00:03:54.420and not everybody who ever attended a residential school was abused,
00:03:58.140nor should they all be labeled as survivors.
00:04:00.820Let's look at the definition of genocide. It's the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. This never happened in Canada. I don't know how many times I've got to say it because you hear it on the news over and over again and it's going uncorrected. There is actually a list of recorded established genocides in the world. It's unfortunate. It's long and horrible. It's got nearly 40 entries. Humans have a long history of trying to exterminate groups among themselves.
00:04:29.400The list begins with the Holocaust, of course, with a death toll of 6 million,
00:04:33.820to a Tasmanian war at the bottom where 600 to 900 Aboriginals were killed in the 1820s.
00:04:39.200Canada was not on the list anywhere, because, let me say it again,
00:04:43.140there has never been a genocide in Canada.
00:04:46.380And listening to the coverage of the Pope's visit to Alberta,
00:04:48.520it's hard to make it a minute without, though, hearing the word genocide used.
00:04:51.840It has to stop. It's wrong, and it's perpetuating a horrible myth.
00:04:55.780I listened to a person on the news this morning referred to as a survivor
00:04:59.160because she'd attended a day school on a reserve.
00:05:03.260She's not a survivor any more than the rest of us who attended public schools as children.
00:08:04.060Perpetuating falsehoods and trying to create an entire culture of victimhood is serving everybody poorly, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike.
00:08:10.740So let's start correcting the record and saying things like they are, guys.
00:08:14.480Because this exaggeration and everything isn't serving anyone well.
00:08:17.800All right, that's what's got me going, kicking off the week.
00:08:20.880Let's check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what's happening in the rest of the world.
00:09:10.900mere minutes ago he said he was deeply sorry for the catholic church's role in the uh
00:09:17.060aforementioned residential school situation uh he was in the uh central alberta area of macquise
00:09:25.140and made the apology in front of the prime minister and the and the governor general
00:09:29.060so as i mentioned that's just happened uh our arthur green is busily bashing out the story
00:09:34.180as we speak. It was a horrible weekend of violence in British Columbia this weekend, Corey.
00:09:42.200And it ended this morning with a guy in Langley apparently losing his mind and going out and
00:09:48.900shooting homeless people. The RCMP will not confirm the number of victims, but they do say
00:09:54.860there are several people dead and the gunman is in custody. And that sparked an emergency alert
00:10:02.000about 6 a.m. this morning, Corey, on BC cell phones, telling people in Langley about this
00:10:09.260and that they had better take cover. So we've got an initial story up and our Reid Small out in
00:10:15.460Vancouver is working on that. He's also working on the brutal assassinations of a couple of known
00:10:23.340or at least one known gang member in broad daylight in Whistler Village yesterday.
00:10:28.580these two were getting out of their vehicle and and were gunned down so the cops are investigating
00:10:36.500that one they were able to arrest two people near Squamish after a vehicle was set on fire
00:10:41.860and then they're still hunting for a man who killed two women in Chilliwack last week his
00:10:49.660getaway vehicle is found in Bridal Falls which is about 20 kilometers east of Chilliwack and
00:10:56.680But they've searched the area, and as of now, they have not come up with the suspect.
00:11:04.620Other stuff that's already up on the website, the sex habits of the world's most interesting man keep coming up.
00:11:13.000Elon Musk has denied he had an affair with the wife of the person who founded Google with him.
00:11:20.120He says he's too busy to have sex, in fact, just despite the fact that many of his conquests are spitting out children on a regular basis the last month or so.
00:11:32.720And, yeah, lots of good stuff on the site, lots of breaking news.
00:11:39.240So that'll all be coming up this afternoon, Corey.
00:16:38.540United Church, Catholic Church, all of those churches who took part.
00:16:42.040Because back in those days, that's how social services happened.
00:16:44.340We didn't have the big bloated government that took care of everything back then.
00:16:47.800I remember in Banff, when I was a kid where I grew up,
00:16:50.000it was still nuns at the Mineral Springs Hospital in town.
00:16:54.240Because those hospitals and everything began with religious people managing them.
00:16:59.140They were semi-charities. And back then, if you were looking for some sort of institution to take care of orphans, indigenous or non, it typically was churches, you know, sanatoriums, all sorts of things.
00:17:12.340Again, churches, did they always run them well? No. Did they always run them humanely? No, we know that. But that's why there was so much church involvement back then.
00:17:20.700And so we just, you know, it's funny, like I said, they call it a truth and reconciliation commission, yet we seem to hide from the truth when it comes to discussion of it.
00:17:32.180And I mean, they're hard truths, but I'm sick of the exaggerations, exaggerations.
00:17:38.500Why is the legacy media not correcting it? Instead, they say it. They're saying it to genocide. Where? Where?
00:17:44.960It's not. It's not by any definition. It's not registered as a genocide. So stop using it.
00:17:50.240Some people say it was cultural genocide.
00:20:35.960and there's a lot of people with a very strongly vested interest in keeping that truth hidden or
00:20:42.360exaggerating what happened. I think a lot of, you know, what's going on and a lot of the reason
00:20:49.980those bodies haven't been dug up, and I'm not saying with all of them, but for some of the
00:20:53.100case, there's a lot of people don't want it because they do fear there won't be anything found
00:20:56.400and they're making, doing too well in having the mystery. All right, well, let's get ready for our
00:21:02.600guest and that's Mr. Dan McTeague. It's been a while since I've had him on. I like always introing
00:21:08.460because I'm so hard on the Liberals, but we do have to show the difference. There's the Trudeau
00:21:12.080Liberals and there was the days when the Liberals were of a more respectable cut, I would like to
00:21:16.800say. And Dan's of the older gang there. How are you doing, Dan? Feeling old today, Corey.
00:21:23.300You know what? With these high prices, it's all coming back into vogue, especially when you
00:21:28.480considered the national debt and the fact that in one fell swoop, our good friends with the
00:21:33.380Governor of the Bank of Canada just added or removed $13 billion from the federal government's
00:21:39.280ability to finance next year's social programs. So I guess being old liberal is coming back in
00:21:45.580style big time. Well, in some ways. And again, you know, liberal is not all a dirty word. I
00:21:50.200consider myself a classical liberal. We just have to retake the term. But I mean, we are seeing a
00:21:56.020of history repeating itself i mean things really look a heck of a lot like they do
00:21:59.700did in the 80s to a degree the early 80s i mean we don't have double digit interest yet but
00:22:04.020the inflation the high energy prices the the government taking on a large amount of debt
00:22:10.100it's not like we haven't been on this roller coaster before no and we saw how hard it was
00:22:14.740to tackle what happened in the 70s 80s and early 90s the excesses had to eventually come
00:22:21.940to some settlement and that settlement was very painful and I was part of a government that had
00:22:28.820certainly said to provincial governments we're going to we're going to impose on you we're0.98
00:22:32.900going to download and we're going to cut bat services and I fully remember Jean-Claude Saint
00:22:37.940Caucus one day a particular organization had been pushed by our women's caucus I think the name of
00:22:44.580the group at the time was the national action committee on the status of women NACSOW interesting
00:22:49.780name and event it uh you know they were harping and complaining that there was no money for the
00:22:55.300organization they were upset that they were being cut back and krebs quickly responded by saying
00:23:00.260there's no money the the cupboards are bare more importantly if your organization is that you know
00:23:05.780significant that important go fund yourselves i think we're getting very quickly to that point
00:23:10.580where canadians are going to have to start to realize that after 25 or 30 years of very good
00:23:15.220times a generation which has taken it for granted uh now comes the piper and it's time to for he or
00:23:21.700she to be paid and i think that's going to be very very difficult times for canadians ahead
00:23:25.940and rolling at the beginning of what could be a significant downturn in our economic outlook
00:23:31.620yeah i'm afraid so and i mean it's again there was that period of austerity in the 90s that followed
00:23:35.780the 80s and that's when every government i mean even romano with an ndp or chrétien with the
00:23:40.260liberals or klein here in alberta everybody had to balance their books there was just no choice in
00:23:44.420the matter anymore. I mean, as you said, you had to pay the piper. You did, but we had one
00:23:49.480advantage that we're completely disregarding today. In the 1990s, Jean-Claude St. Paul Martin
00:23:54.640were able to balance the budget, not just on provincial and on goodwill, which was important.
00:24:00.440We also had this little thing called the oil and gas sector, which continued to drive more product
00:24:06.780to the United States, build pipelines. We actually saw some significant reversals in our fortunes
00:24:13.240because this country basically said yes to oil and gas let's sell as much as we can in the united
00:24:18.980states the americans needed it they were on this kick of energy independence they seem to have lost
00:24:23.340their way of late as well but i think they may very well be reconnected with that soon given
00:24:28.120what's happened in europe but here's the situation is that we were able to uh to tackle the you know
00:24:34.620the significant debt this country had because the revenues were going through the roof people had
00:24:39.080jobs interest rates then began to fall people suddenly had changed in their pocket they didn't
00:24:43.960have before and had the ability to do other things it was a miraculous recovery it couldn't have
00:24:48.760happened if canada had done what it did today and that's basically to use my grandfather's expression
00:24:54.280drop the drawers and crap on the very important oil and gas sector the very uh golden goose that
00:24:59.840maintains your standard living in this country well yeah and circling back to what is your
00:25:04.320specialty and that's affordable energy and you've always been you know putting out a lot of
00:25:07.860information on whether it's heating gas and fuel or to gasoline, something that's been
00:25:13.400interesting. And I said earlier at the start of the show, I mean, you speak to it bluntly on all
00:25:17.500ends. The free market failed, it sounds like a little bit in Alberta, for example, and you called
00:25:22.100them out for that. Our retail prices worked following the wholesale prices and some people
00:25:29.080were getting it. Normally, I like to stand up for our energy providers, whether it's retail or
00:25:34.280exploration but in this case something didn't go right and it led to a lot of bad public goodwill
00:25:39.300I think. Corey look I've been following this for 1994 is when I began benchmarking and don't take
00:25:47.940my word for it this is just what I do manually every single day you can see this is the December
00:25:54.740to 2018 I got five other books back here I'm not going to do this to bore or impress your folks
00:26:00.580i got 15 of these books going back to 1994 1995 and in them you'll see the wholesale price for
00:26:08.040gasoline you'll see what the markets did for every major city across canada there's an example of
00:26:13.060this would be back in september of uh 27 18 2019 so i can pretty much get a good idea of where the
00:26:19.840prices are going to be going who's making what i can tell when a refiner is making a killing and
00:26:24.600i can tell when government's making a killing i can tell the effect of what's going to happen
00:26:28.620two or three days over the past month gas stations not just in alberta but also saskatchewan manitoba
00:26:35.500and the interior central bc have been basically fleecing the public they have seen their wholesale
00:26:42.360price drop dramatically now you can explain a few days where you know they have old inventory of
00:26:47.800gasoline that is you know they still got to get through cost them more to to to sell it you can
00:26:52.880get that for a week maybe 10 days but a month month and a half no you're taking advantage of
00:26:57.980the public. When I see $1.79 in Edmonton or $1.81 in Calgary, and I know that it's costing them
00:27:04.300$1.36, $1.38 to buy their fuel taxes in, that is unacceptable. And I'm pleased to see that the
00:27:12.340Premier of the province jumped in. I'd like to hear from Manitoba, BC, and of course Saskatchewan's
00:27:19.000Premier, because I think it's the same problem. We all want the free market to work. But when you
00:27:23.820pull this kind of a stunt you're basically inviting those on the far left to come in and say
00:27:28.680let's regulate gas prices you know we do that in the maritimes and they're being fleeced like you
00:27:33.400wouldn't believe they don't get the advantage of the rest of the country and the last thing we want
00:27:36.560is have bureaucrats decide for people what fair prices ought to be competition should bring the
00:27:41.280best prices that are there retail margins in alberta should be no more than 15 cents a liter
00:27:45.400and i'm being very generous that's to cover the cost of credit cards price of electricity turn
00:27:49.500on the pumps, running their operation, paying for their taxes and doing quite well, a good
00:27:53.660return on investment. But 40 cents, you're pushing the envelope. And I think it's time
00:27:59.220for them to stop. And that was unfortunate, as you said, because it does invite the people
00:28:04.480who oppose the free market. I mean, it gives them that thing to say, look, it fails. This
00:28:07.660is why we have to intervene. And as you pointed out, that tends to work out much more poorly
00:28:11.300for us in the end. But as I said, I appreciate you call it out when they do do it then so
00:28:15.220they don't get away with it and hey guys come on keep it together we don't begrudge profit we just
00:28:21.720want it within reason I mean there is competition but there is only so many retail gas providers so
00:28:27.060it's difficult to really get a widespread and there's you know we can't call it price fixing
00:28:31.100but they're so competitive if one raises it or lowers it then one down the street's going to
00:28:34.680follow so yeah it worries me that one has market power maybe a couple but I think the four players
00:28:39.720in in in our provinces the parklands the whoever's running uh imperial oil i think it's parkland
00:28:45.800does a lot of that for them now because they've sold off a lot of their gas stations shell
00:28:49.720suncor and maybe to a lesser extent synovus uh you know husky ought to be taking this very seriously
00:28:56.360because it there's no other way to reflect this the numbers are very transparent i did not just
00:29:02.360because i do it um if you look at petrocan daily rack price and you look at shell terminal rack
00:29:09.240price. The wholesale prices are right there. Now, I'll give them the two cent or three cent for
00:29:14.100discount, which means they're making even more money. But the numbers are pretty simple to come
00:29:19.220by. And so on that basis, Corey, I think this is not the time to be taking advantage of people.
00:29:25.120And, you know, you can understand 10, 15, maybe 18 cents a liter or holding back, you know, a little
00:29:30.360bit because you're worried the prices may spike at some point, which they could and will likely
00:29:34.520do again but that is no excuse to take advantage of somebody who you know if i'm filling up my
00:29:40.680you know my ford uh escape with 65 60 liters it's 55 liter tank i should say and it's costing me an
00:29:48.040extra 20 you're you're dinging me for 11 or 12 bucks every time i do this a week that's you
00:29:53.080know that's that's a you know that's 60 50 bucks a month for a lot of families that uh that's the
00:29:58.200the difference uh that between putting extras on the table and uh and and filling up to get to work
00:30:04.240yeah well and i'd like to like it's a tougher area and it probably wouldn't have enough time
00:30:09.240to fully fill up but is there a way we could facilitate more competition on the retail level
00:30:13.500like i i you know i don't want to see another petrol canada no neither do i uh here's what's
00:30:20.280interesting in all this and in one way i'm happy i set out to say look i'll call whoever is off
00:30:26.100line here, you know, offside, whether that be a refiner, whether it be the government
00:30:30.500increasing taxes, which it has, and I oppose them strenuously, publicly, vociferously with every
00:30:36.920ounce of experience and energy that I have. I think it's important that we reveal these things
00:30:43.560and working through the press like yourself, Corey, goes a long way at reflecting the problem.
00:30:49.540I think sooner or later, they'll come to the realization, you know, guys, we're caught,
00:30:53.620we we got to drop these things going through a whole thing with the competition bureau may
00:30:57.940sound great but it's uh i worked on the dual track approach one's criminal one's civil you can get a
00:31:03.940you can get to arrest the problem in the civil side basically by saying okay guys you're caught
00:31:08.980smarten up but that takes months the the damage may already be done by that point so i think they're
00:31:14.980openly sharing the data which i have i think is important and and letting people know there's a
00:31:22.500problem i think two weeks ago no one would have given us any thought and i was pulling my hair
00:31:26.980out saying to people you're you're being ripped off uh and i sent several tweets warnings to gas
00:31:33.380stations listen uh you know don't uh don't abuse your uh your privilege so i think we're getting
00:31:38.820to that point now where we don't need other than shaming and opening up the uh the numbers
00:31:43.620transparently i think that's that's 90 of the battle right there yeah well and hopefully i
00:31:48.260I mean, I think the ideal way would be some operator or operators say, you know what,
00:31:51.740I'm going to take a swipe at my competitor down the road and drop my prices by 10 cents
00:31:56.260and the people start flooding there and it just forces the issue to a proper...
00:32:00.660UFA, UFA in both Edmonton and Calgary.
00:32:03.620If you have a UFA station, patronize them 24-7.
00:32:06.760Don't stop going there and don't go to where you did before.
00:32:09.960If the difference is 30 cents a litre, it's a good reason for it.
00:32:12.700They're not taking advantage of consumers the way other gas stations are.
00:32:15.780So getting in the last few minutes here to the broader issue, though, I mean, that's the retail thing. We've got the big thing going on. We still have a government that's very ideologically opposed to, as you said, developing this asset. I mean, we're in economic trouble. We have high world energy prices. If anything, we should be very well placed as Canadians to weather this storm. We should be rushing to develop, but they don't sound much different than they did three years ago.
00:32:38.140You know, the United States Department of Energy, Energy Information Agency, just released something, and I tweeted it.
00:32:48.080They said that the United States is now the largest exporter of LNG in the world.
00:32:56.700They've catapulted ahead of the United Arab Emirates, Australia, and Russia.
00:33:03.440It's got to tell you something that a country like ours that had 17 projects on the books in the past 10 years lost 16 of 17.
00:33:11.500And the last one is being vigorously opposed by terrorists.
00:33:15.820I don't know if the liberals really understand what they've done here.
00:33:19.240But by not being able to step up to the plate and get these things built now, when we do recognize that natural gas is the transition fuel, there is no debate on this anymore.
00:33:29.860However, the fact that we hummed and hawed the federal Trudeau government, I don't call them liberals, aided and abetted the organizations which fought this thing and discouraged investment is nothing short of a scandal.
00:33:43.660And it's a scandal because you and I are going to be paying for it in terms of high interest rates.
00:33:46.780And by the way, Corey, on this very important point, the governor of the Bank of Canada a week and a half ago came out and said, I don't understand why the Canadian dollar is not responding to the therapy.
00:33:55.500We have $100 oil. I've raised interest rates, and it's still 130 pennies to buy a US dollar.
00:34:02.040Because of the green policies advocated by the Trudeau government and its colleagues in the NDP and other allies across the country,
00:34:09.640we are now paying a significant loss of our purchase power, which turns out to be inflation, which the bank governors prepared to address by even higher rates.
00:34:19.880so you know for my friends and colleagues who live here in toronto and neighbors who are wondering
00:34:25.600how come the interest rates have gone up two or three percent they're going to go up another two
00:34:28.940three or four percent by the time we get to where we need to be you have to ask the question why are
00:34:34.520canadians so blissfully ignorant to a government that has gone out of its way to vandalize our
00:34:40.220infrastructure our assets and our future this country cannot afford to survive without its
00:34:46.160ability to get its resources to market, a world that wants our resources more than any other
00:34:51.140country. And yet we sit here and navel gaze and bend over backwards every Tom, Dick and Harry
00:34:55.560organization, charities, charities, which of course should be bloody well audited because
00:35:01.860they are not charities anymore, so that they are not continuing to obstruct and destroy the future
00:35:06.400of my country, of my children's country and their children's country. And I'm not making a political
00:35:11.580statement here. I think it's reality. Every Canadian who can't see this probably needs a
00:35:16.800bucket of cold water dropped on their head right now because if they don't see it, they'll certainly
00:35:21.360see it come up when the bailiff comes to their door to repossess their home. Yeah, as you said,
00:35:26.340that bucket of cold water is coming and the economic illiteracy, unfortunately, I mean,
00:35:31.560you know, you wouldn't expect to see it from the head of the Bank of Canada like that or again,
00:35:36.620from our prime ministers who said outright, I appreciate his candor saying, I don't think much
00:35:40.460on economic policy. Well, it shows and we're all going to pay a price. But I mean, well,
00:35:46.220I guess we can just keep, you know, bringing it to light as much as we can and sharing the
00:35:50.400information and hope to mitigate things and, you know, the reality check sooner rather than later.
00:35:55.080So I appreciate the work you do on that and for coming on to talk about it with us today. It's
00:36:00.300like I said, it's been a while. It's always good getting you on. Where can people keep track of
00:36:04.620you? And, you know, I mean, I know you've got that very classic Excel sheet going on there, but
00:36:08.840I do have it on computer, but I don't trust them because this stuff, unless it's, you throw water on it, there's no way it's going to, it's going to disappear.
00:36:20.480Affordableenergy.ca is the site you can get ahold of me, present at affordableenergy.ca.
00:42:56.560they'll get GST because people are spending money,
00:42:59.480they'll get all of the rest of the plethora of taxes
00:43:02.160on everything else they do, corporate taxes, you name it.
00:43:04.840So the federal government makes out very, very well
00:43:07.080when oil and gas is developed and sold.
00:43:09.720And unfortunately, our current prime minister sees oil and gas as something to shut down.
00:43:18.500And right now, again, when we're paying so much for our cost of living on every level and to be shutting in oil and gas right now, it's just so bizarre and stupid and ridiculous.
00:43:30.360But again, remember, our prime minister is bizarre and stupid and ridiculous.
00:53:25.820We haven't seen a whole lot of talk in the mainstream about this yet.
00:53:28.900But I think that we're going to start seeing that as the economic issues get worse with inflation and supply chains.
00:53:35.260And, you know, we're already having huge agricultural issues like Canadian farmers have also complained about, you know, 35% tariffs on Russian fertilizer imports, these vaccine mandates for truck drivers that are still making it difficult to transport goods to the US, a lot of farming issues for sure.
00:53:53.540And I think that now the organizers of this convoy, this, you know, slow roll, they said that this was a practice run for future protests for farmers.
00:54:02.120And I do believe that we're going to see much bigger ones happening because while this movement was, you know, made by or this protest was by Freedom Fighters Canada.
00:54:10.960And it sort of, as I said, the message got muddied.
00:54:13.720i think a lot of these farmers are going to be coming back and they're going to be very upset
00:54:17.400with uh the federal government um you know impacting their livelihoods and making it more
00:54:22.920difficult for them to survive as independent farmers yeah and i mean well right now the
00:54:27.960agreement in ottawa i guess is 30 but it's still aspirational they haven't come around with the
00:54:32.040policy on how they're going to reduce the 30 i mean we know from this government's record
00:54:35.880they rarely come in in a nuanced way i mean what it's telling you is they've got plans for taxes
00:54:40.360or bans or quotas or or something but uh you know as you said it's a practice run but maybe it'll
00:54:47.240really happen when it really starts hitting i mean when the farmers actually get nailed with attacks
00:54:51.800i mean they're on a tight margin they can only take their tractor out so far but uh if they're
00:54:56.360really starting to get an economic kick we're going to see them saying okay that's it we got
00:54:59.480to get out and do something absolutely cory and the thing is too that i don't believe the ottawa
00:55:04.040police service will be able to keep the tractors out of the downtown i mean we saw this weekend
00:55:08.360the ottawa police blocked off the off-ramps so that the convoy couldn't get downtown they so
00:55:14.120they basically made traffic problems worse for all of ottawa and then at three o'clock they lifted
00:55:18.680that they let the off-ramps be opened up and then the convoy ended up downtown anyways so we had
00:55:23.720about a couple dozen vehicles you know join up with the protesters in front of the dutch embassy
00:55:28.360and start honking and do a little mini occupation of the city so if a bunch of tractors want to get
00:55:33.080downtown and voice their concerns i don't believe that you know a bunch of police vehicles are going
00:55:37.720going to be able to stop them. So we'll see whether the federal government keeps that in mind when
00:55:41.560they're planning this policy around a reduction of emissions, whether they're going to keep in
00:55:46.340mind that there's going to be, you know, another occupation potentially. Yeah, well, and that's
00:55:51.900something that has to be kept in mind too, is right now our farmers are really busy. I mean,
00:55:55.080it's the peak growing season. Sure, they're not seeding, but harvest is around the corner. They're
00:55:58.940spraying, they're doing other things. They're always busy. Once the snow flies, though, I mean,
00:56:02.980a lot of them, unless they're running livestock, can find themselves with more spare time on their
00:56:07.680hands anyways and if they're going to get up and protest i think it would probably be post-harvest
00:56:11.820uh so i mean as you said these warning shots ottawa might want to take care here because uh
00:56:18.100they might feel a little more inspired coming in exactly true i better hope that the gas prices
00:56:23.420are too high that the trackers aren't able to maintain themselves for for weeks on end and go
00:56:28.600downtown because otherwise they're i'm fairly certain they're going to show up and they're
00:56:32.100going to make themselves heard oh i wish that wasn't so accurate on your part uh so i mean
00:56:37.640going beyond that. So, you know, what top stories have you been working on lately down there in
00:56:42.060Ottawa? Well, as I said, it's been quite a busy day. Today we have Commissioner Brenda Lukey and
00:56:48.140Public Safety Minister Bill Blair testifying on the firearms case. This whole controversy that
00:56:55.320happened with the federal government apparently asking for details on the firearms used in the
00:57:01.080shooting out in Nova Scotia to be used in impending gun legislation. Now, Bill Blair and
00:57:07.120both uh both bill blair and brenda luke lucky are saying that they did not um ask about that
00:57:14.160uh they did not um but it seems like they're sort of contradicting each other and now we're seeing
00:57:20.960just now that uh commanding officer lee bergerman is contradicting what they said and saying that
00:57:26.320blair did pressure lucky to disclose the caliber make and models of these firearms
00:57:31.120So clearly somebody's lying. I'll let you, Corey, say who you think that is, but I think the truth
00:57:40.000is going to come out very soon. I really hope it does because the level of this scandal, again,
00:57:46.000the things that just are dominating our news and the things that aren't, and even when this first
00:57:50.320broke, none of people realize if indeed this is what's happened, and fair enough, maybe these
00:57:56.400officers are lying about that pressure and things but if this was happening and if this was actually
00:58:01.280pressure from the prime minister's office this is the sort of thing that takes governments down
00:58:05.280in normal countries and here in canada barely made the headlines for two days absolutely you
00:58:10.160would think it would be the end of trudeau's government but we've seen there's been enough
00:58:13.120scandals that he is scraped by on and his supporters seem to essentially ignore and
00:58:18.320not be too bothered by it so uh i i do think the truth is going to come out and we'll see if that
00:58:23.520makes a difference around election time again uh but once again there's been so many of these i
00:58:27.920think it just sort of you tune them out eventually it's just to be expected and it's not you know
00:58:33.040something absolutely horrifying that that would be would be killer but but you would think it
00:58:38.960would be enough but we'll see yeah i'm not sure what it would take anymore maybe you know some
00:58:43.520candid video of justin with a goat or something but i mean yeah we would hope it would go down
00:58:48.720to a legislative thing but as you said the truth might be coming out soon um looking farther down
00:58:53.280there's going to be the hearings I guess starting and they're going to live stream it in September,
00:58:57.600I think after the Labor Day weekend when they start into the inquiry about the Emergencies Act.
00:59:02.560Have you seen much discussion in preparation of that or anything?
00:59:05.600I've seen a little bit of discussion. I know it's going to be live streamed for all to see
00:59:12.080and they've been talking about who is going to be able to get funding
00:59:16.560in order to participate in it but I haven't seen a whole lot of details yet. I mean,
01:10:09.900I tried to have one of their board members on,
01:10:12.500Northy that time, back when things were brewing up.
01:10:14.740But he wouldn't answer any questions very easily.
01:10:16.800I mean, I tried and it didn't go well.
01:10:19.620But either way, I mean, this is one thing that keeps the UCP happy because, I mean, if the Wilder's Independence Party is too busy all fighting with each other, when we get a general election six months away, there's no way they're going to be ready to fight that election come that time.
01:10:32.600So if you're worried about vote splitting on the right, it's going to be very unlikely.
01:11:58.340Everybody wants to, well, every politician with ambition at that level wants to be the premier, you would think, right?
01:12:05.660That's why you're climbing that political scrotum pole to try and get up there to the top seat on it.
01:12:10.660And here we are with a whole bunch of people in BC and only one person in the whole province wants to run for the NDP leadership out there.
01:13:46.120And that's when I was talking to Dan McTeague.
01:13:47.860And I like doing my I told you so as I was putting tweets out and talking to the Taxpayers Federation a year and a half ago saying, yeah, we're going to see some mass inflation and interest rate hikes because of the path the government's going.
01:13:58.180Apparently, the government are the only ones who didn't know it.
01:14:00.720The only ones who didn't see it coming.