On today's show, we talk about the importance of Cow Appreciation Day, and the impact it can have on our lives. We also get into some serious climate change talk with Michelle Sterling of the Friends of Science and Jay Hill of the Maverick Party.
00:22:22.580You know, when you've got $87 billion being spent, you know, the parasites and opportunists0.85
00:22:28.420are going to come out of the woodworks and the deals are going to start getting cut.
00:22:31.100I mean, it's just a massive amount in a small market.
00:22:34.860But, you know, some of it we could kind of say it's not like we didn't have warning.
00:22:38.440There were canaries in the coal mine for a long time on this.
00:22:41.580And I dug into that a lot in years gone by.
00:22:44.140And I'm sure you're familiar with the old Imagine Calgary document.
00:22:47.260And she was one of the people who wrote that.
00:22:50.060And that fairy tale of a document was tax funded. And the stuff that you read in it, it was like a parody. It was crazy with these goals and things it was setting. And most of it was laughed off at that time. But Sustainability Calgary, which is a branch of City Hall, was modeled after that ludicrous document. And it's still out there. I got it on my own site at CoreyMorgan.com where I broke it down because, I mean, it is nutty.
00:23:15.240but you've got people in power, you've got a mayor, you've got a whole office of the city
00:23:19.840dedicated to following the tenets of that weird manifesto, and that was from 10 years ago.
00:23:29.260Yeah, and we also did a rebuttal report to Imagine Calgary, and that we sent to the city auditor
00:23:34.900and to the provincial auditor and to Nahid Nanshi at the time, and, you know, of course,
00:23:40.280we never heard back from anyone, but we think that there were some very serious breaches of
00:23:46.980public trust in how these things are developed. And of course, at a municipal level, the climate
00:23:52.060activists have much easier access to government and much, much, much more influence. One of the
00:24:00.220things to note is that Dr. Vipond's daughter, Sadie Vipond, is now a climate activist. She met
00:24:07.200with Greta Thunberg when Greta and her dad Svant were here in Calgary. And I think she even gave
00:24:14.140her her jacket or something like that. And so Sadie is suing the Canadian government along with
00:24:20.340a group of other kids with eco-justice. So there's more taxpayers' dollars that are being totally
00:24:26.360wasted on ridiculous efforts to stop climate change when, you know, climate has been changing
00:24:34.720for 4.5 billion years and the best thing we could do is to adapt to the real threats like flooding
00:24:42.640in the river valley like extreme weather we should have sufficient winter road clearing equipment you
00:24:51.760know so that people aren't waiting for a chinook so they can get out of their driveway i mean these0.92
00:24:56.480are the practical things that a city is supposed to take care of they're not supposed to be trying0.93
00:25:02.240to reduce the emissions of calgary which are nothing compared to china's which china admits
00:25:08.56028 of the world's emissions canada all of canada 1.6 percent of the world's emissions so nothing
00:25:17.440we do in calgary or in canada will stop global warming if that's your concern nothing we do
00:25:24.640will stop it. It's just empty virtue signaling. Plus they give this baloney out all the time
00:25:33.180saying, if we don't do it, it's going to cost us more. They never exactly say how,
00:25:37.500but then if they attribute anything and everything to climate change, they might be able to try and
00:25:42.460make that case. Oh, well, there'll be more flooding and it'll cost this, or there'll be
00:25:45.720more forest fires and it'll cost this. But boy, even with all of the natural events that have
00:25:49.960happened over the last few years, nothing is going to add up to $87 billion and nothing we
00:25:54.480do is going to change those events from happening right and a lot of people don't know that calgary
00:26:00.500had uh eight of the worst floods prior to 1933 and two of those floods had higher stream flows
00:26:07.920than the one of 2013 that's long before human influence on climate change was even attributed
00:26:14.760and they also make reference to the um fort mcmurray wildfire in their document well you know
00:26:23.060that was under an extreme weather condition, and it was poorly managed by the NDP at the time. In
00:26:30.740fact, Rachel Notley remember her standing up in the house and mocking Brian Jean as he was begging
00:26:36.880her to send water bombers? Well, his house burned down a few hours later. She was mocking him for
00:26:43.140fear-mongering. So, you know, I mean, just like winter snowstorms where you need road clearance
00:26:49.120equipment we live near the burial forest well calgary not so much but edmonton and north
00:26:55.520and you're going to have wildfires it's a seasonal occurrence so be prepared you know and that's what
00:27:00.720we should be spending the money on is being prepared for these real events that will happen
00:27:06.240every year sometimes greater sometimes lesser but we should be prepared and not be spending money on
00:27:12.960trying to make people ride a bike to to work if they want to go ahead but not everyone's going
00:27:19.680to want to and if you're let's say if you're 75 you're not going to want to ride a bike to the
00:27:24.480grocery store because if you fall off then you'll be in hospital with a broken hip you know some of
00:27:30.080these plans are just totally ludicrous yeah well well the event that happened this year was uh
00:27:36.000canada day skiing at sunshine village in the mountains it was cool enough that we could ski
00:27:40.000in July. Yeah, so much for the heat dome. And then at the same time, Mayor Gondek just does
00:27:46.940seem to love emergencies. You know, all of those threats for the flood that never was. I mean, we
00:27:51.980poured dirt all over the streets and we put the city on edge and we declared another state of
00:27:56.200emergency for something that never even came close. I mean, I understand being prepared,
00:28:00.160watching, fair enough. You know, they'll catch it if the river did burst the banks and nothing had
00:28:05.900been done. But from all reports out of that too, the reservoirs were still nearly empty. The water
00:28:10.500flow was controlled. They thrive on keeping the population afraid. Yes. Well, you know, I think
00:28:17.060it probably was prudent to drop the reservoir somewhat because the reports coming in, the
00:28:21.540forecast was fairly significant rainfall. And you never know if you'll get that or not. I mean,
00:28:27.100I think in the 2013 flood, initially the reports were that it wouldn't be that much rain and it
00:28:33.820kind of quickly went from 50 millimeters to 100 to 150 millimeters and then people were going oh my
00:28:39.640god um so you never really know but you know one thing to think about uh when you empty a reservoir
00:28:46.160like that that's a huge body of water you better hope you're going to get enough rain and run off
00:28:51.280after that to refill it because you've got a city of 1.6 million people and that's their source of
00:28:56.380water. So, you know, dropping the reservoir is a plan that you can use to help mitigate a flood,
00:29:04.400but it also may have significant consequences, unintended consequences down the road.
00:29:11.780And I guess we'll have to see this summer. I don't know if it's filled up again or not.
00:29:15.500I think there's still snowpack up in the hills. But again, you know, we're spending money in the
00:29:20.820wrong places. We're spending it on green crony capitalists. We're going along with activists.
00:29:25.880we're not doing a full cost-benefit analysis. We have a blog post where we have our City of
00:29:32.360Calgary emergency rebuttal report. We have our two 2017 reports which also address the climate
00:29:40.440plans of that time and I'm also going to put up our rebuttal to Catherine Hayhoe. Now Dr. Hayhoe
00:29:50.120is a fairly uh well-known science climate science communicator i think she was judged to be in the
00:29:57.640top 100 science communicators by time magazine but she's hooked on what's called rcp 8.5 which is a
00:30:05.800catastrophic scenario that's deemed to be implausible by the climate science community
00:30:11.960but that's the one she concentrates on as business as usual and she's been a consultant to the city
00:30:17.400of calgary so we know where this wrong information is coming from and so people should read our
00:30:22.920report it's called facts versus fortune telling and i'll be posting it right after the show on
00:30:29.160the same blog post about our climate emergency rebuttals you know i'll ask at the end as well i
00:30:35.080mean just to remind everybody but yeah the friends of science website and blog posts are a fantastic
00:30:39.640resource always lots of uh information and sources and uh and science behind it of course uh going
00:30:46.760Further, I mean, into the costs, I've heard apologists for this plan saying, look, it's not
00:30:52.040all straight tax dollars. We're not just going to raise it 87 billion. The private market's going to
00:30:56.940fill it and other levels of government are going to fill it. That still always ends up coming out
00:31:01.840of our wallet though. Yeah. Other levels of government, where do you think they get their
00:31:05.960money from? They get it from taxpayers. That's you, you know, and I mean, people should be aware
00:31:10.860that the city of ottawa is also doing a big climate plan 60 billion dollars so you calgarians
00:31:19.260will be able to help ottawa pay for their 60 billion dollar climate plan while ottawa will
00:31:25.500be able to help us pay for our 87 billion dollar climate plan now to see how that's not going to
00:31:32.540work out like when are we going to run out of money well and some of these costs as well are
00:31:38.220costs i guess that they're estimating because they're going to be imposing retrofitting on
00:31:42.540existing buildings possibly even personal homes uh definitely in the commercial sector even though
00:31:47.820we can we got over 30 vacancy as it is putting more expense on calgary's offices i don't think
00:31:52.860is going to help uh but but these costs again they're buried in a whole number of ways they
00:31:57.740plan to expend it and uh they you know they try to obfuscate by claiming it's going to be coming
00:32:03.580out of here and coming out of there but again it always comes out of us in the end
00:32:06.380Yes. And actually, one citizen sent us in a letter that they had sent to actually the David Suzuki
00:32:16.060Foundation, which was campaigning for the city and its residents to sign on to this deal. And
00:32:22.300this person noted that of the tab, that the Calgary 2022 net expenditures are 4.5 billion.
00:32:31.580So if we break down the $87 billion tab by year, that would be $3.1 billion a year, which is 69% of the current municipal expenditures.
00:32:43.680So, you know, what's going to happen to all the ordinary necessary things like road maintenance, you know, taking trees down when we've had a big windfall, running our fire department, police department.
00:32:59.040These, you know, these are vital services.
00:33:01.500This is what the city should be taking care of.
00:33:04.480As I said, you know, China emits in one month what Canada, all of Canada emits in a year and a half.0.94
00:33:14.620So spending all this money will do absolutely zero to stop climate change, but it will make a lot of green cronies rich.0.93
00:33:23.940And we should be asking who those people are and how they are skimming the public purse, because that's what it really amounts to.0.60
00:33:32.480Well, yeah, if we want to get to the bottom of it, when they bring in a law saying all of these
00:33:36.400businesses or buildings have to be retrofitted, I'd like to see who the contractors are who are
00:33:40.220going to be establishing that, or even what has to be done, or the inspections. There's a whole
00:33:44.420lot of people are going to benefit a heck of a lot from this sudden milking of individuals,
00:33:49.620of their funds. And let's not pretend we're not going to see some sole source contracts going out
00:33:54.680there. Right. And I mean, all we have to do is look at Germany right now, which has spent
00:34:00.860trillions of dollars trying to go green and go net zero and go all wind and solar their entire
00:34:07.260industry is on its knees like germany is on the brink of collapse because they haven't had
00:34:14.700thoughtful energy and climate policies they've had ridiculous energy and climate policies very
00:34:21.340similar to those discussed in this 87 billion dollar climate plan we have to ask like who are
00:34:29.180the people who are doing the consulting um you know i'm reading a book by uh jeremy rifkan
00:34:35.740called the zero near zero something society and he brags about consulting to merkel well he's
00:34:42.940not an engineer he's a futurist so it's all nice to sit around and dream of how the world might be
00:34:48.700just like the imagine calgary crew did what's it going to look like 100 years from now well
00:34:53.340my grandmother spent her honeymoon at the Calgary Stampede, the first one in 1912.
00:34:59.820And she could not have ever imagined how Calgary would be 100 years later. That's how ridiculous0.88
00:35:06.300these kinds of exercises are. And we should not be bankrupting our city and, you know, allowing0.94
00:35:13.740people who hate the energy industry to drive the agenda that runs our city. That's absurd.
00:35:20.620it's self-destructive why are we doing it well absolutely and there's a lot of goals set out in
00:35:25.580that document that they don't specify how they're going to get to them but things such as that oh
00:35:29.50060 of the city or more is going to be either riding a bike or taking the bus to work they're
00:35:34.300not going to use cars anymore and i mean it's clearly ridiculous they can't even get people
00:35:38.380to ride the train today because they're too scared to take on the addicts who've taken over the uh
00:35:42.460transit system but when push comes to shove and they get desperate i can see some crazy measures
00:35:47.180like closing roads, taxing cars, all sorts of means to try and force people to take the crack
00:35:55.100trains to come downtown to the empty offices. But it's just not going to happen. It's just going to
00:35:59.340be cost with no benefit. Well, as you say, it's going to be an eco-dictatorship. And if you look
00:36:05.780at Deutsche Bank, that's their answer to build back better, is to impose an eco-dictatorship
00:36:12.780on society and one of the examples that deutsche bank gives is the idea of retrofitting a house
00:36:19.100that some people may not want to retrofit their house because it might make your house look pretty
00:36:23.020ugly or some people may not have the money or they may simply not want to comply well their answer
00:36:29.020to that in is to simply impose an eco dictatorship so you know there's another thing that people
00:36:35.900should look at on our youtube page and that's um a presentation that donna laframboise did for us
00:36:42.300She's an investigative journalist, and she's been working on The Climate File for many years.
00:36:48.400And it's about how climate activism is taking away your freedom of choice, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
00:36:56.600And that's exactly what we see happening.
00:44:17.940Because, again, transit isn't necessarily reliable or serving every area well enough for a person to get to.
00:44:23.920When a person, say again, has the ability to take the kids to school and then drive to their workplace and put in a good day's work, that car empowers them.
00:44:31.340Again, these hypocritical leftists claim to care for the little guy, claim to care for the working man.
00:44:35.980But when it comes to things such as a personal vehicle, which does empower the working man, they don't want to support that.0.94
00:44:42.460They have a double standard. Their ideology blinds them to reality.
00:44:46.920But I mean, again, look at the people who are talking about it.
00:44:49.460These are city councillors making six-figure incomes, saying the Calgary Transit's perfectly fine, yet they've never actually ridden on it.0.96
00:44:56.140They're not going to go on there and smell the piss and sit with an addict.0.99
00:44:59.460They're going to listen to their advisors who give them fluffy, woke crap and blow sunshine up their butts.1.00
00:45:48.460Either way, as I said, I mean, in a self-interested sort of way, I live in a bedroom community just outside the city of Calgary, and our property values are doing better and better all the time.
00:45:58.400You know what? My property taxes are far lower than the city, and the way I know that it snowed in the night in the wintertime, I wake up because I hear the plow outside at five in the morning.
00:46:08.060There's people in districts in Calgary who have never heard of snow plow their whole life because they don't go onto the back streets.
00:46:12.720We're too busy spending all our money on climate initiatives, and we can't get the snow off our streets.
00:46:17.060so yeah jody keep up the good work and let's see if we can get up to 50 vacancy downtown
00:46:24.180set a record you know pick up where nichi started and see if we can create north america's biggest
00:46:30.500most modern developed ghost town i mean that could become a tourist attraction of its own
00:46:35.000it's no wonder the last of us came to film in calgary i mean there's parts of downtown because
00:46:40.500it's a production that was showing a dystopian post-apocalyptic world they didn't have to do a
00:46:46.640heck of a lot of work. Close a few city blocks. You've already got all the garbage and broken down
00:46:50.220vehicles and boarded up businesses. Hell, half their work was done for them. No wonder they
00:46:55.080chose Calgary. But it would be better to have an ongoing industry to carry these things on rather
00:47:00.100than just allowing downtown deterioration to continue. But again, I saw our state broadcaster
00:47:07.040with a story today talking about Calgary's transit and saying, you know, more people would
00:47:12.760right if we just redesigned the stations. Look, we got three stations closed down because the
00:47:17.740city was too scared to evict the junkies from them. They're closed. They've been closed since
00:47:21.600February. You can't get into Heritage or Anderson or Southland right now. They've been closed up,
00:47:29.000locked doors. You have to walk outside, not across the tracks because they'd turned into
00:47:33.020homeless encampments. They won't enforce the law to do it. And they think we can redesign
00:47:36.900the stations and that's what's going to make people come back. No, you're just going to make
00:47:40.480a nicer station for the junkies to live in. You've got to enforce the bloody law and get these people0.53
00:47:45.160out of there. But these guys are not in tune with reality. They don't get it. They won't get it.
00:47:50.380All right, enough bitching out of me. I brought somebody new in to bitch about some other stuff.1.00
00:47:54.060And we've got Jay Hill here in person. And it's always great to have you come in, Jay,
00:47:59.580and talk about a number of issues. So good to see you. It's been a few days. I love to be back.
00:48:06.000Yeah. So I got a head of steam up, you know, these environmental things get me.
00:48:10.400Well, I think that's what's why your program is popular for some people.
00:48:15.360Well, even for those that like to disagree with you, I think that
00:48:19.040it gives them someone to disagree with.
00:48:20.640Well, there we go. And again, as I've said before too, it's good for Jane, you know, my wife,
00:48:24.560so she doesn't have to listen to me going on and on. Get it out of my system while I'm here.
00:48:29.280And then I can annoy her with other, you know, important things.
00:48:32.000Yeah. Yeah. I'm still annoying when I get there, but it'll be different stuff.
00:52:30.460Oh, geez, you know, they're being persecuted, but I'm not really going to stand up and say a lot on the person's character anyways, because it's just not something to speak to.
00:52:42.040And, you know, this is what's so frustrating for those of us that know Tamara and know her well.
00:52:46.840I mean, I had the pleasure and the privilege of working with Tamara for about two years now, ever since I came out of retirement and started a new political party that evolved into the Maverick Party, the West's only federal party.
00:53:02.720And Tamara was on the original board of directors. She stayed there. She worked hard, despite the challenges that she was facing in her personal life because of the financial upset of losing her employment. And her and her husband had to relocate to Manitoba for a while. Then they came back.
00:53:19.140she's always been involved in causes, causes that are near and dear to her heart. And as I said
00:53:25.400earlier, she's the type of grandma that cannot sit idly by when she sees an injustice, when she sees
00:53:32.860that our rights and our democratic institution, basically, our constitutional rights are under
00:53:40.100attack by our own government. And so she got involved. That was all. She got involved with
00:53:45.880this effort to peacefully protest with this convoy and eventually in Ottawa. And now she's being
00:53:53.900persecuted. That's the word that my friend Preston Manning used in his newspaper column of a couple
00:54:01.720days ago. She's being persecuted by our own government. And it's absolutely appalling. As I've0.64
00:54:09.340said repeatedly, and as you've said, every single Canadian should be very, very concerned about this,
00:54:16.960that she is being kept in jail now, but not by a judge, by a justice of the peace that made this
00:54:23.680ruling on Friday to keep her incarcerated. What is this costing taxpayers to persecute this
00:54:31.860grandmother? Oh, I mean, they spent hundreds of thousands just to fly homicide detectives across0.87
00:54:36.660the country to arrest her. I mean, the money being flushed because she paused next to somebody.0.63
00:54:41.360Remember, that's the crime she's in for right now. She paused with somebody she's not supposed0.98
00:54:46.060to be with for three seconds in a picture in a video, which again, technically, maybe if you're
00:54:50.920really a hair splitter, you could say, wow, you crossed the line. We had a legal breakdown of
00:54:55.500that actually from one of our columnists, Karen Selleck, and she's a lawyer. And again, you know,
00:55:00.080going into how unreasonable that offense supposedly in the bail is. I mean, that's,
00:55:06.260again, while you have a judge, and not a justice, she really goes into this justice of the peace.
00:55:09.800This wasn't even one who was a former lawyer. And people got to remember, so this was not
00:55:13.800a legal expert. So what did he base his ruling on? This is the part that puzzles people.
00:55:18.800Yeah. And Karen questioned it quite interestingly, because she said, and he had to sit for four days
00:55:24.300and come up with this. And he didn't give a written version. He just gave an oral, which
00:55:28.940he said, typically they're going to give something written. But, you know, speculation, was he
00:55:33.220dwelling on this, or was he asking certain people, what do you want me to do about this?
00:55:38.240Certain people. Yeah. And it's... Far be it for us, ladies and gentlemen, to suggest that there
00:55:44.860would be any political interference in these types of rulings, or what's been going on in this
00:55:50.540courtroom, where an identified partisan prosecutor, right? I mean, he's contributed thousands of
00:56:00.460dollars, as you've said, and others have said, to the Liberal Party of Canada. And he's allowed
00:56:05.860to go on for hours ranting about Tamara as though she truly is a terrorist, rather than somebody
00:56:13.560that believed in democracy in Canada. He's been almost obsessive with it. And
00:56:18.820something I've speculated too, though, in past columns I wrote, I think it was for the
00:56:23.400But either way, I think part of the reason they're after her is because she doesn't present the visible example of what they would like to point out as a convoy leader.
00:56:36.020She's not a crazed person running around screaming through a bullhorn or a long history of arrests or a long history of organization.
00:56:43.580She doesn't have a swastika tattooed on her forehead.
00:56:47.580No, when people listen to her speak and they see her and they realize, even if they don't agree with her, whatever this person is, this isn't a threat to society.
00:57:21.560If she was a screaming, raging lunatic, they'd say, get out and get on Facebook as hard as you can because you're making our work easier for us.1.00
00:57:31.500I mean, you know, if we reflect back to when she was arrested, okay, in Ottawa after this protest, I'll call it a protest.
00:57:42.180I mean, the people that are so upset about this apparently call it a blockade or an occupation or they trump up all these kind of charges against, which was, I mean, they were bouncy castles.
00:57:56.020They were protesters shoveling snow for the people.
00:57:59.420they were supporting local businesses that had been in tough times, you know, the local coffee
00:58:05.240shops and restaurants and hotels. And in any event, you know, because they blew their horns
00:58:11.740a little bit too much and drew attention to themselves, they were, you know, into a situation
00:58:16.740of an occupation. It's all been such nonsense. And you know, although there was a real hue and
00:58:23.200cry from the government and from the mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, when it was shown that when
00:58:29.760the police started to move in to clear the protesters, she said, what did she say? She said,
00:58:36.600hold the line. That meant, according to the government and the courts, she was inciting
00:58:42.820mischief. My God, what a terrible crime. But reflect back, ladies and gentlemen, on our history
00:58:51.420of labor unrest in this country. Okay. How many times in our history, including fairly recently,
00:59:00.480have we witnessed strikes where justifiably, you know, strikers are saying to their colleagues
00:59:08.800when faced with the police trying to break up a, you know, the strikers line with their placards,
00:59:17.280right? They're trying to break them up and they say, hold the line. You hear about those guys
00:59:21.260being arrested, thrown in jail for 18 days, being denied bail, and then re-arrested? No.
00:59:28.420It's recognized that Labour has a right to strike and protest. But she doesn't. She doesn't.1.00
00:59:36.820And this convoy, this protest in Ottawa, apparently they don't have that right.
00:59:42.700Well, and the governments, again, their case is falling apart. And I think that's why they're
00:59:46.120afraid. I mean, the Senate committees are ripping into them. The parliamentary committees are
00:59:49.740ripping in. I've got a feeling we'll see, but this, this justice might be questionable is
00:59:53.940leading the investigation. We'll hope not though. And he takes it seriously. They're not going to
00:59:58.440be able to make their case for invoking the emergencies act. And even arguably, if people
01:00:03.480say that the protested out state, it's welcome. Maybe they were there too long. It was time to
01:00:07.480move them along. Yep. You know, we can debate that. That's fair enough, but there was no police.
01:00:12.280That was the other thing saying that we can't do this without the emergencies act. They were saying,
01:00:17.100just let us do this. We can do it. They cleared the border down in Windsor. They cleared the
01:00:21.340Alberta border where those other side blockades were. That was before the Emergencies Act was
01:00:25.180imposed. And not only that, but people buy into our mainstream media, bought and paid for liberal
01:00:32.660media. They buy into their argument that those blockades at the Ambassador Bridge and here in
01:00:37.920Alberta at Coots were somehow linked to what was going on in Ottawa. I know that for a fact. You
01:00:43.800know that that is not true that these were people just common people that said you know what we're
01:00:50.460going to rise up because of what's happening in ottawa sure but that did not have the approval
01:00:56.540the support or the affiliation of the protesters in ottawa and yet the media the mainstream media
01:01:02.680were just all over themselves buying into the liberals arguments that oh my god look what's
01:01:08.680happening. This is growing all across the nation. Well, yes, in a way it was growing, but it had
01:01:13.620nothing to do with Tamara Leach. No, and the media embarrassed itself over the course of that whole0.98
01:01:18.320affair. I mean, they bought into all of the BS myths, that fake Twitter thread of a supposed
01:01:24.280arson. I remember people getting on my case at that time because I called BS as soon as I saw
01:01:28.620this stinks. This is baloney. This guy's making this crap up. But the media jumped on, they reported0.97
01:01:33.480on it. And guess what? It was BS. Justin Ling puts his thing out claiming that guns had been seized.
01:01:41.080Total BS, but the media seized on it, used it. And there was supposedly some sort of a weird
01:01:47.400connection to, you know, the illegal importation of firearms and this big seizure that the police
01:01:55.400had made somewhere else in Ontario. And they kind of linked it to what was going on in Ottawa.
01:02:00.600and it was all bs no and and again that's part of it too is we've got a legacy media that leash
01:02:07.480embarrasses again as a symbol because she's not everything they're trying to say this protest was
01:02:14.120and you know that this emergencies act they could have cleared that protest without invoking it
01:02:19.400well you know it's starting to come out and perhaps we'll see this uh confirmed with the
01:02:25.080investigation. As you say, the judge that is leading that investigation, hopefully he's going
01:02:31.040to do as thorough a job as Justice Gomory did with the infamous liberal sponsorship scandal of
01:02:38.500a few years ago. And if he digs that deep and does that type of job, I think he'll do an enormous
01:02:45.120service to Canadians. But Corey, I mean, it is becoming quite clear that the Emergencies Act,
01:02:53.240at least partially, was brought in, not because the police asked for it, not the Ottawa police,
01:02:58.860not the Ontario Provincial Police, not the RCMP, nobody, despite what the minister lied about in
01:03:05.820the House of Commons in question period. You know, what was the reason? Well, now it's starting to be
01:03:13.600suggested it was because tow truck drivers, owners, and companies refused to tow these vehicles.
01:03:21.780So how can our prime minister and the mayor of Ottawa tow these trucks if he doesn't have any
01:03:29.300tow trucks? I mean, government doesn't own tow trucks, but if they had the Emergencies Act,
01:03:35.700if they had effectively martial law, the prime minister can do anything he wants, including
01:03:41.680ordering tow trucks to tow these vehicles or they themselves will be punished under law.
01:03:49.520Well, that's it. And not enough citizens realize how serious the invocation of that act is. I mean, it used to be called the War Measures Act, and they should have kept it that way because people would realize how serious it is when it's brought in, not just your run-of-the-mill emergency, because what it is, is a form of martial law. And what that means is you are going to suspend charter rights for people in the face of an emergency.
01:04:09.720And of all of those, I don't think it was even used necessarily, but symbolically of being able to force a tow truck driver to labor for them, basically, and I say with a gun to their head.
01:04:20.360And I mean, I know there wasn't a literal one, but hey, if you eventually push the police far enough when you've got an order against you, that's what you can end up with.
01:04:45.140You know, I was thinking about, where is it here?
01:04:49.460I was thinking about this, of course, yesterday and the day before as I was tweeting and posting on Facebook about Tamara and this injustice.
01:04:59.880And I came across this famous quote by a Lutheran pastor a number of years ago.
01:05:06.200And we've often heard it, but I want to read it out.
01:05:09.460And I wrote it down, Corey, to make sure I didn't misquote.
01:05:13.540First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
01:05:19.100Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.0.90
01:05:24.680Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.0.94
01:05:30.360Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak for me. You know, end of quote.0.98
01:05:38.480Corey, I know that some people will be appalled that I said that and that I'm overstating it.
01:05:45.660But I don't believe I am. If we as Canadians allow Tamara Leach to be persecuted in this way,
01:07:14.000We're really thrilled that we're able to bring them to the numbers that need to be here.
01:07:17.680Wow, and we even have like a seated floor here. I don't know if you can get a
01:07:24.080zoom of that, but you can see right through the floor here. There's my foot. So it's pretty,
01:07:29.920it's pretty cool. What else is new on the ground, Scooter?
01:07:32.960So we also brought two other rides with us. We brought the Raptor Run, which is a great ride
01:07:37.280great fun here. It's a family ride made for a mom and dad and the kids, so young and young at heart.
01:07:42.080It also brought the only traveling double-decker merry-go-round in North America.
01:07:46.260It's right beside the big four, right next to the super wheel.
01:07:48.980And not only is that a North American Midway showpiece, it's also a really good ride,
01:07:52.780and it's been very, very well-received. It's been very, very popular.
01:07:56.580Yeah, and it has been an absolutely packed stampede so far.
01:08:01.340You know, you must be kind of happy to be back at it.
01:08:03.880Yeah, at the beginning of the stampede, somebody asked me how many people were going to come this year,
01:08:07.120and I said everyone, and I was right. Everyone did show up.
01:08:10.140We had an amazing weekend, we had a break yesterday, and today with Community Day, it seems like Calgary's back here, busyness with us today, it's been spectacular so far.
01:08:20.320You know, the people of Calgary really supported this event, and they're coming out in droves this year, I really appreciate that.
01:08:25.700Yeah, it's great, now you have been doing this for quite a few years, why don't you tell us how you started sort of running things here on the Midway?
01:08:32.540Well, I started in 1977. I graduated from high school, waited in my life for about three hours for a job at the Stampede, which I landed one, and I came to work the next day and found out actually I was working for the carnival.
01:08:44.620And one thing led to the next, and 45 years later, I'm sitting right here talking to you, enjoying every minute of it.
01:08:50.880Yeah, so you actually joined the circus, kind of. You get to travel with this amazing midway kind of all over North America.
01:08:58.640Yeah, our company plays 124 events a year. We see about 15 million people. The unit that I'm involved with, we play 18 fairs, nine in Canada and nine in the United States. We kind of follow the sun. We start in the United States in the spring and work our way through Canada in the summertime. And then back in the United States into November. So on the road about nine months a year. And then back home to Calgary.
01:09:23.300Yeah, Calgarian. And so again, these pods are air conditioning, so it's, boy, is it a treat because it is hot down here with the pavement.
01:09:33.220What would you say, Scooter, is the ride, like the number one ride? What are people lining up the most for?
01:09:40.320Well, you know, our Crazy Mouse roller coaster is always popular with everybody.
01:09:43.940On a hot day like today, the Niagara Falls Floom is the right way to cool down.
01:09:47.720And of course, what about the iconic, do you want to go faster, Polar Express?
01:09:51.720us and what would be the stampede without the zipper right so i think you know that's really
01:09:56.120kind of our top our top ones kind of our fan favorites and as far as the rides are concerned
01:10:01.640what else do you kind of uh what else do you sort of orchestrate here on the grounds games and other
01:10:06.920things so we have a whole bunch of rides but also we have uh 60 some odd games too so teddy bears
01:10:12.280for some love affairs and we have 18 great food stands which augments the calgary stampede fantastic
01:10:19.880lineup of food mini donuts lemonade pizza cotton candy corn dogs of course so you know
01:10:26.920that kind of rounds out north american midway which is rides games and food and speaking of
01:10:31.400foods uh i think there are a few different uh things that people can try every year what are
01:10:37.640some of the new to tries this year on the midway well you know on the stampede side they're a little
01:10:42.680bit more adventurous than we are we at north american midway we stick with those staple
01:10:46.920carnival favorite foods like mini donuts and cotton candy and pizza and corn dogs that's kind
01:10:53.160of our thing you know there's some people that are booked with the stampede that have tried some
01:10:57.080adventurous things and i hear they're doing very very well yeah i heard i walked by a booth the
01:11:01.480other day that had hot dogs with crickets uh and i think there were other things you could get that
01:11:06.760had uh kind of crickets and whatnot in them so uh we're going up one more time here uh maybe we'll
01:11:13.320will show another view of the grounds and there's a lot of construction happening here at the grounds
01:11:19.720this year too just a huge expansion of the feeble center um you know which is
01:11:25.560i mean it's kind of out of the way it's not really affecting anything down here on the grounds
01:11:29.880and uh lots of room to come down and have a look what is uh what's the highlight for you every year
01:11:37.240you know i've been a lot of friends here excuse me i have a lot of friends here at this camp
01:11:41.400either that I've known for many years, I guess that's my highlight.
01:11:44.320You know, and then how Calgary comes together to produce this event.
01:11:49.360You know, sometimes I get the feeling we don't know in Calgary how this event is,
01:16:16.020We've got the farmer protest about the dramatic increase in the price and cost of fertilizer and what the government's trying to impose upon them in Holland, in the Netherlands.
01:16:28.380We've got what we saw on the news recently about the mass protests in Sri Lanka that forced the resignation of the president.
01:16:36.260you know it's really I think this whole business this ridiculous worldwide addressing of supposed
01:16:45.580climate change is coming home to roost because there is a line there yes we all want to be
01:16:51.860environmentally conscious and do what we can to protect our environment always have always will
01:16:57.920but this this business of where they're going to force people off the land
01:17:03.320They are going to dramatically impact the production of food.
01:17:08.760And we already know the world, because of our population, our growth in population,
01:17:14.380all we've got to do is have a bad famine, and you're going to have a lot of people
01:17:18.540that aren't just suffering or struggling to pay the food that goes on the table
01:17:22.920like we are in Canada, but much more than that, Corey.
01:17:26.960And so we're seeing this growth of worldwide protests.
01:17:30.620Well, the world's tense. We've had two unprecedented years of basically every developed nation contracting economically, stepping on the rights of individuals. People can argue whether it was justified or not, but we were locked up. I saw some clown on there saying there was never even a lockdown. People shouldn't even use that term.
01:17:48.780come on when you're forced out of your business when you're forced to shut down when you're fined
01:17:53.320for going out in groups of more than a couple of people and this is a crazy thing and now the price
01:17:59.360is coming i mean people are upset they're prickly i think they've lost a lot of trust in the states
01:18:04.340you know not just canada as you're saying everywhere and these governments can't push
01:18:08.340the envelope the way they used to people are ready to push back and i i ranted about that
01:18:12.580with the dutch and again mainstream media boy they're silent on this yeah but the dutch you
01:18:17.600don't think of them standing up that much well they're ticked off they've had at least the
01:18:20.520farmers have and well and you see those photographs so reminiscent of what started
01:18:25.520last January in Canada with the truckers protest over there it's the farmers because they know
01:18:31.900with what the government of Holland has said many of them will lose their farms and those that
01:18:38.640struggle to survive aren't going to be making sufficient because they can't grow enough without
01:18:43.460fertilizer. And we've got a growing problem in Canada. I was talking to my brother the other day
01:18:48.520who farms up in the peace country. And he was saying that the cost of fertilizer has gone up
01:18:54.460unbelievably in Canada. And it was already high before last fall when he was out anhydrissing
01:18:59.900for this year's crop. And so we're not far behind folks. And when it affects the farmers and their
01:19:06.660ability to properly fertilize and feed their crop, it's going to affect how many bushels they get.
01:19:13.460what their long time financial viability will be, and ultimately, how many loaves of bread that can
01:19:21.540be produced. Yeah, and we've got this ideologically blinded government. So we saw that with
01:19:25.980Freeland the other day, when talking about the energy prices, and she comes up and says,
01:19:30.440this is the reason we have to move even further towards electric. No, you fool, you really are0.98
01:19:36.220clueless. And I tell you what, and I've said this for years, and we're seeing it now, the environment1.00
01:19:40.980doesn't mean a damn thing if you can't fill your fridge and you can't pay your rent. It doesn't
01:19:44.560matter how ideological or how concerned a person was about the fluffy bunnies and the temperature
01:19:49.22020 years from now. If they can't feed their family or pay for the roof over their head,
01:19:54.520they're going to rebel. This government doesn't get it yet. But some governments are starting to
01:19:58.960get it pretty quickly now. Yeah. And you know, one of the things that's so frustrating, and I think
01:20:04.220even more so for someone yourself that's on on air ranting day after day trying to draw people's
01:20:11.480attention to this we get some great comments but they're just a handful of people that are paying
01:20:16.820attention the masses are either tuned out or they're ambivalent or they apparently just don't
01:20:22.960care what is coming at us and it is so frustrating and it's so annoying for for those of us that are
01:20:32.440involved in trying to message this. And for those people out there, Corey, that say, well,
01:20:37.380what can I do about it? You know, I was, again, doing a bit of research, and I reflected back on
01:20:44.260the 1980s, and a fella in Poland, his name was, well, he's still around, Lech Walesa. And he led
01:20:53.580a movement called the Solidarity Movement. It started out in the Gdansk shipyards as a strike
01:21:00.160against the communist government of Poland. They wanted democracy. And, you know, it just grew and
01:21:07.680grew and grew. And they finally forced that government's resignation. And arguably, they
01:21:12.500played a key role in the Iron Curtain being destroyed, and ultimately, the breakup of the
01:21:19.420Soviet Union. So when people think, well, you know, there's nothing that we can do. You know,
01:21:24.380I point to things like that in history, where people have had the courage to stand up and be
01:21:29.420counted and some amazing things happen. And I think we're starting to see that similar with
01:21:35.380this farmer protest, even with our own arguably freedom convoy back in the winter. People are
01:21:42.800reaching a breaking point and they're saying government just doesn't listen. These politicians
01:21:48.160are saying exactly what we want to hear and then they get elected or re-elected and the next thing
01:21:54.240you know, you know, it's the same old, same old. It's the status quo. Two leadership races now
01:21:59.660for conservatives that Albertans support conservatives and both provincially and
01:22:05.000federally. And what are those candidates saying with the exception perhaps of Danielle and Pierre
01:22:10.840Pauliev at the federal level? Will they walk the walk if they win? Yeah, well, and I, it's always
01:22:20.440is a hard one to believe. We get frustrated a lot. I believe that was a lot of Jason Kenney's
01:22:24.340downfall. Again, he promised big and he delivered low and people wouldn't put up with that. I got
01:22:29.460a feeling at least in Alberta, they're going to know whoever wins is going to know better. Like
01:22:33.720they're not going to stay in that leadership if they don't follow through at least some of their
01:22:37.020platform, depending on, unless it's one of the liberal. It's a frustrating thing for me though
01:22:42.000at the federal level and why I've been saying for the last two years since I got involved in
01:22:46.840launching Maverick is that I'm a slow learner, is because, okay, everybody jumps Pierre Poliev,
01:22:53.980okay, he's saying all the right things, especially for Western Canada, especially for Alberta.
01:22:58.320And hopefully he'll do it if he becomes Prime Minister. I'm not convinced, even if he wins the
01:23:02.840leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, that he can win the government. And he has to
01:23:06.700have a majority. Remember, I was there in two Harper minorities, and how hard it is to get
01:23:12.140anything done in a minority situation, a conservative minority. If you're a liberal,
01:23:18.300of course, you just get the NDP to support you and away you go. Just the same as if you had a
01:23:22.680majority. But for the conservatives, will he, as I say, walk the walk? Can he win a majority
01:23:30.140by sticking to this type of a platform? Is it going to sell in central Canada? And then most
01:23:36.260importantly, folks, what happens the next time? We've been going through this cycle for 100 years
01:23:43.200now, or more than 100 years. And sooner or later, Central and Eastern Canada will say, well, I don't
01:23:50.000really like what Pierre Polyev, as our Prime Minister, just as they did with Stephen Harper,
01:23:54.380I don't really like what he's doing. We're going to vote Liberal again. And then what? We're right
01:24:00.040back in the same thing. That's why the West has to do something different. Oh, absolutely.
01:24:50.700Well, what I would like to see, I think, and you yourself, Corey, is that people in both leadership races for the Conservatives, for Alberta's information, that they would be asked and commit to a timeline.
01:25:04.700Okay. Like Danielle Smith says that one of our first things will be to bring forward this
01:25:09.760Sovereignty Act, I think it's called. And great. Okay. What follows that? What specific laws,
01:25:18.440federal laws, have you identified, Danielle, that you will commit to not adhering to? You don't need
01:25:24.480to repeal them. You can't do that. They're federal laws, but you can commit to not implementing them
01:25:29.960here in Alberta. How quickly will you move on an Alberta pension plan? I mean, people want to know
01:25:36.560that. And as you say, that was the problem with Jason. He talked all these lines about the fair
01:25:41.960deal panel recommendations, right? And then he got in there, nothing's happened. Nothing has
01:25:48.300happened in that regard, other than that referendum that really didn't prove anything. We already knew
01:25:53.580what the result was going to be, that Albertans are saying no to equalization as it's formulated
01:26:00.120currently. Didn't tell us anything. And he gave us a chief firearms officer. Okay, good.
01:26:06.340But the pension plan, the RCP, come on, enough. How many times have you got to get yes on the
01:26:11.060ground before you say, okay, we're going to do it? Meddling around and kicking the can down the road.
01:26:15.780So I hope in those two leadership races that especially the front runners are forced to
01:26:22.060commit to a timeline so that people, as they did with Jason, can hold them accountable ultimately.
01:26:28.620Yeah, well, we'll see. It's a long summer of politics. And well, thank you for coming in to
01:26:33.740talk to us today. I'll kind of wrap up the show here, guys. Always lost the cover. We've solved
01:26:38.720a couple of the world's problems, I think, today. Well, hopefully we've at least, again, reinforced
01:26:43.860in your viewers' minds the need to take some action. A good friend of mine, Preston Manning,
01:26:50.480always says, well, okay, that's fine to talk about it, Corey, but people need to do something.
01:26:57.500Well, and I think in the wise words of a guy who's not typically called wise, I think it was
01:27:02.040Mike Tyson, who he said, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face. So all the
01:27:06.100fluffy plans and environmentalism, that's fine, but you're about to get punched in the face. So0.97
01:27:09.620you're going to have to reevaluate your plan in a hurry. And I think that'll mean a lot of people
01:27:13.040though, perhaps standing up, even if late, it's better late than never. And we'll get some changes
01:27:16.900yet. All right. So that was Jay Hill, the longtime member of parliament, reform member,
01:27:22.540conservative alliance party, a whole number of incarnations, and then the founder of the Maverick
01:27:28.500party, now political statesman and a regular show guest. It's been a pleasure as always. Great.
01:27:34.960Thanks. And for you guys, I will see you all tomorrow. I'll make sure to try a couple of
01:27:39.120those remedies for that bloody cough that's nagging me. The main one of which is not eating
01:27:42.860a bunch of peanuts before the show and remembering to bring my water glass in with me.
01:27:48.420So thanks again. And I'm going to have Paul Hinman on tomorrow because speaking of political
01:27:52.340turmoil, boy, he's got a hornet's nest on his hands and some other guests in political chat
01:27:57.100as well. So I'll see you tomorrow at 1130 a.m. sharp.