Western Standard - Triggered： Will the senate save Canada from Trudeau’s authoritarianism？

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's June 15th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. This is the

00:00:39.100 Western Standards daily live news, events, ranting, and guest interview show. We cover

00:00:46.060 all sorts of stuff out there. The great floods didn't happen. We didn't have to build an ark

00:00:51.760 here in southern Alberta. The rain was miserable and, well, good for some farmers perhaps in some

00:00:58.460 other areas. A lot of trees came down, but the state of emergency in Calgary wasn't really

00:01:03.120 required. Kind of as I said yesterday too, though, I understand the desire on the part of the civic

00:01:09.760 government to err on the side of safety in case things went off the handle unexpectedly. I intend

00:01:13.960 to fully get on Mayor Gondek's case on a number of issues on many, many things in the months and

00:01:19.300 years to come, but I won't get on her case too much over the, you know, making sure we were

00:01:26.720 prepared for an emergency in case it happened to happen. And of all things, get into these

00:01:30.020 daily observances. It's good to see you all, by the way, in the comments scroll. Yes, folks from

00:01:34.020 Ontario, a couple in Ontario, you guys out east, Ontario, Vancouver Island. It's good to see you

00:01:39.260 all coming in from all across the country like that. Just lets me know we're reaching out to a

00:01:42.460 lot of folks. Use that scroll. Let me know you're there. Chat with each other. Send me questions for

00:01:47.480 our guests and such. That's what live's all about. You know, that interactivity. Again, let's just

00:01:52.540 try to keep it fairly civil. We can be a little rough with each other, but you know, we don't

00:01:56.300 want to drive each other away from the platform. We get far too rude on social media sometimes

00:02:00.500 than what more do we need to? As we say, I can rant and rave and get my vein pulsing and get upset

00:02:04.800 without actually fully out attacking individuals. So yes, observances, just to cover that quickly,

00:02:10.540 Global Wind Day. I don't know how they come up with these things, but it is wind day. And you

00:02:14.300 know what, the way it's howling out there today and the way it was last night, that's an appropriate

00:02:18.840 one to get out there. So Calgary at least is most definitely observing this Global Wind Day. By the

00:02:25.120 way, Mike Boston saying, how about declaring the climate change emergency? Yeah, I'm still on

00:02:28.380 Gondek's case about that one. But as for yesterday's short-term emergency, there wasn't

00:02:32.720 much done. It was just making sure we were ready in case there were going to be some floods like

00:02:36.760 we'd experienced before. It's also justice for janitor's day. You know, I got to think, honestly,

00:02:43.380 of all lines of work, the one that truly, I got to admit, these are guys that need, guys and gals

00:02:48.160 that need some credit. Come on. It's a necessary job. It's always been there. And it's always the

00:02:52.520 one that people always like to poke on and say, geez, if you don't get your degree, you're going

00:02:56.980 to end up being a janitor. You don't do this, you're going to end up being a janitor. Well,

00:03:00.140 why the hell not? What's wrong with it? It's good, honest work. And hey, we rely on janitors getting

00:03:05.440 out there, cleaning up our messes and making sure our workplaces and schools or apartment buildings

00:03:10.600 are all in good condition. So today's the justice for janitor's day. Quit crapping on those people

00:03:15.820 who are working in that field. It's a good, honest job. It's much better than a lot of the people

00:03:21.260 working in things like, say, our national broadcaster.

00:03:25.660 Okay, I've got a couple of guests coming up in a bit.

00:03:27.200 It's going to be Lindsay Wilson of Alberta Proud.

00:03:29.180 She's written a recent column on inflation and how it applies to Alberta

00:03:34.080 and Trudeau's policies, all favorite subjects for us.

00:03:37.540 And we are going to have Western Standard columnist Dave Makachuk

00:03:40.880 coming in from Paris.

00:03:42.700 He's out there in France.

00:03:43.740 He's at an arms show, not the kind of little handguns and firearms shows

00:03:48.660 that I tend to go to.

00:03:50.160 This is where they're selling tanks and drones and artillery and things like that.

00:03:55.180 He's got a few stories, including his challenges, trying to keep track of his own phone.

00:03:59.440 So that should be pretty fun talking to Mr. Makachuk and some interesting observations

00:04:02.640 he's made over there.

00:04:04.500 And we will talk to him in a little while.

00:04:08.240 So yes, we'll be talking to somebody all the way across the pond.

00:04:10.660 Okay, with what I'm going to get at, and I noticed John was commenting, asking too,

00:04:14.960 what's up with the Senate?

00:04:15.680 Well, I'm going to say what's up with it.

00:04:17.100 And I've always railed against the Canadian Senate.

00:04:20.160 Demanding either massive reform of the institution or outright abolition of it.

00:04:24.740 In the late 1980s, you know, when I was just really starting to pay attention to politics and early 90s,

00:04:30.420 the Tripoli Senate was the rallying cry from the Reform Party as it gained steam in the West.

00:04:35.680 And that stood for, if those remember it, equal, elected, and effective.

00:04:39.180 And it was presumed if we got those first two E's, the third would follow.

00:04:42.740 The Senate looked as if it would take a stance and shoot down Brian Mulroney's GST legislation in 1990, for example.

00:04:48.500 but then Rooney just expanded the number of senators

00:04:51.380 and appointed enough complacent PC senators to ensure his bill would pass.

00:04:55.280 He stacked it, and it demonstrated just how weak and beholden the Senate is

00:04:59.720 to a prime minister with a majority government.

00:05:02.660 The Canadian Senate, for the most part, has been a patronage pit.

00:05:05.320 It's a place to return political favors to well-connected party supporters

00:05:08.800 where they could garner a good income with an incredible pension

00:05:11.740 while putting in a minimum of work.

00:05:13.520 I'm going to give a little more Senate history.

00:05:15.320 Andrew Thompson, for those who might remember,

00:05:17.000 was a prime example of a useless senator with a bad case of personal entitlement to taxpayers' dollars.

00:05:23.080 Now, Thompson had served as a somewhat lackluster leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario in the early 60s,

00:05:28.040 and as a reward for his time representing the provincial liberals, he was appointed to the Senate by Lester Pearson.

00:05:32.960 We did the same with that useless liberal out here, Grant Mitchell in Alberta. 0.61

00:05:36.360 Now, once there, Thompson kept his head low and resided there for decades.

00:05:40.940 In 1997, Thompson suddenly hit the public spotlight.

00:05:43.320 yeah, 30 years later was found he only attended Senate sessions for a few days a year. Not only

00:05:48.360 had he done next to nothing in the Senate, he actually lived in Mexico. He rarely even set foot 1.00

00:05:52.800 in Canadian soil in years, but he was drawing a nice six-figure salary full of benefits.

00:05:57.680 Now Thompson, he was indignant at being called out for his absences. With this exposure of such

00:06:02.020 an embarrassing example of a senator, the Chrétien Liberals expired Thompson from caucus, and

00:06:06.740 senators struck a subcommittee to examine the issue, and Thompson wouldn't even come back from

00:06:10.780 Mexico to speak to it. He didn't feel he needed to defend himself. He was found in contempt to

00:06:15.540 the committee and stripped of some compensation, but still he remained as a senator until 1998

00:06:19.200 when he resigned on his own shortly before mandatory retirement anyways and continued

00:06:23.540 to collect a huge pension for the remainder of his life. These are the kind of examples that

00:06:27.700 made me give up all hope of Senate reform. Now, over the years, we've seen some Senate committees,

00:06:33.320 you know, improving some bills at times, but they haven't really done much and we've been forgotten

00:06:37.700 for the most part, except for when periodic scandals hit with, again, senators in entitlement

00:06:41.800 like Mike Duffy or Patrick Brazzo. And they made the news for all the wrong reasons. And while the

00:06:47.060 Senate still needs massive reforms that are probably never going to happen, I've been seeing

00:06:50.560 some signs of life in there lately. And it's been great to see. They've actually been scrutinizing

00:06:55.140 bills and questioning the actions of government in ways we haven't seen in a long time. A joint

00:07:01.500 Senate Committee has been examining Trudeau's invocation

00:07:06.500 of the Emergencies Act, and it's been putting Trudeau's ministers on the spot and asking

00:07:10.260 all the right questions. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino,

00:07:14.840 the Minister of Lies, has been under fire for months as the narrative crumbles

00:07:18.320 for the justification of invoking the act. Despite Mendocino's

00:07:22.140 claims that the police asked for invocation of the act, committees have determined, no, that wasn't the case.

00:07:26.880 Nor were there firearms found among the protesters, nor were there rape gangs

00:07:29.980 or arsonists or Russian funding.

00:07:32.500 That was all shredded in these committee meetings,

00:07:34.300 and the senators were a lot pushing that.

00:07:37.000 So the government had built a mountain of BS,

00:07:39.400 and thanks to that tough questioning, it's been exposed.

00:07:41.980 We've got a judicial inquiry into Trudeau's actions coming up,

00:07:44.860 and it's likely not going to end well,

00:07:46.420 as their case is already crumbling before it gets there.

00:07:49.260 So in their latest action, this really got me going happily here,

00:07:52.820 a Senate committee has shot down Bill S-7.

00:07:55.500 Now that's the bill that would have empowered border agents

00:07:57.540 to search personal devices of citizens on the most flimsy of justifications.

00:08:01.680 It was a gross invasion of privacy rights.

00:08:03.860 And while the Senate called it out, well, the Senate did call it out.

00:08:07.380 While the bill is still alive, the Senate committee has proposed an amendment

00:08:10.700 which pretty much defangs it.

00:08:12.260 If the bill does pass the Senate and then back and into Parliament,

00:08:15.800 it won't have much of an impact.

00:08:17.460 The intent behind the government's creation of the bill has been stripped from it.

00:08:20.700 Now, Trudeau's government still has some odious bills coming down the pipe.

00:08:23.400 They're trying to ramrod C11, C18, and C21.

00:08:26.460 and those bills in their current form threaten free press, free speech, and property rights as

00:08:31.300 they're modeled to try and control the internet and they're going after law-abiding firearm owners.

00:08:35.600 But those bills still have to go through Senate scrutiny. And I'm hoping, I'm hoping now that

00:08:40.700 with many senators suddenly embracing their role as being that voice of sober second thought,

00:08:45.240 that those bills might actually be amended or perhaps shot down altogether. Maybe some of those

00:08:49.340 senators are finally relishing taking an active role in policy creation and approval and they

00:08:53.840 want to take it further. The Emergencies Act itself was dropped, you know, within 48 hours

00:08:58.040 of passing through Parliament, and I suspect part of that reason was that Trudeau didn't have

00:09:01.960 confidence that it was going to make it through the Senate. We've been through infringements upon

00:09:06.200 civil liberties these last two years, unlike any seen in generations. We need to apply scrutiny

00:09:10.640 to these actions in hindsight now, too, with a mind to prevent that sort of overreach again.

00:09:15.280 My optimism could be misplaced, but I hope not. The sleepy Senate could start embracing its job

00:09:20.080 again. And I can't think of a better time for him to get on it. So, hey, let's give a thumbs up to

00:09:24.480 those senators and encourage them to stay awake and keep at it. They're finally doing a good job.

00:09:29.540 All right. That's what I've got to say about some politics this morning. Let's bring in our

00:09:34.440 news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what else is happening out there. Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:09:37.720 Hey, it's going well, Corey. How are you? I'm all right. Still a little cool out, but yeah,

00:09:42.180 what can you do? All right. I think everybody needs to know how it went last night with the

00:09:46.420 bees yes 10 10 000 of them about 10 000 i didn't count them but uh that box we picked up in the

00:09:53.360 howling rain and wind oh there we go we got some video clips of me uh trying to open that box it's

00:09:58.140 called a nuke it had five frames and about 10 000 bees in it yes and uh we brought it home to as you

00:10:03.880 can see me clumsily moving it along with with jane filming she was hoping to get some footage of me

00:10:08.000 getting stung and screaming like a little girl and running in circles and and she was disappointed on

00:10:12.440 on that front uh but she did uh prove me the coward i am as you can see i'm all suited up

00:10:18.040 uh jane on the other hand with her flip-flops on and bare hands helped shake some bees into the

00:10:22.440 box and get them all set up but our bees are all i i hope and presume happily residing within their

00:10:28.520 hive right now and and uh going to carry on uh well living and producing in the the the morgan

00:10:35.400 homestead there oh that's awesome that's a nice little hobby to have and i'm uh sure the bears

00:10:40.680 of prittis will be thanking you uh profusely for that yeah i hear duke the wonder dog took the

00:10:47.240 opportunity to go exploring oh those clowns yes duke and our foster dog volsteg yeah that's in

00:10:52.980 that video as well actually suddenly these dogs burst in while i'm trying to transfer the hive we

00:10:57.240 we kicked them out of the spot we're in and didn't realize the gates open so they went on a road trip

00:11:00.800 up the street for a while some friendly prittis neighbors helped round them up and bring those

00:11:05.380 clowns back in, but they enjoyed a field trip yesterday. Good for Duke. It's good to get them

00:11:10.880 out and exploring the wilderness. Oh, yeah. I don't want to get a taste for it. I can only

00:11:14.300 chase them so far. You know what day it is today, Corey? Which day is it today? It's Tax Freedom

00:11:20.360 Day. Oh, wow. That means every day of the past few months, six months, I guess, you've been

00:11:26.800 working to pay the government. Now, as of today, you can work for yourself. Isn't that a good

00:11:30.820 feeling? Well, we know we're getting such value for service or payment out of that. Yeah.

00:11:35.380 God bless the CRA.

00:11:37.560 Anyway, lots of good stuff on the website, including the Tax Freedom Day.

00:11:43.380 Calgary's Rocky View Hospital had to shut down its emergency surgeries last night because there were no doctors available.

00:11:50.900 So it's a bit of a problem when the hospital doesn't have doctors.

00:11:54.260 We've got a story on that.

00:11:56.140 Pierre Polyev, Conservative leadership candidate, says if he becomes Prime Minister,

00:12:01.040 It will introduce a Freedom of Speech Act, which will basically cancel the current Liberal Bill C-11, which seeks to regulate the Internet.

00:12:11.080 What else do we have going on?

00:12:13.360 We've got the Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland.

00:12:18.080 She was testifying last night into the committee investigating the Emergencies Act.

00:12:23.140 And she says all those nasty truckers really caused some economic damage to the country and asked to provide proof.

00:12:29.860 She couldn't, but she did say she had the figures in her head.

00:12:34.300 So I don't know what else is in there with her figures, but there you go.

00:12:40.340 So we've got lots of other stuff coming up just about to hit publish on.

00:12:44.580 Travis Billings, one of the key convoy organizers, pleaded guilty in Ottawa court today to mischief,

00:12:52.340 and he's been granted bail while sentencing.

00:12:55.300 And you know about all these long passport lines.

00:12:58.880 Calgary yesterday was a four-hour delay to get into an office.

00:13:03.020 In Edmonton, I believe it was three hours.

00:13:05.540 Well, I think we may have discovered the reason for it, Corey.

00:13:08.820 70%, 70% of all passport employees are still working from home, believe it or not.

00:13:15.680 So is there any wonder why poor Canadians are stuck in these long, long lineups

00:13:21.460 and literally waiting for months for passport renewals. 1.00

00:13:25.200 It looks to me like it's because they're all enjoying working from home

00:13:29.440 and really don't want to go back to the office.

00:13:31.200 And who can blame them?

00:13:32.760 Yeah, nice work if you can get it.

00:13:34.120 I know if I could avoid having to navigate the downtown traffic

00:13:37.580 and coming all the way in here, I probably would.

00:13:39.780 But I don't think we'd be able to do our job very well from anywhere else.

00:13:43.300 I hate to say it.

00:13:44.660 No, and I'd just come in here to see you, to be honest.

00:13:47.320 Well, yeah, those desks we have sitting face to face,

00:13:49.620 I'd feel pretty broken if we had to go too long without sharing that experience every morning.

00:13:54.060 Very true, Corey.

00:13:55.760 All right.

00:13:56.680 Well, if that's it, thanks for the updates today, Dave.

00:14:00.760 Yeah, we'll see you tonight on the pipeline.

00:14:03.100 You bet.

00:14:03.580 Right on.

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00:16:23.880 and that is Lindsay Wilson of Alberta Proud. It's been a while since she's been in. Hey,

00:16:29.940 how's it going? Oh, great. How are you? Very good. Thanks. Thanks as always for having me on.

00:16:34.480 appreciate it. Well, yeah, well, you keep doing good work and bringing those issues to the fore

00:16:38.140 that we need to hear about and need to talk about and need to solve. And yeah, so you've got a

00:16:43.840 column I'm going to have up this afternoon at the Western Standard, actually, and you're going to

00:16:48.100 be talking about inflation, are we? Well, actually, we like to call it just inflation. Just inflation.

00:16:52.480 Just so we can be very clear. So really quickly, I'm with Alberta Proud. We're a non-profit advocacy

00:16:57.820 group. We're grassroots-based. We champion all things Alberta, especially our energy sector.

00:17:02.740 We're very proud of our energy sector. We believe everyone needs more of our best in the world,

00:17:07.140 Canadian energy, our Alberta energy. And we take issue with the Ottawa elites and our prime minister

00:17:15.540 who want to beat us down for what we have and for fueling this country. And we just,

00:17:21.460 we don't like that very much. So I want to show you, I brought props.

00:17:24.660 Oh, props are fine. As long as it's nothing will get us kicked off.

00:17:27.220 Well, no, I don't think so. I don't think so. So I'm going to credit my son for grocery

00:17:31.860 shopping with me two days ago and we took some photos of just everyday products that that most

00:17:37.640 of us would would buy because I want to show you guys not that you don't already know but I want

00:17:41.820 to show you guys how I'm experiencing as you're experiencing that we're going to the grocery

00:17:46.280 store and buying everyday products that we all need to cook food for our family and it's costing

00:17:51.020 twice as much as it was six months ago and then I'm going to credit my oldest daughter for creating

00:17:55.760 these so so here's your here's your first one here this is Campbell's cream of chicken soup

00:18:01.520 two dollars and 79 cents I can't remember last time I paid more than a dollar and change for

00:18:06.080 something like this this one here here's here's some just inflation for you this is chocolate

00:18:12.480 milk seven dollars and fifty nine cents for a jug of chocolate milk oh that's nice that's my

00:18:20.320 that's the best for last this is uh cheese whiz here this is thirteen dollars and seventy nine

00:18:24.240 I can't stand that stuff.

00:18:26.080 It's for that price, though, boy.

00:18:28.200 Well, no, for a lot of people do love it.

00:18:29.580 I mean, it's a quick snack for families, kids.

00:18:31.520 Throw it on celery like some people do.

00:18:33.880 Cheese sauce at the holidays.

00:18:35.200 But yes, it's certainly getting expensive, though, yes.

00:18:37.420 It really is.

00:18:38.100 Here's one of my favorites.

00:18:39.820 This is Dairyland Butter, a pound of butter for $7.29,

00:18:43.140 something that normally we're paying probably $3 or $4 for.

00:18:46.940 And here's my favorite one, and this segues into something I'm really excited about to talk about today.

00:18:51.020 This is our favorite, Just Inflation, here.

00:18:52.700 Here is some ground beef for you, you know, homegrown Alberta beef, right? $16.59 for just

00:18:59.640 under a kg. So that's about eight bucks a pound, which is more than double of what we're used to

00:19:06.120 paying. And so, yeah, that's kind of what a big thing that I wanted to talk about today is a new

00:19:12.020 campaign that we're launching. I'm sure all of you have heard about this week. Health Canada,

00:19:17.380 the federal agency is now wanting to label ground beef to tell you that it's not healthy for you to

00:19:23.780 eat that so they're they're they're wanting they're saying that this is a this is a health

00:19:28.100 concern that they want to tell people what's high in sugar and fat saturated fats but they're

00:19:33.380 but they're leaving these labels off of chocolate chip cookies and and dairy and eggs and they're

00:19:38.420 targeting beef ironically they're targeting one of our most important industries here in alberta so

00:19:43.460 So once again, we're seeing a case where, you know, it's Ottawa kicking off at a while we're down.

00:19:48.000 And if you talk to cattlemen's associations, ranchers associations, they can't afford this right now.

00:19:53.920 They're already, input costs are already outpaced profits this year.

00:19:59.620 They're not making extra money at what we're seeing in the grocery stores and what we're paying at the till.

00:20:04.900 So that is why we have come up with a new brand that I'm really excited that we're launching.

00:20:12.000 This is going to be our new T-shirts.

00:20:13.000 they're going to be available i'm hoping in the next week or two we're going to have these online

00:20:16.760 you can go to shop.albertaproud.org and it's just very clearly saying we are so proud of our alberta

00:20:22.520 brief and i would just be thrilled to see so many people walking around wearing these that would be

00:20:26.520 more saleable than what i did on the show with the other day with my monologue when i said get

00:20:30.280 your hands off my meat which which made a very valid point but i don't think a lot of people

00:20:35.160 want to wear that on a t-shirt maybe not proud of alberta beef i can definitely see some merit there

00:20:40.200 and uh great well yeah and it's good that we're bringing this up like that these are staples as

00:20:45.800 you said with those associations i spoke with a gentleman from the saskatchewan cattle association

00:20:50.040 yesterday and yes they're livid i mean this is ridiculous uh it's a perfectly healthy product

00:20:56.440 they're being targeted they're being uh pulled out and and it's adding fear and expense to people

00:21:01.640 when as you pointed out the cost of groceries on every level is going up this is hard on families

00:21:06.280 and these are the staples going up and that butter is outrageous it is and but why why why do we keep

00:21:11.240 targeting beef why are we why are we labeling alberta beef as as unhealthy it's high in b12

00:21:17.400 it's high in iron it's a great source of protein uh particularly when you're eating leaner or

00:21:22.680 extra lean ground beef and this also uh from my understanding i think it applies to ground pork

00:21:27.800 and and um i believe uh ground pork for sure lamb i believe it's applying to too so

00:21:35.320 It's not just the cattle ranchers that are affected, it's all ranchers producing livestock

00:21:39.160 that are affected. Well, I mean, to be honest, one of the, a couple of commenters brought

00:21:43.480 supply management, of course, I mean, just getting into kind of sidetracking a bit, but that's

00:21:47.080 something that affects the dairy and poultry prices very directly. And it's funny, they left

00:21:51.960 chicken alone, of course, and they leave dairy alone with their labeling or things. But we got

00:21:56.040 to remember, where is all this coming from? Oh, Quebec. I mean, if Quebec was a main cattle

00:22:00.420 producer in Canada, I got a feeling they wouldn't be putting this gross labeling on beef products.

00:22:05.320 all of a sudden oh i couldn't agree with you more and it's just to us it's just the height of just

00:22:09.480 inflation you know we're our country for for seven years um we're not building back we're not building

00:22:15.800 better what what has what has he done to lead our country um he's just leading us down the wrong

00:22:20.760 path and i think we are just we things are so good in alberta right now oil is over 120 a barrel

00:22:27.000 there's investment in agriculture there's investment in technology uh you know things

00:22:31.240 are looking really promising and and i think we're just i think the biggest message i want to send

00:22:37.160 home today is other than supporting our farmers and ranchers and supporting our alberta energy

00:22:43.240 is to not be complacent this next year is very critical we've got a provincial election that's

00:22:48.040 t minus 11 months away and i can't even imagine if if if we elect an ndp government and anti-resource

00:22:54.840 and anti-energy government to steer us off the course that we're on right now you know no government

00:22:59.960 is perfect, certainly, but we need to support these pro-resource politicians and ensure that

00:23:06.380 they keep fighting Ottawa and taking Ottawa to task. We're in trouble if we don't.

00:23:10.680 Well, I'd say we're being governed by an ideologically driven party right now. I mean,

00:23:13.980 that's the bottom line as well, or a coalition of those parties. And I mean, I'm sure there's

00:23:19.260 got to be some wise economists behind closed doors that work for the Liberals that are screaming,

00:23:23.600 please guys, cut this out. I mean, we're a country in recovery. We've got interest rates are rising.

00:23:28.940 People are going to be losing houses soon because they're trying to push down the inflation.

00:23:32.420 You've got tools right at your hands to reduce the inflation by getting pressure off of our energy production and our food production.

00:23:39.100 And this government just will not back off.

00:23:41.340 They won't stop.

00:23:42.020 Well, it's shocking.

00:23:42.840 Like, we're sitting here, we're looking down the barrel of a gun.

00:23:44.960 That's 6.7% inflation.

00:23:47.400 One in four Canadians are skipping meals.

00:23:50.120 One in four Canadians, just this week, these reports, one in four Canadians have said,

00:23:54.800 hey, if you increase the interest rate on my mortgage, I'm out. I can't afford my house.

00:23:59.280 I'm going to lose my house. And which is, it's, it's shocking when you think about that. When

00:24:04.580 you think about those numbers, one in four, that's, that's tremendous. And again, it's not

00:24:08.900 luxuries. You know, people say, oh, just tighten your belt or just do without some things. This

00:24:12.780 is food. This is housing. How can you tighten your belt anymore? It's eight bucks a pound for

00:24:17.480 ground beef. Yeah. One of the staples, one of the most economical meats that you can cook up for

00:24:22.280 a family. This isn't filet mignon, which by the way, I have no doubt that Trudeau and the Ottawa

00:24:28.140 elites are enjoying their filet mignon and traveling around on their private jets as well.

00:24:33.260 Well, unfortunately, yes. I mean, this is again, the problem with some of the, it's not just the

00:24:38.260 ideology, but we've got some very disconnected leadership. I mean, Justin Trudeau has never had

00:24:42.160 to worry about paying a grocery bill his entire life. Jagmeet Singh is, you know, as much as he

00:24:46.700 leads the people's party on the left, lives quite a life of privilege on, you know, very,

00:24:51.540 very expensive Ottomans and, you know, with some high-end clothing. Hey, good on you.

00:24:56.060 $1,100 nursing chair, wasn't that what that was? Yeah, something like that. So, you know,

00:25:00.300 whatever, that's fine. It's the hypocrisy that's galling. But these guys don't understand. They 0.70

00:25:05.080 don't, when they bring these policies, they've never had to feel that pressure. They never had

00:25:08.440 to worry like, how am I going to feed the kids properly before I get them to school while still

00:25:11.860 making the rent, while maybe making a car payment or getting decent clothing. They just don't get

00:25:16.880 it. So they don't care. No, they don't care, Corey. They, these are people that probably

00:25:21.040 don't even grocery shop for themselves let alone realize um realize the stark contrast and how much

00:25:27.760 groceries have gone up in the last six months everybody i know myself included we're just

00:25:31.360 shocked every month when our utility bills come in uh every time we fill up at the pump like we are

00:25:37.040 we are living we are living with the consequences of budgets that uh just balance themselves right

00:25:43.600 we are living with the consequences of just printing money it's this false like probably

00:25:48.720 the greatest economic myth of our time is that the liberal government wants you to believe

00:25:52.580 everything's fine. We can just keep printing money. Well, it's not okay. It's not okay.

00:25:58.400 Every, again, even a Keynesian economist can understand that you do that, you're going to

00:26:05.320 cause inflation. That's just like the law of gravity. You add more currency into the supply,

00:26:11.360 it's going to devalue the currency. And they use every excuse in the book. Oh no, it's the war in

00:26:15.920 Ukraine, it's international, we can't do anything about it. I mean, there's some degrees of world

00:26:18.980 commodities they can't control, sure. But on our domestic policy, yes, you're contributing to it

00:26:24.040 when you keep borrowing, and they won't even consider getting spending under control. So again,

00:26:28.180 it's a frightening outlook we have. Well, I mean, you've got this band of eco-radicals, right? You've 0.83

00:26:31.780 got Trudeau with uneven Stephen, Stephen Goubeau, our environment minister, who's an eco-radical,

00:26:36.920 as we all know, and you've got them just raking us with carbon taxes and punishing our energy

00:26:44.240 sector and putting barricades up for pipelines to be built. And then even when it's not up to them,

00:26:50.320 just doing absolutely nothing to facilitate development of pipelines. So, I mean, there's

00:26:56.480 so much more that we can be doing that if we have the right people in charge at the federal level,

00:27:01.840 there's just so much more that we can be doing where we wouldn't be paying these kinds of prices

00:27:06.480 at the pump, at the till, the grocery store. That's absurd. Yeah. I mean, we're in Canada

00:27:10.480 to where we've got, again, what, I think the third or fourth largest deposits of hydrocarbon

00:27:15.060 energy in the world and some of the largest tracts of agriculturally producing land in the

00:27:20.500 world. And we're paying these kinds of prices. It just doesn't make sense, but we can see that

00:27:24.840 it's bad policy. It's bloody bad policy. And we're living with the realities of those bad policies

00:27:30.460 and the politicians who've implemented them. So what other initiatives then has Alberta Proud

00:27:34.900 got going? I mean, you're bringing it to light. You've got the... So we're coming up with an

00:27:40.040 email today. So if you're on our email list, that's great. And we'll have these shirts up

00:27:44.820 at shop.albertaproud.org over the next, I would think the next week or two here. Aside from that,

00:27:50.700 we were launching a petition today and we want to put a petition to the feds to stop this stupid 0.99

00:27:55.180 labeling. Like we, the farmers, the ranchers, they can't afford it. It's unnecessary. And it's just 0.99

00:28:01.320 so insulting that the federal government thinks the consumer is so stupid that we need them to 0.99

00:28:07.120 tell us that they're going to charge us more. We can pay more for the privilege of them telling 0.99

00:28:10.440 us what's healthy and not healthy to eat. I think most of us can do our own research and we know

00:28:15.040 what to eat, not to eat. And certainly putting a warning label on homegrown proteins is not my

00:28:21.000 version of educating Albertans and educating Canadians on what's healthy to eat. So that

00:28:26.860 petition will be going out on social media today. We're on all social media channels. Our primary

00:28:31.660 one, of course, is Facebook. We have over 200,000 followers. And we use channel most of our advocacy

00:28:37.780 through there. But of course, we're on Twitter, we're on Telegram, we're on Instagram. We're,

00:28:43.400 yeah, we've got everything up and running and LinkedIn, too.

00:28:46.380 Yeah, well, we've got lots of means. And as I was kind of saying earlier, the government,

00:28:49.440 some elements of government have actually been paying a bit of attention lately,

00:28:52.680 they're getting a bit reactive. I mean, as much as it's tempting, and you can see a lot of evidence

00:28:56.540 that they're all indifferent fools in there, there are some who are paying attention, there 0.96

00:28:59.860 are some that are speaking up. And if we keep the pressure up, they do bend sometimes. And the 0.98

00:29:05.180 Senate actually knocked down C7 the other day, like, holy crap, or S7, I should say. We wouldn't

00:29:09.440 have seen that coming. So get these petitions going. Put the word out. I mean, make these guys

00:29:14.140 realize that they've crossed the line. They've gone too far. Even some liberal ones can hear

00:29:17.840 some reason. I don't think Trudeau ever will. He spent $700,000 to renovate his kitchen there at

00:29:22.360 his cottage tax dollars. And as you know, speaking again of us trying to make the bills, and I doubt

00:29:27.460 he's ever going to cook in it, but his chef will enjoy the renovations.

00:29:30.560 Can you imagine having $700,000 to renovate a kitchen?

00:29:32.940 That's more than most of us will ever pay for a house.

00:29:34.780 Well, yeah.

00:29:36.360 It's incredible.

00:29:36.960 And I mean, how much time does he spend there?

00:29:38.440 I mean, that's only the time that, you know, between surfing trips and, you know, going

00:29:42.000 overseas and embarrassing us.

00:29:43.600 He's a busy guy.

00:29:45.040 He sure does a good job of that, doesn't he?

00:29:46.640 And speaking further, I mean, Andrea Kettle's asking, yeah, what is this, you know, red

00:29:51.000 labels or, so yeah, there's labels though, just to kind of remind everybody what Health

00:29:56.060 Canada is proposing that they want to make it like cigarettes or liquor and essentially put

00:30:00.320 labeling, mandatory labeling on front of package to show that ground beef products and ground pork

00:30:07.040 and others are unhealthy, to say they're unhealthy. They want to push people off it. And when I spoke

00:30:11.860 to the fellow from the association yesterday, the Saskatchewan Cattle Association, he also pointed

00:30:15.200 out this is embarrassing Canada and costing us problems for exports. Like more than half of our

00:30:19.840 beef gets exported. Oh, and we will be the only country in the world to do this. Only one on the

00:30:24.640 planet and it's competitive and there's a lot of protectionism and you know that there's producers

00:30:28.040 in other countries that would love to shut down Canadian meat and say hey look even Canada doesn't

00:30:31.960 feel that their own product is healthy we should stop bringing it in it is setting such a you know

00:30:35.480 the tone always comes from the top so what are what message are we sending out to the world by

00:30:39.420 doing this I think people might think oh it's just another label it's just another warning no guys

00:30:43.640 it's it's it's so much more than that and rest assured you will be paying more for your ground

00:30:48.680 meat products. And what's next, right? So they'll start with this and then what?

00:30:54.000 Well, and that's part of the bigger principle too. Yeah. Andrea's saying, yeah, beef and

00:30:56.740 gattanoe isn't labeled. Yeah, this is proposed by health candidates. It's not in yet. And that's

00:30:59.860 why the time's now to push back and make these autocrat busybodies realize you've crossed the 0.99

00:31:05.540 line. But as you said, where does it stop? Because it's an indication of how much control these

00:31:09.520 bureaucrats want to have, what they want to do. They want to tell you what you can eat, 0.97

00:31:13.440 what you can't eat. I mean, this is the first step on who knows where they're going to stop.

00:31:18.140 And again, it's crushing us economically.

00:31:20.060 We don't have time and money for this.

00:31:21.940 Yeah, and I hope you guys will go to our social media,

00:31:24.440 check us out, Alberta Proud on Facebook

00:31:26.060 or on all the channels

00:31:27.280 and please sign and share that petition.

00:31:30.020 Let's get loud.

00:31:30.940 Let's get rowdy about this one.

00:31:32.520 This is one of our core industries

00:31:34.480 and we have to stand up for it

00:31:35.860 because if we don't stand up for it

00:31:37.080 and if we don't push back

00:31:38.160 and if we remain complacent,

00:31:39.980 you know what the answer is.

00:31:41.660 It's going to be more of the same

00:31:42.640 and it's only going to get worse.

00:31:43.840 And I don't know about you guys,

00:31:44.840 but I've got three kids at home

00:31:45.900 And I struggle to go to the grocery store and make sure all my bills are paid to keep feeding them.

00:31:51.220 And I'm sure the same is for most of you out there watching.

00:31:54.560 You have to push back.

00:31:55.920 Well, I appreciate that.

00:31:56.720 And also that, you know, you've pointed out that it's not everybody's on Facebook.

00:31:59.400 People do different social media platforms and things.

00:32:01.660 That's your main one.

00:32:02.440 If you really check out Alberta Proud on Facebook, that's a well-populated, busy site.

00:32:05.980 When you have a couple hundred thousand people participating on it, politicians take note.

00:32:09.660 You know, we feel powerless sometimes.

00:32:11.480 We don't necessarily have to use our tools.

00:32:14.180 We can pressure these guys.

00:32:15.380 But also, as you said, you're on Instagram, Twitter, all of those other good spots.

00:32:20.540 Well, great.

00:32:20.920 Well, I thank you for coming in and showing off the props and swag and all that good stuff.

00:32:26.560 And the efforts, of course.

00:32:28.080 Again, it's like I'll talk about in our sponsor in a moment.

00:32:30.940 But if we don't stand up for ourselves, we'll lose.

00:32:33.640 That's the only way we'll lose.

00:32:35.320 Thanks so much.

00:32:36.040 And thanks to everybody out there listening.

00:32:38.040 And, you know, keep on loving and being proud of Alberta Beef.

00:32:41.340 Great.

00:32:41.720 Thanks.

00:32:41.980 and everybody watch for the column

00:32:44.440 that'll be coming up from yourself this afternoon

00:32:46.660 when I get that up and published as well.

00:32:48.340 So thanks so much, Corey.

00:32:49.300 Good to see you.

00:32:49.780 Yeah, it was good to be here.

00:32:50.860 Thank you.

00:32:51.280 All right, thanks.

00:32:53.600 So yes, that's Lindsay Wilson of Alberta Proud back again.

00:32:57.140 I'm sure she'll be back again for another conversation.

00:32:58.980 They've always got a lot of initiatives going on

00:33:01.920 and things, again, the name says it all.

00:33:05.560 I like nice, simple names.

00:33:06.540 Alberta Proud.

00:33:07.240 You know, we get that in Canada all the time,

00:33:09.240 almost as if we should be ashamed of ourselves,

00:33:11.100 as if we should be hanging our heads over our products or being resource-based, whether it's

00:33:15.600 natural resources, which Alberta Proud has covered a lot, or as we're seeing with agriculture and

00:33:20.120 beef and meat products. I mean, this is ridiculous. So get out there, guys, check it out, and push 0.94

00:33:25.960 back, because these guys are, as I said, they're not reasonable. These are busybody

00:33:33.540 control freaks, authoritarians. And it's not just at the government level, it's the bureaucrats.

00:33:40.620 This didn't come from a politician.

00:33:42.600 This came from Health Canada, but this came from bureaucrats.

00:33:45.220 But they are guided by politicians.

00:33:46.960 Their bosses are the politicians that are out there.

00:33:50.860 So, you know, pressure the politicians and maybe they will, maybe they'll back off.

00:33:56.880 And like some others are saying, yeah, with these ideology and yeah, you know, they keep

00:33:59.900 bringing up Sylvia talking about the maggot and cockroach shake. 0.61

00:34:03.120 But yeah, there's a weird push from the crazed left.

00:34:05.780 You know, they used to be under the vegan thing and everything.

00:34:07.440 And not enough people have decided to move on to living exclusively on bean sprouts.

00:34:11.440 So now they're pushing everybody to live on bugs.

00:34:13.980 Like, how many initiatives have you got to see for all these different ways that we're supposed to eat insects?

00:34:19.440 I mean, hey, I understand there's parts of Mexico where they've eaten worms forever and places where people, you know, dine on things good for them.

00:34:27.300 It's their delicacies, crickets, things like that.

00:34:30.680 But it's a choice and it's a delicacy.

00:34:33.340 And in the cases of those areas, that was survival food.

00:34:35.500 But I think now that a lot of those places have gotten on to better things like beef, for example, they're not eating those insects any longer.

00:34:41.600 So tell these guys to take their insects and jam them.

00:34:43.920 I mean, they're fine, again, to put out there if you want for a novelty food or if it's your thing, go for it.

00:34:48.720 Hey, knock your, you know, fill your boots.

00:34:50.100 You want to keep eating dirt like you did in grade one.

00:34:51.860 That's your business.

00:34:53.300 Just don't tell us what to eat.

00:34:54.800 And that's part of the problem with this government.

00:34:55.940 They feel they can and they feel they should.

00:34:58.100 And that's very problematic.

00:35:00.040 So I'm going to talk about one of our sponsors quickly again to get into that.

00:35:03.480 And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, because similar to Alberta Proud, they're a group that's pushing back on your behalf.

00:35:09.920 It's standing up for you. And of course, their name sort of says it all.

00:35:13.120 Canadian Shooting Sports Association. If you're involved in firearms in any sort of way, whether you collect them, whether you, you know, you're a target shooter, hunter, any of those things.

00:35:24.420 It's good law-abiding things. And it's industry. I mean, there's lots of people who work within that industry, within guiding and hunting and supplies in general.

00:35:32.920 well. It's under threat. Again, this government is trying to take it away. They don't trust you

00:35:36.660 with firearms. They don't want you to have them. And if you don't push back, you're going to lose.

00:35:40.840 You're going to lose. There's no getting around it. So check them out, guys. Canadian Shooting

00:35:45.160 Sports Association, because that's part of it. That's how you get together. You work together.

00:35:48.820 They will lobby on your behalf. They can't help you if you don't help them. That means getting

00:35:54.000 onto that site, take out a membership so they can keep standing up for you and pushing back.

00:35:58.540 C-S-S-A-C-I-L-A.org, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:36:03.960 Okay, I'll get on to my guest, David Makachuk, pretty soon,

00:36:06.400 because I see he's coming in all the way from Paris.

00:36:09.060 And, you know, I heard he may have some laptop charging issues going on as well.

00:36:14.920 So perhaps I'll get him on sooner rather than later.

00:36:17.100 We'd not want to run out of juice during this rare international conversation we got on the go here.

00:36:23.160 So I see him in the lobby.

00:36:24.380 Let's bring Dave in here and see what he's up to.

00:36:27.200 hey Dave how's it going out there way on the other side really good really good happy to be in Paris

00:36:31.760 fantastic it's just fantastic really enjoying it good so uh cigar on the go I can smoke here

00:36:40.760 it's awesome well you're really living it up yeah I think you know you get the the the stink eye if

00:36:47.540 you light a cigar anywhere in public around uh North America these days so uh yeah yeah oh yeah

00:36:53.360 yeah you can't do that there you can at a restaurant it's really nice it's a nice feeling

00:36:58.560 i mean i have i don't smoke a lot of cigars but once in a while you know it is kind of nice so

00:37:03.600 well and the cigar smoke will mask a bit of the smell from the frenchman

00:37:08.560 okay let me just show you where i am sure i'm at a cafe called i don't know if you can see this it's

00:37:14.800 cafe romantica in the legend values area so there's lots of people here enjoying

00:37:24.040 meals and drinks and the weather's fine and I'm sorry the weather is fine I know

00:37:30.760 it's not so great in Calgary you can see the traffic behind me there's people

00:37:35.740 going by and so on and so forth so that's my locale anyway I thought why

00:37:40.120 not do something at a cafe what could be more french sure we can vicariously visit paris through

00:37:46.280 you so uh i guess before we get on to you know most of why you went there and that whole arms

00:37:51.240 show and the rest though is is uh yeah well let's start you had some adventures while you're out

00:37:55.640 there and something that actually give you a positive view on humanity unbelievable unbelievable

00:38:01.000 well i came to paris for the euro satori which is the biggest if not the biggest one of the biggest

00:38:08.360 arm show in the world and it's fabulous it's uh uh held at the place there's exposition and it's

00:38:17.800 massive it's like eight think of eight walmarts full of weapons of every type and kind

00:38:26.440 from all over the world it's just one of the most fascinating things i have ever seen and and uh but

00:38:34.040 in saying that you can take the metro here the metro is very convenient and it's very cheap

00:38:40.680 there's only one problem i was on my way on my first day to euro satori on the metro

00:38:47.480 and we're talking hundreds of people like we're talking hundreds of packs like sardines so uh

00:38:53.640 i was on the metro and i was at a station called chatelet and um a fellow rubbed up against me

00:39:01.240 and i patted my uh pants and my cell phone was gone just like that so i grabbed hold of the guy

00:39:12.520 and i said you got my cell phone you got my cell phone and he said no no no no i don't i don't

00:39:17.800 have it and i knew it was him so i checked him out and uh you know i looked at his pants and

00:39:24.500 everything he didn't have it he must have given it to another person and i think i know who it was

00:39:30.340 who disappeared into the crowd of commuters in Paris.

00:39:35.160 So there goes my cell phone.

00:39:37.260 Everything, my contacts, everything, all gone.

00:39:41.040 So I got to the show, and I was, you know, I'm thinking,

00:39:44.940 oh, my God, what am I going to do?

00:39:46.820 So I tried to call Fido, contact Fido.

00:39:49.320 Fido's not awake at that hour. 0.83

00:39:51.740 So they were completely useless.

00:39:55.460 And so I went to the concierge at the Euro Sertori,

00:39:59.720 and they were very helpful and they even phoned my wife and left a message and told her what

00:40:06.300 happened to try and uh cut my final um uh telephone service because my phone's gone right and god

00:40:15.820 knows who they're phoning right so okay i stay at the show for about four or five hours go back

00:40:23.620 the hotel get a message from my wife in calgary she says a man in paris has my phone and to go

00:40:32.260 to a japanese restaurant in district 10 to get it so i'm like what so i have no idea what's going on

00:40:42.980 there's a man who says he's got my phone so i take a cab to this place in the 10th district

00:40:50.260 which is kind of a rough area it's a bit of a rough area so i'm going there i go to this little

00:40:56.340 japanese restaurant and there's a young couple who own it and they were the nicest people you

00:41:03.220 could ever meet like they were so nice the man said he found my phone in ger du nord in the

00:41:11.860 station on the ground dirty people were walking on it he picked it up somehow he had the sense

00:41:19.300 don't know how to call my wife and he had my phone and this is all in one day i lost it had it stolen

00:41:29.300 and we and found in one day and the man the couple were so nice they refused i was going to give them

00:41:36.980 50 euro which is like 75 bucks canadian you know take it please the guy wouldn't take it he said

00:41:43.700 no you're a visitor to paris and you deserve respect and and we're glad you're here spending

00:41:51.380 your money and so on so far so that was the adventure it was just incredible i mean i've never

00:41:58.420 and i've got my phone back i've got my daughter's pictures on it and all my contacts this all

00:42:05.620 happened in one day well it's good to start with some good news this is one of our commenters

00:42:09.700 carrie lynn olford saying yeah pickpocketing can be pretty bad in europe and italy is particularly

00:42:14.100 bad so it's good to start off with a good new story not everybody's bad they appreciate visitors

00:42:19.300 and uh uh you know it's it's it's good to have that so you're also though at the function where

00:42:24.820 i imagine at least representatives from some of the craziest worst dictatorships on earth are

00:42:28.900 popping by because as you said that arms show that's not where we're talking about buying your

00:42:32.900 duck rifle or duck shotgun rifle this is where you're gonna look for a drone or a piece of

00:42:38.820 artillery or something like that huh well it is it's it's it's absolutely massive uh think about

00:42:48.420 this eight walmarts eight walmarts of weapons eight freaking walmarts of every weapon known to man

00:42:58.340 and it's from everywhere in the world including china but not russia russia was not invited this

00:43:05.380 year for obvious reasons. So it's just absolutely incredible. I was overwhelmed. And you have to

00:43:14.280 have an app to find a particular booth. Well, it's between 1,700 and 1,800 booths. Imagine the BMO

00:43:26.160 center. Imagine four BMO centers. That's how big this thing is. I've never seen anything. I've

00:43:33.100 been to a usa in washington dc and it's big but it is not like this and this is the weapons

00:43:40.380 central uh and it happens every two years uh uh people come from all over the world to make deals

00:43:47.720 to study the weapons and the new technologies which are just the board you know i don't want

00:43:53.880 to say exploding but basically that's the pun the technology is absolutely exploding for weapons

00:44:00.980 and it's just a massive industry I hadn't I had no idea until I came here

00:44:06.620 just how incredible it is it really is something I guess you know it's just

00:44:11.480 that mixed thing I mean it's fascinating on how much tech advancement we have and

00:44:15.680 things such as that but at the same time you know leave it to us with humanity

00:44:19.040 that we get our most creative when it's finding ways to obliterate each other

00:44:22.460 unfortunately yes unfortunately yes it's new ways to kill people however let me

00:44:29.720 this the one thing i learned i took a poll from all the arms dealers at the show and and um i asked

00:44:38.120 about ukraine and i asked you know it's a sensitive question not everybody wants to answer it but

00:44:44.120 basically europe has woken up ukraine has changed everything europe has woken up and now there's

00:44:54.360 more demand there's more budgets germany that has not spent much on defense since the second world

00:45:03.960 war everybody said germany germany germany they're spending incredible amounts of money

00:45:10.360 and they boosted their budgets it's just incredible and they're saying the demand is up there's still

00:45:18.120 competition out there but demand is up and it has absolutely changed the world and when it comes to

00:45:25.640 i talk to uh ammo uh dealers from all over the world uh there i talked to uh several i i

00:45:34.520 concentrated there was two two areas which really interested me the israelis and the turkish are

00:45:40.600 really coming on oh there you see a nice lady there displaying a turkish gun with a silencer

00:45:47.720 on very nice lady and then you see the elbet uh precision weapons well uh i i talked to her and

00:45:55.560 she said and she said yes we are dealing with ukraine and of course turkey is sending them

00:46:00.680 drones uh but also elbet in israel is just doing incredible it's changed everything

00:46:08.840 the fellow from elbert told me that um that uh studying what happened in ukraine everybody's

00:46:20.360 looking at that everybody and they're all thinking the same thing it's going back to basic military

00:46:29.200 uh strategy and weapons do we buy tanks are tanks uh obsolete now what you're looking at

00:46:37.500 is a robot tank a mega robot tank it has to be controlled by a human being but right now in

00:46:45.740 future it may have artificial intelligence and it may decide who to kill on its own raising questions

00:46:52.540 about friendly fire how does it determine a friendly i asked everybody how does it determine

00:46:58.780 a friendly friendlier foe we're working on it everybody told me the same thing because this

00:47:07.580 thing can identify a threat a second millisecond and end it just like that well how in the hell

00:47:16.220 if you've got your troops on the ground how can you tell do they wear a badge do they wear a patch 0.99

00:47:22.540 what the goddamn hell do you do when you when you've got a monster this is a monster i mean 0.99

00:47:28.540 look at this thing this is the terminator this is the terminator yeah from robocop 0.99

00:47:36.140 i mean so it kind of shows also just the the new front of uh military and battles i mean if we got

00:47:42.780 things like this and unmanned drones and and a lot of remote uh uh military hardware going around

00:47:49.420 hackers are going to be more powerful in some ways than we've ever imagined because if somebody

00:47:53.500 could manage to get control of those things even a guy in a basement in india could suddenly take

00:47:58.940 over a division of an army i i mean they better make sure they can figure out their controls on

00:48:03.100 this stuff loitering loitering munitions drones that can fly around and wait until they see

00:48:11.020 something or you see something and you target it or then come back and land there might be okay you

00:48:17.260 you see that one on the right? That is a suicide drone. That thing on the far right is a suicide

00:48:24.260 drone. And if it hits you, it's over. And that thing, and that's made in Israel, and that thing 0.94

00:48:30.260 can fly, you know, forever. And if you want it to come home, it'll come home, and it'll turn on 0.99

00:48:37.340 its back, and it'll have a little parachute and a little cushion, and it'll fall, and you can use

00:48:42.820 it again if you don't find a target now what's better to have a drone or to have a pilot up

00:48:49.260 there who could get killed that thing is just and it's exploding i i in the israel area i must have

00:48:55.980 seen like seven eight drone companies and then i walked down the aisle and i found an israeli

00:49:03.200 jamming company that can jam drones and then has a weapon that you can hold and actually shoot the

00:49:11.120 thing down so i mean there's weapons and there's counter weapons and and that's the game of the

00:49:18.340 future and it's being played out you can see that you can take a look at that that's not a 50 caliber

00:49:24.160 that's bigger that's bigger that that thing is on the top of that of a robot tank and it can see you

00:49:30.580 and it can you know what i mean i mean it's a whole the whole uh strategy and technology of

00:49:37.660 war is changing and it's uh it's just amazing it really is you know i yeah go ahead i was saying

00:49:46.460 you know actually it's one of our commenters yeah carrie saying you know ai will be our doom i mean

00:49:50.620 we dehumanize some of what these uh you know equipment does but we do have to remember the

00:49:55.260 target on the other end is often going to be human casualties so i mean you're not putting a soldier

00:50:00.300 at risk in the air or on the ground but you're you're out there to destroy somebody somewhere

00:50:03.900 it's pretty chilling it is pretty chilling but this is you know unfortunately you know this is

00:50:11.260 mankind it's it's never going to be you know i mean i would like it to be uh a disneyland world

00:50:18.140 but it just isn't it's filled with you got a bad dude in russia who's just changed the world and

00:50:24.140 put the fear of god into everybody especially in europe they've broken up budgets are rising it's

00:50:31.020 just you know it you know it's it's uh it's amazing but let me say this i i i talked to

00:50:38.460 one turkish fellow who uh their company does a lot of things including armored cars and i said

00:50:46.540 okay is ukraine good or bad and he said well there's a lot of negatives he said uh first of

00:50:55.900 all inflation it's driven inflation costs are up uh there's a a a loss uh there's some price of

00:51:05.740 fuel has gone up uh there's no grain there's no grain and a lot of those grain goes to african

00:51:12.700 countries shipping containers have skyrocketed uh and the basic of disruption of trade

00:51:20.940 and cyber attacks of bam bam bam bam bam you've got all these things happening

00:51:26.700 and it's changing the whole uh landscape i mean on the good side for the arms dealers is that

00:51:34.060 demand is up demand is up that's not necessarily a good or bad thing because competition will still

00:51:41.420 will still happen but uh like i say uh ukraine has changed the world some people didn't want to

00:51:49.180 talk about it some people wouldn't say two words but some guys just said yeah yeah it's like

00:51:54.620 do we buy tanks you know should we and how do we protect them now because we're looking at

00:52:00.220 to see what's happening in Ukraine how do we protect those things you know and it's about 0.85

00:52:05.660 this again these Israeli companies a precision guided weapon the only country who can get away 0.56

00:52:13.420 with dumb bombs is russia they're the only country nobody else can do that everybody else has to go

00:52:20.300 by the rules and that is precision weapons so that you don't have collateral damage putin doesn't 0.79

00:52:27.180 you know doesn't care so but he's the only rusher is the only one who does that everybody else got

00:52:33.260 to play by the rules and uh it's all about precision data weapons and i've posted some

00:52:39.100 there's some there that have gps and and and uh you know that are just amazing and will hit direct

00:52:47.660 target and this is only one area i mean there were so many i just decided to concentrate on a couple

00:52:54.620 because it was just too overwhelming well you encountered uh some other stuff too was it a

00:52:59.340 robotic dog uh you ran across in there yes yes and i gotta tell you something really funny

00:53:06.380 i gotta tell you something really funny uh and i've got a kind of a scoop for you too

00:53:13.500 i got a scoop for you too uh there was a robotic dog and it walked around and everybody

00:53:19.580 but the one thing that was common to everyone who saw this dog wanted to pet it on the head

00:53:28.380 and it's a robot it's a dog with a little face and two little eyes everybody everybody who came

00:53:35.420 I like it. I took some pictures, but it's on my camera. I couldn't send it to you, but

00:53:40.240 everybody wanted to pet it on the head. And I just thought that was hilarious. It's a

00:53:47.220 robot. You know what I mean? But the urge of a human being, you know, is to pet this

00:53:56.180 thing on the head. So that was just kind of a bizarre thing I witnessed. But let me tell

00:54:03.100 you about a fairly big scoop that I came across there's a couple there's a couple I want to

00:54:09.880 mention and one of them unfortunately due to their security reasons they won't let me write about it

00:54:21.400 I'd love to but I can't and I can't I can tell you it's a country in Europe but I can't tell you

00:54:26.680 where and I can't even tell you the name of the company they don't want anything everything was

00:54:31.940 off the record but this is one of the biggest security companies in the world probably the

00:54:39.620 biggest and nobody knows a thing about them and that's the way they want it and these people do

00:54:46.420 security for 80 of the world's airport their machines detect everything everything think of

00:54:54.280 it 80 of the world's airports have their equipment who else has their equipment the white house

00:55:01.200 has their security detecting equipment.

00:55:05.000 The U.S. Secret Service

00:55:06.780 has their secret detecting equipment.

00:55:12.280 And not only that, but also Air Force One.

00:55:18.100 The president of the United States

00:55:19.940 has the equipment,

00:55:21.120 the security detection equipment of this company.

00:55:24.360 And they want to stay under the radar.

00:55:27.140 They said, you can't write about it.

00:55:29.620 but they didn't say you can't talk about it so i'm telling you now this is one of the most

00:55:34.480 incredible things i found at the show unfortunately i can't tell you anymore

00:55:38.600 because of uh journalistic ethics and i gave my promise i i wouldn't so but this is this is an

00:55:45.560 absolutely incredible company and they've come up with new detectors to uh the russians for example

00:55:52.640 in ukraine are leaving booby traps in houses and they put it under things under carpets

00:55:59.320 and they're called brush wires and ISIS also use these to booby trap homes and they put them under 0.55

00:56:06.740 carpets and stuff and the Ukrainians are getting these detectors to detect these weapons so it's 0.68

00:56:14.000 I just found it really fascinating yeah well that's a different end of things I guess more

00:56:19.540 in a defensive end but you can see why it's very proprietary or why they're keeping it tight too

00:56:24.080 because again I mean as you said if we're talking somebody who's dealing with 80 percent of the

00:56:28.300 airports and things like the White House itself. I mean, if you get yourself into that software,

00:56:35.900 you could, again, it doesn't matter how many old out-of-date tanks the country has on the ground

00:56:40.100 somewhere else, they can bring a lot of the world to its knees, again, from a computer on the other

00:56:44.040 side of the planet. It's kind of scary to think. And again, this company also gives detection

00:56:49.640 equipment for metal detection in the food companies around the world. You know, when food

00:56:55.740 is processed occasionally a piece of metal will get in that food and they can detect it they can

00:57:01.420 detect anything uh this is one of the there are competitors and there are other companies but this

00:57:07.580 one i think is probably one of the best in the world and canada actually bought some uh i think

00:57:13.900 it was vance general vance who uh said look i want to protect my boys and he said i want the best

00:57:21.820 so he bought about a hundred grand worth of these uh landmine detectors for this is going back to

00:57:29.340 Afghanistan and when the feds in Ottawa found this out they went ballistic how dare you how dare you

00:57:36.860 spend a hundred grand and Vance said you know what I did this to protect my boys and I have 0.98

00:57:42.620 authority to do that so to hell with you he might have said a little stronger but he said to hell

00:57:50.060 with you we're buying these things and there was a right choice and i'm not defending general fans

00:57:55.820 for any of the other stuff but he looked after his men and that was a wise decision and that was

00:58:01.580 this company that i can't name unfortunately so but okay okay go ahead oh i was just saying so kind

00:58:08.860 of go a little further in the whole thing so there's some really interesting you know very

00:58:11.980 high tech very targeted technology there things like that uh one of the commenters was asking

00:58:17.340 though about costs it's not like walmart they're not going to be a price tag hanging on

00:58:22.460 on front of it when you get there but this is pretty i imagine some of this technology is very

00:58:26.540 very expensive for countries to acquire extremely expensive extremely it's big bucks and it's getting

00:58:33.020 more and more expensive because it's also high tech i mean it's just uh again it's all about

00:58:40.700 uh this um a multi uh multi-domain or where you can you know an f-35 can talk to a ground station

00:58:53.340 and a and a guy will have a a 3d glasses a troop a captain with his troops and it can all be

00:59:01.580 everybody's talking multi-domain everybody's talking to each other well that's expensive

00:59:06.860 that's expensive technology and that's where it's headed it's about information the sharing

00:59:12.220 of information and and and and how to do it without it being bought by uh by an enemy and uh

00:59:21.100 it's it's uh it just is getting so incredibly set well okay just to tell you maybe your your

00:59:29.500 listeners don't know but we're buying f-35 right and we haven't signed the deal yet but we will

00:59:35.180 sign the deal in the fall okay well i don't know how many gonna 88 or however we gotta buy these

00:59:40.860 things everybody bought them italy bought them for god's sake and and and um so we have to buy

00:59:47.420 them but the helmet the helmet and the and the uh containment helmet has to be custom fixed

00:59:56.140 for every pilot can't buy it off the shelf and put it on oh you're a size this no no no custom

01:00:03.580 fit. And that helmet alone costs more than a Ferrari. The helmet alone. So the expenses,

01:00:13.400 and we're walking into that, and we're going to have 88 of them, or supposedly, and fellows

01:00:20.300 to fly them, whereas the American Air Force is now getting into these AI aircraft that

01:00:31.300 will fly along with the pilots and act as the wingman you know it used to be tom cruise and

01:00:39.220 and a wingman well no more no more wolfman this is a there's going to be a robot flying next to you

01:00:45.460 but believe it or not that is cheaper than training a pilot and uh losing a pilot i'll

01:00:51.460 go too that's something that and that's that's where it's all going yeah well it's pretty wild

01:00:58.100 stuff so uh have you you know encountered any other uh fellow canadians i guess most of the

01:01:04.180 people who would show up at those would be uh working for their military departments their

01:01:08.180 bureaucrats they wouldn't be recognizable or anything like that they're working no no and

01:01:13.460 one thing i did found out that i didn't know uh i didn't know that two years ago canada bought

01:01:21.700 drones from israel and it's called the blah blah blah what's it called it's called the

01:01:31.380 starliner it's called the starliner and it's huge it's massive this is not a little drone

01:01:39.860 that you buy at costo this thing is massive it's huge it can stay up there for 36 hours

01:01:47.380 it can fly at 25 000 feet and canada signed a deal to buy them i didn't know that until i talked to

01:01:54.740 the israelis i said what what are you kidding me he said oh yeah canada and switzerland both bought

01:01:59.540 them and i said well why did we buy them and he said according to the canadian government

01:02:05.220 They bought them because for monitoring the ice pack, for reconnaissance of the fisheries, and let's see, what else did I write down here?

01:02:24.360 fisheries, wildlife surveys, and reconnaissance, and also monitoring the Arctic ice, who knows

01:02:39.340 what else it's going to be used for.

01:02:41.300 But this is no ordinary drone.

01:02:44.800 This you will not believe.

01:02:46.280 This is a drone that has been cleared to fly by NATO and by the Canadian government and

01:02:55.160 by the Israeli government to fly in regular airspace.

01:03:01.060 It can fly in regular airspace.

01:03:03.100 It knows how.

01:03:04.520 It will report and it will let you know where it is.

01:03:07.940 It will let air traffic control know.

01:03:11.440 Unbelievable. 0.55

01:03:12.440 This thing can fly.

01:03:13.700 and to get this approved they had to uh make it able to land and take off in zero zero weather

01:03:24.740 this thing can land in zero weather where a pilot can't this thing can actually do it and it has

01:03:33.380 satellite lift ups uh it's it's also uh uh can handle it has the technology to handle lightning

01:03:41.220 strikes. And I mean, it's just, this thing is absolutely unbelievable. And we bought them.

01:03:47.220 I had no idea. So that was a small discovery that involved Canada.

01:03:53.860 Well, before I let you go, I know you're going to get back to your beer and cigar and touring

01:03:59.140 there. Anything else you'd like to add from your, your Paris term tour there?

01:04:04.420 Well, it's just nice that there are more good people than bad.

01:04:08.840 I had the experience of being, you know, my phone, but, you know, maybe I was kind of naive and leaving into my cargo, my Costco cargo pants pocket.

01:04:22.560 Somehow the guy got it out and lifted the felt so flat and got it out and I didn't even feel it.

01:04:28.220 So this guy was good.

01:04:29.800 But there are more good people than bad in Paris.

01:04:32.200 Paris is a great place to come and visit, and also Euro Satori has just been absolutely amazing.

01:04:39.040 I learned so much from everyone, and I took a poll from just about everybody,

01:04:46.600 and like I said, some would talk, some wouldn't, but they all said,

01:04:51.220 I said, is demand more? They said, yes, demand is up, and there's more budgets in Europe,

01:04:57.660 and uh so there's going to be this show is probably the world has changed and this show

01:05:04.520 reflects that and uh and again the french are a fantastic host they were great all the way the

01:05:10.940 the concierge at ural satori tried to help me in every way that i and even said look we'll buy you

01:05:18.780 a phone do you want a phone like you know well that i have to pay for it but they said we'll

01:05:23.020 get you one for you know you want 100 200 euro we'll get you one where else can you get that kind

01:05:28.420 of um of uh you know service and uh so it was it was a great experience and i'm just i'm very lucky

01:05:36.960 i'm very lucky to have uh seen and learned all the things i did so two thumbs up for you euro

01:05:44.460 satori and paris well thanks for sharing with us i'm waiting for my red wine i ordered i've been

01:05:50.540 they probably don't want to interrupt the broadcast perhaps they're too polite yeah yeah but thank you

01:05:56.920 for giving me this venue and i hope i shared some interesting stuff to your listeners yeah no it was

01:06:02.380 great and i appreciate you starting with a positive note and ending with a positive note with because

01:06:06.180 we know there's a lot of dark material in between there so it's pretty interesting and informative

01:06:10.460 uh we'll have to hook up and chat when you get back here to the land of the snow and ice okay

01:06:16.280 Thanks, Corey. Thanks again. Take care.

01:06:18.780 Thanks, Dave.

01:06:19.960 So that is Western Standard columnist Dave Makachuk,

01:06:22.560 and he is, as you heard, in Paris there,

01:06:25.080 attending that giant big world annual arms show.

01:06:28.760 And again, it's darkly fascinating stuff.

01:06:32.260 I mean, you're sort of horrified by the amount of resources and technology

01:06:35.740 and things we're doing to get more effective at fighting with each other

01:06:39.360 and killing each other, yet it still draws the eye.

01:06:42.920 And as well, it's an unavoidable thing.

01:06:45.880 I mean, a country can't afford to stand on principle and say, well, we don't want to take part in arms proliferation.

01:06:51.440 Well, then you leave yourself vulnerable to getting in trouble with a country that isn't hesitant with those sorts of things.

01:06:57.980 So we get back to the old style of arms race.

01:07:02.080 As he was saying, demand is going up.

01:07:03.860 That's something Gabe's been finding when he's talking to people, these dealers.

01:07:07.240 And, of course, it makes sense.

01:07:08.620 I mean, Europe's very unstable right now.

01:07:10.460 The world is kind of on edge with this whole pandemic and things.

01:07:12.860 and we start getting Cold War memories, right, you know, of arms proliferation, of countries really

01:07:17.760 arming up, and I don't like the thoughts of seeing more massing on the borders, and then

01:07:21.780 the almost frightening, impersonal nature of these drones, these undermanned, now ground

01:07:28.840 equipment as well, as we saw with that tank, and wingmen for fighter jets, what a world we have,

01:07:36.500 you know, we got to remember, I guess, as negative as some people might think, some of our best

01:07:40.900 technological development started as military ones to begin with. And, you know, they evolved

01:07:45.860 and found practical applications for us that have made our lives better without, you know,

01:07:50.400 killing each other. Like GPS, for example, people take that for granted. When I started as a surveyor,

01:07:55.380 you know, I used to have to, it took me years of training to be able to find your actual

01:07:59.200 coordinates and location and elevation coming from a known benchmark and measuring, doing your

01:08:04.060 angles, your calculations. Now I can pick up my cell phone and find out in seconds exactly where

01:08:08.780 I am, my elevation, my coordinates, all of that stuff because of GPS, you know, your car's

01:08:13.060 navigation system. Uh, even, you know, that was all satellites that were put up initially with

01:08:18.000 the Americans and a GLONASS was the Russian version. They put theirs up and now they've

01:08:22.320 combined the two and, uh, it is brought so much practicality into the world. It began as a

01:08:28.280 military thing and it did lead to a better thing for us all in the end. So I'm not sure how a,

01:08:32.980 you know, a robotic, uh, uh, artificial intelligence tank is going to come into

01:08:37.600 practical use for people and make life better. But still, a lot of the technology that goes

01:08:41.240 within it, the software, the programming can lead to a lot of things that benefit us. So

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01:10:06.220 That story Dave mentioned earlier with Dave Naylor, our news editor, with Chrystia Freeland

01:10:12.520 saying, this kind of ties into what I was talking about with this. It's falling apart. The whole

01:10:18.860 liberal narrative on the Emergencies Act is totally falling apart. And it's due to good,

01:10:24.060 solid questioning on a joint committee, which has senators and members of parliament in it,

01:10:30.120 and they're just getting roasted. The liberals can't make their case for why they did this,

01:10:34.160 and they're making it up, and they're bad at it. I've talked about that before, too. Justin's

01:10:37.620 cabinet is shallow. I mean, these are not a lot of really sharp people here. Freeland is one of

01:10:43.480 the brighter of the bunch, but all the same, I mean, some of her stuff, and when she says,

01:10:47.420 so I have the figures in my head, you know, when she called the Freedom Convoy a core threat to

01:10:52.760 the Canadian economy. Well, okay. You know, so this is where apparently this trucker's convoy

01:10:58.820 was costing Canadians, costing a large amount of money. How much? Where? Which way? I have them in

01:11:03.280 my head. Well, okay. Tell us about them. Where did the cost? Well, I have it in my head.

01:11:09.140 Well, expand on that, you knothead. Saying you have it in your head isn't enough. So this is

01:11:14.300 basically Trudeau's second in command. The reason she can't expand on it is because she's full of

01:11:19.460 crap. She doesn't have it in her head. They don't know because they can't prove that it did cost 1.00

01:11:23.320 the economy that much. Those numbers are falling apart. The police involvement, the police asking

01:11:29.500 for the emergency act, that fell apart. The Russian involvement in funding, that fell apart.

01:11:35.020 They have no case for having a lot in that bloody act. And now she's getting called out on it as

01:11:41.740 well. And she can't answer. She just talks in circles. And it's good that they're roasting

01:11:48.360 them on. So this was just last night. They challenged her, show some data, show some documents,

01:11:53.060 justify the claim of economic harm. It's from a senator from Quebec who was saying, do you have

01:11:57.940 the figures when it comes to giving us data on the economic impact of the blockade? And she says,

01:12:03.360 I have many figures in my head. It was clear there were damages every day. Well, expand on it. You're

01:12:07.360 in government. You're not there to tell us what you thought or felt. You are the finance minister.

01:12:11.800 You're the deputy prime minister. You were standing side by side with prime minister Pecker

01:12:16.320 head with your head bobbling like a freak show, while he imposed what is a modern-day version of

01:12:21.200 the War Measures Act. You suspended the civil rights of Canadians for something you claimed

01:12:27.260 was such a grave emergency, that's the only way you could deal with it. And every possible

01:12:32.760 justification you're making for that gross infringement, that international embarrassment,

01:12:37.380 that stepping on Canadian citizens' rights, you can't justify it anywhere. You keep losing.

01:12:44.520 So I'm glad, I'm glad to see these politicians smelling blood in the water, seeing these senators chewing in there, even seeing NDP MPs.

01:12:53.940 You know, Matthew Green said, I'm not talking about feelings, I'm talking about reputation, how bad we look in the world.

01:12:58.980 I'm talking about quantifiable facts. This is an NDP member getting on Freeland's case with this one.

01:13:05.360 Justify it, justify it. I think the NDP, some of those members anyways, you know, Singh isn't terribly bright when it comes to these things,

01:13:12.080 but they're realizing we were on the wrong side.

01:13:14.720 They did their usual thing as socialists.

01:13:16.100 They did as their leader told them.

01:13:17.380 So they voted for the Emergencies Act.

01:13:19.560 But I'm sure not all of them were happy about that.

01:13:22.820 And now they're starting to ask those questions, 0.98

01:13:25.060 if only to cover their own butt, saying, 0.97

01:13:26.340 I'm not sure about this thing. 0.97

01:13:28.300 And they're putting Freeland's feet to the fire.

01:13:30.680 They're putting everybody, except for Justin, of course,

01:13:32.620 because he's hiding.

01:13:33.880 He's got COVID again.

01:13:36.000 What, third time, fourth time?

01:13:38.520 Yes, Trudeau's not there answering questions.

01:13:40.400 But, you know, even if he was,

01:13:41.540 what are you going to get out of them? Just more words, salad, ums and ahs and idiocy. Hey, 1.00

01:13:47.060 check out my socks. So again, these questions just got circular. Here's an exchange. I'm going

01:13:52.260 to read it. This is from the House of Commons committee with the NDP one. Minister Freeland

01:13:56.680 said the economic impact was absolutely clearly there. Absolutely clearly. Wow. She's right in

01:14:01.540 on it. Okay. So the MP, the NDP one, Green says, what was it specifically? The economic,

01:14:08.080 This is Freeland. The economic impact to the region of Ottawa was clear.

01:14:12.560 The economic impact of actual trade, which was blocked in the ongoing future, economic impact, the harm done to our reputation.

01:14:19.440 Member of Parliament Green, can you quantify it?

01:14:22.940 Minister Freeland, I had many conversations with Canadian business leaders.

01:14:28.260 MP Green, that's not good enough. No, she's talking in circles.

01:14:30.900 She keeps saying she has the numbers.

01:14:33.280 She keeps saying she has the facts,

01:14:34.840 but either she's hiding them from us 0.98

01:14:37.240 who are paying her frigging salary 0.99

01:14:38.580 or she's lying through her teeth 1.00

01:14:39.940 because she doesn't have them.

01:14:41.020 I'm pretty sure it's the latter. 0.90

01:14:43.160 Either way, the government is starting

01:14:44.720 to do a bit of its job.

01:14:45.860 Unfortunately, they're doing in hindsight.

01:14:47.220 They should have put the government's feet to the fire 0.99

01:14:48.800 before they impose the damn Emergencies Act 0.98

01:14:51.780 upon Canadians rather than after. 0.98

01:14:54.080 But at least getting these guys after the fact

01:14:56.520 is better than nothing.

01:14:57.340 We can't let it go.

01:14:59.020 And the NDP even are starting to turn on them now.

01:15:02.340 The Senate is starting to turn on them.

01:15:04.300 They're vulnerable, finally.

01:15:06.240 Trudeau's hiding. 0.99

01:15:07.320 He's sick.

01:15:08.060 Yeah, right, he's probably surfing again.

01:15:10.400 You know, watch the beaches in Tofino.

01:15:12.180 See if you see a hammerhead out there on a surfboard,

01:15:15.860 and you probably have a good chance that that's where he's at. 0.86

01:15:18.640 And see further, as Dave mentioned too, yeah, passport staff working at home. 0.71

01:15:21.600 Again, this incompetent, reactionary government.

01:15:26.360 So, you know, that was up before with a lot of civil service employees working from home.

01:15:30.020 70% of the staff with the passport sector are working from home.

01:15:33.600 Obviously, they're not doing a bloody good job.

01:15:35.380 People are waiting six months to get a passport renewed.

01:15:38.740 But our nutless government doesn't have the courage to put their foot down and say, get back to work.

01:15:44.260 They're even dropping their own travel mandates.

01:15:46.200 Finally, some of the vaccine mandates and things such as that.

01:15:48.940 but they don't have the courage to just tell these passport workers, go to work or you're fired.

01:15:56.200 It's over. It's time to get on with your job like everybody else in the world has to do.

01:16:00.120 Get in there and do it or we will replace you. But they won't do that. They won't do that. 70%

01:16:05.720 of them are still working from home. Again, if they were all working from home and they were

01:16:09.020 doing well and efficiently, I'd say, go for it. Great. Let's lease out some empty civil servant

01:16:14.500 government buildings then for some other uses or something. But no, they're obviously not doing a

01:16:18.920 good job from home. And Canadians are suffering for it. We're paying the bill and we're not getting 0.90

01:16:21.620 the service. So yeah. And that Service Canada, there's, let's see, 26,000 employees and 18,000

01:16:32.400 of them are working from home. Well, it's not working, guys. Not cutting it. Do something about

01:16:37.340 it. Nah, they won't. We got to get them out of there, guys. That's it. And even then, our system

01:16:42.500 is broken. But I'm not going to start down that whole rabbit hole. But either way, they're starting

01:16:47.080 to feel some pressures. So, yes, next Monday, most of the federal vaccine mandates are going

01:16:52.480 to drop, and that includes employees. So, some who are willing will go back to work

01:16:56.800 and travelers. Omar Al-Habra, another idiot on the Justin's cabinet, and he really is. 1.00

01:17:05.840 Look at these guys, man. You know, he's got 100 and some MPs and cabinet, these main ministers, 1.00

01:17:10.880 and you look at them, you know, Reagan and, you know, in the past with just, these are the best

01:17:17.680 you could pick? Really? Those are the best minds you got out of all of those elected officials.

01:17:22.720 I find it hard to believe. I've talked about it before. Justin Trudeau is grossly insecure. He

01:17:28.260 doesn't want to be outshone by anybody brighter than him, which is most people. So he actually

01:17:32.180 goes out of his way to find the dimmer bulbs to surround himself with, and Omar's one nose.

01:17:37.880 But he's saying this decision reflected new science.

01:17:40.900 What are you talking about?

01:17:42.500 New?

01:17:43.400 Countries dropped all those mandates months ago.

01:17:45.920 It's not new. 1.00

01:17:47.100 You guys dragged your asses. 0.99

01:17:48.380 We're the last countries on earth to do it. 0.99

01:17:50.900 You say this decision is not based on something we woke up this morning and decided to do.

01:17:53.800 Actually, it is.

01:17:55.020 It really is.

01:17:55.900 It's because you got embarrassed by Ryan Whitney's podcast that went viral,

01:18:01.260 and more people around the world realized that Pearson International Airport

01:18:03.960 was one of the most embarrassing third world style 0.99

01:18:08.120 transportation hubs on the planet. 0.99

01:18:10.840 They were showing how we were choking up our own citizens

01:18:12.720 and other visitors and tourists in an airport 1.00

01:18:14.660 over these stupid, ridiculous, out-of-date mandates 1.00

01:18:17.520 that no other country is doing. 1.00

01:18:19.380 So they said, geez, okay,

01:18:20.360 I guess we better do something about it.

01:18:21.760 So no, it was something that you woke up

01:18:24.220 and decided you have to do.

01:18:25.680 You would have kept it for another six months

01:18:27.020 if you thought you'd get away with it

01:18:28.100 because it's a power thing. 0.96

01:18:29.500 Because you insecure buggers have a chip on your shoulder 1.00

01:18:31.940 and you don't want to back off on any one of these bloody mandates you've dumped and forced on us. 1.00

01:18:37.480 Too damn bad.

01:18:38.600 So again, the pressure is coming on and they're starting to back down. 0.52

01:18:41.720 Keep the pressure up.

01:18:42.920 Keep it up in every way.

01:18:44.360 As I said, on the firearms thing or writing your senators on the meat labeling,

01:18:48.780 all of these things, guys, this government is getting more and more authoritarian,

01:18:51.620 but they're starting to lose.

01:18:53.640 The Senate knocked down one of their crown bills for this year.

01:18:57.320 That's a big deal.

01:18:58.640 Not many people are paying attention to that, but that's a big deal.

01:19:01.940 I see a pension bill. Yeah, it's kind of dull. I don't go too far into that. There was a pension

01:19:07.640 protection bill that came up. It might be important. It's more on housekeeping, I think,

01:19:13.160 within the house and protection things. Federal inspectors have intercepted tons of illegal

01:19:17.880 plastic waste exports in the last three years. Here we go. You know, welcome to the environmentalism

01:19:23.660 becoming the religion of the world. That's our biggest thing. We're not trying to intercept

01:19:26.920 fentanyl coming in or, you know, other illegal things or criminals and stuff like that. Now

01:19:32.360 we're going to plastic that's going out because we're trying to get rid of our plastic in other

01:19:35.700 areas. This is kind of funny when you see illegally transported waste. You see, you know what's

01:19:41.220 happened is this lunatic push for recycling. This goes back decades. Everybody is recycling. You see

01:19:49.740 on the surface, recycling sounds really good. We could just take something and rebuild it and we

01:19:53.380 don't have to go into the resources. It's got to be better for the planet, right? Well, actually,

01:19:57.520 often it isn't. And we've been forcing everybody. I mean, you've got three bins in front of your

01:20:02.560 house. I'm sure you'll have 12 pretty soon in the urban areas where you're supposed to break

01:20:05.480 everything up and recycle it. Look, anything worth recycling, we already did. Metals, they're worth

01:20:10.300 recycling. That's why companies have long paid for those sorts of things. The only reason bottles

01:20:15.420 are recyclable is because there's a deposit paid in advance. Otherwise, they're actually pretty

01:20:18.880 much useless. The city of Calgary, I'll use that example. I wrote about that years ago.

01:20:22.840 they forced us all to separate our jam jars and everything they want clear plastic bags so they

01:20:27.680 can see and shame you and find you if you don't recycle your stuff put it in the right bin all

01:20:33.500 these jars glasses all that stuff wash your pickle jar do it stick it in the the recycle bin then

01:20:37.960 they'll take it to a plant then we'll pay these civil servants to wash them all out yet again

01:20:41.600 separate them categorize them crush them into powder and they made a mountain of crushed glass

01:20:46.080 at the calgary city dump because the problem was nobody wants it it's not good for anything

01:20:50.560 It's not good for anything.

01:20:51.580 We actually burned a whole pile of energy,

01:20:54.060 burned a whole bunch of resources,

01:20:56.240 human resources, soap, water, you name it,

01:20:58.840 to crush it up and stack it at the dump.

01:21:00.980 And then I remember the great thing

01:21:03.020 that came out with the initial administration.

01:21:04.760 They said, we've got it.

01:21:05.400 We've figured it out what to do with this.

01:21:06.840 Thousands and thousands of tons of crushed glass

01:21:08.620 we've got sitting at the dump.

01:21:09.480 We're going to put it down as road base

01:21:11.840 within the dump so they can drive on it.

01:21:14.260 So in other words, you're going to bury it at the dump.

01:21:17.520 Good thinking, guys.

01:21:19.000 Man, glad you came up with that.

01:21:20.660 How much did we spend to separate and crush and clean all that glass

01:21:23.380 just so you could bury it in the dump when you could have buried it there in the first place? 1.00

01:21:25.580 Just put it in your damn garbage. 1.00

01:21:27.820 Likewise with plastics. 1.00

01:21:29.240 Here's one of the things they keep talking about, recyclable plastic and this and that,

01:21:32.500 and they make you separate it and they put all these things aside.

01:21:34.360 But it isn't.

01:21:35.040 Nobody wants it.

01:21:36.120 It's not good for anything.

01:21:37.620 So they've actually created a cottage industry now

01:21:40.140 where these companies stuck with bales and bales of plastic products

01:21:44.220 that have been set aside and they need to get rid of it.

01:21:47.040 So we've actually got an outward smuggling of waste going on

01:21:50.360 where people are smuggling plastic waste to other countries to try and get rid of it.

01:21:55.420 Yeah, good work, guys.

01:21:56.820 Just bury it.

01:21:58.520 Just bury it.

01:21:59.280 You know, look it up.

01:22:00.960 We are not sure to landish from hill space, guys.

01:22:02.860 Not even close.

01:22:03.840 There is loads.

01:22:04.560 We've got lots of room to deal with it.

01:22:06.280 If we could find better ways to deal with plastics,

01:22:08.280 there's some technologies with like amino acids and things like that that can eat it.

01:22:13.420 Great.

01:22:13.740 But in the meantime, it's not a crisis.

01:22:15.560 The thing with plastic is that you can see it.

01:22:17.860 That's where politics always comes into play.

01:22:19.900 Why do we hate plastic bags so much?

01:22:21.640 They really actually don't take up as much space,

01:22:23.520 and they don't cause as much damage as people think.

01:22:25.900 But you see it everywhere.

01:22:26.800 You see those ugly garbage bags blowing down the street,

01:22:29.440 stuck on that chain-link fence,

01:22:30.980 or they are piling up in your house, and it feels wasteful.

01:22:32.940 But in reality, that thing weighs a hundredth of a gram

01:22:35.420 and really didn't take up much stuff

01:22:37.060 and can be easily gotten rid of,

01:22:39.160 and you can't recycle it well.

01:22:40.180 But instead, they want to ban it.

01:22:41.440 It's the name of straws. 1.00

01:22:42.120 That was stupid, you know? 1.00

01:22:43.620 Oh, I can't use a plastic straw. 1.00

01:22:44.940 as I put it into the plastic lid of my cup, you know, and then you get that rotten paper thing

01:22:51.320 that falls apart in your mouth. It's disgusting. Either way, this is what we've come to, right? 0.96

01:22:55.720 We're the country where we actually have cheese smuggling because of our archaic supply management

01:22:59.620 systems. And we've got people illegally trying to find ways to export our waste plastic.

01:23:06.280 An update, maybe I'll talk to them again fairly soon, but the Justice Center for Constitutional

01:23:09.800 Freedoms, you know, with John Carpe, and they're working on a lot of these things.

01:23:12.820 They look like they might be coming after the government saying they are illegally violating the charter because they're denying EI benefits to Canadians who got fired for refusing to be vaccinated.

01:23:24.800 So I could see that one being a winner.

01:23:27.620 They're going to be heading to court on that.

01:23:29.940 So I would say, Carrie, sir, no, Don saying nobody complained about the masks everywhere.

01:23:34.600 Well, some people do, but yeah, you're right.

01:23:36.040 You know, if we want visible garbage and pollution and single-use things, masks, COVID tests, you know, there's quite a few things actually we're throwing.

01:23:44.440 Oh, remember the rubber gloves?

01:23:45.700 Everybody was going bananas for rubber gloves for the first part of the pandemic.

01:23:48.580 Those have fallen by the wayside, but you used to see them everywhere.

01:23:51.940 Yet, how they've gone, the pandemic's still resigning.

01:23:54.880 It's almost as if the regulations didn't do a damn thing to make a difference.

01:23:59.100 All right, I'm going to leave off on that, guys.

01:24:00.960 Thank you very much for joining me today.

01:24:02.380 I've got tomorrow, I've got Danielle Smith coming on.

01:24:04.260 She's going to come on for a bit.

01:24:05.240 He is running for the UCP leadership, as most of you know.

01:24:08.460 And Marcel Latushka is going to come on.

01:24:10.060 I've had him on a number of times.

01:24:11.420 He used to ironically go on Daniel Smith's radio show quite often.

01:24:14.100 But he talks about issues of governance and accountability and things such as that.

01:24:18.300 So we're going to discuss the federal race and the provincial one and just some politics in general because we are all about the politics all around here.

01:24:25.120 So thank you all for tuning in today, guys.

01:24:27.840 We're going to do it all again tomorrow at 11.30 a.m. sharp.

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Western Standard - June 16, 2022

Triggered： Will the senate save Canada from Trudeau’s authoritarianism？

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