Western Standard - Triggered： Climate change means nothing when you can’t afford to eat

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's July 13th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. As you can see, it's Stampede

00:00:39.940 Week. Yes, Wednesday, halfway through. And for those who know me, they know I hate wearing

00:00:45.940 hats. I never wear hats. I never wear anything on my head. Even when I worked in the bush

00:00:51.240 surveying, it had to get at least below minus 20 before I'd wear a tube. But the other thing

00:00:56.080 I really hate wearing is neckties. So I get my pass from wearing neckties if I dress Western

00:01:02.560 for the Stampede. So here we are. I bought the hat. I bought this, this abomination of a shirt

00:01:08.720 with these mother of pearl buttons, and I'm dressed Western for the biggest cosplay event on earth,

00:01:15.120 the Calgary Stampede. So bear with me, folks. Either way, yes, we got a lot to cover today.

00:01:22.180 It's a busy one. We're going to have our intrepid Mel Risden going out actually on in the

00:01:26.020 midway to get some more direct stuff from the Stampede as it's going on. You know, it's been a

00:01:31.320 couple of years since we've had a full one. Turnouts have been really good at it. The weather's been

00:01:35.180 good for it. It's good to see people out having a good time. We really need it. God knows the whole

00:01:39.580 world's overdue for a good time. So the comment scroll, good to see you all there from Grand

00:01:44.000 Prairie. Even now it looks like Donna out in Ohio. Great. We've got people from out of town. Claudette

00:01:49.360 there. Allie from Moncton, New Brunswick. We got people across the country. Randy and Swan Hills,

00:01:54.280 land of the Swan Hills, Grizzlies, and a good waste disposal site. I like seeing people using

00:02:00.000 that comment scroll, reminding us it's live, that this is interactive. You can get questions to me,

00:02:05.400 questions to the guests, and just keep this moving. That's making my head itch. I also

00:02:11.040 kept a glass of water handy this time in case I have any coughing fits. Okay, so for the other

00:02:16.420 observations today, let's see. It is International Beans and Franks Day. Yes, this is the day of

00:02:23.080 wieners and beans uh a staple food for everybody on a budget something the kids at least will be

00:02:28.480 somewhat prone to eat cut up some hot dogs throw them into a can of beans and you're off to the

00:02:32.340 races uh this is the day to reminisce about them you know they're kind of good comfort food it's

00:02:36.960 cheap stuff it's easy you might not want to eat it every day especially if you got to work in a

00:02:41.700 cramped studio but for today it is beans and frank's day and i mean hey anybody you know if

00:02:47.240 you want a western one that's worth watching blazing saddles and they show the outcomes and

00:02:52.120 the fun you can have from eating a lot of franks and beans in a western environment okay it's also

00:02:56.900 galling as it may be world cup soccer day yes not footy not uh football world cup soccer day this is

00:03:06.320 the day that is supposed to be observed and i'll observe it i'll pay it its due respect i still

00:03:11.560 don't know if i gotta pay my tax dollars towards it but that debate's still ongoing around here

00:03:15.560 but today is the day for those who do appreciate and enjoy that thing it is world cup soccer day

00:03:20.560 and I'd be remiss if I didn't remind everybody of that so they could observe it.

00:03:25.720 All right, so let's see.

00:03:26.880 For the guests today, I've got as well, besides Melanie coming in a little later,

00:03:30.600 Paul Hinman's going to come in from the Wildrose Independence Party,

00:03:32.960 and we're just going to find out what the heck's going on over there.

00:03:35.840 It's political party stuff.

00:03:38.520 It's always a masochistic endeavor for anybody to get involved in, I'll tell you that.

00:03:44.240 We're going to talk to Paul and see what's up.

00:03:45.540 They've got an AGM coming up pretty soon.

00:03:46.940 Maybe they'll be able to resolve some things and get their stuff sorted out

00:03:49.860 because we've got an election less than a year away. Andrew Ruland of Integrated Wealth Management

00:03:54.040 is going to come on. He's been on before. He's a great guest. You know, he's a good conservative

00:03:58.760 thinking man. And of course he knows about wealth management because we want to talk about this

00:04:02.760 sudden, wow, here we go. Another interest rate hike and they're going to keep coming and it's

00:04:07.160 going to impact us and we need to talk about it. So we'll get to that. Now let's see what I'm going

00:04:12.220 on about today. I'm going to start with a quote I used yesterday from Iron Mike Tyson, where

00:04:16.960 everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. The plan right now is to defeat climate

00:04:22.600 change through the banning and reducing of fertilizer use. This plan is being pushed by

00:04:26.220 the World Economic Forum and its acolytes in roles of authority like Justin Trudeau and the Dutch

00:04:32.820 Prime Minister Mark Rutte or Ruti. The punch in the mouth for those people will be the unrest

00:04:38.360 generated though through world hunger. The government of Sri Lanka was basically toppled

00:04:44.200 this month through a citizen uprising sparked by a fertilizer ban that crippled the nation and

00:04:48.460 shot food costs through the roof. The Netherlands have been paralyzed for weeks due to an uprising

00:04:53.460 of farmers protesting against their fertilizer bans that would be economically catastrophic to

00:04:58.480 them. Farmers know how essential fertilizers are as they watch crop yields carefully. Citizens are

00:05:05.160 soon going to know how essential fertilizers are as they watch the cost of food staples rise beyond

00:05:09.560 reach. While it hasn't been making headlines in the legacy media, Canada has a plan to cut fertilizer

00:05:15.480 use by 30% below 2020 levels in less than eight years. If this plan is imposed, it's going to be

00:05:22.200 a disaster for Canadian agricultural producers who are already struggling under the weight

00:05:26.040 of increasing carbon taxes. This will of course lead to explosively rising food costs for Canadian

00:05:31.000 consumers and it'll even impact world food prices since Canada is a major agricultural exporter.

00:05:37.340 Government leaders don't understand how essential fertilizers are because they live in cloistered worlds where their every expense, including food, is covered by the taxpayers.

00:05:45.900 I mean, while people struggle to keep their families nourished, Canada's governor general spent $93,000 to feed her entourage on a flight to the Middle East.

00:05:54.080 The bill didn't even include drinks. I mean, they must have been snorting powdered truffles or something to bring the price that high.

00:06:01.400 And that's the sort of thing that fosters citizen uprisings

00:06:04.620 if our blinded leaders don't see it coming and won't understand why it's happening.

00:06:08.820 The world's population has nearly doubled since 1975.

00:06:12.960 Yet if you look, world famines have virtually vanished.

00:06:15.680 The images of hunger we observed from the 80s and 90s are rare today.

00:06:19.420 Famines, they still happen, but they're usually localized and caused by wars and civil unrest

00:06:23.460 or by socialism, such as in Venezuela.

00:06:26.640 modern farming practices are the sole reason we don't see millions of people starving to death

00:06:31.280 every year yield of food per acre on a modern farm has been rising as fast or faster than world

00:06:36.560 populations have soil management and chemical fertilizer is the game changer here and our

00:06:42.640 ideologically blinded elites in government want to ban these fertilizers look organic farming

00:06:48.720 using manure-based fertilizers and hand weeding is a nice novelty and a luxury it's not a realistic

00:06:55.040 means to produce food. We need fertilizers along with chemicals like ammonia to produce the high

00:06:59.780 yields we require to feed the world. Now, when a family is malnourished or starving, nothing else

00:07:06.320 matters. No amount of virtue signaling from vacuous politicians like Trudeau or dire warnings of a

00:07:12.380 one degree rise in world temperature are going to make a difference to people in that condition.

00:07:19.340 Of course, and I've messed up my teleprompter. I wrote all this in such good faith.

00:07:25.840 There we go.

00:07:26.480 When a family is malnourished.

00:07:27.480 So let's get back to this.

00:07:29.240 So again, though, when people are hungry, when you can't feed your family,

00:07:32.480 you're not worried about these distant possible things of global warming.

00:07:36.160 Energy is a need as well.

00:07:37.220 And nations and northern nations aren't going to stand for freezing in the dark

00:07:40.440 without food for the sake of hopeless battles against potential global warming.

00:07:44.700 Europe's getting a serious reality check right now as they discover they've handed over

00:07:48.600 both their food security and their energy security to a nation that doesn't have their

00:07:52.260 best interest at heart.

00:07:53.980 Canada's on the road to having that wake-up call as well.

00:07:56.880 Green dreams are nothing more than fluffy ideals when citizens can't pay the bills.

00:08:02.420 Will the government die on the climate change hill, or will they face economic reality and let hydrocarbons and chemical fertilizers continue to foster prosperity?

00:08:10.320 If they do refuse to face reality, the next question will be whether they're removed electorally or through an uprising.

00:08:17.600 Citizens won't stand by and starve for the climate ideals of elitists in government any longer.

00:08:24.220 The reality check's coming, guys, and it's going to get hungry.

00:08:27.080 All right, so that's what's got me wound up today.

00:08:29.420 Let's bring in our news editor and see what he's wound up about this morning.

00:08:33.280 And that's Dave Naylor.

00:08:36.340 There he is. How's it going, Dave?

00:08:38.400 Morning, Tex. How are you?

00:08:40.260 Oh, good, good. I'm feeling more Western and Albertan by the moment.

00:08:43.740 I was born here, but I just never learned to embrace Western wear.

00:08:46.940 you would do anything not to wear a tie right pretty close pretty close hey did i hear you

00:08:52.880 talking yesterday that you'd uh messed up your bees somehow and ruined their hive i did i did

00:08:59.420 uh i didn't clean off what they call burr comb well enough when i added the second box on top

00:09:04.360 and uh when i tried to inspect the hives and lift the top box off i tore all my frames apart

00:09:09.820 so i had angry bees and honeycomb and a mess all over the place that i had to try and tidy

00:09:15.660 as an inexperienced beekeeper.

00:09:18.180 I'm learning a lot of lessons as we go with this.

00:09:21.040 And still no stings yet?

00:09:23.020 Not yet, but I do keep myself suited. 0.93

00:09:24.880 I am a coward.

00:09:26.040 No, it's good for you.

00:09:28.640 On the website at the moment, Corey,

00:09:30.400 we have a good story on a CBC reporter,

00:09:33.420 a longtime reporter who has resigned saying

00:09:36.200 CBC is losing its journalistic principles.

00:09:39.820 So that's an interesting story.

00:09:41.940 We've kind of noticed that ourselves over the years.

00:09:44.960 So that's a good story by our Mel Rizdin.

00:09:48.880 We've got a story on Preston Manning talking about Tamara Leach and her imprisonment.

00:09:53.940 He calls it unconscionable and says if she'd been attacking a liberal value, she would be lionized by the left.

00:10:04.000 And given the order of Canada and CBC would make documentaries about her.

00:10:08.820 So it's a good read from Preston Manning.

00:10:12.520 Big news this morning, Corey, obviously, is the Bank of Canada rate up a full 1%.

00:10:17.980 Some experts were calling for it to be up 0.75, but this 1% was shocking to even the experts.

00:10:26.660 So that's going to cause more economic chaos for Canadian families.

00:10:31.600 And Dr. Fauci is back in the news in the States, sort of confirming what we've already figured out ourselves,

00:10:37.780 that COVID vaccines do not halt the spread of the virus.

00:10:42.720 And that's certainly what the stats are showing.

00:10:46.940 So we've got all that and more up there, Corey.

00:10:49.140 People in Ontario over 18 can now go get their second booster shot.

00:10:54.200 So that's big news for people down there.

00:10:56.620 And we've got some breaking news from the Daniel Smith campaign

00:11:00.060 that will be up shortly.

00:11:02.300 She's proposing if she becomes premier, 0.95

00:11:04.860 giving everybody their own health spending account with $300 in it,

00:11:10.220 and you're able to use that for whatever you want,

00:11:13.440 massages, glasses, that sort of thing.

00:11:17.180 So I think that will resonate well with Albertans, Corey,

00:11:20.980 and that story will be up shortly for you.

00:11:24.320 He's getting creative with the campaign promises anyways

00:11:27.380 and catching people's attention.

00:11:29.360 You know, it's hard to hear much from the other candidates so far.

00:11:32.700 Yeah, she's dominating the news cycle by far, Corey, leaving everybody else in the dust,

00:11:38.420 in my opinion.

00:11:39.640 You know, they've got to pick up their game and get some announcements of their own out

00:11:43.460 there.

00:11:44.160 Yeah, so with Fauci formally admitting, I mean, they've kind of talked around it for

00:11:48.180 a long time that vaccines don't prevent transmission.

00:11:50.580 I just wonder, it seems we're always, you know, a few months behind what other people

00:11:54.520 were saying when it comes to this whole pandemic thing.

00:11:57.100 There really isn't much justification left for these mandates anymore.

00:12:00.540 No, no, certainly not.

00:12:02.120 And, you know, Canada has taken a long, you know, a fair amount of the mandates away.

00:12:07.240 But they've got to remember, they're still on truckers.

00:12:10.140 The vindictive Trudeau government is going to harass truckers till the very end, I think.

00:12:15.720 So hopefully relief is coming soon for them.

00:12:19.240 One would hope.

00:12:19.880 All right.

00:12:20.120 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:20.860 I'll talk to you after the show.

00:12:22.800 Yeah, we'll see you on the pipeline.

00:12:24.120 Right on.

00:12:25.600 Yes, today is the day we do the pipeline.

00:12:27.320 That's our weekly show with Dave and Derek and I, where we break down a number of issues,

00:12:31.680 something you guys can look forward to a little later. If you haven't gotten enough of a taste of

00:12:35.820 my rambling and ranting, you can get some more of it a little later. So yeah, this is the time I

00:12:41.720 remind you of all these stories going on. That one in Pentecton really has been going on with a bit

00:12:45.920 of a vigilante movement going on out there, out in BC with frustrated business owners. Reid Small

00:12:51.640 wrote that one. Reid's out in BC, he's really picking up on the BC news. You know, we got Matt

00:12:57.060 in Ottawa, we got Chris in Saskatchewan, we got Linda in Manitoba. We're really spreading out

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00:14:06.620 Let's see, I'm going to look at some other stuff that didn't pop up in our news quite yet, I don't think, but Starbucks, yeah, a Starbucks in Calgary has unionized.

00:14:15.260 Yes, this is going to end well for sure.

00:14:17.720 So, you know, we can look forward to, because the coffee at Starbucks wasn't expensive or pretentious enough yet.

00:14:23.420 now is going to be made by what a barista making $30 an hour with a massive pension plan. I think

00:14:29.220 we're seeing the beginning of the end of Starbucks. I find it kind of funny and ironic though you

00:14:33.580 watch if you look at the whole history and progression of Starbucks you know it started

00:14:36.640 way out in the left coast and it was the hippie coffee. It was the trendy coffee. It was the

00:14:41.020 left-wing coffee. It was all ethically sourced. It was cool but of course they were a victim of

00:14:46.440 their own success. I mean they're across all of North America and they're huge. They're a big

00:14:51.200 big business. And of course, eventually, the woke left turns on their own. And they've turned on

00:14:56.280 Starbucks quite some time ago. Now it has to be, you know, some sort of little corner shop owned

00:15:01.780 in a bad part of town run, you know, serving cat poop coffee or something like that. Starbucks is

00:15:06.840 still enduring and hanging in there. But they are, this will be a death knell. And they got a whole

00:15:12.160 bunch of them going union all over the place. And part of that is, of course, they've attracted and

00:15:15.760 drawn all these woke entitled uh chodes as staff to work in their stores and it's caught up with 1.00

00:15:21.840 them go woke go broke that's the atmosphere you fostered it's going to cost you it's unfortunate 0.77

00:15:27.900 but uh yeah claudette saying they're already closing a bunch of starbucks to starbucks down

00:15:32.760 yeah and there's a whole whack of them 16 locations right away are getting shut down

00:15:36.240 and they're blaming uh uh saying it's not safe environment to set up you know and things well

00:15:41.800 that's part of it. If they're in urban areas downtown, as we know in Calgary, pretty much

00:15:46.220 every other liberal run city, the downtowns are getting extremely dangerous for everybody.

00:15:51.660 But they also were saying that we've been having trouble with, you know, getting rid of our 0.97

00:15:56.780 systemic racism and all these other things and all this introverted woke crap and talk. They're 0.99

00:16:01.920 saying they're going to shut down their own thing because they can't deal with their own

00:16:04.620 woke regulations. Basically, it's just nuts, but that's fine. So we can witness and watch them

00:16:11.420 commit economic suicide. And don't worry, there will be plenty of other independent coffee

00:16:17.520 outlets that will open up and won't be so stupid as to get a bunch of employees who are going to 0.98

00:16:22.540 sign up for the Steelworkers Union. That's what it was, the Steelworkers Union that signed up 0.98

00:16:26.380 these baristas. And they'll be able to serve you coffee and mispronounce your name that's written 0.99

00:16:31.460 on the cup, just like Starbucks and probably at a better price. But it's one of the things making

00:16:37.000 in the news. And again, businesses should take note. I mean, we've got some tough economic times

00:16:41.300 coming. Jane and I, I owned that bar in Prittis, and it was connected with Jane's cafe, and we

00:16:47.180 made coffee. We had baristas. We made good stuff. It's a tough go. It's narrow margin, you know? I

00:16:51.500 mean, hey, a good barista is worth something. They're worth paying. I'm not saying it's totally

00:16:54.460 without skill, but, you know, it's limited, and you've got to get realistic with these things.

00:17:02.460 and uh well we'll see where this where this goes but i i i the strong will survive in business

00:17:08.940 if government will get out of the way that's when the uh things uh fall off the rails as soon as

00:17:14.100 government gets mixed around in it let's just theo saying cory did you borrow that shirt from

00:17:17.620 maxine bernier hey that's not very nice i'll have maxine bernier on friday by the way if you're

00:17:22.340 wondering we'll see what kind of shirt he's got on it's got some color and everything i'm going

00:17:26.000 to the stampede grounds today i'm checking it out i gotta have the stampede wear on i still got a

00:17:30.980 a terrible memory of being on one of those spinning rides and I puked all over a babysitter

00:17:35.240 when I was a kid, way many, many years ago. And you see with this, if I get sick at the,

00:17:39.780 at the stampede, nobody's going to notice, you know? So if I'm trying one of those cricket

00:17:44.100 hot dogs or something like that, I can just, you know, wipe it off and it's not going to be

00:17:47.660 noticed. That was a mistake that Taves made when, when he went out in his Western wear and the

00:17:52.480 media focused, you know, our great old mainstream media, because he, he had a splotch of mustard

00:17:56.140 or something on his shirt. Big deal. But either way, you're not going to spot it on this thing.

00:18:02.800 So let's see here. Yes, we've got lots going on. I see Paul sitting in the lobby. Hey,

00:18:08.620 I'll pull him in here if he's ready to roll. Let's get on to things other than my fashion sense

00:18:13.400 and talk about what's happening with the Wildrose Independence Party, because I'm kind of concerned

00:18:17.740 about it. So let's see what's up here, Paul. How's it going? Going good, Corey. Got to say,

00:18:23.820 You've got some good ones today, but I have to start off with, do I have to

00:18:26.820 wear a hat to get on the show?

00:18:28.860 You don't have to, and as I said earlier, I never do, but, but again, that 0.99

00:18:33.580 that was the law laid down by, by Derek with these darn dress codes. 0.94

00:18:37.240 Like if we're going to get away with this week without wearing a tie, we 0.98

00:18:39.880 got to go to full Western wear.

00:18:41.520 So here we go.

00:18:43.280 And, uh, I'm complying.

00:18:44.640 I'd still rather wear this thing on my noodle than a necktie.

00:18:48.960 I would tend to agree.

00:18:50.440 And I, I I've got mine, but you know, I don't know.

00:18:52.980 I don't, I don't need it inside.

00:18:54.360 The sun's not shining and I don't need the protection, but it's great to be here,

00:18:59.100 Corey.

00:18:59.520 And I got to say, you've talked about some good things.

00:19:01.740 Um, I didn't realize that you were a beekeeper.

00:19:04.360 I got into those a few years ago too, and man, they're, they're, they're smart.

00:19:08.020 They know how to look after their own, but, but you got to intervene every

00:19:10.620 now and then it's a problem.

00:19:12.900 Yeah.

00:19:13.080 It's been, I I've really been enjoying it, but I got a sharp learning curve.

00:19:16.700 This is season one for these things.

00:19:18.320 And my goal is modest.

00:19:19.340 If I can just keep them surviving through the winter and into spring,

00:19:22.440 think it's a success i'll worry about actually producing honey next year yeah well you you

00:19:26.680 might actually get some this year and i lost mine i think three years ago i had two two hives lost

00:19:32.840 them in the winter time and so last when last year i bought one i didn't really get hardly any honey

00:19:38.520 but they survived i'm excited and i hope this year i get some honey but nothing sweeter than a little

00:19:44.040 bit of alberta honey yeah well it's that issue i guess you know if you don't keep them maintained

00:19:49.160 you could end up deleting your hive in the winter basically but we'll see yep yep so getting back to

00:19:55.400 we had john a little while ago things were pretty uh uh heated i guess between yourself and the

00:20:00.440 executive of the wild rose independence party uh now i mean we'll need this explained i i know

00:20:06.760 you're still out there you're serving as leader you're you're holding town hall meetings you did

00:20:10.680 one in southwood recently uh but at the same time the executive is claiming that they have an interim

00:20:16.440 leader you're no longer the leader and and they're just moving ahead uh what's going on well like

00:20:22.200 usual they're not really doing anything in public but they love meeting their little secret meetings

00:20:26.360 and uh organizing and i don't know pontificating on things but we got to talk to albertans

00:20:32.200 it's exciting to be out there's just so many issues and you know you talked earlier about

00:20:37.160 tamara albertans should be up in arms our government should be up in arms and saying

00:20:41.880 bring her back i mean how many years ago was it that we put out 10.5 million dollars to an

00:20:46.920 individual that was supposedly wrongfully you know detained this is just unbelievable to me and we

00:20:53.640 need some leadership in government to reach out and stop this insanity and i don't know it's

00:20:59.560 frustrating again who can believe that we've gone from from the the wokeism of climatology and the

00:21:07.160 the fact that climate is changing which by the way folks it's always changed um to saying that

00:21:13.320 they're going to reduce fertilizer and yet in their back breath they talk about humanity and

00:21:17.880 the importance of bringing up you know reducing poverty and feeding the world uh that their

00:21:23.000 actions actually show who they are these are not good people they don't have good motives that they

00:21:29.720 want to hurt humanity they want people to be dependent on government they want us to own

00:21:34.920 nothing and and we need some leadership we need a government that is actually going to be there to

00:21:40.200 protect the individuals their rights their life their liberty their property their pursuit of

00:21:44.200 happiness and all those things are being undermined and we we just need to get out and and i guess

00:21:51.160 reach out to albertans and i love your statement uh go woke go broke boy does that um pertain to

00:21:57.320 government more than anywhere our governments have gone woke and we're running massive deficits a one

00:22:04.120 percent interest rights today what's that going to do to people that their mortgages are coming due

00:22:09.000 it's just it's shameful yeah well pivot it back i mean especially as conservatives we're sometimes

00:22:16.680 our own worst enemies drew barnes has been the only elected official really and it's you know

00:22:21.000 tamara leach is his constituent and he's been speaking up and speaking out on her behalf but

00:22:25.320 the silence from the ucp on an alberta constituent on this of course has been deafening uh but drew

00:22:31.560 is also an example of if you speak up too much you get kicked out of your party and and likewise

00:22:36.760 i still want to kind of get to you know questions with the wilders independence party you've got

00:22:41.080 an agm coming up in a week and change uh what's going to happen there well i i think our members

00:22:47.640 are going to take our party back but uh again you know when you're up against a cabal that has you

00:22:53.080 know the communications locked down the website locked down um they basically you know put a

00:22:58.920 stranglehold on on every area of our membership and putting out their you know ridiculous letters

00:23:05.160 and the slanderous letters that they're shooting ourselves in the foot and it's very discouraging

00:23:12.280 you know that i don't know whether you want to call them plants um gangsters whether they're

00:23:19.000 agents of destruction that you've been fighting the independent movement longer than anything

00:23:24.920 cory and you understand but boy you really have to wonder you know some of these individuals that

00:23:29.560 they've come in to make sure that we're not successful and i have great faith in our

00:23:34.160 memberships here on the 23rd of july at baymont in red deer our members will take the party back

00:23:41.540 we can't have a cabal of 10 um destroying our party in the future for alberta yeah well that's

00:23:48.460 what to talk about because that's what kind of surprised me when i talked with you and rick

00:23:52.740 Northey recently was, okay, there's some disputes, there's some problems. That's hardly new in the

00:23:57.420 parties. We know that all too well. But when you have an AGM coming that close, that's when ideally

00:24:02.560 you'd say, well, let's throw it out on the floor at the AGM. We're going to have the members here.

00:24:07.300 And this is when we can hash it out instead of trying to radically change the party 10 days

00:24:13.040 before an AGM and leave members without a choice. So I imagine, I mean, you're going to be attending

00:24:20.240 that AGM and I hope it's a productive one. I think it'll be very productive. And again,

00:24:26.640 you know, one of the sad things that we all realize is what people are like when they're

00:24:32.320 intoxicated or high. And it's a real problem in our society when people get into that.

00:24:38.160 The thing that I've realized more than anything when it comes to government and power and these

00:24:42.640 institutions is that people become intoxicated and high with power. And again, they're just

00:24:49.040 drunk and not thinking reasonable. And like I said, I have great faith in the members stepping

00:24:55.060 up and saying, you know, we don't need you anymore to tell us what we can and can't do. And you don't

00:25:00.060 respond to our emails and you don't, there's been such a disconnect. And again, it goes back to what

00:25:05.260 we're talking with climate change. These woke individuals and woke politicians who want to

00:25:11.320 reduce fertilizer and take away, you know, cheap fuel that helps, you know, an input into our basic

00:25:17.860 life and living and and it's the same with with inside government and our our current board

00:25:23.380 there's a a cabal of them it's not all of them but but the majority and they just kind of like

00:25:29.780 i say they're grasping at every angle they can uh the information is hard to get we don't even know

00:25:36.180 who's up for elections and it's very disappointing to see the way they're operating and what they're

00:25:42.100 going to do going into the agm but but the members are fired up and they want their freedom and they

00:25:46.660 want their party and they want to save alberto that's it it is frustrating i mean i want to see

00:25:52.340 a good competitive uh election i want to see multiple parties really making a push and

00:25:57.060 unfortunately when you're spending more time putting out fires from within rather than getting

00:26:00.740 ready for an election in less than a year it makes it difficult and there is so much to push back as

00:26:05.380 you said there's irrational people and uh you know drunkenness is almost a good comparison like i said

00:26:11.540 in my opening monologue i mean these are world economic forum type people these are elitists

00:26:16.660 these are ones that don't understand what it is to have difficulty paying the rent or

00:26:20.980 feeding the family as i said it's it's national franken beans day you know i was laughing about

00:26:25.300 that as a comfort food but that's also a food that you feed when you're a parent because you 0.99

00:26:29.060 can't afford much for kids and these imbeciles are trying to ban fertilizers and fossil fuels 0.99

00:26:36.020 it's absurd but they're disconnected from the realities of the majority of the world 1.00

00:26:40.980 Yes, I've said many times, I think I said it last time I was on your show, these are economic imbeciles that are sitting around the table eating chicken nuggets, plotting on how to get rid of chicken farms. 0.99

00:26:51.820 And now it's the same thing. 0.99

00:26:53.140 Now they're plotting on how to get rid of fertilizer.

00:26:55.320 They don't know what it's for, but they've been told, oh, it hurts the atmosphere.

00:26:59.100 I'm sorry, that's actually you want to go green?

00:27:02.520 Fertilizer is what produces green. 0.80

00:27:04.340 Fertilizer and water.

00:27:06.000 And yet they want to attack these things.

00:27:08.220 they want to reduce people's consumption of them and it's just wrong what they're doing and and

00:27:13.340 there's two things corey i i guess that that it's really boiling down to is trust and truth and and

00:27:20.380 we have very little trust in our government in our organizations whether it's the who whether

00:27:25.420 it's you know alberta health care uh whatever it is the edgy alberta education that the trust

00:27:31.340 is has been diminished if not uh you know eliminated for many people and then the truth

00:27:37.260 and they won't tell the truth co2 is not a toxin it's not a pollutant it's plant food and if they

00:27:43.340 went to biology 30 and studied it they'd really realize the cycle of co2 and plants and oxygen

00:27:49.660 and how important it is but they're about fear-mongering they're about scaring you they're

00:27:53.580 about saying that you can't do it on your own you need big brother big government there from cradle

00:27:58.140 to grave and that's their goal and again like it's disappointing to hear the front runner

00:28:02.860 who i absolutely say is the best of the pack um is now wanting to give away more money how about

00:28:09.420 reducing our taxes how about making health care accessible uh instead of another ploy and this is

00:28:15.100 a problem that we have in this even so-called conservative movement is more promises what we

00:28:20.700 need to do is promise to reduce the size of government need to promise to leave money in

00:28:24.700 your pocket not taxing it we need to promise that you have your freedom not saying what businesses

00:28:29.740 you can and can't do you need to reduce the regulations say you know if you want to travel

00:28:33.900 you can give us back our constitutional rights all of these core issues are being pushed to the side

00:28:39.820 with you know little trinkets and sparkly items and and a few flashing dollars saying oh you know

00:28:45.500 vote for me and it's sad and that's why the wild rose just needs to take back our party on the 23rd

00:28:51.660 and and be there for albertans to actually have something that people can vote and believe in

00:28:56.220 instead of the best of the worst. Well, things that kind of have to get worse before they'll

00:29:01.940 get better. And they are getting worse. And kind of, as I said, my monologue, when people can't

00:29:08.440 pay the bills, when they can't feed the family, they're going to get up. And it doesn't matter

00:29:13.360 how much you warn them about how the temperature is going to go up a degree in 50 years, potentially,

00:29:17.200 or, you know, a tree frog in some obscure place. They're just worried about their immediate bills

00:29:22.600 and they're not going to take it.

00:29:24.140 So I guess the goal is, though, I mean, there's always that risk

00:29:26.300 when people are ready for radical change because they've had enough.

00:29:30.040 We're just going to make sure it's positive change

00:29:31.720 because sometimes, of course, when people rush in a panic to change,

00:29:34.500 they can take a negative path as well.

00:29:36.880 So it takes some planning and some electoral options and wisdom, I guess.

00:29:41.180 We've got eight months to work on it.

00:29:42.880 That's the scary thing, Corey, is that if you wait until you're desperate,

00:29:46.980 until there really is food shortages,

00:29:48.740 until the price is to the point where you can't pay your bills

00:29:52.200 and sustain your family, then you end up with mob mentality.

00:29:57.500 And that's not good.

00:29:58.540 It's terrible.

00:29:59.660 And we need to give that food security, fuel security to Albertans

00:30:03.060 and realize that it is here and we can protect it.

00:30:06.580 But I don't know.

00:30:07.900 It's just so discouraging to look at Trudeau and Biden and the world leaders

00:30:12.980 and their ploy to say, oh, we're going to save the world

00:30:16.820 because the climate catastrophe is here.

00:30:19.240 I mean, even Mayor Gondike, you know, calling a climate emergency. Do these people know what emergency is? No, they don't. The Emergency Act, just that in itself, I've come to realize after the flood in High River in 2013 in Calgary, you've got to let people be free to protect themselves, their property and do things.

00:30:39.600 And when government steps in, I'm sorry, the outcome is diminished, if not, I want to say complicated, made worse.

00:30:49.700 And there's just so many opportunities that we have here.

00:30:52.580 And it's critical that we're able to get out and talk to Albertans and let them realize there is a viable option.

00:30:59.040 You don't have to vote for the best of the worst.

00:31:01.060 You can actually vote for what you believe in.

00:31:03.400 And that's what the Wild Rose Independence Party is about and why we're here.

00:31:06.760 and we need people to come out to the AGM and oust this cabal of individuals who want to destroy

00:31:14.260 all of that. Well, I want to close it out so that that AGM is in about 10 days. Where can

00:31:22.100 people find out information or can they contact you, I guess, because the information from the

00:31:25.420 party is now sort of limited. You know, I haven't actually gone to my website to see if it's up

00:31:31.360 there, Paul at paulhinman.com, but, um, it should be on the party's website, wildrosenation.com.

00:31:37.360 Um, but if not, yeah, give us a call at 1-888-262-1888 or email me at paulhinman at gmail.com.

00:31:47.280 Okay.

00:31:47.840 And the AGM is going to be in red gear, uh, on, uh, it's open.

00:31:52.460 Yeah.

00:31:53.100 23rd of July at the Baymont.

00:31:55.920 Okay.

00:31:56.460 Well, we'll see what happens.

00:31:58.260 And I'm pretty sure we'll send somebody from the standard there to, to watch.

00:32:01.020 Hopefully something productive comes out of it.

00:32:04.160 We just want to let everybody know what's happening and let your members sort things out how they will.

00:32:09.540 Yeah, continuation of Wild Western days.

00:32:12.620 It is that.

00:32:13.700 All right.

00:32:14.100 Well, thanks, Paul, and good luck in the next little while, and I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

00:32:19.960 Thanks, Corey.

00:32:20.560 You take care and keep up the good work.

00:32:22.240 And, again, let's support independent news.

00:32:25.440 Great.

00:32:25.760 Thanks, Paul.

00:32:26.800 So this is Paul Hinman, the leader of the Wildrose Independence Party.

00:32:31.020 or not. It depends whether you ask their executive, there's some confusion. And that's why I wanted

00:32:36.960 to get Paul on, just to clarify some of that. And again, if you're members, if you're concerned,

00:32:41.680 well, this is certainly an AGM you have to get out to. This is the chance when you're on the ground,

00:32:45.980 you can't hide things through emails and through a website or notices on Twitter.

00:32:51.440 This is face-to-face and you can find out and ask people just what's going on, whether you got

00:32:56.320 questions for Paul or whether you got questions for the executive. I'd say if you're concerned

00:33:00.200 about that party, you had better get out to that AGM because there's nothing worse. As I said,

00:33:05.220 I don't have a membership with any party. I certainly have my leanings. This is an opinion

00:33:08.860 show. It'd be pretty boring if I was always totally neutral, but I do want to see competitiveness.

00:33:15.460 I mean, that's a problem we have all over the place. It's a problem we have in the private

00:33:18.600 market. It's a problem we have in politics. The more options people have that are properly

00:33:24.440 building themselves and selling themselves, typically the better the product is going to be.

00:33:28.540 and we need to make sure we have a multi-party system.

00:33:33.160 Let's not let it morph into a two-party system.

00:33:35.260 An NDP, UCP system is stagnant

00:33:40.920 and that's how you get polarization.

00:33:42.500 That's how you don't get decent ideas

00:33:44.620 that are landing sometimes in the middle or uniquely.

00:33:48.180 So check things out, check those parties out, get engaged.

00:33:51.540 That's the important part, get engaged.

00:33:53.860 Can't sit back because hey, if you don't do it,

00:33:55.960 someone's gonna do it on your behalf

00:33:57.160 and they probably won't do what you're really hoping they will.

00:34:01.260 So I'm going to have a quick guest spot in for Andrew Ruland.

00:34:04.700 He's going to come in.

00:34:05.520 He's been on the show before.

00:34:06.700 It was always a fun discussion when he's come on.

00:34:08.920 He's with Integrated Wealth Management

00:34:10.380 because we have some economic issues to talk about right now

00:34:15.360 that are very important.

00:34:17.340 And with these interest rate hikes,

00:34:19.000 I mean, they're impacting people's finances

00:34:21.360 on many, many levels right now.

00:34:23.520 It's impacting the economy.

00:34:24.840 and I just want to have a quick chat with Andrew and you know I guess get a rundown on it and how

00:34:30.040 it's impacting folks so hey Andrew how you doing? I'm well good morning Corey. Great thanks for

00:34:35.180 coming in today or at least coming on today I should say usually you come in person but this

00:34:39.240 was sort of sudden because we knew the interest rates were going to be coming up but I think he

00:34:43.520 you know the size of this hike and how recently since the last one that came out of the Bank of

00:34:49.760 Canada I think it's caught still some people flat-footed and is really sort of giving a bit

00:34:54.340 of a slap to the head.

00:34:56.000 Yeah, nobody is more flat footed, actually, than the central bankers.

00:35:00.160 You know, they're they basically were laid out of the gate, probably at least a year

00:35:04.620 behind in terms of starting the interest rate hiking cycle, you know, just based on based

00:35:10.700 on on monetary policy with so much money printing.

00:35:13.900 And so what we saw today from from Tip Macklin, you know, Governor of the Bank of

00:35:19.140 Canada is is basically central bankers panicking because and it's I want to be really clear about

00:35:26.840 this it's not because increasing interest rates at the central bank level is going to actually

00:35:33.400 do much of anything to actually stop the price inflation that we have but it's political because

00:35:41.280 they they've been forced into it by by virtue of being kind of a political entity in addition to

00:35:48.320 being obviously an economic and monetary entity and you know the the reason why the interest rates

00:35:55.040 are not interest rate increases are not going to have the price dampening effect that uh that a lot

00:36:00.240 of people think that that they will is because this is not the price inflation that we're experiencing

00:36:06.560 is not being driven by a robust economy with uh with tons and tons of demand this is being driven

00:36:13.200 by supply shortfall. And supply shortfall is a direct result of shorter term and longer term

00:36:20.960 policy decisions at the government level, not necessarily the Bank of Canada level.

00:36:26.800 And that's pretty distressing to think because one thing that raising the interest rates will do

00:36:30.960 though was it will chill the economy. I mean, that's sort of the intent if you're thinking

00:36:34.640 you're fighting inflation. I mean, capital projects get deferred or at least scaled back,

00:36:40.400 people are less inclined to purchase houses or do business starts if they have to finance

00:36:44.800 against these these rates are going to have an impact on us and then we start fearing a recession

00:36:49.360 it will have an economic impact unquestionably but it's not going to do anything for price

00:36:54.160 inflation other than perhaps in in the housing market and most especially in the you know the

00:36:59.760 three uh the three uh highest price um local housing markets which would be the greater

00:37:06.640 toronto area uh the lower mainland and vancouver island and those are the areas where the prices

00:37:12.320 have have you know been ridiculous for for quite some time um but the fact is is that you know they

00:37:18.320 have a certain amount of limitations on supply especially west of us but also driven substantially

00:37:25.200 by having a lot of demand from uh from net in migration and and so those are the areas that

00:37:31.680 are going to have to see the biggest price adjustments downward because the market always

00:37:37.320 finds a certain equilibrium of price and volume, right? It's based on supply and demand. And so

00:37:46.620 when the cost of financing a home goes up and people's wages don't go up as quickly as interest

00:37:55.580 rates go up and the mortgage payments go up, the price of the asset, in this case the home,

00:38:00.300 has to come down so that the payment meets the ability of the buyer to pay.

00:38:06.260 So we're kind of getting the worst of both out of this then. We're going to get the chilled economy,

00:38:11.080 the pressure on us as individuals, but we aren't going to get the reduction in cost of goods and

00:38:16.060 services. And it sounds like the Bank Canada is signaling that they're going to carry on and

00:38:20.860 increase these rates more in the coming future. Yeah, we ain't seen nothing yet is my view.

00:38:26.020 they're just getting started. And I would characterize this as being, you know, all kinds

00:38:32.860 of pain for very little gain in terms of intended result. The problems with the supply chain are

00:38:41.320 mostly policy driven, as I mentioned. Now, supply chains always are at risk of exogenous events,

00:38:47.840 such as natural disasters, as an example, right? I mean, if you have a hurricane,

00:38:51.980 that's going to close a port if you have an earthquake that might close a port and damage

00:38:56.820 some rail lines and highways and and all those kinds of things so uh supply chains don't need

00:39:02.600 uh policy decisions that uh that are hurting right and when i when i say policy decisions

00:39:09.940 i'm talking about on the supply side particularly with uh with oil and gas but since the beginning

00:39:16.920 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,

00:39:20.640 basically almost all of the economic pain

00:39:24.580 has been borne by Western countries

00:39:26.220 because the leaders of the Western countries said,

00:39:30.140 well, we don't want to get into a direct shooting war

00:39:34.540 with Russia. 1.00

00:39:35.500 We'll fight to the last Ukrainian 1.00

00:39:36.920 and give them lots of arms, 0.99

00:39:38.420 but we don't want to get in a direct shooting war with them,

00:39:41.140 so we'll try and punish them with economic sanctions.

00:39:43.940 Well, those economic sanctions are effectively

00:39:45.880 a giant economic boomerang and they've come back and they have smacked the Western nations in the

00:39:52.160 face. Well, I mean, I guess, you know, there's a lot to watch and a lot changing, you know,

00:39:57.600 quickly, I guess, before I let you get back to work, like for those of us, people, of course,

00:40:01.580 are worried about their investments, their nest eggs. How do you hedge against what looks to be

00:40:06.540 coming here? You know, I mean, are bonds going to start looking a little better if we're getting

00:40:09.800 higher interest rates or should we just be leaving our portfolios alone or what do we do to ride

00:40:14.660 this out. Okay. That's an hour long discussion, but I'll be as brief as I can. You guys specialize

00:40:21.400 in it. And I know there's a lot more on your website to cover, but. Right. Rising interest

00:40:25.300 rates are going to hurt bonds. Now, if you're buying bonds fresh, you'll get a higher yield,

00:40:30.980 which is great. There may at some point in the future be some room for capital gains if they

00:40:35.940 have to drop interest rates again, if we get another economic blow. But for the major trend

00:40:43.040 is upwards in inflation and in interest rates so the fact is that traditional bonds are actually a

00:40:49.280 very unsafe asset class going forward the stock markets commodity markets bond markets they are

00:40:57.440 all discounting mechanisms they look out into the future and they price in what they think is going

00:41:02.320 to happen they usually overshoot both on the upside and the downside in this case they priced

00:41:08.880 in a recession. And that recession is being driven by demand destruction from high oil and gas

00:41:18.440 prices. So it's going to take and, you know, fertilizer, natural gas, all those things that

00:41:23.520 we know are a problem. So in terms of what to do in a portfolio, I would say the worst thing to do

00:41:30.840 right now would be to react and turn temporary declines into permanent losses. But that doesn't

00:41:35.580 mean you should be uh oblivious or uh or passive uh start looking for new ways to uh to actually

00:41:42.920 profit from inflation and it takes time for for stock markets and commodity markets to to adjust

00:41:49.480 but i think that most of the pain is already in at least i hope so uh but longer term uh companies

00:41:54.920 uh raise their dividends great companies raise their dividends faster than the rate of inflation

00:41:59.580 which drives their stock prices back up and if they're selling a commodity with a long-term

00:42:04.540 upward trend, they will also benefit.

00:42:07.440 Well, the most important and first part advice, of course, was, yeah, don't panic.

00:42:10.820 Just, you know, work with things with a plan and so on.

00:42:14.180 And that's just where I wanted to lead you because, yeah, I know in our quick 10 minutes

00:42:17.360 here, we won't have time to cover it all, but that's your specialty.

00:42:20.200 I mean, you hold entire webinars and things such as that to help people with all those

00:42:24.200 sorts of things.

00:42:25.120 So maybe, you know, before I let you go, then where can people find more information?

00:42:28.560 Because a lot of people are worried and concerned.

00:42:30.180 I mean, they've been saving their retirement's looming or maybe they're already retired.

00:42:33.580 They want to make sure that they can weather this storm.

00:42:36.820 Well, as you can see by the backdrop, we're integrated wealth management,

00:42:41.140 and you can type in integratedwealthmanagement.ca.

00:42:44.780 And we also have a new web domain.

00:42:46.640 It's i-wealth.ca.

00:42:49.520 So integratedwealthmanagement.ca or i-wealth.ca.

00:42:54.640 Great.

00:42:54.980 Well, thanks for coming to explain a little bit what's going on with this.

00:42:58.440 As you know, it's important to know those differences.

00:43:01.080 For example, as you said,

00:43:01.880 there's different types of things pushing inflation. If it was a red hot economy,

00:43:05.500 that's one thing, because at least that means things are moving. But if it's supply chain,

00:43:09.420 then you really got to be careful with that economy because you cool that down,

00:43:12.620 we're going to make a lot of trouble. Yep. This is cost push, not demand pull.

00:43:17.580 All right. Well, thanks. Maybe we'll check in as things develop down the road here. And I

00:43:21.480 appreciate your input today, Andrew. My pleasure. Have a good day.

00:43:25.180 Great. Thanks. So that was Andrew Ruland with Integrated Wealth Management. As I said,

00:43:29.480 we can look them up. And yeah, it's hard with this show being live with such big and complex

00:43:33.640 issues. You know, you can only catch so much in a short visit, but we covered a bit of that ground

00:43:37.840 because those interest rates really are sending some shockwaves through people and their investments

00:43:43.160 and things like that. And we've got to be careful. And as Andrew said, just don't panic, you know,

00:43:48.940 plan, be careful, look at the long game. And as I do anyways, I'm not sitting with looking at the

00:43:55.920 long game. I'm not great with investment strategy and things like that. That's why I look to experts

00:44:00.720 such as those, you know, wealth planners and things like that. Or often, you know, my wife Jane,

00:44:05.400 who knows a hell of a lot more about these things than I do. There's those things in life. You want

00:44:09.100 to make your life better, defer to the experts. You can't be an expert in everything. You know,

00:44:13.580 you're going to get in trouble if you try, especially with something as important as your

00:44:19.300 retirement or your income. Hey, if it's not your forte, you know, take it and let somebody who

00:44:26.200 knows what they're doing deal with it. All right. Just a question. I see a commenter. Was it Jay

00:44:30.820 Rad saying, having challenges with subscribing, getting a spinning wheel on the Western Standard

00:44:36.400 site? I'm not sure. I believe if you email info at westernstandard.news, somebody in operations

00:44:42.680 can help you out if there were some issues with the subscription. I appreciate you trying to

00:44:45.300 subscribe though. We want to get you in there. I don't want to discourage. It's a new site.

00:44:48.820 Sometimes there's a few bugs and things, but keep at it.

00:44:51.540 Honest, it works for most people.

00:44:53.040 It's probably just a little thing.

00:44:54.800 Because I get issues like that too, trying to buy things online.

00:44:57.180 Same sort of thing.

00:44:57.860 I always dump it always on Jane.

00:44:59.000 If I want to find something on Amazon or whatever, I don't want to set up the account and figure

00:45:01.740 out all that stuff.

00:45:02.540 I just dump it on my wife, Jane, and get her to buy it on my behalf.

00:45:06.220 It's laziness on my part.

00:45:07.640 But hey, I don't make her write columns for me or anything.

00:45:12.120 So let's see.

00:45:14.400 Ashley saying, how's the country no bigger than Alberta causing food shortages and soaring

00:45:17.280 gas prices?

00:45:17.840 You're talking about Ukraine, I imagine. Well, that's tied in with Russia, which is much, much bigger than Canada, even much less Alberta. And they were the ones, you know, supplying a lot of oil and gas to a whole lot of the West. It's kind of like Andrew was talking about, though, when other countries are saying, well, we're not going to take that product anymore. Well, that impacts the markets, and they're trying to get more of the oil and gas from elsewhere, and it's going to put the prices up.

00:45:42.380 Likewise, food shortages.

00:45:43.660 Ukraine, though, as much as it's smaller than Alberta, it is a bread basket.

00:45:47.520 It's a main food producer in Europe.

00:45:50.280 It's like Canada as well in the sense that they export it or at least far, far more than they ever brought in.

00:45:56.100 So when they cut their crops because they're in the middle of a war, they're not seeding and harvesting nearly as much.

00:46:01.860 It's going to impact the world prices.

00:46:03.120 That's just the way it goes.

00:46:05.040 And, you know, Jet Gorgon saying, yeah, China and India are still trading with Russia.

00:46:08.600 Yeah, and there's the futility of some of these, you know, trying to fight back economically in this, in that people want the oil and gas.

00:46:18.180 That's that denial. That's that foolishness going on out there in the world and everything.

00:46:22.020 These lunatics who think we're beyond oil and gas. 1.00

00:46:25.160 You know, look at all the idiots. How long ago were people saying oil is dead? 1.00

00:46:27.980 No, it's not even close.

00:46:30.440 And it's a world market.

00:46:32.920 So yeah, China and India, you know, if Germany and the others are saying they don't want Russian

00:46:36.980 products, China and India will take it. Bring it over here. And you know what? China and India 0.76

00:46:41.860 would be overjoyed to get, say, Canadian liquid natural gas, but we're busy punching ourselves

00:46:46.080 in the balls and shutting off our terminals before we even get them built. You know,

00:46:50.720 the Trans Mountain Pipeline, I'll be lucky if my great-grandchildren see oil going through that

00:46:54.780 thing. I know. Every time I mention it, people go, we're working on it. I know you're working on it.

00:46:59.560 It's not your fault. It's not the fault of the guys on the ground and the gals on the ground working their butts off trying to get this thing going. It's because, of course, when government manages anything, it stinks. And so, yeah, we are really being foolish. We could be making it like bandits right now. 0.74

00:47:14.780 If we had a liquid natural gas terminal feeding the East Coast, and we had one on the West Coast right now, and we had Energy East taking oil products East, if we had a pipeline taking oil down to the Keystone, and we had the Trans Mountain expansion, and maybe even the Northern Gateway, with world oil prices right now, Canada would be one of the richest nations on the planet.

00:47:36.860 it. We would have the world by the tail. We'd be doing fantastic because we'd be filling that void

00:47:42.000 all over, whether we're selling it to Europe, whether we're selling it to India, it doesn't

00:47:45.500 matter. It's a world market. Unfortunately, we've had Prime Minister Ding Dong for the last few

00:47:51.040 years, shutting all of that stuff in, including fertilizer. We're having problems with capital

00:47:55.440 projects, Saskatchewan with their potash mining, fantastic resource, but we aren't developing it

00:48:01.600 nearly fast enough to keep up with what's going on right now. Maddening, maddening. Let's see

00:48:10.600 what else we got going on. Speaking of, you know, some economics. So yeah, the Rogers hearings are

00:48:15.300 opening on Friday, I guess. We have a committee is being held over the whole Rogers outage.

00:48:21.800 What a wake-up call, speaking of those, for a whole lot of people. One company has an issue,

00:48:26.380 which they never really said what that issue was, but it shut them down for, what was it, 15 hours?

00:48:31.860 What a catastrophe. I didn't know. I don't pay attention to these things.

00:48:35.520 I didn't realize that basically you can't buy anything with debit in Canada if Rogers isn't running in full.

00:48:42.580 Again, I got credit cards. I mean, it had limited impact on me because I had credit and I used Telus.

00:48:47.740 But for anybody who didn't have a credit card at their disposal, didn't have cash and had to rely on debit,

00:48:52.400 they were screwed for 15 hours. If they relied on a Rogers phone, they had no communications for

00:48:58.000 that long. And of course, they want to follow through and wonder about what's going on.

00:49:02.400 12 million subscribers had that issue. But what we need is more competition.

00:49:08.960 Why is one company impacting so much? Now, you see, there's where we get difficult.

00:49:13.760 See, the government, people start talking about antitrust and forcing to break them up and

00:49:17.040 everything. I'm more of the opposite route, open it up, let some more smaller companies get in

00:49:22.320 and get operating, quit over-regulating the crap out of this thing. And that will drive some

00:49:29.280 competition. Why is it impossible with a business, if it's got a debit system to, in the case of an

00:49:36.280 emergency or an event like this, why is it impossible for them not to transfer to another

00:49:39.760 service until things are resolved? And maybe that's some of the things this committee is going

00:49:42.840 to discuss. But boy, what a vulnerability we found ourselves with. But again, the solution

00:49:47.600 is often the opposite direction of what we need. You know, to have the government strangle it more,

00:49:53.660 regulate it more, that's what led us to having only really a handful of major providers up here.

00:49:58.580 We need a bunch of them. We need a bunch of internet providers, a bunch of phone providers.

00:50:02.780 And I assure you, your prices will come down and your service will get better. Canada has some of

00:50:06.460 the highest sell and data rates on the planet by far.

00:50:12.000 And the reason is they can get away with it

00:50:13.440 because we've got only a handful of providers.

00:50:16.640 So, you know, let's examine these things.

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00:51:19.400 it. And it's an investment in yourself and your rights. Okay. It looks like Melanie's ready to

00:51:23.960 go down there on the midway at the Stampede Ground. So let's cut over to her and see what's 0.55

00:51:28.800 going on down there today if she's ready to roll there we go hey cory uh just so you know again

00:51:37.320 we're we're not able to hear back at the studio but uh we i'm sure you can hear us we are down at

00:51:42.980 the stampede grounds right now we're talking to kyle russell he is the director of programming

00:51:47.780 down here uh basically all that you see that is entertainment midway performances uh that is what

00:51:56.400 kyle overseas and if you're noticing the um the coke stage has moved to a new location

00:52:03.120 on the grounds this year why is that kyle well the old coke stage location was it was iconic

00:52:09.920 but unfortunately because we're constructing the 17th avenue extension we need to find a new home

00:52:14.480 for the coke stage and we think this is a pretty good yeah it's good i think the the thing that's

00:52:20.640 nice about it is it's bigger and it you know allows for a bigger crowd very open we welcomed

00:52:26.720 uh 8 000 people here the other night for alexis on fire and uh everyone's having a great time it

00:52:31.840 does leave a lot of elbow room but has a great festival feel very coachella when you look at

00:52:36.240 the ferris wheel right behind the uh stage here yeah it is good uh well so so rob take a take a

00:52:43.760 pan around uh you're kind of right in the heart of the the midway here in this new location so

00:52:49.920 So that's great.

00:52:51.220 And we're on Wednesday.

00:52:52.760 It is Kids Day, but still plenty of opportunity for people to take in some of the entertainment that's still to come.

00:53:00.800 Tell us about what people can look forward to.

00:53:02.960 Well, our Dog Bowl is back, and it is very popular.

00:53:05.880 We know families absolutely love that.

00:53:08.040 At BMO Kids Zone this year, we have meet and greets with Paw Patrol and Bob the Builder.

00:53:12.020 We have a great Stampede Pow Wow that's taking place today and tomorrow.

00:53:15.700 And every night in Nashville North, the Big Four Roadhouse and the Coca-Cola Stage,

00:53:19.180 we have great headline artists performing yeah so um speaking of some of the headlines uh you said

00:53:26.380 uh alexis on fire was was just a huge one who else are you anticipating to be a big draw

00:53:32.540 between now and uh sunday almost all of them like alicia car is playing on sunday night which is

00:53:38.380 going to be a great way to close out the stampede uh cascade is playing here who's a huge edm dj

00:53:43.740 that we're looking forward to and in the big four roadhouse we've got some pretty interesting names

00:53:47.900 Sublime with Rome will be playing tomorrow night.

00:53:50.540 And DJ Jazzy Jeff is going to come on Saturday night.

00:53:54.140 DJ Jazzy Jeff is going, I'm an 80s girl.

00:53:58.760 I'm coming for that one.

00:54:00.520 You'll love that one.

00:54:01.360 That's going to be a great show.

00:54:02.500 And that's a great environment.

00:54:03.700 It's got a real roadhouse feel.

00:54:05.300 So think of Mechanical Bowls mixed with your favorite Fresh Prince song.

00:54:10.860 And that's going to be a great time.

00:54:12.380 So this must be a busy job for you.

00:54:13.920 You're not only sort of overseeing all of the acts that are coming to Coke's stage and elsewhere,

00:54:18.900 but entertainment for all the kids, too.

00:54:22.060 You got it.

00:54:22.640 We really like to make sure that there's something for everybody here at Stampede.

00:54:25.760 So whether you're just a wee toddler and you're looking to have a great day in the morning

00:54:30.260 or you're looking to have a great night into the evening at the Bell Grandstand Show,

00:54:34.320 we've got something for everybody here.

00:54:35.840 Now, for the Grandstand Show, do you oversee that as well?

00:54:38.840 What can you tell us about that this year?

00:54:40.380 Well, we like to think of the Bell Grandstand show as a 70-minute Super Bowl halftime show.

00:54:44.900 So we've got everything in there from Luke Rollins from America's Got Talent,

00:54:49.000 who's doing trick roping with fire.

00:54:51.400 We have Shawnee Kitsch doing a segment that's an homage to venues in Calgary.

00:54:57.340 And then we have a – it kicks off with a concert from Dean Brody.

00:54:59.920 So whether you love music, whether you love acrobatics,

00:55:04.020 or whether you love technology spectacle, we've got it.

00:55:07.480 And the fireworks.

00:55:08.980 The fireworks, for sure.

00:55:09.960 the fireworks are spectacular this year the fireworks are accompanied by a drone show as well

00:55:14.220 so you'll see a coordinated drone show up in the sky playing alongside about 15 minutes of fireworks

00:55:20.060 yeah very cool I've seen certain grandstand shows where it almost seemed like a Cirque du Soleil

00:55:26.880 type performance they've been incredible over the years you must be really happy to be kind of

00:55:32.640 getting back to this hey we're thrilled and we're just thrilled that the guests are having a good

00:55:36.740 time we know it's been busy we've been having record days down here at Stampede

00:55:40.400 Park but everyone's just so happy to be out again oh my gosh it is so true I

00:55:45.480 would agree with that and again it's kids day one of the things I was going

00:55:50.720 to ask because I've actually had quite a few people ask me can people still buy

00:55:54.720 radio tickets and tickets for the grandstand show are there still some

00:55:57.860 available oh definitely you can buy them online at Calgary stampede.com or else

00:56:01.940 if you come down to the grounds and you just want to get a standby ticket we do

00:56:05.700 have a standing room and we do have standby tickets available when you come down here too

00:56:09.540 okay so there you go there is still plenty of opportunity for you to get in and check out some

00:56:15.380 of the grandstand offerings the rodeo of course coke stage is totally free so nashville north

00:56:22.520 also totally free yeah so still you know what plenty of entertainment that is really included

00:56:28.740 in that admission price you pay to get into the stampede and hopefully you grabbed some deals on

00:56:33.420 some of those admission prices that were kind of spread out for you to pick up in other locations,

00:56:39.480 but still lots to come. And the weather has been amazing this year.

00:56:44.200 Weather has been incredible. We want to remind folks to stay hydrated. We do have plenty of

00:56:49.200 spaces inside if you want to cool off and enjoy some entertainment as well. The Big Four Roadhouse,

00:56:53.900 the Dog Bowl is inside. All these are great spaces to come in and enjoy a respite from the heat.

00:56:59.140 That's awesome. Thanks very much, Kyle. And being that it is Kids Day, we are going to try to find some kids that are going to tell us what they're most excited about for the Stampede this year.

00:57:11.800 So, Corey, hold on. We will hopefully be back with you in just a little bit and see if we can chat with some kids around here.

00:57:29.140 Thank you.

00:57:59.140 and ah okay guys thank you for the comments to remind us yes as we go back and forth into uh

00:58:08.720 uh different uh hits we sometimes uh can miss a button now and then so where the hell was i again

00:58:13.700 ah yes so that was our melanie risden down on the grounds of the stampede of course as you've

00:58:17.780 gathered uh as one of the uh commenters was was pointing out uh that uh it doesn't look busy but

00:58:25.100 yeah, that's the new Coca-Cola stage location. There was an older one and I was just talking

00:58:29.400 about that. The old Coca-Cola stage was over on the other end of the park back then. And there

00:58:37.800 used to be acts, like I said, Trooper would come out every year, Honeymoon Suite, you name them,

00:58:41.140 you'd see the regular things, The Hypnotists. I kind of liked it because I'm not a big concert

00:58:44.880 guy. I don't plan ahead, go to some giant expensive thing. You can actually get some good acts at that

00:58:51.060 stage and maybe just take in 20 minutes of it and then wander off to do something else or whatever

00:58:55.580 you're not committing a whole night uh what's this lisa he's saying yeah terry stokes i think

00:58:59.220 that was that one of those hypnotists or something and uh you know just a reminder to get down there

00:59:03.900 as i said we're really focusing on the stampede this year just because it's been years and people

00:59:07.640 are due for it you know it's been a while i'll be going to the down there tonight and it'll be the

00:59:11.920 first time i've been down there in a lot of years despite the um uh you know pandemic i i can only

00:59:18.860 go so often, but it looks like it's a really good one. The weather's really good. And Mel

00:59:22.100 will check in a little later. And yeah, that Coke stage, it looks like a nice one. It's

00:59:25.620 a new one. You know, the old one was getting a little long in the tooth. I think my daughter

00:59:28.700 went the other night to catch July Talk and Beaches, I think it was. And you know, they're

00:59:33.600 a good band. July Talk, that Canadian one, actually got some good ones. Beaches, I think

00:59:37.240 if I recall, that's kind of that crabby woman band. They sing about the itty bitty titty 1.00

00:59:41.080 committee or something like that. But either way, there's something for every taste down

00:59:44.520 there at the stage and at the stampede this year. So, you know, get on and check it out. We'll,

00:59:50.760 we'll have Melanie on a little later to talk some more about it. So let's get on a little more new

00:59:55.780 stuff here. Yeah. This was something yesterday I wanted to get to, but I didn't, but CBC producers,

01:00:00.620 this is during the last election and they did one of their specials where they're going to have the

01:00:06.880 voters ask questions of the leaders. Well, it turns out when Aaron O'Toole came on in this election

01:00:13.060 campaign broadcast. The CBC made sure that all the participants' questions were focused and

01:00:20.620 phrased effectively. What it basically was saying was they stuck the words in the mouth. This is

01:00:25.300 astroturfing. This is the kind of crap that our state broadcaster does. They make it look like 1.00

01:00:30.340 it's grassroots, make it look like it's people actually asking legitimate questions, but they

01:00:34.980 filter it. And it's just going to be, you know, the mush that they want to feed you. And it's

01:00:43.740 fake news. Unfortunately, it's fake news. We got to pay $1.4 billion a year to have, but that

01:00:50.120 impacts elections. You know, people don't, a lot of the time they don't pay attention to,

01:00:54.160 you know, politics in general until election time. Then they'll suddenly start turning on the news,

01:00:59.560 at least to get a quick fill on who's who and what's what. And when you get that biased garbage 0.98

01:01:03.500 coming out of the CBC when they model programs like that. 0.94

01:01:06.200 Oh, look, I saw five questions, four questions asked of Aaron O'Toole.

01:01:09.780 And of course, they're questions that he didn't want to answer.

01:01:11.620 They're questions that the CBC wanted asked.

01:01:13.600 And it misrepresents what people really want to ask about.

01:01:16.800 And that's sneaky fake news, you know.

01:01:19.280 That's not even as bad as, again, we're out in the open.

01:01:21.960 I'm an opinion show.

01:01:22.840 I put out my opinion.

01:01:24.220 We're not hiding that.

01:01:25.680 But we don't put opinion into our news.

01:01:28.200 Dave is very meticulous about that.

01:01:29.860 That's important.

01:01:30.640 News is news.

01:01:31.200 If I interview guests, if I have people on here, I don't filter what they're allowed to say or not.

01:01:36.920 Or, you know, with questions, if I was soliciting questions from people, I'm not going to tell them what they have to ask.

01:01:41.120 What's the point of asking?

01:01:42.380 But that's our CBC in action.

01:01:44.300 That's your tax dollars at work.

01:01:47.340 And there's another story Nico pulled up.

01:01:48.700 Yeah, a CBC reporter resigned.

01:01:50.220 We're seeing a lot of those and saying the broadcaster's losing journalistic principles.

01:01:53.360 I think they lost them a long time ago.

01:01:56.180 And there's just more evidence all the time.

01:01:58.940 Just a quick thing back to the Stampede again.

01:02:00.920 Lori Carter saying feeding people crickets and mealworms way to go Calgary yeah but they've

01:02:04.480 been doing that at the midway for decades they've always every year try to come up with a weird food

01:02:09.800 you know scorpion pizzas and and uh you know deep fried mustard or who knows what you know they

01:02:15.880 they do all sorts of things garlic ice creams it's just part of the fun and novelty different

01:02:21.240 from where we got that crazed push you know with our tax dollars subsidizing cricket farms in 0.76

01:02:25.680 Ontario and crap like that. The area of eating insects should be the domain of either novelty

01:02:32.900 foods on the midway like this, or the reality, the only people who eat insects around the world

01:02:39.080 typically are people in third world countries. The reason they became delicacies is because it

01:02:43.380 was the only thing they could eat. I think it was Karen Selleck, one of our columnists who wrote

01:02:48.320 about that saying, you know, if any of the people in the areas where crickets are eaten and insects

01:02:52.540 are eaten and things like that. If they had the choice between a steak and their local delicacy

01:02:57.160 of an insect, they're still going to go for the steak. But either way, you know, like you say,

01:03:01.540 you have fun, you know, I mean, you think of those things because it's harmless, even if it's gross,

01:03:05.500 maybe eating insects, you know, a couple of kids, I dare you to eat that. I dare you to try that,

01:03:09.580 all sorts of things like that. And as was pointed out too, there's a,

01:03:15.600 I've lost my train of thought. At least I'm not having coughing fits today anyways.

01:03:21.940 Oh yeah, it's kids down on the Midway too.

01:03:24.700 So if you've got a family, today's the good one.

01:03:26.460 I think kids get in free.

01:03:27.700 If you get in before, it's too late now.

01:03:29.240 If you're being before 10 a.m., you could get in for,

01:03:32.160 you know, all of you getting in free.

01:03:33.820 Of course, they'll make their money on the Midway,

01:03:35.120 assuming you buy other stuff too.

01:03:39.060 What's this?

01:03:39.940 Cheese's crust, isn't that a nice name? 0.96

01:03:41.860 Lobster and shrimp are basically sea cockroaches.

01:03:44.360 Yeah, I try not to think about it

01:03:45.480 because I like lobster and shrimp and crabs.

01:03:47.480 Or when I used to work down in Texas and Louisiana

01:03:49.700 and get those mud bugs, you know, as crayfish.

01:03:52.780 As long as you don't think about what they are,

01:03:54.240 they're tasty, but we eat our things.

01:03:56.040 I don't care.

01:03:57.480 Just as long as our tax dollars aren't in it.

01:03:59.720 Let us choose.

01:04:00.660 If you don't like these things, don't eat them.

01:04:02.860 But yeah, Brenda's saying they're already adding them

01:04:05.500 to package food.

01:04:06.700 Yeah, but they do have to label it.

01:04:08.700 So it's not snuck into our food.

01:04:11.160 And I don't think consumers are going to accept it.

01:04:13.400 I heard somebody saying they're using it

01:04:14.360 for filler on potato chips or something. 0.85

01:04:15.860 Well, what a great way to commit suicide

01:04:17.300 as a company for your potato chips. 0.61

01:04:18.860 So go to town because people will go out of their way not to buy your stuff.

01:04:23.220 So again, do it all you want.

01:04:25.460 Just keep my tax dollars out of it.

01:04:27.520 But that's a big ask, isn't it?

01:04:28.980 This is Canada.

01:04:29.820 We can't do anything without having our government in the middle of it, can we?

01:04:32.680 We're incapable of thinking things for ourselves. 0.62

01:04:35.960 Ah, nuts.

01:04:37.820 Now let's see.

01:04:38.480 Here's a briefing.

01:04:39.560 The Department of Canadian Heritage has sidestepped public comment on allowing biological men to compete as women.

01:04:46.480 How long has this got to go on?

01:04:48.860 How long is this denial of biological reality going to go on?

01:04:53.300 How long does this debate have to go on?

01:04:55.660 You know, we finally pushed ourselves so far into the realm of woke absurdity

01:05:00.240 that we're supposed to indulge and pretend that there's no difference,

01:05:05.120 no physiological difference even, between a woman and a man.

01:05:09.340 I mean, that purple-haired soccer player down in the States, that woman,

01:05:14.880 I don't remember her name, but I mean, she was the big celebrity,

01:05:17.620 the big lefty in the American team, I guess, was doing good. I don't know. As it's been noted,

01:05:22.440 I don't watch a lot of soccer, but she's certainly outspoken. And I laughed when she

01:05:27.880 talked and she used the words that it's disgusting when it turned out some association had banned

01:05:33.000 biological men from competing in women's cycling sports. But her own team, her own team, the top 0.74

01:05:40.600 women's team in the world, I believe at the time, had been beaten by a 15-year-old boys team.

01:05:48.060 They had. They played like a recreational match or whatever against a high school team. They're

01:05:52.680 probably good, but they got beaten by 15-year-olds. That tells you the physiological advantage. I mean,

01:05:59.340 the women's team, the women's national team, they've been training for years, the best of the

01:06:02.960 best of women couldn't take on a male 15-year-old team. It's because you just, the difference,

01:06:09.400 there's 15 year olds that are, you know, still 10 inches taller and more muscle mass and everything 0.98

01:06:14.640 else than your average woman. You can't fight that. But our, you know, the heritage doesn't 1.00

01:06:21.180 even want to touch it. And it's ruining sport. It's ruining it. It's totally, it's terribly

01:06:27.300 unfair. Women and young ladies have worked so hard to get to the pinnacle of where they were

01:06:33.400 in their sport to be pushed down because of this woke denial of physiological reality and 0.99

01:06:39.280 having to compete with somebody who has a literal born advantage over them. I mean, it was just

01:06:45.560 nuts with that swimmer. I'm surprised his balls weren't popping out of his suit when he was 1.00

01:06:49.600 standing there getting his medal as he towers over the two women that he beat in the swimming 0.99

01:06:53.900 competition. A level of pride that loser has because he couldn't compete against, and I'm

01:06:59.940 going to say he, I'm tired of this getting crap for misgendering. Come on. No, I'm not going to 0.99

01:07:04.000 give you the she, you know, until you've come to me and presented yourself and told me that.

01:07:07.780 I don't have a problem with transgender people. 0.99

01:07:09.860 If that makes you happy and that's the way you're going 1.00

01:07:11.480 and you want to be called a she or he, good, let me know. 1.00

01:07:14.480 And absolutely, and I hope your life is as happy

01:07:16.840 and productive as possible.

01:07:18.500 But we've still got to face those realities. 0.82

01:07:21.820 And I think it's not the majority of trans people 1.00

01:07:24.160 that are pushing this crap. 1.00

01:07:25.320 I'm sure of it. 1.00

01:07:26.460 It's the activists.

01:07:28.040 It's the activists, but it's getting pressure pushed back

01:07:30.100 against all of the transgender people,

01:07:32.240 the ones who just want to live their life and be happier. 1.00

01:07:34.180 But it doesn't help when we have idiots like these guys with the Heritage then, Department of Heritage, just terrified to even touch it. 1.00

01:07:43.460 Get on it. Show some courage for crying out loud. 1.00

01:07:47.800 And we're seeing some pushback.

01:07:50.360 You know, I did laugh, kind of, with Bette Midler, you know, a good woke left-wing celebrity,

01:08:00.320 finally losing it because, you know, they're taking away gender. They are. And basically, 0.97

01:08:07.440 when they do that, they're telling women, you can't be proud to be a woman. You can't identify

01:08:13.720 as a woman. You can't say you're a woman. You have to be an it, zur, zat, bip, bop, whatever

01:08:19.080 the hell it is this hour. And she said, I'm not a birther. I'm not a menstruator because that's

01:08:24.580 the terms that are getting applied to them now. I mean, I only feel a little bit sorry for Bette

01:08:30.000 Midler. Because, I mean, she's having her womanhood stolen from her by these extreme activists who are 0.99

01:08:34.220 being indulged by these assholes in government and people like the Department of, you know, 1.00

01:08:38.500 Canadian Heritage. But at the same time, she fostered these left-wing loon balls for years 1.00

01:08:43.740 as well. She didn't speak up until they were already well entrenched with this lunacy. They 1.00

01:08:48.460 indulged and fed these guys. You're eating your own now. The woke are eating the woke. And they

01:08:53.500 always will. You let them go is never enough. It's never enough. Maybe they've crossed, though,

01:09:00.940 when you see somebody at least, like Midler, speaking up because she's had enough, you know.

01:09:07.940 But man, how long have we got to keep indulging this craziness? I mean, again, be trans, but it 1.00

01:09:16.540 doesn't mean, it doesn't make it so. We just do as much as possible to make it so. I mean,

01:09:22.620 there's some people who identify as Napoleon, but we're not going to give them three divisions and

01:09:26.020 send them to Russia. We do what we can. Let's see where else we're going here. File shuffling

01:09:34.480 cost millions. Yeah. Taxpayers lost millions in benefits paid to undeserving claimants under the

01:09:40.200 CPP says a federal audit. Now, speaking of government incompetence and inability to

01:09:45.840 efficiently run pretty much anything. Here's another one of them, right? This is a CRA and

01:09:52.740 our CPP, unfortunately, you know, this is, this gets into an area, I guess you could talk, you

01:09:58.360 know, if we want to get a provincial pension plan or not, hopefully we could learn and make sure

01:10:03.360 it's better managed than the federal one. Unfortunately, you know, a provincial

01:10:08.400 institution is just as well capable of screwing up as a federal one. Let's learn from these

01:10:15.520 things. So overpayments cost at least $79 million over a period from 2010 to 2018. Now with something

01:10:21.800 the size of the Canada pension plan and the amount of people claiming, you know, it sounds

01:10:29.240 like a drop in the bucket, but hey, $79 million is $79 million. You know, that's an attitude that's

01:10:33.200 got to change for apologists and government people and others too. When they say, oh, look at our

01:10:37.540 budget though, it's $100 billion. What's $79 million? You know what $79 million is? It's $79

01:10:42.220 million. It's $790,000 increments of money that could have been put into a whole lot of productive

01:10:52.040 areas. That's 790 people could have their life changed for that amount of money. When you ask

01:10:58.080 clowns, dismiss numbers like that and say it's paltry. It's not a big deal. We can overlook it. 0.97

01:11:04.700 We can let it go. That's a slap in the face. I want you guys, they're my dollars. They're my

01:11:10.680 dollars. We're entrusting you with our dollars. And we want to make sure you're responsibly using

01:11:17.140 them. And if you aren't, and I want even the small stuff responsibly watched, you don't deserve to

01:11:22.840 be watching it. All right. It looks like Melanie's rounded up some youngsters she's going to talk to

01:11:26.880 down on the Stampede grounds. So we're going to check in one more time on the Midway and see

01:11:30.220 what's happening there. And we'll get back to some more news. Hey, Corey. So we're still at the

01:11:37.100 Stampede Grounds and it is Kids Day. It's BMO Kids Day and this place is packed with kids having

01:11:44.800 a blast down here. This was one of my favorites, I have to admit, this big gigantic slide. So

01:11:51.180 there's a big lineup of kids here and I've got some kids here we're gonna talk to and just find

01:11:56.700 out. What's your name? Kai. Kyle? Kai. Okay and what's your name? Cristiano. Okay and so guys

01:12:05.760 you're down here to go on this ride and do all sorts of fun stuff what's what what are you most

01:12:10.880 excited to check out uh the crazy mouse crazy mouse is that a ride yeah okay have you and and

01:12:18.160 have you been on a few rides yet today no not yet okay and how about you what are you looking forward

01:12:22.960 to the cotton candy hot dog cotton candy hot dog so you're here for the food okay and what's your

01:12:30.560 favorite food down here at the grounds um i've never been here you've never been here where are

01:12:37.200 you from are you calgarian no um i'm from edmonton oh from edmonton all right well welcome welcome

01:12:44.080 to the calgary stampede you guys come on move along in the line here and we'll get you on your

01:12:49.040 ride i'm telling you this was one of my favorites uh so what else are you guys going to get up to

01:12:53.360 today uh the rodeo oh do you have tickets for the rodeo that's going to be a lot of fun i know i

01:13:00.820 checked out the rodeo the other day it was really good you guys are going to have a great time

01:13:04.220 what's your favorite event at the rodeo i don't know i've never gone okay well the bucking bronx

01:13:10.900 are very exciting so you will very much enjoy that so uh again cory loads of kids down here

01:13:18.500 today but amazingly the lineups are not that bad we've got another parent over

01:13:24.680 here he's got some kids that are just getting off the ride over here we're

01:13:29.420 gonna check in with them so BMO kids day of course goes all day and have so you

01:13:41.540 guys are down here Calgary family taken in the stampede you guys come every year

01:13:47.080 Yeah, no, it's actually the first time we've been able to come in quite a few years.

01:13:51.020 All right.

01:13:51.740 And so you're on duty with, what, three or four kids here?

01:13:57.280 Four little ones, yeah.

01:13:58.740 Oh, that's a big job.

01:14:00.300 And they just got off the ride here.

01:14:02.080 We were going to check in with them.

01:14:03.300 Did we catch them?

01:14:05.840 All right.

01:14:09.260 So what are you guys looking forward to doing the most here today?

01:14:14.120 I know the kids were looking forward to the Ring of Fire.

01:14:16.580 so they just done one round on it trying to hope to get back on another round of

01:14:21.740 it again so we'll see it just events lineups pretty long so yeah they been

01:14:27.260 enjoying that so and have you guys checked out the dog show no no yeah we

01:14:31.940 didn't even know that was there oh my goodness the dog show is adorable you'll

01:14:35.940 have to check it out there's little schedules I think there's one way there's

01:14:40.760 schedules where you can uh you can see but the dog show is super fun uh this is one of that come on

01:14:48.220 over let's so um why don't you tell me your first name chiara chiara and what is your biggest

01:14:56.960 excitement coming to the stampede this year probably um spending time with my family seeing

01:15:03.000 friends and stuff and uh have you been on many rides or was this your first one um i've been on

01:15:09.600 a few how are you finding the lineups today for kids day not that fun no lineups are never fun

01:15:17.980 are they anything else what's your favorite food down here do you have do you have something that

01:15:22.560 you're looking forward to trying I haven't had anything but I'm thinking of maybe trying like

01:15:28.980 the poutine here oh yeah poutine is always good did you hear they have food down here with crickets

01:15:34.680 in it they have a cricket hot dog so you won't be trying that one no of course mini donuts are

01:15:46.040 always a favorite with the kids cotton candy and the slurpee stations all over the place

01:15:52.600 to cool the kids down so you guys have a blast and you're you said you're from calgary right

01:15:58.200 yeah my parents are both from south africa so is my grandma oh very cool all right well you guys

01:16:05.160 have a blast here did you want to come over no oh we we have a few shy ones all right so cory yeah

01:16:11.800 lots of kids down here lots of fun so uh we will be checking in again tomorrow and i believe

01:16:16.920 tomorrow we're going to be talking with a uh a cowboy a real cowboy right on

01:16:22.520 okay so that was uh i'm muted this time good melanie risden from the grounds that you can

01:16:30.200 check it with a real cowboy that's a way of saying yes because i'm the uh fake cosplay cowboy here

01:16:35.620 but that that's the way it happens i see mark bass uh asking about uh you know is the stampede

01:16:41.500 basically like a rodeo so yeah the stampede's like a fair but it's focused around the rodeo

01:16:45.640 like it started with the rodeo and really expanded into that it's a little different than other spots

01:16:49.720 and somebody mentioned uh k days you know it's called now it used to be klondike days i think

01:16:54.140 i saw one of the commenters talk about it used to be a lot more fun with a lot of dancing around

01:16:57.560 and things and uh uh the difference of the stampede and k days and k days in edmonton is a good time

01:17:03.560 i've been to that before too it's a lot of all the same rides and stage and acts all go to edmonton

01:17:08.120 for it but they don't have that rodeo anchor and the whole city doesn't go kind of nuts for a week

01:17:13.800 like calgary does with the stampede as we see i can wear this stuff to get out of wearing a necktie

01:17:18.200 basically a tradition in Calgary is no matter what your business dress code is you're allowed

01:17:23.820 to dress western wear some jeans and do some things during stampede week so I mean you kind

01:17:28.020 of see it everywhere businesses decorate they put their hay bales out front they hold their pancake

01:17:32.340 breakfast like the whole city gets going not just the midway but Mel's down at the midway and it's

01:17:37.060 just that reminder to people it's a good if you can afford it I know it's never cheap to go to

01:17:40.400 those things but today's a good one because if you've got a bunch of kids the kids are coming

01:17:43.420 in free and uh you know you can get a taste of things some of those shows he was talking about

01:17:47.220 yeah, the dog bowl. It used to be called super dogs, but you know, they have all those trained

01:17:50.720 dogs and everything. People like that for a good break. You get in, sit in the stands and all those

01:17:54.120 trained dogs have fun, calms the kids down, doesn't cost you a bunch, maybe get some air

01:17:58.100 conditioned time. I know some people keep putting out the eating of bugs. Yes, but this has been

01:18:03.360 happening forever. That's always been a Stampede thing. I know we're kind of tying up two issues.

01:18:07.580 We do have a government that's fixated on subsidizing cricket farms and putting bugs 0.94

01:18:12.320 into our food and crap like that. The Stampede one, as I said, that's fairground novelty. That's 0.91

01:18:17.440 still okay. As far as I'm concerned, you know, go for it. Tracy saying the corral isn't there

01:18:21.940 anymore, isn't it? No, they tore the corral down this year. They did. And they're building a bunch

01:18:25.620 of new stuff, but that is down. It's gone. But it is a good time. Yeah. There's Shane saying he

01:18:32.900 loves the dog show. Yeah. That was always a favorite. And again, that always used to be in

01:18:36.040 the corral. So I'm not sure where they're doing it this year. I'll see tonight because it used to

01:18:39.420 be the way you could get a break too. You know, you'd take the kids. My kids would be all wound

01:18:42.940 up. You'd be in the lineups. You'd be in the, you know, spending all the money on the concessions.

01:18:47.660 And that just comes with it. Well, let's get them in to wind them down. Watch the dogs for a while 0.94

01:18:51.080 in the corral, get some air conditioning, get out of the heat. And either way, check it out this

01:18:56.320 year. You know, it looks like a good stampede for a change. We need to live a little. We need to

01:18:59.240 enjoy life a little. And hey, this is coming from a guy who bitches for a living. I'm always angry. 1.00

01:19:03.740 I'm sour about things, but honestly, I'm positive about some things. You know, we've got a lot of

01:19:07.840 challenge is still coming. We still got all sorts of political issues to address and I'm going to,

01:19:13.740 but you know, get out and cut loose now and then whether it's K-Days next week or Stampede this

01:19:18.380 week and just relax a bit. As I said, not all of it has to be at the grounds. That's the thing

01:19:23.780 that's a bit different. There's, I don't know the names of them. There's that huge tent on 9th

01:19:27.240 Avenue with a stage and bands going on over there. Another one over on 6th Avenue. The whole city's

01:19:32.380 going wild. Mark Bass saying, do they have concerts? Yeah, there's concerts all the way

01:19:36.220 through as Mel Risden was at the Coca-Cola stage earlier. That's where the free concerts are. As

01:19:40.880 long as you're in the grounds, you get those. And those are decent, decent bands. They're good ones.

01:19:45.800 And then the real A-listers, they'll usually be other concerts held right in the Saddle Dome

01:19:49.400 itself. It's just a week of a bit of everything. And rodeos, the chuck wagon races, the, you know,

01:19:56.640 it's quite an event and it's a good day to get out for a lot of folks. And for those who don't

01:20:01.060 like Laurie, well, don't, but I'm going out tonight. Should be fun. First time I've been

01:20:05.660 there in years. Jane actually has some of her barn quilts displayed there. She does barn quilts and

01:20:10.100 teaches courses in it and everything in that. Some of them are actually displayed somewhere in there.

01:20:13.340 So of course we got to go and check those out. So let's see. Jet Gorgon saying, remember the

01:20:18.840 chocolate covered crickets and bees? Yeah. Again, when it's novelty and then think of bees, I'm

01:20:23.200 keeping bees this year, as I said, and stuff. If you really want to break down what honey is,

01:20:27.540 actually sounds pretty frigging gross guys. Sometimes with some of our food, it's better 0.87

01:20:31.260 just not to think about it. And then we can enjoy it. No sense digging down. Like I said, I still

01:20:36.060 like hot dogs. I don't like to think about what they're made of. I'm not going to pretend they're

01:20:40.380 good for you. Still like eating them now and then. And I got a feeling there's probably always been

01:20:45.220 a degree of insect matter within those things anyways. All right, let's look at a little more

01:20:48.460 new stuff. We've been covering a lot of Stampede. We're going to talk about a bit more tomorrow.

01:20:52.120 I said Melanie's going to talk to somebody at the rodeo. You know, we'll get down to that aspect of

01:20:55.320 the Stampede, which is going on down there. And we're holding that. Speaking of, if you want to

01:20:59.660 piss off the woke, go to the rodeo, go to the chuck wagon races. They used to be out protesting 0.99

01:21:04.180 outside those things back in the 80s when I go to the Stampede. I'm sure they're still out there

01:21:07.520 whining about it. So get out there and do that. All right. Let's see. So yeah, this was something

01:21:12.960 Dave mentioned the other day. I didn't get a chance to get to it. This is our money at work,

01:21:16.500 right? $633,000 spent in the Yukon to save French, right? For French speakers. In the whole 0.69

01:21:24.960 UConn, 85 unilingual francophones that they can find. I mean, it's very sparsely populated. I

01:21:30.680 know I've worked up there. Whitehorse is a large, small town in all reality. It's the biggest city

01:21:34.640 they got, but it's small. So we're spending $660,000 to indulge 85 unilingual francophones.

01:21:44.400 That's ridiculous. And this is happening across the country. The only reason it stands out so 0.74

01:21:49.600 much there is because you can see how absurdly low that number is. And that's what we got to

01:21:52.600 talk about is unilingual French speakers. Because we get French speakers, we got a degree of them

01:21:57.840 in Alberta, I think what, maybe 2% of the province. And those typically aren't unilingual, it's just

01:22:03.260 French as their first language. They speak English quite well. And we spend billions on bilingualism.

01:22:10.900 I mean, when you talk about the preferential hiring and the language programs and all the

01:22:14.120 rest of the crap, forcing me to try and learn French in high school even, in a province where 0.59

01:22:18.200 nobody speaks it. Nobody needs it. Teach me something useful, like Swahili or something. 0.99

01:22:24.220 When am I going to speak French? I speak better Spanish than French, and most of that,

01:22:28.200 unfortunately, is obscenities. Either way, that's our money at work, right? So the Yukon, yeah, 0.99

01:22:32.800 that works out to, what does that work out to person? You know, 80,000 each or something,

01:22:37.680 and that's in a year. We're not talking over years and years and years. This is the money

01:22:41.000 they're pouring down. Let's see, some other news, just updates on that mess as they investigate

01:22:46.280 the horrible shooting of 22 people in Nova Scotia a couple of years ago. And that denture

01:22:52.920 maker, it really sounds like this guy was, as we're learning about him, I mean, quite a known 0.73

01:22:57.020 whack job and a dangerous person. He'd been released and arrested and charged and things

01:23:01.080 for decades. Some of this stuff with the testimony, I guess somebody bought dentures

01:23:07.000 off and missed a monthly payment. And he grabbed this person, tackled them and put a knee on their

01:23:12.220 chest and ripped the dentures out of, uh, out of, uh, his or her mouth and, uh, stomped on them. 0.81

01:23:18.720 This guy was a fruit loop and a dangerous one. Unfortunately, he assaulted a 15 year old

01:23:24.140 outside of his clinic in 2001. Uh, he punched him in the head. He's had class action suits against

01:23:32.040 him. Um, so we, uh, people are saying though, if you knew all this about him, why wasn't he

01:23:38.720 already locked up. Even with that history, would anybody imagine he was going to pick up guns and

01:23:43.300 slaughter 22 people on a rampage? I mean, you can't see that. But at the same time, was he

01:23:47.420 released too many times? Did we miss some warning signs? Did we, was there possibly a way we could

01:23:53.620 have prevented that awful, awful event? I don't know. But as we drill down, and unfortunately,

01:23:58.560 we got the liberal government that is, you know, interfering in investigations. I don't know if

01:24:05.480 get good knowledge out of this. I mean, we want to learn from these. I mean, we screw things up

01:24:12.440 fine. Well, it's not fine, but all the same. Let's try not to repeat them. So let's dig into that

01:24:19.220 and find out what the history of this guy was, what the responses were, and hope that bloody

01:24:23.240 government stays out as much as possible. And maybe we can figure that out. Let's see, I'll

01:24:29.380 wrap up with one civic thing. Yeah, here's some advocates, you know, the apologists, the excuse

01:24:33.240 makers and they're talking and we're seeing that it's another cbc story talking about how

01:24:36.840 oh we gotta you know the lrt yeah i know there's addicts on it but we gotta quit talking about just

01:24:42.200 enforcement no we don't no we don't look i have discussed addiction many many many times on this

01:24:49.800 show i've had experts dr monty gosh i talked to uh uh a member of the the state legislature in

01:24:56.680 oregon about drug decriminalization i've talked many times on this issue i do believe in why we

01:25:02.200 We need to treat addicts and work with homelessness and do things like that. 0.97

01:25:07.960 But we also have to accept they don't belong in the damn transit system. 0.99

01:25:11.220 They don't. 0.99

01:25:11.800 This is a simple problem to solve.

01:25:13.660 It really is.

01:25:14.440 It takes hard work, but it's simple.

01:25:16.960 Get them off there.

01:25:18.360 People don't feel safe on the train.

01:25:20.060 They don't feel safe on the bus.

01:25:21.600 They don't feel safe on the shelters.

01:25:23.000 And it's not just a matter of not feeling safe.

01:25:24.620 They aren't safe.

01:25:25.440 People have been stabbed.

01:25:26.640 People have been assaulted.

01:25:27.900 People have been intimidated.

01:25:30.260 So clean it up.

01:25:32.000 Yes, it doesn't mean the problem of addiction and homelessness is gone once they're cleaned

01:25:36.440 off the transit system.

01:25:37.360 They still have to go somewhere.

01:25:38.460 These are still people in need of help once they've left it.

01:25:41.420 But you've got to understand this is not where they belong.

01:25:44.420 They are trains, not traveling consumption sites.

01:25:47.420 They're stations, not homeless shelters.

01:25:50.300 The bus shelters are for people waiting for the bus, not a guy who wants to shoot up without

01:25:54.840 the wind blowing on them.

01:25:56.920 So get them off of there.

01:25:59.140 Enforce the law.

01:26:00.040 start charging for those tickets and you'll get rid of 90% of the problems in those trains.

01:26:05.380 Put some people to work, get them there, stand there like every other modern developed city in

01:26:09.740 the world and don't use the stinking honor system about whether a person pays for their ticket to

01:26:14.520 ride the train or not. Just don't try to tell me that that guy who crapped his pants, who's standing

01:26:18.580 by his shopping cart in the middle of the train car, you're screaming at people, spent $3.60 for

01:26:23.780 that ride. He still will be a man with full pants and an empty head when you get him off that train,

01:26:29.320 but at least he's not where he doesn't belong any longer. Then we can work on what his other

01:26:33.540 issues are, the mental health aid that this person will need in the addictions treatment.

01:26:38.900 But quit mixing them with everybody else and then telling us that we're being selfish or nasty or

01:26:43.580 insensitive when we complain and say we don't want to ride the train with a bunch of out-of-control

01:26:47.740 dangerous addicts. It's not an unreasonable request from taxpayers to say we want a clean,

01:26:53.080 safe transit system. It's not unreasonable. And you think of the fare to ride those and again,

01:26:59.320 two thirds of the, you know, there's a third of the past passengers have not returned to the

01:27:03.860 train since the pandemic. They aren't coming back because it's that bad. And of those riding that

01:27:09.120 360 affair or whatever it is, that's only half of the cost. The rest is subsidized.

01:27:14.100 The city, you pay those tax dollars for those train rides, even if you don't ride that train. 0.99

01:27:18.300 Clean the damn thing up. Quit listening to the bloody CBC and their apologies for this crap. 1.00

01:27:22.140 Just do your damn job in the city council. What a bunch of wimps these guys are. 1.00

01:27:25.360 all right that's enough ranting out of me for today i will be back to talk to you guys tomorrow 0.97

01:27:32.040 i got a couple of good guests i gotta talk to drew barnes he's still hard at it as i mentioned

01:27:36.080 earlier you know he's out in medicine hat he's been speaking up for tamara leach and uh speaking

01:27:39.980 up i guess as an independent mla we'll talk to him about provincial issues i'm gonna talk to

01:27:43.900 david clement he's been on before a good libertarian guy from a consumer center and he's been talking

01:27:49.360 about the airfares our domestic airfares in canada we pay horrific some of the highest rates in the

01:27:54.120 country. So let's talk about how we can deal with that and how we can fix that. So I'll let you guys

01:28:00.080 all go. Maybe I'll give a report on what I ran across down in the midway tonight. And we will

01:28:05.080 be on with the pipeline later on tonight too with Dave and Derek and I to go on about a few other

01:28:09.800 issues as well. That usually airs about seven o'clock. And until then, I'll see you at 1130

01:28:13.900 tomorrow morning, guys.

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