Trudeau has his eye on your home equity
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Trudeauman Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hit a new low point at a recent press conference when he suggested the older generations are sitting on their wealth and not working hard enough, and he wants to take a piece of it back.
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Mr. Rustad about that and see how things are going for a party that's kind of rebuilding from next to
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nothing. As well, yeah, use that comment scroll. I see you guys checking in there, Mr. Stanley,
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Jordan, Paradoxy, James. It's good to see that. This is live, Jackie. Get those comments,
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questions out there. Send them my way. I see them all. I don't necessarily read them all out,
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but they are important. It keeps things rolling and, you know, you guys think of things to ask
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that I hadn't thought of before. So I'm going to get off to what the start of, yeah, you know,
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the subject of this show has been. And what I was hinting at, I mean, there was a recent press
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conference with Trudeau and I was just, I'm not even floored by him anymore. So in listening to him,
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I had to write this up. I mean, as national support for the Trudeau liberals continues to plummet,
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Trudeau has become even more unprincipled than ever. And yeah, he was already pretty low
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while desperation is settling in. The term unhinged, I mean, is often applied to his
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behavior and actions lately. I mean, he's getting out right weird under the pressure.
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Now he's hinting at going after the assets of older Canadians in a wealth redistribution scheme
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that could tear the nation to shreds. It's becoming undeniable. His eye is turning towards
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the capital tied up in individual home ownership, and he wants a piece of it. So at a recent press
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event, he was asked about his capital gains tax hike, and he hit a new low as he tried to stoke
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intergenerational division and envy. I mean, his last desperate hope in maintaining power in the
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next general election is to somehow regain the support of younger Canadians who fled supporting
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the Liberal Party. The rising cost of living has been hammering everybody, but it's been
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particularly tough on young people. Many economic pressures have been exacerbated due to years of
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terrible policies, you know, under the Liberals from government debt, high taxes, low productivity,
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mass immigration, of course. The dream of home ownership for most young Canadians has been shattered.
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But rather than try and fix the problems of his own creation, Trudeau's trying to shift the blame
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to Canada's older generation and the wealth they've accumulated over a lifetime of work.
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But hey, don't take my word for it. Let's listen to the words of Trudeau on his own,
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or at least I'll read them out. He said, older generations whose money works for them
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rather than working hard as young people are. Like this is what he was talking about. He's going
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after those older generations who are just sitting on mounds of money and not working. They're lazy,
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they're slothful, while young people are working enslaving. That's what he's saying. He's implying
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the older Canadians are living the high life on the backs of younger working Canadians.
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He overlooks the reality that most of the people who currently have savings or home equity gain
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them through working their asses off and living responsibly for decades of their lives. But he
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wants to fuel the fires of envy. And he hopes that young people will become angry at prior
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generations rather than at him. The hypocrisy and irony are pretty outstanding in this tactic. I mean,
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it's being used by a trust fund baby who likely has never bought his own groceries in his life,
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much less had to worry about buying a home, paying rent or saving for retirement. But he didn't stop
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there. You know, Trudeau went on to say he wants to somehow tilt the economy to favor a different
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generation. And again, these are his words. He said he wants to make sure people who have done the best
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over the past years in a society and an economy that's tilted slightly towards them actually gets
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retilted towards young people. I know it's an awkward word salad. Again, remember, it's Trudeau. This guy's
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brain damaged. But basically, he's saying he wants to retilt the economy to fit a certain age
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demographic. Well, how do you do that? He's hinting at a massive wealth redistribution scheme.
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The subject at hand is his capital gains tax hike. But even Trudeau must know it won't raise
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him the sort of funds he wants. Capital gains taxes are proven economy killers. They never bring
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in the revenue that proponents expect. There is a giant pool of capital out there, though. And it's
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hanging like a plum and it's teasing and tempting the spendthrift prime minister. That pool is the home
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equity of mature Canadians. If he could just tap it, he'd be able to spend hundreds of billions
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trying to bind the electoral love of young Canadians. The Liberal government's been poking
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around the notion of taxing equity of primary households for years. The CMHC is a branch of the
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government, and it's repeatedly commissioned studies on how to tax the home equity of Canadian
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residences, the primary residences. They've given hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to an activist
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named Paul Kershaw, who's been lobbying for a home equity tax for years. Kershaw referred to
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homeowners as lottery winners who didn't earn their wealth. Yeah, he plays right into those
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politics of envy. Trudeau liked Kershaw's work so much, he invited Kershaw to speak at a Liberal
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Cabinet retreat on Prince Edward Island last August. I mean, Kershaw is only a one-trick pony on this
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issue. The only reason you would have him speak to your cabinet is to try and sell the cabinet on the
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merits of a home equity tax. Guys, when there's smoke, there's fire. It would appear to be political
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suicide for the Trudeau Liberals to enrage homeowners by making a grab for their equity.
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But it has to remember the Liberal reign is already terminal in the polls. If they don't do something
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radical, they face electoral obliteration. They have nothing to lose, and nothing's more dangerous
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than an animal when it's cornered. Trudeau's twitchy second-in-command, Chrystia Freeland,
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mused about unleashing the massive mountain of excess cash. Those are her words in Canadian households
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during a BNN interview. Again, was an equity tax she's hinting at? Creating intergenerational angst
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is a vulgar way to try and retain power. Yet Trudeau's going there without hesitation. Don't
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think he's desperate and deranged. If you don't think he's desperate and deranged enough to go
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after the home equity of Canadians, just watch him. Think of that old quote, an evil man will burn
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his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. It's misattributed to Sun Tzu, but no one knows
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quite who said it, but I mean, it's valid, and it's a good one, and it really does apply. Hang on,
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folks. He's coming for it. All right, let's see what else is going on out there in the news. I got
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that out of my system. And talk to our news editor, Dave Naylor. Oh, there he is. How's it going, Dave?
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It's going well, Corey. How are you? All right. Good. Did you lose any trees out at the
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Perdus compound with that huge wind last day or two? You know, the wind didn't do it, but a whole bunch of
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them came down when the snow did last week. So yeah, I've had a lot of chainsaw work to go
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lately. It really reaped havoc on our forest out there. Yeah, it's a shame. Hey, I just had a
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chance to look through your new book. Congratulations. It looks fantastic. Oh, thanks.
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Yeah, it was a labor of love, I tell you. You know, speaking of Trudeau, just he has so many
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brilliant quotes out there. I figured somebody's got to document these, you know, sooner rather than
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later so everybody can enjoy everything that Justin said over the last 15 years. Oh, when does it go on
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sale? That's already on sale, actually. Yeah, it's up on Amazon. It's called Moistly Speaking.
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All right. Shameless plug over. Shall we move on with the headlines? Sure. Let's get on with that.
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Thanks. We got some good stuff on the website this morning, Corey. We're leading off with your show,
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of course, but right underneath it, we've got a strange admission from presidential candidate
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RFK. He says a worm, a part of his brain. I guess I could explain some of his actions, but the story's
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there for your enjoyment. Elon Musk has piped in with an online conversation with Canadian psychologist
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Jordan Peterson. They're talking about the Trudeau Online's Harm Act, and Elon Musk described it as
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absolutely insane. So he knows what he's talking about, I think, there. It's back to the future for
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future to the back for Calgary Retirement Home. They're bringing back COVID-19 restrictions after
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an outbreak there. They've got three of their residents being found to have coronavirus, and
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they're bringing back the heavy rules, masking and all that sort of good stuff. Everybody's favorite
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environment minister, Stephen Gilboa, has now decided he's going to target truckers and the
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emission from the trucks. They not only keep the country running, but they do provide a good amount
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of emissions, and Gilboa is going to target them. So God help them in the future. Still the top story
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on the website and has been for the last 18-19 hours is the fact AstraZeneca withdrew their COVID-19
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vaccine because it was causing injuries, basically. So that's got everybody up in arms and wondering
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about the safety of their injections. We've got a good column from respected University of Calgary
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Economist Jack Mintz on some unfair rules about taxation. And the head of the CBC yesterday was
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in front of a committee and of the Commons and was accused of basically lying about CBC bonuses and
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trying to cover them up. And the last piece of political news I'll leave you with, Corey, is
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the NDP is back pushing their universal basic income. It's only a program that would cost $88
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billion a year. So you know what? Trudeau's so nuts these days, he may go for it. And the
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governor of Alberta has just appointed a new ethics commissioner. Check back in the site in about five
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Right on. Well, don't check back in five minutes, guys. Wait till after the show. It'll still be up there.
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I got a lot of ranting and turning your ear. But thanks, Dave. Appreciate the update. I'll see you
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after the show. Thanks, Corey. Right on. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. As you see loads and
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already subscribed, thank you very much. I really do appreciate it, of course. And that is really the
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top story. You know, all these years, AstraZeneca now admitting, oh, yeah, I guess the vaccine perhaps is a
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little dangerous. Perhaps it's hurting more people than it's helping. I mean, you don't pull it off the
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market. Unless you got a pretty good idea. It's not performing how you would like to say the very
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least. And proving a lot of people right who had misgivings when this was rushed through during the
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periods of COVID. You know, the damage done, just by the authoritarian approach to COVID, the way they
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shoved it down everybody's throats. It's funny, people get upset with me because I made no bones
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about it. I was traveling to the States. I went out, I got vaccinated. I got two of them. Never
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brought her with the boosters after that, but I got my minimum. I was always, though, always against
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mandates, against pressuring people, whether employers pressuring people, or whether it was schools,
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or whether forcing people to show a passport to get into a place of business or a restaurant,
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always heavily opposed to that. Because coerced consent isn't consent. You know, this debate we
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still have to this day, unfortunately, but it's the truth. Yeah, sure, a person could say no. But some
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person to say no to a vaccine they might not want to have could entail losing your job, losing the ability
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to travel, losing the ability for your children to participate in some sports, being socially ostracized.
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I mean, they really played that up a lot, didn't they? Not being able to go out to restaurants.
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No, that's not consent, guys. And it's funny when you talk about the pressures employers can put on
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employees. You know, you don't get any more personal than a medical procedure. And let's talk about
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medical procedures. I mean, one is abortion, right? Some people have some very strong views on that one
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on one side or another. What if it was an employer who was one side or another who wanted to know the
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health status of their female employees, and felt that that employer should be able to fire one of
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those female employees, whether they made a choice one way or another when it came to an abortion?
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Well, people would be outraged. Well, I don't think getting a vaccination is necessarily as intrusive
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or personal as determining the fate of a baby. But it's the same principle, guys. I mean, that's not
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consent. That's not a way to do things. And now it's caught up. And now the backfiring, the thing
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that I'm kind of upset about, we're hearing about whooping cough coming back up again, measles,
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you know, vaccinations that we knew were effective, and were safe enough prior to all this. But the
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problem is, the way the government dealt with it, the way the authoritarians came down on people,
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trust was shattered. And now we have people not vaccinating their children with known
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safe vaccines. And we're getting the vaccination numbers are lower than ever for people choosing
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not to. And kids are going to suffer, they're going to get things like mumps and that that we
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just didn't need to get anymore. And again, it's due to governments breaking the trust. If you don't
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have faith in the government to push you the right way when it comes to encourage you when it comes to
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medical choices, you're not going to listen to them any longer. So yeah, seeing AstraZeneca backing off
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on this now finding out that perhaps the harm is more dangerous than the benefit of that vaccine,
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people are really, really going to be strongly reevaluating things. And again, it was pushed
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down people. Paradox is saying, yeah, he lost his job twice for refusing to get any jabs that we lost
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people in the military. We've had Mike on to talk about that a couple of times. It just cornered people
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we had health care workers, of course, who lost their positions and jobs, because they refused to take
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part in that. And it's just not, not right. All right, so let's get on. And I'm looking forward
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to this. I haven't for a while. As I said, we don't talk about BC nearly enough. They're our next door
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neighbor. They have a lot of fantastic conservative people over there. And they have some of the most
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interesting, if unpredictable politics in the country they always have. I mean, it's just been
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something to watch. And now it looks like we're going to see some potentially really positive change
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coming out of BC. And it's through the Conservative Party of BC. So let's talk to their leader, John
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Rustad, and see what's going on over there. Hello, Mr. Rustad. Thank you very much for joining us today.
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So as I was kind of saying on the way in, I mean, a lot of our listeners are already familiar with what's
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happening over there, but a lot aren't. The Conservative Party of BC has been around for a long, long time.
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But it's only in recent history where you guys have sort of brought it into, you know,
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viability again. In fact, you're actually looking to be leading in the polls in BC now.
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Yeah, the Conservative Party of British Columbia has been around since 1903 and governed for many
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years, but it hasn't formed a government since 1927. And it hasn't elected anybody in British
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Columbia since the 1970s. So it's been a party that's been in wilderness a very long time.
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But what we're seeing in British Columbia, since 1991, we've had 16 years of BC Liberal and 17 years
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of NDP. And people are looking for change. They're looking for a different approach in British
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Columbia. And that's what the Conservative Party of British Columbia is providing them with.
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So BC United is sort of, well, it's where a lot of you within the Conservative Party now came from.
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There's been sort of a rift and I guess a regrowth in it. I'm very familiar with that. I was very active
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in the Wild Rose Party in Alberta when sort of we had our battle with the Progressive Conservatives
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and the Wild Rose came out of that. Though I have to ask, I mean, the side effect we found,
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unfortunately, was getting an accidental NDP government for a term. You know, how do you,
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I guess, approach people when they express that fear when you're splitting a Conservative vote?
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You know, that's been a challenge in British Columbia. British Columbia has always sort of been
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a two-party system. They've always had, you know, whether it was the social credit in the NDP,
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whether it was the BC Liberals in the NDP. However, what we've seen is the BC Liberals,
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now we call themselves the United Party, has really lost the confidence of the people in the province.
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So they're looking for change. And that's what we're trying to do with the Conservative Party of
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British Columbia is to be a big, big tent party. And like I always like to say, it's not about being
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Conservative or Liberal or NDP or Green, for that matter. It's just outstanding for what's right
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and doing what's right for the people and fighting for the average everyday person.
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And so we're drawing people from across the spectrum. There still is a risk, of course,
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with the United Party. There's still a support base for the United Party, but we are leading
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now in the polls. And our hope is that we can continue to consolidate the people in this province
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that are looking for change, that are looking for common sense, to be able to bring them together
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and provide that good government for British Columbia. And it's been refreshing to hear
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a voice for common sense coming out in the legislature there that needed that voice for
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a long time. You'd proposed a private member's bill. You don't get many opportunities when
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you're in a small minority, so you have to choose carefully. But one that made sense to most people
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when talking about government-funded sports and just making sure that it remains fair for everybody
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to participate. Alberta actually has now brought in a similar policy. A lot of European countries have.
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But unfortunately, it got shot down before first reading in the legislature.
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Yeah, it was a simple little bill, but it was a first in Canada to be introduced in the legislature,
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which was a bill to bring fairness for women and girls in sports. And basically what the bill does
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is to say that biological men should not be competing with women and girls in sports. And it makes sense.
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I mean, there's obviously physiological differences between male and female. But more than that,
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you know, women have struggled to be identified as a person. They struggled to be identified
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to have the right to vote. They struggled to be able to enter into places. They struggled for equal
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pay. And now they have to struggle for fairness in sports. It's crazy. That's why this bill was
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brought in just to say enough of this nonsense is bringing back common sense. And quite frankly,
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we also need to make sure that we have safe spaces for women to be able to go, you know, change rooms,
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washrooms, these types of things as well. It's an approach that we think is just the right thing to do in
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British Columbia, which is why we introduced that bill.
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Well, that's it. And people have gone so far beyond common sense on this. I mean,
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there's trans individuals, nobody wants to attack them or harm them. But we just have to
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ensure that, you know, the activists have really overstepped reality in a lot of things when it came
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to sport, when it came to women's safety in washrooms, or even cases of women's shelters. And we've had
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some dangerous biological men put in with women who've been assaulted by other men in the past. It was a
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terrible notion. Nobody was speaking up for them. So another issue that you've been speaking with our
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own Linda Slobodian on, it's been a bizarre one going on out in BC with a 14 year old girl who's
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been performing apparently in some pretty explicit circumstances on stages in BC. They say she's trans,
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but she's also autistic and has some other challenges. And I mean, this is just beyond the pale.
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You had stated that you were going to look into things and see if this is, you know,
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there should be something the authorities can step in on. Have you had any progress with this?
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So I have looked into this. I haven't had a chance to talk to the minister directly about it.
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The issue really is that if you're under 16, you're not allowed to work in BC. This is,
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I think, the labor laws that are in place unless there's special circumstances associated with
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farming. And so there's, there's those laws in place, but there's also where you have an adult
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entertainment. You know, you have to be of age to be able to perform there as well.
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And so there's something going on here and I don't know why police haven't looked into it. I don't know
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why, you know, the, the ministry hasn't looked into this either. It's one of those things that,
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you know, you kind of go like, how did this happen? So, you know, I may be, I may not be completely
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up with the laws. So it's things that I need to follow up with. This is why I want to follow up with the
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minister. But to me, this doesn't seem right. Well, yeah, it does seem absurd. But again,
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I think some of it just comes of that fear of the activists. A lot of people just don't want to speak
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up because they don't want to get in the middle of it. But when we see a child potentially victimized,
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I don't know what sort of man would want to sit around and watch a, well, we know what sort of
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man would want to watch a 14 year old girl in such a circumstance. Like this is beyond, you know,
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somebody who's just dressed up and reading at a drag queen story hour. Okay. It's a bit clownish,
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a little different. This is sexualized dancing in front of people. And people want to hear that again,
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at least somebody is investigating and speaking up and finding, getting to the bottom of it and see
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what the heck is going on. Yeah. Like I say, I mean, we need to make sure that we protect girls
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and boys. We need to protect underage people. We need to make sure that as a province, we're just
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standing for common sense and standing for what's right. And so, you know, if there's a, if there's
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a situation like this has been described, obviously there's been stories and stuff about it. This is
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something certainly that should be looked into. I think the police should be looking into this as to why
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this is being allowed to happen. So another big issue that's been happening is, it's been sort
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of the back and forth, I guess, points to the, you know, BC government for at least realizing that
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the decriminalization experiment was just an abject failure. It's unfortunate that so many people had
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to suffer in an experiment that turned out to be a failure, but they've asked the Prudhoe liberals to
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back off on the decriminalization. That's a good step. I mean, just at least admitting it,
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you make a mistake, moves you towards finding a solution. And it's a very large and complex
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problem though. I mean, it's certainly top of news in every Western Canadian city.
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What does the Conservative Party have in mind to try and deal though with this addiction crisis?
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Yeah, the addiction crisis is absolutely, you know, ballooned in this province. We have,
00:23:42.320
according to some experts, we now have the highest level of addictions per capita anywhere in North
00:23:47.100
America in British Columbia. I find that completely unacceptable. And when you look at the experiment
00:23:52.060
with decriminalization, with the experiment with safe supply, clearly they are not working.
00:23:57.180
We have more addicts. We have more drug problems. We've got more crime problems.
00:24:01.240
These so-called safe supply drugs are finding their ways into our schools. They're creating the
00:24:05.840
next generation of addicts. All of this needs to change. And I think quite frankly, the steps that
00:24:10.100
David Eby and the NDP have taken to reduce the decriminalization haven't gone far enough. We should
00:24:16.700
be eliminating decriminalization entirely. These are hard drugs. They do serious damage to people.
00:24:22.480
Doctors are telling me that people doing these street drugs today, within two to three years,
00:24:27.040
have permanent brain damage. We've got to bring this to an end. Same with the safe supply. We've
00:24:31.780
got to bring it to an end. We've actually got to get a place in British Columbia where we are
00:24:35.900
trying to get people into recovery. We're trying to get them back into a normal life. And we're
00:24:41.460
providing those kinds of supports with a wide range, as opposed to just trying to keep people
00:24:45.920
on drugs. It's not the right approach when you need to change it. Absolutely. So that's one of the
00:24:52.080
issues you've got. I mean, it's a very pressing issue in the urban areas. And actually it's getting,
00:24:55.840
you know, smaller towns and such are dealing with the addiction as well and more rural spots. But
00:25:00.440
I see a similar pattern in BC to Alberta. We got a very sharp urban rural divide in, I guess you could
00:25:07.880
say political leanings, ideology. How could you balance, you know, the need for principled conservative
00:25:14.200
positions, but still being pragmatic enough to make sure you represent enough for, say, lower mainland
00:25:18.260
voters to, you know, form the government you need? Well, really, when you look across British
00:25:23.360
Columbia, it is very diverse. There's very serious. And you can look at all kinds of differences as
00:25:28.700
saying, you know, you need to be focused on one group or another. But I tell you, it doesn't
00:25:32.680
matter whether you're in urban or whether you're in rural BC, you all have the same issues. We all
00:25:37.320
have the same issues of affordability. People are struggling just to put food on the table to be able
00:25:41.620
to pay their rent. They don't have an opportunity to be able to buy a house or even put away for a
00:25:45.740
future. Similarly with healthcare, people are struggling to find doctors, people are struggling
00:25:50.900
to find healthcare. People, you know, right across the province are facing issues, you know, crisis,
00:25:56.040
quite frankly, and crime and addictions. There are many things that we all have in common,
00:26:00.000
and we just want to get back to a government that is just going to try to do the best they can for
00:26:04.680
people as opposed to being focused on ideology. So I'm, you know, they would always talk about the
00:26:10.080
divides, but I think quite frankly, if we stay focused on making sure that we're fighting for
00:26:14.020
the average everyday person, it goes across the political boundaries that we have within any
00:26:18.980
province like British Columbia. Great. So it looks like you're roughly about seven months away,
00:26:23.260
I believe, from the next general election. You know, you got some great momentum, but of course,
00:26:26.740
that's still forever away in the world of politics. I mean, hopefully that momentum continues. One of
00:26:31.900
the issues is certainly still clearly an adversarial relationship with the BC United. Yourself, you came
00:26:39.080
from the Liberals initially, and you've had a person cross the floor. Are you considering taking in,
00:26:44.620
or are there people looking to cross the floor that maybe make the Conservative Party a larger entity
00:26:49.180
before you hit the election? Well, we have been in talks with MLAs from the United Party for many
00:26:56.440
months now. We tried reaching out to the United Party in general. We were a buff twice from them.
00:27:03.660
You know, we're still open to having a conversation, but we're 135 days away from the
00:27:07.140
writ being dropped. You know, there isn't a lot of time left to be able to do big things between the
00:27:12.940
two parties. And it's unfortunate. Would it be nice if we could have done something, you know,
00:27:16.820
and we're still open to having conversations. But at the end of the day, we need to be prepared
00:27:20.520
for an election. We need to make sure we have our candidates in place. We need to raise the money.
00:27:24.500
We need to be getting our platform. We need to be getting out there. And we can't be wasting time,
00:27:28.440
you know, having discussions with a party, quite frankly, that seems to be unrealistic and not
00:27:33.360
accepting of the change that is happening in British Columbia. Yeah, and it was unfortunate that
00:27:38.960
you would think that ideologically you'd be aligned. But with that private members bill you put forward,
00:27:43.320
unfortunately, that BC United was just as opposed to it as the NDP was, which again shows that they're
00:27:49.140
more concerned about political expediency rather than political principle. And that's always frustrating
00:27:54.280
to see. Well, I'll just give you some examples. We want to eliminate the carbon tax. It makes no
00:27:58.700
sense whatsoever. Taxing people into poverty is not going to change the weather, you know. And what is
00:28:04.360
the United Party doing? Well, they want to stop the increase, but they're not prepared to eliminate
00:28:09.120
the carbon tax. You know, we want to support parents' choice. We need to get rid of things like
00:28:13.900
sexualization of our children in schools. We need to make sure that, you know, our schools have good
00:28:19.480
anti-bullying programs, but get refocused on academics. They're not, they're not, don't support
00:28:24.880
our position on that. Similarly, where we want to be able to have fairness for women and girls in sports.
00:28:29.060
There are a number of issues that the United Party is not quite prepared to go to where we are,
00:28:34.980
which creates some big differences. And so it's kind of like if you want NDP light, you get the
00:28:41.060
United Party. If you want NDP, you get the NDP. But if you want, you know, a common sense approach
00:28:45.920
to governing, that's where the Conservative Party comes in, in British Columbia.
00:28:50.100
And it certainly appears that people are appreciating just the unapologetic conservative
00:28:54.320
approach to things. As I said it kind of earlier too, there are a lot of conservatives in BC,
00:28:58.380
people in Alberta forget that, but there's a lot of common sense people there. They just,
00:29:02.900
due to those complicated politics, haven't always been well represented. So you've really got your
00:29:08.300
work cut out in this seven months. How have things been going in the, you know, nominations and getting
00:29:12.580
candidates in place and getting ready for the next campaign?
00:29:16.220
We've got about 60 candidates in place now. We've got another 25 or so that we're going to have in
00:29:22.080
place in the next few weeks, I think, depending on how some of these nomination processes go.
00:29:26.820
So we're not going to have any problem with filling our slate. I mean, we've had one
00:29:30.140
riding on the island, for example, where 19 people have expressed interest in running
00:29:33.840
in the riding, which creates for a very interesting challenge. But, you know, there's interest right
00:29:39.020
across this province and people are excited about what we are doing with the Conservative Party of
00:29:42.680
British Columbia. So we're going to continue to go around, we're going to continue to build the
00:29:46.200
momentum and the grassroots movement for this province. And I think, you know, it's going to be
00:29:51.420
interesting. And I'm really proud of the people that have stepped up to the plate too.
00:29:54.700
I mean, think about it. It's not easy for people to step up to the plate to a party that hasn't
00:29:59.060
elected anybody since the 1970s. But we have, you know, former mayors, we've got councillors,
00:30:04.600
we've got school trustees, we've got business people, we've got farmers, we've got lawyers,
00:30:08.980
we've got doctors, we've got nurses, we've got people from right across the public spectrum,
00:30:13.080
all of British Columbia, that have decided to put their life on hold and step up to the plate and say,
00:30:17.420
yes, we want to try to change things in British Columbia, we want to bring common sense back.
00:30:21.820
Well, there does definitely seem to be an appetite to see some common sense coming back into the BC
00:30:26.860
legislature. I just, as we get towards the end, to clarify, like you're the Conservative Party,
00:30:32.940
you know, in an event diagram, you'd have a lot of federal members who happen to be but there's no
00:30:36.640
formal relationship between your party and the federal entity, right?
00:30:40.740
No, there isn't any formal relationship. Obviously, there's lots of overlap between
00:30:44.100
our structure and the federal Conservative structure. But, you know, we have, for example,
00:30:48.960
a lot of NDP, provincial NDP people coming over and joining us, we've got one former NDP MLA running
00:30:54.260
for us. We have people from the Liberal Party of Canada that have come and joined us and that are
00:30:59.180
running for us. So we're drawing from across the political spectrum. And it's really because, you know,
00:31:04.820
we're just trying hard just to focus on doing what's right. So it's not just about an ideology
00:31:10.060
of a political party, but trying to reach across the spectrum. Because at the end of the day,
00:31:14.580
people in the province, they're just looking to be able to have a quality of life for both them
00:31:19.460
and an opportunity for their children. And when their children can't afford to live in the province
00:31:23.540
and are looking at leaving the province, people are saying, wait a second, this is wrong. We need
00:31:28.180
change in this province. And that's what we're trying to struggle for and to present to people
00:31:33.940
Well, really looking forward to seeing you guys continuing with the momentum you got. I love
00:31:38.240
hearing your messaging. Before I let you go, then where can our viewers in BC find your party
00:31:43.920
and find their local representative or nomination races and such so they can help you guys get in
00:31:49.740
Best place to go is conservativebc.ca. That's our website. It connects to all of our candidates
00:31:55.960
as well as the things that are going on. And of course, we've got significant social media presence
00:32:00.060
for all of our candidates as well as for the party. So, you know, reach out, be part of the
00:32:06.520
movement, be part of change, be part of making history in British Columbia. It's a grassroots movement
00:32:11.240
that I'm very proud. People are joining. We're being, you know, making significant progress in
00:32:15.560
this province. And I really believe, you know, we've got a very good chance to form government.
00:32:19.620
We'll certainly be challenged for government in October. It's going to be a very exciting next
00:32:24.160
Well, thank you very much for joining us today, Mr. Rustad. We'll be watching closely. I hope
00:32:28.500
we can talk again soon, perhaps as the campaign starts to unfold. And hopefully we can see some
00:32:34.120
conservative neighbours off to our west side. We're looking forward to it.
00:32:36.600
It would be nice. There's so much that we can do across this country. Take care. Thanks for
00:32:41.800
All right. Thank you. So yes, that was Conservative Party of British Columbia leader, John Rustad.
00:32:47.160
And yeah, these guys are coming out with, it's just common sense. It's just, it's just conservative
00:32:52.260
policy. They're reinventing the wheel. They're just providing one to people who haven't had access
00:32:56.940
to one in a long time. And BC citizens are embracing it. Like we do forget when you look to
00:33:03.580
lower mainland BC, even, you know, the left coast, as people call it, there's more of a
00:33:09.400
conservative base down there than people realize sometimes. You think back to the reform days when
00:33:13.480
it was really conservative. And that's what I mean with the complicated nature of BC politics. You
00:33:17.540
could have a reform party member of parliament right next to an NDP member of parliament, right
00:33:22.900
next to a liberal member of parliament, all within a few square miles of high density area in lower
00:33:27.300
mainland BC. So it's a volatile political atmosphere down there. But I mean, they are
00:33:33.180
suffering. They're suffering with the opioid addiction. They're suffering with affordability,
00:33:37.440
you know, in ways that we can't even imagine. And they're suffering from, yeah, some of the
00:33:43.340
bizarreness, wokeness, and perversion, as we see with the situation with the, that girl has been put
00:33:51.680
on stage in front of a bunch of perverts repeatedly, repeatedly. And again, check it out on westernstandard.news.
00:33:57.720
Linda Slobodian has been covering it excellently. She's following this. She's a dog with a bone.
00:34:02.140
She won't let it go. And the only party leader who has been speaking up on that in BC has been
00:34:07.660
John Rustad. The others all, you know, they're ducking for cover. Come on. This shouldn't be a
00:34:11.440
partisan issue. They're kids. They're kids. They don't belong strip dancing on stages. This kid's
00:34:17.460
mother has got something wrong with her. And as Mr. Rustad said, you don't even, though we should
00:34:23.800
have some laws just for the sake of decency to not have children on stage like that, as he's pointing
00:34:28.260
out, anyways, it's illegal for a kid to be working at that age. Step one, there's one immediate legal
00:34:34.660
recourse you could have to say, we're shutting this down. This is not happening anymore. Get that child
00:34:40.360
off the stage. As Slobodian says, as you can see with that headline there that Nico put up,
00:34:45.360
Slobodians, send in the police and child protective services. Why are we waiting?
00:34:49.420
It's true. Why are we waiting? The fear, the fear of the woke activists, the trans activists. I'm not
00:34:56.780
talking about trans people. I'm talking about the activists because those are two completely
00:35:00.260
different things. They really are. And these are the activists, the kooks that put this sort of stuff
00:35:05.040
out there. And people on the left, many, many, many of them are just as disgusted with this as people
00:35:10.740
on the right. They might want a leftist government in a lot of ways and big unions and big spending,
00:35:16.320
but they still value their children. And they want somebody to speak up and say, hey, this is wrong.
00:35:21.620
Get that child off the stage and away from those perverts. And they don't care who's going to say
00:35:25.980
it. So if Mr. Rusted is the only one with the courage to call it out, yeah, that's part of why
00:35:32.580
a party that, again, hasn't had much support in decades is now in the lead in B.C. over the NDP,
00:35:40.060
even while splitting a bit of the vote with the B.C. United Party. And as the B.C. United Party
00:35:44.240
appears more and more cowardly, their support's going to drop. People want unapologetic
00:35:50.060
principled conservatism, even if they don't agree with every policy. One of the things that the B.C.
00:35:56.440
United, before they changed their name to the Liberals, I mean, Aaron Gunn was looking to run for them
00:36:00.720
for the leadership. And they punted him out from even being allowed to run. This isn't the way
00:36:05.800
a conservative party that values, you know, democracy and bottom-up sort of things operates.
00:36:14.820
But that's what's happening. So yes, as he said, they're more of an NDP light. I'm looking forward
00:36:19.760
to them growing. So yeah, just through the poll I was referencing, and you can find the whole thing
00:36:22.720
on the Western Standard online as well. Right now, anyways, and again, that's a long way, and this is
00:36:27.640
far from certain. The Conservatives right now, though, are poised to win 31%. And that's the
00:36:32.540
majority of the votes. We've got to remember, with first past the post, that could be distributed
00:36:35.760
all sorts of ways. They would win the popular vote, but they might not win the majority of seats,
00:36:40.580
especially when you're looking at 31%. The NDP are only a few points behind them, I believe.
00:36:47.760
And then you've got the B.C. United, and they're way back, I think, at 12% or 18%. So they're really
00:36:53.720
fading. But you see, that leaves a lot of room to growth. I mean, I think with some of the common
00:36:57.600
sense coming out from the Conservatives in B.C., they can pull some more of those NDP supporters.
00:37:02.620
They'll pull some. There are swing people who actually swing between NDP and Conservative
00:37:05.500
parties. They exist. And they certainly, there's the poll numbers up there, can take a good bite
00:37:12.460
out of the B.C. United Party. It looks like, yeah, there's 16%. And that's a lot of room for the
00:37:18.320
Conservative Party of B.C. to grow. And the Green Party, of course, is taking 12%. And that eats the
00:37:24.580
NDP a lot. And James is saying 37%. Yes, I appreciate the correction, James. Yeah, I got that
00:37:30.620
number wrong. I had it as 31%. I guess it depends on which way you're measuring it to. It could be
00:37:34.440
decided, undecided. But either way, it's definitely, they're in winning conditions, but it's vulnerable.
00:37:39.340
And it's a long ways from over the finish line yet. But it's pretty exciting to watch that
00:37:43.160
and glad to see it coming along. So let's talk about something that's not so good to see coming
00:37:48.840
along, or maybe it's mixed. Catherine Tate. Ah, yes, this is the headline from Blacklock saying,
00:37:53.780
I'm not a liar, she's saying. But she is a liar. She is a liar. That's the, she's the CEO of the CBC.
00:37:59.960
Yeah, the corporate head of a big giant socialist organ for the Liberal Party is really what they are.
00:38:05.580
She makes $500,000 a year. Sorry, $497,000 a year. And she denies that she was misleading the
00:38:12.880
Heritage Committee over a payment. See, they laid off a whole pile of CBC people, even though they
00:38:18.220
get what $1.4 billion a year, even though they steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the
00:38:22.980
advertising market and the private sector, they still can't manage to operate and pay the bills
00:38:29.180
and keep their own people employed. So they laid off a whole bunch, even though they were getting
00:38:31.840
more bailouts, more money, more and more money. And lo and behold, it turns out that they got 15,
00:38:38.020
what, $14.9,000? I don't want to be lying. $14.9 million in bonuses went to their executives.
00:38:44.260
Good work, Ms. Tate. Good work. I'm glad she came out from her New York loft to speak in Canada
00:38:54.260
to the behavior of her CBC and pretend she's a victim, pretend she's being ill-treated.
00:39:00.580
You're running a crap corporation. I really, the CBC cannot be defunded fast enough.
00:39:05.740
Of all the things I'm hoping for, if Pierre Polyev becomes our next prime minister, please,
00:39:11.980
please, please follow through and defund that dinosaur, terrible, biased organization called
00:39:19.280
the CBC. We do not need them. They're just robbing us. Civil servants are robbing us all
00:39:24.140
over the place. But the CBC is a special bunch. And let's see other stories. Here's another one.
00:39:30.100
Yeah, Cabinet learned a lot. This is from the additions minister, Yara Sachs. We learned a lot
00:39:37.500
from the decriminalization experiment in BC. You know, there's things you didn't have to learn.
00:39:43.680
You give a whole bunch of free drugs, and that's part of the safe supply. So I know it's tied in
00:39:47.420
with decriminalization, but it's all tied in. Give a bunch of free drugs to a bunch of addicts,
00:39:51.720
and guess what? You get more addicts. I mean, you get some fewer addicts because they're still
00:39:55.260
overdosing, dying all over the place. But this way, they spawn and spread, and you get more and
00:39:59.720
more added to the mix. It's a growing problem. Yes, it was a failure. Everybody was already
00:40:04.960
saying that before you hammerheads did this, it came at the cost of countless lives, people who
00:40:10.580
haven't died yet, but they're going to because they got addicted with this crap as more and more
00:40:15.140
spread everywhere. I understand. Look, I'm chasing around some, you know, poor addicted soul who's on
00:40:22.140
the street corner who was just, has a little bit of meth on them in the corner, isn't the way you're
00:40:26.160
going to address the problem. Absolutely. Throwing them in jail or finding them, waste of time,
00:40:30.400
even going after the small level dealers. But you've got to maintain some ability for intervention.
00:40:36.920
And as long as that's illegal, there are means you can intervene with. As soon as you decriminalize
00:40:41.560
it, make it like, oh, you can carry some cocaine or meth or heroin or fentanyl around with you with
00:40:46.200
nothing to worry about, guess what happens? They carry more cocaine, meth, fentanyl, and that with
00:40:52.100
them, that's what happens. And it happened at a terrible cost. And, you know, she's still talking
00:41:00.380
in circles. Oh, we, we learned a lot of lessons. Yeah, you sure did, didn't you? And she's saying
00:41:05.840
decriminalization is still one tool of many. You're a tool. You're a fool. Get out in the streets. Get
00:41:12.620
out there. Really walk. Go to East Hastings. Have a look around. You know, smell the urine. Watch the
00:41:18.700
walking dead wandering around down there. Look at the predatory dealers on every street corner.
00:41:24.900
Look at the young people prostituting themselves. Look at them losing bowel control behind dumpsters
00:41:29.180
at the age of 17 because they're addicted to meth and fentanyl. And you think that enabling it is
00:41:35.560
going to help this, you tool? No, it's not. Let's get real. Even Oregon figured it out. And now BC is
00:41:42.700
starting to figure it out. Unfortunately, you know, this isn't like an economic experiment that's
00:41:48.300
failing. This is a social experiment and it's coming at the cost of a lot of lives. There's no
00:41:53.560
easy solution. Like I said, chasing them around and trying to find people and so on isn't going to work
00:41:58.540
either. They need treatment. They need facilities. They need somewhere to go. When the time comes that
00:42:04.200
they're ready for it or they've been so far to control it, you can bring them in, get them in,
00:42:08.460
but they need somewhere to go and they don't have anywhere to go right now. So yeah, it's just like
00:42:13.380
expecting cancer patients to cure themselves, guys. They need the help, but it's not going to
00:42:18.940
happen. Speaking of parasites, Canada Post, yes, they've been making the news lately. Yeah. You
00:42:23.600
remember they're still around $748 million in pre-tax loss in their latest annual report. So
00:42:30.580
they're getting up towards a billion a year lost. We've really, really, this is another one of those
00:42:35.700
hangovers from Trudeau. There was a big move to at least get rid of all the home delivery from
00:42:40.320
Canada Post because it's terribly expensive. We don't need it, guys. Most of what you get in your
00:42:44.920
mailbox and you know it is flyers and junk mail. Our bills have gone electronic. Most of our
00:42:50.920
communications with others have gone electronic and products and things that we buy online typically come
00:42:56.260
through private delivery services, whether it's Amazon or any of the others. Paying these
00:43:01.520
exceptionally well-paid postal delivery people. I mean, Seinfeld made fun of them back in the 90s
00:43:09.440
with the American ones, and there's truth to it. Come on, we've always known that. You're flyer
00:43:13.860
delivery people who are making professional grade in remuneration for your job. And good for you.
00:43:20.200
That's fine, but it's done. It's over. The fax machine was the beginning of the end of your trade,
00:43:26.140
trade. And now it's getting up to 748 million a year in losses. In other words, losses for them
00:43:31.760
means it comes out of us, guys. We're tax subsidizing a dinosaur. They can go with the
00:43:35.820
CBC. Cut it out. We don't need them anymore. And here's another beauty. Climate emissions. Guess
00:43:42.140
what? They've gone up. Get a surprise. How did this happen? Gilbo brought in a carbon tax. We banned
00:43:49.720
bags in Calgary for a little while. Finally got rid of that, by the way. Banned paper bags. Yeah,
00:43:54.620
paper bags. And somehow emissions are still going up. How can this be? Haven't we saved the world yet?
00:44:02.560
Do we need to carbon tax harder? Of course not. We need to face reality. Part of the reality too,
00:44:07.980
of course, is we've got these liberals bringing in over a million people a year into the country.
00:44:11.460
Guess what? They emit stuff. Whether they're driving, taking the bus, living in a home just like
00:44:17.880
everybody else, as they should be able to. They're farting. It brings up the emissions. So we can't tax
00:44:23.840
ourselves into being the world's saviors despite Gilbo's best wishes. The carbon tax has failed.
00:44:31.760
So it's going up. But what are the words out of Gilbo? He says, we're making steady progress. This
00:44:35.440
is his words. These are delusional. These liberals are out of it. He says, it's imperative we keep up
00:44:41.320
the momentum. Well, the momentum, Mr. Gilbo is having rising emissions. So you want to keep making
00:44:48.960
them grow? You're failing there, Mr. Gilbo. And let's see. Well, yes. So John Nickel, a doctor
00:44:56.880
saying, genius thinks paper bags save the environment costs and weighs much more than
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plastic. I understand that. You know, we have a discussion. I'd like to talk about that more. I
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mean, a roll of plastic bags, really for the amount of materials that come up in plastic bags,
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disposable bags is next to nothing. You can have a thousand plastic bags, thin ones on a roll.
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They take up nearly nothing. The problem with plastic bags is they're visible. If people don't
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chuck them outright, they go, you know, blowing across the road and get stuck on fences and they
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look like crap. That's why they get targeted because people can see them, but it doesn't mean they're the
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biggest problem. Improper disposal of them is a problem. And yes, paper, they don't save the
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environment. No. In fact, we switched to plastic because we were told 20 years ago that we were all
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evil for using paper bags because it was cutting down all the trees and it was bad for the
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little bunnies and beavers and everything out in the areas with logging and all that going on. So
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we had to stop and move on to nice environmentally safe plastic. But now in Calgary, they said,
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no, that's not good enough. We have to ban the paper bags too. Even though we've spent millions
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and millions on this composting facility that supposedly will degrade at least these paper
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bags. No, that wasn't good enough. Crazy. Jodi Gondek, she's something. And the rest of her goofy
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council, not all of them, but most of them, grudgingly, grudgingly repealed their stupid
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law. When you would go to a McDonald's or an A&W or wherever and order your meal, get your little
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half burger thing from A&W, they'd hand it to you because you'd have to pay extra or ask specifically
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for a bag. Otherwise, you got to hold it all in your lap. If you've got a big family in your car,
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you're just going to have a big pile. That's how stupid it was. That's how stupid the council is.
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So they got rid of it yesterday. They did. But boy, kicking and screaming. This isn't about
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the environment. That's my final point for today. When you listen to idiots like Gilboa,
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when you look at the crap out of rotten mayors like Jodi Gondek and her little council of clowns
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at the city of Calgary, it's not about the environment. It's about ideology and it's about
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control. They don't care about the environment or maybe they do, but they don't care if their
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policies don't actually address it. So meanwhile, we take on options that are actually more
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environmentally damaging than the last ones. And we sit here and pretend as Gilboa is that we're
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making steady progress while emissions actually go up. If emissions are a problem, then why are you
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lying to us and saying you've solved it when clearly you haven't? Because it's about ideology.
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You got to remember, scratch green, you get, you know, the old term watermelons for the greenies.
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It's not about the environment. It's about socialism. And socialism is just a step towards
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communism, guys. The solution to environmental problems always seems to come back to more
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socialism. Go figure. All right. That's my time for today. I had a good rant on. Thank you
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very much for joining me. Be sure to tune into the pipeline later on tonight and share these links,
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