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00:01:36.680have to listen to the entire way along. Hey there, Stacey. We're going to have Michelle Sterling from0.98
00:01:41.760the Friends of Science. She wrote a column for us recently about how basically we've got this
00:01:46.720mass panic that is being fed by the, you know, feeding the climate crisis narrative. Marcel
00:01:53.440Latouche, if people are familiar with Talk Radio in the past. He was a very popular guest quite
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00:02:04.560accountability and things such as that. It's policy stuff, but he's always got some good
00:02:09.060common sense, and we'll talk about it, particularly City Hall and a number of other things. And then
00:02:13.180finally, I will have Renaud Broussard. He's the Quebec Director of the Canadian Taxpayers
00:02:18.920Federation. And we're going to talk about some of that lunacy that's coming out with a tax
00:02:23.700against the non-vaccinated in Quebec that they're trying to push and see what those tax implications
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00:10:47.680It's been a busy morning for the Western Standard newsroom.
00:10:52.680Our top story at the moment is a heartbreaking story out of Vancouver,
00:10:58.680where our British Columbia reporter, Reid Small,
00:11:02.680has got a story about a young family who has a four-year-old boy who is battling leukemia.
00:11:08.680They are staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver while the youngster undergoes treatment.
00:11:15.680and these Ronald McDonald houses, they're all across the country
00:11:19.260and for years and years they've been doing great work.
00:11:22.740But now they've said that they're going to kick out unvaccinated children over five
00:11:28.960and their families who also aren't vaccinated.
00:11:32.760So this poor youngster is going to be booted out from the home that he's gotten used to
00:11:40.860while he's undergoing these leukemia treatments.
00:11:43.220So we've got a video on the site now with the youngster's dad talking to the Ronald McDonald officials and, you know, trying to get his point across.
00:11:53.660So that's a very emotive story, you know, whichever side of the vaccination argument you land on.
00:12:01.220And speaking of Quebec, as you were, we've got a few follows on Quebec and more to come throughout the day.
00:12:07.640Got a story up now on John Carpe. He's the head of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. He says that the day that the Legault government brings in the tax, he will be filing a lawsuit against the province and just basically arguing like you did, Corey, that it's a breach of the Charter of Rights and a breach of the Canada Health Act.
00:12:34.820We've also got a good column up from our contributor, Dave Makachuk,
00:12:39.940talking about authoritarian governments.
00:12:42.780And he had a bit of a run-in with the Calgary City Police
00:12:45.920storming into his house a few years back.
00:12:49.320And he's basically saying if it happened to him, it can happen to you
00:12:53.620if you're not following the government rules.
00:12:59.040We've got a story on your best friend, Stephen Gilbo.
00:13:02.360oh you remember him the liberal cabinet minister who for a couple of years was in charge of
00:13:07.960censoring the internet and he failed to get that done now he's the environment minister
00:13:13.160and he made a pretty audacious pledge he says he's going to get rid of fossil fuels
00:13:18.200in two years two years cory uh that drew a basically a laughing response from conservative
00:13:25.960leader erin o'toole who did a video of himself outside shivering in front of the internal flame
00:13:32.280in front of the house of commons saying that's ludicrous there's no way he's going to be able
00:13:37.400to eliminate uh eliminate fossil fuels in uh in two years uh of course uh gilbo is short on details
00:13:46.360but he does admit that hey it might cost a bit of money well yeah no kidding and uh
00:13:52.760speaking of the environment we have a story uh on one just one guy a deputy minister of finance
00:14:00.280who flew to the cop 26 conference in glasgow and he billed taxpayers almost 11 000 to fly
00:14:09.240fly himself from uh from ottawa to uh to glasgow so i don't know if there's anything ahead of
00:14:16.280first class but uh if there is i'm sure 11 000 would have put him in that category and and get
00:14:23.240this corey that's just the first of 276 more air of airfares to come in we had the largest delegation
00:14:31.400there 277 members uh not even england who could drive up the road to scotland at anywhere near
00:14:38.440that amount so i think the final travel bill is uh going to be absolutely astronomical the hypocrisy
00:14:45.880from these climate zealots is is always astounding i mean how do you find an airfare that high i i
00:14:51.320I mean, did they book themselves the Concorde and dig it out of retirement for this or something?
00:14:55.420I mean, where do these government guys, I mean, I'm sure the airlines, you know, can feel them coming, right?
00:15:00.560These guys will just sign off on any airfare where a private person, of course, would, you know, blanch and say, no, that's not happening.
00:15:35.840I'll have to get those for a future show up there.
00:15:37.660I mean, you know, when he showed up at the McDougal Centre with his large entourage coming out of an SUV that sat idling outside, it was cold.
00:15:44.720You want to keep it warm before he's finished his meeting here and marched on in there.
00:15:49.180I mean, if he's going to talk about ending fossil fuels within two years, which, again, is insane, you'd think he'd start walking the walk by now.
00:15:57.140But none of these guys ever do, do they?
00:16:26.320Well, thanks for bringing me up to date on what you're working on.
00:16:29.240Is there more stuff breaking this afternoon we can look forward to?
00:16:32.040Oh, yeah, Corey, the news never stops.
00:16:35.400Our reporter Mel Rizdin is looking into long-term care situation in Alberta.
00:16:42.220And it's, as you know, since the start of COVID, which tore a terrible swath through long-term care, they've been struggling.
00:16:52.320And we're taking another look now at what effect the COVID latest Omicron crisis has had and some interesting results coming out on that this afternoon.
00:17:03.960And our reporter out of, not a reporter, a demoted or there, a columnist, Linda Slobodin, is going to have an update on the residential grave situation.
00:17:16.200You remember last year there were several incidents of hundreds of graves each found in former residential schools.
00:17:24.540I think Kamloops being the one that kicked it off and followed by several others across the country.
00:17:59.300I think we'll find some interesting stuff to talk about this week.
00:18:02.460Great, Dave. Thanks. So, yeah, quite a few things on the go. You know, getting back to the Ronald McDonald House, I mean, that's just tragic because they really do have a good charity. You know, it's a fantastic cause. And for those who aren't familiar with it, it's for families, especially, say, if you lived outside of a major city, they've got a big facility outside of the Children's Hospital.
00:18:25.880If your child has to have a lot of treatment and things going on and you're spending extended periods at the hospital, it puts a huge financial burden upon parents.
00:18:34.020But you want to stay as close to your child as possible and maintain as much normalcy as possible.
00:18:38.440So Ronald McDonald houses allow families to reside close to the hospital and keeps it affordable.
00:18:45.460And now that they've pulled this where they're evicting, you know, children who haven't fit the vaccine definition, it's just so sad to see such a good charity screwing itself like this and harming the children.
00:18:59.180I mean, the bigger priority right now is the treatment of that child.
00:19:02.420I mean, we know from the numbers, vaccination for COVID-19 is not the highest priority in keeping kids safe.
00:19:08.360When we've got a child being treated for leukemia, that treatment is most important.
00:19:11.900And the proximity with that child's family, of course, in something this serious.
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00:21:25.520let's bring Michelle Sterling in. I've had Michelle on before and it's always great talking1.00
00:21:31.280to her. How are you doing, Michelle? I'm good, thank you. Oh, I better unveil a crystal ball
00:21:37.620here since we're in the new year. I have to keep it covered, otherwise it'll start a fire if the
00:21:42.960sunlight hits it. Oh, well, yeah, speaking of science, you know, getting magnifying in prisms,
00:21:49.560yeah, you can cause some heat or, well, getting onto the common subject, the greenhouse effect.
00:21:55.660but uh for now we're talking about i guess uh climate panic uh you know you wrote a column on
00:22:02.420this recently talking about that and then some of the censorship that's gone on for for people
00:22:07.000who speak to it so maybe if you want to kind of run down what you wrote for us there that's
00:22:10.520available on westernstandardonline.com by the way well uh basically uh you know recently uh
00:22:18.980Dr. Malone was deplatformed, and so was Joe Rogan, and they did an interview about the COVID situation, and they said the magic words mass formation psychosis, which is a term coined by Matthias Desmet, who's a professor of psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
00:22:48.980And so they were talking about the fact that there are many bizarre policies associated with COVID and, you know, that for many people, the fear has risen to such a level that, you know, incomprehensible kind of suggestions are being made about the vaccinated, the unvaccinated, about the future, about, you know, in fact, right now,
00:23:16.600understand the unions in Alberta are demanding a circuit breaker lockdown. So, you know, this,
00:23:26.360these are not rational public policies. And Lieutenant Colonel Redmond has shown that
00:23:32.040lockdown was never ever part of pandemic management. But my article really relates to
00:23:38.680the climate emergency, because, you know, people are not able to see that nonsensical,
00:23:45.240hysterical mass formation psychosis that's really inherent in the climate emergency and in fact
00:23:53.240there's even a plan written by a woman named margaret uh klein solomon who's a clinical
00:23:59.240psychologist and it's called leading the public into emergency mode so she actually uh writes in
00:24:07.720her plan that uh i just made some notes here that um that you know this is an emergency and when
00:24:16.040people get into emergency uh heightened emergency thinking it's contagious so uh she wrote this in
00:24:25.2402014 and she advised people you know in these different climate groups to just get into
00:24:31.720emergency mode because it would make other people feel fearful and they would respond accordingly
00:24:39.480so you know just like shouting fire in a crowded theater you know people trumpet out the door well
00:24:46.440that's exactly what happened with climate emergency and we see similar kinds of elements
00:24:54.760happening in the COVID crisis as well. And, you know, COVID is a real thing. People do die from
00:25:02.040it. It is dangerous for many people, but many of the policies that we see are just as nonsensical
00:25:08.840as the climate policies, because they're all based on this heightened emergency thinking
00:25:13.640rather than calm, rational, thoughtful consideration of the many needs of public policy.0.95
00:25:20.840yeah and that's a problem like you'd mentioned Greta Thunberg of course is a popular figure for1.00
00:25:27.840for pushing climate change and she said outright she wants people to panic which is a ridiculous
00:25:33.520thing to ask but I mean it was almost a moment of being candid but I mean we know in life one
00:25:38.680of the worst times to make important decisions on anything is when you're in a panic when you're in
00:25:43.780an emergency and you're panicking it means you're running around like a chicken with your head cut
00:25:46.960off and you are not going to make a wise choice on how to rectify that so we should be saying
00:25:52.240let's not panic but let's be concerned let's look at this rationally let's look at this calmly but
00:25:57.280the the climate hysterics and the uh covet hysterics want us to panic which only of course leads to bad
00:26:02.880policy right and uh as you mentioned about greta uh two of the phrases or the whole scenario that
00:26:12.160Margaret Klein-Solomon the clinical psychologist came up with is imagine that your house is on fire
00:26:18.320you know and our house is on fire I want you to panic these are the words that Greta parroted
00:26:25.040and people around the world fell into this mesmerizing climate hysteria and followed her
00:26:31.520now you know in April of 2021 I think it was even on Earth Day Greta testified to the U.S. Congress
00:26:39.600and congressman norman asked her so what's the science behind your phrase i want you to panic
00:26:46.380and she said oh well there's no science behind that it was just a metaphor i don't literally
00:26:51.620want anyone to panic well you know there are people who can't sleep at night there are children
00:26:57.380who are terrified that they won't live to grow up to be an adult uh they there are families that
00:27:05.500have completely changed their lifestyle because they think that the house is on fire that our
00:27:11.220planet is heating up and that's not what the data shows and there's Greta telling us that hey there's
00:27:17.560no science behind that comment that was just a metaphor you know yeah well I can't think of a
00:27:23.620more panicked reaction than to have your top policymakers all sit down and take seriously
00:27:29.100the thoughts of a 17 year old girl on a serious big issue I mean come on when I was 17 I was0.99
00:27:34.980thinking of uh partying and meeting as many other 17 year olds of the the the opposite gender to do
00:27:40.740whatever i would uh and i'm certain that there's a lot of teenagers who do i mean they're smart and
00:27:45.240they're thinking of deep things but this is you need some life experience before we get on with
00:27:48.860these things yet we made her the the figure we're supposed to listen to on determining policy that's
00:27:54.340it's absurd well and if you look behind the scenes there's a very good book by left-wing blogger and
00:28:00.760journalist uh cory morgan's morning star very similar name to you but uh and it's called the
00:28:08.200manufacturing of greta thunberg and it's about how these um carbon offset investors
00:28:15.560including al gore of course but uh ingmar rentsman rents hog and all these uh swedish
00:28:22.920uh participants in a company called we don't have time uh they were were backing her effectively0.60
00:28:30.120she was the um walking native advertisement for their push to have everyone in the world
00:28:37.720participate in carbon offset trading and they even created all these little apps and you know you
00:28:43.240could uh love bomb or hate bomb companies for their climate friendliness and stuff like that
00:28:51.640so you know the the whole mass psychosis of climate really stems from this psychologist's
00:28:59.960um you know plan to scare the pants off people and it worked you know and it's terrible like we
00:29:07.400should disassemble it right now and go back to normal because you know now we see the media are
00:29:14.120picking up on every extreme weather event and and crying oh well you know look at all the flooding
00:29:19.560in bc that's because of climate change no it's because of poor maintenance of the dike system
00:29:25.560there these atmospheric rivers are very common in that part of the world and in fact in 1861-62
00:29:34.280in sacramento they had 43 days of rain biblical rainfall that was an atmospheric river that just
00:29:43.080parked over that region so it's not about climate change these are extreme weather events they have
00:29:48.120nothing to do with climate change and yes humans do affect climate but um it's nominal compared to
00:29:55.320what mother nature can do oh yeah we gotta get realistic i mean the only difference is now we
00:29:59.720can see it now we can live stream it it can look a lot more scary we can see it real time i mean
00:30:03.960you know 80 years ago you read about it in a newspaper a week later and it was hard to relate
00:30:07.640you didn't see the horror somebody was dealing with in a in a weather event or or things such
00:30:12.040as that and everything's blamed on climate change now i mean roberta shelton is a commenter here
00:30:16.120here says don't forget about the doctor in bc who diagnosed a woman with climate change yes
00:30:20.020climate change made her sick apparently and uh yesterday i thought it was the onion i thought
00:30:24.940it was one of those you know parody sites but no it was ctv oh one of canada's top broadcasters
00:30:30.520actually had a headline article saying that it's been discovered that climate change will increase
00:30:35.300kidney stones so yeah it it does everything and again you know i'd expect this out of
00:30:41.120Greta. I would expect this out of Gilboa and other lunatics. But wow, one of our biggest0.96
00:30:46.720broadcasters in the country, and that's what you put out, is that climate change is going to give
00:30:50.960you kidney stones. I mean, the leap these guys are making, if they really want to get on with it,
00:30:56.940I guess, yeah, let's just say climate change will cause impotence because we know little blue pills
00:31:01.220are worth a lot of money in this world. And we know what people find is important or not important
00:31:05.180in the real long run. Well, this is how many of these researchers get funding because you just
00:31:10.600put climate change in your document and then you can access the climate funding and you know there's
00:31:16.760a very good paper by um uh matthew nisbet and he writes about how all these big philanthropies
00:31:24.920have been pumping something like 600 million dollars a year into these engio charities
00:31:31.160worldwide and um and on top of that these individual philanthropies who are associated
00:31:38.280with the climate works groups have pumped in their own hundreds billions of dollars and many times
00:31:44.840because if they're a charity that's been matched either by um citizens or or uh other tax paying
00:31:53.800bodies like municipal governments federal governments provincial governments
00:31:58.360so you know billions of dollars have been pumped into this and uh a lot of the academic funding
00:32:04.120comes from these guys uh and and also they they've also funded media you know tides funded uh the
00:32:11.240toronto star for a six month campaign in the lead up to the paris agreement um claiming they had no
00:32:19.320editorial control oh yeah sure they didn't probably have editorial control but you know who pays the0.84
00:32:25.640piper calls and it's not just ideologues and people who are concerned and uh hairy armpitted hippies
00:32:32.920who want to change things, there's a lot of money in this industry. It's a sub-industry
00:32:37.940unto itself. I mean, some researchers, they may want to go into other things, but they
00:32:41.980know if you're not going to pitch it to the school of something really hysteric and important,
00:32:46.760you're probably not going to get the funding. So you don't even apply for those things in
00:32:50.820the first place. Or I think of that massive multinational corporation worth hundreds of
00:32:56.040millions of dollars that we call Greenpeace. When they're going to the door and rattling
00:33:00.100their cup and asking people to give them money they don't come up and say you know well we kind
00:33:04.500of want to sort of save the darting snail over in this spot or or you know stop a little bit
00:33:08.820of logging over here i mean they want to scare the hell out of you they're going to say your
00:33:12.340kids are going to fry like an ant under a magnifying glass if you don't donate to us
00:33:16.820right now and and they sell the fear and as you said it's contagious i mean it's it's a monetarily
00:33:22.340based uh strategy on the part of a lot of these organizations and people yes it's and the thing is
00:33:29.860you know once you've set this up like if you start a little uh group like our group is run
00:33:35.460by volunteers and you know we have a handful of contracted services i'm one of them but
00:33:41.780generally speaking we operate on volunteer power and about 150 000 a year from our members
00:33:49.380who are also subscribers to our newsletters so um you know that that's an inconsequential amount
00:33:56.820the Deloitte report that was an adjunct to the Allen inquiry found that these top 31
00:34:06.820NGOs in Canada had accumulated millions of dollars of assets and they also got 2.1 billion dollars
00:34:17.300in money from governments and most of them are already tax subsidized charities but these groups
00:34:23.060now have a huge number of employees and they have to find a way to keep paying them you know so they
00:34:31.300ramp up the fear all the time to get more donations um and you know this is something
00:34:36.340that patrick moore told me in an interview that i did with him where he said you know you start
00:34:40.900off with a little volunteer group and then you start adding some services and then all of a
00:34:46.420of a sudden you got to meet payroll. So what do you do? Ratchet up the fear. Yeah, it's a technique.
00:34:54.300And then again, we can't forget a lot of people benefit from it. I mean, we saw recently the
00:34:57.960Association for the Manufacturer of Electric Vehicles was demanding the government put a
00:35:03.520tax on SUVs of $4,000 each. I mean, the self-interest out of these guys just reeks,
00:35:09.860but that's what they're out and about to do. And I mean, hey, I'm a capitalist. I believe in
00:35:14.660self-interest, but that's crony capitalism. That's sick. You're supposed to be selling us on why your
00:35:18.760vehicles are better so that consumers choose to get them, not getting the government to punish
00:35:22.560other vehicle owners on your behalf. But again, when we've got the kind of maniacs we have in
00:35:26.660charge of the environment like Gilboa, these lobbyists are probably going to have actually
00:35:30.460a good impact, unfortunately, for themselves. Well, you know, and the big problem with this,
00:35:35.280especially speaking of EVs, is that, you know, we need 10,000 megawatts additional power generation
00:35:43.300to meet the policies that were in place in 2019.
00:35:46.76010,000 megawatts, that's like eight site C dams.
00:35:50.620Now, these projects take at least 20 to 30 years to get going.
00:45:48.020why do you need that stuff why do you need props because you're still in fear we know your doctor
00:45:53.860we saw the dr in front of your name didn't need you in uniform for it but this is who the media
00:45:59.200goes to and uh this is who people listen to i mean you know that's part of why and i'm gonna
00:46:05.220do a little more self-serving things reminding go to westernstandardonline.com help us you know i
00:46:11.660mean we rely on those subscribers that's what gives us that base so we can keep making this0.96
00:46:15.800information and doing it because again we're not going to feed you that kind of garbage like the
00:46:20.080ctv or the tax-funded cbc or some of those newspapers you know the toronto globe the toronto
00:46:26.120star the red star we're not like that uh you know you listen to dave naylor earlier we're professionals
00:46:31.940we've got news people we're on stories you know we're not like some of the there's a lot of
00:46:36.720alternative news sources online too that they just cut and paste releases and stick them out and call
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00:46:44.780they're really following up on stories they're really talking to people so please don't keep
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00:46:55.120hey we're providing a service you know we're getting out to people to listen to them and it's
00:46:57.780just a nice big cycle and we can help keep everybody a little better educated yeah nico
00:47:01.680pulled that up showing the evidence of skewed covet 19 numbers across canada uh eva wrote that
00:47:07.420story on on western center online.com and uh yes like those numbers i've been talking about that
00:47:12.640for days. This difference between whether they're with COVID or of COVID, like when they're in the
00:47:19.800hospital. And we've got top health officials admitting they're saying that more than half
00:47:26.420of the people reporting as COVID cases in the hospital actually came in for different causes.
00:47:32.020Well, let's get on this. This is important. I mean, if we're looking at shutting down the world
00:47:37.220because of hospital capacity, let's get the real numbers. If that's the case, lockdowns won't make
00:47:42.520a lick of difference. The problem is the system. And that's what a lot of people don't like talking
00:47:47.160about. I mean, Canada's healthcare capacity was always sitting around 90% full all the time
00:47:53.120anyways. So yeah, it didn't take a hell of a lot to tip us into the danger zone. And so again,
00:48:00.280when we're making policies, we've got to base it on the realistic numbers. They know these numbers
00:48:05.140aren't real. Deanna Hinshaw, doctor, our government's talk doctor said she can't figure out, she doesn't
00:48:10.080know how. She knows that the numbers aren't reflecting it, but she says they don't know
00:48:15.960how to figure it out. I don't get that. Why can't you? You know why you brought somebody in. You
00:48:20.180write that down. You check it off somewhere. There's got to be statistics. But again, they
00:48:24.040want to keep the fear going. Keep everybody afraid. We want to keep that narrative. The
00:48:28.260hospitals are bursting at the seams. Cheryl was asking about the synopsis of Kenny's Q&A last
00:48:34.120night. Yeah, he did a Facebook live thing, I believe, last night or something like that.
00:48:38.320But, you know, to be honest, and as she said, she doesn't trust the MSM and I don't blame her.
00:48:43.260That's one of the things I do like that Kenny and some of the others are doing.
00:48:45.860I mean, that's one of the good things with social media.
00:48:47.500You can bypass the, you know, the mainstream media at least and watch those things.
00:48:51.420You might not agree with what he's saying and everything, but it is a good way to reach out to voters and people without having to filter through those media organizations.
00:48:58.820I have, you know, reached out to Kenny and try and get him on.
00:49:01.100You know, he's spoken to me in the past, but not lately because we've been a little rough on him.
00:49:04.780but you know, we're certainly favorable as well in talking with things. But yeah, if you look at
00:49:11.120his Facebook page, I imagine the whole video is probably there and you can see in detail what
00:49:15.440exactly he said. So I got my next guest on deck. I'm going to get to him pretty quickly here. I
00:49:21.020haven't talked to him in a while and I've been looking forward to it, but I'm going to speak
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00:50:27.060Marcel is an author, and he's been a very vocal and well-spoken individual when it comes to policy issues within Canada, particularly civic affairs.
00:50:39.440But he speaks to all of them because government is government, and he's the head of the Institute for Public Sector Accountability, and he's had a number of other hats on as well.
00:55:12.960We could do municipal tax-free bonds, so participants will be Calgarians, ordinary participants could invest in it.
00:55:22.980That will reduce the risk of the city.
00:55:25.620That will reduce the amount of taxpayers' money that's being used.
00:55:30.060The other part we do is we use incentives.
00:55:32.580We give anybody in that area, of any development in that area, a tax break for the first five years.
00:55:44.360Then you reduce, for the next five years, you reduce their tax break by, say, 50% or a percentage.
00:55:50.840So we collect the revenues, but we don't get taxpayers' money being involved in the first place.
00:55:56.400Because once you put a tax increase on the citizens of Calgary, there is never a reduction.
00:56:04.880It will be an accumulation of tax, whereas if you do it my way, you have no taxation ceiling.
00:56:19.120You have a floor, so therefore you can move forward.
00:56:22.820there are alternatives out there and i have i have said that we can do it differently but the
00:56:30.020mayor made a huge mistake she went in there and whether people agree or not they said oh it was
00:56:36.900only 1.5 increase uh on on the cost of of uh developing this is a climate change uh policy
00:56:49.300added cost and as business is is is there today we have inflation we have in a major economic
00:56:57.940downturn we don't even know how we are going to come out of it business people involved in this
00:57:03.540deal are saying the risk is too great they just get an escape hatch and they took it and she gave
00:57:10.020it to them i mean you know the deal is a deal the other problem i have is when you make a deal you
00:57:17.860don't break it because you're going to lose trust how many businesses in the future are going to
00:57:24.420start thinking about doing business in calgary because of the lack of trust
00:57:33.060well that's it i mean investment needs stability i mean and trust in order to keep going on they're
00:57:37.700looking at the long game and if the uh city administration is going to keep changing the
00:57:41.620terms down the road well it's just a bad investment whether it doesn't matter whether it's one percent
00:57:46.100or 10 it's the principle of it i mean if you give in now she's going to ask for more later and as
00:57:52.500you said yeah we need to facilitate a positive business climate and let the investors take the
00:57:57.460risk and uh you know the city taxpayers can help along the way but not through risk investment sort
00:58:03.860of thing absolutely we we are in a very dangerous situation right now not only in calgary or in the
00:58:13.540province the world is at a stage where we don't know how we are going to get out of these lockdowns
00:58:21.140on an international and global basis so we've got to rethink when the globalists and the liberal
00:58:27.860people are talking about a reset we as citizens have got to be extremely careful what the reset
00:58:35.300means a reset doesn't mean that government takes charge of every business doesn't mean that the
00:58:42.180government gets more control of private industries for instance going to on on the this climate change
00:58:50.420issue when we elect production by renewable uh resources we are going to have a serious problem
00:59:00.660because you see there are not many private companies who are going to go into renewable
00:59:05.380resources to provide us with electricity because you know as you well well know wind is not constant
00:59:13.940the sun is not the sunshine is not constant so we are going to have a lull in in the production
00:59:19.860of electricity how are we going to cope with this people have got to really think about what this
00:59:25.300called transition from view of you we are going to have some serious problems in in coming years
00:59:35.540interest rates are going to go up so how are we going to finance businesses many small businesses
00:59:41.480actually you you were one of them who are affected by this uh this this pandemic i mean so many
00:59:48.820restaurants i mean i wanted to go out last saturday with my wife we couldn't find a place
00:59:54.980that was really open for our choice that we were looking for. How long can the small business
01:00:01.860restaurants and small businesses continue in this past? We have all the Greek alphabet
01:00:12.820of the pandemic and we are still not going to go out. This is very, very dangerous.
01:00:19.460calgarians i see this morning i see a poll coming out saying 60 percent of canadians believe that
01:00:29.700unvaccinated should be charged a tax just like as proposed by quebec what is going on with canadians0.99
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01:01:00.900place and we keep giving them more power as opposed to give power more to the people it's it's0.99
01:01:09.140Yeah, it's a frightening and disturbing trend, but I mean, you know, you've been working to at least expose the idiots and hopefully, you know, we can push and pull and try to change public opinion from some of these panicked approaches they're taking to things. Before I let you go, I mean, what are you working on lately, Marcel, and where can we find more information on what you're doing?
01:01:31.200uh right now i'm not working on anything i'm just watching the stage how it develops before i do
01:01:38.000anything i'm just watching what is going on at the provincial level i'm watching what is going
01:01:43.440on at the federal level uh i will be talking because i think we are going to enter in the
01:01:51.120provincial arena some very difficult times here with perhaps a change in leadership uh a change
01:01:58.400in government perhaps uh because of some of the boondoggles of of the ucp we shall have to see
01:02:04.480what happens but right now i'm just uh not just taking a break i'm just buying my time doing some
01:02:10.640research finding out what's going on before i come out and do something but it's always nice talking
01:02:16.240to you and i hope your listeners uh take some advice here be very careful what you agree with
01:02:24.880the government about anything because you keep keep giving government more power they will never
01:02:31.840relinquish it and be very careful because it's happening in the states they are trying to get
01:02:37.840more autocratic uh the the people at the highest level of the finance world are beginning to play
01:02:47.840very difficult you know different game nowadays and giving more power to government is not what
01:02:53.680we want we want less power to government which means less taxes for us the citizens well i really
01:03:01.760appreciate that thanks for coming on briefly to talk to me today i hope we can uh talk again
01:03:06.320sometime soon we'll have a lot more definitive to speak of as our governments move through this so
01:03:10.560thanks again and we'll talk soon marcel always a pleasure
01:03:16.560great yeah marcel was having a little bit of a rough time of the connection there but we got
01:03:19.920got most of what he was saying, and he always speaks a lot of common sense, and it's really
01:03:23.280appreciated. And if you look it up, Marcel Latouche, he's got a number of books actually
01:03:27.680online you can purchase. Check them out. He's got a lot of good ideas on governance. As you can see,
01:03:32.900he's a man who's bound by common sense and principle, those things that are so rare in
01:03:37.700politics today. I think most of where you see it, though, is in people who aren't elected. They seem
01:03:41.980to lose all of that the second they manage to get under some sort of dome or circle of power
01:03:46.880somewhere uh before i i get on to my next guest we'll talk a little more and actually i noticed
01:03:51.600that shane wenzel commented saying with marcel uh you know a counterpoint would be uh jeff davidson
01:03:56.780because of course he was a very big proponent of the uh the arena deal in the event center
01:04:01.760um if you look on our youtube channels or rumble or wherever you're watching um
01:04:05.740melanie risden one of our reporters did do an interview one-on-one with with jeff davidson so
01:04:11.460you could sort of get the the pro uh arena sort of perspective from that if you wanted to get that
01:04:16.780counterpoint. We've got a lot of content aside from our show that we put up online. Check it out
01:04:22.320at the YouTube page for the Western Standard or the Rumble site or Facebook. We share a lot
01:04:27.320on all sorts of levels. AB Free says, CTV Calorie did a poll. 81% said no to tax injection free
01:04:37.160Albertans. So yeah, it depends on which online poll you do. You're going to get different results.
01:04:42.740That's a more promising one. Again, when it comes to something in my view is extreme,
01:04:46.020is forcing people to take a medication.
01:07:21.520So as he's been making news across the country,
01:07:23.800of course, your Premier has pitched taxing
01:07:27.300uh or fining or whatever way you want to put it uh you know government's taking it i guess it's
01:07:31.620always a tax uh from people who have chosen not to get vaccinated uh what's the taxpayers response
01:07:36.340to that uh the taxpayers federation well you know the taxpayers federation we've never been a big
01:07:41.060fan of new taxes i feel like you have to make the standard disclosure here i'm twice vaccinated i'm
01:07:46.260taking my appointment for deferred dose but this kind of tax is simply misguided uh if you think
01:07:51.620that the restrictions that are applied on the vaccinated people are not enough and that we just
01:07:58.180need to have like a couple of extra hundred bucks that we take out of their pocket every year to
01:08:01.780moderate them uh i'm sorry to say but that's probably not gonna motivate people get vaccinated
01:08:07.220like if people think their nose is going to fall off uh if they if they get an injection i don't
01:08:12.180think a couple of hundred bucks a year is going to be enough to motivate them to do it so this
01:08:16.340is just an utter tax grab. Yeah, and where is it going to lead? How punitive will it get? As you
01:08:23.060said, I mean, there's people, they feel, you know, I'm not one of them, but I understand that people
01:08:26.660feel that the vaccination is really going to harm them. I mean, some people think it's going to kill
01:08:30.340them. Well, nobody ever, if they feel that, is going to submit to it. So as those bills mount
01:08:36.100up, are they just going to keep paying the bills or will they eventually get fined or charged for
01:08:41.300tax evasion i mean this is a really frightening road to get down and plus a term that we don't
01:08:46.180hear as much as we used to but it used to be a big one was social engineering the government's
01:08:49.860trying to use its taxation abilities to control how you live and i don't think that's what the
01:08:54.660purpose of taxation is supposed to be in the first place is it absolutely not and a lot of pushback
01:08:59.620we've been hearing has actually been from uh groups worried about social welfare of people
01:09:04.100because of course there's a lot uh there's a lot more vaccinated vaccine hesitancy in a lot of
01:09:09.140marginalized communities that simply don't have money to pay for this. Take a homeless person,
01:09:14.420for instance, that is not necessarily vaccinated at this point. Do they have the money to pay a
01:09:18.740couple of extra hundred bucks a year simply because they're not vaccinated? I don't think so.
01:09:23.700I don't think this kind of punitive tax is going to do anything to help people, especially, and
01:09:29.700it's important to note here, it's not like Quebec are not already taxed a lot anyway. Quebec is the
01:09:35.460the most heavily taxed jurisdiction in all of North America, and we're just adding this other
01:09:40.400tax on top of it, it's not going to make anyone better off. So you're on the ground in Quebec,
01:09:46.740though. I know there's been, I mean, Quebec's also the most restricted jurisdiction in Canada.
01:09:51.240People got to be getting pretty tired and upset over there, and there have been some sizable
01:09:55.240protests. But do you think there's going to be a citizen's pushback or some organization on this?
01:10:00.220Like, what are you getting a feel for how Quebecers feel about this proposition?
01:10:03.440I'd say there's probably not going to be a lot of protests, but I don't think there's
01:10:09.120the same level of compliance as there used to be. Even with curfew, we haven't seen very,
01:10:14.960very big protests, but we've seen a lot more people openly defying a curfew or
01:10:20.080openly saying that they're just going to sleep over at a friend's house to avoid a curfew.
01:10:24.640And I think there's a lot less satisfaction right now with how the government has been
01:10:29.440handling the pandemic uh the latest survey actually showed that there's uh there was a 20
01:10:34.080point drop uh in lagos approval rating for how he's handling the pandemic just in the last couple of
01:10:38.880weeks and i don't think this will help here uh i think this is just an easy political maneuver
01:10:44.640it's very easy for the premier to try and say you know we'll just shift the burden on that 10
01:10:49.120that's unvaccinated uh but i think a lot of people are seeing through this a lot of people are asking
01:10:54.240some questions about how it will affect everybody and you know this is not just something that will
01:10:58.720will affect the unvaccinated. To be able to apply this, it means that part of our medical records
01:11:03.660are going to be able to be seen by the tax agency. And I don't know, I barely trust the tax agency
01:11:12.700folks with the financial information I give them. I don't exactly trust them to handle my medical
01:11:17.600information as well. Boy, and that's an aspect I hadn't even thought of. Yeah, I mean, this should
01:11:22.260be very personal, whether you've been vaccinated or not vaccinated. I mean, your medical records
01:11:26.660have mostly have been considered to be almost sacred it should be between you and your physician
01:11:30.740and to have the government start sharing that with their their tax collection agencies
01:11:34.900uh and that's that's another level of outrage absolutely and you know it's it'd be one thing
01:11:41.940if we could say you know this has pushed everybody get vaccinated or make a big difference in our
01:11:46.660health care uh but as i pointed out earlier i don't think it's going to push a lot of people
01:11:51.780people that are already convinced uh that the fact the vaccines are going to harm them in some way
01:11:57.460uh are most are more likely going to pay the tax people are already paying for black market
01:12:01.860vaccine passports they're paying up to three grand to get them so i don't think a tax is
01:12:05.860going to be all it's going to be enough to change that behavior and just in terms of revenue even
01:12:10.740if he's charged a thousand bucks for unvaccinated person uh right now there's about 860 000 people
01:12:16.340in Quebec that are not vaccinated. About 280,000 of those are minors. They're below 18 years old.
01:12:23.540So that leaves about 500,000 people. Even if you charge them a thousand bucks a year
01:12:30.420to pay for the fact they're not vaccinated, you'd pay for health care for about
01:12:34.580three or four days, something like this. Basically, the government would already run out of money
01:12:39.620before the weekend. And then what? There's another 364 days in the year that we need to pay for.
01:12:44.900it's not really going to make that much of a difference. And the risk in terms, once again,
01:12:49.060of personal privacy are significant. So when the risk outweigh the benefits, we just shouldn't go
01:12:56.580forward with such a measure. Well, and then a distressing aspect of all this too. I know that
01:13:01.860premiers across the country are probably watching this with interest. I mean, Premier Kenny and I
01:13:06.740believe Saskatchewan's Moe has already said, no, we are not going to do that whatsoever.
01:13:10.180It's funny. The first thing that came up in Kenny's latest conference was a reporter or no,
01:13:14.580No, it was from one of Kenny's Facebook Live things last night saying he had to say explicitly already, no, I'm not going to do that.
01:13:20.240Though he also said he'd never do vax passports and we have them now.
01:13:23.400So we'll see. But with this precedent, I mean, if Legault gets away with this, we could see these springing up pretty quickly across the country.0.99
01:13:32.460Absolutely. And unfortunately, we have exported our fair share of bad ideas from Quebec, unfortunately.
01:13:37.460hopefully this is one that just doesn't that doesn't take hold in the residentry because
01:13:43.360once again it's it's very misguided it's also opening a dangerous precedent because there's
01:13:48.440a lot of things that people do that will affect the cost of our health care does that mean that
01:13:53.560we should tax people more simply because they work in manufacturing instead of an office job
01:13:58.100does that mean that we should tax people more because they don't go jogging as often as their
01:14:02.380neighbors there's a lot there's a lot of different things that affect the cost of our health care
01:14:07.440And in a context where we have a healthcare government monopoly, it'd just be very, very harmful to open it up to have all of these other taxes that could be levied on people.
01:14:18.440Once again, Canadians are overtaxed. Quebecers especially are overtaxed. And adding some new taxes, giving some more taxing powers to the government is just not going to help us.
01:14:28.440this. Yeah, we've already seen some lawyers actually have been vowing saying that the second
01:14:32.720that legislation comes in, they're taking it to court. And I'm looking actually to get a lawyer
01:14:36.860on the show tomorrow to talk to me about some of the legalities of this. I know it's not necessarily
01:14:41.240the realm of the Taxpayers Federation, but you're well versed in politics. Wouldn't some of this
01:14:46.320be considered to be in contravention of the Canadian Health Act? I mean, we're kind of really
01:14:51.080pushing the limits of what's considered universality if we start picking and choosing
01:14:55.000you know who has to pay for coverage and things such as that well as you pointed out i'm not a
01:14:59.240lawyer that's not my expertise it might contribute the uh the canadian health act uh but one of the
01:15:04.120issues is that uh it's still it's still going to be applied for a certain time before the
01:15:08.840courts strike it down uh you know it can take 18 months for the courts to to strike down a bad law
01:15:14.840it can take some time for the government to uh to change that kind of um that kind of bad behavior
01:15:20.200and given the fact that telago is going to be in the election next november i think this is once
01:15:24.120Once again, a very political move is trying to get the support of the 85 to 90 percent of people that are vaccinated and turn it against and blame the 10 percent that's unvaccinated for some issues with our health care system.
01:15:36.480Well, it is a divide and conquer tactic.
01:15:41.540We know we saw it, for example, I guess you could say with the PPC, when they did target in getting support from people who oppose restrictions, vaccinations, things like that, you get a very solid core of support, but it's a very limited one.
01:15:53.580and it leaves them in that limited corner