Western Standard - Triggered： Individual property ownership will be key to First Nations prosperity

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's August 18th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. This is our

00:00:38.760 second last episode of this show. Again, I'm not vanishing altogether, but the roles are

00:00:44.020 going to change and things like that. And there's still going to be lots of digital productions

00:00:47.560 here at The Standard. Just won't be triggered for a bit. I'll still be triggered. It's not

00:00:52.900 on the show. So yes, this is our live show. Typically Monday to Friday, 1130 till one.

00:00:58.740 tomorrow will be the last of those, though. Thanks for tuning in today. This being live,

00:01:03.660 make sure to use that comment scroll. I see Jet Corrigan saying in New Westminster,

00:01:08.180 it's 90 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday, 74 today. So the climate's changing rapidly over there,

00:01:13.660 apparently. We are in a good heat wave right now. I got to admit in the West, and I know in Alberta,

00:01:17.900 things are browning up really fast. I don't go big on that climate emergency, of course,

00:01:21.700 and all that lunacy, but we should use some common sense. When it gets this dry in late

00:01:27.800 August as it pretty much always does. The fire hazard does go high. Don't flick the cigarette

00:01:32.480 butts out the window. You know, all of those fire bans, no sense having a big campfire shooting

00:01:37.360 sparks. I know it sucks going without them, but we don't need any extra forest fires or brush fires

00:01:43.440 or grass fires or any of that going on right now. All right. So let's see what else it is today.

00:01:49.980 The observances we've got. It's national, international birth control day, birth control

00:01:55.620 Pills Day in particular, I should say. There's a lot of methods of birth control. Now, this is one

00:02:00.320 we're celebrating. I mean, this was a big turning point for women. This is a way that women could

00:02:04.380 take control beyond the other method, I guess you could say, which is much more controversial

00:02:09.140 through termination of pregnancies. They can take birth controls and choose whether or not they

00:02:14.680 want to get pregnant. I know it's not 100%, but it's certainly our most effective form of birth

00:02:20.020 control in general, and this is the day it's celebrated. So, uh, you know, I, I, I say it's

00:02:26.940 a good thing. I know some of the very traditional folks think that's bad as well, but I mean,

00:02:31.540 there's always what, what else? French safes, which puts it into the man's hands or wherever

00:02:36.080 he may put it and, uh, takes it out of the woman's hands. Look, free choice, that choice means birth 0.68

00:02:41.200 control, allowing it. So, uh, great development. I mean, there's always the rhythm method, but the

00:02:45.460 other word for that is pregnant. All right, on a lighter note, it's also National Fajita Day.

00:02:50.820 This is the day to get out and celebrate when you get those meat and peppers fried on a hot

00:02:54.900 skillet like that and you wrap it up in a tortilla. Pretty much every aspect of Mexican food

00:03:00.180 is something wrapped in a tortilla. That's just the way it goes. Everything goes in a tortilla.

00:03:04.680 You can't avoid the tortillas. On the bright side, everything wrapped up in those tortillas is good,

00:03:09.660 whether it's fajitas, tacos, burritos, enchiladas, it doesn't matter. It's all good eating. Today's

00:03:14.620 the day for the fajitas. It's hot out there. You know what you do? You get your pan, put it on the

00:03:18.580 barbecue and saute all that meat and the peppers and everything and have your fajitas inside. You

00:03:26.220 don't heat the house up so much. Today's fajita day. Celebrate it. You don't ever want to miss a

00:03:30.320 fajita day. All right. Let's see. I've got a couple of guests. As I said, I'm going to be focusing

00:03:34.080 in these last couple of days on our Western Standard reporters just to talk with them one

00:03:38.920 more time before we go out, I guess you could say. So Matthew Horwood is our parliamentary bureau

00:03:44.640 chief. I'm going to talk to him first in a little while. We'll talk about some federal issues,

00:03:48.360 politics, news, all that good stuff. And then we'll go to the next guest will be Arthur Green.

00:03:54.780 He is our Alberta legislative reporter covering all things Alberta. We'll check in with him and

00:04:00.460 see what's happening up there. And I'll have a quick check in with Melanie Risden as well.

00:04:06.300 She's been working really hard on that series with COVID heroes, and she's got another one

00:04:11.660 popping out tonight, and it's going to be a big one. So we'll talk to her and see what's going

00:04:15.120 on with it. Okay, let's get on with my editorial rant for the day. So I mean, this is something

00:04:20.620 rare for me. I have to give a little credit word due to the CBC. They actually ran an excellent

00:04:25.000 piece a little while ago on how the lack of private property ownership on First Nation

00:04:29.300 reserves puts Indigenous entrepreneurs at a disadvantage in securing credit for their

00:04:34.360 business ventures. Private home and land ownership has been essential for many people in building

00:04:39.120 personal equity, and it can be used for retirement, business startups, or handing their wealth down to

00:04:43.880 their children. People living on reserves are deprived of that ability, though, to build wealth

00:04:48.360 that way, and it's a key part of why poverty and inadequate housing are chronic issues on reserves.

00:04:54.880 Employment opportunities are limited on reserves already. They're often in isolated areas without

00:04:58.980 easy access to broader markets. The prime employer on most reserves is usually the government.

00:05:04.360 And it's often a little more than a work for welfare program.

00:05:07.740 Ambitious citizens on reserves, and there's lots of them, are drawn to self-employment because of this.

00:05:12.440 With new opportunities in virtual businesses, there's huge potential for business startups, even on the most remote of reserves.

00:05:18.040 Even virtual businesses don't need capital to begin with, and there's the problem.

00:05:22.460 I'm not a fan of banks, and I've dealt with the frustration of tight lending practices when it comes to small businesses.

00:05:28.180 When my wife and I opened our pub, we had to use non-traditional lenders.

00:05:30.780 and even after maintaining a perfect credit record and making profit for five years, we

00:05:35.200 still couldn't qualify for a company credit card. We had to use our own. We never would have been

00:05:39.260 able to finance the pub if we didn't have a home to use as equity to back it up. I don't blame

00:05:44.800 banks. Business loans are high risk, particularly in the hospitality industry, and that's why a

00:05:49.420 system of equity-based loans has evolved. Now, reserve residents don't have that ability. If a

00:05:55.080 person lives on a reserve and defaults on a loan, there's no property a lender could seize to recover

00:05:59.500 their costs and laws. People passing through reserves often wonder why are the houses often

00:06:04.380 in such terrible condition, even though they appear to be recently built? Well, when a person

00:06:09.260 doesn't own a home, they have little incentive in maintaining it or trying to add value to it.

00:06:14.860 I mean, have you ever put premium gas into a rental car? Citizens on reserves live in their 0.95

00:06:20.220 home at the whim of the band council, it's not their property. And they could actually conceivably

00:06:24.140 be evicted from it on a whim. If they caught the eye of the wrong council member who wanted

00:06:29.340 it a home for his cousin. They don't own it. They're basically in there and the council controls

00:06:32.520 it. A home equity is an integral part of retirement savings for many people. The First Nations people

00:06:37.400 are often trapped in a cradle to grave dependency on government support. The ability to own property

00:06:42.940 could break them out of that cycle. The article to CBC, it did note that there are fears that

00:06:47.920 private property would be sold to non-reserve people if it was granted. So what? That's the

00:06:52.500 point of private property, the ability to do with it as you please, as the owner. How long do we

00:06:57.420 want to maintain these poverty-ridden racial enclaves we call reserves anyway. What sort of 0.98

00:07:02.180 future is there for citizens in these failed models of collectivism and dependency? Reserves

00:07:07.020 should be divided up among the citizens so they may choose individually what the disposition of

00:07:11.320 their land may be. Many, if not most, will stay, but they'll have the means to pursue business

00:07:16.100 initiatives or the growth in their personal equity through property as everybody else does.

00:07:20.480 The culture and community and reserves won't vanish if citizens are allowed to own property.

00:07:24.980 Let's not pretend the cultures are doing really great as the reserves are sitting right now.

00:07:29.620 First Nation citizens can own private property if we just change the Indian Act. 0.87

00:07:33.200 People are under the misconception that the state of reserves or First Nation policy is set in stone somehow,

00:07:37.480 that the Constitution or treaty obligations prevent it.

00:07:40.560 That's not the case. The Indian Act is what guides these policies.

00:07:43.920 Like any other piece of legislation, it could be amended or scrapped if the political will encouraged to do so can be found.

00:07:50.240 The status quo with First Nations isn't acceptable. 0.95

00:07:52.500 Despite constant injections of more and more money,

00:07:55.500 living conditions remain deplorable.

00:07:57.540 We need to radically change and reform the entire system,

00:08:00.480 and individual property ownership will be key to those reforms.

00:08:04.020 It won't be easy, and it won't happen soon,

00:08:06.300 but if we see the state broadcaster willing to broach the issue now,

00:08:09.580 we can see the cause isn't necessarily hopeless.

00:08:11.840 So that's what's got me going there.

00:08:14.620 Yes, you know, it's a way to make some changes.

00:08:17.660 And, you know, as I said, there's a lot of misconceptions.

00:08:19.960 Somebody mentioned treaties or something.

00:08:21.080 Look, read the treaties.

00:08:22.520 I posted them on my own blog.

00:08:23.920 They're simple documents.

00:08:25.020 There's not much to them.

00:08:26.600 And most of it is just defining the boundaries of the reserves.

00:08:29.040 It doesn't say that they can't own property or any of that.

00:08:31.320 That's all the Indian Act. 0.88

00:08:33.100 Totally separate.

00:08:34.260 Treaties are simple documents.

00:08:35.680 One of the things in the treaties that they constantly called for, though,

00:08:37.780 was an obligation by the government to educate the natives' children.

00:08:41.640 Wait, that was the beginning of the residential schools and they signed on for it.

00:08:44.240 But that's a separate discussion as well.

00:08:46.480 So, okay, that's what's got me going today.

00:08:49.340 Let's talk to our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:08:50.900 and see what else is going on out there.

00:08:53.880 Hey, good morning, Corey.

00:08:55.400 Good morning, Dave.

00:08:57.020 I'm hopeful that the fact that you're leaving

00:08:59.300 will end the string of milk thefts in the office.

00:09:03.340 I've got nothing to do with it.

00:09:04.900 I mean, the big benefit you're going to see

00:09:06.120 is probably a reduction in flatulence

00:09:07.860 at the shared desk space that we have together.

00:09:09.780 I'll grant you that.

00:09:10.900 But I don't drink milk.

00:09:12.200 I've got, I can get testimony on that one.

00:09:14.420 Yeah, it has been a smelly couple of years, but hey, big news, big news in the world of hockey, especially the Calgary Flames. Calgary Flames have signed free agent, center iceman Nazeem Qadri from the, or used to play with Colorado Avalanche, won a Stanley Cup last year.

00:09:32.940 Flames have signed him to a reported seven-year deal worth $7.5 million a year.

00:09:40.600 So that's really strengthening the Flames lineup.

00:09:44.060 They're now very deep in center, so they're going to be a team to watch this year for sure.

00:09:50.820 And speaking of hockey, there's a nutcase NDP lady out there, Zerilio, I think is her name, from BC. 1.00

00:09:58.740 She tweeted that, hey, you know what? Because of climate change, we should remove all indoor ice. It's really creating a lot of climate change and emissions. So I don't think that's going to go over well with the millions of hockey players, figure skaters, curlers, speed skaters, ringette players, and on and on and on that have fun on ice and indoor ice in Canada.

00:10:25.860 But we'll see how that does for the NDP.

00:10:29.860 Jonathan Bradley's got a story on Yale, that prestigious university.

00:10:35.940 Their medical institution is now helping transition kids as young as three years old into different genders.

00:10:44.900 So that craziness continues.

00:10:47.400 We've got a good column by David Creighton, speaking of craziness on the Justin Trudeau COVID hysteria.

00:10:55.860 And we have the potential to have a doctor serial killer in Ontario, Corey.

00:11:01.680 A doctor is now being charged with three more murders, elderly patients at the hospital that he worked, bringing the total number of charges that he's facing to four.

00:11:12.800 So that's interesting.

00:11:14.920 You remember the case of Dr. Harold Shipman in England a couple of years ago when he killed more than 200 of his patients.

00:11:22.640 And so it's a very interesting crime story going there.

00:11:27.660 Lots of stuff coming up this afternoon and even starting to get ready for the weekend, Corey.

00:11:33.400 Right on.

00:11:34.060 Yeah, we'll let you get back to packing up that weekend content and getting ready there.

00:11:38.500 And I appreciate the check-in and we'll keep an eye on reporting on who the milk thief is.

00:11:44.660 Maybe we'll do a show special when that person is finally caught through investigation and publicly shame them.

00:11:50.740 Well, you know what?

00:11:51.360 uh maybe the uh the threat of a hidden camera will bring it to a halt i still keep thinking

00:11:57.000 you should put a bait one in there packed with some sort of like turbo lax or something else

00:12:01.440 you know when you see the person screaming to the office washroom six times in a day you know

00:12:05.600 chances are they're the ones who took the milk well you know what there's nothing more frustrating

00:12:09.420 than you know having a cup of tea and getting the tea bag in there and letting it uh letting it

00:12:14.100 steep for a couple minutes and you're all excited about a nice cup of tea to start your day and

00:12:18.620 You open up the fridge door and the milk container that you had yesterday is gone, vanished.

00:12:23.580 Who does that, Corey?

00:12:26.180 You should be ashamed of yourself.

00:12:29.440 Well, and having your teabagging session ruined, it sets the day off to a terrible start.

00:12:35.760 I'm so glad you're leaving.

00:12:38.060 Lots of people are.

00:12:39.360 All right.

00:12:39.800 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:40.340 I'll talk to you after the show.

00:12:41.880 Thanks, Corey.

00:12:43.060 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:12:45.080 And yes, he's been frustrated.

00:12:46.380 It has been an ongoing office.

00:12:47.460 thing. Everybody working in office environments knows about that. You know, there's, there's

00:12:50.640 always somebody, right? There's always a sandwich thief or a leftover pizza thief or whatever,

00:12:54.920 or the person who deposits foods in there and forgets about them. And they turn into bio

00:12:58.880 experiments that have to be periodically, uh, contained as hazard hazardous waste and taken

00:13:04.440 out. But here, apparently milk just doesn't last more than a day or so. And it just vanishes. And

00:13:09.220 of course, nobody takes credit for its disappearance. So, uh, well, we'll see if that

00:13:13.880 issue ever gets resolved. So this one, I like to remind everybody too, that again, all of these

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00:14:55.420 coming up in Edmonton. Okay, let's take some of the comments I see from Pamela Jones, Kenny,

00:14:59.740 asking if I have that rant available in printer online. Yes, some of them I convert into columns

00:15:05.540 that I use later. Some of them are just something I write in the morning, you know, before the show.

00:15:09.720 In the case of that one, that's one I am going to turn into a column. It'll be going up on the

00:15:13.320 weekend. So it'll be in the opinion section of Western Standard online there, .news. So yeah,

00:15:18.240 it will be going up there. Print, yeah, we don't do the paper thing here, as tempting as it is.

00:15:23.060 Janet Crandall asking, yeah, where I'm going. Yeah, it's not everybody's been here every day.

00:15:27.140 So we did announce Trigger is going to be winding down and we still got all sorts of other digital

00:15:32.260 stuff coming up and I'm stepping back. I was the full-time opinion editor. I still am until next

00:15:37.180 Tuesday and I'm still going to be with the standard, but I'm going to be now just a contributor

00:15:42.600 back to being a columnist and stuff like that rather than full-time. Part of it, I kind of

00:15:47.820 explained it last Friday's show. Actually, I spoke on it like it's just kind of been tiring me out

00:15:53.280 coming all the way up from Pritis. I'm just not a suit and tie nine to five kind of person. We gave

00:15:57.540 it eight months. It's been really great around here. We've really developed this show. We've

00:16:00.380 had a fantastic audience. But it was just time to move back from that daily live production like

00:16:05.760 this. But we're going to have more stuff. And I'm not vanishing. I'm just changing my role. That's

00:16:10.160 all. And Tracy's saying I should keep up my rants at Western Standard. I will. As I said,

00:16:14.360 those columns will be coming out. They won't be on the digital, but you'll still be able to read

00:16:18.040 them as I write them. And I've always got lots of crabbiness and vitriol and grouchiness I'll be

00:16:25.600 able to share with everybody. So let's see what else we got going on in the news. That's an

00:16:30.920 interesting one with the NDP member in BC. It really shows how wacky those guys are and out

00:16:37.320 of touch with reality. Oh, they're actually going after something as iconic as hockey and rink space

00:16:43.880 in Canada. So I mean, you know, if you really, I mean, I think it's great. Fine. You'll kick

00:16:50.120 yourself in the knackers. Even NDP supporters often have a lot of kids and others, or they 0.61

00:16:54.620 played themselves and realized the importance or just the value of hockey across this country.

00:16:59.760 And as cold as Canada is, we need indoor rinks. Outdoor ones are great, but we still need the

00:17:05.120 indoor ones. But no, she's on the climate hysteria. She's crazy as the rest of them. 1.00

00:17:09.560 And I tweeted recently just to remind everybody because people forget that all the time. 0.75

00:17:14.860 And as we're going into a general election in Alberta next spring, the NDP, and it drives them

00:17:21.940 nuts when I bring this up, but it's the truth. They're all one party. Not everybody necessarily

00:17:26.680 realizes this. They say, oh, that's just that person over there, or that's just what the federal

00:17:30.120 branch said. No, no, no, no. The NDP aren't like other parties. They're socialists. They're

00:17:35.160 centrally run. There's only one party. It's the federal one. The provincial ones are wings of the

00:17:41.160 federal one. Think of a spider with multiple legs going out. They're still run by that central body.

00:17:47.700 And if you read the NDP constitution, because like I said, they go bananas whenever I bring it up.

00:17:51.160 It's right in there. If push comes to shove, and a provincial NDP leader has a policy difference

00:17:57.020 with the federal party, like they leave them some degree of autonomy as provincial leaders. But if

00:18:01.460 they differ in views, the federal party takes precedence, they will override the provincial

00:18:07.880 one. So when you're thinking about the election coming this spring in Alberta, and Rachel Notley's

00:18:14.000 running, don't forget, you're not just voting for Rachel Notley, you're voting for Jagmeet Singh.

00:18:18.340 because it's all one party. She has to do what he tells her. You can't buy a membership, for

00:18:25.440 example, with the provincial NDP. You have to buy it with just the NDP and then you're automatically

00:18:31.340 a federal and provincial supporter. Like when it used to be the progressive conservatives in

00:18:36.100 Alberta and it was progressive conservatives in Ottawa, for example, if you bought a provincial

00:18:39.700 PC membership, it didn't make you a federal member automatically. They were separate parties,

00:18:45.620 even if they were tied. Now, I mean, there's not much, not many for even federal and provincial

00:18:50.560 ties between a lot of parties, but the NDP are just one party and they like to promote this myth

00:18:56.660 as if the provincial leaders are independent and they would represent you on a provincial level.

00:19:02.180 They will not because they have to do what their central leadership says. Now, a member of

00:19:07.440 parliament, she's not the leader of the NDP, but it shows the level of depth and, you know, lunacy

00:19:13.100 of the federal representatives at the NDP

00:19:15.280 when she's talking about banning hockey rinks.

00:19:18.660 Well, just bear that in mind.

00:19:20.120 You're voting for Rachel.

00:19:21.120 You're also voting for that MDP MP as well.

00:19:26.700 So the minister of lies, Marco Mendocino,

00:19:31.280 he's saying federal agents had a record year

00:19:33.580 for illegal firearm seizures.

00:19:35.340 They caught 316 smuggled handguns.

00:19:38.100 Hey, get what you can, guys.

00:19:40.040 That's fine.

00:19:40.960 You know, it's good.

00:19:41.560 i'm glad you do recognize that that's where the problem is they're getting smuggled in by the

00:19:47.000 hunters well no you're catching them by the hunters they're getting smuggled in by the

00:19:49.580 thousands if you guys get the courage to crack down on the aquasasne reserve and some of the

00:19:53.540 area other areas where they're actually crossing the river all the time but i know you don't want

00:19:57.700 to do that do you that's where the guns are coming from but no you guys are you know if you want to

00:20:02.300 see a federal politician's butt pucker up into a knot just mention first nations and cracking down

00:20:06.720 on something. So instead though, Mendocino drifts further because he starts at pointing out how we've

00:20:11.980 got a bunch of illegal ones, but then says, and we're going to make everybody safer, of course,

00:20:15.320 by taking away all of the legally owned firearms and handguns that everybody's been following the

00:20:19.660 proper process for. Starts right, ends wrong. Well, I guess for a change, it's a bit of a break from

00:20:27.060 the regular stuff and that he did start sort of correctly anyways, but don't hold out hope for

00:20:31.440 rational policy coming from the minister of lies. All right, let's bring in somebody who's not prone

00:20:36.980 to lying. He's one of our reporters. He's our parliamentary bureau chief. It's Matthew Horwood

00:20:41.120 from out in Ottawa for what I imagine will be the last appearance on Triggered. So thanks for

00:20:45.160 joining me today, Matthew. Thanks, Corey. I do my best to be honest. What's that? I do my best to be

00:20:50.520 honest. Well, that's appreciated. Yeah, we don't get return readers that much when we spread BS.

00:20:54.920 The only people who go back over and over for BS are liberal voters, but we don't have a lot of

00:20:58.340 them anyways. Exactly. Don't want to end up like mainstream media. So, you know, here's the top

00:21:04.260 story I've seen, at least the most recent from you, you covered it, and that's in the Ontario,

00:21:08.720 Dave mentioned that in the news update, was this doctor with now three more charges for murder

00:21:14.440 laid against him. So that would make it four. Just a note that Dave didn't mention, he's out

00:21:19.060 on $10,000 bail. I guess if he'd murdered them in a bouncy castle, they might keep him behind bars.

00:21:24.900 but since he's just a run-of-the-mill mass murderer, they'll say, well, you know, here's

00:21:28.380 to put in 10,000 bucks and try not to run away over the course of the next few months or kill

00:21:32.740 more folks. But it's a pretty disturbing case. Yeah, it's interesting what gets the attention

00:21:39.540 compared to other cases. But yeah, this Brian Nadler, he was charged Wednesday with three

00:21:45.140 additional counts of first-degree murder, all of them involving elderly patients. The RCMP

00:21:50.620 investigated him back in March 2021. They were alerted to many suspicious deaths at the hospital

00:21:58.000 and they found that he had been, you know, it looks like he might have murdered a bunch of

00:22:03.240 people. But his lawyers are saying that he will be vindicated, that all four patients died of COVID-19,

00:22:10.300 not because he murdered them. And yeah, he's out on a $10,000 bail. He needs to notify the police

00:22:18.920 if he changed his address, and he cannot work. Obviously, he has lost his medical license. So

00:22:24.720 we'll see what happens with that case. Very disturbing. We'll see how many more victims

00:22:28.120 might end up appearing. Yeah, well, I'm glad they've suspended his license, at least for what

00:22:34.100 that's worth. So credit due. I don't imagine too many people going in for a checkup with the guy

00:22:39.680 with that history at this point anyways. But just a weird story. And it's funny, you know,

00:22:44.360 we see these David brought up when we were talking about that in the newsroom with a horrible case

00:22:47.860 over in the UK with a doctor and he'd killed hundreds. It was one of the worst mass murders

00:22:51.200 in history. I guess just if you're some kind of psychopath who wants to get access to people 0.96

00:22:56.620 killing seniors, you know, it slides under the radar. It's just awful. We'll see what happens 0.97

00:23:00.280 when the facts come out, I guess, in that. So getting on to healthcare, just moving through

00:23:05.400 your stories. This is interesting too. And of course, the first part that everybody gets worked

00:23:09.680 up with, what Ontario is saying is going to fund surgeries at more private facilities to try and

00:23:14.360 help with the pressure and the burdens. Every province is going through this right now.

00:23:18.840 They're also talking about, you know, seeking out more ways to get nurses and changing long-term

00:23:24.560 housing and beds for things. But as soon as you use that private word, people kind of go bananas.

00:23:29.940 Yeah, people don't like to hear the provincial government talking about private health care,

00:23:34.560 that's for sure. But yeah, they're talking about covering a number of different measures,

00:23:39.560 covering the exam registration fees for international trained nurses. They're going

00:23:44.420 to send patients waiting for long-term care beds to a home, none of their choosing until one opens

00:23:49.700 up. So a couple of different, and of course, as you said, trying to get surgeries done in

00:23:54.980 more private settings. So they have a lot of measures to handle this tremendous backlog of

00:24:00.740 healthcare workers. But the main problem, and I've spoken to a couple of nurses, and this is

00:24:04.740 what they say, is that there just aren't enough nurses to work. So many of them are considering 0.79

00:24:09.180 quitting. They are worn down. They don't see an end in sight for these backlogs and this

00:24:15.900 huge increase in medical conditions that have been hitting them. And this winter looks like

00:24:20.980 it's going to get even worse, Corey. Even one of them I spoke to, they said that a lot of nurses

00:24:25.080 are considering going into the plastic surgery business because that's where the money is. And

00:24:32.180 that would be obviously much less stressful than being in what are essentially war zones,

00:24:36.520 these hospitals this winter. Yeah, no, that's disturbing. I mean, and we're seeing it across

00:24:42.080 the whole country. I know in the Maritimes, we've seen some facilities reducing or closing or

00:24:48.180 running out of doctors altogether. Here in Alberta, we've had urgent care centers that

00:24:52.160 are reducing hours. I mean, you know, of all things, we know that we don't always just get

00:24:56.000 sick or injured, you know, between nine to five. It can happen in any hour. But all of these

00:25:00.220 facilities are desperate. They're just running out of resources and they don't know what to do

00:25:03.520 any longer for sure it's definitely not just an ontario problem it's all across canada all across

00:25:08.000 the us across the world i would imagine i mean you look at every like every business has a help

00:25:12.580 wanted sign so why would hospitals be any different especially when you're going to be

00:25:16.320 going through the things nurses and doctors go through with such uh such a little pay but um

00:25:21.840 yeah it'll be uh interesting to see how they handle it this winter um my heart goes out to

00:25:27.940 the nurses. It's going to be, could be dicey. Yeah. Well, let's look at, you write some stuff

00:25:33.240 out. It's kind of, it's federal, but it's on the international front as well. So Canada's

00:25:38.660 committing to send a bunch more funding to Ukraine. They are going to send $450 million

00:25:46.040 to buy heating oil. They have already sent $2 billion to date to Ukraine. And that's all well

00:25:53.800 good if you want people to stay warm in the wintertime but you should also consider corey

00:25:58.040 that ukraine is rated one of the most the second most corrupt country in europe just after russia

00:26:04.120 and out of one transparency index they were ranked 122nd out of 180 countries for corruption

00:26:10.360 so my question is how much of that money is going to be actually going towards heating the country

00:26:15.960 and how much of it is going to be misappropriated to be lost to corruption to go to support the

00:26:20.520 country's billionaire class um but of course that's not something that's really appropriate

00:26:25.240 to talk about you can't bring up ukrainians corruption problem you can't talk about the

00:26:29.400 neo-nazi battalions that canada is indirectly supporting and you can't talk about what

00:26:35.320 amnesty international pointed out and finally confirmed was that the ukrainian armed forces

00:26:39.720 were essentially using their own citizens as human shields so they are uh unpopular narratives to

00:26:46.120 to talk about, but, you know, it's not, the world isn't black or white, Corey. You, not every, you

00:26:51.720 know, you have a war between two countries. Both sides are going to be doing some pretty unsavory

00:26:55.940 things. And it's, it's too bad that's, you know, taxpayers' dollars might get just lost into a

00:27:01.460 black hole of a country. Yeah, that's always a hazard. I mean, whether it's a third world place 0.74

00:27:05.880 or a war-torn place, or again, in Eastern Europe, where they're still shaking off kind of a, you

00:27:10.620 know, I mean, they moved on from the socialist rule of the Soviet Union and into, well, often,

00:27:15.880 as we see in Russia and the Ukraine, it tends to be run by gangsters to a good degree or a

00:27:20.980 semi-democratic sort of state. And then when you send funding for those countries, even though

00:27:26.000 they are in need, it's rare that it gets down to the ground where a person initially intends it to

00:27:31.000 be. Exactly. There's no mechanisms to make sure and to ensure that all that money goes to where

00:27:37.180 they say it's going to go. And there was a case of the wife of a Ukrainian MP that was found

00:27:42.900 fleeing the country with a suitcase full of, I think it was 20, 25 million US and European dollars

00:27:49.560 that they just had in a briefcase. So you wonder where that money might have come from, what it

00:27:53.540 should have been used for, and whether a lot of our tax dollars might end up in similar situations

00:27:59.160 in some suitcase flying over the border with some Ukrainian billionaire's wife. Who knows, right?

00:28:07.420 Yeah, well, it's quite a mess just over there in general and in Europe in general. I mean,

00:28:12.860 it kind of, you know, if anything, we might have to be sending, well, I hope we don't, but sending

00:28:17.140 foreign aid to Germany to try and heat themselves. I mean, this, I don't think this was your story,

00:28:20.740 but they were talking about buying firewood to keep people warm this winter because their energy

00:28:25.620 crisis is getting so acute out of there. I mean, if it's a cold winter in Europe, there's going to

00:28:30.820 be problems in every country out there this year. Exactly, Corey. I did actually mention that in one

00:28:36.100 of the stories I wrote about Germany, they're going to have a horrible winter. They're, as you

00:28:40.540 said, the Google searches for firewood are exploding because Russia has basically shut

00:28:47.020 off or nearly shut off the pipeline of oil going to the country. So all these German cities are 0.99

00:28:51.920 talking about different measures to save energy, which is dimming streetlights, you know, shutting

00:28:57.260 down gyms and other recreational centers, you know, talking about cold showers. I mean, it's a

00:29:04.040 really dicey situation for Germany, especially made worse by the fact that they have a serious

00:29:08.980 drought in the country that is going to make things even worse. So I mean, who knows, maybe 1.00

00:29:13.980 we'll be sending aid over there as well. It's but all of Europe, it's a really dicey situation.

00:29:20.640 Yeah, or even rather than sending aid, it'd just be nice if we had liquid natural gas terminals,

00:29:24.560 like most of the developed world that has liquid natural gas reserves or gas reserves, and we

00:29:29.300 could actually be exporting it to countries that could purchase it. But I guess Canada's being the

00:29:34.260 Boy Scout. So we're just saying let them burn wood. Yeah, exactly. It's really too bad.

00:29:38.980 It is. So, I mean, speaking of Boy Scouts, I'm just going a little farther back with Public Works. Maybe, you know, because I know it's tough on you in Ottawa and Parliament's not going. There's still always lots of stuff to write about, but, you know, they're all out shaking hands and hitting barbecues right now still. But some of this committee stuff comes forward and this Public Works basically saying, yeah, we know SNC-Lavalin has got some criminal issues and everything. But, you know, let's let bygones be bygones. It's been a while. You know, we're still going to do business with them.

00:30:08.980 yeah corey it's uh it's it's really shocking to see that they would just put all that behind them

00:30:15.780 and they would ignore the obvious scandal that happened that is still fresh in people's minds

00:30:19.940 just because it happened 20 years ago it doesn't mean that it wasn't a huge deal and that it's

00:30:24.900 still a perfect example of liberal corruption that doesn't seem to get uh it just gets memory

00:30:30.100 hold you know that the liberals seem to jump from scandal to scandal and it never gets i don't think

00:30:35.700 the attention it really deserves uh by the media by the conservatives and by the public at large

00:30:41.380 and so it's it's really too bad that's again all these things just keep getting memory hold

00:30:45.540 and hopefully this next election we will be able to see all these uh all these issues come back up

00:30:51.620 and trudeau will have to be held accountable for them and explain why he is so embroiled in scandals

00:30:58.980 constantly it seems well you gotta wonder i mean is snc lavalin really the only company on earth

00:31:04.100 it's capable of doing some of these contracts. I mean, they pretend like there's no other

00:31:07.140 competitors and nobody else who can do it. I mean, the realism is it's the only company

00:31:13.300 in Canada that's so strongly entrenched within the federal Laurentian elite. That's what the reality

00:31:18.660 is. Oh, exactly. Once you're in bed with a company like that, you don't want to lose them,

00:31:22.900 even if there's a little bit of corruption going on. That's just going to be so much more of a

00:31:26.820 paperwork and a headache. So you're going to look past all those things.

00:31:30.260 So what else are you working on there? What do we get to look forward to as we start heading

00:31:33.860 into the weekend so i interviewed uh pollster nick nanos about the conservative leadership race

00:31:40.820 what he said was it seems according to fundraising numbers let alone the uh various different polls

00:31:46.660 on popularity that pierre polyev has this one in the bag um that he is going to be the next leader

00:31:52.660 of the conservative party and jean chariot unfortunately is uh not going to make the cuts

00:31:58.020 he also talked about trudeau's popularity numbers why they seem to be going down and and why people

00:32:02.980 aren't jumping towards the ndp and they're kind of the young people are switching towards the

00:32:06.820 conservative party so it should be an interesting story that'll come out tomorrow i also have an

00:32:11.380 interesting one on the five toronto area doctors that passed away uh sadly in july i interviewed

00:32:18.100 two alberta physicians that are convinced that it had something to do with the vaccine despite

00:32:24.340 the media and the hospitals declaring otherwise now very interesting conversations i had they

00:32:29.620 argued that um there has been they've seen an increase in uh cancers accelerating due to the

00:32:36.820 vaccine and they've seen cases of uh athletes collapsing with basically myocarditis heart

00:32:43.060 attacks um because of uh because of the vaccine which would explain four of the different deaths

00:32:48.900 that that happened in july so a very interesting take on that we'll have to see how this goes on

00:32:55.140 because there's certainly going to be, as I've been reporting on,

00:32:59.380 you know, lots more injuries, lots more deaths from these vaccines, unfortunately.

00:33:04.060 Yeah, and I mean, I don't want to set off the horrific algorithms again,

00:33:07.580 but, you know, it's a good time to remind you.

00:33:08.920 Yeah, sorry for mentioning that. I should have censored myself.

00:33:10.800 Oh, that's okay. No, you can mention it.

00:33:12.460 And we just got to take care.

00:33:13.720 And I'll just kind of remind everybody,

00:33:15.000 so you've done a lot of investigative work on this,

00:33:17.520 talking to people who are impacted, getting direct stuff, like unique stuff.

00:33:20.720 You're not, you know, just picking up press releases and throwing them in.

00:33:24.040 And due to doing that, I was just talking about your willingness to follow up and check

00:33:30.560 into the truth and the content that you can't get anywhere else.

00:33:32.620 It's a bit of a self-serving thing, too.

00:33:34.580 We can't talk necessarily so much on those medication challenges or we tend to get kicked

00:33:40.320 off of YouTube, but people can read about what you've found in full on your articles

00:33:44.520 and stories at thewesternstandard.news.

00:33:47.080 So, you know, I just like to remind folks, we're not censored at all there.

00:33:52.300 Yeah.

00:33:52.460 Yeah. And let me be clear that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective for the most part.

00:33:57.940 And I am not being an anti-vaxxer by saying that. Hopefully that will save us, Corey.

00:34:02.200 Well, we'll see. And, you know, that's the second last show. I still, I don't want to get kicked off in my last game.

00:34:08.900 Not a good way to send it off. No.

00:34:10.820 It's frustrating. You know, I mean, we should be allowed to have the discussion.

00:34:14.160 I mean, that's a discussion in itself of, you know, the social media giants and sort of the censorship that happens within them.

00:34:22.460 And like I said, Leon, it's a little self-serving chat, but that's why the importance of independent outlets like ours and having people on the ground like yourself going out and getting this information and reporting it is so important right now.

00:34:35.380 Yeah, exactly. And I've seen a little bit of the tide turning in terms of vaccine injuries.

00:34:40.040 I mean, CBC did a showcased one man story a couple of weeks ago.

00:34:45.280 There's been some other alternative outlets starting to really talk about this.

00:34:48.060 The Epoch Times being a perfect example.

00:34:49.840 So it's going to be interesting to see over the next couple of months as the vaccine injury stories keep piling up and coming out into the mainstream versus, on the other hand, as we head into winter and the cases go up of COVID and other, you know, the flu, maybe monkeypox, the federal government considers either sending us into lockdown or mandating the third booster or both.

00:35:11.480 So I think those opposing forces as they come together are going to make for a very hot autumn, perhaps.

00:35:19.180 Yeah, the battle between the COVID zero cult 0.86

00:35:21.600 and people who just want to get on their lives

00:35:23.560 is far from done.

00:35:25.060 Exactly.

00:35:26.180 All right.

00:35:26.640 Well, thanks for checking in with us today, Matthew,

00:35:29.240 and laying out all the stuff you've worked on

00:35:30.960 and it's coming up.

00:35:32.100 And I'll let you get back to it.

00:35:33.800 So I'll talk to you another time.

00:35:36.440 I'll talk to you another time, Corey.

00:35:37.560 Thank you.

00:35:37.880 Right on.

00:35:38.320 Thanks.

00:35:39.360 So again, that reminder, that is Matthew Horwood.

00:35:41.120 He's our Ottawa parliamentary reporter.

00:35:43.240 And as you can see, and as we talked about,

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00:35:46.940 And he dips into issues that legacy media isn't touching.

00:35:50.980 And if you want to read about those things, and he's sourcing them.

00:35:53.440 You know, he's not putting his opinion out there.

00:35:55.160 I'm the opinion guy.

00:35:56.300 I'll throw all that out there.

00:35:57.640 He's seeking out and interviewing and talking to people and documenting it.

00:36:01.540 It's important.

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00:36:16.460 it's finally getting there, but it seems the legacy media follows the alternative outlets like

00:36:22.080 our own, the independent outlets. It's the pressure from us. It's those stories getting out

00:36:27.440 and pushing where the legacy outlets finally have to say, okay, well, we'll start looking into a

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00:38:22.400 good causes all right what else have I got going on here you know something something a lot of

00:38:29.800 people aren't talking about maybe because it's a bit of a morbid uh approach to things but it's

00:38:34.480 true. It's not just the healthcare system, for example, as to why we're being overwhelmed all

00:38:40.440 over the place. Our health facilities are just, it doesn't seem to matter how much we spend on

00:38:45.060 them, they can't keep up. And a lot of it is our broken system. I mean, our system is just so rigid,

00:38:50.060 it legalizes many, many means of competition or private provision or breaking out of the

00:38:57.640 government monopoly. But another problem, and a financial problem in general for us, and in

00:39:03.760 healthcare, is, well, the baby boomers are all getting really old right now. And I'm not trying 1.00

00:39:11.620 to get into some age disputes or anything. I'm just talking about demographic realities.

00:39:16.160 You know, so people who understand the baby boom happened just after World War II, those soldiers

00:39:22.620 who came back, came back with, you know, pretty virile and in a good mood. Plus, there were some

00:39:29.000 boom times happening in the 50s and times were good. And there was just a whole whack of kids

00:39:33.800 were born over the course of, you know, 10, 20 years there. And I'm a Gen Xer, I guess, if we're

00:39:40.220 going to identify generations, but there's the boomers. And it was a large demographic segment

00:39:45.340 of our population. And that segment, though, has been working its way up, working its way up.

00:39:48.900 one of our most productive segments, getting up into the 90s even. But now that tide's kind of

00:39:53.780 turned, they all started retiring. And instead of pumping money into the system, now they're

00:39:59.000 drawing out again. And again, not blaming them, but now you're cashing your RRSPs. Now you're

00:40:04.620 collecting your pension. You're not paying nearly as much in taxes. And the other part that's just

00:40:10.200 a reality of aging, and I'm not saying we should cut off medicine or anything, is it's in our final

00:40:17.020 years when we use the vast majority of our healthcare resources. When you are in your 80s

00:40:22.840 and 90s, I've got a grandmother who's 103, but she's in a full care home. And I'm glad they're

00:40:30.660 caring for her. And she's on a great number of medications and needs a lot of help to get 0.66

00:40:35.540 through. And I mean, that just rises as we go. So we've got this very large segment of the

00:40:40.260 population now that need very, very regular medical interventions, doctors visits, medications,

00:40:45.780 care centers, nursing homes, that all takes skilled medical professional help in order to

00:40:52.600 maintain them. Well, maintain, that sounds so cold. Keep them alive. Keep them in a decent

00:40:58.180 standard of living, you know, and we do as good a job as we can with it. And it's not like the

00:41:03.420 old, old days either. It's not so simple as to, is the old days the way it used to be is I guess,

00:41:07.020 you know, grandma and grandpa move in with the kids and help raise the kids while the family

00:41:10.560 goes out to work. You know, that's the old style of a family unit. And it doesn't put the pressure

00:41:15.020 onto public services as much, but this is where we are today. This is where I'm pointing out a

00:41:20.520 challenge. And I have to admit, I don't have an easy solution to point to in this case. I know

00:41:26.740 we can fix things up. We can definitely make them better. And, you know, another one of our areas is

00:41:32.660 long-term care facilities for seniors and others are, see, here we go, Sylvia. Now, let me get

00:41:38.920 there. Sylvia. What? I beg your pardon, Corey. What's wrong with baby boomers? I didn't say a 1.00

00:41:43.440 damn things wrong with baby boomers. I'm not starting on an anti-age thing. I'm talking about 1.00

00:41:46.880 realistic demographics, okay? Let's not get into this. Let's have the discussion without getting

00:41:52.920 defensive the second it starts. I'm not shooting at the boomers. And as you say, what about the 1.00

00:41:59.840 boomers that are still in their home because they don't want to be a drain? I know. I know. And I'm 0.89

00:42:03.800 glad they are. But as they get in their 80s and 90s, most can't maintain it anymore. So we've got

00:42:09.200 to start talking about how do we deal with it? How do we best keep that high standard of living?

00:42:14.640 I like seeing some of the initiatives with home care, getting people out so we can keep seniors 1.00

00:42:18.800 in their homes as long as humanly possible, because that's where they want to be. And it's

00:42:23.800 still far cheaper for everybody else if it's, you know, short visits. But the LinkedIn users saying,

00:42:29.940 you know, wondering if assisted suicide for geriatrics is going to be legalized, you know,

00:42:34.180 and those Swiss suicide pods. I know, you see, I don't like, I'm not proposing at all going down 0.82

00:42:38.340 that route. I mean, we've talked about that before. I'm not a man of faith. Hey, I think

00:42:41.640 this is what we got. So we want to stretch that out as long as humanly possible with

00:42:46.060 a decent standard of living. So, you know, let's do so. But we got to start having some

00:42:52.520 discussions because we have, you know, a demographic pressure that's building and coming

00:43:00.480 up right now because of that. That's just a reality of what's going on. Jet Gorgon's

00:43:04.740 bringing up a good point saying, I'm a boomer and I don't care how it still works in the

00:43:07.460 trades. Yeah. I mean, there's some of the things that are really good too, though, is as you see

00:43:11.680 the articles all the time, you know, 80 is the new 60 or things like that. Like people are living

00:43:17.520 longer, they're healthier, longer, and they can stay in the workforce a lot longer. And most of

00:43:22.240 us want to, I, I, it depends on the person, but I'm not in a rush to retire as long as I'm able

00:43:26.940 and, and, uh, you know, physically capable, mentally capable. I want to keep working. Maybe

00:43:31.480 my idea will be different. You know, when I'm older, I don't know. But when we're talking about

00:43:39.260 dealing with healthcare challenges, pressures, and so on, we have to, as I was saying,

00:43:46.400 it's a sensitive subject, then people get defensive and they get upset. But we got to

00:43:50.680 have the discussion because it's not getting better for not talking about it. And with any

00:43:54.480 luck, we all get there. So help the seniors of today, because we're going to be the seniors

00:43:59.480 of tomorrow. This is all in our interest. Paradox is saying we struggled with my father's dementia

00:44:05.640 for two years with no help from home care, two hours per week. It's worse than useless. Yeah. 0.84

00:44:10.200 And that's, I mean, the publicly serviced one isn't necessarily good. There's private services

00:44:14.280 that provide that are better, but not everybody can afford that. And in a case, eventually when

00:44:18.920 you get things like dementia and so on, then eventually often you need to have that person

00:44:23.640 go into a full-time care facility. So let's talk about it though, because again, we're getting

00:44:28.600 a case of our whole country running low on tax-based resources for many many reasons

00:44:35.160 but this is among them i'm not trying to blame the boomers so everybody don't get your backs up

00:44:39.960 a demographic reality is not blaming somebody something it's pointing out something that's

00:44:43.640 happening and let's make it better sheila gray saying high standard of living are you kidding

00:44:47.880 me i i'm not sure which part you're speaking of i want it to be a high standard of living

00:44:51.960 uh we we've got room to improve on it i mean yeah we don't want to be warehousing our seniors the 0.99

00:44:56.360 the people who raised us, the people brought us where we are today, you know, and just keeping

00:45:01.280 them alive. We want a standard of living. We want it to be decent. And it's, it's very, very

00:45:06.540 expensive. That's a reality too. So how can we make it more cost effective? How can we make sure

00:45:12.860 that as many people are cared for as possible in an affordable way? And, you know, and trying to

00:45:20.320 make those last years as good as possible. And paradoxically saying, we knew it was a demographic

00:45:25.840 time bomb coming and we fiddled. I think there's a degree of it. You know, we kind of knew it was

00:45:31.700 coming, but we don't like talking about it. It's one of those things we're squeamish about. We

00:45:34.360 don't like thinking about it. You want to see discussions. I see Jane commenting in there. Yes,

00:45:38.600 my wife's saying, Corey loves boomers. He's married to one. Yeah, Jane's a year or two older 0.98

00:45:42.060 than me. And actually when you cut the cutoff line for who's a boomer or not, she falls into

00:45:48.100 the boomer and I do love her dearly. So either way, these are discussions we have to have and

00:45:54.000 you want squeamish, I'm terrified of death. Oh, absolutely mortified of it. And I avoid discussing

00:45:59.880 it whenever humanly possible, particularly with my own, but it doesn't matter whether I want to

00:46:04.020 talk about it or not. Eventually it's coming for me. And likewise with seniors, I'm just saying

00:46:12.280 this, it's another step or another portion of what we've got going on right now. And I'm talking

00:46:19.560 from a fiscal point of view or a resource point of view, we got to start discussing these things

00:46:23.320 because we have a healthcare system that's falling apart right now. And I want to see a

00:46:29.160 lot of reform for it. I want to fix the care system as much as we can, but we also have to

00:46:36.600 look at how we deal with these things because we can't avoid them whether we want to talk about

00:46:41.740 them or not. Here's an interesting thing. Speaking of government coming after our resources,

00:46:51.000 our hard-earned money, our things, and that's our homes. You know, we've heard that a number

00:46:55.980 of times and we know it. The government is eagerly eyeing, you know, I spoke earlier of the value of

00:47:01.020 home equity, how important it is, how empowering it is, and how we're robbing our First Nations

00:47:05.280 citizens of that empowerment and that that means and mechanisms of savings. The government wants

00:47:11.400 to steal your home equity. We've reported on that a number of times. I mean, we know they do. They

00:47:16.440 keep putting out study after study with a Canadian, uh, you know, the CA, uh, is this CMRH or whatever

00:47:22.700 the, that, that, that government branch of, of real estate. And they keep talking about how they

00:47:26.680 can come up with a home equity tax on your primary house. They want your equity. You don't keep

00:47:31.260 sniffing around and trying to find ways to do it. And then they've always get caught and they

00:47:34.960 pretend, no, no, no, we're not coming after your equity. One of the steps where we could see that

00:47:38.400 those liars want our home equity is they desperately want money, our money. Uh, CMHC, 0.99

00:47:43.500 Thank you, Paradox. Darned acronyms. They've been getting the revenue agency. When you file 0.91

00:47:51.660 your taxes, you have to report the sale of your primary home. I mean, they don't take any part

00:47:57.260 of it, but they've already put you in the habit. If they're not going to tax it, if it's not

00:48:01.420 taxable, it's none of your damn business. We don't need it in there. You shouldn't have to 0.97

00:48:06.120 have it in there. You will get fined $8,000 if you don't tell them about a sale of your home.

00:48:11.540 Why? Why? It's none of your damn business. I don't have to tell you about the sale of my car. I don't have to tell you about any other sales. Why do you want to know about the sale of my home? Why would I be fined? Why are you putting a gun to my head to threaten me with fines? And I tell you, it turns into a gun to the head. I'm going to go on a bit of a libertarian rant, because it still always comes down to force.

00:48:34.340 because people say, well, it's just a fine. It's not a criminal thing. Yeah. Well, what if I don't

00:48:37.440 pay it? Well, they'll seize your assets. What if I don't have any assets? Well, then they'll

00:48:41.220 eventually, we'll get to the point. You'll be incarcerated. What if I don't want to be

00:48:44.120 incarcerated? They'll arrest you. What if I tell them not to arrest me? Well, they will put a gun

00:48:47.120 to your head. In the end, it's always a gun to your head. It's your property. They want to steal 1.00

00:48:52.240 it. And they want you now to already get in the habit of registering any sale of that property

00:48:57.260 when you do your tax return. By force, they're telling you to register that.

00:49:02.040 Why would they do that if they didn't want your property?

00:49:04.500 Well, at least for what it's worth, Pierre Polyev and Scott Aitchison, both who are running

00:49:09.720 for the Conservative Party of Canada, have brought that up and they're addressing it

00:49:14.420 and they're saying they would end it.

00:49:16.400 So, I mean, it's a promising sign to see some politicians even pointing out.

00:49:19.800 It sounds like a little thing, but it's not.

00:49:22.400 It's not.

00:49:22.960 I mean, when they're picking what you have to report by law to them and what you don't,

00:49:27.380 And when they want you to always report your home equity, what you sold, they're sniffing around at your money.

00:49:33.060 And when I was talking about retirement, I was talking about us being able to pay our bills or last as long as we can in our homes and things like that.

00:49:39.560 A lot of us, that's our nest egg.

00:49:41.400 That's the money you're putting away.

00:49:42.720 That's what you worked hard for.

00:49:43.940 That's why you maintain the place.

00:49:45.640 That's why you skipped some vacations.

00:49:48.500 You know, I like listening to some of the, if we are going to get an intergenerational whining, I'll digress into that quickly.

00:49:53.940 some of those ones that they're usually the ones pissing and moaning about paying off student loans

00:49:57.940 well what did you do after you graduated oh i went hiking through europe for three years

00:50:01.600 and then you're going to whine about the student loans and whine about how you can't afford to get

00:50:06.520 into a house guys if you want to get into a home for the most part you usually have to scrimp and

00:50:10.940 save and give up a few things and if that means a few less trips to europe that's the way it goes

00:50:14.300 either way people work very hard for their homes very hard for their equity and the government

00:50:19.300 wants to take it away from you. This is how bad it's getting. Pay attention. So either way,

00:50:26.200 I'm glad to see that being brought up by Polyev and Aitchison and maybe more and more pressure

00:50:31.000 will go. Let's just get them out of sniffing around our equity. It's none of your damn business. 0.97

00:50:36.600 All right. Let's speak, get provincial, swing things around and talk to our provincial reporter, 0.99

00:50:43.340 Arthur Green, and see what's happening up there. Hey, Arthur, how's it going?

00:50:46.500 uh not too bad cory it's uh my fan just gave out uh in my house so it's uh it's quite warm

00:50:55.820 as we says a new plan well that yeah i mean this is not a good time to have a fan giving out

00:51:02.020 during these heat waves i mean there's probably not a hell of a lot of them for sale in places

00:51:06.420 right now either yeah i'll have to get uh old-fashioned and open the freezer door i guess

00:51:12.240 and see if I can fill this place with some cool air.

00:51:16.020 Well, I appreciate that you still kept yourself covered, you know,

00:51:20.780 with a jacket and shirt on rather than going topless or something

00:51:24.260 with the excuse of excessive heat.

00:51:25.780 I mean, I appreciate you and all, but that's just not my kind of thing.

00:51:28.960 I thought about wearing swimming trunks and a strapped shirt,

00:51:32.820 but I figured Dave and Derek wouldn't approve.

00:51:36.760 Yeah, well, tomorrow's my last day of the show,

00:51:38.240 and I'm thinking I'm still not going to wear pants,

00:51:39.880 but nobody seeing it is going to be able to know that.

00:51:42.240 wear a sombrero here we go um so let's let's start going through some of the stuff you've

00:51:49.660 been uh writing about recently you know as i'm going through with matthew i want to you know i

00:51:53.740 like uh talking with you guys and uh showing you know where the news is coming from and so uh

00:51:59.040 this was one that came out yeah i got that my notes i tweeted about that most they found out

00:52:04.040 they've discovered with this grand study that most people infected with omicron didn't even

00:52:09.560 know they had it. Yeah, it's a surprise to me, Corey. I mean, we all know with COVID,

00:52:18.520 a lot of people showed symptoms. And then there was other people that had the variant Omicron

00:52:24.280 that actually didn't know they had it. It was published by Gmail Network Open, and Cedars and

00:52:31.080 now researchers actually found that 56% of people that they studied that had Omicron, they didn't

00:52:39.160 know that they were actually infected uh with the virus so that just goes to show how uh how scary

00:52:47.720 or or how much impact the virus is actually having i mean if if you don't know you got something

00:52:54.680 it wouldn't seem to to change your day gory i would believe yeah it's just you know bizarre and

00:53:01.480 i mean you know i don't want to dismiss i mean it's very very serious for some people it seems

00:53:05.480 to hit some often people who had pre-existing medical conditions it has to be taken seriously

00:53:10.520 and i know other people who have caught versions of covet and and been very sick and laid up but

00:53:16.360 we've also got this omicron thing i mean that's what the last lockdowns were all about and all

00:53:19.800 of that and and guys this was less than a flu what was that court i was just saying this was even less

00:53:27.560 than a flu for for many many people i mean for for the the worst pandemic it seems to be in modern

00:53:32.120 history, you would expect it would have had some rougher symptoms for most.

00:53:35.920 I mean, the mainstream mania continues to fear monger and, you know, pump out stats and

00:53:42.180 tell people to follow the science about COVID and Omicron. But again, this study said that,

00:53:49.340 you know, over half people that had it didn't know they had it. So it can't be too serious,

00:53:53.460 Corey.

00:53:54.180 I wouldn't think. Well, we'll see when that ever finally fades out. I suspect there were some

00:54:00.720 people made a heck of a lot of money selling COVID tests as well. So, you know, there's a

00:54:04.740 good motivation to make sure everybody knows they have it, whether or not they can feel it.

00:54:10.700 So let's see the next one down. This was kind of interesting. I mean, I spoke with a member of the

00:54:15.480 union that represents the RCMP. They're pretty upset with the potential of a provincial force

00:54:20.880 coming in. They've had quite a strong campaign against that provincial force coming in. But at

00:54:25.180 least when asked directly, the RCMP said, I mean, they're willing to work alongside a government

00:54:30.300 provincial force if one came in. That's right, Corey. And earlier this week,

00:54:35.260 the Alberta NDP called the blueprint released by the UCPA a boondock and saying nobody actually

00:54:44.460 wants this in Alberta. However, the proposed provincial police force will add 275 frontline

00:54:52.620 officers in the province of Alberta. I know being from Newfoundland, we have a provincial police

00:54:59.660 force in Newfoundland, and it's called the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. And they coincide,

00:55:04.920 you know, with the RCMP in the province. And, you know, they put out some good work,

00:55:10.940 stuff that, you know, that the RCMP can't get to with lack of resources and funding across Canada.

00:55:18.380 You know, these provincial police forces actually really do help provinces that they work in. So,

00:55:24.800 So, you know, it was nice to see the statement by the Alberta RCMP Deputy Commissioner today saying, you know, they're willing to work with these provincial officers.

00:55:33.940 And when it comes down to it, Corey, it's about the citizens of Alberta.

00:55:40.120 And, you know, rural crime seems to be a real problem here in rural Alberta.

00:55:45.980 I know I'm in Bonneville and, you know, we have a lot of farmlands surrounded by different communities.

00:55:52.260 And, you know, there are a lot of crimes that do occur that the RCMP, I won't say don't get to, but, you know, take a little bit longer to respond with policing priorities.

00:56:04.080 You know, in Bonneville, crime seems to be seems to be quite high with, you know, misdemeanor crimes, regular, you know, break-ins and occurrences.

00:56:14.900 And I've spoke to the Alberta RCMP and, you know, it all comes back to the justice system, Corey.

00:56:20.760 I mean, it's a catch-and-release system, and, you know, don't quote me, but I won't say any names from the RCMP because it was an off-the-record conversation.

00:56:32.360 But, you know, the officer told me about seeing the same people over and over and over for the same crime.

00:56:37.860 So, you know, maybe a provincial police force can relieve some of the pressure and stress that RCMP officers are dealing with in Alberta.

00:56:47.660 Well, that's it. And I mean, a lot of the case people are making, I know those studies, those polls that came out, for example, I reported that or spoke on that the other day. That poll was commissioned by the same RCMP union that doesn't want to see an Alberta provincial police force coming in. And then the poll that's saying that Albertans don't want this.

00:57:07.640 And when you break that pool down, you found actually that rural people, even in their pool, still wanted it.

00:57:13.660 And we can't forget that people living in the cities that didn't want it.

00:57:17.660 Well, these are people that already have city police forces.

00:57:19.920 So what does it matter to you? You guys wouldn't know an RCMP car if you ran into it.

00:57:23.960 You've got city forces. You only see the occasional one if you're out on the highway.

00:57:29.040 It's rural areas where there's concern. And it's not just the extra 275 officers.

00:57:34.300 I contend we could train in a more specialized way.

00:57:37.940 I mean, the RCMP will transfer somebody.

00:57:39.660 You know, you finish your training in Quebec.

00:57:41.180 Okay, we're going to station you out in Alberta.

00:57:44.060 It might take them two years before they get to know the local community,

00:57:47.920 the different unique needs that they have culturally, you know,

00:57:51.660 what their specific issues are, because it's a different form of policing,

00:57:54.400 say, in Bonneville than it is in Lethbridge or as it is in Newfoundland.

00:58:00.360 Exactly, Corey.

00:58:01.340 And, you know, that's I very rarely state my opinion, trying to remain unbiased.

00:58:06.760 But, you know, I totally agree with you.

00:58:09.440 Like RNC officers in Newfoundland, you know, they know the community.

00:58:14.400 They grew up in the communities that they that they work in.

00:58:18.560 And I would assume that, you know, a UCP creation of a provincial police force would do the same thing when it comes to recruiting.

00:58:26.780 I mean, they would recruit officers that, you know, even so much as to say, you know, recruiting, you know, people with First Nations backgrounds to deal with, you know, the different communities that the RCMP aren't used to dealing with, Corey.

00:58:42.820 Well, yeah, and the other, you know, frustration for a lot of us out here is that, and I'm glad you brought up Newfoundland, and just for people to point out that, why is it controversial when Alberta wants to do something when other provinces have been doing it for years?

00:58:54.660 ontario has their own force quebec has their own force newfoundland has their own force when alberta 0.60

00:58:59.060 wants it we're a bunch of assholes well hang on a minute like you know give us a break we're not 0.96

00:59:04.020 asking for something that hasn't been done before or that that's uh beyond reason i mean too corey 0.98

00:59:10.980 people in alberta like i said i i spend most of my day on the phone with after record conversations

00:59:17.460 talking to people getting people's opinion and a lot of people's opinion on the rcmp after the

00:59:23.700 truckers' convoy is, you know, they've lost faith in the RCMP. We've seen a woman trampled

00:59:30.800 in Ottawa by the RCMP and, you know, tractors fidgeted with during the Coutts border protest.

00:59:38.460 And, you know, I think a provincial police force will be a good change of pace

00:59:42.360 for Albertans and, you know, maybe can restore trust in peace officers and, you know,

00:59:49.620 their ability to police our local communities.

00:59:53.140 And a person's shot isn't necessarily against the individual officers all the time.

00:59:57.140 It's the management and the structure of the RCMP where most of the people seem to have their difficulties.

01:00:01.160 And we're seeing some evidence hitting the news of potential direct meddling a couple of times

01:00:05.360 with the prime minister's office into the RCMP's mandate.

01:00:08.860 People would feel more comfortable perhaps if they were shielded from that with a provincial force.

01:00:12.820 And then the other thing is there's nothing to say that some current RCMP officers

01:00:15.900 couldn't, well, move on and join the provincial force.

01:00:17.940 that's what i was thinking too cory and again now the ucp hasn't really released how much it's going

01:00:24.680 to cost but i would assume as they add more and more provincial police officers right now they're

01:00:30.940 just saying 275 but you know in five years this could be a force of 700 or 500 officers and you

01:00:38.520 know i know cold lake is a is a city nearby here and they just you know in municipal politics you

01:00:45.960 You know, they just hired another RCMP officer and paid for by the city to, you know, help with the crime.

01:00:52.700 But I would assume that a provincial police force, you know, once it's rooted in Alberta and people see the great work that they do, that they would, you know, in Newfoundland, they have a program at Memorial University, which they actually teach these officers for the RNC.

01:01:10.620 And I would assume that Alberta would look at the same thing, adding a policing program to the University of Alberta.

01:01:19.800 Yeah. No. And again, you know, just that final note, too, for people, if they got the emotional attachment, we're not talking about getting rid of the RCMP.

01:01:26.220 It would just be a reduced role. I mean, they're still going to be present. There's still be a federal force.

01:01:30.120 It's just they wouldn't be the main hands on local force any longer.

01:01:33.460 Yeah, that's correct. I mean, the UCP government is not looking to, you know, get rid of the RCMP. We're not going to kick them out of Alberta. But, you know, it's a great chance, I think, for Alberta to reduce its crime rate.

01:01:48.520 I mean, the more the merrier, as we say in Newfoundland, Corey.

01:01:54.100 And I think it would also be great for the youth of the province who have considered going into policing,

01:02:01.920 but not really as a route with the RCMP.

01:02:04.840 And then maybe there's young youth that leave Alberta to go police in Ontario or police in Newfoundland or anywhere else.

01:02:13.280 you know, and maybe we can keep those people right here now and, you know, keep the tax dollars in

01:02:18.660 Alberta. Yeah. So, well, let's pivot a bit to one of your stories from a couple of days ago.

01:02:23.860 This has been on a sad note, unfortunately, but it's the case. I mean, it's a good news story.

01:02:28.080 It seems to be recovering, but that horse they've labeled Starvin Marvin and it kind of, you could

01:02:33.940 segue in a sense, this is the Alberta SPCA Peace Officer. So it's sort of a quasi law enforcement,

01:02:39.220 but they specialize in animal welfare and we've been as your story said there's more calls like

01:02:44.500 this unfortunately of people who aren't uh aren't caring for their animals and and people forget

01:02:49.480 about you know you hear about dogs and cats but there's livestock that can be horribly treated as

01:02:53.660 well uh that's right cory i can't take all the credit for the headline our editor mike came up

01:02:59.000 the headline but you know i've seen this uh before in my career before working with the western

01:03:04.280 standard i worked with a local news source here in bonnieville and i actually attended a property

01:03:10.360 where the same thing happened although the horses weren't well there were some horses rescued but

01:03:16.600 you know upwards to 10 horses died and it was because the the owner simply couldn't feed them

01:03:21.960 and you know we see this across alberta you know the cova pandemic has hit farmers uh you know

01:03:29.000 You know, I won't say more than everyone else, but, you know, it's been a tough couple of years on farmers and livestock.

01:03:38.960 And, you know, Alberta SPCA officers say, you know, this is a prime example of dating neglect.

01:03:46.140 And, you know, it's really not the owner's fault.

01:03:48.820 Well, it is, but it was a lack of planning, Corey.

01:03:51.840 You know, the horses were able to breed.

01:03:53.860 And eventually, you know, he couldn't afford or she couldn't afford.

01:03:57.460 It didn't say if it was a male or female that owned him.

01:04:00.320 He couldn't afford to feed him, and, you know, he had to be rescued.

01:04:03.500 But now he is.

01:04:04.420 Mervyn is on the road to recovery.

01:04:07.560 I know he's gaining weight, they told me.

01:04:13.240 But he was one of the skinniest horses alive that the SBCA officers in Alberta have ever seen and recovered.

01:04:21.620 Yeah, and just a reminder to people who might not be familiar with rural areas,

01:04:25.240 I think it's a bit of a mental health issue with a lot of owners.

01:04:28.460 It's the same with the cat hoarders or dog hoarders.

01:04:31.500 They won't let go of their pets, even if they can't properly care for them and maintain them, and the animal suffers.

01:04:38.420 But, you know, like I said, on a darker note, but I just like to remind people this happens with livestock as well.

01:04:43.880 You know, the owner needs, you know, you don't always want to come down on the owner.

01:04:48.100 Hey, I'd rather they surrendered the animals to proper care than hang on and let them suffer like that.

01:04:52.580 So shaming them doesn't help.

01:04:53.800 But we should try to report and just rescue these animals when we can.

01:04:58.080 I mean, we're entrusted with animals.

01:04:59.680 We want to keep them humanely.

01:05:01.880 That's right, Corey.

01:05:02.960 I mean, complaints involving livestock make up about half of approximately 2,400 complaints received by the Alberta SPCA each year.

01:05:13.020 I know, like I said, I previously reported with another news company about the same situation.

01:05:19.160 And, you know, sometimes all it takes, Corey, is for the owner to speak up and ask for help because there aren't, you know, a bunch of surrounding farmers in the area.

01:05:30.080 I'm sure in Red Deer County, it's the same way.

01:05:33.140 You know, there's farms around and sometimes all it takes is for you to speak up and say, you know, I can't feed my horses.

01:05:39.620 I can't feed my livestock.

01:05:41.560 You know, I'm in financial ruin.

01:05:43.220 I need some help.

01:05:44.020 And, you know, Albertans are animal lovers and, you know, we're all animal lovers and we hate to see them suffer.

01:05:50.580 So I'm sure, you know, my message would be if you need help, speak up.

01:05:55.200 There's always someone there to help.

01:05:56.980 Yeah, absolutely.

01:05:58.120 All right.

01:05:58.400 Well, before I let you go, what are you working on?

01:06:00.380 What do we got coming down the pipes?

01:06:01.780 Coming down the pipes, I got a I just finished the image for a story about a BC cop that that showed a domestic violence victim.

01:06:14.020 his package on on his cell phone and he's been reinstated he's still appealing even though he

01:06:21.940 was reinstated with the rcmp he's now under suspension happened in 2018 and he's reinstated

01:06:28.660 in 2021 so that's the that's the next headline coming up all right well and you've got an alberta

01:06:34.260 legislative session look forward to still a month in some way until after the leadership race but

01:06:38.660 But you're going to be a busy man in the months to come with lots coming out.

01:06:43.160 So I appreciate you checking in with us today, Arthur, and I look forward to your stories coming down.

01:06:48.160 Thanks, Corey.

01:06:48.960 I get lots of calls from politicians in Alberta and lots of emails.

01:06:52.900 Keep them coming.

01:06:54.240 Like I said, I'm unbiased, and I'll talk to anybody.

01:06:57.560 And I would like to be able to sit down one-on-one with the UCP leadership candidates and have a chat.

01:07:05.540 And, of course, me and Jonathan Bradley will be covering the UCP leadership debate on August 30th, I do believe, in Edmonton.

01:07:13.620 And then we'll keep plugging along right up until October, Corey, when the magic election happens.

01:07:19.820 Excellent.

01:07:20.660 All right.

01:07:21.060 Well, good talking to you, Arthur.

01:07:22.260 I'm sure we'll be talking again down the road.

01:07:24.400 And I look forward to more of your stories.

01:07:26.460 Thanks, Corey.

01:07:28.140 And there's our Alberta reporter, Arthur Green, coming from way up there in Bonneville.

01:07:32.400 I did some time in Bonneville with the oil field.

01:07:34.340 It's a nice area.

01:07:35.540 And yeah, but they do have some crime challenges there and things too.

01:07:39.160 But as I said, Arthur's hard work and there's a lot of stories coming up and all sorts,

01:07:42.760 you know, whether it's political or things like I said, you know, public interest or

01:07:46.560 things like that, that awful story with that poor horse.

01:07:50.040 Jet Gorgon talking about the sled dogs at Whistler, the guy asked for the SPCA to take

01:07:53.620 him as he couldn't afford him.

01:07:54.940 When they refused, he shot them and it turned into a mess.

01:07:56.860 I remember that case and it was bad.

01:07:58.800 It was a mess.

01:07:59.660 We got a lot of animal welfare things to work on.

01:08:01.580 That's always been something, a pet cause with me.

01:08:03.800 I love animals.

01:08:04.400 you know, I'm not big on people in general, but animals I love. And that case was awful.

01:08:08.480 When I worked in the Arctic and in the North, the treatment of sled dogs in general, actually,

01:08:12.960 by some of them, but I have a difficult time. I have to adjust somewhat. I'm used to household

01:08:17.800 spoiled lapdog pets. Sled dogs are working animals and they aren't treated quite the same,

01:08:23.760 but they're also, some of them are treated just horrifically, to be honest. And we got to work

01:08:27.920 on some of that. We got to work on things with livestock. And yeah, just saying that, you know,

01:08:32.120 will take them if you can't afford to feed them. The resources aren't necessarily there. Rescues

01:08:36.120 are loaded. They're full. Those are stories that are hitting all the time, every day,

01:08:40.160 a lot because of peckerheads who went and grabbed pets while they were on lockdown at home because 0.98

01:08:44.280 they wanted company. And now the pets become inconvenient and they've dumped them back into

01:08:48.020 the shelters. I guess it's better than having the pets starving or neglected or abused.

01:08:52.760 Please, people, think harder when you're taking on any animal. The word I used earlier,

01:08:57.140 It's entrusted. You're entrusted with the life of that animal. And it means you're obligated to be

01:09:02.740 humane to it, to keep it well. And that applies to animals that even livestock, if you're going

01:09:07.780 to kill it and eat it later. I don't even have as huge an issue with the consumption of dogs in Asia

01:09:12.740 on the principle of them eating dogs. It's how horribly they treat them before they eat them.

01:09:18.300 You can raise an animal humanely for food later. We got a lot of things we got to do as people to

01:09:22.920 get better with our treatment of animals. We climb to the top of the food chain. It's great.

01:09:27.940 That leaves us with some obligations. Pat pointing out, hey, he's expensive. If you don't make your

01:09:32.800 own, speak out if you're over your head. And that's right. You know, we work with the animal

01:09:36.400 rescue and it gets frustrated with me. Some of the ones we've picked up, Jane and I posted pictures

01:09:40.380 of one we picked up from a place and the dog was, you could see the poor thing's bones pointing out

01:09:45.620 through its back there because we volunteer for a rescue and did some stuff. And you just wanted

01:09:50.780 to punch the person who's handing it off to you. Like, how did you let a dog get like this? You 0.99

01:09:54.220 sick, but you shame them, you get in their face, then they won't surrender the next one. And then 0.96

01:10:00.160 the dog just stays there and starves to death or gets beaten to death or who knows what. You still

01:10:03.680 want people charged for animal abuse, but at the same time, if they are surrendering it to get into

01:10:07.440 better care, you want to make sure you can facilitate that as well as possible. Let's talk

01:10:13.700 about a sponsor as we move along here. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

01:10:18.900 um and i'm going to segue into a bit of a rant after i talk about these guys too and some of

01:10:23.800 the importance when we talk about policing and things these are a group that uh are there for

01:10:27.780 you as a firearm owner or if you're considering becoming a firearm owner any of those things

01:10:31.660 and in sports you know target shooting there's olympic sports for it or if you want to call

01:10:36.300 hunting a sport you know they call it sporting fine um or collecting any use of firearms it's

01:10:41.760 your business if you're fire you know you're not hurting other people you're law-abiding

01:10:44.680 but you need an association. You need it to share resources with other firearm owners,

01:10:49.580 whether it's upcoming shows, whether it's safe shooting practices, things like that.

01:10:53.860 And most importantly of all, of course, protecting your right for that legal, essential, important

01:10:58.780 industry and pastime of firearm ownership, because we've got a government that wants to take it away

01:11:04.140 from you. They want to steal your guns. They want to take them away. They want to disarm you. And if

01:11:09.180 you don't push back, they'll win. They'll win. They will take your firearms. It's frog and water

01:11:15.640 slowly, but surely they're getting them off of us. They failed with the registry in the 90s,

01:11:18.900 but they're not giving up. Now they're working through the handguns and they're going to carry

01:11:21.560 on. So you got to stand up for yourself. Safety in numbers, guys. I don't give left credit for

01:11:26.380 many things, but it is in their ability to organize and push as a working group together.

01:11:30.680 And that's why you as a firearm owner have to join the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

01:11:34.460 Become a member. It's not that expensive and it's well worth it. Tony Bernardo is

01:11:39.080 out there working hard for your rights, check them out, go to their website, take out a membership,

01:11:43.680 Canadian Shooting Sports Association, Google it, check them out, or go to their website directly,

01:11:48.880 cssa-cila.org. And yes, get a membership, guys, it's important. Let's see here. Okay, so yeah,

01:11:59.000 I want to talk about firearms a little bit, because we're talking about policing, we're

01:12:01.720 talking about rural, we're talking about the challenges. I mean, I'm not sure which one it

01:12:04.720 was, Sylvia or somebody else pointing out that, you know, a few hundred, a couple hundred officers

01:12:08.560 isn't going to make that much difference in a province that's large. Well, it helps, but it's

01:12:11.760 limited, no doubt. Like for us to get 10 minute response times living in rural areas, like I live

01:12:16.800 right near the edge of the city, but I am technically rural. I'm served by the RCMP.

01:12:20.640 It's 40 minute response times in my area, 40 minutes. And there's areas far more isolated

01:12:27.360 than mine. And the amount of square miles that the Turner Valley detachment has to cover

01:12:32.580 with only a handful of officers is crazy. I'm not faulting them for being that slow. You can just

01:12:38.040 only be so many places at once, particularly at night. But what we need to do is lighten up and

01:12:44.040 let us protect ourselves. Let us protect our own property and our person. We do have those rights.

01:12:50.480 And I've talked about that on here before. We have them, but the police often don't like letting you

01:12:54.760 know you have them. And Eddie Maurice was that example. He was the one in Okotoks. Again, he was

01:12:59.180 the last line of defense. If you look back on the Western Standard videos, I did an interview with

01:13:03.240 Eddie at his house. And you could see where the incident happened. He was all alone, four in the

01:13:08.360 morning. A couple of criminals were on his property rifling around through things. He had a three-year-old

01:13:13.100 in the house. I think it was three, maybe two at the time, you know, basically a toddler. And the

01:13:18.980 guy, even though being warned and yelled at, came running towards Eddie. He got shot. He got shot in

01:13:24.700 the elbow with a .22. Eddie was put through the gauntlet. The police showed up. They arrested

01:13:28.920 Eddie. They put him through months of abuse in and out of court, in and out of court, pressuring him,

01:13:35.000 abusing him. They finally dropped the charges when they realized that, for one, they're not going to

01:13:39.620 get a conviction with a jury in a million years on this one. And as well, public support was fully

01:13:44.660 against the authorities on this one. They were furious. Eddie did what anybody else would have

01:13:49.200 done. Oh, you should be allowed to do something like that. The burden of proof should be on the

01:13:55.020 part of the damn criminal. You know, why were you on that in the night? I wanted to steal for him. 0.99

01:14:00.200 Well, can I kiss my ass? I don't think everybody should deserve to get shot for theft, but if 1.00

01:14:04.440 you're going to take that chance, so be it. And as I said on that video, you would see the place

01:14:09.320 where the shooting took part, 16 feet apart. It was right off the porch. Some people are saying,

01:14:13.800 why didn't you fire in the air? Well, you can see he was in a covered porch. You can't, he'd shoot

01:14:16.780 holes in his roof. And again, as far as I'm concerned, again, Eddie was defending his family.

01:14:24.060 He could have been much more aggressive.

01:14:25.660 He could have taken a much bigger firearm out.

01:14:27.980 And that man who got shot in the elbow, a minor injury relative to things,

01:14:31.540 could have ended a heck of a lot worse for him.

01:14:33.820 And even in that case, I think it probably would have been justified.

01:14:36.180 Not that he'd want to do that, but you've got to put your family first.

01:14:42.860 We shouldn't be pressuring.

01:14:44.140 Plus, let's talk about it.

01:14:46.280 The bottom line is rural properties were targeted a lot

01:14:49.060 because we've got an addiction epidemic.

01:14:51.240 Like, almost every time when we see these guys, a couple of things are commonalities.

01:14:54.720 For one, they're almost always at a long criminal record already, so the police knew about them.

01:14:58.640 They've been in and out, in and out, in and out.

01:15:00.560 And almost always, they get caught with meth on them or something else of the sort.

01:15:04.760 They're junkies.

01:15:05.640 They're desperate, and they're robbing us.

01:15:07.260 The reason they're hitting the rural areas, because they can sell it easily.

01:15:09.820 Look, guys, when you're buying those things in the parking lot with that twitchy guy off of Kijiji or Facebook sales,

01:15:15.700 you know damn well they stole it somewhere.

01:15:18.180 Let's not beat around the bush.

01:15:19.280 So you're supporting it, too.

01:15:20.800 These guys have more ways to move those goods than they ever used to.

01:15:23.280 So they're stealing from those rural properties.

01:15:25.740 They're not completely out of control, though.

01:15:28.100 They can get that far and they can plan.

01:15:29.340 So if they know if the chances of you getting shot or very badly injured by going out of these rural properties is very high, chances are they're going to reconsider their career plans.

01:15:39.880 And we're going to feel more comfortable on our rural properties as well.

01:15:44.020 So allow us to protect our property and you won't need nearly as many police as we have.

01:15:51.700 As it is, everybody's got to buy a backhoe to go with their firearm and that's expensive

01:15:55.620 and it's a pain in the butt and you don't want to let ground disturbance and everything. 0.72

01:15:58.760 It's just not pleasant.

01:16:00.660 All right, let's check in before I go on to some more news stories.

01:16:03.580 I see her in the lobby there with Melanie Risden because, again, speaking of digital

01:16:07.800 productions, she's got another one coming out tonight and it's going to be a big one.

01:16:10.600 Hey there, Mel, how's it going?

01:16:11.860 Good, thanks.

01:16:13.460 Right on. So, yes, you've been doing your ongoing series with the COVID Freedom Heroes.

01:16:19.120 And I think what might be your biggest of them all, they've been very well received, very popular.

01:16:24.100 The big one's coming out tonight.

01:16:26.220 Yeah, that's right. We're going to be releasing our last, seventh and last episode featuring Tamera Litch.

01:16:34.480 And interestingly enough, I thought it'd be interesting to talk about a little bit of the background to this

01:16:40.140 because we actually I had lined up an interview with Tamara and we were set to do the interview

01:16:48.300 on a particular day a few weeks back and I waited for her to call she was going to be calling in

01:16:55.780 for the show and or for the interview and I didn't hear from her and it turned out as announced in

01:17:03.560 the media that evening that she had been rearrested. So we were we missed her just by a hair to to have

01:17:12.360 an actual sit down conversation with her. She was rearrested, taken back to Ottawa and and kept in

01:17:19.980 custody there again and denied bail again for a second time. So we didn't get that that one-on-one

01:17:27.480 sit down with her but what we do have is a really good rundown of everything that she endured

01:17:34.440 throughout the freedom convoy that headed to Ottawa in February and then some of the follow-up

01:17:42.680 things that have happened for her. Now interestingly enough she of course everyone knows she has now

01:17:48.360 been released from jail and she was in Calgary just last week for the Justice Centre for

01:17:54.440 Constitutional Freedoms Award Ceremony, and we had a chance to attend that, and I had a good long

01:18:01.640 chat with her. She's wonderful. She's tiny. She's just this little kind of powerball. She looked

01:18:07.260 well. She was in good spirits, but she was not able to speak with me on the record again because

01:18:14.540 of her bail conditions, and in speaking with her lawyer, you know, this idea of compelled speech or

01:18:21.820 or um you know or being limited as to what you can say about whom uh you know i was sort of it

01:18:28.620 was mentioned that she can't say anything uh derogatory towards trudeau and and uh some of

01:18:35.020 the some of the other restraints that she's under so it was very sort of tenuous to be able to have

01:18:40.860 a one-on-one conversation with her there and and quote anything from her as far as the fact it could

01:18:46.940 be easily held against her and she could be re-arrested again for even just speaking with

01:18:51.820 the media so uh kind of sad times to to to understand that you know i can't even have a

01:18:58.380 conversation with a fellow canadian a fellow albertan who has sort of experienced something

01:19:05.820 that that she would want to speak about or share about and uh we do include some some of the

01:19:11.900 comments that she had in her speech that she gave when she was in Calgary. So we'll convey some of

01:19:18.380 that and some video highlights of her acceptance speech when she did accept the Freedom Award from

01:19:24.780 the JCCF about a month ago and some other clips of her throughout the convoy ordeal. So we'll have

01:19:34.700 lots of things to see and hear from her but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity

01:19:39.580 to speak with her directly because of her bail conditions.

01:19:44.300 Yeah, and it'll feel like forever,

01:19:46.120 but eventually all this is going to be settled and be resolved.

01:19:49.240 And like every other citizen,

01:19:51.000 Tamara is going to be allowed to speak in public again. 1.00

01:19:54.240 And I don't doubt you'll speak to her at that time.

01:19:56.420 Maybe I will as well, you know.

01:19:58.740 But in the meantime, it's going to be a great production,

01:20:01.360 just showing the history and what's happened with her

01:20:03.300 and, you know, documenting that for people

01:20:05.980 who haven't kind of seen it all in one package.

01:20:07.800 So it's great looking forward to seeing that come out tonight and see it all put together like that.

01:20:13.400 Yeah, we'll have that coming for a live watch tonight at seven o'clock on all our channels.

01:20:19.300 And then I was going to point out too, once that goes out, I'm going to put together a sort of a summary and have everything together so that you can go to one spot on our website and you can have access to all seven of the episodes.

01:20:33.880 And you can just see how the Western Standard has been very busy and very dedicated to the coverage throughout all of this when it came to, you know, lockdowns, mandates, civil liberties, things like that.

01:20:48.280 So, yes, it's it's been a very it's been a very interesting series to cover and very rewarding.

01:20:56.100 Excellent. Well, looking forward to it, Melanie. And and for more of your productions is, you know, you're going to carry on beyond this.

01:21:02.220 So thanks for checking in with us on the show today.

01:21:05.360 And we'll look forward to watching your productions.

01:21:08.340 Thanks so much, Corey.

01:21:09.760 Thanks.

01:21:10.580 That is the Western Standards, Melanie Rizdin.

01:21:12.280 You'll see a lot of her, of course, her stories on the website too,

01:21:15.240 her writing, her news copy.

01:21:16.700 And yes, that series she's been doing is fantastic.

01:21:19.920 And tonight it's going to drop live.

01:21:21.000 Some of you guys have been talking, you know,

01:21:22.100 where can you chat on the scroll?

01:21:24.200 Somebody else mentioned the pipeline as well.

01:21:25.940 So the way we do it, some of these things, yes, they're recorded.

01:21:28.060 So we're not there live to respond to the comments,

01:21:30.520 but the comment scroll is live when it drops is like a live feature. So you can talk with each

01:21:35.240 other at that time when that's going. So Melanie's final one with Tamara Lee, she's going to be

01:21:39.480 tonight. And as she said, it's going to be packaged up together. There's seven of the episodes of

01:21:43.420 these specials and Melanie does all sorts of other interviews too. So as we're, you know, Brian,

01:21:49.000 good to see you there. And yeah, I'll see you again on other channels. I'm sure, you know,

01:21:53.820 it's just triggered. That's winding down. There's going to be lots more coming of all sorts of

01:21:58.580 digital productions and things like that. Melanie's stuff is well worth a watch. And we'll be seeing

01:22:04.400 all sorts of things coming out. So set some time aside tonight. And you can see all of the past

01:22:08.320 ones on our website and on our channels as well. Watch it for some of them. Some of them might be

01:22:12.960 missing on the YouTube follow. Look on our Facebook channel or our Rumble one, because as I said

01:22:16.800 earlier, some of our stuff has a propensity to get banished or shut down if we talk about the wrong

01:22:22.580 subjects. Let's see. I'll close up a bit today with some more new stuff. Here's just following

01:22:27.340 up on another news story. So speaking of corruption, speaking of our government, speaking

01:22:32.000 of SNC-Lavalin, you know, I was talking to Matthew about how, boy, this government's

01:22:35.440 fixated on it and how Public Works is still working with them, even though SNC-Lavalin

01:22:39.580 has been found to be outside of the law at times. Well, here's internal records identified

01:22:46.340 a Public Works manager, Sean Gardner, and he was the contact man for some SNC-Lavalin

01:22:52.380 lobbyists who, uh, won $150 million contract for pandemic supplies that nobody asked for.

01:23:00.700 Huh. Strange. So yes, uh, the, you know, SNC, uh, Lavellon got this $150 million contract

01:23:06.940 for, uh, hospitals that were never requested by the department of health. No province asked for

01:23:12.120 them. $150 million. And this was the man, Sean Gardner, apparently who inked this deal.

01:23:19.520 maybe we should have a look into this maybe it stinks stinks to high heaven guys man we work 0.99

01:23:28.760 and slave and get taxes taken away from us and this is the sort of crap it goes to third word 0.98

01:23:33.540 world tin pot dictatorship type corruption crap and i reported on that yesterday where canada 0.97

01:23:40.320 is on the bottom of the list for transparency when it comes to whistleblower legislation 0.97

01:23:45.280 They like making sure to cover up their tracks

01:23:47.660 and, you know, not allow any of this to leak out.

01:23:51.480 But it's leaking anyways, and, man, it's just sick.

01:23:55.760 Just sick.

01:23:56.860 And they want to steal your house. 0.99

01:23:58.060 These are the people that want to do that.

01:23:59.900 So speaking of independence and things like that,

01:24:02.040 this is where we've got to go.

01:24:04.100 One headline I saw, and I tweeted about it,

01:24:07.340 and I got a little crabby about it.

01:24:08.820 It said, Canada's oil patch is flush with cash.

01:24:11.060 What are they going to do with it?

01:24:12.780 Oh, wait a minute.

01:24:13.280 There is no Canada's oil patch. There's Alberta's oil patch. There's Saskatchewan's oil patch.

01:24:20.300 There's Newfoundland's oil patch. There's BC's oil patch. There is no Canada's oil patch. We

01:24:25.080 established that. Constitutionally, that's ours. The language is already changing. Because we know

01:24:31.060 historically with Pierre Trudeau Sr., when he screwed Alberta in such a profound manner,

01:24:37.380 it's Alberta's oil patch when the prices are low. It's Alberta's oil patch when we want to try and

01:24:41.560 get our stuff to market. But when the prices go high, suddenly it's Canada's oil patch. Then they

01:24:46.440 come in for the steal. The language is starting to change. And it's suddenly going to become

01:24:50.920 Canada's oil patch again. And they've got to be called out for it. Guys, we're going to get robbed

01:24:56.720 again. Trudeau's coming for it. They need money. They blew everything. It's a mess. So here's this

01:25:02.640 big nest egg. And they're going to be coming for it. All right. Tomorrow, guys, it's going to be

01:25:07.960 the last show. We're triggered.

01:25:10.440 And again, I'm not disappearing off the planet,

01:25:11.920 but it's going to be different. I got an interesting guest. His name

01:25:13.980 is Zach Abbey. I saw him. He responded

01:25:16.000 to one of my rants about the Liberal Party,

01:25:18.160 the provincial one of them in Alberta.

01:25:19.740 And it was actually a very positive

01:25:21.620 TikTok response he made and

01:25:23.700 upbeat. And it's a party, the Liberal Party

01:25:26.040 of Alberta is in dire, dire trouble.

01:25:27.820 Zach is running for a nomination in

01:25:29.760 Edmonton for it, and he's still very

01:25:31.780 upbeat. And I think it'll be an interesting

01:25:33.920 conversation. So I want to talk to him about that.

01:25:35.720 I like it when they have the courage to just politely respond when they

01:25:38.820 disagree with me.

01:25:40.260 And I'm going to have Chris Oldcorn who writes opinion pieces.

01:25:42.820 He writes news for us and he's going to be coming on the show as well to wrap

01:25:47.160 things up.

01:25:47.720 And then, you know, we'll see what else we talk about and rant about tomorrow,

01:25:50.300 guys.

01:25:50.920 Well, thanks for tuning in today and we'll see you all again tomorrow at

01:25:54.200 1130 a.m. sharp.

01:26:05.720 Thank you.

Western Standard - August 19, 2022

Triggered： Individual property ownership will be key to First Nations prosperity

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