Western Standard - Triggered： Twitter bans the Western Standard for reporting the news

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's Thursday, August 11th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan.

00:00:38.780 This is the Western Standards daily live news, opinion, ranting, interview, show we cover a

00:00:46.120 little bit of everything, even some weird and bizarre things at times. It's live. That means

00:00:51.060 let's keep it interactive. Good to see you guys in the comments, scroll, checking in there. Ian,

00:00:55.120 tyler and colleen already make use of that you know let's let's make use of the like live is

00:01:00.060 really tough to pull off guys we got a schedule folks we got to keep it going recorded is so much

00:01:04.600 easier we don't want to do that the reason for it though is because we can have that interaction i

00:01:08.780 don't necessarily read out every uh comment i do see them all it does help prompt the conversation

00:01:15.860 and keep things rolling you know and talk with each other as well throw questions my way or to

00:01:19.660 each other just again keep it fairly civil though we can we can get upset and worked up but we don't

00:01:24.400 have to really get into those big fights. It's amazing how many fights can break out on the

00:01:28.920 internet. I guess it's not that amazing anymore, but we don't need to. Let's just keep her good

00:01:32.860 and have that conversation, folks, all the way from Newfoundland to, I imagine, the West Coast

00:01:36.460 today. So that's excellent. All right, let's look at the daily observations while people are

00:01:40.280 settling in for the show. We have the annual medical checkup day. This is kind of pretty boring,

00:01:47.120 but still, it's an important one. So guys, you know, swallow your modesty, lighten things up

00:01:53.380 in the back there if you're over 50 yeah here you're gonna have to get that little poke around

00:01:58.060 in there but it can save you a lot of grief and catch something ahead of when it needs to be

00:02:03.100 be polite to your doctor don't eat anything spicy the night before or anything like that I'm certain

00:02:07.420 they're not enjoying that examination any more than you are just try to get the thing go through

00:02:12.640 as quickly and effectively as possible and for the ladies well you guys have always had your

00:02:18.520 checkups as well and today's the day to think about it hey we've got a medical system it's

00:02:22.420 backed up as it is. The earlier you want to check things out, the better you might catch something

00:02:27.420 that you might need to take care of. On a lighter note, it's play in the sand day. A lot of these

00:02:31.820 summer ones that are coming up, you know, it seems actually the summer observances seem to be less

00:02:35.160 than a lot of the others, but a lot of them at least are heat focused. And why not? If you've

00:02:40.020 got a beach nearby, you've got a spot, you've got a sandbox in the back even, grab a beer and sit

00:02:44.220 with the kids in the back and make a sandcastle or something. I mean, sometimes the simple things,

00:02:48.120 right? Just play with some dirt. There's no toy older or more traditional than laying or playing

00:02:53.420 in the sand. So today is the day to do it. All right. I'm going to get on with what I'm

00:02:59.480 ranting about. Well, actually, I always remind you the guests I got to. Yes, I've got Marcel

00:03:02.940 Latouche coming on. He's been on regularly. He used to be on, you know, you'd hear him on talk

00:03:06.920 radio a lot in the past back when talk radio was good. He's written a couple of books. He talks a

00:03:12.580 lot about policy, see, you know, bureaucrats. It used to be the Public Sector Institute for

00:03:18.100 Public Sector Accountability, I believe it was. So it's always a good conversation with Marcel,

00:03:22.220 though lots of common sense. And Western Standard columnist Dave Makachuk's going to pop on. We're

00:03:26.960 going to talk about a few of his recent columns and some of the stuff going on. All right, let's

00:03:31.840 talk about some of the other stuff. So whether we like it or not, alternative media outlets like

00:03:36.000 ours are heavily dependent upon the social media giants. It's just the way it is. It's pretty tough

00:03:40.620 to share news stories and gain subscribers without being on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,

00:03:45.080 Instagram, and other sites like that. When those prime social media platforms decide to take a

00:03:50.700 political slant, though, as they have, it impacts the sharing of information and public thinking

00:03:55.360 on a large scale. It has to be taken seriously. Now, Elon Musk saw this and really shook up

00:04:00.480 Twitter when he made his takeover bid. Twitter was heavily left-leaning and been using tools

00:04:05.220 such as shadow banning or even simply banning accounts in order to suppress conservative views.

00:04:09.520 The indignance displayed, you know, by the senior Twitter staff when Musk was doing his purchase and it was pending proved just how bad it had gotten, how entitled those people in Twitter felt their organization was to be a gatekeeper of information.

00:04:24.360 Now, Musk wasn't calling for swinging Twitter to the right.

00:04:26.720 He just wanted to open it up as a free speech platform.

00:04:29.760 Twitter started backing off as it looked like Musk's purchase was going to go through.

00:04:33.240 Suddenly, notable conservative Twitter account holders saw spikes in follower growth as the shadow banning ended.

00:04:39.520 And some unfairly banned accounts actually were reinstated.

00:04:44.280 Since Musk's deal fell through,

00:04:45.700 Twitter's returned to its censorship with a vengeance.

00:04:48.660 There's a notable conservative personalities

00:04:50.660 being banned daily now for rather minor infractions,

00:04:53.520 if indeed there were infractions at all.

00:04:55.520 And follower growth again has flatlined

00:04:57.380 for conservative accounts as shadow banning's returned.

00:04:59.840 I should let you know, shadow banning,

00:05:01.180 it's a practice where Twitter doesn't actually ban a person

00:05:03.360 or an account, but the algorithms are set

00:05:05.740 to ensure the tweets aren't actually seen

00:05:07.680 by other people in the scroll.

00:05:08.920 It's a real insidious way to censor, and Twitter doesn't deny that they do it.

00:05:12.380 They never did deny it.

00:05:13.880 Now, verification.

00:05:15.320 It's another thing.

00:05:15.920 It's important.

00:05:16.620 It's a tool they use to pick and choose accounts they like,

00:05:20.100 and it's an important thing in the world of social media accounts.

00:05:22.400 That little blue checkmark does ensure a person or organization behind the account is real,

00:05:27.260 and it makes it easier for a site to gain followers

00:05:29.180 as people are more likely to click posts shared by verified accounts.

00:05:32.760 Now, unfortunately, the issuing of those is arbitrary and slanted.

00:05:36.260 I mean, the Western Standard's been in full operation for nearly three years now.

00:05:39.620 We get well over a million reads a month on our site,

00:05:42.980 and it's become an established Canadian independent media outlet.

00:05:45.760 We're recognized by press galleries and even Canada's Weird Media Regulatory Committee.

00:05:50.960 Despite that, though, the Standard's been consistently refused verification on Twitter.

00:05:55.220 They never state why. They don't care. They don't have to.

00:05:57.940 Now, Twitter's actually suspended the Western Standard Twitter account

00:06:01.720 because of two news stories we published.

00:06:03.880 One was about how Denmark's banned vaccinations for children.

00:06:07.020 It's just a news story.

00:06:07.900 That's what they did.

00:06:08.640 We're not saying if it's good, bad.

00:06:10.420 That's what we posted.

00:06:11.660 And another was by Chris Oldcorn on how Saskatchewan social services have been vaccinating some children without parental consent.

00:06:17.200 Again, not saying whether it's a good or bad thing.

00:06:19.720 It's just news reporting on things that have happened.

00:06:21.800 It wasn't opinion.

00:06:22.780 We didn't take a side.

00:06:24.320 It wasn't enough, though.

00:06:25.460 Twitter took issue, I guess, with any coverage of those stories and suspended our account.

00:06:29.020 The suspension's been appealed, but to date, there's been no action.

00:06:32.640 we're not back on there yet. So we reached to over, I believe it was 15,000 people.

00:06:38.400 YouTube suspended us from my having an interview with one of our reporters, Matthew Horwood.

00:06:42.380 He'd been doing a story on vaccine injuries. Again, it wasn't opinion. He was just reporting

00:06:45.900 news. The good news is that when YouTube suspended us, the interview I'd had with Matthew Horwood

00:06:51.520 went viral on Facebook, and I think it had over 100,000 views. We wouldn't have gotten that many

00:06:55.860 had YouTube not suspended us in the first place. So it's a bit of a backwards effect with that.

00:06:59.740 And likewise, our Twitter suspension has led to those two stories that we were booted off for being the top stories on our site for the last couple of days.

00:07:06.920 The censorship's having the opposite effect.

00:07:09.420 That said, though, we can't celebrate this.

00:07:11.280 Segments of our audience now don't know or understand why we suddenly stopped posting and we're losing some of our reach.

00:07:17.000 We could also find ourselves arbitrarily suspended from other platforms at any time.

00:07:21.820 Independent media is so important today.

00:07:24.120 And mainstream outlets have been compromised through government subsidies and efforts to censor their competition.

00:07:29.740 If social media platforms keep banning alternative media outlets, we can be in some serious trouble.

00:07:34.760 Now, this is a tough nut to crack.

00:07:36.600 I mean, while they're massive social media platforms, they're still private companies.

00:07:40.760 They do and should have the right to ban content and whatever they like.

00:07:44.540 They're private.

00:07:45.660 I don't want to see any kind of government agency stepping in to try and regulate these platforms.

00:07:49.460 We need less government, not more.

00:07:51.200 That said, though, there's little for realistic alternatives out there.

00:07:54.040 There's Rumble and Gab and Getter, other alternative platforms.

00:07:57.460 but they've been created, but they only draw basically a drop in the bucket compared to the

00:08:01.160 heavyweights out there. We need more competition in the social media world, but those ventures

00:08:05.400 require billions in capital to have a hope in succeeding against the existing heavyweights,

00:08:09.980 and Musk is probably not going to dip his feet back into those waters again. I like to think

00:08:14.620 in time it'll settle down. People will seek information through alternative means,

00:08:18.140 and the social media giants will either split up and be more competitive or at least be forced to

00:08:21.880 relent. How long that's going to take, though, is anybody's guess. In the meantime, make sure to

00:08:26.100 save locations for your favorite media outlets and seek them out when they suddenly go silent

00:08:29.660 on social media platforms. Chances are they were banned for reporting on something that

00:08:33.600 the heavyweights didn't like. We can beat the social media censorship, but it's going to be

00:08:37.180 up to us. And, you know, just keep being loyal, guys, and keep subscribing. We don't have to be

00:08:43.100 stuck with them. And that's what's got me going today, guys. All right, let's check in and see

00:08:48.700 what else is happening out in the news there with our news editor, Dave Naylor. Hey, Dave.

00:08:52.120 hey cory uh hey thanks a lot you're causing me more trouble today what'd i do this time

00:08:58.420 well my mom wants a coffee mug of liberal tears well she should get one i mean these are beautiful

00:09:05.380 you know they are spectacular uh so where do i go and i i got a coupon for 10 off don't i

00:09:13.040 you do if you go to resistancecoffee.com slash triggered you will get that extra

00:09:17.320 10% off on that. It's a good deal.

00:09:20.500 Okay, Mom, if you're watching, I'll order it up today, and it'll be in the mail for you.

00:09:26.220 New stories at the moment, Corey. You'll remember on Tuesday night, we held the

00:09:31.660 Western Standard UCP Frontrunners debate. Absent from the stage was Todd Lowen,

00:09:38.780 even though he did come to the debate and was recognized and received a warm round of applause.

00:09:45.260 Well, he's taken the questions that we asked the three top candidates, and he has answered them on his Facebook account.

00:09:52.900 So good for him, and we've got a story up on that at the moment.

00:09:58.080 Matthew Horwood, our Parliamentary Bureau Chief, has got a story on Lesleyne Lewis, the UCP, sorry, not UCP, the CPC leadership candidate,

00:10:08.520 who says Tamara Litch is a political prisoner and meets the definition of such. 0.97

00:10:14.020 She's been arrested and re-arrested and spent more time in jail than a lot of murderers have. 1.00

00:10:20.660 So Lesley Lewis pitches in on that.

00:10:25.140 We've got the Alberta NDP are holding a press conference as we speak to demand the resignation of the status of women's minister and secretary.

00:10:36.080 You remember they, for some reason, selected a winning essay from an Alberta would-be politician that was quote-unquote fascist.

00:10:46.800 And they are demanding heads rule there.

00:10:50.480 And the health boss in Ontario says she will not rule out using some form of privatization in a bid to get the hospital crisis in Ontario under some control.

00:11:03.660 And the council culture has turned their sights on Alexander Graham Bell.

00:11:09.360 They are looking at all the nice things and monuments that we have previously honoured Mr. Bell for.

00:11:19.180 And they're looking at renaming them, removing them, all sorts of things that the woke culture does.

00:11:26.020 And I'm not going to give away details too much, Corey,

00:11:28.880 but our Jonathan Bradley has a national exclusive

00:11:32.340 that'll be coming up around two o'clock Mountain Standard Time.

00:11:36.900 It's a good one to say the least.

00:11:39.320 So I encourage all the viewers to check back around two o'clock

00:11:43.960 for Jonathan's exclusive.

00:11:46.440 Right on.

00:11:47.160 Yeah, I know that's a big one.

00:11:48.220 I'm looking forward to seeing how that all comes out as well.

00:11:50.880 So, well, thanks for the updates

00:11:53.040 and looking forward to those stories.

00:11:54.720 I'll talk to you after the show

00:11:55.960 and I hope you get on being a good son.

00:11:57.580 And I think you should round up one of these mugs somehow yourself and get that to your mom.

00:12:01.460 But, you know, that's what I'm doing.

00:12:03.180 I'm doing the Google search for resistance coffee as soon as I'm done with you, Corey.

00:12:08.540 Right on, Dave.

00:12:09.440 OK, thanks.

00:12:10.060 I'll see you after the show.

00:12:11.520 Take care.

00:12:13.100 All right.

00:12:13.800 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:12:16.680 And as we can see, lots of stories coming out.

00:12:19.760 Yeah, we do have a big one breaking this afternoon.

00:12:21.460 I'm not trying to be a pain or anything with, you know, teasing on it or anything like that.

00:12:26.280 But again, I mean, it's an indication of why we do do real news here, guys.

00:12:30.460 That's what this is about.

00:12:31.640 So right now, Jonathan Bradley is, of course, he's giving a chance for people involved in

00:12:35.480 that story to respond.

00:12:36.820 There's been phone calls out.

00:12:38.100 We're verifying and confirming things to make sure that story is as complete as possible

00:12:42.780 before we release it at two o'clock, because it's a big one.

00:12:46.820 So, you know, these things are important.

00:12:48.880 We don't just grab it and throw it up there, even though it feels like we do at times.

00:12:52.880 No, it takes a lot of careful work.

00:12:55.520 And Dave manages that as a news editor, of course, to make sure we do have solid content out there.

00:13:00.200 So that, you know, I might as well get into that plug to remind you guys,

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00:13:12.920 Thousands already have.

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00:13:34.800 You know, that's the important part.

00:13:36.100 We really are putting out real new stuff.

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00:13:41.460 So if you haven't subscribed already, guys, come on, get on board.

00:13:44.340 It's less than a lot of monthly services you can get online and well worth it.

00:13:49.560 So, you know, Paradoxy, just looking at some of the user comments, you know, saying, so what do I do?

00:13:54.020 And I know it's hard.

00:13:54.920 I don't have a good answer on how to deal with the large social media heavyweights and getting

00:13:59.660 around it. Like, I know that keep your options open so you can keep looking. I just want to let

00:14:03.000 people know if it suddenly disappears, have a look. That was the frustration with YouTube.

00:14:06.640 When we got suspended with them, they don't tell anybody. When you go to the YouTube channel,

00:14:10.460 it doesn't say this site has been suspended. All it does is blocks us from being able to

00:14:14.760 post anything on there. So people going there just think we stopped. They don't realize why

00:14:19.380 we stopped. And it really causes a lot of damage. And he's saying, you know, do I watch on Rumble?

00:14:24.920 you know, to support other than YouTube or watch on YouTube to send the message. We demand less

00:14:28.880 censorship. Yeah, I know it's tough. And Rumble, I would push more people towards it. I know some

00:14:32.480 people are watching on it now and I really appreciate that because that's one that doesn't

00:14:35.600 ban at least. The problem with Rumble is that it doesn't integrate right with our streaming software.

00:14:40.140 Again, the smaller ones versus the bigger ones. I'm just explaining ourselves. So I can't see

00:14:44.040 the Rumble comments, unfortunately. I mean, we see them on Rumble and I have to kind of open a

00:14:47.680 separate window for it. But with this, I can see the YouTube and the Facebook and the LinkedIn

00:14:52.240 in comments that they all come on a scroll so I can respond to them. Again, hopefully these

00:14:56.480 alternative services start getting better and we start getting more out there and we can bypass

00:15:01.640 this censorship because it's nuts. Yeah, there we go. I'm saying, yeah, I love Corey, but watching

00:15:06.960 him twice a day? Yeah, no, there's only so much a person could take. I appreciate you like watching

00:15:10.140 me once a day though. But yeah, I mean, just listening to the own voices in my head, I

00:15:15.000 understand. It can get pretty old. My poor wife, what she has to deal with. Let's see what else 1.00

00:15:20.220 we got going on out here in the comments. Yeah. Well, that's a good point from Jet Gorgon. She's 1.00

00:15:26.540 saying, I got the annual Western Standards subscription because my bank charges too much

00:15:30.600 for the monthly transactions. Depends on your plan and everything. And yeah, if you do it for

00:15:34.660 a year or two, if you've got enough faith to want to have full access to all our news content for a

00:15:38.680 year, you do save some money because it's $99 for a year versus $10 a month. And you'll save on

00:15:44.980 those service charges from all those things. What's that? Rosanna Wyman saying, I'll never

00:15:49.500 have Twitter. Too many people says it sucks. You know, Twitter is a, I mean, I like playing on 0.99

00:15:54.200 there a lot. And it's a valuable tool, but a person has to look at it for what it is. It's a

00:15:58.960 tool. It's not a good place for discussion. And I get people worked up on there all the time. If

00:16:03.660 people do follow my Twitter account, they know it. I like, you know, lobbing a turd into the

00:16:07.320 punch bowl and getting them all worked up. But the trick to Twitter, don't respond to them. 0.72

00:16:12.700 It's not a place for debate. If you want debate, you need a different platform where you can have

00:16:16.520 a little more nuanced discussion, not little bits back and forth like that. So don't engage them.

00:16:21.700 And, you know, even if you, whether you want to ignore them or if they're really bad, just block,

00:16:26.600 block like crazy. Blocking isn't censorship, guys. Blocking is saying you have the right to say

00:16:31.260 whatever the hell you like. You're just not going to say it directly to me. And, you know, that way

00:16:36.340 you can reach out to a lot more people and it's an area where you can spread that news. As I said,

00:16:42.900 it's a valuable tool for us. So, I mean, when I used to have my blog, for example, and I'd write

00:16:47.200 a column on that, because I don't see all the numbers necessarily with a standard, but I know

00:16:50.080 it's similar. I write a blog post, I'll get a, you know, a few hundred people read it, a regular

00:16:55.200 one there. I throw it out on my Twitter account, and yeah, I got, you know, 30,000 followers or

00:16:59.120 whatever, suddenly my blog post will get a couple thousand reads or a few thousand. It's very

00:17:02.540 important to amplify the bigger story. You can't, Twitter's no good for writing the whole story or

00:17:07.000 anything like that at all. But it is a good tool for getting the

00:17:12.740 news copy out there. And unfortunately, yeah, when we get

00:17:15.960 blocked, like we did with Twitter suspended for a week, it's

00:17:18.800 gonna handicap us for some of our traffic. People are finding

00:17:21.900 us anyway, as I said, those stories have been actually

00:17:24.160 shooting up in the scroll, they've been busier, thanks to

00:17:27.140 Twitter's banning of us like that rather than than slowing us

00:17:30.460 down. But there are some people on there just think, Oh, what

00:17:33.200 the hell the standard hasn't posted that might be the only

00:17:35.040 place they look for our stories to come up. It's frustrating. And, you know, all I can suggest is

00:17:42.340 just if things suddenly vanish, just keep your eyes open. Chances are perhaps it's been shadow

00:17:46.940 banned or even outright suspended for a little while. I see my guest in the lobby there. The

00:17:50.880 first one, though, I'm going to bring him in and we'll have a conversation. This is Mr. Marcel

00:17:56.400 Latouche. He's a little bit backlit there today. I know. Well, we can see a silhouette anyways,

00:18:03.480 Marcel, we know you're a very handsome man and typically look better, but as long as we can hear

00:18:09.880 you, that's the most important part. Let me try and change it a little bit. Okay.

00:18:17.240 That'll probably help. Yeah. There's the things that we're going live and so on.

00:18:20.680 Again, Marcel's more an author than a online personality. So he doesn't have it. That's a

00:18:27.560 little bit better. We can, we can see a little bit better. We got some definition there and

00:18:31.160 you can see that there is a face on there good to see you Marcel this has been a little while

00:18:34.920 i appreciate you coming on today great to see you Corey i mean as i said now that i'm retired

00:18:40.040 i'm in a different setting so the the backlighting is a little bit awkward but uh glad to be with you

00:18:47.400 uh today is going to be an interesting conversation because i understand you may be leaving your

00:18:53.160 position and uh we may not be talking very soon uh in the future so uh let me say whatever i'm

00:19:01.560 going to say today and i'm going to talk about today is is all my own personal point of view

00:19:08.200 and uh i i uh i'm going to make some comments that is going to maybe irritate some people but

00:19:15.000 at this stage of my life i think i have an opinion and i think i'm going to share it with you you may

00:19:20.440 like or may not like it that's fine by me hey we're not here to always agree about everything

00:19:26.200 all the time by any means it's a place to share uh outlooks and opinions back and forth of course

00:19:32.200 and and uh and discuss those things and we're at a big political turning point i think you know

00:19:36.920 we've got conservative parties on the federal and provincial uh levels both in very important races

00:19:41.960 and and uh theoretically either of those uh uh people winning those races could be uh is a very

00:19:49.400 powerful politicians. Do we want to start kind of on the provincial front? Well, I'll start with

00:19:53.940 something else, actually. Sure. I mean, I think people have got to realize that the whole world

00:19:59.500 is in turmoil right now. You've got the war in Russia and Ukraine. You have the pandemic. You've

00:20:07.080 got all sorts of things going on in the United States, you know, whether it's constitutional or

00:20:13.120 not going after trump but what i would say is that i believe the world is at a turning point

00:20:20.480 where we have a bunch of socialists i don't even call them liberals anymore

00:20:26.560 that have taken over and are trying to change our world and i put this very much so on the

00:20:34.160 conservative movement which has not been strong enough to deliver their message and instead have

00:20:41.200 been fighting each other to find a place to deliver the message so let's start with what's

00:20:47.840 happening in canada a lot of canadians have taken freedom for granted in canada and what is happening

00:20:56.480 is that you have an autocratic government supported by a minority socialist party who is now imposing

00:21:05.120 things on us and is taking our our freedoms and the media which is owned virtually by the government

00:21:12.800 today is not sharing the right information and the majority of people in this country

00:21:20.400 are not aware of what is going on around them and this is why the two leaders choice both at

00:21:29.360 the federal and the and provincial level in alberta are so much important because we are

00:21:38.080 entering an era where if conservatives don't take power we are not going to see ourselves

00:21:45.840 ever again in a free society and uh we are approaching what orwell called 1984 dystopian

00:21:56.560 society. It really is coming into that. And that's, you know, a little of what I was talking

00:22:02.800 about in the sense with the social media platforms, for example. I mean, they started as a great way

00:22:07.760 for us to communicate and organize and share ideas. But now they're starting to become the

00:22:13.300 censors. And then we've got a government with Bill C-11, C-18. They're looking to actually

00:22:17.560 control those social media platforms. And then when you've got control of information, you have

00:22:22.420 control of everybody. I mean, it's such a fundamental right to be able to communicate and

00:22:26.700 share information. And that's why authoritarians so regularly go after that. And what this is why

00:22:32.140 it is so important for conservatives to choose the right leaders at both levels, the federal

00:22:38.520 and the provincial. I will start with the federal. We have somebody who's been in politics for a

00:22:47.640 number of years, and in my view, is the only person who can challenge Trudeau with his autocratic

00:22:56.800 policies. Pierre Poiliev, in my view, is the person that the Conservative Party of Canada

00:23:05.020 should choose. If we wanted a liberal leader, we could have stepped with O'Toole. We don't

00:23:11.680 who has been a perennial uh politician for so many years and he has changed from progressive

00:23:23.280 from conservative to progressive conservative than to a liberal leader in quebec and people

00:23:29.040 ignore the fact that these people switch chains and switch places to to suit themselves and

00:23:38.160 And Jean Charest is being supported by somebody that I admired as a columnist, Tasha Carradine.

00:23:47.440 And I think she's misleading people by saying that Jean Charest is the person to bring the conservative government in the next election.

00:24:00.540 We must stop compromising on principles.

00:24:05.500 We can compromise on process.

00:24:08.160 But it is no longer viable for conservatives to compromise their principles to get in power.

00:24:14.520 Why are conservatives so ashamed to stand up by common sense, small-sip principles?

00:24:21.500 And I think that Poiliev is the person to do so.

00:24:25.780 Now, go ahead.

00:24:27.980 Oh, yeah, I was just saying, I spoke with a guest the other day on that similarly.

00:24:31.100 Like, we've got to quit being ashamed of being conservative.

00:24:34.280 we can win on a conservative platform, not always apologizing for actually being a conservative.

00:24:40.440 As you said, if we wanted a liberal, well, let's vote liberal.

00:24:43.340 And I brought up, you know, Ralph Klein won clearly on a conservative platform before.

00:24:49.000 You know, Stephen Harper did it, despite what they always say.

00:24:51.920 If you're unapologetic about it, you seem more honest, actually.

00:24:55.560 Yeah. And that's my point.

00:24:57.080 On the provincial level, I'm going to go on a limb because I have known Danielle Smith for over two decades. She was the editor of my first book, Take Back City Hall. I have known her as a columnist for The Herald, and I have contributed on a show as the former president and CEO of the Institute for Public Sector Accountability for all the time she was.

00:25:27.080 on QR. Many people are saying oh well you know she made a mistake and I

00:25:36.680 disagreed with her when she went from Wildrose to support Prentice. But we

00:25:42.760 must understand that she had some principles and she stood by it and she

00:25:48.560 moved. The problem that I have is they accuse her of giving away the government

00:25:56.480 of alberta to notley let me remind people that it was the prentice policies that led us to a notley

00:26:07.280 government so daniel smith did shift from wire rose to the conservative party sure let me give

00:26:16.880 you an example people have shifted in politics their allegiances all the time churchill was

00:26:24.480 a liberal before he became a conservative. Ronald Reagan and Trump were Democrats before they became

00:26:32.800 Republicans. So let's forget about that. She made a mistake. We all make mistakes. He who is without

00:26:41.840 sin should fall the first stone. There's the problem we have today. We cannot go with an

00:26:48.720 establishment person in the leader of the alberta government i respect some of the people who are

00:26:58.800 running for instance i have worked with rebecca schultz and she's done a marvelous job as the

00:27:05.840 child advocate and minister i have a problem with travis toes because rebecca got me and madu and

00:27:16.400 Taves into a conversation about one of the most regressive taxes in this province. It is the

00:27:24.800 property taxes issue. We got into a conference, the three of us, and they asked me as the institute

00:27:33.660 president to produce a paper on taxation. I did so, we produced it, we sent it to them.

00:27:42.040 Taves never responded

00:27:44.820 Last week I went to one of his breakfasts

00:27:48.700 And when I asked him that question

00:27:50.380 He says, well, we can speak about this later

00:27:53.820 There's the problem

00:27:55.520 If we get the same kind of establishment people

00:27:59.820 We won't have change

00:28:01.440 Some people are accusing Daniel of being some quack

00:28:05.980 Or some freaky person

00:28:08.920 but we need somebody from outside of the establishment to do so i know her for 20 years

00:28:15.960 i want to give her another chance to do so because with the sovereignty act that everybody is

00:28:24.680 complaining about i don't think it is going to be enforceable however i think the sovereignty act

00:28:33.000 is going to give anybody who has the power to do so in Alberta the same power that Quebec

00:28:41.160 has been using in this country. We must not compromise on principles. We must put Alberta

00:28:49.960 first just like Quebec puts themselves first. And I think the Sovereignty Act is going to give us

00:28:56.200 that possibility. I wonder about like maybe to bring the discussion a little wider because

00:29:02.760 It's the same challenge conservatives always have.

00:29:05.700 As I said, you know, for example,

00:29:07.020 Walt Klein, for the older among us, remember, won in the 90s.

00:29:09.940 All the pundits said, you can't be so conservative, you're going to lose.

00:29:13.060 You know, the unions went crazy, they went on strike,

00:29:14.980 and guess what, he won a bigger majority.

00:29:17.140 And they said, you have to quit cutting,

00:29:18.520 you can't go on such a rush to balance the budget,

00:29:20.500 you'll definitely lose.

00:29:21.760 He won an even bigger majority.

00:29:23.860 So, I mean, and then when he started to slide,

00:29:25.840 when his popularity started going down,

00:29:27.720 was when he opened up the spending floodgates,

00:29:29.700 when he started kind of losing the fire in the belly, as his own term was about it.

00:29:34.260 We've got to quit listening to the pundits.

00:29:35.700 We can win and be conservative.

00:29:37.380 But the problem is, how do you stop the backslide?

00:29:40.300 For example, you know, Polyev, if he becomes prime minister,

00:29:44.100 he certainly might be much better than the current prime minister.

00:29:46.540 But what sort of things can be put in place to make sure the slide doesn't happen again?

00:29:50.560 Because eight years later, it might be like Mulroney in his tail end, right?

00:29:54.140 And we're suddenly back to square one.

00:29:55.860 That is the problem with conservatism.

00:29:58.920 When they get in power, they shift to the center.

00:30:03.100 What is the center from being conservatism?

00:30:06.420 Conservatives are already in the center.

00:30:09.480 If you move to the so-called pundit center, you're moving to the left.

00:30:14.140 And that is not what we want.

00:30:16.380 The problem is, well, people start talking about tone nowadays.

00:30:21.600 Look at what's happened when you talk about tone.

00:30:25.220 It's not the tone that matters.

00:30:27.040 It's the policy that matters.

00:30:29.520 The problem is that how we deliver the message is not the tone.

00:30:34.440 The tone should be very simple.

00:30:36.580 I stick to my principles and that's what I'm going to use to govern the country or the province.

00:30:44.420 When you get to Ottawa, the idea that people who are in Ottawa cannot do things unless they are at the center.

00:30:52.800 The question is, what is the center today?

00:30:57.040 Canada is already a center kind of country.

00:31:02.020 We are very open.

00:31:04.160 We are very, how should I say, we are quiesced to many things.

00:31:10.840 So much so, as I said to you earlier, we've gone in a way where we've taken freedom for granted.

00:31:18.920 Sure, the government can sometimes control freedom and how much freedom we have based on certain issues and the circumstances.

00:31:27.520 But today we are losing many of our freedom without even the judiciary supporting the kind of freedom that we are given under the Constitution.

00:31:40.200 Conservatives have got to stand up for their principles.

00:31:44.300 Stop messing around with social ideas.

00:31:48.040 We've got to worry about what's happening in the world.

00:31:51.940 Net zero is a failed situation.

00:31:56.120 The WEF is a failed organization run by elites and not by conservatives.

00:32:03.960 Look, Johnson lost his seat in England.

00:32:07.860 Why? He ran as a conservative and he governed as a liberal.

00:32:12.700 Where was Brexit? He promised Brexit and then he didn't deliver.

00:32:16.580 We must have conservatives who are going to stand for this. Compromise is not the word in 2022 for conservatives. And we must elect two leaders. I believe that this idea that Sovereignty Act is not going to work, if we get Poiliev in power, we get Smith with the Sovereignty Act working together, we don't even use it.

00:32:42.800 We don't have to use it if we stick to our conservative principles.

00:32:47.620 The Sovereignty Act is a good paper to start saying that we in Alberta are not going to be a doormat anymore.

00:32:59.080 So the other aspect of all of this, no matter who wins each race, is, I mean, conservatives are our own worst enemy.

00:33:06.760 The first thing we do is we rip ourselves apart and there's going to be segments.

00:33:11.560 They're always well in every leadership race.

00:33:13.180 Some people say, well, I've had it and they stomp out and they leave the room.

00:33:16.240 I mean, the new leader of each party, again, whoever it is, is really going to have to reach out fast and try and pull people together before they start splitting themselves up.

00:33:24.720 What sort of strategies could they do to prevent that from happening?

00:33:27.720 Very simple.

00:33:29.520 Smaller government, less taxes.

00:33:32.280 That is the issue.

00:33:33.860 The first thing that people look at is their pocket, and their pocket is being picked by every single government.

00:33:43.520 We've got to cut subsidies to government when we want to increase the economy.

00:33:49.200 Stop the subsidies, give tax credit for a number of years, and remove the idea that subsidies are going to give us better economies.

00:33:59.820 If you give an incentive not to pay taxes for, say, let's take a new company, especially in the high-tech industry, why give them a subsidy?

00:34:13.620 If you think they are going to be viable, give them a tax break for the first five years of their existence.

00:34:20.140 If they move away from you within five years, they've got to repay all the taxes back.

00:34:26.720 that's the sort of incentives you give because you see if you have a company and you if you

00:34:34.220 don't have a company you don't get taxes but if you have a company and you say okay i'll forfeit

00:34:40.040 the taxes in the first five years you don't need subsidies you didn't have anything in the first

00:34:45.920 place so you're not taking anything away from the people because where do you get taxes to pay for

00:34:52.540 subsidies it's from taxes you don't need taxpayer to pay for subsidies for a growing company you

00:35:00.060 give them a tax break these are the sort of things we've got to look at from an economic point of

00:35:06.560 view this is the first thing we've got to do we've got to allow industries to work we've got to allow

00:35:12.860 industries to expand without the help of in front money subsidies from the government

00:35:20.700 well absolutely and maybe before i let you go we'll pivot to something you used to comment on

00:35:25.820 a lot of course too and that's the municipal government because we have calgary economic

00:35:29.180 development they've had a hundred million dollar slush fund for years that they've been subsidizing

00:35:33.340 businesses to try and build things up and i mean let's be blunt it's been a catastrophic failure

00:35:38.460 calgary's downtown has record vacancies businesses are setting up shop just outside of the city of

00:35:43.500 calgary rather than within it even though the city's handing out money left right and center

00:35:47.420 to incoming companies.

00:35:49.020 It's a perfect example on why this subsidy idea doesn't work.

00:35:53.660 But what the heck can we do in Calgary?

00:35:55.020 We still got three years for the next election with those guys.

00:35:57.340 I mean, this is why I wrote the paper for the Alberta government to start reviewing the property taxes.

00:36:06.300 Property taxes is a burden on both residential and non-residential people.

00:36:12.780 what we've got to do is say in in both both cities here now edmonton has gone so far left

00:36:20.300 that we are going to have a major problem up there and calgary with this 87 billion dollars

00:36:27.740 for for climate change is a disaster i mean i can't believe that counselors don't open their

00:36:35.820 eyes of what's happening in the world today due to the russia invasion of ukraine germany who went

00:36:43.740 net zero or planning to close coal and so on and so forth i mean to meet the net zero are going to

00:36:51.260 be a serious trouble in winter they are going to have to ration electricity gas and so on and so

00:37:00.300 forth counselors in in calgary have got to wake up and not allow these climate change policies

00:37:07.500 which are utopian and are going to use taxpayers money to get more people in in government to tell

00:37:16.140 us what to do i am a conservationist i think that we can make changes to the way we do things

00:37:25.580 But to think that taxes are going to change the climate is absolutely absurd.

00:37:33.020 Absolutely. Well, as I said, we're in some interesting times and definitely a turning point

00:37:37.420 on a couple of levels. And it's very important that we do things right in this next year. I mean,

00:37:41.180 I've said a lot, I think things are going to have to get worse before they get better. And it looks

00:37:44.460 like we're moving into a recession now. But I mean, the only bright side that can be seen is

00:37:48.860 maybe that'll motivate people to pay attention and vote for smaller, more responsible government

00:37:53.420 while they can and we can kind of reset this clock so absolutely smaller government less taxes

00:37:59.980 that's what we need governments to be this is why i'm going with those two uh people

00:38:06.220 poiliev at the federal level and daniel smith at the alberta level excellent well thanks for coming

00:38:13.500 on to talk to us about it today marcel i mean those races are coming to a close we'll be watching

00:38:17.740 closely and i know you like to comment a lot on on facebook and such so i mean people can find you

00:38:22.940 there and have more discussion and see what you're talking about as well my pleasure that's what i

00:38:27.820 will continue doing on facebook i will share my views and as i said at the stage of my life i

00:38:34.700 mean you know i i'm just relaxing i'm enjoying life but if people wants to listen to me or

00:38:41.020 read my stuff please you're welcome to do so and i don't like criticism i love them

00:38:48.060 excellent all right it's always good talking to you marcel thank you very much and we'll talk

00:38:51.900 again soon cory all the best in your your next endeavor all right thanks thank you so that was

00:38:57.980 marcel latouche and he used to he's written a number of books he's very active on social media

00:39:02.620 facebook he was blogging and uh he he managed i believe it was the institute for public sector

00:39:09.500 accountability i could be calling it wrong but again marcel's retired and he's sitting back so

00:39:13.820 he's not so hard on the direct lobbying but he's got all that common sense and he shares it on

00:39:17.980 Facebook. Speaking of those social media platforms, like I was, you know, it's when I talked about

00:39:22.920 areas where there's room for a little more long form discussion, and I know Facebook has a lot

00:39:26.260 of flaws, we can all agree on that. That that's a better place for it. When people still fight on

00:39:32.760 the internet, of course, but I'm just saying, see, when I'm talking about social media strategy,

00:39:37.060 I guess, or communication versus others, Twitter is not a good place to try and have a conversation.

00:39:42.540 Facebook, though, at least you can go back and forth. And same thing, you know, just offering

00:39:46.020 my advice, if things get too heated on Facebook, if you're going too far or somebody else is,

00:39:50.560 either block them or back out. Getting into those extended, protracted, longer fights just doesn't

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00:41:30.360 All right. This was something Dave talked about. You know, speaking of information, speaking of,

00:41:34.860 you know, something that's really scary when he brought up George Orwell and,

00:41:38.940 you know, 1984 and things like that. We've got historical revisionism going on.

00:41:44.720 And that's a scary thing. When you rewrite the history books, I mean, you can write whatever

00:41:50.820 you like. It doesn't change whatever happened. And you don't learn from it. I know it sounds

00:41:55.380 like that cliche, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Well,

00:41:58.740 we're doing a lot under this crazed anti-colonialism, patriarchy, racism crap. 0.98

00:42:05.160 And they're actually targeting, you know, Alexander Graham Bell. 0.96

00:42:09.940 And this is the Historic Sites and Monument Board.

00:42:12.340 So they're re-examining his position as a historical figure.

00:42:19.300 Okay, I'm going to address something.

00:42:20.360 I guess I have to here.

00:42:22.140 You know, tomorrow morning when I open the show, I am going to have an announcement.

00:42:24.980 There's some things changing at the Western Standard, and my role will be changing.

00:42:28.560 And it's all good, guys.

00:42:29.920 It's all good in the long run, but I'll explain at length tomorrow.

00:42:32.560 Marcel sort of referenced it.

00:42:33.960 So there's going to be some changes, but it's all right.

00:42:36.500 I do want to explain it more in full to you guys when I talk to you tomorrow morning when I open the show.

00:42:42.660 And yeah, Marcel, I guess, had heard about some changes perhaps and it had referenced such.

00:42:47.700 So we'll clarify that tomorrow, guys, and then I'll stick to what's going on for now.

00:42:51.820 I don't want to get folks sent off, but it was a little premature before I wanted to talk at length on what's going on.

00:42:56.920 And for somebody else who's concerned, you know, the standard says, no, the Western standard's doing great.

00:43:00.260 aside from being punted off Twitter for a week or whatever, we got great readership and a good

00:43:05.280 bunch of staff and everything's going fantastic. So, all right, I'll get back to my rant there. I

00:43:10.000 just wanted to correct that before things get, you know, too concerned over there. I will talk

00:43:13.560 a little more at length some more about that. So either way, this federal board's reviewing

00:43:17.640 Alexander Graham Bell. I mean, this was a historic man. This was one who, yeah, I mean, with that

00:43:21.580 ironic name, you know, brought about with the telephone and the invention, which is a game

00:43:25.560 changer for communications. And because he had some, some goofy views, I guess, about sign

00:43:32.200 language. And he felt it, uh, uh, things about, uh, deaf people not marrying and stuff. Uh, you

00:43:39.100 know, it was, I guess, probably an early eugenics sort of mindset, but so what, so what a hundred

00:43:45.540 and some years ago, I mean, this is from 1883, 120, 140 years ago, this guy held some pretty

00:43:52.640 wacky views. That was then. You know, we've got to quit trying to cancel and erase historical

00:43:58.980 figures, because we're trying to measure them by the bar of today. It was a different world at

00:44:05.800 that time. Let's celebrate the things they accomplished, while realizing we've grown beyond

00:44:11.880 some of the older views that they had back then, to remove somebody as historically significant

00:44:18.720 as Alexander Graham Bell from our history

00:44:24.160 because of some views he wrote in an essay in 1883

00:44:27.380 about deaf people?

00:44:29.080 It's absurd.

00:44:30.760 And even if his stuff was even more offensive

00:44:32.880 than that weird stuff, like I said, 0.98

00:44:34.340 they keep talking about this colonialism crap. 0.98

00:44:37.780 Colonialism. 0.99

00:44:39.420 Really?

00:44:40.220 I mean, whatever, guys.

00:44:41.660 The world has modernized.

00:44:43.240 It has changed.

00:44:44.520 Get over it.

00:44:46.000 You know, what are we supposed to do?

00:44:48.160 I love that attitude from the extreme leftist activists all the time.

00:44:51.780 Anyways, it really is an attitude of get back on the boat and go where you came from.

00:44:55.180 Well, I can't do that.

00:44:56.080 My parents were born here.

00:44:57.500 So I don't have somewhere to have come from.

00:45:00.000 And I'm sick of that racist BS.

00:45:01.780 And it is racist.

00:45:03.260 When you say that this belongs to somebody's every bit of land is their birthright because their parents were a certain color.

00:45:09.880 That's working backwards.

00:45:11.960 What are we supposed to do?

00:45:12.780 just all leave, let everybody go back to that 29 year life expectancy, slaughtering each other as

00:45:18.060 nomadic tribes, people living in a paleolithic lifestyle. Come on, let's get realistic. It's 0.99

00:45:24.180 colonialism. And these idiots who refer to themselves as settlers, they're born here. I'll 1.00

00:45:28.620 kiss my ass. Let's get real. And that language though is disturbing. And that gets tied in with 1.00

00:45:34.620 all that crap land acknowledgement stuff too. I don't, yes, there were first nations people here

00:45:39.980 before me. And then there were Neanderthals before that, and there were dinosaurs. I don't care. I

00:45:44.220 don't have to state that every time I start something. I appreciate they were here. Good

00:45:48.020 for them. And their descendants are still here today. Now let's all work together and live

00:45:52.460 together instead of being hung up on who the hell was here 500 years ago. But we can't. We got this

00:45:58.060 gross, you know, revisionism going on. I mean, really, was it that much better a thousand years

00:46:05.460 ago? Were they living in some sort of Eden-like paradise here? No. No, it was different. Did the

00:46:11.960 new explorers and settlers do everything right when they showed up? No, there were some terrible

00:46:17.820 atrocities. First Nations people were shoved around. They were pushed off land that they

00:46:22.400 traditionally occupied. It happens. You know, I mean, let's see Scotland and the UK go after

00:46:30.600 Italy for what Hadrian did. Like, guys, how far back do you want to go? We're here today now.

00:46:36.640 And we're not getting any better for being stupidly hung up on all of this past stuff 0.97

00:46:42.040 that we can't change. And it's a bizarre backwards thing. And the irony of it, these 0.98

00:46:48.200 self-declared anti-racist, anti-fascist people are acting exactly like the kind of racist and

00:46:53.420 fascist they talk about, and they don't even realize it. And it's a destructive thing. It's

00:46:58.200 dividing populations on race. And it's actually talking about putting, you know, people into

00:47:05.180 different zones because of race. I mean, the reserve system, that's what I want to see. I do 0.97

00:47:09.080 want to see some good discussions about the reserve system. We don't have enough about it,

00:47:13.800 because I tell you what, you know, people wonder, and I'm going to have a panel next week again on

00:47:17.240 the Indian residential schools with some of those professors and that. It's not anti First Nations

00:47:22.180 by any means. We need frank discussion. And when I was working in the oil field for 20 years, I

00:47:26.080 worked in the North and on a lot of reserves all over Western Canada for years and years.

00:47:31.200 And they're getting worse and worse and worse every year. The conditions are terrible.

00:47:35.360 And it doesn't matter because we're spending more and more and more every year. If we were

00:47:38.600 spending more and it actually worked out and they were living well, fine, I could get over it. But

00:47:42.420 we're spending more and they're living in misery. There are socioeconomic basket cases on those

00:47:46.620 reserves. Your chances of graduating high school or getting a good job if you grew up in a reserve 0.81

00:47:51.240 are terribly low. Your chances of being convicted of a crime are extremely high. It's, you know,

00:47:58.140 by every measure, the life expectancy on First Nation reserves is lower. Why? Well, because we've

00:48:04.420 got a population we've segregated based on race. We've separated them from the rest of the modern 1.00

00:48:09.020 world, apologized to them the second they fell out of their mother's loins, and told them that

00:48:13.720 everything in the world that happens as bad to you is not your own fault. And here, have a welfare

00:48:18.060 check, sit around and just exist until you die of old age, if you make it to old age. I mean,

00:48:23.740 what is the future for the reserves? What do people envision? What are these little zoos of

00:48:29.520 people that we want to try and keep a traditional isolated population somewhere? You know, to feel

00:48:35.920 good about ourselves? How does that make you feel good? And they are not, of course, of the old

00:48:42.180 traditions. They're not living off the land, at least in a system's way. There's lots of tradition

00:48:46.740 and lots of hunting and trapping.

00:48:48.340 And there's still a lot of First Nations people

00:48:50.300 greatly embracing their cultural heritage.

00:48:52.820 But lots of people can go to Chinatown in this city

00:48:55.720 and see how the Chinese can still be strongly tied

00:48:58.680 to their culture while living on the other side of the planet

00:49:01.360 from where they came from in the first place.

00:49:03.520 We can maintain these things

00:49:04.760 without separating everybody based on race like that.

00:49:08.560 When are we going to accept that it's not working?

00:49:10.740 And it's not working well for them.

00:49:13.420 But we aren't even allowed to have that conversation.

00:49:16.020 And I tell you what, and I'm going to keep using that word because it drives lefties nuts. 0.98

00:49:19.540 But if you look at the reserve system in Canada, there's only one word to describe it.

00:49:22.640 It's apartheid. 0.83

00:49:24.220 We've frowned on it in every other part of the planet, thankfully and properly.

00:49:28.280 The South African apartheid was terrible.

00:49:29.880 Yet somehow we look at separation of people based on race as a good thing now. 0.98

00:49:35.080 Talk about the upside down world.

00:49:37.500 But progressivism and common sense are not things that tend to go together very often.

00:49:44.460 all right uh let's see here i'm just gonna pull something up and we're gonna get to our next guest

00:49:51.740 which is mr dave makachuk who comes on quite regularly he's a very prolific contributor to

00:49:58.140 the western standard in the opinion zone how's it going dave going great it's going awesome right on

00:50:05.100 so how's burt doing these days where it's okay he's sleeping at the moment he doesn't want to

00:50:10.060 to be disturbed. I thought he was a big part, but no, it's afternoon nap time, apparently.

00:50:18.580 Well, they've got an important schedule to keep.

00:50:21.420 Yes, yes. But thanks for asking. Thanks for asking.

00:50:24.060 Oh, no problem. It's important. I mean, this is the furry fellow that monitors the leadership

00:50:30.120 debates and gives the... It's an important...

00:50:32.000 He does. He has an interest in politics. I'm quite surprised. For a mackerel tabby, quite 1.00

00:50:37.920 knowledgeable in Alberta politics. You know, it's quite interesting. So maybe we'll just kind of

00:50:46.300 start through some of your more recent columns. You know, this was a quite a headline that you

00:50:50.640 had from the one the other day there with destitution, poverty and death on a prairie

00:50:54.960 trained to nowhere. Yes. Well, it all started when I went to a family function and had a bit

00:51:01.560 too much bourbon and uh i had a a really uh a strong vivid dream about uh alberta and alberta

00:51:11.560 of the future where uh there was like this train full of uh uh uh farm implements and tractors and

00:51:20.920 and and and uh uh all kinds of you know uh machinery yeah uh you know and and and uh

00:51:28.920 And it was a wintry scene. And everywhere I looked on that train, in every nook and cranny, there was someone huddled trying to stay warm. And it was so vivid and so real. And it struck me. It just really struck me that, you know, I know that it's just a dream, but I really wondered where our country was going.

00:51:51.700 And in part with that, I have to mention, this week, I went downstairs to our condo to dump our garbage in the dumpster.

00:52:04.900 And sitting in the dumpster was what looked to me was like a brand new child seat, car seat, a high-end one, like worth hundreds of dollars.

00:52:17.680 and i thought my god uh how could somebody throw this out so i got a broom handle

00:52:24.540 from downstairs and i wangled this thing out and i pulled it out and dear god this thing i inspected

00:52:32.200 it it was mint condition it even had the uh uh uh you know the manual in english and french two

00:52:40.580 manuals and it had the warranty papers and a brand new rain cover in a package which had never been

00:52:48.900 used. It was brand new. It still had the original packaging. And I thought, well, I can't, how can

00:52:55.820 people, how can someone throw this out? Someone out there, a new immigrant or a new immigrant family

00:53:01.300 can have this. And so I went to Goodwill and Goodwill said, nope, sorry, can't take it.

00:53:08.440 insurance reasons we can't take a child car seat because we can inspect it it's insurance reasons

00:53:16.340 we can't touch it so I thought what am I going to do so I went home I went on Facebook I went on

00:53:21.580 Facebook where the where you can sell things I can't yeah yeah marketplace and I placed it on

00:53:30.760 marketplace and within five minutes I had takers because I offered it for free and to my pleasure

00:53:38.680 absolute pleasure an immigrant family said look we really need this we really need this can we

00:53:44.820 please have it and I didn't have the heart to say no so I said if you if you're if you can come here

00:53:51.080 in an hour it's yours and they came and the man came and what he said he was new to Canada and

00:53:57.440 he really appreciated it and he shook my hand and I thought and that's that that hit me that

00:54:02.540 really hit me hard how people are really struggling to get by especially young couples today young

00:54:09.860 couples and and and immigrants and how we have to try and help when we can and this whole thing

00:54:17.860 just and it all came into one big tornado where I wondered where we were going with the Trudeau

00:54:25.140 government and of course it's easy to bash just justin he turned his back on us in the oil patch

00:54:30.660 he turned his now he's turned his back on the agricultural uh uh industry and it all swirled

00:54:38.260 into the bonus given to uh uh the the uh alberta's medical chief medical officer

00:54:45.860 which i thought was absolutely insane ridiculous outrageous out of touch with what's going on

00:54:54.260 with what we're having to do with the cost of living and what we're all struggling with we're

00:54:59.140 all struggling to to get by on less and less and less while prices go up and they gave this woman

00:55:07.700 a bonus which put her over 500 000 dollars like what what are they thinking what are they thinking

00:55:16.900 have they completely lost touch with with with with the voters with the people of alberta after

00:55:23.220 all we suffered during covid and so all that's world into one big tornado and that's

00:55:30.420 how the column ended up kind of if that makes sense what i appreciate is is a good you know

00:55:36.180 personal viewpoint experience i mean you get lots of rage writing out of people like me on

00:55:40.820 the western standard or all sorts of political stuff but uh we you know we like to have a

00:55:45.220 widespread of a lot of things out there uh to to you know to just to discuss and make

00:55:51.860 observations and they can still tie into politics as you said you know it also at the same time when

00:55:56.820 you realize there's some people having a really hard time right now and it is odious i mean dr

00:56:00.980 hinshaw fine you're a doctor you're in a senior position that's why your base salary was already

00:56:04.980 over a quarter million dollars fine but that means you're expected to go a bit above and beyond your

00:56:10.100 job's not supposed to be easy so yes she had a hard couple of years oh here let's give you a 0.92

00:56:14.740 couple hundred thousand dollar bonus a bonus bigger than the vast majority of us even make

00:56:19.860 in a year insane insane and i and i had to use that story which my buddy reg uh often tells me

00:56:28.180 about punch him like and johnny bauer where johnny bauer had this great night with the leafs

00:56:33.940 and he he saved like you know 30 plus saves and he you know brought home the win and a reporter

00:56:40.900 of course we're all looking for good quotes right we're all we're all fishing for good quotes so he

00:56:45.700 fed this to punch him like he said okay uh would you like to say something about johnny's performance

00:56:51.300 tonight and punch him like said yeah i'll say something he's paid to stop the puck 0.68

00:56:59.220 so the same with our chief medical officer she's paid to do her job she was not an expert in in

00:57:06.020 in emergency services or, you know, all these, you know, small business or the power grid or

00:57:16.920 all these other areas, sectors. She was no expert in that. And the impact she had with her

00:57:23.720 opinions on COVID impacted everybody and everything in the province. And she had no

00:57:30.320 expertise in that. And that's why I thought it was insane to give her a bonus because she caused 1.00

00:57:38.360 more havoc in a good, you know, I mean, she meant well, she absolutely meant well, and I don't have

00:57:43.820 any hard feelings against her or anything, but I just thought this was absolutely absurd and out

00:57:49.840 of touch. This just shows how out of touch government is with the common man. I mean,

00:57:55.780 And I just, I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I just don't get it.

00:57:59.920 I don't get it.

00:58:01.600 Well, there is a, you know, a very bad growing let them eat cake attitude coming from a lot

00:58:06.320 of our politicians and senior civil servants.

00:58:08.880 I mean, likewise with Justin Trudeau jetting off to Costa Rica.

00:58:13.440 I mean, I wrote on that where, let's remember, they put $11 million in renos into the cottage

00:58:18.940 he gets for free on a lakeside with acres to play on, but that's not good enough.

00:58:24.100 he's going to take a private jet on our dime and fly to costa rica for two weeks and we're being

00:58:29.940 told to tighten our belts like uh he's fortunate that it's not a few hundred years ago or or they

00:58:35.780 probably would be setting something up out front and there would be a revolution and you know like

00:58:40.900 this week they announced that one of the snowbirds one of the snowbird uh tutor jets crashed on

00:58:46.100 landing or i can't remember landing or take off any case these poor guys i mean our our best pilots

00:58:52.500 flying these ancient 60-year-old Tudor jets, for God's sake.

00:58:58.400 And the liberal government threw in a few million to try and tide them over until 2030.

00:59:05.120 But dear God in heaven, you know, it's just, it's, they seem to be spending in places which we just,

00:59:13.400 you know, what's that expression, penny wise, but in pound foolish.

00:59:20.580 And there's no rhyme or reason to this government. 0.93

00:59:23.000 There really isn't.

00:59:24.040 And they're letting the military just fall apart.

00:59:27.580 I mean, for the first time since 2013, just to bring us over to a military subject,

00:59:34.220 there are no Navy ships, no Canadian Navy ships now serving with NATO forces.

00:59:42.940 None.

00:59:44.640 They're all aging.

00:59:46.020 They're falling apart.

00:59:47.080 We don't have enough sailors.

00:59:48.240 they let it die they're letting it die and this is the first times in nine years that's ever

00:59:55.560 happened and again this is just across the you look across everywhere I mean we're have a look

01:00:03.480 wherever wherever you look it's just devastation our airports are in chaos uh they you know I mean

01:00:11.200 it's just it's one screw up after another it's absolutely one screw up after another and I

01:00:16.500 uh it's disgusting i don't know well with the state of the military too i mean that's been a

01:00:22.140 long time in coming and growing i mean you know we're both old enough to remember the sea kings

01:00:26.180 dropping out of the sky like like shot birds or uh when the government proudly announced the

01:00:31.760 purchase of those old diesel submarines from the uk old used submarines and actually managed to

01:00:37.500 kill our sailors trying to get them from the uk to here when we're one of the few countries in the

01:00:42.500 world that direly needs nuclear submarines. And this is all predates Stephen Harper. Even we can't 0.87

01:00:47.480 even lay it all on Justin. This has been going on for decades. And now we are in a world of conflict.

01:00:53.560 And we've got some terribly under-supported people we're sending into dangerous situations.

01:00:58.820 Well, and you look at AUKUS, the organization recently formed by the United States with

01:01:04.600 Australia and the UK to provide a submarine, the latest in submarine technology to the Australians.

01:01:12.500 notice how we were left out of it uh the ottawa tried to downplay it but again i i think that

01:01:21.680 we've lost we've lost our trust and i hope at some point i mean i don't know who's going to

01:01:28.880 be the next prime minister i don't care but dear god let's bring in someone who can restore some

01:01:34.760 faith in the military and and and our reputation our reputation in the world uh we have to try and

01:01:42.440 get back on track somehow i think that's an important issue uh that we have to face down

01:01:47.640 the road well that's it i mean it's just common sense i mean i i don't think most of us want to

01:01:52.040 become a largely militarized nation we we don't have the population to sustain a large standing

01:01:57.560 army but we also have one of the largest coastlines on the planet uh we should have a good high-tech

01:02:04.760 uh well-funded well-trained even if small military rather than this one that used to be

01:02:09.880 held together with duct tape and bubble gum right now i know well and we are we still haven't signed

01:02:14.920 the deal yet but we are getting those f-35s which is a good thing we're behind we're a bit behind

01:02:20.040 everybody else but that's okay we're getting these f-35s and i heard today that we are signing a deal

01:02:26.840 uh for three uh tankers with uh i think it was airbus i'm not sure if it was airbus or boeing

01:02:32.440 But we signed a deal for three tankers.

01:02:36.040 So I guess we're getting a little more serious in that area.

01:02:39.480 So that's one good thing.

01:02:40.940 That's one good bit to report on the military front.

01:02:43.600 Anyway, for Canada.

01:02:45.060 Yeah, you know, it's funny just a side note.

01:02:47.360 I remember a story a little while ago talking about,

01:02:49.460 I guess our military members have World War II era sidearms that they still use today.

01:02:54.560 And they've been trying for decades.

01:02:56.660 They've spent millions just talking about this and still haven't replaced them.

01:03:00.520 And now I don't know where they'd be able to get them because we've banned importing any new sardines into Canada right now.

01:03:06.480 Well, I know we've had it in the other direction.

01:03:09.800 Well, again, I think they're just the lack of concern and lack of attention that Ottawa is giving the military.

01:03:19.500 I think we've reached a new a new low point in our history, I'm afraid to say.

01:03:25.480 I don't think Trudeau is really paying it much attention.

01:03:30.520 I think he's more interested in his green policies and how these 100,000 six-figure unicorn jobs are going to appear out of nowhere because we're all going to be driving electric cars and making huge money, you know, thousands of middle-class jobs for green technology that doesn't exist.

01:03:59.460 and probably won't exist for another 10 20 years and driving our economy into the gutter so i mean

01:04:06.420 that's uh that's our situation it's it's it is it is uh and again it goes back to what i was saying

01:04:13.380 where we're the canada of the future the canada of the future and will it be able to be strong

01:04:21.380 enough economically and offer jobs for your kids and and and the and the and our kids children

01:04:27.780 down the road? I don't know. I mean, I sometimes think we should consider all options. As Daniel

01:04:39.360 Smith is saying, we should consider all options. And if autonomy is one of those options, well,

01:04:46.200 let's pursue it. If we can't get it done with Ottawa, then let's have a look at maybe we can

01:04:52.180 get it done ourselves or at least approach some autonomy. Well, let's maybe wrap things up on a

01:04:58.900 positive note. There's a column you wrote a few days ago on witnessing a wedding. It was a nice

01:05:04.520 story and talking about, again, immigrants with high hopes and ambition and not everything's

01:05:12.080 necessarily bad. You know, that was probably the best wedding I've ever been to. My friend,

01:05:16.700 Graham who's a marriage counselor asked me this favor can you come and be a witness and he you

01:05:23.520 know he does this on a regular basis I said sure and it was just one of the nicest probably the

01:05:28.380 nicest wedding I've ever been to because it was only a few of us and we were at this park bench

01:05:34.340 down south in Calgary and it was so there was a young couple filled with excitement to be here

01:05:44.080 in calgary and to be discovering you know work and their future and everything and it reminded

01:05:49.840 me of when i had come to calgary also looking for a future also looking for jobs and hoping that

01:05:55.920 maybe i could make something of myself and of course uh you know i met the right lady and we

01:06:01.060 got married the same way in a in a park and uh it just it struck me as that geez you know i sure

01:06:07.000 hope calgary and alberta can still do this for for the the young kids in our province and and and

01:06:17.880 you know again this this is probably one of the most crucial uh uh elections coming up well not

01:06:26.440 yet but the ucp uh uh leadership race is very crucial to alberta's future and i would i would

01:06:34.920 ask people to really research it and try to make a choice that you think will be the best for

01:06:43.480 Alberta. We need somebody strong. We need somebody to go and tackle Ottawa, not to play footsies

01:06:50.160 like Notley did. We don't want that. We tried that, it didn't work. We need someone to go and

01:06:56.780 take Trudeau on head to head and to play hardball. And that doesn't mean separation or anything

01:07:03.280 automatic what we're asking for is a fair deal that's all and and and and uh uh to let our

01:07:10.960 industries foster instead of passing legislation that is knocking them into the ground so and

01:07:17.840 you know we can't trust this guy we need someone to go in there and play tough to play hardball

01:07:23.840 and i think personally okay i'm just speaking for myself i think daniel smith is the only one

01:07:30.720 who can do that and uh and i believe bert believes that too he's kind of soft on her

01:07:37.120 well yeah well bert's got his soft spots that's for sure all right all right on dave good talking

01:07:42.800 to you thanks and uh looking forward to your next columns and we'll talk again soon okay and thank

01:07:49.440 you it's been a pleasure working with you corey uh good luck in the future take care of my friend

01:07:54.720 all right thanks dave i'll talk to you later all right so that is the western standards dave

01:07:59.360 Dave Makachuk, again, a prolific columnist. And as we said, he writes columns on a number of

01:08:04.840 things, everything, a lot of military things, a lot of international stuff. You know, we have a

01:08:08.840 lot of local focus, but I like also, as he's, you know, as I said, with his personal observations,

01:08:15.240 a nice story, it's got a bit of a political tie. It's still talking about looking at the future

01:08:19.420 and your attitudes with a wedding in Alberta, or again, tying, finding an old discarded child

01:08:24.800 seat with realizing that there's people in need and that we are also just spoiling our civil

01:08:32.300 servants and our senior members as well. This country is not functioning the way it should.

01:08:36.620 It really isn't. I mean, we get those discussions. We talk about the term I like to use. We don't

01:08:40.620 hear as much as we used to as compassionate conservatism. I think we like taking care of

01:08:44.400 our neighbors. Conservatives aren't heartless. We want to make sure everybody has a good future.

01:08:49.620 We don't mind stepping up and above and beyond. It's just that we want to help people who can't

01:08:53.420 help themselves, not those who won't help themselves. There's a big difference between

01:08:56.780 those two. And, you know, just blanket government programs being tossed, you know, left and right

01:09:02.100 just ends up bleeding us and often gets to people that really didn't need it in the first place.

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01:10:28.040 All right. Here's some of that other stuff with the disconnected government,

01:10:31.740 some of these stories. This one's interesting. Cabinet members, you know, they've got a

01:10:37.280 multi-million dollar motor pool. They got all their cars. They get chauffeured around. Fair

01:10:41.240 enough. Senior government officials, they need security. There's things like that.

01:10:44.260 but it turns out in an inquiry that they don't drive Canadian cars. I mean, there are ones made

01:10:49.560 in Canada and in Ontario and a number of, you know, manufacturers and assembly places. You'd

01:10:55.740 think they'd buy them there? No, no, they're mostly from Kansas. You know, this is a government

01:11:02.380 that's incapable of leading by example. So they love to pour the subsidies into these auto plants

01:11:09.200 and say they're so important to the whole nation that they've got to suck the tax dollars out of

01:11:12.720 Alberta and pour them into these Ontario plants. But when it comes to purchasing items for

01:11:18.760 themselves, for their own government, they apparently can't source Canadian stuff. I don't

01:11:22.960 know. Is the padding a little fluffier for your entitled asses on the American built stuff versus 0.99

01:11:27.600 the Canadian built stuff? How are you supposed to take these guys seriously when they say they 0.95

01:11:31.600 care about Canadian jobs, yet the government can't even source local things when we had

01:11:35.900 comparable products right here? Of course, you always got to wonder with these things when they

01:11:40.940 make these deals, who was connected to whom, and who really kind of got perhaps a little extra

01:11:45.440 bonus for having purchased in certain areas rather than what's handy. Getting back to this is a scary

01:11:52.440 one. Well, not scary. It's just more of the same, right? Economic status for the French. The cabinet

01:11:58.960 must consider steps to secure a foothold for French in the public realm by way of cultural,

01:12:03.780 political, and economic status. This is a guide. And staff are complaining that after 53 years of

01:12:10.480 bilingualism, only 7% of the English-speaking Canadians know French words. You know, common 1.00

01:12:17.080 sense people would say, well, if you've tried 53 years of shoving French down our throats in the 0.98

01:12:20.580 English world and we still haven't embraced it, maybe you should give up. But no, this is the

01:12:25.020 government. They want to double down. Well, then we got to figure out how, damn it, how are we

01:12:28.800 going to make those English-speaking people speak more French? Well, they won't. But what they will 1.00

01:12:33.900 do is bring about a lot more regulations into the private industries, because they like using

01:12:38.340 federally regulated private industries. That's where they start. And making language speaking 0.75

01:12:43.240 quotas, making mandatory provision of French services. I don't care if there's French on 1.00

01:12:48.240 the back of my cereal box. How long will it be before they say the Western standard? Well,

01:12:53.100 it broadcasts potentially into Quebec as well. We have to have a French component as well. Hey,

01:12:58.660 that stuff's not beyond the realm of possibility. And then there's another way that they can bankrupt

01:13:02.960 independent media. They can say, well, if you're not going to put out that French stuff, we're

01:13:06.360 pulling all your licenses and we're not letting you broadcast. This is crazy, but this is where

01:13:10.000 the government's going, guys. This is where we are. This is problematic. And this is a government

01:13:14.740 again, disconnected. Here's something from the CBC, our state broadcaster, one and a half billion a

01:13:23.200 year plus. I always like to remind it, they steal a bunch of money from the advertising market too.

01:13:28.240 And I use that term steal because when you're already getting pumped full of subsidies to the

01:13:31.940 tune of one and a half billion tax dollars in a year. And then you sell advertising on top of it.

01:13:37.320 No other outlets can compete with that because they can undercut the ad sales because they don't

01:13:42.040 need that money. That's just bonus money to hire more union French speakers. Well, their story,

01:13:47.840 though, is saying lumber, wheat, and oil. All the prices are tumbling. And this is their headline.

01:13:54.000 The worst of inflation is over. They are in damage mode. Canadians are hurting. They're

01:14:00.660 having a hard time. Inflation's beating the hell out of them. A lot of it's because, again,

01:14:05.080 Canada, and yes, pretty much every government opened the floodgates, started printing money

01:14:08.620 to deal with the pandemic. The other part is when you lock down production and lock down

01:14:13.280 supply chains, you cause shortages in items and the prices of them go up. It's government actions

01:14:18.180 that cause the inflations quit making excuses. There's no virus has ever impacted your purchasing

01:14:24.840 power. Government responses to the viruses are what impact your purchasing power. But the CBC

01:14:30.940 carrying water for the liberal government, because they know people are getting pissed off. They know

01:14:35.340 they're having a hard time. They know the inflation sucks, are actually having a headline out there 0.87

01:14:38.460 while we're watching the price of everything go up. They're already announcing, ah, inflation's

01:14:41.900 over, guys. Don't worry about it. Don't sweat it anymore. That price of the pump, that's your

01:14:44.920 imagination, you know. I mean, it sounds like now housing, it's interesting, it's really coming down

01:14:52.000 and there's some warnings. Again, this is another indication, though, of the ineptness of the

01:14:56.680 government. So they've been cranking up interest rates, cranking up interest rates from the central

01:14:59.580 bank. That's the way they try to deal with inflation. You crank up the interest rates,

01:15:04.360 companies start cutting their capital budgets, people are less inclined to buy houses,

01:15:08.840 you slow the economy down. It slows inflation, but it's also because everybody's broke.

01:15:14.780 And if you overcrank it, you get a recession. You actually push the economy the other way,

01:15:19.680 you push it down and then you've got a big problem. So now they're getting fearful because

01:15:23.760 they think that the housing correction, and that's what Thomas, Mike Thomas, our columnist who talks

01:15:29.780 a lot on real estate, when I had him on last talk about it, it's a correction, probably not a bubble,

01:15:34.100 but now this correction they're warning might be as much as 25%. When you suddenly get a slash of

01:15:38.940 25% in home equities across this country, we are going to have an economic tidal wave go across

01:15:45.100 this country. I mean, there's no doubt there's been housing markets that have been overvalued

01:15:50.020 and way too high. And the way to deal with that was because we had incredibly low interest rates,

01:15:55.660 people were taking up mortgages that probably shouldn't have. And the Bank of Canada should

01:16:01.100 have started easing these interest rates up long ago, if they're going to do that. I mean,

01:16:05.340 we knew it, we were talking about, I remember talking to Franco Tarzano from the Taxpayers

01:16:09.400 Federation as we were looking at the spending ramping up and up, you know, two years ago when

01:16:12.840 the pandemic's going like, this is going to cause inflation. Yes, yes, it is. Well, what's going to

01:16:17.300 happen? Well, the big candle raise interest rates, but they didn't even start until a few months ago.

01:16:21.800 Like they should have at least been easing those rates up a year ago or more, but no. And we're

01:16:28.600 going to be in some big trouble guys. And there's more and more economists using that R word. And I

01:16:32.800 listened to an economist on a talk radio one morning saying, we need a recession. That's what

01:16:42.140 needs to do it to correct things. 0.98

01:16:44.460 Wow, okay, and I need to punch myself 1.00

01:16:46.280 in the balls for birth control. Guys, there's 1.00

01:16:48.160 better prophylactic ways

01:16:50.040 to avoid getting yourself in trouble.

01:16:52.680 A recession, that's using a hammer

01:16:54.280 that could have been

01:16:56.080 avoided with

01:16:57.480 proper economic policy. But again, we do have a

01:17:00.120 prime minister who overtly says

01:17:02.280 I don't like thinking much about economic policy. 1.00

01:17:04.440 Well, I know, the idiot probably needs help 1.00

01:17:06.260 spelling his own name. 1.00

01:17:08.160 We're in a lot of trouble, and Christia Freeland

01:17:10.080 doesn't seem a hell of a lot brighter than him.

01:17:12.800 Not looking brilliant. 0.99

01:17:14.160 And meanwhile, we've got other lunatics. 0.96

01:17:15.520 This was a story out. 0.92

01:17:16.640 A group in Prince Edward Island,

01:17:17.860 they are screaming and calling for more lockdowns.

01:17:20.220 They want lockdowns back.

01:17:22.500 They're in Charlottetown protesting

01:17:23.960 and it got reported on.

01:17:25.000 A memorial that they put up for 52 COVID-related deaths

01:17:33.780 since this began.

01:17:35.620 52 over two and a half years

01:17:37.700 out of hundreds of thousands of people.

01:17:39.860 And it's COVID-related.

01:17:42.140 Often, these were people who, I hate to say it, had one foot in the grave already.

01:17:45.820 It might have taken their life a bit early.

01:17:47.260 That's tragic.

01:17:48.220 We're talking weeks, months, maybe.

01:17:50.200 I mean, COVID.

01:17:51.100 I'm not going to get into the big...

01:17:52.220 I'll get kicked off YouTube.

01:17:53.380 But either way, these are people that really think for numbers like that, that they should

01:17:59.520 lock down the economy, that we should infringe on people's rights more.

01:18:03.100 We should have more people missing funerals, missing weddings, missing graduations, losing 0.70

01:18:07.340 their education, not traveling. 0.99

01:18:10.160 There really are assholes who think that the government should keep doing this. 1.00

01:18:13.940 They exist. 1.00

01:18:14.620 And it's not just in Prince Edward Island.

01:18:16.000 They're here, too.

01:18:17.880 And we've got to stand up to them.

01:18:20.720 Because, you know, it's not hard to coax an authoritarian government to become more authoritarian.

01:18:24.880 They're just looking for an excuse.

01:18:26.780 They love control.

01:18:27.680 They get off on it.

01:18:28.500 They fetishize it.

01:18:30.440 I don't like to think about what they do behind closed doors when they think about it.

01:18:33.340 I've got a feeling that's part of why so many of them are pissed off that the RCMP have been snooping in on their personal cell phones.

01:18:38.380 I can't imagine some of the pictures on there, things they do to themselves when they look at

01:18:42.100 lockdown measures on paper. You know, it's going to be arousing for a liberal. Either way, let's,

01:18:47.280 we'll see if that call to action gets ignored in PEI. I hope for the best for you guys way out

01:18:52.160 there, guys. Yeah, here was something with that. Daniel Smith spoke yesterday. They'd be making a

01:18:58.200 lot of news. That was funny to watch. I caught a bit of that in the news last night. So she spoke

01:19:02.520 in Banff at an event to a teacher's union. They're all out there in Banff. And boy, if you want

01:19:08.340 of the whiniest most entitled unions on the planet teachers have got that one down they're they're

01:19:13.300 close you know the nurses are close second but the teachers have really got that one down 1.00

01:19:18.180 and she basically dared to say it like it is and the part that i like the most though was the

01:19:23.460 like they actually did the tv panning when smith was up in a panel talking to them about things

01:19:27.460 like saying kids are getting socially promoted which is true and she's saying kids are graduating 0.95

01:19:31.620 without knowing how to read and do math which is true they did that crap with some of that 0.99

01:19:35.700 discovery math and shit like that to kids, she dared to say it. And they were just, how dare you? 0.99

01:19:41.940 Literally, I was surprised they didn't all have pearls they could actually clutch. The looks on

01:19:45.840 their faces that somebody actually countered them. They said, yes, I don't agree with you. I'm going

01:19:51.000 to push back with you. And it showed their entitlement, their years of having governments

01:19:55.080 terrified and kissing their collective asses. And they were shocked that somebody dared talk back 0.99

01:20:01.080 to them. It's about time. It's about time. About time we talk back to all of these entitled, bloated

01:20:07.500 civil service unions that have been bleeding us dry, particularly the ones that are taking care

01:20:11.220 of our kids right now. And I'm not saying every teacher's bad. It's a damn hard job that only

01:20:15.680 certain people can manage to do well. It's a very important job. And it's because it's so hard, 0.96

01:20:21.280 because it's so important, that it shouldn't be in the realm of unions that promote incompetent

01:20:25.640 boobs all the way through the teacher system to grab a big bloated pension because they just 1.00

01:20:29.280 wanted to put time in to be able to have two months off in summer, two weeks at Christmas,

01:20:33.620 two weeks at spring break, every professional day. What do they only teach for now? 30, 40 days a

01:20:38.600 year? It feels like it sometimes. Those are the ones the unions protect. There's ones who out

01:20:43.520 there who take it as a calling and they work their asses off and they're probably worth twice what 0.69

01:20:46.640 they make. But anybody who's been through the public system, and I remember some teachers like

01:20:50.120 that, they were going through the motions. These are the twits that drank their faces off through

01:20:54.040 university and decided to get a degree in philosophy. And then when they got tired of

01:20:57.680 making happy faces in lattes. How can I make myself a decent living? Hey, I can get straight

01:21:02.100 to teaching with a guaranteed salary, all these benefits, a huge pension, all those months off,

01:21:07.560 but they don't care about the teaching. They just want the compensation. That's what the union

01:21:11.160 protects. I'm not saying disband the union, but let's undercut them. Let's have truly choice in

01:21:16.760 education. Let's have those dollars follow the students. Let's have a variety of schools,

01:21:20.740 educational institutions, because this stranglehold of public education sucks, and it's not serving 0.83

01:21:26.960 us. But like I said, watching the reaction of those teachers, their faces, I mean, again,

01:21:32.780 you know, watching mainstream media isn't one of my favorite things, but I got to watch the

01:21:35.640 news every night to keep up. And just seeing that shot to the crowd, like they were just

01:21:39.260 almost like this, when Smith dared to call them out on their thing. That was just refreshing to

01:21:46.680 see. Good on you. Here's another story I looked at. So this, I don't even know which one this was

01:21:52.660 in. I think it was global. Five things experts say could ease pressures on Ontario's health

01:21:57.640 system. I'll get back to why. So one is repeal Bill 124. I guess it caps his wage increases for

01:22:04.100 public sector contracts to 1% a year for three years. And this is, of course, the nurses union

01:22:09.400 is pissed off about that. Step two is train and hire more workers. We'll just find them and put 0.62

01:22:16.060 them in there, apparently. Build standalone centers to catch up on surgical backlog. Okay.

01:22:21.460 But it also makes sure that that's publicly funded, not private.

01:22:26.620 Number four, improve work conditions for staff.

01:22:28.700 Well, I'm sure they didn't really have an agenda to make them worse, but okay.

01:22:33.320 And implement a system to track, prevent staff shortages.

01:22:36.200 Okay, well, what kind of system do you need?

01:22:37.700 You know, it's easy enough.

01:22:38.580 When you see them lined up out the emergency door, they've probably got a staff shortage.

01:22:41.280 When they're closing and reducing their hours because they can't keep up, they've probably got a staff shortage.

01:22:45.440 What sort of bloated bureaucratic crap do you guys want to put together to measure what we already know?

01:22:50.880 And the other parts, all these solutions, we already know all that. The thing that nobody's 0.89

01:22:55.200 got the balls to say is it's the system. All of these things are just talking about throwing more 0.95

01:22:59.400 money into a broken system. It's not going to work. You're putting sawdust in the transmission

01:23:04.460 to try and get a few more miles out of the thing. You've got to change the system. I don't know how

01:23:09.300 long it's going to take. I don't know when that common sense is going to come in for people to

01:23:13.460 realize that you can't fix Canada's rigid, inflexible, inefficient, expensive health care

01:23:20.740 system. You got to change it. We got to look to those dozens and dozens of systems that are doing

01:23:26.860 far better than ours over in Europe, probably in South America, all over the place. And don't let

01:23:33.920 these jerks keep polarizing it and acting as if there's only two systems, the American one and 1.00

01:23:37.980 the Canadian one. That's absolutely untrue. It's lazy politics. It's lazy thinking. In fact, 1.00

01:23:41.720 it's disingenuous. And who are the people always saying that? We don't want to go Americanize it.

01:23:46.100 Well, don't then. Let's Germanize it. Let's Frenchize it. Wranglicize it. I don't know what 0.96

01:23:50.980 the hell it would be. There's all sorts of other ones, and they're all doing better than us. New

01:23:53.880 Zealand's doing better than us. And you know what the common denominator is? They allow private care.

01:23:58.480 Universal, don't forget that word. Universal, everybody's still covered,

01:24:02.620 but they're allowing private care. Canada, North Korea, Cuba, the only ones that'll legalize it.

01:24:07.220 And look how well that's working out for us. But I don't know. Things are going to have to get a

01:24:11.640 lot worse before they get better. I mean, we're seeing those stories. And I was listening to

01:24:13.940 Rachel Notley jumping up and down, doing her socialist dance, saying, oh, the UCP is responsible

01:24:18.500 for all of this health crisis and all these care centers that are reduced hours and short of people

01:24:22.980 and up in Swan Hills, they don't have any doctors. But she's forgetting to say they got the same

01:24:28.660 problem in BC and that's run by the NDP. They got the same problem in Ontario. They got the same

01:24:32.300 problem in Newfoundland. It's everywhere because it's the Canadian system. I know you're trying

01:24:37.680 to win partisan points, but come on, Notley, stuff it. It's not a provincial thing. It's a

01:24:44.320 national thing. But I mean, our provinces need to step up and tell the federal government to go to

01:24:48.660 hell and fix the system ourself. That gets back to a lot of what earlier discussions were about.

01:24:53.220 All right, I've ranted and raved enough. And yes, I'll open up the store and clarify and

01:24:56.640 open up the store, open up the show and clarify a number of things tomorrow. And, you know,

01:25:01.200 announce some changes that are going to happen around here again. It's all for the better. It's

01:25:03.900 an evolution. We're a growing independent outlet and some things change. I'm not vanishing

01:25:09.800 altogether or anything like that. And the Western Standard is certainly not in trouble.

01:25:13.280 I know I'm vague booking. We'll go into the details of it tomorrow when I open the show up.

01:25:17.480 So I'll also have Reid Small. We're going to talk about some of the things in BC. He's our BC

01:25:21.780 reporter. He's putting out some great stories out there. And there is a race for the NDP leadership

01:25:26.380 out there. And we aren't hearing much about it, but it's an important one. And Michelle Sterling

01:25:30.520 from Friends of Science is going to come on and we'll discuss a number of things during the show

01:25:34.040 there as well. So thanks for tuning in today, guys. It was fun and I'll see you all again

01:25:39.800 tomorrow at 1130 a.m. sharp.

01:26:00.520 We'll be right back.

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