID-19 like all the doomsayers and fearmongers said they would

01:18:25.980 when we started easing all those things. So what are they looking at now? The flu has gone up. Yes,

01:18:31.600 that's what they're reporting on. Oh, my Lord, the flu is going up because we eased public

01:18:36.380 restrictions. So there's been 1,500 cases of the flu in Canada between May 22nd and May 28th.

01:18:42.700 uh so what i mean is that what you guys are thinking though that that's what worries me

01:18:50.240 they don't want these restrictions to end for anything the flu has always been with us covid's

01:18:54.600 always going to be with us by the way and we didn't make everybody mask up for every flu season

01:18:59.340 but i think these covid zero these zero risk lunatics these medical quote-unquote experts

01:19:04.220 these control freaks these authoritarians want to keep the restrictions on or on and off again all

01:19:10.360 the time, forever. And the CTV just loves feeding this insanity. Nuts. Judy and Jim Gerwatsky,

01:19:23.340 Gerwatsky, sorry. I'm terrible with names, aren't I? But you can mispronounce Morgan anytime you

01:19:28.040 like. I'll take it all right. Saying, do you have a reporter covering Todd Lowen's campaign launch

01:19:32.220 tonight? I will be watching it and I'm certain there'll probably be something written on it. I

01:19:35.840 can't say. I'm not in the news department. I talk with Dave all the time, but it's a UCP issue.

01:19:39.940 his leadership. I'm certain somebody will be watching it and covering it for sure. I can't

01:19:44.040 say who and, of course, what the report will be. And I've reached out for Mr. Lowen's campaign.

01:19:48.320 Hopefully, I can get him on the show pretty soon. We can talk directly with him and see what he

01:19:52.120 is going with with his. Another interesting campaign. I mean, Todd, he obviously wasn't

01:19:57.820 kicked out of the party itself. He was just kicked out of caucus. So he's still qualified to run as

01:20:02.560 a candidate for the leadership, but he was kicked out of caucus initially. I don't imagine the

01:20:08.060 leadership committee would ban Mr. Lowen from running because he was kicked out of caucus,

01:20:13.220 that would certainly cause more division and strife within their already messed up caucus.

01:20:17.060 So again, getting so strange where Premier Kenney sitting on as a kind of a lame duck

01:20:21.260 interim leader, and then one of the members of caucus that he kicked out of caucus will be running

01:20:25.500 to replace him on his role as a leader. But I mean, hey, whoever said Alberta politics are

01:20:29.440 normal, right? We want to break the mold and start to seem stable and sane. Let's see. This

01:20:36.140 was written about by Mac and Chuck. We talked about this a while back, and it's making more

01:20:39.600 news now, maybe because Trudeau actually addressed it. But yeah, Prime Minister Trudeau said China's

01:20:45.280 reported harassment of Canadian aircraft is irresponsible and provocative. But here's,

01:20:51.920 as China's foreign ministry warned of severe consequences for any risky provocation. So Trudeau

01:20:58.780 said they're putting people at risk while at the same time not respecting the decision by the UN to

01:21:02.040 enforce sanctions on North Korea, Trudeau said in response to a question from Mercedes Stevenson. 0.97

01:21:07.560 So Trudeau trying to talk a little tough, not too much, because I mean, the Chinese don't care. 0.98

01:21:11.980 That's the bottom line. They literally, as per Makachev's story, were buzzing Canadian airplanes 0.98

01:21:16.520 and giving the pilots the finger. We're laughingstock, unfortunately, militarily on those

01:21:21.820 things. And well, I'm glad Trudeau is brought to his attention. But as I was talking about with one

01:21:27.720 of the earlier stories. We can't even hire back the people we fired in our military with the

01:21:32.440 vaccine mandates. So bringing our military up to anything that's going to be respected at any time

01:21:36.880 soon is probably a long ways away, but at least, you know, kudos to Stevenson for even bringing it

01:21:42.940 up, I guess. All right. So let's see, tomorrow I'm going to wrap things up here and let's say

01:21:48.360 we've got a couple of interesting guests tomorrow. As always, I got Spike Cohen on, people familiar

01:21:52.840 with American politics, libertarian politics. Spike Cohen was up to be the libertarian. At

01:21:58.420 least he ran in the primaries candidate for president down in the United States. He's

01:22:03.120 got a large social media presence. And we're going to talk about things like gun control,

01:22:07.140 liberty issues, things like that, an American perspective, but he watches politics in general.

01:22:10.880 And we've got a lot of common issues and things like that. And then I'm going to talk to Jade

01:22:15.900 Savage and she's with ETIC. Now this is an app and a website that actually is tracking

01:22:21.900 wood ticks. If you pluck a tick off yourself or find one or whatnot, you can use the app.

01:22:27.600 At least I'm paraphrasing. Maybe she'll correct me, but send it into them. And then they can

01:22:31.560 track tick numbers, types of ticks, whether it's off your pets, things like that. So you can see

01:22:35.560 where the outbreaks are going, where they're bigger, where they're not, because it has been

01:22:39.640 a growing thing. And as a surveyor who worked many years in the bush, I have been chewed on

01:22:44.000 by many, many ticks. Pennsylvania, they used to be these horrible little tiny things all over you

01:22:48.280 every day when you get in for the field. Don't miss that a bit. So I'll have Jade Savage on.

01:22:52.780 We're going to talk about that, that Canadian app. And of course, there will be lots more

01:22:55.920 news and discussion and ranting and things to follow. So thank you all for tuning in today,

01:23:00.800 guys. I appreciate it. And I'll see you all again tomorrow at 1130 a.m. sharp.

01:23:18.280 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - June 08, 2022

Triggered： AHS mismanagement of emergency services led to the death of a senior

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