00:03:07.660He's always writing and ranting on things federal, typically.
00:03:13.500He's taking strips out of Trudeau, as he did again today.
00:03:16.700We'll talk about some of his columns, some of his observances, and things like that.
00:03:20.060But before I have him on, I'm going to have author Derek Smith on his best-selling How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom.
00:03:26.760People on social media have probably seen that.
00:03:28.420He just kind of came up out of the blue, and here's this parody book based on sort of a Dr. Seuss style with, well, he never says Trudeau in there.
00:03:39.340He just mentions the Prime Minister, and he talks about how the Prime Minister stole freedom,
00:03:43.680but it's actually the bestseller in Canada on the Amazon list, and he's doing interviews all over,
00:03:49.020and I think it's fantastic. So we're lucky to have Derek on to come talk to us in a little while,
00:03:53.560and that should be a good chat. This is a guy with a good sense of humor on serious issues.
00:03:59.000So getting to serious issues, I might as well get on to my rant. And oh, there's Lucas saying it's
00:04:03.740a belted Galloway cow, by the way. There's that black and white one. Yes, okay. I'm pretty sure
00:04:08.540Jane told me that before, too. So yeah, they're kind of cool looking, a little different. We don't
00:04:12.340see those out west, I don't think. All right, let's get on my rant. So we're seeing the consequences
00:04:18.300of letting the government take over nearly every aspect of our lives for two years now, ostensibly
00:04:23.560for our own health and good. Meddling busybody bureaucrats now feel empowered to start legislating1.00
00:04:29.220and pushing Canadians into what they feel should be better eating habits. Just how much do you want
00:04:34.580government to control our lives. Health Canada, this is the latest one, it's on the Western
00:04:38.780Standard story, is proposing that warning labels be forced onto the packaging of all ground beef
00:04:43.780and pork products. They feel that Canadians don't know what's in a single ingredient package,
00:04:48.560and they want to push us away from buying it. I want to begin with, ground meat and pork products
00:04:53.480aren't unhealthy. The issue some people have is in consuming products in moderation. Yeah,
00:04:58.220they eat too much. That doesn't matter what it is. And that can apply to any food. Obesity is an
00:05:02.360issue, and it causes a lot of health-related problems. Trying to push people away from ground
00:05:06.700beef and pork products won't do a damn thing to aid with that, though. What this labeling could do
00:05:11.020is push people away from those good, cost-effective sources of protein and push people into processed
00:05:17.700foods where ingredients are more nebulous. That sure as hell won't make people any healthier.
00:05:22.160The other consequences, of course, is that we could be damaging our domestic pork and beef
00:05:25.300producers, of which Canada, we have a lot of people reliant on those industries, and they're
00:05:28.860important ones to us. That might not be them to these people, though, so much a consequence as
00:05:34.620an intention. You remember woke extremists, they're infiltrating every level of government.
00:05:39.500If you think elected officials are bad, just look at the people who've been populating the
00:05:43.180bureaucracies, such as Health Canada. In the world of the woke, they feel we need to force the world
00:05:48.620into becoming vegans in order to stave off global warming. I believe there's a story coming up about
00:05:53.400some measurements of cow farts even. Yes, the cow farts are warming the world, we have to stop it.
00:05:58.040and they've attacked all forms of meat production and feel the ends justify the means in trying to0.75
00:06:02.920push people away from all meat consumption. Now, we see these kind of nuts in the news all the time
00:06:07.840as they glue themselves to counters in fast food restaurants or break into farms and try to free
00:06:12.780the chickens and turkeys. The people in government bureaucracies are no less crazy. They're just more0.97
00:06:17.960subtle and more dangerous. If we start labeling ground meat packages with warnings, as we have
00:06:24.380with, say, cigarette packages, you can rest assured the zealots in Health Canada won't stop with a
00:06:28.640simple small warning label. As with other products, they want to get more blatant and pushy. Perhaps
00:06:34.660they'll force packages to display pictures of clogged arteries in people or a liposuction
00:06:38.780procedure. Maybe they'll demand pictures of animals in a slaughterhouse be shown on the labels.
00:06:43.280I wish I was exaggerating, but we can't underestimate just how far the authoritarians
00:06:48.320and government want to go in order to impose their worldview on us. Hell, they're even giving
00:06:53.400presentations to young children in schools on how to eat bugs for crying out loud. They won't stop
00:06:58.380on ground meat products. They're going to go after roasts. They're going to go after steaks.
00:07:02.440They don't want to warn consumers about health risks. They want consumers to stop consuming
00:07:06.280these products altogether. Likewise, they won't stop with meat. They've already expressed their
00:07:11.240intent to force labeling on foods with high salt or sugar content as well. They're on a crusade to
00:07:16.780make us eat what they tell us and they don't see any limits. They have no respect for the individual
00:07:21.440choices of others and feel it's their mandate and role to make those choices on everybody's behalf.
00:07:26.720This is going to put pressure on manufacturers and distributors as well. Food's a narrow margin
00:07:31.200industry and extra labeling requirements cost money. We really don't need food prices rising
00:07:36.140more than they already have been right now. People are struggling. As with liquor and cigarettes,
00:07:40.240the health crusaders will pressure for taxes to be added to foods they deem unhealthy for people
00:07:45.340or the environment as well. Many times they've already been calling for fat taxes to be applied
00:07:50.040in certain restaurants and on certain foods,
00:07:52.680these extremists now have a government
00:07:54.340authoritarian enough to indulge these social engineers.
00:07:58.120Trudeau never made a tax he didn't like.
00:08:00.440We're losing our rights incrementally,
00:08:01.920and this is yet another example of it.
00:08:03.940What people are dismissing as no big deal today
00:11:52.800And we've got some really interesting stuff coming up this afternoon.
00:11:57.560Our Amanda Brown is working on a story on a terrible pit bull attack that killed a 10-year-old boy.
00:12:04.460This time it happened in Great Britain.
00:12:06.920And the two owners of the pit bull were jailed for a total of seven years.
00:12:12.500So it just sort of shows you what can happen in other countries.
00:12:16.780And it's all in light of that terrible pit bull type attack in Calgary this week.
00:12:22.800And our Reid Small, B.C. correspondent, we'll have a story up soon on a woman who decided to go topless and chain herself to the goalie, the gold net, last night at the big Canada soccer game in Vancouver.
00:12:46.120Yeah, we don't be thrown off any more social media channels, you know.
00:12:48.980I mean, the medical advice gets us into trouble.
00:12:51.260sudden blatant nudity might lead to difficulties as well if we're not careful.0.78
00:12:56.040Very true. Very true. All right. Well, lots on the cooker as usual. Thanks for checking in. And
00:13:03.000yeah, it's interesting with that story, you know, with the pit bulls, as we said, we're a little
00:13:06.000divided in the newsroom on that whole thing right now with that. But I mean, that's an example,
00:13:10.400seeing over there, at least where somebody's serving a serious consequence for what their
00:13:14.240dog did. And that's a trend I do want to see, you know, get on the people. I mean, you're
00:13:17.840responsible for what's in your hands, whether it's a car or a dog or anything when you're
00:13:22.380harming other people. So yeah, I think, I think some pit bull type owners would become instantly
00:13:28.680more responsible if they faced, you know, four years in the slammer. I would sure hope so.
00:13:35.300All right. Well, thanks, Dave. I will talk to you later. Have a good weekend, Corey.
00:13:39.620Great. Thanks. That is our news director, Dave Naylor, as you can hear lots of stuff on the go.
00:13:44.520And yeah, there's a story up on, as you mentioned, with Derek Smith, who's going to be coming on later, the author of that book, The Prime Minister Who Stole Freedom.
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00:15:14.440guys? All right, let's see. Just getting back to a little bit more of the meat talk. Yeah,
00:15:18.560somebody saying hard to keto without meat, because that's been a popular diet lately. And you eat a
00:15:23.340whole lot of, you know, meat and avoid the carbohydrates and such. And I mean, there's
00:15:29.160just differing things. That's part of things with dietitians, they all differ on what's good or bad
00:15:32.560for you. You get 10 dieticians, you'll get 10 opinions. I think the main thing is just moderation.
00:15:38.100You know, you can't go out and eat 10 hamburgers a day. You're going to get bloated, but you can
00:15:42.940certainly eat one every few days, you know, and it depends on your exercise, depends on the
00:15:47.040individual. But this labeling, it's just a matter of control and getting on our case. Tracy taught
00:15:51.500and saying warning signs on doors of fast food outlets. I can see it. I could see it coming.
00:15:56.860Absolutely. You know, let us make our own choices. We can figure that out. I don't need warning
00:16:01.280labels to let me know that eating a bunch of McDonald's burgers or a whole bucket of KFC
00:16:05.740with a grease all pooling on the bottom isn't going to be good for me. It's my choice, though.
00:16:10.060I'll figure that out. It's not the government's choice to run.
00:16:31.280if anybody can see me or not. Ah, there we go. I'm not sure if I vanished on you guys or not.
00:16:37.320So either way, or maybe you were hearing me babbling that whole time. We just had a little
00:16:41.640bit of a tech hookup there or hiccup there, but we're doing fine. Either way, again, as I said,
00:16:47.300it's all matters of control. And I think it runs a lot deeper that they don't care so much about
00:16:54.460our health, the true woke, the true extreme. They want to make sure we don't, well, the cattle,
00:17:02.060you know, they want them gone. As I said, they're talking about regulating cow farts.
00:17:05.780They're always pushing us to be vegan. The rest, enough. That's not the government's role. How
00:17:10.780intrusive, but this does tie together. When they pull off stunts like this, it's because they felt
00:17:15.920emboldened because we let them get away with it. We let them, as I'm going to speak to that author
00:17:20.920about. An example, steal our freedom and get away with it. Well, every time they do that,
00:17:25.340they know that they can do it on something else because we aren't pushing back hard enough. We're
00:17:29.160the complacent Canadians. We let them get away with it. And I'm hoping, I'm hoping we get a
00:17:34.760pushback. I love all of these efforts from all different directions to hold the government
00:17:38.560accountable and expose these things. That's something I'm really looking forward to talking
00:17:41.420to Mr. Smith about because it doesn't always have to be the angry ranting out of a guy like me
00:17:45.760or long dry columns, you know, and things which are all important, I think. But you know what
00:17:50.660you can get some serious messaging across with a flavor of humor in there while you're at it. And
00:17:55.400it's a real message, but it's packaged in a way that, again, you know, can give you a bit of a
00:18:01.020chuckle as well. So, I mean, there's all sorts of fronts where we can push back against this growing
00:18:07.520authoritarian government that we have in general. And what I'm also thrilled about, and I'll talk
00:18:11.980to you about, is how social media has changed. So this is an independently published book that's
00:18:16.340hit the top bestseller in Canada. How would this have happened 20 years ago? Wouldn't happen. And
00:18:21.400I mean, you wouldn't be able to turn it over that fast. You wouldn't be able to market it. You
00:18:24.160wouldn't be able to get it out. And, you know, unless you got through a publisher, which would
00:18:28.500take a bunch of time and might be difficult. We're in a whole new world of communication
00:18:32.320where we can bring stuff up that we were never able to do in the past. And it's fantastic. And
00:18:36.540it's exciting. I mean, we're still under threat and things are, you know, far from perfect in the
00:18:41.020world, but there's a lot of positive things to go on. And, you know, the ability to do shows like
00:18:44.860this and get publications like that out and publicized and promoted, gives me hope. We can
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00:20:21.540Take control of your money. Okay, let's bring Derek Smith in. I've been looking forward to
00:20:24.520this for a while already here. Hey, Derek, how are you doing? Good. How are you?
00:20:28.680Very good. Thank you. So just to remind everybody, you recently put out your book,
00:20:33.560How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom, and it seems to have taken off quite well.
00:20:38.640It's doing very well, surprisingly well. I didn't see this coming. Nobody saw this coming. So it's
00:20:44.000been a nice little surprise. Yeah, well, that's what I was kind of saying in the intro is these
00:20:48.420are fun and interesting times where something like that can kind of jump the scroll as opposed
00:20:53.960to traditional publishing would have been 20 years ago. You've made a product a lot of people are
00:20:57.920clearly enjoying and having a good time with and it's spreading like wildfire. I'm seeing your
00:21:01.860name and your book popping up everywhere and I imagine that the sales numbers are looking really
00:21:06.020good so far so good uh i find the best thing in any product is to fill a need and it seems like
00:21:12.640people wanted a need filled with this book so we're doing our job we wanted to set out to
00:21:17.720entertain people and it looks like we've done our job so that's that's kudos enough for me
00:21:22.800yeah and i i have to admit i haven't gotten a copy yet i promise i'm gonna get one i have to
00:21:26.680get one uh but you should have 16 by now working on i don't want to get in trouble you'll parody
00:21:33.220me next. I see a commenter, you know, Lisa Easting, she just heard about this book yesterday as well.
00:21:37.780I mean, this is really just in this last week kind of exploded here in a sense. And it's been
00:21:44.360really good. So, I mean, this is your second one though. You did one with Let's Go Brandon or
00:21:50.360something like that a while back. So my illustrator and I, we wanted to test the market last year to
00:21:55.760see what books would yield in an adult childlike manner for books. We really wanted to just see,
00:22:05.900is there a need for this? Is there a market? The Let's Go Brandon thing was going around. It was
00:22:10.340viral around October of last year. I reached out to my illustrator in September and said, look,
00:22:15.260why don't we take a test on this, see how it runs, and we'll decide if we want to put more time or
00:22:20.720more work into another political satire book. And the reception was lukewarm, I'll say. But I had
00:22:28.660faith in Canadians that they were going to support this product. And again, I figured we'd do well,
00:22:33.960I just didn't know we'd do this well. But I'm very flattered and very honored that so many people are
00:22:38.100enjoying our work. Yeah, well, in the right place, in the right time, in the right message, I mean,
00:22:42.040it's a lot of it all has to come together. And it seems to in this case, I mean, people are
00:22:45.340definitely receptive to the messaging in that book. To give credit, I mean, your book is very,
00:22:50.860it's an illustrated book. So, I mean, your illustrator is a large part of this as well,
00:22:56.500and the caricatures from the pictures I've seen are fantastic within it. Have you worked with
00:23:00.440him for some time? It's a she, and I've worked with her for about six months now. Well, I guess
00:23:07.080eight if you rack in the Let's Go Brandon book, but I've actually met her through a childhood
00:23:14.400friend of mine that i've stayed in contact with this is his daughter she's 18 years old
00:23:18.320uh she wanted to get into artistry work and build a portfolio so he reached out to me and said you
00:23:25.280know she'd like to start drawing if you ever want to move on on illustrated books and had an idea
00:23:30.560and uh we just clicked everything kind of fit into place and and all of the drawings all of
00:23:35.760the caricatures all of the easter eggs that are in the book all the little jabs they all they all
00:23:40.000come from her. I basically just do the writing. I put the script together and I hand it to her and
00:23:45.580say, do what you will. And she comes back with gold. So I'm very proud of her and the work she's
00:23:51.500done. And I definitely think the tip of the hat goes to her as well for her efforts.
00:23:55.400Yeah. Well, that's where I want to give credit. We're doing it. See, I didn't even realize the
00:23:59.120gender of that artist. So let's make sure we properly. No problem. The tip of the hat to0.94
00:24:04.000those people who created this. So as you know, some of the images we've popped up, I mean,
00:24:07.840it looks great. It's clear that you never do mention our current prime minister by name or
00:24:13.560anything, but you're certainly drawing a pretty direct parallel to our prime minister in this.
00:24:18.540Yeah. I mean, when you dabble along the lines of defamation or anything that crosses any legal
00:24:23.120boundaries, we had to be careful to make sure that we put the jokes in there. But at the same time,
00:24:28.320the book wasn't meant to defame anybody and it wasn't meant to be aggressive. I find with protests
00:24:33.700that are going on these days on any side of the fence,
00:28:03.400But it's still a serious issue with authoritarianism and so on.
00:28:06.260But one of the things I'd mentioned was a political cartoon can sometimes get something across in one image that I would have to write an 800-word column to do otherwise.
00:28:15.320There's a lot of different mediums and ways we can get serious messaging out while packaging it in a small package.
00:28:23.280Yeah, it's I think with what we've done, again, when you look at the reaction to the trucker convoy and everything that went down during those those few weeks when when everybody was in Ottawa, there's a lot of there's a very high aggressive stance towards how things were handled on both sides of the fence.
00:28:40.800And I think what we wanted to do with this was prove that the pen is truly mightier than the
00:28:45.060sword and that in this situation, we don't need thousands and thousands of people standing on
00:28:50.100the government's front lawn. We can simply make our point by, you know, doing something comedic
00:28:53.780and lighthearted and having a laugh. That's it. And people have a lot of good reasons to be angry,
00:28:58.220you know, over that right now, but it doesn't mean we always have to be raging and waving the
00:29:02.680signs and the F Trudeau and things like that. We can also get out there and lighten up a little
00:29:06.940again, as I say, and the message is still serious. I mean, we're seeing this hitting the news a
00:29:11.240little more now with Minister Mendocino. It sounds like there's pressure to get him fired. And the
00:29:16.500actual review of what happened during that convoy is going to be pending. And I got a feeling
00:29:21.660we're going to hear a lot more about this as we look in hindsight and see if this was justified
00:29:26.920or not. And things like this help keep it in the scroll while keeping it still entertaining.
00:29:32.660Right. And I find with this book, like I'll be the first to admit I'm very neutral on the
00:29:37.760political spectrum. I don't always sway one way or the other. I find the importance of living in
00:29:43.920a democracy is the fact that we have the right to choose our leaders. And sometimes the leader
00:29:49.040of a certain party may, you know, hold values that are higher than one of another. They may
00:29:54.180have something that suits your lifestyle versus the other. And I think it's important for people
00:29:57.120to be able to speak their minds and and say what they want to say when it comes to politics though
00:30:02.560especially the way the government has handled not only the convoy but its policies when you look at
00:30:07.840uh airport backups right now and the ridiculousness of of extended policies that don't make any sense
00:30:13.380uh and even like you said with with medicino and his claims of the use of the freedoms act
00:30:18.960uh it's it's part of the reason this book was spawned is because for the first time in my
00:30:24.180entire life, I was actually embarrassed to be a Canadian. It was shameful to see the way that
00:30:30.780my government was behaving. They're supposed to be labeled as public servants and they wouldn't
00:30:37.400speak with their people. They wouldn't hear the cries of their people and they didn't want to do
00:30:40.660anything to benefit those people. When you look at Jagmeet Singh getting laughed at yesterday
00:30:45.240in the house talking about people not being able to afford groceries or rent, that's a huge problem
00:30:50.920and they don't want to lower carbon taxes
00:41:50.360An 86-year-old woman had been ripped to shreds by pit bulls.
00:41:53.680Do you think she wasn't clear on 911 that you need an ambulance?
00:41:57.240So a bylaw officer shows up who desperately, I'm just reviewing, you know, if you watched yesterday's show, you would have already heard this.
00:42:05.240and that bylaw officer was directly trying to get ambulances
00:56:10.560Speaking of DAs, that's another piece you wrote about the recall of a liberal DA
00:56:14.040and how that could be a sort of bad news for Justin Trudeau in a sort of distant way.
00:56:19.260Yeah, I found it fascinating that the Democratic Party in the United States is essentially in a civil war.
00:56:29.420And San Francisco, as I said, is a city aflame because it has become a city that is just literally at war with itself.
00:56:39.820And if you look at the electorate there, it's probably about 80% Democratic easily over the years. It's become firmly entrenched in the Democratic camp. So you're really looking at a one-party state.
00:56:54.360But that one party, one party city, if you will, has become completely divided.
00:57:00.960And it represents basically how the Democratic Party writ large in the United States is increasingly divided against itself and how Joe Biden really has betrayed some of his core constituencies.
00:57:17.180And it's become a party of the super elites who are completely out of touch with basic people, blue collar workers and people with basic values and who don't want to see people strung out on the sidewalk on drugs, who don't want to see people urinate and defecate on the subways and not be charged,
00:57:41.480who don't want to walk down the street and be attacked and brutalized and have their money
00:57:47.800stolen and shopkeepers who don't think people should just walk into their store and have
00:57:53.620shoplifters walk out with their goods and not be prosecuted. Those used to be basic Democratic
00:57:59.680Party values, too, that that shouldn't be allowed. But the far left has taken over the party so much
00:58:05.960that those are suddenly not pertinent values to the Democratic Party.
00:59:35.580If he's still around for the next election, I think he's in for a great shock because
00:59:39.660there's very little left to the Liberal Party.
00:59:43.740The NDP-Liberal Alliance is shedding votes and voters in a big way right now.
00:59:51.440And they're largely going to a more populist conservative party.
00:59:55.660If that Conservative Party elects a leader that reflects those populist values, and I think that's got to be Pierre Polyev or less than Lewis.
01:00:06.940It cannot be a Patrick Brown or Jean Charest.
01:00:10.620It cannot be an establishment candidate like that.
01:00:13.940If, in fact, that happens, it's going to be the rebirth of the People's Party of Canada, if that happens.
01:00:19.520Because the golden opportunity for the Conservative Party is to pick up the voters who are fed up with the elitist New Democratic Party and the elitist Liberal Party.
01:00:34.120That's exactly what it's become right now.
01:00:36.100They do not reflect real Canadian people anymore.0.72
01:00:40.440They reflect the values, the perverted values of elite people who are out of touch with people who have to buy groceries in the grocery store, who have to go and buy their gas, and who really have to save their money to buy a house.
01:00:59.440Yeah, well, in the United States, I mean, we pay attention to them and we have to because there's sort of a bellwether of what will happen in Canada.
01:01:04.580What we see in progressive cities in the United States today is what we're going to see here in two to three years or maybe less afterwards.
01:01:10.940And as you said, I mean, the main thing is reality is coming home to roost.
01:01:15.180We can afford wishy-washy policies for environmental things and drug facilities and things like that until you can't make the rent.
01:01:25.060And until crime is starting to actually make you fearful for yourself or scared for your kids to go to school or for you to get to work.
01:01:32.080then suddenly the ideals go to the wayside and those more important issues come to the
01:01:36.840forefront for voters. And yeah, the liberals might be not realizing what they're missing there.
01:01:42.640Well, and I think I wrote recently about decriminalizing some hard drugs in BC and
01:01:50.380the rationale being that this is somehow going to cause fewer overdoses. And it just baffles my mind
01:01:57.400because BC, for the last 20 years, has been on this course of trying to do harm reduction
01:02:04.840and reducing overdoses, and every year the rate of overdose has gone up, and they don't seem to
01:02:11.920get it. The easier you make it to access drugs, hard drugs like heroin and metamphetamines and
01:02:22.700cocaine, drugs that are easy to, that are lethal and that are easy to kill, the easier it is to
01:02:31.640overdose on them. And somehow the BC government never gets this. And they think that if they,
01:02:38.340if they make more in-site injection sites, that this is somehow going to reduce the amount of
01:02:45.320overdoses and of course it just keeps going up and why they refuse to bend on this because it's
01:02:53.960ideology because the ideology says it's supposed to work but the reality demonstrates it doesn't
01:03:01.100work year in year out they refuse to bend because their ideology says it shouldn't be that way
01:03:07.840And it's killing people literally every year more and more.
01:03:13.060So that's a complete tragedy in this country.
01:03:20.840And this is something I noted the other day when I was speaking to somebody is that the left used to be somewhat pragmatic.
01:03:29.620When something didn't work, they would tend to be somewhat pragmatic in saying, let's try another solution because this is simply not working.
01:03:42.040Today, the left is unbending in terms of seeking an ideological solution and sticking with that ideological solution, come what may.
01:03:55.320And it doesn't matter how many people suffer, how many people die, and how much the economy is in the bag.
01:04:04.200They will continue to push through ideological solutions that do not work just because they think they should be working.
01:04:12.800And we see this not just with harm reduction and drug strategies that are literally lethal, but with economic strategies that simply do not work.
01:04:25.320And what we see from Justin Trudeau, when things do not work, he distracts.
01:04:32.320So he talks about abortion when it's not even an issue in this country.
01:04:37.760He's got what he wants in terms of abortion.
01:04:40.600He shouldn't even be talking about it.
01:04:42.280We have no abortion law in this country.
01:04:45.000He talks about handgun freeze when it's virtually impossible in this country to own a handgun.
01:05:44.860so you can't ration or reason with a person when they're blinded by that,
01:05:49.500Whether it's right or left, actually, it's a dangerous place to be.
01:05:53.440It is a dangerous place to be because at some point you have to say, whether or not I believe in this, I have to understand that people are being adversely effective.
01:06:07.220And if you're a politician, you're there to serve the people.
01:06:10.800And this seems to be the first thing politicians forget.
01:06:14.640and unfortunately it's the first thing justin trudeau forgot on day one upon becoming an elected
01:06:21.600politician he forgot he's there to serve the people he really believes the people are there
01:06:26.720to serve him i've never seen a politician with more sense of entitlement and every time he opens
01:06:33.360his big mouth that's all you get from him he lectures he hectors he tells people what to do
01:06:41.200he he he will never be receptive to advice he never listens to a crowd he never answers a
01:06:49.520question he never wants to hear any advice from anybody all he does is give advice and tell people
01:06:58.560what they should be doing and dispenses what he thinks people should do and justin trudeau is
01:07:07.360basically the model of a modern politician in terms of them having no respect for what the
01:07:15.800people really want. Well, we just got to keep hammering on him and hope that the electorate
01:07:21.200wakes up and finally moves him along. So I appreciate your very many columns, you know,
01:07:26.940holding them to account and bringing these things up, just like June Marie, our commenter,
01:07:31.680saying, I like David. I wish there were more journalists like him. Well, he's out there.
01:07:35.260Make sure you get on to the Western Standard online or westernstandard.news now and catch those columns as they come out.
01:07:41.080You're also pretty prolific on Twitter, right?
01:07:42.960I'm just looking for ways people can find your stuff.
01:07:45.300Yeah, I put everything up, Western Standard, on Twitter.
01:07:49.200And I'm also encouraging people to get a subscription to Western Standard online and do it.
01:07:57.400Because what we need to do, of course, is to support independent media.
01:08:02.600Because as we say all the time, as I say all the time, the mainstream media, not only in the United States, but in Canada especially, is bought off.
01:08:13.820And the Trudeau government has bought off most of the media in Canada.
01:08:18.920And the Western Standard refuses to accept one penny of government money.
01:08:24.060and that's one reason that I'm working here