Western Standard - Triggered： Trudeau's government targeting farmers. Food prices will spike

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's April 25th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I hope you all had a good weekend.

00:00:38.560 I'm Corey Morgan. This is the Western Standards Live Daily Show. We run Monday to Friday,

00:00:44.680 11.30 a.m. until usually around 1 o'clock p.m. Depends on the guests and our schedule.

00:00:50.160 Always lots to talk about. It's been quite a busy news week, so there's going to be lots to cover

00:00:54.620 this week as always that's good keeps us working but one of the things i've been watching you know

00:01:00.660 i'm a social media maven i like looking at the uh fights and the squirreliness going online and

00:01:05.460 it looks like elon musk's uh plan to purchase twitter is gonna go through i mean there's

00:01:10.340 been as much opposition as they can to it trying to hold it up but the bottom line is he's got the

00:01:14.780 money he's got the will and they can't stop him and the left is going bananas it's beautiful to

00:01:19.900 watch why are they so afraid of speech i mean he's not even proposing doing any radical things he's

00:01:25.180 not really looking to make any massive changes he's just saying i'm i'm gonna though not be as

00:01:29.800 i mean because twitter's been terribly slanted there's no doubt about that a double standard on

00:01:33.260 which accounts they're going to crack town on which they won't he's just going to kind of open

00:01:37.440 it up so i guess they don't like their echo chamber they don't like the the fact that uh he

00:01:41.760 may just not censor it as much you know you don't like what you're hearing on twitter and i i get on

00:01:46.040 there i block lots of people block them if they're that bad if they're that abusive they're whatever

00:01:49.700 block them but that's not the left's way no they want to shut them down they want to shut them up

00:01:55.300 they don't want to allow you to speak at all in the first place looks like mr musk might address

00:01:59.660 that he's just an interesting guy that guy you know he's very unusual uh we got a whole bunch

00:02:04.220 out there yes scott from fort mack wildros and white court and medicine hat we got people a lot

00:02:09.640 of albertans today claudette charlotte brian good to see you all out there we got some good weather

00:02:15.720 right and uh pincher creek with paulette yeah i hope the wind isn't blowing you away so i got a

00:02:20.160 good show coming up i'll get on to that then david clement from the consumer choice center is going

00:02:23.520 to come on he wrote a column with us on housing affordability and a blind bidding ban uh david

00:02:28.760 will also talk about a few things melanie wrote uh quite a story on on food producing facilities

00:02:34.000 that it's been going very viral uh that have been hit with all sorts of disasters i think everything

00:02:39.120 from fires to a plane crash but it's a impacting the cost of consumer goods particularly food and

00:02:44.180 And that'll tie into my morning rant once I get that rolling as well.

00:02:47.160 Then I'm going to talk to Ontario Party leader Derek Sloan.

00:02:50.160 Yes, he's out of federal politics and interprovincial.

00:02:53.120 He's the leader of the Ontario Party.

00:02:55.160 It was tight on the scheduling.

00:02:56.640 There's some interesting developments with them.

00:02:58.420 It looks like they've contracted Roger Stone, of all people,

00:03:01.240 to be one of their campaign co-chairs as Ontario's going into an election

00:03:07.140 this June is, I think, the end of the time before they have to call it.

00:03:10.160 I'll ask Derek about that.

00:03:11.460 I do see somebody there, Leslie, from Perth coming in.

00:03:13.680 So this will be an impact for Leslie there.

00:03:16.280 So let's see what's got me worked up to kick off my Monday.

00:03:20.020 And it's a good one.

00:03:22.280 It's a longer story.

00:03:23.280 No, so let's start it out and talk about well life expectancies.

00:03:26.300 Worldwide, as recently as 1870, they hovered around 29 years.

00:03:31.040 That was it.

00:03:31.520 That's as long as we're going to live.

00:03:33.320 Now, the advent of the Industrial Revolution was a game changer.

00:03:35.700 I mean, it changed dramatically.

00:03:37.060 So we got modern means of production, transportation advances, of course, the combustion engine.

00:03:42.160 it led to a number of other technological advances, and we suddenly had an explosive

00:03:45.980 improvement in the standard of living all around the world and expanded our life

00:03:49.900 expectancies. So world life expectancy rose from 34 in 1913

00:03:53.820 to 46 by 1950, and it sits around 73 worldwide

00:03:57.980 today. And in developed nations like our own, it's well over 80 years of age.

00:04:02.600 Now, one of the main causes of early mortality historically used to be

00:04:05.820 starvation and malnutrition. Food nutrition, or food production and

00:04:09.900 preservation and distribution couldn't keep up with growing populations. So we'd have starvation,

00:04:13.440 you know, up and down in times of drought, war, and the actions of dictatorships like Stalin.

00:04:18.140 It was relatively common until only just a few days ago. Now the world's population,

00:04:22.800 and I'm going somewhere with all this, was around 1.5 billion in 1870. And even then we couldn't

00:04:28.400 feed much of it. The world population now is around 8 billion. And famine is actually barely

00:04:34.000 a factor in mortality. I mean, when we look at the stats, almost 18 out of 100,000 people die

00:04:39.500 annually from heart disease. 0.3 out of 100,000 die of starvation. This is a nice development.

00:04:47.120 Now, we can't sustain human population growth in perpetuity, but we've learned that well-fed,

00:04:52.180 prosperous nations tend to have the least amount of children. In most of the wealthiest cities in

00:04:56.400 the world, population through local childbirth is actually going down. People who can afford to

00:05:00.800 only have one, two, or perhaps even no children tend to do so. Developing nations, though, having

00:05:06.040 large families is essential with so many children dying young unfortunately due to disease malnutrition

00:05:10.900 such couples produce a large number of kids to make up the difference and then some of the poorer

00:05:14.800 nations it's essential to have a large family to ensure the parents are cared for by children in

00:05:19.460 their older years because they don't have luxuries like pension plans now if we're indeed concerned

00:05:24.900 with slowing the growth of human population you know for the sake of the year the past pretty

00:05:28.880 clear we need to modernize nations as much as possible and ensure they're well fed i mean while

00:05:33.580 starvation itself is rarely a killer any longer malnutrition still contributes to many premature

00:05:38.980 deaths it's a factor and we have a lot of room to improve on food security and access around the

00:05:43.240 world so here's where we get to canada climate obsessed including canada's own government are

00:05:49.500 fixated on attacking just about every advancement that human humanity has made in the last century

00:05:54.120 energy impacts the cost of everything and the green lunacy has contributed to shooting the

00:05:58.740 cost of energy up at every opportunity as they work to shut down affordable means of energy

00:06:03.080 generation in favor of impractical ones such as wind and solar world energy prices are harming us

00:06:08.760 and in developed nations they're outright devastating you know it's just they can't

00:06:13.520 afford these hikes and things so not consent though not content the green federal level

00:06:17.580 government with just raising the food costs through spikes in energy costs the canadian

00:06:21.760 government's now under the guidance the un setting their sights on attacking canadian grain farmers

00:06:25.840 yes a new discussion document released by agriculture and agri-food canada titled

00:06:32.060 reducing emissions arising from the application of fertilizer in Canada's ag sector targets grain

00:06:37.260 producers for emission reductions. And they've set massive targets, of course, just like they

00:06:41.620 have with everything else, to cut it down. The government wants to crack down on fertilizer use

00:06:46.260 among farmers. Now, modern fertilizers are a massive component in the mix of technological

00:06:52.300 advances that have led to the world's virtual elimination of famine. Smaller plots of land can

00:06:57.340 produce food more intensively and efficiently than ever imaginable. If we get rid of modern

00:07:02.380 chemical means of fertilizer, crop yields are going to dramatically drop and immediately drop.

00:07:07.900 Composting and using livestock dung, hey, that's all fine and dandy for home and hobby farm

00:07:12.340 operations. We need modern, controlled, and broadly applied fertilizers in order to get

00:07:16.980 viable returns in a commercial farm operation. Of all the types of crops that contribute to

00:07:22.520 feeding the world, cereals top the list. They can be produced en masse. They have strong

00:07:26.740 nutritional value. They keep well for cost-efficient shipping and storage. If you want to starve the

00:07:32.320 world, the best place to begin would be hindering grain production. Canada is the third largest

00:07:36.640 weed exporter in the world, and we rank among the top producers of many other grains as well.

00:07:40.780 If we attack our own grain production, the impact's not only going to crush our local domestic farmers

00:07:45.640 and put pressure on local food prices, it's going to impact food supply around the world.

00:07:51.700 You can't be stressed enough just how dangerous this government plan to metal in grain production

00:07:55.960 could be. Now, Russia and Ukraine are also top grain producers in the world, and due to the

00:08:01.180 ongoing war there, exports from both nations, of course, are dropping. Not that the Trudeau's

00:08:06.880 government plan to crack down on Canadian grain farmers will ever be a good one, but it's hard

00:08:10.280 to imagine a worse time to do it than right now. If we really do care about the environment, we

00:08:14.520 need to be increasing food production and security. We need to be bringing developed nations into

00:08:19.140 energy and food security so they can take on environmental initiatives of their own.

00:08:23.900 Nobody cares about global warming when they're starving or freezing to death.

00:08:27.880 Crunching food supplies is going to lead to famine, and it's going to lead to other forms of unrest.

00:08:32.540 Unfortunately, privileged climate crusaders such as Justin Trudeau and David Suzuki rarely look beyond their own comfortable, affluent worlds.

00:08:39.580 They want to make their personal mark on the world through battling climate change and don't really care what the human cost will come with it.

00:08:45.660 Just let them eat cake, right?

00:08:47.080 The Trudeau plan to hit the ag sector could be the most destructive of his entire tenure as a prime minister.

00:08:53.060 It isn't making much news yet, but it should.

00:08:55.860 We may be returning to a world where starvation becomes a leading cause of deaths in some nations again,

00:09:00.120 and all because climate extremists who can't or won't see the impacts of their policies.

00:09:05.600 Keep an eye on this one, guys.

00:09:07.760 We've got a lot of bad policy going on already.

00:09:10.220 Going after our farmers now demanding reductions in 20% to 30% in the emissions below 2020 levels,

00:09:17.860 that's some of the things in their plan, is going to be devastating.

00:09:21.060 It's not just going to hit us. It's going to hit the world. That Trudeau government is dangerous.

00:09:25.400 Okay, that's what's got me working today, guys. Now, let's bring in Melanie Rizda. We've got a 1.00

00:09:29.760 whole lot of news to cover today. I haven't had Mel in for a check-in here for quite some time,

00:09:34.440 so welcome back to the show, Mel. How's it going over there?

00:09:37.400 Good, good. Thanks, Corey. Yeah, we're obviously busy in the newsroom, as usual. Speaking of your

00:09:44.980 rant topic. FBI is out right now with a warning that food processors are facing an increased risk

00:09:52.140 of cyber attacks as well. So, you know, contributing, I think, more so to, to attacking

00:10:00.840 the infrastructure and whatnot, for these, for these food processors. But yeah, I think,

00:10:06.140 with the price and the cost of food where it is right now, it's, it's definitely something

00:10:11.820 that we would like to get a handle on.

00:10:15.780 I've actually reached out to the RCMP in Canada

00:10:19.400 to see where we're at with this on Canadian soil

00:10:23.500 to see if this is an issue up here,

00:10:25.460 just waiting for an update on that.

00:10:27.680 So we'll have that out.

00:10:29.840 RCMP considered charging Justin Trudeau with fraud

00:10:34.300 for his trip to the Aga Khan's island back in 2016.

00:10:39.640 They've decided not to go ahead and charge him, but kind of interesting to see that that was something they were considering doing.

00:10:49.660 There are reports, as you mentioned a little bit earlier, Corey, reports that Elon Musk's bid to take over Twitter is a go.

00:10:57.380 We are watching that story very closely.

00:11:00.140 Eva's in here with her eyes peeled on Twitter, keeping an eye on what comes from that.

00:11:05.980 uh the bid sits at 43 billion to take over that company so um kind of wish i invested in twitter

00:11:14.780 a few weeks ago maybe uh we've also got a story out roger stone an american uh political operative

00:11:21.760 who worked with the likes of president richard nixon uh ronald reagan and donald trump uh is

00:11:28.340 going to be working with the ontario party as a senior strategic advisor so that's an interesting

00:11:34.700 story we've got up. We've got a great column up from Linda Slobodian, one of our columnists,

00:11:39.860 on the confusion that's been happening around the UCP's postal code debacle, where hundreds,

00:11:47.760 if not perhaps thousands, of the leadership vote ballots had the wrong postal codes on them.

00:11:55.280 So whether that's going to affect whether they land properly or arrive or whatnot,

00:12:00.360 There's a lot of confusion around that, and it's causing a lot of frustration as well.

00:12:07.540 Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has kind of revealed a little bit of an oops with her stay at the climate change conference that was in Glasgow.

00:12:18.180 Apparently, she stayed at a place that was nowhere near Glasgow.

00:12:23.000 It was about a 45-minute drive to get to the conference each day.

00:12:27.760 And so she is billing taxpayers $3,000 for her limo service for her and her, I guess, co-workers or associates that were traveling with her to go to and from where they stayed in Edinburgh to the Glasgow Conference.

00:12:45.820 So looking into that one.

00:12:48.620 We've got a story up on a rally that is set for Ottawa come next weekend.

00:12:54.700 It's the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally, and it's planned to be in Ottawa.

00:13:00.560 However, one of the organizers from the group says that they've been informed their vehicles, motorcycles, will not be permitted to be in the downtown core for next weekend.

00:13:11.440 So we've got that story.

00:13:13.640 Our Canadian Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, says that we still need to be masking, especially for air travel.

00:13:24.700 Uh, we've got a story about CBC broke its ethics code by accepting a contract with Canada's governor general. And it looks like Saskatchewan leads Canada in retail growth.

00:13:39.100 Well, that's, uh, good to see how to Saskatchewan retail of all things. But, uh, I mean, I get that ties in a little bit with the worrisome, I guess, over the whole agriculture. I mean, that's a large part of Saskatchewan's economy. If, uh, we, we suddenly start having difficulties in there.

00:13:53.580 I got a feeling that retail spike might be short-lived.

00:13:57.320 Yeah, I think the gist of it all is there seems to be a real shortage in all sorts of different supply chains right now.

00:14:08.820 We're seeing it in many sectors.

00:14:10.520 And so just working on stories about how that's going to affect us here in Canada.

00:14:15.740 You know, where I'm actually digging through some additional stories of food processing facilities around the world that have been affected by fire or explosions or other things that have damaged the facility.

00:14:34.500 So looking to dig up some more worldwide.

00:14:40.140 Interesting. Yeah, this story has really been taking off.

00:14:44.120 just a bizarre week we kind of got on the roll here and then you uh your your own uh story of

00:14:50.180 your uh experience with with uh coveted and such on the weekend kind of a more personal

00:14:54.860 opinion sort of thing there that was a appreciated in sharing that uh i just hope you're recovering

00:15:00.680 well uh yeah i seem to be recovering well and hopefully i will have no lingering side effects

00:15:08.160 as I did for my first round with COVID.

00:15:11.720 But yeah, it was nice to kind of share that

00:15:15.300 and a little perspective on dealing with COVID illness

00:15:20.200 and some sort of recovery options and treatment options

00:15:24.980 that are seeming to be very effective.

00:15:29.360 Great. Well, that is a packed site.

00:15:31.620 You know, Dave was talking about that in the newsroom this morning.

00:15:33.720 I won't bother talking about the other outlets,

00:15:35.480 but I mean, by the time we were chatting at 10.30,

00:15:37.940 I think we had something like, I don't know, 10 or 18 stories up on our site.

00:15:41.700 And some of the major outlets out there had only one or two so far.

00:15:45.660 So busy, busy in there.

00:15:48.280 We are.

00:15:48.880 We've got lots coming this afternoon, too, for sure.

00:15:51.920 Right on.

00:15:52.420 Thanks for checking in, Melanie.

00:15:53.420 I'll see you after the show.

00:15:54.740 Thanks, Corey.

00:15:57.020 So, yeah, you know, I've talked about that before with these news check-ins.

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00:17:17.460 Yeah, some of those stories, you know, Trudeau with the RCMP talking about, you know, his trip that it was given to him, you know, to the Aga Khan's island or whatever.

00:17:29.280 They're basically, the RCMP are saying, if you look at that story deeply, that, yeah, no, we're pretty sure he broke the law and he should have been charged.

00:17:36.900 But we had to weigh, this is the way they looked at it, whether charging him would do more damage than good.

00:17:42.160 Like it would be too disruptive to charge a sitting prime minister with a crime.

00:17:46.340 that's scary stuff that's getting above the law stuff that that goes beyond every bit of our

00:17:52.680 principles as a democracy i mean theoretically nobody should be viewed any differently in the

00:17:58.640 eyes of the law than anybody else we know in reality that's not always the case for for all

00:18:03.140 sorts of reasons but uh when the prime minister if he's broken a law he should bloody well be

00:18:09.200 charged i don't care i don't think it's a matter that it would shake up the country i don't think

00:18:12.700 it's a matter that it would be too impractical for Canadians. I think the problem is it'd be

00:18:17.420 too impractical for the Liberals. This gets back to the Royal Canadian amount of police who are

00:18:21.480 run by the federal government. You know, this is part of why I talk about provincial police

00:18:27.460 forces. That's not perfect either. You've got to make sure they've got a good mandate and a charter

00:18:30.480 or you could just have a provincial level government abusing them. But, you know, justice

00:18:36.200 should be blind and it should come pretty blind when it comes to our prime minister. But it seems

00:18:41.060 no they they won't charge him so i mean how far does that go i guess you know if it's just for

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00:18:51.420 country that's okay but would it go farther if trudeau assaulted somebody would they just look

00:18:57.720 the other way on charges with that too or uh if he directly robbed somebody i mean this is a

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00:20:57.280 okay let's bring in david clement he uh is with the consumer choice center and he wrote us a

00:21:03.240 recent column and he was talking to melanie on another story recently there's lots we can babble

00:21:07.480 about here on consumer issues for a while here and uh he's been on the show before so uh hey

00:21:13.060 there david how's it going it's going well thank you for having me back oh i appreciate it um so

00:21:18.520 yeah lots of as i said you know consumer based i mean well with inflation with everybody's feeling

00:21:22.300 the pinch cost of living it's getting tight uh and it seems to be coming at us from a number

00:21:27.240 of directions. But your recent column, just to start with, I guess, is on everybody's biggest

00:21:32.880 ticket item, and that's housing and affordable housing. And, you know, government efforts,

00:21:38.980 I guess, to try and bring it under control. And they've got something called a blind bidding ban.

00:21:44.500 Can you kind of expand on what that is? Yeah. So the way in which homes are sold,

00:21:50.020 bids are done blind so the the seller or the buyers or prospective buyers don't know what

00:21:58.580 the other bids are and they put their bid in and the seller agrees and the house sells

00:22:05.120 some in ottawa have been really pushing to ban blind bidding and so to make everything an open

00:22:15.160 auction. And while I can understand the frustration in terms of the prices that we're seeing,

00:22:22.920 and I'm sure we'll get more into that, the problem here is that it does nothing to address

00:22:30.260 the fundamental issue, which is feeding the housing crisis, and that is a lack of supply.

00:22:37.260 And so it really just presents itself as window dressing, symbolically looking like an attempt

00:22:45.140 to try and wrangle in demand. But when you dig into it, and you ask people much smarter and

00:22:52.760 wiser than I am, the housing economists who look at this, they basically say in a seller's market

00:22:58.620 like this, it doesn't really matter what type of auction, whether you do open auction,

00:23:03.900 where everyone sees each other, each other's bids, or you see blind auctions, it doesn't

00:23:10.280 really make a difference. And so our point of view is, why is Ottawa focusing on these silly

00:23:17.880 policies that the experts in the field are saying really isn't going to do anything to bring down

00:23:25.160 prices, while at the same time, not really or not adequately addressing the issue of lack of

00:23:32.500 supply? Now, we've seen some comments from Pierre Polyev and Scott Aitchison on this,

00:23:37.220 on addressing supply. So that's certainly appreciated, but they're doing so as prospective

00:23:44.540 leaders of the opposition party. And so that leaves a lot of people waiting for, a lot of

00:23:50.440 young people like myself, waiting for these policy changes that are going to increase supply,

00:23:55.760 the yes in my backyard approach to housing. So from our point of view, it's a silly policy,

00:24:04.440 so long as there's nothing limiting the seller determining how they want to sell the home they

00:24:09.640 should be free to do it in an open way or blind way but at the end of the day it's not going to

00:24:14.800 bring down prices like the liberal government is saying it will yeah i mean even if it does

00:24:20.040 apparently you know have some impact it would be minimal and still when houses in general are going

00:24:25.440 up i mean the i read the the budget document they did address they know that they need to

00:24:30.880 address supply, but then they don't really go into anything about how they're going to.

00:24:34.800 Yeah, I mean, they proposed an earmark program, I believe it's about $4 billion. And that's to

00:24:43.620 essentially help or reward communities that grow it larger than the historical average. And their

00:24:51.340 estimate says that that's going to build 100,000 new homes. Now, that might sound like a lot to

00:24:58.640 someone who doesn't, who isn't really in the weeds on the numbers,

00:25:04.680 Bondurial alone needs more than 150,000 homes just to get to the Canadian average. And the

00:25:12.640 Canadian average is the worst in the G7. And so we're looking at just a fraction of the supply

00:25:20.720 and they've largely missed the boat on exclusionary zoning, which are the rules that

00:25:26.100 mandate, you can only have a single family unit on a particular plot of land. And so

00:25:31.080 even the supply side proposal that they've put forward really leaves a lot to be desired.

00:25:39.420 Well, and part of the problem, and I see that addressed a bit in the municipal, or I mean,

00:25:44.000 in the federal budget, and Mr. Polly, I've talked about it, but the most direct level of government

00:25:50.780 that can deal with supply and the one that's having the most impact is on the municipal level.

00:25:56.100 And I guess a person has to choose, well, how much intrusion do you want with the federal government or municipal governance?

00:26:01.760 Yeah, and I'm sympathetic to that argument.

00:26:04.320 But the federal government and the provincial government both transfer a considerable amount of funds into these large city budgets, whether it's road expansion or a variety of different infrastructure projects.

00:26:17.780 And so, I mean, you could argue that that transfer of funds is as equally problematic or equally offensive as the federal government saying, hey, we have a housing crisis, you have to meet these density targets or you have to end exclusionary zoning so that these cities can be affordable.

00:26:36.880 And I mean, just to put into perspective, Vancouver, which everyone knows is particularly bad, the average home in January rose 23% to just over a million dollars.

00:26:53.460 The average rent on a two-bedroom apartment is $2,983 a month.

00:27:00.360 In order to be able to afford that, according to the CMHC, you need an income of $128,000 a year.

00:27:09.060 But the problem is, is that the average family in Vancouver has an income of $61,000.

00:27:14.760 So that gap is huge.

00:27:17.460 That gap is getting bigger.

00:27:19.520 The average family in many of these major cities cannot afford to buy or rent the average home.

00:27:27.500 And so I think it's appropriate for the federal government to say, hey, we're going to keep footing the bill for a lot of these things, especially on the public transit side. We see that all the time. But you have to uphold some end of the bargain here on policy change.

00:27:44.360 yeah well and they would need uh again to to really put some uh build-in incentives or

00:27:51.180 disincentives for the governments to make them comply i mean just talking about my local city

00:27:54.860 council if they were just handed a blind amount of money and told to address housing supply

00:27:58.440 they might spend it on magic beans because they really don't necessarily put money towards the

00:28:04.200 most effective things and then just throwing money at the market doesn't mean we're going

00:28:07.220 to get more supply anyways. Well, yeah. And the thing is, is why, why spend money when there are

00:28:14.680 private businesses, the companies who build homes who are willing to do it with no government money,

00:28:21.540 right? They're, they're eager, ready, willing. You see this across, across Canada. It's especially

00:28:28.920 bad in British Columbia and Ontario where developers will be ready to build. They'll

00:28:34.900 have the land and then they go through years of challenges and and all of this crazy nonsense

00:28:41.040 it's happened right where I live with Glen Abbey Golf Course which would have been over 3,000

00:28:46.320 additional housing units in one of the most expensive towns to live in in Canada and it

00:28:53.220 ended up getting blocked because city council decided that it was a heritage monument and they

00:28:59.620 wanted to protect it forever although it's not city council who owns the land it's not um it's

00:29:05.480 not anybody else's land except for the company that owned it and so there we go losing a potential

00:29:11.540 3 000 additional units and i mean that's one anecdote but that happens virtually everywhere

00:29:17.700 um where the where development is blocked regardless of whether it's a a condo building

00:29:25.600 or a duplex yeah well and then it hits us all hard and housing is a need we got the same thing

00:29:31.360 in calgary it's eight years from plan to development to get a housing development done

00:29:36.380 in calgary right now that's the average and that's assuming that they don't get shut down during one

00:29:41.020 of those steps along the way which does often actually happen much like what you were talking

00:29:44.820 about so yeah that's that's one area that needs addressing getting on to other needs i kind of

00:29:49.520 like to go a little broader um with food of course that's spiking all over the place uh we're seeing

00:29:56.100 the the essentials going up there's one of the areas that i've been on the case of the conservative

00:29:59.520 candidates about because you and i've talked about supply management before we're not really

00:30:02.980 big fans of that um as well though i mean we've got other problems like our food production

00:30:08.960 facilities you spoke a bit on that but there's a strange trend of them getting a you know whatever

00:30:13.460 the basis of that is but a whole lot of them have been taken offline uh now we got supply uh there

00:30:18.480 was the story we did the standard recently there was that one got hit by a plane one's been burned

00:30:22.080 down uh i don't know if you read the story mel talked to you yeah i mean it's it's yeah it's

00:30:27.740 unclear why it's what is actually happening i don't have enough information to know like

00:30:33.300 is this something nefarious or coordinated or it's just a it's a bad accident but at the end

00:30:38.980 of the day any disruption to the food supply um especially on the processing side where

00:30:47.000 essentially shipments aren't getting picked up, is going to limit the supply of the things that

00:30:51.800 you buy, whatever they were making there. And what you're going to see is you're going to see

00:30:56.280 prices go up or you're going to see shrinkflation, which is where the prices don't go up, but the

00:31:03.000 quantity in the bag, let's say of a bag of chips, goes down from 400 grams to 300 grams. So you

00:31:10.840 think you're still buying the same product, but there's actually less of whatever it is you

00:31:15.900 purchase in it um obviously not great um first because the option is they're having less um

00:31:24.600 we're having less and pay more for it and and that's i mean poll after poll shows that that's

00:31:30.480 something that canadians are worried about um we're seeing it across different sectors we're

00:31:36.360 also seeing it with supply managed sectors which is even more irritating and so um it's not a

00:31:42.900 situation where i think we're going to have food shortages or empty shelves because the the food

00:31:48.580 system in this country has shown itself to be incredibly resilient um the pandemic has kind

00:31:54.140 of shown us that but consumers are going to pay uh in one way or the other if disruptions continue

00:32:00.860 or they overlap and compound on each other well that's it like i said yeah i wouldn't expect you

00:32:06.320 to try and figure out why these places have hit the upon the problem but the impact is what we

00:32:11.520 talk about whatever the cause may be and we're getting disruption in our supply ability the

00:32:16.100 costs go up and and consumers yeah they get upset I you know using an analogy from back when I owned

00:32:22.260 my bar and the minimum wage hikes kept hitting us while I owned it under the NDP government which

00:32:27.120 is whatever you just you know debate whether that's good or bad but I had to respond as a

00:32:31.220 business owner and I had a big fight with a customer because well part of what we did was we

00:32:35.580 raised some prices on some things and reduced the size of some items so yeah our big plate

00:32:39.760 the nachos got a bit smaller and it went up a dollar and uh yep i tell you what consumers are

00:32:44.860 sensitive they see it and they know it and this guy ripped into me but he doesn't understand like

00:32:49.820 i gotta make money too uh well yeah i mean if you're a business owner you're you're doing it

00:32:54.680 so that you can also have a livelihood um that's kind of the point and what we'll end up seeing is

00:33:01.640 a lot more of that irritation and frustration on the consumer side and then obviously much more on

00:33:08.700 the side of those who sell whether it's goods or services or food or restaurants um and so yeah

00:33:16.760 it's a very problematic situation um when whether it's disruption or government policy that drives

00:33:23.580 up the inputs for a business labor main goods uh and things like that and the more we see this the

00:33:31.500 more that frustration is going to build. And the higher or the bigger the upward push or

00:33:38.920 inflationary push is going to be. And right now, that doesn't seem to be something that Ottawa

00:33:46.060 is particularly steadfast about in regards to talking about reducing the cost of living.

00:33:53.780 They've really opened the door, in my opinion, for the Conservatives to kind of make that their

00:33:57.640 issue again um and so we'll see whether this uh this NDP liberal agreement lasts and for how long

00:34:04.840 and whenever it is um the liberals will have to face the fire in regards to the situation at hand

00:34:12.200 well that's it a lot of people like to point out and say well it's all beyond the liberals control

00:34:17.500 it's international every country's experiencing inflation right now they kind of like to say

00:34:21.840 there's nothing we could do about it but I think there's a you know there's some degree of truth

00:34:25.660 in that when world commodities go up, you can only do so much. But when it comes to

00:34:29.480 domestic consumer goods, there's certainly some things in general we could do to ease some of that

00:34:33.880 pain locally, isn't it? Of course. I mean, you just look at all of the government policies that

00:34:39.040 are in place that inflate the price of goods. I mean, you look at the carbon tax, although I

00:34:46.300 understand the reasoning and justification and purpose for the carbon tax, you can't argue that

00:34:52.260 it doesn't inflate the price of goods. I mean, everything that you eat is shipped on a truck for

00:34:57.280 the most part. The goods that are delivered to your house, what you buy at a department store,

00:35:03.160 et cetera. I mean, everything is factored into all of that. And so there's a long list of policies

00:35:12.340 that inflate the price of those goods just by virtue of making the supply chain more expensive

00:35:19.600 So from the time whatever it is is created to the time it arrives at your doorstep.

00:35:25.740 And so, yeah, there are global pressures in regards to inflation.

00:35:29.180 I don't think anybody can deny that.

00:35:31.380 But that doesn't mean that the government should just sit on its hands.

00:35:34.520 I mean, we can deal with global like it's ironic that we we talk about whether or not the government should sit on its hands because it's a global problem.

00:35:46.360 That's the liberal critique to, let's say, center right or conservatives on climate policy.

00:35:54.340 Conservatives will say, well, it's a global problem, like we can't really do anything.

00:35:57.760 And the liberals will take conservatives to task on that.

00:36:01.020 And it's like they've kind of forgot that that was their argument in the last election and for the last 10 years or so.

00:36:10.040 And they're repeating it.

00:36:11.620 They're repeating that flawed argument in their view when it comes to inflation and cost of living.

00:36:18.480 I like that comparison.

00:36:19.740 I'm going to have to steal that and use that from you in the future.

00:36:22.360 It is a very good point to be made because very similar issues.

00:36:25.940 You know, I mean, yes, conservatives say, hey, look, Canada's only responsible for 1.6%.

00:36:29.720 It's a drop in the bucket.

00:36:30.840 We're wasting our time.

00:36:31.640 Well, they say, well, we need to make domestic things all the same to be better. 0.99

00:36:34.940 Well, likewise with inflation or energy or a lot of other issues.

00:36:38.600 It's good to – I like the way that's put.

00:36:40.880 Thank you.

00:36:41.620 Thank you.

00:36:43.140 All right.

00:36:43.640 So, well, glad we got you for a bit today.

00:36:46.500 It's always good to talk to you.

00:36:47.740 I mean, you've got your work cut out for you as a consumer advocate with inflation and policy and all that wonderful world that's going on right now.

00:36:56.260 Where can we find more information about what you're doing and what your organization's up to?

00:36:59.940 Yeah, consumerchoicecenter.org.

00:37:01.860 You can follow me on Twitter at at Clement Liberty, and you'll see all of the great consumer issues that we are fighting on.

00:37:10.160 I'm trying to push back when governments over-regulate the things that consumers like and ultimately make them more expensive.

00:37:18.040 Great. Well, I really appreciate you coming on.

00:37:20.600 And I'd just like to remind everybody, yeah, it's the Consumer Choice Center, David Clement.

00:37:24.100 And yes, you're active on Twitter, as am I, though you're less nasty than I am on there.

00:37:29.140 And I really, yeah, just appreciate the work you're doing and looking forward to seeing what comes out in the future.

00:37:36.340 Thank you very much.

00:37:37.920 All right. I'll talk to you again.

00:37:40.160 And also that reminder to everybody,

00:37:41.700 David provides us with columns on occasion as well,

00:37:44.340 and he put that one out recently,

00:37:45.460 which is why I wanted to get him on the show.

00:37:47.340 If you just go on the westernstandardonline.com

00:37:49.580 and search Clement, you'll see that most recent one

00:37:52.840 that Nico's got pulled up on the screen,

00:37:54.260 plus a number of past columns that David has provided with us.

00:37:59.640 Offers some very good common sense,

00:38:02.140 consumer-driven libertarian type approaches on things.

00:38:06.200 So like I said, I always appreciate talking to him,

00:38:08.540 but we're much on the same page with a lot of issues.

00:38:11.720 All right, let's look at some of the other goodness

00:38:14.480 we got going on before my guest gets here.

00:38:18.760 Some of that news that was mentioned.

00:38:20.820 Yeah, there was that $96,000,

00:38:22.920 speaking of criminal liberal government things,

00:38:26.040 was awarded in a sole source contract

00:38:28.720 to a CBC pundit who told a network audience

00:38:33.520 that Simon was the perfect appointee

00:38:36.200 for Governor General.

00:38:39.780 And see, you got to see how this is all tied together, right?

00:38:43.520 It shows how gross the CBC is in general anyways,

00:38:46.580 as our state broadcaster, being tax funded

00:38:48.700 and as biased as they are.

00:38:50.580 Now we got a pundit who goes on there.

00:38:52.060 And the CBC is one of the rare ones, actually.

00:38:53.640 Now I don't know necessarily in this case,

00:38:55.080 but often with their panelists and pundits,

00:38:57.520 they pay them a bit of a fee to appear and do things.

00:39:02.100 This particular pundit, though, was one who was,

00:39:04.260 So, wow, you know, very supportive of the governor general, and since then gets a $96,000 contract that didn't even go out to bid.

00:39:13.240 Hey, nice work if you can get it, isn't it?

00:39:15.860 So Marie Wilson of Yellowknife is a reconciliation consultant.

00:39:20.320 You know, you've got to wonder about these consultant things.

00:39:21.960 What does that mean?

00:39:23.100 What do you do?

00:39:24.880 What sort of value added are we getting out of this?

00:39:27.320 So that was $96,000 for 10 months' work, and it expires next month.

00:39:31.200 and the governor general's office is not in the public interest to solicit bids.

00:39:35.080 Apparently, this person was the only person on earth who could do that job for the governor general.

00:39:40.840 I guess, because you didn't even want to put it out to bids.

00:39:42.940 This was at least the best person on earth to do it, right?

00:39:45.200 But we won't know because we didn't get to see competitive bids.

00:39:48.500 And coincidentally, that was a person who was on the CBC being very friendly

00:39:53.560 to who is now the current governor general.

00:39:58.400 The inbred establishment of corruption in Ottawa and in general is just stomach-churning.

00:40:05.920 I mean, they don't care.

00:40:08.580 That's part of it.

00:40:09.340 They don't care.

00:40:10.500 Did the governor general even think about what it's going to look like or think about the conflict?

00:40:15.480 Or is it just, you know, Wilson was good to me.

00:40:18.360 I'm going to toss her 100-gram contract over here. 1.00

00:40:21.300 You know, it doesn't even occur to them because that's just what you do.

00:40:24.840 You scratch each other's backs.

00:40:27.120 And by the way, so here we go.

00:40:30.800 Wilson is a former CBC executive who, you know, worked with the Governor General's husband,

00:40:36.560 was named a Trudeau Foundation mentor.

00:40:39.100 Oh, coincidence there, too.

00:40:41.300 And in 2017 was appointed as CBC director.

00:40:45.140 So Wilson attended the Governor General's swearing-in last July

00:40:48.500 and, of course, praised that appointment on a CBC radio broadcast, the House.

00:40:54.320 So that's nice.

00:40:54.840 what it's called in every other aspect is

00:40:57.620 she bought herself friendly press

00:40:59.480 with your dollars. And it's

00:41:01.280 Governor General, she's appointed anyways. I mean,

00:41:03.660 it's not like she had to win an election to get the role.

00:41:06.360 She's just there as long

00:41:07.880 as Trudeau wants to keep her there.

00:41:09.900 In a symbolic role, it costs us a fortune.

00:41:12.440 And these guys get expense accounts

00:41:13.900 for life. I mean, some of the compensation for the

00:41:15.920 Governor General is just

00:41:17.740 stomach-wrenching.

00:41:19.940 I mean, with what they get, they get everything paid for.

00:41:21.720 Hundreds of thousands of dollars. They live in that house.

00:41:23.880 and then for the rest of their life like adrian clarkson again another cbc alumni

00:41:28.780 she gets an expense account as a former governor general until she dies of ripe old age on top of

00:41:35.640 the pension and everything else that goes on i mean we're not even talking about guys it's nuts

00:41:39.800 i mean the last governor general went out disgrace and uh it looks like this one might i don't know

00:41:47.040 maybe just giving money to friends isn't uh isn't enough now uh here's another story it's getting a

00:41:53.480 little more local, but we're seeing this happening everywhere too. Talking about in Calgary and

00:41:57.080 every municipal government, we see it. As I said, these are governments close to you all of the

00:42:01.480 time. I mean, Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver, we're all suffering under these municipal governments.

00:42:05.280 We don't pay enough attention to them. In Calgary, the government owns the electric company and gets

00:42:09.440 riders on gas bills. So the spike in the utility bills last year resulted in a $47 million windfall

00:42:16.520 for the city of Calgary. So what are they doing? Well, they're figuring out how they're going to

00:42:20.900 spend it. That's all. They raised taxes on Calgarians last year. It sounds like they have

00:42:25.080 a surplus this year. They call it a surplus. I call it an overtaxation. In Calgary alone,

00:42:30.140 I think it's $270 million. They overtaxed Calgarians in the middle of a pandemic when

00:42:36.420 we're all hurting by $270 million. And they raised property taxes just recently in their

00:42:42.000 recent budget, just hiked them right up. They just keep grabbing and grabbing and grabbing.

00:42:45.400 And now they're all sitting around like a bunch of jackals, drooling, looking at it,

00:42:49.480 thinking, how are we going to spend that money? It never occurs to these elitist scumbags. I'll 1.00

00:42:56.000 call them that. When people are hurting, people can't make their rent. People can't buy houses.

00:42:59.080 People can't afford food. And these guys are overtaxing us. And they all sit in a circle and

00:43:03.940 figure out where they're going to piss the money away into. You see, I would consider federally

00:43:08.200 and provincially, you could call it a surplus when they bring in more than they put out. It

00:43:12.280 depends on what they did with it. Because those governments can take on debt for operational

00:43:16.080 expenses. They can borrow, which isn't a good thing, I think. But all the same, the city can't.

00:43:21.460 So there's no debt being applied. So they took in way, way more money than they needed to operate.

00:43:27.160 And that's over taxation. So I don't like using the term surplus. That makes it sound like a

00:43:31.320 benefit or something good. You think the city of Calgary is going to cut taxes to give Calgarians

00:43:36.060 back that money? Of course not. They just hiked them. Guys, we're in a lot of trouble. Like,

00:43:40.620 you know, I was talking to David. I was talking about the farming things. I'm talking about energy.

00:43:43.940 everything is going up. It's going up like crazy. And a lot of it is due to these bloody

00:43:50.980 governments. I mean, when I was talking to David about that, you know, the government's

00:43:53.740 excuse. It's the world market. It's this, it's that. Well, no, right here locally,

00:43:57.900 your governments are screwing you guys and they're putting the cost of everything you do

00:44:00.780 up. And it's to feather their own nests. We have a governor general giving good friends

00:44:05.660 $100,000 sole source contracts for consultancies. I love those consultancies. You know, what have

00:44:10.960 you've got to actually put in.

00:44:12.740 You want to think of one of the things

00:44:13.860 these consultants,

00:44:15.660 I think his name was Kelly Charlebois in the past.

00:44:18.780 He was a consultant for Gary Maher

00:44:20.680 who took in a healthy amount of money in Alberta

00:44:23.160 and they never did determine

00:44:24.580 what he actually did with it.

00:44:26.400 That was tax dollars going on.

00:44:27.480 And this is what brought about the end

00:44:28.640 of the progressive conservative government.

00:44:29.840 This is one of those steps

00:44:30.720 because it was getting more and more, 0.94

00:44:32.140 again, corrupt and inbred 0.50

00:44:33.560 and just doing these things. 0.99

00:44:37.540 And finally,

00:44:38.420 we're down this progressive ugly piece of history, you know, we finally get rid of those

00:44:42.360 corrupted old PCs and we replaced it with Notley. Now we're in this mess with Jason

00:44:46.460 Kenney. I don't know how we as electors are ever going to get better government. It's just painful.

00:44:50.380 It seems everything we try, we still manage to elect people who are going to put it to us.

00:44:54.780 Wildrose says, is capitalism run amok? No, it's not.

00:44:58.800 It's crony capitalism. Don't forget to put that word in front of it.

00:45:02.680 Capitalism is perfectly fine until government gets messing around.

00:45:05.640 I mean, again, I'll do my flogging, you know, Derek, put the thing up here. This is the Galt studio I'm in right now. For people who have read Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged, you know, yes, I think it's a fantastic book. I know a lot of lefties lose their minds over it.

00:45:23.440 The bottom line of it, it shows a society, and I tell you, the parallels are getting so strong, where capitalism, yeah, right, these companies are so entrenched with the government and back and forth.

00:45:35.620 Lobbying has become such an important trade, much more than actually producing, much more than actually being an efficient company, much more than competing with your competitors.

00:45:43.460 You don't try to compete with your competitors anymore.

00:45:45.880 You try to get the government to step on your competitor on your behalf.

00:45:49.220 You try to get the government to bail you out rather than you earn money to win.

00:45:54.960 And this is what we're moving into.

00:45:56.260 We're seeing it on every level, all over the place, whether it's airlines, whether it's, again, media, other areas.

00:46:02.840 And it's going to end poorly for us.

00:46:04.540 But we can't call that capitalism. 0.91

00:46:06.140 Any of those corporate welfare whores, and that's what I'll call it, that just constantly rely on and suck the money out of governments in order to operate, that's not capitalism. 1.00

00:46:15.920 That's just gross theft. 0.95

00:46:18.540 And, you know, we don't want to deride capitalism in itself because of the way it's been abused.

00:46:25.460 I mean, some people can make a valid point, you know, they say, well, socialism works, but it's been abused all the time, too.

00:46:30.740 Well, maybe, I don't know. We haven't seen a working example of that yet, either.

00:46:34.480 But the bottom line is, the more government you get, the worse the outcome you're going to see.

00:46:40.960 So, ugly, ugly times. What are we going to talk about?

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00:47:52.120 membership, help them stand up for you and get those laws good. Okay, what's this comment?

00:47:57.000 Corey, when are you going to stop complaining about our government and tell us what we can do

00:47:59.180 about it? I do it every day. I do it every day. I write columns all the time. I don't just complain

00:48:03.340 about what they're doing. I put out solutions. I've talked about changing our system. I've talked

00:48:09.060 about policies, but you do have to talk about what's wrong first. And as you're saying,

00:48:14.240 it's our responsibility to fight evil. Well, that kind of ties into things like I'm talking about

00:48:17.400 with the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. That's how you get involved. You got to get off

00:48:21.720 your butt. You can't let somebody else always do things for you. Yes, we have to do it ourselves 1.00

00:48:25.880 and we have to be active. Take part in elections. I tell you, one of the things I can't stand is

00:48:33.820 apathy. That's part of why we get walked all over. There's only less than 2% of our whole country has

00:48:38.760 a membership in a political party. Now, even if you don't like political parties, you're cynical,

00:48:42.880 I understand. So am I. But you can be guaranteed that those political parties will do whatever the

00:48:49.260 hell they want if you just leave them be. Your best chance of moving those parties, particularly

00:48:54.640 between elections, is getting involved with them. I mean, buying a membership, taking part. And I

00:48:59.840 know it can be frustrated. You don't always win. The party doesn't always turn out the way you

00:49:03.340 wanted it to. But your odds of it serving you are almost zero if you don't participate. So when we

00:49:08.060 got a two percent of the country even has memberships well of course these elitists run

00:49:13.780 amok of course they're not held accountable again if you want to get their ear between elections

00:49:18.660 because oh they're always all ears just before an election once they're in for four years five years

00:49:23.720 you don't hear a heck of a lot about them you know or at least you hear a lot about them but

00:49:28.100 they're not talking to you anymore they don't need you anymore so get on the ground get involved

00:49:32.300 and not every, who says, we don't need elections or politicians.

00:49:38.160 And I'm missing the point.

00:49:39.440 Well, okay, I guess I am missing the point.

00:49:41.880 As it stands right now, we need elections, we need politicians.

00:49:44.820 If you're talking some sort of revolution and anarchy

00:49:47.000 and it's all going to start from scratch, well, okay,

00:49:49.260 I don't see it starting anywhere, so I'm missing a point in a big way.

00:49:52.740 As it is, we are being governed by governments,

00:49:55.040 and our only recourse for the time being is elections.

00:49:58.240 So that's what we are caught with,

00:50:00.540 And we just got to kind of work with the hand we're dealt and hopefully improve it, though.

00:50:03.920 I mean, it takes ongoing discourse and working on things.

00:50:07.440 So getting on to that, we've got an election coming up in Ontario.

00:50:11.920 And so for our Ontario viewers, we've got somebody coming on here right away.

00:50:17.420 It looks like I see him in the lobby. So that's great.

00:50:19.240 I know I appreciated he had some scheduling issues going on.

00:50:22.800 They're tight times when you're getting ready for a campaign.

00:50:25.160 But Derek Sloan, he is the, people may remember him as a federal conservative party, a Canada member of parliament.

00:50:31.360 He ran for the leadership. He ran afoul of the new leadership and got pushed aside.

00:50:38.640 He then ran in the federal election, I guess you could say on a point of principle out in Alberta.

00:50:42.880 And now he is leading the Ontario party in Ontario.

00:50:45.640 And for those out here west in that, Ontario is coming up on what should be a fixed election date that I think has to be held by June 2nd, I believe.

00:50:53.720 Perhaps Mr. Sloan can correct me on that.

00:50:56.160 So let's bring him in because I know he's had a tight, crazy day here and see what's

00:51:00.720 up with Mr. Sloan.

00:51:02.100 Hello, Mr. Sloan.

00:51:02.760 How are you doing?

00:51:05.280 Oh, okay.

00:51:06.560 I'm afraid we don't have sound coming.

00:51:09.420 Can you hear me now, Corey?

00:51:10.800 Is that better?

00:51:11.520 Oh, perfect.

00:51:12.100 Yes, you're coming in loud.

00:51:14.080 Great.

00:51:14.580 Thanks for having me.

00:51:15.360 Glad to be here.

00:51:16.160 Oh, I appreciate it.

00:51:17.080 I know you've been running hard.

00:51:18.460 So maybe just to cover a couple of things before I start asking some more questions

00:51:22.140 And so your election is coming up.

00:51:24.100 It has to be held by June 2nd, was it?

00:51:26.400 Yeah, so no later than June 2nd.

00:51:27.920 There's a small chance they could call it early, but I don't think they will.

00:51:31.640 So we're gearing up for June 2nd.

00:51:33.980 Okay, so the campaign essentially is on now, though.

00:51:36.260 I mean, when you're getting that close, you've got to get on the ground,

00:51:38.080 particularly with a new party.

00:51:39.920 So maybe if you want to give a bit of background on the Ontario party,

00:51:43.160 you have one member in the legislature right now who came over

00:51:45.980 and you're contesting this election from a conservative approach, obviously.

00:51:49.420 Yeah, so the Ontario party was founded in 2018. They actually ran a few candidates in the prior provincial election. I was asked to be leader of the party in the fall of 2021. There was, you know, a variety of parties kind of vying for attention. And there was, you know, a variety of people who wanted to see if we could bring people together. And I agreed to lead the party.

00:52:13.480 So we do have a member in the legislature right now. His name is Rick Nichols, and he's been doing a great job holding the progressive conservatives to account. Our party is, again, a conservative sort of values-based party. And we feel that the Ontario government, the provincial conservatives here, have done a very poor job managing COVID and various other things. And we want to make sure there's an option that can really put Ontarians first in this upcoming election.

00:52:39.580 Great. Yeah. Speaking as a conservative out West and kind of witnessing it, I mean, we've seen a lot of, I guess, disappointment.

00:52:44.840 I mean, among governments, I mean, all over the place, we saw our freedoms infringed upon and a number of levels all over.

00:52:51.320 But Ford seemed to be particularly so in Ontario with the COVID crackdowns and is still sort of hung up on that.

00:52:57.720 I imagine that's a lot of the base you're working towards is people who are frustrated with that.

00:53:01.580 Yeah, there's a lot of broken promises. One thing that Doug Ford actually ran on and had a lot of support over was was scrapping the sex ed curriculum. So there was a liberal age inappropriate sex ed curriculum that was put in by the previous premier. And he got a lot of traction by promising to cancel that. And unfortunately, he didn't.

00:53:21.160 So, you know, the COVID situation, of course, is in fact a very dire one.

00:53:27.560 We had some of the longest lockdowns, longest school closures in the world here in Ontario.

00:53:32.320 But there's been a lot of simmering discontent from broken promises from day one.

00:53:37.760 Yeah, so I imagine you're getting candidates in place.

00:53:41.560 I've worked on, you know, with the Wildrose Party in the West, and I know how it is building a party from scratch.

00:53:45.420 It's a lot of work, and the clock ticks quickly.

00:53:48.100 So how's that been going?

00:53:48.860 I imagine you're on a constituency tour right now and getting candidates in place.

00:53:52.660 Yeah, so we're doing basically a cross-province tour right now.

00:53:56.100 We're going to be out for about three weeks.

00:53:58.040 We do have a variety of candidates in place right now.

00:54:00.780 We have about 70 candidates in place, but we should have at least 100,

00:54:04.080 if not a full slate by the time of the election.

00:54:08.480 Great. So something that made the news,

00:54:09.960 I see that was on the headlines of the Western Standard here too.

00:54:12.160 You brought in an interesting addition there with Roger Stone as a campaign chair.

00:54:17.460 For those unfamiliar with him, I mean, he's been very well established in American conservative politics all the way from Nixon till Donald Trump.

00:54:25.940 And if I recall, I saw a documentary. He's got a tattoo of Nixon on his back.

00:54:30.040 He's a colorful character, but he's been very effective in conservative politics as well.

00:54:33.740 So that's an interesting person to add to your campaign.

00:54:36.560 Yeah. So Roger Stone is well known in American conservative circles.

00:54:39.920 I became friends with Roger about a year ago, and we were talking about, you know, different ideas and politics in the States and politics here.

00:54:48.300 And we thought that it would be a good idea to bring him on.

00:54:51.020 He's got a lot of experience in many countries besides the U.S.

00:54:54.680 He's worked in parliamentary democracies around the world, and we thought it would be great to kind of bring a little bit of that expertise into our campaign.

00:55:02.900 Great. Well, I mean, it'll bring a new perspective.

00:55:05.180 I guess, I mean, if you're trying to take on a party that's been well entrenched in for a long time, maybe it's time to bring some fresh eyes onto the campaign.

00:55:12.140 It's going to be interesting to watch that develop.

00:55:14.640 Another risk, I haven't looked at the numbers directly, but I mean, you know, that we're seeing parallels to what we did in Alberta when the PCs got too far out of whack with citizens and we've pushed back and we set up an opposition.

00:55:25.360 But unfortunately, we had that terrible side effect of four years of NDP governance due to a vote split.

00:55:30.800 But how can you address that and, you know, make people comfortable knowing that they won't get a Liberal or an NDP government out of their efforts in supporting the Ontario Party?

00:55:40.160 The good news in Ontario is that the Liberals and the NDP are actually polling very poorly.

00:55:44.880 So there's no indication that they're making a resurgence in this coming election.

00:55:49.320 The leadership of both of those parties is lacking.

00:55:52.720 I don't think that this election is going to swing that way.

00:55:57.120 The question is, you know, whether the Ontario Party or the Conservative Party is going to pick up the slack.

00:56:03.320 So at least in this scenario, it doesn't look like we would be going that way.

00:56:09.140 Okay. So have you got some, as a newer party, it takes a long time to really form the specific policies.

00:56:15.000 Like, is there a detailed policy set online for the Ontario Party addressing?

00:56:18.900 You know, there's so many aspects from education to budgetary and so on.

00:56:22.620 Yeah, so we have some fairly detailed policies on many of those issues. If people go to ontarioparty.ca, they can see what we have. But we've been able to attract a lot of, you know, very, very influential and intelligent people that have been working together with us. And we've been able to accomplish a lot in a short period of time.

00:56:41.520 Great. I'm wondering, just say, you're setting your goals. You want to form government. That's

00:56:47.040 why you run. What is the legislation in Ontario, though? I know with a lone member, it's difficult

00:56:51.720 to get traction. And it's good you've got that one in the legislature. But like, is there a bar

00:56:55.460 for party status once you get into the legislature so you get some of those research budgets and

00:56:59.440 recognition and such? Yeah, so there is. And I believe it's 10 seats. It may be 12. But we are,

00:57:05.960 of course, aiming to get this sort of registered party or official party status. And then, of

00:57:11.640 course, like you say, you get a budget and more tools to work with. Okay, well, great. I guess,

00:57:18.060 you know, I know you're busy, and I know it was a bit of a rush to get you on. I see you made it

00:57:21.240 to the hotel, and I appreciate that. So I'll let you get back on the tour pretty quickly here. Is

00:57:25.320 there more you'd like to add before I let you go, though? No, I really appreciate the interview

00:57:29.380 today. And, you know, we've been facing similar issues across the country in various provinces.

00:57:34.220 And, you know, it's been a shame to see so many, you know, conservative by name premieres that have really been, you know, dropping the ball when it comes to so many important issues.

00:57:45.400 And I hope that, you know, our success here in Ontario, I hope our party does well.

00:57:50.080 And I hope it really puts, you know, fear into the other, you know, conservative premiers to know that if they don't stay true to their principles, there will be, you know, other options that spring up that hold them to account.

00:58:02.760 So I hope we can accomplish something here in Ontario, but I hope it's the effects of it also impact things that are happening in other provinces as well.

00:58:10.360 Yeah, well, and I was kind of ranting about that a bit before anyways, if anything, you know, politics needs more competition in the private sector or in politics.

00:58:18.660 That's what's going to make people more respondent or paying attention to what the citizens and voters want.

00:58:24.240 If you don't have multiple options, then they can be taken for granted.

00:58:26.860 So I do appreciate you guys offering Conservatives another alternative out there.

00:58:30.100 and I was glad to get you on so our Ontario viewers can see

00:58:33.260 that you guys have kicked off the campaign and gotten rolling there.

00:58:36.000 Amazing. Thanks a lot for having us, Corey.

00:58:37.940 You bet. I hope we can check in again as the campaign progresses

00:58:40.760 and I will wish you luck.

00:58:43.660 Absolutely. Be glad to do it. Thank you.

00:58:45.600 Great. Thanks.

00:58:46.860 Okay, so that was Derek Sloan, leader of the Ontario Party.

00:58:50.300 They're on the campaign road and they've got their work cut out for them.

00:58:53.540 But I think there is an appetite for change going on out there.

00:58:56.400 Doug Ford, as a conservative, has been, frankly, appalling. The restrictions, the indifference to individual rights, these core things that we like to say we value as conservatives.

00:59:10.180 And I think some of it comes down to some people are just terrified of COVID and some aren't because Ford just seemed to be almost paralyzed with fear when this was unraveling.

00:59:17.940 But it's not an excuse to step on the individual rights of citizens.

00:59:22.900 And they're being given an option because that's the other thing. We get taken for granted. You've got to breathe down their necks. You've got to have alternatives. You have to have other parties putting those items on the table. So, I mean, I do appreciate Mr. Sloan and the rest of them getting out there. As I was saying, we were worried about, you know, we do worry about it. Everybody has to worry about it. In Alberta, we had an adverse outcome, I guess you could say, if we want to use the terms that are so common these days, with getting Rachel Notley in power for four years.

00:59:50.280 but it's still, would we have been a lot better to leave the rotten PCs alone? You know, as bad

00:59:56.600 as it got under Alison Redford and Ed Stelmack, I mean, they'd been in too long, too entrenched.

01:00:04.100 They were taking voters for granted. And that's part of the problem. We get taken for granted,

01:00:09.540 you don't get taken seriously, and policy doesn't reflect what you want it to be. So

01:00:14.200 So either way, it was good to get somebody coming from Ontario

01:00:19.660 to see that sort of movement.

01:00:20.640 We're going to be watching with a lot of interest

01:00:22.000 because I think all of our systems, all of our established parties

01:00:24.160 really need a shake-up.

01:00:26.140 They need a re-evaluation, and as I said,

01:00:29.280 they need to know somebody is breathing down their neck.

01:00:32.440 They aren't going to get away with it much longer.

01:00:34.360 We've got our work cut out here, and I'll put it as well,

01:00:37.480 with an election about a year from now,

01:00:39.020 and maybe we can be watching and learning from some of the stuff

01:00:41.040 going on with the Ontario party and Doug Ford and how he's going to be responding to all of that.

01:00:48.340 So let's see. Here's getting back to irresponsible government, which is always a subject to add a lot

01:00:53.160 for me. A third of federal COVID era borrowing. This is something interesting. They're putting

01:00:59.460 us in the hole. This is part of what's giving us inflation, budgetary debt, and so on. A third of

01:01:04.760 it had nothing to do with COVID. So I mean, we've massively, grossly, you know, I get the Taxpayers

01:01:09.880 Federation guys on here all the time. Grossly expanded the debt we're carrying. The Bank of

01:01:14.120 Canada's just printing off money. It turns out, though, a third of that didn't even have anything

01:01:18.840 to do with the pandemic. They're just spending. They're just pouring our money out there. And

01:01:24.460 since the beginning of the pandemic, the government spent or planned to spend $576

01:01:28.580 billion on a net basis from 2020 to 2027. Spent or planned to spend, I should say. So they've

01:01:36.400 spent a lot of it. And only $371 billion only relates to the government's COVID response plan.

01:01:43.820 The rest is just them bloating more money out there, hiring more buddies, subsidizing more

01:01:50.760 businesses. Guys, we're in trouble. I mean, you think if it's an emergency like this, if things

01:01:55.300 were going that badly, and we were in such a crisis, I understand that the government in a

01:02:01.100 crisis has to increase a lot of spending in certain areas and targeted areas. Fine. But that means you

01:02:05.840 should be maybe tightening the belt in other areas at that time or something. You've got to

01:02:10.880 try and balance it. But no, they've just increased spending across the board, COVID or not. So, I

01:02:16.260 mean, again, when the campaign comes, whatever we get, our next federal one, we can't let them have

01:02:21.000 the excuse of saying that they've had no choice but to put us this far in the hole because of

01:02:26.920 COVID. Well, no, at least a third of that had nothing to do with COVID. Let's see. What's wrong

01:02:32.780 with the world, my lack of knowledge, here we go, from Slavica, that we must have governments and

01:02:37.780 that we must elect and vote. Our constitution's been changed by our governments to give them

01:02:41.340 total control governing decision-making authority. We must amend our constitution and make major

01:02:45.320 changes. Okay, we can't do it without going through the party, Slavica. I don't know what

01:02:51.480 you, is this getting back to the people who went to Parliament Hill and said we can demand that

01:02:55.760 Trudeau step down and things like that? Look, we're stuck in this system and there's room to fix it.

01:02:59.980 I agree the Constitution sucks. 0.97

01:03:01.440 I agree the Constitution's broken. 0.96

01:03:02.860 But I don't know about this talk about saying this nihilism of, okay, anything you do is

01:03:08.980 a waste of time, but you've got to do something about it.

01:03:11.500 Well, give me more detail.

01:03:12.840 You're saying I'm not offering solutions, I guess, but email them because it's a little

01:03:16.320 long for the comments, girl. 0.96

01:03:17.320 But I do appreciate the interaction.

01:03:19.440 I mean, we've got some problems.

01:03:20.300 We've got a broken system.

01:03:21.400 That's something I've never denied.

01:03:22.920 Our system is broken, and the system is the Constitution.

01:03:25.140 um it doesn't mean that we can't manage to change within it i mean in the west i talk about that a

01:03:31.740 lot we've got the clarity act we've got an act that says if a majority of anybody in one province

01:03:38.400 votes on a clear question to secede the federal government is obligated to negotiate in good

01:03:44.600 faith with them that there you go we've got a means and uh that's the route you start taking

01:03:52.420 you work with the tools you've got. And I know the tools aren't the best, and I know that they've

01:03:57.800 got limitations, but you do what you can. And there's where you can start going to do things

01:04:03.700 like constitutional reform, because we aren't going to get the appetite. I mean, one of the

01:04:07.440 things with Slavica, perhaps, is right, like the constitutional formula to change it or amend it

01:04:12.100 is you need seven provinces and 50% of the country in a referendum to agree to the change,

01:04:19.560 and it's just not going to happen.

01:04:21.640 I mean, until a province is on the brink of separating,

01:04:23.540 I think that's the only catalyst that's going to do it.

01:04:26.960 You're not going to have that change happen.

01:04:31.740 Denise asking, do you think you're going to have Nicole 0.91

01:04:33.840 from Power Shift to Freedom Canada official on the show?

01:04:37.640 I'm not sure.

01:04:38.580 Email me.

01:04:40.400 If you've got guests, prospective guests,

01:04:42.880 we'll see who we can get.

01:04:44.140 C. Morgan at westernstandardonline.com.

01:04:48.080 We can look into things for sure.

01:04:49.560 I do appreciate guest suggestions.

01:04:50.940 Seize your own email, then we can research and see what's up.

01:04:54.160 And consider all sorts of people, of course, getting them on here.

01:04:58.080 But yeah, lots of areas to cover.

01:05:01.040 I mean, elections feel frustrating.

01:05:02.800 They feel pointless.

01:05:03.560 But again, as I said, the only thing worse than doing something and failing is doing

01:05:07.220 nothing at all, because then you are assured of failing. 1.00

01:05:12.320 Let's speak about how stupid our system is here. 1.00

01:05:14.620 Here's another story that's brilliant. 0.99

01:05:15.940 A retired IT consultant has won $19,000 in federal court costs and damages.

01:05:21.740 This is a guy who's made it his life's mission to search the internet and try to find breaches and bilingualism regulations.

01:05:29.080 This guy speaks English perfectly fine.

01:05:31.140 He's just playing the system.

01:05:32.720 So he made a complaint against the St. John's Airport Authority for wishing travelers a happy St. Patrick's Day in English only.

01:05:41.320 He gets money out of this.

01:05:43.280 He gets money out of this. 1.00

01:05:44.640 Talk about a stupid, repugnant, broken system 1.00

01:05:47.480 and judges who stand up for him. 1.00

01:05:49.720 This is a quote from the guy saying,

01:05:50.760 the older I get, the more I realize

01:05:52.740 federal institutions continue to violate my rights.

01:05:55.120 He's saying it quite well in English

01:05:56.600 because he speaks English. 1.00

01:05:57.740 It's stupid. 1.00

01:05:59.000 Who cares in St. John's where nobody speaks French 1.00

01:06:01.180 if somebody wishes happy St. Patrick's Day in English?

01:06:04.900 And it wouldn't bother me if they asked it in French.

01:06:07.740 And the problem, you know,

01:06:08.300 so some ding-dong like Thibodeau here 0.99

01:06:09.920 getting, you know, annoyed with it.

01:06:12.400 I don't care about that. 0.94

01:06:13.280 lots of ding-dongs get annoyed all the time the fact though that this clown has filed hundreds 0.79

01:06:18.260 of claims for cash payments and letters of apology over the last few years over this

01:06:22.260 is actually making money tens of thousands and he's costing probably five times that much

01:06:26.400 with the amount of trivial crap that he's throwing out there with complaints that they have to be 0.81

01:06:31.400 investigated and followed up on that's a real freaking problem you want to change it should 0.96

01:06:37.040 come to canada end bilingualism get rid of it hey let people speak whatever language they want

01:06:42.660 But the official bilingualism's got to go.

01:06:45.480 If we really have to go out and value every language,

01:06:47.900 I mean, where does French land in Alberta?

01:06:50.160 Of unilingual French speakers.

01:06:52.980 People whose first language, their sole language is French,

01:06:55.320 you know, because they can't get by in English.

01:06:56.540 What do we got? Half a percent? Maybe?

01:06:59.980 I mean, we've got maybe, I think, 3% people whose first language is French.

01:07:03.700 And most of them speak very good English anyways.

01:07:06.540 If we really want to change, fine, bring in Punjabi. 1.00

01:07:09.540 We've got a fantastic and growing Punjabi population in Alberta,

01:07:13.640 and there's more people who speak that as a sole language

01:07:16.560 and as a primary language than French by a long shot,

01:07:19.240 or Cantonese, any number of languages.

01:07:22.000 I'm perfectly fine with that.

01:07:23.340 At least it's more functional and makes more sense 0.98

01:07:25.280 than this idiocy of us having, you know, 0.96

01:07:29.020 and this was St. John's, it wasn't out here, 0.97

01:07:30.720 but an airport gets fined because they wish somebody

01:07:33.500 St. Patrick, happy St. Patrick's Day without being French. 1.00

01:07:37.460 Absurdity.

01:07:39.540 So where are we at?

01:07:40.580 Oh, yeah, here we go.

01:07:41.660 The mask mandate's in year three.

01:07:43.700 Oh, yeah, April 20th is when the federal mask mandate came out.

01:07:47.980 I still see some of those, speaking of independent individual clowns

01:07:51.500 and ding-dongs and wieners, some people online always saying,

01:07:54.440 why are people protesting all the regulations are gone?

01:07:58.120 They aren't.

01:07:59.220 They aren't all gone. 0.99

01:08:01.340 So shut up. 1.00

01:08:02.840 Until they're all gone, people have the right to protest them. 0.98

01:08:06.500 So you cannot get on a plane if you aren't vaccinated.

01:08:08.900 You can't get out of this country on a flight if you aren't vaccinated.

01:08:11.540 You can't get on a plane without wearing a mask.

01:08:13.980 You might be comfortable with getting all those shots and a mask.

01:08:17.400 Other people aren't, and it's their right to protest against that.

01:08:20.480 I'm comfortable with vaccination here.

01:08:22.040 Let's watch the scroll get going.

01:08:24.700 I got vaccinated, and I'm getting my booster soon.

01:08:27.200 That's my choice.

01:08:28.180 I want it to be a choice.

01:08:28.960 It has to be a choice. 0.96

01:08:31.760 Same with the airlines, but again, with clowns saying there's no regulations left. 0.83

01:08:35.700 No, there still are restrictions left. 0.98

01:08:37.620 They're still hanging there.

01:08:38.720 Canada is one of the last countries actually in the world hanging on to this stuff.

01:08:41.960 And there's not much indication that any of this is protecting anybody or making them safer.

01:08:46.660 So whatever differences people might have with people who don't agree with the restrictions right now,

01:08:54.260 the people who want to protest and get out there, don't claim there's no more restrictions left.

01:08:59.000 There's a lot fewer than there used to be, but they're still there.

01:09:01.260 And they're federal ones.

01:09:02.940 And that's where the Ottawa thing, that's another interesting one.

01:09:05.100 I should have almost asked Mr. Sloan about that.

01:09:06.980 But it's a federal thing in Unreal Air, but still he's in Ontario.

01:09:09.940 So there is that motorcycle rally coming up this weekend.

01:09:11.960 And they're saying that they're going to ban motorcycles from downtown Ottawa.

01:09:16.340 I'm not sure how or why they could do that.

01:09:17.980 What about somebody who commutes to work on one?

01:09:19.500 How do you differentiate between a protester?

01:09:22.320 And what are they expecting?

01:09:24.320 At what level are they expecting?

01:09:25.940 I mean, Trudeau's running out of excuses as to why he brought in the Emergencies Act in the first place. 0.98

01:09:32.280 It's already starting to look pathetic.

01:09:34.640 it's looking like a uh an overreach and he's got no justification and part of it was they're saying 0.94

01:09:42.360 oh well these guys were going to come and take over the government and all that we know that's

01:09:44.920 a bunch of baloney so the a bunch of motorcycles showing up what are they going to do they're

01:09:49.960 going to make some noise they're going to sit around hey guess what guys it's called protesting

01:09:53.080 and it's essential right and it's not like the trucks you don't have to fear as much they don't

01:09:57.080 have sleepers they can't block the roads as easily they're not going to set up camp again guys

01:10:01.180 to block them all.

01:10:04.420 There's going to be more court challenges

01:10:05.880 except protest.

01:10:08.740 And again, as I was saying,

01:10:10.500 except as others in the comment are saying,

01:10:12.300 there's still restrictions going on right now.

01:10:15.000 Cheryl says, I heard it's not a protest,

01:10:16.600 it's a poutine festival.

01:10:17.640 Okay, there we go.

01:10:18.500 Maybe you can rebrand it well enough.

01:10:21.400 Maybe we can, you know,

01:10:22.420 that'll be turned into something.

01:10:24.080 But, you know,

01:10:25.500 and Tam seeing these restrictions,

01:10:26.860 you know, I mean,

01:10:27.460 she's saying it has a certain amount

01:10:28.840 of inconvenience,

01:10:29.660 But yes. And it's not harmless, guys. Wearing masks isn't harmless. It's degrading. It's hard

01:10:37.180 to breathe. It sucks. If you want to choose to, go to town. I choose not to. I can't stand it. 0.99

01:10:42.220 Lots of other people can't stand it. Let us choose. And it's hurting our tourism. People

01:10:47.300 aren't moving. They aren't flying. We saw that with the, you know, I laugh about that. I bring

01:10:52.120 that example up all the time, that hipster bar on 17th Avenue in Calgary, when all the restrictions

01:10:56.980 got dropped, and we even had the head of Calgary's

01:10:59.180 Chamber of Commerce, and she's

01:11:00.960 yettling, and she's just a joke. 1.00

01:11:03.220 And she's saying, oh, businesses are going to hurt

01:11:05.200 because these restrictions are gone, because people

01:11:07.180 won't feel safe coming out without masks on.

01:11:09.180 They won't feel safe without vaccine passports. 0.99

01:11:11.680 And it turned out to be absolute crap. 0.99

01:11:13.060 We knew it was crap when she said it, but of course 1.00

01:11:15.040 it proved it after the fact. Because business went up, 0.99

01:11:17.060 people went out, they wanted to.

01:11:19.400 It wasn't fear of COVID that was keeping people

01:11:21.120 from going out, it was the restrictions.

01:11:23.940 And that's what's hurting tourism.

01:11:25.680 That's what's keeping people from flying.

01:11:27.520 The masks do keep people from getting on.

01:11:30.120 The vaccine mandates, of course, they keep people from getting on there.

01:11:33.260 So let's quit pretending it's a minor inconvenience.

01:11:35.760 This is a big price that a lot of people are paying as individuals.

01:11:40.160 Businesses are paying, and they're losing.

01:11:42.300 And it's not good.

01:11:44.640 What else we got popping up on the news?

01:11:47.640 I think that kind of covers a lot of what I wanted to cover today.

01:11:50.380 It was a little faster with some of the other stuff I anticipated.

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01:12:03.980 And again, I see those discussions and people worried that the government can get a Bitcoin, get at your wallet.

01:12:09.940 Look, they can't, and they didn't.

01:12:11.840 Not to say they might never go down the road, but for now, when they were stealing the money out of people's bank accounts,

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01:13:24.440 Okay, tomorrow. And I can expand a bit more on a lot of these subjects. I'm going to have Marcel

01:13:28.480 Latouche on. He's been on a number of times. He's an author and political commentator. He was a

01:13:33.520 professor or a professor or a teacher. I think it's Satan. I'm not sure what that level was, but

01:13:37.240 Marcel is always good to talk to. And he talks a lot about good common sense governance

01:13:41.160 principles and things like that on all levels. So yeah, a good bunch of political talk.

01:13:46.020 And Kelly Malmberg, I've had him on before too. He's an agricultural producer just down

01:13:49.640 south of Calgary. And I'm looking forward to talking to Kelly because

01:13:52.840 of course the farmers have been going into, well, they're always having a hard time, but

01:13:56.500 it's a tough industry on a lot of levels. And there's things like drought and so on.

01:14:01.320 Not much you can do about those things, but we've got a lot of government policies that put

01:14:05.240 pressures on the agricultural sector as I started the show off with carbon taxes. And now with them

01:14:10.660 talking about cracking down on fertilizer use and things like that. And I think Kelly will be able

01:14:16.400 to expand on a lot of those things on how these government policies are going to impact them.

01:14:20.200 And of course, by extension, it's going to come down and impact you. We all have to eat. Food's

01:14:24.280 a need. And when the government makes food more expensive, we all pay the price. So it'll be a

01:14:29.700 really good conversation with Mr. Malmberg tomorrow. So yes, thank you all for tuning in

01:14:37.920 today. There will be a lot on tomorrow. I appreciate it. It's been a busy Monday. And if you want to

01:14:42.780 review Danielle Smith had her show on at 9am this morning, that's still out on YouTube. And Rumble,

01:14:49.560 by the way, get out there to those alternative media sources. You never know when YouTube's

01:14:53.020 going to cancel us. Thank you all for tuning in. I'm going to see you all tomorrow at 1130am sharp.

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Western Standard - April 26, 2022

Triggered： Trudeau's government targeting farmers. Food prices will spike

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