Western Standard - Triggered： Hypocrisy, thy name is Dr. Joe Vipond.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's April 27th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I am Corey Morgan. This is the

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00:01:43.360 you guys for tuning in and let's have a fun day here. I got three guests packed in today. I got

00:01:49.060 a really full show. First one's going to be Drew Barnes. He's the independent MLA for Cypress

00:01:53.760 medicine hat he's uh of course was was hunted from the ucp he's been uh i guess you could say

00:02:00.160 kind of the conservative critic as an independent over on the side of the legislature there and he's

00:02:03.900 putting a motion forward asking for the fair deal uh movement and and such to be put forward

00:02:09.600 seriously by the ucp because it seems to have fallen by the wayside and then a little after

00:02:14.520 that i'm going to talk uh with western standard bc reporter reed small he's dropped a number of

00:02:19.380 interesting and good stories. He's our main man out in BC there, and he writes all sorts of stuff

00:02:24.300 for the Western Standard, so we can break down and discuss some of those stories. There's a

00:02:27.240 crazy one there with a video attachment that somebody attacking people on a bus. It's really

00:02:33.080 bizarre, so I'll talk to Reed about that. And the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayer

00:02:37.000 Federation, Franco Teresano, it was kind of a last-minute addition, but why not? He actually

00:02:41.760 happens to be down here downtown today, so we're going to bring him in the studio in person and

00:02:46.100 catch up on some taxpayer items and things like that. So yes, lots to cover. And of course I am

00:02:53.300 going to go on and rant and talk about current issues as they're going. And I've got one, well

00:02:58.360 I've always got something, got my blood pressure up. I've always got my vein pulsing. That's how

00:03:01.560 I live. I enjoy it actually. So I'm not as crabby as I sound. Either way, where do we begin with

00:03:08.440 this one? So I mean, it seems like every city and region has a fear-mongering doctor who's

00:03:14.540 a media go-to person for all things COVID, especially, you know, when the legacy media

00:03:19.500 wants somebody who's going to consistently talk about all the worst possible outcomes of the

00:03:23.260 virus and how he must violate individual rights in order to keep the infections down.

00:03:28.200 Well, in Alberta, that doctor is a fellow named Joe Vipond. Now, throughout the pandemic,

00:03:33.420 it's been difficult to turn on the TV out here and not see Dr. Vipond on the screen,

00:03:38.060 offering dire warnings and harshly criticizing the government for their heartless and dangerous

00:03:42.860 actions. Dr. Vipond is quite the flair for the dramatic. He even broke down in tears during an

00:03:48.320 interview once as he feared for the fate of the children due to what he felt were terrible and

00:03:52.480 dangerous moves being done by the Premier Kenny as he was working to lift pandemic restrictions.

00:03:57.420 No children were found to be harmed by those lifting, by the way. Vipond always wants you to

00:04:01.420 know he's a doctor. He never wants you to forget that. He wears his scrubs everywhere he goes. I

00:04:05.640 mean, I've seen him in downtown parks at rallies. He's got his full scrubs on. He even often has

00:04:09.700 his stethoscope hanging over his neck when he does his many media appearances around the province.

00:04:15.060 One place few people have actually seen him actually is in medical facilities practicing

00:04:19.240 his trade. It's hard to imagine he has much time to treat patients when he's flying across the globe

00:04:24.020 during the Omicron outbreak in order to attend a climate change conference in Scotland or

00:04:28.400 when he's holding pro-lockdown rallies around the province. Dr. Vipond isn't a doctor who happens to

00:04:35.060 be a political activist. He's a political activist who happens to be a doctor. And he speaks volumes

00:04:39.760 about the agenda of legacy media outlets when they continued to go to Vipon and is an expert

00:04:44.760 on pandemic policies. When it was revealed, he donated nearly $20,000 to the Rachel Notley's

00:04:50.140 NDP. Certainly, Vipon has every right to support and take part in a political party. I mean,

00:04:56.400 it's a democratic right. Well, let's not pretend he can pretend that he can be considered a balanced

00:05:01.260 source when it comes to discussions on government policies. I've since referred to him as not least

00:05:05.760 pet doctor, and I think I'll continue to. CTV, however, refers to him as a medical expert on

00:05:10.660 COVID. Well, Dr. Vipon has found himself in the soup again, and the hypocrisy this time is just

00:05:15.700 breathtaking. So Vipon recently traveled to Ottawa for some reason or another, I imagine some sort of

00:05:21.520 a conference, you know, for a self-important purpose, and never one to pass up on the

00:05:26.300 opportunity to virtue signal, he posted a picture of the travel kit he's taking in order to ensure

00:05:30.200 he protects himself and others from the dreaded virus. He showed the air purifier he takes with

00:05:36.880 him. Yeah, he packs an air purifier for his hotel rooms and spoke on how he demands everybody near

00:05:42.280 him to be masked and how he cracks windows and always has a full-out respirator mask on when

00:05:47.260 indoors. Oh, and he wears goggles everywhere, even his Twitter profile, though there's no evidence

00:05:52.080 that goggles stop any form of transmission, nor transmission has ever happened through a profile

00:05:57.020 picture for that matter but dr vipan by pond strongly signals his virtue well to dr vipan's

00:06:04.460 horror he tested positive for covet 19 during one of his apparent constant self-tests so being dr

00:06:11.660 vipan he shared his test results and subsequent ones with others online as he did multiple tests

00:06:16.220 to ensure that he he was indeed infected many of his loyal followers offered sympathy and thoughts

00:06:22.220 and prayers for the dear doctor and his plight so what did dr vipon do next well he went out

00:06:27.660 and toured parliament hill not only did he go out and potentially expose others to this

00:06:32.540 infection he took video of himself while he was at it and shared it on twitter remember this is

00:06:38.540 the guy who supported locking people in hotel rooms for weeks away from their families for

00:06:43.100 their dare having even entered the country and even if they didn't test positive not being a

00:06:48.780 total imbecile, Vipon realized his error and deleted the video. Being a partial imbecile, 0.52

00:06:53.820 though, it seems he didn't realize that it's well too late for that. The internet is forever.

00:06:57.740 His dangerous and hypocritical actions have been exposed. The excuses came fast and furious as

00:07:03.020 Vipon tried to ignore the trouble he'd gotten himself into as he's worked to bury the story in

00:07:07.660 a flurry of unrelated tweets. He couldn't bury the Western Standard story on the incident about it,

00:07:12.060 though, and Arthur Green wrote a great one on it, so check that out online. But still,

00:07:16.940 as if this wasn't all bad enough. Vipond's now publicly tweeting that he's driving across Canada

00:07:21.660 to get home in a rental car. So he's not content with just potentially spreading COVID-19 in Ottawa.

00:07:27.420 Vipond wants to see if he can spread his infection through four provinces while he's at it.

00:07:31.980 Vipond's assuring people on Twitter that he can't spread any disease because he's going to stay in

00:07:35.900 his car and eat granola bars. He can't make this stuff up. Vipond will somehow manage to refuel,

00:07:44.060 use washrooms and sleep without having come into any contact with people over the next few days

00:07:49.020 as he drives across the country astounding why pond also said he he's been claiming he checked

00:07:53.980 with the ontario health authorities and that he's staying within their guidelines

00:07:57.340 dr vipon is either lying or he didn't understand what he read though the ontario health requirements

00:08:02.940 are pretty clear they say that a person must remain in isolation for five days if they've

00:08:09.980 tested positive and that's a vaccinated person not should not probably should but must not for a few

00:08:17.180 days but five well isolation i guess that could be considered open to interpretation but i suspect a

00:08:23.740 cross-country road trip doesn't fall under that definition vipon spent years telling us all how

00:08:29.500 dangerous covet 19 is he's constantly expressed how selfish it is for people who want to go out

00:08:34.780 in defiance of restrictions and isolation orders as it could potentially harm people so which is

00:08:39.740 it? Is this a deadly disease that allows for no flexibility in avoiding isolation? If that's the

00:08:45.740 case, Vipon is knowingly putting people at risk of death as he chooses to cross the country when

00:08:51.140 he knows he's COVID positive. Or does Vipon actually understand that COVID-19 really isn't

00:08:56.860 that relatively dangerous and that restrictions do little to keep people safer? That would mean

00:09:01.180 that Vipon's been feeding us all politically motivated BS for the last couple of years.

00:09:05.380 In either case, Dr. Vipon has lost all credibility.

00:09:08.680 He can't and won't walk his own talk.

00:09:11.660 We know that Vipon's no longer to be taken seriously.

00:09:14.880 But have our legacy media outlets realized this yet?

00:09:18.260 I suspect we're going to see his masked, goggled, stethoscope-wearing visage on the TV screen in his scrubs sooner rather than later.

00:09:25.440 He offers the message the mainstream media wants to hear.

00:09:29.680 That's all the more reason, guys, that we've got to stop listening to the mainstream media.

00:09:34.280 Now, let's check in with a real reporter and a principled one,

00:09:38.120 formerly of the mainstream media, but now with a better and more principled outlet.

00:09:42.200 And that's our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:09:43.900 Hey, Dave, how's it going over there?

00:09:45.520 Corey, your rant has left me speechless.

00:09:48.560 It's unbelievable.

00:09:50.340 He's, I don't know, he doesn't even read his own tweets, I think.

00:09:53.620 No.

00:09:54.160 Hey, I hear you and Duke the Wonder Dog had a special visitor the other night.

00:09:59.100 Yeah, yeah, we went out and checked the game cam the other night,

00:10:01.660 And there was, oh, I see that Nico's already got that up there.

00:10:06.780 Yeah, we had a big old cougar in the backyard the other night.

00:10:09.460 And I can see now, as I was complaining, that Duke, you know, constantly uses the lower lawn for the bathroom.

00:10:15.280 Now I understand why he doesn't want to go up the hill into the trees.

00:10:17.800 But hopefully the cougar's just passing through.

00:10:19.840 We get those periodically.

00:10:22.140 Yeah, and knowing Duke, he might have tried to, you know, mate with it or something like that, which would have gone wrong.

00:10:28.620 Yeah, it would have been bad.

00:10:29.720 It would have made for some weird news for us.

00:10:31.660 Exactly. Lots of good stuff to also keep you speechless on the Western Standard website at

00:10:38.140 the moment, Corey. We've got a hearing, a House of Commons hearing into Canada's actions at the

00:10:45.940 fall of Kabul when the Taliban were at the gates of the city and how woefully unprepared Canada was.

00:10:53.880 Canada had two airplanes at the Kabul airport to aid the evacuations, and one of them didn't even work.

00:11:02.860 And then the other one was commandeered by Ambassador Sears and his people,

00:11:08.780 and they fled the country, leaving behind thousands of Canadians and all those poor people who worked with Canadians.

00:11:15.460 It really is a shameful episode in Canadian history, in my opinion, Corey.

00:11:21.180 You mentioned that video from Reed Small.

00:11:23.760 It's up there.

00:11:25.220 A guy completely loses it on a bus in Abbotsford.

00:11:30.800 I suggest if you've got kids around, you do not play it while the kids are in the room.

00:11:36.220 Let's say he has a fairly limited vocabulary.

00:11:41.980 Eva's got another good video up of a lunatic somewhere in the States at a Costco.

00:11:49.320 and he's masked and he's upset that the staff aren't masked.

00:11:53.300 So he brings out his pepper spray and is threatening them.

00:11:57.600 And, you know, people are just losing their minds today, Corey.

00:12:00.740 The world has gone to hell in a handbasket.

00:12:03.760 Other stuff we've got, Edmonton MLA Kelly McCauley

00:12:07.460 demanding that cabinet provide protection for whistleblowers.

00:12:12.360 You remember last week we had this story that, oops,

00:12:15.700 Thousands of pages of whistleblower testimony against Canada Revenue Agency officials were accidentally released.

00:12:23.920 And now, obviously, these people are somewhat fearful for their job.

00:12:29.220 So Macaulay is demanding that the Liberals provide them protection.

00:12:33.500 We've got a roundup of the number of federal workers that have been suspended by the government for not approving their vaccine mandates.

00:12:43.880 It's closing in on 2,600 total people and an interesting number from the Department of Health and the Public Health Agency who also refused to go along with their program.

00:12:56.440 Mel Rizdin's got a story on Canada along with, I believe, the Netherlands has announced they are joining a WEF digital ID program at airports.

00:13:07.240 So we all know how our viewers feel about the WEF.

00:13:13.040 Christopher in Saskatchewan has got a story on the Crown out there dropping one of the COVID charges against Maxime Bernier.

00:13:22.200 He was charged after holding a rally out there outdoors, I believe it was, that drew more than 10 people.

00:13:29.080 And the truckers, speaking of that, testimony kicked off at a House of Commons inquiry last night into why the government called the Emergencies Act to deal with it.

00:13:42.080 Believe it or not, Corey, the federal emergency minister, Medicinio or something like that, I'm sorry, I forgot his name.

00:13:52.820 He said they were worried about the truckers burning down buildings.

00:13:58.500 And that's already been debunked, Corey.

00:14:00.140 The Ottawa Police Service has announced that guy who tried to burn the apartment building down had nothing to do with the truckers.

00:14:07.780 Yet this minister is still spreading that fake news to a House of Commons committee.

00:14:14.080 And it gets even worse.

00:14:15.800 He says that one of the things they used to bring or the reasons why they brought in the Emergencies Act was because of the CBC reports on it.

00:14:24.480 Well, I mean, come on, Corey.

00:14:26.060 I mean, if you saw any CBC report in the last two years, you'd be afraid to go out of your house.

00:14:31.780 And it was especially over the top with the trucker's convoy.

00:14:36.660 And CBC several times had to correct reports, including linking it to Vladimir Putin, and one that said most of the donors to the GoFundMes and Give, Send, Go's were foreigners, when it was absolutely false.

00:14:52.120 And yet they're using those CBC stories as the reasons they brought in the Emergencies Act.

00:14:58.360 It really is quite staggering, Corey.

00:15:01.240 It's brutal.

00:15:02.300 I mean, yeah, it should be.

00:15:04.320 government with all the resources of our money in their pockets, all of this investigative ability

00:15:09.920 theoretically, and they rely on the state broadcaster to make their political decisions.

00:15:14.660 This is problematic to say the least. You're not kidding. Well, lots to chew on today as always.

00:15:22.800 Yeah, it was hard to pick out which thing to really get stirred up and rant about today. There

00:15:25.880 were so many to pick from, but Mr. Vipon still won the bunch there. Yeah, you had an embarrassment

00:15:30.800 of riches today, Corey.

00:15:32.300 Oh, yeah.

00:15:33.200 All right.

00:15:33.660 Well, thanks for checking in.

00:15:34.800 I'll let you get back at digging through all the good stuff there.

00:15:37.620 And I will talk to you later, Dave.

00:15:38.940 Yeah, we'll see you on the pipeline tonight, Corey.

00:15:41.000 You bet.

00:15:42.640 All right.

00:15:43.140 So that's our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:15:44.700 And as always, yes, it's these news check-ins are taking a while to get through because

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00:17:00.380 family dinner anyways. So yeah, some of those news stories, you know, I look at some of those

00:17:04.840 things like that Eva wrote one with a guy pepper spraying people in a Costco because they were

00:17:11.600 unmasked. But you know, this gets to some of the people who believe everything the legacy media

00:17:17.520 has been feeding. And this guy is terrified. I mean, it doesn't give the excuse to go pepper

00:17:21.380 spray people, but it shows that this is a person who was mentally on the edge, and he was obviously

00:17:25.580 pushed over through two years of fear-mongering and insanity. He probably felt he was saving the

00:17:31.100 world by pepper spraying him, and that sort of attitude comes from years of exposure to people

00:17:37.800 like Dr. Vipond, hypocrites like Vipond, who constantly say that we're all being exposed to

00:17:42.520 this deadly virus by irresponsible people going out without being properly masked and such.

00:17:47.800 This is the outcome.

00:17:49.060 I mean, most people, you know, aren't going to be pushed over the edge like that and pepper spraying others.

00:17:53.580 But this is a symptom of years of this sort of misinformation coming from mainstream media.

00:17:58.880 I'm going to run a bet that that gentleman pepper spraying unmasked people was a CNN viewer.

00:18:04.300 Not CNN Plus, because that failed as fast as the new Coke did, but a CNN viewer.

00:18:08.840 So, of course, he's terrified.

00:18:10.400 I'm surprised that CNN viewers can even get themselves to get out of the house without wearing like an old diving bell helmet or something like that,

00:18:16.500 the way they spread the fear. But our local outlets are no better as far as that goes.

00:18:21.040 And then, yeah, that other video, I mean, public transit. Boy, one of the commenters was pointing

00:18:26.340 out somebody was pushed onto an LRT platform recently. There was one in Toronto. I think

00:18:29.880 they were chasing down a homeless woman. She'd pushed a woman onto a platform there too and

00:18:34.800 almost killed her with a train coming by. There's some scary stuff. There's a lot of,

00:18:39.640 you know, it's funny with a lot of city councils and so on, Calgary and everywhere talking. They

00:18:45.280 want us to go green. They want us to ride city transit. It's horrible. It's horrible. You only

00:18:49.780 ride the bus and the train if you absolutely have to. I mean, you've got to share your space with

00:18:54.820 these lunatics. They're dirty. They're dangerous. You know, in Calgary this morning, there was an 1.00

00:19:00.700 injured man found at the LRT station up by seat was closed. I was hearing that on the news on my

00:19:04.340 way into work. I don't know what that was about. But when the police have a whole area taped off,

00:19:08.080 I suspect he didn't trip and bonk his head while he was walking. It was something pretty serious.

00:19:13.220 And what will our city councils and everything do?

00:19:15.380 Well, they'll probably say, let's defund the police. 1.00

00:19:17.320 Let's get more social workers on the job. 1.00

00:19:20.000 That'll fix it up. 1.00

00:19:21.060 That'll certainly bring it about.

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00:20:50.240 lobby and he's been here a number of times. This is the independent MLA for Cypress Medicine Hat,

00:20:55.980 Drew Barnes. And as I said, he's sort of the conservative opposition party in a, well,

00:21:02.780 almost kind of two-man show in the corner of the legislature, but he's been pushing and holding

00:21:06.120 the government to account. And he's brought a motion forward or bringing a motion forward that

00:21:10.200 on an issue that I think is very important. So thanks for coming on to talk to us today,

00:21:14.040 Mr. Barnes. Oh, Corey, good morning. Thanks for talking to me.

00:21:18.320 Yeah, I appreciate it. As I said, kind of in the introduction there, you're bringing a motion

00:21:23.360 forward on the fair deal, I guess. And, you know, it's been one of the areas that a lot of us have

00:21:28.320 been disappointed with the progress of the UCP. There was a lot of campaign talk, a lot of

00:21:32.300 meetings. You attended a lot of them. I went to a couple of them on this fair deal, and then it

00:21:37.460 just seems to have kind of stalled. Yeah, more than kind of. It's totally stalled. Not only was

00:21:43.540 my motion based on something that Premier Kenney said to the UCP AGM in 2019, that he would use

00:21:51.160 every legal, economic, and constitutional tool at Alberta's disposal to get a fair deal.

00:21:57.480 You know, just 190 days ago, 62% of Albertans voted to end equalization.

00:22:05.800 A short time after that, the Legislative Assembly passed a motion to end equalization.

00:22:12.720 And here we are where nothing's been done.

00:22:15.240 You know, and Corey, it's, you know, we've seen Scott Mo next door.

00:22:20.300 When Quebec declares they're a nation within a nation,

00:22:22.880 uh premier mo immediately steps up and and asks the same for saskatchewan or highlights the same

00:22:28.680 for saskatchewan and and we have a premier in alberta who you know i believe at this point

00:22:33.980 had no intention of fighting with ottawa for a fair deal for us and uh you know we've talked

00:22:40.000 about the number so much when it's 670 billion that has left alberta families and communities

00:22:45.620 and in our free enterprise since 1961 uh when we're we're bottleneck for resource movement

00:22:52.440 in pipelines. That's no exchange in return for the money we send. And his unwillingness to do

00:22:58.300 something is appalling. Hey, but I will say I'm grateful that, you know, we had unanimous consent

00:23:04.280 in the Assembly to do this. I mean, I don't know how many times Premier Kenney needs this message,

00:23:11.640 but one more time. Yeah. So that motion, when is it due to actually come before the legislature?

00:23:20.400 It came on Monday already.

00:23:22.820 Okay, sorry about that.

00:23:24.380 No worries, it's already been done.

00:23:26.640 I'll just take a quick second, I'll read it.

00:23:28.300 It's a result that the Legislative Assembly urged the government to deploy every legal, economic, and constitutional tool at the province's disposal to maximize its ability to achieve a fair deal for Alberta within the Canadian Federation.

00:23:44.120 um you know again we you know the premier kenny and the ucp put in weaker turn off the taps

00:23:51.420 legislation than the ndp had before um we've seen the federal government print print 400 billion

00:23:58.980 dollars increase the money supply 20 percent destroy the value of of our hard-earned currency

00:24:05.060 and our hard-earned work with huge inflation now we're going to have high interest rates uh hey

00:24:10.200 this is, there's always the time to push Ottawa for a fair deal.

00:24:17.800 Well, absolutely. I had Kelly Melnberg on the show the other day, we were talking about

00:24:21.160 agricultural issues. I mean, it just seems as if it's not the energy sector Ottawa is attacking

00:24:25.400 us with, it's our ag sector. And they're looking at reductions in emissions through fertilizer,

00:24:31.000 bringing those down to 30% below 2020 levels. Like this could be devastating for the prairies. Yet

00:24:36.520 Yet again, this is a regionally targeted action on the part of the federal government.

00:24:41.340 I mean, they're not going to target Ontario producers or Quebec ones.

00:24:44.880 This is based on cereal farmers.

00:24:47.080 Where's Premier Kenny on this?

00:24:48.440 Why?

00:24:48.820 You know, we've got these issues.

00:24:50.200 We need to be pushing back and standing up for ourselves.

00:24:52.460 We're going to keep getting walked all over.

00:24:54.200 Exactly.

00:24:54.780 And another issue he's been totally silent on, you know, the carbon tax is hurting our

00:25:00.380 Western communities, our agriculture industry, and it's about to escalate.

00:25:05.400 You know, Premier Kenney and the UCB, UCP Bill, you're doing some carbon tax, never mind C48, the tanker ban, and as you just mentioned, C69, the net zero emissions, which is going to make our electricity even more expensive, maybe as much as three times more.

00:25:22.040 and again hurt western industries um and and it's just the the invisibleness uh you know 0.78

00:25:28.320 ottawa is just as much in every part of our of our lives as they were before if not more with

00:25:34.400 the recent daycare care announcement um you know cory it's one of the things when when we talk

00:25:39.360 about i know how are we going to get there instead is one of the reasons that i've been really big on

00:25:45.180 three things first of all alberta needs its own written constitution i i sent premier kenny a

00:25:51.760 letter way back when, when I was still in the UCP caucus asking if I could be the MLA that went

00:25:57.100 around Alberta and help, you know, our experts and our people, especially our people develop a

00:26:02.440 written constitution. So we could limit the growth to government. We could insist on, on our fair

00:26:08.260 thought, but further define our culture. That would go a long way to help us continue on, you know,

00:26:15.240 start rather and continue on the, the independence we need from Ottawa. Second, we know that Premier

00:26:20.180 Kenny put in a citizen initiated referendum laws that are not achievable appears to be a huge waste

00:26:26.420 of time we we need a meaningful citizen initiated of referendum legislation so if the government

00:26:33.140 won't do it if premier Kenny won't do it at least the people of Alberta can and of course with that

00:26:38.580 Corey I've said for a year and a half that we should have an independence referendum sometime

00:26:43.620 down the road I I always say three years let uh tell Ottawa we're going to give three years to

00:26:48.740 give us a fair deal and then three years from now let Albertans evaluate whether or not the deal is

00:26:54.180 fair enough for them to continue. We have to put some teeth in this conversation.

00:26:59.460 And Corey, the third thing that needs to happen is Premier Kenny needs to go. The leadership

00:27:03.860 review is a mess. Albertans have totally lost confidence in the ETP government. The last year

00:27:11.060 of polls show Rachel Notley knocking on the door to be our next premier. We still need change.

00:27:16.820 absolutely uh yeah that that was another disappointment i mean the citizens initiated

00:27:22.780 legislation and the recall both were were set they were put out with impossible bars and this

00:27:29.380 is a government that knows very well how to create a viable policy if they want to so it was purposely

00:27:35.020 put out in a form that they knew was never going to be utilized and and i frankly i find that kind

00:27:39.740 of insulting as a supporter and a voter who wanted to see those legislations come about

00:27:43.520 Yeah, exactly. I absolutely agree. And he only proclaimed them when we raised the temperature and forced the issue a bit. And of course, now we're 13 months to the next election. But yeah, that was a key campaign promise that he made, and didn't meet it with any meaningful way.

00:28:01.980 You know, and he was given a large majority to enhance accountability, to enhance economic freedom and individual opportunity, and then do something about our ineffective and inefficient programs where they exist.

00:28:16.500 And he so hasn't delivered it and met expectations. And yeah, recall is another perfect example, Corey, of us former Wild Rosers who desired unity and wanted to work for a conservative Alberta and Alberta being the freest, most prosperous place.

00:28:34.560 And we were disrespected. So many areas, maybe all of our areas, we weren't honoured. We wanted meaningful recall. We wanted enhancement of property rights. We wanted a government that spent less so families could have more individual opportunity and economic freedom. And here we are three years into the mandate where every day, it seems like the government just fights for Premier Kenney's survivorship instead of our economic future.

00:29:01.980 Yeah, well, there's no getting around it.

00:29:03.500 I mean, the amount of distraction over the internal fights with the party right now

00:29:06.880 and the battle over the leadership review, I mean, not that, you know, he's not faultless.

00:29:12.780 He got himself into that as the leader in the first place.

00:29:15.420 But I can see why Premier Kenney hasn't had much time to pay attention to Ottawa.

00:29:18.300 He's busy trying to save his own butt within the party, which is unfortunate.

00:29:22.580 Maybe kind of looking ahead a little more, though.

00:29:24.020 I mean, it's speculative, but it's Cheryl Dawn, a commenter, asking, you know,

00:29:26.900 if Kenney was replaced, could you go back to the UCP?

00:29:30.060 And I understand that that would depend on who the new leader is in a number of things.

00:29:33.040 But would you consider going back in that situation?

00:29:36.200 Yeah, thank you, Corey.

00:29:38.460 I appreciate that.

00:29:39.020 Yeah, the only caveat is as long as Jason Kenney is not the leader in the premier, I will consider all options.

00:29:47.360 You know, I'm just so grateful to represent Cypress Medicine Hat for 10 years.

00:29:51.300 And Medicine Hat, the Chamber of Commerce, just had a really good trade show there for the last weekend.

00:29:56.540 And I had three days where I got to talk to hundreds of my constituents and I asked them, you know, what should I do?

00:30:01.980 Should I run as an independent? Should I, you know, if Premier Kennedy goes away, should I try to get back in the UCP?

00:30:08.520 Should I join Alderweireau's Independence Party? Should I join one of the other conservative parties on the right?

00:30:14.100 And I'm very, very grateful that, you know, people respected the work I've done and where I'm at.

00:30:21.060 A lot of them, you know, basically said they'd respect my decision.

00:30:26.040 And I'm spending lots of time talking to my constituents.

00:30:28.860 I'm spending lots of time talking to Albertans about the best direction forward.

00:30:33.600 And, you know, again, we, you know, I'm grateful to be one of 87 people paid to speak on behalf of Albertans.

00:30:39.940 And I think we need more accountability.

00:30:42.120 We need better chance to have our voices heard.

00:30:44.660 That's just another key area where Premier Kenney hasn't respected us.

00:30:48.700 Yeah, well, and in a few weeks, we're going to have some clarity at least one way or another

00:30:51.840 of where things are going. I don't know if it necessarily is going to mean a calm stability

00:30:56.260 or anything. None of us really knows what was looming up there, but I know it's difficult.

00:31:01.620 I mean, there's a good and a bad of being an independent member. I mean, one, at least you

00:31:04.640 only have to answer to your constituents. I mean, you don't have to worry about the party. You'll

00:31:08.740 speak whatever you like. But at the same time, it's difficult as an independent because you get

00:31:12.340 limited amount of time with questions, you get limited research budget and things like that.

00:31:16.780 So, I mean, I imagine getting into a functional party environment would probably be the best scenario for you if that can happen.

00:31:23.640 Yeah, you know, it takes a group to make some changes for sure.

00:31:28.760 But, you know, that's one of the interesting things.

00:31:31.020 Three MLAs elected in the general election can form a new provincial party and run in the next election.

00:31:38.960 You know, May 18th decision making may affect some changes there.

00:31:43.480 As an independent, I've had the opportunity to have quite an involvement in the legislature.

00:31:52.980 I will say Speaker Cooper has been excellent for giving us some opportunity and leeway with our questions.

00:32:00.040 And I believe that myself and Todd Lowen have done a great job holding the government accountable.

00:32:04.700 We brought up some, you know, taxation things and freedom things.

00:32:09.760 highlighted uh you know a lot of the arrogance and lack of listening from from the current

00:32:15.360 government so so there has been a plus um but uh yeah future going forward um everybody's you know

00:32:22.640 one of everybody's big concerns is is rachel notley being returned as premier but they know

00:32:27.940 that jason kenny is not the answer of economic freedom and individual opportunity we desire

00:32:32.860 uh you know we've got uh 13 months till the next election which of course is may 29th 2023

00:32:39.460 and Corey you you know you were part of it at the time when the four crossings in the wild rose

00:32:44.680 happened in 2015 that was December uh that election was March or April I believe it was

00:32:50.680 April so within four months you know that group rallied and we had 21 strong you know we had 21

00:32:57.600 strong MLAs we had 87 strong candidates uh you know so there's time uh and again I'm very pleased

00:33:04.900 that that Albertans you know more than ever and and you know god bless people for standing up you

00:33:11.320 know every Saturday for a year and a half in my office I've had between 100 and 400 peaceful

00:33:16.300 legal demonstrators out front you know demonstrating for more more freedoms you know

00:33:21.680 the truckers the people that moved their money out of the bank showed Ottawa that legally and

00:33:28.300 peacefully we're going to fight for our families and our communities so so it's a good time I think

00:33:33.620 it's a time for change. Well, I sure hope so. And as you said, yes, you and Mr. Lowen have been

00:33:39.240 effective off to the side. I mean, there's so many scenarios we could potentially see. One of the

00:33:43.640 areas I'd, it caused a bit of a stir, actually, it's been a while back, but I interviewed Premier

00:33:49.200 Kenney. And I said, well, you know, you're only getting opposition, at least at that time, from

00:33:52.320 one side of the legislature, and it's the left. And that tends to push you in order towards the

00:33:57.120 left. But the media took it as me saying another thing, but whatever. I just think it's important

00:34:02.400 have a balance and have a conservative voice. Because if you are only getting pressure from

00:34:05.180 one side, that is where you're going to drift. And you need a voice of conscience coming from

00:34:08.160 the other side, or you'll only hear one perspective. So I appreciate what you and Todd have been doing

00:34:12.740 over there. Yeah, thank you, Corey. I absolutely agree 100%. And let me give you an example.

00:34:18.560 You know, I used to stand with Premier Kenney when we were both in opposition, and he used to

00:34:23.420 say things like, the NDP is the biggest spendthrift government ever. And if we don't change them,

00:34:29.020 they're going to put us $100 billion in debt. Well, here's the reality today. Premier Kenney's

00:34:34.900 put us $115 billion in debt. The NDP at their high watermark spent $55 billion. Premier Kenney

00:34:43.360 this year is spending $62 billion. And if oil and gas royalties, you know, God bless our agriculture,

00:34:48.960 forestry and our oil and gas workers, if oil and gas royalties and taxes hadn't gone from $3 billion

00:34:54.960 to 13 billion in the last year, he'd have had a huge deficit. And so let's get people in charge

00:35:03.000 that want to leave that money with Alberta family communities, want taxes and utilities and more

00:35:12.180 competition in our insurance and our utility and our telecommunications industries. Put Alberta

00:35:18.100 families first and free enterprise competition and choice are the ways to do that.

00:35:24.960 Right on. Well, I really appreciate you coming on, Drew. It's always good to get you on here. And

00:35:30.060 I got a feeling perhaps the next time we talk, we'll see, but it's going to be,

00:35:34.700 we'll have, like I said, perhaps some more clarity on where the future is, or perhaps it's going to

00:35:38.080 be crazier than ever, but things are going to change in a few weeks. So thanks for holding

00:35:42.700 the Ford up there on the right side of the legislature and then keeping us up to date.

00:35:47.660 Okay. Corey, thank you very much. Appreciate the chance to talk again.

00:35:50.720 Great. Thanks, Drew. We'll talk again soon, I'm sure.

00:35:52.400 so yes that was the independent MLA for Cyprus medicine hat Drew Barnes and as I said it's you

00:36:00.400 know I do appreciate that it's important to have some some push from the other side things I've

00:36:04.760 talked about before some of the best federal government we ever had was the Chrétien government

00:36:09.080 with the Reform Party breathing down their neck on the right I mean Chrétien balanced the budget

00:36:13.560 I mean no Chrétien wasn't perfect oh they did a lot of bad things those guys but when you get a

00:36:18.140 conservative opposition, the conservative threatening you, the way to counter it is to

00:36:22.900 make sure you swing right. Don't let them eat your lunch on the conservative area.

00:36:26.540 If you get nothing but leftist opposition, you're tempted to start sliding that way.

00:36:32.760 But again, as Drew had pointed out, it's this lack of action on the Ottawa front. We have a

00:36:39.060 hostile federal government. We've always had a hostile federal government. And despite some

00:36:44.320 very strong promises on the part of Premier Kenney, he just doesn't seem to have followed

00:36:47.740 through on using all those tools to push back against it. So, you know, putting that motion

00:36:53.420 forward, there's limited things that LNMLA can do. It doesn't put much obligation on the government

00:36:59.860 itself, but it brings it out, makes them vote, makes them vote for it, and makes it harder for

00:37:04.180 them to keep kicking that can down the road. So I appreciate him coming on and talking. And yeah,

00:37:09.260 we'll see what happens in a couple of weeks. I mean, something else that's interesting,

00:37:12.560 and Drew alluded to that. If, say, Kenny stays in, he remains as the Premier, we could tell

00:37:17.920 there's a number of MLAs who are not going to stay in that caucus. There's just no way. I can't see

00:37:23.060 Peter Guthrie staying in there or Jason Stephan, you know, some of the more outspoken ones who

00:37:30.020 have been very critical of Premier Kenny. I mean, Kenny was already saying he's been too light on

00:37:33.740 people who dissent within his party. They're going to be out. I mean, even if he doesn't kick them

00:37:38.560 out, they're going to leave. So you will have, and as Drew said, all you need is three people

00:37:42.740 banded together in the legislature, and then you've got automatic party status. So there could

00:37:47.120 be a conservative opposition across the floor from Kenny, which is good and bad. As I said,

00:37:51.980 a conservative opposition is a good thing. But at the same time, we get into that danger that

00:37:57.880 everybody worries about with two conservative parties in the legislature. Could Premier Notley

00:38:02.320 slither up the middle again and become, I shouldn't say Premier Notley already in advance,

00:38:07.600 you know, Rachel Notley, do that and become the premier again. That's scary. And a lot of people

00:38:11.840 are worried about that. So conservative members, they got a lot of tough choices to make in the,

00:38:16.040 well, one tough choice to make in this period of time. We'll see what happens with it.

00:38:19.580 Really bizarre provincial politics. Maybe I'll move a little more onto the bizarre

00:38:24.340 BC politics as a read is going to be here in a little while. This is a story

00:38:28.180 on April 22nd, provincial court heard, this is a guy who's suing a bunch of bars because he got

00:38:34.980 drunk, fall down, hurt himself. Now, I owned a bar for a number of years, and it's not a pleasant

00:38:40.520 thing in a lot of ways. Part of what gets me is the lack of personal responsibility, the way our

00:38:44.800 law is right now. And I was trying to find the story. I wish somebody could find it maybe for

00:38:51.060 my behalf. It was some years ago, it was like W5 or something like that. And I watched the story

00:38:54.700 of this clown who was in Ontario somewhere, Windsor or something, and he was out drinking

00:39:00.500 after work at the bar. Lots of people do that. They'll have a couple of drinks. And then they

00:39:04.460 went to another bar and then they went to a party and they kept drinking and drinking and then they

00:39:07.180 went through the park a bunch of staff and he decided to go dive in the water at this park in

00:39:11.740 a pond it turned out the pond bottom was concrete uh and it was only a few inches deep he broke his

00:39:17.180 neck and was paralyzed tragic unfortunate people make stupid decisions it's unfortunate you don't

00:39:21.380 want to see that end this guy though sued everybody he sued his co-workers for not stopping him he

00:39:27.000 sued the city for not having big enough signs saying there was a concrete bottom on it and of

00:39:30.100 course, he sued every bar that he was involved with. He bankrupted his friends and co-workers.

00:39:35.220 He won. Like, he won on all those levels. At what point is a person responsible for themselves? And

00:39:40.880 I know a bar has some responsibility. When I was bartending, if somebody's falling over drunk at

00:39:46.000 my bar and I'm still giving them more drinks, I'm being irresponsible and I'm putting people at risk,

00:39:51.260 including the person I'm giving drinks to. But it's not the easiest thing to judge, especially

00:39:55.080 when a drunkard is going from bar to bar to bar. Not everybody is evidently drunk as others. Yet,

00:39:59.660 here we go with this guy named Johnson. He's in BC. So let's see, his evening began in Kingston

00:40:04.780 Taphouse, where he worked as a bartender. He finished his shift at 11, drank a couple double

00:40:09.360 vodka sodas, and then he left to Studio Lounge and Nightclub, where he had two more drinks and a

00:40:16.540 couple shots of whiskey in short order. And then he moved on to another bar, Relish the Pub, where

00:40:20.560 he downed two more ciders and a double vodka soda and a shot of whiskey, and finally went to yet

00:40:25.080 another bar and he drank three double shots then. So he drank a whole pile. This guy's

00:40:30.520 pretty ripped. And then he fell and injured his head. Now he's suing them all. Now, I

00:40:38.420 don't know. I just can't see in those first couple of bars them knowing he's drunk. Like

00:40:44.140 what? How can you sue somebody for serving you the first three drinks when you've gone

00:40:49.080 on to have 17 elsewhere? But you know, we got clowns and judges who will still rule

00:40:53.080 in favor of this idiot. How far down the line does it get? And as I said, I've known in bars,

00:40:58.020 when somebody comes in, if they're presenting as sober, I don't breathalyze them. Some people can

00:41:03.260 hold their head up even though they've tipped back a dozen. I don't know that. If I'd served

00:41:06.160 them all 12 in the bar, well, I wouldn't even serve that many. I know they're drunk, even if

00:41:09.420 they're staying straight. But if you're going bar to bar to bar, they don't know. Yet, this is what

00:41:13.940 we've got going on in BC. That's one of the stories Reid wrote about. So yeah, serving 20 drinks

00:41:17.340 afterwards. So yeah, this guy was a wreck. I think in that final bar, and it was getting that late

00:41:21.520 at night, there was probably some irresponsibility on the part of the bartender or the staff or

00:41:24.920 something, because he should have been showing some pretty clear signs of inebriation by then.

00:41:29.060 But I just get sick of these, this total personal responsibility, you know, and if you want

00:41:34.200 to get to the root of so many things, a left-right, you know, the left-right difference,

00:41:40.440 one of the biggest things. Conservatives, particularly libertarians, want to take care

00:41:44.780 of themselves. We don't want to be taken care of. Just leave me alone. I'll take care of myself.

00:41:48.740 And if there's negative consequences, I'll have to deal with it.

00:41:51.540 The left does not want personal responsibility on any level.

00:41:55.280 They don't.

00:41:55.880 Everything is everybody else's responsibility.

00:41:58.160 Everything is everybody else's problem.

00:41:59.580 I can't pay my bills.

00:42:00.340 You've got to pay my bills.

00:42:01.700 I can't keep myself under control drinking.

00:42:03.540 You've got to keep me under control drinking.

00:42:05.560 I'm scared of the flu.

00:42:06.880 You have to be locked in your house.

00:42:09.460 It always comes down to personal responsibility.

00:42:13.420 And it's getting tiresome.

00:42:14.760 You know, when we're talking about Twitter and the left losing their nut over Musk buying it,

00:42:18.660 Because Musk is daring to say he's going to open up speech on there.

00:42:21.780 See, the problem is, you don't have to listen to anything anybody tweets.

00:42:25.540 You don't have to.

00:42:26.140 You don't have to participate in Twitter.

00:42:28.560 Or the voices you don't like, you know what you can do?

00:42:30.840 Block them.

00:42:31.460 It's not that hard.

00:42:32.480 It only takes a second.

00:42:33.360 But you know what the problem they have is?

00:42:35.360 That takes a little bit of personal responsibility.

00:42:38.040 They actually have to think.

00:42:39.480 Make a decision.

00:42:40.500 Do something on their own.

00:42:41.700 They don't want that.

00:42:42.620 Just shut up the nasty voices. 0.85

00:42:43.940 I don't want to hear them.

00:42:44.720 No.

00:42:46.200 No.

00:42:47.360 Pull up your britches.

00:42:48.660 Take care of yourself. Hit the block button. Don't make a, don't try to get the government

00:42:52.920 to do it on your behalf. But it always kind of comes down to that in the end. It really does.

00:42:58.880 And the whole feeling of it all, again, with nanny state, coddling state, taking care of

00:43:04.440 everything all the time, not only does it not help us, but it eradicates that sense of personal

00:43:09.060 responsibility. And when you've got a sense of personal responsibility, that's how you

00:43:11.820 prevent things from happening because you know you've got a consequence later on.

00:43:15.340 but again these things carry on so yeah getting back to that let's see some of these news scrolls

00:43:21.960 as we get towards reeds joining me here uh government yeah relied on cb story cbc stories

00:43:27.340 like as we're getting this follow-up on the uh the whole uh truckers convoy and the protests

00:43:32.940 and everything you know the more you hear from these committees the more nauseating it gets i

00:43:36.660 mean cbc stories as dave was saying the cbc had to retract multiple stories because they were

00:43:42.100 spreading BS. They were wrong. They were lies. Yeah, our $1.5 billion a year were going to this

00:43:48.600 rotten institution of the state broadcaster, and they were spreading lies during the course of the

00:43:53.760 convoy, and the government was basing their decisions on the lies from the CBC. Gee, a real

00:44:00.500 shocker that the government made bad decisions. You know, there's even a new Democrat MP questioning

00:44:08.140 them now, even though they all voted in favor of invoking the War Measures Act, or I'm sorry,

00:44:12.420 Emergencies Act, and said that they've heard from the liberals time and time again that these

00:44:17.600 decisions were made on the basis of facts. Well, let's see them. They're not there. I mean, we

00:44:22.220 should have thrown this government out a while back. But what is it going to take? What is it

00:44:29.580 going to take? David Creighton, one of our columnists, who's always hitting things on the

00:44:33.760 federal front points out, you know, it's Teflon Trudeau. It just doesn't seem to be anything that

00:44:37.360 they can scrape them. We loathe them in the West. They love them in Toronto and Montreal,

00:44:42.060 and that's enough to keep them in power, which again gets back to the independence talk.

00:44:46.400 I saw there's an area I differ with a Drew a bit too, actually, when it comes to independence and

00:44:50.740 things like that. And I saw one of the commenters saying the same thing. I want us to have the

00:44:55.220 ability to invoke a referendum. Absolutely. That has to be in the hands of citizens. It has to be.

00:45:00.660 There's no point of it if the government picks and chooses what they're going to do. It has to be

00:45:03.640 binding. It has to be realistic. But I don't think we should have an independence referendum

00:45:09.120 until we're ready for it. The worst thing we can do if you want independence, I've said this before

00:45:12.920 on the show, is to go too soon. If you go and hold a referendum and come back with 20% support,

00:45:17.320 you know what, you're not going to get another referendum for a decade. So think carefully.

00:45:21.200 We've got a lot of groundwork to do. But that's the things that Drew's working towards too. Let's

00:45:24.560 talk about some of those things, right? Provincial police, provincial pension, you know, these moves

00:45:29.020 that we can do within our own province first.

00:45:31.260 And Saskatchewan can do, BC can do, Manitoba can do.

00:45:34.440 Quebec and Ontario are already doing all these things,

00:45:36.260 by the way.

00:45:36.680 It's just, we're always assholes

00:45:37.660 and we decided to try and do it for ourselves.

00:45:39.640 There's quite a national double standard

00:45:41.260 when it comes to that.

00:45:42.220 But we aren't ready to go yet.

00:45:43.440 We are not.

00:45:44.020 There's not enough public support.

00:45:46.400 Even if we had the ability, it just wouldn't happen.

00:45:51.060 So keep working on things on the ground.

00:45:53.020 The time might get there when it's ready,

00:45:54.540 but it's not there quite yet.

00:45:56.640 uh so yeah and there's a cbc corrected two false stories yeah about the russians coming to get us

00:46:02.400 and uh the the other thing dave mentioned i mean so we've got a safety minister repeating those

00:46:08.780 false claims i've covered that in this show i i i did a whole breakdown on that on the the complete

00:46:13.980 lie the convoy protesters were trying to burn down a building i mean this is that's scary stuff if it

00:46:19.440 was real that's very scary and i mean it was ridiculous you know anybody with an iq over 60

00:46:24.140 he could look at the story as it came. All it was was through a tweet thread. That's all it was,

00:46:27.940 the basis of the facts on this. Narrated, you know, some security pictures narrated by a clown

00:46:33.120 on Twitter. And about supposedly these Freedom Convoy guys who came and taped some door handles

00:46:39.620 shut, lit a brick or something on fire in the middle of the floor, a fire brick, and self-identified

00:46:45.020 when an apartment dweller was coming by. I guess they looked up and said, yes, we're with the

00:46:49.460 convoy and we're going to burn your building down. He said, oh, well, heavens, I guess I'll just go

00:46:53.560 of my room and go to bed. So we went upstairs and went to sleep. Didn't call the police, didn't call

00:46:57.060 the fire department. And these guys apparently failed and burned it down. It was ridiculous.

00:47:01.320 It was just a complete BS story. It was much like that juicy Smollett crap. And it was proven to be

00:47:05.900 so by the police, by investigations. Yet still today, this Mendocino, who's the public safety

00:47:14.640 minister, so tied right in with invoking the emergencies act, is saying they invoked it

00:47:20.440 because people were out there looking to burn buildings down.

00:47:23.340 He's lying.

00:47:24.200 He's lying to the investigators.

00:47:25.900 He's lying right in our faces

00:47:27.260 when the facts are right there that this didn't happen.

00:47:31.400 He said in his statement,

00:47:32.960 when seniors can't get around

00:47:34.000 because public transportation can't get to the wind, 0.91

00:47:35.820 people who live in apartment buildings

00:47:37.440 find their doors are locked

00:47:38.400 and that fires are set in the hallways and corridors.

00:47:40.820 That's what this cabinet minister,

00:47:43.300 this senior politician in government said

00:47:46.480 at an investigation as we're following up on this.

00:47:48.760 These guys are going to lie to the bitter end.

00:47:51.440 We're not going to get anything out of these investigations.

00:47:54.000 We've already seen that.

00:47:54.760 Trudeau stacked the next one with a liberal-friendly judge.

00:47:57.840 They're not going to ask the right questions.

00:48:00.240 We're not going to get...

00:48:01.000 The only thing that could possibly happen is throw those liberals out of power.

00:48:03.900 And again, I don't think Canadians are ready to do that.

00:48:06.800 We'll see. 0.83

00:48:07.260 Polyev is really lighting the world on fire.

00:48:08.960 And we're really watching the liberal and the establishment machine

00:48:15.060 turning their guns on him very hard and fiercely.

00:48:17.440 So we'll see how that comes out.

00:48:19.400 Perhaps Mr. Poliev or another conservative candidate is going to shake things up.

00:48:23.560 We've got a race going on.

00:48:26.800 Here's another one.

00:48:28.100 A story is saying we're unprepared for climate cuts.

00:48:30.920 So they're starting to realize that these climate change motions and notions and ideas and policies are going to cost jobs.

00:48:39.320 Of course they are.

00:48:39.960 Everybody's been saying that since day one, except for the zealots like Gilboa and Trudeau in the government.

00:48:45.500 But yes, apparently these climate programs threaten at least 170,000 jobs and 170,000 jobs with little transition planning by the cabinet.

00:48:58.920 And that's from the environment commissioner.

00:49:00.720 So he's kind of a senior bureaucrat.

00:49:03.160 And he compared the economic fallout to the 92 collapse of the cod fishery, you know, on the East Coast.

00:49:09.780 Well, you see the difference with the cod fishery is,

00:49:12.800 well, I mean, it was due to some bad management

00:49:14.580 and bad fishery management,

00:49:16.540 but it was serious and everything else.

00:49:19.140 Same sort of thing that this we can see coming.

00:49:21.800 This is going to be due directly to bad policy.

00:49:24.540 Bad government policy is going to cost nearly 200,000 jobs.

00:49:30.440 And not just fossil fuel,

00:49:32.200 though there's a whole whack of them in there.

00:49:34.260 This transition is going to hit everything.

00:49:35.880 We're all getting broker people.

00:49:37.100 in one of the richest countries in the world for things. I was talking, I think it was to

00:49:41.420 Colin Craig about that the other day. You know, Venezuela, by all measures, should be a very rich

00:49:46.560 nation. You know, fantastic climate, loads of oil and gas. They had some great people there,

00:49:51.480 a good location for shipping, exports, all of that. They got the perfect storm, should be one

00:49:55.940 of the richest nations on earth. They're in hell and misery. They literally were breaking into zoos

00:50:00.140 to eat farm animals. Their own currency went into the toilet. It's trash. People are desperately

00:50:04.760 trying to escape there. Why? Because of bad government policy. All the resources in the

00:50:09.660 world won't save your ass if your government is rotten. Canada's government's rotten.

00:50:16.120 We aren't in Venezuela's situation yet, but we're moving in that direction, guys.

00:50:21.620 And yeah, it's difficult. So this guy's saying, yeah, the climate change clock never stops ticking.

00:50:29.240 We're moving closer to some critical deadlines the government set for itself. So I mean,

00:50:32.460 Because some of what we can hope for out of these things, I guess, is that, as the government tends to do so often, is they just back off on their own deadlines because they realize that they're not realistic and that they can't reach those things.

00:50:45.920 But, I mean, it's just such a stupid game of back and forth and back and forth.

00:50:49.480 I think we did a bit of that when we talked about the Kyoto Protocol.

00:50:52.380 That was actually one of Kretchen's actions.

00:50:54.320 He set all these crazy climate reduction goals and he was going to save us all from global warming back in the 90s.

00:50:59.240 They didn't meet any of those.

00:51:00.280 and the Paris Accord. Now we've got these clowns over in Scotland. They keep doing it and setting

00:51:04.140 bars and not reaching them, but they still hurt us when they try. They still disrupt markets. They

00:51:09.260 still steal from productive markets and give out to inefficient markets. So it costs us all when

00:51:16.380 they set these deadlines and don't make them. So we've got to take them seriously. We've got to

00:51:19.820 follow through with them. Let's see. I'm still waiting for Reid to show up here. We've got,

00:51:25.520 But let's look through some of Reed's stories.

00:51:27.520 We got a BC children's dentist investigated after and fined after a young patient was hospitalized.

00:51:34.940 Yeah, this guy was giving a weird anesthesia to patients.

00:51:40.380 This is some scary stuff.

00:51:44.040 See, I'm not sure.

00:51:44.960 That's not a great story to expand further on.

00:51:46.920 I'm sorry.

00:51:47.400 It's just when the guests show up late, it leaves me a little distracted at times.

00:51:51.000 Here's another one Reed wrote.

00:51:51.840 uh northern bc chapel damaged by a suspicious fire uh this is something that should be making

00:51:58.780 more news this is something that's always should have been making more news and that's uh you know

00:52:03.740 these attacks on churches in canada oh there he is good so uh you know we will expand a bit on

00:52:10.180 that because he knows more about the story than i do because i just read them like you guys and

00:52:14.080 i rely on their interpretation so we see the read in the lobby there and that's our bc reporter

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00:53:41.280 the show here and review some of the news that's going on out on the wacky left coast there hey

00:53:46.400 reed how's it going i'm good thanks how are you doing oh pretty good pretty good you've been

00:53:51.680 covering a lot of things i i guess i'll just uh you heard a little bit uh jumping into one of your

00:53:55.760 recent stories it was from a couple of days ago but uh uh have you heard more on that church that

00:54:00.240 was burned uh out there in bc uh no updates um rcmp hasn't commented on it yet uh the fire

00:54:07.280 department did say that it was being investigated by RCMP but they haven't made any comments and

00:54:14.880 the fire department chief actually thinks that there's a good chance that it may have been an

00:54:20.880 accident but regardless it is being investigated but there's been no updates and I to be honest I

00:54:27.920 don't expect that there will be. Yeah and we can't assume I mean accidents do happen it could have

00:54:32.640 have been somebody irresponsibly leaving a candle out or an electrical fire. Fires did happen before

00:54:37.920 all of the other things. It's just we are on edge with so many churches having been unfortunately

00:54:42.720 targeted by arson in the last few years. So I'm sure you'll be watching that if there's any

00:54:47.600 updates, you'll be posting them. Absolutely. So what else we got top of the news? You wrote on

00:54:52.920 that gentleman having quite the time on a bus there out in Vancouver, was it? Yeah, yeah. He

00:55:00.200 He was arrested, charged on three counts of assault and one count of assault with a weapon.

00:55:07.400 And he was released in short order.

00:55:10.980 So hopefully he didn't take a bus from the police station because I'm sure the passengers have heard all about him by this point.

00:55:21.560 But yeah, actually, right before I hopped on here, a bunch of old growth protesters were being cleared out of yet another highway blockade on Boundary Road and Grandview Highway in Vancouver.

00:55:38.800 It looks like four people were arrested so far, so that would bring the total number of arrested protesters to at least 85 in the past few weeks since the highway blockades began.

00:55:51.560 So, uh, I expect we'll be seeing some more of that in the coming days as well.

00:55:55.420 Cause it's been at least, you know, at least every other day, uh, there's been arrests

00:56:00.160 made, uh, due to, uh, old growth logging protests, uh, around, uh, around the West coast of

00:56:06.960 BC.

00:56:07.600 So are, are these the same protesters being caught and released and caught and released

00:56:11.040 and caught and released, or are they kind of spreading out different ones every time?

00:56:14.640 Um, no, they're, they're, they're being released and getting arrested, uh, multiple times.

00:56:18.960 um and again these are these are different protesters from the the like environmental

00:56:23.840 pipeline demonstrators uh in northern bc completely different thing um but uh yeah these

00:56:30.400 these guys are are clearly taking it seriously they're uh they're gluing themselves uh there

00:56:34.780 was another person that glued themselves to the roadway today that's a common theme of their

00:56:39.480 protests. Another man just ended his 33-day hunger strike today. Another guy is on day 27 of his

00:56:50.460 hunger strike and was actually hospitalized due to not consuming fluids for over 50 hours. And

00:56:56.320 he resumed his hunger strike as soon as he was out of the hospital. And he's on day 27 now. So

00:57:02.260 yeah, they certainly mean business. They're taking it very seriously. But unfortunately,

00:57:07.940 you know, for them, it looks like public response is not on their side. People are very frustrated,

00:57:16.580 especially in and around Vancouver and the lower mainland where traffic is already the bane of

00:57:22.760 everyone's existence. Yeah, and I see Nico brought up one of those. I mean, a lot of us saw that

00:57:27.860 video the other week with a bunch of those hammerheads all sitting in the middle of a road

00:57:31.840 and blocking a bunch of commuters, and people got out of their cars and just pulled them off the

00:57:35.700 road. They're sick of waiting for the police. They're sick of being delayed by these guys.

00:57:39.500 And it's only going to get worse if this doesn't get resolved, I imagine. I mean, I don't know,

00:57:42.860 when these protests happen, I mean, if they start getting a groundswell of public support,

00:57:46.480 that's how they can change things. But in general, it seems to be still kind of a small fringe,

00:57:50.700 but a very annoying one. Yeah, I mean, I have their exact demand, which is, quote,

00:57:58.080 pass legislation to immediately end all old growth logging in the province of BC. So that's their

00:58:04.240 overall demand and their hunger strike demand specifically is a public meeting with Katrine

00:58:09.940 Conroy, the Minister of Forests, to discuss old growth logging. So they said they're just going

00:58:16.720 to continue onward with their protests and they're more than willing to be arrested until

00:58:23.220 their demands are met, which are fairly broad. So yeah, we'll see what happens with that.

00:58:29.920 yeah well hunger striking like that with a demand to meet somebody you know it's it's it's just kind

00:58:35.320 of the uh grown-up version of a toddler who tries to hold their breath so they can get their way

00:58:40.340 from their parents i guess right usually the best way to do it is just let them hold their breath

00:58:44.460 until they either pass out or give up so i don't know i was this is just my view i said well let

00:58:49.620 them starve it's it's you know i don't want to see people but what else are you supposed to do

00:58:55.100 with these guys. Right, right. But that's just my view. Uh, getting on, I was ranting a little

00:59:01.740 earlier. You, you had a story that you had put up about a lawsuit, uh, speaking of personal

00:59:05.580 responsibility with this, uh, drunkard who traveled from a number of bars there and got pretty, uh,

00:59:10.740 heavily inebriated. Now he's suing them all. Yeah, yeah. He, uh, this happened back in 2016

00:59:17.340 and he is suing all the venues that served him drinks prior to him falling down and sustaining

00:59:26.800 a head injury. So yeah, he got off work, immediately downed a few drinks at his workplace

00:59:33.560 and then made the rounds. And eventually, you know, 25 or so drinks later fell down and hit

00:59:41.860 his head and uh is now uh saying that everyone that served him is uh is liable um so yeah that's

00:59:50.440 that's interesting and the thing is too in Vancouver and and BC in particular um is if you

00:59:57.560 you know if you over serve someone as a bartender and or if you just serve them period and they they

01:00:03.440 get hurt or they do something stupid uh it's very easy to get in trouble um so it looks like he'll

01:00:10.560 be getting paid damages. I imagine it happens all the time. I remember when I was younger,

01:00:16.520 I was working in the hospitality industry. That was always a stress. The managers and owners were

01:00:23.740 always very adamant about making sure you don't let anyone in that's had too much to drink. You

01:00:30.500 don't serve them because if they fall and hurt themselves later in the night and they were at

01:00:35.200 your establishment, you could be liable and it happens all the time. Yeah, it's the same here

01:00:40.160 in alberta and you have to take your pro serve where it teaches you about all that and it makes

01:00:43.560 it difficult because it's a narrow margin industry as i said i own a bar you're motivated i mean you

01:00:49.220 got to sell the booze that's the goal of the bar but at the same time you don't want to cross the

01:00:52.640 line and over serve and servers are put in a difficult position of judging what got me with

01:00:57.120 this guy was that he went bar to bar to bar you don't know when they walked in the door if they're

01:01:00.840 dead sober or if they've had 10 drinks before they got there but it seems that doesn't seem

01:01:04.680 to matter in the courts. Right. And of course, you know, in Vancouver, there's a lot of

01:01:10.420 establishments have multiple bars throughout the venue. So you could go in and, you know,

01:01:16.640 get a double vodka soda at one bar and then go to another bar and then another one all in the

01:01:21.980 same establishment and never have the same bartender twice. So there's really no way of

01:01:28.800 keeping track but that's uh that's just how it is and uh yeah another another interesting uh story

01:01:35.760 that i'm going to be releasing uh later this afternoon is uh i've learned of uh a motel

01:01:41.940 a bc motel that is denying entry uh to unvaccinated people so uh irrespective of

01:01:49.220 provincial mandates which which were lifted uh a few a few weeks ago um and didn't include motels

01:01:55.760 or hotels to begin with uh this uh this this motel is uh turning people away uh who are

01:02:03.440 unvaccinated so i'll have a detailed story on up on that up uh later this afternoon great well

01:02:09.500 that's that's their right as a business i guess i don't know if it's a smart plan i mean how many

01:02:14.300 oh boy i just don't get with the vaccinated fixated right like what difference if the guy

01:02:18.100 in the room next to you isn't vaccinated or is for one we know it doesn't really reduce spread

01:02:21.980 and even if you thought it did it's not like you're sharing a room but uh well we'll see i

01:02:25.900 guess it's their right as a business of course and yeah you know there's based off of different

01:02:30.260 people that i've talked to in regards to uh this particular situation people are kind of saying the

01:02:36.060 same thing it's it's you know maybe i don't agree with it but it's their right as a private business

01:02:41.100 but then you have some people that are saying well it's blatant you know unequivocal discrimination

01:02:45.520 and then you have other people that are saying that oh they're just watching out for their

01:02:49.680 community and they're doing you know the right thing and so you know there's all there's a whole

01:02:53.500 range of perspectives there and uh i'll you know talking to a wide range of people in regards to

01:02:59.660 that um another story that will be coming out this week uh will be uh the bc college of nurses

01:03:06.620 and midwives uh are investigating a bc nurse uh for her what they're calling uh off-duty conduct

01:03:14.860 And what they mean by that is her, you know, going on social media and speaking about gender in a way that is inappropriate. 1.00

01:03:22.880 And basically, she's just saying that she takes issue with self-I.D. legislation and she believes that gender is biologically based.

01:03:34.500 So there will be a disciplinary hearing for her at the end of May. 0.88

01:03:38.300 So I'll have a story coming out detailing that this week as well.

01:03:41.900 Yeah, it'll be interesting to watch.

01:03:43.300 it's getting to be such difficult waters for them to navigate, especially in medicine. I mean,

01:03:47.220 I can understand we want to accommodate people. If a person's trans, they want to be referred to

01:03:52.900 the gender of their preference. I'm fine with that. That's no problem. But when we get to 1.00

01:03:56.440 physiological reality, and that's where the trans community seems to have gone over the line that 0.78

01:04:01.240 we have to be allowed to address it, whether it's in sports or medicine. I mean, there's no sense 1.00

01:04:06.160 trying to check a prostate on a biological woman or try to test for cervical cancer on a biological 1.00

01:04:12.920 men no matter how they're identifying or what they've tried to do like let's just let our nurses

01:04:17.120 and doctors be realistic with this it's getting just kind of ludicrous right right and and you

01:04:23.280 know that's what a lot of people would say but then there are also other people that are saying

01:04:26.820 that uh that perspective is is you know provides an unsafe environment as they say uh for uh gender

01:04:33.220 diverse people um and uh you know it's it's kind of a hot topic in bc right now especially with

01:04:40.100 you know, puberty blockers and a particular piece of legislation that we have in BC that

01:04:44.980 allows young children to receive puberty blocking treatment, irrespective of their parent or

01:04:53.100 guardian. So it's, it's interesting. You're on the front line of the woke. I mean, getting

01:05:01.520 further with mandates and things. So even beyond provincial mandates, pretty much everything's

01:05:05.280 been lifted provincially, I guess, for you guys. It was a few days ago, it was kind of last week,

01:05:09.820 but UBC has said they're going to keep their mask mandate all the way through the summer now,

01:05:13.540 have they? Yeah, UBC is going to be maintaining their mask mandates until June 30th at the

01:05:22.080 earliest. And then, yeah, again, not all mandates are gone. Public healthcare workers that were

01:05:31.040 removed from work due to their vaccine status are not yet allowed to return. And there's no date

01:05:38.360 on when they will be allowed to return.

01:05:42.100 Health officials, public health officials in BC

01:05:44.280 have acknowledged that the vaccine's efficacy wanes over time.

01:05:49.140 So maybe they will eventually have to allow them to return

01:05:55.000 or maybe they'll require, you know,

01:05:57.380 you'll have to have had a dose within the past six to eight months

01:06:00.300 or something like that.

01:06:01.680 But at this point in time,

01:06:03.340 uh all uh public uh health care workers um you know in acute care long-term care uh community

01:06:12.060 care um nurses uh are uh not allowed to return to work uh unless they're vaccinated um so yeah

01:06:20.820 and actually bc is is uh going to be bringing in uh an influx of uh foreign uh foreign trained

01:06:26.700 nurses as well as opposed to just bringing back the nurses that were let go. Yeah there's still

01:06:34.840 some craziness going on. I should bring up Sherry Stewart who commented please don't say BC means

01:06:39.800 Vancouver area. Okay BC is a big diverse province and lower mainland is kind of a special part of

01:06:44.960 the world versus northern BC or central BC or eastern BC so fair enough but that is where a lot

01:06:51.700 of the news and the actions come from. So, okay, well, there's always lots to keep you busy and

01:06:57.380 covering out there, Reid. A number of stories we can see dropping in the future coming down. I

01:07:01.920 appreciate you checking in with us and look forward to reading more as you report out there.

01:07:06.660 Awesome. Thanks very much, Corey.

01:07:08.300 Great. Thanks. So yes, that's Reid Small and just remind everybody, yeah, he's putting out a lot of

01:07:13.740 great stories in BC. So we're not as Alberta-centric as we were when we first began. We're

01:07:19.460 really expanding. We're getting a lot of great reporters and columnists from all across the

01:07:25.520 country out there. And B.C., boy, that is just the land of the woke, isn't it? I mean, they just

01:07:30.680 they go beyond reason. And unfortunately, I mean, as it's coming along, it's protest season. You

01:07:37.040 know, that's what's happening. It's nice weather. There's a whole bunch of these bums and they're

01:07:40.960 bums. And, you know, they're collecting whatever social services they may be collecting. They don't 0.95

01:07:46.700 have to re-answer to anybody. So they got nothing better to do than go and glue their dumb butts to 0.87

01:07:51.180 a highway and block people who are out trying to work for a living. And it doesn't, the double

01:07:56.140 standard is pretty interesting. You know, there's so many critical infrastructure points and we will

01:08:00.500 seize bank accounts. We'll arrest people. We'll charge people for protesting against mandates. But

01:08:05.260 Hey, if these are climate crusaders, they can just go in and out and in and out of jail and we'll just

01:08:10.640 keep releasing them and never follow through. I mean, I'm not talking about incarcerating somebody

01:08:15.000 who gets caught at a protest once

01:08:16.420 and throwing them in jail for a year?

01:08:17.740 No.

01:08:19.140 But at some point, you do have to draw a line.

01:08:20.620 If they keep coming back,

01:08:21.740 they keep blocking the road with no end game,

01:08:25.040 how many times have you got to put them in

01:08:26.620 and out of the system?

01:08:29.100 We'll see.

01:08:30.020 We'll see. 1.00

01:08:30.620 Our justice system has some true double standards.

01:08:32.840 And that's something that was one of our

01:08:34.520 top columns from the other week

01:08:37.760 was from David Craden out in Ottawa.

01:08:41.820 And that was because RCMP chose not

01:08:44.780 to charge Justin Trudeau, even though it looked like with the whole Aga Khan thing,

01:08:49.640 Trudeau committed a crime. He should be charged. He should, you know, they should follow through.

01:08:54.400 I mean, he was sanctioned by the ethics commissioner or something like that. There

01:08:57.400 are two different sanctions for that. I mean, this was a sitting prime minister in a gross

01:09:01.340 conflict of interest to the point of potentially being criminally so, and he never got charged.

01:09:06.700 If it was you or me, we would have been charged. That's the way it is. And they said that it would

01:09:11.720 cause more disruption to charge him than to just let it go. So they let it go. That's a real big

01:09:18.340 problem. That's a bad, bad precedent and not enough people are discussing that whatsoever. So

01:09:24.580 we're following up on these things and we're reporting on these things. So what else have

01:09:31.220 we got on the go here before I get my next guest who's coming in? Yeah. So, I mean, I admit I'm

01:09:35.840 just going to popped over to the CTV site because I like to torture myself there at Legacy Media

01:09:39.560 you know, once in a while.

01:09:41.400 And the Conservatives are calling on the RCMP

01:09:43.540 to have another look at Trudeau's IGACON trip

01:09:46.480 and see if there isn't something there.

01:09:49.060 But, you know, again, Trudeau appoints the head of the RCMP.

01:09:52.340 She's not going to get involved in that.

01:09:55.380 So, I mean, the Trudeaus can ask

01:09:56.520 and they might as well keep it in the news

01:09:57.480 and it's important,

01:09:58.880 but I wouldn't hold my breath on expecting Justin Trudeau

01:10:02.140 to be held accountable in any sort of way

01:10:06.660 anytime soon on that whole issue.

01:10:10.420 What else we got on the go?

01:10:13.540 Well, I'll have to look into that later.

01:10:15.620 A census offers a snapshot of Canada's transgender population

01:10:18.100 for the first time, apparently.

01:10:19.420 I'll look into it.

01:10:20.220 I wonder how many there really are.

01:10:21.400 I mean, for the amount of news and oxygen it takes,

01:10:23.620 I'd imagine we've got to have hundreds of thousands

01:10:25.260 of transgender people, right?

01:10:27.120 I suspect it might be a few less than that,

01:10:29.160 but we'll have a look at that a little later.

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01:11:32.960 Taxpayers Federation. He's in the studio with us today. Hey there, Franco, how's it going?

01:11:38.080 Boy, man, it's great. I love being in the studio. The office looks great and I love being back in

01:11:42.100 Calgary, man. Yeah, well, you're back out west. I mean, you know, you had to take that great

01:11:46.600 sacrifice for your career and go to the heart of the hornet's nest out in Ottawa. You got an

01:11:51.500 interesting year to be out there for anyways. Yeah, I mean, you know, I like to say that I'm

01:11:55.480 in the business of uncovering government waste and business, unfortunately, is really good in

01:12:00.020 ottawa yeah no you've never got any shortage of things to uh to go on yeah uh so uh you're the

01:12:06.820 federal director of the canadian taxpayers federation so what are some of the the good

01:12:09.880 things you guys have been on about this week well i think one of the biggest things that we've been

01:12:14.420 working on is this uh pickup truck tax that has been kind of floating around in the ether

01:12:19.260 um of course black locks reporter was was the organization that first talked about it but my

01:12:25.440 colleague in British Columbia, Chris Sims, she actually went into this 271 page report that was

01:12:31.260 like this advisory report. It was published by environment Canada. So a federal department and

01:12:36.740 buried in the annex of a report is this little recommendation saying that, well, we should

01:12:42.380 extend this one type of tax to hit pickup trucks. So if you drive a Ford one F one 50, for example,

01:12:49.360 if this new truck tax were to come into place, you know, you would end up shelling out about a

01:12:53.840 thousand dollars now if you have a heavy duty if this tax were to be imposed it would cost you

01:12:58.960 about four thousand bucks which for a trades person that's a lot of money i mean that's what

01:13:03.840 gets me with these things you know they punish the people in these but there's nowhere else for them

01:13:07.180 to move viably i mean they need these vehicles for their jobs they need it for their work i mean

01:13:12.660 their landscaper can't show up in a prius yeah i mean look i think there's like two different types

01:13:17.300 of considerations we need to think about here number one is is well let's face it canadians

01:13:21.800 need a new tax, like we need a hole in the head. This is the worst possible time to bring in a new

01:13:25.860 tax. 6.7% inflation, people still struggling with the effects of two years of revolving

01:13:32.960 government lockdowns, right? So the first part is the tax implications. This is going to be a

01:13:37.100 lot of money for a lot of people who are probably still struggling. But the second thing to your

01:13:41.420 point is that we have to remember pickup trucks for many people, that is what they need to live

01:13:46.640 their lives and to also put food on the table. So Corey, I mean, you're, you're an Alberta boy,

01:13:52.140 you know, that if you want to pull a horse trailer, you can't exactly do that in a Chevy

01:13:56.020 Aveo. No, you need to put, you need a pickup truck, right? If you're, if you're working in

01:14:00.180 oil and gas, you probably need a pickup truck. It would, it would almost be like, um, putting

01:14:06.400 attacks on like laptops or zoom for the stay at home class, which is essentially what I am as well.

01:14:11.900 Well, yeah. Or if you're a framer or a roofer, I mean, there's no end to the things. And then

01:14:15.320 the other part is, you know what, if you just want it for bloody recreation, you shouldn't

01:14:18.660 be punished for it anyhow. But I guess part of the problem is the government can't manage

01:14:22.220 to bring the price of EVs down low enough for consumers. So they're hoping if they raise

01:14:26.140 the price of everything else high enough, they'll get people into the money. It's just

01:14:29.520 going to punish us. Oh, great. Raise the cost of living even more, right? That's what we

01:14:33.260 need. But the thing that was interesting with that too was Gilboa was questioned on it,

01:14:36.940 our environmental crusader in chief in Ottawa, and he denied it. He said that they weren't

01:14:42.320 doing it. Well, what he said is that it's not government policy. What he said is that it's not

01:14:46.360 a tax yet, right? But hey, don't you remember back just before the 2019 election, remember then

01:14:51.640 Environment Minister Catherine McKenna? Remember when she was asked, is the carbon tax going to

01:14:56.220 continue to go up beyond $50 per ton? What did she say? She said, oh, we have no intention,

01:15:02.000 right? Okay. So fool me once, right? But fool me twice, I don't think so. And we have to remember,

01:15:07.700 I mean, this is how new taxes come in, right?

01:15:11.400 You get this advisory report that recommends a new tax, and then you have parliamentarians,

01:15:16.040 they start to debate it, and wham, bam, taxpayers are hit with another burden, right?

01:15:21.400 So if the minister wanted to put water on this fire, he could have done so right away

01:15:27.500 by saying, you know what, we disagree with that recommendation fundamentally.

01:15:31.400 There is absolutely zero way or zero chance that we're going to be putting in this pickup

01:15:35.320 truck, but we haven't heard that.

01:15:37.060 Well, and to pivot away from that, speaking of recommendations that the government keeps denying every time we hear about them,

01:15:41.360 the CMHC yet again appears to be studying a home equity tax.

01:15:45.940 Yeah, I mean, we already know that they spent $250,000 on a report that is recommending a home tax.

01:15:52.760 And what's so crazy about this report is that the report was actually supposed to look at ways to improve housing affordability.

01:16:00.940 Well, Corey, are you telling me that this is the first tax in the history of all human history

01:16:05.460 where a tax is actually going to lower prices? Like, come on, what is the tax going to do? It

01:16:10.220 raises the cost of everything. So a new home tax would do two things. Number one, either people

01:16:15.900 would add the tax, they would tack it onto the home price, raising prices. Or number two, people

01:16:20.740 might just decide not to sell their home, which reduces supply even further, again, raising prices.

01:16:26.120 and through access to information requests,

01:16:29.140 we found out that, well,

01:16:31.060 they're still giving out taxpayers' money

01:16:33.900 to continue to talk about these types of home taxes.

01:16:36.520 Well, that's it.

01:16:36.960 And it's kind of one of those

01:16:37.780 where there's smoke, there's fire situations.

01:16:39.920 I mean, you know, okay, once,

01:16:41.040 if it was out of the blue, a strange rogue study,

01:16:43.400 but this is, I think, the third time the CMHC

01:16:45.240 has dipped their toe into these equity tax waters.

01:16:48.220 It's not the first time.

01:16:49.440 And Corey, let me tell you something

01:16:50.680 that really boils my blood.

01:16:52.180 The CMHC is a federal crown corporation.

01:16:54.820 By its own words, it says it has one primary objective, and that's housing affordability.

01:17:00.320 Well, over the last two years, we've seen home prices skyrocket.

01:17:03.840 You know what else has happened over the last two years?

01:17:06.400 They've been busy handing out about $48 million in bonuses to their employees.

01:17:12.080 What would happen if you completely were miserable at your job?

01:17:15.360 Would you be getting these huge bonuses?

01:17:17.260 Actually, I am miserable as an individual in doing it.

01:17:21.440 No, I can't see Mr. Fildebrand throwing us any extra money unless we really justify it.

01:17:25.720 But yeah, only in the la-la land of government when you have such measurable results that

01:17:28.940 obviously aren't working, would you be rewarded?

01:17:31.000 It kind of reminds me, just to pivot back to a local one you haven't had to deal with

01:17:33.700 in a while, but Calgary's slush fund with the Calgary Economic Development, it's supposed

01:17:38.140 to bring in business and fill our downtown.

01:17:39.700 Well, we've got an empty downtown.

01:17:41.200 We've got a lot of problems with business.

01:17:42.820 They're relocating all over the place outside of the city, and they all get high salaries

01:17:46.300 and bonuses all over the place in that little world as well.

01:17:48.680 That corporate slush fund was the bane to my existence when I was the Alberta director.

01:17:54.360 Corey, me and you worked together a lot to kind of raise awareness.

01:17:57.280 And I always kind of go back to this.

01:17:58.920 I think it was back in 2019 when there was that small business tax rally that we were at.

01:18:04.640 And I don't know about you, but I was just speaking to businesses like, hey,

01:18:08.060 what do you want city council to do?

01:18:09.900 And you know what?

01:18:10.640 All the businesses I talked to, you know what they said?

01:18:12.980 Well, we want them to manage our money prudently.

01:18:15.560 We don't want them to waste money.

01:18:16.980 And we want them to lower our taxes. 1.00

01:18:19.460 I didn't hear a single business say, we want a corporate slush fund managed by these bureaucrats 1.00

01:18:25.620 who are fumbling all over themselves. 0.95

01:18:27.060 Well, can you take some money from my business and add it out to my competitors and try and

01:18:30.660 bring them in?

01:18:31.020 I mean, that's what they're expecting.

01:18:32.480 Oh, and cut a little bit off the top for yourself for all the bureaucrat salaries that have 0.97

01:18:36.100 to oversee this thing. 0.95

01:18:37.260 Yeah.

01:18:37.520 Well, so you guys, the Taxpayers Federation, though, you've got more moves going on.

01:18:40.420 You're busy.

01:18:40.700 So it sounds like Chris Sims is actually moving out here to Alberta.

01:18:43.320 Oh, yeah.

01:18:44.300 And she's going to be so good, man.

01:18:45.720 She's amazing.

01:18:47.780 She's going to do a really good job 0.96

01:18:49.580 holding the Alberta government to account, 1.00

01:18:52.000 but then also these huge spending politicians

01:18:54.720 running around the cities.

01:18:56.300 Yeah, well, and I'll be getting Chris

01:18:58.620 to address those issues as they keep popping up

01:19:00.820 because we need that.

01:19:01.440 I mean, we need that scrutiny all over the place.

01:19:03.400 You're in the big pool pond over there,

01:19:05.180 but it's everywhere and people forget the municipal level

01:19:07.800 on how badly you're getting it sometimes.

01:19:10.200 Some of the commenters mentioned,

01:19:11.180 I mentioned it earlier a little bit too,

01:19:12.440 with the farmers and fertilizer.

01:19:16.500 Okay. And now we've got a, and I don't know if there's been a tax plan yet or anything,

01:19:20.480 but the government sounds like they're committing to reducing. It sounds just like with our carbon

01:19:23.800 taxes, fertilizer used to 30% below 2020 levels. It seems the only tool they ever can pull out of

01:19:29.600 their toolbox is a tax. Have you heard anything about how they might be looking in? Well,

01:19:33.060 we're definitely keeping an eye out because we've, we've, we hear from farmers all the time that the

01:19:37.420 government is making these tough times tougher. I haven't heard about a tax per se, but to your

01:19:42.200 point. It almost seems like anytime a government wants to solve a problem, its only answer is,

01:19:47.600 ah, just another tax, right? Um, the carbon tax, it wants to reduce emissions. What does it do?

01:19:53.240 Hammers Canadians with a carbon tax. When emissions continue to go up and the carbon

01:19:56.840 tax fails, what do they do? Ah, just hammer them with a higher carbon tax. We're talking about the

01:20:00.840 CMHC. Housing affordability is a real issue, but what do these bureaucrats want to do? Fund a report 0.99

01:20:07.140 looking at another home tax and here's another one the vaccine tax remember the tax that was

01:20:12.440 on the unvaccinated that was floated out by the premier in quebec yes that's another example

01:20:17.000 of whenever these politicians think there is a problem that their only solution seems to be ah

01:20:23.100 just make life for canadians more difficult through higher taxes well and even quebec kind

01:20:27.380 of figured that one out and backed off on it thankfully that was ridiculous i mean basically

01:20:31.040 again use taxation as a hammer to punish people for not choosing a medical procedure that they

01:20:35.780 they choose not to. I mean, you know, it's not getting into the discussion of the efficacy of

01:20:39.120 vaccines or not. It's just, it's, as you said, it's always that. And they always fall back on

01:20:43.640 attacks as a tool. So what do you got up and coming for us here in days to come?

01:20:49.500 Well, let me give you a few things. We just finished our national debt clock tour. We

01:20:53.140 chatted about that. We went coast to coast, showing the government's $1 trillion debt going

01:20:58.080 up by about 1600 bucks per second. We went, we started in Victoria, went all the way to Halifax.

01:21:02.720 we were on the road for about a month and a half. And in that time, the federal debt increased by

01:21:06.800 about $8 billion. So we just finished that. I think this is like my second day not doing it.

01:21:12.080 So taking a little bit of time in Calgary, a few things we have coming up, we're going to have our

01:21:16.240 annual gas tax honesty day in May to show Canadians that, you know what, a big part of the painful

01:21:24.000 prices that you're paying at the pumps is actually through taxes. So stay tuned to that. We're

01:21:28.400 talking about Chris Sims coming to Alberta. And so I just want to highlight one thing that we're

01:21:32.480 still going to be fighting here in Alberta. And that is the sneaky form of backdoor income

01:21:37.280 taxation known as bracket creep. Premier Kenney, before his first budget, he said he would get a

01:21:43.340 plan to balance the books without raising taxes. Well, he did raise taxes in his first budget and

01:21:48.040 he did it through the backdoor through bracket creep. And we're going to continue to hammer him

01:21:51.320 on that. Well, and ironically, I believe it was, Kenney might even be the one who coined the term

01:21:55.700 bracket creep because that's, that's what was happening with the Klein government in the nineties

01:21:59.280 and the federal government too, when he was a reformed member of parliament. When he was with

01:22:04.480 the CTF back in the nineties, and when he was a reformed member of parliament, he used to hammer

01:22:09.080 bracket creep. And he used to call it a very, very sneaky form of taxation. You know, the way that

01:22:14.920 he used to hammer the federal liberals at the time, I could only imagine if he would say the

01:22:20.680 same words to his own finance minister, Travis Taves, when he brought in bracket creep. If he

01:22:25.260 was that uh that tough with taze as he was as a federal member of parliament i think taves would

01:22:30.420 have uh fought twice before bringing that in and i did have taves on the show just after the budget

01:22:34.360 i asked him about it he said they'll look to address it in a year or two so yeah just trust

01:22:38.960 us hey we'll get we'll get around to it it's on the list okay perfect but yeah bracket creep just

01:22:43.260 i guess to explain to some people might not be familiar with it too it's just where you you can

01:22:46.300 use inflation as a form of increasing taxes on people i mean as you your your income might go

01:22:52.140 but your spending power is going down and you start paying a higher tax bracket, you're getting burned.

01:22:57.180 Yeah, that's exactly it. Bracket creep is when the government uses inflation to fatten its own

01:23:02.140 coffers, right? Because brackets are supposed to go up over time with inflation because the whole

01:23:07.340 idea is that, well, if you can't afford to buy more, you shouldn't pay more in taxes. Well,

01:23:12.060 bracket creep completely derails that notion by not moving brackets with inflation. So more people

01:23:19.100 get bumped up into paying higher taxes even though they can't afford to buy more but there's another

01:23:23.100 part right because we all have a tax-free portion of our income well over time bracket creep erodes

01:23:31.100 that tax-free portion of our income because it doesn't increase as inflation goes up so uh just

01:23:37.100 to close up i guess the federal leadership race is going on with the conservatives i imagine

01:23:40.860 you're watching it closely you guys you know advocate and you try to get on these leadership

01:23:44.700 races for all parties and so on uh o'toole signed promising to get rid of the carbon tax before

01:23:50.060 it uh unfortunately he uh forgot about his promise in his signature yes okay he'll be

01:23:56.440 blocked no no no no no no no he lied to he lied to taxpayers let's let's let's be honest and let's

01:24:02.320 call a spade a spade he didn't forget oh i forgot no he lied about it and let me tell you why why

01:24:07.500 we say that the pledge was black and white it said he would scrap the trudel government's carbon tax

01:24:12.160 and he would replace it with nothing.

01:24:14.940 And then he had the audacity

01:24:16.300 not just to do a complete 180

01:24:17.780 and decide to bring in a carbon tax of his own.

01:24:20.280 He had the audacity to play word games

01:24:22.780 and insult Canadians intelligence

01:24:24.240 because he said his carbon tax somehow

01:24:26.200 wasn't a tax at all.

01:24:28.500 So we actually have to call a spade a spade.

01:24:30.740 He didn't forget, he lied to taxpayers

01:24:33.120 on this carbon tax promise, but guess what?

01:24:35.660 He was held accountable.

01:24:36.820 Well, he's not there any longer,

01:24:38.040 so it didn't seem to work out for him.

01:24:39.380 So you're going to be, I imagine,

01:24:41.260 you know, talking with candidates and pushing on tax issues, things like that going forward

01:24:44.900 over the summer, I imagine. And we already are. And we're already seeing some of the candidates

01:24:50.080 come out against a carbon tax. Polyev, Mr. Polyev, he was very clear and very quick to say that he

01:24:56.460 would scrap the Trudeau government's carbon tax. Right away, we said, well, we're not just going

01:25:00.240 to be fooled by that one. We sent him a note and he responded back to us saying he's not going to

01:25:05.540 replace the carbon tax with anything. So he's going to scrap the carbon tax. That's good news.

01:25:09.400 Now, I think it was yesterday. We also hear that Sheree is going to scrap the carbon tax at the

01:25:15.540 pumps and on home heating bills. That's really good news. There are some concerns with Sheree's

01:25:20.780 policy. He wants to bring in an industrial carbon tax, but of course, families would end up feeling

01:25:26.480 that pain as well. But also, Sheree also wants to bring in what amounts to a second carbon tax. 0.66

01:25:32.140 So there's issues with Sheree's policies for sure. But Corey, it's great to see politicians

01:25:38.420 wanting to fight the carbon tax

01:25:40.440 because only a few months ago

01:25:41.820 you had these pundits in Ottawa

01:25:43.520 saying that carbon tax was a moot issue.

01:25:45.620 Well, it's not a moot issue

01:25:46.660 and it's great to see politicians

01:25:48.040 going back on the attack.

01:25:49.780 Well, I appreciate you guys out there

01:25:51.400 holding their feet to the fire.

01:25:52.500 Hopefully it's not a case of having to

01:25:54.540 get on their case as a flip-flopper down the road

01:25:57.000 and we'll actually have one of them

01:25:57.860 follow through on their promises.

01:25:59.280 So maybe I'll just kind of wrap the show.

01:26:01.300 Actually, we're getting near the top of the hour.

01:26:02.680 I rarely do that.

01:26:03.420 Well, I got a guest in the room, but why not?

01:26:05.080 It's been a full show, a real packed one.

01:26:07.320 I appreciate you coming in and talking to us.

01:26:08.960 Always do.

01:26:09.580 Of course, you're a regular guest.

01:26:10.540 As I say, I keep bringing your taxpayers guys in

01:26:12.500 because I just like having somebody in

01:26:13.540 who's not asking for more of my money.

01:26:14.980 They're trying to save some of it.

01:26:16.680 So where can people find information about you guys

01:26:18.940 and what you're doing?

01:26:19.500 Actually, I'll let you get that plug in before we go.

01:26:21.220 Well, thanks for having me on.

01:26:22.640 Taxpayer.com is where you need to go.

01:26:24.380 Check out our newsroom.

01:26:25.100 Check out our petitions.

01:26:26.520 You can see the debtclock.ca right there

01:26:28.500 to see the debt going up in real time.

01:26:30.500 Corey, thanks for having me on.

01:26:31.560 I'm looking at the time I have to run

01:26:33.060 to hit my next meeting.

01:26:35.080 So thank you so much.

01:26:35.840 Thank you.

01:26:36.740 All right, so Franco's gonna run for it there

01:26:38.900 and we will wrap things up here, guys.

01:26:41.680 So tomorrow, I've got another good show.

01:26:43.640 We're gonna actually have Jeremy Farkas on.

01:26:45.920 People remember him as the city councillor,

01:26:48.780 the one who really stirred up a number of,

01:26:50.940 well, he used to drive Mayor Niji bananas

01:26:52.820 and he's a very good libertarian activist sort of guy.

01:26:56.140 He ran for mayor.

01:26:57.760 Unfortunately, Mayor Gondek won.

01:27:00.820 And now Jeremy's gotten on

01:27:02.080 with a Big Brothers and Sisters fundraiser though,

01:27:04.520 where he's hiking and jogging

01:27:06.180 all the way from the Mexican border up to Canada.

01:27:08.320 And he's been putting a lot of updates

01:27:09.780 on Facebook and Twitter.

01:27:11.480 You see the pictures,

01:27:12.200 he's going through some real cool country,

01:27:14.920 hiking in some back country areas and all that

01:27:16.700 and raising money.

01:27:17.540 And he's raised a good amount already.

01:27:19.520 It's a good cause he's raising more.

01:27:20.700 So we're gonna do a live check-in with Jeremy DeMar.

01:27:22.360 I'm looking forward to that.

01:27:23.340 I haven't talked to him since he's gone down south.

01:27:25.400 And we've got a new Western Standard reporter.

01:27:29.020 He's up in Northern Alberta.

01:27:30.080 His name's Arthur Green.

01:27:31.580 And he's written some great stories already.

01:27:34.020 Actually, he wrote one of the ones

01:27:35.280 we're ripping into Dr. Vipond

01:27:36.940 and Arthur describes himself as a goofy

01:27:39.120 newfie. He's a character

01:27:41.060 and he's also a great story writer

01:27:43.180 with the standard, another new edition.

01:27:45.260 So we're going to talk to him about what he's been up to

01:27:47.120 and of course we'll have whatever other issues

01:27:49.200 of the day are going on. As well, remember

01:27:51.340 tonight the pipeline will

01:27:53.340 be airing and that's the weekly show

01:27:55.260 with Dave Naylor and our publisher

01:27:57.480 Derek Fildebrand and myself and we kind of

01:27:59.340 break down the top two or three issues

01:28:01.380 we see worth discussing through the

01:28:03.440 week. So make sure to watch the Western Standard channels to see that when it comes up tonight.

01:28:06.900 Subscribe to all those channels when these specials do come up. And thank you all for

01:28:10.840 tuning in today. I'll see you tomorrow at 1130.

01:28:33.440 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - April 28, 2022

Triggered： Hypocrisy, thy name is Dr. Joe Vipond.

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