Western Standard - Triggered： International travel guide for the unvaccinated

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's June 16th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. This is the

00:00:38.520 Western Standards daily live show. We get running. I see Claudette and Dionne there already in the

00:00:44.100 queues. Good morning to you guys. We run Monday to Friday. We have guests. We have political

00:00:50.200 discourse. I rant. I rave. And most of all, I hope and like and enjoy interacting with you guys in

00:00:56.040 the comment scroll seeing what's going on in there so hey don't be shy get those comments out there

00:01:01.180 chat with each other send questions my way i mean i won't necessarily read everyone out on the air

00:01:05.420 or pass on the question to one of the guests but sometimes i do and i certainly read them all as

00:01:09.900 they're going by at least when i can so you see my head always turning off to the side kind of

00:01:12.880 what's happening is i'm reading that comment scroll because live you know it keeps it active

00:01:17.080 and uh just makes it different there's so many recorded uh productions out there and there's

00:01:22.340 nothing wrong with that but you know having that uh live thing where you could just get up and go

00:01:25.880 with it. I like that kind of format, even if it comes with some challenges. Those who've seen me

00:01:30.240 when I have, let's say, a guest no-show and see me awkwardly babbling for 15 minutes, that's one

00:01:35.160 of the challenges that comes with it, but yeah, it's worth it. All right, let's look at the

00:01:39.240 observations before I get on to my rant for the day. It is No Orange Clothes Day. Yes, this is a

00:01:45.740 day that actually commemorates the day in 1784 when the wearing of orange was banned in the

00:01:50.680 Netherlands or Holland. It's a weird country right off the bat. I mean, stick to one name for the

00:01:56.500 bloody nation. I can't keep up. My wife's Dutch. You see, yeah, so Netherlands, Holland, and then 0.98

00:02:01.260 of course people from there are Dutch. Make sense of all of that. Either way, there's your little

00:02:06.280 history lesson. It was something to do with William the Orange, and they're still hanging

00:02:09.520 on to that thing. Today is the no orange clothes day. You must make sure to observe that if you're

00:02:14.800 heading out to the Netherlands or Holland or whatever you want to call it day by day, a fine

00:02:19.560 country otherwise. All right. It's also on a lighter note, less history behind it, National

00:02:24.280 Fudge Day. So you've knocked off that Christmas weight already. You're getting into summer. You're

00:02:30.140 in good shape. This is a good time to indulge, get some pure sugar flavored up with some fudge. This

00:02:36.560 is the day you're supposed to enjoy it and stand out and let your neighbors know. And I don't know,

00:02:40.620 hand out your happy National Fudge Day cards to them. All right. Let's see. Eliza, wasn't

00:02:47.820 Orange a political party. I think there were some tied to that and everything. There's been a lot

00:02:51.400 of historical background with things like that over all of the years. Like I said, it's all down

00:02:55.260 to William the Orange, I believe, from way back when. But some people still hang on to stuff

00:02:59.940 over centuries. Me, I just hold my grudges for months at a time. I got to turn things over.

00:03:05.040 So let's see. Speaking of not holding grudges, you know, and looking at things turning over,

00:03:10.160 Danielle Smith is coming on. She's, of course, running for the UCP leadership. And, you know, 0.73

00:03:14.500 Well, yeah, I was pretty crabby with her some years ago with the whole floor crossing thing, but I've gotten over it. 0.81

00:03:20.100 She's still a bright person with a lot to offer and certainly has ambition and gumption.

00:03:27.400 So she's running for the leadership. 0.97

00:03:28.360 She's going to come on and talk.

00:03:29.860 Particularly, I want to ask her about her proposal with her leadership to enact a sovereignty act if she becomes premier. 0.74

00:03:36.900 That sounds quite interesting there.

00:03:39.360 And Marcel Latouche is going to come on.

00:03:41.120 People may remember him.

00:03:42.800 He's been a commentator and author. He was involved with the public sector. It was an

00:03:47.280 Institute for Public Sector Accountability. And we always just have a good discussion about politics.

00:03:52.000 We'll break down some of the leadership races federally and provincially and maybe talk about

00:03:55.440 some of the municipal insanity. All right. So let's get on to what I was talking about before

00:04:01.200 with a travel guide for the unvaccinated. And I mean it. And the Trudeau regime has finally joined 0.83

00:04:06.720 the rest of the world and dropped the majority of the vaccine mandates in Canada. They were dragged

00:04:11.800 into it, kicking and screaming, but at least it was done. Canada's still screwing its own domestic 0.98

00:04:16.420 tourism industry through imposing a ridiculous quarantine requirement among unvaccinated 0.99

00:04:22.320 arrivals, but at least unvaccinated Canadians can get on planes and travel outward again,

00:04:27.600 and on trains. Now, millions of Canadians chose not to be vaccinated. I don't want to go into

00:04:31.860 why they may or may not have. Those folks, though, have not been able to travel by air for almost two

00:04:36.440 years now. Many haven't seen family or friends outside of the country, and they're surely eager

00:04:40.840 to get out there and be able to visit them again i mean assuming those family and friends live in

00:04:45.640 nations that allow the unvaccinated to enter i mean many people simply want to be able to travel

00:04:50.120 again and i expect there's going to be a rush with people eager to get out and see the world

00:04:54.040 not every nation though has dropped their mandates yet for vaccination while i entered the united

00:04:59.080 states twice by ground this year and i was never asked about my vaccine status at the border they

00:05:04.280 still technically demand visitors be vaccinated and if you're flying i believe they check for

00:05:09.400 proof of vaccination when you cross our closest neighbor still hasn't seen the light australia is

00:05:15.400 another country hung up on vaccine mandates which isn't terribly surprising i mean that country

00:05:19.400 virtually imprisoned their citizens throughout the course of the pandemic people though should vote

00:05:24.120 with their wallets you can travel as vacations plans are being made make sure you only go to

00:05:28.760 nations wise enough to have dumped their ridiculous outdated vaccine mandates i'm going to list the

00:05:33.480 number of prime destinations that have dropped their mandates the uk dropped all vaccination

00:05:38.040 and testing mandates. It's a perfect time to cross the pond, enjoy some sights, and consume some

00:05:43.520 bland food. They've got it all there. Italy, they're wide open. Better food? The sights, I don't know,

00:05:51.140 you know, that's questionable. Same, you can get out there and check out the Pope's house without

00:05:54.640 fear of border harassment. The canals in Venice are apparently somewhat less odiferous than they

00:06:00.080 had been pre-pandemic, so you can view the city while spending less on perfume right now. France

00:06:05.000 dropped their vaccine requirements, but they do still require testing. So you're still going to

00:06:10.240 have to endure having a swab tickling your brain through your nostril if you want to go there.

00:06:14.060 It may be a price worth paying if one wants to see the Mona Lisa while it's still viewable by

00:06:17.580 the public, though. I'm not sure how many more times they're going to allow nutty cross-dressing 1.00

00:06:21.140 protesters to deface it before they shut off access to everybody. Japan still requires testing 1.00

00:06:27.480 as well, but you don't need to be vaccinated. And maybe having some good wasabi on that first

00:06:32.100 Milas Hashimi over there would help clear your sinuses after the olfactory violation of a PCR

00:06:37.420 test. India, they're open on vaccinated visitors now. Canada has a huge population with Indian

00:06:43.500 roots. I got a feeling a lot of people are going to be packing their flights to get out there and

00:06:47.200 visit family and friends. You still need to be tested to enter India, unfortunately. If you're

00:06:51.860 looking for some beach time, though, on this side of the hemisphere, Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican

00:06:56.000 Republic, and Mexico are all wide open. No vaccination or testing required. I'm not sure

00:07:01.460 if Mexico ever even required it. I entered Mexico by ground last January, and all I had to do is

00:07:07.740 walk through a rotating gate. I mean, vaccine mandates have proven themselves to be pointless

00:07:13.000 in stopping the spread of COVID-19, though many nations initially billed them as if they would.

00:07:17.380 The reason nations are maintaining mandates now is purely political, and it's for spite.

00:07:21.960 Trudeau is still keeping his thumb on the Canadian truckers with quarantine requirements,

00:07:25.300 for example. Unvaccinated truckers crossing the border are no more likely to spread COVID-19

00:07:30.900 than vaccinated ones are. This isn't theory. This is the science that we're supposed to follow.

00:07:35.740 The mandate remaining on truckers is nothing but a federal campaign of harassment maintained by a

00:07:39.860 petty, insecure little man of a prime minister who wants to inflict vengeance upon the group

00:07:44.400 of unwashed who dared to embarrass him last February. It has nothing to do with public health.

00:07:49.640 Biden, he's made mandates a hill to die on as well. And as much as I love our southern cousins,

00:07:54.880 I do suggest people consider other destinations for their travel until the USA drops their

00:07:59.200 mandates, whether you're vaccinated or not. Vote with your wallets and put pressure on those foolish 0.98

00:08:03.780 nations maintaining mandates. I feel for the people suffering within their tourist industries 0.90

00:08:08.340 in those nations, but nothing else is going to convince some of these political leaders to shed

00:08:12.680 the damaging and divisive vaccine mandates they've imposed. A lot of the world has opened up. Take

00:08:18.580 advantage of it, get out there, and travel while you can. Rest assured there's authoritarians and

00:08:23.460 they're eager to shut things down again if given the chance, so you might as well do it while you

00:08:26.540 can. As countries see the economic price of keeping mandates and as they keep rising, maybe

00:08:31.800 they'll feel less inclined to maintain or expand those mandates in the future. So there's some

00:08:36.080 countries to pick and choose from, folks. I'd say book your flights, get out there. The cost of

00:08:39.660 energy isn't getting any cheaper anytime soon. So hey, get on out there and travel. Okay, let's

00:08:45.020 bring Dave Naylor in for a check in from the newsroom and see what's happening over there.

00:08:49.060 Hey, Dave, how's it going? I'm pretty perturbed with you, Corey. Oh, why this time? Well, first of

00:08:55.280 all england food is not all bland some stuff is boiled but there's some other stuff that's

00:09:00.160 that's pretty good and uh here i am working last night i worked till about nine o'clock

00:09:05.920 getting all the stories out and i hear you're hobnobbing with calgary society

00:09:10.640 at the biggest social function of the year and i mean look at that what is with those pants for

00:09:16.000 god's sake white pants hey really it'd be bright and white and and uh you know uh christmasy i

00:09:23.680 I didn't have any Christmas wear, so yes.

00:09:26.660 At least you didn't have to see it face-to-face.

00:09:28.920 I mean, I'm speechless at your dress.

00:09:30.840 And brown shoes with white.

00:09:32.700 I mean, come on, Corey.

00:09:34.600 Actually, why don't you tell us about the social event

00:09:36.880 and something good that it did.

00:09:39.180 Well, it did do a lot of good.

00:09:40.520 That was Brett Wilson's annual garden party.

00:09:42.700 He hasn't held it in a couple of years due to COVID, of course.

00:09:45.680 And this year he kicked it off.

00:09:47.900 They raised over $400,000 for mental health for youth.

00:09:52.940 And, yeah, it was a good time.

00:09:54.720 Again, me being dry these days, you know, that open bar was wasted on me.

00:09:58.100 But Jane had a really good time, as did I.

00:10:00.800 And it was a good event overall.

00:10:02.920 And I appreciate your slaving for the Standard whilst I walked around and committed the fashion atrocities that I did.

00:10:09.920 Well, it seems that I was the only one at the Standard who didn't get an invite.

00:10:14.280 You know, not that I'm bitter or anything, but, you know, even James gets an invite.

00:10:18.020 I mean, come on, man.

00:10:18.780 What's going on?

00:10:19.700 Did he wear white pants?

00:10:21.680 No, he didn't.

00:10:22.420 You know, the other standard representatives did not follow the dress instructions for that event.

00:10:27.680 And I don't know if they necessarily represented us well on that front.

00:10:30.860 Yeah, and like your white pants did.

00:10:32.960 Anyways, let's get directly to the news.

00:10:36.860 And there's big news in the mountain town of Canmore.

00:10:39.880 A group has proposed a bylaw that all doors have to be closed on Main Street

00:10:45.060 because they're emitting too much CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions.

00:10:50.760 So a bylaw has come up that all doors will have to be closed between September and June, unless the temperature hits 15 Celsius.

00:10:59.600 So that's a little bit of small town politics going on there. 0.95

00:11:05.060 We've got a story up on an idiotic driver who yesterday, sorry, on Tuesday, went through the Stony Trail construction project, 85 kilometers over the posted 50 kilometer speed limit. 0.98

00:11:17.860 There were construction workers on hand at the time, and there was also a police car on hand at the time. 0.97

00:11:25.040 So they've charged that lead foot criminally, and he's going to have to go to court now.

00:11:31.500 We've got our Dave Makachuk filing a column from Paris where he was on your show yesterday.

00:11:37.100 He's attending the world's biggest arm show and had to deal with a bit of a pickpocket drama too.

00:11:43.720 So that's a good little read that's up there.

00:11:46.760 And Canada's Attorney General, Lamedi, says he's pretty confident that when it gets to the Supreme Court, they're going to rule that vaccine mandates were all legal.

00:12:00.040 So we'll see how that goes.

00:12:02.260 Coming up, we've got a story from our Amanda Brown that, you know, all those federal workers that got laid off because they refused to be vaccinated.

00:12:12.980 If they were hoping for any back pay, no, it's not coming.

00:12:16.380 No back pay for them.

00:12:17.560 So we'll have a story on that.

00:12:19.160 And our finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, is making a major economic address today, this afternoon, in Toronto,

00:12:27.800 dealing with interest rates, cost of living, soaring, and what the Liberal plan is to try and combat it, Corey.

00:12:35.380 So our Matthew Horwood will be on that.

00:12:38.700 And it will be interesting to see if they have a plan, Corey.

00:12:42.600 I don't hold out a lot of hope these days.

00:12:45.960 No, I read somewhere that they're going to try and battle inflation with even more inflation.

00:12:51.040 So I was happily filling up my little Honda this week.

00:12:56.480 Set a record, 82 bucks.

00:12:58.500 So yeah, everything's going great out there.

00:13:01.180 Yeah, inflation's undeniable.

00:13:03.560 Well, lots to look at and lots in the news.

00:13:06.600 I appreciate the updates.

00:13:08.200 And, you know, if I get any more social invites, I'll put you on the top of my list for dates to bring out with me.

00:13:14.660 Okay, but I'm not wearing white pants, Corey.

00:13:16.580 Well, you see, you know, you already limit yourself, right?

00:13:19.900 Nothing wrong with a good dark suit and tie.

00:13:22.220 All right.

00:13:22.760 It's everywhere.

00:13:24.140 I'll talk to you later.

00:13:26.340 All right.

00:13:26.740 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor, who keeps things on the up and up in there as we are.

00:13:33.000 I'm going to go quickly because I see our guests in the lobby and I know our time's limited.

00:13:35.860 but just reminding everybody the reason we have all those stories breaking and the reason we get

00:13:40.140 all that exclusive content is because you guys who have subscribed and please you know if you

00:13:45.020 haven't get on there and do it guys for 10 bucks a month it's well worth it and for those who have

00:13:50.120 thank you very much it is appreciated and allows us to keep producing this good content and keeping

00:13:56.300 you in the news independently without a nickel of tax dollars as it should be all right so i'm

00:14:01.640 going to bring Danielle Smith on and she's into her campaign now for the leadership of the UCP

00:14:07.060 and put out quite a statement last night. Hey, Danielle, how's it going? Hey, Corey,

00:14:11.740 going well. How are you doing? Good. I heard you were at the garden party last night too,

00:14:15.460 but I never quite crossed paths with you there. I do not know how I missed you. I saw Derek and

00:14:19.680 James there. So yeah, and how could I not miss you if you were standing out in white pants?

00:14:23.920 White outfit. Yes. Well, I was hiding behind Jane. She was wearing a great white dress actually. So

00:14:28.400 I was camouflaged. So I guess we'll get right to it. I know you've got a busy day ahead of you.

00:14:35.060 Well, you've got busy months ahead of you now. You are a glutton for punishment.

00:14:40.520 Sovereignty Act. There's a unique policy stance right off the bat, and it certainly stands out,

00:14:46.420 and it's a pretty loaded word right off the bat. So perhaps you can expand on what does that

00:14:51.040 encompass? Well, remember how our constitution is written. Our constitution is written so that

00:14:56.420 different entities have sovereignty over certain areas of jurisdiction we are accustomed to hearing

00:15:02.740 our first nations talk about sovereignty they have the authority to make rules within their

00:15:07.220 boundaries we're accustomed to hearing quebec talk about sovereignty and how they have a right to

00:15:11.700 make their own rules and they often invoke the charter notwithstanding clause in order to uh to

00:15:17.220 pretty well invoke whatever it is that they want uh we've seen in uh both quebec and saskatchewan

00:15:23.060 say that they want to be nations within a nation we've seen british columbia ask for exemption from

00:15:28.660 criminal code laws they for years didn't enforce cannabis regulation and now they've asked for an

00:15:33.940 exemption so they don't have to enforce uh any possession uh or criminal code laws against

00:15:39.700 fentanyl and cocaine and crystal meth possession and in addition when you look at what happened

00:15:44.740 at the federal level when they came in with the emergencies act the national assembly in quebec

00:15:48.420 they convened a special meeting and said we're just not going to enforce that here so it's not

00:15:52.180 actually that we would be proposing doing anything different other than what other provinces are

00:15:56.960 already doing, which is recognizing that we have defined areas of constitutional powers. You can

00:16:03.220 check it out in section 92. 92A is the one that I find the most important, which is that we have

00:16:09.240 the exclusive jurisdiction to develop our own resources in our own way, which is an area that

00:16:15.280 the federal government violates routinely. We just got an appeals court decision a few weeks ago

00:16:20.540 saying that they have no jurisdiction in interfering in intra-provincial projects.

00:16:27.000 Those are the ones that exist completely within our borders.

00:16:29.740 And with that backing us, I think we need to just put some teeth to it,

00:16:33.260 saying we're going to make sure that Ottawa is on notice

00:16:36.620 that when they try to invade our areas of jurisdiction, we're going to fight back.

00:16:40.800 Well, we know we would have to fight back.

00:16:43.080 I mean, the government never really makes a secret of the double standard.

00:16:46.460 If Quebec wants to do something on their own, they will look the other way,

00:16:49.140 or even BC. But I mean, in Alberta, we will need teeth. I mean, they're unapologetic about, you

00:16:54.620 know, when Quebec has their own pension plan, that's their God-given right. When Alberta does

00:16:58.900 it, that means we're being selfish and nasty. So this act would have some means then to push 1.00

00:17:05.420 further if we do have a conflict with the federal government? This is just one area. I mean, the

00:17:10.000 ones where I think it would obviously come into effect are, for instance, if they dare to invoke

00:17:14.620 the emergencies act again and we're watching with the testimony it was a false pretext that they

00:17:19.100 used to try to invoke the act in the first place and they're getting busted on that we would do

00:17:22.580 what Quebec did and said it's not going to apply here if they try to order our credit unions to

00:17:26.700 start seizing accounts we'll say no we have a jurisdiction over our credit unions that isn't

00:17:30.920 going to apply here if they decide that they want to start punishing us because a new respiratory

00:17:36.580 virus season they want to start trying to impose federal sanctions on us we can say no we're going

00:17:42.600 to take a different approach. I mean, I look at what's happened in the U.S. on that issue in

00:17:46.180 particular. The fact that Florida and South Dakota and other red states were able to chart a different

00:17:52.000 course that was different than the blue states or the federal government. Why didn't we? We can too.

00:17:55.980 And I suspect it had something to do with the federal government putting pressure on us. When

00:18:00.100 it comes down to all of the provisions of the Bill C-69, I mean, we can't even build a 75 kilometer

00:18:06.220 stretch of highway without the federal government declaring it a federal project. We're not

00:18:12.560 even able to approve a 200 megawatt power plant. I've talked to some of the folks from the nuclear

00:18:18.120 industry. Our oil sands operation wanted decarbonized by bringing in small modular

00:18:22.400 nuclear. Once again, because this is an area that the feds have declared their jurisdiction,

00:18:28.040 it's going to delay us implementing that by 10 or 12 years. So I would say that we can do a better

00:18:34.680 job in managing our own affairs. Those are just a few examples, I think, of areas where we would

00:18:40.040 want to forge ahead on. And then let's reverse it. What they do is they invade our jurisdiction

00:18:44.660 and then they force us to go to court to fight back. Well, let's just say we're asserting our

00:18:48.420 jurisdiction and let them take us to court if they think that we've got it wrong. But there's

00:18:52.260 so many things that we can do that we've got to take the lead on. And I think it's about time we

00:18:55.420 started doing that. Great. Well, and that policy certainly gets you out of the gates and distinguishes

00:19:00.020 you from some of the other campaigns right off the bat. But while I got you for a few minutes,

00:19:03.720 and since it's the kickoff of the campaign, what else are you offering in your bid for the

00:19:09.120 leadership. What else can Albertans expect from you, presuming you win this? I think you're going

00:19:13.540 to see a lot more policy around this issue of how do we assert ourselves in confederation. I mean,

00:19:18.440 the important thing that came to my mind as I've been writing about this over the last number of

00:19:23.120 years is Alberta is going to be the second largest economy in the country within the next couple of

00:19:28.800 years. If you project out on our population growth, especially since Quebec is stagnating,

00:19:33.560 they don't seem to want to attract new population, at some point those lines will cross. And somewhere

00:19:37.920 around 2050, we will be the second most populous province in the country as well. So I have to ask

00:19:43.600 the question, why are we acting like a junior partner? We're going to be the senior partner

00:19:47.420 in Confederation. And so we should be collecting our own personal income taxes. We should be

00:19:52.360 enforcing our own laws with our own Alberta Provincial Police. We should be providing for

00:19:57.760 our seniors with our own Alberta pension. We should be providing for our workers with our

00:20:02.000 own employment insurance. We've got huge shortages of labor that we need to be able to fill the gaps

00:20:07.020 in construction in oil field in farm work we should be taking control over attracting workers

00:20:13.740 here as well the same way quebec and manitoba do i think we've just been entirely too passive 0.97

00:20:18.060 really i get the sense that we are still traumatized by the nep and i guess we figured

00:20:22.940 well if we just keep our heads down we work really really hard we keep generating revenue

00:20:27.260 for the rest of the country they'll leave us alone they won't they're still coming at us

00:20:31.260 they won't leave us alone and as a result i think we've got our marching orders we've got to do

00:20:35.820 something completely different we've got to assert ourselves and we've got to start acting like the

00:20:39.340 senior partner that we're going to be um so likewise i mean we've got some policies coming

00:20:44.300 from the federal government that aren't regionally targeted so much but they're still pretty uh

00:20:49.020 problematic would you be looking at provincial challenges to things such as c11 c18 c21 i mean

00:20:54.460 all those c's the lists of of authoritarian actions on this government is getting really long and we

00:21:00.140 we need to find some sort of ways to counter these.

00:21:03.580 Yeah, I have this adage,

00:21:04.880 anything Ottawa can do, we can do better.

00:21:07.260 And so I would love to actually start looking at ways

00:21:10.340 in which we can maybe step on their turf

00:21:12.680 and push into their territory.

00:21:14.360 If they can't seem to manage an effective way

00:21:16.380 of managing our airports, maybe we should take that over.

00:21:18.860 If they can't manage our border crossings,

00:21:20.780 maybe we should take that over too.

00:21:22.420 If they are going to overregulate our radio

00:21:25.640 and television internet broadcasters,

00:21:27.640 maybe we should have a regulatory process so that we can have them provincially regulated.

00:21:32.540 It's interesting the way our constitution is set up is that there does, we do have two tiers of

00:21:37.340 regulation, like for instance, with the banks, the feds regulate the banks, but we get to regulate

00:21:41.540 credit unions. The feds regulate cross-border transportation and trucking, but we regulate

00:21:46.160 our own boundary, transportation and trucking. Why can't we just expand that concept out that

00:21:52.140 if we feel that the federal government is acting in a way that's intrusive, deficient,

00:21:56.280 and doesn't respect our Charter of Rights and Freedoms,

00:21:59.040 why don't we see if we can develop our own areas

00:22:01.080 of provincial regulatory authority

00:22:02.840 so that we can enact laws

00:22:04.760 that are in keeping with what our citizens want.

00:22:07.440 I'm prepared to push the envelope

00:22:09.160 as far as we actually need to

00:22:10.740 in order to make sure

00:22:12.000 that Albertans' interests are protected.

00:22:14.220 Great. I'll close this out with a question

00:22:16.840 I promised a first responder

00:22:19.200 that I'm going to put to every leadership candidate I get on.

00:22:21.980 What would your plan be to address

00:22:23.300 these ambulance response times

00:22:25.220 and this difficulty we're having all across the province that just seems to not go away.

00:22:29.300 I mean, we've been told now we need four months to study this.

00:22:31.780 I got a feeling we could study it to death.

00:22:33.600 We know some of the answers.

00:22:34.980 I know exactly what the answers are.

00:22:36.300 Rick Fraser was one of my colleagues in the legislature at the time.

00:22:39.460 And what you have to do is have either a paramedic or a nurse practitioner on site

00:22:44.380 at every single hospital who can onboard patients and off-board patients from ambulance

00:22:49.680 so that ambulance are able to do a very quick turnaround.

00:22:51.780 The issue is that nobody wants to take responsibility when a patient is dropped off.

00:22:57.400 And so they sit and make our ambulance drivers wait for six or eight hours and sometimes an entire shift.

00:23:03.900 That doesn't have to happen.

00:23:05.800 We should have a very efficient process where there's practitioners who have the same level of medical training,

00:23:11.760 able to receive patients so that we can get those ambulance back out and in their community.

00:23:15.540 That would be one thing.

00:23:16.660 I've also talked to one community and I don't want to name them because I don't want them to get into trouble.

00:23:20.560 but they have two ambulances that get deployed in the regular service and they keep one back

00:23:25.500 so that their community is never left without having ambulance in their territory. If we're

00:23:30.800 going to make sure that we've got an integrated system, that we have to have that same kind of

00:23:35.300 backup so that no rural community is ever left without their seniors worrying that they might

00:23:40.300 not be able to get an ambulance when the call is made. These are not difficult problems to solve.

00:23:45.480 It takes political will and it takes the federal, the provincial government taking some control back from Alberta Health Services, which is mismanaging this and has been mismanaging this from the start and start being more directive so that we can actually solve the problems.

00:23:59.460 Excellent. Well, thank you for a good, quick, clear, concise answer on that. I'll let you go. I know you're on a tight schedule today. I appreciate you coming in to talk to us and I hope and imagine we'll talk a time or two again before the end of this race.

00:24:11.900 Sure. Well, thanks, Corey.

00:24:13.040 Great. Thank you, Daniel.

00:24:13.740 Yes, it's Danielle Smith, contender for the United Conservative Party leadership. As I said,

00:24:19.720 she was on a tight schedule today. So we kept her as long as we could there. And we'll be talking

00:24:25.220 more. There's a lot of candidates. I've got a number of them lined up over the next week,

00:24:29.620 actually coming on that we're going to speak to. And I want to keep asking that same question,

00:24:34.540 kind of like I got on the case of all the federal candidates, all the way through with

00:24:38.900 supply management. That's a pet issue for me. Okay, that one just drives me bananas.

00:24:42.720 but at least I want to get them on the record so they're put on the spot and they can't hide from

00:24:47.380 that one because it's just an odious, odious policy and they like dodging it. This ambulance

00:24:51.020 issue is just maddening. And as Danielle had said, there's a solution right there. You know,

00:24:56.260 we know this solution. You talk to paramedics, they keep telling you the same thing. Because I

00:25:01.200 was just reading a story before I started the show. A woman waited six hours, six hours for 1.00

00:25:06.920 an ambulance last month with a broken hip. She was in agony. She was, you know, this is dangerous 0.90

00:25:13.480 as well. This was a senior citizen. I mean, a broken hip can not only be, you know, excruciatingly 0.96

00:25:17.920 painful, but it can be very dangerous if there's bleeding. Six hours. And we have these ambulances

00:25:23.340 sitting in hospitals because nobody will sign off and take the patients off those paramedics.

00:25:28.780 And all it would take, as Danielle said, put somebody, well, for one, the political will,

00:25:33.020 Somebody to make the courage to make a decision, get in there and take over, take some responsibility.

00:25:39.320 But again, expecting responsibility from bureaucrats and politicians can be pretty difficult at times.

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00:26:34.100 Take control of your money. So yeah, let's do some of those questions now. As I had,

00:26:39.160 Danielle, I'm on a fast timeframe today, you know, lots on the go. And Dawn, I believe it was,

00:26:43.240 who had asked actually about, she wanted me to ask Danielle about the entrance fee for the UCP

00:26:48.120 race. And I think it's outrageously high. I ranted about that, I believe, the day before yesterday.

00:26:52.860 It's $175,000.

00:26:56.200 We talked about that on the pipeline last night with Dave and Derek and I.

00:27:00.340 And it's just a crazy high number and a bar set for running.

00:27:04.800 I didn't want to corner Danielle with it just because it's any of the leadership candidates.

00:27:08.940 I know I don't want to make excuses for cowardice or anything like that.

00:27:11.720 And that's not what I'm going to call it.

00:27:12.640 But it's an internal party thing.

00:27:14.360 It's out of their hands at this point anyways until if and when they take the leadership.

00:27:18.840 And there's not much they could do about it, whether they like the policy or don't.

00:27:21.900 So I don't want to get them into the weeds on the mechanics of the race so much as, you know, especially when I got limited time, as getting into policy questions and things like that.

00:27:30.760 But it is a big deal.

00:27:32.120 It represents a lot.

00:27:33.480 When a party is charging that high an amount just for somebody to run for their leadership, it's as I said before.

00:27:40.080 There's some people saying, oh, well, if you can't raise that in the time required, you're not good enough to be a leader. 0.99

00:27:44.660 Oh, that's a load of crap. 0.99

00:27:45.960 That's a load of crap, all right? 1.00

00:27:46.980 But, you know, one of the things that conservatives always prided themselves on, and it's shown 0.99

00:27:50.960 out with the Federal Reform Party, the old Wildrose Party, these were parties that had

00:27:56.960 thousands and thousands of small donors rather than a handful of big whales who could fill

00:28:02.340 the void.

00:28:03.180 The only people who are going to be able to make $175,000 deposit in less than two months

00:28:08.320 like this are ones with a small amount of heavy-duty donors.

00:28:11.940 There could be some fantastic organizers in the wings, some fantastic candidates who might

00:28:16.780 have been very good and appropriate. They just aren't going to be able to get that together

00:28:21.100 that fast. You know, people talk all the time, we're sick of politicians, we're sick of the old

00:28:24.640 establishment. Well, you're not going to get people outside of the establishment when you set

00:28:28.360 a bar like that. And that was the intention of the party executive. That party executive, I think,

00:28:32.980 is really, really due for a flush. And that's a hard thing. Now, party politics are a strange beast.

00:28:39.520 The leader theoretically shouldn't be influencing the party executive, but we know in reality they

00:28:44.560 do. And the party executive, they stack the meetings. There's a lot of internal play and

00:28:50.060 push and pull at AGMs. And right now the executive is very much slanted and beholden to Kenny and

00:28:56.620 the establishment there. Kenny's staying on as the interim leader, but they're still pulling

00:29:00.520 some strings, hopefully to have a successor of the established party, the party. And I don't

00:29:07.300 like this. I don't like it at all. I'm not going to lay it on the candidates' feet. I don't know

00:29:11.320 if any of the candidates like the idea, even if they can raise that money, they'd rather put a

00:29:15.700 larger chunk of that towards their campaign itself than having to put it in just to run.

00:29:21.280 And yeah, 25,000 of it is a deposit. But I mean, 150,000. And people say, I understand a bar,

00:29:27.340 there should be one, you don't want any nutcase or clown to be able to just pop in and run. But 0.88

00:29:32.820 you have to set the bar somewhere reasonable, you know, 50,000, I think, is a good bar. I mean,

00:29:40.260 hey, you're an average person, you're not going to throw away $50,000 on something,

00:29:44.660 plus a deposit. I could say you make it $75,000, you know, but the deposit you get back if you

00:29:48.140 behave. You're not going to chuck that out if you don't think you have a serious chance of winning

00:29:52.180 or you don't have a serious message to get out there. That's a bar that's already there. And

00:29:55.760 if somebody's completely ludicrous, if it's a troll who just won the lottery and wants to 0.94

00:29:59.480 piss around with things, that's what the leadership committee is about. And you can reject those 0.72

00:30:02.780 candidates. Now, this $175,000 bar was meant to exclude people. It was meant to limit the race.

00:30:08.460 it was meant to push down who is going to win. And I don't think it's good at all.

00:30:14.820 Maybe some of the candidates will speak up to it. We will see. You know, Marianne Wilson-Sink

00:30:20.900 Danielle sounding a lot like the Alberta Prosperity Project. You know, I've had one

00:30:25.120 of their representatives on before. It's very much in the regionalist end. She's bringing a

00:30:28.540 different approach. I think one of the shortcomings is very much I've been certainly disappointed with

00:30:34.120 premier kenny i mean i i very was much of a supportive when he first came in but a lot of

00:30:38.720 that was based on him standing up to ottawa i believed he really meant to i really swallowed

00:30:43.360 the lines when he said this fair deal panel was going to come up with ideas and we were going to

00:30:47.800 follow through with them and it turns out it was a dog and pony show they just talked and talked

00:30:51.320 and talked and talked and didn't do a damn thing that's when the grassroots fell apart and that's

00:30:55.820 where he lost his support and they still don't get that a lot of them don't get that but uh

00:31:00.980 you know you've got to respect those so uh she's uh danielle at least seems to be targeting those

00:31:06.320 people who are upset with that those who feel that nobody was standing up for the province

00:31:10.120 uh sounds like brian gene's campaign is is rounding up similarly he's talking about autonomy

00:31:14.500 he's talking about uh all sorts of things i i hope and imagine we'll get mr gene on the show to

00:31:20.200 talk about his campaign at some point as well and let's see uh what else we've got somebody

00:31:26.920 was saying about whether or not the Western standard is going to hold a UCP leadership

00:31:31.560 debate. I'm pretty sure our intention is to. I would be surprised if we didn't. I know Derek and

00:31:36.240 some of the others are planning and looking at that. It's a lot of work to put those together,

00:31:39.360 but it's definitely something we'd be in for. So if anything, I'm assuming something's going to,

00:31:43.700 and when it does, we'll let you know what we've got scheduled and what's going to happen.

00:31:47.660 Chris Gibson saying, you'd like to know how she differentiates herself from Todd Lowen.

00:31:51.980 So, yeah, I didn't have time to get that to her, Chris, but, and I don't so much when, at least, again, this early part of the campaign, as I said, I got three leadership candidates coming on next week alone.

00:32:03.560 Todd Lowen is going to be one of them, by the way.

00:32:05.420 I'll have him, I believe I've got him for Thursday, Wednesday.

00:32:08.380 I'd have to check my schedule, but he's going to come on next week.

00:32:10.700 I don't want to get them at each other.

00:32:12.340 I want them to explain who they are.

00:32:14.560 And if we get all of them on, then the viewers can learn and distinguish what their different platforms and where they're standing, you know, candidate by candidate that way.

00:32:22.080 So I don't want to invite them to poke at each other so much.

00:32:25.220 We're seeing so much of that on the federal front anyways.

00:32:27.620 And I imagine it's going to develop into that as the race gets more heated and we get more solidified candidates.

00:32:31.660 But at the very least for these first interviews, when I get these leadership candidates on, I want to give them a chance to stick to themselves, their own platforms and what they're going to do.

00:32:41.480 hey, if they come on the show and start shooting out word, well, that's their call, of course,

00:32:45.180 as well. But I'm not going to hit them so much, you know, asking about the differences between

00:32:50.180 some of them and some of the others. Let's see. Stone Lee keeps saying, get Bill Rock on the show.

00:32:56.160 I already had Bill Rock on the show, actually. So he was on last week, I believe. If you search

00:32:59.940 through the archives, he's the first candidate we had on, I believe. So yeah, if you look back

00:33:06.180 there, you'll see he was on for a segment. We had a good conversation. I'm looking to get them all.

00:33:11.520 June Marie saying, yeah, it looks like the rumor's all over the place.

00:33:14.200 We broke that a little while ago here at the Western Standard 0.99

00:33:16.600 that Michelle Rempel is going to be throwing her hat in the ring. 1.00

00:33:22.280 And, again, we'll try and get her on. 1.00

00:33:24.880 She's been tight and difficult to get on media in general lately all around 1.00

00:33:28.540 and strange plans, you know, with her tie-in with the Brown campaign. 0.96

00:33:32.340 If we can get Michelle, she's been on the show before. 0.77

00:33:35.220 If we can get her on, we'll certainly talk to her.

00:33:36.860 Like I said, every one of these candidates will be welcome on here.

00:33:39.400 This is an important race.

00:33:40.860 I mean, that's one of the reasons some people are saying that we had to, you know, set the bar.

00:33:50.260 I shouldn't say we.

00:33:50.880 I'm not in the party anymore anyway.

00:33:52.040 But they had to set the bar so high for entrance for leaders is because this is running for premier.

00:33:58.900 Whoever wins this is going to become the premier basically immediately.

00:34:02.040 So it's big, you know, it's a big issue.

00:34:05.220 But again, I don't think that's a good enough reason.

00:34:08.060 But this is a big and important race.

00:34:09.760 so we have to watch it closely.

00:34:12.840 Yeah, I see there's not a lot of love

00:34:14.380 for Michelle Rempel in the comment scroll at this point. 0.98

00:34:17.800 But she is an established politician in Calgary. 0.99

00:34:20.660 She's got a base of support up in North Calgary. 1.00

00:34:23.180 She can't be discounted.

00:34:24.920 It's, again, and she's been kind of all over the map,

00:34:28.260 to be honest, in my view, in the last couple of years.

00:34:30.540 So I guess making an unexpected leap

00:34:34.360 into provincial politics, well,

00:34:36.000 follows course with somebody who bounces around. So yeah, I see there's not too much people thrilled

00:34:44.640 with that concept. That's up to Michelle. And that's up to, of course, people within the party

00:34:50.440 who take out memberships and make their vote. If our comment scrolls any indication, she's got her

00:34:54.540 work cut out for her, that's for sure. But the more the merrier. You know, I believe in true 0.90

00:35:00.780 democracy. You know, let's get everybody in and running. All right, let's look at some other stuff

00:35:05.140 here. And as I said, I got Marcel Lachouche coming on and Marcel's really good just as he

00:35:10.060 talks about, you know, politics as a whole. And he might have his personal preferences with

00:35:14.440 candidates and things like that too. But he talks a lot about accountability policy because we got a

00:35:18.380 lot to look at federally, provincially, municipally. But this one caught me good with that Canmore

00:35:23.060 policy. Talk about the crazy woke municipal politicians. So there's a rule where, yeah,

00:35:29.440 your business can't keep its door open in certain temperatures. How intrusive these busy body

00:35:34.060 nutcases are. You know, it doesn't end. My father actually owns a jewelry store in Canmore. 1.00

00:35:39.940 He's not downtown. I guess perhaps this only applies to the downtown areas. I don't know.

00:35:44.300 I'm going to have to get a hold of him and ask what he thinks of this whole thing, but

00:35:47.460 it's just absurd. It's window dressing. It's intrusiveness. It's stupid laws to make it look

00:35:54.260 and seem and feel as if you're doing something to save the environment. Come on, guys. The amount 1.00

00:36:01.160 of air conditioning in a store. I grew up in Banff. A beautiful place to grow up. And you get

00:36:05.920 a few warm days. How many days a year, though, in Banff and Kenmore do you even need air conditioning?

00:36:10.560 You know, five? Come on. It's ridiculous. Anyhow, power bills will encourage most business owners

00:36:17.960 to close their doors on those hot days anyways if they've got air conditioning. And if they want to

00:36:22.680 vent the door place, if they don't have air conditioning and they're opening the door to

00:36:25.800 keep the air moving and cool, that doesn't do a thing to cold warming anyway. So get over

00:36:29.800 yourselves, you jerks. But, well, welcome to Canmore. It's really evolved as a town. You know, 1.00

00:36:35.260 when I left Banff in 88 and I moved to Calgary, Canmore was just starting to come into its own.

00:36:39.600 It was still basically kind of a little coal town. It really wasn't much of a tourist spot.

00:36:44.120 It was a few hotels on the highway and, you know, a few condos back in the hills and a bunch of

00:36:50.020 houses. But it wasn't the massive place it's turned into now. And it's got a lot of hypocrisy

00:36:58.420 there. To be honest, a lot of the people who moved there, we really see the NIMBYism and the I got

00:37:04.060 mine attitude. All those people who moved there, that town has to have quadrupled at least in

00:37:08.240 population since I left the Bow Valley. And those people who moved there, they all moved from

00:37:12.700 somewhere else. Tyler's saying Kenmore's a woke town. Yeah, but it hasn't always been. And it's

00:37:17.680 in a beautiful spot. You see these people get in. I bought my condo. I'm set up. Now we want to stop

00:37:22.420 all other development. I got mine. I'm going to stop everyone else. And the area where I live in

00:37:26.540 in Pritis. We got some people who are guilty of that out that way too and everything. Canberra 1.00

00:37:30.080 has room to grow. It does. I know some people get upset because they keep fighting and it sounds

00:37:35.600 like they're getting sued because they don't want to allow more development up the valley. Guys,

00:37:40.680 as I've talked about before, we have loads of untouched mountain valleys, thousands and

00:37:46.160 thousands and thousands of untouched mountain valleys all over Western Canada, all through

00:37:50.080 BC, all through the territories. The birds, the bees, and the bears are just fine. That Bow Valley

00:37:55.060 is one area of development.

00:37:57.360 And I love how they act as if,

00:37:58.640 oh, this is a critical zone.

00:37:59.740 If we develop that 100 acres over there,

00:38:01.900 oh my Lord, the bears,

00:38:03.480 they're just going to walk.

00:38:04.400 And if they see an open pit,

00:38:05.480 they're used to walking

00:38:06.560 straight through the trees,

00:38:07.200 they'll just fall into it

00:38:07.980 and die or something.

00:38:08.780 No, they'll walk around it.

00:38:10.120 They'll go to the next,

00:38:10.860 they'll do like the song,

00:38:11.960 they'll go over the mountain

00:38:12.720 and they'll find another mountain

00:38:14.120 and they'll settle in

00:38:14.840 and they'll be fine.

00:38:16.920 So yeah, Canmore is an interesting town.

00:38:19.040 It's a beautiful spot,

00:38:19.820 a lot of great stores,

00:38:20.620 a lot of great people.

00:38:21.800 My father, of course,

00:38:22.540 still lives out there. 0.99

00:38:23.220 but it also shows that example of a lot of human hypocrisy and wokeness and garbage that you get 0.97

00:38:28.900 you know as i said that was a coal town in the past that was more common sense and you know 0.97

00:38:33.400 blue collar working people paying their bills and unfortunately it's been overpopulated with

00:38:37.380 a large number of wackos these days for the most part it's a nice spot they'll get out and visit 1.00

00:38:41.920 it's overflow banff is packed it always has been i mean uh you know there's only so much in the

00:38:47.040 mountains i mean the scenery is beautiful and the opportunities but that's part of why cammore grew

00:38:51.080 I mean, you've got a city of one and a half million, basically, metro area just up the highway from you with an international airport, and Banff could only fill so many people and tourists and visitors, so Canmore's kind of taken over the overflow.

00:39:07.620 Claudette's saying they have no place for employees now. Some places in Banff offered free lodging to get anyone to come to work. That's always been a challenge. I believe in supply and demand. You know, you're just going to have to figure out how to retain them and how to get them going.

00:39:17.880 Again, when I was a kid in Banff, I remember that he had to rent condos.

00:39:23.180 Every business there that had staff, you had to provide a means of accommodation.

00:39:27.420 It wouldn't necessarily be free, but you had to make sure there was a place to stay.

00:39:30.180 Because even in the 70s and 80s, it was hard, especially for seasonal staff, to find.

00:39:35.640 So there were staff houses.

00:39:36.640 Those were the party spots in Banff.

00:39:38.480 And you wanted to go get some weed, you went to the old Banff Springs Hotel and down the

00:39:44.360 hallways of the old staff house there.

00:39:46.080 it's actually been converted to hotel and they built some condos down the road. But that was

00:39:50.000 always an issue, Ben. If you had to make sure your staff had somewhere to stay. And it's just as it's

00:39:54.100 a booming area, that's always going to be a challenge. Same thing. Let them build more

00:39:57.040 housing, though. Quit squeezing it and squeezing it because they got to live somewhere. And that's

00:40:01.880 part of the problem in Cam or business owners. You can only where can you find space to put

00:40:05.680 staff and how much can you afford to put them in? Well, build some more spots. Quit fighting

00:40:09.500 every new development, you clowns. All right. Let's get on to some other stuff here. What do 0.99

00:40:14.160 we got? Lamedi, sure, it was legal. Oh, yes. Dave talked about that. So this is the Attorney

00:40:22.780 General. I published my article. It was part of my rant yesterday with the Senate. Being kind of

00:40:28.020 optimistic. The Senate's been standing up for himself. They've been pushing back. They've

00:40:32.580 been functional more than we've seen in years. With things like the Emergencies Act, they're

00:40:36.780 holding them to account. And it's not looking good for the government. So the Attorney General

00:40:42.240 saying, oh, we're fine. Those vaccine mandates, they're going to pass. The legal challenge is no

00:40:46.900 issue. Well, that's what he's got to say. I think they're nervous. The fact that he even has to say

00:40:50.980 these things means he's nervous. They could get their butt suit off. Especially now, as I was 0.75

00:40:56.780 saying, the science is in. Vaccines didn't stop spread. That was a lot of the basis as to why

00:41:01.760 he brought in these intrusive policies that put people out of work, separated families, demonized

00:41:06.800 other individuals. I mean, again, I know I'll get the comment scroll going wild. I do believe that

00:41:13.260 vaccination is a good idea. I do believe it reduces your chances of having an adverse event,

00:41:17.340 but it doesn't stop the spread and it never has to be mandated. It should never be mandated. Let

00:41:22.780 it be a choice. Sell it to the individual. Do not force it. And when you're saying, oh, we're not

00:41:27.800 forcing it. We're just going to put you out of work and stop you from traveling and ostracize

00:41:32.620 you from others, that's pretty much forcing guys. It's pretty much forcing. So yeah, there's going

00:41:39.200 to be some legal challenges. And I think this government's scared. They should be. So I don't

00:41:44.800 care what Lamedy wants to say. I got a feeling this is a man who's sweating right now. They start

00:41:52.900 losing some of these legal challenges. They can find themselves in a whole lot of trouble. But

00:41:58.520 some of this conversation going on. The mandates weren't law. We're confident whether it's a law,

00:42:06.720 whether it's a regulation, where they're starting to hair split. Guys, it was coercion. It was

00:42:12.520 pushing people into it, whether they wanted to or not. And that cannot be accepted. And thousands

00:42:19.120 of people lost jobs, suspended. As they're saying, was it Makachev or somebody else? I'm not going

00:42:26.180 to go into the discussions about whether, see, I know he's going to get the commenters going.

00:42:30.140 I'm fine with vaccination. But if you're not, don't get one. That's okay. It's the choice thing.

00:42:36.140 So either way, yeah, we got a military that's short-staffed and everything right now. And we,

00:42:41.040 well, we cost 1,573 military officers because of this stupid vaccine mandate. 1.00

00:42:47.060 Now they're going to try and hire them back, beg them. I mean, a lot of these people are thinking 0.99

00:42:50.740 if they've lifted the mandates, they can't assume that these workers are going to come back,

00:42:55.080 whether military or public service or anywhere else, even some of the private companies that

00:42:58.960 pulled in these BS mandates. You know, a lot of them are going to say, kiss my ass. I'm not 1.00

00:43:02.960 coming back to you. You left me out to dry. So here we're in this bizarre world of labor shortages

00:43:10.960 while forcing people out of work at the same time. You know, welcome to Canada. Here's the real land

00:43:16.620 of the common sense, right? And it's going to be in our courts for a long time. I'll tell you that.

00:43:25.080 there's going to be a lot of problems with this. It's had too much cost.

00:43:29.180 So let's get back to government getting involved and

00:43:31.740 in things where they shouldn't. And that gets back to

00:43:36.660 subsidies. So here's one, a $40 million subsidy to a Russian-owned steelmaker in

00:43:43.380 Western Canada included free cash. There's a shocker, eh? So yeah, the Department of

00:43:49.580 industry had an inquiry tabled. It said $40 million paid to this Everaz company in 2019 was

00:43:56.240 supposedly a partially repayable contribution. Staff wouldn't detail the terms. Again, they hide

00:44:02.240 this stuff. They got $80 million in subsidies since 2018. And its main shareholder is a Russian

00:44:08.040 oligarch named Roman Abramovich. Doesn't really matter. I don't care who owns it. Sick of subsidies.

00:44:15.440 I mean, it's theft. It's corporate welfare at its ugliest. If you can't stand on your own two feet,

00:44:22.280 get the hell out of here, particularly foreign ones. But they know how to play the games. You 1.00

00:44:26.660 know, that's how Russian politics works now. When the socialist USSR fell, you ended up,

00:44:36.080 unfortunately, with a lot of bandits rising to the top. And then you had a weird mix of crony

00:44:41.260 capitalism mixed with corruption. And that's how you lobby to the government rather than customers

00:44:46.900 to have your business stand on its own two feet. And we're seeing it now. And we got to keep digging

00:44:51.340 at these things over and over and over again. Of course, this is small potatoes compared to

00:44:55.300 the subsidies being poured into Bombardier or SNC Lavalin or pretty much any company that's got a

00:45:01.760 Quebec name. It's funny, we'll scrutinize the ones that are out here. And it's the case that this

00:45:07.320 one's tied to Russians and everything all Russian is considered bad right now to some people. That

00:45:12.680 shouldn't be where we have the problem, guys. We should have a problem with these subsidies in the

00:45:15.760 first place. And where are we doing? We're talking circles. Again, we don't take subsidies here at

00:45:24.740 the Western Standard. Let's see that company. Oh, here's a neat one. So we gave $80 million of ours

00:45:30.100 to them. And they reported a global net profit last year of $3.1 billion. If they had a profit,

00:45:39.760 and we're not talking net gross revenue, profit of $3.1 billion, and our government's giving them

00:45:45.260 80 million more of our own dollars. And again, I don't care what country it's from. And I don't

00:45:51.000 care. The other people say, well, we shouldn't subsidize the profitable ones. I'm with you.

00:45:55.380 But we shouldn't subsidize the unprofitable ones either. No, I mean, I'm not just making the case

00:45:59.800 that these guys didn't need the subsidy.

00:46:01.240 I don't think the unprofitable ones do either.

00:46:04.660 But here's our money at work, guys.

00:46:07.120 You know, it just keeps going and keeps going and keeps going.

00:46:11.400 Let's talk about one of my sponsors.

00:46:13.080 So my guest is going to be on a little while with Marcel.

00:46:15.180 So I'll get this finished.

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00:46:30.760 I mean, their name says it all.

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00:46:57.560 use and enjoy firearms. But again, they can't do it if you don't, Seth. Well, worth it for you.

00:47:04.020 Canadian Shooting Sports Association, cssa-cila.org. Again, if you don't stand up for your rights,

00:47:11.800 you're going to lose them. Let's see. Liberal politicians partied with the Russian consulate.

00:47:19.640 Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Claudette was saying that. Again, these guys, you know,

00:47:24.380 this government's just entitled and out of their control. So yeah, it was some senior diplomatic

00:47:28.540 bureaucrat was, I mean, if the government is really sanctioning Russia, if you really got

00:47:32.460 a problem with them and everything, why have you got you guys hanging around at the Russian

00:47:35.520 consulate and partying with them? You know, you either sanction or you don't. But that whole world

00:47:41.680 of Ottawa and as far as I'm concerned, inbred, you know, politics going on with these guys,

00:47:48.820 these bureaucrats, this entitlement, that probably never occurred to him for a second as to why

00:47:52.900 that's a problem. It's just a horror story. You know, I've seen, what was it, Selly, I think,

00:48:00.160 I've seen more columnists coming up, Don Martin as well, and they're basically saying Trudeau's

00:48:05.160 on the rocks, you know, that fluffy-haired, vacuous, you know, prime minister of ours is

00:48:11.520 actually having a pretty hard time these days. His support levels are dropping, and we could be

00:48:15.900 seeing a government that's on its last legs here. He's vulnerable. He's very vulnerable. Even the

00:48:21.980 liberals are getting tired of them. And we're seeing this, these cracks are forming all over

00:48:27.580 the place, left, right, and center. So a lot of it though, I mean, it's only an opportunity if we

00:48:33.220 take advantage of it. So Trudeau, the liberals are vulnerable. And I tell you, the liberals aren't

00:48:37.360 politically vulnerable that often. You look at Canadian history, whether you loathe that party

00:48:41.780 or you love it, I'm in the loathing category, but you can't underestimate them. They are

00:48:46.180 skilled political players. They know how to win elections. They know how to stay in power.

00:48:51.620 So even if Trudeau is looking weak,

00:48:54.180 the Conservatives have got to make themselves strong

00:48:56.740 if they're going to unseat that guy in another election.

00:48:59.780 It's just not that easy to do it.

00:49:01.700 It drives me nuts.

00:49:03.120 I don't know what it takes, what the appeal is with that guy,

00:49:05.860 with Toronto and Montreal and lower mainland Vancouver,

00:49:09.440 but they still like Justin.

00:49:11.440 And if the Conservatives don't campaign wisely,

00:49:15.040 I don't have all the answers.

00:49:15.980 Maybe I'd be working for them if I did.

00:49:17.200 But I do know we cannot take for granted

00:49:19.840 Trudeau's weakness and thinking he's going to be replaced in the next election. I think it's

00:49:25.940 very possible he's going to be. As we're saying, we're seeing even some pretty liberal-leaning

00:49:30.020 columnists starting to say, yeah, you know, I think this goose is tucked here, but he's not

00:49:35.620 gone until he's gone. So let's bring our next guest in and we'll talk a bit more about policy,

00:49:41.400 accountability, governments in general. And that's author and former activist Marcel Latouche. He's

00:49:47.060 out of calgary here and he's been on the show a number of times it's always great to talk to

00:49:50.540 marcel hey how you doing good morning cory i'm doing great actually retirement is is helping

00:49:57.880 yeah and i imagine the pickleball season's upon you you've probably been getting out quite a bit

00:50:03.440 or tennis absolutely yeah i'm playing quite a bit except for this week where the weather has

00:50:11.080 changed a little bit but uh i'm looking forward to playing some uh at the provincials uh the

00:50:16.100 albert approving shows in a couple of weeks so right on well and uh retirement hasn't kept you

00:50:21.860 from watching the politics of course i mean when you're addicted to that you're addicted for life

00:50:25.580 and uh we we have a number of areas accountability was always your area of specialty

00:50:30.600 yeah i i just want to kind of move through our levels of government and have a conversation

00:50:35.280 with you maybe starting on the federal end uh where are we sitting well we we are we are in

00:50:42.220 bit of a doldrum right now. We have two leadership race going on, both at the federal and at

00:50:49.160 the provincial level. But as you said, accountability is always a good start for us to start discussing

00:50:57.040 things here. What we have is we have a government, the federal government right now, which you

00:51:03.080 just made allusion to, which is in total disarray. They have no policies. I understand

00:51:08.900 that Freeland wants to chase inflation with more spending. 0.92

00:51:14.440 I mean, this is totally economically absolutely absurd and ridiculous.

00:51:20.880 We have a government now which has absolutely no accountability. 0.87

00:51:25.340 It is being found that the Emergencies Act was a total sham and scam

00:51:31.400 because it was never asked by either the RCMP or the police in Ottawa.

00:51:37.080 So what we are doing here with COVID was a means by which the federal government

00:51:43.560 and other provincial government used it to gain power over the citizens.

00:51:50.040 I mean, by passing mandates, regulations, rules, and so on and so forth.

00:51:55.320 And none of that had any accountability because there was no transparency in any of it.

00:52:02.040 It was just a means of getting and acquiring more powers without discussion.

00:52:09.720 It was just imposed on us. And now that the COVID is virtually over, it's become an endemic as

00:52:17.560 opposed to a pandemic, we see that two of the guys who've pushed for mass sequestration, staying at

00:52:25.800 home, they both have COVID now. Trudeau and Fauci, they still have it. So what does that mean?

00:52:32.040 Having somebody who's had a vaccine, I've had taken my vaccines, being so old I have to protect

00:52:37.720 myself. If that's true, I may be wrong about this, but I took my vaccine. But what does that say?

00:52:44.680 That Trudeau and Fauci both vaccinated, boosted, are now getting COVID. I mean, the thing is,

00:52:53.000 is, was this a situation where we were over-cautious? Was it that the death rates that we were

00:53:03.500 told about was not really, in fact, just a blimp over what the death rate has always

00:53:10.640 been in normal times? And what we have now, two races, we have two

00:53:22.340 I'm not supporting anybody, I am just looking at what's happening.

00:53:27.540 I want to hear policies, I want to hear some of their ideas.

00:53:32.280 But the fact remains is, as you just mentioned in your previous segment, they are going to

00:53:39.620 get rid of Trudeau as easily as some conservatives think they can.

00:53:45.900 It's an illusion.

00:53:48.160 must have policies that reflect conservative principles and that's what i'm waiting for

00:53:55.760 at the federal level we are we are having so many candidates with so many ideas which are from the

00:54:04.640 past we are in the 21st century we have a totally different environment both economically and and

00:54:12.640 and federally and provincially, that we've got to our new policies to good conservative principles,

00:54:23.020 never mind social conservatism. Social conservatism is a value issue, but if conservatives want to win,

00:54:33.040 in my point of view, it's all about economics and values of the family, and that's what we've got to

00:54:40.820 look at. And at the federal level, we've got so many people entering the race. And I can tell 0.92

00:54:48.880 you, Jean Charest, for instance, is a man of the past. We've got to look to the future. We can't

00:54:54.680 have a man of the past. Brown is now coming out with all sorts of ideas. And I believe other

00:55:04.080 candidates who are entering these races, both at the federal and provincial level in Alberta,

00:55:09.040 are people trying to make a name for themselves so that if a conservative government at both

00:55:15.600 levels go back in power, they will get a seat. If they get elected, they will get a seat in the

00:55:21.560 cabinet. That's all they are because some of them are goofs. They have done nothing. They're just 0.99

00:55:27.440 entering the race just to get a name recognition. By the same token, I think there are some very

00:55:34.360 good candidates but they've got to put forward policies that are going to endear and ensure

00:55:42.680 that citizens are going to get better in their lives in their economic situation not just by

00:55:49.880 rhetorical uh proposals by politicians who have absolutely nothing to offer right now

00:55:57.640 yeah so getting outside of the race though i mean something i kind of before uh you popped

00:56:02.520 on and what i was saying in the monologue though i said you can't underestimate these liberals

00:56:06.280 they're strong but uh a development that i just didn't expect to see this year and i've written

00:56:11.320 about it and i've talked about it is the senate you know it's usually been a non-entity really

00:56:16.040 in in politics but they stood up and quashed a liberal bill the other day and they've been

00:56:20.440 holding them to account in committee on this emergencies act i i'm kind of excited to see

00:56:25.000 where else they might go here i mean outside of the party politics i i would like to see them do

00:56:29.400 something about bill c11 because most canadians don't really understand what c11 is all about

00:56:35.960 it's all about suppression of the freedom of speech and expression what we have nowadays is

00:56:43.080 and this is not only in canada this is becoming a a worldwide problem with

00:56:50.840 with so many because don't forget biden is not a democrat biden is a socialist

00:56:56.680 verging on communism these days with these policies. And what it is, is when you get

00:57:02.280 governments who are putting money in the media, for instance in Canada, what we have now is a new

00:57:10.760 version of what the Soviet Union used to be. You had the task agency and you had the Pravda.

00:57:17.400 Most of our media nowadays are paid for and subsidized by a government and they are just

00:57:25.480 another mouthpiece for the government so therefore we've got to rely on the freedom

00:57:30.600 of expression and what i want to see is a senate even with a majority of liberals there

00:57:38.040 starting to start questioning what is happening to the freedom of canadians and we've got to get

00:57:46.440 a situation whereby we have some accountability and the only place we are going to have that

00:57:53.240 is if the senate wakes up and says

00:57:59.800 freedom of expression is more important than political values and political ideology

00:58:07.160 as expressed by their leader justin trudeau i've told you that before and i've always said i don't

00:58:14.200 like uh legacies and and dynasties because every son who gets into politics after their father

00:58:24.760 try to emulate and surpass their father's legacy and it's always a disaster

00:58:32.760 yeah i mean you know history history has shown it i'm kind of scared with with justin trudeau

00:58:38.360 because you know even if he is getting on the towards the tail end of his time as prime minister

00:58:43.080 he's got to be feeling that he's got to be wondering what am i going to leave behind what

00:58:46.440 am i going to be able to point to my kids and say i did because he really hasn't accomplished a lot

00:58:51.720 and i i fear he's going to do something extreme well already this is what this is what i worry

00:58:58.680 about because he's looking at a legacy now and the thing is if he gets elected again

00:59:06.120 there's the problem he will say oh this is my last legs in politics i will push

00:59:12.280 everything that i can and there is no opposition i mean with the ndp supporting him right now we can

00:59:19.960 see what's going on i mean all these leftist policies are being implemented uh with the help

00:59:27.080 of the ndp when freelance says to you that she is going to combat inflation with more spending

00:59:34.760 and she is going to be supported by the ndp guess what if people think a recession is coming it

00:59:41.160 could be the worst one we've seen for quite a while yeah it's uh just pouring gas on a fire

00:59:47.240 when you increase the spending to try and battle inflation but it's a government disconnected from

00:59:51.800 reality that there's no doubt about that but again hopefully we can see some lights you know maybe

00:59:56.760 the senate will stand up for some things maybe the conservatives will really rebrand themselves

01:00:01.240 well and hold his feet to the fire so we can watch and hope with some optimism i'll kind of pivot back

01:00:05.880 now as you said there's another important race going on and that's just kind of starting to

01:00:09.480 develop and that's the uh provincial leadership for the ucp and that's a party that's really kind

01:00:14.360 of on the rocks and they really need a new uh shot in the arm to try and i guess you know get

01:00:20.280 back into contention well there's there's the jason kenny didn't do himself any favors uh for sure

01:00:32.440 every politician in the past 27 months have had to deal with covid and this pandemic however how

01:00:40.360 you deal with it has been the key of how you've been viewed by the electorate so having said that

01:00:50.360 kenny has decided to step down uh because you know you got only 51 percent uh of of the votes

01:00:57.560 support. Now we have a gaggle of politicians trying to replace him. What Albertans have got

01:01:05.880 to start looking at is asking themselves the question, what is the alternative to a UCP

01:01:12.840 government? Do we want to go back to a not-lay government? Do we want to see a new four-year

01:01:20.760 of socialist policies that virtually destroyed this province? Do we want a government that is

01:01:28.200 going to acquiesce to every climate change policies, good or wrong, imposed by the Trudeau

01:01:36.120 government? So when people start talking about a leader for Alberta, they've got to look at,

01:01:44.440 are we going back to the roots of alberta's values what do we stand for true kenny made

01:01:53.560 the mistake of being too much ottawa not enough alberta so having said that i heard this morning

01:02:01.080 that rample who was a campaign manager for brown is going to try and come back to alberta to be

01:02:11.400 in the race to be a leader well are we going to get the same thing again too much ottawa instead 0.98

01:02:17.320 of alberta having said that i look at the gaggle of of uh people who have entered the race and i

01:02:24.920 said to myself do we have somebody that is rising to the to the occasion so far i haven't seen

01:02:33.160 anybody yet that's why i'm saying i'm i'm standing on the sidelines here i'm just waiting to see

01:02:39.320 policies i don't want people to start talking about oh we want to go back to the uh kind of of

01:02:48.440 alberta advantage and decline uh the great days of of the oil and gas and so on and so forth

01:02:56.600 what is happening is that we are now in an under an environment a global environment where we have

01:03:04.680 policies being made outside of our jurisdiction that are going to affect us. Most people don't

01:03:13.160 understand why it's economic social governance that is being adopted by many countries and now

01:03:22.120 banks are going to start applying policies and financing through ESG. Do we have a politician

01:03:30.120 in in in this gaggle of of of politicians running for for leadership who understand the ramification

01:03:38.280 and the consequences of these new policies coming down the pipe and as i said i haven't seen anybody

01:03:45.320 so far who has explained to me i want to replace kenny with a new form of government a new form

01:03:54.280 of management i am i haven't seen any that are going to affect the lives of albertans

01:04:03.000 not only at the provincial level but also at the uh at the at the municipal level

01:04:09.560 as well as stand for and against good policies coming from the federal government

01:04:18.120 yeah well we can wait and see as the campaign develops as you said there's a gaggle of them

01:04:22.200 coming out and we'll see how many actually meet that bar to run but there's going to be a number

01:04:26.040 to choose from and hopefully some some vision sinks in and people see something inspiring that

01:04:30.680 will pull them through so you mentioned uh i'm covering a lot with you today uh the municipal

01:04:36.600 and that's been an area of specialty for you for quite some time and i was wondering if we get some

01:04:41.000 thoughts on the latest out of city hall with that 87 billion dollar climate plan that they are

01:04:48.040 planet yeah right right that's that's that's part of of these global policies coming down the pike

01:04:56.200 there's the problem with this apparently uh since i am a bit out of the loop these days

01:05:03.080 it was only a four paper uh four pages stuff that went to the committee and people say oh

01:05:08.520 we've got to look at it when we got we when we get this kind of policies coming down the pike

01:05:15.160 $87 billion. Do we want a participation, and when I talk about participation, do we

01:05:27.400 be going to allow knowledgeable financial and policy people to take part in a debate,

01:05:36.600 or are we going to have council allowing people to take part of the discussion and the debate

01:05:43.240 before they implement it as opposed to 15 people down in council excuse me 15 people down in council

01:05:51.880 going to say okay we are going to adopt this paper uh whatever number of pages it is uh with

01:05:58.840 or without details to impose 87 billion dollars cost on future calgarians this cannot be allowed

01:06:07.640 i have said and i've written already on my facebook post we were able to stop the 2026

01:06:15.640 olympic bid citizens of calgary will have to stand up immediately to take part in a debate

01:06:25.400 about the 87 billion climate plan we've got to do the same thing we did about the olympics or

01:06:33.080 bid to 2026 against or for the 87 billion climate plan and i'm prepared to get part in that debate

01:06:43.160 yeah well let's hope that they get some traction i know they're trying their hardest to get that

01:06:46.840 shoved through as fast as they can mayor gondek was furious that they put it off even into the

01:06:51.560 start of july so uh it's gonna be hard to to bring it up for debate but even once they vote on it

01:06:57.240 july i mean you don't have to let it go we can still stay on their case because this plan is

01:07:00.760 insane but it's not only insane i mean as i said since they have been a bit outside of the loop

01:07:08.680 we don't even know the content i mean you know we don't know the details and it is always the

01:07:14.520 problem the consequences are always in the details are we just going to have a bloated administration

01:07:22.520 telling us that they want to get into climate change and impose policies based on climate

01:07:28.120 changed. I am a conservationist. I believe that the climate changes all the time. I believe that

01:07:34.440 we can improve our lives by making changes to the way that we behave, the way that we use

01:07:42.360 our resources. However, I don't want little politicians and little bureaucrats getting so

01:07:48.840 much power to tell us what to do. I mean, let's start with something extremely simple.

01:07:55.560 garbage collection. You have three bins in Calgary, look at how much it cost us,

01:08:02.440 and the rates goes up every year, and we don't have a say or choice on how to get rid of our garbage,

01:08:11.640 and so-called landfill site management has not improved in years, even with the three bins.

01:08:18.600 in fact we can't even sell the recycling uh material that we we said we're going to be saved

01:08:26.280 and and cut costs and and bring us some revenue this is the sort of thing that demands a great

01:08:32.920 debate a much wider debate with people for and against a policy of that nature 87 billion is a

01:08:42.600 lot of money and we've got to start looking seriously at how council is managing our lives

01:08:49.800 we can't just let 15 people half of them wouldn't get a job out there today if they were not in

01:08:56.040 council they were not they would not be making a hundred thousand dollars a year in in in this new

01:09:01.720 economic environment they're just there they haven't got a clue what is going on they just

01:09:07.800 get papers shoved in front of them and and saying oh these people we've appointed in in in

01:09:17.800 admin thing these people in administration are looking after their job they are there they will

01:09:24.920 put anything in front of council that is going to save them the next five years and 60 years of

01:09:32.040 pensions down the road that's all it is there is no principles in there there is no research

01:09:38.760 but just questioning things is not happening by council yeah well municipal it's just another

01:09:46.040 level of politics that people don't pay enough attention to we got to bring the debate to them

01:09:49.720 because they won't bring it to us if we let them get away with it so well we can just keep pushing

01:09:55.320 and shouting and doing what we can so uh before we wrap up i guess uh where can people find more

01:10:00.840 information you're active on facebook these days and you've still got uh your books out there too

01:10:04.760 don't you yeah i still got my books my books are on amazon so i mean you know they're still there

01:10:10.120 they they are there i mean you know but uh i'm not pushing the books anymore uh as i said you know

01:10:17.000 uh but it's out there you can get it at amazon the the other thing is that uh i have my blog and uh

01:10:23.320 you know my blog is still there i i still blog and i'm on facebook so i have a number of followers

01:10:29.640 and and as i've said i mean this this climate change policy is very important and i say to

01:10:35.560 people we've got to mobilize ourselves the same way we did for the calgary olympics 2026.

01:10:44.360 we were successful in killing it i took part in debates i i explained to people on with daniel

01:10:51.720 when daniel smith was was on the radio i could part on those debates and i think we've got to

01:10:57.000 do the same thing we cannot allow the administration to put forward a policy that is going to affect

01:11:04.920 future calgarians for years to come without a public discussion and debate well let's hope we

01:11:13.320 can get it on the table marcel so all we can do is keep pushing and trying so thanks for uh coming

01:11:18.120 on to chat with us all again today i hope you're doing well and uh hope we can talk again soon

01:11:23.080 maybe we'll see some positive developments talk about i'm very happy to be with you from time to

01:11:27.320 time i will share my views uh even if uh some sometimes controversial but uh i enjoy it and

01:11:34.200 i will share my views and i will maybe write a column for you sometime uh down the road here

01:11:40.120 and uh and and get you to to publish it so always happy to be with you guys you're doing a great job

01:11:46.840 and i'm very happy to contribute thank you very much and have a good weekend thanks marcel i'll

01:11:52.840 I'll talk to you again soon.

01:11:54.500 Bye-bye.

01:11:55.560 So that is Marcel Latouche.

01:11:57.060 As he said, he's got a blog.

01:11:59.220 And, you know, as our commenter Jet was saying, yes, wise words all the way around.

01:12:02.880 Thanks, Marcel.

01:12:04.260 The viewers appreciate Marcel.

01:12:06.140 I appreciate Marcel when he comes on.

01:12:07.700 And, yeah, when he used to go on Danielle's show and a lot of things he'd do.

01:12:10.520 So if you look up Marcel Latouche, there's a number of areas.

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01:13:18.640 so uh yeah linda and claudette saying uh marcel's smart yeah and uh you know you should publish on

01:13:25.840 the standard i have negative because marcel's done a lot of writing as i said he's a couple

01:13:29.040 of books out of course he's retired he wants to play tennis and pickleball we can't blame him he's

01:13:33.240 worked his whole life uh and wants to kick back but if i can get a column out of him i will and

01:13:38.060 we'll get it up there because again he offers so much common sense and what he offers in keeping

01:13:43.060 engaged and occupied and looking at things. I mean, this is a guy who's retired. He's doing

01:13:48.940 all right and everything. He's looking for the next generations. You know, this is what people 1.00

01:13:54.440 keep forgetting. This is what people set aside. I'll tell you what, I want to break one of the

01:13:58.520 big myths or their self-imposed myths when it comes to socialists, when they talk about themselves. 0.77

01:14:03.960 Socialists are selfish. They're the most selfish people on earth. You can't get any more selfish 0.99

01:14:10.440 than a socialist. They want everything. They want everything from someone else. Someone else is

01:14:15.440 always responsible for anything that comes their way, and someone else has to foot the bill.

01:14:21.140 They like to paint non-socialists, capitalists, people like that, as being selfish. Why? Because

01:14:26.280 I want to go out and work a living and sell a product and make money off of that. I'm not

01:14:32.400 demanding anything of anybody as a capitalist. I want to go out and work for a living, get raises,

01:14:37.160 increase my value and increase my pay that way. I'm not forcing anybody to give me anything.

01:14:44.120 It's a deal. It's a deal between me and my employer. When I have my businesses,

01:14:47.700 it's between me and my customers. If I suck at it, I'll lose. That's the way it goes. 0.95

01:14:50.440 And if I do really well, it's none of your damn business if I make a lot of money. 0.94

01:14:54.300 That's not being selfish. That's me providing a service or a product to somebody else that 0.95

01:14:58.420 they're willing to pay. It's an exchange of goods. That's the opposite of selfish.

01:15:02.920 Both parties typically leave happy.

01:15:05.560 Socialists.

01:15:06.780 Socialists want everything to be forced.

01:15:08.980 They want everybody to be forced to pay for your health care.

01:15:11.940 Everybody to be forced to pay for your pension.

01:15:13.440 Everybody to be forced to subsidize you when you go on leave for this.

01:15:16.760 Subsidize you when you go on leave for that.

01:15:19.140 They want you to always pay for them to have everything for nothing.

01:15:23.460 And worst of all, and this is the worst selfishness of it all,

01:15:26.580 and that's when we're talking about Chrystia Freeland 1.00

01:15:28.000 and her idiotic policies of borrowing and spending. 1.00

01:15:30.600 when they keep borrowing, borrowing, borrowing. And when they keep saying that that's the way 1.00

01:15:35.860 we've got to go, what they are doing is saying, we want to live the high life. We want to live

01:15:39.900 with the top healthcare we can and subsidies for everything else and paying off everything else.

01:15:44.540 And we want our grandchildren to pay the bill. Can you get any more socialist than that? A child

01:15:49.220 born today basically has a giant credit card bill sitting there waiting for them because you can't

01:15:54.920 borrow indefinitely. You can't. It's math, guys. It will crash. It will get top heavy. It will come

01:16:02.140 down. And it's the next generations who are going to pay the price. Socialists don't like to face 0.55

01:16:07.580 that. No, no. They're gimme, gimme, gimme. I want it now. I want it now. I want this. I'm entitled

01:16:13.720 to this. I have to have this. We can't do cutbacks because I would lose this or that. No, we have to

01:16:21.020 do cut packs. Otherwise, we're stealing from the next generations. You know, if the time to pay the

01:16:26.900 debt doesn't come up until after I'm dead, I consider that theft. I spent all that money and

01:16:30.700 left them with the bill. That's dead wrong. That is who the selfish ones are, are these socialists

01:16:36.960 who want to keep increasing government spending so they can benefit today and dump the bill on

01:16:41.620 somebody else later. I'm sick of that narrative, trying to talk about capitalists and libertarians

01:16:47.320 as if they're some sort of evil, selfish people. 0.96

01:16:49.980 No, we just want to be left to hell alone 0.99

01:16:51.780 and we'll make our own money.

01:16:54.000 So guys like Marcel, why is he speaking up?

01:16:56.100 Why is he taking time?

01:16:56.920 Why is he writing stuff and still doing things?

01:16:59.300 Well, it's because he cares.

01:17:02.420 It's because he wants to make sure

01:17:03.900 the next generation is doing okay.

01:17:05.020 He could retire and just ignore it 0.78

01:17:06.620 and forget about it and collect a pension

01:17:08.540 or whatever his savings are.

01:17:09.720 But no, he's still at it because he's concerned.

01:17:12.880 And we've got to keep pushing back

01:17:14.760 against these socialists because they're wrong.

01:17:17.040 They're misguided.

01:17:18.360 Some of them might even believe they're doing good,

01:17:20.320 but that's just because they put their own blinders on.

01:17:22.180 They don't want to admit that their constant consumption

01:17:25.420 from everybody else,

01:17:26.920 the forced consumption from everybody else,

01:17:29.840 is good for everyone else.

01:17:31.380 They've convinced themselves of that, but it's not.

01:17:33.060 It's not at all.

01:17:33.680 You're forcing labor from people on the private market

01:17:35.960 to keep putting in and putting in and putting in,

01:17:37.780 and you're borrowing and borrowing and borrowing.

01:17:39.000 Somebody has to pay the bloody bill later,

01:17:42.020 which is why they always, again,

01:17:44.180 go straight to authoritarianism.

01:17:46.460 You know, there's a great meme that goes around all the time.

01:17:49.880 It says, socialism, ideas so good, they have to be mandatory.

01:17:53.860 Because you know what?

01:17:54.700 When we're allowed to choose, we don't choose it.

01:17:57.140 You didn't see a bunch of people getting on rickety rafts, trying to leave Miami and get to Havana.

01:18:02.260 It was going the other way.

01:18:03.620 Nobody climbed the wall and the barbed wire trying to get into East Berlin.

01:18:07.900 Nobody is chiseling under and trying to sneak into North Korea.

01:18:12.820 No, no.

01:18:13.940 Socialists have to force people in, and nobody wants it.

01:18:17.060 They try to leave.

01:18:18.300 They vote with their feet.

01:18:20.460 And, oh, you don't start with that.

01:18:21.920 Oh, that's communism.

01:18:23.200 No, I don't know what it is.

01:18:24.360 It all comes down to the same thing. 0.99

01:18:26.080 It's all the same sick system. 0.75

01:18:27.460 It's all a matter of degree in what you want to label it. 0.90

01:18:29.460 I don't care. 0.97

01:18:30.020 It's all disgusting. 0.70

01:18:31.300 Communism has caused hundreds of millions of deaths around the world over the last century and some.

01:18:36.560 And socialism is just a matter of degree with it.

01:18:39.480 And, oh, you say, well, Marxism is different.

01:18:41.040 No, it's all the same thing. Quit repainting that turd. It's no good. And it's selfish. It's nasty. 0.92

01:18:47.120 It's hurting people. So here's some of my ranting for today. Let's see what else we've got. We're

01:18:52.460 getting near the end of the time here. It's that act to amend the Employment Insurance Act. It looks

01:18:58.660 like it might be passing. I don't know about this one. This was a conservative sponsor. This was a

01:19:02.240 private member's bill. It's federal. And basically would say people can extend their EI benefits to

01:19:06.660 a whole year in case of illness, injury, or quarantine.

01:19:12.740 Don't we have workman's comp for these kinds of things?

01:19:15.160 So this is one of those things, again,

01:19:16.220 where we keep talking about it's feel-good stuff, right?

01:19:18.100 Well, people get left in the cracks.

01:19:20.100 They're out of work for this and that.

01:19:21.120 We got to force everybody to pay

01:19:22.740 so that they don't get left out.

01:19:25.260 We can't afford all these things, you guys.

01:19:27.060 We've already got a program for this.

01:19:28.860 We've got long-term disability.

01:19:30.700 We've got workman's compensation.

01:19:34.300 Why are we now looking to bloat and expend more through the EI system?

01:19:40.480 You're putting program on top of program on top of program. 0.94

01:19:43.620 If, I mean, I believe H, for example, people with severe,

01:19:48.440 it's the Alberta version of the program,

01:19:50.080 Assured Income for Severely Handicapped.

01:19:52.240 They might have changed the name since even.

01:19:53.800 But for people who are truly in dire straits,

01:19:55.940 they should get some money.

01:19:56.880 I believe in taking care of people who can't take care of themselves.

01:19:58.940 And if it's not enough, let's increase that program. 0.66

01:20:01.200 Let's not come up with 12 different ones to keep covering people who are sick or on disabilities or have other issues.

01:20:07.040 But the conservatives, this is where I start wondering if they're, you know, again, not much better than the liberals or NDP.

01:20:13.760 And they just keep bloating these programs.

01:20:16.440 Sylvia's saying, what about seniors?

01:20:17.600 Wouldn't it be something for them?

01:20:18.880 Yeah, well, there's the pension plan, which isn't a hell of a lot.

01:20:21.860 And there's OAS, which isn't a hell of a lot.

01:20:24.260 It's some stuff.

01:20:25.900 And I mean, how much can we expand it?

01:20:29.100 I mean, it's an ugly cycle we've gotten ourselves into,

01:20:32.100 independency, people raised to think

01:20:34.140 there's going to be something there for them

01:20:35.500 when they retire.

01:20:36.980 And then they're going to be tempted

01:20:38.100 to push the politicians and say,

01:20:39.160 well, spend more now, borrow more now,

01:20:40.580 because I need to keep living.

01:20:41.840 I didn't save enough.

01:20:42.640 I didn't have a private pension plan.

01:20:44.580 And I don't want to leave seniors up to dry,

01:20:46.340 but this shows the trouble, the difficulty we're in.

01:20:49.820 Some people are going to be in pretty tight

01:20:51.640 when they retire.

01:20:53.180 And I don't want them starving.

01:20:54.560 I don't want them left out.

01:20:55.800 But we've got to really start reevaluating.

01:20:57.380 And we just can't have everything all the time, guys.

01:20:59.440 We've got to start cutting back.

01:21:00.960 And you know what?

01:21:01.320 We can cut back a whole lot of things.

01:21:02.820 Like I said, that corporate welfare, a lot of the waste.

01:21:05.520 I'm going to be talking to Franco Tarrazzano tomorrow, by the way,

01:21:08.620 because we had a governor general spend, what was it, $100,000 in catering for a flight?

01:21:15.060 What a slap in the face.

01:21:16.640 What a slap in the face.

01:21:17.380 Well, we do have programs where people don't have enough money,

01:21:19.360 and they're not getting by. 0.94

01:21:21.140 And this is what our elites are doing. 0.85

01:21:23.240 $100,000 for munchies on a plane.

01:21:25.740 The rest of us, if we can afford to fly at all, you get a bag of peanuts thrown at you by a grumpy flight attendant.

01:21:33.220 A little different when you get those liberal high levels, including the governor general.

01:21:36.460 So we'll talk to him a bit about that.

01:21:39.960 Let's see.

01:21:40.520 Everything else, everybody getting upset and divided.

01:21:42.360 There's another story.

01:21:43.140 Some small Ontario town, I guess, for Pride, they put up a bunch of flags around the community,

01:21:48.120 and somebody went out in the night and cut them all up and shred them and tore them down.

01:21:51.220 Like, people, be better.

01:21:53.300 Be better.

01:21:53.780 Even if you don't like pride, I mean, I got no issues with it or whatever.

01:21:56.860 Just leave it alone.

01:21:57.640 So what?

01:21:58.980 Man, this is what adds to the division.

01:22:00.980 And then this gets the woke up in arms, and then they start, you know, looking for more

01:22:05.380 excuses to crack down further on everybody else.

01:22:08.240 So come on, behave.

01:22:09.300 It's just pride.

01:22:09.940 It ain't hurting you.

01:22:10.920 God.

01:22:13.080 And some other stuff.

01:22:14.960 Nothing much standing up.

01:22:16.820 I'm going to talk, run this up and finish it up.

01:22:19.820 Tomorrow, as I said, I got Franco Terrizano from the Taxpayers Federation.

01:22:23.160 He's always a good guest and exposed some more waste, particularly in the governor general's office, because it's just an outrage.

01:22:28.940 And then I'm going to have Jay Hill coming on again.

01:22:33.020 I like getting Jay on again.

01:22:34.240 This is a guy with 17 years of experience in parliament.

01:22:36.740 So he can add that voice of experience and talk about some of these things to some of all these politics that are going on.

01:22:42.960 He's retired now, too.

01:22:44.240 A lot of these guys, well, they're retired.

01:22:46.280 They got nothing to lose.

01:22:47.020 Then they can speak openly and candidly and dig into those issues.

01:22:50.560 So that'll be a good conversation with him tomorrow.

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