Western Standard - Triggered： Get your hands off my meat!

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00:00:30.000 good morning it's june 10th 2022 friday the weekend's almost here welcome to triggered

00:00:39.940 i'm cory morgan this is the western standards daily live show we do this monday to friday

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00:01:30.800 blocked from the comment scroll. We don't want to do that. I want to keep everybody commenting. So

00:01:34.360 respect it and we can all get along well. Hey there, Colleen. So let's see what's up and 0.99

00:01:40.080 important today. We've got the observances I always go through. We want to make sure

00:01:44.020 every day we understand why every day is special and what we should be paying attention for or

00:01:50.360 paying attention to. So it's Ballpoint Pen Day. I know you probably already knew that,

00:01:55.260 but yes, it is International Ballpoint Pen Day. Where they come up with these things,

00:01:59.300 you know, it's beautiful. Realistically, actually, ballpoint pens were a hell of an advancement.

00:02:03.740 You think prior with the inkwells and other pens, you know, getting it to the point where you could

00:02:08.600 just pick it up and go and not spill ink all over the place, I guess, was an advancement. Somebody

00:02:12.040 felt it was worthy of making an entire day out of, so be sure to celebrate that today. 1.00

00:02:17.700 As well, it's National Black Cow Day. 0.98

00:02:20.840 This one's kind of got me stumped. 1.00

00:02:22.200 So not just any cows, guys, black cows.

00:02:25.320 I don't think there's racial undertones. 0.79

00:02:27.700 It's just an unusual observance.

00:02:30.340 But I mean, there's a lot of cows.

00:02:31.240 I think it's kind of unfair to all those other colors and shades and hues of cows. 0.97

00:02:35.040 But today is exclusively National Black Cow Day. 0.94

00:02:38.460 I remember seeing some strange cows when I was working out in Ohio.

00:02:42.540 They were all black, but they had like a white stripe right down the middle of them, every one of them.

00:02:46.120 I think they were called Galloways or something, like an Oreo cookie of a cow.

00:02:49.620 Either way, I guess they wouldn't qualify or only two-thirds of them would be celebrated today. 0.89

00:02:53.840 But make sure to go out if you have a black cow and give it a hug 0.96

00:02:56.540 and thank it for its contribution to the world.

00:02:59.880 And we'll go from there.

00:03:01.740 All right, I've got a couple of good guests on today, actually really good ones.

00:03:04.500 So I've got David Creighton.

00:03:05.540 He's our Ottawa senior columnist.

00:03:07.660 He's always writing and ranting on things federal, typically.

00:03:13.500 He's taking strips out of Trudeau, as he did again today.

00:03:16.700 We'll talk about some of his columns, some of his observances, and things like that.

00:03:20.060 But before I have him on, I'm going to have author Derek Smith on his best-selling How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom.

00:03:26.760 People on social media have probably seen that.

00:03:28.420 He 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.

00:03:39.340 He just mentions the Prime Minister, and he talks about how the Prime Minister stole freedom,

00:03:43.680 but it's actually the bestseller in Canada on the Amazon list, and he's doing interviews all over,

00:03:49.020 and I think it's fantastic. So we're lucky to have Derek on to come talk to us in a little while,

00:03:53.560 and that should be a good chat. This is a guy with a good sense of humor on serious issues.

00:03:59.000 So getting to serious issues, I might as well get on to my rant. And oh, there's Lucas saying it's

00:04:03.740 a belted Galloway cow, by the way. There's that black and white one. Yes, okay. I'm pretty sure

00:04:08.540 Jane told me that before, too. So yeah, they're kind of cool looking, a little different. We don't

00:04:12.340 see those out west, I don't think. All right, let's get on my rant. So we're seeing the consequences

00:04:18.300 of letting the government take over nearly every aspect of our lives for two years now, ostensibly

00:04:23.560 for our own health and good. Meddling busybody bureaucrats now feel empowered to start legislating 1.00

00:04:29.220 and pushing Canadians into what they feel should be better eating habits. Just how much do you want

00:04:34.580 government to control our lives. Health Canada, this is the latest one, it's on the Western

00:04:38.780 Standard story, is proposing that warning labels be forced onto the packaging of all ground beef

00:04:43.780 and pork products. They feel that Canadians don't know what's in a single ingredient package,

00:04:48.560 and they want to push us away from buying it. I want to begin with, ground meat and pork products

00:04:53.480 aren't unhealthy. The issue some people have is in consuming products in moderation. Yeah,

00:04:58.220 they eat too much. That doesn't matter what it is. And that can apply to any food. Obesity is an

00:05:02.360 issue, and it causes a lot of health-related problems. Trying to push people away from ground

00:05:06.700 beef and pork products won't do a damn thing to aid with that, though. What this labeling could do

00:05:11.020 is push people away from those good, cost-effective sources of protein and push people into processed

00:05:17.700 foods where ingredients are more nebulous. That sure as hell won't make people any healthier.

00:05:22.160 The other consequences, of course, is that we could be damaging our domestic pork and beef

00:05:25.300 producers, of which Canada, we have a lot of people reliant on those industries, and they're

00:05:28.860 important ones to us. That might not be them to these people, though, so much a consequence as

00:05:34.620 an intention. You remember woke extremists, they're infiltrating every level of government.

00:05:39.500 If you think elected officials are bad, just look at the people who've been populating the

00:05:43.180 bureaucracies, such as Health Canada. In the world of the woke, they feel we need to force the world

00:05:48.620 into becoming vegans in order to stave off global warming. I believe there's a story coming up about

00:05:53.400 some measurements of cow farts even. Yes, the cow farts are warming the world, we have to stop it.

00:05:58.040 and they've attacked all forms of meat production and feel the ends justify the means in trying to 0.75

00:06:02.920 push people away from all meat consumption. Now, we see these kind of nuts in the news all the time

00:06:07.840 as they glue themselves to counters in fast food restaurants or break into farms and try to free

00:06:12.780 the chickens and turkeys. The people in government bureaucracies are no less crazy. They're just more 0.97

00:06:17.960 subtle and more dangerous. If we start labeling ground meat packages with warnings, as we have

00:06:24.380 with, say, cigarette packages, you can rest assured the zealots in Health Canada won't stop with a

00:06:28.640 simple small warning label. As with other products, they want to get more blatant and pushy. Perhaps

00:06:34.660 they'll force packages to display pictures of clogged arteries in people or a liposuction

00:06:38.780 procedure. Maybe they'll demand pictures of animals in a slaughterhouse be shown on the labels.

00:06:43.280 I wish I was exaggerating, but we can't underestimate just how far the authoritarians

00:06:48.320 and government want to go in order to impose their worldview on us. Hell, they're even giving

00:06:53.400 presentations to young children in schools on how to eat bugs for crying out loud. They won't stop

00:06:58.380 on ground meat products. They're going to go after roasts. They're going to go after steaks.

00:07:02.440 They don't want to warn consumers about health risks. They want consumers to stop consuming

00:07:06.280 these products altogether. Likewise, they won't stop with meat. They've already expressed their

00:07:11.240 intent to force labeling on foods with high salt or sugar content as well. They're on a crusade to

00:07:16.780 make us eat what they tell us and they don't see any limits. They have no respect for the individual

00:07:21.440 choices of others and feel it's their mandate and role to make those choices on everybody's behalf.

00:07:26.720 This is going to put pressure on manufacturers and distributors as well. Food's a narrow margin

00:07:31.200 industry and extra labeling requirements cost money. We really don't need food prices rising

00:07:36.140 more than they already have been right now. People are struggling. As with liquor and cigarettes,

00:07:40.240 the health crusaders will pressure for taxes to be added to foods they deem unhealthy for people

00:07:45.340 or the environment as well. Many times they've already been calling for fat taxes to be applied

00:07:50.040 in certain restaurants and on certain foods,

00:07:52.680 these extremists now have a government

00:07:54.340 authoritarian enough to indulge these social engineers.

00:07:58.120 Trudeau never made a tax he didn't like.

00:08:00.440 We're losing our rights incrementally,

00:08:01.920 and this is yet another example of it.

00:08:03.940 What people are dismissing as no big deal today

00:08:06.080 will turn into deepening incursions

00:08:07.740 upon our right to choose,

00:08:09.120 and there are few choices more personal

00:08:10.980 than that of what we'll consume.

00:08:12.860 My body, my choice, you guys.

00:08:14.500 I'm sick of being hectored and scolded

00:08:16.840 by an ideological regime obsessed with controlling my actions under the guise of public health.

00:08:23.340 We need to start reading the writing on the wall and start pushing back at this barrage of controls

00:08:27.360 upon our life and commerce. Canadians need to stand up and say it loud and clear. Hey, Trudeau,

00:08:32.940 take your hands off my meat. That's what's got me going this morning, guys. Yeah, just it never

00:08:38.420 ends, the controls and the attacks on what we may or may not choose to do with ourselves.

00:08:43.120 All right, let's bring our news editor, Dave Naylor, in and see what's topping the news today.

00:08:48.060 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:08:49.600 Not very well, Corey. I'm incandescent with rage.

00:08:54.980 Okay.

00:08:56.560 Well, Rob, can producer Rob bring up the photo of my car this morning?

00:09:04.800 You see what those chickadees did?

00:09:08.420 I do indeed.

00:09:09.300 A entire flock of them took a dump on my car overnight.

00:09:14.220 One, two, three, four, five, six.

00:09:16.820 There's like 20 of them there.

00:09:19.640 The war is on, Corey.

00:09:22.080 The war is on.

00:09:23.620 Well, they probably heard about your anti-chickety campaign, 0.96

00:09:26.160 and they're starting to organize. 0.97

00:09:28.060 I mean, you made it public on this show.

00:09:29.540 You know there had to be pushback.

00:09:32.040 Well, I think the fact that the other day they were officially named Calgary's official bird

00:09:37.680 has gone to their little pea brain heads and they think they can get away with anything now but

00:09:42.760 uh you know you can't defile a guy's car like that it's just not it's not right it's against

00:09:49.260 the geneva convention well i i see i mean yeah yeah we got the amber herd of birds going around

00:09:55.000 out there expressing themselves uh uh colonically on on your auto it's going to be interesting to

00:10:00.860 watch your battle with those birds uh carry on throughout the summer yeah i'm not taking it

00:10:04.700 anymore, Corey. I'm just not taking it. Anyways, despite my rage, we do have some great stories up

00:10:10.680 already on the website this morning. Got an exclusive from Melanie Risden that

00:10:15.340 Premier Jason Kenney hinting that he's going to give Albertans a longer break on the fuel tax.

00:10:21.980 They took off 13 cents earlier this spring and hints from Kenney's office to Mel that

00:10:29.240 he's going to announce next week that those

00:10:31.620 those

00:10:33.120 savings will be extended.

00:10:35.220 So that's great news from Alberta

00:10:37.080 drivers. Right now it's the only

00:10:39.160 thing keeping us from paying over

00:10:41.120 $2 a litre. So

00:10:42.460 hopefully they keep coming.

00:10:45.380 Big news from the United States this morning

00:10:47.320 Corey. They are dropping their

00:10:49.100 COVID testing requirements as

00:10:51.160 of Sunday at midnight.

00:10:53.940 So that just leaves Canada

00:10:55.220 I believe is only one of two countries

00:10:57.140 in the world that have

00:10:58.740 COVID restrictions on travel at the moment. And the government chief, liar-in-chief, as we'll 0.91

00:11:06.080 call him from now on, Public Safety Minister Mendocino, says he wants to fast-track the

00:11:12.420 handgun bill that's freezing the sale of handguns. He wants to do it without committee hearings,

00:11:19.100 without hearing from police or gun owners or any member of the public. He wants it done

00:11:24.040 within the next two weeks before Parliament goes on their spring break.

00:11:28.700 So we'll see how that goes.

00:11:31.560 We've got a story up on the guy coming on your show.

00:11:34.960 So people want to get a brief introduction to him before he comes on.

00:11:38.740 That is there.

00:11:40.540 And we've got Louisiana.

00:11:44.000 The state down there has banned all transgendered women

00:11:48.520 from competing in women's school sports. 0.94

00:11:51.820 So that's interesting.

00:11:52.800 And we've got some really interesting stuff coming up this afternoon.

00:11:57.560 Our Amanda Brown is working on a story on a terrible pit bull attack that killed a 10-year-old boy.

00:12:04.460 This time it happened in Great Britain.

00:12:06.920 And the two owners of the pit bull were jailed for a total of seven years.

00:12:12.500 So it just sort of shows you what can happen in other countries.

00:12:16.780 And it's all in light of that terrible pit bull type attack in Calgary this week.

00:12:22.800 And 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.

00:12:38.940 So we've got video of that.

00:12:40.880 And don't worry, Corey, it's not triple X rated.

00:12:43.040 So you can watch it.

00:12:45.600 Well, good.

00:12:46.120 Yeah, we don't be thrown off any more social media channels, you know.

00:12:48.980 I mean, the medical advice gets us into trouble.

00:12:51.260 sudden blatant nudity might lead to difficulties as well if we're not careful. 0.78

00:12:56.040 Very true. Very true. All right. Well, lots on the cooker as usual. Thanks for checking in. And

00:13:03.000 yeah, it's interesting with that story, you know, with the pit bulls, as we said, we're a little

00:13:06.000 divided in the newsroom on that whole thing right now with that. But I mean, that's an example,

00:13:10.400 seeing over there, at least where somebody's serving a serious consequence for what their

00:13:14.240 dog did. And that's a trend I do want to see, you know, get on the people. I mean, you're

00:13:17.840 responsible for what's in your hands, whether it's a car or a dog or anything when you're

00:13:22.380 harming other people. So yeah, I think, I think some pit bull type owners would become instantly

00:13:28.680 more responsible if they faced, you know, four years in the slammer. I would sure hope so.

00:13:35.300 All right. Well, thanks, Dave. I will talk to you later. Have a good weekend, Corey.

00:13:39.620 Great. Thanks. That is our news director, Dave Naylor, as you can hear lots of stuff on the go.

00:13:44.520 And 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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00:15:14.440 guys? All right, let's see. Just getting back to a little bit more of the meat talk. Yeah,

00:15:18.560 somebody saying hard to keto without meat, because that's been a popular diet lately. And you eat a

00:15:23.340 whole lot of, you know, meat and avoid the carbohydrates and such. And I mean, there's

00:15:29.160 just differing things. That's part of things with dietitians, they all differ on what's good or bad

00:15:32.560 for you. You get 10 dieticians, you'll get 10 opinions. I think the main thing is just moderation.

00:15:38.100 You know, you can't go out and eat 10 hamburgers a day. You're going to get bloated, but you can

00:15:42.940 certainly eat one every few days, you know, and it depends on your exercise, depends on the

00:15:47.040 individual. But this labeling, it's just a matter of control and getting on our case. Tracy taught

00:15:51.500 and saying warning signs on doors of fast food outlets. I can see it. I could see it coming.

00:15:56.860 Absolutely. You know, let us make our own choices. We can figure that out. I don't need warning

00:16:01.280 labels to let me know that eating a bunch of McDonald's burgers or a whole bucket of KFC

00:16:05.740 with a grease all pooling on the bottom isn't going to be good for me. It's my choice, though.

00:16:10.060 I'll figure that out. It's not the government's choice to run.

00:16:31.280 if anybody can see me or not. Ah, there we go. I'm not sure if I vanished on you guys or not.

00:16:37.320 So either way, or maybe you were hearing me babbling that whole time. We just had a little

00:16:41.640 bit of a tech hookup there or hiccup there, but we're doing fine. Either way, again, as I said,

00:16:47.300 it's all matters of control. And I think it runs a lot deeper that they don't care so much about

00:16:54.460 our health, the true woke, the true extreme. They want to make sure we don't, well, the cattle,

00:17:02.060 you know, they want them gone. As I said, they're talking about regulating cow farts.

00:17:05.780 They're always pushing us to be vegan. The rest, enough. That's not the government's role. How

00:17:10.780 intrusive, but this does tie together. When they pull off stunts like this, it's because they felt

00:17:15.920 emboldened because we let them get away with it. We let them, as I'm going to speak to that author

00:17:20.920 about. An example, steal our freedom and get away with it. Well, every time they do that,

00:17:25.340 they know that they can do it on something else because we aren't pushing back hard enough. We're

00:17:29.160 the complacent Canadians. We let them get away with it. And I'm hoping, I'm hoping we get a

00:17:34.760 pushback. I love all of these efforts from all different directions to hold the government

00:17:38.560 accountable and expose these things. That's something I'm really looking forward to talking

00:17:41.420 to Mr. Smith about because it doesn't always have to be the angry ranting out of a guy like me

00:17:45.760 or long dry columns, you know, and things which are all important, I think. But you know what

00:17:50.660 you can get some serious messaging across with a flavor of humor in there while you're at it. And

00:17:55.400 it's a real message, but it's packaged in a way that, again, you know, can give you a bit of a

00:18:01.020 chuckle as well. So, I mean, there's all sorts of fronts where we can push back against this growing

00:18:07.520 authoritarian government that we have in general. And what I'm also thrilled about, and I'll talk

00:18:11.980 to you about, is how social media has changed. So this is an independently published book that's

00:18:16.340 hit the top bestseller in Canada. How would this have happened 20 years ago? Wouldn't happen. And

00:18:21.400 I mean, you wouldn't be able to turn it over that fast. You wouldn't be able to market it. You

00:18:24.160 wouldn't be able to get it out. And, you know, unless you got through a publisher, which would

00:18:28.500 take a bunch of time and might be difficult. We're in a whole new world of communication

00:18:32.320 where we can bring stuff up that we were never able to do in the past. And it's fantastic. And

00:18:36.540 it's exciting. I mean, we're still under threat and things are, you know, far from perfect in the

00:18:41.020 world, but there's a lot of positive things to go on. And, you know, the ability to do shows like

00:18:44.860 this and get publications like that out and publicized and promoted, gives me hope. We can

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00:20:24.520 this for a while already here. Hey, Derek, how are you doing? Good. How are you?

00:20:28.680 Very good. Thank you. So just to remind everybody, you recently put out your book,

00:20:33.560 How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom, and it seems to have taken off quite well.

00:20:38.640 It's doing very well, surprisingly well. I didn't see this coming. Nobody saw this coming. So it's

00:20:44.000 been a nice little surprise. Yeah, well, that's what I was kind of saying in the intro is these

00:20:48.420 are fun and interesting times where something like that can kind of jump the scroll as opposed

00:20:53.960 to traditional publishing would have been 20 years ago. You've made a product a lot of people are

00:20:57.920 clearly enjoying and having a good time with and it's spreading like wildfire. I'm seeing your

00:21:01.860 name and your book popping up everywhere and I imagine that the sales numbers are looking really

00:21:06.020 good so far so good uh i find the best thing in any product is to fill a need and it seems like

00:21:12.640 people wanted a need filled with this book so we're doing our job we wanted to set out to

00:21:17.720 entertain people and it looks like we've done our job so that's that's kudos enough for me

00:21:22.800 yeah and i i have to admit i haven't gotten a copy yet i promise i'm gonna get one i have to

00:21:26.680 get one uh but you should have 16 by now working on i don't want to get in trouble you'll parody

00:21:33.220 me next. I see a commenter, you know, Lisa Easting, she just heard about this book yesterday as well.

00:21:37.780 I mean, this is really just in this last week kind of exploded here in a sense. And it's been

00:21:44.360 really good. So, I mean, this is your second one though. You did one with Let's Go Brandon or

00:21:50.360 something like that a while back. So my illustrator and I, we wanted to test the market last year to

00:21:55.760 see what books would yield in an adult childlike manner for books. We really wanted to just see,

00:22:05.900 is there a need for this? Is there a market? The Let's Go Brandon thing was going around. It was

00:22:10.340 viral around October of last year. I reached out to my illustrator in September and said, look,

00:22:15.260 why don't we take a test on this, see how it runs, and we'll decide if we want to put more time or

00:22:20.720 more work into another political satire book. And the reception was lukewarm, I'll say. But I had

00:22:28.660 faith in Canadians that they were going to support this product. And again, I figured we'd do well,

00:22:33.960 I just didn't know we'd do this well. But I'm very flattered and very honored that so many people are

00:22:38.100 enjoying our work. Yeah, well, in the right place, in the right time, in the right message, I mean,

00:22:42.040 it's a lot of it all has to come together. And it seems to in this case, I mean, people are

00:22:45.340 definitely receptive to the messaging in that book. To give credit, I mean, your book is very,

00:22:50.860 it's an illustrated book. So, I mean, your illustrator is a large part of this as well,

00:22:56.500 and the caricatures from the pictures I've seen are fantastic within it. Have you worked with

00:23:00.440 him for some time? It's a she, and I've worked with her for about six months now. Well, I guess

00:23:07.080 eight if you rack in the Let's Go Brandon book, but I've actually met her through a childhood

00:23:14.400 friend of mine that i've stayed in contact with this is his daughter she's 18 years old

00:23:18.320 uh she wanted to get into artistry work and build a portfolio so he reached out to me and said you

00:23:25.280 know she'd like to start drawing if you ever want to move on on illustrated books and had an idea

00:23:30.560 and uh we just clicked everything kind of fit into place and and all of the drawings all of

00:23:35.760 the caricatures all of the easter eggs that are in the book all the little jabs they all they all

00:23:40.000 come from her. I basically just do the writing. I put the script together and I hand it to her and

00:23:45.580 say, do what you will. And she comes back with gold. So I'm very proud of her and the work she's

00:23:51.500 done. And I definitely think the tip of the hat goes to her as well for her efforts.

00:23:55.400 Yeah. Well, that's where I want to give credit. We're doing it. See, I didn't even realize the

00:23:59.120 gender of that artist. So let's make sure we properly. No problem. The tip of the hat to 0.94

00:24:04.000 those people who created this. So as you know, some of the images we've popped up, I mean,

00:24:07.840 it looks great. It's clear that you never do mention our current prime minister by name or

00:24:13.560 anything, but you're certainly drawing a pretty direct parallel to our prime minister in this.

00:24:18.540 Yeah. I mean, when you dabble along the lines of defamation or anything that crosses any legal

00:24:23.120 boundaries, we had to be careful to make sure that we put the jokes in there. But at the same time,

00:24:28.320 the book wasn't meant to defame anybody and it wasn't meant to be aggressive. I find with protests

00:24:33.700 that are going on these days on any side of the fence,

00:24:35.820 whether it's the Freedom Convoy,

00:24:37.940 whether it's BLM or Pride or anything along those lines,

00:24:43.500 there's always an opposing side.

00:24:45.340 The problem when you have protests

00:24:46.900 is there's people portraying what they believe

00:24:49.620 is a positive message,

00:24:50.560 and there's those that are opposing them

00:24:51.820 with what's believed to be a negative perspective.

00:24:54.260 And when you butt heads like that,

00:24:55.840 it's constant aggression.

00:24:57.360 So what we wanted to do with this book

00:24:58.740 was formulate a way of making something

00:25:00.640 to take a lighthearted jab at something,

00:25:03.080 but still have a childlike nature to it where it's playful and receptive.

00:25:08.580 Yeah, and so you took a very direct, you know, Dr. Seuss style,

00:25:12.160 and just about everybody is familiar with those books.

00:25:14.580 And the style of poetry, I'd seen actually there was another American columnist

00:25:19.460 who were bantering on Twitter a little bit, and she was asking,

00:25:21.460 well, does it actually rhyme?

00:25:22.560 And yes, you wrote as if this was a straight-out Dr. Seuss-style book.

00:25:28.440 Is poetry kind of one of your things, or do you just kind of put that on for these productions?

00:25:33.080 uh for one of my things it definitely is now but it wasn't at the time uh it was just the idea i

00:25:39.480 guess if you've ever heard of um the the adult style book uh go the f to sleep that came out

00:25:45.100 it was a huge success uh those guys had samuel jackson read their their book on youtube and

00:25:51.300 that's kind of where their book went viral and i'll admit i own a copy of that for myself i

00:25:56.020 don't dare read it to my children but uh when you look at the art style of that book it's it's

00:26:00.800 illustrated and drawn like a children's book, but with adult content. And that was kind of

00:26:05.440 the formula for this book was, well, what's more childlike nature than something along the lines

00:26:11.240 of Dr. Seuss, where it's rhyming, where it's got the wacky cartoonish pictures. And we just kind

00:26:16.400 of wanted to stick to that formula because we thought it would really resonate with people who

00:26:19.800 were fans of those books growing up, but also who enjoy them now. Yeah. And you seem to have hit it

00:26:24.740 really well. I know I looked at some of those lines and I got to be, I'm kind of the mean guy

00:26:29.080 And your book's not mean-spirited, but it's just in the same sense as, you know, the old

00:26:32.680 This Hour Has 22 Minutes, or you're going to take some jabs that poke a little, and a

00:26:35.880 little line with what the Prime Minister's brain was three sizes too small.

00:26:40.140 Sort of, I guess, a parallel to the Grinch and his heart, I'm imagining, is what that

00:26:43.760 was.

00:26:44.200 I mean, as somebody grew up reading those books and just seeing, you know, that word play

00:26:48.020 and using it, even if it's a bit of a jab, but that's fine.

00:26:52.500 You know, it's still a light jab.

00:26:53.880 I thought it was just brilliant.

00:26:55.780 Well, I mean, the material, like I've said it all week on other interviews, the material

00:26:59.060 writes itself, he does this to himself. So I really don't think it's possible to defame somebody who's

00:27:03.760 defamed themselves. But we've tried again to be humorous. We've tried to, there's a very clear

00:27:11.640 political message in that book, but we've tried to abstain from shadowing over anybody else's

00:27:17.440 views. We don't want to make anybody who believes the other side of the story feel awkward or awful.

00:27:22.420 I know that hasn't been the case. You're always going to have critics, but we didn't set out to

00:27:27.560 cause any long lasting damage or hurt feelings. We just wanted to have some fun and a laugh,

00:27:32.520 kind of like you say, like this hour is 22 minutes or even something as periodic as air

00:27:36.640 farce. We just wanted to really kind of put our foot out there and try to give people laughter

00:27:43.460 because especially over the last two and a half years, I think people have forgotten the importance

00:27:47.440 of laughing and kind of putting all this mess behind them. Yeah, well, and satire is important.

00:27:53.820 It's a great way to get messages out.

00:27:55.320 I had an author on recently who put out a tongue-in-cheek guidebook for aspiring dictators and authoritarians.

00:28:01.680 And that was a good conversation.

00:28:03.400 But it's still a serious issue with authoritarianism and so on.

00:28:06.260 But 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.

00:28:15.320 There's a lot of different mediums and ways we can get serious messaging out while packaging it in a small package.

00:28:23.280 Yeah, 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.

00:28:40.800 And I think what we wanted to do with this was prove that the pen is truly mightier than the

00:28:45.060 sword and that in this situation, we don't need thousands and thousands of people standing on

00:28:50.100 the government's front lawn. We can simply make our point by, you know, doing something comedic

00:28:53.780 and lighthearted and having a laugh. That's it. And people have a lot of good reasons to be angry,

00:28:58.220 you know, over that right now, but it doesn't mean we always have to be raging and waving the

00:29:02.680 signs and the F Trudeau and things like that. We can also get out there and lighten up a little

00:29:06.940 again, as I say, and the message is still serious. I mean, we're seeing this hitting the news a

00:29:11.240 little more now with Minister Mendocino. It sounds like there's pressure to get him fired. And the

00:29:16.500 actual review of what happened during that convoy is going to be pending. And I got a feeling

00:29:21.660 we're going to hear a lot more about this as we look in hindsight and see if this was justified

00:29:26.920 or not. And things like this help keep it in the scroll while keeping it still entertaining.

00:29:32.660 Right. And I find with this book, like I'll be the first to admit I'm very neutral on the

00:29:37.760 political spectrum. I don't always sway one way or the other. I find the importance of living in

00:29:43.920 a democracy is the fact that we have the right to choose our leaders. And sometimes the leader

00:29:49.040 of a certain party may, you know, hold values that are higher than one of another. They may

00:29:54.180 have something that suits your lifestyle versus the other. And I think it's important for people

00:29:57.120 to be able to speak their minds and and say what they want to say when it comes to politics though

00:30:02.560 especially the way the government has handled not only the convoy but its policies when you look at

00:30:07.840 uh airport backups right now and the ridiculousness of of extended policies that don't make any sense

00:30:13.380 uh and even like you said with with medicino and his claims of the use of the freedoms act

00:30:18.960 uh it's it's part of the reason this book was spawned is because for the first time in my

00:30:24.180 entire life, I was actually embarrassed to be a Canadian. It was shameful to see the way that

00:30:30.780 my government was behaving. They're supposed to be labeled as public servants and they wouldn't

00:30:37.400 speak with their people. They wouldn't hear the cries of their people and they didn't want to do

00:30:40.660 anything to benefit those people. When you look at Jagmeet Singh getting laughed at yesterday

00:30:45.240 in the house talking about people not being able to afford groceries or rent, that's a huge problem

00:30:50.920 and they don't want to lower carbon taxes

00:30:53.680 or do anything to benefit the people.

00:30:55.040 They just want to virtue signal from the rooftops.

00:30:57.820 And I'm sorry, but at the end of the day,

00:30:59.620 virtue signaling doesn't pay the bills

00:31:01.480 and it doesn't help people in need.

00:31:03.600 Yeah, well, and whether we're left or right,

00:31:06.120 I mean, the issue is kind of authoritarianism

00:31:07.940 and individual freedoms.

00:31:09.160 It doesn't matter which party's in,

00:31:10.300 or at least from my perspective,

00:31:11.360 that's kind of what my earlier rant was about,

00:31:12.760 was I just want government out of my life

00:31:15.820 as much as I can get.

00:31:16.760 It doesn't matter which party is in there.

00:31:18.280 So, I mean, you don't necessarily have to be somebody

00:31:20.060 is favorable of the Conservatives or the NDP or a different party to enjoy something like this book

00:31:25.540 or look at the broader issue of what it's about, it's important no matter which way you lean to

00:31:31.580 at least examine. Maybe some people will think it was justified, but you got to start discussing it

00:31:35.720 a little more, cool down the temperature a bit and have a look at what happened.

00:31:40.180 And that's exactly what we set out to do. We didn't want this to be taboo anymore. I know,

00:31:44.300 especially being in Alberta, anytime I hear about the Coutts border crossing, it's a very hot topic

00:31:49.960 with people especially uh people i know in lethbridge or or southern alberta uh anywhere

00:31:56.020 near that border they don't want to discuss it and and i think what hasn't been examined again

00:32:01.580 because of downfall with mainstream media or lack thereof of coverage is people didn't get the whole

00:32:07.520 story it's it's very simple to be mad at something but i find that there's three sides to every story

00:32:12.360 there's mine yours and the truth and you don't know what someone's going through when they went

00:32:17.420 parked their truck there and said, hey, I'm losing my income. I can't pay my mortgage. I can't feed

00:32:23.360 my children. I can't look after my kids. I'm going to do what I have to do to protect my family. And

00:32:29.200 my heart goes out to those people. But at the same time, I can also understand those who were,

00:32:34.040 I'll say, bothered by it, triggered, or put it out as a result of the actions. It's not good on

00:32:42.220 either side. But again, I think this far out, it's okay to look at things and say, you know what,

00:32:46.480 Maybe there's another side to the story.

00:32:48.880 Yeah, so I'll throw that out for just something too.

00:32:50.900 There was a side discussion in the comment scroll.

00:32:52.600 It might be more appropriate for your artist.

00:32:54.080 Why is it that cartoon figures never have five fingers?

00:32:57.860 That I'd have to ask my illustrator.

00:32:59.400 I think what it has to do is the look of the hand

00:33:01.240 and the shape of the hand.

00:33:02.060 At least that's what I was told with The Simpsons.

00:33:05.020 Matt Groening, when he did The Simpsons,

00:33:06.900 the only character he's ever made in the show

00:33:08.940 with five fingers is God.

00:33:10.700 And I think it has to do with the shape

00:33:13.400 and and the colors uh all on the page in order to make things look um i guess the cartoon standard

00:33:20.000 um i could ask her but that would be my guess and ganger to it is it's just kind of like the

00:33:25.540 gold standard when it comes to cartoons and drawings these days yeah fair enough no i just

00:33:29.860 like to address when when the commenters ask about things absolutely speaking of older illustrations

00:33:34.420 looks like quite the collection of some classic video games you got on the background there i know

00:33:37.680 that's one of your passions as well. Yeah, I started out during, well, for the last four

00:33:43.360 years, and then especially during the lockdowns, I stream on Twitch as a hobby. I play a lot of

00:33:49.380 retro games. I collect games. During the pandemic, certain companies started bringing out these

00:33:54.460 three-quarter scale arcade cabinets. So with my children stuck in the house, my daughter was in

00:33:59.560 kindergarten going into grade one, and my youngest son was headed through preschool era. I grew up in

00:34:06.280 the 80s and 90s. And I always loved going to the arcades. And we kind of thought that maybe being

00:34:10.720 at home, it'd be fun to build one in the basement and have somewhere where the kids could go and

00:34:15.440 play and experience that for themselves. So we're definitely a family that crosses the borders on

00:34:20.560 what would be considered childlike behavior. That's for sure. Oh, well, hey, there's no hurry

00:34:25.060 to grow up, man. We're going to get there anyway. That's right on. It looks pretty cool. So before

00:34:30.560 I finish, I guess another thing to ask is you at least alluded to that on Twitter that you might

00:34:35.120 have another one in the works you're looking at uh perhaps holding mr singh to some account

00:34:38.400 i think again i think when you're in politics you're part of the public eye if if somebody

00:34:43.860 wrote a book making fun of me tomorrow i'd have to accept it because now i'm out there i'm i'm

00:34:47.880 i'm in the public eye so i i think um i think it would be effective to make a book about mr singh

00:34:56.640 next um just again when you look at political cartoons and everything i think everyone deserves

00:35:02.360 a spin around this carousel at least once

00:35:04.560 when it comes to being under the microscope.

00:35:06.580 And with the success of this book

00:35:07.920 and what I've been seeing on Twitter,

00:35:10.540 unlike Justin Trudeau, I'm willing to listen to people

00:35:13.000 and people seem to be asking for it.

00:35:14.540 So we're happy to give it to them.

00:35:16.140 Yeah, and from what I've seen so far,

00:35:17.740 and just talking to you,

00:35:18.340 you're not looking to be mean-spirited.

00:35:19.680 It's just, okay, it's going to be your turn, Mr. Singh.

00:35:22.280 And who knows, maybe the next conservative leader,

00:35:24.780 as you said, might get a spin on the carousel.

00:35:27.180 It looks like he might be at the beginning

00:35:28.440 of quite a series here.

00:35:30.460 So I appreciate you coming on.

00:35:32.100 Where can people find your current book

00:35:34.240 and future books and past books?

00:35:37.040 People can always look on Amazon.

00:35:38.900 They can find the book.

00:35:40.120 It's still slated in the number one spot on Amazon

00:35:42.180 for books right now in Canada.

00:35:43.880 They can find the Let's Go Brandon book

00:35:46.440 on Amazon Canada and U.S. as well.

00:35:48.100 It is linked under the

00:35:49.180 How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom.

00:35:51.680 You'll see it under the recommended titles.

00:35:53.720 As for other books,

00:35:54.840 I took a foray into novel writing

00:35:57.380 three years prior

00:35:58.600 and launched a teen fiction series

00:36:00.960 that was basically a superhero book like Harry Potter,

00:36:04.200 but with superheroes instead.

00:36:06.180 And I actually developed the characters alongside Stan Lee

00:36:08.580 when he was still alive.

00:36:09.540 So that book's sitting on the market.

00:36:11.140 It is called Vincent McLeod Prophecy of the Six.

00:36:13.980 And it is written under my other author acronym of D.R. Smith.

00:36:17.540 And people can find that on Amazon as well

00:36:19.100 or in Chapters Indigo.

00:36:21.080 Well, right on.

00:36:21.960 Well, it's a lot of interesting, creative stuff

00:36:24.220 coming out from your way.

00:36:25.220 So I appreciate your coming on to talk to us about it today.

00:36:28.440 And with the work you've been doing,

00:36:30.180 And I hope we can talk again when your next publication comes out.

00:36:34.540 Absolutely.

00:36:35.120 And thank you so much for having me.

00:36:36.180 Appreciate the opportunity to be on your show.

00:36:38.160 Thanks, Derek.

00:36:39.800 That was Derek Smith, the author, yes, of How Trudeau, or sorry, How the Prime Minister

00:36:46.080 Stole Freedom.

00:36:47.180 And you can find that on Amazon.

00:36:49.420 And like I said, it's just fantastic.

00:36:51.300 It's good to see something that isn't mean-spirited, but it's just getting it out there.

00:36:54.960 And I just like how this took off.

00:36:56.780 This is organic.

00:36:57.480 You know, this was, it hit the social media waves and now it is heading the sales in Canada,

00:37:04.120 the bestseller. I'm sure CBC and the others would much rather it was, you know, some nice

00:37:08.060 Margaret Atwood stuff and things like that. But no, this is what Canadians want to see right now.

00:37:13.980 And I do, you know, encourage people, get out there, buy yourself a copy of it. I wasn't kidding.

00:37:18.820 I'm going to get one. And definitely a collectible, you know, even if it's a short read, it'll be

00:37:25.960 pretty fun. I see Paulette from Pinscher Creek saying, yeah, it sounds like a fun book. And it's

00:37:29.980 good. I like people to have fun now and then. As I said, I rant, I rave, I get on things, I get on

00:37:34.360 serious issues, and I will further. But we can lighten up now and then to get that message out

00:37:40.000 because it is a serious issue. I mean, the Emergencies Act was, I still want to see some

00:37:44.220 heads rolling over that. All right. Let me see. I'm going to get to one of our sponsors before I

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00:39:08.080 at least, of protecting your rights. So let's see, Tyler Volstad saying he bought a copy of

00:39:13.020 Derek's book there, and Anne Goodwin saying she's thinking she should have it as well. I know,

00:39:18.640 I'm going to get it too. It's just one of those great things like that too. And don't forget,

00:39:22.520 sure, it's a short read, but for one, you're supporting Derek Smith on a good original,

00:39:27.480 you know, content sort of thing. It'll be something you'll hang on to. And it's a good

00:39:32.900 conversation piece when you have people over, pull that out and have a look at that book and

00:39:36.020 chuckle over some of those lines he came up with in it. And he, as he was saying, there's little

00:39:40.300 Easter eggs, things within it. I saw those pointed out in some articles, like he's got a Winnie the

00:39:44.420 Poo statue that he idolizes, which is sort of representative of the head of China, then, you

00:39:50.260 know, people have always been very critical of Justin Trudeau's admiration of China's basic

00:39:54.940 dictatorship and things such as that. So, yes, by all means, get out and support him. It's,

00:40:01.880 you know, a worthwhile endeavor. I'm looking forward to his future books. Or a stone leasing,

00:40:06.380 a bathroom book, as they call him. Yeah, you know, just enough to read while you're doing what you

00:40:10.860 got to do. But, you know, then sanitize it so other people can read it too. So let's see how

00:40:16.660 I get on to some more serious stuff. Because, you know, this has been on the news. This has been

00:40:19.560 the issues that's been happening. This whole thing, as Dave was mentioning with the dog attack

00:40:25.360 in the UK, but also we're still getting the repercussions of that incident in Calgary where

00:40:30.280 three dogs attacked a senior citizen in her garden and killed her. She was an eight or nine minute

00:40:38.560 regular drive away from the biggest hospital in Alberta. She waited well over 30 minutes for an

00:40:43.720 ambulance and died. She bled out. She bled out. Talking to other paramedics, they're confident.

00:40:48.980 I've been talking to them. I had one on the show yesterday. She could have been saved if they'd

00:40:53.280 gotten there on time. You know, this is a case of trauma and bleeding that you could really

00:40:57.600 intervene and help. But because it was over 30 minutes, she didn't make it. Now the politicians

00:41:02.920 are as repugnant as ever and playing games and pointing fingers at each other. So we saw that 0.99

00:41:08.200 And I'm holding them all responsible. 1.00

00:41:10.080 I'm sick of all of them with this crap. 0.99

00:41:11.880 You know, because as I pointed out yesterday on the show and as I had that guest, he's 0.99

00:41:16.500 been lobbying on this as a paramedic for 14 years on this.

00:41:20.400 We knew this was coming.

00:41:21.740 In fact, it has been happening.

00:41:23.060 This isn't the first time somebody's died waiting for an ambulance in Alberta.

00:41:26.520 It's just the latest one and one of the worst ones because of the proximity of those facilities.

00:41:31.880 So at first, they tried to blame the person who was calling 911.

00:41:35.420 Oh, she wasn't clear and everything.

00:41:37.120 And that person spoke back under condition and anonymity.

00:41:39.680 And that says a lot, too, in how scared people are of the state.

00:41:42.700 But the neighbor who called 911, you know, at first they were saying she wasn't clear that it was a medical emergency.

00:41:47.020 And she called BS on them.

00:41:49.000 And she said she came outside. 1.00

00:41:50.360 An 86-year-old woman had been ripped to shreds by pit bulls.

00:41:53.680 Do you think she wasn't clear on 911 that you need an ambulance?

00:41:57.240 So 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.

00:42:05.240 and that bylaw officer was directly trying to get ambulances

00:42:08.600 because 911 was useless.

00:42:11.080 And he got a fire truck eventually, and police showed up.

00:42:14.520 But again, no ambulance.

00:42:16.460 So this woman died before she even got to the hospital.

00:42:20.080 And there were, just down the street,

00:42:23.100 a bunch of ambulances with paramedics all sitting, stuck.

00:42:27.780 And that's news that came out recently too.

00:42:30.660 18, at that very time when that was happening,

00:42:33.820 18 ambulances were in Calgary at hospitals with paramedics sitting around doing hallway care

00:42:39.680 because they can't hand off the patients because the nurses won't sign off and take them.

00:42:44.140 So they got to sit there in a hallway with somebody who's non, you know, immediately emergency.

00:42:49.320 I mean, if somebody's coming in and the blood is gushing and everything, they will rush them

00:42:52.000 into surgery. But if it's not quite as acute, they'll keep them in the hallways. But then they

00:42:55.940 don't want to deal with it in the hospital and say, well, we're not going to sign off. You take

00:42:58.580 care of them. So these paramedics sit around and don't blame them. They got no choice. They want

00:43:03.000 to be out. They're trained to be out there responding to emergencies, but they can't leave

00:43:07.360 the hospital because these guys in the hospital won't sign off. So 18 of them were all sitting

00:43:13.660 around while this woman bled to death. And of those, I bet, because the biggest hospital in

00:43:19.220 Calgary, as I said, was eight minutes away. I bet at least six ambulances with 12 paramedics were

00:43:24.340 just sitting up the road. That would have been, their whole passion is to get out and help and

00:43:29.160 save people. I'm sure they all wish they could have just backhanded whoever is not taking their

00:43:34.080 admissions and get out there and do their job and save a life. And what do we get from our health

00:43:39.420 minister provincially? Oh, we're going to do a review and it'll be ready in four months. Really?

00:43:45.260 You guys have known about this for years. The paramedics have been speaking about this for

00:43:49.940 years. We've been writing columns about this for years, doing videos. You need four months to think

00:43:55.700 about it. You're incompetent. You're incompetent. You know, I talk about why people get sick of the 1.00

00:44:00.720 UCP. Quit talking in circles. Be decisive for a bloody change. Show some leadership and change

00:44:06.360 something. You got the big job copying. Do something with it. This one's a no-brainer.

00:44:12.220 Get the bloody paramedics out of the hallways of the hospitals. As the paramedic I spoke with 0.59

00:44:17.400 yesterday said, it's five minutes to fix that problem. Jodi Gondek's going on talking about

00:44:22.680 how dispatch is screwed up.

00:44:23.740 You know what?

00:44:23.940 She's probably got a point.

00:44:25.220 Something in there is screwed up too

00:44:26.700 because the provincial government went

00:44:28.440 and centralized all the services

00:44:30.980 and who knows how well that's working,

00:44:32.320 the bureaucracy.

00:44:33.160 You don't need four months to work on this.

00:44:35.200 How many more people are going to die in four months

00:44:37.140 while you piss around on an inquiry

00:44:39.600 that you'll probably ignore?

00:44:40.700 We've seen the UCP do that.

00:44:42.820 We saw the Fair Deal panel.

00:44:43.860 You guys wasted a whole year going around

00:44:45.600 to ask what we wanted

00:44:46.900 and when you didn't like what we said,

00:44:48.340 you didn't do anything about it.

00:44:49.740 I'm tired of this, guys.

00:44:51.340 I'm tired of it.

00:44:52.680 Show us some bloody leadership for a change.

00:44:54.540 You know what, Copping?

00:44:55.360 You don't even have a real leader to be accountable to anymore. 0.97

00:44:58.000 Jason Kenney is an interim now, and he's lame duck.

00:45:01.020 Get in there and do something decisive.

00:45:03.280 Do this while you're at it.

00:45:04.700 Find something and just basically say, 0.51

00:45:06.720 look, they've got to release these paramedics. 1.00

00:45:10.340 Let them out to do their damn job, 0.98

00:45:12.140 because the other part is we're sucking them out of all the rural areas into the cities. 0.99

00:45:15.680 They're like big funnels, and all these paramedics get stuck in these big city hospitals.

00:45:19.820 End it. 0.61

00:45:20.220 And I know the hospital staff will do cartwheels,

00:45:21.960 because that's where the fear is, guys. That's where the fear is. That's where they won't admit

00:45:25.780 it's the nurses union they're terrified of. Because now suddenly all these people in the

00:45:31.620 emergency have to deal with all these patients. They can't slough it off on the paramedics anymore.

00:45:36.480 So then let's deal with that one step at a time. If they are short of resources in emergency,

00:45:41.800 if they need more nurses, you need more doctors, then let's get to work on that. Let's figure that

00:45:45.000 out. If you need more beds, let's figure out how to get more beds. But quit holding the damn

00:45:49.200 paramedics in these hospitals as a stopgap. That's not working. That's just putting more people at 0.99

00:45:53.280 risk. And yes, Stone Lee saying, call Uber. And you know, I wish that was a joke. But they would

00:46:01.520 have saved her life, that one last week, if they'd called Uber. They would have got her in the

00:46:05.320 hospital in seven or eight minutes. And the thing I talked about in a column, I wrote about it. And

00:46:09.020 I drive Uber, by the way. I do that on Friday nights. I'm gonna be out driving tonight. I like

00:46:11.980 doing it. It gets me out. I talk to a variety of people. So yeah, you know, if you're out drinking

00:46:17.120 tonight and looking for an Uber, chances are you might end up with me pulling up. So be nice to

00:46:21.940 the guy in the Hyundai Tucson. But the thing with Uber, their app will tell you exactly how far the

00:46:27.340 car away is. You know how long you got to wait. You see it coming towards you. You know what

00:46:32.220 happens when you call 911? They won't tell you how far the ambulance is. They refuse. They are

00:46:38.180 not allowed to tell you. They do not want to empower people. They don't want to let people

00:46:44.260 make their own minds up. Because again, I'm sure with those bystanders and everything,

00:46:49.280 if they'd have called 911, they'd say, look, the ambulance is going to be 35 minutes.

00:46:54.420 They would have picked the person up, put her in a car and took her to the hospital themselves.

00:46:57.660 They were just down the street from it. They could have carried her on a stretcher that far

00:47:01.620 in less than 35 minutes. The hospital was four kilometers away. The biggest hospital in Alberta

00:47:07.340 and a senior citizen bled to death. And 911 wouldn't allow or wouldn't tell these people

00:47:13.600 how long an ambulance is going to be. I'm sick of the pointed fingers on this. I'm sick of the

00:47:17.540 excuses. We've covered all this, guys. You don't need four months to find out what we've been

00:47:23.520 telling you for four years. So the UCP, you wonder why you're in the toilet for support.

00:47:28.740 Incidents like this are one of them. You have a chance here to make a positive change on

00:47:32.600 something that's a no-brainer. It's bloody well easy and you won't do it. So yeah, I get upset

00:47:41.520 with this one. Just because, again, I understand a lot of issues are complicated and deep.

00:47:45.880 This one has a lot of depth to it and a lot of things involved with it. But there are immediate

00:47:50.520 things to do. And that's what I said with that paramedic. And if you follow my Twitter, you'll

00:47:54.360 see I tweeted a couple of videos. He made parody videos years ago to try to know some of these

00:47:59.800 actually were from last spring with other paramedics to try and show how ridiculous it was

00:48:03.840 showing a fake accident. You know, they showed and he had his ambulance there. Well, you know,

00:48:09.540 we can only put one passenger in. We can't do, you'll just have to wait here. Here's a road

00:48:14.420 flare and you can wave that. Maybe a car will take you to the hospital. Unfortunately, you know,

00:48:19.020 that's really dark humor, but it's real. And that's what is going on out there. And for this

00:48:24.900 government to keep pretending they don't know what to do about it, they need a four month study.

00:48:28.900 That's incompetence at its highest level. And I, again, I'm terrified of Notley getting in for

00:48:33.840 four more years, guys. I am. So get your crap together. Because if you don't address things

00:48:38.060 like this, you're going to get kicked out again and we'll be much worse off. All right. I'm just

00:48:47.000 going to hit one quick news story before I get to the guest because I see he's sitting in the lobby

00:48:50.240 there and I'm looking forward to talking to him as he rants on similar issues to mine and very well.

00:48:56.960 And this is from the reporting the obvious file. This is a story that came out. Millions are poorer

00:49:01.540 with inflation. Millions of Canadians are drawing savings or borrowing money to meet household

00:49:06.000 expenses. Wow, you guys figured that out? Yeah, this came into committee in the House of Commons.

00:49:11.500 They have discovered that inflation puts pressure on working Canadians. Wow, I'm glad we're paying

00:49:17.660 you guys six figures to figure that one out, guys. Good work. I don't know how that slid by you

00:49:22.580 before. We got some very scary numbers coming right now too, not just the inflation. The only

00:49:27.640 way the government, well, not the only way, the way the government is dealing with it right now

00:49:30.960 is having the Bank of Canada raise interest rates. And there's some very scary numbers on what that's

00:49:35.020 going to do to some people's mortgage payments, they could be going up as much as 45% in years

00:49:39.760 going forward here soon. There's a lot of people that do not have that buffer in their income to

00:49:46.140 make that. There's going to be houses being lost. We're in a lot of fiscal trouble right now,

00:49:50.180 but it's because we have a fiscally inept government. We got to do something about that.

00:49:54.180 Let's bring our guest in, our senior Ottawa columnist, David Creighton. He loves talking

00:49:59.040 about the incompetence of Ottawa and offering us some positive solutions as well. How's it going,

00:50:03.420 David? Good. Good day. So, yeah, I appreciate you coming on. I mean, you've really been writing a

00:50:09.600 lot of stuff lately, and it's been popular, and you're just hitting the nail on the head when it

00:50:15.160 needs to be. Maybe I'll just kind of run through some of your columns. The one you just put out

00:50:19.060 today, you're talking about Trudeau finding his political soulmate out in California.

00:50:24.400 Yeah, I usually refer to Joe Biden as his political mentor and soulmate, but I found

00:50:32.260 it fascinating. He got together with Gavin Newsom during the Summit of the Americas, and those two

00:50:38.340 are really birds of a feather. Newsom, of course, went through a recall recently, and it was a

00:50:45.600 miracle of sorts that he managed to survive. One of the most incompetent governors in the State

00:50:51.660 of the Union, and he, as I joke in the column, it must have been the patron saint of incompetent

00:50:57.980 politicians that got him through because he had no right to win that recall. And he had a very

00:51:05.300 good Republican opponent running against him who really should have won. But of course, the two of

00:51:11.880 them got together and hugged and just had a real love fest together. And they signed something

00:51:18.540 called a framework. And it's not clear to me after reading five or six news reports what exactly it

00:51:26.220 is it's got something to do with reducing uh the threat of climate change which of course

00:51:31.520 you know what what in heck is this i i don't know but it's true to no doubt come come home like

00:51:37.840 like neville chamberlain waving this piece of paper saying and we you know we've arrested 0.61

00:51:42.220 climate change in our in our time and it's just more more nonsense because i found it interesting

00:51:49.960 of course, that BC and California are both paying the same amount for gas. California just hit $10

00:51:58.300 a gallon, and BC is paying the equivalent of that, which is $2.20 a liter. How do I know that?

00:52:06.320 Because I remember my dad telling me when we went from gallon to liter, when it was $0.22 a liter,

00:52:15.080 that was a dollar a gallon so times that by 10 uh 220 a liter is ten dollars a gallon so we now

00:52:22.280 have the honor of paying the same amount that california is paying for gas yeah it's a little

00:52:27.240 bit different because the imperial gallon is different than the american gallon but what the

00:52:32.440 heck it's almost the same and we're going to be paying much more here soon because the uh the

00:52:38.040 The carbon tax will assure us of that.

00:52:42.660 But it's just fascinating to me that these guys are not living in the real world.

00:52:47.420 I mean, inflation is going up.

00:52:48.640 Gas prices are going up.

00:52:50.420 Both of our countries are headed for a recession.

00:52:53.840 And all these guys can talk about is the threat of climate change.

00:52:57.540 Like this is a real existential threat to most people.

00:53:01.340 And most people can't even afford to buy groceries anymore.

00:53:04.800 And it just astounds me.

00:53:06.200 here they are jet setting around the world justin's get gets into his challenger increases his carbon

00:53:12.080 footprint like this is his right to do so and he can do this because he's bringing the message to

00:53:16.780 the people and he lands in colorado springs has the tour of narod goes down to los angeles

00:53:24.460 meets with his buddies and it's just unreal but you know here i go again well and california

00:53:32.880 really should be. As you said, for anybody else visiting, looking at it, you know, properly,

00:53:37.760 they're going to see that as an example of what not to do right now. I was down in Arizona last

00:53:43.220 January and you'd pop just into the California border down there and suddenly gas even then

00:53:48.100 would go up $3 a gallon the second you cross the border. Yet there's not a single oil pump in

00:53:54.400 Arizona, but California has got Bakersfield and oil all the way down to Los Angeles. It's bad

00:53:59.420 policy that's pressuring them, not a lack of resources. And we're seeing businesses relocating

00:54:05.620 into Texas and other jurisdictions because Newsom's incompetent policy is pushing them

00:54:10.960 out of there. And yeah, to see Trudeau seeing this guy is inspirational. That's kind of distressing.

00:54:16.240 Well, California is actually having, for the first time in its history,

00:54:20.380 California was always the, you know, they call it the golden state. People used to flock the

00:54:25.000 california from all over the all over america because it was the promised land you could go

00:54:30.660 there and you could start a new you could start a new life even if you were picking oranges or

00:54:35.820 apples for god's sake or you could go there to start in the movie business and you could do

00:54:41.260 anything in california now everybody's leaving california businesses are leaving people are

00:54:46.500 leaving because it's too expensive to live there not just the price of gas the taxation has gone

00:54:53.040 through the roof businesses are leaving and people are leaving even liberals are leaving because it's

00:54:58.320 it's too dangerous to live in california car carjackings are up homicides are going through

00:55:04.720 the roof like 200 increase in homicides in some cities it's just it's incredible even places like

00:55:12.080 san diego that used to be conservative strongholds and they used to be relatively safe places to live

00:55:18.080 are just absolutely incredible now.

00:55:20.940 And if you haven't seen San Francisco lately,

00:55:23.580 I used to love San Francisco.

00:55:24.920 It's an absolutely out, incredibly out of whack now.

00:55:29.480 And it's just unbelievable what's happened to that state.

00:55:33.260 And thanks in large to governors like Gavin Newsom

00:55:36.700 and other people and mayors like they've got

00:55:39.620 in San Francisco and Los Angeles

00:55:42.520 and the DAs, of course, who are not enforcing the laws.

00:55:45.960 Yeah, no, that's everywhere.

00:55:47.480 And, yeah, Calgary, we've got an $87 billion climate plan that our mayor is embracing.

00:55:53.080 We're well on our road to San Francisco out here.

00:55:56.720 While, meanwhile, nobody can ride public transit because the crime has driven everybody off of it.

00:56:01.420 The parallels are very troubling.

00:56:05.480 There should be learning from them, not emulating them.

00:56:09.120 But that doesn't seem the case.

00:56:10.560 Speaking of DAs, that's another piece you wrote about the recall of a liberal DA

00:56:14.040 and how that could be a sort of bad news for Justin Trudeau in a sort of distant way.

00:56:19.260 Yeah, I found it fascinating that the Democratic Party in the United States is essentially in a civil war.

00:56:29.420 And San Francisco, as I said, is a city aflame because it has become a city that is just literally at war with itself.

00:56:39.820 And 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.

00:56:54.360 But that one party, one party city, if you will, has become completely divided.

00:57:00.960 And 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.

00:57:17.180 And 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,

00:57:41.480 who don't want to walk down the street and be attacked and brutalized and have their money

00:57:47.800 stolen and shopkeepers who don't think people should just walk into their store and have

00:57:53.620 shoplifters walk out with their goods and not be prosecuted. Those used to be basic Democratic

00:57:59.680 Party values, too, that that shouldn't be allowed. But the far left has taken over the party so much

00:58:05.960 that those are suddenly not pertinent values to the Democratic Party.

00:58:11.700 And San Francisco is fighting back.

00:58:14.320 And they're saying, first of all, they booted out their school board

00:58:19.140 because the school board said they're going to take Abraham Lincoln's name

00:58:22.980 off of a school because they said Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist

00:58:27.220 and he has no right to be on the school.

00:58:31.540 And people said, just a minute, that's going too far.

00:58:34.620 So they got rid of the school board. And now they said this DA, this this this Chessia Bowdoin, is not prosecuting anybody.

00:58:44.780 He's rewritten the penal code. He's fired all the prosecutors.

00:58:48.880 And he seems to be not on the side of the prosecution, but he's on the side of the defense.

00:58:55.460 He's on the side of the criminals. So who's on our side?

00:58:59.540 So he was defeated massively, like 61% of the voters in San Francisco.

00:59:04.080 Liberal voters said, get rid of him.

00:59:06.760 And this does not bode well for Joe Biden.

00:59:09.680 He's lost his core constituency.

00:59:12.980 And this is exactly what's happening to Justin Trudeau in this country.

00:59:15.960 He's losing his core constituencies.

00:59:18.020 He's losing immigrant votes.

00:59:20.020 He's losing blue-collar votes.

00:59:22.600 And what is he left with?

00:59:24.240 He's losing, all he's left with is a lot of cranky environmentalists.

00:59:28.780 And he's in a lot of elites who really don't add up to a lot of votes anymore.

00:59:34.240 I think he's in for a shock.

00:59:35.580 If he's still around for the next election, I think he's in for a great shock because

00:59:39.660 there's very little left to the Liberal Party.

00:59:43.740 The NDP-Liberal Alliance is shedding votes and voters in a big way right now.

00:59:51.440 And they're largely going to a more populist conservative party.

00:59:55.660 If 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.

01:00:06.940 It cannot be a Patrick Brown or Jean Charest.

01:00:10.620 It cannot be an establishment candidate like that.

01:00:13.940 If, in fact, that happens, it's going to be the rebirth of the People's Party of Canada, if that happens.

01:00:19.520 Because 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.

01:00:34.120 That's exactly what it's become right now.

01:00:36.100 They do not reflect real Canadian people anymore. 0.72

01:00:40.440 They 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.

01:00:59.440 Yeah, 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.

01:01:04.580 What 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.

01:01:10.940 And as you said, I mean, the main thing is reality is coming home to roost.

01:01:15.180 We can afford wishy-washy policies for environmental things and drug facilities and things like that until you can't make the rent.

01:01:25.060 And 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.

01:01:32.080 then suddenly the ideals go to the wayside and those more important issues come to the

01:01:36.840 forefront for voters. And yeah, the liberals might be not realizing what they're missing there.

01:01:42.640 Well, and I think I wrote recently about decriminalizing some hard drugs in BC and

01:01:50.380 the rationale being that this is somehow going to cause fewer overdoses. And it just baffles my mind

01:01:57.400 because BC, for the last 20 years, has been on this course of trying to do harm reduction

01:02:04.840 and reducing overdoses, and every year the rate of overdose has gone up, and they don't seem to

01:02:11.920 get it. The easier you make it to access drugs, hard drugs like heroin and metamphetamines and

01:02:22.700 cocaine, drugs that are easy to, that are lethal and that are easy to kill, the easier it is to

01:02:31.640 overdose on them. And somehow the BC government never gets this. And they think that if they,

01:02:38.340 if they make more in-site injection sites, that this is somehow going to reduce the amount of

01:02:45.320 overdoses and of course it just keeps going up and why they refuse to bend on this because it's

01:02:53.960 ideology because the ideology says it's supposed to work but the reality demonstrates it doesn't

01:03:01.100 work year in year out they refuse to bend because their ideology says it shouldn't be that way

01:03:07.840 And it's killing people literally every year more and more.

01:03:13.060 So that's a complete tragedy in this country.

01:03:17.400 But the left is completely unbending.

01:03:20.840 And this is something I noted the other day when I was speaking to somebody is that the left used to be somewhat pragmatic.

01:03:29.620 When something didn't work, they would tend to be somewhat pragmatic in saying, let's try another solution because this is simply not working.

01:03:42.040 Today, the left is unbending in terms of seeking an ideological solution and sticking with that ideological solution, come what may.

01:03:52.960 And I find this extremely disturbing.

01:03:55.320 And it doesn't matter how many people suffer, how many people die, and how much the economy is in the bag.

01:04:04.200 They will continue to push through ideological solutions that do not work just because they think they should be working.

01:04:12.800 And we see this not just with harm reduction and drug strategies that are literally lethal, but with economic strategies that simply do not work.

01:04:25.320 And what we see from Justin Trudeau, when things do not work, he distracts.

01:04:32.320 So he talks about abortion when it's not even an issue in this country.

01:04:37.760 He's got what he wants in terms of abortion.

01:04:40.600 He shouldn't even be talking about it.

01:04:42.280 We have no abortion law in this country.

01:04:45.000 He talks about handgun freeze when it's virtually impossible in this country to own a handgun.

01:04:53.080 Try it.

01:04:54.300 I'm an ex-military person.

01:04:56.160 I used to have a 9mm Browning,

01:04:58.520 but it's virtually impossible for me to own a handgun.

01:05:03.660 But yet, Justin Trudeau distracts constantly on other issues

01:05:07.920 instead of addressing the issues that really matter to people.

01:05:11.640 He won't talk about inflation.

01:05:13.140 He won't talk about gas prices.

01:05:14.240 He won't even consider reducing or eliminating the carbon tax

01:05:18.260 because that's ideology.

01:05:19.740 because somehow that's going to stop climate change, 0.75

01:05:26.340 even though that's utterly ridiculous.

01:05:29.080 It's not affecting climate change at all.

01:05:32.860 No, and we've seen the examples.

01:05:34.460 I mean, BC's had a carbon tax for a long time,

01:05:36.600 and they have not reduced emissions one bit due to it.

01:05:40.120 So, I mean, you know, set aside the premise that it's going to do anything about it.

01:05:43.600 But as you said, it's ideological,

01:05:44.860 so you can't ration or reason with a person when they're blinded by that,

01:05:49.500 Whether it's right or left, actually, it's a dangerous place to be.

01:05:53.440 It 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.

01:06:07.220 And if you're a politician, you're there to serve the people.

01:06:10.800 And this seems to be the first thing politicians forget.

01:06:14.640 and unfortunately it's the first thing justin trudeau forgot on day one upon becoming an elected

01:06:21.600 politician he forgot he's there to serve the people he really believes the people are there

01:06:26.720 to serve him i've never seen a politician with more sense of entitlement and every time he opens

01:06:33.360 his big mouth that's all you get from him he lectures he hectors he tells people what to do

01:06:41.200 he he he will never be receptive to advice he never listens to a crowd he never answers a

01:06:49.520 question he never wants to hear any advice from anybody all he does is give advice and tell people

01:06:58.560 what they should be doing and dispenses what he thinks people should do and justin trudeau is

01:07:07.360 basically the model of a modern politician in terms of them having no respect for what the

01:07:15.800 people really want. Well, we just got to keep hammering on him and hope that the electorate

01:07:21.200 wakes up and finally moves him along. So I appreciate your very many columns, you know,

01:07:26.940 holding them to account and bringing these things up, just like June Marie, our commenter,

01:07:31.680 saying, I like David. I wish there were more journalists like him. Well, he's out there.

01:07:35.260 Make sure you get on to the Western Standard online or westernstandard.news now and catch those columns as they come out.

01:07:41.080 You're also pretty prolific on Twitter, right?

01:07:42.960 I'm just looking for ways people can find your stuff.

01:07:45.300 Yeah, I put everything up, Western Standard, on Twitter.

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01:11:02.960 All right, so there's more hearings.

01:11:04.300 You know, and I keep talking about that.

01:11:06.720 These committees, everything,

01:11:07.900 that's where everything just keeps coming in

01:11:09.280 and it slides under the radar for a lot.

01:11:10.980 We report a lot on it.

01:11:12.120 And that's, you know, I'm going to pat our own back a little bit.

01:11:14.340 But Dave is always getting that stuff up there and our reporters

01:11:17.460 because the mainstream doesn't like covering yourself.

01:11:20.220 They think it's too dry or it's just too critical of the government.

01:11:22.480 We see the reality with that.

01:11:24.300 We do have elected members holding our government to account.

01:11:26.560 Or we even have some senators, even liberal appointed senators, who are doing so.

01:11:30.260 This committee stuff is important.

01:11:32.100 And the House of Commons committee is really getting into the whole failure

01:11:36.320 and mess in Afghanistan with the Canadian diplomatic corps,

01:11:41.580 basically abandoning allies, abandoning Canadians. They bailed out. They ran for it. And afterwards,

01:11:47.940 pretend, well, we didn't see it coming. We didn't know, you know, and it was cowardice. These are

01:11:53.260 these people were paying a hell of a lot of money to serve foreign and represent us. And this is the

01:11:59.660 things they do, things they did. So, and they've gone through some of the timeline of what happened

01:12:03.840 here in the committee. So April 1st, 2021, well before the Taliban came in, the military assessed

01:12:10.240 that the Canadian military assessed that the Afghan government was facing defeat.

01:12:14.880 April 1st, they were warning Canada about this.

01:12:18.660 April 14th, the Americans announced they're pulling out of Afghanistan.

01:12:24.180 They're pulling the last of them out. 0.64

01:12:25.440 So again, we're seeing this coming.

01:12:28.080 April 24th, the armed forces assigned a strategic team to the embassy.

01:12:31.740 june 1st aid groups were begging the federal cabinet to begin an evacuation they were saying

01:12:41.220 guys it's gonna hit the fan get people out of here now june 1st they're saying this this is

01:12:48.160 all documented july 8th the canadian military is now saying guys it's gonna collapse any moment

01:12:55.980 now. Months of warning, months of warning. July 15th, Canadian commanders, ex-Canadian commanders

01:13:03.120 are again petitioning, begging cabinet saying, get people out of there. You have to evacuate them.

01:13:09.840 Nobody was evacuated. Again, July 21st, aid groups saying the country's going to collapse.

01:13:16.320 It's a dire situation. Please get people out of there. No evacuation. July 22nd, opposition MPs

01:13:22.680 saying, can you evacuate people?

01:13:25.660 The government refused.

01:13:26.540 Talking about Trudeau's government refusing to just do anything

01:13:29.920 when they're told.

01:13:31.720 And meanwhile, this ambassador is sitting out there.

01:13:34.200 August 12th, the ambassador thinks that the embassy

01:13:38.080 is at risk of attack from the Taliban.

01:13:39.960 Wow, you clued in.

01:13:41.260 It only took three months of warning.

01:13:43.980 August 15th, this is one of the beauties.

01:13:46.080 That ambassador fled aboard one of only two Canadian military aircraft out there

01:13:51.020 and abandoned everybody else behind.

01:13:53.440 So there were translators, there were staff.

01:13:56.500 You can see the pictures, these people begging, trying to go.

01:13:58.600 They trusted the Canadians.

01:13:59.740 They trusted the embassy to work for them, to try and better the country and get things together.

01:14:06.320 And they knew now, with the Taliban taking over, they are dead.

01:14:09.700 They are in terrible trouble.

01:14:11.340 They thought at least they'd be able to flee and get back to Canada.

01:14:16.600 They did the favors.

01:14:17.300 But no, our ambassador's already long gone.

01:14:18.960 You've just seen that contrail heading towards Canada.

01:14:20.680 Sorry, guys.

01:14:21.380 Have a good one.

01:14:21.940 We didn't know it was coming. We didn't know. They did know. They did know. And these guys

01:14:27.080 should almost be held criminally responsible for what they did to the people in Afghanistan who 0.70

01:14:32.280 trusted us, trusted Canadians. You talk about embarrassments overseas and not the stupid 1.00

01:14:36.880 embarrassments like Justin Trudeau dancing around like an imbecile in Indian clothing on an India 1.00

01:14:40.980 trip. This is an embarrassment of putting people who entrusted their lives with us at risk because 1.00

01:14:46.460 we were cowardly when push got to shove. And that's unforgivable. This is the stuff that's

01:14:51.560 coming out in committees. We're not hearing it in the mainstream media. We're not hearing a heck

01:14:54.680 of a lot about it. We're reporting on it here, guys. This government is sick to the core.

01:15:00.460 Getting back to that sick to the core of the authoritarianism. Yeah, here's a story Dave

01:15:04.280 talked about, you know, with a public safety minister, Marco Mendocino, and Dave Naylor

01:15:10.300 refers to him, as do I, as the minister of lies. This guy has been caught lying so many times.

01:15:15.580 He's putting Trudeau to shame. He just blatantly lies over and over again and just ignores things.

01:15:20.280 Now he's trying to say that people misunderstood him when he said that he needed police intervention

01:15:26.300 or the police had asked him to impose the Emergencies Act.

01:15:30.000 He said that 11 times.

01:15:31.420 Not a single cop can be found to say, we asked that.

01:15:34.080 He lied.

01:15:35.860 He continues lying.

01:15:36.560 Well, now he wants to ram that handgun bill through.

01:15:40.220 He wants to ram those changes through.

01:15:42.080 He does not want to have committee hearings.

01:15:43.920 He doesn't want to have testimony from police or gun owners or the public.

01:15:48.360 He doesn't want any of that.

01:15:49.620 He wants them to ram that thing through.

01:15:51.880 This is not democracy, guys.

01:15:53.340 If it's a bill that big, if it's a bill that's that important,

01:15:56.120 maybe it's the right bill.

01:15:56.920 I don't think it is, that's for sure, but maybe it is.

01:15:58.880 The way to do it, the way our system works,

01:16:01.060 is you have to make your case for it.

01:16:03.460 You've got to make it run the gauntlet.

01:16:04.940 It's got to go before Parliament.

01:16:06.340 It's got to go into committee.

01:16:08.020 There has to be testimony.

01:16:09.280 You've got to let Canadians speak to this.

01:16:12.180 And he's the opposite.

01:16:13.560 He wants to shove this thing through

01:16:15.800 before Canadians get a chance to even understand

01:16:17.760 what the hell's going on.

01:16:19.840 And so, I mean, the bill was introduced May 30th.

01:16:24.120 They figure Parliament's going to be done by June 23rd.

01:16:27.480 You know, there's, what do we got left, guys?

01:16:29.320 13 days?

01:16:30.800 Not that many parliamentary city days.

01:16:32.100 He wants it done by then.

01:16:33.820 This is problematic to say the least.

01:16:38.300 This is not good.

01:16:40.780 Not good.

01:16:41.340 I mean, there's some of these things that are questionable.

01:16:43.200 Okay, this is going to prohibit the new sales of handguns,

01:16:45.580 which again, it's a freeze.

01:16:46.700 It's a move towards what will be seizure later.

01:16:48.360 You know that.

01:16:49.920 Here's one, it will permit the confiscation of legal firearms from a licensed owner at the

01:16:54.100 request of an ex-spouse. So it's getting into those red flag laws and things. Now,

01:16:59.400 this is a tough area. I mean, there are domestic cases where a spouse has shot another spouse. And

01:17:08.220 if there were warning signs that they took the firearms away, maybe that could have been

01:17:10.800 prevented. But there's also a lot of cases with ex-spouses where they're full of shit or they're 1.00

01:17:14.700 crazy. I mean, we only have to look at the Johnny Depp case, for example. Would you want to infringe 1.00

01:17:19.820 on Johnny Depp's rights because Amber Heard accused him of something? We kind of realized

01:17:24.240 that maybe Ms. Heard might be on the wrong side of the truth. So we've got to be careful with

01:17:29.340 these laws. You can't always just give the benefit of the doubt to the other. There was a case in

01:17:33.360 Calgary many, many years ago with a woman named Dorothy Jowdry. She shot her husband six times

01:17:38.040 in the back. Her ex-husband lured him into a garage, asked him to reach for something and

01:17:43.740 shot him six times in the back. He survived. Yeah, she was a lunatic and a murderous woman,

01:17:47.980 but she was a real crappy shot, I guess. Either way, she had smuggled that gun in from the United 1.00

01:17:53.340 States months before. So the other thing is too, nothing would have prevented this in this

01:17:58.520 legislation or things like that. And I'm just pointing out that, hey, it's not always men

01:18:02.640 who were offenders, but we got things that we need to discuss more in this legislation before

01:18:08.020 we even consider imposing it. There's consequences to when you bring these things in.

01:18:14.200 So to shove it through without having any debate,

01:18:19.160 we're going to get bad policy.

01:18:20.540 We're going to get very bad policy.

01:18:21.720 I mean, it already looks bad in general.

01:18:23.700 Maybe we could talk about amend or whatever.

01:18:26.300 Believe it or not, if it has enough exposure,

01:18:29.180 public support might turn against it

01:18:30.560 and the government would pull it away,

01:18:31.820 which again is what they're afraid of.

01:18:33.200 So they want to shove it through without notice.

01:18:35.380 That's not good, guys.

01:18:37.500 It's getting back to what I was talking about with the inflation.

01:18:39.000 Yeah, a third of mortgages.

01:18:41.320 They're worried that 30% of mortgage buyers

01:18:43.180 are at risk of rising interest rates.

01:18:46.080 Bank of Canada data showed the typical Canadian

01:18:48.340 grew their net worth of $230,000 in the last year

01:18:51.660 with the run-up in real estate.

01:18:52.820 For people who already own homes in the right areas,

01:18:55.600 I guess that's good.

01:18:56.320 But for average Canadians, this is a problem.

01:18:59.360 And some of the people got in on the top of that curve

01:19:01.540 and it sounds like some prices might drop

01:19:02.900 while interest rates go up

01:19:04.000 and you're going to be stuck in negative equity.

01:19:06.240 Nobody's really seen that since the 80s.

01:19:08.720 But we had people that was tied into a lot of things, you know, high interest rates, inflation,

01:19:14.380 and the national energy program where Albertans were actually just dropping their keys and walking

01:19:18.540 away from their homes. That's all they could do. We're kind of moving towards that in a bit. And

01:19:22.840 we got some very scary economic things that may be happening to us. Here's another one. Again,

01:19:30.040 it's controversial. People agree whether we should be taking part in NATO or Russia or Ukraine or

01:19:34.460 whatnot. I mean, I'm supportive of Ukraine. And yeah, I know, the commenters, some get upset with

01:19:38.940 me. But no, I think Putin's a monster in filth. And that he should be defended against, but not 1.00

01:19:43.620 everybody agrees. Fair enough. But if, if Canada is going to take part on the world stage, this is

01:19:48.480 the thing when Trudeau goes out there, he wonders why he's ignored in international meetings,

01:19:51.640 wondered why China is buzzing our military forces and laughing, I was literally giving us the finger.

01:19:58.100 But we don't, we talk big, but we don't do anything. So it shows, this is another article,

01:20:02.860 we're billions short on our NATO commitment.

01:20:05.020 I mean, if you're really going to pretend

01:20:06.260 to be a player within NATO,

01:20:07.860 you actually have to spend some money.

01:20:09.840 And we haven't.

01:20:10.820 We're short by billions.

01:20:12.300 So I don't know why Trudeau should act surprised

01:20:14.600 that nobody takes him seriously overseas

01:20:16.560 or anywhere, really,

01:20:18.260 when you won't pay the bills.

01:20:19.960 Of course, they don't want to hear you

01:20:21.200 and what you think the government

01:20:22.520 should be doing overseas

01:20:23.620 or in some of these actions in other countries

01:20:25.720 or things like that.

01:20:27.660 And at a rank behind Albania, Bulgaria,

01:20:30.260 and North Macedonia.

01:20:31.620 in spending on NATO. Think about that. And hey, not to knock Albania and Bulgaria,

01:20:36.440 but these are countries with much smaller populations, much smaller tax bases,

01:20:41.480 and they're kicking in more than Canada. That's pretty frigging sad, guys. It's pretty frigging

01:20:47.640 sad. So either way, you know, you better start paying the bills if you really actually want to

01:20:53.680 be taken seriously on any policy things. Here's another thing. Let's just finish things out with

01:20:58.200 another shot at Quebecers and their complete personal insecurity with their language and

01:21:02.560 everywhere where it goes. They're only issuing marriage certificates in French. This is where

01:21:07.380 these guys get to under Bill 96. Marriage certificates will only have French on them.

01:21:12.920 These guys really think it's preserving their language? Does it help? You know, if anything,

01:21:17.640 it's just driving more people out of Quebec, or maybe that's what they want.

01:21:21.680 That's what I was talking about before, you know, where they don't get the

01:21:24.000 the seats, you know, they're worried about losing seats. Don't worry, our pandering federal

01:21:30.080 politicians made sure that's guaranteed no matter how many people leave. So I don't know, maybe they

01:21:34.080 will have that pure Quebecois nation of their own within Canada soon, and their population will be

01:21:39.480 down to a quarter of what it is, but it'll still have guaranteed Senate seats and parliamentary

01:21:43.440 streets. And then they come to think of it, maybe those Quebecers aren't so crazy after all.

01:21:47.800 But we keep indulging them. We did anything like that out in the West, anything that discriminatory,

01:21:52.020 that nasty, you can rest assured we would be suddenly bad guys. We would be evil. We would be

01:21:57.660 selfish. You name it, all the terms that they throw at us. But when it's Quebec, we've got to

01:22:02.200 indulge them. Really? I think it's time Quebec is separated. Get on with it, guys. Come on, do it. 0.97

01:22:09.800 All right. That's enough ranting out of me for the week, guys. I appreciate everybody who's

01:22:15.000 tuned in this week. It's been a good one, lots of news, and all of you who are in there today

01:22:18.080 And on the comment scroll and come back Monday, I got Bill Buick on.

01:22:22.340 He was been, Dr. Buick's been lobbying on things with the equalization referendum and

01:22:29.260 things such as that.

01:22:29.860 We're going to see the initiatives his group's working on, as well as Adam Patterson.

01:22:34.260 And that's, he's with a firearm wholesaler.

01:22:36.340 And we're going to talk about broader firearm issues, plus the run that's been happening.

01:22:41.380 These guys are scrambling.

01:22:42.620 Basically, since, you know, Prime Minister Clown Shoes has brought in his handgun legislation,

01:22:47.880 He's been the best gun salesman in Canadian history

01:22:50.520 because firearms are flying off the shelves.

01:22:53.120 They're almost impossible to find right now

01:22:54.540 as everybody's rushing out to buy them

01:22:56.100 so that they can disappear in boating accidents.

01:22:58.900 So it will be good conversations,

01:23:00.800 lots of other news and items throughout next week.

01:23:02.680 So thanks for tuning in, guys.

01:23:04.080 Have a good weekend.

01:23:05.140 I'll see you Monday morning at 11.30 a.m. sharp.

01:23:17.580 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - June 11, 2022

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