Western Standard - Triggered： Canada is killing its tourism sector with vaccine mandates

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's May 24th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. I hope you

00:00:39.180 all had a good long weekend. I know I did. Back in and on the air for Tuesday, though,

00:00:44.100 another week full of ranting and news and trivial stories. As I'll start with today's

00:00:49.280 observations, the important things you got to make sure not to miss. Yesterday was Victoria

00:00:52.840 Day or Canada Day or no, sorry, May long weekend, as others like to put it, of course, we're

00:00:59.980 supposed to work away from our colonial roots. I'm not too concerned about Victoria, but it doesn't

00:01:04.660 hurt my feelings if somebody mentions it. Today, though, is Asparagus Day. Just in case you were

00:01:10.420 wondering, it's important to know it is Asparagus Day. And I mean, you know, not only is asparagus a

00:01:15.620 healthy, fantastic vegetable to eat, but it's got that strange property due to apparently its amino

00:01:22.340 acids or something. And if you look it up, it's a genetic thing. It doesn't do it to everybody,

00:01:26.440 so some people might not understand what i'm talking about but if you want to really destroy

00:01:31.160 a bathroom have a bunch of asparagus and chase it with a lot of liquids also it's international

00:01:37.160 tiara day so uh you can get out there throw that thing on there and uh celebrate and observe make

00:01:42.840 sure everybody sees you wearing your best tiara you know don't take your second tiara or third

00:01:47.640 tiara today today is the day to wear your best one so yes every day there is something to celebrate

00:01:53.560 and something to enjoy okay so we've got a couple good guests on today as usual i got in studio we

00:02:00.840 got our western standard reporter and columnist chris old corn he's the guy who comes with uh

00:02:05.320 well he's bringing us a lot of saskatchewan news all the time and he writes weekly columns on other

00:02:09.720 issues we'll have a talk about his last column and upcoming stuff and some of the things that

00:02:13.880 are going on out in saskatchewan we don't talk about that fantastic province nearly enough there's

00:02:18.520 a lot of interesting things going on over there they got some crazy politics that are kind of

00:02:22.120 paralleling ours. Speaking of crazy politics, we've got the new leader of the Maverick Party,

00:02:26.480 Colin Krieger, coming on. He just won the leadership week and some ago there in Calgary.

00:02:31.480 He's from up in northern Alberta, and they're trying to set their roots up as a federal

00:02:35.700 alternative for us there. I see all the commenters coming from all over. I see Terry in Vancouver

00:02:40.540 Island and Wednesday. Let's see, Lisa out in West Kelowna. I love seeing just the people coming in

00:02:46.500 from all over the place. It really helps. Reminds me why we do this live thing. Live is a lot of

00:02:50.880 work. It's a lot of planning, but it makes for that great interaction between, you know, you

00:02:55.780 guys with each other, with me, throw guests my way towards the, uh, questions my way, throw

00:03:02.240 towards the guests, things like that. We don't necessarily read them all, but, uh, if you see

00:03:05.320 that interaction and chat with each other, just keep it civil if we can. All right. So I'm going

00:03:11.400 to talk about, yes, I, it shouldn't be too dull. I'm going to talk about how I spent my weekend on

00:03:16.340 the long weekend. Yes. Went down and visited my mother in Idaho. And actually it was a great time.

00:03:20.880 so i went down to sandpoint idaho and i tell you the idaho panhandle is a beautiful and underrated

00:03:26.080 region to visit by the way the lakes rival anything the okanagan has to offer and it's

00:03:30.400 only a short drive from alberta so there's my plug for sandpoint idaho but i really mean it

00:03:34.400 it's great down there now and heading south i was at the american border crossing for a little more

00:03:39.920 than a few minutes the cars ahead of me flowed through the border quickly and i wasn't asked

00:03:43.520 much more than the standard questions you know such as how long i'd be staying and the purpose

00:03:47.440 of my visit and then i was waved through nothing else nothing more returning to canada though was

00:03:52.560 a different story the lineup of cars stretched for kilometers up the highway we languished in

00:03:57.360 our car for well over an hour as the line inched agonizingly slowly towards the border there were

00:04:03.680 four stations open at the border crossing and usually that's more than enough to handle the

00:04:07.040 traffic even on weekends so why was it going so slowly it's because they were messing around

00:04:12.320 verifying everybody's vaccine status now there's the an arrive can app and it works well for those

00:04:18.240 who are vaccinated and have set it up when we finally actually got to the border crossing our

00:04:23.200 vaccine status was established quickly and we were through within a couple of minutes

00:04:27.120 clearly though many haven't set up the app and a number a number of people of course aren't

00:04:31.280 aren't going to get vaccinated and the verification has to remind rely on paper and as another means

00:04:37.200 of proof or the person is pulled aside and slapped with a pile of quarantine and testing requirements

00:04:41.600 and canadian airports of course are even worse right now it's it's a ridiculous song and dance

00:04:46.560 at the border and it isn't making anybody any safer it's just another facet of the government's

00:04:51.040 obsession we're trying to harass people into getting vaccinated a vaccination doesn't do

00:04:56.400 anything to stop the spread of covet 19. that's no longer conjecture it's well-established medical

00:05:01.840 fact blocking the unvaccinated or forcing them to endure rounds of testing and quarantining

00:05:07.200 is not slowing or stopping any viral spread and it's coming with a heavy cost for canadians in

00:05:12.400 the hospitality and tourism sector now while i was down in idaho we attended a large uh annual

00:05:18.480 antique car show it's a great thing it was a great time we saw some fantastic automobiles uh

00:05:23.360 throughout the streets they needed the whole downtown up not a single electric car was to

00:05:27.200 be found of course i don't think our grandchildren are going to be attending shows to admire classic

00:05:31.600 chevy volts but i digress the other noteworthy sight was the number of canadian license plates

00:05:37.200 on cars in the area bc and alberta plates made up probably about a quarter of the plates around town

00:05:42.240 thousands thousands of canadians had come down for the weekend and it was serving the town well

00:05:46.640 restaurants and pubs were bustling hotels were full and stores did great trade it was nice seeing

00:05:51.840 so many people out and about enjoying themselves and spending some money also in my anecdotal

00:05:57.520 license plate studies i noted that pretty much every vehicle languishing with me in the border

00:06:02.160 line up to return to Canada was Canadian. There was hardly an American plate to be seen.

00:06:06.720 Due to having family down there, I've made this trip dozens of times over the years, and I've

00:06:10.920 never seen such a dearth of American plates heading up to visit Canada. The bottom line is

00:06:16.000 we're too expensive and we're too much of a pain in the ass to visit. Our vaccination requirements 0.99

00:06:20.300 eliminate a number of potential visitors, while the testing and other requirements discourage

00:06:24.260 others from bothering. While some might dismiss these things as trivial inconveniences, those

00:06:28.720 inconveniences are keeping untold numbers of American visitors from coming to Canada and it's

00:06:32.960 costing us a fortune. You can't beat tourist dollars for economic stimulus. Foreigners are

00:06:38.060 literally bringing money from elsewhere here and spreading it around our businesses. Tourism 1.00

00:06:43.560 directly employed nearly a million Canadians, indirectly almost 2 million Canadians when

00:06:48.780 that's brought into account back in 2019. The economic benefit was about $20 billion. It's big

00:06:54.600 business and we're cutting deeply into it for no discernible benefit. The weather's warming and

00:07:00.280 there's millions of tourists, not just the United States, around the world and they're eager to visit

00:07:04.220 Canada and spend money here. Our economy has taken a beating this last few years and it's ridiculous

00:07:08.400 that we're hindering our recovery by stubbornly clinging to these vaccine mandates.

00:07:13.440 This is going to be the third summer since COVID-19 appeared in the world. We've already

00:07:17.520 decimated our tourism sector with lockdowns over the last two summers. Let's open the doors and

00:07:22.140 Let the tourism sector recover.

00:07:24.040 We've got businesses continuing to close permanently

00:07:26.180 while foreign tourists are finding new world destinations to visit.

00:07:30.340 They might not come back. 0.69

00:07:31.940 Let's end the pointless mandates now.

00:07:35.920 All right, that's what's got me ranting as I come back.

00:07:38.960 Let's check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:07:41.520 and see what else is burning up the news lines with the Western Standard here.

00:07:45.220 Oh, along with the Battle of Alberta.

00:07:46.920 I see Nico's got the logo on the bottom there.

00:07:50.540 Hey, buddy, where's my bottle from duty-free?

00:07:53.620 I know, I know.

00:07:54.620 I hang my head in shame.

00:07:55.520 I was to bring you one.

00:07:56.380 I committed.

00:07:57.080 It was.

00:07:57.660 I'm going to blame it on that lineup at the border.

00:08:00.100 I didn't want to pull out a line and go into that duty-free store.

00:08:02.540 So I said, sorry, Dave, you're out of luck, but I just got to get through this.

00:08:06.340 All right.

00:08:06.660 Well, maybe this will be my last news update then.

00:08:08.780 Why would I want to do stuff for you?

00:08:10.860 Well, let's just get right on with it then, shall we?

00:08:13.340 Oh, man.

00:08:15.040 Pierre Polyev has written a letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

00:08:19.940 calling for an end to the carbon tax on gasoline he says in his uh travels in the conservative

00:08:26.660 leadership race uh everybody from uh from british columbia to newfoundland is uh complaining that

00:08:32.980 the gas rates or the gas costs are too high and uh yeah he's quite right it cost me 73 dollars

00:08:39.060 this weekend to fill up my little honda civic imagine that uh we got the latest on the monkey

00:08:45.140 pox vaccine which is going around the world now. Belgium has introduced compulsory

00:08:52.900 quarantines for sufferers of monkey pox. Apparently there was some big raves in

00:08:59.940 Europe over the weekend and there's a lot of new cases developing from those. Our Oilers fan Lee

00:09:08.600 Harding has got a story up on why Connor McDavid is the greatest ever and he's certainly playing

00:09:14.260 like it against the flames. They were, I don't know if you watched the game from Idaho, but

00:09:18.400 they were truly atrocious on Sunday. We've got a good story on CRA, the tax man. Apparently they've

00:09:26.480 got so little to do. A lot of them have second jobs during the day at work. While they're

00:09:32.000 busy auditing me, they're also busy doing other work. So nice work if you can get it, I guess.

00:09:38.140 And the head of Via Rail has suddenly quit her $300,000 a year job because, well, she's not saying why, and the Liberals won't tell us why, but she had two years to go on a contract, so it must have been some sort of problem.

00:09:53.600 So I've got more than a dozen stories up already this morning, Corey.

00:09:56.980 Those are just some of the highlights, and there'll be more to come this afternoon.

00:10:00.760 Our Mel Rizdin and Matthew Horwood are monitoring World Economic Forum events,

00:10:06.580 and we'll have no doubt lots of stories out of there.

00:10:10.860 And all we can say is go, flames, go.

00:10:13.200 And unfortunately, I will not be able to drink a toast to their victory

00:10:17.080 because I was hoping for some gin, cheap border gin.

00:10:21.560 Well, how about this? I'll buy you a drink at lunchtime today.

00:10:27.260 Well, geez, thanks, man.

00:10:29.300 Okay, see, I know. It's a start.

00:10:32.040 It's a start. Very smart start.

00:10:34.180 I'll try to make up for it. Thanks, Dave. I appreciate it.

00:10:36.640 Thanks, Bert.

00:10:37.240 All right. Back to later.

00:10:38.760 That's our news editor, Dave Naylor in there. Yes, he's quite upset. I went and broke my word

00:10:45.840 for my own convenience in a border lineup and didn't get him a good bottle on the way up.

00:10:50.800 The next time I go to the States, hopefully we'll have much better things,

00:10:54.440 and I'll just have to make up for it with a bigger bottler of higher quality.

00:10:58.360 Liquor is important to many in the media industry.

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00:12:07.680 carrying out the content we've got. And yes, I'm going to talk a bit about that tomorrow when I

00:12:13.860 get my rant going. But you know, the World Economic Forum is going on right now. It's in Davos. We've

00:12:18.760 got, oh, we don't have anybody out there covering it with the Western Standard. We do a lot of

00:12:22.620 Canadian news, but we write stories on these things, of course, and all that. And I'll have

00:12:27.940 somebody look into that, Wendy. Thank you. So, sorry, I'm just responding to a commentary for

00:12:33.320 the people on audio there. So the World Economic Forum, you know, it's that group. We've talked

00:12:40.860 about it before. I've ran into it about it before. And it's, you know, a group of the elites.

00:12:46.460 The funny thing with them is people get dismissed for being conspiracy theorists,

00:12:51.940 for even talking about them or pointing them out or whatever's going on over there.

00:12:55.900 But there's no conspiracy.

00:12:57.460 There's nothing hidden.

00:12:58.760 There are some crazed things on their agenda.

00:13:02.900 It's right out in the open.

00:13:04.060 They want centralized world government.

00:13:05.980 They want socialism.

00:13:07.080 They want hardcore economic controls on nations.

00:13:10.900 They want the Great Reset.

00:13:12.360 But the other half of the coin, I mean, because we are concerned about all the things we want, 0.94

00:13:17.240 we do have to remember, we aren't bound by any of the crap these guys want to put out either.

00:13:21.540 I mean, just because they say they want all this doesn't mean that any of our political leaders

00:13:25.800 actually have to do any of those things. They want to influence leaders. We see it with,

00:13:31.080 you know, Prime Minister Ding Dong. That's why the concern is as strong as it's getting these

00:13:35.040 days with Trudeau, because he's a very influential, if that's a word, you know,

00:13:40.700 he's a guy who can be quite easily swayed with things. He doesn't think a lot for himself. So

00:13:44.340 if he goes to a conference somewhere like that, gets some ideas into his head, yes, we could

00:13:48.700 certainly see him thinking, hey, I kind of like this and I want to move on with it. So we do have

00:13:53.020 to watch it. We do have to be concerned about it. But at the same time, they aren't as powerful as

00:13:58.040 they would like to be. So it's kind of a balance. Some people accuse anybody and everybody of being

00:14:03.320 with them or if they've been close to them or if they shared an elevator with somebody who

00:14:06.320 attended one, that they might be part of the grand conspiracy. And it's not quite that far

00:14:10.100 either. Just like Shirley Gervais saying, you know, with Calgary Conservative MP Michelle

00:14:14.820 Rempel, what was she doing when she attended? Now, like to give credit, like I'm not thrilled

00:14:20.060 with Michelle Rempel these days, I tell you, you know, with some of her weird stuff and her 0.83

00:14:24.100 low tactics, I think, you know, on the Brown campaign and the Conservative leadership with 1.00

00:14:29.820 her race baiting and garbage. But all the same, she did attend one years ago, and she's been open 0.90

00:14:38.940 about, you know, why she attended, you got to remember these conferences, they have a big open

00:14:42.560 invite. Anybody of even moderate influence and some means can get over there and, and attend and

00:14:47.920 watch the seminars, the speeches, the events, things like that. I mean, it's an invite thing,

00:14:52.780 but they invite thousands. So it's not a tiny exclusive club. And just because you've been

00:14:57.620 there doesn't mean you adhere to whatever they told you while you were there. You know, I mean,

00:15:04.060 it's an indication, I guess, if you wanted to take time out of your life and go there and rub

00:15:07.260 shoulders with those people and talk about those things. But we've got to be careful. We smear

00:15:11.420 anything and everybody with this, oh, you're part of the WEF conspiracy. No, not everybody is. We've

00:15:16.820 seen that here with things. People say, you're standard, you covered this, you're part of the

00:15:20.120 WEF. Oh, no. I only wish Mr. Schwab was paying my bills and nothing against my mother. But my

00:15:27.040 vacation would have gone a lot farther than just Sandpoint, Idaho, if I had Schwab putting millions

00:15:34.160 of dollars into my bank account in order to get selective coverage for his agenda out there. So

00:15:39.280 no, their conspiracy isn't as deep as some think, but they do exist and they are a threat and they

00:15:44.240 are a problem. So we're just going to look at them carefully with a balanced eye and watch what's

00:15:48.680 going on. Watch what they say. Watch what the people who have intended to come back and say

00:15:52.000 and bear these things in mind. It's just that the debate gets sometimes too heated and almost

00:15:57.180 discredits itself sometimes when we get a little too wound up with what that group represents.

00:16:01.100 but what they represent is odious and nasty.

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00:17:43.020 out, there he is, Video Magic. Christopher Olcorn, all the way from Saskatchewan. Hey, glad to see

00:17:47.420 you back in here today. Yes, happy to be back in the studio. Right on. So yeah, in time in Alberta

00:17:52.860 to catch one of the Battle of Alberta's going on anyways.

00:17:57.500 Yeah, even in Saskatchewan, like in the media scrums,

00:18:01.380 everybody's talking, every politician comes up,

00:18:03.280 starts talking about which team they're cheering for

00:18:06.160 because there is no hockey team in Saskatchewan,

00:18:08.580 so they're either Flames or Oilers fans.

00:18:10.040 You've got to come over this way.

00:18:11.080 Yeah, well, I hope that Flames can pick it up.

00:18:13.580 I mean, I'm not one of those who are going to pretend

00:18:15.200 to be an incredible hockey fan, but I like the Flames

00:18:17.920 because I'm in Calgary and area and so on.

00:18:19.680 But also, I just want this series to go.

00:18:21.180 Let's not have a blowout.

00:18:21.980 I mean, this is a rare opportunity, you know, let's make this competitive.

00:18:24.500 Speaking of blowouts, that first game,

00:18:25.780 it scored more goals than the teams did in the previous series.

00:18:28.760 Oh, I know.

00:18:29.240 It was nuts.

00:18:29.840 It was getting like a football score going on.

00:18:31.360 Is there any goalies in that, or are they just shooting?

00:18:33.700 Yeah, it was odd playing.

00:18:36.720 So let's start with, I guess, you know, last weekend.

00:18:39.460 So just to let everybody know, Chris writes a lot of news for us in Saskatchewan

00:18:43.580 and copy there, of course, and everything.

00:18:45.920 But you also have a weekly column, and you get your opinion out there as well.

00:18:49.820 You know, we distinguish between those.

00:18:51.200 Those are very distinct things.

00:18:54.420 I don't comment on Saskatchewan.

00:18:55.780 No, with Saskatchewan, you're writing news and you're staying on bus.

00:18:58.860 But, I mean, hey, everybody's got an opinion and a view, of course.

00:19:01.560 As long as you're fair about saying when it's opinion and when it's news, then it's a good balance.

00:19:06.480 So let's talk about last weekend's opinion column.

00:19:09.580 It's one of the ones that tends to ruffle a lot of feathers.

00:19:11.820 It's a sensitive issue, and that's on the transgender language battle, basically.

00:19:16.540 Yes, there's a lot going on, obviously, with transgenderism in schools.

00:19:20.900 as you can see, not just in Canada, but in the U.S., and DeSantis' bill in Florida,

00:19:27.120 preventing sex from being talked about in kindergarten classes. I don't know how this

00:19:31.520 is really a thing, since when I was in school, I think we didn't have sex ed until grade seven,

00:19:35.900 and parents had to sign a permission form. Now you can give a kid life-altering hormone drugs

00:19:43.560 and not have to tell the parents because it's the privacy of the kid. It makes no sense.

00:19:47.500 um but what i talked about this past weekend is i call it the transgender mob

00:19:52.360 uh and that is basically you know there's a group of individuals that are pushing an ideology

00:19:57.460 that doesn't actually affect that many people i mean i actually have a psychology degree and when

00:20:02.280 i and i graduated in 2008 back then transgenderism was called gender dysphoria it still is to today

00:20:10.080 as a technical medical term but it was it was treated as as a mental illness back then um

00:20:16.260 And just to give you an example, people with gender dysphoria have 10 times higher chance of committing suicide than someone in the regular population.

00:20:24.320 And the way that people are dealing with this now is to transition the person from male to female or from female to male.

00:20:31.960 And as we know, biology says, no, that's not exactly how it works.

00:20:37.620 And because of that, you're now seeing a huge backlash against it.

00:20:41.200 We've seen the thing with Disney, for example.

00:20:42.940 and there was a professor that did a report and the reason she did this report on this sort of 0.99

00:20:51.880 rise and it's been since 2010 that there's been this massive rise in females wanting to transition

00:20:57.220 to males well it turns out she called it rapid onset gender dysphoria turned out she studied

00:21:05.220 you know what happens when one person in a school decides that they're transgender

00:21:10.040 all of a sudden it catches on in the school. I know when I was in journalism school in the UK

00:21:16.480 there was one grade school with kids up to the age of 12 where 20% of the students were medically

00:21:23.080 transitioning in a single school. Now she called it a social contagion, basically means it's being

00:21:29.160 passed not genetically. There's no way the human beings would have changed that much genetically

00:21:33.880 that all of a sudden this rapid rise in transgenderism would happen. 1.00

00:21:39.440 It's just, there's no way for it to genetically happen that fast 1.00

00:21:42.200 without some sort of huge change in humans genetically.

00:21:45.680 And we would notice that in some way, shape, or form.

00:21:49.160 So she released her study and said it's based on entirely, it's a social thing.

00:21:55.540 First, a kid will see something on TikTok, and then that kid will want to transition.

00:21:59.980 And then the next thing you know, it's a peer group thing.

00:22:02.420 Oh, maybe I should transition.

00:22:03.880 And then all of a sudden you've got four or five students in a single grade, 0.86

00:22:07.700 a single peer group that all of a sudden feel that they're the opposite sex. 0.77

00:22:11.800 And then they go about doing, well, life alternating. 0.88

00:22:15.840 And that's where the concern comes, is if you start doing irreversible changes.

00:22:20.840 I mean, fine, like kids consider things, try things.

00:22:23.220 And some, I think, you know, it's opinion, but are genuinely trans.

00:22:26.420 And even once they become adults, they're going to say, I want, I identify as such,

00:22:30.300 and I'd like to transition and I'll go.

00:22:32.740 But when you see those numbers that high, yes, then this, you know, again,

00:22:36.660 let's not start some hormone replacement and things that might stunt things

00:22:39.780 when a kid, as we know, we did.

00:22:41.700 You change your mind on everything every six months.

00:22:43.960 You don't want to make a life-altering decision.

00:22:46.120 They can't vote until they're 18, yet we're allowing permanent body alteration.

00:22:51.200 It's a dangerous terror.

00:22:51.840 Without parental permission.

00:22:53.140 I mean, the fine thing is if my daughter has a headache at school, 1.00

00:22:56.620 they have to call me to get permission to give her a Tylenol. 0.52

00:23:01.020 But they don't. 1.00

00:23:01.860 to give her life alternating puberty blockers. I mean, she can't go to the zoo on a school field

00:23:09.120 trip without me signing something, but all of a sudden over in this one area, nope, sorry,

00:23:14.500 parents, you're not involved in this anymore. And I think it's just a part of a larger assault on

00:23:19.920 family values that we've seen, particularly in the last 25, 30 years. And it's gotten to the

00:23:25.420 point that it's somewhat ridiculous. I mean, in Wisconsin right now, there's a school with three

00:23:30.460 middle school students, they're all, they're 12 and 13 years old, and they're being charged with

00:23:35.100 sexual assault for not using the preferred pronouns of a classmate. They use the biological

00:23:44.360 pronouns. If you look up in Wisconsin what the definition of sexual assault is and what it can

00:23:49.600 be charged for sexual assault for, using the wrong pronouns isn't one of those things. And so we're

00:23:55.080 We're now seeing this craziness go into the court system just because some 13 year olds

00:24:01.960 will not call a classmate he when it's a she.

00:24:05.420 And it's not just that, like, I don't know if you've seen this, but Target this past

00:24:10.000 weekend in the States came out with an entire, I mean, there's cups, there's clothing, you

00:24:16.320 name it, everything. 0.97

00:24:17.980 And it's all transgender.

00:24:19.720 You can buy a mug that says they or they're on them

00:24:23.980 so people know your proper pronouns.

00:24:25.940 Well, they can have at it.

00:24:27.280 I mean, we'll see if it actually sells.

00:24:29.820 Yeah, that volume you're talking about being crossed, though,

00:24:31.960 is when you're criminally charging people for saying things.

00:24:35.140 I mean, it's an unfortunate trend, I think,

00:24:36.660 in the sense that the activists have taken it over, though,

00:24:40.340 the extreme end of it. 1.00

00:24:42.100 You know, I mean, we saw this when gay rights, I think, thankfully, 1.00

00:24:46.480 you know, were brought up and did much better 0.80

00:24:48.340 and came out in the open, and we had pride events.

00:24:52.440 And then the activist element, though, you go to a pride event,

00:24:55.800 and I went to some of those in the 90s.

00:24:57.200 It helped me change my thinking and become more tolerant and accepting of people,

00:25:01.860 getting to interact and meet people.

00:25:04.020 But there was always the one who insists also that I want to put on a leather G-string 1.00

00:25:07.580 and stick my ass in somebody's face during the parade, 1.00

00:25:09.680 or it should be my right to swing my nuts around on a float. 1.00

00:25:13.060 And you've got to push it too far.

00:25:15.360 Yeah. And but the difference now, it seems that the trans activist sentiment, I know a lot of, you know, one trans adult, she's very well adjusted and knows what she wants and knows what she did. But that's, she's not out there with the screaming activist element who's on the front line. And we're not indulging, we shouldn't be indulging the extreme fringe. Yet here we are.

00:25:34.620 Unfortunately, I mean, the definition of democracy is mob rule, but right now it's not.

00:25:40.140 And I don't mean mob in my kill-em sense of a mob, but I mean, that's the definition of democracy.

00:25:46.640 The largest group gets to kind of decide the rules.

00:25:49.580 And we're seeing a change in that, where a small minority group is making the rules for everybody else

00:25:55.060 and then trying to do the same thing on to them.

00:25:57.580 And that is where the issues come up.

00:26:01.420 and parents need to start being involved in any of these medical decisions like like it's important

00:26:09.420 for parents to be involved in their kids like if my daughter decided that she was trans i would

00:26:16.220 hope the school would come to me and tell me before they would start doing things like in the olden 0.74

00:26:20.620 days that would happen no matter what it was and it's interesting you mentioned about um the gay

00:26:26.300 Pride and back in the 90s and stuff like that. I have had people reach out to me who are in the

00:26:32.300 LGB part of the community who do not like all these other things being tacked onto them because

00:26:38.140 one, there's a sexual preference. Transgender has nothing to do with sexual preference.

00:26:44.200 And some people in the community are upset that they're being put all together when in reality

00:26:50.660 it's kind of different. Well, the alphabet crowd's getting really crowded and complicated.

00:26:55.460 And I mean, the trans community is fighting a lot with the feminist community now, too.

00:26:59.320 Well, that's the thing. 0.93

00:27:00.060 There's a woman who's been fighting as feminists for their unique identity and who they are and established. 0.96

00:27:05.400 And then suddenly, you know, Larry over there says, well, I'm a woman this week. 0.94

00:27:09.200 And you have to indulge Larry, Loretta, and whatever that may be.

00:27:14.500 And there's where some of the ridiculousness came along, too, is when it came to the point of just identifying.

00:27:19.020 The second somebody identifies, suddenly you're calling it full-blown.

00:27:22.160 I mean, I don't know how you measure it, but there should be a degree of commitment.

00:27:24.840 I mean, if the nuts and berries are still hanging there, I'm sorry, but technically you're a guy.

00:27:28.420 Caitlyn Jenner is a guy.

00:27:30.320 And if you want to be called she, and as much as I can indulge, I'm fine with that, of course.

00:27:35.800 But sports.

00:27:37.880 That's where I have the biggest issue.

00:27:39.380 Prisons, we've had that.

00:27:40.580 We've had some very serious problems in prisons and hospitals.

00:27:43.900 Yes. 1.00

00:27:44.300 I mean, there's cases where we segregate people of different sexes for a reason. 1.00

00:27:48.980 Yep. There was a hospital in the UK where a woman was raped, and it took the hospital a year to admit that she was raped.

00:27:55.940 And you wrote on that before?

00:27:56.840 I wrote about that before because they said, no, there's no males on this wing because there's a transgender person.

00:28:02.940 Well, not only was it witnessed by a nurse, there was video, and it took the hospital a year to admit that it was a man.

00:28:11.140 And when the police called the hospital, they said, no, that couldn't have happened. There was no men on the ward.

00:28:15.380 Well, there's an American prison. I think there were two female prisoners got pregnant

00:28:19.060 from a trans roommate or cellmate, I guess you could say, or whatnot. It's just we're getting 1.00

00:28:26.460 to the point of absurdity. I mean, allow a nuanced discussion. I think we can be sensitive

00:28:30.520 while just maintaining some common sense on some of these things. Try, but they've shut down the

00:28:37.720 discussion. That's the problem. And that's the problem, is that as soon as you say something

00:28:41.080 Oh, you're transphobic.

00:28:42.620 Well, no, I just want to have a discussion about this.

00:28:45.000 I'm not saying that some people shouldn't transition.

00:28:49.600 What I'm saying is there needs to be a conversation,

00:28:51.860 particularly with minors, you know, like that as a parent,

00:28:56.360 I want any decision medically about my daughter to be involved in that.

00:28:59.900 So here's where it gets a little more dicey too, though.

00:29:02.240 I mean, some kids might genuinely be, you know, 0.95

00:29:04.200 I mean, trans or so on moving towards it.

00:29:06.360 When the gay-straight alliances were a big issue in Alberta for a while,

00:29:09.520 But there was a valid point put out that, unfortunately, there are some intolerant or abusive parents out there.

00:29:15.340 And if some parents might have found out that their child was gay, they could potentially abuse or be abusive or just not respond well to it.

00:29:24.920 So the kid would only feel safe in the school environment to start coming into their being and realizing who they are and so on.

00:29:32.220 It's just a complicated area, is all I'm saying.

00:29:34.140 I mean, the parental involvement is critical, as you say, especially when there's medical involvement.

00:29:38.400 and what we're talking about. And it's life alternating. Yes. Life alternating. Like we're not talking about like, you know, deciding to wear a different color t-shirt or something. We're talking about things that medically speaking, like once you do something, you can't go back.

00:29:54.820 No, and that's part of, well, and that's where I debated a bit when I did a podcast interview with Tiffany, who I've spoken with, and she's trans, but she felt that the gender, you know, blocking is doesn't necessarily as permanent.

00:30:09.300 I don't know.

00:30:10.080 I mean, part of the goal, though, is to get it as fast as you can so you can stop things from developing because it makes it for a more complete transition later.

00:30:18.240 Yes.

00:30:19.100 Okay, I can understand the need.

00:30:20.400 But again, that shows that it's irreversible.

00:30:21.940 And we're talking, you know, with a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, are they really sure yet?

00:30:28.200 Yeah, and I'm doing a story on Jazz Jennings.

00:30:31.700 She was interviewed in 2007 by Barbara Walters, her and her family, and she decided to transition at a very young age, about five.

00:30:40.400 And she's now in her 20s, and she had a reality show for seven or eight years about her living her trans life through school and stuff like that.

00:30:51.220 And now she has had multiple surgeries to try and fix certain issues, including at one point,

00:30:58.220 she was told not to look between her legs by both her doctor and her parents.

00:31:02.920 She's gained 100 pounds, she's depressed, and she's come out publicly now talking about this

00:31:07.920 and being like, you know, like, they took part of her colon to make a female body part.

00:31:14.080 Originally, she was male, but she was raised as a female that whole time.

00:31:18.460 and so there are some people who have a lot of issues with the surgeries and what happens and

00:31:25.020 things that just don't work correctly the way they're supposed to it's just a lot to be discussed

00:31:30.520 i mean there's a lot of misunderstanding it's like you know some of the commenting we got i i just you

00:31:34.940 know in looking though while they're saying homosexual proclivities are a learned behavior

00:31:37.940 oh that's a load of baloney buddy they don't choose it and uh you can't choose to i can't 0.71

00:31:43.880 choose not to be straight i'm sorry nothing i do no amount of movies or instruction or anything

00:31:48.160 else is going to change that. And for a gay person, you're not going to make them suddenly

00:31:52.660 crave the opposite. It doesn't work. I know there's some people who feel like that. What

00:31:58.440 are they called? Conversion therapy camps. All you can really do is mess with somebody. If you've

00:32:03.680 got somebody who really is gay and you try and push and you're just going to really make it much 1.00

00:32:08.720 worse. Well, the guy who ran the biggest conversion therapy camps in the U.S. ended up shutting it 0.95

00:32:14.160 down because he realized he wasn't helping anyone and he realized he was just fighting his own

00:32:19.600 battles inside of him and then went back and said you know what i'm gay and i don't think in any

00:32:24.680 amount of this therapy is going to work it hasn't worked in these camps i've done it hasn't worked

00:32:29.060 for me it's just biologically the way i'm made up i mean if it gets me to say people who were gay

00:32:34.300 in the 70s and 80s it wasn't illegal yet but i mean you got ostracized you went through grief

00:32:38.780 you put up with crap with your family that still happens do you really think people chose that i'm

00:32:43.480 sure I can't imagine it wasn't there. I was fortunate in the sense that I was always with 0.99

00:32:47.440 the majority. I didn't have to question myself or where I was going. And but I mean, I'm

00:32:53.300 sure a lot a lot when they were coming into it was just why can't I be straight? Why can't

00:32:56.580 I? Because they can't because that's not who they are. And one of my friends, his dad threw

00:33:01.000 a brick at him when he told him he was gay, like a literal brick. So thinking that that

00:33:06.400 would make him straight. And I was like, No, that just hurt your kid. Like, it's just a

00:33:10.800 tough area. That's the main goal. And with kids, but again, with somebody coming out or learning

00:33:16.160 about themselves becoming gay, it's not the same as starting to get ready for surgery or transitional

00:33:21.480 drugs. Okay. We've been on this for a bit though. Let's talk about some of your other stuff. You

00:33:25.020 had a story. Well, let's talk about your next column though. Actually, you're already thinking

00:33:30.500 a bit about that or looking ahead or? Yeah. Well, I have a story that came out today on,

00:33:34.560 there is a repeat sexual offender with child pornography who, it was just released publicly,

00:33:43.820 but earlier, like last month, he had his, when you commit certain crimes, in this case,

00:33:52.320 child pornography, when you're getting sentenced, you go in front of a certain type of judge

00:33:57.000 to see whether or not you should be put on the National Sex Offender Registry List.

00:34:03.820 And there's two parts to the list that you can be put on.

00:34:08.460 Now, this guy is a repeat offender.

00:34:10.200 It's been a long problem for this individual.

00:34:12.620 They were first caught in 2008, charged, went to jail, came out, caught again in 2019.

00:34:18.820 This is the second time uploading child pornography to, they won't tell us what website, but an unidentified website.

00:34:27.040 And it was reported by the website.

00:34:29.400 So, obviously, it wasn't.

00:34:30.420 They didn't want it.

00:34:31.140 They didn't want it on that website.

00:34:32.460 whatever website it was and so this guy got the um child unit uh in the saskatchewan police force

00:34:41.900 um was able to track it to his house uh they did go to his house they looked at his phone first

00:34:49.020 that was the only warrant they had originally uh they found child pornography on his cell phone

00:34:53.900 since he was on his own property they can then search the whole property which they did

00:34:57.500 they found computers they found like usb drives they found another cell phone with pornography

00:35:02.940 on it all child pornography um and obviously arrested him uh and this is the second time

00:35:09.580 and so he had this um court hearing um and he got what is called a sorry uh a long-term um

00:35:22.620 offender list. Now, this is not the one that you want to put someone on who has been

00:35:29.300 a repeat offender. There is one called the dangerous offenders, and that's a permanent list.

00:35:34.840 That's when you're on the registry. You have to register wherever you live. You're under constant

00:35:39.460 supervision if you ever get out of jail for the rest of your life. And quite often, the ones who

00:35:43.280 are on the dangerous offenders list actually have no end to their sentence until they feel that they

00:35:48.960 could be possibly safely put in outside of the criminal justice system. So he gets six years in

00:35:56.340 jail for all of the different offenses. There was multiple offenses. And then he's going to have

00:36:02.880 10 years of being on this long-term list. Now he's 50, which means he's by his mid-60s,

00:36:09.640 he's going to be back out with no supervision at all because the longest you could be on that

00:36:15.440 long-term list is 10 years. This now puts him in a position that by his mid-60s, he could be

00:36:21.840 repeat offending and going for his third jail sentence for child pornography. Also in his

00:36:27.640 sentence, there was no limit when he gets out on whether or not he can have access to the internet

00:36:31.400 or a cell phone and things like that. Quite often that is put onto those sorts of offenses to prevent

00:36:37.220 the ability for that person to even um commit the crime again uh he also got uh time served as well

00:36:45.940 uh which means that in 48 months he's going to be back out on the street um and then 10 years

00:36:53.220 he'll have the long-term uh uh supervision list this is uh i think a prime example of some of

00:37:01.460 the problems we have with the sex registry list in canada he has clearly and you can go look at

00:37:08.420 this on the government website it lists what you need to be considered a dangerous offender

00:37:12.980 one of the things is just possessing child porn never mind uploading it on the sites and sharing

00:37:18.340 it with others which he did the only thing he didn't do was actually create the pornography

00:37:22.740 himself still the distribution is also a major issue and he distributed and multiple different

00:37:31.300 places and he had thousands of images this type of behavior does not deserve six years in jail

00:37:39.540 i mean he was not released to the public so he got his time serves counted towards his six years

00:37:46.740 so he couldn't make bail because he was too dangerous to be let out back into the community

00:37:50.740 but we're going to let him out in 48 months.

00:37:52.940 It just does not make any sense. 0.97

00:37:54.220 It's ridiculous. 0.77

00:37:54.900 And I was just, I was searching for a while. 0.69

00:37:56.080 If people saw me looking for something while you were talking,

00:37:57.820 because we had a story by Arthur Green the other day too. 0.92

00:37:59.700 This is a convicted child racist, racist, 0.96

00:38:03.240 rapist is on the lam with new charges. 1.00

00:38:05.720 We knew he was a child rapist. 0.98

00:38:07.860 And now he's gone out again and he's aggravated assault, 0.99

00:38:11.360 forcible confinement, rape, theft of a motor vehicle.

00:38:15.240 A victim was a woman.

00:38:16.440 And the story I wrote last week or a column,

00:38:18.640 I was going on about two, three Alberta women all killed in the last year by repeat offenders.

00:38:24.120 One was the police warned us. They said, this man's a sex offender. We know he's going to re-offend.

00:38:28.260 Watch out for him. He's probably going to assault a woman and or a child. It turned out he killed a

00:38:33.740 woman and a child. The other one who shot a young lady, killed her, a 23-year-old. He had a long

00:38:42.020 history in and out of jail with domestic abuse and police warned again. And these guys are on

00:38:47.160 supposed registries, but they're obviously not watching it very closely because they're

00:38:49.740 getting in and near victims again and doing these things.

00:38:52.780 Our system...

00:38:53.740 There's something broken in our criminal justice system.

00:38:56.380 There's definitely something.

00:38:57.040 I mean, even if you look at the U.S. Supreme Court justice, I realize that's America, but

00:39:01.620 the latest justice that's just put on court shortly, one of the big things at her hearings 0.58

00:39:07.720 was her very short sentencing for people, child rapists, child porn, giving them like 0.97

00:39:13.120 two years, like the absolute bare minimum.

00:39:15.680 And it's like, why are you giving some person like this that rapes a kid like two years

00:39:20.580 in jail?

00:39:21.580 Like, how does that make any sense at all?

00:39:23.500 There's certain ones you'd think would be no brainers that almost all of society is

00:39:27.160 horrified by wants to prevent, wants to stop, yet we can't seem to keep them.

00:39:31.820 And they're also the highest re-offenders.

00:39:33.760 Yes, the terrible recidivism rate. 0.99

00:39:36.440 Child porn guy here.

00:39:37.440 He's a repeat offender, 2008, which means he was viewing it before 2008 because that

00:39:42.540 was the first time he was caught.

00:39:44.320 Who knows how long he was actually viewing and possessing and transmitting this to other individuals before he actually got caught.

00:39:51.740 And that's the problem.

00:39:53.120 This guy has clearly been involved in child pornography for over a decade and a half.

00:40:00.280 So what are you going to be looking at this weekend that you were going to expand further on that you were saying?

00:40:05.840 Yeah, well, I'm going to do my opinion column this weekend on this individual type of thing.

00:40:12.460 and the attack we've seen on children in terms of the lack of, in this case, protecting kids

00:40:24.220 from someone who's a child pornographer and also going out and transitioning kids from one sex to

00:40:34.140 another without even asking the parents' permission. I feel that there's a sort of assault on kids

00:40:39.060 right now. And we as parents kind of need to stand up and be like, look, someone who's convicted of

00:40:45.420 child porn doesn't get six years, they get 25. You know, think of the psychological damage to a

00:40:52.240 child being involved in child pornography. Six years for this dude over here, but he affected

00:40:57.840 how many kids because of his addiction to child pornography and the effects on them for the rest

00:41:03.080 of their lives. And then you have also things like the transgender thing. You're affecting a kid for 0.56

00:41:08.160 rest of their life parents should be involved in that situation and and they're not and in many

00:41:14.080 cases you know there's a case in florida where a father was going to court to stop his kid from

00:41:19.760 being transitioning because his ex-wife was transitioning the child he lost the court case

00:41:25.600 because he was only the father and we're seeing this over and over again this assault on kids

00:41:31.680 we need to stand up and start protecting our kids and being involved in the equation because right

00:41:38.080 now in certain states, you, and even in provinces, you're taken out of the equation completely.

00:41:43.840 And since when do we allow the educational system to decide our kids? I mean, it's getting to the

00:41:50.880 point now that it's almost like homeschooling is starting to look really good because of this,

00:41:57.120 this complete assault on kids and particularly, you know, family values in general.

00:42:02.000 Just let kids be kids. Why is it so hard? You know,

00:42:04.720 So they got a whole lifetime after 16, 18 years old to move on and adjust and grow and learn.

00:42:12.160 If you're 18 and you want to transition, I have absolutely no issues with that because you're an adult.

00:42:16.520 With a lot of this too, where they're hung up, oh, it's six or seven years old.

00:42:19.480 Come on, guys, they're eating dirt under the slide.

00:42:22.080 They are not making life decisions at this point.

00:42:25.460 Quit trying to push, just let them go.

00:42:27.720 We're not allowed to say that these days.

00:42:29.220 Well, they're trying not to, but we're still saying it for now.

00:42:31.260 I appreciate you coming in to say it all for us today.

00:42:35.540 Before I let you go, then, yeah, because we're kind of running over time.

00:42:38.260 But it's good.

00:42:38.540 It's always a good talk, good to you.

00:42:40.140 You know, anything else you're covering on the news quickly before we let you run?

00:42:43.680 Yeah, there's a new political party in Saskatchewan called the SAS United Party.

00:42:47.580 I've met with some of the leaders of the party.

00:42:49.720 I've had three stories up already about them.

00:42:51.720 You can go and kind of see what their platform is.

00:42:53.320 But some of the things we're talking about here, they want to reform the educational curriculum

00:42:58.200 so that families are involved in the decisions even so much as you know permission to have

00:43:05.800 like when i was a kid your parents had to sign a permission form for you to have sexual education

00:43:10.120 in grade seven you know they want to bring things like that back but then they're also

00:43:14.040 talking about you know lockdowns or these digital ids and forced vaccinations and they also are

00:43:22.280 interested in civil liberties in general being given back to citizens. Now, some people involved

00:43:29.880 with this, you might recognize some names, is Jerry Ritz, his former federal agricultural minister.

00:43:35.480 Dean Wilson, who's an MLA in the Saskatchewan legislature, she's involved in it as an advisor.

00:43:42.280 And then there's a couple other people, Ken Rutherford, he ran as a Maverick Party candidate

00:43:46.920 at one point he's involved uh on the board of directors of of the new party small c conservative

00:43:54.920 they're they're they're basically like other parties popping up like the ontario party the

00:43:58.680 new blue party in ontario in this election because a lot of the conservative parties

00:44:02.920 up here the saskatchewan party has been just moving away from conservatism in general

00:44:08.760 uh and they had 1200 people at their first meeting in saskatoon

00:44:12.920 and then they had 300 in Regina a couple days later

00:44:16.620 and they've been going around the province

00:44:17.880 they've been getting 250 people

00:44:19.520 in places like North Battleford

00:44:21.420 which is only like I think 12,000 people in total

00:44:24.660 it's significant

00:44:25.460 yeah they are getting good numbers

00:44:26.680 those seeds are starting

00:44:27.640 and again I've been involved in a lot of small party

00:44:30.140 organizing and growing

00:44:32.040 and sometimes we'd have town hall meetings

00:44:33.560 where you'd have 10 people

00:44:34.380 and if you get a couple hundred start to show up

00:44:36.900 you're getting some momentum

00:44:37.900 so it shouldn't be dismissed

00:44:39.640 they're almost at the amount of signatures

00:44:41.100 they need to become an official party

00:44:42.540 which means they can then get donations, they can open an office, they can hire staff.

00:44:47.600 So they are now able through Elections Saskatchewan to actually now online go in and actually sign to be one of the 2,500

00:44:57.220 because there's a couple of rules to become an official party.

00:45:01.500 Great. Well, thank you very much for coming in to talk with us today.

00:45:04.840 Good to see you out here in Calgary. I'm sure we'll talk again, perhaps remotely, but to keep the coverage out there in Saskatchewan.

00:45:11.780 Chris. It was always a good discussion. And to remind everybody else, it's Christopher Oldcorn

00:45:16.120 on westernstandard.news. Lots of stories and information out there on the go. Thank you very

00:45:20.820 much, Corey. All right. I'll talk to you later. See you. Okay. So yes, as I said, that was Chris

00:45:25.640 Oldcorn. You can find him there as Nico brought it up on the camera on our news site and in the

00:45:31.480 opinion section as well. So watch for him on both ends. He covers a lot of ground, good and prolific.

00:45:38.240 And as you can see, likes to have good, candid discussion.

00:45:41.300 And hey, if some people had questions about other things,

00:45:43.180 you can email Chris to contact information on the site.

00:45:45.740 If you want to ask more about things, reach out to him.

00:45:48.580 He'll talk to you about some of the background and things he'd been working on.

00:45:52.440 Before I get on to my next guest, I see him in the lobby there.

00:45:55.060 I will talk about one of our sponsors.

00:45:56.460 I know some people were mentioning firearms.

00:45:59.020 That's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:46:02.860 You know, here's one of the areas, again,

00:46:04.280 where we seem to be letting our most vicious of criminals out.

00:46:08.120 yet we're criminalizing people for wanting to own and enjoy a firearm. Well, the Canadian Shooting

00:46:12.360 Sports Association is out there to make sure that you stand up for yourself, or they'll stand up for

00:46:16.560 you at least. And they lobby, they push, they bring up the news, they remind people, this is

00:46:21.600 what the government's doing. I mean, they've brought back the long gun registry through a

00:46:25.360 backdoor channel. They, of course, keep recategorizing different types of hunting rifles

00:46:31.160 and things like that, and calling them assault-style weapons and taking your property away.

00:46:35.740 The Canadian Shooting Sports Association is standing up for those rights.

00:46:38.140 But, hey, you've got to get on with them for them to help you.

00:46:41.000 You've got to take out a membership.

00:46:43.080 That's the way it works.

00:46:44.520 And then they can stand up for you and keep your things going.

00:46:46.880 There's all sorts of resources, too, like any other association.

00:46:49.080 I mean, links to local firearm shows or news stories applying to firearms

00:46:54.160 or videos for safe operation of firearms.

00:46:56.280 Just all things firearm.

00:46:58.620 The CSSA covers those things and talks about them.

00:47:01.280 So check them out, cssa-cila.org.

00:47:05.820 And make sure, again, if you don't stand up for yourself, guys,

00:47:11.000 they will take your rights away from you.

00:47:14.020 Let's see, Wilder's asking how I feel about open or concealed carry.

00:47:17.720 I'm bigger on open carry than concealed.

00:47:20.020 It's funny, I was down in Idaho, and I got my mother's husband.

00:47:23.420 He's a supporter of firearm rates very much so,

00:47:26.880 but he just gets furious when he sees people walking around with a firearm.

00:47:29.700 Why does that guy need that? 0.73

00:47:31.280 I mean, maybe he is compensating for a microchote. I don't know, you know, the guy walking around with

00:47:35.980 the firearm. But I don't care if they do, it doesn't bother me. You know, it's a big area.

00:47:43.360 Like there's a first or, you know, what is it? Second Amendment fighters in the States who want

00:47:49.120 absolutely no controls on firearms whatsoever. I'm not there, but I want very, very little. Like

00:47:54.560 I believe in licensing. I'm not so bad with that. You know, I don't mind a person having to go

00:47:59.120 through some form of background check, if they got a history of violent crimes or mental illness or

00:48:03.280 abuse of things, perhaps, and again, it doesn't necessarily stop them anyways. I mean, if a

00:48:07.900 person's really determined, they're going to go get one anyways, but allow for one tier for people

00:48:11.860 to responsibly get out and have some degree of registration so people be off their case, not on

00:48:16.960 it, then I'm not so opposed to that. But at the same time, you know, we're cracking down on getting

00:48:24.080 grandpa's old duck gun out of somebody's basement while there's gang wars going on in Toronto with

00:48:27.980 stolen handguns and handguns that have been smuggled in from the United States. Our criminal

00:48:31.380 justice system just does not have its priorities straight. And it's not doing us any favors.

00:48:38.000 Calgary had two shootings yesterday. Calgary, one day. And we're over, I think, 60 shootings in the

00:48:44.600 city this year. The cops won't say whatever if they had a mouthful of it. But I mean, the reality

00:48:49.340 is we're in the middle of a gang war in Calgary. And the shootings are happening every day. And

00:48:52.700 you know what? You don't hear about it with a long gun. It's not a hunting rifle that's doing it.

00:48:57.060 it's not a duck gun. They're stolen or smuggled handguns that are committing these crimes. And

00:49:02.060 unless we actually target where it's happening, we're never going to address it. All right,

00:49:05.720 let's bring somebody in. He can talk about some federal law issues and things like that. This is

00:49:09.640 the newly elected leader of the Maverick Party, Colin Krieger. He's from up, I believe, in

00:49:16.620 Valley View, Alberta. I've had him on. It's been quite a while now, but we've got him on the show

00:49:20.820 today. How are you doing, Colin? I'm doing really good. It's good to be here. How are you today?

00:49:25.660 Good, good. So you're settling into your role. I mean, you know, every leadership race, it's a

00:49:32.160 little tiring. It's a lot of work and everything. You know, probably get a week or two of good sleep

00:49:36.080 afterwards before starting to move ahead. Well, you know, we haven't been taking too much of a

00:49:41.420 break. There's a lot to do. So we're trying to keep up the ethic that we kept throughout the

00:49:48.340 campaign uh but there is a lot to do i'll admit yeah so uh that was a close uh race you know i

00:49:56.680 mean something i i saw and i know from talking to you guys i i did actually go to cover it you know

00:50:01.080 at the event of the big rock that was a good time some great appies uh but you know just to remind

00:50:06.000 everybody too it's it wasn't a hostile race it was a nice friendly uh leadership race you know

00:50:10.680 tarik was a really good candidate too and even though you know it was 52 to 48 it's not like

00:50:15.260 your party split 52 to 48 it's just that's the way the decision went and there's a lot of respect

00:50:19.920 and unity still going on right uh absolutely of course uh nothing but absolute respect for tarik

00:50:26.840 as as a candidate and of course as a western canadian uh you know i was thinking about him

00:50:34.000 uh just yesterday and how his story actually represents western canadian culture almost uh

00:50:41.120 in a in a in a point because our culture is more about a mindset if you will than than heritage

00:50:47.240 you know and and Tarek being you know all about coming here adopting our culture and and uh you

00:50:54.780 know our our work ethic and all of those things and then running for office he is an amazing

00:51:01.600 individual and I was so proud to have him as a as a uh a competitor for the leadership of the party

00:51:07.780 Great. Yeah. And I, like I said, always like to keep those things clear, you know, as you're

00:51:11.800 moving forward. So you've got a tough task ahead of you though. I mean, I was talking the other

00:51:17.000 night on the show, actually, now that the provincial Alberta party is, the UCP is going

00:51:21.040 into a leadership race. And I was talking to Paul Heyman about that a little while back. He leads

00:51:24.680 the Wildrose Independence Party. But when I was in alternative parties, when another party's got

00:51:28.940 a leadership race going, it really makes it tough on you because everybody's kind of turning to that

00:51:32.520 and all they're saying, oh, we can fix it if we just get this person in or that person in,

00:51:35.840 and it never fixes it. But all the same, you've got that more uphill battle now. You said you

00:51:40.960 want to organize 500 constituencies, or not 500, you want to get 500 people in each EDA,

00:51:47.160 which is great. You know, you got to get that basis. That's how you're going to win it.

00:51:50.740 So what are you going to do to do it? I mean, it's gonna be tough.

00:51:53.740 Oh, it's a multi-staged approach, for sure. You know, of course, the old-fashioned method of

00:52:00.460 people telling their neighbors about something that they believe in and and sharing the the

00:52:07.260 the platform with them and convincing them to spend the 10 bucks to become a member

00:52:11.560 that's that's the traditional way but of course that's not the only way anymore and so

00:52:16.580 you also have to focus on you know uh the social media aspect of it for sure and that's why i

00:52:22.640 appreciate so much being able to come on to your show uh this afternoon and and of course we're

00:52:29.120 going to be working on doing events throughout the province across the West, I should say,

00:52:35.640 not just Alberta, but of course, across the West in the coming, you know, as much time as we have

00:52:41.840 before the next election, it could be as much as three and a half years, but of course we don't

00:52:46.420 know. So we're just going to stay busy. Great. So individual policies are tough to formulate and

00:52:55.860 they flex. But one of the big ones, of course, that's associated with the Maverick is

00:52:59.000 autonomy. And a lot of people, you've talked to five people about what they think autonomy is,

00:53:02.960 and your chances are you might get five different answers. Where do you feel the party sits and

00:53:08.040 what do you see autonomy as meaning and being? Well, from the Maverick point of view, and

00:53:13.220 certainly mine, the autonomy would really go back to the provincial realm for us. Right now,

00:53:22.300 if we are looking to push back and against this really cancerous federal government overreach that

00:53:29.280 we've been experiencing here in the West, if we're going to push back against that, the strongest

00:53:35.220 weapon that the Western Canadian has is, of course, in the provincial realm. So the Maverick

00:53:41.140 Party is the only federal party that wishes to ally in the House of Commons with the provinces

00:53:48.900 in order to assist them in getting these autonomous measures implemented.

00:53:53.780 Things like having our own police department, of course,

00:53:56.520 our own police departments across the West,

00:53:59.080 instituting our own pension plans,

00:54:01.460 and ultimately doing our own taxation

00:54:04.760 and then just remitting to Ottawa their portion

00:54:06.700 rather than sending it all to them and then hoping we get some back.

00:54:11.700 Yeah, and one of the things, I guess, the big distinction

00:54:15.620 is you guys have no plans to ever contest seats east of Manitoba.

00:54:22.060 Correct. We are going to follow the regional model.

00:54:27.020 We've, you know, there is, of course, another model in Canada

00:54:29.580 that has been quite effective at getting, you know, concessions for the region,

00:54:35.740 and that would be the block.

00:54:37.940 You know, we feel that Western Canada needs a similar type

00:54:42.000 of really targeted and specific representation yeah and and your party uh it looks like it might

00:54:52.400 have frozen there a little bit that oh did i lose you oh we got you back again okay

00:55:00.400 so all right where did i lose you sir anyway i'm not sure you're talking about a specific

00:55:04.960 type of representation staying uh uh west of of uh the ontario border i was just about to start

00:55:11.360 saying him as well. So the initial interim leader there, Jay Hill, who stepped aside now,

00:55:16.800 he was a reformer for 17 years, or at least reformed for the first part, and then the

00:55:20.800 Conservatives later. But he saw what happened. I mean, he started with the Reform Party where

00:55:24.400 they started in the West and then felt that temptation and had to reach out East and ended

00:55:28.820 up watering down and kind of losing everything they had. So he's really applied, I think,

00:55:32.040 that thinking to the Mavericks saying, no, we're not going to make that mistake again.

00:55:36.400 100%. You know, history is instructive, isn't it? We've learned that, you know, through these different models that we've tried in the past, what doesn't work? And that is certainly one of them. Of course, our platform is and our membership is our backstop, our grassroots membership to make sure that nobody ever changes it, to make sure that we remain regional, that we remain strongly and committed to Western Canadian representation.

00:56:06.400 Yeah, well, there's where I myself find myself almost bipolar politically in the sense that, you know, the Bloc Quebecois and their stunts in the House of Commons can infuriate me and drive me bananas.

00:56:15.380 But at the same time, you got to admire them because, you know what? Hey, they're as open as they get.

00:56:19.620 They're not apologetic. They're saying we're here for Quebec. We don't care about the rest of the world.

00:56:23.120 If it's in our interest, we'll support it. If it's not, we won't. And that's the way it goes.

00:56:27.500 And they carry a surprising amount of influence.

00:56:30.860 Yeah. During the election, I would often say that I used to be angry with the bloc,

00:56:35.920 and now I'm more jealous. And that's really where we got to get to, is we need the types

00:56:42.860 of concessions that they've already achieved in order to make sure that the Western Canadian

00:56:48.940 is not left out of confederation any longer. Yeah. And then, you know, talking about

00:56:55.100 parliaments and how this works. We're not a two-party system in Canada. Minority systems,

00:57:00.900 minority governments can be a little unstable, but they can provide opportunity too. The NDP,

00:57:06.540 much to our horror, is extremely influential in the current federal government and will be for a

00:57:12.320 little while. But then that can remind people, you know, it's not futile to pursue a party

00:57:17.420 that won't win a majority. You can still exercise a great deal of influence in the right situation

00:57:23.140 anyways. 100% right. Our ideal situation would be to form a government that would unite or not

00:57:33.440 unite. That's the wrong word. People will misunderstand that one for sure. But we'll work

00:57:37.440 with a conservative government that is based in the East, of course. That would be our goal. 0.91

00:57:43.080 And in that type of a situation, of course, we'll work together with a conservative government on

00:57:47.780 so many different issues, of course. Things like a balanced budget, fiscal matters like that,

00:57:53.140 And I believe things like the firearms registry,

00:57:55.820 we would probably work together on things like that.

00:57:58.740 But when it comes to Western Canadian issues,

00:58:02.160 we would have extreme vigilance

00:58:05.600 to make sure that Western Canadian issues were never lost.

00:58:11.040 Well, that's it.

00:58:12.020 And I mean, your agenda will have to change.

00:58:13.940 And in some senses, I mean, I've interviewed most of the leaders,

00:58:17.480 candidates for leader of the federal conservatives right now as well.

00:58:20.460 And they hate when they get cornered on things like supply management or equalization or things like that because they know they have to juggle Quebec's support in order to win with the party they're with.

00:58:30.840 They can't take on those issues very openly, even if they feel a bit that way.

00:58:34.500 It's not even taking it personally.

00:58:35.920 It's just math.

00:58:36.800 If you don't win Quebec and Ontario because they're pursuing a majority, you have to have it.

00:58:41.360 So we either have to accept that we'll have a federal party that would still put our interests second if they want to keep a majority or look at new alternatives.

00:58:48.820 correct i i often say that uh you know any of the federal parties national federal parties are stuck

00:58:57.140 you know they really have two different faces that they have to show they have one that they

00:59:01.500 will show in the east and they'll have another that they show in the west and uh it puts them

00:59:07.360 in a terrible spot i have to feel sorry for them sometimes perhaps but i never have to worry about

00:59:12.500 that. I have one employer, and that's the Western Canadian. That's the only people that I have to

00:59:19.580 answer to. And frankly, I don't care what anybody else thinks. Well, that's it. I mean, with say

00:59:26.340 that recent vote, for example, where they've decided to protect the seat count in Parliament

00:59:31.560 for Quebec, no matter what, no matter what the population is, they're going to have a minimum

00:59:34.640 amount of seats. I mean, theoretically, Quebec could lose everybody except for 75 people. They'd

00:59:39.120 still have 35 seats then. You know, it's ridiculous. And a lot of Conservatives either voted for it 0.91

00:59:45.380 though, or abstained, which is just about as bad. As a leader with where you are, you'd never,

00:59:51.760 what do you care if you're going to say, oh, right, that's stupid. It's unfair. And we're 1.00

00:59:54.960 not going to support that bill. I mean, you don't have to worry about it.

00:59:58.000 Well, democracy is supposed to be fair, I thought, but apparently not, you know,

01:00:03.200 especially in the eyes of, you know, what was it, 10, 10 Conservative members of Parliament

01:00:08.320 from the west that that voted for quebec to keep that uh you know one of them was from red deer for

01:00:14.480 heaven's sakes uh candace bergen actually voted for it for heaven's sakes why why would they do

01:00:20.320 this does not democracy matter anymore uh it it's well it's it's i was gonna say disturbing that's

01:00:28.960 wrong it's a it's maddening well it it is and the only way to you know i i guess is to to avoid

01:00:35.760 having to deal with that kind of, I wouldn't even call it compromise. I just found that one

01:00:38.880 ridiculous. I would have thought that at least they would have dug their heels in on that, 0.91

01:00:42.720 but obviously not. To avoid that though, as if you just, you don't have any incentive to

01:00:48.640 bend your principles to pursue seats that you don't want in the first place.

01:00:54.160 Exactly.

01:00:56.000 So have you got other events in the burner? Like, are you going to be doing something of a tour or,

01:01:01.840 you know, covering some of those areas? I remember hearing at the meeting, you have somebody who's

01:01:05.200 really been organizing strongly in manitoba for example that's a pretty good haul in the truck

01:01:08.880 there uh it is so and i am intending on uh as i did during the campaign i try and visit as much

01:01:15.840 people face to face i find there's value in that uh and i intend to continue that of course when

01:01:21.600 it's not possible we are so blessed today that we have the technology available that we do

01:01:28.080 like right now for instance so we're going to use it but uh i do believe that face-to-face is best

01:01:34.800 and so our good people in manitoba that have been working so hard i'm i'm looking forward to

01:01:41.440 meeting all those guys face to face and uh talking about the possibilities that are available to

01:01:46.800 western canadians across the board but even in manitoba especially in manitoba perhaps yeah

01:01:54.000 yeah well it's a swing area you know and they've got similar issues to everybody else it's just

01:01:58.400 gets forgotten kind of over there sometimes are there uh what's the schedule going as you said

01:02:03.520 with the minority government i mean we could be in an election next week or it could be

01:02:06.960 three and a half years we don't know uh so i would imagine you're going to try and start that

01:02:11.360 nomination process sooner rather than later though because you got to get those candidates in place

01:02:15.280 right that's correct we're going to focus for the next i would say probably six months on on

01:02:23.200 membership building we want to make sure that the memberships that we have a lot of members in each

01:02:28.160 ridings so that we have a good amount of potential candidates to draw from because for the Maverick

01:02:35.040 Party, having a strong quality Maverick in the House of Commons is important. I will often say

01:02:41.980 that a Maverick MP, there's no such thing as a backbencher because according to the Maverick

01:02:47.860 Party policies and guidelines, every vote in the House of Commons is a free vote. So if you don't

01:02:53.480 have a quality, high quality MP, you know, you may not get the type of representation that you wish.

01:03:01.880 So we are dedicated to making sure that all of our candidates are top notch.

01:03:09.480 Great. And that free vote thing, I mean, it can be a tough juggling act. It's easy to say,

01:03:13.760 you know, when you don't have seats yet, but sometimes there'll be clashes. So it'll be a

01:03:18.160 hard one to hang on to. That's one of those things that we as conservatives, that's where I kind of

01:03:20.640 start of the interview wondering about unity and so on. We love ripping our own parties apart. We

01:03:24.220 seem to like building them and going through all that work, and then we all fight with each other

01:03:26.840 and tear them down, and differences in voting. I personally think allowing more free votes allows

01:03:31.900 that to vent and keep the diversity within a party, but it's still a challenge if you had one

01:03:36.560 or two members that vote against something that most of your members don't like. It's a tough

01:03:40.140 issue. It's true, but you know what? Democracy matters, and I think that that will actually help

01:03:46.600 the maverick party uh generate issue uh interest in areas that would people would assume that we

01:03:53.900 wouldn't for instance in urban areas when the the urban voter knows that the maverick member that

01:03:59.920 they've got in has their interests at heart so long as of course he's going to stay within the

01:04:04.880 policies and guidelines of course but he's going to be able to speak to their issues and democracy

01:04:11.260 matters. No, that's the way representative democracy is supposed to work. I look at areas

01:04:16.720 like, you know, Lower Mayland, Vancouver, the people write off all the time, but they can't

01:04:20.400 forget there were strong reform party members. That area is a political hornet's nest, actually.

01:04:25.320 And you'd have a reform member in one riding and you'd have an NDP one next to them and a liberal

01:04:28.940 next to that. It could go any sort of way. And a reform member, though, who's actually a support,

01:04:35.080 or I mean, I should say a Maverick member who's actually going to support, say, a Vancouver

01:04:38.960 riding wouldn't necessarily vote the same as a member in Southern Manitoba. If they're going

01:04:44.200 to follow the proper principles, they might vote against the majority of the party at that point,

01:04:47.660 but that's doing their job. Correct. That's exactly how it's supposed to work, isn't it?

01:04:52.440 It is. It just rarely does, unfortunately. But we got to keep trying to politics. I mean,

01:04:57.680 you're guaranteed to lose if you don't throw your hat in the ring.

01:05:00.980 That's right. Well, I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today. And, you know, I'm looking

01:05:06.200 forward to seeing how things develop and talking to you again down the road where can people find

01:05:10.140 more information on you and your party and you know see where events might be happening or contact

01:05:13.980 you guys of course uh our main party website is the maverick uh not the it's just maverickparty.ca

01:05:20.380 very easy to find maverickparty.ca and you can find everything online there links to everything

01:05:26.980 that's coming up um the are all of all of uh our policies and guidelines of course and uh and of

01:05:35.240 you can get a hold of us there as well tell us what you think and as always i would say if you're

01:05:39.880 interested in this um i know a lot of people say don't split the vote i'll say what vote if you

01:05:45.160 like what the maverick party stands for i'd encourage you to buy a membership and do it soon

01:05:50.280 we'll send a message to ottawa right on well thanks for your time today colin and uh we'll

01:05:55.640 talk again soon hey if there's only one other thing i was i was listening earlier and i heard

01:06:00.040 that you were having an issue with uh finding a high quality uh high quality bottle of gin

01:06:05.480 uh i think we have a local uh a local place up here that maybe we could help you out i'll have

01:06:10.840 to we'll have to talk later yeah i know some good local distilleries starting up all over the place

01:06:15.800 so uh yeah sorry that's it along thanks yes dave's quite concerned take care all right thanks colin

01:06:22.600 yeah so yeah that's colin krieger and as i said they'd held a uh a leadership race and it was a

01:06:28.440 close one. And they were both really good candidates, Colin and Tarek Elnaga. And they're

01:06:33.780 united and they're getting really ready to roll and push. You know, I saw some of the discussion

01:06:38.700 from Wildrose and I've seen others, some regular commenters I'm not seeing today, but there's

01:06:44.400 others. Oh, we've got to separate now. We've got to go now. We've got to go now. Fine. But you know

01:06:48.920 what? If you hold a referendum no more, you're going to lose. You're going to lose. Bar none,

01:06:53.880 you're going to lose. It's not ready guys. It's not ready. I'm not saying don't set that goal

01:06:58.320 perhaps. And I'm not saying don't go towards that. I'm not saying we won't have to get there at some

01:07:01.940 point, but in the meantime, you still need to do what you can. And whether it's through a differing

01:07:08.480 conservative candidate or a liberal candidate or Maverick or whatever it might be, or PPC, but

01:07:13.980 the secession isn't on the table guys. It's, it's not there. Uh, you, you won't win that in a

01:07:21.900 referendum. And if you want to set it back, I've said it time and time again, you want to set it

01:07:25.660 back 10 years, hold a referendum tomorrow and lose. You won't get another chance for a long time.

01:07:32.060 So just patience is, I guess it's a tough one. It's nothing, something I'm not terribly good

01:07:37.100 with myself personally, but you need patience. It's not time yet. And everything comes in steps.

01:07:43.080 And some of the things, whatever your goals might be, some people might not want full independence

01:07:46.760 or some might want fully out. Well, things that the Maverick and provincial parties and others

01:07:51.580 are talking about for more autonomy provincially for different provinces, Manitoba, Saskatchewan,

01:07:55.640 Alberta, things like provincial police forces, the Maverick will help support that, facilitate

01:08:01.000 those sorts of things, provincial pension plan, collecting your local taxes. Some people might

01:08:04.940 think those are enough things to make them want to stay within confederation. Some might see them

01:08:09.300 as steps towards getting out because those are the steps you can get towards winning an independence

01:08:15.120 vote because the conditions are not there right now. If you had a lot of those things in place

01:08:19.660 already, you might be able to convince a heck of a lot more people to say, yeah, you know what,

01:08:23.640 we got to get out, and they'll vote that way. It's kind of like Sylvia saying there, I agree,

01:08:27.680 you know, it's our only answer, perhaps, in the long run, but separation isn't in the cards just

01:08:32.180 yet, and it's not. So, you've got to get realistic, and you've got to plan, you've got to be strategic,

01:08:36.160 and you've got to think of things in the long game. I know, the game feels insufferably long.

01:08:40.920 I led the Alberta Independence Party, I just got into that back in 2000, I think 1999, actually,

01:08:47.500 when I first, no, it was 2000, that's 22 years ago. And we're still here. You know, we're still

01:08:54.740 here. And I was full of piss and vinegar. Then I was 29 years old when I took over that party.

01:08:58.520 And I was very much of a mind. We've just got to go tomorrow. We've got to get out of here. That's

01:09:02.760 the only way. And I still think I was probably right, but there was no way we were going to get

01:09:06.280 out at that point. Here it is 22 years later. And we're still talking about, I think the support

01:09:10.200 stronger. I think we're, we've moved in the right direction, agonizingly slowly, but it's not there.

01:09:17.160 So we just have to keep working at it until we are there.

01:09:20.340 Hey, Charlie and Lloyd Minster, good to see you on board there.

01:09:24.580 So yeah, I'm going to talk about one of our advertisers quickly again,

01:09:27.220 and then we'll go over some news things.

01:09:28.300 I spent a lot of guest time today, which is great,

01:09:30.360 and missed on a lot of new stuff, which is fine.

01:09:32.720 You can always read up on all that stuff on the westernstandard.news as well, of course.

01:09:37.180 So let's talk about Bitcoin Well one more time.

01:09:40.640 Getting back to some of the services they offer.

01:09:42.480 I mentioned they've got ATMs all the way across the West.

01:09:45.480 They're a registered publicly traded company in Canada,

01:09:50.200 a good Western Canadian company.

01:09:52.320 And part of what they do,

01:09:53.280 they take the mystery out of digital currencies.

01:09:55.700 Like, how is it practical for me?

01:09:56.960 What can I do with it?

01:09:58.360 Well, they can set you up to help you

01:10:00.120 pay your utility bills with it,

01:10:02.040 make car payments, whatever.

01:10:03.860 They can set it up so it automatically

01:10:05.120 goes into your account.

01:10:05.880 If you're looking to set it aside as a savings thing,

01:10:07.820 they can help you turn it into a real currency as it is.

01:10:11.680 But I mean, it seems confusing.

01:10:12.720 It's new, it's different.

01:10:14.120 That's what they're all about.

01:10:15.480 guiding you through the process. They've got what they call Bitcoin Academy on there. It's all set

01:10:20.740 up about teaching you what Bitcoin's about and what you can do with it. It's partnered with

01:10:26.000 Athabasca University, really professionally done. And as you can see with that, it's Bitcoin with

01:10:30.380 a human touch. And that's their main speaking point is that they offer personalized one-on-one

01:10:35.600 service. You want to make sure you can trust what's going on. You're not talking to a distant

01:10:39.580 call center or a little chat box on the bottom of a website that pops up on you or something like

01:10:44.180 that. You'll have face-to-face meetings with people, or you can do virtual ones. I mean,

01:10:48.820 in Edmonton Calgary, you can set up a free face-to-face consultation in some other areas.

01:10:52.540 Otherwise, you can do a Zoom one, but it's a real person on the other end talking to you.

01:10:56.180 So check them out, bitcoinwell.com. They've been a great sponsor for us. And it's because they

01:11:01.920 offer a great service. You know, lots of you guys have been going over there and using their stuff

01:11:05.240 and everybody's been happy with it. So check them out, guys. All right. So let's see, this is some,

01:11:12.200 speaking of government, speaking of futility, speaking of waste issues that they always give

01:11:17.520 me lots of fodder to go on about. In Indian Affairs, it's, you know, that's the old name

01:11:24.520 for it before any politically correct person gets wound up. That's still what all the federal

01:11:28.580 government things are. They're still called Indian Reserves. It's still called the Indian Act. It's

01:11:31.940 still called Indian Affairs. But they've increased 79% spending, you know, 80% under Prime Minister

01:11:39.000 Justin Trudeau's program to replace what they call colonial structures. And how's that been

01:11:45.820 going? Well, not worth crap. They've hired 2,000 people. You know, as I said, they've 0.95

01:11:50.640 raised the spending 79%, but it isn't really doing anything. Just hiring more people,

01:11:57.980 sticking them out there, more civil servants. You know, this is kind of goes back to the rant I had

01:12:01.660 the other day with people who just don't seem to understand. Government's not the solution,

01:12:04.480 it's the problem. And the more of these boobs you hire, and the more you bloat these already 1.00

01:12:09.720 bloated ministries, the less you get done. The people on the ground who are living without good 0.96

01:12:15.780 clean drinking water, who can't get property rights, who are having difficulties getting

01:12:21.100 rolling, well, they're not getting any help out of this. The only ones who are getting help

01:12:24.860 are, of course, a bunch of civil servants and lawyers who thrive on that like a bunch of 1.00

01:12:29.560 parasites. And they are, they're parasites. They take our tax dollars and, you know, 1.00

01:12:33.480 Prime Minister Hammerhead tosses it towards them and they bloat these ministries.

01:12:37.500 So Indian Affairs, the numbers are coming out and they're just huge and they aren't doing any good.

01:12:41.860 You know, so I mean, what are we looking at?

01:12:46.020 In 2016, $12 billion was spent on Indigenous programs.

01:12:50.400 And by 2020, it's up to $21.7 billion on Indigenous programs.

01:12:57.460 And how's that all working out?

01:12:59.280 How's it working out?

01:12:59.940 You know, I could live with it if it was being a success.

01:13:02.100 I could live with it if we saw all these pictures. Look at these First Nations communities that are 0.96

01:13:05.880 doing excellently and developing resources and employing people and building schools and

01:13:10.340 living life and smiling and having a good old time. But guess what? It's failing. It's failing

01:13:14.520 on every aspect. They've got the highest suicide rates in the nation. They've got the lowest life

01:13:18.300 expectancy rates in the nation, the highest unemployment rates in the nation, the lowest

01:13:21.680 education rates in the nation, health issues, dirty water, and certainly social discord, highest

01:13:29.060 crime and incarceration rates. We've doubled spending, we made it worse. So maybe, maybe

01:13:36.500 spending won't fix it. Crazy concept, isn't it? Problem is when you're going to take populations

01:13:43.400 of people and isolate them based on race, it's always going to make a mess. I don't know when

01:13:47.800 we're ever going to figure that out. Because what we got with the reserve system is actually

01:13:52.140 apartheid. It is. You're taking a group of people based on race and you're separating them from 0.91

01:13:56.940 everybody else. That's the bare definition of it. It failed in South Africa and did catastrophic 0.99

01:14:01.440 damage. It was horrible, terrible what they did over there. We're doing it here and saying we're

01:14:05.660 being nice about it. It's not. They're living in misery on these reserves. And we're doubling

01:14:11.300 spending almost. And how's it doing? Not worth a crap. Look at the outcome. I don't mind the

01:14:16.740 spending if it was working, but it's not. It's making things worse. We're more divided. There's

01:14:21.800 more distrust, there's more discord, and more problems for the people and on First Nations

01:14:27.140 communities than there's ever been before. So I don't know, this gets back to you at the futility

01:14:34.340 of, you know, making change on the federal front, and it feels like it. I don't know if there were

01:14:41.560 some maverick ones or honest conservative ones, and there are some honest ones out there.

01:14:46.080 At least you could bring these things up and push back a bit, do what you can.

01:14:49.300 You know, there's no magic bullet, but man, it's just crazy what they're spending on that.

01:14:55.540 And then Dave talks about, yeah, he brought that up earlier in the story with CRA, you

01:15:00.840 know, everybody's favorite government department.

01:15:03.020 There's the one where the government really wants to be big and bloated, coming after

01:15:06.260 you to take more of your money, telling the Canadian Revenue Agency.

01:15:10.080 But apparently, you know, they got so much time on their hands that they're doing side

01:15:15.460 businesses at work.

01:15:16.860 Yeah, I guess this was, as Dave said, the allegation came in the case of a $65,000 a year assessments officer.

01:15:23.800 So, you know, some pencil pusher who assesses your taxes, you know, pokes into your personal life and see how much money we could take away from people.

01:15:33.420 It turned out it was fired for attending school meetings during work hours.

01:15:37.040 Hey, there's nothing wrong with bettering yourself and doing some extra things in school and taking courses, but you're being paid for doing some of that.

01:15:42.580 That other $65,000 is for something.

01:15:45.100 You know, if I was sitting here in the Western Standard and taking courses while online or, you know, manning a support line for another business, I'm sure Derek would not be terribly amused.

01:15:57.300 You know, he's paying me to do things related to the Western Standard.

01:16:00.020 What I do after six o'clock is my business.

01:16:02.340 These guys are so bored in CRA that they can take on side jobs and go to extra schooling.

01:16:07.940 So full-time doesn't mean full-time, I guess, when it comes to them.

01:16:10.420 so uh yeah that's a group that has 41 000 employees this is who we're paying for

01:16:16.720 and uh there's a complaint so let's see 60 of the disciplinary reports uh employees were

01:16:23.260 spending uh on average every day 10 minutes playing sudoku uh using uh sending chain letters

01:16:29.480 gaming pools exchanging profanity some of that sounds a little petty i gotta be a little fair

01:16:34.140 here you know you gotta lighten up a little bit in the workplace i guess you know somebody wants 0.95

01:16:38.020 to send a stupid meme to a coworker and take a minute or, you know, get a gaming pool going. 0.99

01:16:43.480 It's a balance, right? It's a balance. You find a little bit of stuff, you know, you don't have 1.00

01:16:47.980 to have your nose to the grindstone except for every second, you know, when it comes to break

01:16:51.260 time, but you don't want to abuse it either. Somebody showed an employee, one employee spending

01:16:57.160 two hours, almost three hours a day browsing inappropriate internet content. We can only

01:17:01.660 imagine what that might be. Let's see on the federal front. Here we go. And this will be

01:17:06.960 interesting to find out what's going on. Cynthia Garneau of the Via Rail. She was getting, she was

01:17:12.620 the CEO of that, you know, it's just a government tax funded, you know, subsidy pile out there.

01:17:17.860 That's why you're seeing so much of it in the East and so on, a little in the West.

01:17:21.520 She's paying $318,000 a year. Suddenly just quit, up and quit. That's it. You know, there's two 1.00

01:17:26.200 years left in the contract. And it hasn't really said why. The office won't release the text of

01:17:34.600 a resignation letter. It's our money, but they won't tell us why. I mean, that railway lost

01:17:41.460 $370 million last year. You know, so there's one aspect of why she should be leaving. In that case,

01:17:49.140 she should be fired, not quitting. $300 and some thousand a year for that sort of outcome. But 0.95

01:17:52.680 it's because these people fixated on rail and it's really actually not a good form of

01:17:56.860 transportation anymore. It's not for people. But yeah, the only one questioning, you know,

01:18:03.000 again, Pierre Polyev is up there getting on him. Why are we subsidizing these guys?

01:18:09.080 Because it's just not paying off and it's not performing. That won't change anytime soon.

01:18:14.640 Ah, here was a beauty too. CTV, yes, reporting that Ottawa citizens were complaining about

01:18:19.640 generator noise during the blackouts because, you know, they've had some terrible storms out

01:18:22.920 there in central Canada. Power is out all over the place, actually. One of our columns, columnist

01:18:28.200 David Creighton sent me why he said it was delayed because of, you know, you have an on and off email

01:18:31.660 and so on. But, well, the snowflakes of Ottawa are woken by generators. I'm sorry, my mom's

01:18:38.940 respirators, generators keeping you awake at night, you whining bugger. Is it really, is this the 0.99

01:18:45.340 PTSD thing from the horn honking that actually did travel down? Is this what happened?

01:18:50.840 Now, even in the middle of a disaster, you're going to whine about generators? That's how the

01:18:55.920 lights come on, peckerhead. We're supposed to live with candles. Guess what? That's what you 1.00

01:19:01.640 get from a city that's dominated by civil servants. That's what you get from the entitlement class,

01:19:07.540 the ones that the world owes them everything, probably blaming the Western Canada and oil

01:19:12.400 production for causing the storm in the first place. And they're still whining that their

01:19:16.140 lights are out, still whining that the heat's not off, still whining that they can't watch the view.

01:19:21.460 But at the same time, ticked off because generators are loud. Yes, they're loud.

01:19:26.200 Buy a solar panel for your house. See how well it works out for, oh, it's not feasible.

01:19:29.600 Okay. That's making the news. What else we got, Trudeau? Yeah, they got on his case as he was going to a Kamloops memorial. And, well, what do you expect? You know, so I guess they were chanting and pounding drums as he watched. The guy's getting less and less and less popular. But we still can't see him bloody get rid of him. Nobody likes him. It's hard to find anybody anymore who says he likes him, except in Toronto and Montreal.

01:19:54.040 all. Got to be able to get rid of that guy somehow. I'm not sure what it'll take. But I mean, he's not

01:19:59.800 being greeted with a friendly eye anywhere he goes. So I mean, he's vulnerable. That party's

01:20:06.660 vulnerable and change it. Not sure how. Maybe, you know, I'd be a strategist somewhere if that

01:20:11.780 was the case. But he's just he's not. This isn't the Trudeau, the sunny ways of seven, eight years

01:20:17.580 ago. This isn't being welcomed by rock star crowds and, you know, women throwing their panties at 0.65

01:20:22.480 and such, or whatever might have been happening back then. Now he's just more of an embarrassment

01:20:26.220 who gets jeered at where he goes. So let's keep working with that. We can get rid of that clown.

01:20:31.520 It won't fix everything. It won't fix the Canadian system, but man, we got to be able to do better 0.97

01:20:35.480 than that. Speaking of which, yeah, Schweitzer, he's a cabinet minister in Alberta, and Doug

01:20:44.460 Schweitzer, and he ran in the last leadership for the UCP, and he's come out because a lot of people

01:20:49.460 we're asking and looking forward to him running for it, perhaps running for the leadership has

01:20:53.240 come out quite clearly and decisively saying, no, he's not going to run for the leadership. And

01:20:59.060 in fact, he's not even going to run for reelection in 2023. He's done, which is too bad. I mean,

01:21:05.780 he was a little on the red Tory side, but I always found it to be quite principled,

01:21:09.480 well-spoken, bright enough guy. It's hard to keep principled, well-spoken, bright people in

01:21:14.860 politics. It really is. It seems the dumber they are, the longer they last. So yeah, I'm getting

01:21:19.660 back to Trudeau again. But I mean, hey, it's his decision. You know, if he's gotten his taste of

01:21:24.340 elected office for the last few years and decided that he didn't like it, well, move on. He's got

01:21:30.260 a young family, you know, move into something else. It's unfortunate though. So, you know,

01:21:34.660 there's still only two declared contenders for that leadership. There's doubtless going to be

01:21:38.060 some more. That's still just all stewing and brewing. But Schweitzer is not going to be one of

01:21:43.580 them. That was that one I spoke on with that pervert who assaulted a woman after being,

01:21:51.180 you know, he's a child rapist. It's just awful. It's just awful. So let's see. It's about good 1.00

01:21:58.580 enough for today, guys. I think we can wrap things up. Lots to talk about. As I said,

01:22:01.660 tomorrow I'm going to talk a little more review on the World Economic Forum and some of the stuff

01:22:05.300 that those guys have in mind and some of their plans. I'm going to put that into my

01:22:08.260 monologue and we'll discuss a little bit of that. I'm also going to have Michelle Sterling from

01:22:14.200 Friends of Science coming on to discuss those things as well as a guest and maybe another

01:22:19.140 guest popping into the mix there as well. So thank you all for tuning in today, guys.

01:22:24.400 Looking forward to the Battle of Alberta tonight. Try not to drink too much. The hangovers are hard

01:22:28.480 to get up with the next morning, but enjoy yourselves. Thank you for tuning in. I'll see

01:22:32.860 you tomorrow at 1130.

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