00:04:42.320I mean, at least, you know, rather than accepting their ideology and overtly banning oil and gas projects,
00:04:48.080they craft legislation that makes it impossible to get any new ones done.
00:04:51.720That way they can talk out of both sides of their mouths.
00:04:53.560They can claim to support Western resource development with the smug knowledge that no projects will ever be approved under their legislation.
00:05:00.720The bill called for considerations of social environmental issues that may be caused downstream with the projects.
00:05:06.360like that's such an abstract demand it can and would be interpreted in ways that would
00:05:11.060be impossible to counter it's just that sort of demand that killed energy east the pipeline owner
00:05:16.300was expected to be responsible for impacts caused by the end user of the product theoretically a
00:05:21.380producer has to be held accountable for the impact of a person filling their car with gas derived
00:05:26.320from canadian products even if they're on the other side of the planet it's ridiculous but
00:05:30.040that's what they're sort of demanding with these things so the west fought c69 with everything we
00:05:34.340had. We lobbied MPs and Senators. We held rallies. We launched petitions. There was even going to be
00:05:39.840a truck convoy, but that sort of fell apart with the Yellow Vesters. It didn't mean a damn thing.1.00
00:05:44.000Liberal-appointed Senators towed the line, and the bill was rammed through Parliament.
00:05:48.320With the arbitrary powers to approve or decline projects, the federal government immediately,
00:05:52.540of course, was chilling investment in energy infrastructure across Canada,
00:05:56.060particularly in the West. I mean, look how they use it. Just look how Gil Bull recently approved
00:06:00.180an oil project in Newfoundland, while at the same time banning an expansion of an oil sign
00:06:04.160project in Alberta. It's no wonder few people are willing to invest in Western Canadian projects
00:06:08.920despite record high oil prices. The investor never knows when the rug is going to be pulled
00:06:12.640out from under their project. This power walks all over provincial jurisdiction and takes
00:06:17.520the ability to develop resources for export out of the hands of the provinces
00:06:21.140unless they have federal approval. As per the judges, this is their quotes,
00:06:26.720if upheld, the legislation would permanently alter the division of powers and forever place
00:06:31.260provincial governments in an economic chokehold controlled by the federal government that's what
00:06:35.920the five justice panel wrote the majority of them anyways four out of five the legislation the
00:06:41.640justices wrote takes a wrecking ball to the constitutional rights of alberta like this is
00:06:45.560not minor language here guys and saskatchewan and their rights to develop their own resources and
00:06:51.100here's another quote from them to deprive alberta and saskatchewan which together have the mass
00:06:55.060vast majority of oil and gas reserves in the country of their constitutional right
00:10:06.420So, yeah, that's available at your neighborhood grocery store, apparently.
00:10:09.320Not likely available in Edmonton, mind you, but their ice cream would all be melted by their tears coming up shortly, Corey.
00:10:19.600But enough about hockey. Let's get to the news. What do we have for you today?
00:10:24.260Your aforementioned buddy, Justin Trudeau, looks like he's bringing back the long gun registry.
00:10:30.380Our Amanda Brown's got a story on that leading the website at the moment.
00:10:35.100We've also got the RCMP Commissioner Lucky basically catching the federal government in a lie six times.0.71
00:10:43.800Sorry, not six times, 11 times our federal public safety minister, Medicino, said that it was the RCMP that demanded the Emergency Act be brought in to deal with those bouncy castles and partiers down in Ottawa.
00:10:59.240And Commissioner Lucky testified last night, no, they didn't ask for it at all.
00:11:04.460So somebody's not telling the truth there, Corey.
00:11:07.640We've got a great story on electrical vehicle charging stations, government ones across the country.
00:11:14.600Some of them go for not days, not weeks, but months without seeing a single customer pulling up in their electric vehicle for a recharge.
00:11:24.420We've got some worrying news on a new Omicron variant that's sort of been spiking cases in South Africa.
00:11:31.600Cases have now been detected in Canada, and our male residents got all the details on that.
00:11:38.660We've got a study, a government study, a Privy Council research study showing inflation is drastically changing the lives of Canadians.
00:11:47.260People are having to get second jobs, postponing their retirement, cancelling holidays,
00:11:53.340basically changing everything about their lives from how they drive to how they shop as uh
00:11:58.940inflation sits at a at a very steep 6.7 other stuff uh the uh people of saskatchewan uh bad
00:12:07.900drivers out there when they get uh a traffic ticket now have a a specialized gender box
00:12:15.740they can check if they don't want to check whether they're a man or a woman they can
00:12:19.180check gender uh so i guess that's uh important uh information uh that the saskatchewan authorities
00:12:25.900need and uh jonathan bradley's got a disturbing story on a ontario rcmp officer uh from mexico
00:12:34.220actually charged with human trafficking he has been pointed out uh by the liberal government
00:12:40.140as a great example of uh of our immigration system so apparently this guy may or may not have
00:12:46.380falling through the cracks because it's just alleged of course uh so that's what we've got
00:12:51.020at the moment uh just waiting for a linda slobodian column to publish on uh derek sloan's
00:12:57.020ontario party and uh basically bringing back god onto the campaign trail uh so we'll see how well
00:13:03.180that goes over so uh that's lots of stuff up there and lots more stuff to come and uh go flames go
00:13:09.180tonight right on well thanks uh i'll see if i can't find some of that ice cream on the way
00:13:14.300home tonight that's kind of my kryptonite actually uh for for dangerous foods is ice cream i can't
00:13:19.580help myself with this stuff but i got an excuse to grab some it's showing my loyalty to the local
00:13:23.580team exactly there you go great all right thanks dave we'll check in again with you uh well i'll
00:13:29.580talk to you after the show yeah and we'll see you on the pipeline tonight yes of course so that's
00:13:35.500our news editor dave naylor with uh yes the rundown and news and stories from across the country as we
00:13:41.180We are constantly expanding and things are breaking as Linda Sibodian's got something
00:13:46.700coming out of that Ontario election.0.98
00:13:48.380As I said, there's another Conservative Party has sprouted up out there and it's led by
00:19:09.420But for now, we're going to go on about how he's written as an unvaccinated individual and how it has been dividing this country and turning Canada into a place of hatred and division.
00:19:19.640So some pretty heated subjects, but I think all of us can relate to it.
00:19:23.200So thank you very much for joining me today, Mr. Venne?
00:21:19.900Yeah, well, I mean, the consequences have been all over.
00:21:22.580I mean, whether it's people losing jobs, people losing ability to visit family, people, but
00:21:27.860the other part is the, as you said, the hatred and division.
00:21:31.100I mean, we've heard a lot of anecdotes of people that their families have been split up because they've turned against each other over vaccination status and workplaces are divided.
00:21:41.600When in human history have we had people have that sort of division based on a medical choice?
00:21:47.580Yeah, that's it's historical and it's unprecedented.
00:21:52.600I document in the book how we've done this type of things in the past.
00:21:57.260We've gone irrationally towards hatred many times throughout our history.
00:22:01.100um and a lot of times it's just based on fear and it's based on politicians taking advantage of
00:22:06.300of wedge political issues and and this was one of them um and yeah i think uh you know as the
00:22:12.780new year came about i thought that come january we would sort of realize our mistakes and realize that
00:22:18.300that uh we we went the wrong way on on this on this issue but then we had a prime minister
00:22:24.780uh and the liberal government that essentially just uh reinforced the division with the comments
00:22:30.140Like you said, calling all the unvaccinated people racist and misogynist and also blame the blame.
00:22:37.260You know, this pandemic, the extension of the pandemic, the lockdowns was because of a mismanaged health care system.
00:22:44.760It wasn't because of healthy 30 year olds like myself who chose to be unvaccinated.
00:22:49.240But that was the that was the message. And that's that's what I mean by how we turn to hatred.
00:22:56.600we turned to hatred to reward just certain people for the pandemic. And for a very short period of
00:23:05.480time, there was some optimism that maybe the vaccine could stop the spread. And there was
00:23:10.280legitimate reasons to segregate people or to potentially look at passports. But that was very
00:23:16.040ethical, a very ethically gray area, but we went ahead regardless. But as the numbers came out,
00:23:24.760And as we saw with the Omicron variant, and there was no, and there is still today, there is no difference in spread between unvaccinated and vaccinated people.
00:23:33.620But still today, we still have a lot of patriots of people who just chose a different medical path, chose to not take the vaccine.
00:23:42.440And that still troubles me today because we're still seeing it today.
00:23:47.060We're still seeing, you know, prominent mainstream journalists and a lot of public health doctors that have very loud voices still spreading hatred and spreading messages to their followers that they should disassociate with unvaccinated people.
00:24:03.580We still have health authorities in the country telling people to avoid unvaccinated people.
00:24:08.280That has never happened in our country where we've told people to avoid another class of people simply based on a health choice that the real world data seems to indicate doesn't really make a difference from a spread standpoint.
00:24:36.100all the numbers have spiked in the hospital or in the ICU where deaths have gone up and they'll come
00:24:40.340out and say, this is your fault. You people who have chosen not to be vaccinated, you're the
00:24:45.340reason these people are in the hospital when there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever of
00:24:48.360that case. But if somebody takes it personally, that's a terrible thing to think of. Thinking
00:24:51.780that something you did might've put somebody at risk and it hasn't. I mean, we've seen the numbers.
00:24:55.920Your vaccination status doesn't impact the infections of other individuals.
00:25:00.380No, exactly. And I think the other issue we're going to pay for is the long-term damage is done to trust in the authorities in general. I documented in the book how anti-vaxxer was a term reserved for a very small portion of the population, maybe people who didn't believe in any vaccines whatsoever, but it was used over the last year to label essentially anyone who went against the government narrative.
00:25:26.860it could it could it went against it was used against people who were actually fully vaccinated
00:25:30.860people who supported the vaccine wholeheartedly but just supposed mandates were anti-vaxxers
00:25:36.780and in the process um by labeling such a large portion of Canadians as anti-vaxxers and by
00:25:42.460alienating such a large portion by feeling them making them feel shamed and making them feel uh
00:25:48.060hate hatred towards them um a lot of people have lost a lot of trust in public health and this
00:25:53.740will be felt uh when it comes to other vaccines i discussed this in the book how children's
00:25:58.860immunization rates have already dropped for other regular vaccines for long-standing vaccines such
00:26:04.540as measles the numbers have already gone down and we can see these numbers go down even further
00:26:10.700and we can see these numbers coming out in the next few years because people have essentially
00:26:14.460lost trust in the public health stories because they were alienated um and you know brushed off
00:26:19.260them for their concerns so yeah we I think we're going to pay a very very high price just this week
00:26:26.140one of the the opposition leaders in Ontario's recent elections announced that he's going to
00:26:31.660if he's elected he's going to mandate the COVID vaccine in all elementary schools
00:26:35.660and while saying that 60 percent of kids in the elementary school program have not been
00:26:41.180vaccinated yet for COVID so what this potential premier of Ontario wants to do is is force 60
00:26:47.260have parents to either remove the children's public school system or apply for a vaccine
00:26:54.880exemption. And in the process, if we have 60% of parents applying for vaccine exemptions,
00:26:59.340you may have 60% of parents exempting themselves from multiple vaccines. So again, we may see
00:27:05.000huge drops in just other vaccines as well and just the overall trust in public health authority.
00:27:11.860Well, yeah, and that's a terrible side effect. I mean, I know there's some individuals,
00:27:15.540Well, I'm certain there's a few viewers that there have been people who have opposed the
00:27:19.120vaccination on every level all the time permanently. But I mean, for most people,
00:27:24.940most tend to agree, hey, you know, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, you know, tetanus,
00:27:30.660these were very beneficial vaccines. They've prevented a lot of grave illnesses among
00:27:35.520children. And now that that mistrust is growing in general, yeah, if we have less kids vaccinated
00:27:41.180with these proven vaccines that are that are effective for them we're all going to suffer
00:27:46.240I mean it's the complete opposite effect of what these zealots I guess you could almost call them
00:27:49.900wanted to achieve. Exactly and then and for vaccines that were that may we see we may see
00:27:56.460a drop in vaccines that actually stop spread you know vaccines that provide almost lifetime immunity
00:28:01.300you know we I guess we public health authorities I guess they they might have picked the wrong
00:28:09.360pill to die on I guess or they you know picked this battle and they tried to lump this with
00:28:14.900every single vaccine and like myself I've been vaccinated for every vaccine ever offered to me
00:28:19.240I vaccinated all three of my children for every one of their routine vaccinations up to the point
00:28:23.540but essentially I have been labeled anti-science anti-vaxxer because I have a hesitancy on
00:28:29.780one single vaccine that's using a revolutionary technology which happens to not really
00:28:35.840reduce or stop the spread of the virus. It simply might reduce the severity of the symptoms if I
00:28:44.100happen to get the virus. It's exactly the, that's the danger we're seeing. There's millions of
00:28:53.200people like me that have been lumped into this category. Yeah, well, and the vitriol hasn't just
00:28:58.840been limited to people who've chosen not to get vaccinated, but there's people like myself. I
00:29:02.000chose to get vaccinated and I don't have a problem with it. My big issue is just maintaining though
00:29:07.080that it has to be a choice for individuals. And choice means, you know, you can still keep your
00:29:13.440job. You can still travel. You can still visit family. You can still go to a restaurant. Like
00:29:17.500they've really blurred a line between forcing and coercion, which still, I mean, such strong
00:29:23.720coercion, you've taken away choice down to such a microscopic level. I don't think anybody could
00:29:28.400say it was a choice with a straight face. But they just attack anybody who questioned that
00:29:33.580tactic at all. And it's, again, it's going to leave a mark on society for a long time.
00:29:39.620Yeah, for sure. And even today, we're still seeing the effects. Most countries have removed
00:29:44.860most of their mandates, most of their rules. And our country's sticking to our federal travel
00:29:50.440mandates, which forbids people like me from leaving my country. And there's plenty of
00:29:56.680countries that would accept me to go travel. I can go take a trip to Mexico right now,
00:30:01.180which has no rules right now, but my federal government won't allow me on a plane.
00:30:06.620And that's one of the premise of this book as well. I think most experts agree that it's long
00:30:12.580past due that we remove the federal travel mandates, but the Truro government seems to
00:30:17.400be keeping them in place, not based on science, but just based on a vendetta, based on the people
00:30:22.400that made him look bad back in January and not just back in January we saw that back in September
00:30:28.160they almost cost him the election you know at every campaign stop he would he would uh vilify
00:30:33.680those people he kept calling us those people um and uh he's he's kept his vendetta and I think and
00:30:40.640and that's the motivation for keeping these mandates in place there's still people
00:30:45.040in the federal public service that uh that exclusively work from home that are that are
00:30:50.880on still on leave um because they made a different health choice like if that doesn't bother people
00:30:56.400that's that's it's that's another rule that's being kept in place when they have no scientific
00:31:00.400basis to it if someone doesn't even have to go into the office but it's still being barred from
00:31:04.080having income just based on the fact that they decided not to take this vaccine yeah and it's
00:31:09.520just so politicized i mean the health has been thrown aside and and they some people have found
00:31:13.600it to be a very effective political football and i mean they've almost lost their minds on some of
00:31:17.360this like i don't know if you're familiar with there was an incident in alberta with a new
00:31:20.240Democrat MLA, who actually hacked the Alberta Health Services website to try and get vaccination
00:31:26.760status information on the conservative politicians. That's still going through the
00:31:31.200courts. He may be charged for that, of course, criminally, and a number of things. But what was
00:31:35.920running through this gentleman's mind to think that this was ever appropriate or something you'd
00:31:41.200want to do? And of course, the goal was he was hoping he could find some politicians he didn't
00:31:45.160like, find out they weren't vaccinated, and shame them for having chosen to be otherwise? I mean,
00:31:50.600this is insane. Yeah, there's plenty of examples like that. I document in the book how we,
00:31:59.780I prefaced this at the beginning, how we turned our societal norms upside down
00:32:04.140in so many aspects where something even a few years ago, even five years ago, would have
00:32:09.780sounded preposterous to most public health officials, and today seems completely normal.
00:32:15.160You know, even if even if there could be made a case that there is a slight reduction in spread between an unvaccinated or a vaccinated person, we would have never succumbed to this type of hatred or division or this type of policies for a seasonal flu vaccine.
00:32:31.060We would have never even thought of doing this type of division.
00:32:33.800And here we are today, you know, things that would have been completely forbidden or completely non-mainstream has become completely acceptable.
00:32:47.800Yeah, well, and there's the health costs, there's the economic costs.
00:32:51.480I mean, as much as they like to deny it, when Canada's got such a stringent vaccination policy going on, we still have it happening in provinces.
00:32:59.120We've got BC that fired a great number of health care workers and won't bring them back in, even though there's shortfalls in labor all over the place.
00:33:07.120We have a lot of private businesses with vaccine mandates.
00:33:09.860Again, it's having economic repercussions.
00:33:13.780This is costing us terribly and, again, offering no health benefit out of that.
00:33:21.000I know a personal example of someone I know who's been let go from a medical setting, from a long-term care home who is constantly short-staffed.
00:33:33.100And they're letting people go, not just that aren't double vaccinated.
00:33:38.680They're letting people go that don't get a third shot now.
00:33:41.780And even then, the data is even grayer.
00:33:45.280There's not really, you know, a strong case to be made that there's a difference between two doses and three doses, even more so than between completely unvaccinated and fully vaccinated.
00:33:58.300But, you know, we're seeing huge shortages in the health care field, long-term care homes, and we're letting go qualified people, sending them home when, you know, we should be hiring everybody we can to work in the settings.
00:34:11.860And same thing with the issues we're seeing at the airports right now, the backups, because airports and airlines have let go of a lot of people.
00:34:21.700And now they're seeing these backups and issues in labor in these industries.
00:34:29.680And there's a perfect solution for all these problems.
00:34:33.460I mean, just stop the employment segregation.
00:34:40.200Yeah, well, and then, of course, and the other part that's a little more abstract, but it's important, is the social cost.
00:34:47.900I mean, it's harder to measure, but we've really just ruptured our relationships with each other all over the place, workplace, family, things like that.
00:34:55.420I mean, that's part of what I appreciated in seeing with your book.
00:34:57.340You're writing from a firsthand account.
00:34:59.280Like you've, you know, you're writing from the heart.
00:35:02.940This is causing stress and problems to personal individuals and people need to hear that and
00:35:08.820understand it. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's what I say in the book. We've had the unvaccinated
00:35:15.720people have had much harder. A lot of them have had a much harder time than I have over the last
00:35:22.600year. A lot of people have lost jobs. I've been lucky in that sense. I haven't lost my job. I
00:35:27.240but what's hurt me the most is the social cost it's the it's the constant stigmatization the
00:35:34.760dehumanizing policies you know hearing that that back at christmas that you know alberta passed
00:35:41.640the law alberta and bc passed a law that essentially made it illegal for unvaccinated
00:35:45.240people to have a single visitor i don't know if a lot of people wrote these rules but it was the
00:35:49.880the morality of it that you know you know the gap your gathering was now deemed illegal by
00:35:54.280your government that's to me that that traumatized me to think that my government was able to do that
00:35:59.160to essentially come into my private home and tell me who uh who i can and can't have over
00:36:04.360and then also having you know trusted health authorities issue guidelines that would say you
00:36:09.960know this christmas avoid your unvaccinated family members and a lot of families didn't follow those
00:36:14.600rules and still got together but many did many followed those rules and many ruined their families
00:36:19.560forever by saying, yeah, we're not going to see each other. That's not something that's going to
00:36:24.440be mended overnight or mended very quickly when you decide to go that route. And a lot of people,
00:36:32.680you know, might have gone that route without thinking too critically about it.
00:36:37.400So I put a lot of the blame on the health authorities who took advantage of these things
00:36:41.480and came out with these guidelines that shouldn't have been put out there. You know, in no time in
00:36:46.680history have ever ever told people at christmas please avoid people who haven't had their flu
00:36:51.240shot but again we we turned our societal norms upside down with this pandemic this obsession
00:37:01.640yeah that's all we can hope for i guess is that we learn from it i mean it's already passed but
00:37:05.400we still have things that we have to uh there's still threats to our freedoms and into things
00:37:09.960carrying on right now and there's still some some legislation hanging there that hopefully
00:37:13.880is going away soon, but it's important to document it and learn from these things because
00:37:18.020this won't be the last pandemic that comes. This won't be the last virus. So that's why things like
00:37:23.140your book, I mean, you know, maybe it's 10 years from now, maybe it's 20 years from now, but some
00:37:26.580people can read back and say, this is what happened last time. It didn't work. It wasn't worth it.
00:37:31.680Let's learn. I guess that's all we could really hope because aside from that, we've already gone
00:37:35.680through this two years of misery. So I appreciate you doing that. Where can people find more
00:37:40.560information about yourself and where to find your book and pick up a copy for themselves?
00:37:46.120Well, they can find me on Twitter at just Mr. Rejanven. I'm on Substack, writing some other
00:37:53.420topics mostly related to the pandemic recently because that dominates all the news, but
00:37:57.640rejanven.substack.com. And then the book is available on Amazon right now. Best place to
00:38:04.660buy it online. Yeah, that's where you find me. Excellent. Well, I do appreciate you writing it
00:38:12.240up and sharing that and getting the book out there. And of course, I appreciate you coming
00:38:15.740on to talk with us today. And all we can do is just keep pushing and hoping for better times
00:38:20.240in the future. And as I said, learning from our mistakes. So thank you again, Mr. Venn. And
00:38:24.420perhaps we'll talk again down the road. Thanks. Thanks, Corey. Great. Thanks. So yeah, that was
00:38:30.580Rajon Venn. And just to review again, that book, as he said, is available on Amazon. It's called
00:38:37.220Unvaccinated, How Canada Turned to Hatred and Division. And yes, you know, these reads are
00:38:43.480important. Documenting these things is important. Learning from these things. I just worry, have we
00:38:49.260figured anything out yet? Have we learned from this? Because if we don't, we're going to do it
00:38:55.960again. We're going to do it again. The government, authoritarians, people who want control, people
00:39:00.220who want to politicize health issues have gotten away with something. And they will have only
00:39:04.560continued to get away with something if we let them. So we have to keep these issues on the
00:39:09.660forefront. We have to show the consequences of their policies. And people dismiss the consequences
00:39:14.980on those because it has been divided. It's been those people, those unvaccinated people,
00:39:19.660those anti-vaxxers. Well, they're still people. They're people. And you've caused serious economic,
00:39:24.900social, emotional damage to them. If it was any other identifiable group, the way they've been
00:39:30.740treated this last year, two years, would be almost, it would be a hate crime. But when it comes to
00:39:37.160medical choice, then suddenly villainization of people is okay. And again, it's totally wrong.
00:39:44.180It has to be a choice. So Mr. Venn has written on that. It's appreciated. We've got to read from
00:39:49.180other people who've been through it. I, like I said, I've always been outspoken supporting
00:39:54.380choice. I chose to get vaccinated. I didn't have to deal with the hindrances. I didn't, well,
00:39:58.860the Western standard, we don't have medical demands upon our staff, but I could travel.
00:40:02.800I could get on planes. I could go to restaurants during that period of time when it was mandated
00:40:06.460that you had to be vaccinated for it. But at the same time, you know what? You can take part in
00:40:10.660those things and still appreciate and respect other people's rights to choose otherwise. And
00:40:15.420we don't have nearly enough of that, that polarization, that splitting of society,
00:40:19.540that splitting of people, it's come at a cost and it's going to be a long-term cost.
00:40:24.800And I don't know how long it'll take us to fully recover from it. Let's get on some more news
00:40:29.700about these things and the ridiculousness of government. Dave mentioned this with the news
00:40:33.220check-in, but the minister's story contradicted. So the police never asked cabinet to invoke the
00:40:39.840Emergencies Act, the RCMP said last night. This is huge. This is something you really should be
00:40:44.860paying attention to, is that should be the number one area if, if, and we know they should never
00:40:49.880have invoked the Emergencies Act. I mean, it's an extreme measure. It was stepping on individuals'
00:40:54.060rights. It was setting aside your civil rights to control and contain what they felt was an
00:41:00.140emergency. So pressing, there was no other way to do it. The only possible justification you should
00:41:05.640have is our top police officers coming in and saying, this is more than we can handle. This
00:41:09.920is beyond our control. The public is unsafe. We need the Emergencies Measures Act. It's the only
00:41:15.660way when you can start on that. And it turns out the RCMP never asked cabinet to do it. Never. Not
00:41:22.400once. And the claims from the public safety minister, Marco Medicino saying he was acting
00:41:28.980on the advice of law enforcement. That's in quotes. He's lying. He's lying to our faces.
00:41:36.560You know, it's one of the things in parliament and committee when they're in those vaunted
00:41:39.680They have privilege. You can't be sued or brought up for BSing, unfortunately. There's a lot of things. Because I tell you what, how many times we can allow these people in authority to lie to our faces, particularly on something as important as bringing about a law that stepped on the rights of individual Canadians, bringing in the Emergencies Act, which is, and I like to remind people, it's a form of the War Measures Act.
00:42:07.820that's how extreme it is. I mean, it was talking about pressing people into labor, forcing tow
00:42:12.600truck drivers to work under threat of law. It was talking about arresting people without charges and
00:42:18.300being able to hold them. It was talking about seizing people's property through their accounts.
00:42:22.160It was banning gathering, expression, assembly. So many charter rights were set aside based on it
00:42:29.940supposedly being completely out of control of the government to manage otherwise.
00:42:33.640it was based on a lie and they're still lying they're still lying to us and uh when is this
00:42:42.060going to stop when are we going to hold them accountable so i mean yeah brenda lucky that
00:42:45.800the rcmp commissioner was testifying at a joint committee on the declaration and she denies it
00:42:50.060she says they never recommended cabinet declare a national emergency she says she she said she
00:42:56.840or senator vernon white said we heard multiple times from ministers and others that the emergencies
00:43:01.040Act and the tools provided were specifically requested by police leadership. Well, we can't
00:43:05.420find any police leadership that says that they did that. So where do we sit? You know, I personally,
00:43:12.260I mean, I know it gets to extremes. This government needs to be held to account.
00:43:17.720They suspended our rights based on lies. No wonder they repealed that, you know, within 48 hours of
00:43:25.560when they fully brought it in after Justin got into bed with Jagmeet Singh to shove that
00:43:30.980through. This thing couldn't hold up to withstand Senate examinations. But we're following up on it
00:43:38.400now. This should be making a lot bigger news. No, this should be making a lot bigger news. The
00:43:44.820police were given the powers to ban public assemblies, blacklist account holders, people
00:43:50.280suspected of sympathizing. 230 people were arrested under that act. Almost $8 million in bank accounts
00:43:59.340were frozen, frozen. Other people's money, it was stolen is the way I put it. Even if it's given
00:44:04.240back later, it's not yours to take. And that public safety minister stated, they've said 11
00:44:10.140times, 11 times he's on the record of saying that they were acting on police advice. And he was
00:44:14.900lying. He lied to our faces. He lied to committee. He lied in the house 11 times. And the police have
00:44:22.120called him out on it. Are we hearing much? No, we're not hearing from our state broadcaster,
00:44:27.780the CBC. They're writing about how, and that's quite a bizarre story, a big long column on how
00:44:34.240perhaps it's inappropriate for anybody to buy art from somebody who was of another race. Yes,
00:44:39.900that's really where they're going with things. It's important that if we bought indigenous art
00:44:44.500and you're not indigenous, you might not be entitled to do that and you shouldn't do it.0.91
00:44:47.520This is going to be hard actually on indigenous artists who come up with some fantastic stuff0.99
00:44:51.360out there, or they're talking about black artists and a number of artists saying, no,
00:44:54.860it's cultural theft if we have non-black people owning their art. It's ridiculous. But that's
00:45:00.840where the CBC is. We've got cabinet ministers stepping on the rights of Canadians based on
00:45:06.060lies. And the CBC is reporting on that. CTV, Global, the rest of those ones that are taking in
00:45:12.600federal tax dollars, taking in your tax dollars to keep themselves going. Of course, they're not
00:45:17.640talking about this. Why? They don't want to shake up the government boat. That's where their money's
00:45:21.700coming in from? They aren't going to make that a top story. Why is this not a giant headline?
00:45:27.060Cabinet ministers lied to Canadians 11 times to invoke an act that was going to suppress their
00:45:33.740individual rights. That should be headlines for a week. We're barely hearing a peep about it.
00:45:38.280So again, I want to remind you guys, that's why you got to subscribe to the Western Standard. For
00:45:42.000one, we will report on these things and we do not take tax dollars. So we don't turn into the
00:45:46.820nutless cowards that the legacy media have morphed into. I mean, there's still some good people in
00:45:51.920the legacy media, but they're neutered. They've neutered themselves because, hey, if they shake
00:45:56.260the government chain too much, they're not going to get the lucre. They're not going to get the
00:45:59.600bailouts. They're not going to get the subsidies. We don't take them. We rely on your subscriptions
00:46:03.320and our sponsors. And I'm going to speak to another one then. And that is the Canadian
00:46:08.660Shooting Sports Association, the CSSA. These guys stand up for your rights and they've been
00:46:14.140a fantastic sponsor for us for quite some time now. And yes, they have a bunch of resources.
00:46:22.120Their name says what they're about. You know, they're an association for people who are
00:46:24.560interested in shooting sports, firearms, whether you're a target shooter or a hunter, a collector,
00:46:30.280any of those things, trap shooting, it's your business. You know, as long as you're not harming
00:46:33.280people, it's totally your business. And you need resources with an important hobby or lifestyle
00:46:38.040choice, whatever you want to call it. It's good to network with other individuals. It's good to see
00:46:42.320videos on safe firearm use other areas where you can use your firearms check into things as you
00:46:49.160can see ladies day at the range stuff like that trade shows where those are going to be happening
00:46:52.920it's all there they provide all those resources at the canadian shooting sports association
00:46:56.820they also keep you up to date on news and items that are going on when it comes to uh firearm
00:47:03.520issues in general so you know as we're and they are lobbying on your behalf because again we got
00:47:08.420the liberals coming after your stuff. It sounds like a story is breaking. Dave was talking about
00:47:12.620that. Somebody emailed me about that recently. It looks like the liberals are trying another
00:47:16.640backdoor way to get into a long gun registry. They just won't give up. And they're going to
00:47:21.340steal your firearms, guys. They're going to. They keep using orders in council to recategorize them
00:47:26.160and take them away from you. And I call it theft because it is. Oh, we'll compensate. It doesn't
00:47:30.080matter. If you take somebody's property away from them without their permission, it's theft. It
00:47:33.760doesn't matter if you give them money for it afterwards. So my firearms aren't for sale. So
00:47:39.520go away. And they're never taking them from me. But we got to stand up for yourselves, guys. That
00:47:46.120means helping them because they're doing court challenges. They're standing up for you. They are
00:47:51.200getting the word out on the actions the government's trying to do. So check them out. Great
00:47:55.020sponsor, Canadian Shooting Sports Association. Take out a membership with them because that's
00:47:58.340the only way they can keep helping you guys. And, uh, it is important. So, uh, what's this Debbie
00:48:05.900McKenzie saying? The gun grab issue is coming up in parliament today. Great. We will be looking0.98
00:48:09.580forward to that. Uh, Johnny Arabian saying gun sales are way up. Yeah, I can believe it. You
00:48:14.600know, with a lot of the things that have been happening with firearms, uh, things that, uh,
00:48:18.660uh, gotten people, uh, wound up lately or just worried about personal security,
00:48:24.280they've been getting more firearms, whether the government likes it or not. Some of the prices
00:48:28.300have been going up too. I saw Tiffany, who's on social media quite a bit. I know during the day
00:48:32.660she's working. I don't think she tunes into the show that often, but she was tweeting out that
00:48:36.120because she's in a firearm aficionado with SKS is up for $600 right now, wishing she'd gotten into
00:48:42.000them earlier because she could get them a couple of years ago for $200 each. I managed to pick one
00:48:47.520up for $400 not too long ago. Prices of firearms are going up as demand is going up. And I think
00:48:52.260some people are also realizing the government's out to make another grab pretty soon. So you might
00:48:56.900want to grab them now and get them and set them aside for yourselves before the government gets
00:49:02.780in your way for it. And if they recategorize things, you know, I don't know, I've heard a
00:49:07.180lot of people just, oh, darn, a gun fell out of the boat and sunk to the bottom of the lake,
00:49:10.840I'll report it as such, or it got stolen or whatever happens. But either way, your right
00:49:16.320and ability to have firearms is always under threat, particularly when there's a liberal
00:49:20.420government in. And meanwhile, in Calgary, we are in the middle of a gang war. You know,
00:49:26.100I talked about that with guests last week. It seems in the news this morning, that was a big
00:49:30.080one. We're going to get more details out of that in Forest Lawn, East Calgary. The streets have
00:49:36.080been closed for 12 hours. I don't even know if they're open yet. There was a shootout on 17th
00:49:41.680Avenue and 36th Street. At least one person dead, one person in hospital, one running away with a
00:49:45.940gun, multiple vehicles. Yes, a classic gangland shooting. I'll bet you, here's where I'm going to
00:49:52.080go on a limb. I'll bet you if and when they ever catch all the perpetrators and find out what's
00:49:56.120going on, that not a single one of the firearms were owned by legal firearm owners, nor were they
00:50:01.140purchased legally in the first place. They will have been smuggled firearms, brought in, or stolen.
00:50:06.660But what does the government crack down on? The law-abiding firearm owners. And that's not stopping,
00:50:11.140of course, any of these issues whatsoever. That's not helping a bit. So that's where we're at.
00:50:18.660And yeah, it's a mess. So let's see what else we got here. Inflation. You know, we're always
00:50:25.340talking about that. That's another story. Cost hammers, households. Inflation is forcing Canadians
00:50:29.720to take on second jobs, postponing retirement, canceling vacations. This is research in the
00:50:35.000Privy Council office. So the federal government, they know it. They know what they're doing to us,
00:50:39.420but what are they doing? Well, they're shutting down our industries. They're cracking down on the
00:50:44.420energy sector. You know, C69, Trudeau wants to fight and make sure that we still remain
00:50:49.620unviable as a place to invest in. Like if you want to help the economy, you got, you can't
00:50:54.480borrow yourself to prosperity. I think it was Churchill who said it, you know, it was something
00:51:00.200like trying to borrow yourself to prosperity or tax yourself there is akin to standing in a bucket
00:51:04.520and trying to lift yourself up by the handle. I'm probably slaughtering that quote, but you get the
00:51:07.940principle of it, right? It doesn't work. But that's what the liberal government wants to keep doing.
00:51:11.820Look, the only way we're all going to get better off, maintain our standard of living, keep things
00:51:14.980going, is having the economic drivers of our country smoothly and growing. And that's a huge
00:51:20.540part of it in Canada is oil and gas. And we have an ideologically blinded federal government that
00:51:26.280is busy doing everything they can to shut it down. So we should be very, very concerned here.
00:51:33.240And then meanwhile, they do know the cost of living for everything is going up.
00:52:01.620And yes, it always frustrates when people don't quite make it on time.
00:52:05.280But let's see, there's always more stuff to talk about, guys.
00:52:09.660Slavica, Corey, when are you going to stop complaining about the government?
00:52:11.980When are you going to amend our constitution to take charge?
00:52:14.060Well, Slavica, I know you've got that petition thing in mind and go to town with it.
00:52:18.860You can't petition your way to constitutional change, but I wish you all the best in trying.
00:52:23.140I'm not going to stop complaining about the government because it's actually my job.
00:52:25.920I am an opinion columnist and I do write about things that I feel the government is doing wrong.
00:52:29.540I do write about a lot of solutions and talk about them as well on the show.
00:52:33.520We just differ on what the solutions might be.
00:52:36.660So I appreciate efforts on every direction and what people are trying to do and where they're moving.
00:52:42.080I don't see a path to constitutional amendment until a province is either right on the complete brink of secession or one has actually gone.