Western Standard - Triggered： Danielle Smith has taken pole position in the UCP race.

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00:00:29.980 Good morning. It's June 22nd, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. There's a lot of number twos in today.

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00:03:00.900 today, of course. Bill Buick of Fairness Alberta, and that's a group that, again, that has been put

00:03:06.460 together. Bill's been active in politics in Alberta for a long time. That group, the name as it implies,

00:03:11.480 Fairness Alberta, they've been doing things. They were very active on the equalization referendum

00:03:16.060 them to try and get a vote to get rid of equalization in Alberta. Now they're talking

00:03:21.320 about the just, or as you can put it, unjust transition and the actions of the federal

00:03:24.940 government to try and shut down our energy sector. And I'm going to have our Western

00:03:28.960 Standard columnist, Mike Thomas, coming on. He's come on the show fairly regularly. He

00:03:34.500 writes a lot of columns. He's been getting a lot of readership lately, actually. I think

00:03:37.780 he topped the list this week when we were doing our staff meeting. So we're going to

00:03:41.220 talk to Mike and see what's been going on in his last few columns and just talk some

00:03:45.560 general, local politics and things in general. So let me see what I'm going to get going on though.

00:03:51.520 Something's been making the news at the UCP and it's interesting. So I've been watching the

00:03:55.140 leadership debate with interest or leadership campaign, I guess I should say. So in this first

00:04:00.300 trimester of the UCP party leadership campaign, there's no doubt Danielle Smith's campaign has

00:04:05.720 been capturing most of the spotlight. Smith has hit the ground running with strong, decisive

00:04:10.920 and controversial policy statements that have actually captured national media attention.

00:04:16.100 In a race with a field of nine contenders so far, it can be tough to stand out among that crowd.

00:04:20.780 Smith's managed to break away from the pack, at least for the moment,

00:04:23.620 and early polls indicate that it could be paying off for her.

00:04:26.720 Now, will this strategy pay off in the long run, though?

00:04:30.060 I mean, Smith is focusing heavily on Western alienation

00:04:32.300 and has drawn a deep line in the sand with Ottawa.

00:04:35.360 Her proposal of a sovereignty act calling for Alberta to refuse to cooperate

00:04:38.840 with any federal laws or policies that might adversely impact the province, it's a battle

00:04:44.140 cry. And of course, the usual suspects in the Laurentian Canadian pundit corps were predictably

00:04:50.280 infuriated. One could almost hear Emmett McFarland's teeth grinding from his posting at University

00:04:56.420 of Waterloo while he hammered out a statement saying, the idea is frankly so absurd and

00:05:00.920 untenable, I'm not even sure it would create a crisis because it would be laughed out of court

00:05:05.060 too quickly for a crisis to develop. What McFarlane may not understand is that the supporters being

00:05:11.260 courted by Smith don't care what he thinks or any of the federal courts might think about this policy.

00:05:16.280 Many of the UCP members who voted to remove Kenney as the leader of the UCP did so because they felt

00:05:20.380 he was being too soft and standing up for Ottawa against federal incursions. They're itching for a

00:05:25.260 battle with the feds and would love to implement something like a sovereignty act while saying to

00:05:29.720 Ottawa, what are you going to do about it? Smith's not taking a secessionist stance, but she's walking 0.84

00:05:34.840 a fine line near it. Her proposals could provoke clashes with Ottawa that might lead to a very big

00:05:40.260 surge in secessionist support as the battle goes on. The Sovereignty Act could appeal to alienated

00:05:45.680 Albertans, whether they're supporters of outright provincial independence or not. Gathering those

00:05:50.220 regionalists in her camp gives her a solid support base to work from. These are motivated voters and

00:05:55.200 workers who are going to be tough to pull away from her campaign. Smith is also courting those 0.78

00:05:59.900 who are still furious over lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Kenny lost a lot of support when he had

00:06:04.300 to backtrack from promises never to lock the province down again back in the fall of 2021.

00:06:10.460 Smith's making the promise more stridently than Kenny did and is also vowing to oppose any efforts

00:06:15.480 from the federal government to restrict citizens' rights with mandates. This again will garner Smith

00:06:20.380 a dedicated core of supporters, assuming people trust her promises. Kenny broke his, and Smith

00:06:27.320 has broken trust with her party membership before as well. The biggest handicap Smith has in this

00:06:32.220 race is her own party history. I mean, few people have forgotten the betrayal of when she crossed 0.98

00:06:37.360 the floor from the Wild Rose Party to the progressive conservatives, but many have begun

00:06:40.900 to forgive her. So in taking command of the news, though, with this constant releases of policy

00:06:46.020 discussion, her political baggage has been pushed to the wayside. So strategically, it's been pretty

00:06:52.040 smart. Her campaign's proving to be savvy and clever. She's targeting and gathering motivated 0.99

00:06:56.320 voters early. There's little sense pandering to a mushy middle in a party leadership race. 1.00

00:07:00.520 A candidate needs to appeal to the membership rather than the province as a whole.

00:07:04.720 And this tactic could potentially lead to Smith winning the battle.

00:07:07.720 But will it help her win the war?

00:07:10.120 If Smith wins the leadership, she's going to have six months to convince Albertans to re-elect the UCP in the next general election.

00:07:16.160 Now, while she's been striking all the right chords with UCP members in her leadership campaign,

00:07:20.180 she's also giving the NDP a lot of ammunition to come after her leading up to the next election.

00:07:25.260 It's not hard to predict what Notley's campaign strategy would be.

00:07:28.720 Smith's going to be painted as an extremist and a separatist who wants to tear up a confederation

00:07:32.300 while putting the health of citizens at risk.

00:07:34.680 It's going to be tough to defend against those accusations.

00:07:37.400 If Smith drags her feet, though, on following through with her promises,

00:07:40.680 should she win the leadership of the party, the membership is going to turn on her fast.

00:07:44.820 Members have felt used and abused enough already with Kenny's bait-and-switch leadership tactics

00:07:48.740 with things such as the Fair Deal panel.

00:07:50.940 They're not going to have any patience for being strung along by another leader.

00:07:54.300 Smith is going to have to indicate she can provide action to back up the talk,

00:07:57.420 and she's only going to have a few months to do it. Smith could be the populist leader 0.75

00:08:01.840 Albertans have been waiting for. Inflation pressures and a heated federal political

00:08:05.660 environment is likely going to lead to more incursions on provincial jurisdiction from the

00:08:09.160 federal government. A premier with an Alberta first stance could fare very well in such a

00:08:14.040 scenario. Smith also, though, could create a divided environment with instability that might

00:08:19.380 sour voters on the UCP and drive them back to the NDP. Smith is gambling and reaching. If nothing

00:08:24.820 else? She's showing political courage and taking refreshing stances in a race where the establishment

00:08:29.260 candidates have been remaining guarded with their policy stances. UCP race is definitely not going 0.90

00:08:35.160 to be boring, and I expect we're going to see some fireworks as contenders try to find some of the

00:08:39.140 spotlight Smith snatched away from them. Slow, careful campaigns aren't going to cut it in this 0.82

00:08:43.940 leadership race. That's kind of my first analysis of this race at this point, anyways, as it's

00:08:49.460 developing. It's going to be an interesting one to see what happens. And yeah, you know,

00:08:55.180 Leslie Singh, the Alberta Prosperity Project, independence, plausible, possible. Okay, well,

00:08:58.600 make the case. I've talked about this for 20 years. Don't worry, I support independence.

00:09:05.080 But how and where and which way we'll get there, that's where the questions are, who's going to do

00:09:09.000 it, which issues and events are going to bring that about. And again, it's not plausible to the

00:09:15.900 general public right now. I don't know how many times I got to say that to people. We've got

00:09:20.120 maybe 25% hardcore separatists in the province right now, maybe, which is a large number. It's

00:09:25.620 significant. But until you get somewhere around 60 or 70%, there's no point in holding a referendum

00:09:31.340 yet. You're not going to get out. So the work has to be done. We keep moving forward. And again,

00:09:37.160 Smith is trying to tap into that aspect, trying to walk that line saying, well, we're not looking

00:09:40.320 for full independence, but it's a sovereignty act. We'll see if that works or not. It's going

00:09:45.540 to be interesting seeing the other candidates and what they're going to do. As I said, when I had

00:09:51.160 what I would consider an establishment candidate on Monday, why am I forgetting her name? The 0.87

00:09:57.360 cabinet minister, she's running there. See, that's what I mean. I've already forgotten her name. I do

00:10:00.820 terrible with names sometimes. But either way, she just followed stock lines, talking in circles,

00:10:08.080 nothing solid in policy. It's not going to win it for you. It's not going to galvanize

00:10:13.520 the members and bring them out to vote for you. So if you want Smith to take off ahead in the

00:10:20.140 field, that's the way to do it. They're going to have to show some sort of vision, something

00:10:23.920 different. The status quo isn't cutting it right now. And just saying we're going to hold the line

00:10:28.580 would be a little less bad than Kenny isn't going to cut it. But we'll watch as it goes.

00:10:33.820 There we go. Thank you, Marilyn. Yes, Shells was the name of the person I interviewed there on

00:10:39.120 Monday. And yeah, you know, and then Michelle Rimple, yeah, it sounds like she might be

00:10:43.880 entering the race. The party has approved her, but it sounds like they might not be approving

00:10:48.320 Rock. You know, we're starting to see the internal party games going. This race has got a long ways

00:10:53.160 to go and a lot of developments, and we'll be covering it and talking, of course, as much as

00:10:57.500 we can about it as we go. All right, before I go rambling on too long, let's check in with Dave

00:11:02.620 at the newsroom. I know he's been sitting back there and see what else is breaking and happening

00:11:06.620 out there hey dave how's it going not bad cory you and uh jane get up to anything for the solstice

00:11:12.380 last night uh nothing like that uh you know i'd probably still be in jail if i horrified our

00:11:23.180 neighborhood with something like that they have limited tolerance down there for my source of

00:11:27.300 antics well we do have one guy running around naked in calgary this morning so i just wondered

00:11:31.880 if he was coming home from a big party at your place.

00:11:35.020 Oh, yes.

00:11:35.600 No, I don't think it's related to us,

00:11:37.600 but I won't make any commitments yet at this point. 0.99

00:11:39.600 You know, it is that stupid man day thing going on. 0.99

00:11:43.640 Maybe this guy is just doing his observance. 1.00

00:11:45.860 Could be.

00:11:46.560 And the bad news is the nights are going to start drawing in

00:11:49.200 as of tonight.

00:11:50.980 It's going to be less and less daylight.

00:11:52.580 So winter is on this way, Corey.

00:11:55.480 I like to think about it.

00:11:57.920 Lots of good stuff in the news already this morning.

00:12:00.260 we've got Rachel Emanuel has talked to former finance minister and current UCP candidate

00:12:07.580 Travis Taves about the RCMP and the Prime Minister's office sort of working together

00:12:14.660 to use the mass shootings down in Nova Scotia as their way to get some gun control into the

00:12:20.580 country. It really is a horrible, horrible scandal. Speaking of scandals, we've got the

00:12:27.140 the liberals this morning have announced they are freezing funding to hockey canada as hockey

00:12:33.780 canada grapples with their own uh sex scandal and apparently they've known about it for years and

00:12:40.580 and did nothing about it so the feds have frozen their funding until they get their house in order

00:12:46.820 we've got a great video from our melanie resident of a the ultimate karen neighbor down in new

00:12:53.140 brunswick her neighbor was getting married in their next door outside lawn on the weekend and

00:12:59.540 every time they tried to read their vows the neighbor neighbor lady would fire up her uh her 1.00

00:13:05.060 weed whacker or her lawnmower and just completely disrupt the ceremony so that the bride and groom 0.55

00:13:11.060 could not not hear a thing so there's some some good video on on that uh cory you'll remember the

00:13:17.780 The giant blue ring in Calgary, 2013, cost half a million dollars

00:13:23.380 and drew the absolute disgust of art critics and the Calgarians everywhere

00:13:29.740 just because of its remoteness and it's basically a circle. 1.00

00:13:34.200 It's stupid. 0.99

00:13:35.060 Well, the good folks in Montreal have paid $5 million for the exact same thing. 1.00

00:13:39.080 We only paid $475,000.

00:13:41.660 Montreal's out $5 million.

00:13:43.920 And, yeah, there you see the pictures there.

00:13:46.200 It's just a circle.

00:13:47.780 I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean or if it's supposed to, you know, I'm at a loss for words, Corey, $5 million.

00:13:56.000 The Parliamentary Budget Office today says the Liberal-owned, I guess Canadian-owned, we all own it, Trans Mountain Pipeline is $600 million in the hole.

00:14:08.120 No great surprise to me, Corey, and I'm sure it's not to you.

00:14:11.960 Other stuff we've got, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Trudeau

00:14:16.100 to bring in basically what Joe Biden's doing and cutting fuel taxes

00:14:20.840 to try and help people with record gas prices.

00:14:26.500 Our Mike Thomas, who you'll be talking to in a few minutes,

00:14:28.800 has got a column on interest rates now having a chilling effect.

00:14:33.080 That's a quote used by an expert, a chilling effect on house sales in Canada.

00:14:39.020 Our Lee Harding's got a story of a political reaction and rancher's reaction out in Saskatchewan

00:14:44.540 to the Liberals' plan to put health warning labels on ground beef.

00:14:50.080 So lots of good stuff there, Corey, and lots more stuff to come this afternoon.

00:14:55.080 And I know we'll be talking about that RCMP scandal on the pipeline tonight.

00:14:59.800 So that should be fun.

00:15:01.700 Yes, indeed.

00:15:02.460 Yes, it's Wednesday.

00:15:03.500 So it's that reminder to everybody.

00:15:04.780 This evening, there will be Dave, myself, and Derek all going over some of the issues

00:15:08.760 and including that one with the still kind of breaking and unfolding scandal

00:15:13.120 with the shooting in Nova Scotia.

00:15:15.980 I just don't understand, Corey, how a government stays in power

00:15:19.580 with just scandal after scandal after scandal.

00:15:23.000 To me, it's mind-boggling.

00:15:25.000 I don't know what it'll take. I really don't anymore.

00:15:27.520 But we'll keep reporting on it. Maybe enough people will wake up.

00:15:30.380 Well, thanks for the updates, Dave.

00:15:32.040 and I'll let you carry on with curating

00:15:35.040 and getting that great news copy up there.

00:15:37.460 I will curate away.

00:15:39.060 Great, thanks, Dave.

00:15:40.200 Thanks, Corey.

00:15:41.080 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:15:43.160 and his check-in today.

00:15:45.260 And as you heard, there's a lot coming out there,

00:15:47.500 a lot breaking, all sorts of stories popping up.

00:15:49.760 Some from the light, as I said, you know, with another,

00:15:52.240 well, I wouldn't call it light.

00:15:53.020 If you're a taxpayer and you've got a $5 million blue ring

00:15:55.100 built in your city, that's pretty heavy.

00:15:56.960 But at the same time, it's not as heavy

00:15:59.380 as what was mentioned with the RCMP.

00:16:02.160 I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute here.

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00:18:04.860 All right, let's see what else we got going. You know, Cheryl Dawn was pointing out, you know,

00:18:12.460 you're not sure about some of the stuff with Danielle putting out the Sovereignty Act. It 0.87

00:18:16.820 might not even be possible. But that's part of it. A lot of this stuff isn't possible. But the

00:18:21.220 government looks the other way for the other provinces. Quebec just does what they want.

00:18:26.220 And the government indulges them. They declare themselves a sovereign nation,

00:18:29.720 the government indulges them. So you know what, it's just like I'd said earlier,

00:18:33.860 we're going to do this and say to the government, what are you going to do about it?

00:18:37.300 What are you going to do about it? And if they do, somehow, I mean, come marching in with the

00:18:42.120 RCMP or something and override things we're doing, well, then maybe we will start discussing

00:18:47.820 different things to do, such as maybe that's when we'll get to that point where I was talking about

00:18:52.060 when you get 60, 70% support for independence. Or the government backs off. But it's time to pick

00:18:58.180 a fight. It's time. None of it's just talking and not doing anything. We've got to take control of

00:19:05.020 our provincial sovereignty. We've got to stand up for ourselves and quit pissing around. If we aren't

00:19:09.420 at a point where we can win a referendum. And I don't believe we are. We still are things we can

00:19:14.020 do. Legislations taking control of our province. And that's what she's pushing. That's a bit of

00:19:18.820 what Brian Jean is talking about as well. We'll see what the other candidates bring forward,

00:19:23.080 by the way. I'm not endorsing any candidate. I'm just speaking along aspects I do like seeing

00:19:28.080 coming from that campaign and where it's going. But again, I got my worries as well.

00:19:32.500 If she wears that on her sleeve going into a provincial election, I'm not sure if it'll win

00:19:35.700 it. That's up to her, I guess, if she wins the leadership, it goes from there. And so, yeah,

00:19:43.260 you know, here's some other news that just shows how repugnant and screwed up this government is. 0.93

00:19:46.760 So the Trans Mountain line, as Dave said in the story, now the government budgetary office is 0.90

00:19:53.240 saying it's unprofitable. They're working towards shutting the damn thing down. I know I'll get all 0.99

00:19:57.720 the emails, I get all the comments. Don't worry, guys, it's going, it's going, it's, we're working

00:20:00.920 on it, it's going. Look, and I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I'm not going to believe

00:20:04.640 that pipeline is going to get done until I see product going in one end and coming out the other.

00:20:10.100 It's been years. It's been delayed. The costs keep going through the roof. It's not like the

00:20:14.200 guys are sitting still. I know a lot of people are working hard on that project, but I won't

00:20:18.420 believe it until it's done. This government has screwed it up so royally. How can we have oil

00:20:24.440 prices the way they are in the world? We have Europe going back to burning coal. Even the Dutch

00:20:30.140 Now, they're the third European nation to say, we're going to go back to burning coal because the windmills don't cut it.

00:20:37.220 Yet, we can't get a frigging pipeline to the coast to expand our oil export capacity and keep it profitable.

00:20:46.340 How? Only government can be so inept and so incompetent. 0.99

00:20:51.460 Well, again, I hope the damn thing gets done. 1.00

00:20:54.800 We've got to get that product out there. 0.99

00:20:56.320 We've got to get that expansion done, but I'm not going to believe it until I see it.

00:21:00.880 And I keep seeing these rumblings because, of course, the environmentalists on the left and everybody go wild every time we see these releases about how much is going into the hole with this thing.

00:21:08.240 The only thing that should be going into a hole is the pipe, into the frigging hole and on its way to get the pipeline, the product to the coast. 0.57

00:21:19.040 And the government, the longer they drag their asses on it, the higher the costs are going to go. 0.53

00:21:24.240 Jackie Burton saying it never should have happened. 0.69

00:21:25.920 And yeah, Kinder Morton, Morgan was financing.

00:21:28.160 I know private money was more than willing to do it,

00:21:30.480 but the government screwed around

00:21:32.300 and regulated them so bad

00:21:33.800 that the private investors said,

00:21:35.620 we're out, we're out. 0.82

00:21:36.460 We can't make money with this ridiculous environment.

00:21:38.420 And that's exactly what the intention was.

00:21:41.280 So they bailed out,

00:21:42.000 but the government realized

00:21:42.620 they bit off more than they could chew.

00:21:43.720 These guys left.

00:21:44.700 Kinder Morton wasn't bluffing.

00:21:47.080 So Trudeau jumped in

00:21:48.340 and bought it with taxpayers' money

00:21:49.560 and now has proceeded to screw it up for years since. 1.00

00:21:51.960 either way we'll see uh claudette saying russia is just laughing at the fools in u.s and canada 0.99

00:21:59.060 while they keep selling their royal yeah you know russia saudi arabia lots of these unprincipled 1.00

00:22:03.480 nations are just uh up in the production while we shut ours in like idiots and that really is 1.00

00:22:09.080 it's like idiots uh let's see with maryland talking about michelle remple uh skirting the 1.00

00:22:13.940 rules issue. So, I mean, that's getting into some inside party game. I don't know. You've got to 1.00

00:22:21.800 leave, I guess, some leeway to the committee. They've got a rule that says you have to be a

00:22:28.400 member for six months before you can run for the leadership. I don't know if it's a bright or

00:22:32.360 viable rule, to be honest. I mean, part of the point, I guess, is just to keep people who just

00:22:35.780 frivolously jump in. There's problems that can occur when you get somebody like Rempel,

00:22:40.580 who has profile, but she's federally involved.

00:22:43.580 She's involved in a different party altogether.

00:22:45.220 I mean, those are not the same party. 0.98

00:22:48.840 Then she had to apply for an exemption with it.

00:22:52.460 Basically had to make her case to the committee

00:22:55.240 and say, look, because of that,

00:22:58.060 I didn't hold a membership,

00:23:00.200 but I want to legitimately put my name for it.

00:23:02.060 And they made that choice.

00:23:02.960 They decided to exempt her,

00:23:04.260 but it sounds like they didn't,

00:23:06.120 or they're giving Bill Rock a brief

00:23:07.560 who was coming from the outside.

00:23:08.680 But it's a bit arbitrary.

00:23:10.640 I don't know.

00:23:11.040 I don't trust the UCP executive terribly much.

00:23:13.940 I'm sure there's some well-meaning people in it.

00:23:16.500 But it was also very much a stacked executive by Kenny and a lot of inside political play

00:23:21.700 going on there, which is always frustrating.

00:23:23.780 But either way, I'm of the mind of the more the merrier.

00:23:27.440 I mean, bring people in, let them run, let's see what's going on. 0.83

00:23:30.800 From the responses, I don't think Michelle could win that leadership.

00:23:34.860 But who knows? 1.00

00:23:35.760 She's got some profile. 1.00

00:23:36.780 She's got a constituency that does like her in some areas. 0.98

00:23:40.840 But banning her, keeping her out, again, I don't trust the motivations of the party when they choose who they will bring in and who they won't. 0.93

00:23:48.580 We're going to see a, you know, we're looking at potentially nine people, but the party set that bar at $175,000 to get in.

00:23:56.180 I got a feeling that field is going to get a lot smaller by the time we actually get to the race when the time comes that it's going to be held.

00:24:04.000 that's just not going to, we'll probably be down to four or five people. I mean, really,

00:24:09.500 there's only so much you can spend to say, make a political point or a statement. And

00:24:14.140 175,000 is more than a lot of donors or individuals are willing to put in.

00:24:20.980 But you got levels and levels. I just, we'll see as it goes. Now getting to the big issue,

00:24:29.280 the one that I think is not making enough news right now. And it's scary. It's huge.

00:24:33.460 This is the sort of thing that, as Dave was kind of shaking his head, like how many scandals can

00:24:37.060 the Trudeau government withstand? And I don't know, this looks like another one. So I'm sure

00:24:41.800 most of you have already seen it, but I mean, the investigation, you know, two and some years ago

00:24:46.820 with that horrible shooting, 22 people murdered by that lunatic in Nova Scotia. And it sounds like

00:24:52.620 there was a lot of confusion, Keystone cop sort of things going on. The communications between

00:24:57.560 the RCMP and the public and even their own officers was a bit of a mess. An RCMP officer

00:25:02.640 lost her life in that. The investigation, or at least some of the follow-up and everything,

00:25:07.260 some of the information has just come out now. And it was the Halifax newspaper that put it out.

00:25:14.280 I'm not sure who they were now, but they found information, basically, Halifax Examiner. I want

00:25:21.640 to give them credit where it's due. It's a very good long story that it looks like the police

00:25:26.220 Commissioner Brenda Luckey, or Luckey, I should say, was directly screwing around with the

00:25:32.180 investigation. I mean, this is right when it was happening. And she was appointed by Justin Trudeau.

00:25:37.220 And it sounds like her messing around with that investigation, possibly screwing it up,

00:25:42.760 was at the behest of Trudeau and the safety, public safety minister at the time. Like, this is huge.

00:25:50.040 This is massive. This isn't just, I mean, we know the RCMP commissioners politicized. That's

00:25:55.760 nothing new. When you got somebody appointed by one person, they're going to be a bit beholden

00:26:00.080 to them. But that's to a point of giving press conferences being a little fluffier than you

00:26:04.860 should with the Prime Minister's office or, you know, doing things to help a little. But you don't

00:26:09.940 step in on the biggest mass murder in Canadian history, mass shooting, and screw around with the

00:26:16.740 investigation on behalf of the Prime Minister. That's a whole new line having been crossed.

00:26:21.340 This is huge. And some of it was just in communications. There was apparently a

00:26:30.380 protocol saying, okay, the Halifax detachment has a communications head who's going to speak to the

00:26:33.920 press and share the information about what's going on as it breaks. We're talking just hours

00:26:37.960 after they finally shot the lunatic who was shooting people. And they're doing a press 0.80

00:26:42.380 conference. And this RCMP press officer is getting questions from the press saying, well,

00:26:47.920 your numbers are conflicting with brenda lucky's numbers what are you talking about well brenda

00:26:53.240 did an interview with cbc and ctv and canadian press and she said this many and this and this

00:26:57.820 many of that she's out there on her own giving different numbers like just put herself front

00:27:02.060 and center against the policy of her own government to try and put herself front and center on on

00:27:07.220 this is again we're talking only hours after uh that this person had been shot what the hell is 0.84

00:27:13.680 she doing? And then beyond that, though, that's just the more minor of the interference. The next

00:27:20.060 one was she was trying to force the investigators to release inside information on what the firearms 0.96

00:27:26.300 used in this were. And again, there's notes from one of the RCMP officers saying that she was doing

00:27:34.620 this because she promised the prime minister and the safety minister that she would, because they

00:27:38.320 wanted it out there because they wanted to get their firearms bill and ban a whole bunch of

00:27:42.400 different types of firearms out there. And they wanted to make sure that the public saw what these

00:27:46.540 firearms were. So it helps them make their case for their legislation. But this was in the midst

00:27:53.520 of an investigation. In fact, it was an international one. They had determined that

00:27:57.140 these firearms had come from the United States illegally. So they were working with American 1.00

00:28:02.460 law enforcement. And some of this needs discretion. You're still trying to find out who smuggled them,

00:28:07.800 why, where did they come from, what were they? You keep that information tight for a while when

00:28:12.200 you're in the midst of an investigation. But that was politically impractical for Trudeau,

00:28:16.620 who wants to rush through, as he did a couple weeks later, with a massive order in council

00:28:21.240 banning a whole bunch of firearms. So she tried to pressure investigators to screw up their own 0.70

00:28:26.500 investigation and release that information. They refused, thankfully. They basically told her to go

00:28:34.140 to hell. And that's documented as well with some notes where basically she was getting on their 0.97

00:28:39.740 cake. Oh, and stuff your false flag crap, Cindy. Sorry, I'm responding to a commenter. 1.00

00:28:45.760 But I just, I can only indulge the conspiracy so much. It really was a shooting. It really

00:28:50.480 was a lone lunatic. And there really were 22 people killed. False flag crap. Come on. 0.96

00:28:56.400 Either way, you know, this isn't a conspiracy when we've got the government pressuring and

00:29:03.260 we've got a commissioner of the RCP directly messing with an investigation. And she was so

00:29:07.320 bold in the notes that showed she got upset during a conference call with other police chiefs and

00:29:12.640 police leaders over this whole thing because they didn't act on her behest. Like you got to

00:29:19.540 understand the heads of these organizations, she's not there to micromanage. Her job is not to go 1.00

00:29:24.500 into the investigation itself or, you know, do those sorts of things. She's in a managerial

00:29:31.160 position. She's in a public figure position. And Arthur Green saying that they were friends of 1.00

00:29:36.460 Yeah, Arthur's from our East Coast.

00:29:38.420 He writes for us in a lot of things.

00:29:39.780 I didn't know that.

00:29:41.000 Yes, a lot of people were killed.

00:29:42.540 It was insane.

00:29:43.820 And we really need to follow through

00:29:48.140 and find out exactly what the hell went on.

00:29:50.060 But if we're talking about a prime minister

00:29:51.580 through the police commissioner

00:29:55.500 interfering on an investigation

00:29:57.320 this important, this critical, this breaking,

00:30:01.780 the man should be ripped from office.

00:30:04.380 The entire government should be ripped from office.

00:30:06.340 This is Canada, though.

00:30:07.420 I don't know what it takes.

00:30:08.640 I really don't.

00:30:09.900 But what we do need right now is an inquiry.

00:30:12.700 We need a truly independent inquiry.

00:30:15.080 I want to hear from our parliamentarians.

00:30:16.680 I want to hear from our leaders.

00:30:18.300 And the NDP should even be standing up on this and say, look, we need to strike this.

00:30:21.680 We need to subpoena people.

00:30:22.660 We need to get to the bottom of this and find out just what the hell happened here.

00:30:26.460 Because how deep does this get?

00:30:29.660 How bold are they willing to get to screw with our justice system to try and help themselves in policy positions?

00:30:34.940 I mean, a lot of people have pointed out, you know, that Trudeau never gets, you know, charged with anything, it seems.

00:30:42.820 The RCMP investigate all sorts of stuff and things never happen.

00:30:45.860 Well, when you see actions like this on the part of the commissioner, you start to think, yeah, just how corrupted is it?

00:30:50.780 How in the pocket of the prime minister directly is the commissioner of the RCMP?

00:30:55.500 See, you've got, theoretically, to have a democracy where everybody, you know, is under the same law.

00:31:03.380 Nobody is above the law.

00:31:06.100 Well, that's not the case here, probably.

00:31:09.460 You know, it should include the prime minister.

00:31:11.180 There should be somebody above the prime minister

00:31:12.760 who could say, you've done this, you will be charged.

00:31:15.340 And of course, you leave it to the courts to convict.

00:31:17.320 But when we've got the top cop in Canada,

00:31:19.860 that's basically what Lucky is, clearly.

00:31:22.560 So politicized and beholden to the prime minister,

00:31:25.860 this is an incredible scandal.

00:31:28.160 This is huge.

00:31:29.320 So I would hope we see some follow-up.

00:31:31.280 And you know, the other unfortunate thing,

00:31:33.140 we're not hearing a lot of this in the mainstream media. Why aren't we? Well, because they're

00:31:38.680 subsidized by the bloody government. This is the tin pot crap we're getting into in this country. 0.99

00:31:43.480 This should be headlines everywhere. This should be the top of the news everywhere. 0.99

00:31:47.440 But all these media outlets are worried about shaking the tree because guess what? All of a

00:31:52.880 sudden, they might not be an accredited media outlet any longer. If 20% of their budget is

00:31:57.600 dependent on government handouts, well, then they'll lose that. Then they got to lay off some

00:32:03.680 people and everything. So, well, maybe, you know, this one looks pretty embarrassing to the

00:32:06.100 government. We just won't report on it. That really is a bit of what's going on. There was

00:32:10.060 a tweet from a clown with the Toronto Star on that issue yesterday. It just showed, I think I 0.88

00:32:17.520 retweeted it and said, this is what subsidized media will buy you or the spot, you know, the

00:32:21.220 response. If you look on my Twitter account, Corey B. Morgan on Twitter, because I can't remember

00:32:25.500 the name of him. I don't read the bloody red star that often, but it's the truth. Basically,

00:32:30.420 he was trying to run interference for the liberal party. And he says, well, yeah, this story is

00:32:33.740 interesting. Might need some more investigation. By the way, Pierre Pauliev, look at the language

00:32:37.980 he was doing. Look at the, it's like this media subsidized whore of a, you know, a columnist 0.96

00:32:45.000 just saying, hey, look, squirrel, you know, we got one of the, what could be one of the biggest 0.98

00:32:48.360 scandals of the decade breaking. And he's saying, go look over there. That's, that's what they're

00:32:54.080 spending your tax dollars to do. This government is corrupt. It's to the point of influencing 0.98

00:33:00.100 the, again, the commissioner of the RCMP. It's got the media dancing like puppets for them.

00:33:07.820 This is a lot of problems. And then we've got things like C11 and other legislation going on

00:33:13.120 where they're trying to control information. They're trying to control the internet. We are

00:33:16.060 in a very scary period right now. Somebody else pointing out who polices the police. Yeah, I don't

00:33:21.360 know. We need, that's where we need. I know it sounds painful. We always get more and more of

00:33:25.700 these committees and commissions and, you know, investigations on things. They never seem to come

00:33:33.200 to an end, but we got to try again. And it has to be independent. You've got to get the government

00:33:36.540 out of this. This has to be forced. We need to see action. And if this was misplaced, if they've

00:33:41.880 exaggerated what happened in these notes and everything, fine, let's get to the bottom of it

00:33:45.740 and expose that then. And Trudeau can carry on with his wretched government. But we need to know

00:33:50.320 the truth of what the hell happened here. That many people dead, and it sounds like they were

00:33:54.540 playing politics with the investigation. This isn't even just playing politics afterwards.

00:33:58.480 It's disgusting that Trudeau sat on Bill 21, him and his government, and waited for a firearm

00:34:04.340 tragedy before releasing it, because that's exactly what they did. They waited until the

00:34:08.040 shooting in Texas. They had that legislation sitting in the can for months. They waited until

00:34:12.920 the shooting in Texas before they said, here, here's a firearms bill. They took advantage of

00:34:17.600 a tragedy so that they could get public sentiment to help them with their bill. There's nothing

00:34:21.700 illegal about that. It's just ugly, ugly politics. But I could still, at least it's legal.

00:34:28.300 Directly interfering with an investigation on a mass shooting like that in Canada,

00:34:31.720 that's more than just playing some ugly politics. That's very dangerous. That's

00:34:36.740 huge. And we aren't hearing nearly enough about this. Why? Why? And it starts to show how entrenched

00:34:42.400 and ugly our media is getting. It's clearing, appearing that Bill Buick's standing me up for

00:34:46.560 his second time on the show. So that's unfortunate, but don't worry, I won't waste your time by trying

00:34:51.060 to book him again. So we'll just talk about some other news stories and things like that. Let's get

00:34:56.960 some more comments. You know, what do you guys want to talk about, guys? Get that scroll moving.

00:35:00.880 Something we talked about in our staff meeting today, we're looking into, I'm not going to make

00:35:04.120 any promises, but we're looking into, and I've talked about that a little while back, was seeing

00:35:09.320 if we can find means to get callers to call in. And I can chat with you guys, get on the show,

00:35:13.220 you know, until some of you guys get too abusive and whatnot, we'll have to find ways to get delay

00:35:17.080 buttons and things like that. I know most of you would be very reasonable in calling in and add to

00:35:23.040 the show, but it takes quite a bit to set that sort of thing up and get it rolling. So we are

00:35:28.400 working on it though. And, and, you know, it could make for some fun interactivity. For the moment

00:35:32.820 though, we do have the comment scroll, you know, make sure to use it and, and still keep talking

00:35:38.820 about things on here. But yeah, stateside friends are in shock over everything being corrupt out

00:35:46.540 here, you know, with no freedom of speech. We are an international embarrassment. I mean,

00:35:50.380 these things that happen, people shake their heads. I mean, the Americans got their share

00:35:53.780 of problems and crap going on as well. But we pale, you know, they pale in comparison to what 0.97

00:36:01.160 stuff we are doing. And I don't know, it just gets embarrassing. I remember it's part of it's

00:36:08.980 our system. You know, I worked in the States a lot in the past. I spent a lot of time there

00:36:12.780 to talk to a lot. My mother's American. I go down there quite often. But they're always flabbergasted

00:36:18.560 when I talk a bit of politics that, you know, your Senate, well, how do these senators win

00:36:21.940 their elections? There's no elections, guys. We hold them and hope that maybe the prime minister

00:36:26.480 might pick? What do you mean the prime minister picks your senator? Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, I know.

00:36:31.980 Head scratcher, isn't it? You know, when's your election? Well, I don't know. It's whenever the

00:36:35.900 prime minister calls it. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The prime minister calls it. You know, what kind

00:36:42.760 of hearings do you have for the Supreme Court? Oh, the prime minister just picks them. Really?

00:36:47.020 You know, who picks the head of the RCMP? Yeah, you heard it. The prime minister. If the president

00:36:55.160 of the United States had even half of the actual power within government that a prime minister does

00:37:01.200 in Canada, particularly with a majority. Oh, man, it would be unbelievable. But they have a lot of

00:37:08.120 checks and balances and things to follow through. And again, their system is not perfect by any

00:37:12.140 means. But these guys are always just flattened when I tell them how our system works. Like,

00:37:17.420 as bad as things are down there, guys, with some of the things you got going on,

00:37:20.580 is nothing compared to what we have up here, how we empower our prime minister.

00:37:27.680 There really is no accountability, no checks and balances. But another aspect of it that gets

00:37:32.320 frustrated, and you can hear it in Dave's voice, and I'm sure you can hear it in mine,

00:37:35.820 is what does it take, though? What does it take? We do get a chance. We're still technically a

00:37:41.640 democracy. We still have elections. We still can get out there and vote, but they won't get rid

00:37:48.400 of this clown, this blackface wearing moron with scandal after scandal after scandal after scandal, 1.00

00:37:54.580 and they just won't unseat him in central Canada. And that's where I keep coming back to as we're 1.00

00:38:00.000 talking earlier, the independence option, because I don't think we can fix the mines in central

00:38:03.600 Canada. All we end up doing is paying the bills. Tim saying Canada is a kleptocracy. Yeah. And

00:38:10.140 you know, I was tweeting a bit about that. I'm seeing history repeat itself. I've done a rant

00:38:17.740 on that before already. Like it looks so similar, so almost chillingly similar right now on how the

00:38:24.440 political scene looks right now as it did in the early 80s, where inflation was running rampant,

00:38:31.440 a bloody Trudeau was prime minister, interest rates were starting to shoot up, oil prices were

00:38:37.640 high. Well, guess what happened? They stole Alberta's oil. They came in, they infringed upon 0.66

00:38:43.440 us they brought in the national energy program they forced us to sell at a discount to the rest

00:38:47.920 of the country or at least whatever we sold we had to pay a massive tax on it then we'd have to

00:38:52.800 subsidize central canada to buy more soddy oil at a lower price and the the irony of this whole rape

00:39:00.400 of us and that's what it was was this thing was supposed to uh uh balance things it was supposed

00:39:09.680 to be when the price of oil went down canada was going to buy it at a higher rate you know to help

00:39:13.280 outbalance things when times are tough. Well, that's when Mulroney got rid of it. Oh, well,

00:39:15.680 now it's inconvenient. So then we got hit with a double whammy and that program screwed us coming

00:39:20.640 in, screwed us going. But here we go, guys. Look at history. We got Trudeau dealing with inflation,

00:39:26.620 worried. Oil prices are high. Alberta's doing okay. They're going to make a grab, guys.

00:39:30.880 They're going to make a grab. It's going to happen again. Wildrose, Corey, it sounds like

00:39:34.760 you might be warming up to Alberta independence. What are you talking about, Wildrose? I formed

00:39:38.300 the Alberta Independence Party in 1999, warming up to it. They've been working on it for over 20

00:39:45.060 years. I just want us to find a proper mechanism to get towards it, though. We just aren't there

00:39:52.240 yet. But I'm warming up to it. Guys, I came to that conclusion a long time ago. We just don't

00:39:58.920 have the partisan system or the framework or just unfortunately the full public support yet

00:40:05.840 to win the referendum.

00:40:07.420 But we keep working towards it.

00:40:08.560 We keep working towards it.

00:40:09.720 So one of the things that taught me

00:40:11.000 in being so young

00:40:12.240 and I made a whole pile of mistakes,

00:40:13.820 there's no denying that

00:40:15.440 when I ran the Alberta Independence Party

00:40:16.880 and went into that election,

00:40:19.600 but I was learning some pragmatism and patience.

00:40:23.700 I mean, just because we want that means to get out,

00:40:28.380 we can't set aside every other policy

00:40:30.520 or thing we're going to do in the meantime.

00:40:32.060 We still have to look at these things.

00:40:33.260 We still have to deal with contemporary policy and things as they happen.

00:40:40.320 So we just keep pushing.

00:40:42.860 We keep moving towards it.

00:40:44.460 Lord knows this government's trying its hardest to, you know, the Trudeau government's the best friend of anybody who does want Western independence.

00:40:53.380 I'll tell you that.

00:40:54.780 So, but they're just not the best friend of citizens at large on the ground.

00:40:58.560 All right.

00:40:59.320 Let me talk about another sponsor quickly.

00:41:02.200 speaking of things and crimes and firearms and Trudeau. And that's the Canadian Shooting

00:41:06.580 Sports Association. These guys have been a sponsor for us for quite some time. And I mean,

00:41:11.080 their name says it all. As I was saying, you know, I mean, it might take full out independence

00:41:16.380 before we can fully protect our property and our rights. In the meantime, though, we still have to

00:41:20.020 keep fighting. We have to keep pushing. And in doing that, you got to get together, you got to

00:41:24.960 ally with like minded people with similar interests. Well, the Canadian Shooting Sports

00:41:28.640 Association is just that. It's an association of people who enjoy firearms, whether you collect

00:41:32.980 them, you target, shoot, skeet shooting, any of those things, hunting. This is where you get

00:41:37.820 together, share resources, talk with each other. And of course, even most importantly, is stand up

00:41:44.540 for yourselves, push back against these legislations where they're trying to take your property

00:41:48.480 and disarm you. So check them out, guys, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association,

00:41:54.860 and take out a membership, because if you don't stand up for yourself, you will lose those rights.

00:41:58.480 That's a given.

00:41:59.760 I mean, the guaranteed way to lose is not to try in the first place.

00:42:03.260 So check them out, cssa-cila.org.

00:42:08.020 And again, take out a membership so they can help you.

00:42:11.400 All right.

00:42:11.820 Well, we do have a guest who did arrive, which is much appreciated.

00:42:15.780 And that's our columnist, Mike Thomas.

00:42:18.520 Hey, Mike, good to see you in studio.

00:42:20.520 It's been a while.

00:42:21.340 It has been a while, Corey.

00:42:22.540 I think. 0.98

00:42:23.160 But I noticed that you said today was like stupid man day or something like that. 0.99

00:42:26.460 Yeah. 0.74

00:42:26.660 So has that got anything to do with me being here?

00:42:29.340 No.

00:42:30.620 This is broad. 1.00

00:42:31.540 There's a lot of stupid men to pick from, particularly in the Western Standard Core. 1.00

00:42:35.560 As long as I'm not being single that way. 1.00

00:42:37.740 You're not the only stupid man around. 1.00

00:42:39.780 But I won't say you're exempted from that status. 1.00

00:42:42.060 No, no.

00:42:43.940 Good to see you, though.

00:42:45.060 Yeah, I mean, the last time we had you on was duking it out with Makachuk, I believe.

00:42:52.280 Oh, the train debate.

00:42:54.100 It was over the trains, yes.

00:42:54.860 Train debate.

00:42:55.420 Yeah.

00:42:55.720 Yeah.

00:42:56.660 Then he ran away to France, I must have scared him.

00:42:59.300 Yes, sounds like he's had quite the adventure out there.

00:43:02.260 Apparently, yeah.

00:43:03.540 So right on, good to see you back, you've been writing a lot of columns, as I said earlier, 1.00

00:43:06.260 columns have been getting actually a lot of reads, I don't want to puff your super male head up. 0.96

00:43:10.820 I was just told that, no, that's good.

00:43:12.660 But you know, the days are longer, so I've got more time to write.

00:43:15.380 Oh, I see, that's your typewriter with the sunlight coming through the windows.

00:43:19.220 Yes.

00:43:20.340 So, well, let's start on some of the stuff you've been going on.

00:43:22.900 Where do you want to go?

00:43:23.540 Well, let's start with Elon Musk.

00:43:24.820 That's a popular subject.

00:43:26.040 That's your most recent column, I believe.

00:43:28.700 You said it's been a crazy week for him.

00:43:31.360 Well, I like Elon Musk a bunch.

00:43:35.760 Yes.

00:43:36.060 I really do.

00:43:36.700 Because you never know what's next with him.

00:43:39.400 And you got the, I guess the Twitter shareholders have to vote on the decision to let him buy the place.

00:43:47.940 I don't know when that comes down.

00:43:49.380 I think it's the end of this week and maybe early next week.

00:43:51.520 I'm not sure.

00:43:52.020 But I'm sure they'll do it.

00:43:53.540 because they're getting close to, I think it's 14 bucks a share more than what they're worth if

00:43:59.860 you take Elon's deal. So I'm excited to see that. I think Twitter is a cesspool. I hate it.

00:44:07.980 I go there if I'm feeling too happy. So hopefully he gets control and turns it into the kind of

00:44:15.880 media vehicle that really should be, which is wide open thoughts for all. I think he does have

00:44:22.060 to regulate some of the divisive comments and maybe smarten people up on that.

00:44:28.360 But, I mean, you can't have all one political party marching down one social media highway.

00:44:35.200 So that, I think, will open it up.

00:44:37.660 What was the other thing that happened to him? 0.85

00:44:39.420 Oh, his son became a girl. 0.98

00:44:41.040 Oh, yeah. 0.92

00:44:42.300 Changed her name from Xavier to Vivian. 0.91

00:44:45.240 Apparently, they don't get along too well.

00:44:47.460 So that was the other thing that happened to him.

00:44:50.100 You know what?

00:44:50.440 I can't remember the other one.

00:44:52.060 Well, I mean, he is a disruptor. He shakes the establishment and they got to love it. I mean, there's parts of stuff he does. I don't like, you know, he took a lot of subsidies for Tesla and things like that. And I'm not big on that. But whatever, he's not supposed to say no to it. He's, he's not a, but you know, but that's the thing. I, I agree with you. And to a degree, I disagree because somebody was going to get that money. Somebody who built electric vehicles was going to get the money.

00:45:17.400 it's the system and the direction that's the problem yeah so is he supposed to martyr himself

00:45:21.400 or i think that if anybody could get the money i'd rather have it go to somebody like musk

00:45:27.880 uh who's who's more of an entrepreneur i mean he's he's come over to the right side

00:45:33.560 uh voted republican for the first time in his life um and and he's a 0.80

00:45:39.160 shit disturber oh yeah which i love i love that i think that you have to be 0.98

00:45:42.840 in this day and age to wake up people 0.83

00:45:46.340 who were walking around in some kind of haze

00:45:48.340 and then something happens like that

00:45:50.060 and they go, oh, okay, I'll pay attention to this.

00:45:52.920 Well, and he exposed just how biased Twitter had become.

00:45:57.060 Like they denied it,

00:45:57.720 but just with the reaction of Twitter staff

00:46:00.460 and some media members and some partisan members,

00:46:03.500 just when all he was saying is,

00:46:04.640 I'm going to buy it and I'm going to open it up.

00:46:06.740 I'm not going to slide it to the right.

00:46:08.880 I'm not going to do it.

00:46:09.540 I'm just going to open it up.

00:46:10.780 And they went haywire.

00:46:12.880 They went crazy.

00:46:13.900 How dare you?

00:46:15.600 Well, that shows just how sick the management had become of this company.

00:46:19.800 Well, not just the management, but the thinking on that far left platform, because they're

00:46:26.040 screaming, well, we know we're going to lose our free speech.

00:46:29.240 And by saying you can't do it, they're taking away free speech.

00:46:33.220 So I don't know that they understand what they're talking about.

00:46:35.080 Well, the left rarely understands free speech very much.

00:46:37.060 It's really like economics with them.

00:46:38.680 They tend to have a disconnect.

00:46:40.000 Economics?

00:46:40.700 Yeah.

00:46:40.860 So, uh, that's for other people, but, but I mean, interesting things that he's talked

00:46:45.780 about.

00:46:46.780 I mean, as you said, yeah.

00:46:47.780 And there's some commenters saying to Twitter's accessible.

00:46:48.780 It's accessible.

00:46:49.780 I like swimming and though I have a good old time on Twitter myself, you know, I could go

00:46:52.620 on there.

00:46:53.620 I might last two minutes.

00:46:54.620 Yeah.

00:46:55.620 But there's tricks to Twitter.

00:46:56.980 People have to understand block.

00:46:59.360 Just block.

00:47:00.360 It only takes you a second. 1.00

00:47:01.360 If you've got some bot after you or some lunatic or some jerk, just block them. 1.00

00:47:05.360 It only takes a second. 1.00

00:47:06.360 The responsibility is yours.

00:47:07.900 more people will just do that instead of indulging. Good point. And the other part is that one thing

00:47:13.760 I like what Musk talked about was possibly coming up with a way to verify identities. Yes. Because

00:47:19.600 it's the anonymity that, you know, people hide behind. That's one of the worst things. That's

00:47:24.280 how the bots exist. That's how some people just cross the line. I mean, not forcing everybody to

00:47:29.040 verify, but at least there would be a different category. Right now there's just blue checks and

00:47:31.880 the rest. Well, there could be behind the scenes verification. It doesn't need to go public. Well,

00:47:35.680 that's it. It's just to show we've proven that you're an individual behind there and there's

00:47:38.880 only one account and there's that. And then you can have whatever, you know, big name in front

00:47:43.820 that you like. I'd go with Corey Morgan II. There we go. But I mean, it's not a bad proposition

00:47:51.220 and it's amazing how much more polite people get when they're not anonymous. Well, yeah. Yeah.

00:47:56.020 If somebody's hiding behind a cement wall, they'll call you any name in the book, but if they're

00:47:59.760 standing on top of that wall, not so much. No, no. And I like where he's going with that. So,

00:48:04.720 I mean, let's hope it goes through.

00:48:05.820 I mean, he's got to go through the shareholders.

00:48:06.940 They said that the big one was the board and they grudgingly basically said, well, we can't

00:48:11.120 stop this.

00:48:11.760 So they've given the thumbs up.

00:48:13.300 As you said, it's a good share price deal if it carries on from there.

00:48:16.720 So I remember what the other one was the employees who are suing him for getting fired.

00:48:22.000 Oh, that's right.

00:48:22.860 Yes.

00:48:23.420 And there was another thing just to talk about that free speech and how left doesn't understand

00:48:27.560 it or whatever else.

00:48:28.240 I saw this snide comment on Twitter of all places, but with a columnist saying, oh, look,

00:48:34.540 the great champion of free speech

00:48:35.980 has fired people for speaking up against them.

00:48:38.280 Well, sure.

00:48:39.980 I mean, if I went online

00:48:41.420 and started doing nothing 0.96

00:48:42.300 but bitch about the Western Standard 0.98

00:48:44.220 and talk about how horrible it is 0.99

00:48:45.620 and how bad Derek was,

00:48:46.700 you know what?

00:48:47.040 I'm probably going to get fired.

00:48:48.140 You should do that

00:48:48.720 because I could get your show.

00:48:50.480 Just kidding.

00:48:51.760 You're careful what you're asking for.

00:48:54.780 But that's not an infringement

00:48:56.020 of my free speech.

00:48:56.680 I'd still be able to yell my head off

00:48:58.680 about how bad the Western Standard is

00:49:00.040 the day after getting fired.

00:49:01.140 I just don't have their platform anymore to do it.

00:49:03.640 Well, you know, they are the kind of people who they take one step after one step after one step to see how far they can go.

00:49:10.980 And eventually they get slapped and it's all, oh, infringing on my rights.

00:49:16.540 But they will disappear now.

00:49:18.440 They will now disappear because they've been stopped.

00:49:20.780 Well, I like your brick wall analogy.

00:49:22.660 I remember a meme I've seen going around or a cartoon.

00:49:24.580 It shows, I think, usually a woman, but she's got a pile of manure and she's throwing it over the wall, throwing it over the wall, throwing it over the wall. 1.00

00:49:30.040 And one turd comes flying back and hits her. 0.75

00:49:32.060 I'm being oppressed.

00:49:33.020 Yeah, exactly.

00:49:34.500 Hang on, you guys.

00:49:36.480 You know, you started it.

00:49:37.820 But, yeah, it's just fun to watch Musk.

00:49:39.480 He is a fascinating guy.

00:49:40.540 He is fascinating.

00:49:41.420 You know, and not to do direct comparison, but he reminds me of Trump in the way that, well, let's do this and see what happens.

00:49:50.460 You know, or he's the kind of guy who says, I'm going to do this, and he gets it done.

00:49:55.080 Yeah.

00:49:55.440 And he takes it on his own shoulders.

00:49:57.040 He doesn't blame anybody else if it fails.

00:49:59.000 I think some of the difference, I mean, they're both irreverent.

00:50:00.800 I'll give them that.

00:50:01.680 Absolutely.

00:50:02.000 I think Trump, though, was a bit more of just all this lob the turd into the punch bowl and sees what happens.

00:50:06.720 But I think Musk, he doesn't care what the world thinks, but he's got a little more planning and plotting with what he does.

00:50:11.500 He has more of a direction with him.

00:50:14.100 More sophisticated.

00:50:15.160 Well, there's that, too.

00:50:18.340 But, I mean, as far as just not being afraid of the establishment and willing to go in there and mix it up and shake them up, which they really need, it's good to watch.

00:50:26.360 So, yeah, just keep watching his development.

00:50:28.660 I mean, if you're going to be a billionaire, at least be an interesting one.

00:50:30.700 Oh, I think with Musk, there's much more to come.

00:50:34.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:50:35.520 So getting on to other areas, then let's get into government.

00:50:38.020 I'm scrolling through your stories. 0.54

00:50:39.120 China using digital handcuffs.

00:50:41.140 Oh, frightening.

00:50:42.720 That is frightening.

00:50:44.740 You know, and what is really frightening, I think, is it's not new.

00:50:47.640 I mean, if you look at what was going on in Germany in the 30s and the 40s or Russia in the 20s,

00:50:54.000 where you couldn't step outside your door without showing some ID,

00:50:57.980 and they didn't have green and red codes in germany they had german and yellow codes

00:51:03.180 for the jewish people so they back then they were marking people and the chinese doing this i don't

00:51:09.900 know um that's they i foresee the day and i think i wrote this that you're going to have to take

00:51:16.940 your phone and scan it by the gas pump and may come up and say request denied you're over your

00:51:23.580 quota um because the government could do that that's why i mean if we're gonna have digital

00:51:29.740 id i think that's a fait accompli i really do and and if you look at it it's probably

00:51:35.580 a lot more convenient to have your driver's license your passport credit cards all your

00:51:40.300 other id on one little device you push a button and go there it is you're not ruffling through

00:51:44.620 your pockets and stuff like that the issue obviously is is government interference their

00:51:50.860 involvement in the thing. When the health code QRS came out last year, I said, no, I'm not doing that

00:51:58.180 because I don't trust them. And if I can't go to a restaurant or whatever for a couple of weeks,

00:52:03.900 that's fine. But I do not want them tracking me on my phone, even though I know they are.

00:52:08.720 Yeah, that's part of it. I mean, don't disillusion yourself. They've got a pretty

00:52:13.580 good idea. I'm aware of that. I'm sure that they know I'm here right now because I got my phone

00:52:17.140 on me. But for them to be able to manipulate your life based on information in your phone,

00:52:24.020 uh-uh. Yeah, they're manipulating your behavior. And it's social engineering. It's a term I'm

00:52:29.140 trying to bring back. You know, we talked a lot about that term in the 90s, and it kind of faded,

00:52:33.340 but it's a big one. It's where the government feels so high and mighty that it's their role

00:52:38.220 for our own good to change our behavior, to change what we want to do, change what we choose to do.

00:52:44.540 And, you know, where they're calling a social credit system in China, where, yeah, if you do the wrong things, yeah, we make, sorry, you can't pump gas today.

00:52:51.600 You didn't flush at the toilet where you used down the road.

00:52:54.240 Yeah, and I mean, no less stuff.

00:52:55.360 And that's what's frightening.

00:52:56.560 I mean, my understanding of the health care codes for the COVID thing that we had here is that that's all that recorded, and none of that information was sent to a government data bank.

00:53:06.120 I don't know if I believe that or not, but I want to believe it. 0.99

00:53:09.300 But I don't want to see that China syndrome coming in. 1.00

00:53:12.600 Oh, and information is everything. And the government's a terrible steward of it. I had a guest on recently, and they were with a group, Open Media, I think. But it was the apps used for kids homeschooling while, you know, remote schooling while everything was in lockdown. Turns out the company that was doing that was sucking in all the information on those kids and sold the data, you know, for data miners. 0.98

00:53:38.940 I mean, again, it doesn't mean that, you know, they're necessarily doing much besides commercial utilization of all that data and everything, but that's a big infringement on, you know, personal privacy and liberties.

00:53:52.440 Well, and having listened to you say that, maybe it's too late. Maybe it's going to happen. It's

00:53:59.240 something that everybody should fight in some way, form, fashion, or another. Because I do know

00:54:05.320 that if you're up against the left in terms of an argument or a physical fight, they'll back away.

00:54:11.560 They will not fight with you. All you have to do is overpower them. And that goes

00:54:17.000 with the government. Now, I'm not suggesting revolution.

00:54:19.240 No, no.

00:54:19.960 but uh i mean obviously our weapons are in the polling booth and um so it's very important that

00:54:28.120 people really pay attention especially with all the political stuff going on right now

00:54:33.080 that that stuff is possible that it does exist and it could come into your life depending on who

00:54:38.440 has the reins to the wagon and i don't honestly believe the conservatives would would do that

00:54:44.280 Oh, well, I think that, well, they'd be less bad. I just always don't like, I mean, I don't like

00:54:50.040 government control on any level. No, I'm with you there. I would never assume they're going to be

00:54:53.280 benign, unfortunately. I think the conservatives are less inclined. Less inclined. If they're in

00:54:59.660 power too long, I think that's one of the issues that happens too. When they get in too long,

00:55:02.540 then they really feel that sense of entitlement on our movements. Yeah, but that's true with any

00:55:06.120 government, I think. Yeah. I mean, governments like laundry, you got to wash them every four

00:55:10.020 years oh yeah for the same reason when we're talking about diapers or underwear yes and it

00:55:14.500 fills with that product that we just don't need exactly and uh but uh it's distressing but i mean

00:55:20.880 the government is scared when they push back i mean look at i mean the things that happened this

00:55:25.540 year you know the the protests that came in the truckers convoy whether you support them or you

00:55:29.600 don't support them i mean that was unprecedented seeing that many canadians those polite quiet

00:55:33.200 passive canadians showing up by the thousands on parliament hill crossing a country raising

00:55:38.560 over $10 million. That terrified the government. I mean, that's why the government overreacted so

00:55:44.540 badly in response to it. I think that the convoy itself didn't terrify the government

00:55:51.340 because of what they did, doing the Emergencies Act and just ignoring them. I think what really

00:55:57.600 scared them was how much they had misjudged Canadian people. When they started fighting

00:56:04.060 back against the convoy and doing all these illegal things that they were doing, people

00:56:08.040 stood up, and they got angry, and they voiced their opinion, going, this is not Canada.

00:56:13.220 What are you doing?

00:56:14.500 And I think in the little hovels in Hudson in Ottawa, they went, ooh, we've gone too

00:56:18.800 far.

00:56:19.800 We better pull this back.

00:56:20.800 Well, and they embarrassed themselves internationally.

00:56:22.800 That was part of it, too.

00:56:23.800 I mean, you know, countries all over the world are like, what the hell is going on over there?

00:56:27.720 What are you doing?

00:56:28.720 I mean, not only are your citizens that livid, but what do you mean you're imposing this

00:56:32.380 emergency's act upon them?

00:56:34.100 This is just a protest.

00:56:35.320 But history is not going to smile on the actions of the government this year.

00:56:39.140 No, and it's one thing for all the – because initially at that conference,

00:56:42.500 I can't remember where it was in Belgium, but Trudeau took shots from a whole lot of European leaders.

00:56:49.500 But last week he took shots in the House of Congress.

00:56:53.580 A guy stood up in the U.S. House and said Trudeau is a bad person.

00:56:58.600 I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what he said.

00:57:01.060 When somebody that close to home is saying it, somebody who's, you know, open border, friendly neighbor, stuff like that, that's really got to dig deep.

00:57:10.040 He's really overstaying his welcome.

00:57:13.560 Even I'm seeing some liberal columnists are starting to kind of say, you know, this guy has got to go or Don Martin's piece just to, you know, I wouldn't call him a liberal columnist necessarily, but he's an establishment one for sure.

00:57:25.240 And he just ripped Trudeau to shreds in that thing.

00:57:28.240 And they're standing up and ripping at him.

00:57:29.760 This is not a good indication for Trudeau's future.

00:57:32.080 But, you know, I wonder if, you know, guys like Don Martin, and you see it going on in the States right now, too, the backlash against Biden.

00:57:37.560 But is that the media flashing a warning to people like Trudeau and Biden saying, clean up your game?

00:57:43.960 Is that what they're doing?

00:57:44.760 Or do they really want to get rid of them?

00:57:47.160 Well, I could see them wanting to get rid of them and put another liberal in.

00:57:49.960 No, no, there's no question about that.

00:57:51.480 Yeah.

00:57:51.700 I'm just wondering if they're like firing a shot across the bow.

00:57:55.160 It could be.

00:57:56.160 I mean, at this point, you know, this is just, it's just starting right now.

00:57:59.880 So, you know, shape up or we're going to really get at you.

00:58:03.180 But, you know, it's going to take a lot more.

00:58:04.900 I mean, that's what David and I were talking with the news check-in.

00:58:06.920 Like, with this thing breaking with apparent police interference into the investigation,

00:58:13.260 well, prime ministerial interference potentially, this is huge.

00:58:17.180 And why are we hearing more about this?

00:58:18.300 How did he get away with it?

00:58:19.220 And he, I could, I think in any rational country, he'd be toast.

00:58:23.920 Oh, yeah.

00:58:24.560 But I think he'll get away with it again.

00:58:26.480 Saying Canada is not rational?

00:58:27.920 No.

00:58:28.760 I don't think it is.

00:58:31.120 I mean, what does it take to get rid of this guy?

00:58:33.020 I don't know.

00:58:33.740 I don't know.

00:58:34.680 I've got some ideas, but I think we'll just zip that right now.

00:58:37.260 Yeah, no, no.

00:58:37.720 We don't need to be, I understand some things that'll work, but it'll lead to some other difficulties that we were.

00:58:44.520 I mean, so, I mean, one of the other pressures, I was ranting a bit about that before you came in.

00:58:47.840 and you've talked about that with interest rate hikes.

00:58:51.440 You write a lot on real estate.

00:58:52.540 That's one of your main areas of writing

00:58:54.560 and things like that.

00:58:55.560 And we've got some serious financial pressures going on.

00:58:57.900 Inflation is huge.

00:59:00.160 And of course, that pushes for more interest rate hikes

00:59:03.140 and you get into an ugly cycle.

00:59:04.340 They could lead to a recession

00:59:05.560 if they crank the interest too fast, too hard.

00:59:07.880 And that's the hazard.

00:59:09.780 You know, the Bank of Canada originally started talking

00:59:11.940 about, well, we need to increase the interest rates

00:59:14.540 to cool down the housing market, which is fair enough.

00:59:17.840 but it missed the inflation thing.

00:59:20.940 And now all of a sudden inflation's up here.

00:59:22.880 What is it?

00:59:23.880 7.7%, I think was the latest.

00:59:25.860 In May, yeah.

00:59:27.020 And the bank is going, whoa,

00:59:30.120 the target is not housing, kids.

00:59:31.940 It's not, it's everything, you know?

00:59:34.120 And the next bank announcement is July 13th.

00:59:38.240 And I think they're gonna raise a 0.75,

00:59:42.000 which would take their overnight to 2.25.

00:59:45.560 And then they've got another meeting,

00:59:46.900 I believe, in September, they'll do another 0.75 then.

00:59:50.680 They wanted to get it up above 3.

00:59:52.220 They wanted to comfortably, I think, they wanted 3.25.

00:59:57.060 The normal range for the Bank of Canada is between 2% and 3%.

01:00:00.760 That's what they call the neutral zone.

01:00:03.420 But Macklin has said to get back to a neutral, we've got to go way above it.

01:00:08.480 So that's really going to be painful.

01:00:10.780 Well, and some of those stats that have been coming out,

01:00:12.420 I mean, there's a frightening number of Canadians who are, they're this close.

01:00:16.300 They can't take a sudden hike in their mortgage payment every month.

01:00:20.220 This could push them over the edge.

01:00:21.500 That's how you suddenly topple into a recession if you're not careful.

01:00:24.640 Yeah, and I've read some stories.

01:00:26.540 The regular guys are out.

01:00:28.600 It's the end of the world, runaway, housing crash.

01:00:31.000 And I don't think that's going to happen.

01:00:33.340 And I'll tell you why.

01:00:34.440 Is that, I mean, if you go back to what happened in 2008, especially in the United States, when we had that recession, it's totally a different thing right now.

01:00:43.960 The United States outlawed the bad mortgages that were being written.

01:00:49.420 Canada introduced the mortgage stress test.

01:00:53.300 So you have to test higher than your actual rate to get a mortgage.

01:00:57.740 So most Canadians are already paying or were tested that they could pay an extra 2% on their mortgages per month and still be not comfortable, but they could manage it.

01:01:11.720 So I think that that's where it's going on.

01:01:14.680 And the other thing I think we have to look at is that it's going to be different in different parts of the country.

01:01:23.720 British Columbia, especially Vancouver, Toronto, and the entire Golden Horseshoe area are going to get it worse because they're so expensive.

01:01:32.840 They're carrying balances that are just unbelievable.

01:01:34.820 Well, yeah.

01:01:35.660 I mean, the average single-family house in both those markets is plus $2 million.

01:01:41.400 I mean, where do you get a down payment for that?

01:01:44.680 I don't know.

01:01:47.880 Saskatchewan and Alberta, I believe, are going to come out of it okay.

01:01:50.700 I think we'll get nicked, but we're not going to get run over by the bus.

01:01:55.500 I really don't think so.

01:01:56.500 Toronto and BC, different stories.

01:02:00.000 I'm looking at the Toronto or the Calgary numbers all this week,

01:02:03.580 and overall sales are down slightly.

01:02:07.080 single family home sales are down uh semi-detached homes are down but the two cheapest ends town

01:02:13.400 houses town houses and apartments are up and that's year over year in terms of sales and pricing

01:02:19.240 the only uh area where the prices have dropped in calgary year over year and i hate using that

01:02:24.680 is in a single family in an overall thing but people should be looking at not what it was like

01:02:29.560 last year um if you want to do comparisons and follow trends then you have to go compare this

01:02:37.240 month's statistics to last month's statistics because that's immediate that's in the now

01:02:43.240 and and three months makes a trend so uh june is the third month really of any kind of a decline

01:02:52.120 so whatever the numbers are at the end of this month i think will be a hard bringer not necessarily

01:02:56.920 what's going to happen in the summer or certainly in september because the summer's a slow sale

01:03:03.240 season anyway so and with the interest rates going they'll back off even more so it's going to look

01:03:08.760 even worse due to year over year comparison but again that people shouldn't do that um there

01:03:15.720 might not be a calamitous clash crash like as you said there was a different bubble that had been

01:03:20.120 built all together in the states with a what was it ready mac and whatnot where they were giving

01:03:24.680 mortgages to people who had no business having one in the first place. It was just asking for

01:03:28.680 it. Someone was pointing out too, like in 83, she was paying 23% and more for interest on a

01:03:35.040 mortgage. We aren't there. I mean, that was insane. I mean, people trying to maintain that

01:03:39.480 were creeping up, but I mean, it still will have an impact. I mean, if people aren't losing their

01:03:44.560 houses, they can make it. As you said, the stress test shows that, but they're still going to cut

01:03:48.560 back. It's going to cut back. There's no question. That hurts other sectors of the economy.

01:03:53.120 The thing is, you're locked into that mortgage, so that mortgage is going to take, say, another $20, $25 a month.

01:03:58.680 That $20, $25 is going to be taken from somewhere else.

01:04:01.880 There's no question about that.

01:04:03.020 It's another less meal.

01:04:04.440 I mean, and that sounds, you know, $25 a month is pretty small.

01:04:07.240 It could get larger with a lot of people.

01:04:08.200 Could be larger.

01:04:08.600 Depends on your mortgage.

01:04:09.380 Yeah, and that people choose to take one less vacation or not go out for supper or not buy that furniture

01:04:14.600 or hang on to the car for another year.

01:04:16.420 I mean, lots of things people do, which I mean is good responsible budgeting,

01:04:19.460 but it has a ripple effect all the way down in the economy.

01:04:22.040 Well, you know, you've mentioned the economy. The economy now is a lot different than it was back then. It's more diversified. The employment levels in all of Canada are high. They're solid. If it's a really severe, immediate recession, then a lot of those jobs are going to be lost. But I think it's going to be gradual.

01:04:43.120 Let's hope so. I mean, we've just had a miserable enough few years. We don't need a bloody crash.

01:04:48.060 Yeah, all the bad news every day.

01:04:50.980 So, what's this?

01:04:52.560 You wrote, that was the other week, though.

01:04:54.420 Yeah, the BC Ranch with eight houses.

01:04:56.540 No, only $24 million.

01:04:57.480 So, there's still some people with some money selling somewhere.

01:04:59.480 Well, you know, I was thinking about that.

01:05:01.100 See, you've got eight homes there.

01:05:03.920 They want $24 million.

01:05:05.140 So, you get eight people, house in $3 million each, and you can rotate the main house.

01:05:10.560 You know what I mean?

01:05:11.060 Yeah.

01:05:11.460 So, you're living in an $8 million place for $3 million.

01:05:14.460 What's tough about that?

01:05:16.300 Well, $3 million.

01:05:18.640 You're doing better than I am.

01:05:20.040 I guess I understand the theory.

01:05:21.840 No, I didn't say I could do it.

01:05:22.980 Yeah.

01:05:23.260 I just thrown off my math skills.

01:05:26.160 There are some big properties out there.

01:05:28.000 Just, you know, just to point out some of the stuff you write on to in some of those columns.

01:05:30.660 I mean, there's just stuff of interest and housing sort of issues.

01:05:35.620 Just one last thing.

01:05:36.700 I mentioned that in the email while I got you in.

01:05:38.300 You're a Beltline resident in Calgary.

01:05:41.540 A big issue that I've been ramping on a lot about is the crime on transit and so on, but also the Beltline in general.

01:05:47.300 We're like, we've got a really big frigging problem going on right now.

01:05:51.800 And the city council almost still wants to deny that it's even happening.

01:05:54.880 You know, I walked here from my place in the Beltline, took the 8th Street underpass.

01:06:01.420 Yeah, that's where I go every day.

01:06:02.420 Three guys down there cranking up right there on the street in front of everybody.

01:06:07.900 And I'm just like, whoa, because I've never seen that before, that open on 8th Street, that time of day.

01:06:13.820 Yeah, they use that little stairwell all the time.

01:06:15.640 and they can sit there because that's where i walk to where i park and i see it that's part

01:06:19.400 of what gets me worked up because i can see it well you know and the the season this season

01:06:25.000 brings out uh the people because the nights are warmer they're longer and uh there's one poor

01:06:32.800 lady i don't know her name i see her from a distance but every morning she's walking up and 0.86

01:06:36.900 down 12 avenue yelling at the top of her voice she's obviously got some mental issues and i don't 1.00

01:06:43.220 know why the authorities whoever they might be don't go and and pick her up and say look here's 0.89

01:06:51.740 a bed for you here's some food here's some care just relax we'll look after you she's there every

01:06:56.780 morning yeah well that's something that it's such a huge issue that whole thing like i i've reached

01:07:02.540 out to uh uh i'm still waiting to try and get around as a guest woman who wrote a book about

01:07:06.460 it but i mean deinstitutionalization we've taken a lot of people who we used to keep in facilities

01:07:10.600 and with what you thought was a more humane thing to do,

01:07:14.420 put them out in the community, let them out,

01:07:16.280 and this is a lot of the people that have ended up on the streets

01:07:18.540 or they end up in jail or they end up in hospitals.

01:07:22.360 Because as you're saying, this woman, yes, clearly is distressed,

01:07:24.980 but do they have somewhere to put her if they pick her up?

01:07:27.600 Yeah, that's another good point, I guess, but there should be.

01:07:29.960 I mean, instead of some of the stuff the city spends its money on,

01:07:35.240 our money, sorry,

01:07:35.940 well um it's their priorities that were all goofed up and goofed up isn't the phrase i meant but

01:07:44.660 when they start spending things on pretty things you know or or trying to put uh apartments in

01:07:50.980 downtown high rises um that money could be better spent building a facility a big one because that's

01:07:58.020 a lot of money they're spending on that and and no that's another thing that irks me when when the

01:08:03.940 arena deal was going on everybody's screaming about well you can't spend tax money taxpayers

01:08:08.580 money on that well don't they know that the taxpayers money's building those residentials

01:08:13.780 downtown um yeah so it's uh there's the the calgary housing corporation and things like

01:08:20.340 that that are artificially purchasing that's a whole other it's well it's bureaucracy yeah and

01:08:25.940 and uh we've got a mayor who seems desperate for an emergency she really does she wants something

01:08:32.020 to make her mark. It's almost like she's envious, which I doubt he would consider it to be enviable

01:08:36.740 all the same. But the thing that really boosted Ninchy was the floods happened in 2013. He provided

01:08:42.180 a very good public face for it. He was very communicative. It really established him as the

01:08:46.840 mayor and helped him through what I think was a lot of horrible policies for years, but people

01:08:50.740 still were endeared to him. Part of what went. I agree. I go back to that and I think, you know,

01:08:56.300 he doesn't deserve all that. No, he's not doing it. He's walking around talking. But if she wants

01:09:02.000 an emergency rather than a climate one, look at the emergency on the street, get out of your city

01:09:07.240 hall, go for a walk through the Beltline, ride a train. We have a real emergency, a real one. You

01:09:12.040 can make your legacy. You can make your mark. If you've got $87 billion you can spend on a climate

01:09:16.580 plan, I think you could find a billion, as you said, for a facility for people with mental health

01:09:20.680 issues and addiction issues and get them off the streets and trains. And you'd find the staff to

01:09:24.620 look after them. Yeah, $87 billion for, huh? Yeah, it's insane. It is, totally. But yeah, I think

01:09:31.240 right she she is looking for for an emergency where she can jump out in front of the parade 1.00

01:09:36.120 and be the savior um i laughed about the building the berms on memorial drive before the the water

01:09:42.840 flow even called for it out west and now they're ripping it down so this 300 grand gone yeah um

01:09:49.560 and and in 13 uh the areas down around mission and elbow and 25th avenue that that was flooded

01:09:56.680 for blocks no broom down there no just for those nice folks in parkdale where you can see it yeah

01:10:01.400 there's part of it look what we're doing yeah we want you to see what we're doing yeah and there's

01:10:05.480 also been a fixation at city hall they just love closing memorial whenever the hell they can i know

01:10:09.240 we got a thing for that yeah but either way it's just a frustration you're living in the belt line

01:10:12.840 i've noticed even you know the hipster in chief karra has realized there's a crime problem now

01:10:16.840 that bicycles are getting stolen uh you know it didn't matter that everybody else has been

01:10:21.720 been getting hit. But now that we've got bikes, well, now we've got a crisis.

01:10:25.200 Karah and Walcott, the two of them who shut down the freedom marches here by calling them all white

01:10:31.720 supremacists and racists, they don't do anything until one of their constituents or two of them,

01:10:38.480 or maybe four, calls up and says, I had my bike stolen. Oh, I'll get right on that.

01:10:43.360 Never mind 100 catalytic converters a day were getting stolen from people's driveways because

01:10:47.640 These addicts would ride the trains out.

01:10:49.720 They go into the area with a portable cutter and hack those things up.

01:10:52.580 People have been screaming about that for years.

01:10:54.080 It's not a problem.

01:10:54.700 I got a bicycle like missing.

01:10:56.560 Now we got an issue.

01:10:57.800 It reminds me of something that Hillary Clinton said the other day about telling the Democrats in the United States, get away from the issues.

01:11:07.020 We're being hurt by being vocal about all these issues that are going on.

01:11:12.500 Just shut up and do whatever you have to do to get us reelected. 0.65

01:11:17.380 Now, there's Karat. 0.99

01:11:18.540 There's Walcott.

01:11:19.320 They'll care about anything except getting reelected.

01:11:22.940 To hell with the problems.

01:11:24.800 Yeah, and again, you're living in it down there.

01:11:26.480 And, you know, we even hear from, he points it out now, and then the dinger and some other folks are living in the Beltline.

01:11:31.480 They've been raising the arms.

01:11:33.040 They're saying, hey, this is getting bad down here.

01:11:35.760 We've got, you know, an area that was 20 years ago was unimaginable.

01:11:39.180 You could walk the Beltline at night.

01:11:40.320 You never thought twice of it.

01:11:41.620 You run across the odd drunk or weirdo.

01:11:44.160 That's normal.

01:11:44.780 Not like now.

01:11:45.500 And as you said, they're shooting up right under the bridge.

01:11:48.160 In the 80s, we used to, growing up in Banff, go half a mile into the woods to smoke half a joint.

01:11:53.860 We're scared we're going to be arrested and thrown in jail.

01:11:57.020 And now they're pumping heroin in the middle of the streets.

01:11:59.460 People walking by, and I'm just as guilty.

01:12:02.320 Yeah, just look straight ahead.

01:12:04.040 Because what are you going to do?

01:12:05.040 You can't stop and say, you shouldn't do that.

01:12:06.920 You don't know what kind of knife or gun they've got going on.

01:12:09.800 Yeah, or they might be passive, but there's still nothing you can do with them.

01:12:12.620 I mean, those ones don't scare me as much as the meth heads, actually.

01:12:14.780 But the heroin one, unfortunately, is probably going to kill themselves or just flop.

01:12:17.840 No, the meth heads are scary. 0.57

01:12:18.760 The meth heads, they go wild.

01:12:20.320 And they're the ones easy running into the streets.

01:12:22.320 Or as one of our staff members got delayed for work because one decided to lose bowel

01:12:27.180 control in the middle of a crosswalk for a number of lights.

01:12:31.060 But again, these were unimaginable things to mention 20 years ago and look at it.

01:12:34.360 No.

01:12:35.060 Oh, well, we can keep talking about it, keep trying to expose it.

01:12:37.440 Maybe it's the city hall, wake up.

01:12:38.800 If enough bicycles get stolen or, you know, I don't know what it'll take.

01:12:43.740 yeah i think it's like i said earlier the ammunition that we've got is at the ballot box

01:12:49.260 and we've got to be much better organized more informed and i think as as conservative-minded

01:12:56.780 people we've got to get together in a single group instead of all these different conservative

01:13:03.660 groups um and and and you know one for all for one kind of thing because without that uh

01:13:11.340 Nothing will change.

01:13:14.180 It's up to us.

01:13:14.960 We've got the means. 1.00

01:13:15.720 We've just got to get off our asses. 0.99

01:13:17.660 Oh, well, all right. 0.99

01:13:18.620 Well, that was a good long chat.

01:13:19.700 I appreciate you coming in.

01:13:21.040 I enjoyed it.

01:13:21.640 Yeah, it's always fun to have you in, talk to these issues,

01:13:23.840 and I appreciate the columns as they keep coming.

01:13:26.500 So, well, we haven't solved all the world's problems.

01:13:28.940 We solved a couple, I think.

01:13:29.920 Well, we solved some, but you create some more so you can come back and solve them later.

01:13:32.980 That's right.

01:13:33.640 Well, thanks for coming in, Mike.

01:13:34.900 Good to see you.

01:13:35.580 Okay, great.

01:13:36.060 Thank you.

01:13:36.460 And we'll talk again soon.

01:13:37.700 All right.

01:13:37.740 Thanks.

01:13:38.160 All right.

01:13:38.960 So again, that was Western Standard columnist, Mike Thomas.

01:13:42.060 And yes, lots of great columns.

01:13:43.800 As I said, on all sorts of things,

01:13:45.400 a lot of a real estate focus,

01:13:46.620 but Mike writes about whatever catches his interest

01:13:49.180 and he's been popular with the readers.

01:13:51.060 If you can't see them

01:13:51.840 because you don't have a subscription,

01:13:53.000 well, what the hell are you waiting for?

01:13:54.040 Get on there, guys.

01:13:54.780 It's 10 bucks a month.

01:13:55.820 Take out a subscription.

01:13:57.520 It's how we can support having these columnists,

01:13:59.820 these reporters and covering these stories

01:14:01.680 that as we said,

01:14:02.740 the mainstream media often just doesn't want to touch.

01:14:06.180 So yeah, it was good to have them coming in and have somebody, as I said, who lives in

01:14:10.380 the Beltline.

01:14:10.940 A lot of people who live down there, Rick Bell, Mike, they love the Beltline.

01:14:14.180 They like living down there.

01:14:15.060 You're kind of in a residential area, but it's still near to downtown and things like

01:14:18.900 that.

01:14:19.140 But it's gone downhill.

01:14:21.040 It is bad.

01:14:22.460 I used to work, what would it be, boy, 91, 92.

01:14:26.400 I was cooking at a Chicago deep dish over on First Street, and it was bad down there

01:14:29.840 back then.

01:14:31.900 Relative.

01:14:32.760 I mean, I'd still, I would walk from there to my apartment at three in the morning when I'd

01:14:36.200 finish my shift and I wouldn't worry about it. I wasn't nervous. You know, you keep your eyes

01:14:40.240 open that late at night, but now I wouldn't even consider it. It's daytime. It's scary to walk down

01:14:44.980 there. And it's just, and as AB Freeze pointing out, yeah, it's happening all over Everton. It's

01:14:51.800 happening in major cities all over the place and denial isn't going to make it go away. That's

01:14:56.020 what people got to realize. I don't have easy solutions. Like, like, you know, when I was

01:15:01.120 talking with Mike when there's a person with clear mental health issues great you've identified that

01:15:04.860 you realize where they don't belong that's part of what I talk about with the trains but you do

01:15:08.500 have to figure out where they do belong okay you remove them from where they are but where are you

01:15:11.680 going to put them and again as Mike rightly pointed out well if our mayor and council have

01:15:16.140 the kind of billions to throw around they're talking about then quit screwing around trying

01:15:20.520 to change climate that you can't and won't and spend some of that money to change something you

01:15:25.280 can and that is the addiction epidemic going on down there let's get more mental health facilities

01:15:31.000 for people. Let's get more treatment centers for people. Maybe it was Paul Hinman who was talking

01:15:37.020 about a possible policy, but you know, something where you could have, and I know this is difficult

01:15:41.440 when you get the civil liberties involved in there, but if you pick somebody up for, you know,

01:15:47.280 a problem, public disorder, they're clearly drug addicted, they got problems, have a center you

01:15:52.480 can take them to and have some sort of legislative tool where you say, you are going to remain in

01:15:56.060 custody for 36 hours. We're going to dry you out under supervision. We're going to watch you. We're

01:16:02.640 going to offer you everything we can before we release you anyways, to try and rehabilitate you,

01:16:07.620 to get it going, give you the passage. This is how you can get in everything else. If they

01:16:10.320 leave after 36 hours, well, you did what you could. Chances are maybe they'll be back because,

01:16:14.840 you know, people talk about the decriminalization thing. Well, that's been a failure. It looks like,

01:16:18.940 I mean, Portland tried it.

01:16:20.320 They had overdoses up 700% through Linda Sabote.

01:16:26.280 And thankfully, she wrote a good article on that.

01:16:28.520 And she's connected me with a state legislator over there

01:16:32.480 in Oregon that I might be able to speak to.

01:16:34.320 I've talked with her aide maybe in a week or two.

01:16:37.340 Again, I wasn't fully opposed to decriminalization.

01:16:40.460 If it would work, if it works, then let's go for it.

01:16:43.140 But it doesn't seem to be working out.

01:16:45.080 I don't want to see a bunch of people thrown in jail

01:16:46.720 because they had half a gram of something on them.

01:16:48.940 either. That's just pointless. Throwing more people in jail costs more money. It's not getting

01:16:52.800 them off this stuff. So let's start thinking harder. Think outside the box, though. They

01:16:57.160 don't belong in the streets. They don't belong in jail. Well, where do they belong? What can we do?

01:17:01.640 I listened. I like talking about that now and then. You know, as I said, I drive into work.

01:17:05.560 It takes about a half hour or so. And I listened to the talk radio and torture myself with it.

01:17:11.700 And they've been talking lately about downtown crime and things. So good on them, I guess.

01:17:15.380 But they spoke to a fellow who was talking about addiction and everything. And he started on

01:17:18.880 about. They need homes. Well, yes, that's part of it, but not until they're under control. I mean,

01:17:27.660 they talk, oh, there's this lack of housing and expensive housing. No, guys, that's not the

01:17:31.580 problem. The guy walking down the street, looking at the sky, talking to himself, who'd shit his 0.99

01:17:36.220 pants, isn't ready to move into a home on his own. Might never be. So let's not pretend that 0.86

01:17:44.160 that person's issue is just a lack of available, affordable housing. Likewise, for some other

01:17:50.060 people, they just need to get a job. Well, again, no, they are not in condition to get a job.

01:17:53.860 They're way beyond that. They're out of control. They need help. So let's work on this. Let's

01:18:00.960 figure it out. And it's tough. It's hard. And again, you know, don't dehumanize. These people

01:18:07.480 on the streets, they're coming from all over the place. They could be your family member,

01:18:13.080 your cousin, your uncle, your kids. They get into the wrong cycle. And if we can save them,

01:18:18.500 it's better for all of us. It's one of the things I've always said. If you're a conservative,

01:18:22.500 you want to save money, you want things to stay rational, invest in helping these people because

01:18:27.060 it will save you money, even if only for your self-interest. Because it costs a fortune when

01:18:31.880 they're in jail. It costs a fortune for welfare, for health care when they're constantly in and

01:18:36.560 out of the hospital, whether it's mental or physiological. They're costing with just policing

01:18:42.660 in general or with a disorder

01:18:44.520 downtown. So every one

01:18:46.560 of them you can manage to somehow get

01:18:48.480 off of that. And they get

01:18:50.560 out and they're working and they're productive

01:18:52.480 and they're paying taxes. It's a

01:18:54.560 win. It's a win. So those

01:18:56.500 sorts of dollars spent are going to help

01:18:58.380 you. Not spending money

01:19:00.540 on a bloody

01:19:02.560 climate change plan.

01:19:04.820 On public art. On crap 1.00

01:19:06.620 like that. Wildrose saying treatment costs 0.99

01:19:08.580 money too. Yes it does. But untreated

01:19:10.760 costs us a hell of a lot more.

01:19:13.640 And, you know, the odds, and they're not good numbers.

01:19:17.860 And I've talked about it before.

01:19:19.100 Look, guys, I'm a recovering alcoholic.

01:19:22.300 I've had to go to countless meetings.

01:19:24.040 I needed help.

01:19:24.800 It took me a number of times of quitting drinking before I stopped for good.

01:19:29.120 But I'm a lot better off for it now.

01:19:31.220 I learned a lot of things at those meetings too, though.

01:19:33.920 The odds, even in treatment of people when they have an opioid addiction, aren't that great. 0.98

01:19:39.920 You know, the chances are they'll get out and they'll get back on the crap. 0.65

01:19:43.920 But their odds, if they don't get treatment, are horrible. 0.99

01:19:47.240 They're just horrible.

01:19:49.780 And, oh, looking further with Wildrose, yes, I think it's worth it if we can get them healthy again.

01:19:54.020 Yeah, okay, so we're on the same page there, Wildrose.

01:19:57.400 You know, these problems are going on.

01:19:59.060 We've got to look deeper.

01:20:00.280 I get upset when I see the crime on the trains and on the platforms in downtown because, hey, we need more policing. 0.98

01:20:05.860 Quit this defund the police crap and everything else. 0.93

01:20:08.120 We need to make the public safe first. 0.98

01:20:09.320 that has to come first. And then now we've moved them aside. The public have safe corridors to

01:20:14.060 travel downtown and on transit. Fine. Now, what do we deal with the people outside, the addicts

01:20:18.360 who are still in a lot of trouble? Well, let's start discussing and getting real solutions

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01:21:28.980 and I ranted about that the last week, you know, the Taxpayers Federation exposed that.

01:21:33.300 members of parliament are going to review the governor general's expenses. And, uh, uh, she

01:21:39.520 had that trip where they went to Dubai and they spent 3000 a head for the food and catering on

01:21:45.260 their flights. Yeah. 3000 a person. Insane. Uh, so they want to find out who's responsible for

01:21:52.940 this again, whether something will come out of this or not. I don't know. This is interesting.

01:21:57.420 I didn't even realize that. Wow. So this, uh, number on this story says that, uh, the catering

01:22:02.800 charges were $93,118. That was for 29 people on her trip. $93,118 for catering on the flight

01:22:12.720 for 29 people. And now I see that's not even including in-flight drinks. I always assumed

01:22:18.000 it included drinks. I mean, I thought, well, that's one way they can crank it up is with,

01:22:22.340 you know, $500 bottles of wine or $1,000 bottles of scotch. So these guys racked up 93 grand

01:22:27.780 on catering and didn't even include the booze.

01:22:31.920 What the hell do they eat?

01:22:34.300 You know, is it a whooping crane on the menu or something? 0.61

01:22:37.720 My God.

01:22:38.920 The only thing is, though, and it's as I said in my piece,

01:22:41.380 they got a crackdown on this.

01:22:43.220 Don't just keep exposing it.

01:22:44.660 We deal with this with every governor general,

01:22:47.060 subsequently one after another. 0.96

01:22:48.600 These entitled appointed buffoons of false royalty 0.99

01:22:52.640 are screwing us and they're stealing our money. 1.00

01:22:56.260 That's enough. 0.99

01:22:56.960 Defund them. 0.98

01:22:57.780 I mean, we need to change the Constitution if we actually want to get rid of the office of it.

01:23:03.120 And, you know, we're going to change the Constitution. 0.55

01:23:05.420 Let's just break Alberta. 0.99

01:23:06.300 That's a separate discussion. 1.00

01:23:07.600 In the meantime, though, we can cut that office's budget to the bone.

01:23:12.480 Still fly them around, still give them free housing.

01:23:15.020 We own the house there anyways, the Rio Hall. 0.88

01:23:19.020 But none of this crap. 0.61

01:23:21.200 You know, you can fly and you could have a bag of peanuts like everybody else. 0.93

01:23:24.700 And if you want something a little more, reach into your very deep wallet, the 300,000 you're 0.94

01:23:30.140 being paid to be a professional ribbon cutter, buy your own frigging lunch. Same with your 0.51

01:23:35.040 entourage. So either way, the members of parliament are looking into it. I just find, I'm sure they'll

01:23:42.580 just expose what we already know. But hopefully we actually see a move maybe to change some of

01:23:48.000 these things. Here's another one. C11 is getting challenged in the Senate. I mentioned that

01:23:52.320 earlier. So that's that bill, again, that's looking to control the internet, a very scary

01:23:56.020 assault on our free expression, on our ability for free press, and a lot of things between that

01:24:00.600 and C-18. But it's going to the Senate. And as I said earlier, the Senate's been showing to

01:24:06.600 themselves to be suddenly active. They've been speaking up a bit. They've been pushing back on

01:24:09.740 some things. So maybe, maybe I can hold a little optimism, you know, that these senators are going

01:24:15.060 to say, you know what, we're getting sick of you throwing this crap at us. This is not 0.98

01:24:18.300 acceptable. As I said, the CRTC chair says, you see in that story, it has to be revised. It has

01:24:25.920 to be. And maybe they're going to get that thing or, you know, rewrite it significantly, or, you

01:24:31.780 know, my view, just toss it in the toilet. We don't need to regulate these things. So Trudeau

01:24:35.680 is out of control. The only thing that seems to be holding him a bit to control an account is the

01:24:39.440 Senate. Let's hope they keep up with it. And getting back to that whole RCMP and Brenda

01:24:43.140 lucky thing. Maybe the Senate can strike the committee and get after that as well. 0.99

01:24:49.100 I'm just trying to throw a little optimism on some of these things going on. Again, back to

01:24:53.060 government stupidity and waste. You know, we can't afford to treat our homeless and people 1.00

01:24:57.480 with mental health problems. Well, our natural resources minister's department spent $3 million

01:25:01.420 on a tree planting campaign. So they checked the records and how many trees did they get planted?

01:25:06.000 $3.1 million. Zero. Not one. They did not plant a single tree. I guess they just stood and

01:25:12.860 circles and talked about it and somehow managed to spend $3 million while they were at it.

01:25:20.560 We're getting robbed, everybody. They are robbing us. And oh yeah, hundreds of thousands that went

01:25:26.620 towards consultants and management and public relations services and computer services.

01:25:32.000 How hard? Go to the frigging garden center, buy some trees and stick them in the frigging ground. 0.55

01:25:37.500 You even bought 20 of them. You would have at least shown that you put some trees in the ground. 0.98

01:25:40.900 You idiots spent $3.1 million on a tree planting program and didn't plant a single tree. 1.00

01:25:46.860 Is it really a shocker that the Trans Mountain Pipeline isn't done yet? 1.00

01:25:50.980 God, what does it take?

01:25:54.700 What does it take?

01:25:55.600 Here's an interesting one from the conservative race.

01:25:57.560 This one's kind of fun.

01:25:58.980 You know, the federal one.

01:26:01.220 Scott Aitchison, he's stood out in the sense that he's called out supply management, 0.95

01:26:05.420 which most of the conservative candidates are too cowardly to do. 0.83

01:26:08.780 But another one now, he said, 0.66

01:26:10.220 is that he wants to have formal recognition of Taiwan.

01:26:13.020 Now, that's poking a hornet's nest.

01:26:14.840 That's something that our federal government

01:26:16.440 and some conservatives are terrified of doing

01:26:18.280 because, of course, China just gets furious

01:26:20.580 if anybody ever acknowledges that Taiwan is a country.

01:26:24.540 Drives them bananas.

01:26:25.980 And to have Atchison go out of his way to say,

01:26:28.060 let's declare it and make sure to push back on that.

01:26:30.180 Of course, Trudeau will be terribly embarrassed by such a move.

01:26:34.180 He's so weak-kneed when it comes to China. 0.67

01:26:36.980 He's their little potato.

01:26:39.280 But, hey, hats off, DHS, and that's a good policy stance to take.

01:26:43.020 It's not one that's going to make coast-to-coast news or repercussions, I don't think.

01:26:48.240 But I appreciate the stand. 0.67

01:26:49.680 It's actually pretty thoughtful, clever, and it helps corner some of those MPs and MLA, you know, leaders that are terrified of scaring that awful country of China with their infringements on human rights, particularly with Taiwan.

01:27:03.140 So good on you.

01:27:04.680 Keep at it. 0.92

01:27:05.220 Keep that race a little bit interesting. 0.57

01:27:06.480 The rest are just kind of talking in circles now.

01:27:08.300 you know, they're looking to spend a lot more money. So concerned on that. And inflation,

01:27:17.140 of course, is going through the roof. I think we've covered most of what we need to today,

01:27:21.040 guys. I appreciate the interaction and comments coming back and forth. And I appreciate you

01:27:28.580 viewing. I'm going to be back tomorrow. I am going to talk to UCP leadership candidate,

01:27:31.680 Todd Lowen. He's going to come on first. And yeah, we'll chat about his run. It's kind of

01:27:37.040 Interesting. This is an MLA who was removed from the party caucus, but now he's running for the

01:27:40.880 leadership of that party. And Dr. Samuel West is going to be on. He is the curator of the Museum

01:27:47.260 of Failure. Yes, this is a museum celebrating. Well, I don't know about celebrating, but

01:27:51.460 highlighting noteworthy, large commercial failures. The new Coke, for example, for those old enough to 0.96

01:27:57.960 remember, was one of those. So it should be a fun conversation. That museum is actually coming to

01:28:01.100 Calgary and they're going to set up shop for about a month later on. And we'll just have lots of

01:28:05.600 other news and things to rant about as well so see you tomorrow at 11 30 a.m sharp guys

01:28:35.600 Thank you.

Western Standard - June 23, 2022

Triggered： Danielle Smith has taken pole position in the UCP race.

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