00:05:45.420Now, once you get downtown, you'll exit into a dystopian scene as wasted addicts shuffle and
00:05:50.540wander around if they aren't unconscious or even worse, wired and aggressive. It's typical to see
00:05:56.160first responders trying to revive overdoses throughout the stations and parks downtown as
00:06:00.300well. This is how bad it's getting. A lot of people aren't going into downtown these days.
00:06:04.440A lot of people aren't using city transit, and that's why I got to keep laying this out. You're
00:06:07.700not seeing it, but this is how it's happening. The only thing that's surprising is 54% of riders
00:06:13.100actually returned these i assume are people who don't have vehicles or other means to get to work
00:06:17.820anybody who can find a way to avoid these hell rides on public transit is chosen to
00:06:21.820so how is city hall responding to this problem in calgary well first they closed four lrt stations
00:06:27.740in south calgary all together rather than try to clean out the stations and make them safe they
00:06:31.580just shut them down transit users have to shiver on an exposed platform while looking at a heated
00:06:37.260shuttered multi-million dollar station right next to them and they're working hard as well
00:06:41.660well to sugarcoat and change the language used to address the situation. No longer does any city
00:06:46.900official refer to crime or addicts. They refer to social disorder and vulnerable people. Now this
00:06:52.580head-in-the-stand approach serves nobody. Call it what it is. The next area of denial and refusal is
00:06:58.640to reconsider the honor system for transit fare collection. While every major transit system in
00:07:05.280North America has some form of turnstile or fare collection for riders and their trains, Alberta's
00:07:10.060kind of unique in that we allow for an honor system. People buy tickets and board trains with
00:07:14.000no supervision. Occasionally, transit officers board the trains to check for tickets, but it's
00:07:18.220rare. I rode for months for a while, and I never got checked once. While many people are law-abiding
00:07:23.200citizens who will pay their fare on their own, let's quit pretending that everybody will,
00:07:26.400particularly the addicts. The troublesome people riding the trains are spending every time they
00:07:30.680can get to buy drugs. None of them will spend that money to buy a train ticket. Enforcing fare
00:07:35.580collection on LRT systems will have an immediate benefit in removing the vast majority of the
00:07:40.380troublesome and dangerous riders. Whether this is done through turnstiles, as most cities do,
00:07:44.740or with a larger presence of enforcement on the ground, it has to be done. In Calgary,
00:07:50.400City Councillor Dan McLean, he did a ride-along with city transit officers and posted pictures
00:07:55.300of it. And he's proposed a turnstile payment on trades. Well, what's happened? He's been pilloried
00:07:59.800by many of his current council counterparts, along with other pundits. He's being accused
00:08:04.060to being insensitive and shaming the vulnerable. The woke are going wild and flooding social media
00:08:08.760with claims that McLean is attacking the homelessness. All McLean is asking for people
00:08:13.300to do is pay their fares. This shouldn't be controversial. Now, will fare enforcement solve
00:08:18.280the addiction, crime, and homelessness crisis? Of course not. It will, though, at least take much
00:08:22.620of that crisis off of public transit so commuters can safely return to using it. If the mess on the
00:08:28.900LRT stations continues to be ignored, ridership's going to continue to plummet. I mean, shall City
00:08:33.840hall just keep their heads buried in the sand on this? Close even more stations while the
00:08:37.100currently closed ones remain closed permanently? The addictions crisis is real, and it's growing.
00:08:42.620It won't be solved quickly or easily. Now, until public officials are starting, you know, are
00:08:46.580willing to face reality with some of the simplest common sense approaches to at least mitigate some
00:08:51.460of the harms from the crisis, though, it's not going to be getting better any time soon. We're
00:08:56.240in a world of denial. It's causing real damage. And we've got to stand up and clean these things
00:09:01.980out. They're building a green line in Calgary. They're going to spend billions of dollars more
00:09:05.940to extend a train line where we can't even get 50% of people, more than 50% of people to come
00:09:11.100back and ride on the old ones. It's ridiculous. And anybody who questions it, it's shouted down
00:09:16.440as they're trying with Dan McLean. It's ridiculous and it has to change. That's what's got me going
00:09:21.760now. Okay, we'll move on to some other things. I know there's a lot of stuff breaking in the news
00:09:25.200today. There's a big one out of the Alberta Courts of Appeal, I believe. Let's bring Dave
00:09:29.320Naylor, our news editor, in and get the updates there. Hey, Dave, how's it going? It's going well,
00:09:34.060Corey. Just had a bit of a lint brush emergency, but things are under control now. So thanks to,
00:09:40.960you know, we had some good teamwork in the newsroom and we've got my shirt in a presentable
00:09:45.460state now. Ah, fantastic. You look great. Thanks. Yeah, we got some major breaking,
00:09:50.760great major breaking story, Corey, on Bill C-69. This was the sort of no more pipelines bill that
00:09:58.700It would basically make it impossible for a pipeline to be built in the country now.
00:10:04.280Alberta's highest court, the Court of Appeal, has just struck it down as unconstitutional.
00:10:09.560So that is just breaking in the last couple of minutes.
00:10:12.160And we're just getting an initial story now ready to go up.
00:10:16.420That'll be up on the website momentarily.
00:10:20.040In other court news, an Alberta court has acquitted a Calgary man of, he was arrested.
00:10:27.240He was one of the protest organizers, Corey, of those protests every week, going down 8th Avenue and marching all over the downtown.
00:10:35.280He was arrested for breaching public health orders.
00:10:38.860The Crown had argued it was a private gathering, which is a bit strange, as it was in a public place.
00:10:44.480And the court has sided with him and acquitted him on charges, saying that it was obviously not a private event and not covered by public health orders.
00:10:57.240uh still in the court system busy day for lawyers uh challenged by a bc lobby group
00:11:04.920that against bc vaccine orders has been allowed to go ahead judge ruling on that i've got some
00:11:13.080interesting stuff out of ottawa canada's top soldier the chief of defense staff general
00:11:19.160erie testified at hearings last night into the afghanistan debacle where our diplomats fled
00:11:26.920with tail between their legs on a half-inch empty plane as more than a thousand Canadians
00:11:32.840were left behind and allies were left behind. The general just heaped scorn on their diplomats
00:11:39.280saying they had months to get ready for this and basically said they were incompetent, which
00:11:44.980is true. Corey, we've all been infuriated by bank service charges. Well, how about this one for you?
00:11:53.760A guy in Ontario was overdrawn by $0.47, and the Toronto Dominion Bank ended up charging him $98 for those $0.47.
00:12:04.880So he's part of a class action lawsuit that could reap millions and millions of dollars for people who have been overcharged by TD Bank in the last decade.
00:12:16.260Our Linda Slobodian's got a story on Derek Sloan, now the leader of the Ontario Party.
00:12:21.820He's been banned from Twitter for comments he made about Dr. Teresa Tam.
00:12:28.240And he's saying it's all a big conspiracy by the big tech companies to keep his message from getting out.
00:12:35.960Competition Bureau has put the brakes on the Shaw-Telus merger, saying it could be bad for Canadians.
00:12:43.160And we're already paying some of the highest telecommunication rates in the world.
00:12:47.800So they put the stop on that one at the moment.
00:12:51.120Despite 10 years of trying and 10 years of reconciliation attempts, the number of Indigenous RCMP members has actually dropped over those 10 years of efforts.
00:13:07.300And the Saskatchewan government this week announced they were hiking the minimum wage to $15.
00:13:16.000dollars. They said they consulted business groups. Well, it doesn't appear they consulted
00:13:20.540any of the major business groups because of all the ones that our Christopher Oldcorn has talked
00:13:25.240to, he can't find any that were consulted. So that's what we've got up there at the moment.
00:13:32.620Major breaking news to come on Bill C-69 and lots more stuff coming up this afternoon.
00:13:40.080Great. Well, I'll let you get back on it and digging into that one as it did, as you say,
00:13:43.720just broke. And well, I guess it's kind of a good news story for a change. So thanks for the update
00:13:49.160and we look forward to seeing the details as they come out. Yes. Premier Kenney will be holding a
00:13:53.600press conference at noon. So obviously this will be topic of the day when he takes questions. So
00:14:00.820we'll be seeing what he's got to say. I'm sure it'll be a happy Premier Kenney today.
00:14:05.800It should be. He's needed a break. All right. Thanks, Dave. Thanks, Corey.
00:14:11.680So yeah, to give a little background on that, you know, I wasn't sure we got some warning,
00:14:15.120the court was going to rule and it was going to come out. I didn't hold out a lot of optimism on
00:14:18.520C-69. For people who haven't followed that, that bill was from back in 2019. It was from the
00:14:23.100Liberals. It's been coined the no more pipelines bill. It was a regular, it was going to change
00:14:28.180the regulatory structure. I mean, industry experts were pointing out that under the terms of that
00:14:33.120bill, there was just no way any large project, infrastructure project was ever going to be
00:14:38.780approved by the government. The requirements were just out of bounds. It called for things
00:14:44.000such as environmental assessments. Like this is the sort of thing that killed Energy East,
00:14:47.420you know, and there's one of those things I get upset with the lefties when they start trying
00:14:51.980to talk economics, they really shouldn't. When they say Energy East was only shut down because
00:14:56.360it became non-viable, it wasn't commercially viable. Well, that's a yes and no. It was
00:15:01.220commercially viable. The companies didn't spend all those millions to try and get that pipeline done
00:15:05.420only to back out because of changing market conditions.
00:19:51.420We know this from our experiences with the Delta variant, with the Omicron variant, that a vaccine does not stop the spread.
00:19:58.120So I think it's a political punishment that Trudeau is meeting out to the unpopular minority of people that have not taken the COVID shots.
00:21:34.860secret court application to secure an injunction.
00:21:37.760And now the city has just said, okay, we're abandoning that.
00:21:41.860I think some people have speculated that also with the city abandoning that is that they were worried that they might feel compelled to apply it to people celebrating hockey on the Red Mile down there.
00:21:51.280And they didn't want to get into that sticky situation.
00:21:53.920So they just kind of quietly dumped it and backed off.
00:21:56.580It wasn't really a good point of principle.
00:21:58.640It was more, I mean, a good outcome is a good outcome no matter what the reasoning.
00:22:02.060But it's unfortunate it was ever imposed in the first place.
00:22:04.840Well, what's interesting about the City of Calgary injunction is it ties in with the same issue that we saw with pastors getting jailed in Alberta over not complying with the health orders.
00:22:20.960And Premier Jason Kenney has said, well, you know, I can't interfere with what Crown prosecutors are doing.
00:22:26.800I can't interfere with the rulings of judges, which is true.
00:22:31.640but there's a there's a very specific reason why in alberta we jailed pastors whereas in other
00:22:39.020provinces did not jail pastors and the reason is that uh premier kenny's government went to court
00:22:46.160like what the city of calgary has done they went to court to get an injunction
00:22:50.800to enforce the health orders and what that does is it transforms your regular ordinary
00:22:59.700law enforcement where a, you know, public health officer or a policeman might give you a ticket
00:23:07.160for violating one of the, you know, silly COVID rules. And then you get to plead not guilty to
00:23:15.400the ticket and you can potentially challenge the constitutionality of the health order
00:23:20.220under which the ticket was given. And this is kind of your normal law enforcement.
00:23:25.500Now, what the Kenney government did was they went to court and they obtained injunctions such that if a policeman or a public health officer believed that you were violating a health order, they could immediately arrest you, handcuff you, and throw you in jail.
00:23:46.560And that was Jason Kenney's government that sought and obtained those injunctions.
00:23:50.800And so that completely transforms the law enforcement, because now if you're caught, if a policeman sees you and believes that you're breaking a health order, instead of getting a ticket, you're now in contempt of a court order, and the police can immediately arrest you and jail you.
00:24:10.060And that's what Jason Kenney did in Alberta, is to change the law enforcement through injunctions.
00:24:15.740yeah so i mean basically you can periodically change the law to suit what you feel is an
00:24:23.460immediate need in a sense using a an injunction are some of those cases with the pastors still
00:24:27.920active right now or is have those been resolved through the courts they're in various stages are
00:24:33.640we act for pastor coats and he was charged for uh for violating the health act because his his
00:24:40.440church was not going along with these unscientific rules. And that case is still put in abeyance
00:24:49.000waiting for the Court of Queen's Bench case, where we were cross-examining Dina Hinshaw
00:24:56.760in April, waiting for a ruling in that case before the criminal action against Pastor Coates
00:25:03.160moves ahead. Okay, so like, is there a mechanism though? I mean, I guess it's on the part of the
00:25:09.300government or the courts though as we learn as new information comes out to back off and change
00:25:14.500i mean maybe a little bit could be excused if uh with pastor coates it was early in the pandemic
00:25:19.180people really felt he was putting uh you know the congregation was putting a number of people at
00:25:23.040risk but we look in hindsight and we realize these larger gatherings i mean we're allowing
00:25:27.720the playoffs right now with everybody in stadiums and yet the pandemic is still going you know
00:25:32.320can they say well we've learned more we're gonna back off it's done sorry about that and move on
00:25:38.300The Crown prosecutors do have discretion to withdraw tickets. We're sending out a news release, you know, every second Tuesday, just about on, you know, more and more tickets getting dropped.
00:25:52.180just recently in British Columbia, there's a woman got a ticket for $5,750. She had gone to the US
00:26:00.040to obtain medical care. She came back and she had a staph infection affecting her nose. And she said,
00:26:09.180I don't want to take a PCR test because it's a danger to my health. I might get infected or
00:26:15.680maybe it was a lot of pain involved. I don't know what the reasons were.
00:26:19.480And nope, bang, there's your $5,750 ticket for refusing to take a PCR test.
00:26:27.400So we brought that up with Crown, we wrote a letter, we explained the situation.
00:26:31.800And so we had another ticket dropped. We're getting these tickets dropped all the time.
00:26:40.040But some of them are going ahead to trial. Yeah, well, and then likewise with other
00:26:45.720things. I mean, it's like you're playing whack-a-mole with these vaccine mandates and private
00:26:49.560institutions and public ones. You know, the early stages of vaccination, we were sold on, or a number
00:26:55.740of people were, that this is a vaccination like others. It would prevent spread. It would stop it.
00:27:00.120So again, I mean, it's still arguable as to whether or not you can impose mandates, but
00:27:03.740people could understand maybe a little more rationale. You're protecting your neighbors,
00:27:07.300the people next to you. But we know now that vaccines, you know, for whatever benefit they
00:27:12.520may give, it's not stopping the spread. So, I mean, the justification for these mandates is long
00:27:17.680gone, yet we're still seeing it and it seems you have to fight tooth and nail to get every one of
00:27:21.480these repealed. Well, it was really tragic to see in September that Nate and I think it was nine
00:27:29.840other post-secondary institutions. I think that included University of Calgary, University of
00:27:37.680Alberta, Mount Royal University in Calgary, they all got together. And after students had paid
00:27:44.540their tuition, and that was on, you know, without strings attached, no conditions, you pay your
00:27:50.960tuition, go to school in September. And suddenly in September, they come out with these vaccine
00:27:57.820passports. And these post-secondary institutions, these taxpayer-funded institutions suddenly
00:28:04.080started demanding that every student on campus get injected with the substance for which there's no
00:28:10.960long-term safety data in respect of a virus which with with precious few exceptions it does not pose
00:28:18.320a threat to the uh you know 20 year olds and 22 year olds and 18 year olds who form the the vast
00:28:25.600majority of students on campus and yet we've had so many cases where the university expelled
00:28:32.160students uh and even refused to accommodate students uh by providing uh online instruction
00:28:41.200which the prior year the whole campus had been online like it's not like they don't have the
00:28:45.360technology to do it uh but but just an incredible uh arrogance and very vicious attitude uh towards
00:28:54.880a minority. Just despicable to see that in a country that considers itself to be progressive
00:29:02.480and tolerant and enlightened. But as it's been said, society never becomes truly more tolerant,
00:29:11.260but rather we just shift the object of our intolerance.
00:29:16.560Yeah. And, you know, going further with the mandates, one that you didn't mention,
00:29:21.320I saw your release was for soldiers with the vaccine mandates, and you've got another lawyer
00:29:26.860on that case? Yes, we've retained a lawyer who himself is a former military who knows the system
00:29:34.640really well. We are representing 20 Canadian Armed Forces members. This is still a statement
00:29:43.500a claim has not yet been filed, but they are being treated horribly and forced out in a way that is
00:29:53.160somewhat analogous to a dishonorable discharge. I don't know the military terminology, but we're
00:30:01.700taking the Canadian Armed Forces to court over that because they too, like the universities and
00:30:07.820other institutions have been very irrational, very unscientific. And in all of these cases,
00:30:14.520we're demanding that the employer or the government or the government agency, they
00:30:20.500have the onus of putting forward the proof that these vaccine mandates were necessary
00:30:29.340uh and and you know backed up by by science yeah well lots to to carry on with so i mean going
00:30:38.720further maybe this ties more into the the peckford case like the concern is you you know we're going
00:30:43.460to be working through the the legal after effects of this last couple of years probably for some
00:30:47.980years to come but what can we do then to ensure it doesn't happen again like that's the next fear
00:30:53.140you know we're trying to um you know go through the courts with the people who've had their rights
00:30:57.480infringed on this time. But until we see some legislative or possibly what constitutional
00:31:02.380changes, there's nothing to say we won't have to go through this all over again if some sort of
00:31:06.740emergency or the government wants to declare emergency will prompt them to override our
00:31:12.380rights again. Well, we're in grave danger of moving further along to a communist Chinese
00:31:20.060social credit system. We released a short video on this within the past week. I think it's on
00:31:27.720our website. The social credit system in China is not the political party that governed Alberta
00:31:34.560for 35 years or that was in power in BC, and it's not the federal party. But the social credit
00:31:39.600system in China, the government uses the technology to monitor where citizens go, who they hang out
00:31:46.820with what they do, their purchases, their banking, you know, whether they get on a plane
00:31:52.540or a train, what groups or activities they're involved in, whether they're praising the
00:31:59.240government on their, you know, Twitter accounts.
00:32:03.080So the government's watching every citizen very closely.
00:32:05.840And if you're well behaved, as determined by the Chinese Communist Party, and you're
00:32:10.960a good Communist Party supporter. And if they like your behavior, you get extra privileges,
00:32:17.420like you get less frequent inspections of your business, you might get a slightly lower interest
00:32:22.620rate when you go to the bank. If you have a low social credit score, then you can be denied access
00:32:30.480onto a train or a subway or a plane, because the technology is being used that if you have a low
00:32:36.320social credit score you suddenly you get blocked and you can't go to certain hotels or restaurants
00:32:41.780um so we experienced a small version of that uh when we had vaccine passports enforced uh turning
00:32:53.480many albertans in and canadians across the country into second class citizens if you did not get
00:33:01.260injected with COVID vaccine, you were denied the basic human dignity of being able to go to a
00:33:07.940restaurant or participate in sports or go to the gym. And even currently, you can't get on an
00:33:13.640airplane. So we have a lot of work cut out ahead of us to restore freedom because governments can
00:33:20.300use digital ID to implement a social credit system in Canada, like what we actually had under vaccine
00:33:30.380passports. Yeah, that's another big one we can see rolling towards us. I hope enough people pay
00:33:36.060attention. A term we used to hear a lot and we don't hear often anymore was social engineering.
00:33:40.420That was a big one. And that's, you know, where the state was trying to control what we think and
00:33:43.660what we do. You know, social credit is more getting towards, well, how we're going to do
00:33:47.520it as an enforcement arm to ensure that you stay, you know, keeping that new speak going and walking
00:33:53.140the line. It's very troublesome. And as lots of people like to point out, you know, things that
00:33:56.920recall conspiracies two years ago have come into being today. So, I mean, you know, as they say,
00:34:01.960it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. I remember so vividly in, in March of 2020,
00:34:07.740when lockdowns were first brought in after they'd been in for a few weeks and it was already
00:34:13.320becoming obvious to any thinking person that looked at data was becoming very obvious very
00:34:19.080early on that this was not the Spanish flu of 1918. Neil Ferguson's prediction about, you know,
00:34:26.180over 300,000 deaths in Canada from COVID within a few months, you know,
00:34:32.020proving to be completely false. But, and I remember vividly,
00:34:36.100there were people saying, you know what,
00:34:37.960they're going to use these lockdowns as a mechanism to entice everybody to get
00:34:45.840the only way to get rid of lockdowns is to get injected.
00:34:48.820And then you're going to have the whole population get injected.
00:34:51.480And then when there's a few stragglers,
00:34:53.120they're going to bring in vaccine passports to really apply pressure and they're going to pressure
00:34:57.720everybody to get vaccinated. And that was a conspiracy theory in early 2020. And, you know,
00:35:06.140as you said, that became reality, that conspiracy theory.
00:35:11.920Yeah. So people got to pay attention to the warning signs now. Just finally,
00:35:15.440with the truckers protests in Ottawa and things such as that, is the JCCF representing any of
00:35:21.400people have been charged under that or is that through a different lawyers at this point now?
00:35:27.000Yes, we are in the sense that we've got at least a half dozen, if not a dozen criminal
00:35:33.720defense lawyers that we have retained. So the justice center is paying the bills for the
00:35:38.920criminal defense counsel for the truckers that were wrongfully charged with criminal conduct.
00:35:47.000uh when in our view was was absolutely false i mean the the worst thing that that the truckers
00:35:53.840were guilty of is uh parking infractions and uh even there that's questionable because the ottawa
00:36:00.280police was working with the truckers every day and telling the truckers where to park so um so yes
00:36:07.700we're we're paying for the the legal defense for uh criminal defense counsel for uh truckers that
00:36:15.100have been accused of, of criminal conduct. Great. Yeah. I know there's a lot of follow
00:36:19.580out there and things on the go as well. Well, plenty on the go. And as we've kind of said,
00:36:24.600plenty to come, where can people find more information on your, your organization in
00:36:27.800case, you know, they want to keep up with it or if they need legal help or if they want to support
00:36:31.160you guys. So our website's www.jccf, F as in freedom.ca, jccf.ca would encourage people to
00:36:40.220sign up for we have a newsletter that we send out once every three weeks or so and sign up for the
00:36:46.600newsletter and that will give you an update on on all of our cases and there's also an icon on the
00:36:51.720home page that that says need legal help question mark if you need legal help complete the online
00:36:58.140form and we have an intake team that looks at all of the incoming requests we are forced through
00:37:06.340uh, you know, limited resources. We, we actually have to say no to most of the requests coming in,
00:37:13.140but we try to say yes to as many as possible and provide legal help to people.
00:37:18.300Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us today to give us an update, John. And again,
00:37:22.380I really do appreciate the work all you guys are doing over there. So, uh, uh, carry on and, and,
00:37:27.580uh, hope to check in with you again soon and maybe we'll have some positive stuff to report.
00:37:32.020Thanks for having me on your show, Corey. Have a great day.
00:37:34.000Great. Thanks, John. So that was John Carpe of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. And as he pointed out, you know, they aren't necessarily directly involved in some of those criminal charges and cases there, but they have been raising and directing funds to help people defend themselves there. I didn't want to ask, I know some people in the comments were asking about specific cases and specific individuals who were charged. And I don't know exactly which ones are being represented by which lawyers. So I wouldn't want to put John on the spot and ask him to answer questions on cases that he's not directly involved with.
00:38:02.660So, you know, talking on those broader things, as you can see, though, the JCCF is doing a lot of work on a lot of things.
00:38:08.960Another commenter, I think it was Lone Warrior, put out talking about the vaccines and saying the vaccines were there to prevent hospitalization, not spread.
00:38:21.820But I played the video months ago on here.
00:38:24.420There was a video somebody put together.
00:38:25.520It was fantastic that actually had a bunch of clips of everybody for all the way from President Biden down to, I believe, even the head to NSHE and media members and politicians of all sorts and health experts, all telling us that we had to get vaccinated because it would stop the spread.
00:38:41.860They sold it to us saying it would stop the spread.
00:39:24.360and I know a lot of people argue with me,
00:39:25.440but I do believe it reduces your chances
00:39:26.820of an adverse outcome if you get infected.
00:39:29.020But I made that personal decision, and I did so.
00:39:32.160And if somebody chooses otherwise, I'm fine with that.
00:39:34.380And it's not the government's place to force that.
00:39:37.220But we can't pretend, though, that they didn't try to sell it as something that would stop the spread.
00:39:41.240They did try to sell it that way, and that's not true.
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00:43:49.300Let's see some of these news stories from Dave. Yeah, the chief of defense staff contradicting the diplomats claims, you know, we're seeing what's happened in Afghanistan when everything fell apart out there. You know, last summer, and the Taliban took things back over again. Wow, that Canadian ambassador was out of there like a battle to hell. I mean, this wasn't a captain who's going to go down with the ship. Gone, ran for it, and claimed that it collapsed so quickly that it was just impossible to the diplomats are saying, you know, that
00:44:19.300they couldn't evacuate all the Canadians and Afghan allies fast enough. But the chief of defense,
00:44:24.460you know, General Wayne here said it was obvious for months this was coming. Months. The real
00:44:29.180military experts are saying, ah, no. But you got to remember, who are diplomats? Diplomats,
00:44:34.120that's one of the best bones that can be tossed to a loyal party servant. That's what it is.
00:44:39.520I mean, you're not necessarily on the top of the list of favored ones if you get stationed in
00:44:43.300Afghanistan, but you're still going to make a fantastic six-figure income, have all of your
00:44:47.820expenses paid, live in an embassy palace. And I won't go into why, but I've been to some embassies
00:44:52.700when I went overseas in the past. And boy, those ambassadors and councils live pretty well. I mean,
00:44:58.100hey, I don't expect them to stay in the super eight, but it's a pretty plum job. But these
00:45:04.220guys, you know, when the going gets tough, in this case, this liberal got going and abandoned people
00:45:08.840and now is making up excuses and stories for why it was done. And the real military experts are
00:45:14.280saying, no, that's not the case. And the general, of course, is pretty upset, saying they poured
00:45:19.000their heart and soul into that country. And it's painful to see what happened. And again,
00:45:23.100they were told for months that this was coming. But yeah, the ambassador staff closed the assemble
00:45:28.960and fled aboard a half empty military aircraft. So he was stranding 1200 Canadians and thousands
00:45:34.460of Afghan allies in Afghanistan, while his tail was between his legs, and they got the hell out
00:45:39.620of there as fast as they could. You know, not only a slap in the face, impossible, who knows what
00:45:43.920happened to the people left behind. It couldn't get out fast enough. But what an embarrassment
00:45:47.800is a country. We know other countries are seeing that kind of behavior. They see that the cowardice
00:45:52.340on the part of our foreign service, at least in that situation. And we lose that much more respect
00:45:58.600on the world stage. You're supposed to, I mean, it's used as a plum for good, you know, loyal
00:46:06.400party servants. It's not just the liberals, the conservatives did it when they were in power too
00:46:09.740and things like that. But it is one of those areas that is actually very important being an
00:46:13.080ambassador and you should be picking a competent person there. And I worry, I mean, look at the
00:46:17.620people Trudeau picks for his cabinet. Okay. This is not a guy who picks out the luminaries from
00:46:22.360the bunch and gets the best and brightest for his own cabinet. So no, I don't imagine he's picking
00:46:26.920skilled, bright diplomats and sending them over to places where it's sensitive, such as Afghanistan
00:46:32.620and what an embarrassing, awful circumstance that was. So while they ran away and left,
00:46:40.440It left a lot of people who were good Canadian allies and people who helped behind.
00:46:45.160I mean, let's speak about the brilliance of Liberal MPs.
00:46:47.780This was a story that's kind of laughable, but still it made the news.
00:46:50.980A Liberal member of Parliament was sitting on the crapper in a Zoom call while Parliament was in session.
00:46:57.260He literally was dialing into a parliamentary session from the toilet in a toilet stall.
00:47:02.420This was MP Shafquat Ali from Brampton Centre, Ontario.
00:47:06.360He's the second one in a year for doing washroom things on camera.
00:47:10.040there was another one peed in a cup. He didn't run again, at least. And these liberals are
00:47:14.380real something special, but they keep winning. I gotta give them that. You know, how hard is it to
00:47:19.100mute? I can't totally feel for the people who heard the sounds on whatever went on that queued
00:47:27.060them up to realize just what one of their members in this meeting was doing. I would hope it was
00:47:31.460just sound and not camera. They didn't really specify much on that. But you know, at that level
00:47:36.100of governance, this level of things you would think. So let's see, actually, here's some of the
00:47:41.060stuff. This is John Broussard saying, Opposition House Leader, the room in question was a toilet
00:47:47.040stall. It appeared the camera was mounted on the ledge or ridge wall just above the back of the
00:47:51.500toilet. The MP was literally using the washroom while participating in the sitting. You know,
00:47:56.360isn't it just impossible to log out for a few minutes and do what you got to do? I mean,
00:48:00.520if you had a bad meal and, you know, you're starting to touch cloth or turtle and you're
00:48:04.100really out of options. Fine, but it's Zoom. Shut the thing off. They can go without you for a couple
00:48:08.180of minutes. But again, these are the people who govern us. This is just brilliant. So, I mean,
00:48:14.460is this a matter to tear the government down over? No, of course not. It's just a laughable,
00:48:18.800ridiculous incident, but it is indicative of the quality of people we're getting. And then
00:48:23.800this same story references, yeah, Liberal MP Will Amos, who is from Pontiac, Quebec,
00:48:27.740he was the parliamentary secretary for industry. He was twice urinating off camera while attending
00:48:33.400house business by video conference. And he didn't seek re-election because he also had some nudism
00:48:38.980issues and things going on in the camera and said he'd consulted a psychologist and he said,
00:48:44.220don't run again. I suspect it might've been party strategists saying, no, don't run again. Don't
00:48:48.320put us through this. You've burned your bridge and you're gone. But that's the stuff that makes
00:48:52.600our news these days. Let's see. I see Mr. Oldcorn in the lobby. Maybe if he's ready to roll,
00:48:59.260we'll bring him in and start talking about column Chris put out last weekend. It was a good one.
00:49:05.440So let's bring Chris Old Corn in. He's our Saskatchewan, I guess, what's the title? Is
00:49:11.140it Bureau Chief out there? You're our main man in Saskatchewan on the politics there, Chris.
00:49:15.680Yeah, I think I got a couple different hats that I'm wearing, but enjoying it. Nice time,
00:49:22.620by the way. I think we coordinate quite well today. And I apologize, I'm doing this from my
00:52:47.480Disney, since the leak of the video and the controversy with them fighting against the governor of Florida and all that stuff that was going on,
00:52:56.020they lost, and I checked it this morning, $65 billion.
00:52:59.940dollars now disney which is one of the most longest successful running entertainment companies
00:53:07.460probably in the history of the world they lost that 65 billion they are now only worth 196 billion
00:53:15.380compared to netflix being worth 80 billion but you have to figure into that account
00:53:20.500how much real estate disney actually owns when you look at the size of disney world and disneyland
00:53:26.420they have a lot of real estate assets. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens with
00:53:30.880Disney Plus. Did they maintain the amount of subscribers that they had? Did they grow or did
00:53:36.580they lose subscribers? And if you look at the other entertainment companies that have gone with
00:53:40.440this woke agenda, they have basically been losing subscribers. The only media company that actually
00:53:46.360gained subscribers so far in this quarterly reporting time period of the large media
00:53:51.440companies who have some sort of you know either being attacked as being woke or they're attacking
00:53:57.600their uh content uh such as joe rogan with spotify uh joe rogan has had numerous people on his show
00:54:05.440they get accused of being uh conspiracy theorists and then six months later they're actually correct
00:54:11.760spotify actually added just with joe rogan two million new subscribers after he was attacked
00:54:19.200they went after the sponsors of the show uh you had the woke rockers neil young and johnny mitchell
00:54:26.080pull all their music from spotify and during that time period broken even said i can't believe i
00:54:31.440actually added two million subscribers while they were actually trying to cancel me he actually
00:54:37.680added almost as many subscribers as netflix was expecting to add in the same time period for their
00:54:43.040entire company and this is once again you try and do this cancel culture stuff i've been attacked
00:54:50.480before for cancel culture i'm still sitting here and people are interested in it for a couple days
00:54:57.280and then they don't care because most people don't care if someone tries to cancel joe rogan
00:55:03.840what they care about is what their kids are watching and this is kind of like politics
00:55:07.920you're talking about what's the difference between some woke thing going after joe rogan
00:55:12.560first kitchen table issues where my daughter is actually looking forward to a documentary coming
00:55:18.560out called what is a woman done by matt walsh at the daily wire a couple weeks ago i was actually
00:55:25.120in a conversation with someone about that because we were talking about the supreme court and the
00:55:29.520new justice doesn't know what a woman is because she's not a biologist uh let's hope she knows what
00:55:34.480the constitution is but that's a different story and my daughter then later said hey i'd love to
00:55:39.920to watch that and she's like well what is it about and i kind of explained it and i explained about
00:55:45.120the transgendered athlete thomas uh in the states winning a bunch of national championships technically
00:55:50.960still as a man and she's like well why are men allowed to compete in women's sports and it's
00:55:58.200like okay so 12 year olds get this but apparently college educated people can't figure out what a
00:56:05.000woman is and a man and why it's allowed or not allowed in sports and there is a backlash
00:56:09.660I'll just use a cycling event in the UK for an example.
00:56:14.000During the national championships, maybe about six weeks ago, the cyclists refused to participate
00:56:21.360if a transgender athlete was competing.
00:56:25.220One, because that person was going to beat them by a significant amount of time because
00:56:29.060they were actually very successful as a male athlete.
00:56:32.480And then a couple of weeks later, British cycling banned all transgender athletes from
00:56:37.100competing because the athletes are now revolting back and saying, this is not fair. So wokeness
00:56:43.240right now is in a very troublesome spot because people are saying, wait, hold on, this is crazy.
00:56:51.780Later today, I have an article coming out on the Menstrual Dignity Act of Oregon, which will put
00:56:58.460tampons in boys' bathrooms all the way from kindergarten to grade 12 with instructions
00:57:04.040on the wall on how to use it. Well, I don't know about you, but I don't recall ever needing
00:57:12.340to use female menstrual products in my lifetime. And I'm not sure why they are now putting these
00:57:17.800dispensers in all the schools in Oregon, all the way down to kindergarten, with pictures on how to
00:57:22.940use it. What, like, do you want your five-year-old knowing how to use a menstrual product and coming
00:57:29.180home and asking you that question. So parents there are revolting against it, saying this is
00:57:34.460completely ridiculous. I don't want my kid being involved in this. Well, so I mean, the thing that's
00:57:38.820been good in being exposed, though, is when people are able to vote with their dollars or vote with
00:57:42.900their eyes, you know, we're seeing the outcome. We're seeing Netflix's law. CNN Plus went in the
00:57:48.060toilet before we barely got rolling. They didn't even get 10,000 subscribers. Yeah. Like how
00:57:52.860embarrassing is that? Yeah. And Disney is dropping. And it was great to see Joe Rogan's example to
00:57:57.760show too because i can't say well all of these businesses are struggling well no they aren't
00:58:01.340no it's it's these ones that are putting out this garbage that are struggling
00:58:04.360yep and uh you know people when when given the opportunity will move away because we listen to
00:58:09.760and i i hate that out of the left all the time oh it's good business to go this way it's good
00:58:15.100business no it's not it's not at all and they're seeing that uh dave chappelle's concerts i he's
00:58:21.700still packing stadiums getting attacked on stage but he's attacking you know he's packing stadiums
00:58:26.560The woke said he was toast months ago because he he dared to upset the trans activists and know he's doing as well as ever when people are given the choice.
00:58:34.800But then the fear we get, of course, is once the woke realize that, then they work to take away our choice.
00:58:40.280That's when we got to start getting scared. And that is what they're trying to do.
00:58:44.700I mean, if you look at language, for example, I'll just use an example that came out this week.
00:58:51.720There's what's called the style guides.
00:58:53.600there's Canadian Press, Associated Press style guides on how journalists are supposed to refer
00:58:58.160to different things. And AP this week just issued a change on how you should talk about pregnant
00:59:07.680individuals. You're not supposed to say pregnant female anymore. You're supposed to say pregnant
00:59:12.880person. So all of the large media organizations that follow AP style, you're now going to see,
00:59:18.560for example, let's say you read the New York Times. You're not going to see it was a pregnant
00:59:22.040female you'll you'll see it's a pregnant person and anyone with half a brain is like this is
00:59:28.680ridiculous it's down is up up is down this is you know orwell 1984 but happening in 2022
00:59:34.380and people are revolting against it and if you look at in the states they've had a bunch of
00:59:40.940different states um uh like primaries going on recently and it is the ones that are actually
00:59:49.120getting the most votes and getting to the point that they're going to be up in the election coming
00:59:54.060up in November are the ones who are just standing up and saying, a man is a man, a woman is a woman.
00:59:59.560Why is this even an issue? And they are the ones that are just like in Ohio. They just basically
01:00:04.860swept the board on everybody that is going to be running for the Republicans in the upcoming
01:00:09.400midterm elections. And people are revolting. And the thing is, when you go after people's kids,
01:00:16.420that's when they're like, hey, wait a second. And I think we need to see some more parental
01:00:22.560rights bills, not only in schools in America, but where this is actually a little bit more
01:00:30.440taken off to the far woke left than we have in Canada yet. I am working a story on some
01:00:36.480transgender issues here in Saskatchewan. And we need to really look at and say, okay,
01:00:42.680And maybe we do need a parental rights bill here in Saskatchewan or Alberta or anywhere else in Canada, just like they have in the States.
01:00:50.540I can tell you that when my daughter was in school in Ontario, there was a day where they did.
01:00:59.040It was an Indigenous day. And one of the activities they did during that day was they lied on the ground with a blanket on top of them for an hour so that they would feel like what Indigenous people feel like.
01:01:10.180all the time because we're on their land and she came home and tried to explain it and
01:01:19.120and it was just like no one like yes there's definitely indigenous issues i have actually
01:01:25.920written on them and i have other stories coming up about it but you know she was 11 at the time
01:01:30.680and this is stuff that's going on really young and there was just a teacher fired in uh florida
01:01:36.140But she was, she said, her 10 and 11-year-olds in her classroom asked her about what does pansexual mean, as if somehow they just magically knew she was pansexual.
01:01:48.560So she explained it. And then she had all the kids draw their sexuality on a sheet of paper and then also make a flag to represent their sexuality and then posted them all on the door of the classroom.
01:01:59.880in the school administration saw and said please take that down so she took them down ripped them
01:02:05.880off the wall went over to the recycling bin crumpled them off and threw them in the recycling bin in
01:02:09.320front of all the kids and she ended up actually getting fired because it was not in the mandated
01:02:15.480curriculum for 10 and 11 year olds to be making um transgender and non-binary flags and this is
01:02:22.520not just these are not isolated incidents so you know there needs to be firm laws set in place on
01:02:29.560what is allowed and not allowed to be taught in school and quite frankly i think sexuality should
01:02:34.280be taught by parents to their kids in their home um not by a teacher and we've seen parental rights
01:02:39.720being stripped away constantly with this type of stuff it has to go to choice that's the thing
01:02:43.800though choice i mean you know let parents choose i mean that's it gets into a much bigger issue we
01:02:48.520should have a more diversified school system so parents can choose where they want their kids and
01:02:53.240what sort of education they're getting but you know again the woke always wants to jam us all
01:02:57.000into one public system with one mandate and that's all you can do and then likewise with with media
01:03:01.640i mean with ourselves as you said you know some of the ridiculousness out of the new york times
01:03:05.240i mean we've based our style guide on the canadian press but we have our own style guide as you've
01:03:10.520seen and we're not going to embrace that crap but i mean look at the difference you know with
01:03:14.120the ascendancy we're going up new york prairie new york times is going down as an institution
01:03:18.680and and outlets like ours but what i fear for is that that's when the government brings in things
01:03:24.280like c11 they bring in their attempts to control the internet and take away that choice that's
01:03:29.480where people have to wake up i mean we don't have to tell people what they can say or what they
01:03:32.920can't say just let consumers whether it's his parents in school or reading publications or
01:03:38.040listening to music let them choose and i think that's where the next battle is going to come
01:03:42.840they're going to start taking away those choices and we better be worried yeah and the thing is
01:03:47.160like um like cbc turned off their commenting for their news stories a while ago uh because
01:03:53.160their journalists were didn't like the comments on the stories and it made them upset
01:03:58.440and that was just like okay at the time when they did it i was actually a news director at
01:04:03.080another organization i said we're not well we're never going to turn off our comments i said if
01:04:08.200someone wants to make a racist comment let them make a racist comment so then we know they're
01:04:12.120racist if you prevent them from being able to do it you don't know who's a racist and if someone
01:04:17.480wants to out themselves as being a racist, then let them. And CBC's version of how they want
01:04:24.600their news site to work is we're just going to stop all comments. So no one with the national
01:04:31.860broadcaster, which we all pay for with our taxes, can make a comment on a story they're doing.
01:04:37.440And as far as I'm concerned, comments should always be open on stories because no one should
01:04:45.920tell someone else what their viewpoint should be. The reason people read stuff and watch things
01:04:54.120is to learn and understand stuff. And maybe their opinion will change on something. They could have
01:05:00.160an opinion on Monday, read something on Tuesday, and have a different opinion on Wednesday. And
01:05:06.000that's what being in a free and open society is. The ability to share ideas regardless of whether
01:05:13.840you agree or disagree with them. And that is under attack. And that is something not only
01:05:20.920news organizations like us should be concerned about, but everybody should be concerned about.
01:05:26.860Because let's say you work for a company and you have to refer to anyone that's pregnant in the
01:05:32.640office as a pregnant person or you get fired. Well, what if someone's religious belief says
01:05:39.080a man can't get pregnant you're going to force them to do the opposite to keep their job
01:05:45.320and i just think that that is it it's a complete affront to like free speech and one of the
01:05:52.280reasons the internet became so successful is because it was an arena of free speech
01:05:57.880and now they're trying to control it so literally they're trying to take the internet which is was
01:06:03.800mainly wide open uh to anyone who wanted to post anything and then regulate it and have it like a
01:06:10.360little funnel system down to exactly what the government wants you to see and you see this
01:06:15.160office of disinformation in the us that they're trying to start which is basically going to say
01:06:19.960anything the government says is correct and if you disagree with that it's wrong and once again
01:06:24.440that's another way of trying to control information and we need to stand against this it's it's it's
01:06:30.600not the way my grandfathers both fought in world war ii they did not fight for that they fought for
01:06:35.880the opposite they they fought for your right to say what do you think about something and let other
01:06:40.760people make their decisions as well well and that's a good note to close it off on i appreciate
01:06:46.200you coming on to join us in the columns you're putting out those will be coming out on weekends
01:06:49.800most often and uh of course you put a lot of news copy reporting on a lot of saskatchewan items and
01:06:54.600events as they're going so thanks again for coming on just to remind everybody that's christopher
01:06:59.160old corn he's uh you're on twitter as well of course and uh uh throughout the the standard
01:07:04.680here i appreciate uh you joining us in the contributions well thank you very much gory
01:07:09.320have a good day all right thanks oops kind of pulled up a quick there that's okay and that's
01:07:15.000the thing there's just that we can go on and it's easy to go on for a long time because i mean it's
01:07:18.600just such a big and and uh uh overwhelming subject and issue i mean it all ties into many other
01:07:26.440things. I got to hit quickly to one more of our sponsors before I go on on some more news items
01:07:31.500and talk a bit more about what Chris was talking about, because I got an item that ties into that
01:07:34.760a bit. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. These guys I had, they had Tony
01:07:39.680Bernardo on last Friday. We talked about some firearm things. Their name kind of says it all.
01:07:44.480They're an association for people who were into shooting sports and that can cover all manner of
01:07:49.140things. Target shooting, biathlon, skeet shooting, hunting, collecting. I mean, it doesn't really
01:07:54.980matter. If you own firearms, you enjoy firearms, you need to be a part of this association because
01:08:00.940this is where you'll get the resources on safe firearm use, how you can network with other
01:08:05.660firearm owners. You can see events and news items related to firearms, where they're going to come
01:08:10.100up. And, you know, just again, get a lot of videos, things on how to safely, properly use firearms,
01:08:16.120as most of us already do. It's not law-abiding firearm owners who are causing the problems,
01:08:21.120it's illegal firearms. And that's the thing that part of the CSSA is doing is they're lobbying
01:08:24.820on your behalf because we've got a federal government that's always trying to take away
01:08:28.040your right and ability to enjoy firearms. If you don't stand up for yourself, they're going to take
01:08:32.080it away. They're going to get away with it. They're doing it kind of a frog in water method now by
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01:08:56.680worth it. And of course, they are a fantastic sponsor. Okay, getting back to a little bit of
01:09:01.380what Chris was talking about, and we'll have more stuff coming from him. This is a news item. It's
01:09:07.300kind of interesting. This is where I find it dicey with the federal government getting involved in
01:09:10.460anything, controlling business or communications, yet at the same time, there's some concerns. So
01:09:18.640So the Feds are trying to block, I guess, or attempting a telecom block.
01:09:23.820There's a $26 billion buyout being proposed involving two of the nation's four biggest corporations.
01:09:30.600It's been delayed for a year and it might be blocked.
01:09:34.080And antitrust, for those not familiar with it, you know, it's this type of legislation in Canada and the states dealing with large, large, large monopolies.
01:09:40.240I think Bill Gates got nailed with some of that in the early days of Microsoft.
01:09:43.580The Rockefellers got nailed with it with Standard Energy.
01:09:45.920They actually had to break that company up into a bunch of standard oil into a bunch of different companies because it was just so overwhelmingly large that competition was being lost.
01:09:54.580But I don't like government getting in and meddling with the free market either.
01:10:00.240Canada is terribly poorly served when it comes to our telecommunications.
01:10:07.840I mean, yeah, there's only four big providers.
01:10:09.580Our prices are some of the highest on earth for services.