Western Standard - Triggered： When will there be a forensic investigation into alleged residential school grave sites？

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's a Monday, July 18th. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. As you can

00:00:39.420 see, I got to wear a necktie again. Stampede week's over. My excuse for getting out of

00:00:44.480 semi-formal or business type attire is done, so I'm back to this throttling thing. Oh,

00:00:49.980 well, it'll keep me good and crabby so I can keep my rants going well. So yes, this is

00:00:55.260 our live daily show, Monday to Friday, 1130 a.m. until around 1 o'clock. Usually a couple of good

00:01:01.020 guests on, lots of ranting, cover some news stories. And it is, in being live, we have that

00:01:06.300 comment scroll. And I really appreciate seeing people interact on there, checking in from all

00:01:11.100 over. Tammy out in Chilliwack and Mavis, Debbie out in Tabor. We're getting people from all over.

00:01:16.100 And it just reminds me that I'm speaking to folks all over the place. I'm not just, you know,

00:01:19.080 yelling at the TV or the shower like I used to. So by all means, get on there, use it,

00:01:24.560 talk to each other, get points out, send questions for the guests. I won't necessarily read them all

00:01:28.440 out, but I do see them all and it's helpful. Just keep it civil and don't spam the comment feed. I

00:01:35.120 noticed somebody had gotten about 20 comments in just before the show started. I guess that's fine,

00:01:40.340 but if you start rapid firing like that, we will have to mute you because it kind of removes the

00:01:44.420 discourse from everybody else. So it's good to be passionate, but be courteous. All right, let's see

00:01:49.700 what's going on for the observations of the day. What are we looking forward to? What's important

00:01:54.140 and what's going on. Well, it's National Caviar Day. Here's one of those foods I just can't figure

00:01:59.540 out. It's a high-end delicacy. People pay a fortune, at least for the good stuff, for the

00:02:04.240 beluga caviar and that. And I've tried it, and it's just horrible. Oh, I can't stand it. It's

00:02:10.480 like squeezing fish oil to the back of your throat. But for those who love it, this is the day to love

00:02:15.960 it, apparently. This is when you're supposed to observe and enjoy a caviar. It looks like there's

00:02:20.040 some salmon and as well as a beluga sturgeon over there on the right and those spoons either way

00:02:26.220 well if you're into it today's the day to enjoy it it's also national sour candy day this one's a

00:02:32.780 little more enjoyable i guess we can all remember eating those as kids things like that whether

00:02:36.240 sour soothers or some of those balls and things like that maybe this is the reason they have them

00:02:40.040 on the same day so you can get some of that taste of that bloody caviar out of your mouth get on a 0.89

00:02:45.380 sour candy and try and flush that forth. I mean, it takes a lot to get that fish taste out. You

00:02:51.060 know, I love sushi and sashimi, but I still never got in on that flying fish roe. They stick on some

00:02:54.940 of those rolls and everything too. I never could get into that part of it. Whatever. You enjoy that

00:02:59.200 stuff. Today's the days for it. Okay. I got a couple of good guests as always. David Creighton

00:03:04.140 is going to come on in a little while. He writes a lot of columns for the Western Standard. Of

00:03:07.740 course, he's our senior parliamentary guy. Always has some good, strong opinions and a good sense

00:03:12.880 the humor and some good discourse. So we'll bring him in to talk all things Ottawa to kick the week

00:03:17.700 off. And then Linda Slobodian is going to come on. And she's written, again, for Western Standard 0.98

00:03:22.720 readers and subscribers, you know, lots and lots of columns and news stories out of Linda. But

00:03:26.900 she's also been at work for quite some time on a documentary on the debacle in Afghanistan with

00:03:32.460 Canada abandoning allies and making a complete mess over there. She interviewed a number of

00:03:38.360 generals and people involved and it's coming close to being released so we're gonna talk to

00:03:44.300 linda about what inspired her to get that going and uh what we can look forward to when that's

00:03:48.560 released all right i'm gonna get uh ranting and it's a bit inspired by it's been ongoing we've

00:03:53.900 been having columnists and others talking about the residential schools and a very interesting

00:03:58.620 one from jaime rubenstein with some background on the camus residential school and just some

00:04:03.920 questions like you know there's a lot of questions about what's been determined and assumed there

00:04:08.200 So I'm going to talk about what I think about some things.

00:04:10.920 To begin with, if I found what I suspected to be human bodies on my property,

00:04:14.640 the area would be taped off and police investigators would methodically excavate

00:04:18.580 to determine if there are indeed bodies, how many bodies are there,

00:04:21.720 and then try and determine why and how the bodies ended up there.

00:04:25.220 I couldn't tell the police, hey, I found some burial mounds on my land

00:04:27.920 and I have some neighbors who assure me they contain the remains of murdered children.

00:04:31.680 I just want to see, though, apologies from those accused of killing these children

00:04:35.120 and compensation for those potentially related to those children.

00:04:38.340 Aside from that, though, I don't want you on my land, and those mounds must remain untouched.

00:04:43.660 The scenario I read just sounds absurd, 0.91

00:04:46.060 but that's exactly what's happened with the Kamloops residential school issue.

00:04:50.500 It's been 14 months since ground-penetrating radar identified anomalies

00:04:54.140 in what was once an apple orchard next to an Indian residential school in Kamloops.

00:04:58.460 There's no evidence, aside from the GPR anomalies, of graves being in that location,

00:05:02.660 aside from anecdotes from people who attended the school decades ago. There's no record of

00:05:07.120 missing children, no families identified who lost children during the period of alleged

00:05:11.540 burials, no attestations of burials from the many indigenous people who were actually employed at

00:05:18.080 the school at that time. It's all based on stories that children told each other of secret nighttime

00:05:23.340 burials happening in an orchard over 60 years ago. I worked with ground penetrating radar when I

00:05:29.320 worked in the Arctic. I spent four years up there. We used it to determine ice thicknesses on the

00:05:33.720 Beaufort Sea so we could safely travel on it. And for that application, GPR is fabulously accurate.

00:05:39.480 What GPR does is it records differences in density. Water and ice have distinctly different

00:05:44.320 densities and the GPR can easily determine ice thicknesses. That said, we didn't rely 100% on

00:05:49.620 our GPR data. We had protocols requiring regular measurements of the ice thickness with an auger

00:05:54.600 and a long measuring rod to ensure the accuracy of the GPR survey, and we'd have to calibrate it

00:05:59.700 at times. That's it, though. It doesn't provide snapshots below that. It doesn't give a 3D image

00:06:04.520 of what's going on underground or underwater. It can only tell you that there have been changes

00:06:08.580 in density. For graves, GPR could work well. A hole that's dug and filled in even decades ago

00:06:15.160 could show distinctively and distinctly on a GPR survey. The thing is, though, many other things

00:06:20.360 can look the same way. An old trench for irrigation would show up as an anomaly every

00:06:24.320 time the GPR passed over it. An old shed site or even outhouse sites or pathways where the ground

00:06:29.700 got impacted could present as anomalies. Old root beds from former apple trees would look

00:06:34.780 much like burial sites for an example as well. Our nation was turned upside down over the anomalies

00:06:40.700 registered on a GPR unit. Our flags were kept at half mass for nearly six months. Churches were

00:06:45.640 burned. Apologies were offered and billions more in settlements are pending. Why on earth are we

00:06:51.820 not verifying the data from the GPR survey yet. As far as can be seen, not a teaspoon worth of dirt

00:06:57.120 has been moved to try and determine what happened. Hey, maybe there are remains of hundreds of

00:07:02.160 children who vanished and they're secretly been buried by residential school workers. In that case 0.99

00:07:06.080 though, I want to see the bodies exhumed and a criminal investigation carried out. Maybe there's

00:07:11.000 hundreds of bodies of Spanish explorers down there and it was a valuable archaeological site. Or maybe

00:07:16.720 there's not a single body in the area and we need to re-examine just how much weight we're going to

00:07:20.180 give to anecdotal oral history on serious matters. Until a true forensic investigation is done,

00:07:26.260 we're left with nothing but speculation. If such a crime has happened, wouldn't the relations of

00:07:30.500 the victims be eager to get a full picture, find the facts, and of course pursue those responsible?

00:07:35.700 Why are we waiting on this? And I fear the answer may come down to money, as so many things do.

00:07:40.440 The mystery is a lot more lucrative than the reality might be. There are a lot of people

00:07:44.260 making a whole lot of money from the residential school issue, and they don't want it to go away.

00:07:48.120 that pipeline of cash would come to a halt if it was determined there was never actually a mass

00:07:52.100 murder of children. It's time to start digging because this is too serious to keep putting

00:07:56.960 things off. That's what's got me up and going today, guys. We really got to find out what

00:08:01.560 happened there. I'm not saying something didn't happen. We don't know. Yet we're assuming. We're

00:08:07.080 settling. We're apologizing. We're giving money away on this. And it's not helping. It's dividing

00:08:11.580 us further. So it's time to get on with this. All right. Let's see. Let's check in with Melanie

00:08:17.300 Rizdin and see what's happening on the news front. Hey Mel, how's it going out there?

00:08:21.040 Really good and really busy today. Okay, well I can imagine after a weekend we always have the

00:08:28.680 build-up. The Monday check-ins are the easiest ones to put together. They really are. There's

00:08:32.840 a lot going on right now. We have a story up on the website right now. Manitoba, Alberta and

00:08:38.200 Saskatchewan preparing to roll out the vaccines for preschoolers and toddlers. Not everyone agrees

00:08:44.520 with that. We've got another story up. Suncor Energy is entering into an agreement with activist

00:08:51.160 investor Elliott Investment. Ontario NDP leadership election rules are playing identity politics. It

00:08:59.240 looks like the signatories for each person, each candidate needs to include at least 50 percent

00:09:07.960 of signatories need to be women and 25% of them need to be from a racialized group. So we've got

00:09:16.280 that story up right now. BC Nurse has been suspended for creating fake vaccine cards for people.

00:09:27.160 So we've got our BC reporter Reid Small who has covered that one. The CRA is claiming

00:09:33.240 prosecuting tax cheaters is taking way too long so that's up that's uh from our block black locks

00:09:41.080 reporter uh department of health has lost uh thousands of compete computers um that is

00:09:49.560 apparently going to be a hefty bill for that and how you lose computers i'm not 100 sure

00:09:57.560 Looks like our Prime Minister has a new haircut, which people are sort of talking about right now,

00:10:05.320 but apparently a new poll says the Prime Minister is plummeting in support. So those stories up.

00:10:13.080 We also have a story around a police shooting that happened that killed an armed Saskatchewan man.

00:10:21.000 And quite a few things in the works right now. We are looking into a story.

00:10:25.720 this one's out of new jersey cory it's a a woman a transgendered woman who was put into a woman's

00:10:33.240 facility she's now been transferred to a men's facility because she has impregnated two women

00:10:40.440 in the women's facility we also have uh we also have our reporter jonathan looking into how

00:10:48.920 the canadian government is looking to or or calls to the canadian government looking to

00:10:55.720 to make good on long-standing promise of a centralized mental health crisis line.

00:11:01.140 So that would hopefully sort of bypass the police and be a direct line people can call similar to, you know, health services, things like that.

00:11:12.820 And we also are looking into a Manitoba doctor who was censored and fined for his counsel to his patients, also prescribing ivermectin to them.

00:11:25.720 and uh it looks like our reporter matt is going to be diving into a story about menstrual changes

00:11:33.000 that have significantly been affected uh by many for many women and this is sort of a story that's

00:11:39.960 that's kind of come and go but it looks like this is actually bigger than has been reported on as

00:11:46.600 of yet all right well lots on the go lots out there and lots coming as we kind of anticipated

00:11:53.560 So I'll let you get back to hammering away there in the newsroom and putting it out.

00:11:58.060 And thanks for giving us the update, Melanie.

00:12:00.000 Absolutely.

00:12:01.660 All right.

00:12:02.160 So that is our Melanie Rizdin, our senior reporter here in Calgary.

00:12:05.120 She's always out there putting the content.

00:12:06.660 Don't forget her interviews.

00:12:07.640 She does some great stuff out there.

00:12:09.520 Actually, a number of ones that have been very well viewed.

00:12:11.880 Check our YouTube channel, our Rumble channel, our Facebook, and you can see some of the

00:12:16.200 stuff Melanie's covered out there.

00:12:17.700 It's just been great.

00:12:19.520 As well, you know, beyond that, all those stories, as you heard, all those different

00:12:22.520 reporters being named. You keep hearing more and more people being out there. That's because we

00:12:27.280 are in expansion mode. We have new folks coming on. We have people in BC, Ontario, Manitoba. We

00:12:34.620 got them all the way across the country. We have the Western Standard. We haven't got anybody in

00:12:39.040 the Maritimes, though we do like talking. We've got Arthur, who's our Alberta guy, but he is from

00:12:43.320 Newfoundland and he certainly keeps a close eye on it. And the reason we can do that, just to remind

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00:13:18.060 you haven't already, come on guys, get on there and take out a subscription. I mean, you can do

00:13:21.860 it for less than playing World of Warcraft every week, I believe. So you get a little more value

00:13:27.760 out of it. That's hard to say, but it depends on whether you're whored or not. All right. Let's 0.99

00:13:33.860 look at some of the other stuff. Yeah. You know, some of these stories like that one in New Jersey,

00:13:38.620 and we heard about it and it came up again, was the trans woman who impregnated other prisoners

00:13:45.300 in a woman's prison. Like, you know, I try to be tolerant. We try to be broad-minded. If a person's

00:13:53.100 happier trans, great, by all means. But we're getting to that point of denying physiological 0.71

00:13:59.620 reality. We've got to get back to reality. And in the sports, they've overplayed the hand. It's

00:14:04.520 getting so nuts. And Joe Snake, just a minute, a commenter, you know, saying, you know, don't

00:14:10.660 start mouthing off Maritimers. Alberta will be, you know, hooped with us. Yes, Joe, no, I'm not

00:14:14.640 trying to mouth off the Maritimers at all. I was saying we just don't have a presence out there 1.00

00:14:18.080 because we're kind of Western and growing out that way. You know, as I said, we got Arthur out

00:14:22.740 here, you know, from Newfoundland who's doing a great job writing for us and stuff like that.

00:14:28.300 It's just that we have a Western focus. I'm not trying to, I love it when I see people commenting

00:14:32.840 in from out on the East Coast. There's a lot of good common sense people out that way. So I,

00:14:38.620 you know, yeah, so I interject now and then when we get the commenters, but like I said, I like to

00:14:42.320 see that, you know, hey, call me out when you see something. That's fine. We'll talk. So yeah,

00:14:49.100 you know, is Jack Gordon saying impregnated is the new euphemism for rape? I don't know. I don't

00:14:53.200 know. I mean, if you stuck a person like that in a prison and, you know, he, and I always will say

00:14:58.700 he. He impregnated people. This isn't misgendering, you know. Maybe it was voluntary. I mean, the

00:15:05.080 bottom line is, you know, there are people together in close quarters. Whatever the

00:15:08.840 circumstance is, he didn't belong there. This is that physiological reality part. I mean, we can

00:15:14.660 recognize people as the gender they present at. Absolutely. We can respect that. Let them live as

00:15:20.740 such and enjoy a full great life. Great. But if you get in prison and you've still got the nuts

00:15:26.280 and berries to be able to impregnate a woman, you are not a woman. I'm sorry. If you haven't 1.00

00:15:32.260 gotten to the point of cutting off the parts, we're not going to indulge you when it comes to 1.00

00:15:36.720 a woman's facility. That's absurd. It's ridiculous. And now, yeah, the investigation will follow with 1.00

00:15:42.420 two female prisoners managed to get pregnant in prison. Come on, from this guy. And it was a guy.

00:15:49.260 You know, there's times when the line has to be drawn. We aren't being intolerant. We're being

00:15:54.880 realistic. And that applies to the sports as well. And we're seeing it, I think maybe we're finally

00:16:00.700 realizing some of it has, you know, crossed the line, we're going to get the pushback, especially

00:16:07.540 with that dude who's swimming around, taking over all those women's swim meets. And there's some

00:16:11.820 athletes who've been speaking up, saying, you know, enough is enough. I mean, this guy is, you

00:16:19.100 know, towering over the people competing with them, and has a clear physiological advantage. 0.67

00:16:26.140 And as well now, when we get to women in prison, though, and you're sticking biological men in

00:16:31.120 with them, you're putting the women at risk, you're putting the women in prison at risk, maybe

00:16:36.220 it's just wrong on so many levels, this, how did this possibly happen? How far and distance have

00:16:42.960 we got from just realism and common sense to think this wouldn't be a problem? Yet here we are.

00:16:49.100 And, uh, it's just bloody insane. And speaking of woke before I get to Mr. Creighton and he likes

00:16:55.700 ripping into the woke. I always appreciate it when he gets going on them. Uh, you know,

00:16:59.600 I've just been watching the Starbucks thing unfold as well. And I guess there was a leak

00:17:03.280 and their CEO, Howard Schultz blamed basically woke elected officials in Democrat run cities

00:17:08.580 because suddenly they closed 16 Starbucks stores. And, uh, he basically called a spade a spade

00:17:14.520 because they're all in cities like Seattle and Portland.

00:17:18.500 I mean, that was the heart of Starbucks

00:17:19.660 and the problems they had.

00:17:21.140 And that was some of the discussion was,

00:17:22.720 well, if you might remember from the news of a couple,

00:17:25.320 there were so many homeless people coming in

00:17:26.860 and shooting up in the bathrooms and everything.

00:17:28.620 They were trying to maintain security.

00:17:30.700 And they said, customers only in the bathroom

00:17:33.480 and they got a backlash.

00:17:34.760 Oh, how intolerant of you?

00:17:36.060 How evil of you?

00:17:36.980 Oh, you're pushing these.

00:17:38.280 So being, trying to be woke, Starbucks said,

00:17:40.580 okay, you know what?

00:17:41.220 We'll allow anybody to use the bathroom anytime.

00:17:43.860 Well, of course, unfortunately, when you have addicted people coming and going in downtown bathrooms in Democrat-run cities,

00:17:49.240 they will probably defecate everywhere but in the toilet.

00:17:52.640 They're leaving syringes all over the place.

00:17:54.320 They're overdosing in there.

00:17:55.760 And as the employees are saying, they're not social workers.

00:17:58.400 They're baristas.

00:17:59.600 So rather than address the problem, well, they can't.

00:18:02.280 They're in out-of-control, crime-ridden cities.

00:18:04.100 They're just closing the stores.

00:18:05.980 And I guess part of the reason that there's a bunch of unionization going on in these Starbucks, too, is due to working conditions.

00:18:10.760 Again, these guys wanted to make happy faces in a latte, not drag inebriated or totally wasted

00:18:18.320 meth heads out of a bathroom and try and maintain control in a Starbucks branch. You see, why does

00:18:23.680 it happen to Starbucks? Because they've embraced the woke. They wouldn't allow common sense to

00:18:28.060 come into their business model, and now they're paying the price. The saying always applies. It's

00:18:32.440 an accurate one. Go woke, go broke. So sorry, Starbucks. I never really liked your overpriced

00:18:38.040 coffee. Anyways, you're just reaping what you sowed. I wish you the best of luck if you clean

00:18:41.860 up your act and follow business reality. But if you're going to keep pandering to these lunatics, 0.99

00:18:46.320 you're going to go broke. All right, let's bring David Creighton in from Ottawa and see what's 0.91

00:18:50.980 happening out there. I'm sure there's more insanity to cover. Hey, David, how's it going?

00:18:56.060 Good, Corey. Nice to be with you again. Yeah, thanks. Just getting my morning rant on for the

00:19:00.760 week, you know. I just wanted to make one comment before we proceed with my stuff. Good for you on

00:19:06.120 that uh that story about the the male prisoner who was going berserk with the female prisoners

00:19:12.520 i i got so fed up when my stories used to be changed when i would describe the biological

00:19:19.480 male prisoners as he or him and my copy came back as she or her because i just would never go along

00:19:28.540 with labeling these people as what they weren't i mean as you said and unless they go through with

00:19:35.160 this whole sex change procedure. I am not going to call somebody who wakes up one morning and says,

00:19:40.600 I feel like a woman today. It's just ridiculous. And whether it's sneaking into the woman's change 0.98

00:19:48.380 room or going to jail in a women's facility, this is absolute nonsense. And for people to be calling

00:19:57.100 you or I or anybody else who objects to this as transphobic, I mean, this is just such a ridiculous 0.94

00:20:03.720 term, which is meaningless to begin with. I mean, we're not even, you know, it's a Freudian 0.77

00:20:09.540 terminology that implies that we're afraid of these people. We're afraid of this, of this

00:20:14.900 phenomena. And really what I'm afraid of is that more women are going to be hurt by these men

00:20:22.680 pretending to be women. And it's, it's, it's a, it's a phenomena that's affecting not just prisons,

00:20:28.700 not just uh not just female facilities but but uh you know there's this joker in in bc who who

00:20:37.900 likes who likes to hang out at uh places where women have their pubic hair shaved i mean this

00:20:44.780 this is gone into all elements of society and it's just sickening just sickening so that's it i mean

00:20:51.180 we try to respect people and you know again if somebody came presented to this is how i want to

00:20:55.420 to be addressed. You know, I respect a person. That's no problem. But when we get to differences

00:20:59.700 such as women's shelters or prisons, well, we just have to address biological reality

00:21:03.620 now. It's not being disrespectful. It's just pointing out the facts.

00:21:07.920 Yes. I love the show.

00:21:11.740 It only gets crazier as we go. Okay. Well, speaking of crazy, I'll start kind of with

00:21:19.520 your most recent column that's gone up. Was the mandatory COVID testing is returned or

00:21:24.320 going to return to the airports what on earth are we doing well we had a we had a bit of sanity

00:21:32.640 as summer began and a lot of folks were saying it was not just as a result of the air airport

00:21:40.560 saying please give us some some relief some relief from these lineups and even that didn't

00:21:49.840 give much relief at places like toronto as i was saying in some of my columns and as i as i related

00:21:56.320 when i came out to visit you all in in in calgary uh in june it was just a nightmare getting through

00:22:03.200 toronto it looked like as as i said a massive flop house people just sleeping everywhere and

00:22:11.440 like about half a mile long of suitcases that never ended up with their owners and it it was

00:22:16.880 was just a nightmare, even though they stopped doing these COVID testing. And they apparently

00:22:21.820 started again without any explanation as to why. And there seems to be this

00:22:28.640 generation again to go back to where we were with COVID testing. And it's all started, I think,

00:22:40.460 with this crazy health minister we have who's had COVID-19 twice this year. He's on its fourth dose,

00:22:48.240 which now he considers to be the norm, to be up to date with your vaccines. And he's the same

00:22:55.180 jackass who said that we should be getting this thing every nine months for the rest of our lives. 0.98

00:23:01.200 You know, I've seen people around the world say, nobody's saying you should be getting this 0.98

00:23:05.320 regularly for the rest of your lives. Well, yeah, we have somebody in Canada saying this.

00:23:09.560 And this seemed to be the impetus for increased testing and back to insanity at the airports.

00:23:17.460 And, of course, we're talking about this next wave, and they're calling it the ninja wave.

00:23:24.200 Like, this sounds really threatening.

00:23:26.080 It sounds scary.

00:23:27.480 But, of course, it's not.

00:23:29.040 It's even less dangerous than the flu.

00:23:32.920 And I keep asking, Corey, and I've only heard a couple of people mention this,

00:23:38.660 why are we getting a vaccine for the latest COVID-19 variant that was manufactured for the

00:23:46.740 first variant two and a half years ago? It's really quite ineffective because it wasn't

00:23:53.140 manufactured for the latest variant. So we're getting it for something it wasn't made for.

00:23:58.940 And maybe that's why Trudeau and the health minister keep getting COVID-19 over and over

00:24:04.840 again because the vaccine isn't working. And yet there's ample evidence out there, you know,

00:24:12.160 as our Ottawa Parliamentary Bureau chief did with his excellent series of articles and the research

00:24:19.540 he did. I really, Matthew Horwood, I really take my hat off for those articles he's done.

00:24:25.380 And the feedback he got from so many people who said, yeah, I've got a story to tell about the

00:24:31.580 adverse reaction i got from my covet 19 vaccine i had two of them you know i went out and got them

00:24:37.860 i thought it was a public spirited thing to do but i'm not getting any more because i've heard

00:24:43.040 enough i've read enough about an adverse reaction i and i'm certainly not going to get for the rest

00:24:48.700 of my life i'll tell you that so yeah well i mean the things go on and uh we'll see what happens i

00:24:55.920 just feel for the tourism sector and and you know the the others and people trying to get around i

00:25:00.420 I mean, they thought they were getting a break because, I mean, yeah, that alone won't solve all of the problems at the airport.

00:25:05.300 But this was an easy one.

00:25:06.720 You know, it's this testing and stuff like that and the mandates.

00:25:10.620 I mean, we know now at least they're not changing and they're not protecting anybody.

00:25:16.060 So let's just set them aside and get on with allowing the economy to recover.

00:25:21.180 But this government is so stubborn.

00:25:24.160 They just they have to be pushed off everything they do.

00:25:26.760 I don't think, even in Canada, people are going to sit idly by and welcome another lockdown from coast to coast, or even in Ontario, where I sit right now.

00:25:43.740 I don't think people are going to put up with another lockdown, because it's just, people see through this stuff now.

00:25:51.620 They don't think politicians have the public's good in mind anymore.

00:25:57.760 They see this as another power grab.

00:26:00.260 They see this as just plain authoritarian politics.

00:26:04.240 They don't think the government's doing this because they're saving lives.

00:26:08.940 Because lives quite clearly aren't being saved anymore.

00:26:12.880 Just about everybody's had this thing, and they get through it quite easily.

00:26:16.780 And we don't need to be shutting down restaurants and gyms and walking around in masks and treating this like it's the Black Death.

00:26:24.860 And the government loves this because it allows them to get tough and allows them to clamp down on businesses.

00:26:33.480 They don't seem to realize that every time they do this, it just shakes another bit of resistance out of this country.

00:26:42.760 And it's slowly squeezing the life out of Canada.

00:26:46.780 and it's very dangerous especially given what's happening in the world right now we're we're

00:26:51.900 coming very very close to a food crisis a food shortage around the world and with the inflation

00:26:58.780 with the high gas prices with everything else that's happening we do not need another covid

00:27:04.140 lockdown absolutely not no that would be devastating i mean unfortunately when we look

00:27:09.980 at the intellect of our leadership i mean it's just you know every time trudeau does make

00:27:13.820 international headlines and i've seen it now in britain and i've seen the united states

00:27:17.100 it's uh justin and his brilliant haircut and and i i'm not trying to be no vapid on just the gossip

00:27:23.500 front and everything but look this is a prime minister who built his reputation around his

00:27:28.160 beautiful hair his flowing locks the only asset he ever really had and he went and chopped it off 0.99

00:27:33.560 in a dumb and dumber haircut but i mean they wouldn't make the mockery of this man too if he 0.93

00:27:39.440 was known for intellect and he just changed his hair it's also because people see it's not just 0.99

00:27:43.900 the hair it's that blankness behind the eyes that makes them look so much like jim carrey from that

00:27:48.580 movie uh but you know you also reported on justin's uh appearance in calgary for example at the

00:27:54.780 stampede like this guy doesn't win respect anywhere he goes you know everywhere he goes now

00:28:00.760 he draws a crowd but not not one approving of he draws a protest like like a bee draws you know

00:28:08.200 like uh like honey draws a bear it's it's amazing how unpopular he's he's become and even people

00:28:16.760 who are not political uh seem to realize that justin really is an unpopular prime minister i

00:28:23.000 think probably the most unpopular prime minister we we've had in uh in modern history he certainly

00:28:30.920 goes down with with anybody i can recall in my lifetime but he uh the thing at the stampede is

00:28:38.760 is quite amazing because it i we picked up at it we picked up on it at the western standard not just

00:28:45.320 myself but you know some of the uh writers there that there was something fishy going on here and

00:28:51.880 it was immediately apparent to people on social media there was so much on twitter people noticed

00:28:57.560 that seemed to be trumped up, these stories that were on CBC and Global

00:29:03.980 and other mainstream media stories about Trudeau being mobbed like, you know,

00:29:08.960 it was the Fab Four at the Stampede, like the Beatles were there

00:29:12.460 or it was Elvis or Sinatra, and he was just being mobbed by his fans

00:29:18.420 and can we have a selfie with you and thank God you came to Calgary,

00:29:22.340 we love you here.

00:29:23.160 it just seems so unreal and it was clearly these people were staged they were there because the

00:29:34.220 liberal party put this thing together because these things just don't happen for justin trudeau

00:29:39.900 anymore spontaneously he doesn't show up at events and people just just are so glad to see him they

00:29:45.320 come running to the stage and and and want pictures taken with him this might have happened in 2015

00:29:51.680 seen, but it doesn't happen in 2022. And the mainstream media reported this like it was just

00:29:59.380 one of the greatest events in Trudeau's career. And of course, the real reaction was that people

00:30:07.000 were cussing him out and saying, Trudeau, the traitor, and Trudeau, you're a communist. 0.97

00:30:13.540 And that was underreported. That was basically a few malcontents in the crowd. One crazy old guy with a sign saying, you know, Trudeau, you're a traitor. That was dismissed as the odd people in the crowd, the very, very few people in the crowd. 0.97

00:30:31.900 When, in fact, those were the people who were really representational of the feeling in the crowd.

00:30:38.080 And it's very disturbing, once again, how the state media, the mainstream media, the people working for the Trudeau dollar, the ones who get the subsidy from the Trudeau government, are acting like government propagandists.

00:30:55.340 And it's like something out of, you know, I always joke, you know, CBC watching the triumph, triumph of the will again, because it's it's like something you see in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.

00:31:05.680 They put the stuff together and it just doesn't reflect reality anymore.

00:31:10.240 In fact, you might argue that the stuff they put together in those countries reflected reality more than it does here, because Trudeau is simply not not that popular with people.

00:31:22.480 He has really outlived his welcome in this country.

00:31:26.300 And certainly at the Stampede, when he puts on his cowboy hat, it's not a popular sight.

00:31:34.840 And the polls are starting to reflect that a little bit.

00:31:37.560 Actually, he's showing across the country.

00:31:39.760 I mean, he's never been popular in Alberta, but he's getting less so everywhere else.

00:31:43.320 I mean, people have kind of had enough.

00:31:44.700 We see even some ostensibly sort of leftist center columnists who have been finally saying,

00:31:48.760 you know, we've kind of had enough of this guy.

00:31:51.060 The Liberals play cutthroat politics, I mean, as hard as any party does.

00:31:54.980 And as much as they've been rallying the troops and keeping their discontent from within,

00:31:59.300 I'm sure there's got to be some Liberals with some ambition now.

00:32:01.780 We're starting to chomp at the bit saying, okay, it's time for this guy to move aside,

00:32:05.100 time for me to move up and try and take the throne there in Ottawa.

00:32:08.860 I mean, how long do you think Justin can hold this together as popularity starts to sink?

00:32:13.360 Well, you know, as I said last week, I think last week, and I've been saying for a while,

00:32:17.520 he would no longer be prime minister if this was great britain he uh not just the tories but the

00:32:26.060 liberals or the labor party would have gotten rid of him a long time ago under uh the same

00:32:31.340 parliamentary system they're just more used to doing that than we are in canada i think

00:32:36.560 i think his support's going to crumble first with the new democrats when they say when they say do

00:32:42.800 we really want to have ourselves tethered to this guy for another two years, because

00:32:49.720 we're going to go down with the ship with him.

00:32:52.540 So I think he's going to lose new democratic support first.

00:32:56.520 But I really think he might face an internal caucus rebellion, because Trudeau is not going

00:33:05.180 to go easily, simply because he's such a narcissistic individual. 0.98

00:33:09.760 He is such an arrogant individual. 0.84

00:33:12.800 And I don't believe he's going to wake up one day and say it's time to go. 0.81

00:33:17.260 He will stay as long as he possibly can.

00:33:21.020 But I do not think we're going to see two more years of Justin Trudeau.

00:33:26.680 He will try, I believe, to win another election, another majority election, within the next six to 12 months.

00:33:37.460 That's my guess, based on the way Trudeau thinks.

00:33:42.200 not of reality but of himself he really does think he's a miracle maker that uh he is destined to

00:33:49.500 pull one more majority out of his his bag and he can do it because he's justin trudeau and

00:33:55.760 he survived everything in the past he survived financial scandal after financial scandal after

00:34:01.220 financial scandal he survived the blackface scandal and he still has the gall to call

00:34:06.260 everybody racist and uh does it without any sense of irony and i really think he believes he can do

00:34:14.240 it again but i do i don't think he's going to get away with it one more time i think i think

00:34:20.960 canadians have really are fed up with his uh his lecturing his hectoring his me first attitude 0.97

00:34:26.660 and his canada last attitude and just his hypocrisy it's the gross hypocrisy and the fact 0.99

00:34:33.740 he just can never admit it is gross hypocrisy, much like Joe Biden that way. He just can never 0.96

00:34:39.600 say, you know, I've really screwed up on this. I've really, really done wrong. He can't do that

00:34:45.100 because he never thinks he has done wrong. It's part and parcel of being a Trudeau. And he's a

00:34:51.860 Trudeau writ large. Well, he's at the apex of his career, whether he knows it or not. It's not like

00:34:59.700 he can leave that spot and practice law or, you know, take over a large company and manage it

00:35:05.400 effectively or something like that. His options after this job are limited. I mean, he'll never

00:35:10.700 be worrying for putting food on his table, but I could see him clinging to that role as long as he

00:35:15.280 possibly can. It's the United Nations for Trudeau after this. There's nowhere else he can go. He'd

00:35:20.260 be very welcome there because there's lots of people like Trudeau there that are the idle rich

00:35:26.860 with woke politics and with crazy ideas.

00:35:32.320 And they can sit there for the rest of their lives

00:35:34.680 making other people's lives miserable.

00:35:38.420 Well, he'll be doing what he's good at, I guess.

00:35:41.240 So before I let you go,

00:35:43.080 what are you working on for this week?

00:35:44.700 Always lots to cover, of course.

00:35:46.780 Well, I was going to, for today,

00:35:48.440 I was going to do a summation of Trudeau's weekend,

00:35:51.100 which was always interesting, of course.

00:35:53.640 He ran into a lot of bad press as usual, but I'm also looking into doing something on a protest group that is working on what Trudeau is doing to our farmers in this country.

00:36:15.240 We're talking a lot about what's happening to farmers in the Netherlands and Germany and Italy and all across Europe.

00:36:23.580 But Trudeau is doing the same thing here in Canada.

00:36:26.300 And farmers are going to have to be prepared to demonstrate and protest just like they are.

00:36:31.440 Because he's taking fertilizer away from our farmers here in Canada, too.

00:36:36.320 And we're going to have a food shortage here in Canada if we're not careful and if we don't fight back.

00:36:43.940 And once again, it's all about climate change, phony climate change.

00:36:49.160 And it's Trudeau's variation of the great leap forward.

00:36:54.980 He said he admired China.

00:36:57.560 And I think that's one of the facets of Chinese history he admires as well.

00:37:01.880 And it didn't go too well for China when they took that great leap forward.

00:37:07.640 Yeah, well, the Canadian fertilizer story has been sliding under the radar.

00:37:10.740 I mean, some people are reporting it, but not nearly enough.

00:37:13.060 And, you know, well, we'll keep shining a light on it and hope maybe somewhere some common sense comes in.

00:37:18.500 And as people watch what's happening in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands, or even now it's starting to spread to Germany, Germany and Italy.

00:37:25.240 This woke attacks on farming, our source of food.

00:37:30.020 People won't stand for it.

00:37:31.260 It's just too much.

00:37:32.060 We got to be able to eat.

00:37:34.840 Right on.

00:37:36.580 So, OK, well, yeah, thanks for checking in.

00:37:39.180 I'm looking forward to that story and seeing what else you come up with.

00:37:42.600 and keep, well, cutting to the core with us

00:37:45.360 from Ottawa there in your columns, David.

00:37:48.400 Always a pleasure, Corey.

00:37:49.880 All right, I'll talk to you later.

00:37:51.660 Bye for now.

00:37:53.420 Okay, so that was our senior parliamentary columnist,

00:37:55.660 David Creighton.

00:37:56.440 And yes, he's prolific, lots of columns out there

00:37:59.500 and they're always a great read.

00:38:01.080 And as you can see from listening to him on here,

00:38:03.060 he doesn't hold back.

00:38:04.380 His writing is much like his speaking

00:38:06.160 and you'll get straight to the point with those things,

00:38:09.880 particularly when it comes to talking about our leadership with folks such as, yes, Justin Trudeau.

00:38:18.140 What a piece of work that gentleman is.

00:38:20.800 All right, let's look into a little more new stuff.

00:38:22.960 And I also, for some of the folks commenting on Rumble, I have a separate scroll for that.

00:38:28.620 Good to see you there.

00:38:29.500 Lone Warrior talking about the Pope coming out to apologize yet again.

00:38:33.760 Yes, it just never seems to stop.

00:38:35.180 Jaime Rubenstein's got a column coming out talking about that.

00:38:38.500 And I see G. Tilly and Beaver Lodge checking in there.

00:38:41.700 Good to keep those comments going and talk about stuff, guys.

00:38:46.040 You know, another thing with getting green in Europe and how insane the green movement is.

00:38:50.100 I mean, they're insane.

00:38:51.300 They really are. 0.98

00:38:52.800 And so, I mean, look at Germany right now.

00:38:55.000 They are in energy crisis.

00:38:56.640 They got so dependent on Russian gas.

00:39:00.660 They shut down their own coal.

00:39:02.860 They're shutting down their nuclear plants.

00:39:04.200 They spent, I believe it was, $500 billion, like that amount of money, on green transition over the years.

00:39:10.240 They were the poster child for green.

00:39:12.320 Everybody was telling us, we've got to be like Germany.

00:39:14.040 We've got to be like Germany. 0.90

00:39:14.960 We've got to move that direction. 1.00

00:39:16.340 Well, now they're screwed, and they still don't get it.

00:39:19.420 They still have plans to shut down some of their nuclear plants.

00:39:22.720 They don't know how they're going to power their country, but they're carrying ahead with shutting down their nuclear sources.

00:39:29.220 It's madness. 0.63

00:39:30.800 But this is what the green woke world is. 1.00

00:39:32.480 this is, as David said, Trudeau will move on to the UN where he can speak with other imbeciles 0.99

00:39:36.200 that don't have to deal with reality or the World Economic Forum. And we suffer, but people are 0.99

00:39:42.580 standing up and we're not hearing nearly enough about it. The Dutch farm protests are fantastic.

00:39:46.920 And I found it interesting. We did a video, you know, we've been posting shorts on TikTok and

00:39:51.360 some of them have taken off six, 7,000 views, just my short rants and everything. But the one I did on

00:39:55.820 the Dutch farm uprising, your average one out of me gets six, 7,000 views, sometimes 10,000 views. 0.93

00:40:01.220 that one got under 100 because, well, the Chinese owners of TikTok, I imagine, just didn't want to

00:40:08.080 see that one spread. It tripped an algorithm somewhere. We've never had one that low. It hit

00:40:11.580 a record low. Nobody wants to talk about that. We're attacking our food industries. It's insane.

00:40:16.780 But going further, the EU now has declared lithium to be a toxin. Think about that. A couple of

00:40:23.740 things. For one, lithium, you know, I don't think it's that commonly used anymore, but actually it

00:40:28.220 was a big breakthrough for antipsychotic medications. So in that form, in a small

00:40:32.500 volumes, I don't know about toxic, anything is if you take enough of it, but it's had some uses.

00:40:37.100 But the bigger use for lithium is, of course, for batteries. I mean, it's supposed to be a massive

00:40:43.960 new lithium market opening up. If we're going to move on to this crazed push to electric vehicles,

00:40:49.680 that still isn't happening, by the way. There's still a novelty. There's still an expensive

00:40:53.340 little car off to the side that some people use to commute downtown in Virtue Signal.

00:40:57.240 is not getting anywhere to spend despite billions and billions being spent trying to force us into

00:41:01.480 those things. We need, if we're going to do it, massive amounts of lithium. And what's the EU

00:41:07.380 doing? They're moving towards banning lithium. What on earth are you going to do? Are you going

00:41:10.980 to get a bunch of rubber bands? Is that what the next car is where you wind them up, you know,

00:41:14.360 like the little toy cars and make them zoom? We're running out of sources, guys. You're banning

00:41:18.260 everything. And people have to push back. Obviously, we're not going to get common sense

00:41:22.820 from the lunatics at the head of the EU, 0.96

00:41:26.620 at the head of the WEF, 0.96

00:41:28.700 at the head of United Nations.

00:41:30.980 You need people on the ground to stand up and push back.

00:41:33.380 That's why things are so rattled

00:41:34.560 with the protests in the Netherlands

00:41:37.180 that are now flowing over into Germany

00:41:38.900 that Sri Lanka overthrew, basically, their government.

00:41:43.520 And in Canada, it was truckers who got pushed too far.

00:41:46.680 But citizens are finally having enough.

00:41:48.980 And this government's scared.

00:41:50.420 All these authoritarian governments are scared. 0.71

00:41:52.820 That's why they stick grandmothers in prison interminably like Tamara Leach 1.00

00:41:56.480 while they allow rapists and perverts to get bail.

00:42:00.520 Our priorities are so skewed.

00:42:02.200 But it's not going to change until we push back.

00:42:04.820 We have to because these guys won't listen to sense.

00:42:07.840 It won't happen.

00:42:09.760 So let's see what else we got going on here.

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00:43:36.800 All right, let's see some of those comments.

00:43:39.340 Victor pointing out, yeah, post-millennial column was,

00:43:42.800 or an article was done about the archaeological evidence

00:43:46.040 dug and conducted by Simon Fraser, archaeologists, and it didn't find any bodies. And that was

00:43:52.300 covered as well on Western Standard. I'm not going to keep pushing people towards the post-millennial,

00:43:56.020 but they do good. They're alternative media as well, of course. But that same story, we are

00:44:00.940 covering this stuff, guys. And we've got it going on. Jaime Rubenstein, if you look that up,

00:44:06.880 if you look up the stuff on the Western Standard, he went deeply into that. And yes, pointed out,

00:44:11.780 And we had pictures, all sorts of things in Jaime's piece.

00:44:15.060 It was very long and intensive.

00:44:16.440 This is a second there.

00:44:18.900 I remembered my water this time before the coughing fit hit.

00:44:22.160 I get things caught in my throat.

00:44:23.660 Go into there, it shows pictures, a lot of very interesting things with that Kamloops site.

00:44:28.200 Like there was a septic lagoon, for example, that was dug and created over 30% of the area

00:44:33.800 where this apparent cemetery is supposed to be.

00:44:37.060 Well, when they dug that whole lagoon back in, I think, the 60s or 70s,

00:44:41.080 you'd have to, you know, there's a big, long piece that Jaime did. They didn't find a single

00:44:45.200 body. How would you dig acres and acres out of this apparent big, crowded cemetery and not find

00:44:51.880 a single body? They also dug across, you know, there were trenches and pipes and things going

00:44:57.680 through there. Not a single body. Archaeological digs were done, as was pointed out by the commenter,

00:45:04.020 in that area. Archaeological ones, because there's some, it is an archaeologically significant spot.

00:45:08.740 There are some old shells and things from people who were there thousands of years ago, but no bodies.

00:45:15.320 Nobody's found a body yet.

00:45:16.740 And again, I'm not saying they aren't there.

00:45:18.240 I'm not saying there was no abuse in residential schools. 0.74

00:45:20.500 I'm not saying residential schools were a good idea.

00:45:23.280 I'm just saying when we are going to turn our country upside down over something, we should be obligated to investigate, get to the bottom. 1.00

00:45:33.840 And this is ludicrous.

00:45:35.000 As I said, where else, when a criminal action happens, do you not have a criminal investigation?

00:45:43.740 You know, it's as if I found bodies in my yard, but I said, yeah, but I don't want you cops digging around in there.

00:45:47.760 I just wanted to give you a heads up on it, maybe get some compensation.

00:45:51.080 No, if there was a crime committed, let's get in there.

00:45:53.600 Because there's still surviving people who worked in those schools, took part in those schools.

00:45:57.160 Maybe they're going out there unpunished.

00:45:59.100 Maybe they haven't been brought to justice.

00:46:00.780 Well, then let's get down to it.

00:46:02.180 And that surprises me.

00:46:04.000 Why, if you're so eager to have these people brought to justice, do you not actually want

00:46:07.740 an investigation into it?

00:46:09.740 Seems we just want to leap to the conclusion and leave it there.

00:46:11.820 And I won't leave it at that.

00:46:13.080 Neither will Jaime or Brian that I've brought on or some of the others, you know, Tom Flanagan.

00:46:19.020 No, we've got to speak up.

00:46:19.980 We won't be shut down.

00:46:22.360 And here's an interesting one from Shane Wendell.

00:46:25.320 Yeah, it's time for a change in Canada.

00:46:26.400 Common sense leader and a common sense party has to emerge.

00:46:28.920 I know.

00:46:29.340 We've been waiting a long time, haven't we?

00:46:30.800 it's, I'm not sure what it'll take, but we got to keep pushing. There's something, you know,

00:46:34.900 we get a lot of cynicism and I put out a lot of anger and grumpiness. I put positivity now and

00:46:41.140 then too. But the thing that can hurt us is cynicism. I just got to watch for that. Don't

00:46:46.620 throw up your hands and give up. You're guaranteed a loss. It's pretty hard to win. It seems like

00:46:52.640 you're pushing against a brick wall at times. It seems like you're wasting time. But if you don't

00:46:57.660 do anything, you're guaranteed to lose. So you got nothing to lose and keeping trying. Part of it,

00:47:03.460 though, is having open discussion. And that's one of those areas that, you know, again, we push on

00:47:07.260 a lot because we get afraid of, because we've got all these moves, C11, C18. The government wants

00:47:13.060 to control information. They want to stop the discourse. They want to stop the discussions.

00:47:16.840 And there is where we are going to lose. We have to keep the communication channels open.

00:47:22.760 Keep pushing, keep talking, keep finding ways. As I said, we get kicked off YouTube now and then.

00:47:27.660 Go to Rumble. Facebook, man, they debonetized us. That's fine. We didn't make much there to begin

00:47:32.420 with. We've got other routes. You know, if the government's slamming on information, I like to

00:47:36.980 think it'll shatter. We're still going to find it and communicate with each other elsewhere. And we

00:47:40.680 will change things back for the better. I just think they're going to have to get a lot worse

00:47:44.760 before they get better, unfortunately. But we've got to keep trying, guys.

00:47:51.700 Let's see. Here's an interesting one. This is when I start to think our bureaucracy is truly

00:47:57.500 falling apart. Something I've always kind of said is the only area where the government's efficient

00:48:00.600 is with CRA because when it comes to taking our money, boy, they suddenly find efficiency or at

00:48:06.460 least ambition. You know, if you want to find, if you feel lonely and your phone hasn't rang enough,

00:48:13.680 go a little long on a GST payment, yo. Don't worry, you'll get a lot of company. You'll get a lot of

00:48:17.960 phone calls. I said it before and I'll say it again. I'd rather owe Tony Soprano money again

00:48:22.100 than having fallen behind on a GST payment as I did some years ago and then the oil crashed. It

00:48:27.160 took me a while to pay it off. And I paid it off. Fair enough. It's a bill of my own. But holy cow,

00:48:31.160 those guys are like jackals. They just won't lay off. But now we're seeing that apparently the

00:48:36.940 outright tax cheats. This is a CRA report. The prosecution of cheats is taking too long,

00:48:42.140 and they think some guys are going to beat criminal charges due to lengthy delays in

00:48:46.960 the investigation. Well, when CRA can't even efficiently operate anymore, when the government

00:48:51.060 arm of stealing your money out of your pocket can't operate any longer, or even get the money

00:48:56.160 out of the people who really did dodge taxes unfairly. Man, that bureaucracy is in trouble.

00:49:02.120 You know, I even hear more of that talk going on. People realizing this bloated institution,

00:49:06.460 this world of dependency on government, we built it. We kept voting for, I want government to do

00:49:10.980 this for me. I want government to do this and this and this. Well, what do you expect? You've

00:49:13.260 got a giant, ugly bureaucracy of lazy union maggots laying around making excuses for taking more money 0.99

00:49:19.020 and doing less work. And it's gotten so top heavy, we're getting so far in debt. It will collapse. 0.98

00:49:24.740 It's going to have to. We're going to have to cut it down to a fraction of what it is.

00:49:28.480 But I mean, they can't even renew passports. They can't do anything right. And our health

00:49:33.100 care, you know, people get their mental, you know, the way they look at things so backwards

00:49:38.660 when it's a matter of, this is so important, I can't entrust it to anybody but the government.

00:49:44.940 No, you're backwards. If you've got something that's really, really important, the last one

00:49:48.020 you should entrust it to is the government. So yes, you don't want them having a monopoly

00:49:52.800 on health care. You don't want them. This is what I keep going back to as well with capital 0.89

00:49:57.700 punishment. And I know we get those battles in my commentaries. I don't support it. Why? Because I

00:50:01.780 don't trust our government to get it right or to impose it for the right reasons. I'd like to see

00:50:08.920 real life sentences. I'd like to see cell doors welded shut for some of those sick buggers. And 1.00

00:50:13.140 I want to die of old age in prison. But I don't want to give this government the ability to kill

00:50:17.220 citizens, because again, this government is incompetent. It is corrupted. It is, you know, 0.99

00:50:23.020 look what we're doing. We got Tamara Leach locked up a grandmother, you know, for fundraising a bit

00:50:29.140 and organizing on a protest, even if somehow there should be charges at the end of that. 0.70

00:50:33.880 This is not a person who needs to be incarcerated for months at a time leading up to a trial. This

00:50:37.940 is a minor offense. And you want to give this government the ability to kill people? 0.85

00:50:44.380 I don't think so.

00:50:45.840 I don't think so.

00:50:46.500 I want them to have as little ability as possible.

00:50:49.640 But yeah, getting into the CRA thing,

00:50:51.460 apparently it takes 18 months to get to trial,

00:50:56.360 typically, with the CRA.

00:50:58.840 And of course, often then people have a defense saying,

00:51:01.340 well, you know, the evidence is stale

00:51:02.640 and we just can't do it any longer.

00:51:05.000 So we'll see, you know.

00:51:08.920 But, you know, don't ask for more out of government.

00:51:11.060 Don't trust the government.

00:51:12.020 Like Wendy's saying, yeah,

00:51:12.920 government is the last to trust. And yeah, Pat King, Mavis Colson, Pat King got out today. He's

00:51:18.340 been in for months. He's on bail. We don't know much else about it. That's kind of something

00:51:23.200 interesting with it too, is the publication ban when it came to his trial. It is strict. You are

00:51:28.540 not allowed to, even if you were a reporter who watched the trial online or got access to it,

00:51:34.200 or it was a lawyer, they're not allowed to talk about what the rationale was or what was agreed

00:51:37.880 upon or anything. But it's all secret. It's a gag order. It's a publication ban. Whatever happened

00:51:43.000 to public trial? I mean, that was the whole point. That's why typically anywhere, actually, if you go

00:51:47.800 to any courthouse, it's open to the public. You can walk in, go in there and take a seat within

00:51:51.920 that court. There's limitations. You know, you can't videotape and take pictures or harass people

00:51:56.600 or things like that. That's why you always had those court reporters, you know, with the artists

00:52:00.820 having to draw the pictures. But to have these bans, what are you hiding? That's what does make

00:52:05.960 me think you're hiding something i mean uh pat king is an individual i don't know i think he's

00:52:12.340 a little bit nuts but it doesn't mean he needs to be locked up for months at a time it's way

00:52:18.140 an overreaction and uh you know same with tamara leach and all the others oh this is interesting

00:52:26.020 from from cheryl so okay i i yeah i don't know is she saying the publication ban was requested

00:52:30.300 by King's lawyer. Okay, perhaps. At the same time, I don't like it. It's public trial, whether the

00:52:39.940 defense wants to not have evidence shown. I don't think it's their place either. I mean, you know,

00:52:46.080 and I'm not going to say Pat's anything like that, but let's say then it's a violent, vicious, nasty

00:52:50.260 criminal who did something really horrible, and they don't want it to get public. Well, too bad,

00:52:55.260 you're in trial. That's the way it goes. We hear the evidence, we the public, because that's how

00:53:00.280 we will judge, theoretically anyways, our politicians and such. So we're going to try,

00:53:08.980 I think, to dial into Linda Slobodian. And hey, Larry, haven't seen you in a while.

00:53:17.520 Larry, you're nuts too. But I'm glad you're tuning in. And I'm glad you're still as crabby as ever. 0.84

00:53:23.280 Hope things are okay and blacky. All right. So looks like we got Linda Slobodian on the phone. 1.00

00:53:26.600 And we're going to talk about the documentary that she has put together.

00:53:30.920 And it's going to be coming out really soon.

00:53:32.080 She's been working very hard with Nico on this.

00:53:34.260 And it's about the debacle in Afghanistan.

00:53:36.820 So let's see if we can get Linda dialed in here.

00:53:39.580 And we should have some sound right away. 0.96

00:53:41.620 And I'll be able to hear from her and talk to her. 0.96

00:53:43.760 So hey, Linda, you out there?

00:53:47.400 Well, she'll be popping in right away, I think.

00:53:50.180 And we'll discuss that documentary.

00:53:52.780 As we remember, that happened last year.

00:53:54.460 months and months of warning, knowledge that things were going badly in Afghanistan. It was

00:53:59.480 falling apart. You knew the Taliban was going to come in to take over. We had alliances with people

00:54:05.080 who were helping out, whether it was even just around the base or around, you know, embassies,

00:54:13.060 things like that. Local Afghani people, our translators, of course, were commonly used.

00:54:17.600 And we abandoned them. We bolted. We ran with our tail between our legs. And we knew for months. 1.00

00:54:23.000 I mean, the liberals were warned. People were warned. Military people warned them.

00:54:27.260 And Linda spoke to a number of those, spoke to a number of retired generals.

00:54:31.320 It's in the documentary where she speaks one-on-one.

00:54:34.100 We can't pretend we didn't see it happening.

00:54:36.060 And we did a terrible, terrible disservice to people who were helping us out there.

00:54:41.960 And, you know, sorry, I was looking at comments as well. I get ranting sometimes.

00:54:47.620 And, you know, left them hanging in the bag.

00:54:49.380 I mean, these people end up arrested, tortured. 0.81

00:54:51.480 It's the Taliban, guys.

00:54:52.780 These are some scary, scary folks. 0.98

00:54:55.240 So I think I heard a little something there.

00:54:57.060 I might have Linda on the line.

00:54:58.420 We're just kind of dialing her in.

00:54:59.880 You hear me, Linda?

00:55:01.280 I can hear you a little bit, Corey.

00:55:04.100 Okay, I got you now, Linda.

00:55:05.480 Good. 0.51

00:55:05.780 Yeah, we're just a few technical issues getting you on board.

00:55:08.780 So I've just been kind of rambling about the background of the documentary you put together.

00:55:12.440 I see some commenters, you know, Jet saying you're a great newshound and people really appreciate your writing.

00:55:17.000 So they're really looking forward to your documentary.

00:55:19.780 Well, I really appreciate our readers.

00:55:22.320 They are loyal and smart.

00:55:26.100 Well, most of them anyways.

00:55:28.920 Some of them like yelling at me, but that's half the fun on our comment scroll.

00:55:32.160 I won't drag you down into that.

00:55:34.720 So I gave some background.

00:55:36.200 I guess I'll start.

00:55:37.420 You know, you've been working on this for quite some time.

00:55:39.500 It's almost ready for release.

00:55:41.940 What kind of inspired you to dig in and put all this together?

00:55:45.340 uh well um i i was in afghanistan uh right on the heels of 9-11 uh i visited kandahar did a 12-mile

00:55:56.980 trek across the rugged terrain from the iranian border and um visited the american troops there

00:56:07.120 and saw I met the Afghan people I saw the conditions that they lived under the women 0.74

00:56:14.880 being you know having to cover themselves in burqas little girls just being allowed back

00:56:20.500 into school fast forward the allied forces moved in human rights were restored not completely but 0.96

00:56:30.740 a lot uh women shed those hot horrific burqas and little girls went to school and here we are 0.97

00:56:41.160 back again the burqas are on girls are banned from school and the taliban is hunting down

00:56:49.260 anyone who helped the allied troops with a vengeance and again it's just so horrible i mean

00:56:56.720 And what, a hundred and some Canadians died, you know, over the period of that time in Afghanistan trying to fight and many other soldiers from countries all around the world just to end so disgracefully like this, right back where they were.

00:57:10.140 And again, I think a lot of what you cover in the documentary is that those who helped us, we've abandoned them.

00:57:15.960 yeah and you know cory we lost 158 canadian soldiers and uh thousands more came back 0.98

00:57:28.140 wounded physically mentally spiritually uh they they went out there to fight for these afghans

00:57:36.680 who stood beside them against a common enemy, the Taliban.

00:57:41.280 And what it has resorted to these days are the Afghans who were promised safety and protection for helping the Canadians.

00:57:56.420 over the past year they've gotten auto replies and buried in paperwork and told to get to Pakistan

00:58:08.920 but in order to get to Pakistan they need passports and visas issued by the Taliban

00:58:18.240 So it's just been a vicious circle. But along the way, all throughout this, prior to prior to Biden, U.S. President Biden pulling out of Afghanistan last August, there were generals and military people and Canadians warning the Canadian government that the Taliban was advancing, that things were weakening for whatever else.

00:58:48.240 Allied troops remained and nothing was done.

00:58:52.400 I mean, the most biggest response was our ambassador,

00:58:57.980 Reid Sears, disappearing on a half empty plane

00:59:02.060 after Kabul fell to the Taliban,

00:59:04.820 abandoning people who had shown up in droves

00:59:10.160 to the airport.

00:59:11.460 And we have some of that in the video.

00:59:13.960 The airport was bombed, and it is very gruesome.

00:59:21.360 Nico and I were very selective about what we chose to display on the video, but it was dire.

00:59:30.400 But the generals, the retired generals, did not give up.

00:59:35.180 They have been fighting.

00:59:36.260 And what is unique about this video, Corey, or documentary rather, is that so many retired generals have come together on one platform to appeal for help.

00:59:52.740 Most of these generals served in Afghanistan alongside these Afghans, and they've not given up.

01:00:03.920 no well and i mean they understand more acutely than anybody they spent the time there and and

01:00:10.380 the importance of those uh you know relationships you build i mean it's not a matter of just going

01:00:15.760 into a country and and shooting things up like a rambo movie and taking something over you're

01:00:20.440 there to try and make positive change or or you know have relationships as one of our commenters

01:00:26.460 lorna has pointed out a couple times i mean now how can countries trust anything coming from american

01:00:31.160 or Canadian military forces when they go into a country.

01:00:34.280 They've done so much damage on that front as well, aside from the immediate human damage.

01:00:40.000 Well, General Louis McKenzie of Bosnia fame, who is in the documentary, he said that this

01:00:49.780 Afghan abandonment is the first time that he felt ashamed of his country.

01:00:55.760 and that's tragic because i mean lewis mckenzie is a very well established as you said a general

01:01:01.660 and uh and canadian and we're seeing clips i don't know if you can see them linda probably not

01:01:05.920 but uh nico's pulling up some some parts from all the interviews you did uh you know running

01:01:10.360 them in the background and as you said it's not you're not trying for something sensationalistic

01:01:15.560 you know you and nico were very careful with the editing to make sure there's there's not

01:01:18.800 uh gore but you don't want to understate just just how badly people have suffered because of

01:01:23.160 this withdrawal either. And the documentary explains why, you know, these are, this is a

01:01:30.760 hard time for Canadians with inflations and gas prices. People here are trying to get by,

01:01:40.500 but the documentary explains why these Afghans should not be abandoned, what they did. Many of

01:01:48.260 And they are why many of our Canadian soldiers who were ordered into Afghanistan by the government, they are why many of them made it home.

01:01:59.860 They shared a common goal to defeat the brutal and crushing Taliban.

01:02:04.040 They stood beside Canadians shoulder to shoulder as interpreters, cooks, drivers, embassy staff at great risk.

01:02:13.080 And they are literally being hunted down.

01:02:15.940 The Taliban have taken to showing up with arrest warrants.

01:02:23.200 And what follows that are if they find their targets, what follows are tortures, executions and people just disappearing.

01:02:37.580 and and it has the situation has improved um a little bit but it's still a trickle it's not a

01:02:47.540 flood of people getting in and people in the know are saying that the two years that immigration

01:02:55.200 minister sean fraser has said that it will take to get the 40 000 afghans prime minister justin

01:03:02.160 trudeau promised safety to in canada two years is um unrealistic some of these people don't have

01:03:13.680 until tomorrow no and and this issue has been kind of quiet we haven't heard a lot about it lately

01:03:20.080 though it's kind of coming back up in the news again yeah so uh it's it's just important i guess

01:03:26.720 not to let people forget you know we we have well it's been such a crazy couple of years too it's

01:03:31.360 It's easy to kind of let some things go into the background of our memories, but this one, I mean, the issue is still ongoing and we can't forget those right now who are suffering today.

01:03:40.360 And also we should just hold some people accountable for what caused this in the first place.

01:03:45.700 Yeah, I believe that there must have been people, you know, working in immigration who were very devoted, very dedicated, tried their hardest.

01:03:58.800 but the obstacles that were put in place the uh the need for these uh and not to say that people

01:04:06.960 shouldn't be vetted but many of these people that the generals and asset afghan strategic

01:04:15.840 evacuation team which had a number of canadian organizations under their umbrella they know

01:04:22.880 they knew who these people were they had been vetted so to go through that crazy process

01:04:31.280 and keep them trapped behind enemy lines um just no no sense no rhyme or reason

01:04:39.680 um and it's it really is a a shame yeah and so i mean it's it's a good piece and it's coming

01:04:47.760 out very soon we're just finishing the polishing off the last of the edits on it and it's i believe

01:04:52.320 it runs about 40 minutes or so yes okay well i you know appreciate you putting this together of

01:04:59.600 course and just coming to talk to us because it's coming up soon and i just want to let our viewers

01:05:02.640 and listeners know that this this documentary is coming out because it's an important one you know

01:05:06.800 i mean it's not me and my rants and things like that this is much more nuanced and speaking to

01:05:11.760 experts speaking to people who've been there including yourself and uh you know shining a

01:05:15.920 light on this it's really going to be important for a lot of people to watch this and and to

01:05:20.080 to remind Canadians that, um, in spite of the

01:05:23.200 opticals put in their way, in spite of the

01:05:26.440 dithering, as the general said, uh, that there

01:05:30.220 are honorable Canadians who will push to the

01:05:34.660 end for the right thing to be done.

01:05:37.760 Well, and they, they used to wear military

01:05:41.180 uniforms.

01:05:42.600 Yes.

01:05:43.300 And, uh, it's, it's good to know people aren't

01:05:45.860 giving up.

01:05:46.220 It's kind of like I was saying earlier before

01:05:48.060 you came on. You know, it feels futile. We can get cynical, we can get tired, but it's just

01:05:52.340 important to keep pushing because we'll lose for sure if we give up and then there's still people

01:05:55.580 to be saved over there. Okay. But all right. Well, thank you very much, Linda. I'm here. We'll talk

01:06:03.480 a bit again after the documentary is released and hopefully some people will be paying better

01:06:09.960 attention and knowing what's going on out there. Okay. Corey, thank you very much. All right. Great

01:06:14.760 talking to you, Linda. Thank you. Take care. So that was the Western Standards, Linda Slobodian.

01:06:20.500 Our regular readers know that name. She puts a lot of stuff out, writes on a lot of provincial

01:06:24.160 affairs. But again, Linda's a veteran journalist who's done work all over the place, as she said

01:06:30.580 at the start, in Afghanistan herself. You know, we're not working on anecdotes or people who don't

01:06:36.320 know what's going on. She spoke to a number of retired Canadian generals, including Lewis McKenzie.

01:06:42.100 As you can see, it's called Abandoned but Not Forgotten by Canada's generals.

01:06:45.660 Those generals are speaking up and working to ensure that this issue does not go away.

01:06:51.880 So watch this show, watch the Western Standard, and as soon as that's ready to go live,

01:06:56.860 we are going to let you know and, you know, set aside some time to watch that documentary.

01:07:00.520 Nico and Linda have worked on it for quite some time, and it's really something else,

01:07:04.600 something different for us.

01:07:05.460 You know, we haven't really gone into documentary-type productions here at the Standard,

01:07:10.040 so this will be the first one of that sort.

01:07:12.320 And for starting for a first one,

01:07:14.540 it's an important and a great one.

01:07:16.940 All right, let's see what else we got going on

01:07:19.700 as we wind things up here.

01:07:22.820 Here's an interesting story.

01:07:24.440 I think that was mentioned by Mel

01:07:26.560 when she came on earlier

01:07:27.580 with Elections Canada paid researchers $84,000

01:07:30.600 for personality profiles of federal voters.

01:07:34.600 And you've got a bunch of data.

01:07:36.500 You know, I'm kind of mixed on this.

01:07:38.160 As long as they're not using that money to try

01:07:40.460 and figure out how to better campaign

01:07:43.240 for liberal benefit,

01:07:45.300 but they're actually looking at voter patterns

01:07:47.020 as kind of potentially within their ballywick.

01:07:50.160 You see things like the Canadian Mortgage

01:07:52.380 and Housing Association.

01:07:53.760 They get studies trying to find ways

01:07:56.680 on behalf of the liberals

01:07:57.780 to tax the equity of your home.

01:08:01.140 That's disgusting.

01:08:02.380 It's a waste of our dollars 0.96

01:08:03.420 and it's scary to think

01:08:04.160 what the liberals are coming after.

01:08:05.960 But this might be okay.

01:08:08.320 And there's just some interesting numbers within it.

01:08:10.460 voter demographics, and they break it down to nine different persons that included change makers,

01:08:18.960 immigrants who definitely vote every chance they get, and feel impatience towards people who express

01:08:24.960 strong political opinions yet don't vote. There's one of the things that people get concerned about

01:08:29.180 immigration and things like that. I think we get a lot of immigrants who come in, especially if

01:08:33.940 they've come, unfortunately, from places that were in a lot worse condition than Canada, and they do 1.00

01:08:38.020 get frustrated with our apathy. They do get frustrated. Why don't you get up and vote? I mean,

01:08:42.100 they came from countries where they either aren't allowed to vote, or you got to fight for the right

01:08:45.940 to vote, or the elections are truly so corrupt that the voting is pointless. And here where we

01:08:50.580 have it so good, we get out there and we're not bothered voting. Or Eastern Europeans, we get so 0.97

01:08:55.740 many great conservatives who come out from there because they've lived through the dictatorships.

01:09:02.280 And people in Central America, Africa, they've been in the dictatorships. They know the signs.

01:09:06.300 we've got the ability to change things so they get frustrated um and uh yeah some of these terms

01:09:13.020 they used you know champions or electors over 45 rated as determined outspoken and vocal about the

01:09:18.540 necessity of voting and they feel excited and hopeful about electing a candidate these are

01:09:22.520 typically over 45 followers this is an interesting one they categorized and um and that's a young

01:09:29.340 canadians under 25 who are not very attentive and typically uninformed if it wasn't for social media

01:09:33.600 feeds. They typically don't vote or attend a polling station. Then there's individualists.

01:09:39.420 They're Canadians. They sit all ages. They study platforms and likely express their frustration 0.96

01:09:43.840 on Twitter and Facebook, and they consider voting to be a requirement. Idealists, oh boy,

01:09:50.400 usually under 34, and they think their vote can make a difference. Planners, skeptics are another

01:09:55.460 one, though. Yeah, they keep up with the news, but vote only haphazardly. And I know, that's what

01:09:59.940 I've talked about, you know, the frustration, sometimes the feeling like it's pointless.

01:10:04.140 It says Lauren and Nico saying off topic, was anybody sent letters, been sent letters from

01:10:08.160 Stats Canada to do a labor force survey? I haven't seen that one yet. But Statistics Canada is always

01:10:13.620 pushing things, you know, and I haven't seen that one. But I mean, I imagine they're doing more

01:10:20.280 surveys. That's their role. And I'm kind of mixed on Statistics Canada. I mean, hey, I like digressing

01:10:25.020 on things when subjects come up.

01:10:26.640 If you remember, you know,

01:10:28.060 the big national census

01:10:29.940 that would happen every year.

01:10:32.620 Many years ago,

01:10:33.540 I got worked up with that one.

01:10:35.400 The problem I have with the census

01:10:36.680 is that they tell me

01:10:37.680 I will be charged

01:10:39.680 if I don't take part in it.

01:10:40.820 They make it illegal for me

01:10:41.940 not to take part in it.

01:10:43.880 And I got in a big battle

01:10:45.300 with an ex many years ago.

01:10:46.380 I still think to this day

01:10:47.180 because they gave up.

01:10:49.200 She filled it out on my behalf

01:10:50.700 and gave it to them 0.98

01:10:51.340 because she was getting upset.

01:10:52.640 But the census takers

01:10:53.460 kept coming to the door.

01:10:54.260 They would come literally there

01:10:55.000 because I had the extended package and this big long thing

01:10:57.060 and it was asking me ridiculous stuff about race

01:11:00.080 and how many toilets I had in my house 1.00

01:11:01.560 and all sorts of stupid things. 1.00

01:11:03.540 And they were telling me I would be charged 1.00

01:11:05.820 if I refused to do it. 1.00

01:11:07.300 And I filled one or two with just a bunch of stupid data 0.99

01:11:10.820 and made stuff up and said I was bred by aliens 0.99

01:11:12.980 and I had 90 toilets in my bedroom and things like that.

01:11:15.720 And then of course that got rejected and they got pissy.

01:11:18.700 You know, if they just asked, serious, if they'd just asked,

01:11:23.020 I would have filled it out accurately

01:11:24.180 because I think it's important for government

01:11:25.980 to have those numbers and know some things

01:11:27.420 for policy modeling and things like that.

01:11:29.780 But because they said they're going to bring the law

01:11:31.840 on my case and make me do it,

01:11:34.460 well, now I'm not going to cooperate.

01:11:36.240 Now I'm going to dig my heels in.

01:11:37.420 Now I'm actually going to do things

01:11:38.820 even to sabotage your numbers.

01:11:42.880 This country doesn't respect individual choice or rights.

01:11:46.800 Boy, we certainly know that more than ever right now

01:11:49.320 with the last two years

01:11:50.960 with what we've gone through with the pandemic and things.

01:11:53.580 But likewise with the pandemic, likewise with things, as I've said, and now I'm sick of it.

01:11:58.740 I'm not going to do a booster every nine months for the rest of my life.

01:12:02.760 I need to see better evidence.

01:12:05.200 But I mean, if you want me to take part in medical things, ask me, reason with me, talk to me.

01:12:11.800 And I'm much more inclined to take part.

01:12:14.140 But when you put the gun to my head, now I'm going to struggle.

01:12:18.100 This government doesn't seem to understand that.

01:12:20.500 And maybe not enough people seem to understand that.

01:12:22.420 guys, don't keep cowering every time the government tries to force you to do something.

01:12:26.580 You've got to push back.

01:12:27.340 It doesn't mean you end up in jail like poor Tamara Leish, you know, and so on.

01:12:31.800 There's different levels of where you want to rebel and push back.

01:12:35.560 But, yeah, you know, here's some of the things that gets me a census, too.

01:12:38.260 Like Jet Gorgon saying the census wanted salary and name of employer, et cetera, and he said no.

01:12:43.200 Yeah, you know, it's intrusive.

01:12:44.380 But the other thing that gets me is you guys have all that information.

01:12:48.060 You have it through CRA.

01:12:50.940 You have it through my healthcare card.

01:12:53.360 You have it through my driver's license.

01:12:54.780 I mean, government on so many levels

01:12:56.360 has all the information about me already.

01:12:58.640 How many times have you got to keep asking?

01:13:00.440 How inefficient and wretchedly disorganized are you guys

01:13:04.920 that you've got to keep hounding us 0.89

01:13:07.300 and forcing us to give you that information

01:13:09.260 over and over again and in more detail?

01:13:11.180 Why don't you guys look within your own bloody departments

01:13:13.500 and get it?

01:13:14.620 Because you've got it.

01:13:16.500 And this is where we're at.

01:13:19.320 census. So either way, they're looking for more stuff. I'm mixed on it again,

01:13:24.140 getting some more information. Like I said, not every bureaucrat's evil, though I think most of

01:13:28.660 them are. You know, not every initiative is really meant to step on us, though, again,

01:13:33.160 I think most of them are. Just try to respect us a little bit for a change. It would be really

01:13:40.040 refreshing. And you'll get a lot of more cooperation out of guys like me. Here's a CRTC

01:13:43.980 report, you know, and the CRTC has been getting more and more invasive with the powers being

01:13:51.580 given to it. You know, it's good to look up if you search out Peter Menzies, who took part in it.

01:13:57.160 He was a chair of it and he was a publisher with the Herald for a long time. But he's also speaks

01:14:02.380 openly on what's gone on in the CRTC and what's led to or what the CBC radio is not what he signed

01:14:07.920 up for initially as a journalist. And it's just turning into a controlling arm of the government.

01:14:12.240 Now, there's a report saying that the next three years will determine whether the Canadian TV system survives or not.

01:14:19.060 And, you know, research points to a loss of viewership and advertising to internet broadcasters like Netflix and YouTube.

01:14:24.280 You know, YouTube like we are as well, of course, and others.

01:14:28.480 Fine.

01:14:29.140 I mean, we kind of already knew that.

01:14:30.680 You didn't have to be a media expert to understand why legacy media and conventional media is having a hard time paying the bills these days.

01:14:37.260 It's changed dramatically.

01:14:38.860 It's hard to get on there

01:14:40.380 and watch Little Mosque on the Prairie

01:14:42.080 when I can put on Amazon Prime or Netflix

01:14:44.080 and see productions far more entertaining than that

01:14:47.040 and indulge.

01:14:49.480 But what worries me is they feel perhaps

01:14:52.680 that they can interfere with that natural change

01:14:55.820 in viewership and force us to watch other content.

01:14:58.880 Then we've got a problem.

01:15:00.680 They shouldn't be looking at this as a way

01:15:02.380 to preserve old Canadian broadcasting TV.

01:15:05.380 They should look at how we can evolve then

01:15:07.140 and just make the market broader

01:15:09.600 so that we have more options within Canada

01:15:11.740 than that are within streaming services.

01:15:13.920 We've got to accept the fact that the dinosaurs are gone.

01:15:17.400 Where they're going, we've got to let them go.

01:15:19.380 End the tax subsidies.

01:15:21.160 Let it happen. 1.00

01:15:22.460 I mean, think of how bad and backwards things are.

01:15:24.840 In Calgary, we've got Signal Hill.

01:15:26.940 It's a spot over on the west side.

01:15:28.660 And that's where CTV Studio is

01:15:31.140 and a whole bunch of radio towers and all sorts of stuff.

01:15:33.000 They've built all of the broadcasting centers up there

01:15:36.100 and the TV and the radio, because it made sense.

01:15:39.000 You had to get to a high point

01:15:40.020 because you were sending out radio and TV signals

01:15:41.680 to everybody to get to them.

01:15:43.680 Well, fine, and they're still there.

01:15:46.340 There's still studios up there and things like that,

01:15:48.620 just because the building is there,

01:15:49.620 the infrastructure is there.

01:15:51.920 But it also lets you know how old-fashioned things are.

01:15:55.140 And this is why you can't fix

01:15:56.340 a lot of the existing outlets and publications.

01:16:00.480 You know, look at the big Calgary Herald building

01:16:03.320 on Deerfoot, you can see it, that big brick building.

01:16:06.100 and it's for lease and nobody's ever going to lease it because it's so specialized. It's made

01:16:09.620 for running loads and loads of printing presses and wheels of paper and all that that you just

01:16:13.200 don't need anymore. And that infrastructure just can't be used for anything else anymore. Nobody

01:16:18.300 wants a dinosaur of a building way up on top of a hill because they don't need a big antenna and a

01:16:23.600 high spot anymore. It's all streaming now. We're doing this in the standard. We take up a quarter

01:16:28.760 floor of a, I guess closer to half a floor now of a modest office building downtown, but still have

01:16:33.540 a studio and all the works and we've got people across the country doing it. Our overhead is a

01:16:38.000 fraction of what those places were. We can't fix the old dinosaurs. It's too big. Let them go and

01:16:43.240 let the new ones evolve. Get off our case. Quit trying to control us. We will evolve and give you

01:16:47.480 good local content. Or if we don't, you, the subscribers, will tell us to go to hell and we'll 0.96

01:16:50.900 go broke. That's the perfect way for it to happen. We're accountable to you. You all stop. If you're 0.97

01:16:56.360 really dislike me, get out there, guys, Larry, the rest of you, and get the people to unsubscribe.

01:17:01.880 and don't worry, I'll be gone soon enough.

01:17:03.700 But in the meantime, we're accountable to you.

01:17:05.840 So either way, when they're doing these studies

01:17:07.100 and they're realizing that conventional television

01:17:10.300 is going by the wayside,

01:17:11.480 I just hope they're looking at it the right way.

01:17:13.320 Don't look at it as a way to preserve something

01:17:14.920 that's out of date and gone.

01:17:16.180 You're not gonna bring back VHS.

01:17:18.120 We're not gonna bring back television, guys.

01:17:19.720 Cassettes aren't gonna be handy again anytime soon.

01:17:22.020 So let's figure out how to evolve.

01:17:23.540 I don't mind studying it if you're looking to move ahead.

01:17:26.140 But I worry with this government,

01:17:27.500 they're always looking at ways to control

01:17:28.960 and keeping that archaic old system in place

01:17:31.820 helps them control, including the CBC, of course. That's the first one that should be going by the

01:17:37.880 wayside. Again, let's talk about our government and their massive ineptitude at a high price.

01:17:44.360 Yeah, the Department of Health, Melanie, mentioned that. They lost track of thousands of computers,

01:17:48.960 says auditors. Thousands of computers. You know, how? What are you doing? They found,

01:17:56.560 what, 14,808 computers in the IT inventory and 20,000 in a database that were not identified.

01:18:06.040 So they owned about 33,000 pieces of computer equipment, and they lost thousands of them.

01:18:12.840 In other words, are they breaking? Are they being flushed down the toilet? Are they falling apart?

01:18:16.800 No, they're getting stolen. Let's not beat around the bush. People are taking the laptops home.

01:18:20.840 They got, again, inept government, these bureaucrats, this sense of entitlement. 0.98

01:18:26.540 Ah, screw it. 0.98

01:18:26.840 I'm going to get home video gaming, a gift for the kid, whatever, format it and put something on.

01:18:30.960 Because they don't have good controls like a private institution would have, track things down like that.

01:18:36.820 I assure you, if I took more than 10 pens out of here, Derek would be phoning me later and giving me hell for it.

01:18:42.260 Nobody's going to be stealing a bunch of computers out of the Western Standard offices.

01:18:46.580 I mean, private industry is the way to go.

01:18:50.540 And so think about this.

01:18:51.740 These are the health people.

01:18:52.920 This is why our healthcare system is a mess.

01:18:54.520 Not because of the lost computers,

01:18:55.960 but those are a symbol of how badly managed

01:18:58.260 the health departments are.

01:19:00.140 These bloated bureaucracies.

01:19:02.500 People don't understand why

01:19:04.360 a lot of us keep talking and pointing

01:19:05.880 to the healthcare systems that far surpass Canada's.

01:19:08.400 And Canada's is dropping all the time.

01:19:10.420 It's nowhere near the best in the world.

01:19:11.820 Far from it.

01:19:13.180 And every system that's better than ours,

01:19:14.900 every one of them, not most, not some,

01:19:17.400 All of them allow more private provision of care than ours.

01:19:21.100 We have a government-enforced monopoly.

01:19:23.220 So these people, again, who can't track down tax cheats,

01:19:26.700 the people who can't renew your passports,

01:19:29.240 the people who misplace thousands and thousands of computers,

01:19:33.100 yet some people say those are the best people to run your health care?

01:19:36.720 God, I don't want a bureaucrat trying to take my appendix out. 0.99

01:19:39.800 They'd probably take off one of my testicles and then blame me for it afterwards. 1.00

01:19:43.660 We need to change the system and we need to get some proper private competition in there to fix this crap up. 0.99

01:19:50.460 All right, here's another one. 0.99

01:19:52.160 Yeah, this is where we need French to save Canada.

01:19:55.940 Yes, this is a federal briefing note for a cabinet bill.

01:19:59.200 So apparently, here's some of the backwards think of our federal politicians.

01:20:03.280 You know, we've had a country that's got unity problems been going on since before I was born.

01:20:08.240 Predominantly, it was a secession issue in Quebec, but there was an unrest in the West.

01:20:12.860 since the beginning of Confederation as well.

01:20:14.940 I mean, if you look at the old milch cow cartoon,

01:20:18.420 you Google that, you can see 115 years ago,

01:20:21.260 the issues were the same in the West as they are today.

01:20:23.040 They're screwing us.

01:20:24.440 But one of the things that's always annoyed us 0.98

01:20:26.900 was, of course, the constant pandering to Quebec

01:20:29.000 because they were always threatening to go.

01:20:30.640 And now you see, they feel if they can push enough French

01:20:34.000 on the rest of us, they can save the country. 1.00

01:20:36.020 Guys, it's you're pushing a French on us 1.00

01:20:38.080 that has divided us all the more. 1.00

01:20:39.820 It's made us sick of you.

01:20:40.740 It's made us want out.

01:20:41.660 Like, it hasn't endeared us.

01:20:43.720 No amount of French you shove down an Albertan or Saskatchewan or Newfoundlander's throat

01:20:48.800 is making a Quebecois separatist feel any more inclined to stay here.

01:20:53.840 And it's not making us feel any more inclined to stay here either out in the West.

01:20:57.580 But it doesn't matter.

01:20:58.860 This is where they're going.

01:21:00.000 They're looking to push into privately business.

01:21:02.640 This is the problem. 1.00

01:21:03.440 Private businesses, federally regulated private businesses, C-13, force more French. 1.00

01:21:09.740 Come on. 0.98

01:21:10.900 God, nobody even reads it on this cereal box anymore.

01:21:13.760 Cut it out. 0.99

01:21:14.260 Quit wasting our money and dividing us. 1.00

01:21:15.580 But they won't because they're fools. 1.00

01:21:17.780 They're blinded. 1.00

01:21:18.900 You're not going to unify us more by jamming this on us.

01:21:21.400 If it hasn't worked in 60 years, guys, it's not going to work tomorrow.

01:21:25.660 Ah, let's see.

01:21:27.840 Here's some fun.

01:21:28.640 I'm going to finish off with, yeah, I like my music that I crank up

01:21:32.840 and the harder stuff and the louder stuff.

01:21:34.660 I'm a long-time heavy metal fan.

01:21:37.480 you know Judas Priest, Iron Maiden

01:21:39.600 hey these are the guys I grew up with and you still listen

01:21:41.700 to that stuff or I do. My mullet's gone

01:21:43.800 now I don't wear those t-shirts anymore

01:21:45.560 I don't have any up there

01:21:46.660 but I like

01:21:49.600 some of that stuff and even some of the newer things Rage Against the Machine

01:21:51.540 I just like cranking some of that up it's good to

01:21:53.600 listen to and relax and

01:21:55.440 shake the windows in the car when Jane's not

01:21:57.580 with me she won't let me know I'm with it

01:21:58.940 and they were always unapologetically left wing

01:22:01.580 that's fine you know they're left wing reactionary

01:22:03.980 but when they get 1.00

01:22:05.760 up and pipe off about this crap. You know, celebrities, again, talking about stuff they 0.99

01:22:09.040 don't know. That's hardly new. But I guess at a concert in Canada, they went on about

01:22:14.140 giving Indigenous land back. Yeah, this was at a Canadian concert, Rage Against the Machine,

01:22:19.560 saying, we've got to give Indigenous land back. Okay. To who? How? Where? This is ridiculous,

01:22:29.080 this call. I mean, when they call, you know what? One thing gets under my nerves, I'm easily 0.99

01:22:32.520 triggered on some things. There's a couple of things. You want to get me really mad on Twitter

01:22:36.180 or whatever else, tell me to shut up. Slavica learned that one out fairly well. The other one 0.97

01:22:40.900 is call me a settler. Settler. How the hell am I a settler? I had grandparents who were born in

01:22:49.160 Canada. Both my parents were born in Canada. I mean, when you say settler, you're already

01:22:53.860 implying then that I don't belong here. You're saying I have to go somewhere else. Where the

01:23:02.520 where the hell are all these settlers supposed to go because that's what you're saying give the land

01:23:05.480 back to whom when which tribe which band which which nation most of the prairies were populated

01:23:13.960 by nomadic uh you know people who were neolithic hunters it's not an insult it's just the reality

01:23:21.160 of what stage of social and economic development they were at at that point they they weren't

01:23:25.640 farming yet they didn't have a written language didn't have surveyors so how are we going to

01:23:31.000 to divide this land and give it back as you put it hundreds of years after the real settlement

01:23:39.140 and colonization happened. This crap, and it's crap from, and it's not just rage against the 0.99

01:23:46.640 machine. You hear it from idiots like Elizabeth May and other left-wing activists all over the 1.00

01:23:50.720 place too. This is what divides us. This is what annoys and frustrates us settlers. So we're 1.00

01:23:57.740 basically, it's the same attitude of saying, go back where you came from. That's what they're

01:24:01.640 saying. And, you know, we don't accept that out of anybody else, nor should we. We can't, I mean,

01:24:06.440 we see those examples of racism. We do see that when somebody's getting in a battle at a convenience

01:24:12.080 store and yells at a person of Indian descent, go back where you came from, or, you know, any other

01:24:17.940 visible minorities. We won't put up with that. We shouldn't, because it's odious and it's disgusting.

01:24:22.280 but somehow we put up with it

01:24:24.140 a rage against machine

01:24:26.020 and from other leftists saying

01:24:28.400 give it back and go back where you came from

01:24:30.320 and I didn't even come from somewhere else

01:24:32.560 so I'm kind of out of options guys

01:24:34.000 but that's where the dialogue is

01:24:37.440 we got to live today guys

01:24:38.840 quit hanging up from back then

01:24:40.680 but pretending that we can turn that clock back

01:24:43.280 how far back do we want to go?

01:24:46.360 where can I get some compensation?

01:24:48.580 am I going to get over there

01:24:49.920 and get some from Italy 0.98

01:24:52.480 for when the Romans occupied parts of Europe

01:24:54.640 or the Inquisition when they were cracking down on Jews. 0.69

01:24:57.360 I don't think the Spanish are going to give me any money.

01:25:01.020 So, you know, we're on the Scottish side again

01:25:05.160 from Hadrian's time up there.

01:25:08.360 No, it's not going to happen.

01:25:09.900 Let's move ahead, people.

01:25:11.480 I'm not a settler.

01:25:12.860 I'm a Canadian and an Albertan,

01:25:15.660 and I'm just here, and I'm sick of that rhetoric,

01:25:18.560 and I'm sick of the division,

01:25:19.340 and I'm sick of the identity politics.

01:25:22.360 You guys aren't doing anybody any favors

01:25:23.820 even though you call yourself progressive.

01:25:27.080 All right.

01:25:28.000 Well, I got an interesting one tomorrow.

01:25:31.080 Make sure you tune in.

01:25:32.320 We're going to get on to some of the provincial UCP race

01:25:36.080 and of course cover a lot of news and things too.

01:25:37.980 But some of it is Roz Sherman with his race

01:25:40.260 or his run for the UCP,

01:25:42.440 even though the UCP said he's not running for them.

01:25:44.560 So it's kind of bizarre.

01:25:45.720 Roz Sherman's a doctor.

01:25:46.800 He was also within the, he was a PCMLA.

01:25:50.220 He ended up crossing the floor over to the Liberals.

01:25:52.980 He led the Liberal Party.

01:25:54.120 He's an interesting character, to say the least.

01:25:56.460 But he still seems to be pushing along with his campaign somehow.

01:26:02.240 And John Horsman, he's another fellow who's put his name in.

01:26:05.040 He's from ATB originally.

01:26:06.940 And he's going to be running for the leadership of the UCP as well. 0.92

01:26:12.780 He's one of the non-MLAs. 1.00

01:26:13.860 I believe he's coming in. 0.99

01:26:14.560 So that ought to be a good time.

01:26:15.760 So looking forward to that.

01:26:17.800 And just to answer one more question, Brad Hagen saying,

01:26:19.760 are you a Nickelback fan, Corey?

01:26:21.420 Yes, actually, I like them.

01:26:23.220 I don't think they're the best band in the world,

01:26:26.060 but they're pretty good, and they make some good chances.

01:26:28.100 So all right, thanks for tuning in today, guys.

01:26:30.260 I will see you all at 11.30 a.m. tomorrow.

01:26:45.760 Thank you.

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