00:11:17.860And I think she's among the last of the, I think, still broadly respected and valued members of the royal family.
00:11:23.640As you said, I'm not a big monarchist, but I have respect for the Queen and do hope she stays in there as long as we can.
00:11:32.860Yeah, we've got some poll numbers coming out that show Canadians, once this Queen is gone, they're more than willing to get rid of the monarchy, which I personally think would be a shame, but we'll see.
00:11:45.480Yeah, well, as a side note, you know, I was on supply management and dairy and everything and the shooting costs of milk, and I know we've been experiencing problems here with that.
00:11:52.560There's been a milk bandit on the loose who has made off with your milk supply here.
00:11:58.740That shows, you know, when you take a commodity, make it expensive, you start getting crime involved.
00:12:04.820And this has even become local for us.
00:12:08.180I brought in a container of milk brand new on Monday for my afternoon cups of tea and chocolate digestive biscuit.
00:12:16.800And I took a little bit, then I put it back in the fridge.
00:12:19.280And by the end of the day, you know, a good chunk of it was gone.
00:12:21.800So I was a bit worried there, and then I had a little bit more on Tuesday.
00:12:26.220But when I got there on Wednesday, it was all gone.
00:12:28.900The container and everything was gone, and I'd only had like two small cups of tea out of it.
00:12:33.580So there is a milk thief on the loose in the office, and I'm going to get the bastard.
00:12:38.720Well, I know you're on the hunt, but I'd just like to show those home examples of what happens when we shake up a commodity and create disorder and crime.
00:12:46.920So hopefully that comes to a peaceful resolution within the Western Standard offices eventually,
00:18:46.860So they had to watch our criticism of them, which brings me a lot of joy.
00:18:51.520But 276 of our stories, which actually is quite a small number because we probably do
00:18:56.300that much journalism in a month, in a slow month even.
00:18:59.120And they decided that only 1% of what we do at Rebel News qualifies as journalism, which is odd to me because I primarily work in access to information, which is, you know, original source documents.
00:19:14.760We have teams live streaming. I think this is particularly noticeable during the truckers convoy.
00:19:22.180we're out there you know asking politicians questions interviewing protesters it's news
00:19:27.700it's just news the government doesn't agree with and so they've denied us this designation now
00:19:34.260is that going to change the work that we do yes and no i mean we don't ask the government
00:19:40.180permission to do our work but it will give them the ability to limit our attendance to press
00:19:46.580conferences um now that's not going to stop us from asking those same politicians questions if
00:19:52.820our journalists have to jump out from behind a potted plant in the lobby of a hotel fine but
00:19:58.900the politicians are not going to skirt accountability by keeping us out and it will also
00:20:06.580give social media giants and search engines the ability to downrank us um which makes it harder
00:20:14.180for people to find the work that we do and since we are on the internet that's it could spell a
00:20:21.220death sentence for us but it also and i think the one that is most atrocious to me is that
00:20:28.260our subscribers will not be treated equally and fairly under the income tax act because it will
00:20:35.140not allow our subscribers our paid subscribers at eight bucks a month i think that's a bargain by
00:20:40.180by the way, it won't give them the ability to write off their subscription to us because we
00:20:47.580don't have this designation, which I think is wholly unfair. It's punishing our paid subscribers
00:20:54.300for disagreeing with the government. And we live and breathe on our supporters.
00:20:59.860The only reason Rebel News exists is because time and time again, whenever we are faced with
00:21:04.280challenges like this, an army of people who sometimes disagree with us say, we need you to
00:21:10.100live on to provide a counterbalance to the mainstream media. Those people are now being
00:21:14.820punished because the government hates the work that we do at Rebel News. Yeah, and it's across
00:21:21.500the board. It's interesting that you brought up how the other media outlets, and again, I do
00:21:25.460remember them rallying back when you did get assaulted that time, and the silence now, but
00:21:29.600you see you've got mainstream outlets, legacy outlets that are beholden to this status, and
00:21:33.820they're a little less inclined to rock the boat, perhaps. Andrew, do you think there's a chilling
00:21:39.000effect? And has this impacted you guys at all at True Northman? Oh, very much so. And I know I've
00:21:45.320told this story to my own audience, but I'll share it with yours as well. Back in 2019, Sheila and I
00:21:50.380were covering for our respective outlets, the Global Conference for Media Freedom, which Canada
00:21:55.380was co-hosting in London, England with the United Kingdom government. And this is a media freedom
00:22:00.580conference christia freeland the foreign minister at the time was making this a bit of a pet project
00:22:06.180for her and she was having this press conference after having made herself available in in no fora
00:22:12.100to answer media questions and sheila and i both showed up dutifully for the press conference
00:22:17.140along with reporters from ctv and cbc and the globe and mail and al jazeera and oddly the room
00:22:24.500must have been a very weird one because it had room for all but two journalists and and i can
00:22:30.980and the two where it wasn't cbc that they didn't have room for well i mean i'm a big guy so maybe
00:22:35.620they didn't have room for me but sheila's not and they didn't have room for her either so i i take
00:22:39.860from that that there's a very clear judgment that the government is executing as far as you are not
00:22:45.700a journalist if we don't like your coverage and it has nothing to do with the inputs that sheila
00:22:51.460described earlier of filing access to information requests, attending press conferences, asking
00:22:56.560questions, writing stories. They don't like the outputs. They don't like the types of stories you
00:23:01.900cover. They don't like that. And the Media Freedom Conference incident was remarkable
00:23:06.580because of how brazen it was. And because it was so brazen, the great part of the story was that
00:23:12.760all of the other reporters threatened to boycott the press conference unless we were allowed in.
00:23:17.260And I don't know if that would have happened in Canada or even in the year since that happened.
00:23:21.940But it was a very, very marked display of solidarity.
00:23:25.740But you fast forward and in the 2019 election, Justin Trudeau would not let me cover his campaign.
00:23:32.380The Leaders Debates Commission banned Rebel and True North from attending the debate.
00:23:36.600We had to get a court order. Things got a little bit better last year when True North was allowed to cover the debate.
00:23:42.860But Rebel was still denied and had to sue and won and ultimately got to be there.
00:23:47.260So all of these things are showing that the government is not prepared to recognize what journalism is unless they happen to like the specific products of it.
00:23:57.380And I think that's the challenge here is that there is no license to be a journalist in Canada.
00:24:02.880In the UK, they have not a license, but they have this National Journalist Association card that is effectively serving as a license, where if you can't produce one of those, you won't be allowed into a lot of events.
00:24:14.860and in Canada press freedom has been benefited by not having anything like that in the past like
00:24:20.620we're seeing the problems though because with the convoy especially on the last day
00:24:25.140uh the Sunday whatever it was after the the protests had been broken up walking down the
00:24:31.080street police were threatening to arrest people except if you were a journalist you were allowed
00:24:35.720to stay there but then they'd say well prove you're a journalist and it's like well I mean
00:24:39.760what do you want me to like how can I prove it I don't have a license I don't have a permit
00:24:43.060One cop let me go through when he saw my verified Twitter profile. Another required a letter from my editor that I had to show him on my phone. Another just didn't let me pass at all. But this is the problem in Canada is that press freedom is so subjective and independent journalists in particular who don't have the approved opinions are the ones that bear the brunt of this.
00:25:05.480Well, yeah, and I'm glad Sheila brought up, like we focused a lot of the standard on pointing out, you know, that is the subsidies in the bailouts and a lot of programs that a status would qualify for.
00:25:15.940And, you know, we like to rub their noses in it and take pride and say we're not taking them even if we qualify.
00:25:20.020But there's much, much more to it that people don't typically see.
00:25:23.480I mean, this is their ways that they could throttle your access to events, to government functions, to areas where news is breaking, as Andrew said, you know, such as the protests.
00:25:33.080and that really undercuts a media organization
00:47:46.960Yeah, so the one of the big reasons that I think that I wanted to enter this conversation with the Conservative Party was to really have some good dialogue about medical freedoms and the problems in our medical system and what we can do to fix them.
00:48:05.460So, one of the things that I was looking at doing is creating a pilot program that would allow, first of all, to help educate the public about how to read a basic blood work page, because that's what mostly you get done, and to take away some of the controls from the doctors and give them back to people.
00:48:26.740So those controls, for example, would be being able to order your own blood work.
00:48:31.120It would save actually up to about 40% of the physician costs that are incurred if you were just able to start at the beginning, order your blood work, and then go to the doctor for a prescription.
00:48:44.480or even better to if there's if it's something simple like a bacterial infection you could just
00:48:51.480be able to get a direct prescription from a lab directly to your pharmacy and then you would save
00:48:58.960two doctor visits that would be eighty dollars you'd save in just that one transaction per
00:49:03.800patient. So the other thing that's really important about that is that it gives you the
00:49:09.640the ability to kind of pump your own gas. And I think there's a lot of people that do not like
00:49:15.040being over-nannied. And so that helps in that situation. It helps people take control of their
00:49:21.380health and their health choices. The other thing about it that I was looking is making sure you
00:49:27.000have checks and balances in the medical and social systems so that you don't have a problem
00:49:34.400where you have an overbearing doctor who has decided something for you. Mental health diagnoses
00:49:41.360are a great example of that. Because most of them are done by exclusion. But the problem is the
00:49:50.480doctors don't exclude all the stuff. So it would really be, for me, the really important thing was
00:49:58.000fixing the standards in medical care so that some of the disasters that happened to me
00:50:03.840would never happen to somebody else. And I had somebody misdiagnose a stroke for something else
00:50:12.160and that was scary. The other thing was the same situation with social services,
00:50:30.080because I think a lot of times things get out of control with people because we don't have
00:50:36.960a system where people can speak up at the beginning and have an almost a legal transaction
00:50:44.240where they're able to say you know where there's a due process in that and people lose their kids
00:50:49.520and people have you know these times where the government overreach that has been going on for
00:50:54.160years these are places where it can be stopped so that's those are a couple things um for me
00:51:00.480the cbc is something that i think should stay but i think we need to look at it in terms of
00:51:06.400representation so um since 30 of the population is conservative 30 of the airtime should represent
00:51:15.200conservative speakers um and you know and that way you have a much more equal conversation and
00:51:23.440the last thing that i was going to talk about is taxes and so one of the ideas that i had for taxes
00:51:28.880and questions i had about taxes was why is it that if the government can if if an employer can only
00:51:35.680um make you work for 40 hours a week why is it that for all the immigrants and people that have
00:51:42.640to work two jobs why is it the government can tax you on more than 40 hours and that can add up to
00:51:49.600a lot. So for example, that overtime work that a 20-something an hour employee does adds up to
00:51:59.120about 35 days that he could have been spending with his family that he's given to the government
00:52:03.780for free because he needed to work longer than 40 hours. So those are a few of the points I was
00:52:09.380looking at. So the race is ongoing at this point, as I said, unfortunately, you didn't make the bar
00:52:15.220for entry. Are you still participating with the party though? I mean, are you going to
00:52:21.300get involved with another campaign or are you undecided at this point? The issues carry on.
00:52:26.020Um, I, um, I'm, I'm also, I'm also a board member for UCP. So, um, yeah,
00:52:33.380um, so I'd look at that and I, and there's always a possibility of running down the road,
00:52:38.580either here or in the States. I have an American green card. So, but, and, and also it's, it's also
00:52:46.980kind of, I'm kind of involved with writing to some of the MLAs and MPs about some of the other issues
00:52:52.500that I have. One was talking with Whitney Isaac the other day about women's safety and, and getting
00:53:01.780proper medical post-rape care. So that's kind of a big, heavy topic.
00:53:07.780Well, I mean, you're interested in a broad spectrum of political things, and you're headed
00:53:12.440for the federal leadership, so you're still involved provincially, as you said, because
00:53:15.140a lot of the things you're talking about would fall under provincial jurisdiction,
00:53:18.560healthcare reforms, things like that. What if, I mean, the blood work sounds interesting,
00:53:24.240for example, but then what's the control to keep somebody from abusing it? Is it, we've got,
00:53:29.360you know, we have to admit some hypochondriacs out there and say, I want to get my blood tested
00:53:32.800every couple of days, because I'm just worried that every day I've got something going on.
00:53:37.840The oversight of a physician is as much as it's expensive and can be problematic is also it does
00:53:42.640serve a purpose. Well, that's actually pretty quick, pretty easy. We, for example, if you see
00:53:48.160somebody going and asking for things where there's no, what is it, where there's nothing where the
00:53:55.680blood work is fine you can you can put a stop on that you can say you know digitally basically and
00:54:01.680say you know fella you know you know you've had five tests that have all shown that everything
00:54:08.000is clear and you know this is this is where we um we stop it and the same the converse can happen
00:54:16.000when there's a problem with a patient and you know one of the big problems that we had in bc
00:54:21.600and is the fact that one, Vancouver, I don't know if you know this, but Vancouver General Hospital
00:54:27.280is a grade D hospital. That's lowest you can get. That's their biggest hospital system,
00:54:32.380Vancouver Coastal Health. And so the comparison between kind of conservative health care
00:54:37.920and liberal health care is massive. Alberta, for example, has 11 A and A plus hospitals.
00:54:45.360I mean, that's the best in the West. And compare that to BC that has none. And compare that to BC where there's a problem when patients go in and they have clear, you know, they'll have like a white count of like 15.9 and they don't get medical attention.
00:55:06.740In fact, there was a young girl that died there about a year ago, I don't know if you remember the story, who had gone in with a small cyst that was a staph infestation.
00:55:16.380She asked the doctor to check it, went into Lionsgate Hospital five times, and it wasn't checked.
00:55:23.040So one of the things that we really need to do in terms of the checks and balances is dealing with these issues of soft denial of services.
00:55:30.600so that when you see a case like that, that it could automatically flag
00:55:36.280and you could get in a doctor who knows what they're doing.
00:55:39.560And so that would, the protection can work on both sides of that.
00:55:43.160Yeah, well, and part of our problem is, I mean, we've got some fantastic professionals.
00:55:47.260Once somebody gets in, the problem is we have massive waiting lists to get in,
00:55:51.640whether it was in the emergency room itself or at a walk-in clinic
01:09:32.480And I've used that analogy, and I'll use it again for people who haven't heard it before.
01:09:35.860You know, Jane, my wife, grew up in Rockiford, Alberta, a small dairy operation, and her father
01:09:40.960had a quota to sell cream, only a certain amount of it, but cream, but he didn't have a quota for
01:09:46.200milk. So they would milk the cows, and this story is so common, and lots of people in rural communities
01:09:51.100can share it with you, and they know about it. Milk the cows, skim the cream, sell that, make some
01:09:55.080bucks for the family, use the milk as much as you can around the house. If you've got pigs, you'll
01:09:59.580feed it to the pigs. If you don't, you pour it in the ditch, because it's illegal to sell it. That's
01:10:03.520how stupid it is. And that's really what happens. So, I mean, I'm just tired of defending this.
01:10:09.520Like I said, Leslie Lewis wouldn't defend it. I had Sherey on, that's not surprising. He wouldn't,
01:10:16.240I say Lewis wouldn't speak out against the cartels. Sherey predictably wouldn't. And
01:10:23.700Polyev, unfortunately, I was surprised, but I guess I shouldn't be. He said he would keep the
01:10:29.560dairy cartels going as well, which is too bad. He's been fantastic on every other front, but
01:10:34.480nobody, nobody can pretend to be a free market conservative and support supply management. You
01:10:40.940can't, you're lying. You're lying. Supply management is the opposite of free market,
01:10:45.280the complete opposite, the complete opposite. So do you cherry pick on what you support? Are you,
01:10:52.380can you be part, you know, you can't, you can't be half pregnant guys. You either support free1.00
01:10:56.880markets and you don't. If you support this crap, you don't support free markets. I'm not saying
01:11:00.720it's a reason to fully dismiss one candidate or another. You tend to choose the best of the bunch
01:11:04.960you can, but it's ridiculous that we can't have a proper discussion on this and just call it out
01:11:10.740for what it is. It's socialism at its ugliest, at its worst, it's Soviet style, and we need to get
01:11:15.940rid of it. One of the Conservative Party candidates did come out strongly against it, and that was
01:11:21.380Scott Aitchison. I haven't had him on yet. I hope I can get him. He's running for the leadership.
01:11:26.880he's one of the ones who has fully qualified and gone in. And he's the MP for Perry Sound,
01:11:31.380Muskoka, Ontario. And he called it out for what it is. It was so refreshing. He said he will kill
01:11:37.020farm quotas. What were his words? He said, longstanding dairy quotas are to blame for
01:11:42.660spiraling food costs. He's absolutely right. He called it a price fixing system. And that is what
01:11:47.340it is. I mean, you don't get to choose the price. Again, it's not a free market. A producer doesn't
01:11:52.000sell it to a distributor or a processor. And then, you know, they get to choose their prices.
01:11:56.360It's set by a cartel. They fixed the price. It's funny. This would be illegal in any other industry. Illegal if a bunch of industries got together and set that price. We know that does happen. When they get caught, they get spanked for it. But when it's supply management, suddenly it's not a problem. Again, an amazingly effective lobby. Pamela Jones-Kinney saying, could it be that Pierre might address it at some point if he became prime minister? I don't know. I hope so. I mean, I do.
01:12:24.580But, you know, it's kind of a deceptive way to have to go about things is to say that you'll
01:12:28.640preserve it for a while until you get in and then change your mind on it. I just prefer open,
01:12:32.740honest campaigning to say, call it out for what it is. I mean, I want it gone no matter who gets
01:12:37.680rid of it. But I mean, we get too much of that from the other side with people who campaign right
01:12:40.960and then swing left when they get in. So I don't think it's any more principled for somebody to
01:12:44.620campaign left and then swing right when they get in. And I tell you what, if you're supporting
01:12:48.060supply management, you're campaigning left, not just a little left, extreme left, because that's