Western Standard - Triggered： Canada needs to bring Arctic oil and gas into production.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's Thursday, August 4th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan.

00:00:39.340 Good to see you guys already checking in in the comments. Scroll over there. This is the

00:00:43.200 Western Standards daily live show for you guys. Maybe on for the first time. We do this every

00:00:48.320 day on weekdays, aside from those long weekends when I hide out and escape. I have guests. I

00:00:53.040 have ranting and we have commentary. Like I said, I like to always remind everybody,

00:00:56.380 use that comment scroll i like seeing the comments on there keeps the discussion alive it's the

00:01:00.780 reason we do things live talk with each other send comments my way i won't necessarily read

00:01:05.420 them all out but i do read them all and uh also of course try to keep it a little civil i've seen

00:01:10.140 a few bad fights break out on there it is the internet i know no matter what we do in a discussion

00:01:14.380 forum even if it's about kittens people are going to break out in a fight at one point or another

00:01:17.580 but we can try and keep it to a minimum so as people are starting to check in ah good to see

00:01:23.180 someone from Nova Scotia, Louisa out there, and Judy out in BC, and Lucy in Cochrane. We've got

00:01:30.080 people across this entire country, and I love that. It's good to see it out there. Let's talk

00:01:35.220 about the daily observations and, you know, observances, I should say, I guess. And I'll

00:01:41.580 reference something from the East Coast a little in this in a moment. So, I mean, for starters,

00:01:44.860 It is India Pale Ale Beer Day, or IPA Day.

00:01:49.460 And it's a certain kind of beer for the, you know, the real ones are bitter and very strong.

00:01:56.340 There's a, they call Keith's IPA as well, but it's not.

00:01:59.480 It's a, it's like a lager.

00:02:01.040 But it just reminds me back in the 90s when we were just starting to get a variety of

00:02:04.840 beer out here because we have, but I used to have government control of the liquor source.

00:02:09.980 Let's always thank Ralph.

00:02:11.000 every day we should thank Ralph, even though I don't drink anymore, for having privatized the

00:02:15.440 liquor stores so we can get a good variety. And I had a roommate who was from the East Coast who

00:02:19.580 was going on and on for weeks. Oh, bye. We can get Keats now. Oh, it's great. We can get Keats in

00:02:24.080 Alberta. I thought, well, you know, I'm going to surprise this guy. I'm going to find one of these

00:02:27.000 liquor stores and pick up this Keats. And I'm looking and looking and I never could find it.

00:02:30.900 Finally, he comes home with a dozen of them one day. Keith's, Keith's, you know, K-E-I-T-H-S.

00:02:36.760 Okay, now I get it. But yeah, so I was looking in vain. I was looking for Keats. Gotta take those

00:02:42.980 accounts, accents into account of time. Either way, IPA, I mean, it's the thing that every craft

00:02:48.080 brewery puts out there. They always got to come up with the most bitter IPA, something that'll

00:02:51.460 tie your tongue into a knot the moment you sip on it. And boy, if you overindulge, you really don't

00:02:55.920 want to get sick with one of those. But still, some people really like their IPAs. Today is the

00:02:59.980 day to celebrate them. And that's where you really get a good hoppy, bitter beer. Okay, it's also

00:03:06.320 So, here's an older person's observation, it's Raisin Bran Day, the classic old Raisin

00:03:12.280 Bran.

00:03:13.280 I hate to admit, maybe it's a sign of my age, I actually quite like snacking on Raisin

00:03:16.360 Bran in the evenings.

00:03:17.360 It's an easy thing to throw together, get your raisins, get your roughage, you just

00:03:21.560 don't eat too much of it, of course, so you could have consequences later, especially

00:03:24.560 if you're on a show where you got to sit live for an hour and a half.

00:03:27.240 You don't want to get the gears turning too fast and furious when you got to try and keep

00:03:31.260 control for that long.

00:03:32.880 if you're into Raisin Bran, this is the day to observe it. All right, a couple of guests on

00:03:39.080 today as usual. We've got Lindsay Wilson of Alberta Proud. She wrote a column for us recently

00:03:43.520 on Tamera Leach and Trudeau's record in general on strong women. He's not very keen on them

00:03:49.080 typically. As well, we can talk a little bit about the fertilizer bans and what Alberta Proud's

00:03:52.780 talking about there. And then Catherine Christensen of Valor Law. They've launched a class action

00:03:59.220 suit on behalf of Canadian Armed Forces members and how they've been in. Some of the stories on

00:04:04.140 it, Linda Slobodian spoke with Ms. Christensen before, did a great article and column on it.

00:04:10.080 It's amazing what they did to bully and pressure our Armed Forces members with the vaccine mandate.

00:04:14.520 It was more than just offering to fire them for not getting vaccinated. They abused them.

00:04:19.740 Something else. So that's going to be a good conversation she'll be on in a bit as well.

00:04:23.600 All right, let's see what's got me going today. Somebody was saying, what am I ranting about

00:04:27.140 today? Well, I'll tell you, of course. And that is developing Arctic oil resources. Canada,

00:04:33.320 we can ease the energy crisis, reduce Putin's power, and help ensure Arctic sovereignty with

00:04:38.060 one simple action. We can get this trifecta. Canada needs, though, to get serious in developing

00:04:42.480 its northern oil and gas reserves. We've been aware of vast oil and gas reserves in the northern

00:04:47.760 region since the 50s. Hundreds of wells have already been drilled up there since the 60s,

00:04:52.220 and reams of seismic data have been acquired.

00:04:55.240 It's estimated there's 19.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas

00:04:58.780 and nearly 2 billion barrels of oil sitting in the Northern Territories.

00:05:02.660 And aside from some production in northern wells in the Liard region,

00:05:05.540 these resources have been sitting untouched.

00:05:07.740 The reserve estimates likely are going to grow greatly

00:05:09.940 if exploration and development actually start resuming again

00:05:12.480 because we have better technology for exploration and extraction.

00:05:16.380 While energy companies invested billions in good faith in Canada

00:05:20.280 trying to develop those reserves,

00:05:21.820 government interference since the 1970s, beginning with the Berger Commission, prevented them from

00:05:25.920 getting any return on their investment. Attempts to get a pipeline from a Nuvik to Alberta have

00:05:30.120 been stunted and delayed so long the cost estimates exploded and companies bailed out of the endeavor

00:05:35.160 once the pipeline was actually finally approved a few years ago, which is not worth it because

00:05:38.700 the government ruined it. The entire world right now is in the grips of an energy crisis. Increases

00:05:43.560 in the cost of living and inflation due to government borrowing and spending, it's harming

00:05:47.200 citizens in every developed nation on earth. Meanwhile, Putin is rubbing the noses of Western

00:05:52.820 leaders into their own impotence as he continues his war in Ukraine and funds it with energy sold

00:05:57.800 to European nations dependent upon Russians' resources. How humiliating it must feel for the

00:06:03.260 president of Germany to condemn Russian actions in his most strongest of terms while groveling

00:06:07.460 to Russia at the same time to ensure it doesn't cut off the gas shipments. Biden claims to support

00:06:12.120 human rights and green energy, but it kind of rings hollow as he goes cap in hand, begging for

00:06:16.460 oil from countries with some of the worst human rights and environmental records on the planet.

00:06:21.520 Meanwhile, Canada's sitting on top of some of the most abundant oil and gas resources in the world

00:06:26.560 and can't bring itself to develop it. We've got that moron Trudeau sitting there trying to shut

00:06:30.540 it in. Even if Canada suddenly found the will to expand oil and gas production, it will take some

00:06:35.340 years for the product to come on stream. That said, there's no better time though than the

00:06:39.640 present to get on it. Demand for oil and gas isn't going away for decades. Only the most blinded of

00:06:44.500 environmental ideologues can see that by now. Even if it takes a few years for new projects

00:06:48.780 to come into production, we can rest assured hungry world markets will happily purchase the

00:06:54.060 products. The McKenzie Valley Pipeline has been studied and consulted to death. All that needs to

00:06:58.820 happen right now at this point is for the government to get out of the damn way. There's no need for

00:07:02.320 further delays. Not only will developing northern resources bring much needed oil and gas to the

00:07:06.860 world market, but it will solidify Canada's claims upon the Arctic. Right now, Canada doesn't even

00:07:12.440 the ability to reach most of the arctic due to a lack of nuclear submarines or icebreakers

00:07:16.440 when i worked on the beaufort sea in the arctic we lent space in our camp to government scientists

00:07:20.200 because they didn't have the resources to go as far north as we did with the energy companies

00:07:24.680 a leader such as putin would have a very valid case to make in snatching canadian arctic resources

00:07:29.320 how can we pretend to own them when we can't reach them and we won't develop them what would

00:07:34.120 we do about it even if russian exploration began you know and what case could we make to the world

00:07:38.280 world defending ourselves. The McKenzie Valley Pipeline project would also come with an all-season

00:07:42.560 road to Inuvik from the south. Currently, only the Dempster Highway reaches that far north,

00:07:46.600 and while it's scenic, it's constantly closed, and it's a long and winding drive. A new road from

00:07:51.180 Yellowknife to Inuvik would be a boon for northern communities living in isolation and unable to

00:07:55.760 develop local resources due to lack of access. Now, Russia just recently announced their plans

00:08:00.640 to extend their Arctic oil and gas development. Now, let's not pretend that Putin will think twice

00:08:04.980 before extending that development into the ostensibly Canadian portion of the Arctic if given a chance.

00:08:10.600 Canada's northern resources are sitting in a use-it-or-lose-it situation.

00:08:14.200 And under our current government, we might be poised to lose it.

00:08:17.600 That's what's got me going today, guys.

00:08:19.360 I mean, you know, when I read about Russia moving along and expanding their Arctic exploration resources,

00:08:24.900 and I just reminded how stupid it is.

00:08:26.980 I worked up there for years.

00:08:27.940 There's like another Alberta sitting in the Mackenzie Delta area, and we aren't doing a damn thing with it.

00:08:32.720 Meanwhile, the world is screaming for oil and gas.

00:08:34.980 it's just absurd and ridiculous. And yeah, I wouldn't put it beyond Russia to just, well,

00:08:39.600 hey guys, if you weren't going to take it, we will. All right, let's check into the newsroom

00:08:45.000 with Mr. Dave Naylor. He's got his camera issues sorted out. He's more of a technical Luddite than

00:08:49.640 myself, thankfully, so I'm not the lone one out there on the floor. How's it going, Dave?

00:08:53.800 It's going well, Corey. Do you ever get tired of making common sense?

00:08:57.220 uh i no i don't good for you well i want to thank our neighbors in bc today for sending all that

00:09:05.580 smoke to us uh overnight it made for a really pleasant drive in today and it's actually kind

00:09:11.640 of cool the temperatures off a little bit so thank you bc we'll we'll take your smoke anytime

00:09:16.240 it gives a more campfire sort of feeling anyways you know we can't get out of the office to get

00:09:20.460 out and enjoy the outdoors but we can smell it and sort of feel that as if we were out by the

00:09:24.340 of a fire exactly and then your clothes all smell when you get home so yeah it's all good uh speaking

00:09:31.300 of all good uh cory that's what we've got on our website at the moment lots of good uh good content

00:09:37.460 uh leading off with our senior political correspondent linda slodian she takes a look

00:09:42.340 at the ucp leadership race and and why danielle smith seems to be the the unbowed uncowed front

00:09:49.700 runner what she's doing right what she's doing wrong our linda has a take on that our military

00:09:55.860 affairs columnist dave makachucks got a very interesting take on the the tensions over taiwan

00:10:03.700 at the moment you remember nancy pelosi the house speaker visited there and the chinese got very

00:10:09.780 upset about it and they've been flying all sorts of airplanes and ships and missiles around

00:10:15.700 expressing their anger and Dave says don't worry about China they're just a paper paper tiger and

00:10:22.580 they're just playing war games nothing to see here. Our Ottawa columnist David Creighton has got a

00:10:29.780 piece talking to Jerry Ritz the former Tory agriculture minister and he's not very happy

00:10:36.180 with what the current ones and Prime Minister Trudeau are doing to Canadian farmers. Defence

00:10:42.980 Minister Anita Anand has announced this morning that a couple of hundred soldiers from CFP Edmonton

00:10:48.860 will be off to the United Kingdom this week. And they're going to take part in a project with

00:10:54.960 other soldiers from the UK and New Zealand to train Ukrainian soldiers. And they get a five-week

00:11:01.640 intense course on the rigors of battle and what to do. And then they're shipped off back home to

00:11:07.900 going to go and face Russia. And our male resident has got a story on testimony has revealed that

00:11:15.120 Health Canada bureaucrats did not recommend a travel COVID vaccination plan. So I guess the

00:11:22.760 question is, where does it come from, Corey? Answer, politicians. We've got a story on the CTF,

00:11:29.460 our friend Franco Teresino on the Liberal spending 40 grand on office furniture for a couple of

00:11:37.260 embassies around the world. Our real estate reporter, Mike Thomas, has got a look at the

00:11:43.320 Vancouver and Toronto housing markets and the fact that they're cooling off. And our Edmonton

00:11:51.140 correspondent, Arthur Green, he's working on an interesting story, Corey, that during that Monday

00:11:58.220 hailstorm, the largest ever hailstone ever recorded in Canada was discovered. And it's

00:12:06.000 quite an amazing little piece of frozen ice and just be glad it didn't hit your head or

00:12:12.900 hit your vehicle because both would be a total write-up so that's that's what's coming this

00:12:18.120 afternoon right on yeah that's an unimaginable sized hailstones some of those ones that came

00:12:23.460 down up there and if they beamed somebody yeah it would be pretty serious I'm amazed nobody

00:12:28.480 was killed in the storm we had some dramatic video that's still on the website Corey of a

00:12:34.480 couple of motorists pulled over just south of Red Deer and I mean it's it's like their their

00:12:40.720 vehicle was in an artillery firing range just sounded like gunshots hitting the car and

00:12:45.760 smashing windows and and bursting through the uh windshield it's just uh unimaginably terrifying

00:12:53.600 how crazy stuff is being in the wrong place at the wrong time yep stay off the highways when

00:12:59.200 the hills are coming. Absolutely. All right. Well, thanks, Dave. I'll check in with you again

00:13:04.920 after the show. Thanks, Corey. And that is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And as always, lots and

00:13:10.620 lots of stories on the go out there. And as he's saying, lots of reporters out there working,

00:13:15.140 bringing more out. Get on there to westernstandard.news after watching the show,

00:13:18.760 of course, because I've got many important things to say before you start reading all that stuff.

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00:14:06.080 us along. We appreciate it. All right. Let's see some of that stuff going on out there. Yeah, it

00:14:10.280 was a good discussion. And we're going to have Lindsay Wilson incoming pretty soon from Alberta

00:14:15.640 Proud to talk. And one of the things she also wanted to speak of was some of the insane plans

00:14:20.320 that the government has on, you know, cutting fertilizer in this country. It's nuts. I mean,

00:14:26.560 everything else is going through the roof, costs, personal security, whether it's energy, food,

00:14:30.640 I mean, these are necessities. And this government just keeps coming at it and coming at it and

00:14:35.120 coming at it. It's frightening. And Jerry Ritz was a former ag minister with the Harper government.

00:14:41.300 You know, he's a Saskatchewan farmer. He knows what it's about. And he had an interview with

00:14:45.520 our David Creighton, and it was very, very good. He wrote a column on it, and he's got a link to

00:14:50.580 the video interview he did as well. So, you know, check that out a little later. I mean, this is

00:14:55.260 getting, you know, word from the horse's mouth. When you get an agricultural minister who knows

00:14:59.500 what they're actually talking about, and he is furious, and of course, raising the alarm bells,

00:15:03.580 and who shouldn't? You know, I mean, it's, this is our food, people. And we are threatening it.

00:15:10.140 It's ridiculous, and it's insane. But that's the trend that just continues along with this country.

00:15:17.320 I mean, we can't seem to embrace common sense. Dave mentioned it earlier. I was looking at a

00:15:21.580 story earlier too with, here's a fella, he works as a nurse in an ICU unit in Croatia, and he wants

00:15:27.880 to move to Canada, or he did. And in this story, he spent the last two years trying to find work

00:15:34.440 as a nurse in Ontario. Every one of our hospitals is screaming, our urgent care centres, it's not

00:15:40.380 just Alberta, even though every socialist politician across the country blames their local government

00:15:45.220 for it. Every province has healthcare system problems. The system is collapsing. It's not

00:15:51.840 working. We've spent more money. We increased spending in every province across this country,

00:15:56.660 yet the system isn't working. It's because it's a bloated bureaucratic mess and throwing more money

00:16:01.920 at it just adds to the bloat. We need to crush the system and rebuild it. And little tweaks won't

00:16:08.540 work. And this guy said, you know what? I've had two years of trying to get in in Ontario and bring

00:16:13.920 my skills there as an ICU nurse. I'm done with you guys. I don't want to do this. There's way

00:16:18.740 too much crap and bureaucracy. He's going to be moving to Texas and enjoying life as a nurse down

00:16:24.720 there and providing his services out there. This is the sort of reason why we have a crumbling

00:16:31.580 health system. It's not lack of money, guys. It's a system that's broken and inefficient and

00:16:37.220 inflexible, and it's driving the staff out of the country. I mean, it's a competitive market.

00:16:42.860 It's also nicer down in Texas.

00:16:44.640 Better Mexican food, too.

00:16:46.000 So I don't blame the guy for heading that way.

00:16:48.020 But either way, when's reality going to come in, guys?

00:16:50.300 You know, I mean, we listen to Notley having a tantrum, you know, as she constantly does lately,

00:16:54.000 about the closure of an urgent care center in Calgary, and she would fix it.

00:16:58.020 How?

00:16:58.460 Oh, by hiring loads and loads more people.

00:17:00.120 Well, where are they going to come from, Rachel?

00:17:01.840 Where's the money going to come from?

00:17:03.020 They don't think that far ahead.

00:17:04.560 Because they refuse to accept that it's the system that's the problem, not the lack of money.

00:17:09.680 But again, that comes to that big union word that makes the knackers of every politician

00:17:15.920 shrivel back up into their belly as soon as it gets brought up, conservative or liberal.

00:17:19.680 They're terrified of taking on public service unions.

00:17:22.180 And until they do, we're not going to see many positive changes coming around.

00:17:25.940 There's a lack of collective courage.

00:17:27.500 Okay, I've pissed and moaned, granted enough.

00:17:29.600 Let's talk to my first guest of the day, Lindsay Wilson.

00:17:33.060 Hey, welcome back to the studio today.

00:17:34.680 Hey, thanks for having me, Corey. Thanks.

00:17:36.900 Yeah, so I guess you kind of framed that a bit earlier.

00:17:40.660 Based on the column you'd written and you submitted with us,

00:17:43.160 it's there on the Western Standard Online, with Trudeau and Tamara Leach.

00:17:47.560 And just Trudeau's kind of trend on how he deals with strong, outspoken women.

00:17:52.040 Yeah, it certainly is a trend for our Prime Minister.

00:17:54.740 So through Alberta Proud, we're a grassroots nonprofit organization,

00:18:00.800 and we advocate for everyday Albertans.

00:18:02.240 We advocate for our energy sector, our resources, small businesses, farmers, ranchers, and we take issue with celebrities and politicians who get in the way of our prosperity and our way of life, which pretty much happens to be just about everything that our prime minister does these days.

00:18:19.040 So I wrote this column last week and we took a strong stance, our organization took a really strong stance on the trucker convoy and in support of Tamara Litch.

00:18:30.280 whether you agree with everything that took place, largely it was a very peaceful nationwide rally

00:18:36.520 to stand up for personal freedoms and liberties. I think we've all been a little bit on the same

00:18:41.640 page with that. And I mean, how she has been treated is worse than how a drug king has been

00:18:47.700 treated. So it's really quite incredible that it took a month to get a 49-year-old grandmother

00:18:53.760 from Medicine Hat out of jail. So we just, we took a really big stand on that and we're hoping

00:19:00.980 for a positive end for Litch. She's just another name on Trudeau's long list of women, strong

00:19:09.060 women, and he just seems to cut them down. You know, whether it's Jodie Wilson-Raybould or Jane

00:19:13.740 Philpott, the list keeps growing. Well, as you'd mentioned, it seems, I mean, again, who knows,

00:19:18.460 it's speculation, but there's few men seems more insecure with strong women than self-declared

00:19:24.220 feminists, actually. You know, they always talk big, but when they actually deal with a strong

00:19:27.980 outspoken woman, they tend to lash out or deal poorly with it. I generally find it insulting

00:19:33.260 when men call themselves feminist, and that's used as such a dirty word anyways, but the irony is not

00:19:37.820 lost on any of us, I think, that he brags about being a feminist, and yet this is how he treats me.

00:19:42.340 Yeah, well, he also brags about caring about the citizenry and our, you know, cost of living and

00:19:48.880 the little guy, though he's never actually been the little guy economically in his life, yet he's

00:19:52.860 doing, you know, a kind of segue into the next topic, everything he possibly can to raise our

00:19:57.500 cost of living and pressure our integral industries. That's something you wanted to

00:20:00.540 talk about today as well. Oh, yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I like my props. And so my oldest

00:20:06.060 daughter, she helped me out with this. This is her summer project here. So we are asking you guys

00:20:10.460 to say no to Trudeau's farm fertilizer reductions so this is moving ahead where it's part of the

00:20:18.540 liberal globalist agenda to reduce fertilizers in their efforts to reduce nitrogen output

00:20:25.020 nitrogen emissions by 30% by 2030 this is their whole goal to get to net zero over the next three

00:20:31.580 decades the problem is is it's absolutely ludicrous because the problems that are going to come out of

00:20:36.780 this and I mean we're all watching the news we're seeing how the Dutch farmers and what's happening

00:20:42.460 in Europe tractors blockading highways because there's going to be food shortages we're not going

00:20:49.500 to be able to feed the world with these goals the only there the Trudeau government is saying that

00:20:53.420 this isn't against farmers but that is absolutely not true this is completely targeting the west

00:20:58.060 it's targeting Alberta Saskatchewan it's targeting our farmers because the only way for them to

00:21:01.900 reduce these nitrogen emission outputs is to reduce their use of fertilizers. Fertilizer is

00:21:07.660 plant food. If you reduce that, you get a smaller crop yield. The impact is upwards of $50 billion

00:21:15.260 on our farmers. According to the Canadian Wheat Grows Association, just to bring it back home a

00:21:22.860 little bit more, for the average farmer who farms a thousand acres of canola and a thousand acres

00:21:27.580 of wheat, the average annual impact will be about $40,000 out of these individuals' pockets. So

00:21:33.140 it's ludicrous. And we're going to see what's happening in Europe is going to start happening

00:21:37.380 here. And we just can't let this continue. We are the fifth largest exporter of food in the world.

00:21:44.420 We're going to have global food shortages, and we need to be there to feed the world. And here we

00:21:49.520 are with this ridiculousness. Yes. And it's not a done deal yet. That's the reason we really got

00:21:56.740 speak up on this right now i mean it's proposed it's planned it's what he wants to do we know that

00:22:00.900 this government can never come up with anything aside from either taxing things or banning things

00:22:04.660 but they haven't said how they're going to reduce this yet we just kind of know but i mean now

00:22:09.140 there's still a chance a chance to make people aware of this to push back write your letters i

00:22:13.700 know it seems hopeless but but it's not hopeless no well that's it squeaky wheel gets the grease

00:22:19.220 and so we're asking everybody to push back against us share content on social media we have a ton of

00:22:24.100 it through the Canada Strong and Proud network. Alberta Proud is a part of that. We have reach

00:22:28.900 of millions of people, namely through Facebook. We're also on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn,

00:22:32.980 all the socials. And we're just asking you to share that content, share those news articles

00:22:37.380 out there. Share stories, share stories on TikTok. We have a TikTok channel as well.

00:22:43.300 Stand with our farmers because this is ridiculous. I mean, we've got such pressures on food banks.

00:22:50.340 We've got 50% of Canadians saying that they can't put food on the table.

00:22:54.720 We have one in four Canadians who are skipping meals right now.

00:22:57.820 So the thought that by doing this and by impacting our ability to produce food is going to just drive prices at the grocery store up even more.

00:23:09.000 And we can't afford it.

00:23:10.040 I can't afford it.

00:23:10.820 None of us can afford it.

00:23:12.080 Well, it goes beyond just pressuring farmers.

00:23:14.560 I mean, we feel for our farmers.

00:23:15.520 They're an integral industry in Canada.

00:23:17.060 They're part of what built this nation, particularly the West, which is no coincidence.

00:23:19.940 incident, which is why you target them. I mean, if this was primarily targeting Quebec, we know

00:23:23.500 what wouldn't be happening. And, you know, we're not going to see a maple tax coming along anytime

00:23:27.780 soon, I'm certain. But when it comes to cereal farming, and that's predominantly where this

00:23:31.740 nitrogen fertilizer tends to be used or nitrogen is generated, and it's not an issue. But reminding

00:23:37.800 consumers that it's not just the farmers. Once the farmers get hit, we get hit because they have to

00:23:42.380 pass the price along and our food staples, not luxuries, are going to go up. Absolutely. And all

00:23:47.760 this was done without any proper consultation um with the players in the industry um and and so

00:23:54.160 they are all rightly up in arms about this and we need to stand with them um you guys may have

00:23:59.280 remembered last month we stood really strong on proud of our alberta beef and we ran an uh back

00:24:04.400 our back off our beef campaign and we were part of that growing loud voices that um stood up to

00:24:11.520 trudeau and and now they have rescinded that for now and that was the whole thing spectacle about

00:24:16.720 putting these ridiculous warning labels on our beef to deter people from eating it to suggest

00:24:21.480 that, you know, lean ground beef isn't a healthy food. I guess it's not as healthy as insects are

00:24:27.300 or whatever they want us to be eating in their global agenda. So just like that, we want you

00:24:32.540 guys to reach out to us, you know, be all over social media about it, share those articles,

00:24:37.020 share your stories, stand with our farmers and get loud and get Alberta proud about it.

00:24:41.960 Yeah, that was a good point because Health Canada, I think it was, or which was going to

00:24:46.280 put a warning label on ground beef. It was just absurd and ridiculous. But once the public stood

00:24:50.840 up, and that's what I like to remind people, it's not impossible. It feels impossible. But you know

00:24:54.520 what, sometimes they do get realized, oh, wow, we pushed it too far. And they will back off. And I

00:24:59.280 think there's very much potential with this. I mean, even though somehow people in Toronto quite

00:25:03.740 often won't seem to realize what powers their vehicles or heats their homes, so they'll still

00:25:07.360 oppose energy, everybody eats. And when they see that cost hit them in the wallet, they're going

00:25:13.380 to get concerned no matter what part of the country they're in. So if we could just let

00:25:16.860 enough Canadians know, get up and stand up, this can stop. Absolutely. In fact, this plan does not

00:25:22.540 help the UN's goal to end world hunger by 2030. Well, yeah, the UN's goals are a little hard to

00:25:28.820 make sense. But if that's what does it for you, just remember that. Yeah, the UN's here to save

00:25:32.800 the world, except they want them to freeze and starve in the dark as we shut down all the oil

00:25:36.960 and gas and food supplies for them. But like you said, that's another bizarre thing. I mean,

00:25:42.220 we put tax dollars towards cricket farms, like, and you see the articles from the usual legacy

00:25:47.420 media outlets, CNN keeps talking, I mean, what was the recent one on cockroach milk?

00:25:52.840 There's this fascination with making humans consume insects that's been coming out on the

00:25:57.620 mainstream media on the left lately, and I don't get it. Yeah, I really don't get it either. I mean,

00:26:02.260 the truth is, is that Trudeau is no friends of, he's no friend of Canadians. He is a friend to

00:26:09.320 his global agenda, the global elitists, and I think they just want this big homogenized society

00:26:15.440 and we're all feasting on insects. I mean, I just don't get it. I mean, he keeps taking these

00:26:21.080 stands. He and his environment minister, we call him uneven Stephen, Stephen Guigaud,

00:26:27.280 they just have these ludicrous plans. And it's always targeting the West and it's always like

00:26:35.060 They continue to go after our best in the world, Canadian energy, our Alberta energy.

00:26:39.460 And now they're going, they've gone after our best in the world beef.

00:26:41.940 They're going after our best in the world farmers.

00:26:44.660 But they're giving us crickets.

00:26:47.600 I mean, and I guess because they say, oh, well, in Mexico, they were consuming, you

00:26:51.160 know, insects for a thousand years.

00:26:53.080 But, you know, every society on earth where they traditionally consume insects, it was

00:26:57.540 usually a matter of need, not preference.

00:26:59.560 I mean, sure, survival food, get out there, eat those bugs if you're on the verge of death.

00:27:04.600 But if anybody could choose, even in those countries, okay, steak, crickets, they're

00:27:09.580 going to go for the steak every time.

00:27:11.280 You know, a Bear Gryllis would consume his own urine as a survival tactic.

00:27:15.280 Okay, but you know what?

00:27:16.080 If you've got water, you'll pick that first.

00:27:18.320 Well, yeah, my life is not an episode of Survivor.

00:27:20.300 I mean, with three kids, some days it does feel like it, but last I checked, it wasn't.

00:27:23.600 So I'll take the steak any day.

00:27:24.900 Well, and three kids or even just people living on their own, if seniors on a fixed income,

00:27:29.880 food costs are a big part of your budget and they're important.

00:27:32.860 And there's part of the problem, too, when you're talking about the world elites, like Justin Trudeau, he's never had to worry about a grocery bill his entire life.

00:27:40.800 I said on Twitter the other day, you know, he just feels that magical food fairies will fill his cupboards so his chef can get in there and pull it out and make him meals and bring him to his table and his maid will clean it all up.

00:27:51.700 He doesn't understand what these policies do to normal people.

00:27:55.080 He's disconnected altogether.

00:27:56.500 Well, he's disconnected just like he's disconnected from how much it costs to traipse around the world, right?

00:28:00.940 I mean, he went through more jet fuel last month and, you know, enough fuel to power another truck or convoy.

00:28:08.460 So maybe we should ask him if that's a fair trade-off.

00:28:10.860 Yeah, that was Tristan Hopper who calmed that and Brian Passifium who came up with that story,

00:28:16.720 just looking into the numbers and realizing, like, holy crap, Justin spent only 11 days not flying in July.

00:28:23.180 And all of his trips were all vanity trips.

00:28:25.460 They were all photo ops.

00:28:26.520 There was nothing critical.

00:28:27.600 there was no summit or you know important thing he had to go to he's not advocating for our energy

00:28:33.540 industry or for anything to do with uh our own prosperity you know on these trips right where

00:28:39.120 is he now where's he on his vacation yeah he's in costa rica you know and i was curious about that

00:28:43.780 the other day because i mean we spent i think it was 11 million dollars renovating harrington uh

00:28:48.160 you know mansion i like to call it cottage makes it sound small guys it's a mansion he gets for

00:28:52.860 free on a lake with security and a few acres, but apparently he's still not good enough for him.

00:28:57.500 He's going to fly to Costa Rica and hang around with the family over there.

00:29:01.260 Absolutely. I hope he's having a great time.

00:29:03.020 Oh, on our time.

00:29:04.800 God. And we've got to pay for the separate rooms for him and Sophie and everything.

00:29:08.240 I mean, it's just not an efficient trip all around.

00:29:10.080 Yeah, sounds like a convoluted situation.

00:29:13.440 But it does get frustrating. I mean, you know, and if you want to get consumers to do things,

00:29:16.820 I mean, you just walk the talk, right? I mean, you're telling us to tighten our belts,

00:29:21.420 telling us to take shorter vacations or stay closer to home. And here's this clown, as you

00:29:25.940 said, in one month burning more fossil fuels than the entire truckers convoy did. Yeah, I know. I

00:29:33.360 love that because it just really puts it all in a nutshell. Oh, and it's insane. And it shows too,

00:29:38.880 we can't escape the, you know, the consumption of petrochemicals. I mean, even if he wants to

00:29:43.440 virtue signal, I'm sure if he could find a wind up elastic plane that was reliable and he could

00:29:47.240 get across the sea with it, he would use it. But you can't because they don't exist. I mean,

00:29:51.060 that's where a lot of this problem keeps coming to as well. Get rid of the fertilizers. I know

00:29:55.240 there's no alternative, but we'll just get rid of it. We'll deal with how we're going to, you know,

00:29:58.680 deal with it afterwards and get rid of petrochemicals. And we'll worry about how we're

00:30:02.540 going to fill that void later, even if solar and other alternatives are failing. It's a lack of

00:30:08.660 foresight. Well, we call them unreliable alternatives for a reason. We have best in the

00:30:13.800 world energy, you know, and through carbon tech and taking CO2 right out of the air and turning

00:30:18.960 it into usable everyday stuff and things like we can win that race to net zero right through

00:30:24.800 our own energy right here. And, you know, through the war in Ukraine and everything that's happening

00:30:30.940 right now, I mean, Canada needs to become the engine of the world. We need to be able to fuel

00:30:37.060 the world. The demand for energy is only going up, not down. So, you know, the sky's just constantly

00:30:44.000 taking us, you know, we constantly are moving one step forward and two steps backwards.

00:30:49.220 Well, and it also shows you can't appease the ideologues in this government. I mean,

00:30:54.580 the energy industry has done a lot. They have, you know, carbon sequestering,

00:31:01.220 separating, fine, sticking it in a hole somewhere, or ways to convert it. I've spoken to Colin Craig

00:31:05.840 about how they've even made carbon-based vodkas. They've reduced emissions. They've done all sorts

00:31:09.860 stuff do they get credit no they just get more and more pressure to keep reducing production

00:31:15.140 likewise uh with the farmers i mean they have reduced uh fertilizer use just for economic

00:31:21.220 realities fertilizer is expensive quick mcdick mcdick i don't know if you saw his video and

00:31:25.140 he's fantastic that guy you know and he's a farmer and you know he's look we have done things you

00:31:29.700 know they there's different ways of bringing in field peas to bring nitrogen back into the soil

00:31:33.540 in other ways and but are they getting credit no because the government still wants them to cut

00:31:37.140 further from what they've already done. You can't win. You've got to fight back. You won't win by

00:31:40.960 appeasing these guys. Yeah, and this, our provincial government has, you know, had enough

00:31:45.040 foresight to invest in agriculture and in agritech, and that's what we need to do. We need to invest

00:31:49.940 in it, not move away from it. So there's a lot of innovation going on, and there's a lot of

00:31:54.660 opportunity, and there's just a lot happening right here in Alberta, but we just have a prime

00:32:00.680 minister who clearly hates the West, clearly hates Alberta. That he does, and of course, he doesn't

00:32:05.080 think much of those darn farmers because, you know, rural areas don't tend to vote liberal that

00:32:08.260 often either. I mean, there's a bit of a rural urban thing going on here. To be fair, there are

00:32:12.560 a lot of agricultural producers in, you know, the Maritimes and throughout Quebec and Ontario that

00:32:18.220 these fertilizer proposed bans, it's going to hurt them too. I mean, it's going to hit the West the

00:32:22.800 most because that's where most of our agricultural production is, but it's going to harm people

00:32:25.940 across this country. It's going to harm the whole country and it's certainly going to hurt all of us

00:32:29.300 when we go to the grocery store and it's $12 for a loaf of bread and you're put on rations like

00:32:34.260 they are in other countries. And that can happen. Maybe there's a way, you see, one of the areas

00:32:39.760 that I see Trudeau is terrified of is the dairy cartels. So if we can remind them that feed is

00:32:44.040 going to go up because hay is not going to grow as efficiently without fertilizer. And once the

00:32:50.480 dairy cartels speak up, it's amazing how fast the liberals move. It really is amazing how fast it

00:32:54.620 moves. And yeah, they're not going to want to have to put down all their livestock, right? If there's

00:32:59.100 no way to feed those cows. Yeah, well, keep pushing. I'm just looking at alternatives and

00:33:03.820 appreciate what you guys are doing with Alberta Proud because if we don't speak up, if we don't

00:33:07.540 push back, we won't win. And as you rightly pointed out, you know, on the ridiculous little

00:33:13.220 thing with labeling beef products and with this fertilizer thing, we can change, move the needle

00:33:19.220 on this. The government's, right now, it's still an idea balloon stage. We can stop this in its

00:33:23.240 tracks. Yeah, we do these kind of campaigns all the time. And like I said, like our social medias,

00:33:27.520 we have reach of millions every week. We have email lists and we get out there, we run petitions,

00:33:32.980 all sorts of things so um check us out check us out on facebook uh check us out on all the social

00:33:37.860 media platforms um and while you're at it we put we put up a post yesterday just asking everybody

00:33:42.900 to kind of make a comment on uh new t-shirts new designs that we're coming out with so i'd love

00:33:47.220 to see you guys vote plug something in the comments there on which there's five of them

00:33:51.300 we're tossing around right now so please take a moment and vote on that great before i let you go

00:33:56.340 then just to remind everybody where can we find information about alberta proud what you guys do

00:34:00.100 albertaproud.org we've got uh shop.albertaproud.org is our is our merch store we're moving we still

00:34:05.700 have these look if you want to back our back off our beef campaign we're like we're still going

00:34:10.340 with that because you know they've quieted down on that for now but it also ties in really well with

00:34:14.820 um you know back off our farmers and uh so these ones are available for sale and there's lots of

00:34:19.060 there on our on our website we're on facebook we're on twitter we're on um telegram we're on

00:34:24.580 We're on Instagram, we're on LinkedIn, I think all of them, TikTok, all of them.

00:34:30.240 Look up Alberta Proud, you'll be found out there somewhere.

00:34:32.240 I know Facebook's kind of your most active area.

00:34:34.220 It is, and I encourage people to DM me if you have any ideas, any advocacy,

00:34:37.540 any things you feel that we're not talking about enough.

00:34:41.860 This is all for you guys, so I'm going to hear from you.

00:34:44.160 Great.

00:34:44.500 Well, thanks for coming in to talk to us today, Lindsay,

00:34:46.460 and thank the kids for putting together the great props this time around.

00:34:50.220 Yes, I will. Absolutely.

00:34:50.640 We can have fun with advocacy at times.

00:34:52.760 Yes, just a last reminder to say no to Trudeau's farm fertilizer reduction.

00:34:57.420 Stand up for farmers.

00:34:58.700 Well, thanks again, and I'm sure we'll see you again soon.

00:35:01.260 You bet. Thanks, as always.

00:35:02.240 See you, Liz.

00:35:03.900 Yes, that's Lindsay Wilson of Alberta Proud, and she said, yeah, just start Googling that,

00:35:07.520 and you can find their presence all over on social media and a lot of the work they're doing.

00:35:11.320 I mean, the name says it all, and it's not just Alberta.

00:35:13.720 It's the West.

00:35:14.240 These issues are big.

00:35:15.440 They're encompassing, and this is the way we can do it.

00:35:19.600 You know, this is the way we can push back.

00:35:21.060 We've got a lot of politicians who are always putting their finger to the air on where public sentiment sits.

00:35:26.380 It's not a matter of common sense sometimes.

00:35:28.180 It's a matter of saving their jobs.

00:35:29.920 If they think the public needle has moved, the politicians will move, and they can.

00:35:35.320 You know, that's something, as much as I'm crabby on this show all the time, and I rage and I rant, I do like to maintain a bit of optimism.

00:35:42.660 I mean, if there was absolutely no hope of changing things, then there isn't much point in having a show and discussing these issues.

00:35:50.400 but things can and will change if we bring it up if we push back uh we can we can make it better

00:35:56.060 i mean otherwise we'll just curl up at home and give up and unfortunately i think a lot of people

00:36:00.020 kind of are apathy it's one of our biggest enemies guys it really is so uh check them out get up there

00:36:06.520 and start pushing back uh now yes so there we go anita saying you know one of the commenters keep

00:36:11.440 writing emailing keep in their faces absolutely it just never seems like uh enough sometimes but

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00:38:28.580 news here. And this segment, yes, I was speaking healthcare. Here's an interesting one. Elizabeth

00:38:35.320 May, you know, it sounds like she's running for the leader of the Green Party again.

00:38:40.980 No, the politics are crazy. And I mean, it's good to see the Green Party and Elizabeth May out there

00:38:45.900 to show that it's not just the right that does crazy partisan things as, you know,

00:38:50.040 conservative parties rip themselves apart and infight and tear their leaders out. Elizabeth

00:38:55.100 May, who stepped back as leader, allowed new leader to be elected, and then basically worked

00:38:59.740 on the sidelines and undercut the new leader until she was pushed from office and now is

00:39:03.480 going to run for the old job all over again. And so, I mean, this is apparently according to the

00:39:09.340 Red Star anyhow. And she also says she's proposing though to share responsibilities with a co-leader

00:39:16.600 and I forget who it was who tweeted that out. But it was a great tweet saying, oh, look at how Liz

00:39:24.660 wants to do this. She wants the title of leader and perhaps the salary of leader, but then she

00:39:28.500 can have a co-leader who will actually have to do all the dirty work and hard stuff. And that way

00:39:32.240 Liz can get the best of both. And there is no mechanism, of course, that allows for co-leaders

00:39:39.260 of parties in our system. It's not made for that. But, you know, it's their party. I guess they can

00:39:45.580 do whatever the hell they want with it. I mean, typically, they only have one or three tops in

00:39:49.580 the House of Commons. But yeah, Liz keeps things nice and crazy and interesting anyways, and goes

00:39:55.280 to show the rationality of our typical green leadership out there. I saw a tweet recently,

00:40:01.740 too. Apparently Alberta has a green party as well. They ran a few people in the last election. So,

00:40:07.140 you know, good for them. Hey, that's democracy. That's the way to go. I just didn't even realize

00:40:10.860 they were there. I mean, talk about swimming upstream, running in a green party in Alberta

00:40:14.900 has got to be a really good time these days. Here's an interesting story I saw out there.

00:40:20.560 Public vulgarity is not considered a crime. The Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal ruled

00:40:26.700 this. I guess some St. John's motorist drove by a TV reporter and yelled something obscene out the

00:40:33.280 window at them, and he was charged with disturbing the peace. The courts have decided, no, that's not

00:40:38.360 against the law. It's kind of a laughable story, but at the same time, you know, I don't think it

00:40:45.980 should be criminal to use vulgarities, but at the same time, I don't think you should, you know,

00:40:50.220 it's low class and nasty to shout them out in public or make a lot of racket as well.

00:40:54.860 But it's like so many other areas.

00:40:56.560 I don't want the law to intervene.

00:40:57.840 I would hope society can.

00:40:59.280 Just as better people, we don't do it.

00:41:01.120 I mean, I worked in the oil field for 20 years.

00:41:03.500 I can tell some jokes that would make a trucker blush.

00:41:06.180 There's no language that offends me.

00:41:07.900 And there's some language, you know, over beers back when I used to drink with the other

00:41:11.020 oil field guys that was nasty.

00:41:13.820 But as you can see on here, I can get through many, many sentences without blasting out

00:41:18.900 F-bombs or all sorts of other obscenities.

00:41:21.360 There's sort of places and times for anything if you're going to use them.

00:41:23.700 And I find one of the worst things is when you talk to a person, they can't seem to get through

00:41:27.740 a sentence without dropping some sort of obscenity or another. You got to space them. I mean, use

00:41:34.520 them by all means. I think they help make language colorful. If you use it creatively, you drop it

00:41:39.040 in the right point in a conversation. And it's in private. I also don't like it when you're

00:41:43.040 sitting at a restaurant or you're sitting somewhere in a public spot and you're listening

00:41:46.400 to somebody just blasting away with a vulgar tongue. I mean, there's families with kids around

00:41:51.140 and everything else, and again, it's not like the obscenities are going to directly hurt the

00:41:56.860 children, but it's also teaching them that, yeah, you can speak in that sort of language as well,

00:42:01.360 and it's just not healthy. It's not good. Again, it's no crime. I agree with the judge on that one,

00:42:08.560 but it's also not a great thing to drive by screaming it out the window at people,

00:42:11.720 and I know a lot of people have been getting on the mainstream media's case, and that was a thing

00:42:14.640 a lot were doing. They're sneaking up behind and yelling things like that during live hits and

00:42:18.140 things and frustrating them. But it's not, you know, I'm not afraid of being juvenile and tasteless

00:42:24.180 lots of times, but there's a time and a place. But that's the thing, too. Watch yourselves,

00:42:28.980 control yourselves. Don't give them an excuse to start criminalizing stuff like that. There's

00:42:33.120 actually a little YouTube video I had fun with a few years ago, actually. That was way back when

00:42:38.540 I ran for the Libertarian Party. And I had to make a delivery down in Tabor. I was working for an

00:42:43.900 arborist company. I had to drop some equipment down there. And at that time, the municipality

00:42:48.180 of Tabor had actually made a log ain't swearing. They tried to make a by-log ain't swearing.

00:42:55.340 And they were having trouble with the youth. Tabor's a strange community. If you want to look

00:42:59.160 it up, they got some unusual people, a lot of farm labor that settles there because there's

00:43:04.480 sugar beet in the area and it's a huge industry, but it's very labor intensive. And they brought

00:43:08.280 a lot of migrant labor in. And they have a large number of Mexican Mennonites there. And they've

00:43:14.560 also got a large Mormon population there. And I think there's a lot of clashing between these

00:43:18.460 social groups within this small city or large town. I'm not sure what they land at. But either

00:43:24.980 way, with the religious laws they came up with was this no swearing. So I pulled up and made a

00:43:29.320 selfie video outside of the sign where it says, welcome to Tabor, screaming out FU at the top of

00:43:33.500 my lungs. Well, there was no other people around or anything else. Just making my point that,

00:43:37.980 you know, hey, you guys can't tell me what I say or what I can't. But if I were running up and down

00:43:42.100 the streets yelling that at people, you know what, I deserve to at least get some scorn from people.

00:43:46.500 As I said, it's low taste and not necessarily a good thing. And it's, Sonico's saying,

00:43:54.080 Tabor has corn, sugar beets, pumpkins, and yeah, and the pheasant hunt out there. It's in the

00:43:57.440 irrigation block. Like, if people look into southeastern Alberta, it's actually a fascinating

00:44:02.460 part of the province. If you haven't traveled much, you know, within the province, have a look.

00:44:06.920 it's got a lot of history. Things change. I mean, we see, you know, most of Alberta in the South

00:44:11.600 is rolling cereal crops, wheat fields, canola, things like that. But you get into the areas

00:44:17.060 where they can irrigate in the South and they grow all sorts of stuff. As you're saying, sugar

00:44:21.740 meat, pumpkins. I remember when I was a surveyor's helper, a Rodman, and I was riding a quad through

00:44:26.600 a field that was over by Southeast of Brooks. And they were growing carrots. I mean, I was

00:44:32.060 surveying for 20 years. The worst roughest field I ever rode in in my life. I think I still got

00:44:36.780 parts of my back that are sore from that from 30 years ago was riding through a carrot field but

00:44:41.780 you never think of it where the hell do they grow carrots well down in that part of Alberta they do

00:44:45.440 the other thing that's neat down there and it's kind of a dark part of Albertan history

00:44:50.520 is the Japanese Canadian population down that way down south of Brooks and out that way when we

00:44:56.000 interred Japanese Canadians and really screwed them you know that's a part of Canadian history

00:44:59.840 that's pretty shameful during World War II they took them they picked them up they dumped them

00:45:04.100 into these camps, took their possessions away, their property away. And that's why I like to

00:45:08.980 never underestimate what a bad government can do to you. But once the war was over, they basically

00:45:14.960 opened the doors and said, okay, sorry about that, guys. No harm, no foul. Here you go. You're free.

00:45:20.180 So now you have all of these Japanese Canadians broke out in the middle of, you know, essentially

00:45:24.960 nowhere of that time and just let loose. So they went to work at the nearest thing they could find.

00:45:30.140 a lot of that was the sugar beet farms down that way. And they worked really hard and they,

00:45:34.560 you know, became a part of the community. A lot of big farm owners down there. It's interesting

00:45:39.040 when you go down and I'd work as a surveyor and you come up to a farmhouse and there was a person

00:45:42.900 clearly of Asian descent, but their English, of course, is perfect. They can't speak a word of

00:45:47.780 Japanese anymore. They have, you know, an Albertan accent. They're farmers like anyone else, but it's

00:45:52.180 just something that's not usual for you. And in the communities, you know, you go to the coffee

00:45:56.460 shop and see the old farmers sitting around drinking coffee and bitching about their crops

00:45:59.740 with each other and a quarter of them are clearly of Asian descent, you know, wearing their John

00:46:04.680 Deere caps and talking about things like that. So, you know, look around, check out Southeast

00:46:10.340 Alberta sometime, all sorts of areas. It's things I like to point out and say, you know, when I

00:46:14.600 worked surveying, there's no boring part of the planet. There isn't. That's what I love with my

00:46:18.400 travel. If you look around, there's something interesting to be found and checked out no

00:46:23.640 matter where you get, except for Eastern New Mexico near the Texas border. I still couldn't

00:46:29.820 find much of merit there unless you're really into tarantulas. That was an awful area to work.

00:46:34.540 And I never, I had a hard time finding anything aside from an old Air Force,

00:46:37.940 abandoned Air Force base that was kind of interesting. But still, if you look,

00:46:42.000 there's neat stuff around. And as others are pointing out, yes, the Tabor corn is going to

00:46:45.420 be coming out. Cornfest is coming up in Tabor. That's the big crop that comes out there. You

00:46:49.440 see the pickup trucks and everybody's selling the Tabor corn. So speaking of supporting farmers and

00:46:54.800 Alberta crops, you know, grab your Tabor corn this year and the farmers markets are on the roadsides

00:46:59.840 and so on. All right, before I get to my next guest, let me go into one more subject. Yeah,

00:47:04.200 so the federal archives are at serious risk. This is an interesting one. So I mean, the Library and

00:47:08.300 Archives of Canada, and that's a huge, you know, an important resource actually, but they'd stored

00:47:13.800 material and obsolete tape cartridges. You know, it was high tech for the time, but it's gone bad.

00:47:21.260 And now they're trying to transfer to digital records, but it looks like there's been no

00:47:27.060 planning, no coordination, confusion over the rules. Again, government is not efficient with

00:47:34.160 pretty much anything they do. You don't count on government efficiency. You're always going to be

00:47:38.460 disappointed. That's why less government is typically better for whatever you want. I was

00:47:43.360 looking at a lead now. And lead now is an organization that pushes left-wing causes all

00:47:47.160 the time. They're a lobbying organization. They start petitions, things like that. And I see

00:47:52.140 somebody was retweeting one of their things with one of their latest petitions. They're complaining

00:47:55.520 about the Rogers outage and complaining about the lack of multiple providers of internet service

00:48:02.660 in Canada and how vulnerable it makes Canadians. Okay, they were right kind of along the ways. But

00:48:06.880 then their proposal was, we need to nationalize it and have a crown internet provider. Okay,

00:48:12.900 if you want to take things from bad and make them worse, give it to the government. Think

00:48:17.360 harder, you guys. We need more providers, not fewer. And we definitely don't need the government

00:48:23.240 in on it. I mean, there is a problem. When you only have two options to pick from, it's pretty

00:48:27.660 hard not to believe there's some degree of price collusion and service and things like that. So

00:48:31.860 you need more options. But don't get government in it. You're trading one monopoly for another

00:48:35.680 is not going to put you into a better position. So again, with these archives, yeah, unfortunately,

00:48:41.160 the government has been inept and incompetent in managing these. And like I like to keep pointing

00:48:45.620 out, they can't even pay themselves, right? They've spent billions and billions on the

00:48:48.760 Phoenix payroll system. And now they're talking about spending until, what is it, 2032 to try

00:48:54.800 and get it fixed. They're on payroll. They're incompetent and they get bigger and bigger

00:48:58.760 and cost us more and more. All right. Enough about that subject for now. Let's get on to

00:49:04.740 my guest here. And that is Catherine Christensen of Valor Law and the class action suit they've

00:49:13.820 had on behalf of members of the Canadian Armed Forces who chose not to be vaccinated. It sounds

00:49:19.580 like there was quite the campaign to try and pressure our service members into vaccination

00:49:25.020 and a lot were pushed out of work. A lot went through a lot of stress. One was even considering

00:49:29.140 suicide. So let's bring Catherine in and discuss what that's all about. I think I see her in the

00:49:34.820 lobby there. Hello, Catherine. Are you out there? It looks like she, she may still be muted.

00:49:40.580 There we go. Here I am.

00:49:45.860 Yeah. I caught you by surprise there, but that's okay.

00:49:51.140 Okay. Well, I appreciate you coming in. And we had Linda Sabodian's article. She'd spoken to you

00:49:58.580 a while on that and it was just quite an eye-opener uh you know just uh horrific treatment of our of

00:50:04.900 our armed forces members and and uh i guess you're following up on that maybe if you could kind of

00:50:10.180 explain in a nutshell what the suit's about absolutely so uh back in october i was approached

00:50:16.660 i my practice has always been with members of the canadian armed forces or veterans so in october

00:50:22.820 last year they approached me and told me that there was a mandate coming uh everything had

00:50:28.180 been voluntary up to that point and that there was a group who did not want to be vaccinated.

00:50:35.340 Now, I've been watching the Canadian Armed Forces for a few years now on things that they've been

00:50:40.400 doing to their own people that I call, in a nutshell, the abuse of power. And the vaccine

00:50:47.880 mandate was an absolutely perfect example of that abuse of power. And what had me hesitating

00:50:56.800 didn't last long once they started telling me the stories and some of those stories were in

00:51:01.280 linda's article there's a lot more of them and i was appalled at what we were doing to our own

00:51:07.840 people and in fact to this date the mandate still exists you are required to be vaccinated

00:51:16.480 they were going to get 100 vaccination no matter what it took there's rumors that they're going to

00:51:21.280 bring in a booster as mandatory. And if you go into any building inside the Canadian Armed Forces,

00:51:27.520 you have to wear a mask still. So, you know, there doesn't look like they're changing their

00:51:34.080 mind. There was rumors that they were going to take back the mandate. I'm not seeing it. I think

00:51:40.080 it's all smoke and mirrors. Well, and something that was pretty appalling, like this was beyond

00:51:45.280 what you would see, say in the private sector, even or other government areas where they'd say,

00:51:49.280 this is the mandate get vaccinated or we're going to release you without pay or possibly even

00:51:56.080 permanently fire you there was harassment and shaming and a number of other issues going on

00:52:01.520 to try and essentially really force and coerce people into taking a vaccination they didn't want

00:52:06.800 it was truly a psychological operation people were physically isolated whether it was the

00:52:13.040 infantry guys that were put into an unheated tent in december or navy guys who were forced into

00:52:19.280 a room together every day completely isolated uh people that were told that they before the the

00:52:27.920 mandate they were working from home with no issues doing their job all of a sudden they were told

00:52:32.880 they weren't allowed to come near the base uh without their co's permission to even use the gym

00:52:39.520 go to the medical facilities do anything they needed to do they had to get their

00:52:45.120 commanding officers permission before they could even come on the base uh so they were the people

00:52:51.120 in my group say they felt like they were you know the unclean uh completely discriminated against

00:52:58.480 and this is in armed forces that we have the chief of defense staff going on the news and

00:53:03.760 saying it's all inclusive and they want to welcome everybody they'll accommodate everybody um i even

00:53:10.000 have uh chaplains catholic priests who asked for a religious accommodation that were denied saying

00:53:17.280 that their belief wasn't sincere enough i mean i don't know how you get more sincere in your

00:53:23.120 religion than being a priest but that's what they were told i had people denied religious

00:53:28.720 accommodations for the wrong religion they weren't even the religion they were denied on

00:53:33.520 medical accommodations people who had had decided to take the first shot had a bad reaction in some

00:53:43.520 cases very serious reactions and were still ordered to take the vaccination for the second

00:53:48.980 time and the harassment of our pregnant soldiers and air pilots unbelievable you would not believe

00:53:56.940 what they did to these poor women yeah and I mean you would think the forces have been dealing with

00:54:03.300 a lot of difficulties as it is with treatment of women as they're trying to culturally adapt

00:54:07.360 and change with our female members. Of all things, you'd think they'd be more responsive

00:54:12.340 rather than shaming or humiliating or stressing. I believe one said brought to the brink of

00:54:18.020 suicidal thoughts. Yes, and then more than one. Thankfully, I have a really good team of people

00:54:26.060 who when we we keep a close eye on our members in the uh lawsuit and if we get any indication that

00:54:34.240 there's mental health issues we you know uh get band together and we keep an eye on people we

00:54:40.100 get them help that they need um yeah the the mental toll on these people it truly it was a

00:54:46.320 site the psych op was successful i would say in mentally torturing their own troops i mean

00:54:52.940 i guess it was a good experiment on their part but you know yeah i mean if there's been any i

00:55:00.260 guess you know mental pressures typically put on troops and training it you know is a long

00:55:05.020 debatable thing on on how they're treated but usually it's at least meant to unify the troops

00:55:09.820 because it's so critically important in times of crisis or or conflict that they're tight-knit and

00:55:16.060 and they're together on things this sounds like it was much more of a divisive effort i mean not

00:55:20.600 only setting aside the damage being done to these poor members who were ashamed and isolated from

00:55:25.600 others, but I imagine it hurts morale and unity within the forces as a whole. Well, they already

00:55:31.780 had a huge morale problem before last fall. Let's face it, the Canadian Armed Forces was having a

00:55:38.460 really hard time keeping up morale. Then they bring this in, and as word started to spread,

00:55:45.240 I mean, we have a small military. It doesn't take long for anything to spread through the ranks.

00:55:50.600 And after what has happened, my feedback from people, even people who have fully vaccinated, had nothing to do with the lawsuit, the feedback I'm getting from them is that the morale has sunk to a low they never, ever expected because they did not expect to be treated this way by their chief of defense staff.

00:56:10.680 We have no faith in the ranks for the officers. People do not trust the officers. They don't trust their chain of command. And if you don't have trust in your chain of command, you don't have a military. Because you have to absolutely have tight-knit trust between all the ranks and trades in order to execute anything in the military. We don't have it.

00:56:34.920 Well, that's another problem is trust has been shattered.

00:56:37.660 And even if, as you say, it sounds questionable, even if the mandates are lifted and people did return to the forces,

00:56:43.600 I mean, a lot of them at this point, I imagine, don't want to return to that environment.

00:56:47.180 Or if they did, they wouldn't be feeling comfortable or in a trustworthy environment at this point.

00:56:52.700 They would not be, most do not want to come back, mainly because their confidentiality, their medical privacy was completely violated.

00:57:01.560 and everyone knows who they are, everyone knows their medical status, which should never have

00:57:06.860 happened, not just for general medical privacy rules, but under the CAF zone policies, you should

00:57:13.920 never know medical information about another person. But here is the catch. The rumor was that

00:57:20.680 if they lifted the mandate, they were going to allow people to return. But if you've been released

00:57:25.560 under a 5f which is a not suitable for further service and in this case the cds has said you

00:57:31.760 have a moral weakness if you chose not to have the vaccination shots uh the only person who can

00:57:38.820 allow you to come back in is the chief of defense staff the same guy that is on the news calling

00:57:45.280 these people terrible things saying they have no honor they have no morals they have no ethics

00:57:49.620 Do you really think he's going to let these people come back?

00:57:53.480 I don't think so.

00:57:55.880 I imagine there's going to be a lot of research and planning and things done.

00:57:59.520 But I guess, was there any evidence that non-vaccinated people caused any harm or damage, I guess, while serving within the forces?

00:58:07.560 Or, you know, I mean, it should be proof of how dangerous these non-vaccinated people were, I would imagine, wouldn't there?

00:58:15.080 Well, let's put it this way.

00:58:16.720 Not a single member of the Canadian Armed Forces died of COVID.

00:58:19.620 And the outbreaks that have happened, they tried to keep them really quiet, but as I said, it's a small military, rumors and information travels.

00:58:32.180 All of the outbreaks involve vaccinated members of the military, not unvaccinated.

00:58:38.400 It's so frustrating.

00:58:40.140 They didn't cause any harm.

00:58:41.660 Yeah.

00:58:42.260 I mean, we've had problems with our veterans and our military and how they're treated in Canada for decades.

00:58:47.200 This is just sort of the latest thing.

00:58:49.120 And I mean, people forget we're, we're asking a heck of a lot of people.

00:58:52.560 I mean, it's a calling rather than a, you know, a trade I would imagine.

00:58:56.080 I mean, it's not an easy, it's not a path to easy money.

00:58:58.300 It's not an easy lifestyle.

00:59:00.080 You have to really love what you're doing to want to do that.

00:59:03.200 And as they, we, we, we shame and punish our members have chosen to do that.

00:59:07.380 It's just more of a sort of a shameful on our part as Canadians.

00:59:11.560 It truly is.

00:59:13.280 These people that have undergone this whole process, we're talking about

00:59:17.780 very honorable people people who have chests full of medals which are not an easy thing to get in

00:59:22.420 our military people who have served for decades without a single mark on their record they've

00:59:27.140 never been in any trouble before uh i would put my life on the line for any one of these people

00:59:33.060 in my lawsuit no questions asked these are very honorable people and they did not deserve what

00:59:38.180 has happened to them since uh the mandate came in so at what stage is is this action in right now

00:59:45.380 then I imagine you're still collecting other participants and get it gathering information

00:59:50.340 like as a statement of claim and filed or I don't understand how all of that necessarily works to

00:59:54.180 be honest yeah the statement of claim is ready but we have to have a lot of our information

00:59:59.300 ready to file within 30 days there's just under 300 people in the lawsuit now I have 70 more in

01:00:07.140 the past week who have approached me and as you can imagine getting that much information from

01:00:12.020 that many people takes some time we are also lining up our experts to put in the claim so

01:00:18.900 we're clicking right along but i do expect to file a statement of claim hopefully by no later

01:00:26.420 than the end of this year and the other thing is that this lawsuit is being funded by crowdfunding

01:00:33.780 i am not being paid for this it's being run through the valor legal action center and so

01:00:40.980 everybody is collecting donations because i didn't want someone to not participate because they

01:00:48.820 couldn't afford it i feel that it doesn't matter whether you're one of my light kernels or whether

01:00:54.500 you're a private who hasn't been in very long but stood up for what you believed in should not be a

01:01:00.340 reason money should not be a reason you can't participate so that's the other thing to note

01:01:05.460 that this is a grassroots, if you will, application to say that Canadian Armed Forces cannot get away

01:01:13.300 with treating their people in such a poor manner. And these things take time. I mean,

01:01:18.260 the members are already having a hard time. They've been pushed out of their jobs. And as you

01:01:22.580 said, I mean, the filing might not come towards the end of the year. So it could be a couple of

01:01:26.100 years before this is resolved. I imagine it's going to take some resources and money. Yes,

01:01:30.660 it will yeah but they're they're dedicated uh they are a fantastic group of people they're

01:01:38.340 all pulling together and uh volunteering their time as well and we're putting it together because

01:01:44.820 they they want to serve in the military that they actually signed up to serve not the one that's

01:01:50.660 actually exists at the time at this time well i really appreciate your work on this and then

01:01:57.220 the ongoing work so uh just to remind everybody then where can they find information if they

01:02:01.620 wanted to uh support this or if perhaps there are other military members who need some help at this

01:02:05.780 time if they go to valorlegalactioncenter.org that's our website and valor has the u in it

01:02:14.340 and a canadian spelling of course and uh it has information on there on how to reach our office

01:02:20.260 or if you uh want to support the cause there's information there as well and we also have a go

01:02:26.100 uh give send go account which is on that website to link okay give send go yeah not everybody's

01:02:31.860 too thrilled with gofundme these days but that's a separate issue altogether it is i was glad we

01:02:37.620 hadn't set up a gofundme last fall with the truckers because i'm sure we would have been

01:02:41.860 targeted at the same time so yeah that's fodder for other shows we've had it is it is all right

01:02:50.180 well thank you very much for coming on to talk to us about this today and for the work you're doing

01:02:54.420 And, well, I really hope that this gets resolved sooner rather than later.

01:02:58.740 It's appalling how we treat some of our people who have entrusted themselves to the armed forces like that.

01:03:03.880 Exactly.

01:03:04.560 Thank you very much for having us on and look forward to future results.

01:03:10.560 Great.

01:03:10.920 Thanks.

01:03:11.960 Thank you.

01:03:13.020 That was Catherine Christensen of Valor Law.

01:03:16.600 And as you said, you know, if you're looking that up, spell it.

01:03:18.780 It's the Canadian spelling, V-A-L-O-U-R.

01:03:21.540 And they are putting together that class action.

01:03:24.260 suit. And as she said, she specializes in military actions and things such as that to support our

01:03:30.560 veterans and people within the forces still currently right now. And this has been going on

01:03:35.940 for I don't know how long. I mean, this vaccination issue is a recent one, but our treatment of the

01:03:42.440 military for veterans, for people suffering from PTSD, it just never seems to end. We ask so much

01:03:49.060 of the people who serve and then really just try to forget about them when they're done. And it's

01:03:54.000 wrong. You know, they're protecting us from a lot of things we're unwilling or incapable of

01:03:59.740 protecting ourselves from. And they should be respected and treated as well as humanly possible

01:04:05.020 for their service. That's why it's called service. It's if they wanted money, if they wanted an easy

01:04:09.520 job, any of them could have pursued all sorts of other trades. And they chose the military. And,

01:04:15.200 you know, they're working for us. That means that we should have some obligation to properly respect

01:04:20.560 and take care of them.

01:04:21.780 And as I said, it's one thing to see a place

01:04:24.580 and that's still debatable imposing vaccine mandates,

01:04:28.840 but taking them and shaming them and harassing them

01:04:32.000 and separating them and putting them in cold tents.

01:04:34.320 As I said, look up Linda Slobodian's column on it.

01:04:37.080 Some of the stuff that was done to these people.

01:04:39.540 This is not a professional, respectful organization

01:04:44.540 that's treating people correctly

01:04:46.300 and respecting them as they should be for what they're doing.

01:04:50.480 And yeah, it's just not good.

01:04:53.780 All right, let me talk about one of our sponsors

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01:05:01.580 So speaking of individual rights,

01:05:04.060 speaking of taking care of yourself,

01:05:06.260 similar to, you know, with my first guest there, Lindsay,

01:05:09.260 we've got battles going on.

01:05:10.840 We're always having to battle this federal government

01:05:12.520 and we've always got to stand up for ourselves.

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01:05:16.300 If we don't, we'll lose.

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01:05:18.540 The Canadian Shooting Sports Association is standing up for you.

01:05:22.080 And again, their name says it all, right?

01:05:23.720 It's an association of people who enjoy shooting sports.

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01:05:30.280 If you enjoy firearms, if you're looking to enjoy firearms,

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01:05:36.760 For one, there's a bunch of resources.

01:05:37.900 As with any association, you can network with other firearm owners.

01:05:41.440 There's links to events, to trade shows, things like that.

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01:05:45.200 But again, and as always, most importantly of all, they are lobbying on your behalf.

01:05:51.620 Tony Bernardo, who heads them up, always out front and center speaking up for you because

01:05:56.100 we have a government that's working to take away your right and ability to have these

01:05:59.300 firearms and they get this buyback program, things like that.

01:06:04.640 We've got to push back or they will take your stuff.

01:06:06.980 Buyback.

01:06:07.380 I hate that.

01:06:08.080 It's not a buyback.

01:06:08.960 It's a theft where they give you some of your own money back to take it because they're

01:06:12.720 tax dollars.

01:06:13.340 So it's still your money.

01:06:14.060 And if you didn't give permission for them to take it, it's theft.

01:06:17.860 I don't care how they want to phrase it.

01:06:20.140 You know, if I own something and they come up and say,

01:06:21.760 even give me a million dollars for my old 22 in the basement,

01:06:24.500 and I say no, and they still take it, it's theft.

01:06:27.480 Even if they overpaid me for it.

01:06:29.560 You can't take it by force and claim that it's a buyback.

01:06:32.980 They're taking it from you without your permission.

01:06:35.360 So join the CSSA, guys.

01:06:37.940 Take out a membership.

01:06:39.000 Stand up for yourselves because it's very, very important.

01:06:42.040 Their website is cssa-cila.org and yeah, help take control of your firearms.

01:06:50.080 They're important for you.

01:06:51.440 I see Melanie in the lobby there.

01:06:53.740 If she's ready to roll, let's bring Melanie Rizdin in.

01:06:56.320 She's been working on that ongoing series.

01:06:58.100 It's been fantastic.

01:06:59.720 And these videos keep coming out.

01:07:02.440 And there's the Freedom Heroes series.

01:07:04.380 There's another one coming up tonight, I believe, right, Mel?

01:07:06.580 That's right.

01:07:07.320 Yes, we've got one coming out tonight for our COVID Freedom Heroes series.

01:07:11.320 and it's part four. This one is featuring Chris Scott, a name that is likely very well known

01:07:17.860 throughout the province and likely throughout the country now. He is the owner of the Whistle

01:07:24.060 Stop Cafe in Mirror, Alberta, and he was one of the sort of restaurant owners that drew his line

01:07:32.120 in the sand early and did it in a very outspoken way and opened up his establishment, even though

01:07:40.120 public health orders had ordered restaurants to be closed and not to be serving uh people

01:07:46.440 within the establishments so uh he said he made that decision based on much of the science that

01:07:53.400 was coming out and much of the uh some of the narrative that he was seeing sort of crumbling

01:07:59.080 and was really just fighting to keep his business alive i mean now chris bought the whistle stop

01:08:06.040 cafe in the summer of 2019 so we're talking you know half a year from when the pandemic basically

01:08:13.160 hit and uh and you know for many of these restaurant and business owners who were forced

01:08:19.000 to close their doors it was the it was their livelihoods they were they were standing to lose

01:08:25.240 so chris fought back and uh you know uh he suffered many consequences fines he was even arrested

01:08:33.880 during a protest at his establishment uh in may of 2021 uh but yeah it's uh it was a very um trying

01:08:43.960 difficult time for him and we're going to talk to him uh and that's going to be tonight and we'll

01:08:50.360 we'll run down sort of the events that unfolded for him great and uh since we got you you know i

01:08:56.280 mean not everybody's caught your series uh just to remind everybody what were the first three about

01:09:00.280 because they've been kind of dropping uh fast and furious now yeah yeah so we have already featured

01:09:06.600 on tuesday we featured pastor james coates uh he was one of the alberta um pastors whose church

01:09:14.760 remained open again uh you know followed all of the rules through the first wave but things started

01:09:20.520 to unravel for them uh in the second wave and they decided they were going to open their doors

01:09:27.080 for all of their congregants to come even though restrictions had limited capacity to 15 percent so

01:09:33.880 Tuesday we did interview Pastor James Coates from Grace Life Church before that we did speak with

01:09:42.360 Matt Sattler he is an aviation professional he is a pilot for one of Canada's major airlines

01:09:50.360 And he and a co-founder started Free to Fly, which was an advocacy group for other pilots and airline personnel, as well as tens of thousands of Canadian travelers.

01:10:05.700 So we spoke with him about the travel restrictions and sort of what he and others went through.

01:10:13.020 And then, goodness, before that, now I'm having a brain mess.

01:10:20.360 Yeah. And then, uh, before that, uh, sorry. Um, yeah, I'm, I'm having a,

01:10:27.840 there were seven of them and I'm trying to remember that first one as well.

01:10:32.760 And as for, uh, like I see Pamela Jones, Kenny,

01:10:35.200 one of our commenters saying other replays for these. And that's what we're saying.

01:10:38.280 Yes. If you go to the Western standard rumble page or a YouTube or Facebook,

01:10:43.460 you can find those all in the video sections. If you scroll down and, uh,

01:10:47.400 you know, the Melanie produces them, they get released on evenings like tonight, sort of a big

01:10:52.300 live event and affair when it comes out. But then it does stay up there for you to review later. And

01:10:56.780 there it is. John Carpe, of course, kicked it off from the Justice Center of Constitutional

01:11:01.960 Freedoms. How we could forget. Sorry about that, John. Yes, sorry about that, John. I know, you

01:11:07.220 know, I'm almost working ahead with the other parts of the series that are coming. So, you know,

01:11:13.300 it was all kind of a bit of a blur for me. But yes, that was a very important one. The JCCF was

01:11:18.740 huge and still is huge in representing, if not thousands of Canadians who are, you know,

01:11:27.980 pushing back against the mandates when it comes to their constitutional rights, the travel mandates,

01:11:34.300 you know, employers that were that were bringing in mandates and and relieving people who were

01:11:40.660 choosing to remain unvaccinated. So that was a huge one. And again, still, there are some major

01:11:47.300 court cases still at play with the JCCF and many other legal professionals across the country as

01:11:53.740 well. So that was a big one. And we are also, you know, going to be touching base on the weekend

01:12:00.420 with some law enforcement personnel. Many of those officers, police, RCMP, that really questioned

01:12:10.180 whether the orders they were being given were actually kind of contradicting the oaths that

01:12:16.500 they took to serve and protect. So we're going to be talking with Brian Dennison, a former Calgary

01:12:22.800 police officer and a former RCMP officer, Constable Bulford. That's Daniel Bulford. And then we're

01:12:32.800 also going to touch base with some medical professionals for another episode. And lastly,

01:12:38.620 we will be highlighting Tamara Lynch. Excellent. Well, I'm looking forward to it. I'm glad you

01:12:45.600 could come on to talk to us today and remind all these viewers, hey guys, tune in tonight and catch

01:12:50.080 these right when they drop because it's a fantastic series and boy, you don't get stuff like this from

01:12:53.880 the legacy media. Well, that's true. And so seven o'clock tonight is when you can catch our next

01:13:00.180 episode. And we will certainly, like Corey said, they are available on all of our video platforms.

01:13:06.960 You can also go to our website if you're a subscriber, and if you're not yet, we would really encourage you to subscribe because, like Corey just said, we are really digging into a lot of stories that legacy media aren't touching.

01:13:21.220 Great. Well, thank you for checking in with us on that today, Mel, and looking forward to the stories as they keep coming out.

01:13:28.360 Absolutely. Thanks, Corey.

01:13:29.780 All right. We'll talk later.

01:13:31.720 That is the Western Standards' Melanie Rizdin.

01:13:33.700 And yeah, I'll use that little bit of moment.

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01:14:11.000 This is how we can beat the legacy media.

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01:14:13.960 stepping on your rights through you guys,

01:14:17.140 maintaining our business so we can keep providing.

01:14:20.300 It's a nice circular relationship

01:14:21.900 we all have going on here.

01:14:23.820 And it pays off for us all.

01:14:25.300 If you haven't been to the Whistle Stop,

01:14:26.760 as I see some people we're talking about on there,

01:14:28.560 it's a little cafe on the side of the highway

01:14:30.380 up by Mirror.

01:14:32.540 I've been there a couple of times now, and it's sort of, I guess, I'll put it, what, an hour and

01:14:37.740 some sort of east of Red Deer, and he's got, it's a nice classic little cafe and, you know,

01:14:45.080 convenience store. He's even got a little movie screen out there for outdoor movies they do and

01:14:48.880 things like that, and a bandstand. I think he holds quite a few events there, and I went up there with

01:14:53.320 Jane one time on the weekend. We stopped at the Whistle Stop, and I went farther north because

01:14:56.280 they were pressuring, and there was a fellow with a, it's Fox of some kind. I'm sorry, I'm forgetting

01:15:00.800 the name, but he's in Bashaw, which is a town near there. And he had a Mexican restaurant. You

01:15:04.540 wouldn't think of Mexican food in central Alberta like that and everything, but it was fantastic

01:15:09.760 food there as well. And we went in and had a good meal there because he was defying the health

01:15:14.040 orders at that time. And the police came by while we were there ridiculously. And so yeah, get out

01:15:20.160 there. We got to keep supporting these guys. As Melody pointed out, you know, he hasn't run that

01:15:24.360 place for terribly long. And I, you know, I owned a pub for five years. I sold it just before the

01:15:30.500 pandemic started that the new owners are still hanging in there boy they've had a really tough

01:15:33.840 time with it and running the hospitality service industry it is a tough business it's narrow margin

01:15:41.080 it's high hours you don't make a lot of money at it it's a very difficult business it's unforgiving

01:15:46.700 if you have slow times so support these guys who pushed their way through this pandemic because

01:15:51.880 it's it's still not easy even in good times to have been able to make it through the pandemic

01:15:56.340 is something else. I don't think I would have had the energy left in me if we'd still own that pub

01:16:01.860 when the pandemic hit, to be honest. I mean, we were making money before it hit, but not a lot.

01:16:07.760 And I was tired right out. That's why we were selling. Probably we just would have closed our

01:16:12.280 doors. I don't think we would have had it in us, Jane and I, to weather that kind of storm.

01:16:17.060 So, you know, for all of those businesses that have survived this nightmare, just, you know,

01:16:20.140 when people talk about how high restaurant prices are and some of those things, well,

01:16:23.460 you got to keep in mind, they're charging. They really are. It's a narrow margin business. They're

01:16:28.180 charging the minimum they can get away with while still making some money. The cost of inputs has

01:16:31.980 gone up. Regulation is huge. Licensing is expensive. Taxes are expensive. They just can't serve you

01:16:38.080 food at as low a price as they used to. So it's going to cost a bit. And I know if people go out

01:16:43.720 less often, they have to, because you've got your own household budget to think about as well.

01:16:47.600 But try to keep these businesses going. You know, public dining, dining with our neighbors,

01:16:51.180 with our friends. That's a part of society. It's important to us. That's why every culture in the

01:16:55.980 entire world has restaurants because it's a thing we do, whether it's families or friends or even

01:17:01.120 co-workers. If we lose those, we lose another element of networking together and we're all

01:17:06.160 feast down on our phones all the time instead. So yeah, get out there, support your local guys.

01:17:12.220 It's important. Let's see here, get through some more news as we get towards wrapping things up.

01:17:17.300 This was an interesting one.

01:17:18.560 A federal judge quashed an order granting three US citizens

01:17:22.580 from Michigan refugee status in Canada.

01:17:24.960 This took six years on appeal.

01:17:27.060 I'm glad this judge quashed it because this was ridiculous.

01:17:30.460 So what it was, was three US citizens.

01:17:33.060 It was a domestic dispute.

01:17:34.300 It was a quarrel.

01:17:35.620 She had grabbed her children and come to Canada

01:17:38.760 and said she was fleeing her ex-husband

01:17:42.500 who she said was abusive.

01:17:44.400 I don't know, that's when you get into these things.

01:17:47.300 But, I mean, she was facing charges in the States, of course, for child abduction.

01:17:51.860 We're not here to harbor that.

01:17:53.340 The Americans have adequate laws to protect people in these family disputes.

01:17:59.180 Or if they're inadequate, they're no better or worse than ours.

01:18:03.680 You know, refugee status is for people fleeing countries that can't protect their rights, where they are truly unsafe.

01:18:10.720 and her, perhaps she was unsafe, but if that issue, that's more between her and her husband

01:18:15.280 and her family and her local laws to deal with that. The Americans, and this was saying, you

01:18:21.040 know, it is not a country that's reasonable for us to accept refugees from. I'm sorry. And we had

01:18:26.220 some of those people whining, oh my God, Trump got elected. I got to come to Canada as a refugee.

01:18:29.740 Oh, come on, get off it. Look at that. Four years later, you managed to vote them out. Get over

01:18:34.120 yourselves. Likewise with, I'm not going to go into the whole abortion debate, but if you need

01:18:41.040 an abortion, there's still plenty of states that provide them. You don't need to cross the border.

01:18:44.020 You will not be a refugee into this country in order to terminate the fruit of your activities.

01:18:49.760 You can do that down there. And that's an abuse of what refugee status is because I think it's

01:18:54.200 great that we can take in refugees in Canada. There are a lot of countries that really do

01:18:58.460 crack down horribly on women, gay people, all sorts of minorities, different religions,

01:19:06.840 cultural groups, and they are fleeing real persecution. In fact, most of those people

01:19:11.240 are coming from countries that Joe Biden wants to buy oil from. And we can happily take those

01:19:16.260 people here and settle them in and they make great citizens and we've saved people from a

01:19:20.420 bad part of the world. But the United States is not one of those countries, guys. I mean,

01:19:25.080 again, there's lots of imperfections in the United States. And we've seen, you know, our rights

01:19:29.740 violated here in Canada with the pandemic and some of the things pressed on us with mandates

01:19:34.460 and lockdowns and restrictions. But it's still not to the point of the types of countries. When

01:19:38.420 we're talking about refugees, let's talk about refugees. Let's talk about countries where

01:19:42.660 people's lives are immediately at threat, because that's what it's about. And yeah, this case was

01:19:48.680 not a case of that. And the judge ruled the right way. But it took six years, six years. I mean,

01:19:53.700 And they pretty much were settled in by the time.

01:19:55.520 And I feel for the children now.

01:19:56.580 They spent six years in Canada.

01:19:57.960 Now they are going to be deported back down there.

01:19:59.780 Not an easy outcome.

01:20:00.880 That should have been resolved a heck of a lot faster.

01:20:05.100 Yeah, this is something.

01:20:06.400 So, I mean, again, as I talked about,

01:20:08.260 we're going to have the investigation coming into

01:20:10.060 the imposition of the Emergencies Act

01:20:12.780 against the Freedom Convoy last year.

01:20:14.780 And I really hope that judge digs in

01:20:16.300 because all these little tidbits,

01:20:17.460 as we get more and more facts,

01:20:18.680 it just looks worse and worse and worse for this government.

01:20:21.400 And that's all going to start on Labor Day.

01:20:22.620 so like a month from now. And the latest one now, yeah, the Labor Department says days before the

01:20:26.820 protests against the vaccine mandates, they're already saying we've got shortages of labor in

01:20:31.880 the trucking industry. They're telling the cabinet, we can't keep hindering truckers.

01:20:36.860 It's harming supply chains. It's causing problems. Look how easily that dingleberry of a prime

01:20:43.680 minister we have could have avoided all of the trouble last winter just by dropping the stupid

01:20:50.880 mandate against truckers. And you know what? That vindictive little prick has still got those

01:20:55.040 mandates going right now. Right now, truckers still have that mandate. That's how petty and little

01:21:01.220 that man is as a prime minister. Mandates of all sorts are dropping all over the map,

01:21:05.660 but he will keep that one on truckers. He'll keep it for 10 more years if he can stay in power that

01:21:09.640 long. And this was showing the government knew this. They knew this before. If he had just dropped

01:21:14.440 those bloody mandates, we could have gotten rid of the problems of their supply chains, ended the

01:21:20.060 protests. I mean, there might have been still some people showing up to protest, but they're

01:21:23.320 not going to have a heck of a lot of basis for it any longer, will they? Because that was the

01:21:26.460 whole start of the whole thing. But nope, they knew what was going on and they still pushed

01:21:32.500 through with the mandates and still troubled and did this to us. So yes, I hope this follow-up,

01:21:39.160 this inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act really is thorough and real. And it's going to be

01:21:45.040 hard for any judge, even if he's a liberal one, to be able to overlook and rig something like that.

01:21:52.420 I hope he's a judge who sticks to principles. There's a lot of them out there who want the,

01:21:56.120 you know, they take their job seriously. And let's hope that's the case because we got a lot

01:22:01.620 to learn and we got to push back and we've got to put this government in its place.

01:22:05.580 Let's see. Here's another survey. More than a third of Canadians say they would completely

01:22:09.360 wipe out their presence on the internet if they could. I found 36% of Canadians would delete

01:22:14.040 themselves. 48% felt they were being used by companies that collected their data, and others

01:22:20.060 were worried that their devices would be hacked. There are worries. It's difficult, but you got to

01:22:25.900 watch what you're sharing. We got to remember, companies have been collecting information on us

01:22:30.180 since time immemorial. If you ever had an air miles card, that's what the whole point of the

01:22:36.420 thing was, even if it wasn't your phone and other things like that. The reason you're getting those

01:22:39.920 discounts because they're tracking. That information is valuable. It's telling them

01:22:43.500 a person of this age, at this income bracket, living in this area, tends to purchase these

01:22:48.580 kinds of goods at these prices. Very, very valuable information. And they're mining that

01:22:53.280 more than ever through Facebook now and everywhere else where we're sharing it. Nobody's reading the

01:22:58.000 small print and they're giving it out. We aren't going to get out of the internet. There's no way.

01:23:03.560 It's a part of our life now. It's unavoidable. You can't wipe yourself out of it. All I can say

01:23:09.100 we just got to be careful. You know, sometimes take that moment to read the small print and stop

01:23:13.680 installing those Facebook apps on your devices, guys. How many people end up hacked because they

01:23:19.720 wanted to have something that made a goofy face of them? You know, this is what you'd look like

01:23:22.840 as a space alien just to install this app. Guys, that's how they get you. That's the hackers.

01:23:28.680 And then you're in sudden bigger, bigger problems. Actually, if you look up, there's another thing

01:23:33.880 with the, what was the most hated man on the internet, that documentary on Netflix with this

01:23:38.000 awful guy who ran that revenge porn site. He was just a nasty, nasty individual. Part of it was

01:23:44.600 they were hacking people's things. And the very first step was hacking their Facebook account so

01:23:48.780 they could send fake private messages and people thought they were communicating with others.

01:23:52.320 But the very first step, I don't like victim blaming, but what I'm saying, because lots of

01:23:54.980 us make mistakes. You click the wrong button. Just be careful. And Facebook is one of those areas

01:23:59.780 where you can get that foot in the door and then they can find ways to sneak your email password.

01:24:04.440 And once you get into email, there's all sorts of stuff.

01:24:07.820 Here's something that kind of ties in on the story that I just read about food prices being out of control in the Arctic.

01:24:14.160 You know, and it kind of ties into my opening rant.

01:24:17.260 Some people are talking about how expensive it is to get by in Iqaluit right now.

01:24:21.640 And yeah, here's some of the numbers.

01:24:22.940 Like a 10-pound bag of potatoes is $15, $22 for a kilogram of ground beef.

01:24:27.480 And a four-liter jug of milk is $8.

01:24:31.020 Yeah, I remember that.

01:24:32.100 I remember when I was in Inuvik, even buying Arctic char was like 70 bucks, which was kind of

01:24:35.720 ironic. But in winter, the frozen foods, things like that were very expensive. And areas like

01:24:40.560 Iqaluit, they're not going to get a road access to that town anytime soon. But this is talking

01:24:45.540 about if we develop the north, bring more resources up, develop, that cost of living will come down

01:24:49.640 for the people living up there. Because as it is right now, the number one employer in all the

01:24:54.200 north is the government. I mean, the bottom line is a lot of it's basically work for welfare.

01:24:58.340 and that's not serving anybody very well at all we have the resources we have lots of ability lots

01:25:02.500 of people who want to work we just got to give them the means to do it and that could help bring

01:25:06.180 down the cost of living whether it's food or anything else as well uh foreign affairs minister

01:25:12.660 melanie jolly you know trudeau's close associate in cabinet uh says she didn't know that kiev embassy

01:25:21.940 staff faced a threat from russia this is the second story and speaking of documentaries linda

01:25:26.340 the Slobodians one, called Abandoned. Look that up on the Western Standard site. It's 40 minutes.

01:25:30.820 It's fantastic. Canadians screwed their allies, their friends, their translators, their cooks,

01:25:36.140 all the people who trusted them in the Canadian embassy in Afghanistan. We screwed them. We left

01:25:41.400 them hanging. The ambassador ran out of there with his tail between his legs, almost criminally,

01:25:45.960 with not even full planes, bailing out when the Taliban took over. Well, we did the same thing in

01:25:50.960 Ukraine. And Jolie, I didn't know there was going to be a threat from the Russians when they came

01:25:55.700 in? Really? Man, you're a brilliant foreign affairs minister. But you've got to remember,

01:25:59.500 Trudeau picks his cabinet. I've talked about that before. Look at them. They're idiots. I've never

01:26:04.900 seen such a dumb cabinet in my life. You know, from Oregon to climate Barbie to Melanie Jolie.

01:26:13.560 There's a couple of reasons. For one, Trudeau's insecure about his own idiocy, and I can understand

01:26:17.380 that. He's a twit. So he doesn't like being surrounded by people using words too big for

01:26:21.140 him. So he keeps his cabinet stacked with people down on his level. They can all share crayons.

01:26:25.640 But unfortunately, they're in positions of power.

01:26:27.360 And Jolie, well, she's also in there probably for some other assets she provides him.

01:26:31.640 But for her to sit there and vacuously say she didn't understand that the embassy staff would be threatened.

01:26:36.620 This is a repeat of what happened in Afghanistan.

01:26:39.640 They bailed out.

01:26:40.380 There's a hostile army coming in.

01:26:42.300 And then, oh, we didn't realize they were going to be in trouble in the embassy once we left them behind.

01:26:47.740 Uh-huh.

01:26:48.260 Yeah, you're a real competent, trustworthy foreign minister.

01:26:52.840 We're really thrilling the world

01:26:55.100 with our good behavior

01:26:55.940 and our smart leadership.

01:26:57.480 All right, I'll leave off

01:26:58.480 on that note, guys.

01:26:59.520 I got another good show

01:27:01.040 coming tomorrow.

01:27:02.060 Again, more ranting.

01:27:03.240 A couple of guests.

01:27:03.800 I got Mark Milkey.

01:27:04.580 He's been on a number of times.

01:27:05.740 He's an author and writer

01:27:06.780 and he's got some columns out

01:27:08.060 as well as Jonathan Bradley.

01:27:09.840 He's the Western Standards

01:27:11.080 local young man.

01:27:12.100 We're going to talk to him

01:27:12.760 about some of the stuff

01:27:13.380 he's been writing

01:27:13.880 and investigating into.

01:27:15.540 And we'll see what else

01:27:16.660 has got me pissed off

01:27:17.380 and I'll start ranting

01:27:17.980 about that as well.

01:27:18.780 So thanks for all

01:27:19.520 joining me today, guys.

01:27:20.740 And I will see you tomorrow

01:27:21.940 at 1130 a.m. sharp.

01:27:51.940 Thank you.

Western Standard - August 05, 2022

Triggered： Canada needs to bring Arctic oil and gas into production.

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