00:18:28.760she's been on the show a number of times.
00:18:30.160Uh, he'd gone after her, calling her lazy and a number of things. Like he's just a, a vile little man. He, he, uh, called for, I believe the vaccines to be held off in Alberta because we weren't walking down hard enough. Yeah. So here's, that shows what, that's the mark of a psychopath. He was getting really upset, you know, about a year ago, I think it was. And, uh, we were, Alberta was the, one of the lesser locked down provinces.
00:18:54.100and he came out and said, well, if they're not going to lock down enough,
00:18:57.140we should just stop the vaccines from going to Alberta.
00:19:01.000Now, if he really believes the vaccines save lives,
00:19:03.660then he's basically saying Albertans should die on a point of principle.
00:19:22.120He has an influence on young people, and that has to be taken seriously.
00:19:27.760If he's going to behave like that on social media, how is this man behaving when he's lecturing up-and-coming students on how they're going to behave in life going forward?
00:19:38.000So, yes, you know, it's easy to dismiss somebody like Adoran, but the guy has to be taken seriously to the degree that he does have a degree of influence and reach.
00:19:47.640And when he pulls stunts like that, he should be called out.
00:22:13.040like appointing our own chief firearms officer.
00:22:15.160I mean, that's obviously important as we see Justin Trudeau trying to weigh in on firearms laws and really rule abiding firearms owners in this country.
00:22:25.200We've also got good news on Bill C-69 with the Alberta Court of Appeal saying that that's unconstitutional.
00:22:32.040That is good news in our fight for a fair deal.
00:22:34.900But I'm going to be focused not on headlines, but on results for Albertans.
00:22:39.220You know, the child care deal that we signed with the federal government, I did not sign on the dotted line.
00:22:43.800I didn't accept the first deal that they pushed across the table our way. And, you know, I fought
00:22:50.040for what made sense for Albertans. And I can tell you that what would really hurt Alberta,
00:22:54.680especially when it comes to the federal government and making sure that Albertans are getting a fair
00:23:00.200deal is having an NDP government next year. Yeah, absolutely. Having the NDP in would be
00:23:06.040horrific. We already had a four-year taste of that. Absolutely. Dealing with the federal
00:23:10.340government. I mean, that is one of those difficult ones. And you saw as Children's Services Minister,
00:23:13.540though. They take our money, and then they offer a program back and say, well, if you don't embrace
00:23:17.560the program, we're just going to take your money and spend it somewhere else. So you're basically
00:23:20.740throwing away your own money if you don't take part. It's kind of a backhand way of pigeonholing
00:23:25.860us into federal policy, but how can we push back to make sure those policies reflect our needs
00:23:30.280rather than what the federal government's imposing? Well, and here's what I always say,
00:23:33.820is that we need unwavering conservative values to be at the forefront of our platform and what
00:23:39.540our party stands for that said we've also got to use common sense of making decisions so when i
00:23:44.260would hear from alberta families and yes even conservative supporters they said look we're not
00:23:48.780we're not okay with leaving almost four billion dollars of our hard-earned tax money in ottawa
00:23:53.060to pay for child care in every other province across the country except for here they see that1.00
00:23:57.720as an economic advantage uh for us to make sure that parents yes women but you know men women0.99
00:24:03.720like parents can take part in uh the labor market right that they can take part in these new jobs
00:24:09.720that are being created every single day here in alberta child care is very expensive and it is
00:24:14.760in fact a barrier for many when they're looking to go back to school or get into the workforce so
00:24:18.680that's where you know we had to use some common sense we did fight very hard especially on making
00:24:24.120sure that private operators entrepreneurs were included in this system last week i got a call
00:24:28.920from a reporter out of Ontario saying, look, I've got operators in three other provinces saying they
00:24:35.100wish that they had the deal Alberta had. So for us, it was the behind the scenes work, the hard
00:24:39.800work to make sure that we're listening to what Albertans want us to focus on, but making sure
00:24:43.820we don't have a made in Ottawa or made in Quebec, anything here in Alberta, we had to focus on
00:24:49.780what is going to work for Albertans. Okay. Well, and speaking of big budgetary
00:24:54.600numbers in that. Recently, the budget had come into balance, but there's still a large debt
00:24:59.960there. What policies would you be putting forth to work towards, you know, if we're looking at
00:25:04.900fiscal responsibility, hopefully maybe some debt retirement? You know, and I would say even back
00:25:09.720when I was door knocking in 2019, I had people say, you need to balance the budget. And I said,
00:25:14.620absolutely. I agree with you wholeheartedly, fiscal conservative. But just so you know,
00:25:19.460we're going to make decisions that are difficult. Some of them you're probably not going to like.
00:25:22.720and in me you're gonna have someone who will continue to show up take your phone call stand
00:25:26.400on your doorstep and hear your perspectives on that um we have done a lot of hard work over the
00:25:31.840last couple of years that has to continue uh we hear a lot of people saying you know the heritage
00:25:37.200savings trust fund we've got to save uh for future generations we have to continue um to keep
00:25:42.800government spending down and when i look at that as a parent of two young kids my kids are three
00:25:47.520and seven um it is an imperative because when you know they are in our positions making decisions i
00:25:54.480don't want them to be paying off our debt i want them to have the flexibility to meet the demands
00:25:59.440of their generation and their time um you know it is important but i would also say that we have to
00:26:05.520continue to invest in things that people rely on i mean rural health care is important having
00:26:10.640family docs is important having a good education system for our kids you know what that's important
00:26:15.760to. But I think that we can show that we've got compassion, common sense, but can also balance
00:26:21.400the budget and keep us on a good fiscal trajectory. Great. So we're still in the, you know, things
00:26:28.400seem to be recovering. We're getting better and the world's winding down, but COVID still exists.
00:26:32.500There's always the warnings. It has its ups and downs. Are there different ways if COVID starts
00:26:37.960surging again in the future, how would you look to address that as premier? You know, I think we
00:26:43.500still obviously we have all become very aware of some of the capacity issues within uh the hospital
00:26:50.140system ahs um you know that reform is going to take some time but i think people know that there
00:26:55.500is some very real urgency to addressing some of those issues because um well both we saw that
00:27:02.540health restrictions uh especially in these last few waves didn't stop transmission or it maybe
00:27:09.100slowed down but we also have to recognize that it didn't have um the outcomes really and that it had
00:27:16.940a significant impact on people's overall mental health and well-being and so you know that's what
00:27:23.020i hear from people all the time it's important for my kids to be able to play sports it's important
00:27:27.900for them to have school be as normal as possible uh so i can tell you that i've heard that feedback
00:27:33.660um you know i really have and i think we need to continue to listen to our frontline healthcare
00:27:38.460workers because they have some really great ideas on how we can create capacity within the system
00:27:43.640and do a better job on that front so that we can keep people's lives normal. Great and since you
00:27:49.460brought up health care capacity and this is a question I've been asking every candidate so far
00:27:53.400it's kind of issue specific but it's something I've been writing on for a long time and frustrated
00:27:56.720with is our ambulance services. I mean we had that recent tragedy with the elderly lady
00:28:00.940passing away with an ambulance that took over 30 minutes to get there and we'd heard that
00:28:05.760there were 18 ambulances at that time sitting in hospitals trying to offload yet all we get in
00:28:12.700response is well we'll strike a committee and wait four months like we just we're to be honest
00:28:17.420one of the frustrations I think with the UCP people have had is a lot of talk and not a lot
00:28:21.660of action we don't want more committees we want to see something solved how would you address that
00:28:25.820you know I've heard exactly that almost word for word is we don't need panels and committees we
00:28:32.140need action and so my style is this and I think anybody who's worked with me in children's services
00:28:37.980you know in my previous role would know this that you know I'm not about getting necessarily the
00:28:42.860perfect policy let's roll something out um let's move quickly you know child care deal a good
00:28:48.580example we were not the first to sign but we were one of the first two provinces to roll out those
00:28:53.100savings to parents which was a big deal um we need to take action and then we need to you know take
00:28:58.880look at where things are working or not and when you mention you know i i had ems uh frontline
00:29:05.040paramedics say it's a whole monitor policy is what they called it where they're essentially
00:29:09.680you know stuck waiting to offload patients instead of being able to go and address um you know
00:29:16.720ambulance calls um that's important and so i i know that that committee is working really really hard
00:29:23.920um to make some fast changes in that area and i would say my colleagues you know rj sigurdson
00:29:29.520tracy allard they have been meeting with my frontline um paramedics but also managers you
00:29:36.000know in ems who have very real um examples and changes that they want to see made they said look
00:29:42.720i don't need 10 point plans or 42 point plans we just need to make some changes now we also added
00:29:48.960a number of new ambulances to the system pretty quickly there um which will help reduce some of
00:29:53.840the pressure but you're right those things are urgent and we need to to work on them right now
00:29:58.960okay um another contentious area with government it seems to happen well this has been ever since
00:30:04.000i was old enough to read newspapers but curriculum battles they go back and forth with children in
00:30:08.000schools uh people feel it's been politicized on on the part of the ndp or on the part of the ucp
00:30:13.840do you think we could find some resolution where parents might be content and happy with where
00:30:17.760the curriculum sitting you know i think there are some areas of the curriculum that people like
00:30:23.600financial literacy that is important it's you know again as a mom of a seven-year-old i mean i get
00:30:28.560that those are important things for my kids to know the math curriculum the focus on language
00:30:33.680arts reading you know i don't hear a lot of opposition to those areas i do think you know
00:30:40.240we have to make sure that when we say we're taking ideology out um that you know we're not
00:30:45.280put it you know we're not putting in a different type um i think you know really what i hear about
00:30:51.440that is sometimes the concern isn't exactly the decision that's made it's how like how uh did we
00:30:58.720come to that how are we communicating it and i think you know it's sometimes conservatives i
00:31:04.640mean we have really great ideas um and you know i believe that we don't win when we run on liberal
00:31:10.400light platforms we we do well when we stick to our conservative values but i do think um that we have
00:31:17.440to be able to communicate that very well and people need trust in the process and i think that comes
00:31:23.440from clear communications um being straight up with albertans i think that can help to create
00:31:29.040that trust in the process people make sure or people really feel like their voices are heard
00:31:35.320Great. And then I guess kind of a final question with municipal relations. The federal or the
00:31:40.480provincial government's had some pretty rough relationships, I guess you could say, with the
00:31:44.240Edmonton Calgary mayors over the years. I mean, some ups and downs. Can we streamline some of
00:31:49.280that so it's not a constant battle? Or is it just, I know there's some ideological differences that
00:31:53.680are always going to lead to some degree of sparks. You know, I think there's always going to be
00:31:58.820relationships amongst different levels of government. We're always going to have different
00:32:02.620priorities so there's always going to be differing opinions at different levels i do think we have to
00:32:07.820work to um refresh and renew our relationships there um they obviously need some improvement
00:32:13.980in some areas and i know our current minister of municipal affairs is working really hard on that
00:32:19.180uh i think whether we're working on issues in some of the major urban centers or you know
00:32:24.380addressing issues like rural crime we need those relationships to be strong so that we
00:32:28.700we can solve some of those problems together. Great. Okay. Well, just kind of in wrapping up
00:32:35.240then, I appreciate you coming on, talking to us. And of course, the main goal though, is to
00:32:39.200ensure that we have a good government. I mean, next election, we're looking a year from now,
00:32:43.820you're going to, you know, whoever is the winner is going to have to move really fast.
00:32:47.740Just in a nutshell, then make your pitch on why you're the best person to give us a good
00:32:51.480government in the next election. Yeah, I think, you know, we need a leader,
00:32:55.040not just for the next election or the next two years we need one for the next generation
00:32:59.120of our conservative movement and that is absolutely in the best interest of our party but of course
00:33:04.160for alberta we need somebody who will continue on our path of economic growth somebody who will
00:33:09.040continue to defend alberta's constitutional rights and make sure that we remain a leader
00:33:13.520in this country but also working on unity and one of the first commitments i made was to get
00:33:18.960out there to doorknock and every single one of the 87 ridings right across this uh province
00:33:23.760meet with our grassroots constituency association boards their board presidents make sure that our
00:33:30.080members and all albertans really feel like they have a voice at the decision-making table and i
00:33:35.840think what this comes down to is we have an amazing team we have excellent representatives
00:33:41.600right across alberta they are talented they are smart they are hard-working and i think you know
00:33:46.800it's important for me to to explain a little bit about my style is that it's not all about me it
00:33:52.400is about all of the people who stand alongside me who do um this important work every single day
00:33:58.480and making sure that our team can come back together and focus on defeating the ndp next year
00:34:04.240great and where can people find more information about your campaign if they want to learn more
00:34:08.080or take part yeah of course it's rebeccaforleader.ca great well thank you very much for coming on to
00:34:14.000talk to us today uh there's still a good few months of campaigning to go i hope we get a
00:34:17.680chance to talk again before the campaign's over and see how things are developing
00:34:20.880yeah absolutely that sounds great all right thanks i'll let you get back on the campaign trail there
00:34:25.680thank you so yes that was rebecca shells uh as i said uh mla for calgary shaw former children's
00:34:33.200services minister and she's thrown her hat into the ring for the leadership so well it's another
00:34:38.800one uh down we've got uh i'll be speaking to pretty much all of them i'm sure by the end of
00:34:43.520the race and i i just i see some of the commenters saying you know uh it sounded a bit dry or not
00:34:50.480not digging hard enough. Fair enough. I mean, again, this early stage in particular, similar
00:34:54.040with the federal race where I spoke to the candidates. I'm not here to cut into them that
00:34:58.920hard, at least at this point. I want to get the platforms out there, let people decide what they
00:35:02.880will and see where the campaigns are going to develop. I just want to inform. These are names
00:35:08.440that, you know, she was in cabinet, but you didn't hear a lot. I think that was one of the problems
00:35:12.780with the Kennedy government. You know, aside from his really close inner circle, you didn't hear a
00:35:17.120heck of a lot from, definitely not from the backbenchers, and even some cabinet ministers who
00:35:20.700really got stuck in the background somehow. And that's hopefully going to change no matter who
00:35:26.740might be the next winner. I'll just have a look at the, some of the comments here.
00:35:34.920Need today is get rid of the gatekeepers. As Paulyev said, what we need to do is change these
00:35:38.400gatekeepers. I'm not sure which ones you're speaking of, Kimmers, but I think, I'd just
00:35:42.900like to respond to some of the comments if somebody's listening on the audio. Sorry about
00:35:45.640that. But I mean, one of the things you're gatekeepers or others, I think part of the
00:35:49.080problem too is the civil service. This is something on every level of government people
00:35:52.580miss out on. The elected ones are the ones the front line we talk to and you hear from. What
00:35:56.480you need is somebody who's got the courage to take on the entrenched bureaucrats. They're where
00:36:01.720the problem is. They remain. I was speaking to somebody in one of my interviews the other day
00:36:06.240talking about that. They get into office. They talk to the deputy minister. You see,
00:36:12.780it's the minister you hear of. The deputy minister is an entrenched bureaucrat. They
00:36:15.400often make more than the ministers themselves. They control things in there and they can string
00:36:19.860a minister along. They can, you know, drag their feet, feed them all sorts of different types of0.92
00:36:25.060information and nothing changes. You really got to flush the bureaucrats from the system if you're1.00
00:36:30.020going to fix it. You see that municipally too in the city of Calgary. I mean, they're terrible.
00:36:33.820City administration and Nenshi was really bad for feeding that. You know, they would come forward
00:36:38.020and Nenshi would actually get on the case of any counselor who questioned city administration when
00:36:41.760they come before council. Well, no, actually, that's what the council is supposed to do. You're
00:36:45.500supposed to rip into those city administrators, well, politely and say, what are you doing? You
00:36:49.180answer to us, not the other way around. Give us reports. Instead, you get city councillors,
00:36:54.520and you see that in every level of government. You get federal ones, provincial ones on pet
00:36:57.140projects and micromanaging, doing little things and ignoring what the civil service and the
00:37:02.180bureaucrats are doing beneath them. That's where they got to dig in. That's where things have got
00:37:06.720to change. But they're terrified. I mean, they're abjectly terrified of taking on the bureaucracy
00:37:11.440in the civil service, particularly when you get farther down into the union levels of it.
00:37:15.880So we'll see. Hopefully somebody's going to shake some things up as they go forward. I do want to
00:37:22.240mention as well, there's a debate coming. Nico put that up on the side there and it's going to
00:37:28.560be July 8th. We're holding that at the Petroleum Club in Calgary for the federal leadership.
00:37:32.580Four of the candidates are going to be attending it and you can be there live. You can meet those
00:37:37.120four, see them there. It's a $25 a ticket. Hey, it's an opportunity to get into the Peak Club.
00:37:42.000Have a look around that place. It's a nice facility. You know, you got to remember the
00:37:44.680old days, you couldn't step foot into that place. It's pretty tough. It's a pretty exclusive spot.
00:37:49.680So hey, 25 bucks, you can catch the leaders, have a look around in their network. All of us from the
00:37:54.660Western Standard, of course, be there. It's a Western Standard function. And you can get a
00:37:58.280better idea face to face with some of those candidates as they're out here. It's a Friday
00:38:01.220afternoon. Check it out. Take a, you know, grab a ticket, 25 bucks head on down there, guys, and
00:38:07.680see what they've got going on. Okay, I'm going to speak about another one of our sponsors before I
00:38:13.440move along too, and that is the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. These guys, again, have been
00:38:19.140a very good sponsor for us for a long time. They're a very good organization. They're good for anybody
00:38:24.540who owns or wants to own firearms, you know, responsibly, safely, legally, like all of us do.
00:38:32.140I mean, yeah, there's a handful of crazy criminals out there who were committing some god-awful
00:38:35.940crimes. And, you know, we've got the gangs, we've got the smuggled weapons. But for all the people
00:38:40.020who are responsibly hunting, target shooting, collecting all of that, we're the ones that
00:38:44.160the government is targeting. We're the ones they're coming down on. We've got to stand up for
00:38:47.380ourselves. The Canadian Shooting Sports Association does just that. It's an association of other
00:38:51.780firearm owners so you can get together and stand up for yourself, put out those court challenges.
00:38:57.260There's lots of other resources too, you know, things on where there's events going on, where
00:39:01.860there's different types of firearm activities you can do and things such as that. They're an
00:39:06.660association like any other. So if you own firearms, guys, you got to get there, stand up for yourself,
00:39:11.240use those resources, take out a membership with them, Canadian Shooting Sports Association,
00:40:06.660I'll certainly let you know as soon as it's going.
00:40:08.520I mean, whether you like these guys or you don't, I mean, I know some people get frustrated,
00:40:11.560but whoever ends up winning that race is going to be our premier.
00:40:15.060Now, whether it only lasts until the next general election or not, you know, might only be a six month term as premier, who knows, but it's still an important race, whether you like it to be or not, that person is going to have an impact on us. And whoever does win it, I can only guess is going to hit the ground hard and running because you do only have six months from taking the leadership until you're into a general election.
00:40:38.580so you better make a mark you better show i'm different than the last one i'm different than
00:40:42.340the premier that just got kicked out on his butt and uh and so they're gonna have to come in with
00:40:47.480some pretty solid policy stances whatever ones those might be so uh i would just say you know
00:40:52.260again if you're frustrated or or cynical or whatnot and i understand why uh but you got to
00:40:57.460watch these races because they're going to impact you whether you like them too or not
00:41:02.220So let's see some of the news before I get to Chris.0.92
00:41:07.320So let's see, we'd left to work, foreign work cap.0.56
00:41:11.540Yeah, so we'll get to the labor crisis.
00:41:13.380Department of Immigration is wondering whether or not to permit a third of a million foreign students to work full-time in Canada.
00:41:20.520And MPs recommended the change, even though the jobless rate for school-aged Canadians is 10%.
00:48:30.460And the head of blood services came out and basically thanked him for his donations.
00:48:35.340But if he refuses to answer the question, they don't want his blood.
00:48:39.200It's just this absurdity, you know, where we've gotten to a point of wokeness where we're denying physiological reality.
00:48:47.000like i i'm very liberal i think you and i debate on some of those points i'm all for you know if
00:48:51.400you want to be trans and identify such i'll certainly refer to you as you know whatever uh
00:48:56.920pronoun you prefer and hope you live and be happy and so on and you want to transition good for you
00:49:01.800but we can't deny like it or not take it up with the creator or whatever it might be
00:49:06.760we've we've got some people with x chromosomes and y chromosomes and when it comes to physiological
00:49:10.760things medical things such as giving blood or many others or sports even there's just
00:49:14.840differences whether you like it or not we can't change that yeah and this individual i mean he has
00:49:21.160donated a lot of blood and on top of that someone actually just sent me an article a couple minutes
00:49:25.880ago and they're short of blood donors in the uk right now and they're having a big blood drive
00:49:32.120because covid scared a bunch of the donors away and they're not coming back to donate blood yet
00:49:37.400so they're actually short blood and this guy's still coming out willing to give his blood
00:49:42.920and they're like well if you don't answer the question we don't want your blood and this is
00:49:47.080an example of uh woke ideology in the real world and how it doesn't work might sound great in a
00:49:54.360class at university but in the real world someone could die because they're not getting blood and
00:50:00.520he even said that he actually has a quote uh and he says it is nonsensical and it makes me angry
00:50:07.560because there are vulnerable people waiting for blood, including children and in desperate need
00:50:12.740of help. But they've been denied my blood because of the obligation to answer a question that I
00:50:18.180can't possibly answer. And he's right. He can't answer that question. And it's this whole thing
00:50:24.160about pregnant men, which is a recent biological phenomenon that we have seen. It historically has
00:50:32.520not happened many times until a recent Calvin Klein ad. But this is an example of something
00:50:40.360might sound great in a paper in university and make you sound inclusive or something. But in the
00:50:44.900real world, it's true. They're short of blood. They need the blood and they're refusing his
00:50:49.400blood unless he agrees to something that he can't possibly agree to. And quite frankly, I think he's
00:50:54.360in the right here. At some point, you got to stand up and say, this is ridiculous. I'm not a
00:50:59.400pregnant man. This could be easily enough rectified without shaming or embarrassing anybody. I mean,
00:51:06.340I've filled out forms when I've donated blood. It's pretty, a lot of questions. Sure, that's fine.
00:51:10.800And a lot of them are important. I mean, they're asking, you know, did you get a tattoo in a back
00:51:14.780alley place recently? You know, have you had unprotected sex? Look, this is for everybody's
00:51:19.000protection. Or do you have other physical conditions that you might not even know but
00:51:22.440realize donating blood might be dangerous to you? Pregnancy is one of those. It's important for them
00:51:26.980know that, but it's simple enough that you could start the form. Nobody else is looking over your
00:51:30.860shoulder. They don't have to see what you've checked off. So you can present as a woman,
00:51:35.060but when it says at the top, you know, physiologically, whatever term you want to use0.67
00:51:38.620for it, what is your status? And then the questions will follow from there. And you don't have to then
00:51:42.940ask a physiological man if they're pregnant, because you damn well know they aren't.0.94
00:51:46.780Yes. And he actually said, I'm used to filling these forms out. I have to fill them out every0.93
00:51:51.220time before i give blood since i was 18 years old and he's right he and so are you he you have to
00:51:58.980fill those questions up because there's certain things that disqualify you from being able to
00:52:02.740give blood you know certain uh pharmaceuticals in your system and preclude you from being able
00:52:08.420to donate blood you know i take a medication for my heart that actually precludes me from being
00:52:13.540able to donate blood because it could adversely reflect uh i'm sorry affect someone else um
00:52:21.300negatively yeah and so there's a reason we ask these questions but asking a 66 year old man if
00:52:26.820he is pregnant um it's a little on the ridiculous side yeah no well keeps us with writing stuff but
00:52:35.380again the biggest tragedy of it all is again as you pointed out there's a blood shortage we need0.67
00:52:39.460it. This is a man who donated regularly all the time and to have lost that regular donor over
00:52:47.240something as ridiculous and stupid as this is just so pointless on trying to be woke in ridiculous
00:52:52.200ways in a medical field. Yeah, absolutely. All right. So let's go on to some politics. You got
00:52:58.920the NDP is making some demands out there in Saskatchewan, one of your recent stories there.
00:53:03.740Yes, there has been quite a bit of controversy recently with the because the budget gets announced every year.
00:53:10.420And then the school boards have until the end of June to finalize their spending.
00:53:15.880And they have most of the boards have come out and said we don't have enough money because they're only given about a two and a half percent increase,
00:53:24.100even though some of the things built into that increase were actually increases in teachers' salaries that the government funded directly
00:53:29.700so that school boards don't have to move money around to pay the teachers more money
00:53:35.340because they had a collective bargaining thing that happened during COVID.
00:53:39.140But basically, a lot of the boards are now putting in lunchtime supervision fees,
00:53:45.280basically meaning if your eight-year-old doesn't go home for lunch,
00:53:48.880you now got to pay $100 a year or $70 a year,
00:53:51.160depending on where you are located in the province, for lunchtime supervision
00:53:55.820because they don't have the money and the budget to pay a teacher to stand out in the yard for
00:54:01.020lunchtime supervision anymore. And this is the first time that multiple school boards have
00:54:06.800introduced this. It's actually been normal practice in the Regina Public Schools since
00:54:10.480I think it was 2016 or 2018. Sorry, I can't remember which year, but it's been regular for
00:54:16.160four to six years now already that if you have a kid who needs to be supervised, you are already
00:54:21.620paying for it in the system now if you go to school in Regina, in the public school board,
00:54:27.460not the Catholic one. But now both Catholic and public school boards, about half of them across
00:54:34.320the province have now introduced lunchtime fees and other fees as well. So the NDP called on them
00:54:39.120to insert about $50 million. And that's actually a reasonable number for what they need in terms
00:54:46.940of the shortfall, when you look at how high inflation is, they're also like just this past
00:54:56.100school year, the four largest boards spent 30 million on gas. And look how much higher gas is
00:55:05.840now and what's it going to be in September. But in the government's defense, the education
00:55:12.200Minister Dustin Duncan has said, we are monitoring the situation and if inflation is high enough and
00:55:19.520there is enough money to put gas, for example, into the school buses, we will add in additional
00:55:24.420funding. So it's not like the government has closed the door on this. They have said from
00:55:28.420the very beginning, this is the projected budget we have for the schools. And it's the requirement
00:55:33.940of the schools to come back and say, if they can meet that budgetary number, if they can't,
00:55:38.920and they can justify a reason why, then the government would give them more money.
00:55:42.600So this is really just kind of a little bit of a political football that the NDP and the
00:55:47.020SAS party are throwing back and forth right now.
01:03:10.580No, I mean, I just wanted to touch upon that and remind people
01:03:13.800that we're not a sports paper, but we cover some other stuff.
01:03:16.180And hey, the CFL is some of the best sports value for dollar
01:03:19.020you can get out there to get out for a game.
01:03:21.000Not many people might realize the season started earlier this year, so it's already kind of fully underway.
01:03:26.340And, you know, you want to catch some summer games while you can and enjoy some of that rivalry going on out there.
01:03:32.280So I got one other story I'd just like to mention that I just wrote up.
01:03:36.240There was a multiple shooting arrest that just happened in northern Saskatchewan over the weekend.
01:03:43.420There it is. Actually, the guy on the screen is that you're seeing there.
01:03:46.720He is still wanted. They don't know who he is and they're trying to find him.
01:03:49.920you're in northern Saskatchewan, they're suggesting you don't pick up hitchhikers right now.
01:03:55.020So two people were already arrested for shooting at police yesterday. And it took them about five
01:04:01.620hours to find them after the original shootout happened, but they did. But they are still
01:04:06.420looking for that individual there. And if this was a, there was luckily no injuries in the shootings,
01:04:17.420because at the same time in this town, there was a children's fair going on at the same time.
01:04:21.700So it was it was very lucky that the shootings where they did take place were actually away from where the children's fair was taking place.
01:04:28.880But they obviously had to shut it down and they had everybody shelter in place where they were in the city for about five hours before they released people.
01:04:35.420And so they could come back out onto the streets again. But very scary situation in northern Saskatchewan.
01:04:40.460And they still have a suspect at large, which you can see on the screen there.
01:04:43.660He's wearing a black top, black pants, black shoes, and there's gold stars on the arm of his T-shirt.
01:04:51.340He's got short black hair, and they would very much like to find this individual.
01:04:55.240As you can see, he has a gun in his hand, and that was taken by someone near the scene.
01:05:00.660So if you recognize the guy, Crime Stoppers would love to talk with you.
01:05:05.380Yes, absolutely. What a terribly dangerous, potentially dangerous situation.
01:11:09.720And you did that with, as you said, with input from Michael Geist.
01:11:13.200I had him on the show before and he talked about, you know, some of the things, well, what is CanCon and what isn't?
01:11:18.320I mean, is it CanCon if it was produced, you know, here in the country and shot here, but it's actually, you know, the set is an American one.
01:11:26.420So it doesn't look Canadian or does it have to have Canadian elements in it?
01:11:30.060Or does it have to employ a certain degree of Canadian people?
01:11:33.120Like it's a very nebulous world when you start talking about what may or may not qualify as CanCon.
01:11:38.640Well, that's exactly right. And one thing that I mentioned in the report, for example,
01:11:42.640is that there is a biopic on Donald Trump called Gotta Love Trump. According to the CRTC, that
01:11:49.360counts as Canadian content because of some of the people who worked on that film. Whereas The
01:11:54.560Handmaid's Tale, which is based on Margaret Atwood's famous book, a very famous Canadian author,
01:12:00.880it's not considered Canadian content because it doesn't have producers that are from Canada,
01:12:05.520other from elsewhere. So it shows you already that the CRTC is very bad at trying to figure
01:12:10.440out what Canadian content is and what it isn't. And if they're already bad at this now, why are
01:12:16.340we going to give them 10 times the amount of power to be bad at this at a much bigger scale? So
01:12:21.020that's a huge concern. Well, and I imagine that the CRTC, the people who are going to be managing
01:12:26.360that, running that, I mean, they're people who are appointed by the federal government. So
01:12:29.620the ability for those people to be politicized can be high. It's not to say they necessarily
01:12:34.220are right now but you never know absolutely so you are giving these bureaucrats at the crtc
01:12:41.020literally the power to decide what we see in our news feeds and in our streaming feeds online
01:12:47.500they say it's just going to be for canadian content and you know for example say we're going
01:12:51.820to take them at their word that's what they're planning to do right now well a year or two from
01:12:55.980now they might decide you know we've heard minister mendicino who's been under fire for various
01:13:01.100reasons uh he's suggested for example that in the future the government might have to look into how
01:13:06.620to promote social cohesion uh is his words if the government's going to try to go after social
01:13:11.900cohesion a couple years from now well is that going to be another reason or rationale to instruct
01:13:17.980the crtc to filter what we see because of that so that's the big concern is down the road this could
01:13:24.300be used for literally any purpose the government wants these bureaucrats are appointed directly by
01:13:29.820the government and the government gives them instructions about what to do and the final
01:13:34.300thing that i'll add is that the minister actually hasn't even told us what the instructions are that
01:13:39.580he's going to give to the crtc he says he wants parliament to pass the bill the governor general
01:13:45.420to sign it into law and then he's going to figure out exactly what he wants them to do you know
01:13:50.380that's like signing on to buy a used car before he even did the test drive so he wants to give
01:13:56.060give them all of the powers, but he won't tell us exactly what the mandate and what those powers
01:13:59.980will entail. That's exactly right. There is no articulation of the mandate. And Dr. Geis has
01:14:05.280pointed this out as well. It's a very slippery slope when you give bureaucrats all of this power
01:14:11.320and literally don't even outline what you want to have done with all these powers.
01:14:17.160And yeah, these things have a chilling effect. I mean, again, it's hard on independent media,
01:14:22.160things like that uh our organization we know we're we're uh opinionated in labmos we're not
01:14:28.240going to back off on the government but we could pay a terrible price and suddenly they could find
01:14:31.440an excuse oh you guys have infringed on this or that and then we're going to pressure uh providers
01:14:38.000to to de-platform you because you didn't fall within the crtc regulations it's it's a dangerous
01:14:43.040area to go and a lot of independent outlets might think you know what we're just gonna
01:14:46.640not shake the tree too much so we can avoid that happening that's exactly right and the
01:14:51.680problem is that you have right now uh the government and the crtc able to define what
01:14:57.440they believe canadian content is and as we said before their definition of what's canadian content
01:15:03.040is very flawed but one of the questions that will come up of course is what counts as un-canadian
01:15:08.560content if you are advocate advocating for western separatism or quebec separatism does that count as
01:15:15.040canadian content if it's somehow un-canadian to suggest that you know you don't want to see the
01:15:20.640the country stay together? Is that going to fall under content that we shouldn't be promoting? So
01:15:25.560it's a very slippery slope between Canadian content for the sake of what's actually in it
01:15:31.980and Canadian content for the sake of what government bureaucrats think should count
01:15:36.220as Canadian content. That's the huge concern. Yeah. And they use buzzwords that get disturbing
01:15:41.080or loaded words like social cohesion. I mean, there's a lot of things you could say too. Well,
01:15:45.960you know, Corey rants too much at the start of his show and he angers people and he's shot at
01:15:49.760Quebec a couple of times. That's interfering with Canada's social cohesion, thus his show
01:15:54.360should have the plug pulled. Yeah, I mean, social cohesion is like a very broad and dangerous word,
01:16:01.540a couple words. That's something you expect to hear in communist China. I mean, that's not0.50
01:16:05.940something you expect to hear in Canada, a minister saying we might have to figure out some government
01:16:10.800regulations to promote social cohesion. That's literally what they're saying in countries like
01:16:15.700china north korea and i should add that twitter when they were consulted on some of the government's
01:16:21.860planned bills when they testified they suggested that some of the government's plans are akin to
01:16:27.460what they're doing in china north korea and to regulate user-generated content which they're
01:16:34.340proposing to do and we can talk about through broadcast regulations they've said dr geist says
01:16:40.340it's unprecedented. It's not done in any other democratic country. And also, this is something
01:16:46.720that is done in non-democratic countries like China and North Korea. Well, that's some scary
01:16:52.740stuff. Hopefully, I don't know, we can keep shining a light on it. I mean, the minister is pretty
01:16:57.100embattled right now. The government might want to kind of move him along and back off on some
01:17:01.240things anyways. We'll see. But this hasn't been a government terribly inclined to give ground when
01:17:05.260they dig their heels in either. So all we can do is shine a light on it and discuss it and hope that
01:17:09.960we could pressure them enough to move along. You guys are doing a good job at that. Before I let
01:17:14.900you go, where can people find more information about what you guys are doing and stuff on these
01:17:18.860subjects? They can go to taxpayer.com. You can see our new report that's out on Bill C-11, which we
01:17:26.140did in concert with consulting with Dr. Geist. There's petitions there. There's all kinds of
01:17:31.640news information there. But I should also add that people should be very concerned about the
01:17:35.780regulation of user-generated content. There's user-generated content is captured by this
01:17:41.840bill. The CRTC says so. And that means that your posts on YouTube or TikTok, they could be
01:17:48.100regulated by the government. So we're not just talking about Netflix. We're not just talking
01:17:51.640about big companies. The government's going to come after you for your content. That's the danger.
01:17:57.700Yeah. And that is a big danger. We've always got to be on. I mean, again,
01:18:01.480this government's appetite for control has really been distressing. Well, thanks for coming on and
01:18:06.180your report on that and expanding on it for us today, Jay. I hope we can talk again sometime
01:18:10.720soon. Thank you. Great. So that's Jay Goldberg of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. I love getting
01:18:17.740those CTF guys on from all across the country. They speak some good common sense. They're doing
01:18:21.640a lot of hard work and check them out at taxpayer.com. You can find these reports on this
01:18:57.080And, you know, just that reminder, if you haven't subscribed already, get on there, take out a subscription.
01:19:01.700That's what lets us keep doing this as well.
01:19:04.120I want to remind everybody we've got that debate coming up.
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01:19:12.140You can go in this, you know, and there'll be a cocktail period afterwards where you can meet and greet,
01:19:16.160probably meet a few of those conservative leadership candidates in person.
01:19:20.180And there's one of those opportunities, or at least network with some other Western Standard viewers and followers.
01:19:26.780And some of us, you know, Western Standard people that work here, of course, will be around there.
01:19:30.580It'll be all hands on deck to make sure we get that going and have a good debate.
01:19:34.640Cheryl saying, let's hope this debate has common sense.0.99
01:19:38.720Sorry, Cheryl Dawn saying, let's hope the Senate has common sense and doesn't pass this bill.
01:19:42.120Yeah, you know, I wrote a thing on that a while back, well, just last week, I think it was.
01:19:47.240I'm just saying I'm surprised the Senate's been waking up.
01:19:49.460They've been active and they've been cutting into some of these bills and they shot down, at least in committee, a big portion of Senate Bill S-7, which was a real infringement on some freedoms there at border crossings.
01:20:01.020It was really surprising and good to see.
01:20:03.060And the senators have really been cutting into ministers and such on the committees.