00:16:05.220Or if you just want to go month by month, it is $10 a month of, you know, minor, minor investment.
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00:16:22.680other stuff getting me going, uh, there's a thing going on right now in the city. And, and, uh,
00:16:27.340we're going to talk a little about that. We record the pipeline. That's another one of our shows
00:16:30.320and that'll come out tonight. Maybe we'll have more answers at that point, but we've talked
00:16:34.220about that on this show before. I mean, Calgary has got just a ludicrous climate change plan.
00:16:39.240We're talking $87 billion, $87 billion for a city, for a climate change plan. And Mayor Gondek was furious when she couldn't get it ramrod through when it was first brought to council. So the other day, it ended up getting voted to be deferred until July. So at least they can chew on this, look at this for a month and get a better idea.
00:17:01.500Well, it sounds like there's a move in city council now. No, they're trying again to shove
00:17:05.000it through today, get it on the table and entrench this policy for the end of the day.
00:17:10.700What's the rush? What's the rush? And she just wants that jammed through there. $87 billion.
00:17:17.720We're talking over, where do you go with this? Over a hundred thousand to household,
00:17:22.940you know, 6,000 a year in property tax increases to make that up. But of course they call it an
00:17:28.100investment? What do you mean investment? It's a theft. It's going to screw the city. And you
00:17:32.260listen to the delusional crap out of the mayor of Calgary, Gondek, when she was going on saying,0.97
00:17:36.600if we don't get this in, this is sending the wrong message. If we don't get this in,0.92
00:17:40.040it's going to rattle business confidence in Calgary. Really? They're nuts. They really are.
00:17:46.460How would you think any business would look at it and say, yes, I want to see a city piss away
00:17:52.020$87 billion on a climate plan that isn't going to change anything. And if they don't put it in,
00:17:56.960I'm not going to feel confident. She has no sense of what business people want. That's why we have
00:18:01.880a dismal, dystopian, empty downtown. That's why all of these new businesses that have been moving
00:18:06.680into Alberta move into the Rocky View. They're moving into neighboring communities because
00:18:11.600they're not coming into this lunatic city. And it's not for a lack of a climate plan that they're0.88
00:18:16.440going outside of the cities because the taxes are too high. So if you go blowing $87 billion,
00:18:21.760and that's just their speculated $87 billion, you know that budget's going to go higher.
00:19:24.540We've got all kinds of challenges to our democracy right now,
00:19:27.540but you have the ability to get out there and fire these guys.
00:19:30.980And when you get city councilors, some of them sitting around for 30 years on those seats,
00:19:34.960well, who are you going to blame when they get arrogant and ignore you
00:19:38.240if you won't actually get up and do your part to fire them?
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00:20:58.360and as i said earlier this was the vice presidential candidate for the libertarian
00:21:03.040party of the united states in the last election and just been a very outspoken person for liberty
00:21:07.480on social media and all over the place so thank you for coming on to talk to us today spike
00:21:11.740yeah thanks for having me on again cory good to talk with you man yeah thanks and and part of why
00:21:16.920I really wanted to get you on is because we've got, I mean, when the United States, something
00:21:20.480happens there, it ripples over into Canada. I mean, we've got some differences. We've got some
00:21:25.200cultural differences, legislative ones, but still we share our issues. And the big debate on both
00:21:30.980countries right now is firearm control. That always happens whenever there's a terrible tragedy as
00:21:36.600there was in Texas. Down there, you guys are really discussing whether you can start infringing,
00:21:41.980I guess, on the Second Amendment or not with some controls up here. We've always been heavily
00:21:45.420controlled. But our prime minister has reacted by cracking down even harder now. And it looks
00:21:49.460like they're working towards banning all legally owned handguns in Canada in response to something
00:21:55.360that never even happened up here. But, you know, where do we go from there? I guess, like, I'll
00:22:02.240just start out, though, like, like, from a, there is a problem. I mean, I think it's hard to deny
00:22:07.960whether it's cultural, where do we go with it? But I mean, there's not really many developed
00:22:12.300nations that are dealing with such, even if they're sporadic and horrifying, you know,
00:22:15.980shootings like that in schools, like, where do we look to try and reduce those and stop that
00:22:21.520sort of thing from happening? Well, I think, Corey, we have to look at the fact that in the
00:22:26.140United States, and like you said, this ripples over into Canada, because anything that you can
00:22:30.340get in the United States can easily be taken to Canada through multiple points of ingress and
00:22:36.400In the United States, there are more guns than people. Now, whether you like that or not doesn't really matter. There are more guns than people. That's not going to end without some kind of massive door to door gun confiscation program, which ironically would end in much more gun violence than any other proposal being floated.
00:22:56.880So unless you're going to try to pretend that we can make guns go away, which we can't, there are guns. They simply exist. So now we have to decide how do we interact with and allow people to or not allow people to have access to those guns? Who should we be allowing or not allowing to have those guns? And that results in the kind of policies that we have right now, which led to the Evalde shooting.
00:23:19.960Let's be clear what happened there. Government mandated through the no gun zone laws that they
00:23:26.740passed in the eighties and nineties. I'm not sure exactly when it happened in Texas, but it was in
00:23:30.780that period. They mandated that school children in public schools be vulnerable and completely
00:23:36.840unguarded from attack, which has led to school shooters picking schools as their target for
00:23:42.920mass shootings because they know that they're fishing a barrel zones. There's no one there
00:23:46.340that's going to protect them. Then they had the police stay outside for over an hour and stop
00:23:53.460horrified parents from going in to try to protect or protect their children or stop the shooting
00:23:59.260from happen. Then they tried to lie about it and say that, you know, that there was nothing they
00:24:03.620could do. They had tried everything they could when the reality was they had literally stood
00:24:07.320there. Then finally someone showed up and broke the government's orders and stepped in and stopped
00:24:13.060the shooter, and then they are now blaming it on the fact that I and many other Americans
00:24:18.900may or may not own a rifle, that that's the reason why this happened. You cannot legislate
00:24:25.240bad people into not having guns, at least not in the U.S., and by extension, not in Canada,
00:24:30.980because in order to be a shooter or a mass shooter or a murderer, you have to have two things,
00:24:36.480not caring what the law is and a desire to hurt lots and lots of people. Oh, you need a third
00:24:41.580thing too. You need to not care what the consequences of your actions are. The laws
00:24:46.400aren't going to stop someone like that. What they are going to stop are law-abiding people who might
00:24:50.900actually defend themselves against someone like that. Yeah, and that's what we keep getting to.
00:24:55.260I mean, the bottom line is law-abiding people are the low-hanging fruit. They're the easy ones to go
00:24:59.540after because they're compliant. And we've seen this, as you pointed out, in Canada, we have a
00:25:04.1209,000 kilometer border between our countries. It's huge. It's the longest undefended border in
00:25:08.900the, in the world. And it's very easy to smuggle things across it, particularly small items like
00:25:13.620handguns. And it's been, it's been documented by the police. Toronto has a big gang war going on.
00:25:19.060They have a lot of shootings. Over 86% of the firearms they've picked up off the gangsters
00:25:24.100were smuggled in from the United States. But what's the Canadian reaction? Let's go after
00:25:28.500the law abiding handgun owners who are already very seriously controlled and we're never committing0.95
00:25:33.900the crimes in the first place. But I mean, how do you stop that knee jerk reaction? That's the
00:25:38.800problem. Well, and this is a tale as old as time, Corey, uh, in the U S and possibly in Canada as
00:25:43.840well during alcohol prohibition during that war on that particular drug, uh, thanks to alcohol
00:25:49.540prohibition, it created a black market, uh, for, uh, rum for, uh, at that point, they were two
00:25:55.240bit thugs, but they turned into some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the
00:25:58.560country, uh, inside of a year or two, uh, because they were handed a billion dollar industry for
00:26:04.200them to have exclusive control over. And as a result, they engaged in brutal gang warfare
00:26:09.640in order to fight each other for turf. This, by the way, was something that did not happen
00:26:14.860when alcohol was legal because if you had a legal product that you were selling, why would you
00:26:20.360engage in brutal gang warfare? You would just compete with your competitors legally like
00:26:24.360all other legal products. And as a result of that, the government blamed the Tommy gun.
00:26:30.200That was the problem. It wasn't the fact that they had created a black market and that the black marketeers were fighting each other. No, it was a gun that had existed for at least a couple of decades at that point. That was the problem. And so they passed the NFA. We're seeing that now. The war on drugs has created gang violence, which is blamed on the gun. And it makes no sense at all.
00:26:51.020Well, yeah, and that's getting to where I wanted to go with that, too, because I mean, actually here in Calgary, we have a record amount of shootings happening as well.
00:26:57.600And pretty much all of them are always gang related.
00:26:59.740When you have a limited commodity, the unprincipled are always going to get in there and they're going because it makes it profitable.
00:27:05.540I mean, we used to have cigarette smuggling when we put the cigarette taxes up too high in Canada 30 years ago.
00:27:10.260We literally have cheese smuggling, a side note, but because we control our dairies up here so much that it's actually 30 percent cheaper to get dairy products from the United States if you can get them across the border.
00:27:20.480But the underlying issue then is the addiction issues. We do have an opioid crisis going on. We've got more people addicted to items like fentanyl and meth and things like that than we've ever seen in the past that brings about a massive drug trade that's very lucrative and they're having their turf wars. But again, how can we realistically get to that?
00:27:39.240I mean, I suspect yourself and more like me, but it's a hard thing to sell.
00:27:42.940If we start moving towards decriminalizing actually some of these drugs and cutting into that, we can get to the solution of that problem.
00:27:48.900But that's difficult to get past on people. They're too busy looking at the firearms.
00:27:52.820It is both from the firearms perspective and from the drug itself.
00:27:56.920You know, it's hard saying I think that these drugs should be legal or at least decriminalized to people who have, for example, lost a loved one to an opioid overdose or to someone who lost a loved one to the gang violence in the drug trade.
00:28:10.820But the reality is those things are a side effect of illegalizing that drug trade.
00:28:16.560Or at least it's been greatly made worse by that.
00:28:19.700I mean, tens of thousands of people die from alcohol poisoning every year in the U.S.
00:29:29.580And that's the root of where we got to go with these addiction issues.
00:29:32.560I mean, a lot of people are trying to self-medicate for an untreated mental health problem, things such as that.
00:29:37.520But getting further, can that be tied a little bit?
00:29:40.600Because the thing that mystifies so many of us, again, is what is compelling.
00:29:43.940I mean, we'll never know for sure, but somebody to get up and say, I want to go out into a school and start shooting children.
00:29:48.920I mean, we see them sporadically. It's going to happen. But it just is it a perception that we're seeing this more now or is there are there really more of these shootings happening?
00:29:58.540So if you look at the data, the number of murders, including murders by gun, have been kind of at least in the U.S.
00:30:06.240I don't know the Canadian stats. So these could be completely wrong for Canada.
00:30:09.200But in the U.S., they've been kind of slowly dropping.
00:30:12.460They reached a peak in the 1960s and 70s. Some would argue because of the massive gun control
00:30:17.860that had happened in the 60s and 70s that it reached a peak around them because a record
00:30:22.080number of Americans were unable to legally defend themselves, regardless of whether it was because
00:30:26.260of that or not. Starting in the 80s, it started to slowly drop. In the last few years, it's been
00:30:32.040ticking back up, but it's still nowhere near the highs that it was even 20, 30 years ago.
00:30:36.700So it is much lower. Mass shootings had a major increase in the 1990s. But part of what happened
00:30:44.780was they lowered the number of deaths from, I think, or number of shootings from a number of
00:30:49.560people that had to be shot from either, I think, five down to three to qualify it as a mass shooting.
00:30:54.160So it's hard to compare apples to apples there. What I do know is that looking at it at a granular
00:31:00.060level, at the why would someone choose to go and kill a bunch of people level, I think that we're
00:31:05.840looking at very often a failure of the health system to identify actual mental health issues.
00:31:12.140I think we're looking at a failure of the school system, at least in the US, we're looking at that.
00:31:17.100And I think we're looking at a lot of failures that result in someone who feels so angry and
00:31:21.240desperate that they end up doing something terrible like this. And I think in some cases,
00:31:24.880it's just that some people, whether you want to call it evil or whatever else,
00:31:28.060some people end up just doing something like this. And that's where you need to look at the
00:31:31.920deterrent effect. You have to look at what are the targets they choose. This kid didn't go to
00:31:36.980that school. The reason they pick schools and malls and theaters and things like that is because
00:31:42.200they know that these are no gun zones. In other words, they're a place where a bunch of people
00:31:46.240who are law abiding are likely to not have a gun. And they know that the police and the resource
00:31:51.360officers and the security guards, they're more concerned about their own lives and livelihoods
00:31:56.620than they are for saving a bunch of innocent people. And so they know they can get in there
00:32:00.440and shoot up a bunch of people before anyone actually stops them, if they ever stop them.
00:32:04.520And we need to, I will ask your audience and you that is listening to this, imagine two schools0.81
00:32:10.340exactly the same, except one has a sign that says, no guns allowed. And the other one says,
00:32:14.940we are heavily armed and will protect these children with our lives. Which one do you think
00:32:18.240is a greater deterrent to school shootings? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's similar to just
00:32:22.720even owning a dog. If a burglar is scouting houses in a neighborhood and he sees one with a barking
00:32:26.340dog in the window and one without, he's going to pick the one without. I mean, it's just a mother.
00:32:29.340Yeah. Predators pick the easiest prey. Exactly. But I mean, is there room for perhaps some increase on controls within the United States? Like licensing, for example, I know that people worry about the incremental effect because that's what we got happening in Canada. Every time the government makes one step, they just take another step and another step. Exactly. But a lot of people don't find it unreasonable. That's looking at the individual rather than the firearm itself. You know, some people just shouldn't qualify to have one. And I know if they're really determined, they're going to get one anyways.
00:32:56.520but perhaps it could reduce some of the spontaneous uh uh possessions and purchases is there room for
00:33:02.320that kind of discussion so where that comes from is the reality that some people should not have a
00:33:06.660gun that's 100 correct there are some people that should never be anywhere near a gun the problem
00:33:12.700is asking the further question do we trust the government to make that decision and and no i
00:33:17.180don't it's ironic when we talk about things like background checks and licensing and everything
00:33:20.740else if we looked at government as an entity and had them subjected to these background checks and
00:33:26.120these types of things, they would never pass their own background checks given their history,
00:33:29.640right? But you have to look at it at another level. So for example, this Evaldi shooter,
00:33:34.300and I refuse to use his name, but this shooter, he legally purchased this firearm, which means he
00:33:40.720passed a background check. He went through the waiting period. He did all the stuff that we are
00:33:44.800told will stop these shootings. It didn't. Do you know what licensing and regulations and
00:33:52.100waiting periods and background checks. Do you know who they stop? They stop veterans with PTSD
00:34:00.200who use cannabis or anyone else who's using cannabis medicinally for a medicinal reason
00:34:07.780that they have. They stop people that have a conviction for a nonviolent felony 20 years ago
00:34:13.480who haven't hurt anyone since and have never been violent. They round up a bunch of people,
00:34:18.420uh people who can't afford the cost of running through all these background checks and inspections
00:34:22.220and everything else that that sometimes double or triple the cost of a firearm they they run up the
00:34:27.080cost they they make it impossible for people who are not bad people and if someone is a bad person
00:34:32.880then they don't care what the gun laws are and they just go and get a gun illegally probably for
00:34:37.780cheaper right so that doesn't actually fix anything so from the from the the uh i guess
00:34:44.120philosophical standpoint of are there people who shouldn't have guns yes there are people who
00:34:47.860shouldn't have guns. Is there an effective way for government to stop them from getting them?
00:34:51.540I haven't seen that. And I've seen instead that they create this sort of captured market where
00:34:56.020only those people can get guns illegally. Yeah. And it's funny, your argument was similar when
00:35:02.160I had some debates with my own, some of the more small C conservative viewers, when I oppose
00:35:05.540capital punishment. My point is, it's similar to saying, are there some people who are so horrific
00:35:09.540that they'd probably be better off dead? Yeah, I agree. But I don't trust the government to be
00:55:54.320So you can actually just do that on your computer.
00:55:56.440So you don't have to use the app is just to make it easier for people
00:56:00.520who want to do it on the fly. So all you need is a picture of the tick that you encountered.
00:56:05.240Then you need to answer a few questions. So you need to give us the date and where you got the
00:56:12.820tick. And then as soon as this is done, a member of our team gets a notification and then they
00:56:17.740will look at your submission. And if the pictures are of a good enough quality, they will provide
00:56:24.340you with a clear answer as to what species you were in contact with, what the potential
00:56:30.820medical or veterinary issues could be, and what you should do if there's anything that needs to
00:56:37.220be done. So it's very quick. And as soon as we've identified your tick, you can also go and check
00:56:42.820out your own dot on our map because that dot will become publicly visible as soon as we have
00:56:48.580So mitigating tick harm on yourself or your pets, I mean, it's through education and knowing what's going on in your area and going out, but is there much that can be done for tick control in areas?
00:57:00.580Like if there's an outbreak or things like that, I mean, is it just kind of beyond our control?
00:57:04.580We just got to make sure to protect ourselves better.
00:57:06.580Controlling for ticks is, is difficult again, because there will be different habitats suitable for different species of ticks.
00:57:14.580habitat suitable for different species of ticks. So unfortunately, you cannot control habitat for
00:57:20.320all different species of ticks all around 12 months a year. So it is not that easy.
00:57:27.720So there are obviously, if you mow the lawn, and if you remove lots of tall grasses from your
00:57:35.160surroundings, you can decrease tick contact a little bit. But I mean, nobody stays within
00:57:40.700you know, just their backyard. So in the end, really prevention will be at its best when you're
00:57:48.620looking at yourself and how you can prevent the ticks from attaching because trying to control
00:57:53.020them in our environment is difficult. Lots of people are working towards finding solutions,
00:57:58.540but there is no silver bullet, at least not yet. Yeah. Well, a lot of it at least is knowing
00:58:03.500where you're going. I mean, if you're watching the app or just paying attention, you can realize,
00:58:07.580oh they get a little bad in my area i might want to inspect the dogs a little more closely or myself
00:58:11.500when i get back home uh i i mean it's just anecdotal on my part but i always found them
00:58:15.980worse than the taller grass rather than the bush maybe around the edges of the bush i found them
00:58:19.820bad and and uh usually they don't travel too far before latching in it was the lower parts of my
00:58:24.220legs where they would start though i could find them anywhere on yourself uh if you're out in the
00:58:28.220trees long enough yeah and and you know it might look like a fashion crime but uh putting your
00:58:33.260pants into your socks when you're in tick habitat is a great way to prevent them from latching on
00:58:38.220they'll have a longer way to to crawl up to reach out your skin so this is excellent and also keeping
00:58:44.060in mind that for many of the tick-borne diseases not all of them but the pathogens need several
00:58:50.620hours to be transmitted to the host so if you remove the tick rapidly it decreases the
00:58:56.300probabilities of infection for again some infections such as lyme disease for example
00:59:01.500So tick checks and, you know, good clothing and, of course, tick repellents together will work very well to decrease the probabilities of infection.
00:59:11.820Yeah, and sooner rather than later definitely helps.
00:59:14.820And there's a lot of myths, unfortunately, with ticks and things like that.
00:59:17.920You know, to warn people, don't do the red hot needle on it.
00:59:23.960There's a lot of ways to safely extract a tick from yourself without going to all those measures that might cause you more damage than good.
00:59:31.100absolutely and usually just using for example eyebrow tweezers very close to the skin and
00:59:36.780pulling without twisting because when you twist you have a higher chance of breaking the head
00:59:41.820and then it can be itchy um can cause a little bit of irritation so yes there are no better ways than
00:59:47.340just using tweezers to remove the tick and and pulling it out gently without breaking it is the
00:59:53.900best solution yeah and there's one of my commenters is saying yeah don't panic and i know that's your
00:59:58.220first instinct especially when you brush and you realize this thing isn't just crawling on me it's
01:00:02.060stuck and you freak out and you really want that off yourself but just try to stay calm and get it
01:00:06.940out because an infection could happen afterwards too aside from some of the transmissible diseases
01:00:10.940if you if you haven't extracted well of course i mean you have you know you've broken the skin so
01:00:15.420bacteria can come in just like if you'd broken the skin with any other implement or or you know
01:00:21.580scratch or anything so of course you have to be careful with that and yeah don't panic is a great
01:00:25.980piece of advice. Ticks are not quick. They're not spiders. They don't run around. And so keep calm
01:00:31.760and remove them gently is the best solution. Yeah. They do that really gross, slow sort of walk
01:00:37.860actually. And as you said, if the socks are tucked in, you'll see them coming up your pant legs if
01:00:41.440you're in a bad area, but at least, you know, it's a good spot to watch for them. And, you know,
01:00:45.600somebody else saying chickens, you need more chickens. They love eating ticks. Well,
01:00:48.780some, somehow yards that could help is absolutely in areas where it's allowed.
01:01:02.640You know, ETIC is a short word, easy to find.
01:01:06.420And again, this is not just for the residents of Alberta.
01:01:09.240We now have pretty much full Canadian coverage.
01:01:11.840And it's also important for you to keep in mind, not just in your daily activities,
01:01:16.020but if you travel to another province, especially out east, you can also use our app.
01:01:22.300So obviously, we're asking you your province of residence, because this is where you will get services in case you contract a tick-borne disease or in case you need to consult with your dogs.
01:01:33.920So don't hesitate to use the platform, even if you think the tick that you were in contact with comes from a different province.
01:01:41.820But at least for the residents of Alberta, my main advice would be don't panic.
01:01:47.100Yes, there are black legged ticks that are coming over to your province, usually through dogs or birds or other animals.
01:01:55.700But at least until now, you are still doing better than a lot of the eastern provinces.
01:02:01.480So, you know, be aware, but keep going.
01:02:05.920Yeah, well, that's, you know, it's interactive.
01:02:07.760So, I mean, it's up to the person, but if they want to help and participate, I mean, the more data you have, the more accurate the entire thing is going to be.
01:02:14.140And the more data points we get, the more we can also react quickly.
01:02:19.280If there are at some point some unusual patterns, there are possibilities of new species coming up from the U.S.
01:02:26.760Through climate change, habitat change, we see the population and distribution of these populations change quite rapidly.
01:02:33.580So, of course, we're talking about the black legged tick now, but I might be back next year talking about something else.
01:02:39.560So that is why we need everyone's help into following these ticks. We don't have enough people on the field to collect them. And so citizens here are really helping various researchers adding data to our growing data set and our ever evolving data set.
01:02:59.780So that's why even if you did one last year and you recognize a tick this year, please submit it.
01:09:28.860You know, I wonder if we're going to hit a tipping point with our liberal government where just enough people with some sense are going to turn against them.
01:09:35.160As I said, in the Senate, we're seeing senators, liberal appointed senators, turning against Bill S-7.
01:09:41.120And now we're seeing the Parliamentary Budget Office saying that, and this is their words, that Freeland's plan for deficit reduction is not believable.
01:09:49.440It's not credible. That's what they're saying.
01:09:51.340They're basically saying our finance minister is full of crap.1.00
01:09:54.280They're saying her plan won't work.1.00
01:17:06.360Yeah, they don't want to come back, especially considering a lot of them were probably actually pushed out because they weren't vaccinated.
01:17:14.040And now we've got airports with people waiting as long as three, four hours, if they can get on their flight in time.
01:17:20.640And there's inexperienced staff in the airports.
01:17:22.740And the other thing is, you know what?
01:17:24.100Take one of the layers of things they have to do off their back.
01:17:27.580get rid of the bloody mandates and we can get these people on the planes. It's slowing them down.
01:17:36.180Let's see. Oh, here's a, you know, a house affairs committee again. So this is saying a
01:17:41.060cabinet bill, C-14. This is the redistributing of seats in the house of commons. It says West
01:17:48.180East seats. Boy, that's a tongue twister, isn't it? Skewed. Man, these headlines. You're killing
01:17:54.860me, you guys. Canada's fastest growing provinces are short dozens of seats under the electoral
01:18:00.280redistricting. This is the bill that's going to guarantee Quebec 78 seats no matter what.
01:18:07.100No matter what. So even if Quebec, I mean, again, as I said, you know, if the Quebecois are that
01:18:13.440insecure, they're that worried, they want to, they're losing seats because their population
01:18:16.560isn't going up, screw better. God, you guys reproduce, get on the job. Do a better task of
01:18:23.220it. It's not our fault, but instead our cowardly representatives in Ottawa have now legislated it
01:18:32.000rather than upset Quebec. So, okay, it doesn't matter how much your population goes down.
01:18:35.120It doesn't matter how much your, your rotten bills like 21 drive, uh, bill 21 in Quebec that0.50
01:18:39.880drives immigrants away from your province, that drives new, new Quebecers out of there.
01:18:44.440We, as the rest of the country have to indulge you and make sure you always have a baseline of0.99
01:18:50.040seats. That's where I kept going. That's a conclusion. Canada is broken. And it really is.
01:18:55.620And that tail, that Quebec tail wags this dog so badly. And I'm going to keep blocking you guys if0.99
01:19:03.000you keep spamming on there. So there's another one. And either way, C-14 is going on through
01:19:07.820and Quebec has got their seats. And guess who's paying the price for it? The West. That's nothing
01:19:13.800new. And it just carries on. But it's interesting that makes a story. Well, the West is getting
01:19:18.920screwed in seats. Well, welcome to Confederation. That's been happening since you guys began.0.98
01:19:25.640Let's see a new history board mandate. Cabinet introduced a bill guaranteeing three Indigenous
01:19:30.000seats on a federal board responsible for historical designations. Ah, man. You know,
01:19:36.080and it follows a 2019 order that historic plaques address colonialism, patriarchy, and racism. So
01:19:41.560we just get that woke thing legislated into everything we do. Look, we should be addressing
01:19:46.980what happened historically. We should be addressing some of the things that happened.
01:19:49.940You know what? Colonialism was good. Get over it. It was. Yes, things changed. Yes, some things were0.58
01:19:56.320done wrong. Absolutely. Yes, the residential schools were horrific and they were trying to
01:20:01.220wipe out the culture of a bunch of Canadian citizens. And we should learn from that and1.00
01:20:07.400we should address that. But quit pretending that this was some sort of paradise in North America