Western Standard - Triggered： Canada’s bought and paid media doing its job

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning, it's July 11th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan, now recently

00:00:38.660 freed from YouTube jail. It was a terrible sentence, I tell you, some of the things that

00:00:43.340 happened to me, the things I had to do to get cigarettes and such a shudder to behold.

00:00:47.960 We are free for now. I'm sure we'll probably say something eventually that annoys the YouTube

00:00:52.180 gods, but until then, we'll keep broadcasting there. I still encourage folks to get to Rumble

00:00:57.040 and some of the other platforms to make sure to catch us where we won't be censored as often.

00:01:01.180 I see a commenter, Alberta Free, coming in from YouTube,

00:01:04.300 which I haven't seen those comments coming from there in a little while.

00:01:07.080 He was asking, I did interview Pierre Polyev.

00:01:09.620 That was actually about an hour and some ago.

00:01:11.600 It's tough with these guys when they're on a campaign trail to get them live.

00:01:14.960 So I'm afraid the questions you wanted asked, I didn't hit those in that.

00:01:18.320 It was a quick one.

00:01:20.420 It was a good interview.

00:01:21.600 I mean, it was good to talk to, and you'll see.

00:01:23.100 We'll run that a little later in the show.

00:01:24.560 but he didn't get too specific into some of those issues and things like the UN and so on. I just

00:01:30.980 didn't have time to get into those sorts of things. All right, let's look at our daily observances,

00:01:35.180 things to look into. It's Calgary Stampede, of course. We've got our politicians hanging around,

00:01:39.140 shaking hands, kissing asses, doing all that stuff they like doing, pretending to love Albertans. 0.97

00:01:43.680 And as well, we have National Mojito Day. So the weather, you know, finally in Alberta, 0.99

00:01:49.160 for those of us out here in the West, we have some heat coming and it's going to get hot out

00:01:53.660 there. This is the day to get your tropical drinks into you and you've got your excuse. It's Mojito

00:01:58.540 Day. Mix one up, pour it down. I don't drink anymore. When I was a bartender, I used to despise

00:02:03.560 it when people ordered these kinds of things. But if you want to make one for yourself, hey,

00:02:07.000 go to town. It's also National Swimming Pool Day. That's, again, for those who like swimming pools,

00:02:13.980 hey, good on you. I'm not big on them. I mean, you know, I like swimming in lakes, oceans,

00:02:18.580 and I know technically they're probably dirtier than a lot of pools. But all I think of in swimming

00:02:22.420 pools is kids and elderly people losing bladder control in there. And there's always a band-aid

00:02:28.840 floating around, or you see that drain on the side with all the hair all over it. I'm just not big

00:02:33.440 on it. But either way, if you're into pools, hey, go to town, dive on in, have a good time. I'll

00:02:38.800 just enjoy the kiddie pool at my place. So yeah, like I said, I got a couple of good guests today.

00:02:42.980 I got Jay Goldberg is going to come on first. He's with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:02:46.300 They put on some numbers on what is going to be spent on the World Cup events that are being

00:02:51.780 held in Canada. All of you taxpayers, whether you care or don't care about those events,

00:02:55.720 you get to pay for them and a lot. And let's just block that spammer. Goodbye, Berthier.

00:03:04.920 So yes, blocking isn't censorship, especially if you spam. It just means that you got to find

00:03:08.300 another platform to do that sort of stuff on. Use that comment scroll. I appreciate it. I enjoy it.

00:03:13.380 It keeps things fluid. I like getting the questions from you guys, the comments and discussions,

00:03:17.240 watching those between you guys back and forth and seeing you all checking in from all across

00:03:20.620 the country. It's great. Let's me know I'm not just talking to myself like I do when I'm driving.

00:03:25.380 So yes, the other guest I have second is Pierre Polyev. He came into the studio, had a chat. We

00:03:31.220 had about 10, 12 minutes there. It was kind of a rush. Things are always in a rush when they're

00:03:34.980 on the campaign road, but at least we had that one-on-one and we will run that later. It is

00:03:39.280 good and a good watch. Okay. Speaking of media, let's talk about the crappy media and what's got

00:03:44.060 me going today. So the bias in Canada's liberal leaning legacy media outlets is it's hardly new

00:03:49.480 are surprising. I mean, what does one expect when the government dangles hundreds of millions of

00:03:53.300 tax dollars in front of them, much like a person holding a piece of bacon to make a dog sit up and

00:03:57.220 beg? The legacy media outlets are in Trudeau boosting overdrive this week, as most of Canada's

00:04:04.260 aspiring politicians do their annual pilgrimage to the Calgary Stampede. It's the one time a year

00:04:09.780 when Albertans can feel loved by their federal political masters. The other 51 weeks, and not so

00:04:16.240 much. Now the Globe and Mail outdid themselves with a headline saying, Trudeau mobbed by admirers

00:04:22.040 at a stampede pancake breakfast. The image depicted a manically grinning Trudeau gloriously indulging

00:04:28.940 in selfies with fawning admirers at the event. Oh, it was something. Oh, but wait, the Winnipeg

00:04:34.300 Free Press had the exact same headline. This sort of the Lethbridge Herald. Oh, and CP24. And oh,

00:04:39.260 there were all sorts of others. You can see in that picture that Nico put up there. Yes,

00:04:43.100 There are likely more that we didn't even find, but I think I've made my point.

00:04:47.260 Try to do a little work, you guys.

00:04:49.740 I mean, the reason Trudeau was surrounded by admirers at the event is because it was staged.

00:04:54.280 Nobody aside from a small group directly in touch with his lone member of parliament, George Chahal, even knew he was coming.

00:05:00.260 People were quietly bussed into the event and instructed to crowd around Trudeau for the pictures.

00:05:05.520 Look, I don't fault the liberal organizers for staging the event.

00:05:08.220 That's the way the game's played.

00:05:09.820 The stampede is a must-go for politicians, and it doesn't look good if they shun it.

00:05:14.360 And if the event had been publicly announced, Trudeau would have been mobbed by protesters and hecklers.

00:05:18.800 It's Calgary. It's not fertile ground for him.

00:05:20.880 If I was a liberal strategist, and I don't suspect that's going to ever happen, by the way,

00:05:25.040 I would have done the same thing.

00:05:26.960 It's the weak, complicit mainstream media I'm revolted with.

00:05:30.660 They used the CP story and didn't even bother to change the headline.

00:05:33.680 It's cut-and-paste journalism, and it indicates two things.

00:05:36.220 One is laziness on the part of the legacy media outlets and their efforts, their efforts to endear themselves to the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:05:45.660 Only one or two reporters were tipped off to attend the event, of course.

00:05:48.720 They were clearly liberal-friendly ones.

00:05:50.880 They wanted to keep the news of the event tight.

00:05:53.260 Where were the other legacy reporters anyway?

00:05:55.140 Well, they came out to the Conservative Party barbecue in droves.

00:05:58.080 The headlines were rather different, though.

00:05:59.820 I mean, look at this gem from the CBC.

00:06:01.560 how a conservative party barbecue became Pierre Polyev's red meat cookout.

00:06:07.040 The piece then reported on pins being handed out,

00:06:09.620 and one said, hands off my six-shooter,

00:06:11.540 or another one said, more Alberta, less Ottawa.

00:06:13.800 Of course, it was reported by Mr. Markosoff,

00:06:15.720 and hushed tones on all hat, no cattle,

00:06:18.320 or buck off Trudeau was even seen there.

00:06:20.860 It was noted that Chiray got a few boos as well,

00:06:23.060 and pretty much went on to imply it was a redneck gathering

00:06:25.480 of borderline extreme Polyev supporters.

00:06:28.360 Quite a difference in coverage from one event to another, isn't it? 0.65

00:06:31.560 The reporting has gone on for, this kind of reporting has gone on for years, and it works.

00:06:35.420 It's little wonder the liberals keep spending more and more tax dollars fostering it.

00:06:39.780 Does anybody remember the beauty in 2016?

00:06:41.540 That was just awesome.

00:06:42.320 When the Trudeau liberals staged an event in front of a chalkboard covered with random formulas,

00:06:46.760 and Trudeau then recited a carefully rehearsed statement on quantum computing

00:06:50.800 to a room of cheering, giggling supporters.

00:06:53.660 I'm surprised they didn't give him some glasses with a little tape on the bridge of it

00:06:56.960 to make him look a little more like a classic bookworm.

00:06:59.440 The event was cheesy enough to warrant it. 1.00

00:07:01.560 The Liberals were trying to knock down the growing impression among Canadians that Trudeau is a moron. 0.99

00:07:06.160 And again, they can't be blamed for working to convince Trudeau as a cerebral support sort of guy, though. 0.99

00:07:11.960 I mean, it's a monumental task.

00:07:13.120 It failed, and the Liberals went back to showing pictures of Trudeau shirtless or impulsively crashing weddings.

00:07:19.240 Again, though, it wasn't the Liberal actions that were galling.

00:07:21.380 It's how the mainstream media obliges them.

00:07:24.460 Information is everything, and the authoritarian Trudeau government wants to control it.

00:07:28.840 Bills C-11 and C-18 are testaments to that.

00:07:31.560 The purchase of the Canadian Media Corps, though, is the most repugnant of their actions.

00:07:36.420 Legacy media outlets dance like trained monkeys to a government organ grinder.

00:07:40.560 It must be humiliating to journalists who entered the trade with dreams of doing investigative and critical, unbiased reporting.

00:07:47.860 Alternative outlets like ours are filling the void.

00:07:50.160 I believe in the long run, free media is going to win, even though they might need to go nearly underground at some point.

00:07:55.280 It may be a tougher ride for independent media outlets like us who refuse tax funding.

00:07:59.740 but it's much more satisfying. We can hold our heads high. Legacy media, they continue to

00:08:05.200 embarrass themselves further with every liberal pop piece. All right, that's what I've got to get

00:08:10.680 myself going this morning. Let's talk to somebody who is a principal news media personality, and

00:08:15.340 that's Mr. Dave Naylor, our news editor, and see what else is going on out there today. Hey Dave,

00:08:19.440 how's it going? I have no personality, Corey. Come on. I tried. I tried. Hey, I'm still waiting

00:08:26.720 for my invite to the Trudeau barbecue and I don't think anybody at the Western Standard got an

00:08:32.200 invite. They must have mistyped your email address or something. Exactly. Well, on the other side,

00:08:37.500 we had Pierre Polyev in the office to talk to you and he created a bit of a stir and he was

00:08:43.180 fun to talk to. Turns out 35 years ago, I was working for the Calgary Sun and he was a paper

00:08:50.460 boy for the Sun. So we were talking about that. So we've gone from me making the news and him

00:08:56.380 delivering it to him making the news and me delivering it. It's kind of a nice segue in

00:09:01.840 life, I guess. Yes. Well, we evolved. Yeah. So on the site today, we've got a very interesting

00:09:11.960 story from our Melanie Risden. It was announced recently that the leading cause of death in

00:09:18.480 Alberta was unexplained deaths. And so Melanie has taken a deep dive into that and has talked to

00:09:24.360 doctors and lawyers and just to see what exactly was going on. And, you know, the fact that all

00:09:31.160 these unexplained deaths started at really the beginning of the COVID vaccinations, but

00:09:36.580 government still doesn't want to look into that particular angle. Jason Kenney, Alberta Premier,

00:09:43.220 celebrated his last one as Premier today with his annual Stampede Breakfast. In between flipping

00:09:49.340 pancakes. He announced a new commemorative date. From now on, every September 1st will be Alberta

00:09:56.660 Day. And unfortunately, from what I understand, it's not going to be an extra holiday. So you're

00:10:01.760 not going to have a super duper Labor Day long weekend, but it's just to mark the province and

00:10:07.880 its history. Our Dave Marsden's written a column on Lake Socomey. Always a fun place to go with

00:10:15.780 to kids in the summer, but the NDP, if you remember, brought in an admission of five

00:10:20.840 bucks a piece, five bucks a person. And Mr. Marsden is arguing that that should be removed

00:10:25.920 and points out the NDP hypocrisy in opposing the user fees for Kananaskis country that

00:10:34.080 the UCP brought in. Got a couple of drowning tragedies to report on this morning, Corey.

00:10:41.060 It looks like three people have died in an accident in the Spray Lakes area near Canmore.

00:10:48.800 The boat overturned.

00:10:49.960 One person was able to make it to safety.

00:10:52.320 One was recovered deceased and two are still missing.

00:10:56.780 And if you remember that young Saskatchewan boy, Frank Young, who a month or so ago disappeared

00:11:03.800 and there was a massive search, his body was found on the weekend.

00:11:07.820 A sad ending to that story.

00:11:11.060 So the best story of the day coming up shortly, Corey, it's the naked news, literally.

00:11:21.480 Cell phone coverage of a guy streaking through downtown St. Albert and being chased by the RCMP.

00:11:28.460 So that's kind of fun. That'll be up within minutes.

00:11:31.000 Yeah, just to point out, you know, I can see him back there still busily working behind you. 0.70

00:11:34.280 I think Rob worked very diligently to make sure that nobody has any glimpses of that fellow's dong as he's running by, right?

00:11:41.060 Rob has been dong invested all morning.

00:11:44.140 He's looked at it, stared at it for hours.

00:11:47.420 Well, he's going to have dong on the mind for quite some time after this, I'm sure.

00:11:51.380 All right. 0.85

00:11:52.600 Well, thanks for the updates, Dave.

00:11:54.240 Looking forward to that story being posted.

00:11:56.520 Thanks, Corey.

00:11:57.400 Thanks.

00:11:58.620 There we go.

00:11:59.340 That's our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:12:00.640 And as you can see, yes, it's tongue in cheek.

00:12:02.300 But we cover some, you know, there's some pretty serious and tragic stories, unfortunately,

00:12:06.200 out there today, too.

00:12:07.560 But we can also, you know, laugh and live a little bit.

00:12:11.060 and uh do what we can out there it's a a lot up there on the news copy it was tragic with the

00:12:16.320 frank young he was that young boy it's just awful to see that picture and they found his body he

00:12:20.320 sees uh he didn't make it and uh yeah likewise you know lots of other things on the break but

00:12:27.620 yeah some weirdo running around with his wiener out in uh uh st alberta has made some news as

00:12:33.220 well we got that video up there uh just to get to some of the questions too from others then

00:12:36.800 And yeah, MEC, I see saying, why didn't Pierre attend the debate or do scrums at the last debate?

00:12:42.360 It's hard.

00:12:43.100 It's easy.

00:12:43.600 He's playing to win.

00:12:45.940 He's playing the political strategy game.

00:12:48.500 That's the way it works.

00:12:49.260 It's nothing new.

00:12:50.280 It's sort of when you're the perceived front runner, at least, you feel that you shouldn't get into those events because you won't gain anything, but you might get in trouble.

00:12:57.340 I don't like seeing it.

00:12:58.500 I understand why they do it.

00:13:00.640 I'm not big on it.

00:13:01.440 I didn't grill him much on it.

00:13:02.680 Part of it in reality, too, is I only had 10 minutes.

00:13:06.160 I wanted to get some questions in, and I won't be a suck-up to politicians, but at the same time,

00:13:11.960 I'm not really going to attack and hit hard on them, at least not at this point. As I said in

00:13:15.380 the interview, and you'll see, I do make a promise to get on his case later if the opportunity

00:13:19.960 presents. I see Angel saying, oh wow, you lost your home to a tornado and you're in an Airbnb.

00:13:27.300 Oh, that's awful. I hope everything comes together for you. Yeah, there were some tornadoes last

00:13:31.300 week. We're getting some serious weather going on out there and some people lost their homes.

00:13:35.500 That's, that's awful to hear. I hope we can distract you with the show for a little bit

00:13:39.000 today. Anyways, thanks for, for tuning in from the BNB. I hope it's a nice one and, and that,

00:13:43.900 you know, aid and insurance and everything comes through as, as quickly as possible. I'm not a big

00:13:48.160 fan of insurance companies myself. Excuse me. All right. So let's see. Yeah, Justin. Yeah. Yeah.

00:13:57.600 Carrie Lynn Olford saying, you know, with Trudeau's event in Calgary, there was one lone heckler

00:14:02.500 saying something about Traitor or something from the background. He must have gotten word and

00:14:05.800 spit out to that event fast. Excuse me. Well, he could. It's just funny to watch those stage

00:14:14.240 things. There's a, I don't remember the name of it. There's a Trudeau troll account, I guess you

00:14:20.440 can almost say, or parody account out there that's Trudeau's, Justin Trudeau's ego or something like

00:14:24.340 that on Twitter. And I tell you what, it's a hard one to tell when they're making joke tweets or

00:14:29.020 real ones. And he's had a really good time with this stuff going on with Trudeau, with his visit,

00:14:35.400 his whirlwind visit in and out of Calgary. Let's see, what else have we got here going on? I'm

00:14:42.240 just checking the comments. And oh yeah, another sad story. That was the Spray Lakes incident.

00:14:49.960 And just that reminder, I guess, everybody, you know, I grew up in Banff.

00:14:54.300 We used to see that every year, you know, with the tourists.

00:14:56.780 We used to refer to them as Gorby's back in the 80s and 70s.

00:14:59.080 I don't know where it originated, but that was a semi-derogatory term for them.

00:15:02.380 You know, we knew that our bread and butter was on the tourism industry, and we valued people coming out.

00:15:06.200 But the saying we'd also say is when people go on vacation, they leave their brains behind.

00:15:10.960 So it sounds like in the Spray Lakes, some people were out in a boat.

00:15:15.100 I don't think they had life jackets.

00:15:17.460 It's, if you know Spray Lakes, it's straight south of Cambor.

00:15:20.360 It's in some high mountain country.

00:15:22.040 It's actually where that film The Edge was done,

00:15:24.040 where they crashed the plane in the water.

00:15:25.840 If you've dealt with mountain water, it is cold.

00:15:27.660 You cannot sustain yourself more than a few minutes in it

00:15:30.640 before you're getting hypothermia.

00:15:31.640 Even in the middle of summer,

00:15:33.580 these people were obviously poorly prepared,

00:15:36.520 and a person died.

00:15:38.080 I just, just that reminder, you know,

00:15:39.760 people, as I said, in Banff and that,

00:15:41.320 they forget how real things are. 1.00

00:15:43.360 It's just like you see the idiots walking up to bears 1.00

00:15:45.740 or elk or things like that. 1.00

00:15:47.460 they're on vacation. They think that these things are harmless or benign or safe. And hey,

00:15:53.840 they really are wild animals. And when you're in the mountains, you really are in the mountains.

00:15:57.120 Those lakes are dangerous. The spray lakes get wind gusts like you wouldn't believe. And as I

00:16:00.520 said, that water is cold. Minnawonka, same thing in Banff. There's a reason there's not beaches

00:16:04.440 and swimming there because it is ice cold. It's beautiful to look at, but you don't want to dip

00:16:08.620 into that. Cascade, you used to see the people constantly. They walk up that waterfall. You see

00:16:13.180 off the highway. They'd hike up. It's really easy to go up that thing. And then they freeze when

00:16:17.760 they look down and realize how high they got. And we've got to spend all the money and time to send

00:16:20.820 somebody up and rescue them. That would happen practically weekly up there. So going out this

00:16:25.460 summer, just be careful. Don't make foolish mistakes. And hey, everybody's capable of just 0.86

00:16:31.000 having a brain fart, but it can have the worst possible outcomes in the mountains. And even as

00:16:34.620 a guy who grew up out in the mountains, one day, maybe I'll spare you today, but I'll relate the

00:16:38.920 Assiniboine story that my father started with a whole big family hiking trip with a bunch of us

00:16:43.480 and led to a very embarrassing rescue down the road. So no, I'm not above and beyond,

00:16:48.680 nor is my family making foolish errors, causing rescues. Yeah, I'll share that one these days.

00:16:55.400 Still got to chew on that. It's a bit embarrassing, even if it's been 30 years and more.

00:17:00.080 So let me see what else we got in the news. Oh, and this is the time to remind people too

00:17:03.980 that, yes, the reason we got this news, the reason we're not like that wretched mainstream

00:17:08.660 media is because of the members. That's the reason that we, it shows, it showed with all those

00:17:13.860 stories, like I was talking about in that rant, that a lot of these media outlets, they're beholden

00:17:18.980 to the liberal government. They don't want to shake the tree. They don't want to cause any

00:17:23.060 disturbance. Well, why? It's because it's been, you know, they're reliant on those tax dollars.

00:17:28.620 They're reliant on those subsidies. Even if it's unconscious, you can't help yourself. You don't

00:17:32.940 want to bite the hand it feeds you. In our case, we're beholden to the members. We're beholden to

00:17:36.980 you guys who have subscribed and you've done it in droves. That's why we've got this growing

00:17:41.400 operation up here. A number of reporters, people all across the country, this great studio that

00:17:45.780 we're expanding in and getting technically better all the time. So if you haven't subscribed already,

00:17:50.580 I mean, I just want to thank the subscribers who have already done so. And if you haven't,

00:17:53.580 come on guys, 10 bucks a month, 99 bucks a year. That keeps us independent from the government.

00:17:58.540 We will not take tax dollars ever. Not while I'm here anyways. And I'm pretty sure Derek's pretty

00:18:03.300 solid on that. Take out a membership, though. We're not asking for charity. We're selling a

00:18:08.040 service, and you'll find it well worth it. Look at all the stories Dave was talking about. We've

00:18:11.560 got lots going on. Let's see, AB Free saying, bring bear spray if you're heading out in the

00:18:16.220 trails. It can be the only thing that gives people a chance to survive. Yeah, I worked in seismic

00:18:20.580 survey for decades. I did a lot of heliportable work, a lot of mountain work. We ran across bears.

00:18:25.800 Thankfully, I never had a violent encounter with any. I often had firearms, but all the same,

00:18:30.900 I never shot at a bear, which is good.

00:18:32.500 You're good to scare them off.

00:18:33.620 But you want to prevent. 0.89

00:18:34.360 And bear spray, hey, it's not a guarantee of saving your butt, 0.56

00:18:37.020 but it beats the hell out of nothing.

00:18:38.660 And a bear with a face full of that might be just that thing to make it decide,

00:18:42.280 you know, you're more trouble than you're worth and go the other way.

00:18:46.780 It's just a horrible way to think of getting taken out by a bear.

00:18:50.980 I don't like it.

00:18:52.400 So let's see what else we've got.

00:18:55.500 I'm actually going to move on to our guest, if I think that's him.

00:18:58.240 I see in the lobby there, Mr. Goldberg.

00:19:00.280 Yes. So I've got Jay Goldberg of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. He's going to come on and

00:19:04.040 we're going to talk about the World Cup and a whole hell of a lot of your tax dollars going

00:19:09.320 towards it. So thanks for joining me today, Jay. Great to be with you.

00:19:14.040 So, I mean, just kind of lay it out. You know, I saw your release last week. That's why I wanted

00:19:17.640 to get you on. We've got these events going on around the country and it's quite a cost going

00:19:25.480 on here? Well, I would ask your viewers and yourself if there's anything that you think is

00:19:30.540 worth $644,000 a minute. And our politicians sure think there is, and that would be hosting World

00:19:38.520 Cup games. So Canada has been nominated to host 10 of the World Cup games in 2026. We're doing

00:19:45.380 that alongside the United States and Mexico. So we're only hosting 17% of the games. We don't

00:19:51.120 know which teams are going to be here but the cost is going to be 600 million dollars simply to host

00:19:57.440 10 games and so politicians are looking to soak taxpayers in vancouver and toronto but also all

00:20:03.500 throughout the country because the federal government is throwing 200 million dollars into

00:20:07.080 this so we're spending over half a billion dollars to host just 10 world cup games and as i said it's

00:20:14.920 going to cost us taxpayers $644,000 a minute. And that's just what the governments are pouring in

00:20:22.340 so that doesn't cover if you actually were really into this and wanted to buy gated admission and

00:20:27.180 take in a game you still got to pay out of pocket for that too right? That's exactly right and you

00:20:31.700 know what FIFA is taking all of the revenue from ticket sales so the government's not going to make

00:20:35.860 up any money that way either. Toronto's done an analysis they're claiming that it's only going

00:20:41.720 cost only 290 million dollars for taxpayers well first of all that's a heck of a lot of money but

00:20:47.720 second of all these things always go over cost vancouver olympics 17 over cost calgary olympics

00:20:54.600 59 over cost so we're looking at cost overruns here and it's very likely that it's not going

00:21:00.600 to be 600 million dollars it's going to be closer to a billion dollars or more and taxpayers in

00:21:06.200 alberta and everywhere else will be paying for five games to be played in toronto five in mancouver

00:21:12.120 that's not worth 600 million dollars or more no i mean what uh it just gets so frustrating so

00:21:19.960 and i mean so few people are going to enjoy it as well i mean how on earth though do these costs run

00:21:25.240 so high i mean what is it with these uh even nfl games don't run that much for a number of games

00:21:30.840 no that's exactly right and so part of it has to do with the government has to directly get

00:21:35.640 money to fifa for the privilege of hosting this uh they also have to upgrade uh the field downtown

00:21:41.640 montreal bank montreal field in toronto there's some upgrades that have to happen in vancouver

00:21:47.400 but a lot of it is just giving money to fifa for the for the honor of being able to pay hundreds

00:21:52.440 of millions of dollars for these games and you know we're not talking about hosting the entire

00:21:58.280 world cup games we're talking about upgrading a stadium in toronto for the sake of just five games

00:22:05.000 And we don't know which countries are going to be involved.

00:22:07.360 We don't know how many people are going to show out to those games.

00:22:09.820 But we're going to shell out all that money for the sake of five World Cup games here in Toronto.

00:22:15.640 Well, I'll play a little devil's advocate because I know that's what they like to do with this.

00:22:19.800 That's the term they like using.

00:22:21.020 You know, we're not allowed to use that when we write. 0.99

00:22:22.720 And I agree with it.

00:22:24.120 It's an investment of tax dollars, right?

00:22:26.380 We're investing.

00:22:27.620 We're going to build up Canada's profile on the world stage.

00:22:30.900 And it'll pay off for us through tourism and investment later, right?

00:22:34.520 Well, you know what?

00:22:35.340 And I was debating a Toronto City Council on the radio.

00:22:37.960 That's the exact argument he used, and it was the only one they had

00:22:41.000 because Toronto City Council is estimating revenue for businesses,

00:22:44.780 so not the government, but businesses.

00:22:47.360 They're projecting could be $307 million.

00:22:50.880 They're also saying the cost of Toronto taxpayers will be $290 million.

00:22:55.300 So even the City Council is saying potential upside is just $17 million.

00:23:00.420 And if we go 6% over budget, that's a loss.

00:23:03.180 And remember, this money is potentially being made by businesses.

00:23:06.520 It's not taxed on you going back to the government.

00:23:08.900 This is just businesses here.

00:23:10.740 And so basically, people from all around the country will be engaging in corporate welfare, subsidizing businesses in Toronto.

00:23:17.380 And when you talk about prestige, you know, I don't know that Sochi is all that much more on the map from hosting the Olympics.

00:23:24.980 I don't know that China got all that much out of it.

00:23:27.800 I don't know that Vancouver got all that much out of it.

00:23:29.920 And frankly, just for some kind of prestige around the world, I think there's a lot more that we could be known for than hosting number five games in a couple of cities.

00:23:39.220 Well, when it comes to sporting and entertainment events and things, it gets frustrating, too, when they talk about how much that brings to local businesses.

00:23:47.600 I mean, the people attending these events and paying ticket fees or going to them tend to predominantly be local people anyways.

00:23:54.540 So these are dollars.

00:23:55.560 It's not like they're, oh, sorry, the soccer is not on.

00:23:58.760 I'm just going to take it and throw it in the fireplace.

00:24:00.980 I mean, this is disposable income that people are using.

00:24:03.540 It's not newly generated income.

00:24:05.220 They're just spreading it in a different way.

00:24:06.720 If this event didn't happen, they'd go to a movie or they'd go out for supper

00:24:10.140 or they'd upgrade their patio or something.

00:24:12.640 That's exactly right.

00:24:13.680 So it's going to be taken out of the economy in other ways.

00:24:16.380 I highly doubt that there's going to be all that many people that are going to say,

00:24:19.740 I want to go to Toronto just to see five World Cup games.

00:24:23.260 And they could be, you know, any country that's included.

00:24:26.840 it. It could be something that's not at all interesting to us. We know that the big matches

00:24:31.140 are going to be played in cities all across the United States. You know, and I should say there's

00:24:35.700 nothing wrong with us hosting some, you know, soccer games or football games, as many would

00:24:40.340 call it. But as long as taxpayer money is not involved, they want to figure out a way to make

00:24:45.400 this work without us having to hand out hundreds of millions of dollars, more power to them. But

00:24:50.120 there's no reason why taxpayers should be stuck with the bill. Oh, and such a staggering number.

00:24:56.420 I mean, that's just nuts.

00:24:58.180 You know, these are events that people are willing to pay a lot of money for a ticket seat to attend.

00:25:03.780 These are events that the advertisers would definitely like to spend a lot of money to get their branding out there and advertise during the games.

00:25:12.460 There's just no reason these things shouldn't be profitable if they were just allowed to go that route.

00:25:16.640 That's exactly right.

00:25:17.760 All the money that's being thrown around, whether it's to FIFA or whether it's to others,

00:25:23.620 and then, you know, taxpayers in Toronto are shelling out over $90 billion,

00:25:28.120 as I said, combined across the country, $600 million.

00:25:32.160 And, you know, we really have to think about anyone who's not living in Toronto or Vancouver.

00:25:36.420 And, you know, you were saying that it's mostly going to be local people supporting local businesses.

00:25:41.180 You're right, but even the government's argument that this is going to be great for business,

00:25:45.500 Why should anyone outside of the GTA or outside the Vancouver general area have to put their hard-earned tax dollars into trying to help businesses in these big cities, potentially thousands of kilometers away, do well?

00:25:59.140 You know, I think people would rather have money in their pockets through fewer taxes so that they can go to their local restaurants and local bars all across the country and support local businesses that way instead of, you know, subsidizing money for the big cities.

00:26:15.500 Yeah, and the two big cities, too, that already have the highest cost of living in the country and, you know, bringing in events like that actually are only going to crowd things more and bring those costs up.

00:26:26.460 I mean, again, I wouldn't want to see tax funding go to any of these, but if you really want to have a benefit, upgrade and bring them out to Regina and then to the stadium out there or some of these other spots.

00:26:36.840 I imagine, though, it's FIFA that makes those calls, not the government.

00:26:40.100 It is FIFA, but here in Toronto, like elsewhere in the country,

00:26:44.560 we don't have a stadium where you can play soccer that's big enough.

00:26:48.220 And so BMO Field downtown,

00:26:50.100 Toronto taxpayers are going to pay tens of millions of dollars

00:26:52.560 to add some extra seats there.

00:26:54.780 And again, we're doing it for five games.

00:26:57.120 So the cost of each seat, who knows how many million dollars

00:27:00.060 each seat is going to cost,

00:27:02.040 just so we can add these seats for five games.

00:27:04.300 And then there are seats that we didn't happen to need before

00:27:06.580 because we don't have the kind of turnout for other games

00:27:09.360 that are played there when it's not the world cup so this is just it's a colossal waste of

00:27:14.280 taxpayer dollars again it's great to host the world cup um you know it could be great to have

00:27:19.580 it here in canada there's no reason it should cost taxpayers across the country so much money

00:27:24.340 over half a billion dollars to do this it's a boondoggle and you know we got to pull the plug

00:27:29.960 well as you said a couple of times we don't know who's actually going to be playing so i mean if

00:27:35.380 you've got a couple of dogs playing and it's not really a popular match you might end up with a

00:27:40.200 stadium that's only a quarter full and you're really going to take a bath on this well that's

00:27:44.260 the thing you know how many people are going to want to fly all the way to toronto to see some

00:27:48.320 games of you know countries playing that they're not that interested in so you know if the major

00:27:52.700 the major countries that people want to see at the world cup if they're not playing here in canada

00:27:57.200 and probably they won't be because we're only hosting a small fraction of the games then you

00:28:02.760 know, the odds that you're going to fill the stands are actually quite low. And so, again,

00:28:08.720 we're literally going to be renovating BMO fields, spending tens of millions of dollars

00:28:13.060 to expand it. And we may very well not even need to be expanding it. So it's yet another

00:28:17.360 waste of taxpayers' dollars. And all it means is higher taxes. You know, cities cannot run

00:28:22.480 deficits. The city of Toronto has to balance its budget. So it's going to raise property

00:28:27.500 taxes to pay for its share. And the feds and the province are going to throw money in. 0.98

00:28:32.140 But again, $200 million from the federal government, so taxpayers all across the country can support this blue dog in Toronto and Vancouver.

00:28:41.540 It doesn't make sense.

00:28:42.780 Government's got to get out of this business.

00:28:44.720 There's no way we should be subsidizing something like that.

00:28:48.340 Welcome the games to Canada, but get government money out.

00:28:52.360 Yeah, so is there time to do anything about this yet, though, or is this a done deal?

00:28:57.380 No, there's still time.

00:28:58.360 you know these cities have been nominated but the city of toronto for example city council

00:29:03.160 hasn't yet voted on whether to approve the money they've agreed to it in principle but they haven't

00:29:07.640 voted and so what's going to be absolutely essential is for canadians to reach out

00:29:12.120 and be very clear to our governments particularly in toronto and vancouver but i would encourage

00:29:17.560 people from all around the country to reach out to councillors and mayors in toronto and vancouver

00:29:22.440 and to forget about this we don't want to waste our tax dollars on it and you should say no thank

00:29:27.480 if you take a pass and let's let Mexico and the United States host all the games.

00:29:33.020 Great. Well, it's quite something. I'm glad you're bringing it to the forefront, though. I mean,

00:29:37.100 being such a big event with so much money, surprisingly, I haven't heard a heck of a lot

00:29:40.660 about it, actually. So we're having some sound issues coming from your end. It's a buzzing or

00:29:45.800 a feedback or something. So I think we've kind of covered it, though. I'll let you go. But where

00:29:50.700 else can we find more information on the Taxpayers Federation and what you're doing, Jay?

00:29:54.820 Yeah, you can go to taxpayer.com. You can find everything there, including our news release and the newspaper article that was on this.

00:30:05.480 Excellent. Yes. And it was a good release. So just to remind everybody, go to taxpayer.com. And again, if you guys, you know, I'll be pat on the back. If you weren't bringing it up, I wouldn't even have heard about it. I don't pay attention to World Cup stuff. But we got to know what we're getting stuck paying for. So I appreciate that. And appreciate you coming on to talk to us about it today, Jay.

00:30:21.940 You bet. Thanks.

00:30:23.180 Thanks.

00:30:23.500 Great. Thanks. Talk again soon. Okay. So yes, that was Jay Goldberg of the Canadian Taxpayers

00:30:29.940 Federation. Yeah, I see that from a number of you commenting. I'm hearing it too. I'm not sure

00:30:33.580 there was something with a connection issue on Jay's end. So a bit of an annoying buzzing,

00:30:38.940 but all the same, I'm sure you got the basics and most of what Mr. Goldberg was going on about.

00:30:44.060 And that was, think about that. Five games in each venue, 10 games, 600 million tax dollars.

00:30:51.420 And as he said, these things always go over budget.

00:30:54.360 And who cares?

00:30:55.540 I know there's some football fans out there, and we're not talking about the good football like my Steelers.

00:31:01.760 We're talking about that old kicking that soccer ball around, as we should say it around here.

00:31:06.300 Some people would really enjoy it.

00:31:07.720 But again, if there's not the market for people to pay for it themselves, get out of it.

00:31:12.940 And I mean, in Calgary, we've been in the throes of this battle over building an arena out here,

00:31:17.520 a deal that Jody Gondek cratered and torpedoed when she came in as mayor.

00:31:22.760 And that, I think, was a $500 million deal.

00:31:25.400 I could be corrected on that one, which was still too much.

00:31:28.460 But this is $600 million for 10 games in two cities of your money.

00:31:35.820 A lot of us are struggling to make the bills.

00:31:39.680 Inflation is going rampant.

00:31:41.420 It looks like the recession where economists are finally starting to use it

00:31:44.900 because again, the government's in its usual rock and a hard place. Inflation is running rampant.

00:31:49.940 People are getting ticked off. People are getting pressured. People are in trouble.

00:31:53.780 The tool, the main tool the government has to fight inflation is the Bank of Canada cranking

00:31:59.160 up interest rates. When they raise the interest rates, it slows the economy, but that hurts. It

00:32:05.900 means that you can't afford to borrow. People aren't going to be buying houses as much or

00:32:09.980 vehicles or businesses might not be doing capital expansion because they got to pay more for the

00:32:15.460 interest on the loans and the financing to do it, but it'll slow the inflation. But if you use that

00:32:20.180 tool, it's a hammer and you got to be careful with it. And if you push too hard, you drive people

00:32:25.520 into recession. We know this, we've seen this. This is history that keeps repeating itself in

00:32:31.020 the developed world, basically. I mean, we love joking about how Trudeau has utterly no understanding

00:32:36.560 of economics and his supporters and socialists in general. Yet those people with no sense of

00:32:43.920 economics keep getting into power. As Soneco saying, how about government stops printing

00:32:50.640 money like it's going out of style? Yep. That's the other thing. As I said, the interest rates

00:32:56.100 in the Bank of Canada is one way they can push downward against inflation. The other way that

00:33:01.460 they won't do, they won't talk about it, is cut the bloody spending. Quit borrowing and quit

00:33:05.980 printing more money. Cut it out. But they won't do it. They won't even discuss it. So, and it's

00:33:12.020 not like we could pretend we have no room to cut. You're spending $600 million on a frigging soccer 0.97

00:33:16.520 game. You have money to cut. You know, we're spending one and a half billion for the CBC to 0.97

00:33:22.660 put out shit. We have money to cut. We don't have an excuse for this inflation. But, but we got to 0.99

00:33:32.000 grow some cojones as Canadians. We got to push back. Part of the reason is, I mean, I've talked 0.99

00:33:37.860 about that before, too. The reason people vote these guys in over and over and over again is

00:33:41.900 because we seem to be inclined to vote for whoever blows the most sunshine up our butts.

00:33:45.960 And we don't want to hear about cuts. I want, you know, it's the left. It's mostly Central

00:33:50.000 Canada, of course, but it's the gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. It's all free. Gimme, gimme,

00:33:53.520 gimme. Keep spending. Keep spending. Keep spending. It'll make us all rich. No, it won't.

00:33:58.540 You're borrowing on the backs of our grandchildren is what you're doing.

00:34:02.120 And we're all getting poorer for it.

00:34:03.780 Inflation is wiping out any of the benefits you see in the short term from this sort of government opening of the floodgates of spending.

00:34:12.540 And it just gets so maddening.

00:34:14.900 I mean, it's one thing when people get upset if we're talking about cutting health care or cutting education,

00:34:19.680 you know, those core services that most people agree they want government in,

00:34:22.740 which I still don't think the government should be in as much anyways.

00:34:24.580 But we're paying $600 million for soccer?

00:34:28.540 while everybody's in this much trouble? This is absurd. And I mean, that's why I thank so much,

00:34:35.580 Jay, you know, sound challenges or not for bringing it up. Because where are we hearing

00:34:41.940 about this? How much is the mainstream media talking about this? Why are they questioning

00:34:44.940 this? There's this ridiculousness. As we said, I mean, these stadiums, where are they going to fit 0.98

00:34:50.420 in there? 80,000, 90,000 people paying how much for tickets, plus all the advertising revenue,

00:34:55.320 all of that, yet still the government's pouring $600 million into it. Man, no wonder we're going

00:35:02.060 broke. Meanwhile, speaking of banking, yeah, let's get into some other news. The convoy,

00:35:07.600 bank freeze, you know, we're getting some news, you know, again, as I've talked about before,

00:35:13.720 the committees, the government areas that they're asking and they're testing and they're checking

00:35:18.520 because the government's trying to make his excuses as to why they brought in martial law

00:35:22.200 against citizens who had bouncy castles last February,

00:35:25.280 and it's falling apart.

00:35:27.640 And so the privacy commissioner is now being asked

00:35:30.820 to determine if the convoy bank freeze

00:35:33.020 complied with an act of parliament.

00:35:35.780 So this is from a conservative MP.

00:35:39.180 Institutions received no instruction

00:35:40.800 on how to properly storekeeper,

00:35:42.120 use the data received from the RCMP.

00:35:43.960 Like it was a gong show, very arbitrary.

00:35:46.460 So they were throwing things out,

00:35:47.840 basically pressuring these private,

00:35:49.340 well, somewhat private institutions, banks,

00:35:51.320 and saying, freeze these accounts here, here, and here.

00:35:53.780 Are we supposed to believe they got it right?

00:35:55.280 Are they supposed to believe

00:35:55.940 they secured the information well enough?

00:35:59.400 So at least we got some questioning on it.

00:36:01.800 Whether we got good answers or not, I don't know.

00:36:04.280 Saying, what was the information shared

00:36:05.680 to the receiving institutions?

00:36:06.760 Name, address, date, birth, social insurance number.

00:36:08.720 Because they had to send all that to these banks

00:36:10.180 to search out these people

00:36:11.340 so that they could crack down on them.

00:36:14.440 And when our information gets sent,

00:36:16.620 we get made vulnerable.

00:36:18.460 Speaking of vulnerable,

00:36:20.260 How did everybody enjoy that Rogers breakdown last week?

00:36:23.100 Hey, everybody who had Rogers services of any kind, you were screwed, weren't you, when that crashed?

00:36:29.000 And if you use debit for anything, you were hooped.

00:36:32.520 The cost of that outage of two days from one service provider is going to be staggering when it's fully calculated.

00:36:39.420 I was reading an article about some people.

00:36:42.060 They were sitting in restaurants, but they had no way to pay.

00:36:44.560 They had no credit cards.

00:36:46.240 All they had was debit.

00:36:47.140 They didn't have cash on them.

00:36:48.620 They walked out.

00:36:49.320 I don't know. What are you supposed to do? Hold them hostage? They don't have a means to pay.

00:36:53.560 It wasn't their fault. But then I saw this ding dong. There's a lot of them. On Twitter, 0.95

00:36:59.220 a doctor saying, this is an indication of why, you know, how did he put it? Just, you know,

00:37:07.460 how vulnerable we are and why government should be controlling things just like healthcare.

00:37:12.160 Basically saying government should come in. What? No, it's the opposite. What it indicated is what

00:37:17.320 happens and how badly screwed as a consumer you get when there's a monopoly or a near monopoly

00:37:21.720 in any kind of services. If there had been 50 different phone service provider companies out

00:37:27.060 there, digital service provider companies out there, there would have been alternatives. There

00:37:30.640 would have been options. It would have been one provider bringing the entire country to its knees

00:37:34.660 when something crashes. And I hear this hammerhead saying, this is the reason we got to keep

00:37:39.080 government with a healthcare monopoly. No, it's the exact reason opposite. This is why we got to

00:37:44.380 get out of the health care monopoly. There's only one health provider in Canada, and it's the

00:37:48.620 bloody government, and they do it terribly. They can't even renew our passports. Yet you want to

00:37:54.320 have them have the sole exclusive authority over providing health care to you. No wonder they do

00:37:59.720 it so poorly. Think about it. You need multiple options. You need competition. You need these

00:38:06.640 things to spur things along. As you see, the article that MECO pulled up, liberals are now

00:38:12.040 mulling an online passport renewal process. Online. We're spending money paying huge salaries

00:38:18.000 with huge pensions and all of these benefits to these civil servants all the way across the

00:38:23.140 country. Again, speaking of our tax dollars, we're talking about something as simple as renewing a

00:38:27.620 passport. It's pretty basic, guys. It's a document. It's one that, you know, you need some checks and

00:38:33.600 balances and controls and you have it printed and you send it to a person. If these guys can't get

00:38:37.900 it together. They're incompetent. Outsource that. And yes, carefully. The problem is they 0.99

00:38:44.600 outsource it and then our personal information goes to some, you know, soul-sourced liberal

00:38:49.600 buddy out there. And yeah, it's just the state. If people want more state, I don't get it. How

00:38:58.020 can you look at these things and say, I want the government to control more stuff. I want them to

00:39:01.900 have more monopolies are you insane well some people are uh let's see somebody's saying i want

00:39:08.940 to donate to uh where are we uh kian uh bexty for his dutch farmer news but will my funds be frozen 0.73

00:39:15.580 what about my western standard subscription uh i think the bank freezes are done for now so i'm

00:39:21.020 pretty sure nobody's got had their funds frozen for subscribing to the standard and i'm pretty

00:39:25.800 sure uh for for people who donated to kian uh they they haven't as well and whatever he's doing

00:39:30.820 over there. At least he's covering it. You know, whatever people think of Kian Bextie or not,

00:39:34.620 that's another issue that's been interesting. And speaking of censorship, I mean, the mainstream

00:39:39.280 media does not like touching that Dutch farmer upsurizing to save their lives. And it's huge.

00:39:44.320 It's huge. We got the Dutch, they got tractors all over the place. They're ramming blockades. 1.00

00:39:48.620 They're blocking cities. They're spraying police officers with mulch. We put up, you know,

00:39:54.520 some of our small rants and things like that, we throw it on TikTok and, you know, they just

00:39:57.740 gets more rants and news and things like that out to different people, different faces. It's all

00:40:02.320 good for social media. And typically when I throw one of those out, we've only been on TikTok for

00:40:07.160 a couple of months and some, I think. But I mean, it's gone really well. One of my rants would go

00:40:11.340 anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 people would watch it. Great. It's reaching more people. Except the

00:40:16.400 one I did last Thursday on the Dutch Farm Uprising. That one got 24 views, I think, the last time I

00:40:23.300 checked. Every other one gets, again, $6,000 to $10,000. This one got $24,000. And as people

00:40:30.460 remind, TikTok is owned by the Chinese. And, you know, while TikTok doesn't necessarily censor in

00:40:37.240 some areas, they do in others. One thing the Chinese are typically not fond of is anywhere 1.00

00:40:41.800 where the citizens stand up and stand up for themselves and push back. So, I mean, there's no 1.00

00:40:46.340 coincidence. There's no doubt about it. For whatever reason, the algorithms of that are set

00:40:50.740 to make sure that as little stuff as possible

00:40:53.120 about that Dutch uprising gets out there.

00:40:55.600 And again, it all comes down to the more the better.

00:40:58.020 We don't want monopolies.

00:40:58.940 We don't want control.

00:41:00.100 We got kicked off of YouTube for two weeks.

00:41:04.500 Again, that was the second strike for us.

00:41:06.360 If somehow we annoy their algorithms again, 0.84

00:41:09.140 we might get kicked off permanently with YouTube.

00:41:10.760 So I do encourage people to get to rumble in that,

00:41:13.060 at least as an alternative.

00:41:14.640 I saw some of that discussion from some of you saying,

00:41:16.300 why are you on YouTube still when they're so censorious?

00:41:20.240 The problem is YouTube has a better format for the commenting and I can see

00:41:23.360 those more easily. Rumble, I do see the comments, but I got to open.

00:41:25.820 It's a separate thing. It doesn't integrate into this.

00:41:27.620 I hope it comes along. It gets better, but still you can catch the shows.

00:41:30.860 You can see the stuff. So hedge your bets, get out there, you know,

00:41:33.540 subscribe on Rumble, get onto those things.

00:41:36.100 We don't know the next time we'll get canceled or shut down. And likewise,

00:41:39.460 TikTok, all of those, if we want it to get better, there's only one way.

00:41:43.200 And that is by having more service providers.

00:41:46.020 And then we're not controlled by just a handful.

00:41:47.920 as long as we allow just a handful of giants to control us, then we are in a lot of trouble.

00:41:55.660 Let's see here. Some more news here. No mask, no pay, says judge. Yeah, this one was interesting.

00:42:02.600 Loblaw. So a guy got suspended without pay or refusing to wear a mask back during the masking

00:42:09.260 times. And he tried to go into court and the judge said, no, the employer has the right to

00:42:15.000 force you to wear a mask and you're out of luck. So, you know, some court rulings have been

00:42:22.260 promising, some have not. And in this case, this guy, he's out of luck. He's going to have to find

00:42:28.080 work somewhere else and whatnot. The ability and right not to wear a mask is protected, but,

00:42:34.140 you know, not protected. It's a hard one. I believe in a private business is right. If they feel,

00:42:40.620 and I know that people can debate and argue about it, that's fine. If they feel it's providing a

00:42:43.420 health benefit to bring in some rules. When I worked in the food service industry, I tell you

00:42:47.560 what, I hated wearing a hairnet with everything I'm worth. You know, I couldn't stand it. It sticks

00:42:51.940 on your head. It messes your hair. Not my hair is all that beautiful to behold. Anyways, I couldn't

00:42:55.280 stand them. But if I refused to wear a hairnet when I was in food service, well, in my case,

00:43:00.940 I owned the bar. I could refuse. I wouldn't get fired. But if the health inspector caught me,

00:43:04.860 we could be in some trouble. And I don't think it's an unreasonable regulation. Nobody wants

00:43:10.100 a hair in their burger. But at the same time, it should be my choice then to say, well, if I don't

00:43:14.680 want to wear that hairnet, then I just better work somewhere else. And, you know, if I fired a cook 0.87

00:43:19.380 because they weren't wearing a hairnet and were making, you know, hairballs in the omelets,

00:43:24.120 I think I'd be within my rights to do so. Now, I know masks, they don't provide much benefit

00:43:29.300 whatsoever, if any, but I somewhat respect the business's right to bring in those rules on their

00:43:37.720 part. It's a complicated area. It really is. Let's see, foreign masseuses were okay. This is

00:43:45.140 an interesting one. The Department of Employee Employment, and I'll get to the poly I've

00:43:48.400 interview after this rant on this one. The Department of Employment granted dozens of

00:43:52.920 permits to foreign massage therapists working as migrant labor in Canada, but then they didn't

00:43:57.540 check further with the employers. People have been watching human trafficking and the issues

00:44:01.780 going on. There's some horrible stuff happening. And, you know, immigrants are brought in and

00:44:08.100 they're heavily, heavily indebted to some sort of odious organization that will streamline them. 1.00

00:44:12.940 They'll do the work to get them here, but they come here, they're broke, they're dependent,

00:44:16.580 and they stick them into rub and tugs. Come on, drive down the street in any bad part of town.

00:44:22.480 You see all those open signs on massage places and seedy areas at 10 at night. I can't imagine

00:44:28.620 there's really that many people that have sore backs that time of night that need therapy.

00:44:33.240 We know where they are. We know what they are. And those places get busted all the time for

00:44:37.720 human trafficking and borderline slavery. And on top of it all, the Department of Employment

00:44:43.720 seems to be welcoming it. I mean, again, I welcome immigration, bringing in people,

00:44:48.200 you know, to fill employment voids and things like that. We got to watch some of these hot

00:44:54.460 button areas. And if you're going to bring in people, were we short of massage therapists? 0.69

00:44:58.040 Was there a shortage? Was there a crisis with them? And why didn't you follow up? But they

00:45:02.400 didn't. So yeah, they brought these workers in and dumped them into these rub and tugs. Jack 0.98

00:45:08.580 Layton would be proud. But we're having government facilitating these trades. I mean, we can use

00:45:15.880 all sorts of workers out here, but these other areas, we don't need them. I mean, there's actually

00:45:20.580 rules against bringing in, you know, strippers and outright escort services and things like that,

00:45:26.920 because, again, they know it turns into this. 0.97

00:45:28.480 Well, we know bloody well that those massage dens

00:45:31.020 are hotbeds of this sort of thing, 0.99

00:45:34.320 but our government's facilitating it.

00:45:35.740 Again, maybe there's some people in government

00:45:37.060 who just enjoy those services and want to see them broadened,

00:45:41.600 but these are serious stories,

00:45:42.680 and then, again, it's government at its best as usual,

00:45:45.640 but we keep reporting on it while we can.

00:45:48.860 Yeah, somebody was saying, you know,

00:45:50.040 cooks, don't they wear those little hats and things like that?

00:45:52.120 Yeah, there's variable. 0.90

00:45:52.720 It depends on the rules of the house and things like that, 0.86

00:45:54.600 or commercial bakeries and that, they'll wear hairnets.

00:45:56.920 some will just wear hats. It depends on the rules of each place, whether there's problems. Again,

00:46:01.240 I just feel more like leaving it to businesses. So I'm going to talk about one of our sponsors

00:46:05.160 quickly, and then we'll get to the Pierre Polyev interview we'll run. And that is the Canadian

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00:46:22.680 let's see, you know, we can, we've got a good audience out here, good conservatives. We can

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00:46:31.300 not only have they been a great sponsor, they are a great group. It's easy to talk about them and

00:46:34.980 plug them because they are doing work that needs to be done. We also, with this government, this

00:46:39.880 authoritarian government, they're coming for your firearms. They're coming for your property

00:46:43.260 and you got to push back. If we don't push back, you don't stand up for yourself. You're going to

00:46:48.320 lose. This is how you do it. Safety in numbers, guys. You got to join the association. You got

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00:46:57.800 it's a great pastime for a lot of people. Check them out. The Canadian Shooting Sports Association,

00:47:03.980 they're standing up for you. They've got court challenges on your behalf. And a membership is

00:47:09.220 really not terribly expensive. It's a, let's use the government terms. It's an investment

00:47:13.060 but in yourself. Their website is cssa-cila.org. All right. So as I said, Peter Polyev, it was

00:47:23.620 about, well, maybe almost two hours ago now. He came into the studio here in the Western Standard

00:47:27.600 and we had time for a quick 10 minute chat. So we covered a number of the issues and such.

00:47:31.740 I'm going to run that interview and we'll talk a little more after that's through.

00:47:35.960 well mr paulia welcome to the western standard studio and thank you very much for making some

00:47:44.060 time to come down here from your stampede rounds i know you've been running hard and popping up

00:47:48.180 all over so uh i appreciate it welcome great to be with you so we'll get straight to it uh this

00:47:53.720 is the western standard you're in the west you're at the stampede uh i'm stuck by a dress code i

00:47:57.900 have to wear this thing but you can wear the stampede where i see uh i want to start with

00:48:02.240 that the western issues i'm sure you've been hearing that the last few days the the alienation

00:48:06.160 alberta bc saskatchewan you know secessionism is at all-time highs and uh that would be i i like to

00:48:13.320 think one of your prime tasks as a prime minister how do you unify this country well uh we have to

00:48:19.860 put an end to the pay up and shut up uh attitude ottawa has had to western canada for far too long

00:48:27.220 We need to treat Alberta and the West as full partners and give Albertans the same rights and freedoms within confederation as every other province has.

00:48:41.240 And that includes allowing the development of our clean and responsible energy sector here.

00:48:48.420 As you know, we have the most ethical energy production on planet Earth.

00:48:54.520 The International Energy Agency says that for the next 20 years,

00:48:59.000 the world will be consuming 60 million barrels of oil at least every single day.

00:49:05.380 And I think it's best for that oil or largest part of it to come from democracies

00:49:11.380 that protect their environments and their people.

00:49:15.200 And there's no one that does that better than Albertans and Saskatchewanians.

00:49:18.840 So I'll be repealing C-69, C-48, and removing the carbon tax to allow for our sector to succeed, and while incentivizing continued environmental advances that the sector has been making over the last decades.

00:49:37.860 So I think if you give Albertans the freedom to produce incomes for themselves and for the country, get the gatekeepers in Ottawa out of the way, then we will be able to produce not only bigger, more powerful paychecks, inflation-proof paychecks for Western Canadians, but it will unify the country.

00:50:00.980 So getting product east, of course, would really make a great deal in energy security for us right

00:50:06.160 now. We just don't have a decent pipeline getting out there. And energy east died on the vine. It

00:50:10.620 was regulated to death. But another hindrance there was, I mean, Quebec was making very strong 0.93

00:50:14.900 signals that we're just not going to let that thing cross our territory. You'd have a tough

00:50:18.160 juggling act. I mean, do you respect provincial autonomy or do you enforce that it is federal

00:50:22.640 authority saying an internet, you know, interprovincial pipeline has to go? Where would

00:50:26.600 Well, first of all, I've stated in Quebec, as I state everywhere, that I believe that Energy East was good for Canada, for all of Canada, including for Quebec.

00:50:36.720 Energy East would have gone right through my riding, and I supported the project in my riding just as much as I do out here.

00:50:44.420 Now, I can't promise you that industry is going to come forward with another proposal to run an east-west pipeline,

00:50:52.680 But I do think it would be good for the country if we could clear a corridor that is environmentally responsible, that respects First Nations, that delivers a million or so barrels from Western Canada to our East Coast refineries, both for export to the world but also to break Atlantic Canadian dependence on overseas oil imports and the tankers.

00:51:18.520 And it's funny, the liberals are banning tankers, so-called banning tankers off the West Coast, but welcoming them in the East Coast because the oil in those tankers is foreign.

00:51:30.540 And so when I go to Quebec, I say, listen, we appreciate that Quebecers want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the debate is really about where our energy comes from.

00:51:44.660 And when you ask Quebecers would they rather buy Western Canadian energy or American and overseas energy, they prefer Western energy.

00:51:53.400 There's polling data to support that.

00:51:55.380 So I would side with those Quebecers who believe in supporting our own sector here in Canada,

00:52:02.620 as opposed to those like the Bloc Québécois and the Liberals who want us to continue to send money to Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and other overseas polluting dictatorships.

00:52:13.720 Yeah, well, a lot of signaling, as you said, you know, private industry.

00:52:16.280 Well, if they felt a secure environment to invest in, there'd be a better chance they would step up.

00:52:19.900 But right now, I mean, you'd be crazy to invest, to be honest, because you'd shut down any time.

00:52:24.780 The Trans Mountain Pipeline has been dragging its way for years through B.C.

00:52:29.460 But I want to tie it in also to showing government signals of priorities.

00:52:33.240 The Coastal Gas Link Pipeline, I mean, it's been a victim of eco-terrorism, constant blockades, constant people arrested, re-arrested, re-arrested. 0.85

00:52:40.220 We can't even seem to keep the multi-offenders in jail there yet. Tamara Leach is incarcerated on what I say is a minor bail violation out east. It's just that the priorities of this government seem to be skewed. How can you adjust for that, I guess? 0.99

00:52:54.960 Well, listen, we need the Trans Mountain Pipeline. The problem is that we live in a country now where nothing can get done, nothing can get built, whether it's just a building permit to build a normal detached house or a major mining enterprise.

00:53:15.460 you can't get a permit. I think OECD ranks us 35 out of 36 nations for the time it takes to get a

00:53:22.940 building permit to do anything, a warehouse, a pipeline, a mine, a house. And so what we need

00:53:30.640 to do is become the fastest place in the developed world to approve pipe, excuse me, to approve

00:53:36.480 building permits for projects of all sizes. You can protect the environment and health and safety

00:53:43.300 while giving fast and predictable decisions.

00:53:50.360 And you see countries like Singapore and Switzerland and others

00:53:55.140 that they can manage to protect their people and their ecosystem

00:53:58.700 without keeping entrepreneurs waiting for a decade to get a decision.

00:54:04.740 And so we need to remove the regulatory gatekeepers,

00:54:07.460 speed up approvals for responsible projects,

00:54:10.240 and actually get things done in this country.

00:54:12.840 Likewise, there's a proposal, you know, we're getting a lot of pressure with carbon taxes.

00:54:16.480 We covered that in a past interview with where you stand on that.

00:54:19.060 But agriculturally, something surfaced.

00:54:21.100 It looks like they're coming after fertilizer, as we're seeing in the Netherlands, where there's quite an uprising.

00:54:25.980 Would you, you know, at least stand up for the farmers on that one?

00:54:29.060 Because this could be a pending disaster as well.

00:54:31.660 You know, it is just incredible.

00:54:33.240 First of all, it's incredible that we have to be reliant on foreign countries for fertilizer,

00:54:37.080 or at least for nitrogen and potash, because we have our own here in Canada.

00:54:42.980 But that's the first point.

00:54:44.720 The second point is I don't know how these governments think

00:54:48.540 that we're going to feed ourselves without fertilizer.

00:54:51.680 We're going to drastically reduce the output per acre.

00:54:55.700 One, the irony of that is you'd need a far more farmland

00:54:59.740 and a far bigger footprint for agriculture if you didn't have fertilizer.

00:55:05.320 The second thing is you'd have much more expensive food.

00:55:08.740 And the third thing is you'd have much lower incomes for our farmers.

00:55:12.420 So fertilizers give us the chance to eat more abundant, nutritious food at more affordable prices.

00:55:17.940 And the alternative is a brutal poverty, particularly for the vulnerable who can't afford price increases.

00:55:25.480 I think people around the world are speaking out against this gatekeeper agenda that attacks energy and food supply chains and countless other essentials that we need to survive and thrive as a species.

00:55:44.240 And so I'm going to defend the ability of farmers to use environmentally responsible fertilizers that feed our people and make food affordable for every Canadian.

00:55:55.240 That's great. It's just such a frustrating irony. We're in a country with such abundant resources,

00:56:00.520 and we're paying some of the highest prices on earth for it and seem to be punishing ourselves

00:56:03.640 for having developed them. Well, food prices are up 10% according to the most recent CPI data.

00:56:09.000 One year, 10% increase. And some of the most nutritious foods are up the most. So this drives

00:56:16.200 our poorest people forced to be making bad nutritional decisions for their kids. I think

00:56:23.640 i saw a poll about six or seven months ago saying that four and five families have either cut the

00:56:28.360 quality or quantity of their diet to adjust for food prices um this is bad for our health it's

00:56:36.040 bad for our for um for our poorest people and we need to put an end to it that we should have

00:56:42.680 affordable food we have among the most abundant supply of arable land on earth let's use it to

00:56:48.040 feed our people well yeah and it's ridiculous and we're going to see more instability obviously with

00:56:51.720 events in Europe, unfortunately, that's ongoing and that's the breadbasket of Europe. We should

00:56:55.960 be planning at least to keep the cost of living reasonable around here. I'll finish going with

00:57:01.240 some self-interest topic though. We've got an authoritarian government that just seems bent

00:57:05.720 on controlling the media, controlling the internet, controlling expression and speech. We've got C18,

00:57:10.520 we've got C11. What could you do to protect independent outlets so that if and when you

00:57:16.120 became prime minister, I could be unfettered in criticizing you and ripping into your government

00:57:20.200 go the wrong way. Thanks for the warning. Yeah, no problem. No, listen, I believe in free speech

00:57:26.580 and I will repeal C11. In fact, in the previous parliament, C11 was called C10 and it was the

00:57:33.860 same censorship concept. CRTC would have the ability to manipulate social media algorithms

00:57:40.000 to promote content favorable to the government and demote content the government doesn't want

00:57:45.880 people to see, which is a form of censorship. That's why I fought hard in the last parliament

00:57:51.480 to delay the passage of C-10, so it never actually made it through the Senate before Trudeau called

00:57:56.680 the election. And it's why I'm fighting against C-11 now. And if, God forbid, it does become law

00:58:02.760 when I'm prime minister, I will repeal it. Okay, well, that's about all I've got for you today.

00:58:08.280 I know you just had time for a quick visit. Is there more you'd like to add before we let you

00:58:11.600 go here? Well, I feel like people have lost control of their lives. Big bossy government

00:58:16.380 is taking people's money and telling them what to do. And that's why I'm running for 0.72

00:58:21.880 prime minister to put you back in charge of your life, make Canada the freest nation on

00:58:25.520 earth, let people make their own decisions with their bodies, with their money, with

00:58:29.500 their businesses, with their families, and get the state out of the way. Government should 0.99

00:58:35.220 only do what people can't do for themselves, and leave the rest to communities, to families,

00:58:43.020 entrepreneurs, so that they can fulfill their potential with as little interference as possible.

00:58:50.260 I appreciate that. I'll let you get back to your stampede campaigning, and we'll

00:58:55.000 watch the leadership as it unfolds in the coming months.

00:58:57.640 Happy stampeding to you, my friend. All the very best.

00:58:59.480 I hope we can talk again down the road.

00:59:00.160 Thank you.

00:59:05.220 There you go. That was Pierre Polyev. And yes, it was recorded. So I wasn't able to bring viewer questions in. It's tough to get these guys pinned down for live interviews. They're always running around like chickens with their heads cut off when they're campaigning.

00:59:18.740 I know people wanted to talk about,

00:59:21.100 and I did cover that way back

00:59:22.780 because I had Paul Yevon before for a remote interview

00:59:25.960 and that whole World Economic Forum thing,

00:59:28.800 he fully denies he has anything to do with it

00:59:31.100 and supports it.

00:59:31.700 The question keeps coming up over and over and over again.

00:59:33.580 I guess it's just a matter of whether you believe him or not.

00:59:36.120 Same with UN and things like that.

00:59:38.100 Those questions come up.

00:59:39.740 It was, as you can see, a cagey interview.

00:59:42.660 You know, it's been interesting talking to these candidates

00:59:44.460 as they come in.

00:59:45.560 I like it better when they come in person

00:59:47.520 because I could just get a bit more of a one-on-one feel.

00:59:51.840 And Polyev is very careful.

00:59:54.140 You have to be in these campaigns.

00:59:55.500 Everything, you know, anything you say can and will be used against you

00:59:57.980 in the court of the legacy media.

01:00:00.960 But it frustrates a bit too.

01:00:02.940 I mean, you know, it's definitely very careful, well-rehearsed answers,

01:00:06.440 to be honest.

01:00:07.100 And I know the commenters won't necessarily like it,

01:00:08.440 but when I sat down with Jean Charest the other day,

01:00:10.740 I found him a lot more directly engaging and fluid

01:00:14.220 and willing to kind of go with the flow a bit

01:00:17.820 with the interview and more spontaneous answers

01:00:20.840 rather than just sticking to the careful scripts.

01:00:24.560 I'm not saying probably as bad.

01:00:25.580 These are just the vibes and feel I get

01:00:27.180 as I talk to all of these.

01:00:28.380 I don't have a membership with the Conservative Party.

01:00:30.660 I don't have a membership with any party.

01:00:32.580 You know, I've got my biases.

01:00:33.900 I've got people I like more than others and so on.

01:00:35.800 I don't know how I would vote on this.

01:00:37.640 It doesn't really matter.

01:00:38.300 I'm not gonna.

01:00:39.200 I just try to talk to them

01:00:40.880 and get what I can out of them.

01:00:42.400 I know some people say,

01:00:42.960 you should jump on them hard with this

01:00:43.940 or this or this. And I know, and I'd like to sometimes, but then to be honest, then suddenly

01:00:48.120 you don't get candidates to come on at all whatsoever. So either way, it was a good

01:00:51.880 conversation. We can certainly do worse than Mr. Polyev as a prime minister. Well, we're doing much

01:00:55.700 worse than Mr. Polyev as a prime minister. We'll see.

01:00:59.920 Some of the comments, yeah, Tyler Volstad saying, I went to the store the other day, couldn't believe the prices of stuff

01:01:03.700 much more than just a week ago. Yeah, it's flying up. Inflation is nuts.

01:01:07.660 That was one of the things, at least in talking with Polyev, you know, let's address that. The farms, our lunatic 0.92

01:01:11.920 turd owen is his crazed environment minister gilbo want to go after a nitrogen one of the 0.89

01:01:16.940 commenters saying uh i believe it's nitrogen or potassium but we got alder trees that produce

01:01:21.360 that like this is naturally occurring stuff and as paulie have also said if we reduce fertilizer

01:01:26.240 it means we have to expand farmland to keep up with the food because you you make a bigger

01:01:31.200 footprint it's worse for the environment but it doesn't seem to matter to these eco lunatics it

01:01:35.540 really doesn't and not again again not enough people are talking about this i don't know if

01:01:39.900 People nearly are talking about this.

01:01:41.620 The other way when I was talking about

01:01:42.920 how do we battle with inflation

01:01:44.200 besides with the Bank of Canada

01:01:45.240 and besides with the government cutting spending,

01:01:46.800 well, the other thing is

01:01:47.800 having good plentiful resources for us here,

01:01:51.520 good domestic supply.

01:01:52.900 We have loads of vast farmland.

01:01:55.760 Why are we pressuring our farmers

01:01:57.160 through carbon taxes

01:01:58.820 and through high energy costs

01:02:01.380 and then again with potentially

01:02:02.700 future fertilizer bans?

01:02:04.980 We got to be making these products more affordable.

01:02:07.220 I mean, people on fixed incomes

01:02:08.140 are having a hell of a hard time.

01:02:09.440 this inflation is hurting them. And supply management, one of my other ones, that rotten

01:02:14.000 odious system, a Soviet-style system with dairy and poultry, that was one of their area as well

01:02:21.420 with Mr. Polyev and Sherey. They both said they wouldn't get rid of it. Polyev made the case that

01:02:26.720 it's too expensive because you'd have to buy out the contracts and the quotas that some producers

01:02:32.900 are already dependent on. That's true. Sherey basically just said he wouldn't touch it. But

01:02:38.460 it doesn't mean it's too expensive to buy them out. I mean, it's, you know, some costs, I mean,

01:02:42.000 you buy them out and you can make it back later because right now your average consumer, your

01:02:45.820 family is paying probably when you adjust to the last study I saw was from 2016 and it was $600

01:02:50.400 a year per family in food costs just for supply management. It's probably near a thousand now.

01:02:55.840 And those dollars mean a lot, especially for a family on a tight budget. And this is a policy

01:03:00.460 that could solve that very quickly. And the politicians are afraid to touch it, I'm afraid.

01:03:05.500 So yeah, you'd have to buy them out, but hey, it would pay off in the long run.

01:03:08.760 New Zealand did it.

01:03:09.760 Australia did it.

01:03:10.880 Other countries have done it.

01:03:12.240 The world doesn't end.

01:03:12.960 We're the only country in the world with a system like this.

01:03:15.900 I get tired of the defenders of this thing. 0.96

01:03:18.360 And don't give me that crap that the American stuff isn't our quality. 0.98

01:03:20.880 It is. 0.99

01:03:21.340 That's a myth.

01:03:22.100 Guess who sends that myth out?

01:03:23.640 The dairy cartels.

01:03:24.920 Yes.

01:03:25.400 They love spreading those myths about, oh, the American milk isn't safe.

01:03:28.560 It's not nice.

01:03:29.100 Oh, BS.

01:03:30.500 The problem with the American milk they're afraid of is it's affordable, as is their

01:03:34.740 cheese.

01:03:35.060 they're literally smuggling cheese into Canada. Either way, it is an important race and a serious 1.00

01:03:40.320 race. I mean, theoretically, one of these candidates that we've been talking to is going to

01:03:44.660 potentially become the Prime Minister of Canada. So we'll try and get as much feel as we can and

01:03:48.080 get word to them and maybe they understand these issues. Dash Riprock saying energy and food

01:03:53.880 shouldn't even be a conversation. Yeah, how far have we sunk? I mean, these are vital things and

01:03:57.900 we've got a government that is strangling the production of both and making the costs for both

01:04:02.480 higher. They're things we can't avoid. I was listening. I like talking about that when I

01:04:06.880 torture myself and I call it that when I listen to talk radio on the way to Calgary, I just got

01:04:10.640 to catch the news. This is a 40 minute drive for me. And I might as well get up on the issues. And

01:04:15.660 I listen to talk radio over there. Oh, gushing about the carbon tax. Oh, it all comes back to

01:04:20.440 you. You see, don't worry about it. You spend your money on the gas and they give it back. Well,

01:04:23.560 then don't take it in the first place. That's not so complicated. And let's look at BC.

01:04:29.400 They've been doing it for years.

01:04:30.420 It didn't work.

01:04:31.280 It doesn't reduce emissions.

01:04:32.480 It's just a grab.

01:04:34.520 Why give the government my money only to beg to give it back again? 1.00

01:04:37.660 Kiss my ass. 1.00

01:04:38.220 There's no good carbon tax. 1.00

01:04:39.840 There's no justification.

01:04:40.980 It's hurting us.

01:04:41.680 It's hurting producers.

01:04:42.460 It's hurting consumers.

01:04:44.140 Don't talk about that. 0.99

01:04:45.440 Cowards. 0.97

01:04:46.380 Holly Midlife, commenter saying, 0.97

01:04:47.920 repeal the GST like it was promised to us when it was first enacted.

01:04:51.300 That's an interesting one.

01:04:52.700 Yeah, it was the liberals who lied about that.

01:04:54.040 It was interesting. 1.00

01:04:54.480 Sheila Copps, one of the most annoying politicians in history, 1.00

01:04:57.920 She actually kind of fell on her sword over that one 1.00

01:05:00.220 because she promised in her campaign,

01:05:01.600 if we do not repeal it, I am going to resign.

01:05:03.920 And she didn't, of course.

01:05:05.740 And finally, she did step down and run for re-election.

01:05:08.340 But unfortunately, she got elected.

01:05:10.320 But the GST, it's not going away, I don't think.

01:05:13.260 But I mean, it's funny.

01:05:15.380 There's a lot of, you know, you listen to a lot of economists,

01:05:17.320 both conservative or non, and they say consumption taxes like GST

01:05:20.220 are the best taxes.

01:05:21.000 They're the fairest taxes and everything.

01:05:23.180 Technically, maybe.

01:05:24.360 But whenever you hear people talking about we should go into them,

01:05:26.100 they don't talk enough about, well, that's fine, but you've got to get rid of the other taxes.

01:05:29.360 If you want to make a 20% GST, what, completely eliminate income tax? I'm listening. If you just

01:05:36.660 want to raise the GST, go away. It's just another tax grab. It's not because it's a more efficient

01:05:41.020 tax system. It's just trying to take more money. Revenue neutral, or even less so. The government 0.99

01:05:48.360 has too much of our money already. They can learn to do without. The rest of us are.

01:05:51.700 uh but let's see what else we got um i'm just watching yeah rename the ctv and cstv and cbc

01:06:02.800 to csbc from john sampson okay and i've seen a few folks violet saying roman babber for prime

01:06:09.600 minister he was very impressive at the debate we had and down at the petroleum club last friday

01:06:14.420 night it was a good event uh we had uh sheree and babber and there was only three of them and

01:06:18.680 and Scott Atchison, but they all came out and socialized with a lot of people, chatted and

01:06:22.540 talked. It wasn't so much a debate. It was more of a sit down with Derek talking to them and

01:06:26.180 answering some questions. A lot of people I talked to throughout that, though. Babber is one that

01:06:30.280 really came out and impressed a lot of people. They hadn't heard a lot about him, particularly

01:06:33.680 in the West. If you weren't familiar with Ontario provincial politics, you wouldn't know who he is

01:06:37.620 necessarily. And he's a very common sense, personable, smart guy. I got to admit, when I

01:06:43.360 first heard things, you know, that he'd gotten kicked out of Ford's caucus, you know, provincially

01:06:48.000 and things like that. He might be a little haywire, we'll see, or high stronger. And as he's gotten

01:06:52.980 into this race, no, he's a level-headed, smart guy, and he's pretty principled, actually. So

01:06:57.800 I doubt he's got much chance of winning the leadership, but he's making a mark,

01:07:02.580 and he's a young fella, as you can see. He's establishing himself. And even if he doesn't

01:07:06.940 win the leadership, we're far from hearing the last out of Roman Babber, he's going to be around.

01:07:10.700 And Atchison, to his credit, he's the one who really came out against supply management as

01:07:14.780 candidate. And again, he's a very long shot to win, but at least he'll be a voice in there speaking up

01:07:19.640 on that stupid policy when none of the others have the courage to do it. So yeah, we'll watch 0.99

01:07:24.500 the race develop. You know, none of these candidates are going to fix everything. We've got a broken

01:07:27.440 system in Canada. The system's broken. That's the problem. So, I mean, nothing shy of independence

01:07:32.520 or shattering the system or bringing it to the brink of a constitutional crisis is what's going

01:07:36.940 to make Canada better. We have to reopen that deal and redraft it. But in the meantime, we're

01:07:42.380 going to be led by these guys, one of them or another. So try to pick the one that'll do the

01:07:47.200 least damage and the one who listens the best. And you hope that you get as good an outcome for

01:07:53.420 yourself as you can. Because people get cynical, I understand. I don't get cynical so much as I

01:07:58.020 just get crabby. But you're guaranteed to lose if you give up. So still, pick and choose. I say that

01:08:04.840 with the provincial race. I say that with the federal race. Do what you can to influence those

01:08:08.740 or get involved with another party altogether, fine.

01:08:11.220 You know, the PPC. 0.98

01:08:11.880 I'm going to have Maxine Bernier in here 0.53

01:08:13.840 at the end of the week, actually.

01:08:14.880 I believe he's coming into the studio.

01:08:16.740 I haven't heard much from them lately.

01:08:17.820 They've been out there working it.

01:08:19.300 And that's another alternative on the scene.

01:08:21.140 The more engagement you do,

01:08:22.460 the more you get out there,

01:08:23.120 the better you're going to be off in general.

01:08:27.200 I mean, if we give up, they win.

01:08:29.040 That's a given.

01:08:29.880 You're guaranteed.

01:08:30.640 They still might win if you keep trying.

01:08:32.460 Oh, well, at least you tried.

01:08:34.360 You have to try.

01:08:35.700 We're not going to get better outcomes.

01:08:37.480 Let's see.

01:08:37.960 Rumor from the newsroom.

01:08:38.620 I caught during that interview is that some of our footy fans have been upset that I knocked

01:08:42.920 their sacred sport. Yes, we do have some folks that we welcome them and value them as Canadians,

01:08:49.240 but they still hold these ties to that small country over on the other side of the pond that

01:08:54.140 holds that sport in such great esteem. And they're upset that I criticized it. I'm not actually

01:08:59.720 criticizing football all so much. I just don't want our tax dollars going into it. Come on.

01:09:04.380 I love the NFL, but I wouldn't want to see 600 million tax dollars spent a year

01:09:07.760 to bring the Steelers to Calgary.

01:09:09.680 Hey, if they wanted to come here on their own,

01:09:12.780 on some sort of private merit,

01:09:14.140 I would most certainly do so.

01:09:17.260 But no, it's not gonna happen

01:09:21.620 with our tax dollars at this point.

01:09:24.080 So let's see, we've also got some other news coming up.

01:09:26.260 Let's see, one third of office vacancies.

01:09:28.480 I mentioned that to you in downtown Calgary.

01:09:30.620 I talked to Paulieff about that

01:09:32.100 while he was in here

01:09:35.620 and he was saying there's opportunity in Toronto.

01:09:37.760 Uh-oh.

01:09:39.080 Okay.

01:09:39.880 Well, we'll just hang on.

01:09:40.680 So, yeah, so you're talking about that.

01:09:41.880 We've got a lot of opportunity.

01:09:42.780 He was saying that downtown Calgary has a lot of vacancies,

01:09:45.340 and we could potentially fill those with downed Toronto businesses.

01:09:53.300 But we'll see, because as Jody Gondek has her insane $87 billion climate plan,

01:09:59.920 I can't see people rushing out here to take part in that.

01:10:03.320 So I see that somebody's gone and rounded up our grouchy football fan here,

01:10:10.020 or soccer, as the proper North American would put it.

01:10:14.160 What's wrong with you?

01:10:15.440 Where do we want to start?

01:10:16.840 Well, first of all, you know, Canada only gets a few games.

01:10:22.140 There's no doubt about that.

01:10:23.240 But the economic impact is going to be huge.

01:10:26.400 You talk about, okay, maybe not getting a glamorous game.

01:10:29.460 Let's say you got, like, Mexico versus South Korea.

01:10:33.320 Do you know how many Mexicans would be coming up to Vancouver to watch that game?

01:10:37.140 How many South Koreans would be flying in to watch that game?

01:10:39.900 Not a hell of a lot. 1.00

01:10:40.840 I mean, the Mexicans aren't exactly flushed to fly to Canada.

01:10:44.120 We were at a Canada-Mexico game 10 years ago at BC Place, and the place was packed.

01:10:50.700 There was, like, dancing in the streets, the Mexican sombreros waving.

01:10:55.020 I mean, it's the most popular sport in the world.

01:10:58.420 More kids play soccer in Canada than they do hockey.

01:11:01.740 And with the Canadian soccer team making the World Cup since the first time in almost 40 years, the excitement in November in Qatar is going to be unbelievable.

01:11:13.620 Absolutely unbelievable.

01:11:14.920 This nation will become soccer crazy.

01:11:18.000 And having that in their own country where the Canadian team automatically gets qualified and will be playing, it's just going to be absolutely bananas.

01:11:28.760 Well, I don't deny that it's a monstrous sport.

01:11:31.260 I mean, there's no getting around that. It's huge. Just because I don't watch it doesn't mean it's not important to millions and millions of people. Fair enough. 600 million clams, though. That's a lot of tax dollars for a sport. Is it really impossible to get them here for anything less than that?

01:11:45.820 Well, keep in mind, we're dealing with one of the most corrupt organizations in the world in history, FIFA, who along with the IOC is nothing but private kingdoms.

01:11:58.780 But look what the Olympics did in 1988 for Calgary.

01:12:03.840 That put Calgary on the map, without a doubt.

01:12:08.080 So yeah, sometimes you have to spend a little bit of money.

01:12:10.940 A little bit.

01:12:11.420 A little bit.

01:12:11.880 a little bit, but look at the money 1.00

01:12:13.820 the government's throwing around on worse 1.00

01:12:15.800 projects than that. Well, the CBC's

01:12:17.820 a worse project, but I mean, there's

01:12:19.860 things that they just don't need to spend. I mean, we can

01:12:21.800 have that discussion that we're having. Sure. You know,

01:12:23.720 I was an aspiring ski jumper through

01:12:25.760 the 80s, and the 88 Olympics were

01:12:27.440 inspirational and things like that.

01:12:30.120 Back then, they actually made money

01:12:31.900 on that one Olympics. That's the last time it ever happened.

01:12:34.180 True. As you said, the IOC

01:12:35.800 is corrupt. FIFA is corrupt. 0.95

01:12:37.740 I mean, maybe we should be examining ways

01:12:39.840 though. I can understand. You're saying it's a good

01:12:41.700 a good time and it could bring some benefit, but man, we've got to find a way to make it more

01:12:45.320 affordable. But look at the long-term benefits. Soccer is the most affordable sport for any kid

01:12:50.160 to play in the country. And then the number of the success that the women had in the Olympics,

01:12:56.280 the success of the women's program over the last several years, as just, you know, the number of

01:13:02.260 young girls playing soccer has been a boom. And it's the same way with the Canadian team.

01:13:08.280 They've soared up the rankings.

01:13:10.380 And because they're doing well, people are interested.

01:13:13.580 You know, when they last went to the World Cup, they didn't even score a goal.

01:13:17.680 But this time, you know, we've got some world-class players.

01:13:21.720 Alphonso Davies, you know, the best player in the world at his position,

01:13:27.220 playing for one of the top teams in the world, Bayern Munich.

01:13:30.080 So, you know, yeah, I know it means nothing to you,

01:13:32.400 but it might mean something to others.

01:13:34.140 But you know what?

01:13:35.520 Soccer is a growing sport.

01:13:37.540 So it will continue to grow.

01:13:39.880 Well, I mean, I will most certainly concede that.

01:13:42.920 And it is a great sport for parents, kids.

01:13:45.560 I mean, not everybody can afford the ice time, the equipment, the gear.

01:13:49.220 The insurance.

01:13:49.960 I mean, and kids can just go across the street to the park and play around with a ball and practice any time they please.

01:13:56.100 And the insurance, no, it's a great sport.

01:13:57.540 I don't want to knock the sport, though.

01:13:59.560 I knock the fanatics as well as just that English footy thing you guys talk about.

01:14:03.760 That's because you don't understand the offside rule.

01:14:05.440 I'll explain it to you in November when we're watching the Canadian team.

01:14:10.300 I've got something to look forward to.

01:14:12.460 Well, you've made your case.

01:14:14.440 I do, as I said, concede you.

01:14:16.920 You know, it is a large and great sport, and there's a lot of benefits to it.

01:14:20.420 I just, I'm going to have a hard time swallowing the amount being as to make Derek Chief invested.

01:14:24.880 Did you hear me yelling at you from the newsroom?

01:14:26.980 No, but I caught word from somebody that somebody was hollering over there,

01:14:29.880 but it's not the first time somebody's been shouting while I do this show.

01:14:32.300 I don't know, despite the fact it's the worst show you've ever had.

01:14:36.340 Hey, don't be so mean to Paulyev.

01:14:38.380 No, no, Paulyev was good.

01:14:40.300 Just your soccer run was bad.

01:14:41.780 All right.

01:14:42.680 Well, I'm sure we're going to talk about this once or twice before these games come.

01:14:47.640 Absolutely.

01:14:48.280 Thank you for coming in to express your ire with me today.

01:14:51.660 My pleasure.

01:14:52.460 All right, Dave.

01:14:53.700 So for a second time today, that's our news editor, Dave Naylor,

01:14:57.640 who just could no longer contain himself with my most intolerant and hateful rambling about his preferred sport.

01:15:05.440 but fair enough. He's made his case and I know he's not alone. There are a lot of people that

01:15:10.420 think a hell of a lot about it. And it'll be quite an event when it comes. I still, as I said, though,

01:15:16.220 don't care much for the amount of money being spent and think we can do it much more efficiently.

01:15:22.740 But we allow those other voices, especially with the news editor that I got to sit across from all

01:15:26.100 the time. If I get him really upset, then we just have a long, sour, tense day, don't we?

01:15:30.280 so uh this is gary brunette saying you mean you trained with eddie the eagle uh yeah i volunteered

01:15:36.520 at the olympics and did some stuff i did get to see eddie the eagle there but i mean i was just

01:15:41.120 17 at the time which actually in ski jumping is about prime age they don't last really long in

01:15:45.140 that sport no i didn't train with him i gotta say he was probably the only olympian that i could

01:15:50.000 have out jumped well i'm sure i could have out jumped him but uh what uh the 80 olympics were

01:15:54.500 really something i mean the character of some of the people that we never saw again really like

01:15:58.480 that. You know, the appearance of Eddie the Eagle and his crazed jumping and the Jamaican bobsled

01:16:03.220 team, of course, which is legendary. It was a good time. It does leave a mark. It does bring a place

01:16:09.700 into the spotlight events like that. But just these costs, as I said, wow, they're just getting

01:16:14.700 so, so high. I just have a difficulty. But again, you know, just to talk about ski jumping a bit

01:16:23.500 then. And fair enough. I'll tell some stories about the Calgary Olympics and some of the

01:16:27.280 mistakes they made. Ski jump is a great sport too. It's actually can be cheaper than the

01:16:32.920 regular alpine skiing and racing. Like I did all that as a kid as well. I grew up in Banff. As I

01:16:38.120 said, it just kind of comes with the territory. I'm a terrible hockey player, barely skate, but

01:16:41.960 my skiing is pretty good. And it's a fun sport. The Canadian female jumpers team has been fantastic.

01:16:49.020 The ladies team, this last few years, they're doing a great job out there. But there's not

01:16:52.540 nearly enough. Ski jumping used to be huge on the prairies with a lot of the settlers and farmers

01:16:57.700 and Norwegians. They brought it from over there, you know, a hundred years ago. And they would

01:17:02.540 build jumps in any coulis, a hill. You don't need a big mountain to build a ski jump. You just need

01:17:07.540 a good size hill and you can pull it off and you can have a great entertainment sport going on.

01:17:12.000 And for training, our coach would make us carry our boards all the way to the top of the hill on

01:17:15.260 foot, you know, for your leg exercise. Anyways, you don't need ski lifts necessarily, even in all

01:17:19.100 that. And one of the things Dave was talking about is how having World Cups can inspire kids to get

01:17:24.480 into it more. You know, let's see some good Canadian successes. It'll bring more kids out,

01:17:29.080 get them playing. Because again, it's a cost effective sport for kids. It's healthy. It's fun.

01:17:33.480 Absolutely. For soccer, I understand. One of the reasons ski jumping died in Canada,

01:17:38.640 and it's not totally dead. There's still some ladies out there and some others are doing,

01:17:42.000 you know, everything they can, doing a good job. And there's facilities out on the West Coast, 0.99

01:17:44.900 but was the Calgary jumps were terrible. They sucked. The Calgary 90, we were never even allowed 0.93

01:17:49.480 to train on that thing because it was that dangerous. They built it in a spot with cross

01:17:54.420 winds where the sun beats down on it, where it's icy. If you know Calgary, it was not a good

01:17:59.040 location. That's where politics came into play. It was a big battle in the 80s. And people were

01:18:05.460 saying we should put it out in Canmore in the mountains or by Nikiska so that we can get the

01:18:09.060 snow and avoid those winds. But others were saying we're losing way too many venues out of the city.

01:18:13.040 we got to have stuff in the city. So they ended up building it here. They built the jumps

01:18:16.500 for the media and for the spectators, but not for the jumpers. So what happened after that

01:18:21.960 was, yes, everybody came out and used the jumps for the Olympics because the Olympics are a once

01:18:26.240 in a lifetime thing. But once the Olympics were gone, we couldn't get World Cup events. Usually

01:18:32.440 when the Olympics have been held and you build the facilities, just like the speed skating oval

01:18:35.960 had World Cup events afterwards. And Nakiska and Lake Louise, they've had World Cup downhills and

01:18:41.340 slalom and stuff like that. We never had ski jumping coming over here for that because they

01:18:46.100 were not going to come out and put their lives at risk on those terrible jumps in Calgary. They

01:18:50.140 weren't going to do it. They would take a pass on at the international athletes. And you didn't get

01:18:55.120 that local inspiration, get those local jumpers to look up to those events, you know, be spectators

01:18:59.920 at them, feel inspired and get out there and jump. That's part of what I talk about with

01:19:05.540 government waste too, though. There's great sports and everything, but do it right. Do it right.

01:19:09.960 because the Canadian, the Calgary ski jumps,

01:19:13.000 they're going to tear down.

01:19:13.680 They just announced that I believe a year ago.

01:19:15.220 They're done with them.

01:19:15.800 I mean, nobody's used that 90 for anything

01:19:17.060 other than zip lining in years

01:19:18.400 and weddings up on the top

01:19:20.020 and there's a bunch of cell towers on it.

01:19:21.860 That's what it's a, nobody's jumping on the thing.

01:19:23.780 It's suicidal.

01:19:25.120 They did some plastic for summer training

01:19:26.780 for guys on the 70, which was useful in the 50,

01:19:28.920 but either way, just a ramble,

01:19:31.520 but bringing World Cups can have some value,

01:19:34.640 but you got to remember a ski jumping World Cup

01:19:36.060 doesn't cost you $600 million to host.

01:19:39.220 Not even close.

01:19:40.680 I think if they got $2 million towards one of those,

01:19:43.160 they would feel that they've had a bigger grant than they've ever seen.

01:19:46.900 So yeah, getting back to Calgary's vacancy rate,

01:19:50.620 speaking of bringing attention and things in,

01:19:52.760 a third of our offices are vacant, but what a mess.

01:19:56.980 What a mess.

01:19:58.060 So we could have an opportunity to bring a bunch of people in.

01:20:00.440 I was talking off the interview with Paulie about that. 0.98

01:20:04.020 But who's going to come in here when you've got such a lunatic, 0.62

01:20:06.440 insane civic government who is going to have to raise taxes through the roof to pay for an $87 1.00

01:20:11.660 billion climate plan. That isn't going to change the climate, but it'll change the climate in the 1.00

01:20:20.600 sense that we're just going to be really broke. Let's see, Lenny Jajonk saying,

01:20:25.240 my husband is snowboarding on our own hill by the house. Now he's getting retired and he's

01:20:29.300 going to need a lift. Yeah. Eventually as we get on, the ability to climb up there and do it

01:20:33.660 yourself is, uh, gets less and less. Uh, Linda, thank you. Seeing we're a hockey family, but my

01:20:37.880 granddaughter started playing soccer and is doing well. We can watch it in summer and winter. I've

01:20:41.320 gotten into the game, watch hockey and soccer. Yeah. It doesn't have to be either or. It doesn't

01:20:45.160 have to be. It's a good sport. Yeah. Keep calling it soccer. We're still in Canada. Damn it. All

01:20:50.460 right. Well, that was a good show today, guys. Thank you very much for tuning in. Uh, I'm going

01:20:54.520 to have another one tomorrow, of course. And so far we haven't been kicked off YouTube again. So

01:20:58.460 life is good. Uh, but catch us on Rumble and all the rest of those channels. Make sure to share

01:21:03.540 this, you know, it gets knowing and nagging, but for all these things, you know, like and share and

01:21:08.200 all that, but it helps. It gets the word out. We can build that base and we can bypass that terrible

01:21:12.720 mainstream media. We're on Twitter. We're on Rumble. We're on Facebook. We're even on that

01:21:16.540 weird old TikTok. Tomorrow, I got Michelle Sterling coming in with Friends of Science.

01:21:21.860 We're going to talk about that huge climate plan. And of course, Michelle always has some good

01:21:26.520 thoughts on that and covers a lot of ground. And Jay Hill is going to come in afterwards. And Jay,

01:21:30.460 you know, he's been on a number of times. I like getting him on because he was in Ottawa for

01:21:33.300 17 years. So he knows the ins and outs of Parliament very thoroughly. But the other part

01:21:38.780 is that, you know, when he was leading the Maverick Party, one of the executive members was Tamara

01:21:42.400 Lee. He knows her quite well. I mean, I've talked to Tamara on the phone a couple of times before

01:21:47.460 and things like that, but I can't pretend to know her. And it's just good to talk to somebody

01:21:50.540 firsthand with this political prisoner, and that's what she is, to say, you know, what he thinks,

01:21:56.160 what she's about, and the condition she's in. Let's hope somehow that poor woman gets freed

01:22:01.440 soon. So thank you all for tuning in today, guys. And I will see you all again tomorrow at 1130am sharp.

01:22:31.440 We'll be right back.

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