Western Standard - Triggered： Calgary’s addict laden transit emergency won’t go away

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It is Tuesday, June 21st, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. That makes it the summer

00:00:40.100 solstice, the longest day we have of the year. So just to brighten everybody's day, just to remind

00:00:45.240 you from here on in, the days are only going to get shorter and we're already working our way

00:00:49.700 back towards winter again. Welcome to living in a northern country. On the bright side, the

00:00:54.380 Mosquitoes will all be gone in a few months.

00:00:56.860 So this is the Western Standards Daily Live show.

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00:01:36.900 to see you, Brian and Deidre and the rest coming in out there. Okay. So today for guests, I do have

00:01:42.740 the Western Standards, Reid Small. He's our BC reporter and he covers a lot of stuff out there.

00:01:49.700 He's going to give us an update on all things B.C. happening out there on the wet coast.

00:01:54.000 And Colin Craig, he's been on before. He's of 2nd Street.

00:01:56.560 And they put out a great thing. I think it was through a FOIP request.

00:01:59.700 But they found out that municipal politicians all across Canada,

00:02:02.480 even though they're always telling us to ride bikes, take transit, all that,

00:02:06.040 well, they all get free parking passes.

00:02:07.780 In fact, a lot of municipal employees do as well.

00:02:10.780 And he's also been doing his Survivors of Socialism series.

00:02:15.040 So we get to talk to him, get an update, and see how those things are going as well.

00:02:19.260 For those who were, you know, listening to the show yesterday,

00:02:21.620 I announced I was going to have another UCP leadership candidate, Rajan Sani, on today.

00:02:27.540 Apparently, there was some confusion in the communication,

00:02:30.200 and she's not going to be able to make it on to the show today.

00:02:33.340 I can't get details because their campaign team is apparently incapable

00:02:36.400 of responding to emails in anything less than two hours.

00:02:39.380 So as much as I'd like to share what her leadership campaign is about, 0.98

00:02:43.140 all I could share is their communication sucks. 0.92

00:02:45.440 Perhaps we shall reschedule her at another time. 0.72

00:02:48.900 all right so the couple of observances we have for today here is uh i think we always get the

00:02:54.340 odd ones it's national dog party day don't ever want to forget that one your dogs my dogs they're

00:03:00.500 a pain in the butt they act up i'm not every day is a party day for them but either way today is

00:03:04.980 the day where it is the formal observance national dog party day i don't know put little hats on get 0.82

00:03:10.260 them some treats have some fun throw the ball an extra couple times for those dogs they deserve it 0.61

00:03:14.580 even if they can be a pain in the butt at times. It's also the National Day of the Gong. I'm not

00:03:20.000 sure. I mean, while we do have a gong here in the office, we bang it on special occasions here,

00:03:24.820 big sales, readership numbers, things like that. Well, today's the day where we celebrate the gong

00:03:29.700 in and of itself. I don't know where we'd be without these regular observations, but make

00:03:34.820 sure you don't get through a day missing any of these important things. Okay, let's get on to

00:03:39.980 what's got me wound up today. I've ranted about this before, and I'll rant about it again. I'm

00:03:45.040 going to keep exposing this subject, though, no matter how much squeamish city officials and

00:03:49.320 legacy media outlets want to pretend that it isn't happening. Calgary's entire transit system

00:03:55.020 has devolved into a drug and violence-laden dystopian nightmare, and something has to be

00:04:00.960 done about it. As the addiction epidemic continues to grow across North America, every city's

00:04:05.580 grappling with these issues. I can't find one, though, with the dubious honor of actually having

00:04:10.100 closed down their train stations to the public rather than deal with the issue as Calgary did.

00:04:14.600 They've been closed for months. A picture was shared with me yesterday by a commuter as he

00:04:19.080 passed by the Chinook LRT station in Calgary. The shelter was full of addicts in all states. One was

00:04:24.660 in the midst of counting money from a drug exchange, another was preparing to consume his

00:04:29.220 newly purchased drugs, and another was, well, I would say hopefully simply unconscious. Overdoses

00:04:35.060 have become a daily occurrence at those stations. I was assured by the commuter that this scene was

00:04:39.520 common and it's often actually worse there. I can believe it. I drive by LRT stations regularly and

00:04:44.860 see the people laid out along with the ambulances and fire trucks constantly there and parked as

00:04:49.820 the overdoses happen and they're called in. It's a typical scene. I used to take the train to our

00:04:55.420 downtown office from the Westbrook station in Calgary and syringes and aggressive attics just

00:05:00.360 became too much for me. I didn't want to deal with it and I accepted paying to park downtown

00:05:04.140 rather than immerse myself daily in a rolling drug consumption center that reeked of piss

00:05:08.700 and felt unsafe ridership on calgary transits is 64 of what it was a couple of years ago

00:05:14.620 anybody who can avoid riding those trains right now does not everybody has a choice to simply jump

00:05:19.660 in a car like i did however many commuters have no other way to get around rather than use city

00:05:23.980 transit and they have to endure fearful rides every day just to get to work and back multiple

00:05:29.260 random assaults have been happening on train platforms and in transit facilities the fear of

00:05:33.420 of the addicts is not misplaced. They can often be aggressive and dangerous. You know, to one

00:05:38.520 legacy media outlet, to their credit, a CBC reporter went out and took a ride on Calgary's

00:05:42.780 LRT just a couple weeks ago. She reported what she saw. She witnessed three overdoses and numerous

00:05:47.740 aggressive actions. Reporting on that, by the way, and that was just on one trip. Reporting on it,

00:05:52.880 many on social media, of course, got on her case and accused her of shaming addicts. Look, we can't

00:05:58.140 let addicts continue to take over the transit system for a city of over a million people for

00:06:02.440 fear of shaming them. We can be compassionate while putting our foot down. It doesn't mean

00:06:07.500 we don't care if we take an initiative to remove addicts from city transit facilities

00:06:11.780 and vehicles. It just means that we're accepting that that's not where they belong. The bigger

00:06:16.720 issue of how to deal with addicts once they're removed from transit will remain. We can't

00:06:20.860 refuse, though, to take action on one issue in hopes of avoiding to have to deal with

00:06:24.660 the other issue. Calgary's downtown has nearly a third of its office buildings remaining

00:06:29.200 vacant. Bike lanes have taken out almost all the street parking, while other parking lots charge a

00:06:34.160 fortune. If the city really wants people to come downtown, they need to take transit. And it has

00:06:40.340 to be safe, and it's nowhere close to that right now. The downtown itself actually is loaded with

00:06:44.940 attics, feces, and discarded syringes as well, but I just want to mostly stick to the transit issue

00:06:49.940 for today. The first full Calgary stampede in years is approaching, and Calgary's hospitality

00:06:55.080 sector is desperate to see an influx of tourists. How many people, though, are going to make it

00:06:58.980 their last visit to Calgary after riding on the city's horrific transit system and seeing the

00:07:02.740 urban decay around them. Would you really want to take your kids out into that? Mayor Gondek and

00:07:07.820 many of her city council counterparts are trying to bring in an insane $87 billion climate change

00:07:13.420 plan. One aspect of their nutty plan, though, is to have over 60% of Calgarians using transit to

00:07:19.660 get around. Well, I can tell you right now that sure as hell isn't going to happen as long as

00:07:23.280 transit's unsafe, no matter how much they try to punish automobile owners. They're just going to

00:07:27.340 continue to drive more people out of the city altogether. The mayor and the council want to

00:07:31.420 pretend that transit is fine. Maybe if they can be convinced that dealing with a problem will help

00:07:36.320 with their fictional climate emergency, we can see some action. I mean, Calgary is in a state

00:07:40.500 of emergency right now. It just isn't climate related. I bet if they took their elitist asses

00:07:44.960 out for a day in road city transit, as the commoners have to, we would finally see some 0.94

00:07:48.920 action as well. But I won't hold my breath on that. All right. So that's what's got me up and

00:07:55.060 wound up today. So let's see here if we've got her waiting. Let's check in with Eva Sudik in our 0.99

00:08:02.220 newsroom and see what other news stories are breaking out there across the country today.

00:08:07.120 Hey, Eva, how's it going? Good. How are you, Corey? I'm all right. I don't have to ride the

00:08:10.900 train. Yeah, me neither. I started parking downtown and it has made my life exponentially

00:08:15.720 better. Yes, it's expensive. Yeah, very expensive. But actually with the fees on the transit, my $10

00:08:22.220 early bird is almost the same price as transit anyway there and back so okay yeah so today in

00:08:30.800 the news uh we got ucp leadership election committee has granted federal mp michelle

00:08:36.420 rempel garner an exemption allowing her to run in the conservative leadership race after she

00:08:41.560 didn't meet all requirements uh that's an exclusive story from our edmonton reporter

00:08:46.400 Rachel Emanuel. She has another story up about another UCP candidate. Alberta former Liberal

00:08:54.260 leader Raj Sherman, his bid for leadership has been rejected by the UCP election committee.

00:09:00.320 He requested an exemption but for not being a member of the Conservative Party for more than

00:09:05.100 six months it was denied. There's more news on the follow-up after Freedom Convoy crackdown that

00:09:12.500 stop the protests as the use of the emergencies act is investigated the house of commons finance

00:09:19.780 committee is saying it should be not a template for dealing with the public mps from all political

00:09:26.180 parties have stepped up saying that the use of the emergencies act was needless harsh and sets

00:09:32.500 dangerous precedent for our government we have a story out of massachusetts a school has lost its

00:09:39.940 catholic status after refusing to remove pride and blm flags from the property

00:09:46.900 the nativity school of worcester received a request from a local bishop to take down its

00:09:52.740 flags but the privately funded school stood their ground and the bishop has received

00:09:57.380 criticism from the school's human rights commission another story we have is hockey canada

00:10:04.180 It has come out that Hockey Canada took a large sexual assault suit very lightly by not requiring the accused player to take part in the investigation.

00:10:13.980 A three and a half million dollar settlement went to the victim of the group assault, which included four eight players and one victim.

00:10:24.120 Only four to six players reportedly took part in the investigation, according to NPs.

00:10:28.460 The eight players were not revealed and the investigations halted in 2020.

00:10:36.460 Manitoba boy committed suicide after being the victim of an online blackmail scam.

00:10:40.460 Daniel Lintz sent explicit images of himself to a supposedly attractive female on Snapchat.

00:10:49.460 Within minutes there was a blackmail attempt threatening for the image to go viral

00:10:54.460 and three hours later Daniel committed suicide.

00:10:57.460 His father explains the events and family recoil in Linda Slobodian's story up on our site.

00:11:05.220 Just a horrific story. My prayers go out to the family.

00:11:11.620 Also a cautionary tale for kids of these days and what can go on on the internet and also

00:11:17.540 what's not a big deal and the mental health issues around it.

00:11:21.380 a saskatchewan rcmp are on lookout for two individuals who were involved in a shootout

00:11:28.940 with rcmp on sunday both both the men have previous charges including one attempt murder

00:11:34.920 using a firearm both the men's names and descriptions are up in our story and rcmp

00:11:40.040 are looking for anyone with information to come forwards and report it and you may be eligible for

00:11:44.500 a reward city news reporter calls ndp candidate transphobic for saying you can't change your

00:11:52.260 entire biological makeup what the ndp candidate was stating as a fact back in 2015 has been

00:12:01.380 pulled up by the reporter and ndp nominate sharif hajj is now issuing an apology

00:12:08.100 and what just came out on our site is the bc government released a new climate preparedness

00:12:14.900 and adaptation strategy they want to prevent flooding wildfires and other natural events

00:12:20.520 this plan will cost the province approximately 500 million dollars

00:12:25.420 our reporter reed small who will be on your show later on today just came out with that story

00:12:31.320 and that was our latest and our live on the site right on well thank you very much lots coming up

00:12:40.680 and lots on the go and i imagine lots to work on in the newsroom we're down a couple people today

00:12:44.780 so i won't hold you up too much longer i know you've got a lot to keep up with so thanks for

00:12:49.040 the update there eva and we'll talk to you later thanks for having me on cory great thanks so yes

00:12:53.860 lots and lots breaking and uh going on out there guys is where i like to remind everybody all those

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00:13:43.360 independent news. All right. Yeah, lots going on. You know, some interesting things that I ever

00:13:48.600 spoke of. The suicide of that poor kid, you know, and that's just a reminder. I guess when you

00:13:54.440 can. I know it's hard, but try and keep up, I guess, with what your kids are getting onto and

00:13:59.580 what they're doing. So the deal was with that, and I guess this is an ongoing scam, is some fake

00:14:04.800 girl will find young guys online or whatever and manage to fool them, talk them into thinking 1.00

00:14:11.800 they're speaking to a girl. And then when you're young and overladen with hormones, you can do 0.72

00:14:15.980 foolish things. And he sent pictures of himself that were pretty embarrassing, I guess, out there.

00:14:20.660 And then suddenly they come back with a blackmail request saying, all right, you give us money or

00:14:24.260 or we're going to, you know, send these pictures to your family and post it on Facebook and YouTube

00:14:28.900 and whatnot. It's horrible. And then this poor kid, you know, and kids react strongly. He killed

00:14:33.080 himself out of fear and horror out of it. It's just awful. It's an awful end. And just, you know,

00:14:38.260 talk to kids, make sure they're aware of these things or whatever. Hey, you know, being caught

00:14:41.980 in a compromising picture still isn't worth losing your life over, even if it might feel like it when

00:14:45.720 you're 14 or 15. And just watch out for these scams. It's just what an awful thing. There's

00:14:50.780 There's horrible, horrible people out there.

00:14:53.620 Getting on to denying reality.

00:14:55.040 You know, I want to talk about another one of those stories.

00:14:56.320 Yeah, that's one that came up with that.

00:14:57.500 I forget the name, but it was an NDP candidate.

00:14:59.300 And this is the big exposure.

00:15:00.560 In 2015, this candidate dared to say,

00:15:04.100 you can't change your biological reality.

00:15:07.080 You know, you can't change your biological makeup.

00:15:09.660 Well, it's true.

00:15:10.580 That's just a fact.

00:15:11.520 That's like saying up is up.

00:15:12.740 It's like saying gravity exists.

00:15:15.340 It's like saying the sun rises in the east.

00:15:17.080 But it is now considered politically devastating, at least for the woke and sane left, to state reality.

00:15:26.820 We've gone past the edge, guys.

00:15:30.140 I mean, I support trans people.

00:15:31.840 If somebody identifies as and wants me to refer to them as a she or he or whatever, sure, no problem.

00:15:37.700 I'll indulge however I can. 0.70

00:15:39.360 But there's an underlying reality.

00:15:41.020 There's still a physiological reality.

00:15:44.380 Get over it.

00:15:45.720 We can be understanding and compassionate, but we can't reverse reality, guys.

00:15:53.200 We're seeing it in the sports. 0.98

00:15:54.740 You know, it's ridiculous. 1.00

00:15:55.720 It was funny that the head of the women's soccer team, that woke, purple-haired thing, 0.98

00:15:59.780 whoever she is in the United States, was going on about how she called it disgusting 0.97

00:16:03.320 that some sports are banning, and let's face it, they're banning men from women's sports, 1.00

00:16:08.180 biological men at least.

00:16:10.700 Her team, the national United States team, the one I think they won the World Championships

00:16:14.680 of soccer, lost to a high school team of 15-year-old boys. Yes, they lost. There's a huge

00:16:22.640 advantage. The best women's team in the world still couldn't beat a men's high school team 0.98

00:16:27.560 because they're bigger, stronger, and faster. That's just genetics, guys. And it's not being 0.97

00:16:33.000 insensitive to point it out. It's just pointing out reality. So, I mean, if the NDP want to keep

00:16:37.420 eating their own, fine, but it's ridiculous. We've got to be able to at least say the realities. 0.63

00:16:42.740 It doesn't mean you're being insensitive.

00:16:45.180 Being insensitive is being in denial.

00:16:47.180 We've got too much denial.

00:16:48.200 That's what I was ranting about earlier with City Hall,

00:16:50.240 denying what's going on downtown.

00:16:51.580 I guess the woke denial.

00:16:53.020 They just don't like hard realities.

00:16:54.300 We'll get over it, guys.

00:16:55.640 Because reality always catches up with you in the end.

00:16:58.400 Let's see, Paulette Bergert,

00:17:01.000 a commenter saying good morning.

00:17:03.360 And what's a good place to find the latest

00:17:04.440 on international travel regarding jabs?

00:17:06.320 Not so much getting out of Canada,

00:17:07.460 but getting back in. 0.98

00:17:08.600 She's coming from Pincher Creek.

00:17:09.760 I did a rant on that the other day

00:17:11.240 and I think I put a column up.

00:17:12.320 No, maybe not. There's a short though, if you look on, and I listed all the countries actually

00:17:15.820 that you can visit without vaccination and some without testing even. Getting back in,

00:17:21.360 not much you can do about that. I mean, they can't keep you from coming back in. You can't,

00:17:25.340 it's your right. But they can force quarantines upon you and a bunch of things if you aren't

00:17:29.380 vaccinated. Hopefully we get rid of all that crap soon. But as it stands, yeah, there is a bit of a 0.99

00:17:35.800 guide for places you can go outwards too, Paula. Just look back onto it. Let's see what else we

00:17:41.280 got in the comments scroll oh yeah Cheryl Dawn saying hey but Calgary just approved allowing

00:17:45.780 bikes on the LRT you know speaking of our transit system and it's funny because you know some of the

00:17:50.020 woke members of city council the only time we've seen them speak up on the addicts and the crime

00:17:53.840 downtown was like Giancarlo Carragas oh my god a bike got stolen now suddenly it's important you

00:17:58.080 know people getting stabbed on platforms intimidated robbed it that's not a problem but as soon as

00:18:02.160 hipsters start losing bikes now now we've got to address this well guess what now they can go on

00:18:06.880 there with both bikes because you see that do you really believe when you see that that guy with 0.95

00:18:11.180 his pants around his knees, he shit himself, he's quivering, fully in the throes of addiction,

00:18:15.240 he has two brand new multi-thousand dollar bikes next to him while he's riding on the train that 0.95

00:18:18.440 he bought them? Of course not. He's riding down to the suburbs where he can meet up with somebody

00:18:23.320 in a parking lot, trade them for some drugs, and then whoever that drug dealer is can sell them

00:18:28.620 on Kijiji for a good profit. But no, let's deny reality. Let's deny reality. Let's allow bikes

00:18:33.340 on the train. That'll make it better, won't it? Good work, guys. Micah, Adam Marsden. Hey, Micah.

00:18:38.900 has his wife's been accosted multiple times on the LRT. Yeah, you know, the system needs to be

00:18:43.840 available for safe use for commuters, as he's saying. And it's true. It's not unreasonable.

00:18:48.900 It's not insensitive to ask for these things. We've got to get real. But we won't. We won't.

00:18:54.540 We just won't bloody do it. So let's see here. Okay. I'm going to speak to our sponsor quickly,

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00:20:18.740 wet coast in BC there. We've got Reid Small. He's been very prolifically reporting out there. Hey,

00:20:23.900 Reid, how's it going? It's going good. Thank you.

00:20:27.040 I appreciate you joining us today. You've got a lot of stories on the go.

00:20:31.720 One Eversaid just popped up onto the site.

00:20:33.980 Maybe we want to start there.

00:20:35.460 What's going on?

00:20:37.060 Yeah, the BC government just released its new climate preparedness and adaptation strategy,

00:20:46.280 which is supported by more than $500 million, $513 to be exact.

00:20:52.540 Most of that funding has already been announced over the last year,

00:20:56.020 But they've released the strategy now to more or less show where it's going to be allocated.

00:21:02.080 And that's going to be various actions to reduce the future impact of wildfire, flooding impacts.

00:21:13.320 They mentioned the heat dome that supposedly killed more than 600 people last summer.

00:21:18.540 uh so yeah i mean we all remember uh the fall of of 2021 when you know there was the abbotsford

00:21:25.760 merits uh you know more than 45 000 people uh evacuated uh as a result of these uh weather

00:21:33.560 events uh over the last year and uh yeah the new plan basically just uh it aims to tackle all of

00:21:41.460 that but it uh it focuses on um i guess what you could call anthropogenic climate change

00:21:47.500 So the idea that, you know, carbon emissions are impacting these weather events in some way.

00:21:55.380 And so, like, for example, last week, the federal government just announced it was going to give Lytton $77 million, most of which is going to go towards building net zero buildings.

00:22:09.220 So yeah, there's a big focus from the province in agreement with the federal government on

00:22:16.660 sort of these net zero policies to address wildfire flooding, that kind of thing.

00:22:25.440 Well, you guys are getting a good deal.

00:22:26.780 I mean, with a province the size of BC, it's only $500 million.

00:22:29.760 In Calgary alone, we're going at $87 billion with Gondek's plan here.

00:22:34.880 So you guys really got to catch up on the climate change race.

00:22:37.140 yeah yeah no kidding it's uh yeah it's it's it there's a lot of the like a lot of people are

00:22:46.580 raising concerns particularly towards uh you know the wildfire situation they're saying that

00:22:51.380 uh you know there are more obvious things that can be done um to prevent uh like things that

00:22:59.520 happened in in places like Lytton uh without you know this focus on the need to you know have x

00:23:07.600 amount of you know zero emission vehicles by 2030 or something like that you know people will focus

00:23:13.080 on they'll say well look at the forest management system you know they'll say uh you know we're

00:23:19.220 cutting down all this deciduous growth which is naturally fire resistant we're we're planting

00:23:23.820 pine which is highly flammable um and we're wondering why wildfires are getting worse

00:23:30.040 uh each year uh but there's no there's been a no there's been no addressing of uh of anything

00:23:37.080 regarding uh the forest management industry it's all about uh anthropogenic climate change

00:23:42.900 um and the need to uh reduce carbon emissions yeah it's it's uh they're always hung up on that

00:23:50.180 But we'll just watch them continue. Hopefully we get some realism. And yeah, forest management, I talked about that last week. I mean, we've got to get realistic. And there's a lot of people in forestry who are pointing that out and they're trying to tell them that, but they're focused on climate change. So I guess we've got to see a little more burn yet. Let's see some other stuff you had going on. The BC Liberals have called on BC to suspend vaccine mandates.

00:24:12.920 yeah yeah they are uh they're suggesting that the province follows the uh federal government's lead

00:24:19.980 uh by uh suspending uh vaccine mandates they didn't say they wanted the vaccine mandates to

00:24:25.420 end they were very careful to to repeatedly use the word suspend uh much like uh the federal

00:24:31.600 government um and so yeah kevin falcon um the bc liberals uh have have openly supported uh

00:24:40.360 mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers, provincial workers in the past. But now that

00:24:46.560 they're saying that those were supposed to be temporary, and, and therefore, it's time to lift

00:24:51.740 them. And of course, people are kind of rolling their eyes and going, well, you know, what did

00:24:56.380 you expect to happen? When you, you know, you brought these in, in the first place? Did you

00:25:00.440 really think that they were going to, you know, easily just, just let them go? But yeah, Kevin

00:25:07.320 falcon is now uh speaking out uh in contrast to his uh previous stance on the vaccine requirements

00:25:13.360 well i guess the suspend is getting closer to getting rid of but everybody's covering their

00:25:17.940 butts it's unfortunate we can't see much courage politically that often but take what we can get

00:25:22.880 i guess uh let's see what else we got in your story scroll uh a crazy machete attack going on

00:25:27.500 in vancouver yeah that's actually the second uh machete attack to happen in east vancouver uh the

00:25:34.000 last one was only 19 days ago um this this one in particular uh a police officer was waved over to

00:25:42.600 the emperor's hotel on uh main and hasting near main and hasting streets uh and he saw a guy uh

00:25:47.880 waving a machete around um that's why he was called over uh and then as it turned out uh two

00:25:54.540 people that were loading their luggage into a vehicle were just randomly uh and unexpectedly

00:25:59.580 slashed by this guy with the machete. Both of them ended up in hospital with pretty serious

00:26:06.580 injuries to the head and neck, but they're expected to make a full recovery. And the one

00:26:13.420 that happened only 19 days prior to this one was also a man had to be hospitalized due to head and

00:26:19.700 neck injuries. He was also stabbed in the back with the machete. And this was just one incident

00:26:26.280 uh in vancouver over the weekend it was a particularly violent uh father's day weekend

00:26:31.280 we're still seeing an average of according to the vancouver police uh four uh random assaults

00:26:37.780 every day on average and uh yeah there was a few other stabbings uh someone was bear maced uh

00:26:45.120 someone had a an airsoft gun held to their face um just a bunch of random things popping up here

00:26:55.140 and there as far as violent crime goes so is this mostly gathered though you know east hastings

00:26:59.900 king's way you know the areas we kind of anticipate this to happen or is there issues

00:27:03.660 kind of popping up all over the city it's all over the city um uh for example they there was uh the

00:27:11.260 guy with uh the airsoft gun incident that was held to him the guy was pretending it was a real gun

00:27:15.800 uh that happened uh i believe it was near stanley park like right by the seawall there in the west

00:27:21.380 end which is supposed to be uh you know a nicer neighborhood i lived in the west end for a while

00:27:26.100 and uh i remember after the first uh lockdown during that first wave i remember going

00:27:32.560 up to the shoppers drug mart it was around midnight and uh you could just feel there

00:27:38.600 was a different vibe all the small businesses were closed and just kind of some of the characters

00:27:42.840 that were hanging around uh nearby it just had a different vibe and sure enough the security

00:27:49.260 guard at that shoppers was uh was stabbed about 20 minutes after i left that night i remember reading

00:27:54.620 the news the next day and being like wow wow i would i missed that by you know 20 minutes um

00:28:01.980 and uh and then the stats reflect that there's been more than a seven percent increase in violent

00:28:06.540 crime in vancouver uh compared to to pre-covid levels yeah the world's getting a little crazy

00:28:13.500 i mean a lot of it without we're seeing in calgary as i was talking earlier about our transit system

00:28:17.660 And Linda Slavodian put out a story on how well decriminalization of drugs worked in Oregon.

00:28:22.900 It sounds like they've had a 700% increase in overdoses.

00:28:26.060 Unfortunately, we're just going to see a lot more mayhem until we can figure out how to get this addiction epidemic under control.

00:28:32.840 Yeah.

00:28:33.860 Yeah, well, yeah, as we all know, BC is going to be decriminalizing small amounts of drugs, personal possession under 2.5 grams.

00:28:44.260 So we'll see how that plays out.

00:28:46.020 I don't know how much of a difference it will really make because no one was getting arrested for small possession anyways.

00:28:55.260 The whole idea is that it's supposed to just de-stigmatize it, the use.

00:29:01.100 And I guess the theory is that that will make people feel more comfortable to seek help and whatnot.

00:29:07.920 um but uh you know if well hopefully uh you know it doesn't end up like uh like what's going on

00:29:17.720 down in oregon there we'll see yeah the commenter june marie saying see portland yeah unfortunately

00:29:22.180 it's turned into a failure i mean again we're looking for realistic solutions if they'd done

00:29:25.760 that in portland a couple years ago holy cow it was working like a charm and they're getting

00:29:29.160 people into treatment and survival rates are going up but hey bring it on let's have it up here but

00:29:34.160 it it seems to be a catastrophe so uh i don't know they don't seem to again we're getting

00:29:40.000 ideology blinding things from reality i'm afraid yeah for sure and it's you know i'm

00:29:44.940 reading your uh twitter timeline it sounds like things are pretty bad in calgary right now as

00:29:49.860 well a lot of drug use going on on buses and sky trains and that kind of thing so um yeah it's a

00:29:57.080 different world you know and i'm uh considerably older than you but i mean i i remember you know

00:30:01.280 drug use was always around but nothing like this nothing at all i mean east hastings it always was

00:30:06.420 kind of north america's heroin capital and it was kind of noteworthy because it'd be like a three

00:30:11.520 block area where you would kind of see that and now it's across the country it's every city is

00:30:17.240 dealing with this uh the new kid on the block there is that fentanyl i mean it's not that new

00:30:22.020 but getting out to the public and people hooked on it and of course how horrifically dangerous it

00:30:26.100 is for overdoses. I'll kind of segue that into a story there. I see Denise Martin saying, yeah,

00:30:32.640 two and a half grams of fentanyl is enough for 25,000 people, perhaps. Yeah, it's just crazy

00:30:37.640 how powerful that stuff is. She's absolutely right. Yeah. So BC fentanyl was tied to American

00:30:43.080 Navy deaths. Yeah, yeah. That was down in Georgia. In 2017, two US Navy servicemen

00:30:52.340 died of a drug overdose. And the packaging that was found was linked to a vendor called Canada

00:31:01.900 One, which was a dark web drug selling vendor based out of North Vancouver. And so that led to

00:31:11.240 a several year long investigation with RCMP and authorities in the US. And that led to the arrest

00:31:21.560 of a North Vancouver man as well as a UK man

00:31:24.720 that was living in North Vancouver at the time.

00:31:27.940 These guys were shipping fentanyl out around the world.

00:31:33.200 And they were ordering it in from Hungary and China

00:31:35.880 and then selling it through their vendor

00:31:38.760 to whoever wanted to buy it.

00:31:41.040 And unfortunately, two of those people were US servicemen

00:31:45.960 and they died as a result of taking the fentanyl.

00:31:48.400 yeah so it's uh just just awful stuff and and we're all tied together it's integrated

00:31:54.520 as i say such tiny amounts can be so potent so i mean it's difficult to stop the smuggling of it

00:31:59.140 because a small package is pretty easy to hide and get across a border that big uh yeah and

00:32:05.680 unfortunately too uh in vancouver um when someone dies of a of a drug overdose uh users will uh as

00:32:14.600 one drug dealer put it when I was talking to him, a former drug dealer, will flock to the source

00:32:21.140 because it indicates a strong supply. Obviously, this isn't the case with wealthier college kids

00:32:28.820 that are partying, doing cocaine, that kind of thing. But the street users that are addicted

00:32:34.860 to opioids, if they hear someone dies, they're going for that supply. It's really a sad situation.

00:32:44.600 Yeah, well, we get on something, I guess, a little more frustrating, but a little lighter. The BC Museum, that's a big issue we hear about here and now. And then, I mean, on a couple of fronts. For one, the old museum apparently was too offensive to the woke. So they just had to tear it down. There was no fixing it. But the new one is going to cost a fortune. And it doesn't sound like BC citizens are all that thrilled with the idea.

00:33:04.920 yeah yeah the uh the majority of uh bc citizens according to the angus reed poll are uh opposed

00:33:12.380 to that museum which is going to cost uh as most people know by now uh nearly 800 million dollars

00:33:19.080 um so we'll we'll see uh if if they're going to proceed with it it seems like

00:33:24.620 the government will um and as we talked about last time uh kevin falcon initially said he was

00:33:30.020 going to scrap the plan if elected. But according to the timelines set forth in the business case

00:33:37.340 for the museum, demolition will begin before the next provincial election. So it looks like it's

00:33:45.260 going to go forward, regardless of whether British Columbians support it or not, they're going to be

00:33:50.280 paying for it. And that's about that. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, when they move with these

00:33:55.960 things, it seems to work though, right? Ignore the people. It doesn't matter. They get upset,

00:34:01.240 but election time, how they get back in. So we'll see what happens. I guess I hope they stay somewhat

00:34:05.600 within budget. These things rarely do, unfortunately. Yeah. Well, yeah, they claim that

00:34:10.520 the price of tearing it down and rebuilding is actually substantially more affordable than

00:34:19.780 renovating the current museum um which also we have talked about before uh so i won't get too

00:34:26.200 uh deep into that but uh yeah i mean there's there's a bunch of schools that need upgrading

00:34:32.240 this is kind of what people are pointing to they're like look our health care system's broken

00:34:35.820 we've got schools that need to be seismically upgraded uh of course the the ndp government

00:34:41.600 is saying that that's one of the main reasons they want to rebuild the museum is because that

00:34:45.420 it's seismically unsafe uh so yeah oh we'll see what happens before i let you go you got anything

00:34:52.800 else uh coming up to look forward to in the news the next day or so yeah i'm gonna be putting out

00:34:57.920 a story later today on uh concerns of uh price gouging in uh in uh at various gas stations in

00:35:04.520 bc okay well you guys are paying your share of prices as it goes out there it'll be interesting

00:35:10.060 to see the root of all that. As a truck driver, as a truck driver, it's been, it's been a rough

00:35:15.640 couple of months. Yeah. Well, it cuts right into your, your, your profit margin. All right. Well,

00:35:21.460 thanks for coming in to check in with us today, Reid. And thanks for keeping up all that good news

00:35:26.140 content out there in BC for us. Right on. Thanks very much, Corey. All right. Thank you. So that

00:35:31.720 is our BC reporter, Reid Small. As you can see, he's constantly writing, you know, good, unique

00:35:37.260 content coming out of BC. Just that reminder, subscribe guys. We've got news. He writes it as

00:35:41.300 it's breaking and he follows up. Another thing I want to make sure to mention today while I'm at

00:35:45.840 it, we've got a debate coming up on July 8th in Calgary. It'll be in the afternoon at the Petroleum

00:35:52.980 Club. $25 to get there. You can see, well, four of the Conservative Party of Canada leadership

00:35:59.280 candidates and it's a good intimate atmosphere. You know, there's just going to be a few hundred

00:36:02.560 people there. You can really get perhaps some one-on-one time with them. There's going to be

00:36:06.520 some cocktail time afterwards and see in person how they interact. You know, it's like sporting

00:36:10.960 events, things like that. When you go in person, it really is actually kind of more fun and

00:36:16.000 interesting than when you watch it on TV. I mean, TV is good. Being there in person is better. So

00:36:20.240 check it out. There it is, you know, July 8th, 25 bucks a ticket and you get into the Peak Club,

00:36:24.540 a neat old building there and a facility and take in that debate on a Friday afternoon. So go to

00:36:29.920 westernstandard.news and you'll be able to find out how you can take part in all of that. So it's

00:36:35.800 going to be quite an event for us. Let's see here. I just want to go on some of the stuff

00:36:40.480 covered. I noticed Johnny Arabian, where to go? I've scrolled down, lost it in the comments, 1.00

00:36:46.780 talking about with the drugs starting with doctors. This whole addiction issue is complicated. It's

00:36:54.300 big. And it starts in a number of areas. And a big part in the opioids, yes, was not so much

00:37:01.760 fentanyl, though that's come out of prescription drugs to begin with as well. But of course,

00:37:05.380 oxy and things like that, which were effective painkillers. Now that gets to, there was a story

00:37:10.680 of a gentleman, he was an addiction, a recovered man in San Francisco, I read a while back, and he

00:37:16.220 was on the streets, he'd hit rock bottom. He started with a sports injury, but then he got

00:37:20.820 onto the pills. He was a stable guy, a professional, got onto the prescriptions from his doctor.

00:37:26.500 By the time he recovered from his injury, he was hopelessly addicted to the pills. It got to the

00:37:30.540 point that his life fell apart. He ended up on the street. So a full-out street person, full-out

00:37:35.640 addict, in a lot of trouble, finally ended up in jail and did recover and clean up. But it started

00:37:40.600 with a prescription. And prescriptions are where a lot of these drugs begin. I mean, people who

00:37:45.360 left them in the medicine cabinet and the kids get a hold of it and, you know, maybe you weren't

00:37:49.360 watching. Or another aspect that people don't like talking about, but Canada's screwed up

00:37:53.920 healthcare system where you'd wait on waiting lists. We're talking, you know, a hip replacement,

00:37:57.780 over a year waiting, a knee replacement, what do you think the doctor's going to do?

00:38:01.660 They're going to give you a whole bunch of painkillers. And some of those opioids are

00:38:05.380 very addictive. And you might come out of these things very addicted after the fact.

00:38:09.840 There's also unprincipled doctors. I'm going to give one of my anecdotal stories here.

00:38:13.400 But it's from back when I worked in Ohio. I was working on a survey job out there

00:38:17.960 some years back. And I was trying to cut some brush. And I had the chainsaw going. I was in

00:38:24.840 a t-shirt. It gets really hot out there in summer, and this branch with a bunch of thorns went right

00:38:28.040 into my forearm, and the thorn, I could see it disappear out of my flesh. It was horrible. Big,

00:38:31.420 long thing, and it stuck down there, and it started to infect. My arm was getting pretty

00:38:35.460 hot after a day or so, you know, and swelling and red around there, so I went across the river.

00:38:39.280 The nearest convenient town was just over West Virginia, and I hit a walk-in clinic, and while

00:38:45.200 I'm waiting in this clinic, I'm seeing, you know, people coming and going, and eventually, I get my

00:38:50.480 spot with a doctor, and it's, boy, it's a busy clinic. A lot of people coming. I get to the back.

00:38:54.200 I sit in the, you know, it's like any other clinic, a waiting room. A doctor comes in.

00:38:57.740 How are you doing? And I said, yeah, I got this thorn, you know, I want it taken care of. He says,

00:39:01.160 what's your pain level? One to 10. I don't know, two or three or something. It's not that bad. I

00:39:06.940 just need this thorn out of here. He looks at it. It's beyond, you got to go see an orthopedic

00:39:13.720 surgeon or something like that or go to a hospital. I can't help you with that. Is it really? It's

00:39:17.460 just a thorn that's in a bit. I just need to put, no, no, I can't deal with that. Okay, fine.

00:39:22.020 you know, and then he says again, what's your pain level? It's fine. And it didn't strike me

00:39:27.340 what's going on. And then I went out and I filled out the things. I had insurance because I was

00:39:30.580 working down there and I made sure, you know, you don't want to get stuck in the States with a bad

00:39:33.340 injury. And I'm filling out the paperwork. And then I'm realizing again, with these people coming

00:39:37.240 and going, this doctor's office was a pill pusher. That's all he was. Of course, West Virginia,

00:39:42.060 they got their challenges out there. But that's why these people could come in and go that fast

00:39:45.860 because he could come get these patients in and out of there, write them scripts. As long as they

00:39:50.420 fill out their thing to say, oh, my pain is up at nine. And he was given a moxie. He was dumping 0.85

00:39:54.420 that stuff through that clinic like nobody's business. And that's where a lot of these addicts

00:40:00.220 start. I mean, at least over there in the Eastern States and it happens all over. And then of course,

00:40:03.400 if they run out of the money or the means to go to a doctor's office to get these kinds of pills,

00:40:06.960 well, then they move on to other things. And then they move on to street drugs and things go bad.

00:40:10.860 This whole addiction thing is a giant, complicated, convoluted problem, but it's huge.

00:40:16.460 it's growing, it's killing people. It's out of control. And again, it's one of those ones where

00:40:22.540 a lot of people just don't want to face reality and how to deal with it. But one of the other

00:40:25.860 ones is, again, you can be sensitive to the needs of an addict, but also firm. There's certain areas

00:40:33.360 they can't go. And if they're committing crimes, we can't keep pretending. We heard that crap

00:40:37.000 with safe consumption centers. The left is just frigging over the top, obsessed with safe 1.00

00:40:41.520 consumption centers. Look, I believe in harm mitigation. I do believe like we can't treat

00:40:47.440 addicts if they are dead. If they will go to a safe consumption site and avoid an overdose good,

00:40:53.780 there's a better chance we might be able to catch these people and fix them up and get them when

00:40:58.020 they're ready. But they have limits and most of the junkies don't use them. How many safe

00:41:04.220 consumption centers can we have? That's the problem. They're all over the trains. And you

00:41:07.640 also, the Beltline of Calgary, what it did do is those addicts who do use the safe consumption

00:41:13.440 centers all, of course, congregate at them. Go outside the Sheldon Schumer Center in Calgary

00:41:18.460 and have a look around. It's horrible. Again, speaking of dystopian, they literally set up camp

00:41:23.480 all the way around the outside of the building, and they're consuming drugs right outside the

00:41:27.420 building. Even if they only have to walk 100 yards to go into the safe, because they just don't want

00:41:30.820 to bother with it anymore. It's just now it's just turned into a hangout. And what do you think

00:41:34.620 happens. The dealers follow them there. So now you've got these drug dealers all hanging around

00:41:38.720 in an area full of residential areas, apartments. Theft is shot through the roof down there.

00:41:44.720 These addicts need to feed their habits. And of course, again, when they go on meth and things

00:41:49.080 like that, they go out of control. They go wild. They can go dangerously. People don't want to be

00:41:53.120 down there. They don't want to work down there. Quit pretending they're harmless. I remember when

00:41:58.100 they brought the safe consumption center in, there were the hipsters and the others. Oh no, 1.00

00:42:01.160 it doesn't hurt the community. We love it. It's not a problem. We're happy with it. Bullshit.

00:42:04.620 You are not people who live near there. You're not the people who had to deal with that. You're 1.00

00:42:08.560 not the people who had to step over human crap on the street. You're not the people who can't 0.94

00:42:12.240 leave anything outside for more than five seconds without it being stolen. You're not the ones who

00:42:16.560 have to watch what used to be a nice neighborhood and seeing drug dealers going on across the street

00:42:20.480 or seeing people picking up overdoses all the time. There's big problems that happen when you

00:42:25.640 have large amounts of addicts gathering in an area, as we see on city transit right now. And

00:42:31.300 Again, it's not saying the addicts are monsters. 0.95

00:42:33.300 It's not saying they should be shot or locked up.

00:42:35.780 But let's quit pretending they're harmless.

00:42:38.560 They are not.

00:42:39.940 They're in a dangerous place.

00:42:41.680 Some are harmless, some aren't.

00:42:43.840 So don't try and shame people when they say,

00:42:46.740 I don't like to ride the train because I'm afraid to.

00:42:48.460 I don't blame them.

00:42:49.160 It's scary on there.

00:42:50.960 And don't get on people's cases if they do point out

00:42:53.440 that these people could be problematic.

00:42:55.240 A person who throws an addiction that deep

00:42:56.960 can be very dangerous.

00:42:58.180 It's not fair, but it's the way it is.

00:42:59.780 So let's get reality.

00:43:01.360 I want that to be the word for the day.

00:43:03.160 Reality.

00:43:04.180 Even if you don't like it, face it.

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00:44:09.040 could say, so that you can protect those rights that are so important. All right. Johnny Arabian

00:44:16.440 saying Justin Trudeau is the best pistol salesman in world history. Yeah, pretty much. There's been

00:44:22.420 a run on that. We've been talking with the wholesalers and others I had a guest on. I mean,

00:44:25.860 they are backed up. They're basically handguns are sold out across the country. Processing now

00:44:31.320 is the big backup, of course, because you've got all these bureaucrats that have to file through

00:44:35.520 all those applications and everything has to be processed before the transfer will happen to a

00:44:42.580 person. But there was no, probably that was the biggest rush for handguns purchased in all of

00:44:48.240 Canadian history. Thanks, Mr. Trudeau. Good work. Jet Gorgon saying, yeah, our safe injection site

00:44:55.080 says they clean up constantly outside. Sure. It's the neighboring biz that gets the poop needles 0.96

00:44:58.560 and vomit on their doorsteps. Yes. I mean, I know they do try to clean up around there. And, 0.99

00:45:02.480 you know, just to point out another thing with the Sheldon Schumer. And I do think there should

00:45:05.560 be these centers. We should have these options. I had an addiction specialist on who was talking

00:45:10.180 about an interesting thing. Dr. His name Goresh, screwing it up, but that's his specialty. And a

00:45:17.640 lot of these, there's actually basically Zoom meeting style supervised consumption because

00:45:23.100 60% of the overdoses, the fatal ones in Calgary, in Alberta, and they're happening every day,

00:45:27.940 by the way, happen in households. They aren't on the streets. Those are just the ones we see.

00:45:33.160 And they'll actually have a service where a person will supervise somebody through Zoom

00:45:36.680 and watch them consume. And basically they can call an ambulance if they flatline or drop or

00:45:43.480 whatever. Now, again, I want to keep these people alive, but at the same time, how long are we

00:45:49.160 enabling them for? Are we going to get real? I saw a story on one of the safe consumption sites

00:45:54.660 too. It was a news one. And they talked to this girl who they made it out to sound as if it's a

00:45:59.020 minor inconvenience being a junkie. She says, I come down here in the morning to get my fix. And

00:46:04.040 you know, I'm just a run of the mill person. I just want to make sure it's safe while I do it.

00:46:07.040 And then I work and I carry on and I come back in the afternoon and I get my next fix at the

00:46:10.600 consumption center and I carry on. You can't carry on like that. Okay. I mean, again, I don't

00:46:17.240 want to see people overdose. I don't. I think if we can get them into centers and prevent overdoses

00:46:23.560 or things such as that, it's good. But this was making it out as if you could live with an opioid

00:46:30.160 addiction like that to that degree and just carry on with a normal life. No, you can't. You're on

00:46:36.020 the road to death. It's just a matter of time. You're going to become increasingly dysfunctional.

00:46:41.240 You won't be able to work at all. You're going to have health issues. You may find yourself in the

00:46:45.000 streets. They follow that progression from being what appear to be a moderately healthy addict to

00:46:50.200 one of those sore covered ones who can't even, you know, prostitute long enough to just get drugs 0.85

00:46:55.680 anymore. Then it's on to theft and then you die. That's how we should be labeling the progression 0.99

00:47:00.780 of drug use, not, hey, we can set up enough safe consumption sites so people can live functionally

00:47:06.380 and be perfectly fine while they're on it because they can't. And it's a delusion. So again, I'm not

00:47:14.000 saying take away her ability to have safe consumption, but let's not pretend that

00:47:19.120 facilitating people to and enabling them to stay on these things for a long period of time is

00:47:23.440 sustainable, smart, or even humane. It's the wrong path to go. But we're so backwards on this and

00:47:29.840 the outcomes have been so terrible and nobody will bloody well admit it. Let's see, I'm going to get

00:47:35.820 into another story here quickly. So getting to the comments committees and everything, I'm looking

00:47:41.560 forward to seeing what comes out of things with, you know, I've been talking about that a lot.

00:47:45.960 We're watching these things, but the Emergencies Act, and as they're reviewing it, and it hasn't

00:47:49.760 even gone on to the judicial inquiry yet. This is just the Commons committees, and they've been

00:47:53.860 questioning, and now there's even MPs who supported the action targeting these protesters

00:47:59.220 are saying, I think we blew it, and it shouldn't happen again. Yeah, they're saying, don't do it

00:48:04.600 again. And they're saying, you know, exercise caution before invoking the Emergency Act. I

00:48:10.560 think they're covering their asses is what they're doing. They're realizing that when the 0.99

00:48:13.680 investigation happens, they're going to realize it. I think we all most of us already realize that

00:48:16.780 the Trudeau government was not justified. They did not have nearly a good enough case to invoke

00:48:21.240 the Emergencies Act. It was a panicked reaction on authoritarian government on their part to an

00:48:29.660 issue that could have been dealt with without suspending civil liberties. And even liberal

00:48:35.100 and NDP members now that committee are saying that this was not justified. It didn't, they should

00:48:43.200 not have cracked down on people like that. These arrests, these freezing of bank accounts, they're

00:48:48.400 saying this is a dangerous precedent. And even the bloc is saying they called it a legislative

00:48:55.600 atomic bomb that was harsh and needless. Now remember, the bloc wrote in support of putting

00:49:00.360 it in. Here's one of the mixed things. We want our politicians to admit when they make a mistake. 1.00

00:49:06.080 Fair enough. And that was a big one. It's a huge one. At least they're admitting it at this point,

00:49:09.920 I think maybe because they're not going to have a choice pretty soon, but to admit it.

00:49:13.560 But let's not crap on them too much for admitting it at this point. But we still can only forgive

00:49:17.480 them so much for having imposed that act in the first place. They should have been listening to

00:49:20.340 us before they voted to suspend civil rights to deal with protesters. And all the block MPs wrote 0.68

00:49:30.340 We hope that following this report, the government will justify it to you.

00:49:35.440 However, in light of testimony in the report, we've come to the conclusion

00:49:37.960 the government will not have any new rationale to offer because there is none.

00:49:42.400 Yeah, like it's falling apart.

00:49:44.260 With the benefit of hindsight to look at what happened

00:49:47.700 with the invocation of the Emergencies Act

00:49:50.200 and basically the modern-day version of the War Measures Act

00:49:52.860 was brought about by Justin Trudeau.

00:49:55.140 They seized people's bank accounts

00:49:58.040 and you know, arrested people. They theoretically could have forced labor with tow truck drivers

00:50:04.800 and none of it was needed. Not a minor thing. All right, let's see. Well, I'm going to get

00:50:11.380 ready to get on to our next guest here. It's getting about time. So I've got in the lobby,

00:50:17.300 it's going to be Colin Craig. He's with secondstreet.org. He's been on before. They do

00:50:21.280 a lot of good work, put out a lot of good reports and papers. And a recent one is just great. It

00:50:26.040 kind of ties into these municipal governments that, speaking of reality, just really need a

00:50:31.800 good dose of it and some common sense. So let's bring Colin in when he's ready there and have a

00:50:38.180 conversation on that latest report, one of which was on parking passes for municipal employees

00:50:43.520 across Canada. Hey, Colin, how's it going? Good, yourself, Corey? Very good, thanks. Yeah, so I just,

00:50:52.020 Just I want to talk a little more actually on a couple of things, you know, follow up a little more on your Survivors of Socialism initiative because it's just fantastic.

00:51:00.620 But in the more immediate one is that recent release you put out showing the amount of municipal employees who get parking passes.

00:51:07.660 I thought they were all green and they're supposed to ride bikes to take the train.

00:51:11.620 Well, that's a good point.

00:51:12.340 You know, we saw a lot of cities across Canada declaring climate emergencies and urging the phase out of fossil fuels in different ways.

00:51:21.760 In Ontario, a number of cities indicated that they want no more natural gas powered electricity.

00:51:29.540 In Manitoba, the city council there, pardon me, in Winnipeg, they passed a motion looking into how they can phase out natural gas in the city.

00:51:38.300 And of course, Winnipeg is one of the coldest major cities on the planet.

00:51:42.580 So a lot of people there use natural gas to heat their homes.

00:51:45.820 A lot of businesses use it and so forth.

00:51:48.160 So we saw these different motions happening across Canada.

00:51:51.760 And we thought, well, wait a second, let's take a look into how many of these cities are giving their staff and council members free parking passes.

00:51:59.580 Because, of course, these cities are trying to get everyone else to stop using oil and gas products.

00:52:04.760 What about council? Are they making it easy for councillors to keep driving?

00:52:08.300 If you're giving someone a free parking pass, you're certainly making it easy to do so.

00:52:12.220 And so we filed freedom of information requests with, I think it was around 20 different cities

00:52:16.780 or so in pretty much from Ontario West.

00:52:20.840 And we got some pretty interesting responses.

00:52:24.240 Yeah.

00:52:25.180 So, I mean, you would think in Calgary, I mean, this was a crisis.

00:52:28.520 This is an emergency, as you said.

00:52:30.840 I mean, are our systems not adequate then for civil employees?

00:52:34.660 well i i think what we saw is council declared a climate emergency for you and i and your listeners

00:52:42.980 uh but not for the city itself uh calgary's uh giving out over a thousand free parking passes

00:52:49.220 to various staff uh including council members and council members not only have access to free

00:52:55.380 parking at the city's parkade at city hall they also get a special pass which allows them to park

00:53:01.140 at any metered parking spot in the city and one former city employee indicated that they can also

00:53:07.860 park in loading zones so it's kind of interesting that the city hall makes it really really easy for

00:53:13.460 councillors to park anywhere for free but yet the rest of us are are supposed to be

00:53:19.700 you know riding bicycles and walking and and taking transit and that and so you know we're

00:53:25.700 flagging this as an option for councils you know we assumed that they were just too busy figuring

00:53:29.700 out how everyone else could, uh, reduce their carbon footprint that maybe they forgot about

00:53:34.680 their own. And so, uh, we flagged this in, uh, like say in, in many, uh, uh, provinces

00:53:39.880 and cities across the country. Yeah. Well, I appreciate you, you know, pointing it out.

00:53:44.260 I mean, this is above and beyond, uh, you know, like some businesses provide parking

00:53:48.620 for your staff, some don't, would that be considered a taxable benefit though for city

00:53:52.220 staff? It is a taxable benefit. Yes. But yeah, I mean, certainly you're going to pay less

00:53:56.880 than in your taxes on that benefit than if you had to straight up pay for the pass.

00:54:02.860 And one thing we noted when we put this out was that we don't begrudge cities giving free parking

00:54:09.900 to their council members, even more senior staff. It's a common perk in the private sector.

00:54:16.240 I think the problem is when cities are declaring climate emergencies and telling everyone that,

00:54:21.560 Hey, we got to stop using, uh, CO2 and it's an emergency.

00:54:27.180 Well, then why are you still encouraging council members to drive to work?

00:54:31.840 And so if, if council members had to do like the rest of society and pay for

00:54:35.960 parking, then you might see some behavioral changes at the top.

00:54:40.640 Well, yeah.

00:54:41.240 And I mean, uh, again, if they have access to transit, you think they'd

00:54:44.560 be able to lead by example, we'll give a free transit pass then.

00:54:47.460 And then, you know, fair enough, that's a benefit and it's following

00:54:50.400 I think the green ideals and you can ride the line,

00:54:53.120 but I got a feeling a lot of them don't actually want to ride city transit.

00:54:57.380 Well, I mean, I don't,

00:54:59.020 I don't have data on how many of them use transit and how often they do.

00:55:03.540 I know they, they do actually get a free transit pass.

00:55:06.680 So they get the free transit pass.

00:55:07.980 They get the free park, basically a free park anywhere pass,

00:55:11.140 and then a free pass the city's parkade.

00:55:13.740 So they get all kinds of options there.

00:55:16.180 And you know, to go back to this point,

00:55:18.220 if you're going to say that there's a climate emergency,

00:55:20.060 then there's, I think, only really two options for you to consider.

00:55:23.900 And that would be transit or, you know, you walk or ride your bicycle.

00:55:28.060 But, you know, it wasn't just Calgary that was doing this.

00:55:30.480 We flagged or identified over 5,400 free parking passes that cities have been handing out.

00:55:38.960 Toronto was another big one.

00:55:40.240 They also gave out over 1,000 free parking passes there.

00:55:43.880 um victoria bc oddly enough i mean they're one of the the most uh aggressive when it comes to

00:55:52.020 green policies they like to think of themselves as a green city and a green province and so forth

00:55:56.500 um they actually were arguably one of the worst offenders they gave out 179 free passes which

00:56:02.440 isn't that high but they gave out 100 and pardon me 97 free passes for local politicians and you

00:56:12.400 know that's there's not 97 politicians on victoria's city council there's there'd be a relatively small

00:56:18.380 number but they were giving them out to all kinds of other municipalities in the victoria region

00:56:22.580 all those municipalities were getting free parking passes to come and park in victoria so it's pretty

00:56:27.980 bizarre they even gave uh federal mps free parking passes elizabeth may got one um and so yeah there

00:56:35.020 were a couple other jurisdictions where they would do that they would give it out to other levels of

00:56:39.040 government, but nothing like Victoria, where it was seemingly they were giving out these free

00:56:43.160 parking passes to politicians in every direction. As far as the eye can see, it was, it was pretty

00:56:47.740 strange. Nice work, if you can get it, I guess. Getting on, I guess I'll segue, you know, with

00:56:53.540 the old do as I say, not as I do. And that's a common thread in socialist regimes and places

00:56:59.180 like that, where some bureaucrats could live in very large places and drive very nice cars while

00:57:03.780 the commoners are typically in row housing and using transit.

00:57:09.360 Your Survivors of Socialism series, how's that been coming along?

00:57:13.440 It's been coming along pretty well, thanks.

00:57:16.360 We actually, the Canada Strong and Free Network had their annual conference at the beginning of May.

00:57:23.080 And I had the honor of speaking with Eunmi Park.

00:57:26.920 She is a pretty well-known young lady who escaped from North Korea at the age of 13.

00:57:35.320 And she didn't just quietly become part of the Western world.

00:57:39.540 She's been a vocal advocate for her people drawing attention to the atrocities that have occurred in North Korea.

00:57:45.480 And so I had the opportunity to interview her on stage, ask her questions and that.

00:57:50.500 And it was a real honor.

00:57:51.500 and we've got that video posted on our survivors of socialism page if anyone wants to watch it but

00:57:58.540 it's pretty incredible you know we're still looking for more stories we're trying to talk

00:58:02.220 to people from different countries to get this information out there so people can hear those

00:58:05.820 perspectives and one of the big research components of that project was that we were

00:58:12.060 asking people from socialist and communist countries canadians who came from those countries

00:58:16.460 what policies of any concern you about what you're seeing in canada today because they remind you of

00:58:22.660 the countries that you fled and the number one concern that we heard about was actions by

00:58:28.780 governments to try and restrict freedom of speech and many people noted to the the federal pieces

00:58:36.540 of legislation that we're looking at doing that so it's pretty interesting that people that have

00:58:41.760 come from these countries where they're they've had very little in the way of human rights where

00:58:46.120 people, you know, often get killed because they're a political opponent and people who speak out

00:58:51.180 and protest get thrown in jail. It was interesting to hear that people that came from those countries

00:58:56.820 are concerned about just restrictions on freedom of speech in Canada. I don't think anyone would

00:59:01.660 say that we're close to a Venezuela or a communist China or something like that. But it is concerning

00:59:09.000 that we're seeing these movements on restricting freedom of speech. Yeah, well, it's worth knowing,

00:59:15.480 that we might be moving in that direction. And I mean, most of the Canadians, we are living under

00:59:20.640 some great freedoms and it's not so bad. And I think that's some of the risk that comes. A lot

00:59:25.060 of young people don't really understand. I mean, socialism, communism hold a fantastic appeal

00:59:30.180 when you look at just the basics and the theory and so on in a simple way. But you're very hard

00:59:36.660 pressed to find anybody who's actually lived through it who says, yeah, that was a really

00:59:39.420 good idea. And I think we should go back to it. Yeah, that's a key problem because we see this

00:59:44.600 the time in canada where you have university professors or politicians or activists talking

00:59:48.760 about yay we got to embrace socialism it's like okay well have you tried living under that that

00:59:53.400 regime and inevitably the answer is no because when you talk to people that have lived under

00:59:58.200 those structures whether it's a venezuela china not not so much china today but china in the past

01:00:05.400 where there was more of a collective state controlled the economy now it's much more 0.74

01:00:10.680 entrepreneurial they still have that overarching lack of freedoms and democratic rights in china

01:00:17.880 but you know it's a good example from the past of sort of that collective approach to

01:00:22.840 to government you look at the former soviet union other places in central america and so forth and

01:00:28.680 the results are not good and they're pretty clear that that structure does not work well for

01:00:35.240 citizens inevitably you see poverty and human suffering and venezuela is a great example right

01:00:40.520 now the united nations has noted that i believe it's over six million people from venezuela have

01:00:46.840 fled the country simply because of significant poverty the average person has lost something

01:00:53.240 like 20 pounds because there's not enough food and that's a country that's blessed with great

01:00:58.360 natural resources there's lots of oil there nice beaches and so forth but i can't make a go of it

01:01:04.360 it because of the government structure is socialist in nature. And inevitably, it's led to a lot of

01:01:11.380 human misery. Yeah, well, I mean, there's a lot of, I think, you know, you don't see it as much

01:01:16.600 as you used to. And I think it's because people got called out on social media by people who'd

01:01:19.900 been there. And that's with Cuba. I mean, a lot of people I remember 20 years ago, especially in

01:01:25.000 Canada and professors and others, and they would point to saying, look at this example of a beautiful

01:01:29.060 workman's paradise. It's fantastic down there. They got great health care and all this. Until

01:01:34.180 you could start hearing the voices of the cubans who escaped there the ones who got here and they

01:01:37.940 get upset they don't blame them they say guys i had to get on a rickety raft and and and cross

01:01:43.220 the ocean to florida to get away from that hell uh you you're quit portraying this country that

01:01:48.580 put my family through that misery as some sort of paradise it's anything but and uh you don't hear

01:01:54.020 that as much anymore i think open communication from people who escaped those countries is part

01:01:58.740 of what brought that down yeah no i think you're exactly right and that's always the great test is

01:02:03.860 there are people trying to get into those countries and like you say with cuba uh if it's 0.63

01:02:08.900 such a paradise why i'll put paradise in air quotes why is it that cubans have been creating

01:02:15.220 these little rafts and climbing onto tiny fishing fishing vessels and doing everything they can to

01:02:20.020 escape the country in cuba there's even been cases where people have climbed into the wheel wells of

01:02:25.380 airplanes where the landing gear is they they run onto the uh airfield and they climb up into these

01:02:31.060 airplanes and you know if you think about it these airplanes get really really high up into

01:02:35.780 the atmosphere there's a lack of oxygen they can die from not getting enough air uh they can die

01:02:40.420 because it's extremely cold they can die when the plane starts to come down and the landing gear

01:02:45.060 opens up at a very high height and people can fall out and and die so i mean you've got people

01:02:50.660 risking their lives to get out of cuba we know what happened during um after world war ii when

01:02:56.420 germany was split between east and west germany it was people on the eastern side the communist

01:03:01.220 side they were trying to escape to the west uh you look at north korea like i said yunmi park

01:03:06.020 she escaped from uh north korea to try and get away from that that uh country so time and time

01:03:12.420 again you look at whether or not people are trying to get into these uh socialist paradises and the

01:03:17.220 answer is no um and you know one thing i would just add as we talk about this on our site and

01:03:22.340 in some of the videos that we have is that people often say well scandinavia is a socialist

01:03:27.220 uh part of the world and they're doing extremely well that this is the claim and the fact is is

01:03:31.780 that scandinavian countries are not socialist countries they are market-based economies that

01:03:37.620 use the wealth created from those markets to pay for generous social welfare programs so

01:03:43.860 it's fundamentally a market-based economy not a socialist economy and if people want to advocate

01:03:48.900 for the scandinavian model by means go for it but just don't don't call it a uh a socialist economy

01:03:55.620 because that's not accurate yeah well and again i mean we can't pretend we shouldn't be able to

01:04:01.540 pretend that we don't know any better and that's where it's it's great to see it documented it's

01:04:06.180 fine if you were raised here and you talk to students and you grew up and you're young and

01:04:09.540 but i mean now you're growing you can listen to some of the people who actually live through it

01:04:13.860 and i appreciate you guys getting that up there so people can hear those voices directly it's not

01:04:17.620 your opinion as a website uh or an advocate or an author it's just straight up you know

01:04:23.300 conversations from people who actually had to experience it and people can take from it what

01:04:27.140 they will yeah and that that's the beauty of it i think is that people can hear directly from

01:04:31.940 individuals who lived in in those regimes so whether it's uh cuba or someone who escaped from

01:04:38.020 venezuela like i said north korea we talked to someone from latvia uh romania uh china and so

01:04:44.500 forth. We're looking to talk to more people. So if anyone's watching and they've come from a

01:04:49.140 socialist or communist country, we'd be interested in hearing your experience.

01:04:53.460 Great. Well, and before I wrap up then, yeah, so they can find you at secondstreet.org,

01:04:58.260 I believe it is. And have you got other initiatives you want to let us know about

01:05:01.540 before you go? That's a good question. We've got lots of stuff in the works. We've got our

01:05:06.900 policy brief coming out on healthcare in the near future with an idea that we think can help

01:05:11.300 patients and governments with a long waiting list. So that one's coming up. We've got some

01:05:17.500 research coming up on housing and lots of other fun little projects that are underway.

01:05:24.080 Excellent. Well, I look forward to talking to you when those come out as well. And I guess,

01:05:28.040 you know, keep up the good work out there. And thanks for coming on the show today, Colin.

01:05:31.240 Okay. Thanks, Corey. Appreciate it.

01:05:33.000 Great. Thanks. So that was Colin Craig of secondstreet.org. Get on there and check it out.

01:05:38.060 their sites are getting a lot of resources, a lot of videos. As he said, with healthcare,

01:05:41.500 same sort of thing. What I really like with their focus that's different from a lot of other,

01:05:45.160 you know, think tank type websites or advocacy is they get firsthand accounts, you know, so you can

01:05:49.620 get on there and see those videos and hear from other people. It's not just reading a bunch of

01:05:54.060 long, boring academic essays and studies. That's what dorks like Colin and I do. For normal people,

01:06:00.060 you can get on and get these video clips or at least the summaries and the reports and see

01:06:04.960 what's happening. And it's as I was saying as well, I just think it's important for people to

01:06:09.980 listen to others on it, then it's, you know, get that direct thing, see a video of somebody talking

01:06:15.400 about what they experienced, because you can delude yourself, you can believe, you know,

01:06:21.400 those texts, as I said, we saw a lot of it in universities, and you really don't hear those

01:06:25.180 people trumpeting about how fantastic Cuba is anymore. You don't, but you used to a lot. And

01:06:30.360 again, a lot of it is as soon as they start trumpeting how great Cuba is on social media, 1.00

01:06:33.580 Well, a bunch of former Cubans are going to come right on there and say, hey, you are full of crap. 1.00

01:06:37.480 I lived through that. Don't tell me how it is down there. 1.00

01:06:41.520 So good work on that place, on the part of their place there with the secondstreet.org with Colin.

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01:07:38.580 and government inefficiency. This is, you know, come out in the news. I believe it's on the

01:07:44.000 Western Standard site now too. I'm not sure, but it's going to be coming. The federal agency that

01:07:47.900 runs passport offices suspended hundreds of employees under the vaccine mandate. Here's

01:07:52.300 one of the no brainers coming along, right? You know, and they wonder why it's backed up.

01:07:58.700 they, this is some of the stupidity. I mean, there's one of their excuses and why passports 0.99

01:08:03.000 now are taking months and months just to renew. And some of it is we found 70% of them are still

01:08:07.220 working from home, obviously not doing a very good job of it, but that's what's happening there.

01:08:12.320 And, uh, well, if they're working from home, why did you need them vaccinated then?

01:08:17.360 You know, why this push? Why these mandates? So now you've fired hundreds of people

01:08:22.200 and they haven't come back. And now we've got, the offices are overwhelmed. People are waiting

01:08:27.160 in line for hours and hours, speaking to socialism, speaking to lineups, because you're trying to get 0.98

01:08:31.420 out of your own bloody country. And it's just a joke. It's just a joke. And these are the things 0.93

01:08:39.300 we're learning. I don't know how long it's going to take this country to recover and figure out

01:08:42.640 what's happened. I'm looking at Frank Boucher there. I went to Cuba in Havana a couple of years

01:08:48.640 ago, rode in an open double top or open top double decker around the city. The place is a depressing

01:08:54.040 dump. Yeah, I think that would be the best description I've heard. I haven't been there. 0.71

01:08:57.220 Jane's been there. Said it was awesome. I mean, again, you got beautiful beaches, good food,

01:08:59.880 good service. That's the tourist sector. You know, a lot of historical buildings and things. Great.

01:09:04.720 I went to Guatemala City in the late 80s. Hey, there were still some beautiful things to see

01:09:08.600 downtown. I mean, the outside was all full of sandbags and tanks and machine guns and things,

01:09:12.300 but the city downtown itself was great. You can't look at a whole country based on a certain

01:09:17.040 small part of a city when you visit it. You got to look at the whole, and that's a lot of what

01:09:20.600 happened too. People visited the tourist section and said, oh, the whole country's great. Well,

01:09:23.920 go another couple of miles outside of that corridor

01:09:25.820 and see how it is.

01:09:26.560 See how the people in the ground are doing.

01:09:28.300 You know, people point at these,

01:09:29.360 oh, look at this fantastic hospital they have.

01:09:30.940 Yeah, that's for the rich.

01:09:32.560 Yeah, communist or not, there's these communists

01:09:34.980 and there's these communists.

01:09:36.500 And the commoners were in hospitals 0.99

01:09:37.680 that had crap smeared on the walls 0.99

01:09:39.100 and a terrible, terrible place. 0.99

01:09:41.880 Either way, I mean, I think Cuba's improving. 0.90

01:09:43.920 Brian's saying he'd heard they cleaned it up. 0.99

01:09:46.060 I mean, I think they're coming along.

01:09:47.580 Again, a lot of it's based on,

01:09:48.900 they're opening up more though.

01:09:49.840 They're getting a bit more of a market-based economy,

01:09:51.580 letting the public participate a little more. Speaking of delusions, if you want to

01:09:56.380 bring a reality check upon some young socialists, one of my favorites, when you see anybody wearing 0.84

01:10:02.120 the caricature of that ridiculous Shea Guevara, that supposed hero, well, research Mr. Guevara 0.93

01:10:09.820 because he was anything but. He was grossly anti-gay. He was also very racist. He had some 0.99

01:10:17.780 terrible thoughts that he shared on black people. And anybody wearing that man's face on a shirt 0.87

01:10:23.060 while they walk around should really not be proud of that. It's an embarrassment. So, you know,

01:10:28.260 just remind them again, let reality come in. Your hero might not be what you thought he was.

01:10:35.180 So let's see. 250 off work for the vaccine mandate. Here's another one with government

01:10:42.200 screwing things up. You know, we legalized pot, which I think was great. That's fine.

01:10:45.880 But of course, the pot business,

01:10:47.160 marijuana wholesalers are complaining

01:10:48.440 at hearings of low profits and high costs.

01:10:51.740 Part of the problem, again, is regulation, guys.

01:10:55.240 It's the government.

01:10:56.280 They brought it in, they legalized it,

01:10:57.900 but they put in so many bloody rules,

01:10:59.840 they can't compete with the same guys

01:11:01.440 who were making basement-grown weed in the past.

01:11:04.440 So they're saying it's a huge cost

01:11:07.380 to becoming a cultivator is impossible.

01:11:09.840 11 months in waiting for an application

01:11:12.180 to get through, 11 months.

01:11:13.120 They were losing up to $50,000 to $75,000 a month, waiting for their application to come through.

01:11:18.080 Welcome to what the oil field's been enjoying for the last 30 years, potheads.

01:11:21.740 But that's it. 0.98

01:11:22.300 When the government gets in on things, they kill it, guys. 0.99

01:11:24.600 They kill it every time.

01:11:26.160 You want answers to things, I'll tell you what.

01:11:28.360 One thing that's never an answer is the government.

01:11:30.300 You need less government.

01:11:31.460 Government's the problem, guys, not the solution.

01:11:34.860 But either way, the pot industry is developing.

01:11:37.620 We're seeing so many stores, so many retailers now.

01:11:40.340 I mean, you can't turn around, you know, without seeing one.

01:11:42.120 I don't know how many people are smoking it to keep up with it, but we'll see. Here's the story.

01:11:48.380 I don't know if it's necessarily that pressing or not. It's interesting, I guess, that some people

01:11:52.900 didn't realize. I'm a surveyor by trade. I was a surveyor for over 20 years. I guess the boundary

01:11:58.080 between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories is 2,400 kilometers long and truly deeply in the

01:12:05.100 middle of nowhere. I don't think there's even a single road crosses that boundary, but it's never

01:12:08.780 actually been surveyed, not in full, but it says only piecemeal surveys were required. You know,

01:12:13.680 they would do it at mine sites and so on. So they know exactly where it is, but who cares? You know,

01:12:19.040 I, I mean, really, uh, there's not a border to protect. There's not, uh, everything's digital

01:12:23.820 now, GPS, you can find your way to where that boundary should be. I mean, what do you want?

01:12:26.760 A cut line, some more brass benchmarks we don't need anymore, obsolete for an area nobody's going,

01:12:31.700 but, um, it's just kind of an interesting news tidbit, I guess, though, to discover

01:12:35.680 They never actually did survey that.

01:12:38.560 So, but they're talking about putting one in and doing it.

01:12:40.900 And I don't know.

01:12:42.840 A person testifying saying that to complete it and put it in place,

01:12:46.480 there needed to be some sort of constitutional amendment to bring the border in force.

01:12:49.080 And it's not been done.

01:12:49.900 This is according to a surveyor, but maybe he's just gone in for the contract.

01:12:53.640 I don't think I'd want to survey up there for a few more months.

01:12:55.720 I did my time in the territories.

01:12:57.800 Hey, it's got some great stuff up there, but that just isn't where I was going to want to go.

01:13:02.440 Let's see.

01:13:03.280 B.C.

01:13:03.840 decriminalizing. We talked about that. I'm just going through the news here. Guys, we've got

01:13:11.180 pretty much yet. You know, today I've got pretty much covered what we need to for the time being.

01:13:17.180 I am going to let you guys go a little early. I appreciate it for all of you tuning in today.

01:13:21.760 Tomorrow, I got a good show coming on. I got Bill Buick coming on. He's of Fairness, Alberta.

01:13:25.700 They got some initiatives going on. They were working on the equalization thing before.

01:13:29.280 And Western Standard columnist Mike Thomas is going to come in and he's always fun to have a

01:13:33.640 conversation with. He's got a number of columns we will talk about. Don't forget to subscribe if

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