Western Standard - Triggered： Wishful progressive thinking is putting citizens at risk

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's May 10th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. And following

00:00:39.240 with my pattern of looking at observances and daily things to watch for out there, today

00:00:43.340 is National Trust Your Intuition Day. I didn't trust mine and I came into work anyways, but

00:00:48.680 still for those of you, if you've got that nagging feeling, apparently this is the day

00:00:52.520 you should be paying strong attention to it. Trust your intuition. Sometimes your first

00:00:57.380 impressions right or sometimes you're dead wrong too don't take full life advice from me all the

00:01:01.460 time uh i'm here more to talk about news and opinion uh recent news some good news the flames

00:01:06.660 are hanging in there boy you know the playoffs for those who are watching the hockey and interested

00:01:11.840 in those sorts of things i've just been liking it i'm not a hardcore hockey fan but i just seeing

00:01:16.840 people getting happy again honestly and seeing some excitement and having fun and getting out

00:01:20.500 and uh the flames have had their ups and downs last night seems they found their feet again and

00:01:24.580 had a good decisive win against Dallas and the series will carry on tomorrow

00:01:29.640 night. Plus, of course,

00:01:31.560 other teams are all hard at it to chasing that Stanley cup comments.

00:01:35.680 I see lots of them coming in. Debbie from Nova Scotia.

00:01:38.220 I love seeing that stuff coming from across the country out there.

00:01:42.220 Colleen was first in there and Scott and Fort Mac. Hey guys,

00:01:45.200 I really appreciate the comments. It lets me know you're there.

00:01:47.740 There's living,

00:01:48.300 breathing people on the other end listening to my ramblings and it helps keep

00:01:52.160 things going. You know, discuss things with each other,

00:01:54.300 send questions my way. I send questions towards the guests. I'll try to pass them on when I can.

00:01:59.620 Again, you know, that advantage of being live is that we have that interaction, which just

00:02:03.940 makes it much better than, you know, an old canned show or something. We're replacing that terrible

00:02:07.620 talk radio that's really gone downhill, unfortunately. A couple of good guests today.

00:02:13.380 John Carpe of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. We're going to talk about a number of

00:02:18.100 the actions they got going on. If anything, I mean, business has been very busy with him due to

00:02:24.280 all the pandemic restrictions and crazed actions by government and laws that have been imposed so

00:02:29.400 standing up for constitutional freedoms has been a very busy job for him and it's great to get him

00:02:33.840 to update us on some of the work he's been doing successes and things that are ongoing

00:02:37.080 and we got Christopher Oldcorn he's one of our western standard reporters he's our main Saskatchewan

00:02:42.880 guy and he also wrote on the weekend go woke or go what go woke go broke because yeah he listed

00:02:50.840 some of the things, you know, Netflix, hey, going woke has not paid off for them. Spotify on the

00:02:55.100 other end, ignoring the woke, it's doing quite well. Before I get in to check in with Dave

00:03:00.720 Naylor in the newsroom, I'm going to start on to what's got me wound up today though.

00:03:05.040 And that's, this is an issue that's affecting cities across North America, but particularly

00:03:09.400 in Edmonton and Calgary, reaching a state of this peak Pollyanna style denial among the woke when

00:03:15.560 it's actually considered controversial to ask people to pay for products and services.

00:03:20.840 Now, the opioid crisis has been sweeping

00:03:22.840 across North America for years.

00:03:24.200 Addictions are skyrocketing,

00:03:25.880 overdoses are killing thousands,

00:03:27.680 and homelessness and crime is spiking in every major city.

00:03:31.620 There's no straightforward solutions to this problem.

00:03:33.780 There's no magic bullet.

00:03:35.260 It's gonna take a combination of addictions treatment,

00:03:37.280 mental health supports, housing initiatives,

00:03:39.180 and law enforcement to get this crisis under control.

00:03:42.900 Most of all though, we need a solid dose of reality.

00:03:46.680 And many municipal politicians

00:03:48.400 refuse to apply that to this issue.

00:03:50.800 So let's get to the history of what I'm going on about.

00:03:52.340 In Alberta, light rail transit or LRT stations

00:03:55.660 and trains in Edmonton and Calgary

00:03:57.480 have been overrun with addicts

00:03:58.840 to the point where hardly a day can go by

00:04:00.900 without reading about another violent incident

00:04:02.840 in the transit system.

00:04:04.340 Drug use is open and rampant

00:04:06.020 while stabbings and random assaults on the system

00:04:08.220 are actually kind of becoming commonplace.

00:04:10.580 Heated transit stations and bus shelters

00:04:12.460 have become de facto homeless shelters

00:04:14.460 while trains themselves have become pipelines for crime

00:04:17.700 into suburban neighborhoods.

00:04:19.320 We've got multi-billion dollar transit systems

00:04:21.840 becoming unusable by the general public

00:04:23.700 and city officials are afraid to do anything about it.

00:04:26.780 Traffic going into city sensors has been rising for months

00:04:29.660 as we recover from the pandemic

00:04:30.940 and people are returning to work.

00:04:32.900 Arcades that languished empty a year ago

00:04:34.880 are filling up again.

00:04:36.120 Streets are bustling with commuters during rush hour.

00:04:39.000 Not so with city transit, however.

00:04:41.000 Transit passenger levels in Calgary remain at 54%

00:04:44.980 of what they had two years ago prior to the pandemic.

00:04:47.520 Edmonton is better at 70%,

00:04:49.260 but there's still a 30% drop in ridership.

00:04:52.460 People are returning to work,

00:04:54.220 but they're choosing not to use city transit.

00:04:56.400 And can you blame them?

00:04:57.800 To ride a train, one has to start the cycle of it.

00:04:59.960 You have to entrust your vehicle to a suburban parking lot

00:05:02.700 at a station where there's clusters of addicts

00:05:05.840 hanging around every corner.

00:05:07.300 Vehicle break-ins are a constant problem.

00:05:09.780 If you're one of the stations that still has indoor space,

00:05:13.280 I'll explain in a moment where that's going,

00:05:15.420 You have to navigate around and over attics

00:05:17.420 camped out in various states of inebriation

00:05:19.640 while being aggressively panhandled.

00:05:22.060 Discarded syringes are often seen

00:05:23.800 amidst the piles of garbage strewn about 1.00

00:05:25.760 as attics tear through bags harvested from alleys

00:05:28.220 in hopes of finding empty bottles to return.

00:05:30.600 Now, when you get on the train during the ride,

00:05:32.340 open consumption of meth and other substances is often seen.

00:05:36.140 While the ills of secondhand smoke are documented

00:05:38.080 and smokers are chased from all public places,

00:05:40.780 protecting transit riders from crack and meth smoke

00:05:42.900 apparently is not a high priority.

00:05:45.420 Now, once you get downtown, you'll exit into a dystopian scene as wasted addicts shuffle and

00:05:50.540 wander around if they aren't unconscious or even worse, wired and aggressive. It's typical to see

00:05:56.160 first responders trying to revive overdoses throughout the stations and parks downtown as

00:06:00.300 well. This is how bad it's getting. A lot of people aren't going into downtown these days.

00:06:04.440 A lot of people aren't using city transit, and that's why I got to keep laying this out. You're

00:06:07.700 not seeing it, but this is how it's happening. The only thing that's surprising is 54% of riders

00:06:13.100 actually returned these i assume are people who don't have vehicles or other means to get to work

00:06:17.820 anybody who can find a way to avoid these hell rides on public transit is chosen to

00:06:21.820 so how is city hall responding to this problem in calgary well first they closed four lrt stations

00:06:27.740 in south calgary all together rather than try to clean out the stations and make them safe they

00:06:31.580 just shut them down transit users have to shiver on an exposed platform while looking at a heated

00:06:37.260 shuttered multi-million dollar station right next to them and they're working hard as well

00:06:41.660 well to sugarcoat and change the language used to address the situation. No longer does any city

00:06:46.900 official refer to crime or addicts. They refer to social disorder and vulnerable people. Now this

00:06:52.580 head-in-the-stand approach serves nobody. Call it what it is. The next area of denial and refusal is

00:06:58.640 to reconsider the honor system for transit fare collection. While every major transit system in

00:07:05.280 North America has some form of turnstile or fare collection for riders and their trains, Alberta's

00:07:10.060 kind of unique in that we allow for an honor system. People buy tickets and board trains with

00:07:14.000 no supervision. Occasionally, transit officers board the trains to check for tickets, but it's

00:07:18.220 rare. I rode for months for a while, and I never got checked once. While many people are law-abiding

00:07:23.200 citizens who will pay their fare on their own, let's quit pretending that everybody will,

00:07:26.400 particularly the addicts. The troublesome people riding the trains are spending every time they

00:07:30.680 can get to buy drugs. None of them will spend that money to buy a train ticket. Enforcing fare

00:07:35.580 collection on LRT systems will have an immediate benefit in removing the vast majority of the

00:07:40.380 troublesome and dangerous riders. Whether this is done through turnstiles, as most cities do,

00:07:44.740 or with a larger presence of enforcement on the ground, it has to be done. In Calgary,

00:07:50.400 City Councillor Dan McLean, he did a ride-along with city transit officers and posted pictures

00:07:55.300 of it. And he's proposed a turnstile payment on trades. Well, what's happened? He's been pilloried

00:07:59.800 by many of his current council counterparts, along with other pundits. He's being accused

00:08:04.060 to being insensitive and shaming the vulnerable. The woke are going wild and flooding social media

00:08:08.760 with claims that McLean is attacking the homelessness. All McLean is asking for people 0.59

00:08:13.300 to do is pay their fares. This shouldn't be controversial. Now, will fare enforcement solve

00:08:18.280 the addiction, crime, and homelessness crisis? Of course not. It will, though, at least take much

00:08:22.620 of that crisis off of public transit so commuters can safely return to using it. If the mess on the

00:08:28.900 LRT stations continues to be ignored, ridership's going to continue to plummet. I mean, shall City

00:08:33.840 hall just keep their heads buried in the sand on this? Close even more stations while the 0.96

00:08:37.100 currently closed ones remain closed permanently? The addictions crisis is real, and it's growing.

00:08:42.620 It won't be solved quickly or easily. Now, until public officials are starting, you know, are

00:08:46.580 willing to face reality with some of the simplest common sense approaches to at least mitigate some

00:08:51.460 of the harms from the crisis, though, it's not going to be getting better any time soon. We're

00:08:56.240 in a world of denial. It's causing real damage. And we've got to stand up and clean these things

00:09:01.980 out. They're building a green line in Calgary. They're going to spend billions of dollars more

00:09:05.940 to extend a train line where we can't even get 50% of people, more than 50% of people to come

00:09:11.100 back and ride on the old ones. It's ridiculous. And anybody who questions it, it's shouted down 0.91

00:09:16.440 as they're trying with Dan McLean. It's ridiculous and it has to change. That's what's got me going 0.88

00:09:21.760 now. Okay, we'll move on to some other things. I know there's a lot of stuff breaking in the news

00:09:25.200 today. There's a big one out of the Alberta Courts of Appeal, I believe. Let's bring Dave

00:09:29.320 Naylor, our news editor, in and get the updates there. Hey, Dave, how's it going? It's going well,

00:09:34.060 Corey. Just had a bit of a lint brush emergency, but things are under control now. So thanks to,

00:09:40.960 you know, we had some good teamwork in the newsroom and we've got my shirt in a presentable

00:09:45.460 state now. Ah, fantastic. You look great. Thanks. Yeah, we got some major breaking,

00:09:50.760 great major breaking story, Corey, on Bill C-69. This was the sort of no more pipelines bill that

00:09:58.700 It would basically make it impossible for a pipeline to be built in the country now.

00:10:04.280 Alberta's highest court, the Court of Appeal, has just struck it down as unconstitutional.

00:10:09.560 So that is just breaking in the last couple of minutes.

00:10:12.160 And we're just getting an initial story now ready to go up.

00:10:16.420 That'll be up on the website momentarily.

00:10:20.040 In other court news, an Alberta court has acquitted a Calgary man of, he was arrested.

00:10:27.240 He was one of the protest organizers, Corey, of those protests every week, going down 8th Avenue and marching all over the downtown.

00:10:35.280 He was arrested for breaching public health orders.

00:10:38.860 The Crown had argued it was a private gathering, which is a bit strange, as it was in a public place.

00:10:44.480 And 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.

00:10:57.240 uh still in the court system busy day for lawyers uh challenged by a bc lobby group

00:11:04.920 that against bc vaccine orders has been allowed to go ahead judge ruling on that i've got some

00:11:13.080 interesting stuff out of ottawa canada's top soldier the chief of defense staff general

00:11:19.160 erie testified at hearings last night into the afghanistan debacle where our diplomats fled

00:11:26.920 with tail between their legs on a half-inch empty plane as more than a thousand Canadians

00:11:32.840 were left behind and allies were left behind. The general just heaped scorn on their diplomats

00:11:39.280 saying they had months to get ready for this and basically said they were incompetent, which

00:11:44.980 is true. Corey, we've all been infuriated by bank service charges. Well, how about this one for you?

00:11:53.760 A guy in Ontario was overdrawn by $0.47, and the Toronto Dominion Bank ended up charging him $98 for those $0.47.

00:12:04.880 So 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.

00:12:16.260 Our Linda Slobodian's got a story on Derek Sloan, now the leader of the Ontario Party.

00:12:21.820 He's been banned from Twitter for comments he made about Dr. Teresa Tam.

00:12:28.240 And he's saying it's all a big conspiracy by the big tech companies to keep his message from getting out.

00:12:35.960 Competition Bureau has put the brakes on the Shaw-Telus merger, saying it could be bad for Canadians.

00:12:43.160 And we're already paying some of the highest telecommunication rates in the world.

00:12:47.800 So they put the stop on that one at the moment.

00:12:51.120 Despite 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.

00:13:07.300 And the Saskatchewan government this week announced they were hiking the minimum wage to $15.

00:13:16.000 dollars. They said they consulted business groups. Well, it doesn't appear they consulted

00:13:20.540 any of the major business groups because of all the ones that our Christopher Oldcorn has talked

00:13:25.240 to, he can't find any that were consulted. So that's what we've got up there at the moment.

00:13:32.620 Major breaking news to come on Bill C-69 and lots more stuff coming up this afternoon.

00:13:40.080 Great. Well, I'll let you get back on it and digging into that one as it did, as you say,

00:13:43.720 just broke. And well, I guess it's kind of a good news story for a change. So thanks for the update

00:13:49.160 and we look forward to seeing the details as they come out. Yes. Premier Kenney will be holding a

00:13:53.600 press conference at noon. So obviously this will be topic of the day when he takes questions. So

00:14:00.820 we'll be seeing what he's got to say. I'm sure it'll be a happy Premier Kenney today.

00:14:05.800 It should be. He's needed a break. All right. Thanks, Dave. Thanks, Corey.

00:14:11.680 So yeah, to give a little background on that, you know, I wasn't sure we got some warning,

00:14:15.120 the court was going to rule and it was going to come out. I didn't hold out a lot of optimism on

00:14:18.520 C-69. For people who haven't followed that, that bill was from back in 2019. It was from the

00:14:23.100 Liberals. It's been coined the no more pipelines bill. It was a regular, it was going to change

00:14:28.180 the regulatory structure. I mean, industry experts were pointing out that under the terms of that

00:14:33.120 bill, there was just no way any large project, infrastructure project was ever going to be

00:14:38.780 approved by the government. The requirements were just out of bounds. It called for things

00:14:44.000 such as environmental assessments. Like this is the sort of thing that killed Energy East,

00:14:47.420 you know, and there's one of those things I get upset with the lefties when they start trying

00:14:51.980 to talk economics, they really shouldn't. When they say Energy East was only shut down because

00:14:56.360 it became non-viable, it wasn't commercially viable. Well, that's a yes and no. It was

00:15:01.220 commercially viable. The companies didn't spend all those millions to try and get that pipeline done

00:15:05.420 only to back out because of changing market conditions.

00:15:08.900 They wanted to do it.

00:15:10.120 They figured they were going to make money at it,

00:15:11.380 but the government regulated it to death.

00:15:14.960 It's the cowardly government way of shutting things down, 0.53

00:15:17.640 an ideological prime minister

00:15:19.160 who wants to shut down all oil and gas development.

00:15:22.660 He's not going to take the flack

00:15:24.380 by just outright pulling the trigger on some,

00:15:26.380 although he did with Northern Gateway Pipeline.

00:15:29.580 But with the others, the way they do it

00:15:30.700 is they strangle it to death with regulation.

00:15:33.160 And C-69 was modeled to do just that.

00:15:35.420 It was going to impact a lot of other things too, mining projects, natural resources, pretty much

00:15:39.020 anything was going to have a really hard time. You talk to any Canadian investment advisors and

00:15:44.000 that, like we've been a pariah for investment for a number of years for reasons just like this.

00:15:49.020 We're just not a safe place to put your money in. You can't get anything done. I mean, look at the

00:15:54.300 Trans Mountain, even with the government buying it, they can't seem to get that thing finished.

00:15:59.040 I mean, I've been assured every time I bring it up, people get upset because I know there's

00:16:01.480 some people working on it. They're under a bunch of heavy NDAs. They can't talk about it.

00:16:05.420 but they're working very hard on that pipeline and it's moving, but it just seems like it's

00:16:08.960 inching along. I mean, years and years delayed. And then we're not going to see any others after

00:16:13.040 that. And that's what C-69 is about. People mix it up with C-48, which is another disgusting bill.

00:16:18.420 That was the tanker ban on the West Coast, not the tankers that go up and down the St. Lawrence.

00:16:22.760 That's okay. But the West Coast, Trudeau banned the tankers. That's C-48. C-69 though.

00:16:30.860 Now that one, this is just one level, unfortunately. It's an Alberta court of

00:16:34.740 appeal. And I mean, I didn't even think it would get to that point, but they've ruled that it's

00:16:37.860 not constitutional. It was a split decision. There was a dissenting opinion. Dave will be

00:16:41.900 reporting on more of the details and things like that out of what came out of that. But I believe

00:16:46.360 that's still going to get probably appealed up to yet another higher court. But I mean, it's

00:16:50.120 certainly a good development. I mean, it's showing that not everybody's agreeing that it's within

00:16:54.980 the government, the federal government's ability to impose bills like that upon the provinces

00:16:59.240 and put them out there.

00:17:01.160 And as I said to Dave, Premier Kenney is going to be a happy camper today.

00:17:05.600 He's right on the brink of, what, we're a little over a week

00:17:08.280 from the leadership review results.

00:17:10.380 Deadline's approaching.

00:17:11.320 I think most of the people who've mailed their ballots already have,

00:17:13.280 but all the same.

00:17:14.500 He hasn't had a lot of positive things to report.

00:17:16.400 It's, you know, particularly on the front with battling Ottawa,

00:17:19.080 he hasn't had a lot of success.

00:17:20.940 Some of us, including myself, question him a lot on just how hard

00:17:24.440 he's actually been battling.

00:17:25.820 But he was, you know, part behind that court challenge to C-69.

00:17:31.040 And they've had, at this point anyways, a victory with it.

00:17:35.300 So, yes, it's one decent development out of the courts.

00:17:41.740 So other breaking news and things like that.

00:17:46.480 Boy, where do you go with all of it?

00:17:48.140 I got John Carpe in the lobby.

00:17:49.900 And as I mentioned earlier, lots of people looking forward to hearing from John.

00:17:52.760 That's the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.

00:17:55.820 And they have, as Dave was saying, and as I was saying, been very, very busy, which is a mixed

00:18:01.280 thing. I guess it's one of those jobs that you do passionately. And your goal is actually hoping

00:18:05.480 that you never actually need to be doing your job any longer. And the Justice Center for

00:18:10.660 Constitutional Freedoms has had no shortage of work to do because of the constant and chronic

00:18:15.060 impositions of legislation and acts and actions against our individual constitutional freedom.

00:18:22.240 So they've been fighting hard for us out there, and he's got so many cases.

00:18:25.480 He sent a bunch of press releases to me there, so we'd have stuff to talk about.

00:18:28.720 We didn't have to worry about having too much to talk about, and we'll start going through that list

00:18:31.960 because he's a very busy man and doing a lot of good work.

00:18:34.180 So let's bring John in and catch up on what's going on over there.

00:18:39.400 Should be in in a moment. Hey, John, how are you doing?

00:18:41.640 Hey. Are we okay on audio and sound and whatnot?

00:18:45.460 We are. You're on live, and we're rolling.

00:18:48.760 So thanks for joining us today, John.

00:18:51.540 As I was saying to the audience and the rest, it's just hard to know where to begin.

00:18:55.820 You guys have been so busy.

00:18:56.740 You've got so many actions going on.

00:18:58.200 And unfortunately, our government's giving so many reasons for you to keep pushing back

00:19:03.840 and launching actions.

00:19:06.160 Maybe if you could give a rundown on, I guess, what your most pressing cases that you're

00:19:11.920 taking on right now are and where they're sitting.

00:19:14.080 Well, we've got the Brian Peckford litigation challenging the federal travel mandates.

00:19:22.280 Canada is one of the few countries in the world now that has any restrictions left on travel.

00:19:28.720 Even Greece and Switzerland are recent examples of countries that just within the past week have dropped their restrictions.

00:19:39.220 I mean, these are utterly unscientific.

00:19:43.320 The vaccine manufacturers themselves have stated publicly that the vaccines don't stop the spread.

00:19:50.240 And everybody knows this.

00:19:51.420 We know this from our experiences with the Delta variant, with the Omicron variant, that a vaccine does not stop the spread.

00:19:58.120 So 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.

00:20:10.540 So that case is moving ahead.

00:20:12.320 that is significant. Here in Alberta, we've just announced that we are representing a student

00:20:19.320 who's filing a human rights complaint against NAIT, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

00:20:24.720 in Edmonton, which in a very arrogant and cavalier fashion, denied a student's request

00:20:32.860 for a religious exemption and simply declared essentially that his religious objection just

00:20:40.680 wasn't valid, as if that institution is able to get into his mind and heart. So that's another

00:20:48.300 one of our cases. Good news in Calgary. The city of Calgary filed an injunction application to ban

00:20:59.320 peaceful protests. Sorry, not to ban peaceful protests, but to make it possible for police

00:21:08.700 to immediately arrest and handcuff and imprison somebody

00:21:14.120 if they honk their horn too loud

00:21:16.860 or if they were outside of a designated area downtown.

00:21:22.880 So that was positive development

00:21:25.680 and very, very sinister on the part of the city

00:21:28.000 to have sought and obtained that injunction ex-party

00:21:32.840 without notice to anybody,

00:21:34.860 secret court application to secure an injunction.

00:21:37.760 And now the city has just said, okay, we're abandoning that.

00:21:41.860 I 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.

00:21:51.280 And they didn't want to get into that sticky situation.

00:21:53.920 So they just kind of quietly dumped it and backed off.

00:21:56.580 It wasn't really a good point of principle.

00:21:58.640 It was more, I mean, a good outcome is a good outcome no matter what the reasoning.

00:22:02.060 But it's unfortunate it was ever imposed in the first place.

00:22:04.840 Well, 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.

00:22:20.960 And Premier Jason Kenney has said, well, you know, I can't interfere with what Crown prosecutors are doing.

00:22:26.800 I can't interfere with the rulings of judges, which is true.

00:22:31.640 but there's a there's a very specific reason why in alberta we jailed pastors whereas in other

00:22:39.020 provinces did not jail pastors and the reason is that uh premier kenny's government went to court

00:22:46.160 like what the city of calgary has done they went to court to get an injunction

00:22:50.800 to enforce the health orders and what that does is it transforms your regular ordinary

00:22:59.700 law enforcement where a, you know, public health officer or a policeman might give you a ticket

00:23:07.160 for violating one of the, you know, silly COVID rules. And then you get to plead not guilty to

00:23:15.400 the ticket and you can potentially challenge the constitutionality of the health order

00:23:20.220 under which the ticket was given. And this is kind of your normal law enforcement.

00:23:25.500 Now, 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.

00:23:46.560 And that was Jason Kenney's government that sought and obtained those injunctions.

00:23:50.800 And 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.

00:24:10.060 And that's what Jason Kenney did in Alberta, is to change the law enforcement through injunctions.

00:24:15.740 yeah so i mean basically you can periodically change the law to suit what you feel is an

00:24:23.460 immediate need in a sense using a an injunction are some of those cases with the pastors still

00:24:27.920 active right now or is have those been resolved through the courts they're in various stages are

00:24:33.640 we act for pastor coats and he was charged for uh for violating the health act because his his

00:24:40.440 church was not going along with these unscientific rules. And that case is still put in abeyance

00:24:49.000 waiting for the Court of Queen's Bench case, where we were cross-examining Dina Hinshaw

00:24:56.760 in April, waiting for a ruling in that case before the criminal action against Pastor Coates

00:25:03.160 moves ahead. Okay, so like, is there a mechanism though? I mean, I guess it's on the part of the

00:25:09.300 government or the courts though as we learn as new information comes out to back off and change

00:25:14.500 i mean maybe a little bit could be excused if uh with pastor coates it was early in the pandemic

00:25:19.180 people really felt he was putting uh you know the congregation was putting a number of people at

00:25:23.040 risk but we look in hindsight and we realize these larger gatherings i mean we're allowing

00:25:27.720 the playoffs right now with everybody in stadiums and yet the pandemic is still going you know

00:25:32.320 can they say well we've learned more we're gonna back off it's done sorry about that and move on

00:25:38.300 The 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.

00:25:52.180 just recently in British Columbia, there's a woman got a ticket for $5,750. She had gone to the US

00:26:00.040 to obtain medical care. She came back and she had a staph infection affecting her nose. And she said,

00:26:09.180 I don't want to take a PCR test because it's a danger to my health. I might get infected or

00:26:15.680 maybe it was a lot of pain involved. I don't know what the reasons were.

00:26:19.480 And nope, bang, there's your $5,750 ticket for refusing to take a PCR test.

00:26:27.400 So we brought that up with Crown, we wrote a letter, we explained the situation.

00:26:31.800 And so we had another ticket dropped. We're getting these tickets dropped all the time.

00:26:40.040 But some of them are going ahead to trial. Yeah, well, and then likewise with other

00:26:45.720 things. I mean, it's like you're playing whack-a-mole with these vaccine mandates and private

00:26:49.560 institutions and public ones. You know, the early stages of vaccination, we were sold on, or a number

00:26:55.740 of people were, that this is a vaccination like others. It would prevent spread. It would stop it.

00:27:00.120 So again, I mean, it's still arguable as to whether or not you can impose mandates, but

00:27:03.740 people could understand maybe a little more rationale. You're protecting your neighbors,

00:27:07.300 the people next to you. But we know now that vaccines, you know, for whatever benefit they

00:27:12.520 may give, it's not stopping the spread. So, I mean, the justification for these mandates is long

00:27:17.680 gone, yet we're still seeing it and it seems you have to fight tooth and nail to get every one of

00:27:21.480 these repealed. Well, it was really tragic to see in September that Nate and I think it was nine

00:27:29.840 other post-secondary institutions. I think that included University of Calgary, University of

00:27:37.680 Alberta, Mount Royal University in Calgary, they all got together. And after students had paid

00:27:44.540 their tuition, and that was on, you know, without strings attached, no conditions, you pay your

00:27:50.960 tuition, go to school in September. And suddenly in September, they come out with these vaccine

00:27:57.820 passports. And these post-secondary institutions, these taxpayer-funded institutions suddenly 0.71

00:28:04.080 started demanding that every student on campus get injected with the substance for which there's no

00:28:10.960 long-term safety data in respect of a virus which with with precious few exceptions it does not pose

00:28:18.320 a threat to the uh you know 20 year olds and 22 year olds and 18 year olds who form the the vast

00:28:25.600 majority of students on campus and yet we've had so many cases where the university expelled

00:28:32.160 students uh and even refused to accommodate students uh by providing uh online instruction

00:28:41.200 which the prior year the whole campus had been online like it's not like they don't have the

00:28:45.360 technology to do it uh but but just an incredible uh arrogance and very vicious attitude uh towards

00:28:54.880 a minority. Just despicable to see that in a country that considers itself to be progressive

00:29:02.480 and tolerant and enlightened. But as it's been said, society never becomes truly more tolerant,

00:29:11.260 but rather we just shift the object of our intolerance.

00:29:16.560 Yeah. And, you know, going further with the mandates, one that you didn't mention,

00:29:21.320 I saw your release was for soldiers with the vaccine mandates, and you've got another lawyer

00:29:26.860 on that case? Yes, we've retained a lawyer who himself is a former military who knows the system

00:29:34.640 really well. We are representing 20 Canadian Armed Forces members. This is still a statement

00:29:43.500 a claim has not yet been filed, but they are being treated horribly and forced out in a way that is

00:29:53.160 somewhat analogous to a dishonorable discharge. I don't know the military terminology, but we're

00:30:01.700 taking the Canadian Armed Forces to court over that because they too, like the universities and

00:30:07.820 other institutions have been very irrational, very unscientific. And in all of these cases,

00:30:14.520 we're demanding that the employer or the government or the government agency, they

00:30:20.500 have the onus of putting forward the proof that these vaccine mandates were necessary

00:30:29.340 uh and and you know backed up by by science yeah well lots to to carry on with so i mean going

00:30:38.720 further maybe this ties more into the the peckford case like the concern is you you know we're going

00:30:43.460 to be working through the the legal after effects of this last couple of years probably for some

00:30:47.980 years to come but what can we do then to ensure it doesn't happen again like that's the next fear

00:30:53.140 you know we're trying to um you know go through the courts with the people who've had their rights

00:30:57.480 infringed on this time. But until we see some legislative or possibly what constitutional

00:31:02.380 changes, there's nothing to say we won't have to go through this all over again if some sort of

00:31:06.740 emergency or the government wants to declare emergency will prompt them to override our

00:31:12.380 rights again. Well, we're in grave danger of moving further along to a communist Chinese 0.98

00:31:20.060 social credit system. We released a short video on this within the past week. I think it's on

00:31:27.720 our website. The social credit system in China is not the political party that governed Alberta

00:31:34.560 for 35 years or that was in power in BC, and it's not the federal party. But the social credit

00:31:39.600 system in China, the government uses the technology to monitor where citizens go, who they hang out

00:31:46.820 with what they do, their purchases, their banking, you know, whether they get on a plane

00:31:52.540 or a train, what groups or activities they're involved in, whether they're praising the

00:31:59.240 government on their, you know, Twitter accounts.

00:32:03.080 So the government's watching every citizen very closely.

00:32:05.840 And if you're well behaved, as determined by the Chinese Communist Party, and you're

00:32:10.960 a good Communist Party supporter. And if they like your behavior, you get extra privileges,

00:32:17.420 like you get less frequent inspections of your business, you might get a slightly lower interest

00:32:22.620 rate when you go to the bank. If you have a low social credit score, then you can be denied access

00:32:30.480 onto a train or a subway or a plane, because the technology is being used that if you have a low

00:32:36.320 social credit score you suddenly you get blocked and you can't go to certain hotels or restaurants

00:32:41.780 um so we experienced a small version of that uh when we had vaccine passports enforced uh turning

00:32:53.480 many albertans in and canadians across the country into second class citizens if you did not get

00:33:01.260 injected with COVID vaccine, you were denied the basic human dignity of being able to go to a

00:33:07.940 restaurant or participate in sports or go to the gym. And even currently, you can't get on an

00:33:13.640 airplane. So we have a lot of work cut out ahead of us to restore freedom because governments can

00:33:20.300 use digital ID to implement a social credit system in Canada, like what we actually had under vaccine

00:33:30.380 passports. Yeah, that's another big one we can see rolling towards us. I hope enough people pay

00:33:36.060 attention. A term we used to hear a lot and we don't hear often anymore was social engineering.

00:33:40.420 That was a big one. And that's, you know, where the state was trying to control what we think and

00:33:43.660 what we do. You know, social credit is more getting towards, well, how we're going to do

00:33:47.520 it as an enforcement arm to ensure that you stay, you know, keeping that new speak going and walking

00:33:53.140 the line. It's very troublesome. And as lots of people like to point out, you know, things that

00:33:56.920 recall conspiracies two years ago have come into being today. So, I mean, you know, as they say,

00:34:01.960 it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. I remember so vividly in, in March of 2020,

00:34:07.740 when lockdowns were first brought in after they'd been in for a few weeks and it was already

00:34:13.320 becoming obvious to any thinking person that looked at data was becoming very obvious very

00:34:19.080 early on that this was not the Spanish flu of 1918. Neil Ferguson's prediction about, you know,

00:34:26.180 over 300,000 deaths in Canada from COVID within a few months, you know,

00:34:32.020 proving to be completely false. But, and I remember vividly,

00:34:36.100 there were people saying, you know what,

00:34:37.960 they're going to use these lockdowns as a mechanism to entice everybody to get

00:34:44.240 vaccinated. And they're going to say,

00:34:45.840 the only way to get rid of lockdowns is to get injected.

00:34:48.820 And then you're going to have the whole population get injected.

00:34:51.480 And then when there's a few stragglers,

00:34:53.120 they're going to bring in vaccine passports to really apply pressure and they're going to pressure

00:34:57.720 everybody to get vaccinated. And that was a conspiracy theory in early 2020. And, you know,

00:35:06.140 as you said, that became reality, that conspiracy theory.

00:35:11.920 Yeah. So people got to pay attention to the warning signs now. Just finally,

00:35:15.440 with the truckers protests in Ottawa and things such as that, is the JCCF representing any of

00:35:21.400 people have been charged under that or is that through a different lawyers at this point now?

00:35:27.000 Yes, we are in the sense that we've got at least a half dozen, if not a dozen criminal

00:35:33.720 defense lawyers that we have retained. So the justice center is paying the bills for the

00:35:38.920 criminal defense counsel for the truckers that were wrongfully charged with criminal conduct.

00:35:47.000 uh when in our view was was absolutely false i mean the the worst thing that that the truckers

00:35:53.840 were guilty of is uh parking infractions and uh even there that's questionable because the ottawa

00:36:00.280 police was working with the truckers every day and telling the truckers where to park so um so yes

00:36:07.700 we're we're paying for the the legal defense for uh criminal defense counsel for uh truckers that

00:36:15.100 have been accused of, of criminal conduct. Great. Yeah. I know there's a lot of follow

00:36:19.580 out there and things on the go as well. Well, plenty on the go. And as we've kind of said,

00:36:24.600 plenty to come, where can people find more information on your, your organization in

00:36:27.800 case, you know, they want to keep up with it or if they need legal help or if they want to support

00:36:31.160 you guys. So our website's www.jccf, F as in freedom.ca, jccf.ca would encourage people to

00:36:40.220 sign up for we have a newsletter that we send out once every three weeks or so and sign up for the

00:36:46.600 newsletter and that will give you an update on on all of our cases and there's also an icon on the

00:36:51.720 home page that that says need legal help question mark if you need legal help complete the online

00:36:58.140 form and we have an intake team that looks at all of the incoming requests we are forced through

00:37:06.340 uh, you know, limited resources. We, we actually have to say no to most of the requests coming in,

00:37:13.140 but we try to say yes to as many as possible and provide legal help to people.

00:37:18.300 Great. Well, thank you very much for joining us today to give us an update, John. And again,

00:37:22.380 I really do appreciate the work all you guys are doing over there. So, uh, uh, carry on and, and,

00:37:27.580 uh, hope to check in with you again soon and maybe we'll have some positive stuff to report.

00:37:32.020 Thanks for having me on your show, Corey. Have a great day.

00:37:34.000 Great. 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.

00:38:02.660 So, 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.

00:38:08.960 Another commenter, I think it was Lone Warrior, put out talking about the vaccines and saying the vaccines were there to prevent hospitalization, not spread.

00:38:17.320 Well, that's what we're at now.

00:38:19.440 But it's long buried somewhere.

00:38:21.820 But I played the video months ago on here.

00:38:24.420 There was a video somebody put together.

00:38:25.520 It 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.

00:38:41.860 They sold it to us saying it would stop the spread.

00:38:45.600 They were claiming that at the time.

00:38:46.940 When it became apparent and evident and then, of course, proven that vaccines don't stop the spread,

00:38:53.220 then they pivoted to how it would reduce hospitalizations, which I agree.

00:38:59.860 I mean, I know there's a lot of debate on it.

00:39:01.720 I'm okay with vaccines.

00:39:03.040 And we get some people have emailed and gone nuts about that.

00:39:06.740 Yes, I've been vaccinated.

00:39:08.300 I'm not ashamed of it.

00:39:09.240 and I'm not worried about it.

00:39:11.980 The thing I've always stood on, though,

00:39:13.060 is it has to remain a choice.

00:39:15.320 It has to.

00:39:16.280 Nobody should be coerced or forced to get vaccinated.

00:39:19.600 That's the big difference.

00:39:21.540 And I do, the reason I got vaccinated,

00:39:23.560 because I do believe,

00:39:24.360 and I know a lot of people argue with me,

00:39:25.440 but I do believe it reduces your chances

00:39:26.820 of an adverse outcome if you get infected.

00:39:29.020 But I made that personal decision, and I did so.

00:39:32.160 And if somebody chooses otherwise, I'm fine with that.

00:39:34.380 And it's not the government's place to force that.

00:39:37.220 But we can't pretend, though, that they didn't try to sell it as something that would stop the spread.

00:39:41.240 They did try to sell it that way, and that's not true.

00:39:45.140 So a lot of the justification for a lot of the passports, the restrictions, the people who have been fired was, again, that you were going to put your coworkers at risk.

00:39:53.400 You were going to put fellow students in school at risk.

00:39:55.620 They're still pushing on those things.

00:39:56.940 You're going to put fellow travelers at risk if you don't get vaccinated because you'll stop the spread if you get vaccinated.

00:40:03.220 Well, that's not true.

00:40:03.900 We found that out.

00:40:05.440 So, you know, that narrative does have to stop.

00:40:09.260 But they misrepresented it.

00:40:10.340 A lot of people did when they were pushing vaccines in the first place.

00:40:13.960 And that leads to even more mistrust.

00:40:15.720 It doesn't help.

00:40:16.760 When you sold us on something that this was supposed to do that it didn't do,

00:40:21.460 it doesn't make it any easier to convince people to get it later now, does it?

00:40:25.140 I mean, just some honesty from the start would have gone a lot farther.

00:40:28.260 You know, if you felt transparency in those studies and in the promotion of these things,

00:40:31.400 I think a lot more people would have made the choice to get it.

00:40:33.920 but it's, it's gotta be a choice. And, uh, it's not a choice when you're telling somebody

00:40:37.980 we're going to demonize you. We're going to have our prime minister call you a racist and all

00:40:42.120 those things. He really did. That's how absurd and insane it got. We're going to put people out

00:40:45.900 of work. We're going to prevent you from visiting family and hospitals and care homes. We're going

00:40:49.540 to stop you from being able to travel. Oh, but it's a choice. Now guys, when you've done all

00:40:54.500 that to somebody, that's a long way from having been a choice any longer that it's heavy coercion

00:41:01.380 and it's wrong. And again, with the people who don't want to get vaccinated, those who don't

00:41:05.040 by now won't. They're not gonna. So all you're doing is being vindictive and punishing people

00:41:10.520 for their personal choices. You know, I didn't get to my earlier plug that I usually do for

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00:43:49.300 Let'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

00:44:19.300 they couldn't evacuate all the Canadians and Afghan allies fast enough. But the chief of defense,

00:44:24.460 you know, General Wayne here said it was obvious for months this was coming. Months. The real

00:44:29.180 military experts are saying, ah, no. But you got to remember, who are diplomats? Diplomats,

00:44:34.120 that's one of the best bones that can be tossed to a loyal party servant. That's what it is.

00:44:39.520 I mean, you're not necessarily on the top of the list of favored ones if you get stationed in

00:44:43.300 Afghanistan, but you're still going to make a fantastic six-figure income, have all of your

00:44:47.820 expenses paid, live in an embassy palace. And I won't go into why, but I've been to some embassies

00:44:52.700 when I went overseas in the past. And boy, those ambassadors and councils live pretty well. I mean,

00:44:58.100 hey, I don't expect them to stay in the super eight, but it's a pretty plum job. But these

00:45:04.220 guys, you know, when the going gets tough, in this case, this liberal got going and abandoned people

00:45:08.840 and now is making up excuses and stories for why it was done. And the real military experts are

00:45:14.280 saying, no, that's not the case. And the general, of course, is pretty upset, saying they poured

00:45:19.000 their heart and soul into that country. And it's painful to see what happened. And again,

00:45:23.100 they were told for months that this was coming. But yeah, the ambassador staff closed the assemble

00:45:28.960 and fled aboard a half empty military aircraft. So he was stranding 1200 Canadians and thousands

00:45:34.460 of Afghan allies in Afghanistan, while his tail was between his legs, and they got the hell out

00:45:39.620 of there as fast as they could. You know, not only a slap in the face, impossible, who knows what 0.99

00:45:43.920 happened to the people left behind. It couldn't get out fast enough. But what an embarrassment

00:45:47.800 is a country. We know other countries are seeing that kind of behavior. They see that the cowardice

00:45:52.340 on the part of our foreign service, at least in that situation. And we lose that much more respect

00:45:58.600 on the world stage. You're supposed to, I mean, it's used as a plum for good, you know, loyal

00:46:06.400 party servants. It's not just the liberals, the conservatives did it when they were in power too

00:46:09.740 and things like that. But it is one of those areas that is actually very important being an

00:46:13.080 ambassador and you should be picking a competent person there. And I worry, I mean, look at the

00:46:17.620 people Trudeau picks for his cabinet. Okay. This is not a guy who picks out the luminaries from

00:46:22.360 the bunch and gets the best and brightest for his own cabinet. So no, I don't imagine he's picking

00:46:26.920 skilled, bright diplomats and sending them over to places where it's sensitive, such as Afghanistan

00:46:32.620 and what an embarrassing, awful circumstance that was. So while they ran away and left,

00:46:40.440 It left a lot of people who were good Canadian allies and people who helped behind.

00:46:45.160 I mean, let's speak about the brilliance of Liberal MPs.

00:46:47.780 This was a story that's kind of laughable, but still it made the news.

00:46:50.980 A Liberal member of Parliament was sitting on the crapper in a Zoom call while Parliament was in session.

00:46:57.260 He literally was dialing into a parliamentary session from the toilet in a toilet stall.

00:47:02.420 This was MP Shafquat Ali from Brampton Centre, Ontario.

00:47:06.360 He's the second one in a year for doing washroom things on camera.

00:47:10.040 there was another one peed in a cup. He didn't run again, at least. And these liberals are

00:47:14.380 real something special, but they keep winning. I gotta give them that. You know, how hard is it to

00:47:19.100 mute? I can't totally feel for the people who heard the sounds on whatever went on that queued

00:47:27.060 them up to realize just what one of their members in this meeting was doing. I would hope it was

00:47:31.460 just sound and not camera. They didn't really specify much on that. But you know, at that level

00:47:36.100 of governance, this level of things you would think. So let's see, actually, here's some of the

00:47:41.060 stuff. This is John Broussard saying, Opposition House Leader, the room in question was a toilet

00:47:47.040 stall. It appeared the camera was mounted on the ledge or ridge wall just above the back of the

00:47:51.500 toilet. The MP was literally using the washroom while participating in the sitting. You know,

00:47:56.360 isn't it just impossible to log out for a few minutes and do what you got to do? I mean,

00:48:00.520 if you had a bad meal and, you know, you're starting to touch cloth or turtle and you're

00:48:04.100 really out of options. Fine, but it's Zoom. Shut the thing off. They can go without you for a couple

00:48:08.180 of minutes. But again, these are the people who govern us. This is just brilliant. So, I mean,

00:48:14.460 is this a matter to tear the government down over? No, of course not. It's just a laughable,

00:48:18.800 ridiculous incident, but it is indicative of the quality of people we're getting. And then 0.81

00:48:23.800 this same story references, yeah, Liberal MP Will Amos, who is from Pontiac, Quebec,

00:48:27.740 he was the parliamentary secretary for industry. He was twice urinating off camera while attending

00:48:33.400 house business by video conference. And he didn't seek re-election because he also had some nudism

00:48:38.980 issues and things going on in the camera and said he'd consulted a psychologist and he said,

00:48:44.220 don't run again. I suspect it might've been party strategists saying, no, don't run again. Don't

00:48:48.320 put us through this. You've burned your bridge and you're gone. But that's the stuff that makes

00:48:52.600 our news these days. Let's see. I see Mr. Oldcorn in the lobby. Maybe if he's ready to roll,

00:48:59.260 we'll bring him in and start talking about column Chris put out last weekend. It was a good one.

00:49:05.440 So let's bring Chris Old Corn in. He's our Saskatchewan, I guess, what's the title? Is

00:49:11.140 it Bureau Chief out there? You're our main man in Saskatchewan on the politics there, Chris.

00:49:15.680 Yeah, I think I got a couple different hats that I'm wearing, but enjoying it. Nice time,

00:49:22.620 by the way. I think we coordinate quite well today. And I apologize, I'm doing this from my

00:49:28.640 home office and not my home bathroom.

00:49:30.800 Well, that's good.

00:49:31.660 And it's much appreciated.

00:49:33.160 I mean, I'm not easily offended, but still, there's just things, especially with the lunch

00:49:36.820 hour broadcast, we just don't need to share with everybody necessarily.

00:49:41.080 I do appreciate that.

00:49:42.880 So, and also you've been writing some opinion content, which is great.

00:49:45.820 And you wrote a column that came out last weekend.

00:49:48.100 It's at westernstandard.news.

00:49:49.900 And it was go broke.

00:49:52.380 Maybe if you can kind of summarize and run down what you covered there, Chris.

00:49:56.000 Sure.

00:49:56.400 Uh, so if you look at some of the bigger media companies, there's been some, uh, controversies

00:50:02.380 lately, you know, we saw that leaked video from Disney with the people in the upper management,

00:50:06.700 uh, talking about how they were pushing an LGBTQ agenda.

00:50:10.800 And by the end of the year, they wanted 50% of their characters to be LGBTQ.

00:50:15.380 And then you had like the Florida governor signing in the, um, parental rights bill,

00:50:21.780 which basically you can't teach sex to five-year-olds, which I'm not sure why we were

00:50:26.920 doing that in the first place. And there's just been a lot of controversy around Disney and

00:50:33.260 Netflix. Netflix, the other day, I was actually watching a preteen targeted show called The

00:50:41.100 Babysitter's Club. And in the show, one of the characters just spurted out of nowhere that she

00:50:48.700 hopes, whoever her partner is in the future, and let me make sure I quote this correctly,

00:50:53.540 is concerned about climate change and happy wherever they are on the gender spectrum.

00:51:00.440 That was said by a character who had just celebrated her 11th birthday on the show.

00:51:07.640 That is just, I saw it and I was like, what? And I actually went back when I did the article and

00:51:15.060 actually made sure that I got the quote correctly, but that's exactly what she said.

00:51:18.700 And that is a character that literally two episodes before had a 11th birthday celebration. 0.62

00:51:24.340 And that's what's being targeted by Netflix and Disney at our kids these days.

00:51:28.720 And it used to be that if you put on a Disney show, it was family entertainment.

00:51:33.340 You didn't have to be worried about what was going to be on the screen.

00:51:36.140 But people are fighting back.

00:51:38.300 So, for example, Netflix, it'll be interesting because tomorrow Disney reports their numbers for this quarter.

00:51:44.080 And we'll be able to find out about how Disney Plus is doing.

00:51:46.940 They have lost a lot of market capitalization.

00:51:49.300 I'll explain that in a secs.

00:51:50.200 But Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in this last quarter, and they were expecting to add

00:51:56.560 two and a half million.

00:51:58.100 But that's not the bad number for Netflix.

00:52:00.380 They actually said they expect to lose two million subscribers in the next quarter.

00:52:05.380 So in other words, in three months, they're expecting to lose two million more subscribers

00:52:09.020 because people are not liking the content they're putting out.

00:52:12.160 Now, to put this into perspective, market cap is how much is your company worth?

00:52:17.340 So if you have 10 shares and each share is worth five bucks, your market capitalization would be $50.

00:52:24.380 Netflix lost $50 billion in market cap on their stock in this last period.

00:52:32.780 They are now only worth $80 billion in total for the whole company.

00:52:37.000 So not quite half, but losing $50 billion in market capitalization for a company the size of Netflix is huge.

00:52:45.360 And Disney didn't fare much better.

00:52:47.480 Disney, 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,

00:52:56.020 they lost, and I checked it this morning, $65 billion.

00:52:59.940 dollars now disney which is one of the most longest successful running entertainment companies

00:53:07.460 probably in the history of the world they lost that 65 billion they are now only worth 196 billion

00:53:15.380 compared to netflix being worth 80 billion but you have to figure into that account

00:53:20.500 how much real estate disney actually owns when you look at the size of disney world and disneyland

00:53:26.420 they have a lot of real estate assets. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens with

00:53:30.880 Disney Plus. Did they maintain the amount of subscribers that they had? Did they grow or did

00:53:36.580 they lose subscribers? And if you look at the other entertainment companies that have gone with

00:53:40.440 this woke agenda, they have basically been losing subscribers. The only media company that actually

00:53:46.360 gained subscribers so far in this quarterly reporting time period of the large media

00:53:51.440 companies who have some sort of you know either being attacked as being woke or they're attacking

00:53:57.600 their uh content uh such as joe rogan with spotify uh joe rogan has had numerous people on his show

00:54:05.440 they get accused of being uh conspiracy theorists and then six months later they're actually correct

00:54:11.760 spotify actually added just with joe rogan two million new subscribers after he was attacked

00:54:19.200 they went after the sponsors of the show uh you had the woke rockers neil young and johnny mitchell

00:54:26.080 pull all their music from spotify and during that time period broken even said i can't believe i

00:54:31.440 actually added two million subscribers while they were actually trying to cancel me he actually

00:54:37.680 added almost as many subscribers as netflix was expecting to add in the same time period for their

00:54:43.040 entire company and this is once again you try and do this cancel culture stuff i've been attacked

00:54:50.480 before for cancel culture i'm still sitting here and people are interested in it for a couple days

00:54:57.280 and then they don't care because most people don't care if someone tries to cancel joe rogan

00:55:03.840 what they care about is what their kids are watching and this is kind of like politics

00:55:07.920 you're talking about what's the difference between some woke thing going after joe rogan

00:55:12.560 first kitchen table issues where my daughter is actually looking forward to a documentary coming

00:55:18.560 out called what is a woman done by matt walsh at the daily wire a couple weeks ago i was actually

00:55:25.120 in a conversation with someone about that because we were talking about the supreme court and the

00:55:29.520 new justice doesn't know what a woman is because she's not a biologist uh let's hope she knows what

00:55:34.480 the constitution is but that's a different story and my daughter then later said hey i'd love to 0.87

00:55:39.920 to watch that and she's like well what is it about and i kind of explained it and i explained about

00:55:45.120 the transgendered athlete thomas uh in the states winning a bunch of national championships technically

00:55:50.960 still as a man and she's like well why are men allowed to compete in women's sports and it's

00:55:58.200 like okay so 12 year olds get this but apparently college educated people can't figure out what a

00:56:05.000 woman is and a man and why it's allowed or not allowed in sports and there is a backlash

00:56:09.660 I'll just use a cycling event in the UK for an example.

00:56:14.000 During the national championships, maybe about six weeks ago, the cyclists refused to participate

00:56:21.360 if a transgender athlete was competing. 0.99

00:56:25.220 One, because that person was going to beat them by a significant amount of time because

00:56:29.060 they were actually very successful as a male athlete.

00:56:32.480 And then a couple of weeks later, British cycling banned all transgender athletes from

00:56:37.100 competing because the athletes are now revolting back and saying, this is not fair. So wokeness

00:56:43.240 right now is in a very troublesome spot because people are saying, wait, hold on, this is crazy.

00:56:51.780 Later today, I have an article coming out on the Menstrual Dignity Act of Oregon, which will put

00:56:58.460 tampons in boys' bathrooms all the way from kindergarten to grade 12 with instructions

00:57:04.040 on the wall on how to use it. Well, I don't know about you, but I don't recall ever needing

00:57:12.340 to use female menstrual products in my lifetime. And I'm not sure why they are now putting these 0.88

00:57:17.800 dispensers in all the schools in Oregon, all the way down to kindergarten, with pictures on how to

00:57:22.940 use it. What, like, do you want your five-year-old knowing how to use a menstrual product and coming

00:57:29.180 home and asking you that question. So parents there are revolting against it, saying this is

00:57:34.460 completely ridiculous. I don't want my kid being involved in this. Well, so I mean, the thing that's 0.65

00:57:38.820 been good in being exposed, though, is when people are able to vote with their dollars or vote with

00:57:42.900 their eyes, you know, we're seeing the outcome. We're seeing Netflix's law. CNN Plus went in the

00:57:48.060 toilet before we barely got rolling. They didn't even get 10,000 subscribers. Yeah. Like how

00:57:52.860 embarrassing is that? Yeah. And Disney is dropping. And it was great to see Joe Rogan's example to

00:57:57.760 show too because i can't say well all of these businesses are struggling well no they aren't 0.93

00:58:01.340 no it's it's these ones that are putting out this garbage that are struggling

00:58:04.360 yep and uh you know people when when given the opportunity will move away because we listen to 0.95

00:58:09.760 and i i hate that out of the left all the time oh it's good business to go this way it's good

00:58:15.100 business no it's not it's not at all and they're seeing that uh dave chappelle's concerts i he's

00:58:21.700 still packing stadiums getting attacked on stage but he's attacking you know he's packing stadiums

00:58:26.560 The 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.

00:58:34.800 But then the fear we get, of course, is once the woke realize that, then they work to take away our choice.

00:58:40.280 That's when we got to start getting scared. And that is what they're trying to do.

00:58:44.700 I mean, if you look at language, for example, I'll just use an example that came out this week.

00:58:51.720 There's what's called the style guides.

00:58:53.600 there's Canadian Press, Associated Press style guides on how journalists are supposed to refer

00:58:58.160 to different things. And AP this week just issued a change on how you should talk about pregnant

00:59:07.680 individuals. You're not supposed to say pregnant female anymore. You're supposed to say pregnant

00:59:12.880 person. So all of the large media organizations that follow AP style, you're now going to see,

00:59:18.560 for example, let's say you read the New York Times. You're not going to see it was a pregnant 1.00

00:59:22.040 female you'll you'll see it's a pregnant person and anyone with half a brain is like this is 0.75

00:59:28.680 ridiculous it's down is up up is down this is you know orwell 1984 but happening in 2022 0.98

00:59:34.380 and people are revolting against it and if you look at in the states they've had a bunch of 0.74

00:59:40.940 different states um uh like primaries going on recently and it is the ones that are actually

00:59:49.120 getting the most votes and getting to the point that they're going to be up in the election coming

00:59:54.060 up in November are the ones who are just standing up and saying, a man is a man, a woman is a woman.

00:59:59.560 Why is this even an issue? And they are the ones that are just like in Ohio. They just basically

01:00:04.860 swept the board on everybody that is going to be running for the Republicans in the upcoming

01:00:09.400 midterm elections. And people are revolting. And the thing is, when you go after people's kids,

01:00:16.420 that's when they're like, hey, wait a second. And I think we need to see some more parental

01:00:22.560 rights bills, not only in schools in America, but where this is actually a little bit more

01:00:30.440 taken off to the far woke left than we have in Canada yet. I am working a story on some

01:00:36.480 transgender issues here in Saskatchewan. And we need to really look at and say, okay,

01:00:42.680 And 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.

01:00:50.540 I can tell you that when my daughter was in school in Ontario, there was a day where they did. 0.99

01:00:59.040 It 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.

01:01:10.180 all the time because we're on their land and she came home and tried to explain it and

01:01:19.120 and it was just like no one like yes there's definitely indigenous issues i have actually

01:01:25.920 written on them and i have other stories coming up about it but you know she was 11 at the time

01:01:30.680 and this is stuff that's going on really young and there was just a teacher fired in uh florida

01:01:36.140 But 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.

01:01:48.560 So 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.

01:01:59.880 in the school administration saw and said please take that down so she took them down ripped them

01:02:05.880 off the wall went over to the recycling bin crumpled them off and threw them in the recycling bin in 0.99

01:02:09.320 front of all the kids and she ended up actually getting fired because it was not in the mandated 0.95

01:02:15.480 curriculum for 10 and 11 year olds to be making um transgender and non-binary flags and this is

01:02:22.520 not just these are not isolated incidents so you know there needs to be firm laws set in place on

01:02:29.560 what is allowed and not allowed to be taught in school and quite frankly i think sexuality should

01:02:34.280 be taught by parents to their kids in their home um not by a teacher and we've seen parental rights

01:02:39.720 being stripped away constantly with this type of stuff it has to go to choice that's the thing

01:02:43.800 though choice i mean you know let parents choose i mean that's it gets into a much bigger issue we

01:02:48.520 should have a more diversified school system so parents can choose where they want their kids and

01:02:53.240 what sort of education they're getting but you know again the woke always wants to jam us all

01:02:57.000 into one public system with one mandate and that's all you can do and then likewise with with media

01:03:01.640 i mean with ourselves as you said you know some of the ridiculousness out of the new york times

01:03:05.240 i mean we've based our style guide on the canadian press but we have our own style guide as you've

01:03:10.520 seen and we're not going to embrace that crap but i mean look at the difference you know with

01:03:14.120 the ascendancy we're going up new york prairie new york times is going down as an institution 0.94

01:03:18.680 and and outlets like ours but what i fear for is that that's when the government brings in things

01:03:24.280 like c11 they bring in their attempts to control the internet and take away that choice that's

01:03:29.480 where people have to wake up i mean we don't have to tell people what they can say or what they

01:03:32.920 can't say just let consumers whether it's his parents in school or reading publications or

01:03:38.040 listening to music let them choose and i think that's where the next battle is going to come

01:03:42.840 they're going to start taking away those choices and we better be worried yeah and the thing is

01:03:47.160 like um like cbc turned off their commenting for their news stories a while ago uh because

01:03:53.160 their journalists were didn't like the comments on the stories and it made them upset

01:03:58.440 and that was just like okay at the time when they did it i was actually a news director at

01:04:03.080 another organization i said we're not well we're never going to turn off our comments i said if

01:04:08.200 someone wants to make a racist comment let them make a racist comment so then we know they're

01:04:12.120 racist if you prevent them from being able to do it you don't know who's a racist and if someone

01:04:17.480 wants to out themselves as being a racist, then let them. And CBC's version of how they want

01:04:24.600 their news site to work is we're just going to stop all comments. So no one with the national

01:04:31.860 broadcaster, which we all pay for with our taxes, can make a comment on a story they're doing.

01:04:37.440 And as far as I'm concerned, comments should always be open on stories because no one should

01:04:45.920 tell someone else what their viewpoint should be. The reason people read stuff and watch things

01:04:54.120 is to learn and understand stuff. And maybe their opinion will change on something. They could have

01:05:00.160 an opinion on Monday, read something on Tuesday, and have a different opinion on Wednesday. And

01:05:06.000 that's what being in a free and open society is. The ability to share ideas regardless of whether

01:05:13.840 you agree or disagree with them. And that is under attack. And that is something not only

01:05:20.920 news organizations like us should be concerned about, but everybody should be concerned about. 0.97

01:05:26.860 Because let's say you work for a company and you have to refer to anyone that's pregnant in the

01:05:32.640 office as a pregnant person or you get fired. Well, what if someone's religious belief says

01:05:39.080 a man can't get pregnant you're going to force them to do the opposite to keep their job

01:05:45.320 and i just think that that is it it's a complete affront to like free speech and one of the 0.76

01:05:52.280 reasons the internet became so successful is because it was an arena of free speech

01:05:57.880 and now they're trying to control it so literally they're trying to take the internet which is was

01:06:03.800 mainly wide open uh to anyone who wanted to post anything and then regulate it and have it like a

01:06:10.360 little funnel system down to exactly what the government wants you to see and you see this

01:06:15.160 office of disinformation in the us that they're trying to start which is basically going to say

01:06:19.960 anything the government says is correct and if you disagree with that it's wrong and once again

01:06:24.440 that's another way of trying to control information and we need to stand against this it's it's it's

01:06:30.600 not the way my grandfathers both fought in world war ii they did not fight for that they fought for

01:06:35.880 the opposite they they fought for your right to say what do you think about something and let other

01:06:40.760 people make their decisions as well well and that's a good note to close it off on i appreciate

01:06:46.200 you coming on to join us in the columns you're putting out those will be coming out on weekends

01:06:49.800 most often and uh of course you put a lot of news copy reporting on a lot of saskatchewan items and

01:06:54.600 events as they're going so thanks again for coming on just to remind everybody that's christopher

01:06:59.160 old corn he's uh you're on twitter as well of course and uh uh throughout the the standard

01:07:04.680 here i appreciate uh you joining us in the contributions well thank you very much gory

01:07:09.320 have a good day all right thanks oops kind of pulled up a quick there that's okay and that's

01:07:15.000 the 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

01:07:18.600 just such a big and and uh uh overwhelming subject and issue i mean it all ties into many other

01:07:26.440 things. I got to hit quickly to one more of our sponsors before I go on on some more news items

01:07:31.500 and talk a bit more about what Chris was talking about, because I got an item that ties into that

01:07:34.760 a bit. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. These guys I had, they had Tony

01:07:39.680 Bernardo on last Friday. We talked about some firearm things. Their name kind of says it all.

01:07:44.480 They're an association for people who were into shooting sports and that can cover all manner of

01:07:49.140 things. Target shooting, biathlon, skeet shooting, hunting, collecting. I mean, it doesn't really

01:07:54.980 matter. If you own firearms, you enjoy firearms, you need to be a part of this association because

01:08:00.940 this is where you'll get the resources on safe firearm use, how you can network with other

01:08:05.660 firearm owners. You can see events and news items related to firearms, where they're going to come

01:08:10.100 up. And, you know, just again, get a lot of videos, things on how to safely, properly use firearms,

01:08:16.120 as most of us already do. It's not law-abiding firearm owners who are causing the problems,

01:08:21.120 it's illegal firearms. And that's the thing that part of the CSSA is doing is they're lobbying

01:08:24.820 on your behalf because we've got a federal government that's always trying to take away

01:08:28.040 your right and ability to enjoy firearms. If you don't stand up for yourself, they're going to take

01:08:32.080 it 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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01:08:45.820 check them out. Canadian Shooting Sports Association, if you Google it, or go to cssa-cila.org,

01:08:52.180 take out a membership. It's a resource for yourself as a firearms owner, and it's well

01:08:56.680 worth it. And of course, they are a fantastic sponsor. Okay, getting back to a little bit of

01:09:01.380 what Chris was talking about, and we'll have more stuff coming from him. This is a news item. It's

01:09:07.300 kind of interesting. This is where I find it dicey with the federal government getting involved in

01:09:10.460 anything, controlling business or communications, yet at the same time, there's some concerns. So

01:09:18.640 So the Feds are trying to block, I guess, or attempting a telecom block.

01:09:23.820 There's a $26 billion buyout being proposed involving two of the nation's four biggest corporations.

01:09:30.600 It's been delayed for a year and it might be blocked.

01:09:32.580 Antitrust lawyers.

01:09:34.080 And 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.

01:09:40.240 I think Bill Gates got nailed with some of that in the early days of Microsoft.

01:09:43.580 The Rockefellers got nailed with it with Standard Energy.

01:09:45.920 They 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.

01:09:54.580 But I don't like government getting in and meddling with the free market either.

01:10:00.240 Canada is terribly poorly served when it comes to our telecommunications.

01:10:07.840 I mean, yeah, there's only four big providers.

01:10:09.580 Our prices are some of the highest on earth for services.

01:10:13.660 They're terrible.

01:10:14.980 I mean, we're averaging 69 a month for internet,

01:10:17.500 49 a month for mobile,

01:10:19.120 34 for telephone landlines,

01:10:20.720 well, for those few people who still have it,

01:10:22.580 25 for cable TV, like it all adds up.

01:10:24.560 And if you go south of the border

01:10:25.500 or to many other countries, Europe,

01:10:27.000 even in that, far, far less, guys, far less.

01:10:30.500 So the only way to deal with that, of course,

01:10:32.160 is you need more competition.

01:10:33.660 You need more competitors.

01:10:35.160 You've got to have them out there

01:10:36.460 adding services, innovating,

01:10:38.720 and getting the consumers the best deal they can.

01:10:40.580 And if all these guys go into just one giant

01:10:42.440 monolithic telecommunications group, the consumer is going to get screwed. But at the same time,

01:10:48.020 how much do I want the government going in on my behalf and messing with private enterprise? So

01:10:51.840 it's a difficult area. And the other areas that the government's getting into, not so much with

01:10:56.860 the service providers, the telecommunications ones, but as I was speaking to with Chris,

01:11:01.940 is they want to control the information getting to us. That gets back to the social credit things

01:11:06.340 that John Carpe was talking about too. How do we control this? They've tried now to shout people

01:11:11.780 down to cancel people to scream. And as we saw from Chris's column, it's failing. Spotify is

01:11:16.900 doing fantastic. You know, as I said, Dave Chappelle is packing stadiums for his comedy show

01:11:22.040 while CNN plus went down the tubes in weeks or a couple of months. Disney's bleeding money.

01:11:29.600 Netflix is building money. The woke crap doesn't work. But if they force us to consume it, then we 0.99

01:11:35.240 got a whole other issue. So that's where the liberal government has a whole bunch of stuff

01:11:38.000 coming down the pipe. They're trying to control the internet. They're trying to control which

01:11:40.940 news outlets are allowed to cover news or not cover news, and who's going to run those outlets.

01:11:46.220 And they're looking to put the screws to Facebook and other providers, Google, to give money to

01:11:50.460 their preferred media outlets. It's a big problem. It's a big problem. And we do have to be concerned

01:11:56.320 about this. And it all ties together. It's control. That's the big word of the decade of

01:12:01.500 the generation, or maybe just in humanity. Governments always want control. They're not

01:12:06.100 looking up for you. They're looking for control. And this is getting bad. Dave mentioned this too.

01:12:12.020 Yeah, so here's another issue. So, you know, the RCMP has fewer Indigenous members today than 10

01:12:17.960 years ago. You know, they've been doing different training. They've been spending a lot of money.

01:12:22.400 We know there's been a lot of preferred hiring, lots of outreach, all sorts of things, and it's

01:12:27.820 just not working. There's a few reasons for it. I mean, we got, where do you go to begin with it?

01:12:34.500 And I mean, there's a lot of mistrust between the natives and, you know, indigenous people and the RCMP in general.

01:12:39.120 It's not something that they would want to join.

01:12:41.360 But I should mention, I don't know if it's different now, but one of the things with the RCMP is you get stationed somewhere else.

01:12:46.800 And there was a guy I used to work with in the survey industry.

01:12:49.920 He worked in the field with us. 1.00

01:12:51.800 And he was from the Blood Reserve down south. 0.93

01:12:55.000 He ended up moving to the Blackfoot Reserve. 0.86

01:12:57.240 I'm getting out of date.

01:12:58.360 I know it's, what are they, Kainai and Siksika Reserves now.

01:13:03.100 either way. He was, he was a indigenous fellow and he went through all the training and became

01:13:07.760 an RCMP officer. And then they transferred him and stuck him on reserves all over the place.

01:13:12.220 And he hated it. Uh, that, that was his problem. But he's, he wanted to be a police officer. He

01:13:16.480 went through the training. He wanted to do all that stuff, but he, problem was you get dropped

01:13:19.340 on a reserve and sure he can relate to some degree more with a local people than, you know,

01:13:24.320 on the indigenous level than others. But it also led to a lot more pushback and difficulties he

01:13:29.380 had. He wasn't exactly loved. He wasn't sent onto the reserves he was a part of. He was stationed

01:13:33.880 into other reserves. So he's a gentleman of Blackfoot background, and he's getting stuck 1.00

01:13:38.720 on a Dene reserve and things like that. It's not so easy. You know, there's a lot of cultural

01:13:43.580 differences. There's one of those bigger mistakes when it comes to indigenous people too. We talk

01:13:47.520 about, you know, the Haidas on the West Coast are nothing like the Mohawks in Ontario, who are 0.86

01:13:52.860 nothing like the Plains Cree, who are nothing like the Northern Cree. There's a lot of differences

01:13:58.220 between all of them. They're all considered indigenous, but they have a lot of cultural

01:14:02.460 differences, language differences, and attitudes. But in a misguided sort of way, they took this

01:14:09.900 fellow I'd worked with and they stuffed him onto different reserves. Just think, well, one native 0.90

01:14:13.400 person's as good as another. He'll fit in real great there and they'll really appreciate that

01:14:17.940 presence there. And it didn't work well. So he just quit the RCMP altogether. That's just one

01:14:22.060 example. I got a feeling the problems are running a heck of a lot deeper than just that. But with

01:14:26.500 the RCMP's efforts to try and get more First Nations involvement on them aren't working out

01:14:31.760 well at all. And yeah, this talks about the report, you know, it goes all the way back to the

01:14:36.620 1885 hanging of Louis Riel at a police barracks, you know, in the mistrust that's hung for a

01:14:41.980 hundred and some years. Not sure how to change it. One of those areas, again, I've talked about,

01:14:45.880 but I don't, you know, aside from being a federal force, I don't think,

01:14:49.380 I don't think

01:14:53.800 I lost my train of thought there.

01:14:58.200 Oh yeah, Provincial Force.

01:14:59.200 Yeah, keep the RCMP Force.

01:15:00.440 Let's get Provincial 0.92

01:15:01.060 to get out of some of these things.

01:15:02.200 Sorry, I was looking at the comments.

01:15:03.120 Somebody's saying

01:15:03.440 the F you mean capitalism is wrong.

01:15:05.000 Who said that?

01:15:06.640 Either way.

01:15:07.540 So I get distracted by the comments,

01:15:08.980 but I do read them, guys,

01:15:09.840 and I do appreciate them.

01:15:11.380 So I don't recall

01:15:12.840 ever saying capitalism's wrong,

01:15:14.300 so perhaps it was somebody else

01:15:15.300 he's referring to.

01:15:17.840 Oh yeah, this one's a neat one.

01:15:19.380 And it turns out one of the big RCMP grabs, they've found an Ontario man and charged him with having 10,000 counterfeit toonies.

01:15:32.740 And no, Ashley, don't tell me how to refer to people.

01:15:36.660 So it's counterfeit toonies.

01:15:40.520 Where are you in this world where you're actually going to counterfeit Canadian $2 coins?

01:15:45.320 Yet this is what happened.

01:15:46.200 And this is an RCMP investigation in the summer of 2021.

01:15:49.260 And, you know, counterfeiting is real.

01:15:50.540 It's a problem.

01:15:51.260 It's an issue I just never would have imagined.

01:15:53.720 I mean, I would guess these have got to be difficult to make.

01:15:56.120 That's a coin in coin, you know, type of stamping in that.

01:16:02.360 It can't be that easy.

01:16:03.100 It can't be that cheap.

01:16:03.900 How much does it cost to make a counterfeit Canadian $2 coin?

01:16:08.620 This gentleman, well, he was charged, you know, $10,000 were discovered.

01:16:13.500 Okay, that's a lot of them.

01:16:14.680 that's $20,000 worth. It's probably cost $10,000 to make the darn things. And I just don't get it. 0.98

01:16:24.520 I mean, if you're going to be that good at it and being able to do something, wouldn't it be

01:16:27.660 better to make a larger denomination of bill? How do you launder that? How many places you

01:16:32.740 got to go around buying stuff with toonies to get it into the system? I'm sure if you're going to

01:16:37.380 your regular bank every couple of weeks with a few thousand dollars in toonies, they're going

01:16:42.640 to raise some alarm bells. I don't know, just bizarre. Either way, if you have gotten a

01:16:47.040 counterfeit one, you can tell apparently by the polar bear on it as a split toe on the front right

01:16:54.100 toe, the front right foot that, remember, it resembles a claw. Not that I think you'd care

01:17:00.540 on a $2 coin. I think it'd be almost collectible if you get one of those counterfeit ones. I guess

01:17:05.280 you could set aside and say, yeah, I got one of these. Some nutcase made counterfeit $2 Canadian

01:17:09.700 coins. Oh, whatever. There's always somebody trying to beat the system one way or another. 0.82

01:17:16.200 And, uh, uh, you know, okay. So Ashley, yes. Look up the definition of a digits. Look,

01:17:21.880 I'm not going into the language, splitting hairs and definitions and stuff going down the road.

01:17:26.220 I'm going to go back and forth on the terms. I know what I'm talking about, what I mean. I'm

01:17:29.460 sorry if you don't like my definition of it, but that's what I'm going to use. I appreciate the

01:17:33.220 feedback. I do. And, and, and such. If you want to get me mad really fast, tell me what I can or

01:17:39.260 should say or can't say. I'll always get worked up every time. So yeah, I'm giving the instructions

01:17:44.580 to people if they want to get my vein pulsing and get me worked up. There's the way to do it.

01:17:48.820 But either way, I do appreciate feedback, even if I get grumpy with you at times.

01:17:53.360 So either way, the Canadian Mint is still working on their

01:17:55.880 things with that. Let's see. The House of Commons. I think this is happening today. Yes,

01:18:02.100 there's a motion from the block where they've been reading a prayer to start off the sessions

01:18:07.060 of the House of Commons every day since 1877.

01:18:10.040 So it's a pretty long-standing Canadian tradition.

01:18:13.640 And the Bloc Québécois wants that to stop.

01:18:17.880 They want to replace it with just a two-minute reflection

01:18:20.000 at the start of business for every day.

01:18:22.300 It says the prayer should be scrapped

01:18:23.400 because the House respects the beliefs and non-beliefs

01:18:26.160 of all parliamentarians and the general public.

01:18:29.560 You know, I'm not a big Bloc fan typically, though.

01:18:32.500 I mean, I can't knock them for being unapologetically pro-Québec and so on.

01:18:37.060 I think maybe it's time though.

01:18:39.480 I just, I mean, it's not like it makes a big deal.

01:18:42.320 It's a symbolic gesture.

01:18:44.180 It's a thing.

01:18:44.700 And he's not talking about doing nothing.

01:18:46.040 I mean, if you have a moment of silence, it says,

01:18:49.220 and you'll have some other things that people of different faiths

01:18:51.240 can observe themselves every day as it starts out

01:18:54.780 and don't have to go into it.

01:18:56.440 Because it is a very, well, I mean, it's a prayer that reflects the times.

01:18:59.800 It's praying to God and saying specific things

01:19:02.260 that don't apply to everybody who's standing in that house.

01:19:05.000 And it's just religion doesn't really have a place in the parliament anymore.

01:19:08.220 It really shouldn't.

01:19:09.480 We're past then.

01:19:10.520 I mean, that's for a person personally, for their home,

01:19:13.400 for their place of worship or things like that.

01:19:15.760 But in the houses of governance, I'm a pure secular supporter.

01:19:20.560 It absolutely should be.

01:19:24.160 Here's some beauty things of municipal governments.

01:19:26.800 I've been on the Canadian, you know, the Burton ones of Edmonton and Calgary.

01:19:31.300 Ottawa, boy, well, of course, we saw their mayor.

01:19:33.260 He's quite the crackpot.

01:19:35.000 Watson, I think his name is, but they've had a city-run program that's supposed to provide

01:19:40.060 temporary stopgat solutions for those in need of emergency shelters. They've been putting them in

01:19:43.600 hotels and motels across Ottawa for years, and it's not going anywhere. Those say they've been

01:19:48.540 stuck in tight quarters for months. I mean, if you are somebody who's sliding through the cracks,

01:19:53.760 a hotel room is better than being out on the street, you know, where you can freeze to death

01:19:58.200 and a great number of problems, but motels aren't great for long-term living. Yeah, you got two beds,

01:20:03.840 of bathroom and such. And people are stuffed in there. So it's not good for those who are

01:20:07.360 homeless. Plus it's phenomenally expensive. So since 2014, they've placed 21,000 chronically

01:20:14.740 homeless families and individuals in hotel and motel rooms. And they're waiting for openings

01:20:20.640 on the Ottawa community housing. This gets down to the housing shortage is going to be getting a

01:20:24.540 lot worse and a lot more critical everywhere as we go ahead here. But unfortunately, part of the

01:20:29.120 problem, not part of a huge part of the problem are these rotten municipal governments that are

01:20:33.780 constantly stunting it, that have this insane ideological notion of squeezing into these

01:20:38.900 high-density, you know, paradises, and they ban outside development. They fight it and they

01:20:45.560 demonize it as sprawl. But the reality is they just, all they've done is caused housing prices

01:20:51.060 to go up and they've caused a supply shortage, which makes it impossible for people of a lower

01:20:56.100 income to end up in homes and you get this mess. So it's self-perpetuating. I don't expect these

01:21:02.120 ding-dongs in Ottawa to understand that and realize it. And actually, Chris was talking 1.00

01:21:06.620 about that as well. I think there's a giant tent city in Saskatchewan that's really starting to

01:21:11.040 expand out in Saskatoon, I believe it is. I think it was Regina. And they've also had loads of

01:21:16.840 people being kept in hotels to deal with the homelessness. Talk about a stopgap and not a

01:21:21.780 good way to deal with it. So let's see. Tomorrow, I'm going to wrap things up here. I've got a good

01:21:27.400 show coming on. I've got an author, Regine

01:21:29.580 Vene. I'll have to

01:21:31.600 look that up. I slaughter people's names. 0.99

01:21:33.820 But he put out a book recently. He's

01:21:35.260 just documented. He's an author. He's put

01:21:37.560 out other books as well 0.68

01:21:38.640 as an unvaccinated person, on

01:21:41.360 what he's been

01:21:42.020 experiencing and how we're dividing

01:21:45.580 our country based on this

01:21:47.420 and how destructive it is for the country.

01:21:49.220 It's a pretty big

01:21:50.980 subject. And then I'm going to have Lee Harding.

01:21:53.680 He's one of our Saskatchewan reporters. He writes

01:21:55.340 a lot of stuff on the Western Standard as well.

01:21:57.400 And we're going to talk about, I mean, Saskatchewan's got a Saskatchewan United Party now.

01:22:01.520 There's a new party has formed out there.

01:22:03.020 And I believe they got one member of the legislature already because it was a floor crossing.

01:22:07.500 So they're there and established it.

01:22:09.240 We as conservatives just keep spawning these parties, you know, in Alberta, we got a few.

01:22:13.240 And we've got a new one in Saskatchewan.

01:22:15.740 We got the Buffalo Party there, too.

01:22:17.060 We got the Ontario Party in Ottawa.

01:22:20.800 But I mean, what do you do?

01:22:21.920 You stick with the PCs or in their case, it's the Saskatchewan Party that they feel perhaps is leaving behind.

01:22:26.180 or do you try to form something new?

01:22:28.980 Do you fix things from within?

01:22:30.420 Do you sometimes, when you start something new,

01:22:32.240 create something worse than what it was to begin with?

01:22:35.080 I mean, look what we're doing with the UCP.

01:22:36.760 What a gong show and a disaster that is right now.

01:22:40.120 And that came about from merging the Wild Rose

01:22:42.140 with the progressive conservatives.

01:22:43.600 And the hybrid turned out to be almost worse, it seems,

01:22:46.080 than a lot of what we had 10 years ago.

01:22:47.800 So it's not moving forward.

01:22:49.580 But what do we do?

01:22:50.340 So we're going to talk to Lee about that. 1.00

01:22:51.860 Danielle Smith's going to have her show on again 0.77

01:22:53.340 tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. as well.

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Western Standard - May 11, 2022

Triggered： Wishful progressive thinking is putting citizens at risk

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