Western Standard - TRIGGERED： New woke rule： If you speak English, you’re a racist.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's April 22nd, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I am Corey Morgan. Happy Earth Day.

00:00:45.980 You can tell that global warming is really moving along thanks to that late April snowstorm we're

00:00:51.080 all enjoying. So this is the Western Standards daily show that I get to come on, rant, rave,

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00:01:46.300 That's what I do. That's my nature. Those who follow me on Twitter are well aware of that. 0.97

00:01:50.620 So let's see, what do we got? Yes, this global warming going on in the snowstorm. I got a couple

00:01:54.700 really good guests today. I've got Colin Craig of secondstreet.org. He's going to be talking about

00:01:59.220 they've got an initiative with survivors of socialism. They put out a series of videos.

00:02:03.860 They've talked to people who have actually lived in socialist countries and them explaining how

00:02:09.740 enjoyable it really was for them. You know, there's so many spoiled North American hipsters

00:02:13.820 and kids who think socialism is such a bright idea. They really should listen to some of the

00:02:17.200 people who actually got to fully enjoy it. After that, I'm going to have Western Standard columnist

00:02:22.580 Dave Makachuk on. Dave's been on a number of times. We're going to talk about he wrote a

00:02:26.220 column on. Again, it's still going on that thin blue line thing, but it's happening with police

00:02:30.920 forces across the country. And it's still going on in Calgary. They're still fighting back and

00:02:35.680 forth on it. But it's a small, it's a symbol of a much larger issue. And that's that disconnect

00:02:39.820 between administrators and the woke and police forces, you know, and the morale problems they're

00:02:46.500 starting to have and such. So it'll be a good conversation. But yes, as per the title, I saw

00:02:51.460 one of the commenters. This one caught me off guard. So we need to have a serious conversation

00:02:56.060 about the ongoing efforts of the extremely woke in trying to get at our children in the classrooms.

00:03:01.740 We've been watching the debates in the USA as the absurd and divisive critical race theory has been

00:03:06.460 pushed on the children in classrooms. And rest assured, we're not immune to such idiocy and 1.00

00:03:11.860 lunacy up here. I'm going to read a few paragraphs from a book put out by a number of educators. 0.99

00:03:17.660 and it's called Rethinking Ethnic Studies.

00:03:20.320 It's promoted by a union-driven group

00:03:22.240 called Rethinking Schools.

00:03:23.680 Now, this is American,

00:03:24.380 but it's all the same push coming up here as well.

00:03:26.960 This publication won some awards, by the way.

00:03:28.880 So this is an introduction of the book

00:03:31.200 that I found on the Amazon site.

00:03:33.160 As part of a growing nationwide movement

00:03:34.940 to bring ethnic studies into K-12 classrooms, 0.97

00:03:37.400 Rethinking Ethnic Studies brings together

00:03:39.640 many of the leading teachers, activists, 0.60

00:03:41.900 and scholars in the movement

00:03:43.000 to offer examples of ethnic studies frameworks,

00:03:45.920 classroom practices and organizing at the school district and statewide levels so yes this is

00:03:52.080 making no bones about it this is a book about how to teach our children and what they want to do

00:03:56.200 there's no secret that their agenda is to get into our children's minds and that's fair it's

00:04:00.260 a democratic world we have the right to promote agendas and goals even if they're crazy the

00:04:05.040 problem is that these crazy people are actually being taken seriously and succeeding so here's

00:04:09.160 some key quotes from the opening within that book i'll show just how nuts these are these people are

00:04:14.020 who are not only, again, wanting to teach our children,

00:04:16.640 they're succeeding in getting access to them.

00:04:18.560 And thanks, by the way, to Jonathan Kaye for tweeting this out

00:04:21.120 so I could see this beauty.

00:04:22.620 So this is from the book.

00:04:23.920 You know, don't throw rocks at me, guys.

00:04:25.220 I'm reading their quotes.

00:04:26.700 This book is written in English,

00:04:28.820 a linguistic vestige of settler colonialism

00:04:31.960 and white supremacy in the United States. 0.95

00:04:34.200 It's the language of victors

00:04:35.860 and was used to carry out attempted cultural genocide. 0.86

00:04:39.600 We recognize that when we use English to communicate,

00:04:42.080 we are fundamentally bound.

00:04:44.020 by the politics of racism, patriarchy, sexism, and capitalism, and colonialism buried within

00:04:51.160 the English language. Fundamentally, we are trying to use what historically has been a tool for

00:04:54.920 domination as a tool for resistance and liberation. This is in their book, you guys.

00:05:00.620 Now, yeah, I'm off their quotes. This is in their book. Where do you begin with this ridiculous

00:05:04.460 crap? And that's what it is, it's crap. It's like you're in the ridiculous and growing land 1.00

00:05:11.940 acknowledgments that we're constantly here. It's all linked together, guys. It's about us being 0.80

00:05:15.600 ashamed of who we are, what we're doing. Nobody's allowed to begin any event or ceremony without

00:05:19.180 beginning with what's essentially an apology for the actions of people hundreds of years ago. We're

00:05:23.380 being trained to hang our heads in shame with everything we do. Not content, though, with these

00:05:27.740 land acknowledgments, the woke can't speak without a groveling apology for even speaking English. And 0.98

00:05:32.120 that was what was in that introduction to the book. Basically saying, and that's where they

00:05:36.480 say it, if we speak English, we're automatically racist. It says we are fundamentally bound by

00:05:40.920 the politics of racism, patriarchy, sexism, and all the isms that these idiotisms have got going 1.00

00:05:47.080 on. And they want to teach our kids. So you're guilty, no matter what you do. And don't forget, 1.00

00:05:52.860 they included capitalism in there. Well, this paperback sells for $3,903 plus shipping at

00:05:57.700 Amazon. You'd think they'd be giving it away for free, wouldn't they, in this great socialist world?

00:06:02.280 But apparently, capitalism is selective. Now, we're seeing the term settler being used a lot

00:06:07.220 by contemporary woke idiots more and more, actually. 1.00

00:06:09.980 Not just the fringe idiots, though. 1.00

00:06:11.800 We're talking about prominent people 1.00

00:06:13.000 and politicians on the left. 1.00

00:06:14.280 Elizabeth May sure likes saying it all the time. 0.97

00:06:16.820 And if you aren't, so that's what they're saying. 0.83

00:06:18.300 If you aren't a full-blooded indigenous person,

00:06:20.420 you're expected to wear the term settler.

00:06:22.840 Even if you're a fifth-generation North American.

00:06:25.200 You know, where does this attitude go?

00:06:26.600 Does this mean we're supposed to get,

00:06:27.680 I mean, I've heard that thing

00:06:28.500 from social media hated people talk about,

00:06:30.680 just get on the boats and go back.

00:06:32.180 Where? Where? I was born here.

00:06:34.100 I got nowhere to go back to.

00:06:35.640 I'm sorry, get over yourselves,

00:06:36.920 you guys, I'm as indigenous as anybody else here, as are any other Canadians, but this is where

00:06:40.940 they're going. Do these woke understand, though, just how racist and divisive they actually are?

00:06:47.040 The sins of the father concept and groveling religion of self-debasement over historical

00:06:51.000 events from hundreds of years ago, it's a social scourge, people. Children are susceptible to

00:06:55.460 ideas. Our first 18 years of life are our most important and formative ones. We build our values

00:07:00.280 and our thought structures during that period. That's why these extremists always desperately

00:07:04.900 want to get into the minds of our children as early as possible while they pursue agendas that

00:07:09.620 rational adults reject. What these woke lunatics want to do is instill a sense of shame in every 0.80

00:07:15.740 person who's not of color in North America, and they want to teach our children that they're some 0.96

00:07:20.080 sort of settlers on stolen land, and that even speaking English is a sin and an affront to 0.86

00:07:26.060 minorities. And keep in mind, most of the minorities in Canada speak English as their 0.50

00:07:29.020 first language as well. Never mind that these children had no opportunity or realistic need

00:07:34.540 to learn or speak any other language besides English. Or that they, of course, had no choice

00:07:38.480 in where they were born. It doesn't matter. The woke wants these kids to grow up with a sense of

00:07:42.260 self-loathing and feeling they're responsible for every social ill of today. Teaching a race of 0.98

00:07:47.180 children that they're inferior or guilty of original sin is nothing new. It was done to 1.00

00:07:52.020 black children who were in slavery for a long time. That's how perverse this is, though. That's 0.61

00:07:56.760 what they're doing. Two wrongs don't make a right, you nutcases. I mean, looking back at those 0.96

00:08:01.080 practices, we should have learned how abhorrent they are. We should actually be truly starting

00:08:05.980 to become colorblind, but instead the woke are going the opposite way. They move so far out in

00:08:10.020 the left field, they want to expand racial divisions and instill a sense of either merit

00:08:13.920 or shame based on your skin color. So backward and so clearly evil, we should be decrying these

00:08:20.040 nuts from the rooftops. Instead, political leaders hide from this ugly, slow creeping towards true 0.66

00:08:24.900 institutional racism because if they dare criticize it, they'll be labeled as racists

00:08:28.540 themselves. Yes, being critical of racism makes you a racist. In the world, bizarre world of the

00:08:34.180 woke. We need to end the politicization of educational curriculums. It is turned into

00:08:39.500 an ideological battleground, and the people pushing the extremes could very well create

00:08:44.820 entire dysfunctional generations if they continue like this unchecked. Legislative curriculum needs

00:08:50.060 to be based on nothing else, aside from the basics, math, language, history, all of those

00:08:54.680 things. Easier said than done, but it has to happen. The woke can certainly open their own

00:08:59.500 separate schools based on social justice if they like. Let them draw the interest and participation

00:09:03.540 of students based on their teachings. Let it be choice. Likewise with any religious

00:09:08.720 teachings if you want to have it in school. We're going down though right now an ugly road. Unions

00:09:13.220 and left-wing radicals are fighting for the minds of our children and they must be stopped.

00:09:17.820 As can be seen from what I read, these extremes are real, unreasonable, and they're becoming part

00:09:22.020 of the mainstream in the educational world. Right or left, we have to stop these ideologues. We've

00:09:27.520 got to keep them away from the education of our children. We're going to be paying for this for

00:09:30.260 generations. So there's my rant that was obviously quite racist because I did the entire thing

00:09:35.580 in English. So my apologies to those offended. Actually, you know I couldn't give a rat's flying

00:09:40.560 whatever if anybody's upset. All right, let's bring Eva Civic in for a news check-in, maybe 1.00

00:09:47.820 be calm things down a little bit and uh see how that's going over there hey how you doing I'm

00:09:53.500 good how are you Corey I'm pretty good actually you know but again Jonathan Kaye shared that and

00:09:57.660 the vein got pulsing and I just had to share it well at the end of the news check-in I'll give

00:10:02.180 you some more updates on what the school system is teaching our children so might get you your

00:10:07.680 blood boiling again um I in other news I heard that you might have gotten a gun or a rifle or

00:10:15.360 something? I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm working towards expanding my collection of

00:10:21.360 perfectly legal firearms. Yes. And what was the price for that? I heard you mentioning earlier.

00:10:26.780 Oh, we won't go into that, but you know, there's always things one has to do in order to maintain

00:10:33.260 a good relationship, push and pull within a household. So. Okay. A household like Downton

00:10:38.900 Abbey, correct? Yes. Something like that. Okay. So in the news today, the treasury board figures

00:10:44.860 have shown that federal IT systems data breaches occur once a day on average. Those are separate

00:10:51.660 from the thousands of hack attempts occurring every minute of every hour in our federal government.

00:10:58.220 We have a story on the CRA misconduct and whistleblowers that emails were leaked. The

00:11:04.540 information was of sensitive nature on CRA managers prefer preferable track tax treatment

00:11:14.700 another one the Ontario Liberal Party leader Stephen Del Duca is campaigning to ban firearms

00:11:24.620 but the Canadian Shooting Sports Association has stepped up saying that that's actually a federal

00:11:29.260 issue and he shouldn't be campaigning for political um provincial political gain if it's

00:11:35.340 not even in his reach another one out of ontario a woman is suing porn hub after three videos of

00:11:43.020 her appeared on their site it is a 500 million dollar class action lawsuit that's being pursued

00:11:50.940 on the basis of that porn hub made these uploads without her knowledge or consent

00:11:55.740 Melanie has an exclusive up where she has compiled information on nearly two dozen

00:12:02.520 processing facilities, food processing facilities, that have suffered fires, explosions, and plane

00:12:09.560 crashes. These are across Canada and the U.S. and just as recent as last night. Most of these

00:12:16.000 incidents happened within the past four to six months, but they trace back all the way to January

00:12:20.860 2021. They are going to add to the accumulating food shortages and food prices that are rising.

00:12:31.340 And I have one on the Toronto Zoo that has released a video showing how they've started

00:12:36.360 vaccinating animals for COVID-19. The really interesting thing is that the zoo is claiming

00:12:43.580 that these are voluntary and consensual vaccinations because the animals come to the zookeeper

00:12:49.500 and present a arm or a paw and get the vaccination voluntarily themselves and that they are an active

00:12:58.680 part of their own health. You can watch the video and see a hippo and a red panda and a tiger and

00:13:04.280 more animals voluntarily getting vaccinations for COVID-19. Voluntarily, you know, they weren't

00:13:11.800 shaking a carrot. The animal wasn't coming for something else first. They just came up and said,

00:13:15.400 hey I'm due for my shot you know fix me up well you see them holding pieces of meat and food for

00:13:20.860 the animals and then the animals like putting their body against the cage please give me the

00:13:26.260 vaccine now I didn't you know I thought that there was always you know animals were incapable of

00:13:32.460 doing consent but I mean I guess if you can interpret voluntary uh there's an old story

00:13:36.860 about you know what some Scotsman used to do with sheep if you got them towards a cliff they're

00:13:40.460 going to back towards you. And I guess that could be considered consent for something.

00:13:46.600 But if your choice is between the cliff and the Scotsman, they sometimes choose the,

00:13:49.800 you know, one or the other. I actually have another story on animals and consent.

00:13:55.500 I wrote an exclusive. It just came out today on a Calgary grade eight classroom,

00:14:00.740 where in their sex ed class, where they hired an outside company from Calgary,

00:14:05.880 students were told not to have sex with animals, uh, because animals cannot consent.

00:14:13.180 Boy, I mean, kids were going to rush out otherwise.

00:14:15.980 Yeah. I mean, giving those ideas to grade eight students sounds like a great idea.

00:14:20.260 And the speaker also did not mention any, uh, uh, legal repercussions or what bestiality is,

00:14:27.540 uh, either. So very interesting. Oh man, this is world. It does, uh, get insane, you know,

00:14:35.700 but I mean, I don't know if they're well-meaning or what. I mean, do we really, you know, it used

00:14:41.220 to be a battle when I hate dating myself, but even having access to education whatsoever,

00:14:44.680 I don't think it was such a bad idea. There was a lot of, uh, uptight parents who were perhaps

00:14:49.220 just not informing their children of some of the natural developments and processes as they aged

00:14:54.360 under puberty. It was good to give the kids the physiological things. I, I don't recall us ever

00:14:59.980 needing to be told not to meddle with the animals that way. Didn't, didn't think it was part of the

00:15:04.880 Yeah, I looked into the curriculum and I looked into what this center downtown gives, what their curriculum is too. And it just says things along the lines of socially informing students and what the norms of our society are now.

00:15:24.460 um and they also uh told the students in the class to experiment with their pronouns and see

00:15:29.840 what feels different um but so that's what our sex education is now for kids and keeping them safe

00:15:35.940 oh good i'm certain we're we're in for a generation of very uh well informed and functional uh kids in

00:15:43.640 the future well thanks for bringing me up to date on these things ever you're working on more stuff

00:15:47.460 before the weekend hits here um there's lots coming out for the weekend uh we're all working

00:15:51.760 hard here, but I don't have the details yet. Okay. Well, thanks for checking in. And thankfully,

00:15:57.880 I don't have to change any plans. I already knew that I shouldn't mess with animals, but any

00:16:01.560 listeners who perhaps didn't realize that animals can't consent for those sorts of things now,

00:16:06.460 you know, so thank our educational system. Yes. Thanks so much for having me on, Corey.

00:16:11.420 All right. I'll talk to you later, Eva. That's what I mean. Like, where does this agenda come

00:16:16.640 from? Where do these people come from? And again, it's not just fringe lunatics. They're

00:16:20.400 teaching our kids. And then they, you know, you can tie all this stuff together. That story about

00:16:26.500 them at the news. Okay. I'm not going to get into the battle on whether it's a good idea or a bad

00:16:30.640 idea to vaccinate zoo animals. I think in general, it's probably a good idea. And yes, even for COVID

00:16:36.720 though, I haven't heard of any COVID killing off zoo animals, but whatever, but don't make up this

00:16:41.360 bizarro world that these animals are so self-aware and so intelligent that they came up and offered

00:16:48.300 their arm and gave consent. They came to get a banana and you stabbed them with a needle.

00:16:54.120 I'm sure if they could choose just the banana and not the needle, they probably would have it. And

00:16:58.880 hey, I understand that you're not going to be able to get an animal to submit to a vaccination with

00:17:04.280 a coercion of some kind, food or reward. Fair enough. But quit making up these bizarre stories.

00:17:10.200 These are our intellectual leaders. These are the doctors. These are the biologists that are

00:17:14.640 raising animals. Crazy. But I mean, think about the people who are raising our children in our

00:17:19.880 schools and we should be pretty disturbed there too. As I was starting with that, that rant earlier,

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00:19:26.480 Okay, I see our first guest in the lobby.

00:19:28.580 We'll get on to the bright and light subject of survivors of socialism and bring Mr. Colin

00:19:34.240 Craig from secondstreet.org on board here and have a conversation. Colin's been on before.

00:19:39.560 Hey, Colin, how you doing? Good. How are you doing, Corey? Good, good. I appreciate you coming

00:19:44.800 on. It wasn't too long ago when we had you on before, but you guys have done another great

00:19:48.820 release and it certainly would like to talk more about it. What I talked about before,

00:19:53.080 just to explain with your organization, is you really get a lot of first-person accounts on

00:19:57.840 issues. So you're not just hearing from some academic, you're not putting out press releases.

00:20:01.520 you get people out, whether it's healthcare or in this case, socialism, to talk firsthand on how

00:20:07.260 they experience those things, right? Well, yeah, that's exactly it. We're a think tank,

00:20:13.280 but what we do that's a little bit different is we really try and focus in on telling the stories

00:20:18.140 behind the numbers, because of course, it's one thing to hear politicians make claims about how

00:20:24.540 different policies are affecting people. It's another thing to talk to people and say, well,

00:20:28.040 how does this affect you? So we do a lot of research, we gather a lot of data, and then we

00:20:33.340 try to talk to people that kind of represent those numbers so that people can understand how

00:20:37.620 things are affecting them. So as you alluded to, we've got a new project out right now,

00:20:42.900 it's called Survivors of Socialism. And where this came from was sort of this reality in Canada,

00:20:49.960 at least, that you have a lot of people that will speak favorably about socialism and communism,

00:20:56.420 university professors, some politicians, activists, and so forth. And yet we were certainly aware that

00:21:02.800 there's a disconnect between people that, you know, talk about these ideas and people who have

00:21:06.620 actually lived under them. So we thought, well, let's go out and talk to people that have come

00:21:11.040 to Canada from countries like Cuba, Venezuela, the former Soviet Union, China, and so forth. And so

00:21:18.800 we're doing a lot of little video stories talking to them about it. But one of the things that we

00:21:24.680 thought would be interesting would be to ask them, are there any policies in Canada that concern you

00:21:29.920 that maybe remind you of the communist and socials countries that you fled? And we did a survey to ask

00:21:36.120 Canadians or those people that came from those countries what they thought. Great. And it's a 0.99

00:21:42.460 great interactive map. And I see it's growing. You've got other ones coming out. Like if people

00:21:46.600 go to secondstreet.org and look on this thing with socialism, there's a number of, of course,

00:21:51.840 hammer and sickles all over. And some of them are in red from all the different individuals in

00:21:55.680 different countries around the world from where presumably you've got a video from somebody who

00:21:59.440 lived there then. Yeah, that's exactly it. We're gathering more and more stories. So right now

00:22:03.780 people can see a story from a lady from Cuba, Amy Despain, who came to Canada several years ago from

00:22:11.540 Cuba. She talks about the indoctrination that she faced at a young age. She talks about sort of the

00:22:17.100 the daily challenge the top thing on everyone's mind was what am I doing for food what am I doing

00:22:23.360 for breakfast what am I doing for lunch what am I doing for dinner it was just a different world

00:22:28.160 obviously than here in Canada where access to food is certainly not as uh as scarce so we've

00:22:34.400 got Amy's story we've got a story from a lady a lady who came from Romania a gentleman that came

00:22:40.840 from uh latvia which was under the former soviet union we've got uh marco navargini tells us about

00:22:47.640 uh you know his experience leaving nicaragua what his parents went through so we've got those we're

00:22:54.200 putting up more stories we talked to someone who they're not canadian but they started up a human

00:22:59.240 rights organization in venezuela so we could learn a little bit about what's been happening in

00:23:03.240 venezuela and uh yeah we've got all kinds of content there little videos that people can

00:23:07.800 watch we've got a policy brief that um people can read if they want to go through this uh the survey

00:23:14.760 and the uh the other research that we conducted and i think the interesting thing is um when we

00:23:19.720 talked to people that came from these countries we said what concerns you uh if any about any

00:23:24.760 policies in canada and the number one concern that we we kept seeing in the responses was uh

00:23:30.680 restrictions on freedom of speech and i thought oh this is surprising i didn't really know what

00:23:34.760 to expect when we went into this this project but that was the most common thing that people said

00:23:40.280 it's uh efforts by the government many named two former federal pieces of legislation bill c10 and

00:23:47.560 36 um and then uh i mean those are coming back in new forms they i believe both didn't pass under the

00:23:55.800 previous government before the election but they're coming back um but also there's a sort

00:24:00.920 of a recognition that it's not just the government that's restricting free speech, it's what we're

00:24:05.480 doing to ourselves as a society with cancel culture. So I thought, well, that's really

00:24:09.640 interesting. Out of all the policies that governments work on, there was restrictions

00:24:13.480 on free speech that was the most concerning to people that came from those nations.

00:24:18.040 Well, unfortunately, I mean, with authoritarian regimes, that's often a tactic actually is

00:24:23.240 getting people to turn against each other, people to call out each other, report on each other,

00:24:28.600 and it builds a culture of fear.

00:24:31.280 And that's sort of, I think,

00:24:32.360 what happens with this cancel culture

00:24:34.380 that's been fostered.

00:24:35.500 You know, if you take somebody,

00:24:37.100 they're not saying something illegal,

00:24:38.700 but we're just going to completely publicly shame you

00:24:40.880 and drag you through the streets figuratively anyways

00:24:43.360 and ensure you toe the line.

00:24:47.140 Yeah, I mean, I think cancel culture overall

00:24:49.720 is a pretty terrible thing.

00:24:52.320 It's creating a world where people can't be people

00:24:55.280 because of course people make mistakes

00:24:56.860 And we're not allowing people opportunities to admit that they've made a mistake, to maybe learn from it, to apologize, move on.

00:25:03.840 You know, you hear of companies sometimes where they've had an employee for 20, 25, 30 years, whatever it is, a long standing employee.

00:25:11.820 He's done good things for the company and he or she makes a mistake, slip of the tongue, whatever, they're out.

00:25:18.720 And I don't think that's the type of world that we should be living in.

00:25:22.040 And, you know, if it's something overly horrendous, of course, but so often it seems like these comments are things that really should be addressed by maybe someone making an apology or being dealt with in some other way rather than just simply firing and canceling people from society.

00:25:39.060 Well, yeah.

00:25:39.860 And again, aside from the consequences, just that mentality of the pitchforks and torches, you know, the way people just suddenly gather and swarm.

00:25:47.500 and i mean the government's not behind it necessarily but they're not uh trying to stop

00:25:53.740 it either no no and you know i think sometimes you do see governments making comments where

00:26:00.740 people are all getting painted with the same brush and they're all being criticized and there

00:26:04.540 sort of is this this effort to kind of uh cancel others i mean you see it in politics quite a lot

00:26:10.880 right it's a blood sport and you know a politician makes a mistake and according to the other side

00:26:16.040 it's the worst thing in the world right they're coming down on that individual and

00:26:19.760 I don't I mean that that's politics but you know when you extend that to civil society

00:26:24.940 more broadly I think I think it's uh it's very problematic even in politics I think we need to

00:26:30.660 recognize that politicians are are human and they will make mistakes and I think sometimes they

00:26:36.040 deserve an opportunity to to apologize and note that you know they said something incorrectly

00:26:40.780 or whatever and move on so going further and I've seen a few people commenting about socialism and

00:26:45.700 they've actually two different commenters slash communism. They're closely related. And how do

00:26:52.020 you distinguish between the two? Like I worked with a Bulgarian surveyor actually, and he was

00:26:56.600 very, again, conservative, and he was very upset because he was saying, these are the things 1.00

00:26:59.900 I came to Canada to escape, and I'm seeing them creeping in here. One of his rants, he would

00:27:04.860 always go on about two, he said, in Bulgaria, we were not communist, we were socialist. He would

00:27:09.220 distinguish that difference, not saying it was a good thing, but what is the difference between the

00:27:13.960 too? Yeah, it's a good question. And it's interesting because I don't know that there's

00:27:19.240 a hard and fast definition that everyone agrees to. And when do you draw that line statistically

00:27:27.860 where you change from sort of more of a free market state to, okay, now you're officially

00:27:32.140 socialist? Is it when X percent of the economy is run by the government? I mean, I don't think

00:27:38.880 anyone's ever really come up with that. But a couple of the things that we noticed was that

00:27:43.420 when you look at the definition from the dictionary of what socialism is and communism they both have

00:27:49.260 uh the means of production are run by the state so the government's out there owning factories

00:27:54.460 it's owning things like farms and so forth there's a heavy role for the government in terms of the

00:28:01.180 generation of the goods that we use day to day communism seems to go further in that it's you

00:28:07.180 know getting rid of private property period it's the sort of socialist this this utopian world where

00:28:13.180 everything is kind of shared and people sing Kumbaya together. What makes it even murkier

00:28:19.260 is that sometimes you'll find states that say that they're socialist. Cuba identifies as a

00:28:25.260 socialist country in its constitution. It's run by the Communist Party. And the former Soviet Union

00:28:32.820 was the same way, right? The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the name of the nation.

00:28:39.840 and uh yet it was run by uh the communist party so you run into some discrepancies there they're

00:28:46.280 both similar going in the same direction and so that's why we thought well let's talk to people

00:28:50.940 from both i think uh you know probably a lot of your listeners and viewers are aware that the

00:28:56.340 the outcomes are very similar they're tragic there are so many cases of human suffering and misery

00:29:02.540 from these regimes because fundamentally this the structure just doesn't work we've seen it time and

00:29:09.360 time again. According to the United Nations right now, there's six million people that have fled

00:29:14.920 Venezuela because of the way that the things are right now. It's Hugo Chavez several years ago

00:29:23.460 brought in this socialist paradise. Things unraveled pretty quickly. I think it's the

00:29:30.680 Human Rights Foundation, which is noted that the average Venezuelan has lost something like 20

00:29:35.020 pounds because there just simply isn't enough food to go around and that's a country that's that's

00:29:40.460 blessed with uh oil and gas reserves so structurally if once you start to go down this collectivist

00:29:47.100 road and and invoke things like central planning and a heavy role for the state things unravel

00:29:52.540 pretty quickly obviously we know what happened with the soviet uh former soviet union i think

00:29:58.700 what's interesting is when you look at a country like china it's uh obviously a dictatorship um

00:30:04.300 and it lacks human rights but they did make a transition towards the the late 1900s from a

00:30:11.900 centrally planned economy to more of a market-based system and things improved and we've got some data

00:30:17.500 in our reporter what about what happened with the agricultural sector once they changed the

00:30:21.980 incentive structure you had the the same land same people you change the incentive structure and

00:30:27.500 suddenly output goes up so you can see that countries do better when they move towards

00:30:33.340 more of a free market system. And certainly, I don't think free markets and capitalism are

00:30:39.020 perfect, but they've certainly done a lot better historically than socialist and communist regimes

00:30:44.780 and all the data shows that. Well, yeah, and pivoting back to Venezuela, because it's such

00:30:50.360 a grand example kind of of how bad policy can overrun no matter how good your resources are.

00:30:56.680 There's a great meme out there. I think I saw around saying, oh, look at this. We've got this

00:31:00.140 perfect country, lots of oil and gas, coastal access, shipping, beautiful climate, nice landscape.

00:31:06.760 Let's just add a couple drops of socialism and bang, of course, it shows the city all

00:31:09.900 run down. And it's kind of funny, but it makes a very valid point. I mean, by all,

00:31:14.040 every other measure with what they have for resources and fantastic, well-educated people,

00:31:18.380 they should be prospering. They should be one of the strongest countries on earth.

00:31:21.360 And due to bad government policy, nobody can claim otherwise. They are in misery down there

00:31:26.540 And it really should never have had to happen.

00:31:29.180 It's brutal. It is absolutely brutal.

00:31:31.860 There is so much human suffering that has been caused by this ideology that's clearly failed.

00:31:38.280 It doesn't work. All the numbers show it.

00:31:40.960 You know, there's there's a bit of a debate over how many people died under communist regimes.

00:31:46.080 You know, on the low end, you've got one of Jimmy Carter's former adviser saying it's 60 million.

00:31:51.240 On the other end, we've seen an estimate as high as 150 million.

00:31:54.940 like that's it's a pretty big red flag uh that this is not a road you want to go down

00:32:01.100 and yet we continue to hear this idea that we should be you know implementing these policies

00:32:05.900 and that you often hear people say well look at denmark and sweden and that and they're not

00:32:11.340 socialist countries they are market-based uh countries you look at ikea it's not the government

00:32:17.820 that runs ikea in sweden it's a private company that runs it look at lego from denmark it's not

00:32:23.500 run by the government that's a private company you have private companies that are owning the

00:32:27.100 means of production they're they're competing fiercely and these countries actually have lower

00:32:32.620 business taxes than canada where they differ is that they impose higher taxes on citizens through

00:32:39.980 higher sales taxes and personal income taxes and so that's how they pay for the the generous

00:32:46.060 welfare state and if advocates want to say that that's what we should do you know they can say

00:32:52.140 that sure but be clear about it that's not those aren't socialist countries and denmark's uh former

00:32:57.500 prime minister even he was invited to speak at harvard and he made that point quite clearly he

00:33:02.140 said let me be clear denmark is not a socialist country so i think this is the type of information

00:33:08.140 that that people need to to learn about i think especially young people because i don't think

00:33:12.460 they're being told the whole story and that's why we thought that this website is a good resource

00:33:17.100 for people to go and they can hear directly from people who have lived under socialist and

00:33:21.500 communist countries that can learn about sort of the Scandinavian model. They can learn about

00:33:27.660 what's happening in Venezuela and other nations. Yeah, well, and in Sweden, I'm glad you brought

00:33:35.260 that up. You got ahead of me with Sweden and Denmark as people point to that. And they do

00:33:38.780 have large social programs as a social safety net. But yeah, Sweden's free market economy is

00:33:43.340 actually more unrestrained than Canada's is as far as that goes. But I mean, you could call some of

00:33:48.460 it elements of socialism if you're going to tax individuals that heavily heavily that's where it

00:33:52.940 gets as you said fuzzy i mean between socialism communism free market it's all a matter of degree

00:33:58.060 of government intervention really i mean you know at what point do you draw a line and call it one

00:34:01.980 or the other it's all um the same concept though yeah it's it's where you you just have a larger

00:34:08.380 and larger and larger role for the state where exactly you draw that line i don't think anyone

00:34:12.380 has ever defined it i'd be interested if someone did but uh like i say sort of the the definitions

00:34:17.820 that we observed pointed more towards the means of production and obviously Marx and Engels talked

00:34:25.500 quite a bit about that when they were espousing or writing the communist manifesto and having the

00:34:31.420 state own and control the means of production and then centrally planning everything you need

00:34:35.900 saw that in Cuba too once the revolutionaries took over they nationalized a number of the farms that

00:34:43.820 were owned internationally they took over the havana club rum company at gunpoint we've got

00:34:49.100 that in one of our videos talking about what happened there so it's you know it's this

00:34:53.500 mentality that the state's just going to come in and take over uh different companies and they're

00:34:59.020 going to run these things um it doesn't uh it doesn't work out well and uh you know i think

00:35:04.380 canadians can kind of understand this if they think about what happens when governments try to run

00:35:09.180 things here in canada i mean quite often the results are not that good when they're running

00:35:13.180 commercial enterprises you know we like to come to an example in ontario of a hospital that's

00:35:18.380 running at tim hortons and it's lost over a million dollars running at tim hortons so

00:35:22.700 lots of examples like that and uh you know certainly that's that doesn't mean there's

00:35:27.100 not a role for the state in our lives but that it uh it needs to be structured differently and

00:35:31.660 people tend to do better when it's more limited yeah and you don't hear stories of people who

00:35:36.380 boarded rickety rafts to try and get away from miami and get out to havana it didn't happen

00:35:40.780 people wanted to escape i mean and that's a commonality among all of these countries when

00:35:44.620 they finally collapse under socialism and a lot of it is is incremental and how they bring it in

00:35:49.900 that's part of where it's fuzzy too it gets dangerous and i as i said i really appreciate

00:35:54.140 because we we listen to a lot of academics or even listen to a lot of students or recent graduates who

00:35:59.580 talk about the how great socialism is and how fantastic it is but almost invariably these are

00:36:04.380 people who've never actually experienced it so so important with you know organizations like yours

00:36:09.580 getting it out there just talking one-on-one with people actually live through it and get a

00:36:13.900 real review on just how fun it is to live in that system yeah i mean you make a great point there

00:36:20.500 with people trying to escape cuba uh there's a story this has happened many times where cubans

00:36:26.020 have actually climbed into the wheel wells of airplanes so before an airplane takes off they

00:36:30.440 climb up into the landing gear area and they try and hide out there and then when the plane lands

00:36:35.840 in some other free country, they can escape. Problem, of course, is airplanes fly so high

00:36:40.780 that people can die from hypothermia. You can die from not having enough oxygen. You can die when

00:36:46.920 the landing air comes down and you fall out. But that's the length that people are going to in

00:36:52.300 Cuba to be free to get away from the socialist regime there. But it's not just Cuba. You think

00:37:00.700 back to after world war ii and germany the split between east and west germany well people were

00:37:05.980 trying to escape in one direction pretty much and that was from the east side the communist side

00:37:10.860 over to the the western side over 100 000 people tried to escape you look at north korea the north

00:37:17.180 korean peninsula there's the famous image on on social media where they show it at night you've

00:37:22.300 got south korea which is a market-based economy it's lit up nice and bright lots of energy things

00:37:27.740 happening in that country the north side is dark because people are living in poverty the centrally

00:37:32.620 planned north side simply does not work so we talk about these examples in uh in the report because

00:37:39.420 we think they're important they're easy to understand well wait why is everyone trying

00:37:43.100 to get away from these countries and go this way that's the common pattern so if this system is so

00:37:49.180 good why is everyone trying to get away from it and so yeah i think an interesting report if any of

00:37:54.860 your your viewers know someone who they think needs to learn the other side especially young

00:38:00.700 people we didn't i'd encourage them to visit the site read the report take a look at the videos

00:38:05.260 and hopefully they'll get something of use out of it great and actually since we got the viewers

00:38:09.900 going too i i don't know are you still seeking more people to expand and interview and talk

00:38:13.980 about those sorts of things you've come from that yeah that would be great yeah no we're trying to

00:38:18.300 talk to people from different parts of the world different countries so yeah by all means people

00:38:22.380 can go to the site look at the map and if they see we haven't uh done a discussion yet with

00:38:28.220 someone from that country by all means uh shoot me an email and be pleased to uh to hear your story

00:38:34.140 great well and uh thanks for coming on and just to review then where can we find out where your

00:38:38.060 project is and where to find out you know future projects and things such as that your social media

00:38:41.740 presence and all that good stuff yeah so people go to secondstreet.org they can find the work that

00:38:47.660 that I just talked about.

00:38:48.500 They can find our research on other areas.

00:38:51.260 We're on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn,

00:38:54.600 all the usual social media channels.

00:38:56.800 And people like what we do, they can follow us

00:39:00.340 and sign up for our updates or even make a donation.

00:39:03.560 Great, well, thanks again for coming on, Colin.

00:39:05.660 I always appreciate it.

00:39:06.680 And I really do like the work you're doing

00:39:08.300 and just bringing this to a more palatable.

00:39:10.600 You know, it's not a big, long academic paper,

00:39:12.120 stuff like that, though we need those things too,

00:39:13.740 but it's some good first person accounts.

00:39:16.280 So thanks for putting it together.

00:39:17.660 And I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

00:39:19.440 Well, thanks a lot, Corey.

00:39:20.280 Appreciate it.

00:39:22.420 So yeah, that was Colin Craig of secondstreet.org.

00:39:25.480 And yeah, they've done a lot of work on healthcare

00:39:27.580 and talking to people with that and outcomes and so on.

00:39:31.340 I like that format.

00:39:32.980 I like reaching out to people who actually lived it.

00:39:35.000 You know, when we've just talked about theoretical stuff,

00:39:39.120 when we look through textbooks

00:39:40.020 and we look through academic papers, essays,

00:39:42.300 which all have some degree of value,

00:39:43.840 a lot of things come out, again, much better in theory than they do in practice. And socialism

00:39:49.500 is a very common one. I honestly believe a lot of the people who pushed and got those countries

00:39:54.140 into socialism and communism really thought they were doing good. They really did. They didn't

00:39:58.460 begin as being evil. I'm sure some of them were, but for the most part, they really thought it was

00:40:02.800 the way to go. And they based it on reading stuff like Marx and Engels and Das Kapital and other

00:40:08.220 garbage like that. I mean, it's written as if it's a viable sort of theory. And sure, I guess

00:40:13.900 you got to start something with a theory. But again, it's shown in practice, it doesn't work.

00:40:18.200 It just doesn't work. And that number one thing, that point to point out, as Cullen did, as I did,

00:40:24.740 nobody is ever scrambling, trying to escape free market capitalist nations. Not only because they

00:40:31.400 don't want to escape, which is a big part of it, but the nations don't try to stop them because

00:40:35.160 they don't have to cork that bottle. A commonality in extreme socialist states always is having to

00:40:41.820 lock your citizens in because people with ambition, people who want more, people who want to do better

00:40:47.360 will leave. That's just the natural way of it. So, I mean, yes, they put themselves at terrible

00:40:54.280 risk trying to leave Cuba. Or we still remember those images of people climbing over barbed wire,

00:41:00.060 are getting ripped to shreds, trying to escape East Berlin, Soviet Union, they put up the iron

00:41:05.020 curtain. It's the first thing they did. North Korea, they're locking their citizens in and 0.72

00:41:09.580 keeping them from talking to others. If your system is any damn good, you shouldn't have to 0.97

00:41:14.560 force your citizens to stay within it. That's another meme. I love memes. You know, they get 0.73

00:41:18.820 big messages across in small ways. Sometimes there's that one that says socialism idea is so

00:41:25.260 good, they have to be mandatory. You can't get people to voluntarily buy into socialism. You

00:41:32.040 always have to put a gun to the head of the citizenry to do it. Just right there, it should 0.94

00:41:38.000 set off alarm bells. And it's sneaky. And it's incremental. As Colin said, too, the first thing

00:41:43.620 they go after is speech. And it's good to hear from people who live through it. They lived in

00:41:47.240 those nations. They understand. A government that wants to control its people knows that they can't

00:41:52.780 allow free speech. That's one of their biggest threats. Free speech, free media, free information.

00:41:57.060 You won't find a socialist country that doesn't have a form of Pravda. What do we got in Canada?

00:42:02.180 Somebody else mentioned it earlier. CBC. Yes, the Canadian Socialist Network. And for one and a

00:42:08.500 half billion a year, plus stolen advertising dollars, that vulgarity of an institution pumps

00:42:16.980 out boundless content and policies promoting far-left socialism. Go figure. This is where

00:42:26.580 they go. This is where they sneak it in. This is where they train us. This is where they

00:42:29.280 indoctrinate us. And what are they doing on the other side? They're trying to control the other

00:42:33.240 media. For those who didn't catch it, I ran that panel interview we did yesterday with Sheila

00:42:40.340 Gunn-Reed from Rebel News and Andrew Lawton from True North. We're all independent outlets. We're

00:42:45.240 all doing quite well. I mean, people are tiring of the mainstream media and the crap we're being 0.97

00:42:49.920 fed. The mainstream media is all, this is the way the government's doing it. They're with a carrot 0.99

00:42:53.900 and a stick. They started with the carrot. Let's get in and get all of these media outlets dependent

00:42:58.800 on us. So, I mean, aside from the CBC that always was, they put out 600 million in subsidies and

00:43:04.380 then they carry on more subsidies and more programs and more bailouts. And now all of these media

00:43:09.460 outlets are beholden to the government. You don't want to rock the government boat or they'll pull

00:43:13.620 the rug out from underneath you. And then the government starts as well with, we're going to

00:43:17.960 determine what is or isn't a real media outlet. So they put through those processes and they said,

00:43:23.940 you know what, rebel isn't, so they don't qualify. And you know, I don't think they care either way.

00:43:28.400 They also said with the Western Standard that we are. I think the government wants to approve

00:43:33.460 most of these outlets to say, we've given you the stamp of approval, not that we wanted it or needed

00:43:38.400 it because once they show that example and they show the example that they wouldn't give it to

00:43:43.600 another one it's reminding all the others hey yeah we consider you an approved outlet for now

00:43:48.120 and you watch it we'll do to you what we did with the rebel so you got to have a bad example this

00:43:53.440 is bad this is government working to control media working to control any messaging that gets to you

00:43:59.160 and it doesn't need to be done it didn't need to be done it's a solution and you know searching

00:44:03.100 for a problem. But here we are. And what do you see that that S word always is lingering in the

00:44:10.160 background? Socialism. I mean, those mainstream outlets, they wouldn't probably talk that much

00:44:15.580 in depth about things like survivors of socialism and things like that, because they don't want to

00:44:20.440 upset their masters. What if you lose your subsidies? What if you, you know, don't get

00:44:26.720 qualified to go into your reporters going into news conferences, don't have access to government

00:44:31.140 ministers anymore. Because you need that original content. That's the hard thing. That's what we do

00:44:35.340 here at The Standard. We've got original content. Dave Naylor, our news editor, makes sure we source

00:44:40.280 our stuff. We get out there. Mel Rizdin, she's always hard at it. Looking at her on the phone

00:44:44.340 right now out there in the newsroom talking to somebody. We source our stuff. We get out there.

00:44:48.300 It takes expenses, time, money. And if the government can hold you down and keep you from

00:44:56.840 doing that, you're going to fade on the vine. So if you start losing access, that's another way

00:45:03.800 that they control information. So it's a scary world. And this government is not working in our

00:45:08.820 interests right now. Speaking of another way, they're not working in our interests. Of course,

00:45:12.160 they're always trying to take away your firearms. There's one thing the liberals despise. It's

00:45:17.960 having Canadians have the right to enjoy firearms. And they're constantly under attack,

00:45:22.840 constantly recategorizing them you know all your old hunting rifles suddenly they're assault style

00:45:29.060 rifles and we're going to steal them from you and i call it stealing because again if they're

00:45:32.440 going to tell you that you have to give it to them without a choice then it's theft so you've

00:45:37.060 got to stand up for yourself and you need groups for that you need organizations for that and one

00:45:40.140 of those groups sponsors us and that's the canadian shooting sports association these guys have been

00:45:44.980 sponsoring us for quite some time i i spoke one-on-one with tony bernardo actually down at

00:45:48.960 the gun show last weekend in Calgary. They're doing great work on behalf of Canadian firearm

00:45:55.660 owners, you know, and they provide a whole bunch of resources. If you own firearms, if you're

00:45:59.700 looking to get into firearms, these guys have it all there on their website, you know, videos,

00:46:04.080 instructional things. Because I mean, hey, firearms are fantastic, perfectly safe items to own. You

00:46:09.320 know, as I said, when I was at the show, I was surrounded by thousands of people and thousands

00:46:13.480 of firearms, and I never felt safer in my life. Unfortunately, firearms in the hands of an idiot 1.00

00:46:17.700 can be dangerous, you know, and well, many things in the hands of an idiot, including a car can be 1.00

00:46:22.060 dangerous. So it takes training, it takes control, it takes responsibility. And the Canadian Shooting 1.00

00:46:27.980 Sports Association offers videos and resources for all of those sorts of things. So you can

00:46:32.200 responsibly enjoy your firearms, but they need you. They need your help too, to keep helping,

00:46:37.980 you know, with their court challenges against the liberal government for your rights, things like

00:46:40.680 that. So you got to get on board with them, check them out. Canadian Shooting Sports Association,

00:46:45.760 Their website is cssa-cila.org

00:46:49.860 and take out a membership with these guys,

00:46:51.740 you know, because that's how they get the funding

00:46:53.760 to be able to keep ensuring you have those rights.

00:46:57.100 And I don't think anybody's looking to,

00:46:58.880 you know, going off of them

00:47:00.180 and more into my ranting then,

00:47:01.300 but I don't think that anybody's looking

00:47:03.840 to start an armed revolution by any means

00:47:05.880 or any stuff like that.

00:47:07.400 But the government sure fears it.

00:47:09.220 That's why they want the firearms taken away.

00:47:12.400 I mean, why else?

00:47:14.380 See, when we look at the crime statistics, and we have those, crimes aren't committed by duck hunters, deer hunters, they aren't committed by firearm collectors, they aren't committed by the law-abiding firearm owners, yet those are the ones that the liberals are always targeting.

00:47:28.780 The majority of these crimes are committed by people who have illegally imported guns or stolen guns, they have not gotten them on the legitimate market, they never had good interest in mind, and these are criminals.

00:47:41.600 The government wants, again, to keep this people dependent on them.

00:47:45.760 If you disarm citizens, you have no way now to defend yourself against these criminals.

00:47:49.740 You're fully reliant on the states to defend you against them.

00:47:52.120 Well, that's not really working out really well now, is it?

00:47:54.760 And it's funny how they take their solutions and they go the totally wrong way.

00:47:58.940 Calgary has record numbers of shootings going on in the streets right now.

00:48:02.500 It's getting really bad.

00:48:03.820 I mean, last night, some guy was shot to pieces up in northeast Calgary.

00:48:08.400 And I believe it's double the amount of shootings that have happened.

00:48:10.800 But what do you hear from the usual progressive politicians?

00:48:12.760 We got to control the guns. 1.00

00:48:14.560 No, you morons. 1.00

00:48:15.640 You got to control the criminals. 1.00

00:48:18.080 And this is, it's getting clear.

00:48:20.800 And this has always been the case in Calgary.

00:48:22.380 We've had ups and downs.

00:48:23.280 This is gang stuff going on, guys.

00:48:26.160 These are criminal gangs doing these sorts of things, not law-abiding firearm owners.

00:48:31.080 These aren't people grabbing the old duck gun from the basement and going and shooting their neighbor.

00:48:35.560 So let's address this.

00:48:36.940 But instead, they just say that we want to crack down on the law-abiding people.

00:48:40.360 These are the same twits that want to defund the police.

00:48:43.360 We've got shootings going on.

00:48:44.900 I mean, that vehicle up there was peppered.

00:48:47.240 We're talking dozens of shots were taken.

00:48:49.620 Thankfully, I mean, somebody got killed, and that's not thankful at all.

00:48:53.660 Thankfully, nobody else did in that particular incident.

00:48:56.460 You know, the other one, execution-style, right on 16th Avenue,

00:49:00.000 they pulled up behind a vehicle and blew this guy's head off sitting in his vehicle,

00:49:04.460 and it was targeted.

00:49:05.820 It was gang-related.

00:49:07.060 Let's admit these things.

00:49:08.040 But no, no, the government is too focused on going after all the people who aren't committing crimes.

00:49:13.000 Yes, we are in bizarro world.

00:49:14.960 I talked about, you know, I mean, we're in a world where English is apparently racist to use as a language even.

00:49:20.100 So we can't expect rationality from our betters, apparently, on these things.

00:49:26.780 There's something I want to talk about.

00:49:28.700 This is a side note.

00:49:29.580 Close out the week.

00:49:30.320 If you're on Twitter, an account you must follow is libs of TikTok.

00:49:35.980 Okay.

00:49:36.640 This is a Twitter account.

00:49:37.900 that's been around for a couple of years.

00:49:39.960 They made a bunch of news recently

00:49:41.560 because all they do is post videos 0.97

00:49:45.880 of liberals being liberals, being insane, 1.00

00:49:48.860 being ridiculous, being absurd, 1.00

00:49:51.040 and being over the edge. 0.99

00:49:52.020 And of course, those videos go viral.

00:49:53.380 These guys are so,

00:49:54.840 they lack self-awareness so much. 0.51

00:49:56.920 They put out these TikTok videos. 0.93

00:49:58.380 They put out this goofiness

00:49:59.600 and they think they're making a good point. 1.00

00:50:01.880 But in reality, it's just some purple-haired lady 1.00

00:50:04.240 ranting and raving into a camera. 0.91

00:50:05.780 And we find it very comical

00:50:07.240 and we like to share those things and laugh about it.

00:50:09.880 So Libs of TikTok had built quite a following

00:50:12.800 and all they were doing,

00:50:14.240 they didn't have much editorial comment

00:50:16.720 of their own whatsoever.

00:50:18.340 It was just a posting that shared other stuff.

00:50:23.560 Well, this really pissed off the left.

00:50:25.220 Why are you pissed off?

00:50:26.600 All they're doing is sharing your stuff.

00:50:28.800 You would have thought you'd be happy

00:50:29.940 to have somebody sharing your stuff.

00:50:31.260 You're getting it out there.

00:50:32.240 You're getting the word out.

00:50:33.480 Well, they got so upset

00:50:35.780 and this columnist with the Washington Post, Lorenz, her name is, something Lorenz, she wrote,

00:50:42.100 well, she tracked down and docs, for those not familiar with internet language, she found the

00:50:46.840 identity of the person behind Libs of TikTok and published it in a Washington Post piece,

00:50:52.540 plus, of course, accused them of a whole bunch of nasty things, which isn't true. All they're

00:50:55.880 doing is posting your own stuff, feeding them, feeding people, and feeding the liberals their

00:51:01.560 own words. Boy, that upsets them. So there was that attack piece. And now, of course, she is

00:51:08.300 playing victim. She's whining, she's howling, she's pissing and moaning. And if you look at 1.00

00:51:12.100 her history, actually, she's kind of a crackpot anyways. She left the times there as well with 0.98

00:51:17.240 a big tantrum, but it made a lot of news. But what's great about it, and James pulled up that

00:51:21.840 picture of the Libs of TikTok, they've got almost a million followers on Twitter now, almost a

00:51:28.460 million. I believe a week ago, there were only 600,000. So it's, if people are familiar with

00:51:36.340 the old term for the internet, the Streisand effect. And that was from way back when Barbara

00:51:40.580 Streisand, this is the earlier days of the internet, but she had a house out in Malibu,

00:51:45.860 great big mansion or whatever. And some guy had a website that had a bunch of aerial photos of

00:51:51.600 just of houses all over along in California and so on. And he just had them out there,

00:51:55.740 a whole list of them. I think this picture, it turned out one of those aerial pictures was of

00:51:59.640 Barbra Streisand's house and it only had like 32 views or something, but somehow she found it

00:52:04.660 and she sued him. She went after him. She went a hard court court after him. And suddenly his site 0.99

00:52:11.620 that had like 20 or 30 views on Barbra Streisand's house had hundreds and hundreds of thousands

00:52:17.260 of people looking at that picture. It was brought to the front and center and people got to see

00:52:22.020 where Streisand's house was, what it looked like in the whole works. So in other words, Streisand

00:52:26.040 having her little temper tantrum and snit had the opposite effect of what she wanted to do and

00:52:30.620 actually took a minor thing and made it huge. Well, this ding dong with the Washington Post

00:52:35.940 going after the libs of TikTok account has now turned that account from 600,000 followers to

00:52:41.940 nearly a million. And I'm sure it's only going to go higher over the course of the next week or so,

00:52:49.080 because I'm telling you, follow it.

00:52:51.000 It's quite hilarious to see some of the bizarro videos

00:52:55.420 that they managed to dig up or people submit to them

00:52:57.500 and they post on there.

00:52:59.020 So check them out.

00:53:00.800 Let's make sure to reward that Washington Post journalist 0.99

00:53:05.080 for her good hard work by making sure a small site remains big.

00:53:09.720 Okay, let's get on to our next guest there,

00:53:11.760 and that's Dave Makachuk.

00:53:12.760 He writes a lot of columns for us.

00:53:14.300 He's written a lot of columns for publications

00:53:16.480 for for quite some time i won't ask exactly how many years but it's been a while and i will talk

00:53:22.520 about some of the more recent stuff dave wrote hey dave how's it going good good good how are

00:53:27.680 you doing i'm pretty good actually you know i mean it's still as miserable as snowing it looks like

00:53:32.400 the snow stopped out there now but yes we're moving into spring you know i rant i rave and

00:53:38.000 everything but i'm not as upset as some people might think sometimes yeah well the farmers need

00:53:42.080 the moisture let's face it the farmers the sloughs the wildlife they need that they need the moisture

00:53:47.780 but in saying that yeah I hate it's a pain well I'd like to see the farmers get the moisture

00:53:53.520 through rain yeah we need rain we need rain absolutely but it's it's one of the things

00:53:59.900 beyond our control uh one of the things that is within our control and I know it's a subject

00:54:04.340 we've been on a bit back and forth but uh and it just won't seem to quite die but is that thin

00:54:08.620 blue line patch. It's still an issue right now. There's still kind of a passive aggressive almost

00:54:14.980 battle going on between city hall and the police commission and the police union and the police

00:54:19.480 officers themselves. And you wrote a column on that recently. Yes, I did. And I'm firmly behind

00:54:27.020 the officers in the line of duty. I'm totally behind them and shock of all shocks. I'm totally

00:54:34.380 behind chief newfeld in this i think he's totally right he said this was the straw that broke the

00:54:39.660 camel's back and he's being totally honest and the police commission is not listening

00:54:46.220 this is this is not good this is not good i mean i'm not going to bash either side but i'm going

00:54:52.220 to say uh uh this is not good and maybe there needs to be some changes to the police commission

00:54:58.540 Because, again, we'll get into this deeper, but again, I'm behind the rank and file.

00:55:06.580 I'm behind the rank and file.

00:55:07.780 These are guys who put their lives on the line for us every day, you know, who get up in the morning and strap a gun on, for God's sake.

00:55:16.560 And they don't know if they'll be home for dinner.

00:55:19.020 They don't know if they'll make it home that night.

00:55:21.540 Crime is, you know, crime is always on the way up.

00:55:24.160 And we're talking about, and again, this is not the hill to die on, which is what I mentioned in my column.

00:55:31.860 This is a patch.

00:55:33.640 This is a patch for God's sake.

00:55:36.760 Well, that's it.

00:55:37.540 And you said right in your column, I mean, you're not always supportive of everything the police do.

00:55:41.040 It's nothing you're hung up on.

00:55:42.780 It's just in this particular circumstance, as you said, why are you picking this bizarre hill to go after the police and die on?

00:55:49.320 Because it's really demoralizing a lot of officers and upsetting them.

00:55:52.520 I mean, if you want better behavior from the officers, keeping their morale up is one of the first steps in doing so.

00:55:58.540 Well, and of course, like I've talked to friends about this.

00:56:01.600 I didn't just, you know, I said, look, what do you think?

00:56:04.500 What do you think?

00:56:05.000 And they said, well, we have concerns.

00:56:06.720 First of all, first off, it's the link to the so-called white supremacists in the United States and other bad links.

00:56:14.540 and also that this is a group that swore to enforce the rules, and now they're balking at a

00:56:24.500 order, a direct order, and also that this may lead to more problems down the road where they

00:56:33.560 might not, or accountability, or is it abuse of power, so on and so forth. These are all the

00:56:41.480 issues that pull forth. But let me tell you something. I grew up in Windsor. I grew up in

00:56:46.000 Windsor and lived across from Detroit. And there were years where Detroit had a thousand murders,

00:56:55.300 a thousand from crime, a thousand murders. Imagine that. We have 11, and the media is

00:57:02.420 having a heyday on it today. We have 11 homicides. A thousand. All you had to do was cross the border

00:57:09.900 and the tunnel of the bridge to get to Windsor where people leave their doors unlocked, where we

00:57:16.340 might have one or two murders a year. Now, maybe that's changed. I know it's worse in Toronto now

00:57:24.260 with the gangs and gangs here too, and that kind of thing. But basically, if you've ever traveled,

00:57:32.720 and I ask this to any one of the listeners, if you've ever traveled to the United States,

00:57:38.100 you know it's not it's different the situation down there is different the environment is different

00:57:43.940 the the uh uh police are different sometimes they kind of shoot first ask questions later 0.93

00:57:51.300 uh and and and and the situation with the black lives matter is terrible the i can't breathe thing

00:57:58.100 i thought that was really awful really terrible to see i can i can't stand that video and and and yes

00:58:04.100 i think all those things we have to recognize but it's different and to paint our entire police force

00:58:12.020 with the same brush as the americans is completely wrong it's totally and completely wrong and we

00:58:21.700 should stop it and again the patch is not the same the patch is different it's it oh this is

00:58:28.420 a canadian patch yes there is a linkage but as you may have known in your career and in my career

00:58:37.940 top-down management never works it's never works you have to have buy-in you don't overthink it

00:58:45.700 rule number one don't overthink it keep it simple get buy-in okay hash it out talk to it i don't

00:58:54.500 like this split between the um police commission and and and and and and and and police and like

00:59:01.940 i say i backed neufeld on this a hundred percent i think he's right i think this is you know the

00:59:07.060 cops have had to deal with covid how to deal with uh the stress of the job and and and um and and

00:59:14.980 all these other issues and morale hurting morale and you know don't get me wrong uh the police

00:59:22.740 should uh not there should they have a little ways to go to build trust with the community and

00:59:30.100 various uh sections of our community i think and and that's what the commission should be saying

00:59:36.580 you know look guys we don't really like this patch but look i tell you what you keep the

00:59:41.860 damn patch but we want you to uh engage the community more let's let's let's try and so 0.88

00:59:48.660 you know this perceived uh thing where the cops are going to turn on us well god no this is you 0.99

00:59:56.420 know we overthink things we overthink stuff all the time and it's not the same america it's it's

01:00:03.540 it's it's totally different and and i think we're overreacting i think it's an overreaction

01:00:10.100 well yeah and we're reacting now i mean nobody can deny that there's some officers who go out

01:00:15.780 out of control that there have been officers who were racist.

01:00:18.360 There have been officers doing very abhorrent things.

01:00:21.460 And there's been cases where officers try to cover that up.

01:00:23.500 We know that there's stuff to improve.

01:00:24.980 There's stuff to get better.

01:00:26.160 There's relationships to mend with the community.

01:00:28.380 I mean, letting the woke constantly define what a symbol is or what it isn't.

01:00:33.780 I mean, a couple of recent examples is at one point that the okay symbol, they went,

01:00:37.740 this is a racist, is a secret racist symbol. 0.76

01:00:39.760 It's really that ridiculous, but that was going around until finally, you know, 0.97

01:00:43.480 enough pictures of left-wing politicians went around doing the exact similar. 0.85

01:00:46.660 Well, maybe it isn't. 0.97

01:00:47.660 Yeah, I know, but there'd be stupid rumors and things that they interpret 0.99

01:00:50.360 later to be racist. 0.95

01:00:52.120 And I read, I don't know if you caught that you were busy at the start of my

01:00:54.760 show, but there's actually a book that was talking about even using the English

01:00:58.500 language makes you inherently racist.

01:01:00.420 That's how nutty some of these people get.

01:01:03.880 We know the majority of these officers were not wearing that patch to anything

01:01:07.920 to do whatsoever with race.

01:01:09.960 Why are we letting the lunatic fringe define what it is?

01:01:12.780 Because if you get them a new symbol, because some people say, well, just make a new one. 0.91

01:01:15.340 No, because these nuts are going to come around and they're going to see the new one's racist too.

01:01:18.860 You got to draw a line somewhere. 0.99

01:01:21.020 And as you said, this is a dumb hill to die on going after police. 0.98

01:01:25.040 I have a buddy of mine. 0.98

01:01:26.800 He's got two sons.

01:01:28.200 One is with the Canadian forces serving in Europe, in Latvia.

01:01:33.380 And his other son is a CPS officer.

01:01:36.540 And these are probably the best kids, some of the best kids.

01:01:39.200 I mean, I'm so proud of both of them.

01:01:40.940 And I'm sure their dad is too.

01:01:42.280 these are kids don't have an ounce of racism in their body I mean come on and like you said

01:01:48.360 it's just a complete exact it's it's just you know out of it's just you know the whole woke

01:01:54.560 thing is just taking us over and let we have to draw the line we have to draw the line and

01:02:00.760 I'm sure we can find a solution to this I think the commission has to come off its high horse a

01:02:07.940 little bit and engage uh uh uh you know the chief and and and like the chief said we need to discuss

01:02:16.340 issues is it really about a patch or is it about something else is it something else this whole

01:02:23.960 woke culture that's invading us it's all over us it's invading us and and and maybe that's what we

01:02:30.800 have to fight. Social media and this woke culture that's overtaking us, which is, you know, I mean,

01:02:38.740 come on. This is not, you know, we can do this. In other words, I'm trying to be positive and not,

01:02:43.960 you know, slam anybody. I'm trying to be positive. I'd like to see the commission

01:02:47.960 try and engage this issue for our sake, for your sake, for everybody's sake. Come on, guys, let's

01:02:55.720 Let's resolve this. This is not the hill to die on, for God's sake. And I was interested in finding out that this goes back to the 1850s, to the war in Crimea, where a Russian cavalry group charged a line of British troops.

01:03:16.220 and the British troops held, as they often do, and they called it the Thin Red Line.

01:03:23.400 And that's the actual famous lithograph that you can get.

01:03:28.100 It's a really fantastic painting.

01:03:30.520 Well, and also, so this went through the ages, and then in the 1950s,

01:03:35.320 some L.A. police, LAPD picked it up as a slogan,

01:03:39.260 and then there was movies and television about the Thin Blue Line and so on and so forth.

01:03:44.660 And yes, this is something that the police have to address, and they have addressed it.

01:03:48.980 Can they do better? Yes. Are there bad apples maybe out there who need to be, you know, addressed?

01:03:58.280 Yes. Yes. As in every job. You name me a job that doesn't have bad apples or a bad boss or someone who just is, you know, they're collecting a salary and not doing anything.

01:04:09.740 it's it's it's human nature but but for god's sake let's not get our shirt in a knot over

01:04:17.460 something so ridiculous as a patch and i like the patch just so you know confession i collect

01:04:25.320 military patches i i i'm into the military stuff i do a lot of columns and stories i collect patches

01:04:32.280 and some of them are pretty risque uh and they're on ebay and you can buy them and uh they're you

01:04:38.220 know, this is a different culture in the military. But I display them. I don't wear them in public.

01:04:46.360 So that's a different thing entirely. But I think we have to keep this in perspective

01:04:52.880 and not overthink it. That's what I'm saying. For God's sake, let's not woke. This woke culture

01:05:00.920 bulldoze us and turn us into enemies that's ridiculous it's ridiculous stop it the division

01:05:08.960 is not helping i mean maybe we'll pivot away from that if you got some time here on your more recent 0.81

01:05:13.380 column as you do write a lot on international uh items and military items and things things like

01:05:18.920 that and you uh wrote a column on the israel's iron beam laser weapon yes yes incredible uh as

01:05:26.060 as the headline says it's it's a game changer it's a game changer israel already has i think

01:05:32.700 two or three methods of blocking rockets and and um they have now come up with a laser weapon

01:05:41.340 it's called the uh iron beam they have the iron um i forget the i can't remember the other one

01:05:49.820 they have but they have all these other weapons and this will be in concert with with their other

01:05:54.860 They're weapons of defense I'm talking about.

01:05:57.740 And I think it's an incredible breakthrough for the company's name, Raphael.

01:06:06.340 And I'll probably be, I'm going to the military show in Paris in a few months.

01:06:12.820 And I'll probably be talking to them and doing a follow-up on this, hopefully.

01:06:17.580 And again, this thing can hit mortars out of the sky.

01:06:22.620 a mortar although a mortar's trajectory is predictable a missile is not predictable and

01:06:28.860 it also has defensive capabilities the fact it can knock out all those things uh is remarkable

01:06:36.380 it's absolutely remarkable and and it's uh i only wish that they would share this technology

01:06:42.380 and and you know with uh because it's a tremendous of defensive um uh shield that they are now uh

01:06:50.140 that they now have developed and you know and not to get involved in the israeli-palestinian thing

01:06:56.300 but uh you know the one thing you and i don't have to worry about and again what's happening

01:07:02.220 in the world nobody's hitting it hitting us with rockets and missiles our life is pretty

01:07:07.580 you know calm and safe over here but in the mid east and in other trouble spots

01:07:12.140 This will be a weapon. It's a defensive weapon, and it costs not $100,000 or $150,000 or a million per shot.

01:07:23.580 It costs $3.50, the price of a coffee. That's it.

01:07:29.400 So you can understand why there's a lot of interest in this particular defensive weapon.

01:07:35.940 It's just good to see some reporting.

01:07:37.620 you know, one thing we humans are seen to be skilled at is finding more and more creative

01:07:41.620 ways to kill each other. It's good to see some defensive developments anyways. And yeah, if

01:07:46.700 anybody's had to learn about how to stop and defend themselves, I mean, years and decades of

01:07:53.360 having incoming missiles and mortars raining on them, Israel had to work on some of this. 0.53

01:07:58.660 Absolutely. And Israel's not the only country the Americans are working on, I'm sure.

01:08:01.820 The Chinese are working on it for sure. In fact, they may even be advanced in this area. But laser weapons are coming. It's Star Wars, and it's going to happen. And I'm not saying that's a great thing, but that's where it's going.

01:08:18.500 unmanned and and laser weapons and you know billions are being poured into that for R&D

01:08:26.300 you know it would be great if some of that money went to help the world instead of

01:08:31.000 developing advanced weapons but it's a scary world out there it's a scary world and

01:08:36.680 I think they have to keep proceeding with it and they will they will the navy the army

01:08:44.940 They're all going towards these kind of weapons.

01:08:48.320 And, you know, what's really scary is these drones, these drone swarms, where you have maybe 50 drones coming at you.

01:08:56.800 What do you do then?

01:08:58.540 You know, like, how do you stop that?

01:09:01.060 And how do you know which is carrying a weapon and which isn't?

01:09:04.420 Which is, you know, I mean, we're getting into that.

01:09:08.260 And you can buy these drones at Costco, for Christ's sake, and modify them.

01:09:12.860 You know what I mean?

01:09:13.980 So like I say, everything is changing and especially getting more deeper,

01:09:21.100 deeper in technology and autonomous weapons, autonomous weapons and laser weapons.

01:09:28.120 So anyway, that's just a small bit of what's happening today in that area.

01:09:33.880 Yeah, well, it was an interesting piece.

01:09:35.440 So before I let you go, have you got more stuff on the cooker here?

01:09:38.140 I know we'll have stuff from you eventually, but.

01:09:40.020 uh oh well i just hope i really um i'm glad that the americans are um i mean i make no bones about

01:09:47.860 it i'm i i hope uh ukraine can last and and and last against this onslaught and i'm glad that

01:09:55.220 biden is doing more uh to give them uh artillery they're giving them artillery and uh and now and

01:10:02.260 i heard a report yesterday that ukraine actually has more tanks on the ground in ukraine than

01:10:08.820 russia and these have been donated from other countries and i wish although trudeau walk you

01:10:15.700 know talks tough i'd like to see him do more i'd like to see him do more uh time is so important

01:10:23.140 time is running out for these people and i hope and pray and also that they give putin a way out

01:10:30.740 give them a way out of this and stop it somehow i hope how do you how do you deal with a man like

01:10:38.100 this i don't know it's unprecedented anyway i just want to see it and that's the main thing

01:10:45.140 all right well thanks for coming to join us today dave and uh i'm sure we'll talk again soon i always

01:10:50.740 appreciate it and look forward to your stories on the western standard in the future okay thanks

01:10:54.980 thanks a lot corey take care now go there dave so that's dave makachuk and uh again you can find

01:11:00.660 him on westernstandardonline.com he writes very regular columns for us uh and from a variety of

01:11:06.260 things, a lot of international stuff quite often. But again, he comes a little closer home with

01:11:10.880 things such as the thin blue line issue that's been just going on and on. You know, it's just

01:11:16.680 such a ridiculous issue. I know some people are tired of talking about it, but it's not gone yet, 0.95

01:11:22.660 I'm afraid. So we got to keep talking about it for the time being. Speaking of news that won't

01:11:27.580 go away, here's an interesting one. I saw that on the Taxpayers Federation the other day,

01:11:31.980 that the home equity tax, here it is again, I think this is the fourth time maybe that the

01:11:38.260 Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation has been found poking around, studying how to tax the

01:11:44.780 equity of primary residences of Canadians. And of course the government, it's the same story over

01:11:51.020 and over again. Remember the Canadian Mortgage Home Equity Corporation, that's an arm of the

01:11:57.120 government. They're controlled by the government. They answer to the government. So don't pretend

01:12:01.560 their arm's length, but pretend anything they're doing isn't what the government wants to do.

01:12:06.500 Now, the government always denies, we're not going to come steal your home equity. We're not going

01:12:09.960 to come steal your home equity. But they commission study after study after study on how to steal your

01:12:15.820 home equity. And I'm going to call it stealing because they want to come in and take a chunk of

01:12:21.600 the home that you worked, that you maintained, you saved for, and you put your funds in, you gambled

01:12:27.180 on a large debt and they're going to say it built some equity. You know what? We're going to take a

01:12:32.760 chunk of it. And that's just, when does this end guys? And how long? Of course, I mean, most of us

01:12:41.360 here with our viewers are not people who are prone to believe in government and anything they say

01:12:45.400 anyways. So when the government keeps saying, we're not going to tax it, I think they're lying.

01:12:50.760 They're lying through their teeth. Why do you keep studying this? Why do you keep poking your finger

01:12:55.640 into this if you don't want to go there. Then I think these leaks are purposeful. They keep

01:13:03.480 softening us up. They want us to accept that there's going to be a home equity tax soon.

01:13:09.740 You know, and we're going to talk about some of the things, where the government's going,

01:13:12.280 where it's, the term is the Great Reset. And we talk about socialism. We talk about big government.

01:13:18.440 Look, guys, it's not a conspiracy. Trudeau's a moron. That's not a conspiracy. Everybody 1.00

01:13:22.620 pretty much knows that, but he follows shallow, simple ideology. And some of that is he really

01:13:28.260 believes that a nice, big socialist state will make everybody happy. Of course, as a trust fund

01:13:31.680 baby, he's never had to pay bills in his frigging life, but lives in luxury on the taxpayer's dime 0.89

01:13:35.520 already. He's not somebody who can relate to the pressures he's actually putting on the citizenry 0.96

01:13:39.460 with his vapid, dangerous, and wretched policies. Now, there was a piece actually on Quillette the

01:13:46.680 other day that was fantastic. And if you look up Quillette, you know, they tend to be long

01:13:50.920 essays and long pieces, but one of they talked about was you're, we're creating the whole world

01:13:56.000 isn't, it's not just Canada. A multi-class system right now with real estate, the way it's been

01:14:02.280 happening, where we've gonna, we've set real estate prices so far out of reach your average

01:14:07.280 person just can't get into the market anymore. Young people cannot get into the real estate

01:14:12.040 market. When you get $700,000 house and you got to save the down payment for that and make the 1.00

01:14:16.080 mortgage and do all of that, that chance for your average young person. So what's happening?

01:14:21.960 Speculators are coming in, buying houses because the rental market's good for them, but then the

01:14:25.740 rents go up and it just pressures. Now you have people paying and paying and paying and not even

01:14:28.800 building equity. And that's a larger and larger group. It's a whole generation of people. So what

01:14:34.960 does the government do? Again, you see, you know how this always ends up. Well, we'll take care of

01:14:38.840 you guys. We'll build social housing. We'll have the government run the housing market. We'll take

01:14:44.540 care of you. Welcome back to the row housing and apartments that you see in the old Soviet block, 1.00

01:14:49.980 right? Welcome back to the slums that I've talked about, what you see in Buffalo, New York, or New 0.98

01:14:55.160 York City, or a lot of those American centers where they made the projects. And they said, 0.57

01:14:58.360 we can build nice big apartment blocks because don't worry, nobody will starve. Everybody will

01:15:02.820 be okay. And then there's gonna be some homeowners who've got in early who walk away quite well off

01:15:09.040 because the value of a detached house is going to go through the roof. It already is.

01:15:14.540 but it goes farther. And that piece does go into it. The problem comes all the way down

01:15:19.640 predominantly on the municipal governments. Yes, those loony, woke nutbars who've managed to take

01:15:26.560 over just about every city council in Canada as they fight on this density zealotry. And again, 0.99

01:15:34.280 that piece, quillette.com, check them out. It's magnificent. Because it's the same in every city.

01:15:39.840 You see that pattern. It's going on in Australia. It's going on in Europe. It's going on

01:15:43.220 in Canada and the United States, of course.

01:15:45.800 They have this density obsession.

01:15:47.800 And the reality is these high-density cities

01:15:49.640 are expensive as all hell.

01:15:51.440 They're terrible.

01:15:52.440 They aren't helping people at all.

01:15:54.600 And they're trying to strangle outward development.

01:15:57.620 In Calgary, they regulate the market to death.

01:16:00.860 I've talked to Shane Wenzel about that,

01:16:02.380 you know, as a home builder,

01:16:03.120 and I've talked to others.

01:16:04.180 It takes eight years in Calgary.

01:16:05.780 If, say, you've got, I don't know,

01:16:08.420 it's well out of my type of thinking for money,

01:16:10.460 but let me throw a number out of $100 million.

01:16:12.220 You've got a chunk of land.

01:16:13.100 you've got in mind, and you want to, you know, start a new

01:16:20.780 development south of the city, you apply. Well, it'll be eight

01:16:25.460 years before you break ground on that on average in Calgary,

01:16:27.800 eight years. In the meantime, what else is going to happen?

01:16:31.140 Plus, you get dozens and dozens of all these applications and

01:16:33.540 studies and permits that you got to go through. Who's going to

01:16:41.180 invest. The only way you're going to invest is if you get a

01:16:43.460 massive return, which again, it pushes the prices through the

01:16:45.800 roof, is at any time during those eight years, you could have

01:16:49.260 it rejected. So I mean, this is happening in every city, it's

01:16:53.600 happening all over the place. Plus, they're putting all these

01:16:55.100 crazy green regulations and this and that it's not working.

01:16:59.400 It's not working. There's only one way to bring down the cost

01:17:03.140 of homes, you have to increase the supply. And the ones who are

01:17:06.560 gatekeeping and choking the supply are municipal

01:17:09.380 governments, ideologues like Ninchy and his prior council and

01:17:12.560 Gondek now under current one. Ah, I just gotta look at this. Okay,

01:17:18.620 so we got a commenter, Greg Murawski. Seems the Western

01:17:23.060 standards getting heavily into our Rothschild, Schwab, Soros,

01:17:25.820 Freeland, Trudeau, Lewinsky, WF, NWO, UN, WHO, Ukraine,

01:17:30.320 warmongering, propaganda machine. No, you're wrong, Greg. It's

01:17:37.380 the aliens. The aliens control us. That's what I'm putting out here. They put a chip in my head

01:17:44.540 and everybody else at the Western Standard. We're all part of the conspiracy. But hey,

01:17:50.540 on the bright side, we aliens displaced the lizard people who were here prior that the 0.89

01:17:55.000 Illuminati were controlling. So back to reality, let's look at some other news. But I do appreciate

01:18:00.900 the comments. They helped me along with my talk. Home equity. Yes, watch out for your things.

01:18:07.380 what else have we got? I'm just scrolling through. Here's the feds and controlling your things. By

01:18:14.120 the way, speaking of government incompetence and how they run things. Yes, data breaches. I think

01:18:19.040 that might've been reported in the news already. One a day, the feds with your federal departments

01:18:23.500 and agencies that manage you, your information, everything about you, the government that we

01:18:29.320 entrust, or maybe we don't trust, but we don't have a choice and they have our information.

01:18:33.520 Once a day, they have a data breach.

01:18:35.400 People wonder why people don't trust government,

01:18:37.480 why they don't want to give their information to them.

01:18:40.300 That is a big part of the reason.

01:18:42.060 So let's talk about another thing.

01:18:44.240 Cryptocurrencies,

01:18:44.660 may as well talk about another way

01:18:45.480 you can distance yourself,

01:18:46.440 your assets, your money from the government.

01:18:49.240 Nothing's foolproof,

01:18:50.100 but boy, this is a heck of a lot more work for them

01:18:52.380 to try and get at you than other ones.

01:18:53.620 And that's through things like Bitcoin.

01:18:55.500 And bitcoinwell.com are a Canadian company.

01:18:58.800 They're a Western company.

01:18:59.800 Hey, you're worried about trust.

01:19:01.080 these are guys that you can talk to one-on-one and see if it's for you. You work hard for that

01:19:09.320 money. It's bad enough the government's stealing it all the time. You don't want some scam artists

01:19:12.160 to hit you. You're not familiar with new currencies and all that, and it is. It's brand new. Who is

01:19:16.000 really familiar? This is what these guys are about. They have an online Bitcoin Academy,

01:19:21.580 they call it. Courses online to learn what it's about. How do you set up your wallet? How can you

01:19:26.260 pay bills with it? How can you, uh, set money aside? Is it safe? You know, they will answer

01:19:31.260 your questions directly one-on-one with a real person. They'll help you set up and get involved

01:19:35.960 in it. And it's non-custodial, which means they never have your money. You know, they make their

01:19:39.920 money. There's always a fee of course, but they don't have the, the, the Bitcoin money that you

01:19:44.180 have. That's always yours. That's always in your hands. It's always in your control. So check them

01:19:49.160 out guys, Bitcoinwell.com. They are a fantastic sponsor and they do provide a good service. So

01:19:56.780 check them out. They are helping us pay our bills. And that way we can eventually get enough stuff

01:20:02.940 for our flux capacitor and take the spaceship back to Mars where we belong. So yeah, and data

01:20:09.020 breaches. So people worry about government getting at your funds and things and so on and hacking your

01:20:14.800 Bitcoin thing. Again, this is a government that can't even get their payroll system, right? I

01:20:18.660 don't think they're going to get into your cold digital currency wallet anytime soon or too easily.

01:20:23.980 I'm going to wrap things up though. I think I've ranted out things quite enough. I've got,

01:20:27.640 for those who caught it this morning, Danielle Smith was on at 9am. She's going to be doing that

01:20:31.920 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And tomorrow is her first long form show with us. She's going to have

01:20:36.100 a guest and she's going to talk for an hour and a half. And that's tomorrow at nine o'clock again

01:20:40.520 in the morning, an hour and a half show live with Danielle Smith. It'll be on the Western

01:20:44.320 Standard channel. Be sure to check that out. I mean, Danielle's great. You know, I know some

01:20:47.640 People get upset with some of her past activities politically and so on, whatever.

01:20:51.980 She's more than welcome to talk to people about that.

01:20:53.800 She always has. 0.92

01:20:55.360 But she's done fantastic, in my view, anyways, in media and does some great deep dives.

01:20:59.840 I'm looking forward to that.

01:21:00.680 You know, a good long-form conversation.

01:21:02.240 She wants to be able to do those deep ones, not the little ones like myself.

01:21:05.820 And on Monday, I'll be back, of course, at 11.30 a.m.

01:21:07.940 I'm going to have David Clement from the Consumer Choice Center.

01:21:10.560 And we are going to talk a little bit more real estate stuff because the government's

01:21:13.180 trying some rather bizarre things to help you get into the whole home market. They seem to

01:21:19.060 understand there's a problem, but don't seem to really want to fix it. And the leader of the

01:21:22.100 Ontario party, Derek Sloan, is going to come on because the Ontario election is actually coming

01:21:29.400 up pretty soon. Things are ramping up and well, let's see what's happening out there. What's

01:21:34.520 being offered besides Ford, because I think Ford is really annoyed a great deal of small

01:21:38.700 see conservatives and people are looking for alternatives. Well, Sloan is one of the alternatives

01:21:43.300 anyways. So it'll be an interesting conversation. We're looking forward to that. And of course,

01:21:47.160 I'll be ranting about something and going on. It all depends on what the 5G towers tell me to do

01:21:52.700 that day, but I'm certain I'll have something you should cover. So thank you all for tuning in,

01:21:56.620 guys. I do appreciate it. And I will see you all on Monday at 1130 a.m. sharp.

01:22:08.700 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - April 23, 2022

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